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  1. Gooderham Building, Toronto.
    3 points
  2. Locally my favourite building is our Mechanics Institute. A major part of my Town's history... ...however the state it is currently in is a disgrace. The maddest looking building I've been to is Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. Yes, it's real!
    2 points
  3. And it has (or at least had) the longest platform bench (139 metres) anywhere!
    1 point
  4. Not bad mistakes, Ian Roberts a mistake ? or Australian team of the century representative Bobby Fulton
    1 point
  5. Enjoying a bit of Russian Ska from Lollypop Lorry ?
    1 point
  6. Reminds me of Portmeirion in north Wales.
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  7. Looking at the old Ordnance Survey map of Leigh (oddly enough the OS English maps are online on the National Library for Scotland site) and a picture of Hilton Park in Mike Latham's 'A Groundhopper's Guide' I reckon that that's right - even the orientation of the two pitheads agree with the map. Given the derelict state of the allotments makes me wonder if it was taken just before they started to build Hilton Park (about 1945/6) with the plot holders having been recently evicted.
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  8. The Elora Mill, Elora, Ontario
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  10. I think (think) it is the site that became Hilton Park in Leigh, with Parsonage Colliery in the background.
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  12. The Brighton Pavilion is nuts. As for St Michael's Mount, I like it, but have to place it below its counterpart Mont St Michel, on the other side of the channel.
    1 point
  13. Australia has chosen an awful lot more overseas born players than England.
    1 point
  14. I should have qualified it as UK building. Having said that there are some great ones mentioned here. No one who's been to Sagrada Familia or La Pedrera can fail to be impressed by the genius of Gaudi. My favourite abroad (although The Corn Exchange is still my no 1) is this:
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  15. some of the old mill buildings in Batley and Dewsbury and other northern towns are amazing if you can see through the dirt and grime and general demise of these towns in the last 40 years
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  16. After St Pancras, another cathedral to the railways, Mumbai Central.
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  17. It's so hard to have an absolute favourite that I may have to slightly dodge the question, but Durham Cathedral has to be up there, as does my current place of employment (when not furloughed!), Salisbury Cathedral. Years ago, when I worked in local government in North Yorkshire, I was chatting to one of the staff of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority at the end of a meeting. He said he had worked in Canada for a while and really got into ice hockey. He said he had no idea that Durham then had, in the Wasps, one of Britain's best teams. I said that I would take him to a game there one Sunday, and we would go early enough to visit the cathedral, to which, it had transpired, he had never been. When we went through the west end entrance to the cathedral, he was overwhelmed with awe by the sheer massiveness of the Norman architecture as he gazed into the distance, as it were. he said, "It just makes you want to say, 'Jesus Christ!' " My predictable reply was, "Well, yes, that's sort of the idea!" He enjoyed the Wasps' hockey match too! For secular buildings, I agree that the Piece Hall takes some beating. In my local government days, I had to attend a few meetings at Halifax town hall, which prompted me to say to a female colleague that it was a shame that she could not, at first hand, appreciate one of the finest expressions of Victorian civic pride that I had ever had the privilege to see. I was, of course, referring to the quite magnificent gents urinals.
    1 point
  18. And of course, the Piece Hall in Halifax!
    1 point
  19. Central Library, Manchester
    1 point
  20. I am not disagreeing with your views, they not dissimilar to mine. I have an Irish national grandparent but I don't have any affinity with Ireland so I would not represent them internationally. If Radley has the strongest affinity with Australia then great and it is certainly logical. All I am saying is that these things are complex and identity is a very personal thing. I don't like international mercenaries but they are difficult to prove. The only thing i disagree with in your post is that things are not black and white and you should let your kids decide what they want to do.
    1 point
  21. Jesus...... thats frightening..... In one sentence you've raised my anxiety on time.... and mortality..... 36 years........ ffs!! Genuinely spooked..... in was 24.... and indestructible......
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  22. Snooker player Willie Thorne.
    0 points
  23. Bob of the street cat named Bob fame aged 14. Bob who James Bowen thanks for turning his heroin addicted life around. Run free at the rainbow bridge.
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  24. Keith Tippett. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/15/keith-tippett-british-jazz-pianist-dies-age-72
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