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Areas of unusual ugliness

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LindsD
I like Preston Bus Station, but it was an important part of my childhood. The Mersey Ferry Terminal makes me feel a bit sick.
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Diogenes
Where I live is still quite unspoiled, albeit quite a bland, privileged, mono-cultural stronghold of little-Englanders
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Seratonin
New Street Station, Birmingham
Mar 2018
5:20pm, 4 Mar 2018
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Joopsy
Stevenage is horrific.
Mar 2018
5:22pm, 4 Mar 2018
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TRO Toddslayer
Just done a 4 and a half hour cycle turbo. My backside is a contender....Off to get the photographic evidence.....😉
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7:31pm, 4 Mar 2018
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Sigh
Tata Chemical Works, Lostock Gralam, Northwich: with an approaching lorry to provide a sense of scale.



I know that some industrial landscapes can be actually quite artful - I struggle to find any redeeming features here (well, apart from the provision of jobs to the local area - but we're not judging the benefit are we, just the appearance)
Mar 2018
8:32pm, 4 Mar 2018
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McGoohan
... they've redone Bracknell?
Mar 2018
10:50pm, 4 Mar 2018
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Fierce and Focused Fleecy
yup, they've spent the last few years rebuilding it but I've not been there in ages
Mar 2018
11:21pm, 4 Mar 2018
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Carpathius
Churchill College. Dear God it's hideous.
Mar 2018
1:45pm, 5 Mar 2018
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Dvorak
I was saving Cumbernauld until I had a few suitable pictures, but since Duchess mentioned it ... here is the Google view of what is literally the heart of Cumbernauld town centre.

goo.gl

The bridge is recentish, and I quite liked it (not least because spoons is just the other side), but Google pics from the middle of a car park indicate is in now wrapped in a large glass (needless to say, hideous) box. One thing Cumbernauld does not lack is parking. For visitors. For workers, there is not enough. There is a good bus service, but Cumbernauld "bus station" (basically the windy undercroft on both sides of the dual carriageway pictured) is in a special category of dismal.

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