Soap Powder, Friar Gate Launderette
An old soap powder dispenser found in Friar Gate Launderette
Friar Gate, Derby
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Taken by Jim on Friday 9th November 2007
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Snap Derby 
November 9, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I love the way it’s been kept up on the wall, and cleaned, even though it’s not used anymore. It’s just a relic, in it’s context, but not in it’s time. That’s what turns function into beauty…
~biff~
November 10, 2007 at 10:20 am
Sorry……. but it should be Friar Gate !
Nigel
Vernonstreet
November 10, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Ah, we talked about that while putting the thing together last night! I will correct it.
Thanks Nigel!
~biff~
November 10, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I did not mean you to alter the Friargate to Friar Gate, it is just that I enjoy being pedantic, and it has always been something that I was never quite sure of the answer. Now I am.
A quick walk today from the launderette to St Weburgh’s and back showed 25 spellings as Friar Gate, and 6 as Friargate. Just one business managed to get it different on two signs for the same premises!
Interesting, I did not realise Google Earth had updated our sat-pics to sometime in summer 2006, I would guess. It was only earlier this year they they deemed to give this side of Derby a decent high resolution scan, and even that was a photo taken back in 2001 or so.
November 10, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Thanks Nigel. Hope you enjoy the new pictures.
Jim
November 10, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Nigel,
We’ll go with the majority vote and from now on refer to that wonderful part of town as Friar Gate. But we’ll also add a tag of ‘friargate’ as well!
Cheers,
~biff~
August 14, 2009 at 1:39 pm
have you still got this soap dispenser