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Offline Bri Roberts

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1065 on: July 22, 2015, 09:35:45 am »
Dreaming, wrex.

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1066 on: July 22, 2015, 11:05:02 am »
Nice one Bri


Offline Dave

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1067 on: August 03, 2015, 06:51:47 pm »
Until the other day when I walked past I hadn't realised just how scruffy Venue Cymru has become. Desperate for a clean up and some anti fungal spray on those once white walls.

Offline wrex

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1068 on: August 03, 2015, 08:39:53 pm »
blends in quite well with the Grand theater

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1069 on: August 03, 2015, 10:31:51 pm »
blends in quite well with the Grand theater
Strangely it draws you eye away from the Grand. Maybe that's the idea!

Offline Hugo

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1070 on: August 13, 2015, 07:32:49 am »
Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day when I had a walk on the West Shore at Llandudno and the only blot on the landscape was this " Arty Farty" sculpture.     What a complete waste of money
Even when it was first put there it was awful and should now be confined to Arch Motors scrap yard and that old Water Board building in the background isn't much better either.
Just compare that piece of metal rubbish to the Mussel Sculpture at Conwy Quay.

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1071 on: August 13, 2015, 07:40:49 am »
Hadn't seen that before, but it does uncannily resemble a prop from a horror movie...
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

Offline Hugo

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1072 on: August 13, 2015, 07:50:35 am »
I'm sure that you are more appreciative of the arts than I am Ian,  but just in case you don't fully appreciate the significance of this sculpture have a read of this notice.
I still don't get it, even when  I can read what it is meant to be.       ???

The Conwy Sculpture on the other hand needs no written explanation whatsoever.      $good$

Offline wrex

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« Reply #1073 on: August 13, 2015, 12:53:35 pm »
I love the sculpture on the West Shore it resembles the cycle path,dissapearing fast.

Offline Nemesis

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1074 on: August 13, 2015, 02:14:16 pm »
When that 'sculpture ' first appeared I asked a councillor what it was meant to be and the reply was "A shelter for cyclists". Do you wonder we are in the state we are in?
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know.

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1075 on: September 26, 2015, 07:06:02 am »
All has gone quiet on our towns best eyesores,the pier pavillion,Grand theater,Royal hotel and of course the Tudno Castle ,no news whatsoever.

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1076 on: September 28, 2015, 09:48:55 am »
I've seen work going on in the Grand Theatre, but just basic repairs, I think.

Offline Dave

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1077 on: November 12, 2015, 03:17:06 pm »
I went to Eirias Park today and was disappointed to find the burnt remains of the bonfire scattered over the weed and mud of the disused boating lake.
What was once a magnet to holidaying children is now a sad festering smelly weed and litter covered combination of thick mud and a little water.
It's no wonder Porth Eirias was designed to look the way it does, it was to blend in with the rest of the decay in the surrounding area.

Offline Meleri

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1078 on: November 12, 2015, 04:54:54 pm »
The Boating Lake area at Eirias Park won't be like that for long as Conwy Council are intending to develop it as a 3G football pitch.

Offline Hugo

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Re: Local Eyesores
« Reply #1079 on: November 12, 2015, 05:37:44 pm »
I remember reading in a planning application a few years ago that the CCBC said that the Great Crested Newts had been "parachuted" into that boating lake so there shouldn't be any development of any kind there unless something has happened in the meantime.