Areas of unusual ugliness

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The Teaboy
Basildon town centre. Evidence that HG Wells had it right - the Morlocks have evolved already.
Mar 2018
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swittle
Underpass, Skelmersdale. Straight out of Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

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Fierce and Focused Fleecy
I just remembered Didcot.
Mar 2018
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McGoohan
Didn't Edward Thomas write a poem about Didcot?

No. No, he didn't. That was Adlestrop.
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Cerrertonia
Skem, chosen by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as the best place to build the first Golden Temple of the Age of Enlightenment, swittle?
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Cerrertonia
My father-in-law won a national poetry prize for a poem about Didcot power station, McG.
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larkim
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the view from Frodsham hill Cerretonia - especially as I live there!

Teeside chem works at night is equally blade-runner-y.
Mar 2018
4:22pm, 5 Mar 2018
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McGoohan
One of the worst things about Didcot for me was cycling the Sustrans Route 4 Thames Valley route through there. The stupid thing basically does almost a full lap of the place.
Mar 2018
4:25pm, 5 Mar 2018
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McGoohan


I came in the top right hand side, went all the way round this dump then went off top left. The cut through you can see wasn't marked.
Mar 2018
5:29pm, 5 Mar 2018
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Ness
LOL at The Teaboys comment about Coventry on the previous page. So true. 😂 Just hoping that City of Culture money is going to improve things a bit!

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