I’d almost forgotten about this picture from last weekend, taken in Ouseburn. We’d walked the same route many times previously, but somehow hadn’t noticed these rather splendid steps near the Cluny. Obviously, one needed to investigate, but sadly they lead only to a grassy hill and some modern flats. They’re not the usual sandstone, and they haven’t been worn by years of hobnail boots, so they don’t seem to have been industrial.

I’d like to think they used to lead to an impressive house. However, I’m probably way off the mark and it’ll have been a workhouse or asylum.

Or something even less interesting.