Snow Tyres

one street
in winter
snow tyres
available
here

One Street 4

At home the snow is still lying, although little has fallen since yesterday lunch time. In the city there was still some on the rooftops and on the higher ground.

One of the characteristics of my One Street, the Great Horton Road is that it climbs out of the city centre onto higher ground. Bradford is often described as sitting in a bowl, with the bottom of the bowl being at about 80-100 metres above sea level. The end of the Great Horton Road is just shy of the 300m contour, approaching the lip of the bowl. Today's spot is at around 185m, about halfway up, and you get some sense of the elevation in the view across the valley in the general direction of Daisy Hill.

As promised, I want to bring you some of the informal street architecture as well as the finer buildings of the street. An installation like this tyre will quickly assume the status of a local landmark, and as it's near a junction on the inner ring road I can imagine people being given directions along the lines of: "Turn left at the big white tyre."

No Le Guin inspired titles today, but we might conjur up her winter planet of Gethen, the setting of The Left Hand of Darkness, one of her two absolute classics.

Oh, and I ordered my copy of Blue Moon Over Thurman Street today.