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Traffic island castaway.
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And if you like concrete water towers, bit have I got a treat for you. Snowflake. All available in several different colourways.
www.invisibleworks.co.uk/product/snow...
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There’s also the Lasdun UEA Ziggurats ones. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/product/uea-...
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They’re now starting to shutter it off. Will report with more important news as it comes in.
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The cakes in Peter’s, although when it had cakes it was actually John’s, were Fryer’s Cakes, I think they had a market stall and a bakery on Sprowston Road. I used to work in a factory with Chris, one of the Fryer family. All our work buckets had previously held apple sauce or jam!
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Finally. It just summed it up, the lives that pass through this dream of modernity from the 1960s. A past future vision.
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My favourite bits are the spiral stairs. Originally these didn’t have the metal cap, they were just solid glass.
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The east wing and the tower. When it was newer and looked after this thing gleamed.
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The tower peering over the edge of the roof if the former computer unit which housed the HMSO servers. More recently this has been QD stores. The tower houses the lift motors, now dead, it’s mostly full of mobile phone masts now.
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Peter’s. It was the local butcher’s made famous when photographed by Jim Mortram, although then it was called John’s, he was Peter’s dad I think. Peter retired recently, the last of a line in the trade.
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One of the service entrances to the huge Gildengate building. This area is usually blocked off. I just liked the arrangement of it all. And what is photography it’s not recording the layers, angles and complexities you decode in what you see.
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The area to the side of Gildengate was open, there’s a mini flyover to the flyover. The graffiti is the work of the artists who jnhabited Gildengate since its closure as part of HMSO.
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One of the delivery bays. This one originally served both HMSO and Fine Fare, later it was used by Boots and QD.
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The curious clay tile bricks. They’re rather nice. I love the light well around these steps up to the second floor.
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From Reg: ‘Gildengate House, where CCTA (Combined Computer and Telecommunications Agency, later OGC- Office of Government Communications) parked their bikes.’
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Would make sense as CCA and HMSO were both effectively part of the government.
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That’s the computer department of HMSO/TSO. Or QD as we knew it once they all bummed out of there.
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One of the loading bays. I suspect these are what kept Iceland air conditioned. The shop not the country. The net is to stop the pigeons from using it for an impromptu gang bang.
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More hidden bits. This is the lost car park. The computer department became QD stores, this has been locked forever as far as I’m aware.
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Now that’s completely messed with my sense of in and out. (These are ‘in’ btw)
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Then I’ll wish I bought five of them, because this is how it works.
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It’s green, which is not in my comfort spectrum, so it should only take a couple of years of seeing it in the drawer before I can wear it.
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Think I might be about to find out.
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Poundshop Bowie.
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Also a bit like Ride on Diazepam.
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Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hotrods both mainstreamed out of the pub rock circuit via punk.
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I’d be inclined to trim out the large growth, see if you can get it to spread the energy more.
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First place I worked as a paste up, the guy I replaced had hated one customer so much, he’d managed to spell ‘Fuck’ across a double page spread of vehicle door rubber profiles before he left. I was advised by the punter not to do that.
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We had one for a year, their sales techniques pissed me off so much we had a line entry after that. They pissed me off too by buying domains for clients then not letting them use them.
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*Woodo, cheers autocarrot.
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Nearly every designer during the 90s and into the 00s will have had a rash of absurdly crammed tiny Yellow Pages adverts to design in a rush for about a month every year.
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I was stuck in traffic and he was pulling out of a side road.
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Oddly what made me think of this was seeing their van this morning.
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I also remember this.
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I used to design ads for it. Always a trial. ‘Is it possible to get another 100 words into that 60mm x 63mm box.