This February is a very busy month for my football team – a match every Tuesday and Saturday. That also means a very busy month of photography / processing for me. In the circumstances and with other subjects that I want to continue posting about, I think it is time to swap from Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge to a different challenge. So this week, here’s an entry for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge😎
Even at a serious event – like protesting against the government – there’s still time to smile…
Smiling for the Selfie -Trafalgar Square…
And here are some of Wingate & Finchley’s long-suffering fans…
…with something to smile about for a change – a win over local rivals Potters Bar😎👍
I know Cee loves transport in her challenges but we’re going to start with some buildings – in this case an old Odeon Cinema approaching the end of its life…
…no longer showing films, having closed in 1964, it spent a number of years as a car showroom and a furniture store. It was demolished in 2013.
Central house – Finchley Central…
The white is going cream/dirty and the reinforcing bars behind the facade are leaking their rusty residue down the face of each level – ironically adding so much character to a bland 60’s building.
Cream and White…
…The National Bus Company painted its coaches white, so here we have an Eastern National Bristol RE with Plaxton bodywork sitting in Peterborough alongside a cream liveried Bedford YRQ belonging to Everett’s of Atterby. The latter was a rare vehicle, the Bedford YRQ chassis and Duple Viceroy Express body combination only ever being ordered 97 times.
I never know if these count as a dark red – the first is an EWS liveried locomotive and it’s definitely a ‘dull’ red…
…But I’m pretty sure LMS / British Railways Maroon (sometimes called Crimson Lake) counts as Dark’ when it comes to reds…
…And then there’s our Wingate & Finchley away kit from a couple of years ago…
…I just wish I had some shots of the Chrysanthemums I used to grow with the red and gold petals – maybe something to look forward to as I replant the garden… 🙂
Images from Finchley 