I doubt anyone else on here grew up in the North-East but with the help of people likeJohn Poulson and T.Dan Smith most of the town centres were marvels of brutalism.
What is happening is the natural evolution of retail at the moment things are just changing at a pace we are uncomfortable with. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/nostalgia/uptons-hinton-tower-house-remember-14817023
Just in case anyone else on here ever shopped at Geordie Jeans or been ice skating at Billingham Forum.
My local shopping centre in Aylesbury was Friars Square; so brutal Clockwork Orange was filmed there but Kubrick binned the sequence as it was too bleak. This was our Wimpy!
That building is wonderful ,were the Droogs eating a giant spiral sausage (a Wimpy delicacy) the cinema scene was filmed in West Norwood apparently.
Teeside can claim to be the inspiration for Brave New World and Blade Runner
I doubt anyone else on here grew up in the North-East but with the help of people likeJohn Poulson and T.Dan Smith most of the town centres were marvels of brutalism.
What is happening is the natural evolution of retail at the moment things are just changing at a pace we are uncomfortable with.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/nostalgia/uptons-hinton-tower-house-remember-14817023
Just in case anyone else on here ever shopped at Geordie Jeans or been ice skating at Billingham Forum.