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Please behold the greatest church kneeler of all time
‘ My Cat BEATRIX I call her Trixie ‘ A church kneeler which perfectly demonstrates the pixellated love 13 year old girl held for her black and white cat. By Susan Parish, aged 13 years, 1993. St Thomas à Becket’s Church, Heptonstall I need to lie down.
January 24, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Neepsend F. F. Fonts
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F. F. Franklin & Co Ltd.
F. F. FRANKLIN & Co Ltd. Your local independent tool suppliers with window trims, letter sign and door a lovely faded butter yellow colour. I like how everything is just a little bit wonky, f f frankly Wickes/B&Q could neva. Neepsend, Sheffield
January 22, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Moorfoot modern
Modernist details of the would-be passage underneath the Moorfoot building in Sheffield. Teak doors, red brick, concrete support beams & ceiling to floor iron gate with golden interlocking shapes. Various civic notices telling you to F off in different ways. the story goes that this was intended as public right of way but never opened due to potential security risks Out of use disabled loo ft a more dynamic than your typical wheelchair icon on a light fixture centred above a black door Out of use action men’s toilet ft power stance male icon on the light fitting above the door & some graffiti scribbles Tiered levels of the Moorfoot building red brick, reflective windows & concrete base. The building was completed in 1981 and until recently was home to Sheffield City Council. There are future plans in place for its redevelopment into apartments.
January 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Chuff
Séamus having a wash, butter wouldn’t melt
January 19, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Mexborough Bus Station sign with the old South Yorks Transport Executive font goes incredibly hard
Mexborough Bus Station with South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive sign still going strong (90s?) also the clock tower has a bus shaped weather vane. love!
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Horrible week, in need of the comforts so it’s this passage from Mrs. Dalloway on repeat
“Millicent Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her. No vulgar jealousy could separate her from Richard. But she feared time itself, and read on Lady Bruton's face, as if it had been a dial cut in impassive stone, the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how little the margin that remained was capable any longer of stretching, of absorbing, as in the youthful years, the colours, salts, tones of existence, so that she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him, and the waves which threaten to break, but only gently split their surface, roll and conceal and encrust as they just turn over the weeds with pearl.” Virginia Woolf • Mrs. Dalloway + always comforting cappuccino in Kilnfolk
January 17, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Threads
A wall of the old Record Ridgway factory building on Shepherd St, Sheffield Sheff graff, Road sign, 30mph circle on a lamppost. Boarded up windows with wooden sheets, one has a black and white transfer of a certain masked traffic warden 😶 Unglamorous black painted shop front in Broomhill “THREADS Ready to wear & Fashion Exchange Bureau” The roller shutters are down and it’s raining Boarded up window again with a b&w transfer figure, person wearing a gas mask from Threads (1984) . These appeared around the 40th anniversary mark of the film in 2024. Creepy Sheffmaxxing
January 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Liang Hao “𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯+𝘒𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦”
(2025)
Oil on linen
Close up of hands and blank silver tokens. The subject wears a white shirt and grey pleated trousers
January 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Supervillain origin story: the closure of Rare & Racy
The site of Rare & Racy has stood empty for the best part of 10 years. I can’t remember the full details but it was to do with developers wanting to rebuild on the site. Dastardly. Where else is a teen to buy records, books, fishnet tights, sax sheet music & 80s does Edwardian silhouette dresses in the same place?? The Phlegm creature that once guarded the front has been scrubbed away,replaced by a skull and crossbones. They’d put a lovely big stamp on the inner sleeve of their records Alt txt: Unused shop with many layers of flyers and posters covering the windows and doors, a string of bulb lights & a scull & crossbones image next to the first floor window. Tree, sign and lamppost each cast shadows across the road. 04.01.26
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Accidental (strategic) 2hr changeover in Derby because The Alex
Pub interior with illuminated green sign for “HOME ALES”, various framed brewery items on the walls and dark, stained wood features The Alexandra Hotel, Derby
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Rust, concrete & endings

Ratcliffe-on-Soar
3 cooling towers, one in front of the other, one casts a foreboding shadow (which makes me feel ill). Blue sky and single line of cloud An abandoned rusty narrowboat, the door is hanging open and you can see the floral curtain from its previous life. Above are the tops of three large cooling towers Ratcliffe-on-Soar Redhill Marina In the shadows of a decommissioned power station lies a narrowboat graveyard and boat painting yard. This is one of the boats that’s looks to have been recently repaired and given a lick of paint. You can see the clouds reflection in its shiny newness. Above are two huge cooling towers and a giant cig, scattered clouds the DRAMA. A 6 fanned security camera in the foreground appears to be to scale of the concrete monoliths Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station is now decommissioned and the towers penned for demolition. but PLEASE can we keep them, as a special treat?
January 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Then you see the breathtaking inside
Inside Casa de Serralves first floor balcony and atrium space. A mixture of large concrete pillars and marble bannisters, everything is perfectly smooth wherever you look. The blinds are always drawn from the Porto sun which creates a sleepy, orange glow all around Incredibly fortunate that our visit was timed with an Alexander Calder exhibition. The most perfect space to be festooned with Calder mobiles, my god. Abstract leaf/fan shaped mobile suspended from thin wire, near a window with thick blinds drawn Feb 2023
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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A building I think about constantly is the Casa de Serralves. Spent hours here and could’ve spent a lot longer, the way sunlight moves around the turrets is pure spectacle
A marvellous pink turret of Cass de Serralves that’s basking in sunlight. The square cutout edges becoming round give this gorgeous art deco lighthouse appearance from ground level The same building with more of the wall visible, thin cloud cover and the round window details sneaking into view Feb 2023
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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Yesterdays Minster Records snags
Ur New Years Eve flat lay All purchased from Minster Records, Beverley which might be my favourite record shop ever Scott Walker - Aloner - a US release maybs Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House - so happy to own this, “Relocate” will be my theme for 2026 Various/NME - “The Last Temptation of Elvis” - picked this up because it’s loads of legends covering Elvis and it was a fiver and also fuck yeah?? Springsteen’s Viva Las Vegas, McCartney’s It’s Now or Never, The Cramps’ Jailhouse Rock, Steve Albini & Cath Carroll do King Creole, Jesus and Mary Chain.. the list goes on..
December 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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More of this, please

