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posted 10-03-2010 12:38
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Lewes High Street.
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posted 10-03-2010 12:46
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I have a friend who lived on Choumert street. They have little events like open gardens/houses and stuff, it's lovely.
It's why estate agents are allowed to pretend Peckham is East Dulwich.
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posted 10-03-2010 14:03
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You know, I've still never seen Lewes High St unaccompanied by the smell of cordite, the bang of explosives, the heat of naked flames and the sight of people dressed like extras from The Wicker Man waving banners about the Pope being a wrong 'un.
It's weird seeing it on a placid summer day.
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posted 10-03-2010 14:52
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Thanks, EvilC. Is that from The Meaning of Life?
That's a great shot, WE. The Lewes my parents live in is very nice, but not quite so quaint.
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Last Edit: 10-03-2010 14:55 By Reed John.
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posted 10-03-2010 20:30
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SamLKelly wrote:
I'm surprised Edinburgh doesn't get a bit more mileage on here, but then I also don't have any photos of it myself, having not been in eleven years (eleven years!).
I had a think, and I always loved Victoria Street
Where my mother lives, there is this pretty street.
What is best is what lives on the other side.
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posted 14-03-2010 11:23
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Why on Earth... wrote:
Lewes High Street.
Last night I DJed a few yards behind the photographer's left shoulder.
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posted 14-03-2010 11:33
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Terrible when the paparazzi are no longer interested in you.
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posted 14-03-2010 18:55
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The area in Buckinghamshire around where we used to live boasts a rich vein of these picture postcard towns - Amersham, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross. The Chalfonts are particularly impressive.
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posted 14-03-2010 19:35
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You can get cream for that.
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posted 14-03-2010 21:52
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how did this famous street not win the best foodie street or whatever. its now pedestrianised
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posted 14-03-2010 21:54
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The area in Buckinghamshire around where we used to live boasts a rich vein of these picture postcard towns - Amersham, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross. The Chalfonts are particularly impressive.
my hood. add bourne end, marlow, chesham, great missenden etc
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posted 14-03-2010 21:55
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Last night I DJed a few yards behind the photographer's left shoulder.
in the road?
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posted 14-03-2010 22:42
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Gah, Rick beat me to the joke.
Dglh, thank you for the Edinburgh pictures. There are some nice photos on this thread. I feel we need to make an international version - is there already one?
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Last Edit: 14-03-2010 22:51 By Banana Banana.
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posted 14-03-2010 23:14
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Spearmint Rhino wrote:
Grey Street must be there as some kind of joke. It's a reasonable enough example of Georgian civic architecture I suppose, but nothing outstanding, and the reality of the Grey Street experience usually involves marauding beer monsters and rivers of vomit.
I don't see this as a joke, it is there on merit. Where is there a better Georgian street on the scale of Grey Street in the centre of a major city?
www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/baily/1b.jpg]
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posted 15-03-2010 01:27
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Glass Half Empty wrote:
I don't see this as a joke, it is there on merit. Where is there a better Georgian street on the scale of Grey Street in the centre of a major city?
www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/baily/1b.jpg
The dome at the top of the Central Arcade is lush, and Theatre Royal is imposing as a Greek-columned institution should be. The surrounding area tees it up nicely too, coherent urban planning that works well today. Maybe the traffic is off-putting, but it doesn't suffer the lack of bustle that some pedestrianised areas do.
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posted 15-03-2010 09:21
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Bournville, Birmingham.
You see the flat above the second shop from the right, with three large windows and one above it?
I used to rent that flat, along with three nurses. The three big windows were from our living room, we used to throw them open in the summer and listen to the world famous Bournville Carillon which was on the opposite side of the village green.
This was more or less the view from that living room window,
The carillon was just to the left of that photo.
It was in walking distance of Selly Oak Hospital where we all worked, an idyllic place to live.
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posted 15-03-2010 13:09
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rick derris wrote:
Last night I DJed a few yards behind the photographer's left shoulder.
in the road?
No.
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posted 15-03-2010 13:51
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Really? You'll have been keeping my brother and his family awake, I daresay: his house is visible in shot.
What venue? I'm struggling to think. (I'm assuming not the Castle, though how cool would that have been?)
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posted 15-03-2010 16:05
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The Constitutional Club (which was putting on an alternative 80s club/gig thing). Lovely building, reminded me of childhood trips to would-be classy hotel bars when the air still tasted of tobacco and the carpets smelt of decades' worth of whisky. Rotary Club plaques and stale peanuts. Couldn't have been more 1970s.
I have no idea where the Constitutional Club is coming from politically (although the painting of Winston Churchill on the wall is perhaps a clue), but I was relieved in any case, because the abbreviated version we were given beforehand - The Con Club - had me fearing something else entirely.
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