Amazingstoker's photos with the keyword: basingrad

Click image for better seen bigger. Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "The great outdoors" A lovely day and everyone's enjoying being out in the warm sun.

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Odd" This lost cat/bat was lurking in the undergrowth in a remote corner of the local park. An odd thing to find.

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Outside at night" This a modern 'Spoons' pub, but named 'The Angel' after a couple of the town's, now demolished, pubs named 'The Angel' that dated back to the 1700s

Click image for 'better big on black' Created for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Hallowe'en" Saint Mary's churchyard.

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Wildlife"

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Change" At the local park flowerbeds, it's out with the old and in with the, err nothing so far, guess they'll be putting some winter planting in to replace the removed bedding plants.

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Purple" This is the 'purple zone'' of level 5 of the local car park. Taken shortly before I was spotted by security and had to leave . . .

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Show where you're standing" This is a path in Basingstoke's Holy Ghost cemetery, made from 'redundant' gravestones. The graveyard dates back to 1208. A lot's changed since AJ passed in 1741 when the town would have been supplied by horse and cart, in 1794 a canal was completed connecting the town to London, the railway followed in 1839 linking the town to London and Southampton. In the 1960s the historic town centre was flattened and replaced by a modern concrete shopping centre, an act of destruction that wouldn't be allowed today. The graveyard also has Thomas Burberry's grave (founder of the Burberry clothing empire), Mrs Blunden who was supposedly buried alive, twice, starting a trend for graves to have a bell and bell pull in the coffin in case of mistakes, and to and Victoria Cross holder J A Liddle.

sticker in a Basingstoke underpass. "I still hate Thatcher"

Not something you see every day

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "complementary colour"

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Modern Looking Negative Space".

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "darkness in photography" This is the "His & Kids" hair dresser that sadly went bust during the COVID lockdown, so the lights are out permanently.

Daffs in the park. Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Associated with Easter"

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "picture of a mirror showing your surroundings" This is the 'who's looking over my shoulder' mirror on the ATM at the bus station . . .

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Yellow" Underside of the Vyne Road rail bridge.

Taken for 'The Sunday Challenge': "Unusual or odd shaped items" This is Basingstoke's "Mother and Child Sculpture" in Wote Street. When erected it caused a bit of a hoo-haa with members of the council wanting it moved away from public display to avoid upsetting passers by, but it remains, and is known locally as 'Wote Street Willie'

Basingstoke's shoe trees. Sadly the council have become aware of these and are now planning to remove the shoes, which is a great shame, to quote Mark E. Smith "life should be full of strangeness, like a rich painting" Click image for big, and a better view of the shoes