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Cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.
A spiral staircase in the Docklands, London, 2025

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#docklands #iphonephotography #photography
January 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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A paying sub also gets you early access to the deep dives, and I'm holding it at £3 a month until the end of January.
West Country Modernism
A journey around modernist buildings in the West Country. Who built them, and why? Who used them, and what for? What lies in their future? Read more about the project in its introduction. Paid subscri...
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Might be of some interest to people here, the photos look absolutely gorgeous. I've got my copy!
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Merseyway Shopping Centre car park, Stockport, 2025

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#carpark #parkinglot #infrastructure #concrete #iphonephotography #photography #stockport
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Yeah it's obviously all wisteria clad cottages, rococo whimsy and rustic thatch down this way...
December 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Back on my bullshit (Williamson Power Station, part IV), Lancaster, 2025

The winter sun shining through the windows 😮‍💨

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#brick #iphonephotography #photography #lancaster #urbanphotography
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The ghost of WHSmith past, Stockport, 2025

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#iphonephotography #photography #oldlogos #stockport
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I’m holding my 2025 paid sub prices until 31 January. £3/month or the new £30/year discount.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Happy #sketchpadvent. Now for the last and biggest: engineers Pell Frischmann’s early 70s proposals for a cross channel bridge, linked by a massive sea-platform city for oil tankers and container ships, with an airport, helipad and homes for workers. Jingle! x
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Stockport Telephone Exchange (1971 extension), 2025

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#concrete #iphonephotography #photography #postwararchitecture #stockport
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Details of Petersgate House, Stockport, 2025

The curse of the streetlamp strikes again.

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#brutalism #photography #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #iphonephotography #modernism #stockport
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Stretford Mall, Manchester, 2025

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#photography #dslrphotography #manchester
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Gorse Hill Park entrance gates, Manchester, 2025

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#photography #dslrphotography #manchester #notmoderniststilladelight
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Oakland House, Manchester, 2025

Not, as Siri helpfully suggested, the Stockport Viaduct.

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#photography #dslrphotography #manchester #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tiling, Milton Keynes, 2025

This shopping centre has gone by multiple names: all of them bad.

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#iphonephotography #photography #miltonkeynes
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This way to the car park, Huddersfield, 2025

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#photography #dslrphotography #huddersfield #urbanphotography
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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NEW deep dive for paying subscribers!

My first look at a repurposed building also covers Bernard Adams' 'Method' consortium and how the same conversations about town planning are happening again.

Plus the building looks like a TARDIS inside.

All thanks to a reader's rec to look at it.
Nailsea Library (former), Nailsea (1971)
Exploring the history of Nailsea's old library, a brutalist gem that now serves up lattes.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Mandarin fully licensed restaurant, Huddersfield, 2025

This is not helping my craving for noodles.

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#photography #dslrphotography #huddersfield #urbanphotography
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