Busy enjoying the long, sleepy days of summer I tended to neglect Vic’s Blog recently, but with the mornings becoming decidedly cooler, I thought it would be nice to go for a stroll with the camera once again. Wanting to avoid all the Saturday shoppers, I took the half past eight train into town and wandered aimlessly through the pleasantly empty streets.
The railway station is currently being built, changed and improved, and I stumbled across this temporary pedestrian walkway upon leaving the rear of the station.
There are still some magnificent old buildings around this part of town, let’s hope nobody decides to build yet another shopping centre.
I’m sure the back of the station will be wonderful when it’s all finished.
The front of the station was modernised a few years ago, providing the station with nice new shops (the white building on the right). Then the bus station was revamped, and the somewhat tired bus shelters were replaced with this, a large modern construction regarded by many as an engineering masterpiece, which I’m sure it is. It has 180’000 holes in it, providing a light and friendly atmosphere, which I’m sure it does. But somehow I just can’t get to like it at all. Although undoubtedly both artistically and technically a fascinating building… in my very humble opinion it’s in the wrong place. The once inviting entrance to the nearby department store has been plunged into eternal shadow.
The thing is simply in the way…
as if someone had plonked a large dustbin in front of the Taj Mahal.
