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Brighton, UK - elaine - Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 : goo
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I took these February 2004. It's a building I'd been staring at for some time. Actually, architurally it's rather handsome, but it has been left to rot, and at the seaside rot happens fast. On the other hand, I believe the flats inside are really good, and though perhaps they might be a bit post apocalyptic to live in in their current state the people who live there could never probably afford to live in central Brighton on the sea front normally, as rents spiral up and up these days, now that Brighton is a city... but squalour lives on in pockets, as it does here, and I find it visually exciting and curiously comforting. Is it wrong to feel this way?
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Jamie: 8th Apr 2005 - 17:28 GMT
This is a great post and it's really nice to see more uk cities representing here lately. I hope you will see fit to post more here, both photographic and textualy, i love the combination of the two. It's the reason for my citynoise addiction.
mc shawaddywaddy: 14th Apr 2005 - 08:32 GMT
urban decay. deep seated urban decay. people live in these? i would not care to live here.
elaine: 14th Apr 2005 - 09:23 GMT
yeah, but you know, this is a seafront property in the centre of town, and you don't have to look at it while you're in it. I don't think I've seen any of the flats look empty.
UnlimitedLou: 22nd Apr 2005 - 15:38 GMT
words AND pictures say so much more ! Reassuring to know that even upmarket 'London-by-the-sea' isn't above a bit of extremely un-picteuresque squalor...Good old Urban Decay - doesn't turn it's unbiquitous nose up at even the posh bits !...Give it a few years, though, and no doubt the 'developers' will have paid a call, evicting the current occupants and dumping them safely out of sight on some horrible sink estate miles from the town centre, the sea - and, of course, the tourists - and turning this 'classically awful' '70's-looking eyesore into a characterless, featureless, souless but MODERN (and therefore, in their terms, 'better') 21st century eyesore which not one of it's present inhabitants could even think about living in...
UnlimitedLou: 22nd Apr 2005 - 15:44 GMT
...it seems a fact of life these days that people can have broken windows, peeling paintwork and all the rest of the indicators of extreme poverty, and yet always seem to be enough £££ for satelite dishes to have sprouted like mushrooms on every second balcony !
jeeff: well, you know, tv is important.
Peter: 22nd Apr 2005 - 16:39 GMT
tv is what keeps em occupied/complacent enough to soothe their existence in places like that. the opiate of the masses, etc.
elaine: 22nd Apr 2005 - 16:49 GMT
especially the simpsons. i had an inarticulate gripe about yanks to marc the other day - pathetic to conflate a people with their rancid govt, and i had a long fantasy of what if there was no america? Computers would be maths machines and animations would be made of wood. Life would be rubbish, so there!
elaine: 22nd Apr 2005 - 16:50 GMT
the simpsons being important, rather than complacent making - tho I am now a futurama fan, more
grange: 25th Mar 2006 - 21:21 GMT
Elaine ,,, try to watch "Family guy " awwwwwwwwww lois , what a actress....lol
Oscar: Could be used in those NHS adverts against salt.
jack: is drea's room in there.
Paul Russell: 18th Mar 2007 - 16:37 GMT
It was once a desirable location. Keith Waterhouse, author of Billy Liar, used to live in that building.
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