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• The university swimming pool
• Lufbra Students Union!
• Carillon
• carillion! nothing to do in it but climb stairs tho! it does look nice
• The pavillion....dont walk up those stairs after a doobie!
• The little street behind Mcdonalds that leads to the church is pretty and has an olde-worlde feel to it, but the best building in Loughborough has to be the HSBC on the Market Place. It looks like a huge Bavarian castle, and seems almost out of place, like it's been transported from Nottingham or Leicester and dropped in between much smaller shops. I love the pretty, Victorian train station and the adjacent Brush factory with its huge edwardian turbine hall, lit up in neon at night, and I'm a big fan of Hazlerigg-Rutland hall on the University campus and the nearby 'Bastard's gate'. Oh and Towers hall, the bizarre 1960s eggbox-style concrete tower whose 20-storey mass dominates the town and welcomes you to Loughborough from all directions.
• erm....tower in queens...could do without the bell ringing though.
• Curzon
• subsub
• Coffin shaped halls
• safeway, at night, the shop aint that great but theres a cool little group who hang round there at night.
• The Lloyds TSB bank. If you look at it properly, its actually really nice.
• Charnwood musium in Queens Park
• Where KC's Computers used to be on Pinfold Gate. It's a shithole, but it's also a piece of history. *sniff*
• The Swan of course!
• woolworths has got a seventies squareness about it
• Butler Court Block B
• Hazelrigg at the uni
• Well my house!! And the cariilion, and the public library and Burleigh and Garendon and Holywell etc.
• THE BRICK ONE
• my favourite building is the libary
• hazlerigg-rutland hall, a fantastic tudor thing which, surprisingly, they still let students live in.
• The showboat with Secret Squirrel
• Woolworths. it is a work of art, wonderful hanging baskets outside and lots of sexy staff inside.
• The Warehouse.
• The Carillon
• The Carillon, although the bell ringers should choose something other than Westlife to play...
• HSBC bank, the optimum of every drunks night. we all love the feeling of cashing a cheque the next day when we know full well the cashier quite possibly has viewed the cctv film from the night before to a synchronised floor show of 8 of us after opening the inside of the bank up with our cards. why we havent been barred i dont know.
• Butler Court.
• The library font of wisdom that it be.
• The Midland Bank in Market Place is nice if you like OTT Gothic kind of stuff. The Carillon in the park is a nice building because it's a bit different. The train station's pretty and in near-original state, if a bit of a dump these days General Hospital is a welcome change fromthe normal concrete tower blocks. Otherwise much of Loughborough seems to be Art Deco- type buildings (Curzon Cinemas, bingo hall, newspaper offices) which all look the same after a while.
• New Sports Hall on the University Campus is quite impressive as a sports facility.
• The best building is blockbuster video, its well smart. It has a milenium feel to it!
• Field House(mixed boarding house)

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Last updated: 2008-03-19