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anuranLondon Open house
England's Heritage Open Days
Scotland's Doors Open Days
(I don't think anyone reads this in Wales or Northern Ireland, but correct me if I'm wrong please)
Er, go and look round buildings! I'm torn between Fern Avenue Masonic Hall, the Swing Bridge Motor Room, and a resident-led tour of the Byker Wall, as well as a few other things, including Victoria Tunnel which I'd never even heard of before
Fern Avenue Masonic Lodge - when hanging out in Jesmond back lanes as a teenager, cos we were less likely to get chinned by charvas in Jesmond, the Masonic Lodge was a big brick building, the same age as the rest of the place, surrounded by a 8 foot wall topped with Barbed Wire, only a small sign telling you what it actually was. We made up lots of myths about what actually went on in a masonic lodge (most of which are probably true) but I think now they're pulled down the wall and the ground floor is now an antiques village. It's still a place I'd love to see inside..
Byker Wall - Massive 60s redevelopment of some inner-city slums, a continous wall of housing that is now grade II listed. Even though everyone apparently wants it pulled down (really? do you actually give a fuck? do you live there? they'd only replace it with generic chrome-and-sandstone executive flats, you know). We studied it in GCSE Geography, apaprently it is technically well designed. It's still crawling with cockroaches, and I want to see where the Byker Skip Rat Boy lived. I can't even be arsed to explain that one.
England's Heritage Open Days
Scotland's Doors Open Days
(I don't think anyone reads this in Wales or Northern Ireland, but correct me if I'm wrong please)
Er, go and look round buildings! I'm torn between Fern Avenue Masonic Hall, the Swing Bridge Motor Room, and a resident-led tour of the Byker Wall, as well as a few other things, including Victoria Tunnel which I'd never even heard of before
Fern Avenue Masonic Lodge - when hanging out in Jesmond back lanes as a teenager, cos we were less likely to get chinned by charvas in Jesmond, the Masonic Lodge was a big brick building, the same age as the rest of the place, surrounded by a 8 foot wall topped with Barbed Wire, only a small sign telling you what it actually was. We made up lots of myths about what actually went on in a masonic lodge (most of which are probably true) but I think now they're pulled down the wall and the ground floor is now an antiques village. It's still a place I'd love to see inside..
Byker Wall - Massive 60s redevelopment of some inner-city slums, a continous wall of housing that is now grade II listed. Even though everyone apparently wants it pulled down (really? do you actually give a fuck? do you live there? they'd only replace it with generic chrome-and-sandstone executive flats, you know). We studied it in GCSE Geography, apaprently it is technically well designed. It's still crawling with cockroaches, and I want to see where the Byker Skip Rat Boy lived. I can't even be arsed to explain that one.
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Date: 2005-09-06 11:40 pm (UTC)If I recall correctly, it was built like that (unbroken with small windows on the outer-face) to block the noise from a motorway that didn't get built.
Unless it did get built.
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Date: 2005-09-07 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 12:30 am (UTC)I remember my Dad taking my Uncle to Byker when his car got stolen in Newcastle; they drove around looking out for a de-windowed white Golf...
Nice!
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Date: 2005-09-07 09:23 am (UTC)