#highstreet — Public Fediverse posts
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Oxford Street is being pedestrianised in weeks – here’s everything you need to know | News UK
A 1km section of Britain’s busiest high street is being made vehicle-free from next month (Picture: Mayor of…
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Oxford Street is being pedestrianised in weeks – here’s everything you need to know | News UK
A 1km section of Britain’s busiest high street is being made vehicle-free from next month (Picture: Mayor of…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/118698/ Oxford Street is being pedestrianised in weeks – here’s everything you need to know | News UK #HighStreet #London #News #SadiqKhan #TransportForLondon #UK #WestEnd
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Oxford Street is being pedestrianised in weeks – everything you need to know
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Oxford Street is being pedestrianised in weeks – everything you need to know
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Best preppy menswear for autumn – from rugby shirts, loafers and cable knits
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Best preppy menswear for autumn – from rugby shirts, loafers and cable knits
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Best preppy menswear for autumn – from rugby shirts, loafers and cable knits
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Best preppy menswear for autumn – from rugby shirts, loafers and cable knits
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Best preppy menswear for autumn – from rugby shirts, loafers and cable knits
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7 autumn jackets perfect for the new season from M&S, Nobody's Child and more
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M&S throw school uniform sale where parents can save 20% on back-to-school essentials
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M&S revives cult St Michael label in new Aries collaboration
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M&S shoppers are obsessed with this £48 slip dress that works for every season
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The best M&S summer sale fashion deals, according to a shopping expert
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Cobblestone streets lined with stone and timber-fronted buildings create a charming historic atmosphere in the heart of Conwy. Local shops, including St David’s Hospice, face a gentle incline where cars are parked along the narrow lane, reflecting the character of a #TownCenter in a #CoastalTown. Visitors stroll past independent stores and charity shops, soaking in the #HistoricStreets that lead toward Conwy’s medieval walls and nearby castle. The bright sky and relaxed pace make it a perfect spot for #StreetPhotography and #TravelPhotography.
Taken Jul 2025
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AnA Shawarma to serve free shawarma platters at customer-appreciation event - Izza Haq [🖼 High St. Kitchens — located at 2864 N. High St. — houses multiple Columbus restaurants, including halal restaurant AnA Shawarma. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor]High St. Kitchens — located at 2864 N. High St. — houses multiple Columbus restaurants, including halal restaurant AnA Shawarma. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor
Columbus’ chicken shawarma lovers are in for a treat.
AnA Shawarma, a halal restaurant that operates out of High St. Kitchens — a ghost kitchen located at 2864 N. High St. that houses several restaurants in one space — will serve free chicken shawarma platters to the public as part of a customer-appreciation event between 4-7 p.m. Monday.
Opened in January 2023, the restaurant serves a 100% halal menu — meaning meat is prepared in a manner that abides by Islamic law — that includes shawarma platters, cheesesteaks, wings, burgers, fried fish and more.
Owner Azeemullah Raghbat said operating out of a ghost kitchen has brought on many challenges for the restaurant and its customers.
Raghbat said the ghost kitchen’s capacity hasn’t been able to match the high volume of customers the restaurant has recently received, adding that he hopes this event will help compensate for this disparity.
“The type of business that we are doing is very unorthodox, and a lot of our customers were patient and dealt with it,” Raghbat said. “[In the] summer, I was afraid that we were going to go under. But thank God, we still stayed above water because of our customers’ support. So, I figured, ‘Why not give back to the community and do this?’”
Raghbat said AnA Shawarma hosted a similar event to celebrate the restaurant’s grand opening in 2023, during which they let customers choose between a free chicken or lamb shawarma platter. This year, Raghbat said he plans to only give out free chicken shawarma platters, as they are the restaurant’s bestseller and the most efficient menu item for large-scale distribution.
Al Haj Ibrahim, the restaurant’s manager, said he plans to prepare everything an hour before the event begins, ensuring there is enough food ready for everyone.
“It’s a lot of work,” Ibrahim said. “That day, we’ll turn off Uber Eats and Doordash, everything. We just focus [on] customer appreciation.”
Raghbat said along with food quality, customer service will be his top priority during the event.
“When I’m here, no one goes to the front except me because I feel like I’m the best in customer service, in terms of me and my employees,” Raghbat said. “I like to interact with customers, and if there’s any problems, I know how to diffuse situations, so that’s the main importance to me.”
Ibrahim said he is often faced with customers who have unreasonable requests, including those who expect their orders to be ready within just five minutes of ordering. Still, even when customers can be difficult, Ibrahim said he is always happy to help as much as possible.
“Customer is always right,” Ibrahim said.
Raghbat said he hopes the event will showcase gratitude to the restaurant’s customers while also expanding AnA Shawarma’s name throughout Columbus.
In the near future, Raghbat said he hopes to open his own brick-and-mortar shop to better serve his customers.
More information about Monday’s event can be found on AnA Shawarma’s Instagram page.
