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Author: 15061506 Date: Aug 1, 2008 09:24
On Jul 31, 3:46 pm, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:34 +0100, Mortimer wrote
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>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn" attitude
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> No worse than the Victorians
The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But there
own building were generally good.
The concrete commies generally replaced our heritage with with souless
disfunctional junk unfit for human use.
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Author: Richard J.Richard J. Date: Aug 1, 2008 09:59
1506 wrote:
> On Jul 31, 3:46 pm, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:34 +0100, Mortimer wrote
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>>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn"
>>> attitude to anything old.
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>> No worse than the Victorians
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> The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But there
> own building were generally good.
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> The concrete commies generally replaced our heritage with with souless
> disfunctional junk unfit for human use.
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Author: StimpyStimpy Date: Aug 1, 2008 11:16
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0100, 1506 wrote
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>>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn" attitude
>>> to anything old.
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>> No worse than the Victorians
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> The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But there
> own building were generally good.
That is, of course, a matter of opinion
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Author: MortimerMortimer Date: Aug 1, 2008 11:25
"Stimpy" yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C4B911A80418F5E7F0407648@news.eclipse.co.uk...> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0100, 1506 wrote
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>>>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn"
>>>> attitude
>>>> to anything old.
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>>> No worse than the Victorians
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>> The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But their
>> own building were generally good.
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> That is, of course, a matter of opinion
Agreed. It's an opinion that is as valid as the opinions that Euston is "a
rather good modern station" (Richard J) and "one of the finest examples of
1960s architecture in Britain, and indeed one of Britain's very best railway
stations" (Tony Polson).
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Author: 15061506 Date: Aug 1, 2008 11:42
On Aug 1, 11:25 am, "Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote:> "Stimpy" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:0001HW.C4B911A80418F5E7F0407648@news.eclipse.co.uk...
>>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0100, 1506 wrote
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>>>>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn"
>>>>> attitude
>>>>> to anything old.
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>>>> No worse than the Victorians
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>>> The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But their
>>> own building were generally good.
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>> That is, of course, a matter of opinion
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> Agreed. It's an opinion that is as valid as the opinions that Euston is "a
> rather good modern station" (Richard J) and "one of the finest examples of ...
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Author: Free LunchFree Lunch Date: Aug 1, 2008 13:21
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:16:56 +0100, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote
in misc.transport.urban-transit:
>On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:24:58 +0100, 1506 wrote
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>>>> The sixties really were an appalling decade for a "slash and burn" attitude
>>>> to anything old.
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>>> No worse than the Victorians
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>> The Victorians did, saddly, destroy some fine earlier work. But there
>> own building were generally good.
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>That is, of course, a matter of opinion
As with most ages, there are great buildings and great monstrosities
that were built, often with very similar style, but with one designed by
an architect who should never have had a commission. Bloody Stupid
Johnson was not invented out of whole cloth.
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Author: Free LunchFree Lunch Date: Aug 1, 2008 13:23
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:25:01 +0100, "Mortimer" privacy.net> wrote in
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Author: Free LunchFree Lunch Date: Aug 1, 2008 16:07
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:46:52 +0100, Graeme Wall
greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in misc.transport.urban-transit:
>In message <9vr694ll7bb4e0s57aaqbkvsi14tarjh9h@ 4ax.com>
> Free Lunch wrote:
>>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:16:56 +0100, Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote
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Author: Colin McKenzieColin McKenzie Date: Aug 2, 2008 12:10
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:46:52 +0100, Graeme Wall
> greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in misc.transport.urban-transit:>> In message <9vr694ll7bb4e0s57aaqbkvsi14tarjh9h@ 4ax.com>
>> Free Lunch wrote:>>> an architect who should never have had a commission. Bloody Stupid
>>> Johnson was not invented out of whole cloth.
>> Bergholt Studdley please...
Bergholt Stuttley ("Bloody Stupid") Johnson.
Remembered and checked. See "Hogfather".
He would, I'm sure, have designed a Euston Arch that would have fitted
very nicely into a luggage rack.
Colin McKenzie
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