Areas of unusual ugliness

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Jan 2020
9:22pm, 18 Jan 2020
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swittle
Seems to have been built for maximum visibility of the approaches to Liverpool. There were plans to demolish it and build an 'exclusive' restaurant, in the style of those in the Gulf States but nothing came of them.
Jan 2020
9:29pm, 18 Jan 2020
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Dvorak
I quite like it. Think it should be painted in jolly stripes.
Jan 2020
9:32pm, 18 Jan 2020
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swittle
I'd go with that. Here is one of five cocoa warehouses in Liverpool Freeport, a quarter of a mile from the port radar station. A community project a few years ago transformed a dull building into a brief pictorial history of Waterloo.

Jan 2020
10:29am, 19 Jan 2020
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Jono.
It does look like a watch tower from N Ireland swittle, I like Dvoraks suggestion - dazzle pattern?
Jan 2020
11:47am, 19 Jan 2020
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swittle
Oh, it'll not win any gongs for aesthetic beauty, Jono, that's for sure, so a paint job would help. Was thinking this morning how many hundreds of millions of tons of cargo, and millions of crew have come and gone more safely because it was built.
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NDWDave


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6:53pm, 5 Apr 2022
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Derby Tup
Dvorak’s offering makes your latest look like somewhere the Darling Buds of May would holiday NDW
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7:26pm, 5 Apr 2022
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NDWDave
Yep. I’ve gone through the thread again and Dvorak is still winning
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8:26pm, 5 Apr 2022
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Derby Tup
That will take some besting (worsting) :-(
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