A thread full of UGLY (buildings) - not neccessarily Brighton

[happypig]

H Block.

I'm trying to remember Atkinson, what year did you leave?

I finally escaped in 1979.

 

[Notters]

i actually like that - its eerie, and always took a look when i used to drive past it every day
could imagine some horror flicks taking part in there

One of the Peter James books has a pretty scary scene set in there.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Shard. All glass. No class.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I finally escaped in 1979.

I got out in 1981, I saw on the Beavers Cafe thread last week that you also went to Coombe Rd School.

 

[Gwylan]

i actually like that - its eerie, and always took a look when i used to drive past it every day
could imagine some horror flicks taking part in there

Some people wanted Albion's new stadium to be built there (shudder)

 

[happypig]

I got out in 1981, I saw on the Beavers Cafe thread last week that you also went to Coombe Rd School.

Horrible place, I hated every day at Fawcett. One of the teachers told us that it had been modelled on a school in California with the open walkways and courtyards. I can only imagine whoever commissioned it was on some strong drugs because it was bitterly cold in the winter, used to get frozen going for a smoke round the back of the woodwork room

 

[AmexRuislip]

Hillingdon Hospital near me is beautiful

 

[el punal]

Edward Street, Brighton:

What the **** is that ?!!!!

 

[edna krabappel]

Horsham. Attractive, characterful West Sussex market town.

 

[edna krabappel]

Controversial, perhaps. But I've always hated this building:

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

I can see where you're coming from. As a kid it used to give me the creeps whenever I walked past it, think that has now turned into an irrational dislike.

 

[edna krabappel]

I can see where you're coming from. As a kid it used to give me the creeps whenever I walked past it, think that has now turned into an irrational dislike.

I was always told as a kid that it was built to the dimensions of Noah's Ark.

At least, the ones the Bible claims to be the case...

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

I was always told as a kid that it was built to the dimensions of Noah's Ark.

At least, the ones the Bible claims to be the case...

Ha! I've never actually been inside, but the image I have in my head is that it's horribly desolate and decaying.

 

[Worthingite]

How have we got this far without the delights of Teville Gate not being mentioned?!?!



And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the first thing you see when arriving into Sunny Worthing by train!!!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

That's a bit of a con though - those houses came from separate streets and were physically moved into one street when Coventry was rebuilt after the way. They're nice houses but it does have a theme park feel to the place.

Coventry does have the outstanding cathedral though - possibly my favourite post-war building in England

Graduated in said cathedral, however lived in the halls of residence directly opposite. A Building that even a soviet architect would have been ashamed off, for being to brutal!
Is the donut still there?

 

[Gwylan]

Ha! I've never actually been inside, but the image I have in my head is that it's horribly desolate and decaying.

Oh, it's not: quite the reverse actually, it's very well kept and rather welcoming. It's the highest of high Anglican churches, though: any higher and they'd be shouting for the Pope

 

[OzMike]

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Ruined my view of the downs when they built this.

Apologies for my ignorance, but where actually is this, as it looks like a used to be picturesque spot I used to go fishing in my youth.

 

[OzMike]

The Shard. All glass. No class.

The building to the left must be up there as well.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Apologies for my ignorance, but where actually is this, as it looks like a used to be picturesque spot I used to go fishing in my youth.

It's next to the Ouse and the Railway line, Just North of the industrial estate in Newhaven, it's not as far as Piddinghoe but the residents of that village also have it as a view.

 

[edna krabappel]