Pictures of the dirty dirty South

[DotCommunist]

The Cube. A big square brutal block of a building in lovely Corby. It houses a library, the council offices, eateries and a cinema

Cemetery of the sisters of Notre Dame, Northampton

Carlesburg factory. This is where they make the Special Brew. On a clear morning you can get the horlickey smell of brewing on the wind

the iconic concrete cows of Milton Keynes. Once they stood in a field but for conservation and maximum appreciation they have been transplanted into the Centre:MK (thats what we are all supposed to call it now). They bring a little character to what is basically a horrific palace dedicated to mammon

 

[killer b]

The Carlsberg brewery is very handsome. Good shout.

 

[Roadkill]

Carlesburg factory. This is where they make the Special Brew. On a clear morning you can get the horlickey smell of brewing on the wind

I remember that from when we used to go to Corby leisure centre when I was a kid. Not a particularly nice smell. The other thing I remember about Corby is seemingly endless lines of disused railway wagons outside the closed steelworks. A depressing place in the 80s, Corby.

Btw, shouldn't this thread be titled 'pictures of the dirty dirty Midlands'?

 

[DotCommunist]

truesay roadkill, truesay.

we are like the barse of england, betwixt the cock of the north and the balls of the south

 

[samk]

And for something to put in your enema tubes, rugby cement factory

 

[Roadkill]

we are like the barse of england, betwixt the cock of the north and the balls of the south

 

[Frances Lengel]

truesay roadkill, truesay.

we are like the barse of england, betwixt the cock of the north and the balls of the south

Godlike chief.

 

[moochedit]

And for something to put in your enema tubes, rugby cement factory

that's definately in the midlands.

 

[stuff_it]

truesay roadkill, truesay.

we are like the barse of england, betwixt the cock of the north and the balls of the south

How strange, since only last week I got drunk on rum and drew a massive spunking cock over a poster map of the UK on my new fella's wall. The Outer Hebridies were the jizz. Make of that what you will.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

My god that Carlsberg factory looks hideous! But then quite apt for spesh as that's hideous too!

Edit to add - on second thoughts it looks more like some kind of weird mutant power station, than a brewery.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I wondered what had happened to the concrete cows! I used to drive past them regularly when going from Cambridge to Oxford. It was always a bit of a challenge to spot them, since they were near a roundabout and there are hundreds of roundabouts, so we all used to shout out when we saw them.

Anyway, I moved, so I no longer do that journey regularly, but I looked for them a couple of times when visiting MK, and now I know that I probably wasn't having a memory lapse when I recognised the roundabout and was about to shout out that I had seen them, only to be disappointed.

And yes, the thread title is wrong!

 

[stuff_it]

I wondered what had happened to the concrete cows! I used to drive past them regularly when going from Cambridge to Oxford. It was always a bit of a challenge to spot them, since they were near a roundabout and there are hundreds of roundabouts, so we all used to shout out when we saw them.

Anyway, I moved, so I no longer do that journey regularly, but I looked for them a couple of times when visiting MK, and now I know that I probably wasn't having a memory lapse when I recognised the roundabout and was about to shout out that I had seen them, only to be disappointed.

And yes, the thread title is wrong!

They are on the A422 near where you go under the train line. Some wag painted them black with skellingtons on around October 31 last year and they have only recently been painted back.

 

[tony.c]

Yep, anything north of the Watford Gap is not South.

 

[DotCommunist]

They are on the A422 near where you go under the train line. Some wag painted them black with skellingtons on around October 31 last year and they have only recently been painted back.

wa it a temporary relocation to the Centre:MK or are the ones in the photo in fact imposter-stone bovines?

 

[frogwoman]

anything north of high wycombe isn't south

 

[stuff_it]

wa it a temporary relocation to the Centre:MK or are the ones in the photo in fact imposter-stone bovines?

The A422 isn't in the centre but yes they were indeed in the shopping centre for some time. Who in hell would you get to forge those!

As you can see, posters from other areas, the Southern East Mids are a real laugh riot and huge hub of cosmopolitan excitement.

 

[samk]

Us midlanders are too ashamed to start our own thread, but once the misery starts flowing we point out our local carbuncles. Feel free to give us kinky essex, hurl a handful of hampshire or drop some devon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'm in the Midlands today so I'll see if I can get any pictures.

 

[fuck seals]

Iconic status granted by The Office. I spent many days in 1970s summer holidays waiting for buses in there with my Nan. Hideous thing, and viciously cold in winter.

Bracknell in its glory. More roundabouts than trees at one stage it's said. These two delights are a fighting pub & the very pinnacle of 70s design behind it. Between them in the bus station that I traveled to every morning as a nipper.

Bracknell Leisure Centre. Notable for nothing other than the following (real) warning poster, and for consuming my Wednesdays afternoons when at school ...

 

[wtfftw]

(((grubby cats)))

 

[samk]

Do you know the story behind this?

 

[fuck seals]

Do you know the story behind this?

disappointingly, it's the result of a cat show there, rather than any more nefarious reasons.

https://audioboo.fm/boos/1003803-wh...ed-in-the-toilets-at-bracknell-leisure-centre

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Found some horrors in Birmingham today - will post when I get home. This train doesn't seem to have air conditioning so it's boiling!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Do you know the story behind this?

Did Mrs Slocombe live in the area?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Some pictures from my trip to Birmingham yesterday. It seems nicer than my last visit some years back, so presumably they've tarted up the city centre and it was good to see some of the nastier buildings being either torn down or re-clad. Very clean streets too, which is always nice to see.

Birmingham Central Library, aka 'book incinerator'. Main frontage - the flowers cheer it up a bit.



Inside the atrium - I quite like atriums like this, regardless of what they are constructed of:



Rear of building with two boring glass-clad office blocks, but lovely flowerbeds around the war memorial:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Urgh! Not a nice building at all. On Paradise Circus Queensway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mundane tower blocks from Gas Street Basin. The canal basin is lovely though, and has the sign below on one of the walls.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Thankfully this horror on Bridge Street/Holliday Street is being demolished. I wonder if it used to be a hospital, as the red sign in the first picture says 'accident and emergency'?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They haven't made the slightest bit of effort to make this car park look nice, but then it does sit alongside Suffolk Street Queensway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I like this corrugated concrete building, on Navigation Street. It has a certain charm, but I've no idea what it is. The only entrance seems to be that anonymous black door - secret nuclear bunker entrance, MI5 lair, something to do with the railways (it is just over the road from New Street)?