Tag: rain
Photos of St Ives twenty years ago – beach, harbour, countryside and sea scenes from April 2000
With the coronavirus lock-down meaning there’s little prospect of any travelling in the foreseeable future, I thought I’d have a delve through my photo archives. Here’s a selection of 25 …
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Newcastle and Gateshead photos: Millennium and other bridges, River Tyne, rain and night time street scenes
Newcastle is a bloody great city, and The Monochrome Set always get a particularly raucous welcome when we visit, so it was a pleasure to be back this weekend, despite …
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Photos of the rain-drenched streets of Cardiff – city centre and Llanishen at night, Jan 2020
Growing up in Cardiff – Britain’s wettest city – I’m very familiar with being endlessly pelted with rain, drizzle and thunderous downpours, and yesterday my home town delivered in full …
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Bristol photos: street art, station, gigs, pubs and rain
I was back up in Bristol playing a show on the weekend, and although my time in the city was brief, I managed to grab some photos on my travels:
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Night rain in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany in photos, autumn 2019
I’ve just come back from another tour of Germany with The Monochrome Set, and as usual I was doing my best to document my travels. Here’s a selection of photos …
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Empty chairs, rain-soaked tables and the last of the Christmas lights, Cardiff in photos, 2nd Jan 2018
Here’s another short selection of photos taken around Cardiff yesterday. It rained for the entire duration of my trip. Here’s some pictures taken on my travels:
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Christmas lights in the November rain, drag queen karaoke and street views – a trip to Cardiff in photos
Once again, Cardiff lived up to its reputation as Britain’s wettest city, with my two days in the capital being accompanied by a near-incessant drizzle. Being Welsh, I’m used to the …
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Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier in photos
Bognor is a place that I’ve found myself visiting rather more than I’d like of late, by virtue of the fact that my football team (Dulwich Hamlet) seem to play …
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Street scenes, rain, sales and street performers, Cardiff photos, Dec 2015
According to the Met Office, Cardiff is Britain’s wettest city, registering 115cms of rainfall every year, and there was plenty of evidence to support that claim over the Christmas period. Here’s …
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Faces of New York – street scenes from the Big Apple, NYC
Here’s a selection of candid street shots from my various New York travels. I hope some of you find them of interest. Scroll down to the bottom to find out details of …
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A rainy day in Margate. Photos from a wet and windy May afternoon
Arriving suitably drenched after my deeply unwise walk from Westgate on Sea to Margate, I grabbed a few photos around the town as I headed for hot coffee and beer.
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Lost rabbits, fat balls and hideous headwinds – a walk from Westgate On Sea to Margate
Before Dulwich Hamlet’s crucial play off final at Margate, I thought it would be a great idea to get off the train a stop earlier at Westgate-on-Sea and then walk …
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A depressing trudge in the rain around Northolt Park, north-west London
My trip to see Dulwich Hamlet play Harrow Borough on Saturday took me through Northolt Park, a singularly characterless suburb of north west London. It didn’t help that the rain …
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An autumnal London walk at dusk – Green Park, St James’s park, National Gallery and Oxford Street
Late Saturday afternoon, I went for a hangover-clearing autumnal stroll through central London, taking in two parks and stopping off for some art. I started off at Green Park tube …
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Chatting in the rain, Tottenham Court Road, London – pic of the day
I liked this photo of determined, all-weather chatters that I unearthed from my woefully disorganised photo archives. It was taken on Tottenham Court Road in 2001 – when the street …
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Heavy rain on a train window, England
There’s something wonderfully melancholic about gazing out of a train window on a gloomy winter’s afternoon and hearing the heavy rain hitting the window.
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A damp and grey London walk along the Albert and Victoria Embankments
I was hoping to see London covered in clean, crisp white snow, but instead the New Year has started in a more traditional manner, with the capital under a grey, …
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New York hit by Hurricane Sandy, subway floods, residents evacuated, power station blows
I’m thinking of my friends in New York tonight as Hurricane Sandy heads inland. Vast chunks of New York have closed down, and there’s already been severe flooding around New …
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Pic of the day: Windrush Square, Brixton in the night rain
It’s pretty grim weather around Brixton at the moment, with the autumnal winds sending discarded KFC wrappers skywards and the relentless rain making a mockery of the ‘rainproof’ label on my jacket. …
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Pic of the day: stormy afternoon by 2nd Avenue subway station, NYC
I like this near-monochrome image of a rain-lashed, winter’s late afternoon by Second Avenue subway station in New York City.
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