Broadway....dug up! - Page 5

WillowTheWhisp · 14-03-2006, 13:11

I've just been out and photographed both sides of Broadway to see if I can decide why I hate the blue side so much and yet don't mind the yellow side.

Maybe it's the broken blue with colour co-ordinated breeze blocks showing through. Maybe it's the way years of dirt have been washed over the white by years of rain. Maybe it's the very whiteness and blueness as opposed to the more subtle yellow and grey. Maybe it's because it was stuck on the back end of an architecturally different building (the Town Hall) with no thought given to trying to blend the two. (Heaven forfend should you or I apply for planning permission to do something of a similar nature with our own property) whereas the Arndale block is a complete entity in its own right and proportionally acceptable. I dunno. I just know that the Woollies side doesn't look too bad, nothing that a bit of a clean up wouldn't put right, whereas the other side looks, and always has looked, hideous.

Note the puddle and how this lovely new surface drains so beautifully!

It started to rain just as I was photographing the blue side and by the time I'd crossed over to photograph the yellow side we already had the beginnings of a small lake.

Madhatter · 14-03-2006, 14:06

I think the woolies building is quite nice actually, comparred to the blue, and isn't half bad for the architecture of that time. You could have nipped in to greggs while you were there willow and got me a hot sausage roll.

garinda · 14-03-2006, 16:03

Not one person is sitting on the lovely marble benches, taking in the beautiful, newly improved surroundings, and admiring the artful, stainless steel street furniture.

Philistines.

garinda · 14-03-2006, 16:05

Thanks Willow.

Ive just clicked on the blue and white picture four times, and it is still bloody horrendous.

Acrylic-bob · 14-03-2006, 17:03

And the interior is scarcely any better - have you seen what they have done with the wood panelling on the staircase????? You can't tell me that it is supposed to look like that because I remember what it was like when it was first built!

Neil · 14-03-2006, 18:17

Yes the blue is worse than the yellow. It would help, a little, if they actually cleaned the blue side. It is very dirty. In fact, looking at it again, I think it would make a massive difference if it was clean.

SPUGGIE J · 14-03-2006, 20:10

Hate both but as the blue has the steak bake sellers underneath then it would edge it (taste buds and stomach had the last vote).

SPUGGIE J · 14-03-2006, 20:11

Paint them all Stanley red.

Madhatter · 14-03-2006, 22:11

The colour of the canopy on woolies looks quite nice, be nice if both sides were the same

WillowTheWhisp · 15-03-2006, 12:39

That's the main problem with Broadway I think - nothing matches.

Acrylic-bob · 15-03-2006, 18:19

Just Broadway, Willow?

Margaret Pilkington · 16-03-2006, 20:18

This is a picture of the wonderful work those United Utilities people did......do you think it is quality repair work....? It looks like a bad patchwork quilt.

K.S.H · 16-03-2006, 20:20

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

This is a picture of the wonderful work those United Utilities people did......do you think it is quality repair work....? It looks like a bad patchwork quilt.

Looks quite decent that for Hyndburn borough councils workmanship

I know how difficult it can be to raise the 1st flag without damaging it, after that all the others are dead easy, how did they manage to break so many is what I want to know

Margaret Pilkington · 16-03-2006, 20:30

It was the work of United Utilities......I thought they were supposed to restore the repaired area to 'original' condition. It isn't just the broken pavers....there are paver put down that don't match the originals and also an area of bald concrete. Just posted the pic so that people who haven't seen the area can see it.

K.S.H · 16-03-2006, 20:41

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

It isn't just the broken pavers....there are paver put down that don't match the originals and also an area of bald concrete.

I know, they must have broken the ones they took up.
Thay might have put all the crap down they had on there lorry so BT, Gas and water dont damage the good ones when they dig up in the same place very soon