Beeb tree

Christmas tree at the BBC. The Studio, Media City UK. Salford.

Ho, ho, ho! - or bah, humbug?

Santa once again presides over the Christmas market in Manchester's Albert Square.

Student Castle

Student accommodation on Lower Ormond Street, Manchester.

Woolacombe, N Devon.

Towering time!

Manchester Town Hall clock tower seen from junction of King Street and Cheapside.

Rochdale Canal

Geese on the Rochdale Canal at Miles Platting, Manchester.

The Hole of Horcum

Situated in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, the Hole is a "devil's punchbowl" like feature created by springs "washing away" material. Rainwater permeates down through the overlying sandstone which sits on an impervious clay deposit. The springs emerge from the base of the sandstone and have created this huge depression.

Hunmanby, Yorkshire

Hunmanby lock-up (left), built 1834 and the much older pinfold (right). The lock-up was used to imprison drunks and other offenders, the pinfold to house stray animals awaiting collection by their owners.

Star Disk, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK

Scarborough's Star Disk is the largest illuminated "Star Disk" in the UK at 26m in diameter.
The disk is constructed on the site of the South Bay Pool. It contains, as fibre optic lights, the layout of the 42 brightest stars which never set as seen from Scarborough. It also marks the positions of the sunrise points over the North Sea for
various times of the year.

Books

Second-hand books for sale near Mancunian Way overpass, Oxford Road, Manchester.

The Gatehouse

A view of Teversal Manor Gatehouse.

In my garden!

The butterfly is not unusual here (NW England), the blurry beast is! It's a Hummingbird Hawk-moth. I've only seen these once before and that was in southern central France.

Old and New

New apartments and old canalside house at New Islington, Ancoats, Manchester alongside the Ashton Canal

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The Planets

Scale models of the planets suspended above the Rocks and Minerals Gallery in Manchester Museum. To scale in terms of size. To make to scale in terms of distance from the Sun would require a considerably larger area!

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Spring is on the way!

Crocus starting to flower under trees in Gartside Gardens, Brunswick, central Manchester.

Manchester rain

On the corner of Oxford Road and Dilworth Street, Manchester. Rain, a poem by Lemn Sissay.

After the celebrations!

Atop a local garden wall.

To children of all nations.

Seen on the wall of the boathouse in Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield, Manchester. A poem by Mike Garry, 2010.

Inside the Great Hall

Manchester Town Hall's Great Hall is lined with murals painted by Ford Madox Brown. These depict significant scenes from Manchester's history, from its founding by the Romans up to the early 19th Century. This one shows John Dalton, a Manchester schoolmaster, scientist and founder of modern atomic theory, collecting marsh gas from a local pond for his experiments.

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Trafford Centre Fossil

Fossil ammonite in the flooring material at Mango, 117 Regent Crescent, The Trafford Centre, Manchester. The floor here is composed of Solnhofen limestone from Germany. This limestone is from the  Jurassic period (about 150 million years old). It is from these rock formations that fossils of the first known fossil bird, Archaeopteryx, have been obtained.