Depressing Demolition
I was up at the Blackheath Standard just now, full of the joys of sunny October, when I suddenly spied this:
It took me a moment to work out what exactly the workmen were demolishing. Then it came to me.
What on earth did that little 1950s bus shelter ever do to anyone? Okay - it wasn't a paragon of design, but it fitted rather well, with it's honest brick sides and little tiled roof, within the 1950s crazy-paved design of the village green.
Presumably it attracted "the wrong sort" or something - though I can't say I ever noticed hoodies or graffiti there. Did it really warrant demolition?
I suppose we'll get some horrid glass affair as a replacement which will soon be a source of permanent employment for glass repairers.
Oh - I get it. They'll be able to put advertisments in the new one. So. A revenue-generating move.
Hmmm.
It took me a moment to work out what exactly the workmen were demolishing. Then it came to me.
What on earth did that little 1950s bus shelter ever do to anyone? Okay - it wasn't a paragon of design, but it fitted rather well, with it's honest brick sides and little tiled roof, within the 1950s crazy-paved design of the village green.
Presumably it attracted "the wrong sort" or something - though I can't say I ever noticed hoodies or graffiti there. Did it really warrant demolition?
I suppose we'll get some horrid glass affair as a replacement which will soon be a source of permanent employment for glass repairers.
Oh - I get it. They'll be able to put advertisments in the new one. So. A revenue-generating move.
Hmmm.
Labels: News, Not-Quite-Greenwich
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
12:25
10 Comments:
The police wanted it gone as it attracted drunks and those who used to frequent the now closed Gents at the standard. I believe that there are plans to instead put a flower bed there or something but I doubt that the council will keep the maintenance up on that.
Do you think they could do the same to the Weatherspoons in Greenwich!!! ;-P
How dismal.
I'm also so sad about losing the loos - I guess forking out a few quid for an attendant to discourage extracurricular activites in the gents was just too much for the council. That superloo is just hideous.
The drunks were a bit scary as there was usually quite a few at any one time but they weren't kids and never seemed to bother anyone. I would have thought the council had bigger things to worry about than this, but there you go.
I am equally cross at ther loss of the bus shelter at the Charlton Road junction. I not sure about demolishing Weatherspoons in Greenwich but I could cheerfully pay to drive the wrecking ball into the wretched tea hut on Blackheath and all its attendant squalour. The police and local authority jobsworths won't get rid of that because they use it.
Hey Neil - thanks for visiting - I am a big fan of yours! May I just say how pleased I am that your books Blackheath & Environs are more readily avaialable now? I have been trying to get hold of my own copy of them for a long time and now I have them both at last.
Thanks!
I read the minutes from the Standard Safer Neighbourhoods meeting and apparently it did attract some 'unsavoury types' (god I sound old). It has been removed to discourage people from hanging out around there.
I hear what you're saying - but won't that just mean they'll hang out somewhere else?
The shelter was pretty disgusting as were the people in it (the two things being entirely related). It wasn't kids in the main it was old drunks and druggies so glad they are gone. There was a small article in the WN a few months back where the Council had asked the permission of the family of the gentleman who donated it to have it demolished...I guess he'd be pretty sad at what his legacy became.
It'd been a dossers' den for as long as I can remember - it's no loss, alas.
I wonder who donated it?
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