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Mostly photos of buildings, art, and assorted oddities from a designer with notions. ¶ Alt text always, usually with additional information. ¶ http://garrowed.co.uk
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Gearóid | Garrowed @garrowed.bsky.social · May 9
51.37847, -2.36345

#Cityscape #Scape #BathUK #RiverAvon #Architecture #Reflections #Photography
Former industrial buildings are reflected in the calm waters of the River Avon. The water is dotted with fruit tree blossoms. Camden Mill was built in 1880 as a steam-powered flour mill and is now an office building. Lower Bristol Road, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
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#FavoriteThings #BlueSkyArtShow
Watching suds on your windshield in a car wash.
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings: I think this fits the brief—one of my treasured possessions is a piece of art. A resin cast of Giles Penny's Flatman [2010].

#Art #Sculpture #GilesPenny #Photography
A photograph of a small, dark, figurative sculpture placed on a white marble mantel, with a partial view of some plaster blocks in the background to the left. This resin-cast piece depicts a male human from the waist up in a minimal style and with very little depth. Flatman [2010] by Giles Penny. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Beautiful mistake #photography #Christmas
A blurred picture of a Christmas tree with the lights looking like fireworks or confetti string.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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51.45873, -0.97342

#UrbanGaze #Art #PublicArt #StreetArt #Mural #KevMundy #Banksy #ReadingUK #RDGUK #RailwayStations #Photography
An extra-large illuminated mural brings light and colour to the entrance of a pedestrian underpass. In silhouette, a hooded individual with mismatching shoes holds the stainless-steel railing as they descend some steps to the entrance to the tunnel. The 51-metre long artwork outside the Reading railway station is full of references to the people and landmarks of the town (notably in this section is an interpretation of Banksy's "Create Escape" from the wall of Reading Prison). "Rivers, Ruins & Regency" [2024] by Kev Mundy, in collaboration with sculptor Stuart Melrose. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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41.88634, -87.63248

North LaSalle Street, Chicago, December 2004.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #Christmas #Chicago #Lights #Photography
Red-branched shrubs (probably red-osier dogwood) in a street divider/planter are decorated with string lights. In the background are tall office buildings, and orange sodium-vapour light is reflected in the wet road surface. North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Photo by Gearóid Burke, 2004.
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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51.45846, -0.97319

One "live green wall."

#WallsOnWednesdays #Interiors #Architecture #Plants #ReadingUK #RDGUK #OneStationHill #Photography
A wide-angle shot of the reception area in the triple-height atrium of a new office building. A split-level desk stands before an impressively large 'live green wall' featuring numerous plants arranged within a vertical square black frame. The logo of the development, a stylised rendering of "ONE" in simple outlined shapes, is in the top right corner. The raw cement ceiling features strip lighting and over 50 track spotlights. One Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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51.45900, -0.96853

#TagTuesday #StreetArt #Graffiti #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
In an underpass, large iron supports underpin multiple railway tracks. These sizeable structures have been extensively tagged. In this case, purple, magenta, and black spray-painted scripts on the white side of a support contrast with its bright yellow counterparts on either side and the redbrick wall in the background. Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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51.45722, -0.96958

#BlueSkyMonday: The blue walls of the Windows Gallery in Reading Museum.

#Sculpture #Art #Windows #Museums #ReadingUK #Photography
A large and tall room with blue painted walls, light wood flooring, and white-framed windows. The room houses a collection of sculpture and decorative objects, ranging from 12th-century Romanesque stones to pieces by Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. At the centre is 'The Embrace' by Robert Gibbings [1930]. Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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51.45871, -0.97309

A splash of colour.

#ReadingUK #RDGUK #StreetArt #KevMundy #Art #Reflections #Puddles #Photography
A exterior night scene with concrete paving slabs and steps. Through a reflection in a puddle of rainwater we see a portion of a colourful illuminated mural. "Rivers, Ruins & Regency" [2024] by Kev Mundy, in collaboration with sculptor Stuart Melrose. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Church of the Good Shepherd, Batheaston. Permission has mistakenly been granted to demolish this rare example of brutalist architecture in Bath. I was invited inside with a group of people who are exploring an alternative future for this empty church.
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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I'll take it! (Nobody else put in a bid, please.)
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Town House for sale

More details have been revealed now regarding B&NES decision to sell what is known as Ralph Allen's Town House. This Grade 1 listed historic house with an amazing facade and in the centre of Bath is on the market for offers in the region of £350,000. The building is offered for…
Town House for sale
More details have been revealed now regarding B&NES decision to sell what is known as Ralph Allen's Town House. This Grade 1 listed historic house with an amazing facade and in the centre of Bath is on the market for offers in the region of £350,000. The building is offered for sale by way of a new 999-year virtual freehold interest at a peppercorn ground rent.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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51.45714, -0.96983

Glass ceiling.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #Windows #Museums #ReadingUK #Photography
Looking up at a large, multi-panel, gabled glass ceiling and the glass elevator that reaches up towards it. In the lower right corner, a large tin-glazed earthenware platter by Alan Caiger-Smith (1988) is displayed on the wall. The Atrium, Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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51.37752, -2.35726

The view from platform 2.

