Broadway....dug up! - Page 4

Madhatter · 12-03-2006, 01:46

I'm sure it will be repaired and transformed back to the new blandness that is now broadway. Look at it like this, at least you now have a talking point about the paving. or in the most famous of all cowboy works words 'its better than it was, you should be gratefull'

SPUGGIE J · 12-03-2006, 14:55

I can take it as read then that this bit of work did not add colour or charecter to the blandness.

Madhatter · 12-03-2006, 18:18

Have the bollards still got little patches of white concrete around them

WillowTheWhisp · 12-03-2006, 20:34

No, the black and white theme has had an extra layer added since then and it's the sort of pink grit.

garinda · 12-03-2006, 21:30

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pink grit.

There's no need for bad language.

Neil · 12-03-2006, 22:12

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Here are some photos I took of Broadway a few minutes ago for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of seeing it.

I like the last picture Willow.
It shows the yellow building above M&S etc. Its looks almost as bad as the blue one yet none of you appear to moan about it.

WillowTheWhisp · 12-03-2006, 22:37

The yellow comes a close second to the blue but somehow it doesn't seem to be quite so much "in yer face". They are both very much of the same architectural ilk and typical of the era in which they were built.

And to think Hyndborg BC complained about the hot spud van lowering the tone of Broadway!

garinda · 12-03-2006, 22:56

At least the building is in good repair, and shows a somewhat urban sixties modernism.

The blue and white eyesore on the otherhand, has broken plastic panels, with some of the ones with missing panels having the breeze block underneath being painted the same cacky blue.

The Arndale building, with it's minimalist clock above the pound shop has a retro charm, unlike the one attached to the Town Hall.

Neil · 12-03-2006, 23:11

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And to think Hyndborg BC complained about the hot spud van lowering the tone of Broadway!

Bar stewards, I used to like that van

harwood red · 12-03-2006, 23:13

same thing happened in Blackburn, they got rid of a kiddies little carousel, and the hot potato van.... why????

garinda · 12-03-2006, 23:14

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Bar stewards, I used to like that van

Yes, they say they are trying to introduce continental cafe culture to that part of town, then ban the van.

SPUGGIE J · 13-03-2006, 15:58

Continental Cafe culture and Broadway go together as well as ice cream and prune juice. Both liable no make uncle hughie urquart pay a visit.

Madhatter · 13-03-2006, 20:18

If your going to introduce continental cafe culture to broadway they'd better start digging it up again. people want some thing to look at, style, design, nice suroundings not a winding tarmac road in a flat landscape. Our main streets got more style than that and ours is still open to traffic.

I didn't notice the yellow panels niel, yes they xcome second but aren't anywhere near as bad as the blue. There are the yellow/cream of the stone in broadway and the render on the building at the end so the colour isn't that out of place and demonstrates that what i and rindy said about a quick paint would make the blue building look a lot better the building, also the architecture isn't as bad, at least there's some concrete blocking and pillars that define the windows that could be cleaned up painted. The blue building is terrible, blue plastic panels, in dirty plastic windows and flat sand textured. Note though that nationwide have painted the front of the canaopy and how much better it looks. Imagine if the whole building was like that even with the blue.
On a positive note, it doesn't look like you've got much litter, it looks very clean and tidy.
I'm sure it will look much better in summer, when it's smothered in flowers all along those canopies.

SPUGGIE J · 14-03-2006, 06:54

There you go G something to kill some time. Redesign Broadway for the cafe culture they so desperately want.

garinda · 14-03-2006, 10:36

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There you go G something to kill some time. Redesign Broadway for the cafe culture they so desperately want.

Ok, after we've moved Accy to just outside Cap Ferrat.

The idea was mooted by the council that the area infront of the Market Hall and Town Hall be given over to street cafes.

The main draw back is that for the forty eight weeks when it may not be raining, it's an area mainly in the shade, and is also a bit of a wind tunnel, so would never work anyway.

We live in Accrington, not the south of France, plus they'd probably ban you from lighting up a Gauloise anyway.