This is near Brindley Place in Birmingham, UK. A richer, more up-market section of the city filled with the hottest restaurants and multip purpose office buildings. Near the canal there are the remains of old factories, such as this one. The message 'unspoilt by progress' caught me off guard and I needed to get a picture, even if it does just refer to the beverage.

The Skaters at St.Anne's

author: Gerard McKeown : Belfast, UK

This is a poem I wrote about when I started going to Belfast for the first time and the old skater hang out which has since been destroyed by Belfast city council. The location is now known as Writer's Square. Effectively an organic culture has been replaced with a synthetic one. The Skaters at St. Anne’s I remember the train journeys to Belfast in winter 97 I was always reading a book or sleeping, getting told to take my feet off the seats by the ticket collector, getting off at Great Victoria Street or Botanic if I’d fallen asleep. I used to passing the skaters at St....

Hot Sex Ahoy!

author: KC1976 : Hull, UK

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Without the sticker warning me to remove the sticker, I'd have just put the condoms straight in the microwave without thinking -- a whole different level of kinky!

3am

author: Hit and Run : London, UK

Kray Stencil Graf

author: elaine : London, UK

ronnie and reggie kray were famous and glamourised (by iconographer david bailey) gangland bosses in the east end of london in the 60's. they both ended their days in jail, one in broadmoor, the home for the criminally insane, where a vastly more interesting character, william chester minor was either the first, or at least an early inhabitant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Minor. i digress. anyway, this is a take on a famous image of them which i found at the old street end of hackney road. i love the cheeky addition of the tesco bags, but the purse alludes to reggie's gayness, i...

Butts and Cum

author: Luke1972 : Brighton, UK

The council put in new street bins with compartments for cigarette butts and chewing gum. Guess what every bin in town now says on top?? :) Bit unfortunate for a place known as the gay capital of Britain.

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