General Chat

The 3 year old, £345 million hospital that I have the misfortune to be a patient in, on a regular basis, just outside Derby.
The front facade is very nice. But get to the wards and it is atrocious. Look out of your ward window, and you see another three concrete walls, with the same outlook. And that is right up five floors.
There is not an aspect to look at anywhere, just concrete walls. Not even a blade of grass.
I was told, and I can quiter believe it, that the designer usually designs prisons.

No wonder I call it Cell Block H.

JUlia in Derbyshire

Travelling west, I thought we were approaching a new supermarket and didn't think it looked any too appealing,especially where it was.

It was Poundbury.

At christmas, yes at one time it did chime to carols, so Sharron your Dad was not lying .!!! Not sure if it still does, but red green lights are put in the 'holes'.

Worse still is the new titanic museum, now that is really ugly, just plonked onto the end of the civic building. True the idea of looking like a ship is an innovative idea, but they way it has been done. Yuk.

:-D Sue :-D

Does it play hymns?

I can see that clock tower from my bedroom window, and also hear the clock sometimes. I actually quite like looking at it, a bit like Sharron and her group of trees!!!!

Worse, in my opinion are all the glass monstrosities that keep appearing.!!

Sue

I have never seen that clock tower as ugly but will have to look again.

It has quite sentimental memories for me.

Dad used to take corn down to the mill at Southampton and,sometimes,if I was lucky,I could go with him. It meant getting up at some ungodly hour.

He told me, and may well have been lying,that the clock played hymns.

Those three cranes down by the water always remind me of prehistoric animal drinking.

you reside in? For me the City Hall in Southampton with its 'clock tower'. The first time I ever saw it many moons ago, I pictured a watch tower with armed guards at the top looking out. That image has never left me.