PrivateDerby Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Some stunning buildings around Derby, some in very sad states. What are your favourites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Westfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Pride Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Pride Park You mean Ipro Stadium ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 The Cathedral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Westfield. Out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2tups Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 To be semi serious for once, it's the stretch of buildings down Irongate to the Market Place. Irongate was remodelled in the late 19th century and the east side buildings were all rebuilt if I recall to let the road be doubled in width. Derby is a city of quiet pleasures; no sod off monoliths. But abseils, peregrines and carols at the Cathedral, remembering great nights at Queen Street baths in the punk years, the proud buildings on the west side (some now proudly dispensing ale). And at the Dolphin almost banging your head on the 16th century roof remembering Jacobites passed this way and may well have drunk here on the way to Swarkestone.Though, I'd swap the lot for a place on the Popside seeing the man Mackay or Roy Mac lead the Champions out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I think Derby is ugly. Derbyshire, beautiful. Derby? Major ugly. That really cool modern building outside the assembly rooms is the ugliest building I've seen in a long time. There are nice bits dotted here and there that somebody didn't decide to destroy by being 'modern'. Modern building infront of Assembly rooms? Vile Westfield? Yuk Bus Station? LOL!!! Nottingham is better looking. Just been infested by scumbags stops you seeing the buildings for what they are. Now Bath, Chester, Oxford... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Derby's planners majorly cocked up when they built the Assembly Rooms. Ugly, horrible building completely out of character with the rest of the Market Place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 Yeah I know there's a lot of glass and cladding that spoils the place but what about the Florence Nightingale on London Rd? That really needs sorting. Does anyone know what's happening with that big place at the bottom of Uttoxeter Rd? The one with no roof? What was it?! Went for a walk up Hartington Street last time, what the fook has happened there? Surely one of if not the best looking street in Derby... only walked up and down it but saw two dealing, three or four pros and one p*ssing behind a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSD Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Derby isn't the most beautiful city in the world, but compared with the likes of Hull, Sunderland and Leicester, it looks like Rome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Grimsby has some beautiful buildings for a town with the word grim in it. "http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/68/90/2689018_955881bd" alt="2689018_955881bd"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 How do buildings like that even get built. Buildings like the Assembly rooms or the bus station, fair enough, some people will hate it, but you can see an architect put a bit of thought into it. Buildings like this have had no effort whatsoever. Whoever was building must have known it was going to look like a blot on the landscape, and didn't give a folk. I hate that. Meanwhile, I think Derby is really quite nice looking. Look up, beyond the shop fronts like Silly Sid's (wtf), and there's some really nice Georgian rooftops and things. And the modern stuff is at least contemporary and shows an evolving city. There is thought and effort behind most of the buildings in the centre. I've always been a massive fan of the way Derby City Centre is quite compact. You can walk around the whole thing in about half an hour, but still enjoy a full day there. Not unlike hobbits. But Derbyshire, in my opinion, the most gorgeous county in the country. I'm dead proud of coming from Derbyshire. And my wife, who grew up in Peru, in the Amazon jungle, with the Andes as a backdrop, wouldn't swap Derbyshire for any other county in England (tried Leicestershire, didn't like it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSD Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Grimsby has some beautiful buildings for a town with the word grim in it. "http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/68/90/2689018_955881bd" alt="2689018_955881bd"> "http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2010/08/predator1_11" alt="predator1_11"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Yeah I know there's a lot of glass and cladding that spoils the place but what about the Florence Nightingale on London Rd? That really needs sorting. Does anyone know what's happening with that big place at the bottom of Uttoxeter Rd? The one with no roof? What was it?! Went for a walk up Hartington Street last time, what the fook has happened there? Surely one of if not the best looking street in Derby... only walked up and down it but saw two dealing, three or four pros and one p*ssing behind a car. railway station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Elvaston Castle, the Brunny, Ilam Hall, Chatsworth House, The Peregrine platform on Derby Cathedral.....just a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abertawe_ram Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 The Old Bell is a fascinating and I think attractive building. They've ploughed millions into its recent refurbishment and there's a lot of stuff about it online, well worth a read if you're interested in the history of buildings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 railway station Nice one mate, probably loads of info on it, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 The Waterfall is some building, as are the Railway Terrace's... which is what my change pot is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 one of my favourite sites and I can lose hours looking at it:- http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/thenandnow/ you're welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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