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Aug. 24, 2009, midnight
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Seeing as how I didn’t have interweb access yesterday (well, I did, but only on my phone which suck interweb wise) I decided to go for a wander and take some pics of the town I currently call home.

Now this is cool. Discovered it for the first time yesterday.

What it says is: ‘When alchemists were born below Clevelands hills, a giant blue dragonfly across the Tees reminds us every night,
we built the world, every metropolis came from Ironopolis’. Which, when you remember the amount of things built in Teesside isn’t that far from the truth.

They don’t believe in normal benches around here.

WTF?

It’s an office of some kind. But, still. WTF?

The new Middlesbrough College campus.

Seriously, did no – one, at any time, sit them down and explain that it looks fucking hideous?

Random clock tower beside the college.

Some history.

And some more.

I would just die if a Mr. Spock lived there at some point.

The transporter bridge Please note, I have not done a single thing to this picture, the sky was like that when i took it. Looks cool though.

And the carriage.

It’s fucking tall!

Nowadays, this would be made out of stone. Looks like this one is brass.

And the bridge in action. I thought I had missed my chance to get this. I was just about to go when it started moving.

Old style advertising.

James Cook House. I dream of the day that I have enough money to buy this building and push the plunger to destroy it.

There’s something strange with my camera. It keep warping things. I included this pic because it is most noticable here.

This used to be quite a cool fountain.

As did this one. No isea why they did what they did, though it might have something to do with them getting washing up liquid poured into them when there was a big event on.

The duck pond with what looks like a giant chess board. They were thinking of getting rid of this to build a new hotel, but they changed their minds thankfully.

I just lobve this statue. Outside of the law court.

The bottle of notes. And, in the background is MIMA.

The big screen. Built by the BBC for the 2012 Olympics. Two years ago. Thankfully they seem to have wisened up and currently use it for one of performances of things like the ballet. They also sometimes show Last Night of the Proms here. Though I wish they would show some Dr Who on this thing. That would be awesome.

Urban Playground Parkour display.

And in the background, the new fountain.

The pics really cannot do these guys justice. It really was an awesome, awesome display.

The supposedly world famous Dickens Inn. Be honest, how many of you had heard of this pub before now? (little_chloella, you don’t count :¬p)

I particularly love the fact it simply says ‘Years of Student Tradition’. Yeah, but not many students can afford to pay around £3 a pint.

The LRC. Where I spend most of my days.

The Union. Where I spend most of my non LRC time.

And the terrace. Where I go to smoke. Assuming there is enough room seeing as someone isn’t happy with the whole bar and wanted half the terrace to be smoke free despite the fact that the main reason anyone uses the terrace is to smoke.

Don’t ask. I can’t explain.

Thanks to the BBC, I actually know that this means ‘Either learn or leave’. Sadly, most people who attend the uni end up doing neither :¬p

It’s an old, old building.

The whole building. It actually used to be a school. What is there is the boys school. On the left of the building, and no longer there, was the much smaller girls school.