I have never been able to figure out how anyone can afford to tear down a massive structure, remove the debris and rebuild. What a cost? Amazing. Not being negative. I truly wish I understood how they can do it. Thanks for the video.
I used to go to that shopping centre with my parents growing up. I think it's ashame they demolish these places just to to open up another Lidl/Aldi, there's so many of these around yet more and more are getting built. I know it was old, but I think it would be better if the councils just let the empty shops for free at these type of places, get small retailers selling a variety of different things with discounted vat on the goods so it encourages people to shop in person rather then online. I think it would be better to have a variety of different shops like that rather then the same old Lidl/Aldi/Asda etc.
My mother used to work in the 'Standing as a cleaner, but it was the previous one with the veranda and the two 'paintings' inside, one of Charles I and one of the battle of Culloden. Many years later I lived close to the Culloden battlefield, how about that for full Circle. By the time I was old enough to legally get into a pub I avoided the 'Standing as it was a bit of a hole and went down to the Parson and Clerk. I suppose all things must change, we've just lost the petrol station in my village, turning into a Morrisons (might have a petrol pump) but looking at your footage of the shopping center before it was pulled down made me nostalgic. Brutalist architecture is fast disappearing across Britain and although I hated it at the time I've got a soft spot for it now; rose tinted glasses and dimming eyesight 👓 🥲
I have never been able to figure out how anyone can afford to tear down a massive structure, remove the debris and rebuild. What a cost? Amazing. Not being negative. I truly wish I understood how they can do it. Thanks for the video.
I used to go to that shopping centre with my parents growing up. I think it's ashame they demolish these places just to to open up another Lidl/Aldi, there's so many of these around yet more and more are getting built. I know it was old, but I think it would be better if the councils just let the empty shops for free at these type of places, get small retailers selling a variety of different things with discounted vat on the goods so it encourages people to shop in person rather then online. I think it would be better to have a variety of different shops like that rather then the same old Lidl/Aldi/Asda etc.
My mother used to work in the 'Standing as a cleaner, but it was the previous one with the veranda and the two 'paintings' inside, one of Charles I and one of the battle of Culloden. Many years later I lived close to the Culloden battlefield, how about that for full Circle.
By the time I was old enough to legally get into a pub I avoided the 'Standing as it was a bit of a hole and went down to the Parson and Clerk.
I suppose all things must change, we've just lost the petrol station in my village, turning into a Morrisons (might have a petrol pump) but looking at your footage of the shopping center before it was pulled down made me nostalgic. Brutalist architecture is fast disappearing across Britain and although I hated it at the time I've got a soft spot for it now; rose tinted glasses and dimming eyesight 👓 🥲