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Atmospherically misleading: the thread about Louis H. Grimshaw’s paintings of Edinburgh
This thread was originally written and published in July 2023.
Today’s (July 9th 2023) Auction House Artefact was this evocative and eerie late-evening painting of the High Street in Edinburgh, looking towards St. Giles after the rain. Painted by Louis H. Grimshaw in 1895, in the “moonlit cityscape” style he inherited from his father, John Atkinson Grimshaw.
St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Louis H. Grimshaw, 1895The young Louis Grimshaw started working as an artist as an assistant to his father, helping with the details such as the people on moody and atmospheric late night scenes such as this one, “Glasgow, Saturday Night“, showing the hustle and bustle of the Broomielaw on the Clyde. The Grimshaws talent was one of capturing the ethereal glow of a sunset or moonlight as it reflected through clouds upon a wet cityscape and contrasting that with the bright, artificial lights of modernity. They also chose to deliberately avoid the dirt, grime and squalor of Victorian town life in their paintings, creating evocative but fundamentally sanitised scenes.
“Glasgow, Saturday Night”. John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1886Father and son worked together until the former’s death in 1893. At this juncture, Louis continued the style and subject matter himself. In his painting of St. Giles, we see the historic and frequently decrepit Old Town portrayed as a modern and prosperous city, with glowing shop lights, busy shoppers, clean streets, neat rows of gas lamps a horse tram picking up passengers. (This was the brief 12 year period when the Old Town had a tram route up the High Street, which was lost the year after this scene was painted when the horse trams moved over to cable traction and the route was shifted down the Mound instead)
Details. St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Louis H. Grimshaw, 1895Despite his talents, Louis Grimshaw packed in the unpredictable and insecure life as painter in 1905, swapping it for the steady pay and regular work of a cartographer, for The Guardian, in 1905. As such he left a limited body of work and it commands high prices – £70-100k for the St. Giles painting when it last sold in 2008. He mainly depicted London but seems to have painted 3 Edinburgh scenes in 1895. Below we have the classic view up the High Street from “John Knox’s” House looking towards the Tron Kirk and St. Giles, the moon glowing somewhere above Auld Reekie’s smoggy cloak.
Looking up the High Street to the Tron Kirk, Louis H. Grimshaw, 1895A small troop of Highlanders are marching downhill from the Castle to Holyrood. The gaslamps are lit, the shop windows are bright and on the right is the welcoming lamp and incongruous (for the Old Town) classical columns of Carrubers Close Mission.
Details. Looking up the High Street to the Tron Kirk, Louis H. Grimshaw, 1895Grimshaw’s scene matches *very* closely a photograph from the 1890s by John Patrick one can’t but wonder if it was the inspiration. The photo also shows the reality of the High Street compared to Grimshaw’s stylised, gentrified painting. Mixed in with the bustle and prosperity are the shoeless, malnourished children and obvious signs of the decaying, overcrowded accommodation of the Old Town that made life here so tenuous for so many children
High Street, Edinburgh, looking towards the Tron Kirk and St. Giles, by Robert Patrick, c. 1890, CC-by-NC National Galleries ScotlandIn fact, it’s such a close match, I think that Grimshaw’s scene can only have been a tracing of Patrick’s photograph. See for yourself below:
Grimshaw’s painting overlaid on Patrick’s photographGrimshaw’s last Edinburgh scene (that I can find) shows Holyroodhouse from the foot of the Canongate. Again the moon behind the cloud and smog casts an eerie glow over the damp road. Again the lights are bright and streets are clean. Again this is very sanitised scene compared to the reality of life in the Canongate at that time.
Holyroodhouse from the Canongate, Louis H. Grimshaw, 1895The reality was that in the 1890s, the Canongate – at one time long ago the suburban retreat of the City’s wealthy classes – was a crumbling, overcrowded and insanitary neighbourhood, where disease, malnourishment and poverty were endemic and child mortality was high.
Stereoscopic view of Canongate looking east towards Holyrood, Thomas Begbie, 1887. From the Cavaye Collection © Edinburgh City LibrariesDon’t get me wrong, I love these paintings and the artist’s skill in conjouring up the atmosphere. But they are a set-dressed fantasy, this thread on the diet of the working class of the Canongate in 1901 gives a window on what life was really like here for many. My Mum’s family lived this reality, at this time- flitting between the slums of the Canongate, High Street, St. Leonards and Stockbridge, constantly on the move; looking for something better or leaving behind something worse. They were Irish immigrant labourers, at the very bottom of the pile, and that reality was of their eleven children, eight predeceased their mother and four never made their 1st birthday. Of the children that survived to adulthood, five died as young adults from TB: even in the better times of the 1930s and 40s, the legacy of a childhood in the slums caught up with them.
Sorry. Ranty reality check over – please don’t get me wrong, these are very nice and evocative paintings. Stick a couple of dancers and a butler in them and they’d be quite like a Jack Vettriano scene. Do enjoy them; but they absolutely need a word of caution about how artificial the world is that they present us with.
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