On Wed, 03 May 2017 10:04:38 +0100, wrote:

On Wed, 3 May 2017 00:25:14 +0100, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\05\02 22:59, wrote:

Phew , I half expected to open that and find that it had been
demolished by an errant road sweeper or worse been uprooted and swiped
for some town or city's twee improved pedestrian area with newly laid
cobbles and reproduction Edwardian lampposts till I noticed the 2014
date.

Either a thing looks nice or it doesn't. Why was it okay for Edwardians
to make things that looked nice but it's not okay for us? The people who
make beauty in the age of ugliness deserve praise, not criticism.

Was there an age of beauty? Every era has a proportion of both
pleasant and nasty ambiences.
We often forget the latter, Terminal stations were fairly unpleasant
places with the fug of numerous steam and later diesel locos exhaust
filling the air but a single celebrity steamer into such a station now
brings out nostalgia most of which is now inherited memories rather
than first hand experience.
Agree things should look nice but just loosely copying Edwardian
street furniture sometimes looks a bit contrived, it needs the area
covered in Horse muck to be realistic.
There is plenty of good modern design around.

Anyway the Gist of my post was that something genuine and still in its
original location may have been swiped for use elsewhere to add
something authentic amongst all the replicas.

G.Harman

You might enjoy this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTaAZMgDPI

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