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there is relatively little distinctive looking buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty subjective


Those flats are pretty dull but no more so than most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)


people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick, flat building there before them was even worse

StraferJack Wrote:

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> there is relatively little distinctive looking

> buildings in the area so "worst" is pretty

> subjective

>

> Those flats are pretty dull but no more so than

> most modern builds everywhere. And certainly no

> worse than the Police Station. Or the iceland

> building (nothing to do with the shop brand!)

>

> people hate foxtons, but the identikit redbrick,

> flat building there before them was even worse


As I understand it the design of the Police Staion Which once housed Police Horses

was to make it 'Bomb Proof'


The narrow windows with the projections would make it 'Blast Proof' from any explosion from anywhere

other than directly opposite.


Fox.

St John's church on Goose Green is a mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants' upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style as false as that of the church they inhabit.


The municipal, from muni (hideous) cipal (unwashed) library grimly squats on one corner of a petrified quadrangle of Victorian rapine: the gin palace, the bank, the church, the library. These sentries from a bygone age pass their customers one between the other in a square death-dance of mutual financial, intellectual and spiritual impoverishment.


http://i46.tinypic.com/4h5zf6.jpg

Ted Max Wrote:

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> St John's church on Goose Green is a

> mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural

> pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized

> spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants'

> upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey

> stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror

> exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class

> patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style

> as false as that of the church they inhabit.


I guess you don't know much about our parish church and its history.


John K

From the online etymology dictionary:


municipal (adj.)

1540s, from Middle French municipal, from Latin municipalis "of a citizen of a free town, of a free town," also "of a petty town, provincial," from municipium "free town, city whose citizens have the privileges of Roman citizens but are governed by their own laws," from municeps "citizen, inhabitant of a free town." Second element is root of capere "assume, take" (see capable). First element is from munus (plural munia) "service performed for the community, duty, work," also "public spectacle paid for by the magistrate, (gladiatorial) entertainment, gift," from Old Latin moenus "service, duty, burden," from PIE *moi-n-es-, generally taken as a suffixed form of root *mei- "to change, go, move" (Watkins; see mutable); but Tucker says "more probably" from the other PIE root *mei- meaning "bind," so that munia = "obligations" and communis = "bound together."

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