Tag: historicplace
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Centre Point.
At the bottom end of Oxford Street and just next to Tottenham Court Road station is a 34 storey tower by the name of Centre Point. It’s a very distinctive building that is instantly recognisable. Centre Point was designed by George Marsh in a very distinctive style and construction started in 1963. The building was…
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A Sombre Trip to Ypres.
When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…
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Memling Cinema, Bruges.
When most people go abroad the first thing they search for is restaurants, supermarkets, museums etc. Me? Well, I look for abandoned and closed down cinemas. Bruges was no exception. I’d started hunting down old cinemas in Bruges a couple of weeks before I even got there. There was just one. The Memling Cinema. In…
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In Bruges.
It’s a fairy tale town, isn’t it? How’s a fairy tale town not somebody’s f****** thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful f****** fairy tale stuff, how can that not be somebody’s f****** thing, eh? A line spoken by Ralph Fiennes in the 2008 movie…
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Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield.
Before Christmas I went to see a comedy play at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield and was amazed by how beautiful it was inside and out. I’ve seen it so many times while walking past but never really stopped to admire it until I’d seen the inside. On this site in Sheffield there has been…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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A Few Random Photos From 2022.
Wherever I go I take photos. A lot of photos. Occasionally I’ll find a building and think it looks amazing and has a great history. Only it turns out it can probably be written about in just two lines. Sometimes they may end up as part of a blog, sometimes I’ll drop them in as…
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The Lost Cinemas of Chester-Le-Street.
I paid a quick trip to Chester-Le-Street in County Durham last weekend. It’s an unusual hobby I know but whenever I visit a place I have never been before I try to find out how many cinemas any town I visit has and the age of them. I was pleased to find out the Chester-Le-Street…
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Scala, London.
Just around the corner from The London Lighthouse and just down the road from King’s Cross Station is the Scala. A nightclub with a long history that has always been fascinating to me as a cinephile. Originally opened as the Kings Cross Cinema in 1920, construction was delayed for a few years by the start…
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The Beatles in Paris.
Last month my wife and I spent some time in Paris. My wife had an appointment to see a fashion exhibition that was not really my thing so I used the opportunity to take a walk to track down some of the places that The Beatles Visited while they were in Paris. I managed to…
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