Architecture

Lisnaholic · 07-27-2021, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Looks like the visitors' center at a concentration camp museum.

Yeah, perhaps I'm getting carried away by how it looks in a photo taken on a sunny day. If I was late for work on a wet morning, I probably wouldn't like it either.

DianneW · 08-02-2021, 02:48 AM

Interesting and puzzling how so many Properties here, are just left to decay.
I think this happens in Italy also...
We pass deserted homes on every road we take.
This Guy goes around to many and this one is going to be restored, to its original Beauty.

DianneW · 08-02-2021, 02:52 AM

https://www.frenchestateagents.com/f...le/to-renovate

just gives a general idea of how sometimes, you get to see them for sale, before it is too late to even renovate them....

Lisnaholic · 09-15-2021, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by DianneW

Here is some funny ones...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/t...mes-in-britain
The bucket of blood sounds a lot of....wonder what the hell happened there then....

Inspired by Diana's list of strange pub names, I wanted to post an unusual London pub that I had the pleasure of drinking in occasionally. Modest in size and location, you can overlook it unless you get up close:-

But you have to go inside to discover a strange gem you won't easily forget:-

Spoiler for big pics:

Wiki facts:-

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The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London.

It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary, and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much of the internal decoration was done by the sculptors Frederick T. Callcott & Henry Poole.

The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign spearheaded by poet Sir John Betjeman. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

The Batlord · 09-15-2021, 10:30 AM

Wait what are the rest of the three stories?

Plankton · 09-15-2021, 10:38 AM

My guess is either a Brothel or the inner workings of that clock. It's an engineering gigastructural behemoth.

Who's that goat eared dude?

DianneW · 09-15-2021, 12:41 PM

What a sad state that people have to fight to keep these historical building from being demo'd...Was not expecting to see all that....

DianneW · 09-15-2021, 12:46 PM

DianneW · 09-15-2021, 12:52 PM

Grenoble France

Chillie6 · 09-15-2021, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DianneW

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Originally Posted by DianneW

Grenoble France

Some real interesting photos there Dianne

09-15-2021, 10:38 AM	#466 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,766	My guess is either a Brothel or the inner workings of that clock. It's an engineering gigastructural behemoth. Who's that goat eared dude? __________________ See location...

08-02-2021, 02:48 AM	#462 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Location: S W France S. Deux Sevres Posts: 1,161	Interesting and puzzling how so many Properties here, are just left to decay. I think this happens in Italy also... We pass deserted homes on every road we take. This Guy goes around to many and this one is going to be restored, to its original Beauty.

08-02-2021, 02:52 AM	#463 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Location: S W France S. Deux Sevres Posts: 1,161	https://www.frenchestateagents.com/f...le/to-renovate just gives a general idea of how sometimes, you get to see them for sale, before it is too late to even renovate them....

09-15-2021, 12:41 PM	#467 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Location: S W France S. Deux Sevres Posts: 1,161	What a sad state that people have to fight to keep these historical building from being demo'd...Was not expecting to see all that....

09-15-2021, 12:46 PM	#468 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Location: S W France S. Deux Sevres Posts: 1,161

09-15-2021, 12:52 PM	#469 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Location: S W France S. Deux Sevres Posts: 1,161	Grenoble France