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for those that went to the retro do in sheffield

mel the bellmel the bell
edited August 2010 in Chit chat
just found this documentary about the flats that tower above the railway station lol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k89m5/English_Heritage_Romancing_the_Stone/

also shows the peace gardens
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  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited August 2010
    mel the bell wrote: »
    just found this documentary about the flats that tower above the railway station lol
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k89m5/English_Heritage_Romancing_the_Stone/

    also shows the peace gardens

    I didn't go to the retro thing, but I was in Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.

    My home ISP is too slow to watch videos, but it's the Park Hill estate isn't it. I took this photo when I was there. Certainly dominates the skyline in that area! There's also that incinerator chimney nearby too.

    DSC07492.jpg
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited August 2010
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    I didn't go to the retro thing, but I was in Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.

    My home ISP is too slow to watch videos, but it's the Park Hill estate isn't it. I took this photo when I was there. Certainly dominates the skyline in that area! There's also that incinerator chimney nearby too.

    DSC07492.jpg
    nice graffiti, errrrrrrrrrm i mean pic

    yeah its park hill, not far from the parkway / m1

    i used to live up not that far from there in the first shared house i had after leaving home at 18
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  • SpectorSpector
    edited August 2010
    Beautiful, absolutely beautiful! One day, comrades, our Stalinist paradise will be achieved!
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  • fogfog
    edited August 2010
    never been sheffield..

    but does buying off ebuyer and knowing someone from there count?

    I think I sent some speccy games t'up north .. Sheffield included
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    Those flats look so Majestic. I would never want to live in one though, not for the flat its self but for the kinds you have living around you. Its strange to think the whole site id a grade II listed structure.

    It was build in the very late 50's and I'm guessing it was a mistaken vision of the future. I'm just glad this vision never too hold, else these type of flats would have gotten even biggerer and we'd would all be expected to live in them.
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    sheffield_parkhill_wa261108.jpg

    When I look at this image there is one Spectrum game title that springs to mind. Can you guess which one?
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Android 2?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    I didn't go to the retro thing, but I was in Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.

    My home ISP is too slow to watch videos, but it's the Park Hill estate isn't it. I took this photo when I was there. Certainly dominates the skyline in that area! There's also that incinerator chimney nearby too.

    DSC07492.jpg
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    sheffield_parkhill_wa261108.jpg

    When I look at this image there is one Spectrum game title that springs to mind. Can you guess which one?

    Jeebus Crivens! That monstrosity makes the Byker Wall look classy! :o
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    Android 2?

    Nope.
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Haunted Hedges?

    TLL?
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited August 2010
    Highway Encounter ?
  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    'worst game ever'

    :-P
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited August 2010
    Urban Upstart?
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Well it's definitely not Stonkers.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    Nope none of them.

    I'll give you a clue, the game was released in 1991 and was freeware.
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Tetris? (was that freeware even)

    Dammit Scotty, you're a doctor not a games guru.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Nope none of them.

    I'll give you a clue, the game was released in 1991 and was freeware.

    Are you sure it was Freeware and not Public Domain :lol:

    *Gets Coat* :D
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited August 2010
    i was gonna say ant attack till he said 1991 lol

    in sheff we have those flats all over the place, the biggies were always park hill, hyde park, norfolk park and kelvin flats (mi mate wrote a book about kelvin flats cos he lived in em for that long)
    i used to live in some smaller maisonette type flats before i moved up here, just 2 / 3 story high, the ones opposite used to have a pirate radio station in with the ariel on the roof
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    I guess Scotty is going to just keep us in suspenders.
  • WoodyWoody
    edited August 2010
    Digital Prawn wrote: »
    I didn't go to the retro thing, but I was in Sheffield a couple of weeks ago.

    Nor I, not a ****tard.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    Well no one's got it yet. As another clue Boozy once suggested the game in some other thread related to the worst spectrum game name ever several months back.
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  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Well no one's got it yet. As another clue Boozy once suggested the game in some other thread related to the worst spectrum game name ever several months back.

    that siqd game?

    i was gonna say that but i din't know what it was called, what am i like.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Well no one's got it yet. As another clue Boozy once suggested the game in some other thread related to the worst spectrum game name ever several months back.

    I'm onto it Scottie ;)

    Quite funny that is very appropriate, and judging from the looks of that rancid heap of tenements probably accurate :lol:
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    Derwent%20Tower3488.jpg

    Derwent "The Rocket" Tower in Dunston Gateshead is a building of contrast, built in 1969 by idiots who thought this monstrous eyesore was a good idea for some reason. It is 280 feet high making it the tallest building on Tyneside, it contains 420 steps and 2 lifts, which are both covered in grafitti and piss. Nearly all 196 flats inside this revolting skyscraper have damp, most of the windows are broken, and the carpark has been flooded since 1973.

    It is also home to 2/3rds of all of Gatesheads smackheads. Please stay on your side of the river you dirty little meths!
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  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited August 2010
    File:Trinity_square_demolition1.JPGThey've recently started pulling down the 'Get Carter' carpark in Gateshead:

    26_Gateshead_540.jpg

    http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/demolition+begins+on+iconic+get+carter+car+park/3724147

    Always fancied paying it a visit. Looks like I've missed my chance now... :(
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited August 2010
    The Nest of Bastards, perhaps?

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003390
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    sheffield_parkhill_wa261108.jpg
    NEST OF BASTARDS!

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  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited August 2010
    It is also home to 2/3rds of all of Gatesheads smackheads. Please stay on your side of the river you dirty little meths!

    In the 80's they demolished the Flat's in Hyson Green, Nottingham, unfortunatly they moved the residents out first.:p

    Note the beautiful ramp.

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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    sheffield_parkhill_wa261108.jpg
    NEST OF BASTARDS!

    Matt_B gets it congratulation you success!

    Looks like Woody got it actually..top of this page..
  • Digital PrawnDigital Prawn
    edited August 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Jeebus Crivens! That monstrosity makes the Byker Wall look classy! :o

    I'm sure after the renovation, with a few garden gnomes outside and a repainted front gate, it'll be a right cosy gaffe. :D
    Woody wrote: »
    Nor I, not a ****tard.

    You know I should really start posting on here more frequently again, I know I'm staying away too long when people are getting banned quicker than I can reply to them!

    I've got loads more photos of council housing and tower blocks, one of my other hobbies is hiking in different places around the the country and taking photographs on my travels, mainly for Wikipedia and other web sites. Some of the tower blocks in Glasgow, Birmingham and London are really huge.

    That Park Hill Estate in Sheffield ranks as one of the real great "Prezzagrad" style "It's grim up north" monstrosities though. It's probably a listed building. :D Certainly, on a par with standing outside Warrington Bank Quay railway station and the Unilever factory on a drizzly autumn morning for real bleakness. If only LS Lowry was alive today he would've loved all this I'm sure.
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