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« on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 18:30:11 » |
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Many good and bad memories i guess.
[url width=800 height=533]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/compo71/colledge.jpg[/url]
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Bennett
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 18:35:45 » |
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i wish this had gone years ago instead of spoiling the amazing ambience of the town centre
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This is the water.
And this is the well.
Drink full and descend.
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
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janaage
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 18:38:39 » |
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Is it completely gone now? If so thank God for that. Horrible building.
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Bennett
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 18:49:04 » |
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i think it's been replaced by lots of rubble and debris, so it's not entirely over...
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This is the water.
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Drink full and descend.
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janaage
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 18:53:59 » |
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I wasn't sure if the picture was of some blokes trying to rebuild it or not.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 19:00:28 » |
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In my youth, had a lot of good memories of that place...particularly bands, in the bit at the end with a stage. Ones I can recall, Thin Lizzy, America, Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Amon Duul, not sure if 1 or 2. Always good for meeting birds even though I wasn't a student, go to the refectory, have a look around then make a tactical strike with a cup of tea.
Then the female lecturers were a decent source...there was something about 80's sociology.
That end of town, definitely lost something when it was shipped out to North Star
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 22:17:41 » |
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I went there but seemed to spend more time in the arcade opposite. Can't say I'll miss the place.shame about the red brick building on vic hill though which could be preserved
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 23:30:04 » |
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I went there but seemed to spend more time in the arcade opposite. Can't say I'll miss the place.shame about the red brick building on vic hill though which could be preserved
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 01:14:36 » |
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Never went , but used to hang around there a bit.
I saw the House of Love there,I think Mex put that on.
Whats being built there, is it a cinema?
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 06:08:22 » |
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Should have been pulled down years ago. Glad it's gone. Or at least going. As of today, the centre of Swindon is now just a little bit less shit.
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 06:08:45 » |
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i believe so Yeo, they're also putting a morrisons there and lots of little shops n cafe's (which will remain empty)
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This is the water.
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Drink full and descend.
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 07:59:38 » |
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A nando's too. Footballers of swindon rejoice
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 09:53:35 » |
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There is what sounds like a fairly similar development up the road from us in Camberley. A few years old now, but includes the integrated cinema, multi-storey car park and restaurant chains (Wagamama, Franky & Benny's, Nando's, tapas, French, Mexican as well). It fits very well with what was already there and has definitely improved the place. Swindon is a much bigger town - and it's surprising, in a way, that something like this doesn't already exist. I think it could work really well and prove popular. Offers something different that isn't there at the moment.
Does Curry Island still exist just across the road? It could be a really decent part of town if they get it right, linking Old Town with the centre.
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 10:36:55 » |
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, August 10, 2012, 10:39:21 » |
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I think it'll be decent... and only 30 seconds from my doorstep!
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