Carl Lee
@drcarllee.bsky.social
Likes cities, loves Sheffield.
PhD geographer and retired university lecturer
Latest book
"So where are you from?"
Geography, Identity and Place.
PhD geographer and retired university lecturer
Latest book
"So where are you from?"
Geography, Identity and Place.
Latest rendering of what the finished Wellington Street Co-living block will look like. Sheffield will never have the sort of economy that enables exciting architecture at scale and this is the best part of a £100m project.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Latest rendering of what the finished Wellington Street Co-living block will look like. Sheffield will never have the sort of economy that enables exciting architecture at scale and this is the best part of a £100m project.
Not often Sheffield's skyline changes - we're not Manchester - it has been fairly low-rise but the crane going up on Coda's 32 floor co-living development on Wellington Streert - will be around 100m high. Photo Sterling777
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not often Sheffield's skyline changes - we're not Manchester - it has been fairly low-rise but the crane going up on Coda's 32 floor co-living development on Wellington Streert - will be around 100m high. Photo Sterling777
Part of the model of 1900 Sheffield City Centre at the University of Sheffield Library exhibition of the work of architecture lecturer Peter Blundell Jones. Made by his PhD students in 1998.
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Part of the model of 1900 Sheffield City Centre at the University of Sheffield Library exhibition of the work of architecture lecturer Peter Blundell Jones. Made by his PhD students in 1998.
A Tasquinha Dos Guindais restaurant in Porto - basically a few tables in an alley and old fella with a bbq and sardines, a salad and white wine. Cash only and a discussion on the why Salah isn't hitting his usual heights this season. Holiday perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A Tasquinha Dos Guindais restaurant in Porto - basically a few tables in an alley and old fella with a bbq and sardines, a salad and white wine. Cash only and a discussion on the why Salah isn't hitting his usual heights this season. Holiday perfection.
Renishaw (Derbyshire) Harvest - 28th September - two weeks earlier than last year and a far better harvest.
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Renishaw (Derbyshire) Harvest - 28th September - two weeks earlier than last year and a far better harvest.
Miriam is a national treasure.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Miriam is a national treasure.
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Average full-time pay in UK by decile and age. Sobering reading but actually not that suprising if you have followed these things over the past couple of decades. pbs.twimg.com/media/GykyLw...
August 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Average full-time pay in UK by decile and age. Sobering reading but actually not that suprising if you have followed these things over the past couple of decades. pbs.twimg.com/media/GykyLw...
Details from Sheffierld Hallam's public art archive. There it states the commission was from The Leadmill. public-art.shu.ac.uk/images/2064....
August 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Details from Sheffierld Hallam's public art archive. There it states the commission was from The Leadmill. public-art.shu.ac.uk/images/2064....
Sea temps at present in Med are 8C above average. Statiscally this is a one in a thousand year event. x.com/Met4CastUK/s...
July 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sea temps at present in Med are 8C above average. Statiscally this is a one in a thousand year event. x.com/Met4CastUK/s...
This 15.6%ABV blockbuster - Dongfang Yuxing Winery, Geruihong Yeguangbei, Helan Mountain East, Ningxia, China - has won best in show in 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards. Not available outside of China. Yet. 2022https://decanterresultsapi.decanter.com/api/DWWA/2025/wines/773037/image
June 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This 15.6%ABV blockbuster - Dongfang Yuxing Winery, Geruihong Yeguangbei, Helan Mountain East, Ningxia, China - has won best in show in 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards. Not available outside of China. Yet. 2022https://decanterresultsapi.decanter.com/api/DWWA/2025/wines/773037/image
I occasionally look at GFS models (a US weather prediction computer model- others are available). This for 26th June caught my eye - 40C in London 39C in Sheffield. We'll see but that is extreme for any time let alone late June x.com/TWOweather/s...
June 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I occasionally look at GFS models (a US weather prediction computer model- others are available). This for 26th June caught my eye - 40C in London 39C in Sheffield. We'll see but that is extreme for any time let alone late June x.com/TWOweather/s...
My Phyllostachys nigra 'Boryana' has flowered after 2 decades. Have collected the seeds. I'm unsure of the best way to propogate them. Anybody have an experience of this?
June 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My Phyllostachys nigra 'Boryana' has flowered after 2 decades. Have collected the seeds. I'm unsure of the best way to propogate them. Anybody have an experience of this?
Renishaw vines last week
May 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Renishaw vines last week
Spent most of April in South Korea visiting my youngest who works there and absolutely loves it. A modern, vibrant, cultured, high trust, organised society with breath-takingly good public transport, high-rise cities and stunningly beautiful countryside.
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Spent most of April in South Korea visiting my youngest who works there and absolutely loves it. A modern, vibrant, cultured, high trust, organised society with breath-takingly good public transport, high-rise cities and stunningly beautiful countryside.
60-80 Mandarin Ducks, some Mallards and a Heron hanging out on River Sheaf at Broadfield Road Sheffield. Why here? It's a concrete culvert, virtually no vegetation and really fast moving.
January 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
60-80 Mandarin Ducks, some Mallards and a Heron hanging out on River Sheaf at Broadfield Road Sheffield. Why here? It's a concrete culvert, virtually no vegetation and really fast moving.
January 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@meganjames.bsky.social
Here is the street you work on a few years back. I'm guessing early 1960s due to lack of cars.
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Here is the street you work on a few years back. I'm guessing early 1960s due to lack of cars.
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January 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
@meganjames.bsky.social
Here is the street you work on a few years back. I'm guessing early 1960s due to lack of cars.
pbs.twimg.com/media/Gh5Grc...
Here is the street you work on a few years back. I'm guessing early 1960s due to lack of cars.
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January 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Come along to La Biblioteka in Leah's Yard on Cambridge Street Sheffield from 3pm Saturday 15th February for the launch of my 5th book.
"...So Where Are You From?"
Available from Arc Publishing Sheffield, good local independents bookshps in Sheffield and Amazon (soon)
"...So Where Are You From?"
Available from Arc Publishing Sheffield, good local independents bookshps in Sheffield and Amazon (soon)
January 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Come along to La Biblioteka in Leah's Yard on Cambridge Street Sheffield from 3pm Saturday 15th February for the launch of my 5th book.
"...So Where Are You From?"
Available from Arc Publishing Sheffield, good local independents bookshps in Sheffield and Amazon (soon)
"...So Where Are You From?"
Available from Arc Publishing Sheffield, good local independents bookshps in Sheffield and Amazon (soon)