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◊ 2018-01-14 23:07 |
![]() ![]() Film about the wonderful new concrete town centres with inviting pubs like this- ![]() |
◊ 2018-01-15 17:13 |
Minxes and Huskys in pairs -![]() ![]() -- Last edit: 2018-01-15 17:13:39 |
◊ 2018-01-15 17:19 |
Buses -Black and white , green , red ,![]() ![]() ![]() |
◊ 2018-01-15 17:36 |
Dark blue and white - Brum's finest at the top of Digbeth on the ramp to the Bull Ring. |
◊ 2018-01-15 19:48 |
And with the places, demolished for the modern times, like this: /vehicle_1103440-Austin-A40.html It's said, that in West Germany in the 1950ies and 1960ies there were more classic buildings destroyed, due the modernity-delirium, than in the bomb-war in WWII ![]() |
◊ 2018-01-15 20:16 |
Known these days as “Birmingham Standards”, they were anything but. They were, however, well finished inside and out, and a good deal smarter in appearance than most of the London buses of that period. |
◊ 2018-01-18 18:30 |
Exactly the same thing is said in UK . Some sort of collective madness overtook town planners in the 60s and 70s and anything 'old' was deemed expendable . The amount of top quality architecture we lost was criminal , Medieval to Victorian buildings were bulldozed. -- Last edit: 2018-01-18 18:32:28 |