Darwen Market Hall In The Snow

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1. Really beautiful scenes.

   1. Thanks, Timothy.

2. Both beautiful ❤

   1. The snow picks out the lines of the landscaping design.

      1. ❤💖💝

3. Is there an outdoor market? I seem to think that I’ve been to an outdoor market there.

   1. The area where the bird is used to be an outdoor market. The old one from childhood that haunted my dreams for many years was open and atmospheric; the one that followed it, concrete and less so.

      1. I just seem to remember canvas covered stalls and exploring the area when it wasn’t market day. I’m sure it was an art school trip so it would have been the late 1970s.

         1. That sounds like the old market, but the replacement was opened in 1975.

            1. I’m pretty sure that it was the late 1970s so maybe I’ve got the location wrong.

4. Really lovely. According to my family tree some of my ancestors originated in Lancashire, England. I would love to see it some day. Enjoy the snow!!

   1. We are still enjoying snow, gingerly, as it’s treacherous underfoot. Lancashire is a historic place with lots of beautiful countryside, although the county has shrunk considerably from what would now be called its ceremonial boundaries.

5. Darwen looks lovely in snow. I can just see Darwen Tower in the distance. Enjoyed a walk there a couple of years ago .

   1. You did well to spot the tower. You’ll remember it as being higher up than it looks here.

      1. Yes . It was definitely uphill! 😀

6. Was that recent snow? Looks pretty

   1. Yes – it’s still with us on the moors.

      1. I do like a bit of snow in the winter. We are having cold frosty nights just now

7. What a pretty, pretty place! Snow always seem to dress up a town.

   1. Snow falls kindly, I agree.

8. Is there a story that goes with the huge bird sculpture?

   1. There are two views about the metal bird which recently alighted in Darwen. Some would say it looks like it has been plucked. The artist explains he was not interested in the feathers – the lack of feathers symbolises the loss of manufacturing industry, particularly cotton. The metal has been woven. The bird is a peregrine falcon in a nod to those that nested at the top of our disused, but strikingly decorative India Mill chimney for many years.

9. Both images are beautiful, but snow adds something very special (especially for Antipodeans like me 😬)

   1. Snow is magical for me too. It conceals some parts of a scene and picks out others so we see differently.

10. That looks so pretty and festive too, with the Christmas tree. The hilly setting and the town itself both look lovely and the snow just adds a little touch of magic! 🙂

    1. It is hard to convey the hilliness with an iPhone – the lens has a way of flattening everything. For the first one, I was ‘leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street’ as dusk started to fall and hoping for the best. I was pleased how it turned out.

       1. It turned out very well indeed… 🙂

11. I love the way the snow and sky work together in each image: one slightly blue snow with the pinky-lavender horizon, and the other a kind of cloudy white, perfectly repeated in the sky above. The white Christmas lights in the top photo do, of course, make everything a bit of an illusion. I agree with Ann above — a touch of magic in that snow.

    1. I agree that the two are in league to work their tricks. We are still at that time of year when darkness falls before we are ready for it, but it has the advantage of bringing out the lights. Something in the top shot seems bridal. In the second, the sky wants to join with the snow in blanketing the hills.

       1. Bridal! Yes! Also the blanket — I like both!

12. With a little snow, every landscape takes on a fairytale atmosphere.

    1. The quantity does make a difference. We typically get gentle snow that highlights rather than conceals.

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