Tottenham Court Road area

[Stobart Stopper]

My brother had lent me book called Plague which goes into great detail about the St Giles area and the rats.

 

[Paul Russell]

Anyone seen the white kiosk outside the Dominion theatre ("We will rock you") Someone's stencilled it with a big black circle on all sides and has the slogan 'Cultural Blackspot' I almost asked the owner if it was deliberate. Wish i'd had a camera. More stencilling please, we've got Dikie Davis splattered around Brixton hill, ha!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonscott/1297704278/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanna/324309304/

If you search Flickr for Cultural Blackspot, there's quite a few.

 

[Crispy]

There are plans, all tied up with crossrail, to demolish the centrepoint fountains and create a new public square in place of it. This will mean demolishing the Astoria, though - that whole ocrner block will be redeveloped. And I wonder if the public square will just turn into a big vomit puddle. But at least there'll be some money spent on public realm.

 

[Bodmass]

This will mean demolishing the Astoria, though - that whole ocrner block will be redeveloped.

With the Camden Electric Ballroom going too, it really will be the end of an era

(although I accept they both look run down)

Edit: save the Astoria website here http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=88488742

 

[bluestreak]

why demolish the fucking astoria when you can demolish fucking centre fucking point. things a damn eyesore.