Areas of unusual ugliness

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Jono. Mar 2018 4:22pm, 8 Mar 2018 5,891 posts	0 Jono. Bilston
Sigh Mar 2018 7:47pm, 8 Mar 2018 1,440 posts	0 Sigh West Bromwich, especially the road out to the M5. Winson Green. The Aston Expressway. etc..
Dvorak Mar 2018 8:12pm, 8 Mar 2018 15,645 posts	0 Dvorak The award winning town centre of where I call home.
LazyDaisy Mar 2018 8:16pm, 8 Mar 2018 21,738 posts	0 LazyDaisy Do you live in soviet-era Russia Dvorak? What is that building?
Sigh Mar 2018 8:48pm, 8 Mar 2018 1,441 posts	0 Sigh I hope that 'town centre regeneration' sign means they've not started yet, rather than this being the finished piece!
Dvorak Mar 2018 9:21pm, 8 Mar 2018 15,646 posts	0 Dvorak That was the 70s redevelopment of the town centre. In the 80s, it was painted in bright colours. It was not, as far as I recall, repainted. Shops below, flats above. I used to deliver the local freesheet there. It went on round the corners, as well. Here's the back view: Almost five years since I took that picture. Finishing touches just being put to the regeneration now. Which is has about quarter the built footprint, with twenty fewer businesses. And over sixty council housing units fewer. One of the unseen bits was latterly sheltered housing; then finally used for tenants for whom an onsite security presence was needed. The award btw was for being Scotland's Worst Town Centre 2010. As far as I know, Denny is the only place to have campaigned to win it. As for what has replaced this ... I think I'll pop up tomorrow and take some pictures and let you decide.
McGoohan Mar 2018 9:33pm, 8 Mar 2018 33,437 posts	0 McGoohan Fook. I went to East Berlin a couple of years ago and that is worse.
McGoohan Mar 2018 9:34pm, 8 Mar 2018 33,438 posts	0 McGoohan (That meaning Denny, above)
Diogenes Mar 2018 9:58pm, 8 Mar 2018 26,887 posts	0 Diogenes Can I just say once more: Piers Morgan
McGoohan Mar 2018 10:26pm, 8 Mar 2018 33,439 posts	0 McGoohan "An unfuckable Colin Firth" was how Trevor Noah described Piers 'Morgan' Moron