@JonNeale

music, cities, buildings, the countryside

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Joined January 2011
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Placeless car-dominated sprawl. Fails to adequately address the street or take advantage of the opportunities presented by its canalside location. Not dense enough, too much road and too much parking given that the occupants are the least likely demographic to own them. Object.
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الطريق الى ملعب برايتون 🤩💙 #BHACRY
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If you go back to 1900 or so, the average Black Country worker was Methodist, relatively unskilled a trade union member, voted for the emerging Labour Party and worked for a big enterprise in coal or basic metal production with no chance of him becoming an owner. In contrast….
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The average Brummie was a relatively skilled Anglican, wouldn’t go near a trade union, voted liberal unionist and worked for a small artisan or engineering business, maybe hoping one day to become a “master” himself. No other UK conurbation has such strongly diverging histories
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What our great-grandfathers actually thought of Victorian architecture.
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My old copy of “music for the jilted generation” was being played last night. The insert is an interesting artefact
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Evening Chris Bell - You and your Sister youtu.be/m-yvdIHOdxw?is=Bodf… via @YouTube

Chris Bell - You and your Sister

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos [1992](Recorded : 1973-78)

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These were my formative 90s albums. Sod your b***pop
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I was just trying to tell my daughters what the nineties were really like. Seeing Suede in their early days supporting Kingmaker at the Birmingham Institute in 1992. Vile homophobic abuse screamed at Brett Anderson for the entire gig. Wasn’t just Brum, happened at every date
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Ashdown Forest, heart of the Sussex Weald, yesterday
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Of all the Americanisms that have entered our language and I’ve hated over my lifetime, and there are many, the recent adoption of “Anglo” is a particular low point
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Big up the twitten, now a regularly used part of my vocabulary
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@YouGovOct 9
What do you call an alleyway? Across Britain, there are more than a dozen dialect words for a narrow passageway, with 'ginnel', 'cut' and 'snicket' among the most common Alley: 84% Passage: 31% Ginnel: 14% Cut: 7% Snicket: 6% Entry: 6% Close: 6% Gully: 4% Jitty: 4% Wynd: 2% Vennel: 2% Twitten: 1% Tenfoot/eightfoot: 1% Pend: 1%
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Just met up with a few friends from school and wandered round a few pubs in Marylebone and Fitzrovia. I mean, I love going out in Manchester and am very fond of Birmingham, but seriously, there is just no comparison in terms of what I can only call urban depth.
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1/2 I've seen quite a few articles recently suggesting Birmingham's post-war reinvention was a state-driven phenomenon. But it was also a result of it being by far the main focus of the post-war commercial property boom.
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2/3 The prosperity of the city in those decades - higher household incomes than the South East, higher retail spend than Oxford Street - drove a frenzy of rebuilding by the private sector: new offices, shopping centres, etc. replaced victorian buildings.
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3/3 No other city outside London saw anything like it. Leeds was a distant second, and also has the evidence to prove it. Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle had nothing like the same level of commercial activity.
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As opposed to the 1930s semi detached, famously looks very different in Carlisle and Southampton. Totally rooted in its location.
Lord WarGit of Superlative Value@WarGitOct 6
I'm not agin all modern design. But the second point here is well made. I was looking at some renders for a new development for Oxford earlier and the thing that struck me most wasn't that it was obviously awful but that it could have been *anywhere*. Cut and paste.
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At the time of the year, there’s plenty of negativity around Birmingham. So here’s a few pictures I’ve taken over the years as a little antidote.
JN@JonNealeOct 6
Replying to @createstreets
I do think when you post this sort of thing you should also highlight that the city has kept, thankfully, quite a lot of more intimate buildings and streetscape.
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