Things That Should Not Have Been Built in Britain

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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #31
    Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
    All statues of fictitious people - Sherlock Holmes etc.
    Jesus ?

    Buildings with TEXT written on them ......... particularly schools and Universities BUT including the sodding "Great Court" at the British Museum which is like a Japanese shopping arcade

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 20565

      #32
      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
      it's being rebuilt at the moment, but I think (?) that Birmingham never had a big impressive station at all ?

      Ripon station ............ ooooops it never was
      I went on a train that stopped at Ripon station in 1958.

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #33
        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
        I went on a train that stopped at Ripon station in 1958.
        aaah so there was , I was told it never existed when I tried to buy a ticket


        (http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/ripon/index.shtml)

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        • LeMartinPecheur
          Full Member
          • Apr 2007
          • 4717

          #34
          Basingstoke? Though I might let the Anvil escape...
          I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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          • Lateralthinking1

            #35
            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
            Buildings with TEXT written on them
            Yes! Croydon is guilty.

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            • EdgeleyRob
              Guest
              • Nov 2010
              • 12180

              #36

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              • AmpH
                Guest
                • Feb 2012
                • 1318

                #37
                Football Grounds

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                • AmpH
                  Guest
                  • Feb 2012
                  • 1318

                  #38
                  Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                  Basingstoke? Though I might let the Anvil escape...
                  The Anvil is indeed excellent, and ' stoky ' is a trendy place now LMP ....... apparently

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25178

                    #39
                    Norman Forts.

                    Enclosures.

                    Hastings B and Q
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • An_Inspector_Calls

                      #40
                      Each and every modern windmill - all ugly and technically useless.

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                      • Lateralthinking1

                        #41
                        Thanet Earth - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-unveiled.html

                        Madame Tussauds

                        Hadrian's Wall



                        Heron's Wind Baffle, Bressenden Place - Looks good but the gales knock you off your feet

                        Spearmint Rhino

                        Zoos
                        Last edited by Guest; 06-12-12, 10:44.

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                        • amateur51

                          #42
                          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                          Mornington Crescent

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            #43
                            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                            Mornington Crescent
                            Oh, surely not! I'm sorry I haven't a clue why you suggested that! Had it not been built, where would the ever delightful Samantha live? (and I'm not referring to Mrs Cameron, in case anyone wondered)...

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                            • BBMmk2
                              Late Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20908

                              #44
                              The Angel of the North and Spinaker Tower etc etc,.....
                              Don’t cry for me
                              I go where music was born

                              J S Bach 1685-1750

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                              • MrGongGong
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 18357

                                #45
                                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                                The Angel of the North and Spinaker Tower etc etc,.....
                                Yeah go for it
                                and while you are at it
                                St Pauls, St Pancras, The Albert Hall etc etc totally out of scale and out of place

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