As the end of the year draws ever closer it’s time to have a look back at some of The Cape Queen’s shoots. We went to (among other places) Congleton, Macclesfield and Stone and, of course, to Magpie Mine, a location that’s so good we’ll …
Yes, we love colour images and especially when they have the air of those 1970s processed prints: the shade of those colour prints is really evocative. But so too is black and white, as we see here from The Cape Queen’s trip to Stone railway …
Stone – a smaller Midlands town with some top-class older architecture. Clair the Cape Queen likes urban exploring and she was back in Stone for a further look around. On this day the weather was grey and damp – what better excuse to don her …
We’re continuing or visit to Stone thread but, this time, in monotone. And why not? A black and white image conveys something quite different from a colour one and there’s a real link with the past. Anyway, Clair The Cape Queen is looking to return …
It’s a return to Stone railway station where Clair the Cape Queen had donned her Klepper cape for some industrial architecture exploring. Mid-summer it might have been, but the skies were grey, there were intermittent showers and the breeze strong, the latter causing Clair’s heavy …
There’s something intriguing about a properly traditional Midlands town that then surprises with Brutalist-style concrete, and that was the case here. Clair The Cape Queen discovered this canal path under a bridge, complete with latter-day urban graffiti. We know that capes and concrete go well …
Back to Stone and Clair The Cape Queen came across a proper car accessory shop. Once a common sight in almost any high street many have suffered as motorists go online to buy their car’s needs. Of course, that means a motorist doesn’t get that …
Railway station architecture: the earlier British station design was a thing of majesty, sometimes taking styling cues from churches. And in many ways railway stations of the Victorian and Edwardian eras really ways cathedral of steam, moving people and goods en masse before the internal …
The Cape Queen doesn’t mind a bit of shopping every now and then and while in Stone she came across this excellent emporium. As you can see, she was especially taken by the selection of brushes and brooms – and you have to agree shopping …
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