Lincoln Pix
Ever been to Lincoln? (That’s the real Lincoln that I’m talking about. The one in Lincolnshire, UK.) Then you might recognize the building in our picture.
What, you’ve never seen it before?
Well, the photo is one of Lincoln’s ‘hidden gems’; they are not literally hidden, but they are overlooked because most people focus on just the castle and the cathedral. A larger version of this and others can be found in our collection of Lincoln Pix, which we have only just started, but which is sure to grow to a truly enormous size. This particular image is of the upper frontage of the Halifax building society in Lincoln’s Silver Street.
Tourists to Lincoln all know about the cathedral and the castle, but they don’t see any of our other architectural delights because they are too busy gawping in shop windows (or pretending they are in Paris and slurping their skinny lattes outside the cafes in the High Street) to notice anything else.
If necessity is the mother of invention, then, in our case, frustration was at least part of the reason for Lincoln Pix. That, and a preference for older buildings over more modern commercial styles. After hours of searching for Lincoln images online and finding very little apart from the obvious stuff, we finally got our own camera and decided to do the job ourselves.
So, if you’ve been to Lincoln and you think you’ve seen it all, think again. Why not come back and take another look?
Chris