Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: old

Languishing around the back of Liverpool's old art deco airport terminal. This Bristol Britannia has the distinction of being the same kind of aeroplane that the Beatles used for that iconic piece of film where they're at this airport amidst the height of screaming Beatlemania. As for the photo, it's kinda dingy, but that matched the weather and perhaps my mood so, well, meh. But view a bit larger and the texture of the apron is nice.

Built in sixteen-oatcake, and used nae maer.

Where? Wolves?

An Alvis TD21 (I believe), in gorgeous condition, just minding its own business outside a restaurant on Liverpool's Hope Street — oddly, but appropriately-ish here, named "The London Carriage Works". I've always fancied an Alvis and this one reinforces that, though I'd have to have a soft-top! I'll take the opportunity to provide a cautionary tale: I've stayed at the hotel associated with this restaurant, the Hope Street Hotel. It carried a good reputation, which I understand is due to the restaurant. I didn't eat there, but I can certainly say I wouldn't stay in the hotel again. Hugely over-priced, not especially nice, and that's after I had the hassle of getting a room - they'd lost my booking even though I'd confirmed it. Even when they did give me a room, they tried to "downgrade" me without offering a discount on the price I'd agreed for the better room. You never get this nonsense with Travelodge! ;)

Albania's new roads are quite simply astonishing. What was once several days of journeying is now accomplished in hours. This old bridge was once a compulsory part of the scary trek from Kosova, via Rubik, to Tirana. Truck was once towed across it while having "propshaft issues"... you could see through the concrete to the river below. This photo is from the set "Albania — Jane's photos", all of which are from the Aid Convoy preliminary trip to Bathore / Kamza, near Tirana, Albania, where we resurrected our project there. This set – readily identified by the lack of a black border around each photo – shows photos not taken by me, but by my colleague Jane. I don't normally upload other people's photos but these are here to complete the story when seen in conjunction with mine (with black borders), in the "Albania 2010" set.