Angel of the North: Crap / Not Crap

[skunkboy69]

why?

Like most people in the neighbourhood I assumed it was going to be bloody awful.In fact,it's not.I love seeing it when I'm returning home.Canary wharf and The London Eye have been called beautiful too.I don't think their beauty comes anywhere near the Angels.

 

[kakuma]

whenever i come back to newcastle i miss it cos i'm looking out for the bridges

 

[JKKne]

the penshaw monument totally owns it

Possibly...actually...definitley the most pointless monument in the history of monuments.

Not only is it in Penshaw...which has no actual point itself, apart from a short cut but its nothing...All you can see from it is the Sunderland Echo Building, Stadium of Light and Nissan...

Urgh

 

[wiskey]

so ugly forgotten places dont deserve to have things put there? they should stay ugly and forgotten?

 

[JKKne]

so ugly forgotten places dont deserve to have things put there? they should stay ugly and forgotten?

Penshaw was really pretty, if you look at the old photos', then Sunderland Council threw up some council housing.

Herrington Country Park nearby is alright, former open mining site...I think the Beeb did a concert there not long ago

 

[StanSmith]

I saw it when I went up there to watch Toon v Wolves and I thought it was great.


So there

 

[kakuma]

so ugly forgotten places dont deserve to have things put there? they should stay ugly and forgotten?

you obviously have never been to gateshead

 

[JKKne]

you obviously have never been to gateshead

J.B Priestley

Whoever designed Gateshead I declare to be an enemy of mankind

Take away Eighton, Whickham, Low Fell and The Quays and its horrendous

 

[kakuma]

my mate from one of them dunston once went on a big rant about how newcastle has poured so much money into making the city look absolutely top notch in the last few years, but gateshead town centre still looks like it did in the 70s


i had to laugh

blaydon is fucking nice tho

 

[gentlegreen]

i think it's shite

you could put any sculpture on that hill and it would look good

i fucking hate gormley.

the penshaw monument totally owns it

http://www.twcsa.nhs.uk/

what are the other things to look out for ?

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[kakuma]

the quayside

the baltic

big lamp

highgate

leazes park/leazes terraces

fuck man, it is depressing that newcastle is just seen as the football club, the angel, and stupid twats in short skirts and white skirts

that is one of the reasons i hate the bbc. posh cunts

 

[bfg]

Its better than this proposed lump of shit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1959583.stm

 

[lostexpectation]

i think thats really cool

http://www.nickelinstitute.org/index.cfm/ci_id/11268.htm

http://www.solarpyramid.co.uk/content.php?content_id=61

i see its completetion date has been set backa good few times...

 

[anfield]

It's great. End of.

 

[JKKne]

Anyone seen the plans for the Durham Bowl?

Its ingenious...There's a lovely historic cityscape and they're going to put some sort of martian-esque space bowl over it

 

[brahaminda]

It's great. End of.

True
But have you noticed it gets smaller the closer you get to it?

 

[janeb]

Kinda, but then when you stand right underneath it and look up it's huge

 

[JKKne]

Bigger wingspan than a 747

 

[BettyButterfly]

Burberry? Pfft! You've never been to Newcastle. Every lass wears lycra leggings, an out of season NUFC shirt and silences their babies with a gregg's sausage roll.

 

[BettyButterfly]

Of course the view's really bad. It's stuck up all the way in Newcastle. All the view is going to be is a bunch of Trisha types in burberry and 11 year olds pushing buggys.

Maybe if they placed it somewhere a lot more pleasant to view (ie erm....London, etc)

Riot sky, you have decribed my next door neighbour and I'm not in Newcastle.

I silence mine with a sayers pasty actually!

It does piss me off all this London is the Centre of the Universe shit. You have crap places down south as well and more than enough problems.

Get out of ya glass house!

 

[BIG davie H]

I really like Anthony Gormley's stuff

so do i i live in crosby liverpool and on our beach there are 100 iron men looking out to seahttp://home.online.no/~pjhaalan/place1.jpg

it is well worth a visit, as well as my local

 

[lostexpectation]

boy thats freaky, how often do the coast guard called out because of those reginald perils?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I like it, I just think it should have been bigger.

 

[FruitandNut]

Having some of my early roots in Newcastle, I feel like I am 'coming home' in some way when I see the 'Angel' looming up ahead of me. I did at first have reservations, but now I think it quite an evocative wind break.

 

[free spirit]

http://www.twcsa.nhs.uk/

what are the other things to look out for ?

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charva's... always best to keep half an eye out for them like

 

[free spirit]

more seriously...

just look UP as you walk through Newcastle, at eye level it's all corporate shop fronts, but look up and you'll see some fucking great buildings

oh and you've got to check out the castle keep, and ask someone where the vampire rabbit is

 

[BIG davie H]

boy thats freaky, how often do the coast guard called out because of those reginald perils?

Quite a lot in the first few weeks, it lucky that the coast guard station for the north west is also on crosby beach, or the would of been a lot of wasted trips, Jet skis have been banned as people were using them for like a skiing event

 

[JKKne]

more seriously...

just look UP as you walk through Newcastle, at eye level it's all corporate shop fronts, but look up and you'll see some fucking great buildings

oh and you've got to check out the castle keep, and ask someone where the vampire rabbit is

Standing by the monument and looking down towards Grey St with its curves is impressive.

Shame they got rid of a lot of Grainger Town...for friggin Eldon Square

At least Westgate House is coming down...I assume Wetherspoons is going to have to shut for a bit...unless drinkers dodge the rubble

 

[free spirit]

Standing by the monument and looking down towards Grey St with its curves is impressive.

Shame they got rid of a lot of Grainger Town...for friggin Eldon Square

At least Westgate House is coming down...I assume Wetherspoons is going to have to shut for a bit...unless drinkers dodge the rubble

hopefully it might accidentally come down on weatherspoons