#UrbanGaze #BathUK #Cityscape #Trains #Bridges #RiverAvon #Photography
A very blue landscape (no filter!) looking straight down a river. Low-rise modern buildings dominate on the right, bridges and 19th century industrial building are ahead, and a train is arriving at a platform on the left. The west end of Bath Spa railway station's platform #2 is on a bridge over the River Avon. Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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#spotifywrapped
A screenshot from the Spotify app informing me that my "listening age" is 17 "since you listen to mostly new music." The "how do you do, fellow kids?" meme with the actor Steve Buscemi dressed youthfully and holding a skateboard. (Original source: "30 Rock," season six, episode 8).
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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51.37828, -2.35708

Geo. Bayntun: among the least-altered shopfronts in Bath.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #BathUK #Windows #Retail #Shopfronts #Architecture #StreetPhotography #Photography
A street scene centred on a beautiful building with four gables, arched ground-floor windows, and a leaded spire. A former Post Office sorting office from 1901 by F.W. Gardiner, "conceding nothing to the Georgian tradition." In 1938, the Jacobean-style building was converted to the bookshop and bookbindery of Charles Edwin George Bayntun (1873–1940). The business is now owned and run by Edward Bayntun-Coward, Geo. Bayntun's great-grandson. Manvers Street, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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51.45713, -0.97011

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #Windows #Museums #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
Through the stained fine mesh of a UV-blocking window blind we can see the top floors of a Georgian-style building with six-over-six panelled windows. Reading Museum, Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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#drone view from top to down of a swimming pool
#readinguk #rdg
swimming pool 90 degree top view
February 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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51.45433, -0.97598

#Scape #Cityscape #Windows #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
Looking out through a recessed window in a multi-storey carpark to the back of tired-looking retail buildings and the town beyond. The low winter sun casts a golden glow on the vista. The windows have some dust and dirt accumulating in their corners, and there are reflections of horizontal strip lighting inside. The surface below the window frame is covered in rectangular textured grey tiles. Broad Street Mall, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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51.45871, -0.97309

Night Version

#UrbanGaze #Art #PublicArt #StreetArt #Mural #KevMundy #PaddingtonBear #ReadingUK #RDGUK #RailwayStations #Photography
A exterior night scene with two people climbing steps beside an extra-large illuminated mural. The 51-metre long artwork outside Reading railway station is full of references to the people, landmarks, and associated creations of the town — most notably in this section, Banksy's "Create Escape" from the wall of Reading Prison and Michael Bond's Paddington Bear. "Rivers, Ruins & Regency" [2024] by Kev Mundy, in collaboration with sculptor Stuart Melrose. Station Hill, Reading, Berkshire, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#326 Diego de Leon, Madrid, 20/07/2019

Some very long interconnecting pedestrian tunnels on this part of the Madrid metro.

#photography #madrid #spain #metro
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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51.45432, -0.97643

Inside a brutalist cast-concrete car park and looking out.

#WindowsOnWednesday #Architecture #Brutalism #Concrete #ReadingUK #RDGUK #Photography
A monochrome photograph in which a wintery urban landscape is seen through irregular-octagon-shaped openings in a wall. Two horizontal metal bars of a barrier cross the lower portion of the image. These are the unglazed windows of a cast-concrete parking structure. I've posted a few photos of the exterior, for example https://bsky.app/profile/garrowed.bsky.social/post/3m5syscce722r. Broad Street Mall, Düsseldorf Way, Reading, Berkshire. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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51.38672, -2.36040

#Signage #Signs #BathUK #Typography #Architecture #GeorgianArchitecture #Photography
A photograph of a two-storey Georgian building in a terrace. At the centre, there is a doorway with a Tudor arch and "sunken spandrels." Above the vertical-panelled door is a wonderful carved stone scroll with the word "SCHOOLS" in blackletter type. Less nice is the bright yellow, hexagonal alarm box centred above it. The Schoolhouse (now the Bath Preservation Trust Planning & Campaigning Office), Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, The Paragon, Bath, UK. Unfiltered and unedited photo by Gearóid Burke—the colour is a little exaggerated in this shot, but this is exactly what the lens picked up. A close-up of the subject of the previous photo: a carved stone scroll with the word "SCHOOLS" in blackletter type. Lovely bit of craftsmanship! The Schoolhouse (now the Bath Preservation Trust Planning & Campaigning Office), Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, The Paragon, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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#Photography #Light #Blinds #Angles #Stripes #Interiors
Sunlight, filtered through Venetian blinds, forms patterns of lines, stripes and dots on an interior wall. The shadow of window handle disrupts the sequence. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Everyday beauty
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM