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posted 09-03-2010 09:31
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According to Google Street View awards
1 York: The Shambles
2 Bath: Royal Crescent
3 Newcastle: Grey Street
4 Oxford: New College Lane
5 Aberaeron: Pen Cei
Pictures here.
Thoughts?
I don't know most of these streets, but in the loveliness of Bath I find Royal Crescent rather underwhelming. I think the contrast between the buildings and the park doesn't really work.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:41
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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.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:50
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In the Oxford one, that is the Bridge Of Sighs, which links the old and new quads of Hertford College. That was my home for three years. In my first year, I got drunk and tried to take the staircase of that bridge in two bounds - ill-advised, over 20 slippy steps. On the first one I twisted my ankle and on landing I broke my hand. I was so drunk the pain didn't kick in for about four hours. Woke up in agony and had to go to the A&E at John Radcliffe. Arm in plaster over Christmas.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:51
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Yeah, it didn't look remarkable in the photo. Not sure how the awards were done but if it was a public vote I can imagine some kind of facebook city pride campaign to vote for it.
Any that should have been on the list and aren't?
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posted 09-03-2010 09:53
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wingco wrote:
In the Oxford one, that is the Bridge Of Sighs, which links the old and new quads of Hertford College. That was my home for three years. In my first year, I got drunk and tried to take the staircase of that bridge in two bounds - ill-advised, over 20 slippy steps. On the first one I twisted my ankle and on landing I broke my hand. I was so drunk the pain didn't kick in for about four hours. Woke up in agony and had to go to the A&E at John Radcliffe. Arm in plaster over Christmas.
"any who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the sound of English county families baying for broken glass"
Which one's you, wingco?
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Last Edit: 09-03-2010 09:54 By Purves Grundy.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:54
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Funnily enough, SR, I was going to say good on them for including a proper city street from a non-chocolate-boxy part of the country.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:54
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Ah, excellent - a potentially quite pleasant thread! (I have a horrible cold and can't be bothered with debate and/or conflict today.)
Lanadwell Street, Padstow:
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Not a brilliant photo, but the best I could find at short notice. Could do without the van, I think.
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Last Edit: 09-03-2010 09:56 By evilski.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:55
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I'm fond of New College Lane, but mainly because it leads to a) the Turf, and b) the Queen's Lane cafe. The whole Bridge of Sighs thing is a tad too derivative to really give much aesthetic pleasure.
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posted 09-03-2010 09:57
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Careful, evilC, I shall see to it that you will be blackballed by every decent club in London if you insist on posting up pictures of me and my chums. (And that includes the Richard H Kirk Appreciation Society, Westminster chapter)
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posted 09-03-2010 09:58
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The opening scenes of Heaven's Gate feature New College Lane. Don't they claim it's Harvard, or something?
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posted 09-03-2010 10:00
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Can we have King's Parade, or does the colleges-on-one-side, shops-on-the-other arrangement make it lopsided?
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posted 09-03-2010 10:00
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Your friends in the Padstow White Van Man club, wingco?
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posted 09-03-2010 10:06
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wingco wrote:
Careful, evilC, I shall see to it that you will be blackballed by every decent club in London if you insist on posting up pictures of me and my chums. (And that includes the Richard H Kirk Appreciation Society, Westminster chapter)
Might wanna check the poster there, Wingco.
(You would be the one in the shades, yes?)
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posted 09-03-2010 10:09
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Eastgate, Chester:
Although it's never that quiet in reality.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:12
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Oops! Sorry, evilC, Purves. Mislaid my black glasses, can't read or see a thing without them.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:14
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Being completely subjective, I always love Royal Hill in Greenwich, great pubs, shops and architecture.
In Lisbon, I love Rua Academia das Ciêncas, which I walk through most days to get to work, in this part it's the lovely arches, but then the street suddenly widens and it reminds me of Notting Hill. Plus there's a dance academy there with loads of hot girls sitting outside smoking. Then a bit further on there's a cafe where old guys play dominoes in the street drinking cheap wine. Great street.
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Last Edit: 09-03-2010 10:17 By szczeweeeeeeeee.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:17
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Why on Earth... wrote:
Funnily enough, SR, I was going to say good on them for including a proper city street from a non-chocolate-boxy part of the country.
They should have picked the one that was the red light district in Victorian times. You know the one.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:18
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I would have put Merton Lane ahead of New College Lane in Oxford.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:19
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Fish Street, Shrewsbury. Yes it's chocolate-boxy, but it's lovely.
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Last Edit: 09-03-2010 10:20 By Etienne.
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posted 09-03-2010 10:20
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Quay Street, Lymington - in two halves:
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(It has a right-angle bend in the middle of it.)
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