2023 vs 2025
A large ghost sign was uncovered when a billboard was removed on the side of this building. It’s faded but you can still clearly make out the text “NATURAL No1 processed PEAS” next to a heavily faded big green tin of peas 🫛 The sign has been lovingly restored. Unsure of the artist but they’ve done a great job. The tin can reads “Deliciously tender, Natural No1 processed peas, Sweet as sugar”. So glad this nod to the past will endure for future generations to enjoy Crosspool, Sheffield
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Toools
A shop front lit up by morning sun whose sign simply says “TOOOLS” in large friendly yellow letters. Next to the upper floor window is a protruding, wrench-shaped sign which says “TOOLS”. 🔧 Chesterfield Rd, Sheffield 26.12.25
December 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Dean Wareham & Sea Power playing the songs of Galaxie 500. A live highlight of the year ✨
December 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Blake Street summit no oxygen no Sherpa 🏔️
A pint of porter and blurry pub room behind The Blake, Sheffield
December 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Christmassy Eve afternoon moments
There’s something about gently preserving a bit of packaging that’s several decades older than you. I love seeing the back of this Woolworths baubles box every year. Peach tablecloth. Green box with suggestions for use & icons of each ‘tree decoration’,’table decoration’,’Christmas wreaths’ ,’gift decoration’ And polite shatterproof affirmations that read a bit like a warning ‘These ornaments are ideal for use when pets or young children are involved in festivities.’ Women only want one thing and it’s De Carlini vintage ornaments. I found this gorge mid century Father Christmas with some of his pals in an antique place and they were all very incorrectly priced. He is my favourite, don’t tell the others. Just look at his NOSE BLUSH! argggh. Blushing Father Christmas tree decoration, he is jolly and round. In the background are many sparkly things. Yr Christmas Eve flat lay Cuppa, lip balm, satsuma (which as we all know, very Christmassy) And book Leonard and Hungry Paul, by Rónán Hession 🧡
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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She really steps into her own this time of year
Brooding brutalism on the darkest day Concrete wall and The Arts Tower disappearing into thick fog A corner of The Arts Tower Forward facing view of The Arts Tower and her endless glass windows, the ground level lights providing the only warmth today. Don’t worry, daylight is on the way.
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The entrance is thatta way
A light coloured building with a thick, squared off, 3D effect sign that reads ‘ENTRANCE’ within a large green arrow. It was the entrance of a Caribbean restaurant above the street level shops, called Silversands, which is no longer there. Wicker, Sheffield 19.12.25
December 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Fanfare
Dogs 🏟️ Part of a dazzling, 60s neon sign from a greyhound racing track, featuring greyhound silhouettes above a “Sheffield” sign and a bright marigold sloped roof. I’ve never been inside, an ex boyf who worked there when we were teens shared enough stories about the welfare of the dogs to put me off for life. I absolutely love greyhounds too so don’t really understand why it’s still as popular as it seems to be in Sheff. Spend a weird amount of time here (near to a car charging point) and the people who come and go are EXACTLY as you’d expect. Flat caps and elbow patches for days, smoking real cigs. Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Bassetts
Red brick factory building in the December evening sun (so like, 3:15pm) with the cartoon sign of Bertie Bassett with his top hat and cane. Above the doorway below is a sign for ‘Gums & Jellies Unit’ Belulah Rd, Sheffield 12.12.25 At the Bassetts factory you can find the Gums & Jellies Unit, which is obviously wonderful. Overjoyed to learn that Jelly Babies have their own infrastructure. Hospital entrance style sign with some happy little jellies as if to be marching right off the production line and out into the world. Peep the jellies maker sign inside the first floor too. Whimsy levels off the charts
December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Yeah I’m into BDSM

(𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘥)
A pint of 4.0% mild in a dimpled glass tankard
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Marsh St Pumping Station

Rotherham
corner of the building, port hole windows made entirely of concrete, with concrete steps leading up. The paths are unmaintained but not completely overgrown If it were for the ‘explosive atmosphere’ and likelihood of flooding .. it’s a pretty dreamy building. I’m imagining a brutalist cafe urban, brutal , brutalism, C20 Kind brutalist eyes and traffic cone tongue, he is friendly really
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM