Comments about cobble

There are 32 comments about "cobble"

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Wow! My Uncle Cyril (Bagshaw) put me onto this site and I have just spent the last hour reading all the comments. My mum (Edith Jaques) was born in Irlam and my dad (Jim Massey)......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Alan, The old cobblers shop you knew was firstly taken over for a brief time by 'yours truly' for the sale of flowers as we already occupied the next door shop for the greengrocery.......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi again Marissa et al, The Bullring picture I notice that the old wooden Methodist Chapel looks to be completely brick built and with an extension at the playpark end, is it still Methodist and has......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: The first picture is very close to my grandparents' old apartment, which was at the corner of Water and Fulton. Of course, Fulton is now known as either Old Fulton or Cadman Plaza West, but......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

Alan Taylor: Hello Graham, from the prefab shop past the old Spring Villas with the last one being an house not a shop, I was born 1944 and lived in the 4th house past on the same......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Staci: Now have new items on our menu: Monday-spaghetti Saturday-Roast Beef Every day menu: Corn Beef Hash Reubens Come in and try some of our delicious desserts and pie: Homemade by Miss Jeanette Friday desserts: Apple Crips Peach Cobbler any new everday: Rice Puddin' ...mmm See You soon ...

in response to: Reececliff Restaurant by sine

Craig: I had a motorcycle wreck in 1980 coming out of the south side of the tunnel. Back then the entrance and exit to the tunnel were paved in cobblestone, which is very slippery, especially if wet......

in response to: Washburn Tunnel by ian

99¢Dreams: Car vs bike has never been a fair fight. But c'mon guys, the city was designed for HORSES, aye? Those early bikes had it rough on the cobblestones, though far less deadly. ......

in response to: The Cars That Ate NYC by CartLegger

Sheila Hilton: Found this photo given to me by an elderly (now deceased) neighbour, some years ago. I doubt anybody will remember this house that stood where the current police station now stands. Apparently, it was the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Bosley Latimore: It appears that young persons who are currently considering relocating to sections of Brooklyn such as Cobble Hill, Borum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Grand Army Plaza, or even Brooklyn Heights, would be well advised to consider......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

jack: guten tag, it has been many moons since i walked a cobblestoned street in germany. i was in a small city called worms. i studied at the university of heidelberg, the rest of......

in response to: Sunset over Kreuzberg by SCAM28

jack: hey they copied their bus' just like our double deckers in manhattan, copy cats. and they are on the wrong side of the street. and whats with the cobblestones, can't they afford asphalt?...

in response to: London Streets by steelisreal

Patricia Anne Malone: My Father, John Malone worked at the ASPCA on Butler Street in Brooklyn between 1936 and 1961. I spent much of my young life at that shelter. There was a trough in front of the building which......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

Peter: this is a great entry, eg. i love entries like this. ive seen em rip up quite a few rails like this in nyc... its the final passing of an already-gone era, unfortunately. what i......

in response to: Goodbye, Streetcar Rails by EvilGentleman

jack: instead of tearing down the west side highway with all that wonderful cobblestone, they should have made it a pedestrian way. new yorkers should have more green and more free walking space....

in response to: The Highline Debate... by Nick Aster

jack: cobblestones....

in response to: Grand Union Canal. London by FlamingRRose

Peter: jack: ive got a kawasaki! incidentally, its a pain to ride over cobbles. especially the rough, torn up cobbles near the {prospect heights} {post office} on {fulton}. wheres your camera? are you still taking photos?...

in response to: Swarm of Bikes by Guy McLaren

jack: peter lets start a bike gang and lets have elaine as the gang leader. by the way this has nothing to do with it but i was on 3rd avenue and 33 street in......

in response to: Swarm of Bikes by Guy McLaren

jack: hahahaha the comments here are hilariously funny. i enjoy reading all of you talking back and forth and defending your lives and towns and names. well the photos were nice and i liked......

in response to: A Sunday Walk in Eastend London... by Lawrence

jack: what a beautiful bridge! i drove over it every night for upteen years and always loved the grate sounds of the iron floor and the cobblestones. does anyone remember the cobblestones?...

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge by Lawrence

jack: catherine, please pull over or find a parking spot to take photos. i know on the fdr you cant pull over so get off and circle around. take a few minutes more to......

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge and the (defunct) Fulton Fish Market by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

jack: a slim girl in dance and a fat guy drinks a diet soda, a shadow as skinny as he and a phone in disorder. pushing a child past photos of ghosts, a man in a dress with a......

in response to: Jan 10 2006 Toronto by hool

rich: what a load of cobblers u cant even see her...

in response to: gwen stefani's wedding by Steelisreal

sally: i would paint that cobble red. scrape off the gum and paint it red one night. lacquer it so it stays that way forever...

in response to: Hangman\'s Alley by Jamie

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I've got to think of a way to cobble together an Aeron chair and a Segway. I'll need a holder for my Treo and iPod.... I like the electric three-wheelers that the cops currently buzz around......

in response to: NYPD Segways by Peter

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic or Butler between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Stacey: This is on Baltic between Bond and Nevins. It used to be an adoption center and hospital. My grandfather used to sell fruit and veggies from his horse and carriage in the early......

in response to: Forgotten Structure: ASPCA by GGP

Peter: isnt the sunset pretty in brooklyn? wow. it was yesterday. sine and i went for a bike ride... grabbed some sandwiches in cobble hill and made for the promenade, where we watched the ferries and......

in response to: Brooklyn Sunset through my bedroom window by Shoshannah