Text on a background image

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:

<table cellpadding=5>

<tr><td style="background:url(/pix/denton2.jpg) top center repeat-y;

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.
(written 2009-01-16 19:57:04)

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