Favourite Building in Basingstoke, Hampshire*
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Favourite Building
- a tall enough car park
- Festival Place - the new shopping centre in town, all the stuff that some people (who used to live in Basingstoke) complain about has gone! yeh i have have to admit the town does get a few "anti-social youths" but its not as bad as everyones making out.
- chineham house
- Sunlife of Canada and Churchill Plaza
- tart
- job centre great place lots of interesting people in there too
- Fairfields Primary School
- wiggins teap-my mum used to work there
- The AA building its huge and has its own theatre
- The Anvil - it is quite radical in its design, and hasn't started to rust yet.
- I've always quite liked the bandstand in the Memorial Park because it reminded me of the kids tv series 'Trumpton'. Not so sure about the park though. Too many bad memories of 1980s carnivals opened by 'wholesome' family entertainers like Jon Pertwee (aka Worzel Gummidge) and Jimmy Cricket.
- 139 Pack lane - before the current residents took it over and turned it into a shanty town for their large family
- Train station- arriving (for short periods of time) and then leaving again are always happy times. My parent's house (Cliddesden Road). QMC. Mercantile Credit building. AA building (it is familiar and somehow defines Basingstoke for me)
- The AA Building, it looks quite funky.
- Burnham Copse Infant School - got an architectural award when it was built.
- SunLife building
- The AA building, as I know I am on the way out of Basingstoke
- The train station - so you know you are leaving!
- The Museum/Tourist office in the centre of town. Just because everyone seems to think its shut and sales right past it.
- The Train station going home
- willis museum
- Basingstoke Ice Rink , because its home of the Bison of course!
- It has got to be the feathers pub, if not for the building itself at least for
the fact that everyone in this fabulous town has been threatend there by one of
those 25 year old escort owning meatheads who go out with 14 year olds with perms
- Barclays Mercantile - what else.
- The Gatehouse at the entrance to The Holy Ghost Cemetry...when I lived in town I always dreamt of owning it...weird maybe, but you've gotto admit iss a fine looking house!!!!
- Cranbourne school and QMC.
- A nice church next to the precinct. If you stand with your back to the shopping precinct you could be in a country village. If you stand with your back to the church you could be in architect's hell. You'd be looking at the biggest expanse of brick wall outside of China/Mogolia border.
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