|
Post by yeokel on Aug 1, 2018 14:59:54 GMT
Recently spent a long weekend in Nottingham. The city looked vibrant and much better than I remembered it from my Poly days back in the 80s. Stayed in the Lace Market, superb architecture. Sadly back in little S-o-T we have bulldozed our Victorian heritage and we are left with a pile of decaying 1960's/70's and 80's crap. Every year I go back more and more disappears.
Well, stop going back will you. At this rate there will be nothing left at all! Seriously - It's tragic how much fantastic architecture has been lost to Stoke on Trent (and Newcastle) over the last fifty or sixty years. As you say, all that seems to be left these days is 60s, 70s & 80's crap. Many cities saw the light decades ago and started rescuing and preserving parts of their heritage, but not the Potteries.
|
|
|
Post by metalhead on Aug 1, 2018 15:38:44 GMT
Recently spent a long weekend in Nottingham. The city looked vibrant and much better than I remembered it from my Poly days back in the 80s. Stayed in the Lace Market, superb architecture. Sadly back in little S-o-T we have bulldozed our Victorian heritage and we are left with a pile of decaying 1960's/70's and 80's crap. Every year I go back more and more disappears.
Well, stop going back will you. At this rate there will be nothing left at all! Seriously - It's tragic how much fantastic architecture has been lost to Stoke on Trent (and Newcastle) over the last fifty or sixty years. As you say, all that seems to be left these days is 60s, 70s & 80's crap. Many cities saw the light decades ago and started rescuing and preserving parts of their heritage, but not the Potteries. You mean our council are absolutely shit? Who'da thunk it. Oh and by the way, our council allowed and even encouraged us to knock down the oldest football stadium in world football. Says all you need to know about the way they think.
|
|
|
Post by neworleanstokie on Aug 2, 2018 12:25:13 GMT
Well, stop going back will you. At this rate there will be nothing left at all! Seriously - It's tragic how much fantastic architecture has been lost to Stoke on Trent (and Newcastle) over the last fifty or sixty years. As you say, all that seems to be left these days is 60s, 70s & 80's crap. Many cities saw the light decades ago and started rescuing and preserving parts of their heritage, but not the Potteries. You mean our council are absolutely shit? Who'da thunk it. Oh and by the way, our council allowed and even encouraged us to knock down the oldest football stadium in world football. Says all you need to know about the way they think. I know Newcastle better than Hanley (my grandad was the mayor 3 times). So sad they knocked down those amazing Victorian baths and the old school that was across the road from it in the last few years.
|
|
|
Post by metalhead on Aug 2, 2018 12:42:13 GMT
You mean our council are absolutely shit? Who'da thunk it. Oh and by the way, our council allowed and even encouraged us to knock down the oldest football stadium in world football. Says all you need to know about the way they think. I know Newcastle better than Hanley (my grandad was the mayor 3 times). So sad they knocked down those amazing Victorian baths and the old school that was across the road from it in the last few years. I was sad when they knocked down the baths. I used to use them when I was younger.
|
|
|
Post by neworleanstokie on Aug 2, 2018 15:25:16 GMT
I know Newcastle better than Hanley (my grandad was the mayor 3 times). So sad they knocked down those amazing Victorian baths and the old school that was across the road from it in the last few years. I was sad when they knocked down the baths. I used to use them when I was younger. Agreed it's where I learned to swim. With some investment it could have been an amazing facility that preserved the original fittings etc. Unfortunately people in positions of authority do not value heritage - they would rather it be knocked down and replaced with a KFC.
|
|
|
Post by bathstoke on Aug 2, 2018 15:33:44 GMT
I was sad when they knocked down the baths. I used to use them when I was younger. Agreed it's where I learned to swim. With some investment it could have been an amazing facility that preserved the original fittings etc. Unfortunately people in positions of authority do not value heritage - they would rather it be knocked down and replaced with a KFC. I used to go swimming there whilst me mother & both grandmothers went in the turkish(with Garth Crooks' mother!)
|
|
|
Post by metalhead on Aug 2, 2018 15:51:13 GMT
I was sad when they knocked down the baths. I used to use them when I was younger. Agreed it's where I learned to swim. With some investment it could have been an amazing facility that preserved the original fittings etc. Unfortunately people in positions of authority do not value heritage - they would rather it be knocked down and replaced with a KFC. Indeed, such a shame, but Newcastle I feel has also fallen on hard times. The high street was dead the last time I visited. Derelict shops, nobody visiting the ones that were open. Not good. It's worlds away from when I used to walk through every day on the way to NULC.
|
|