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Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-01-16 19:57:04 - Graham EllisDenton Railway Station, at Night.Served by just one train a week ... |
A bustling area - a supermarket, warehouse / store, hotel, pub, car dealerships, pedestrian walkways and this desolate station ... that's what I found at Denton, near Manchester, on Wednesday night. And as well as words, I wanted to paint a picture like the one above. How could I do so, without image manipulation?
I have used a table to hold the image, and a cell within it with a background url rather than a colour ... sizing my table cell to the size of the image:
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color: yellow;" width=450 height=300 valign=top><h3>Denton Railway Station,
at Night. </h3> Served by just one train a week ...</td></tr></table>See here for an article I have written on the area near this station, and the lack of service. See here for further pictures, and comment.