Saturday Shoppers

A typical scene along Beeston's High Road. Old ladies out with their shopping trollies to collect their bread, veggies and meat for the week. Customers enjoying their coffee whilst people watching at Rye, and people just walking from shop to shop, looking for a bargain or two.

Hopefully the two trees that have been pollarded will be sprouting green like the others very soon. Just hope the dark clouds don't turn to rain, as it doesn't look like anyone has an umbrella with them.

Rush Hour

Shoppers going and passing through the Broad Marsh shopping centre.

Dragon Dance

I know that I said that I wouldn't be putting any Chinese New Year photos on, but I couldn't resist showing you this one.

As you can see it is of some dragon dancers making their way to Broadgate Park along the High Road in Beeston. The dancers belong to the university's Chinese students & scholars group, and they were on their way to entertain the crowd.

When I took this photo, they were waiting for the traffic lights to change, and by a happy accident, they were standing outside the Dancing Dragon Chinese Restaurant!

Blast From The Past

Walking through town at lunchtime, I was surprised, and pleased to see the old BOAC name and logo on this guy's bag.  What spoilt it for me though, was the fact that the bag was red, whereas it should have been dark blue.

For those of you who don't know BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) was a British airline in the 1960s. It used to fly VC10s and the very first Concorde sported the airlines colours. They merged with BEA (British European Airways)  in the early 1970s and became British Airways. Which according to advertisers is the world's favourite airline.

If you are interested in the airline's history, here's a useful WEBLINK.