Shopping Centre Entrance, Keighley

We all tend to take our own locale for granted and find it, for the most part, commonplace and hum-drum. Show us a picture of a train in India with the travellers clinging to all available parts and we find the image fascinating. Show us a picture of the local diesel commuter pulling in and the reaction is ...duh! A picture of a Paris street café or one in say, downtown Memphis, has a kind of exotic and romantic air, but a café in your local town? So what! But I like to think that the town where I happen to live is just as fascinating and interesting in its own right as anywhere else and just as worthy of recording. (Rant over.)
This is the entrance to the Airedale Centre, Keighley's central shopping area. Modern in concept, it provides a safe and weather-proofed environment for shopping. I didn't need a security guard to escort me to take this view from the open top of the car park right beside the shopping centre. From there a great view of almost the whole town can be had. The spire of the Parish Church can be seen on the right with various other Victorian buildings in the background to the left, along with the ubiquitous blocks of flats that inhabit every town in the country. The sprawling shopping centre takes the entire centre ground and I like the way you can almost see the old being pushed into the background by the brash and the new. Not that I'm saying I'm a supporter, just that it's happening.