cumbernauld

[osgoody1970]

so, what happened in cumbernauld today????

[alloria]

What's it called?

[wiganpostie]

What's it called?

cumbernauld

[clashcityrocker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPHKT1LwG84" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cumbernauld's not a town centre, it's a hate crime.
(Not to be confused with Cambuslang)

[Pinky 1]

so, what happened in cumbernauld today????

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/Scotland/Cumbernauld.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
..... it rained

[fishtank]

Too ugly to live: the award-winning town begging to be put out of its misery on TV

Cumbernauld leapt at the chance when demolition was offered as a prize
By Alan Hamilton and Sophie Kirkham

WHEN the makers of a new Channel 4 series on Britain’s ugliest buildings invited viewers to nominate the eyesore they would most like to see demolished they were hardly prepared for a request to flatten an entire town.
But civic pride appears to be truly dead and buried in Cumbernauld, a 1950s creation that is home to 52,000 souls 15 miles northeast of Glasgow. Its residents were among the first to contact the programme, begging for dynamite and bulldozer to deliver them oblivion.

Kevin McCloud, who will present the four-part series this year, admitted that Cumbernauld was one of the more unusual suggestions that his production team had received. “It seems they wanted the entire town to be razed for the planners to start again. This is a little further than we want to go for the programme.”

Begun in 1956 to accommodate the overspill from an expanding but rundown Glasgow, Cumbernauld’s name means “meeting of the waters”. Being built on a hill and noted for chilly draughts, it resembles more the meeting of the winds.

It was a groundbreaker in its day, with its concrete town centre on stilts designed by the architect Geoffrey Copcutt containing Britain’s first indoor shopping mall. It even won architectural awards in the 1970s when brutalism was the flavour of the decade and provided the rose-tinted backdrop to the 1981 film about puppy love, Gregory’s Girl.

Things have taken a downturn since. In 2001 it won the Carbuncle Award for the most dismal place in Scotland, described by the judges as “a rabbit warren on stilts” and “soulless and inaccessible, something like Eastern Europe before the Wall came down”.

In 2003 The Idler’s Book of Crap Towns, naming it the second-worst place to live in the UK — beaten only by Hull — said of it: “Town planning students visit Cumbernauld as an example of what not to do.” To cap it all, a survey last year named Cumbernauld as the town with the most shopping trolleys dumped in the streets.

Cumbernauld’s best-known recent resident is Lewis “Scooby” Rodden, jailed for four years last week for his part in Chicago-style gang warfare between rival unlicensed security firms in west Scotland. Circumstances prevented him from giving an opinion yesterday but other residents were more than ready to mount a stout defence.

Kenneth McLellan, 31, a bus driver who has always lived in Cumbernauld, said: “It’s a lovely place, no one around here would nominate it for demolition — apart from certain parts of the town centre which I have to admit is a monstrosity. That should be blown up. The residential areas are lovely, and it is a beautiful place to live.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 516987.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[dvbuk55]

Well I've had a look at some images of the place and what you don't see is a huge phallic symbol like London has, which appears nearly every time you see the skyline these days, it used to be London Bridge, Parliament or St Pauls .................it has to say something really when that image is predominant

[DGP1]

We used to blow things like that up here (in the good old days ).

[fishtank]

We used to blow things like that up here (in the good old days ).

The unfortunate thing is DGP...it's even uglier on the inside.
It looks like the inside of a prison...after a heavy night of rioting.

[dvbuk55]

We used to blow things like that up here (in the good old days ).

Whereas we would make it a listed building.

[POSTMAN]

Somebody tell me if this thread has gone off topic or not.

[DGP1]

Somebody tell me if this thread has gone off topic or not.

How would we know? The first post was a little bit cryptic

[POSTMAN]

Somebody tell me if this thread has gone off topic or not.

How would we know? The first post was a little bit cryptic

So if you're defending it,it must be then.
I just need to know who 1st done it to ban them.

[baldrick]

I just need to know who 1st done it to ban them.

It was Dvbuk!

[Pinky 1]

I just need to know who 1st done it to ban them.

It was Dvbuk!

Well I'm blaming alloria, what sort of reply was that