OCTOBER CHALLENGE 2 - Your Town - entries only

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The second mini challenge for October (ends 31.10.13).

Fairly open again and the winner can choose the January theme.

Welcome to all - old and new. Please post your entry in this thread and use the discussion thread for chatting re the competition/entries/theme etc.

All entries are up for discussion and critiques UNLESS you post with your entry "No C&C thanks"
 


Although the traditional ship building industry has disappeared from Wallsend the skyline is still dominated by cranes and other signs of heavy industry, largely still related to the offshore industry.

This is shot from Willington gut looking West at sunset.

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Bathgate

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Bathgate is much like any of the small towns in the Durham area. There's nee pits left, and nee foundries. British leyland also had a truck plant here, and more recently Motorola went tits up. This is a sculpture by Jeremy Cunningham, to celebrate the towns past industries. It stood by a cycle track which used to be a railway line, but the cycle track was ripped up for the laying of a £300m railway line.
Photo is straight out of my shitty nee good for weddings, only good for dog photos 300d, with a slight crop in picassa.
 
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Yew Tree Farm_Burscough Oct 2013 by joe-white, on Flickr

Burscough in Lancashire: The story behind the picture:

Yew Tree Farm in Burscough. The focal point of a bitter dispute between residents hoping to maintain the surrounding Green Belt land and Developers planning on building 500+ new homes on the site.A recent Council Meeting found in favour of the Developers further fuelling the anxst in the neighbourhood.
The Farm has been in an increasing state of decay for decades.

Burscough is a popular village / town in West Lancashire in a semi rural setting. The farm sits in a peaceful location towwards just of the A59 arterial road which connects the community with the market town of Ormskirk to the South and Preston to the North.

Burscough is (now) my town. (Please click picture to see large size.)
 
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My town has a long and proud history of glassmaking from AD674 when Benedict Biscop sent to France for craftsman to make stained glass for the new monastery in Monkwearmouth through to over 300 years of commercial glassmaking which has sadly all but ended
 
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