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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.
Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous"
I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"I think The Shard is amazing"
Have you been to the top yet? I haven't (mainly because it's £25 and I know if I wait someone will have an event up there that will have my name on the guest list). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.
Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous
I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel."
Really Lickety? I imagined you to be one of those Londoners who gets a nosebleed anywhere north of Watford  |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.
Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous
I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel.
Really Lickety? I imagined you to be one of those Londoners who gets a nosebleed anywhere north of Watford "
I must be at deaths door when I go up to Cumbria then. I love this country. I haven't found anywhere that I can't find something interesting to see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For my sins, I've no idea what the building is, but as you come out of Embankment tube station and head up Villers street, there's a magnificient building up to the righthand side. The architecture is wonderful. |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
Rochdale town hall
ST Pancras station
st josephs seminary upholland
the old manchester fire station
the old county asylum denbigh
shame the last three are derelict the last particulaly
what a waste
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lincoln cathedral
Used in many films including DaVinci Code. It's a sight to behold. "
Yeah that is a lovely place, especially at night :o) Steep hill is a killer though lol. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
York Minster.
Milan Cathedral.
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. (I've performed there!)
Rocamadour Village in France - truly magnificent.
The main church (cathedral perhaps?) in Victoria, capital town on Gozo.
The main church in Mdina, the Silent City in Malta. Inspiring! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,
I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,
I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder......"
Try the castle at Carcassonne in France- the castle Disney reputedly based their design on  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have been fortunate to have visited a number of my lost of places to see in the world... And I have to say that time and time again I have found natural landmarks to be way more dramatic than man made ones.. Thus the Sydney opera house paled in comparison to Niagara falls.. And likewise the golden gate bridge to the grand canyon. I say this because I still love architecture esp modern and would love to visit Dubai and Shanghai.. but without doubt the one building that completely disproves this theory is the Sagrada Familia.. the gaudi cathedral in Barcelona.. It is stunning and it isn't even finished yet |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"York Minster.
Milan Cathedral.
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. (I've performed there!)
Rocamadour Village in France - truly magnificent.
The main church (cathedral perhaps?) in Victoria, capital town on Gozo.
The main church in Mdina, the Silent City in Malta. Inspiring!"
Performed sexually ??  |
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"The old Wembley Stadium was truly iconic "
Think the twin white towers were iconic but inside it was showing its age and not that grand
Still remember watching my first England game as a kid though as if it was yesterday |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is one of Antoni Gaudí's most impressive works. This enormous church, as yet unfinished, is a summary of everything that Gaudí designed before. The structural difficulties he faced and errors he committed in other projects are revisited and resolved in Sagrada Familia.
Have been 3 times  "
http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ig/Antoni-Gaud-/Sagrada-Familia-.htm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have many but I really love the Natural History Museum. The staircase looks so improbable and the facade always reveals something I hadn't spotted before.
What's yours?"
Got a lovely pic of it on my phone it's stunning x
Love the painted hall |
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So many, I've been luck enough to travel in and live in various parts of Europe,
The art galleries in Glasgow and I loved the old transport museum. My family are weegies n granpa used to work there. Got pics of my Sis n I in the exhibits in the transport museum.
Lincoln, Milan, Dusseldorf and St. Paul's cathedrals all amazing, plus first visited St. Paul's in June 1981 right before the wedding.
The tiny chapel my friend near Milan got wed in was stunning
The small church where I grew up in sandwich Kent is beautiful too. Plus many other places there as sandwich doesn't really change
Sorry bit long |
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By *xodussxMan
over a year ago
sheffield |
"House of parliament. Outstanding building inside and out. I could walk around it all day every day and never get bored.. Its just brilliant. "
Have you tried the bar inside? Apparently they serve the best beer in the kingdom there |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"House of parliament. Outstanding building inside and out. I could walk around it all day every day and never get bored.. Its just brilliant. "
Some of it is wonderful but all the committee rooms look the same so it doesn't quite make my top ten. But do scrutinise my avatar if you need a Palace of Westminster fix. The sun looked good on the stone today. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh so many I could mention, but here are the edited highlights:
1. Minor Canons Row, in Rochester, Kent
2. The Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome (which you all know as..... The Colosseum!)
3. CN Tower, Toronto. If you're afraid of heights I wouldn't recommend going all the way to the top....
4. The Chapel inside St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt.
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5. The Queen's Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. If you can, lay on the floor and take in the ceiling.... Sistine Chapel? Pah!
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Guggenheim Museum..Bilbao
Amazing!
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Still a marvel!
Blackpool Tower.
Late Victorian anachronism..an Eiffel Tower set in a Northern industrial seaside resort..oh the optimism!. |
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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago
Falkirk |
I don't really have a favourite building but was once given a fantastic piece of advice when I lived in London,
Look up!!! Every once in a while, stop and look up
We all hurry around in our busy lives so to take 30 seconds to stop and look up at what we pass every day was and is still fascinating.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't really have a favourite building but was once given a fantastic piece of advice when I lived in London,
Look up!!! Every once in a while, stop and look up
We all hurry around in our busy lives so to take 30 seconds to stop and look up at what we pass every day was and is still fascinating. "
Very, very true....
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By (user no longer on site)
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"But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,
I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder......
Try the castle at Carcassonne in France- the castle Disney reputedly based their design on "
I just googled Carcassonne and I can see a resemblance,,, but Disney got it right !!!
Anyway while we're in France, I may aswell give a shout to the palace of Versailles too...
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Mont St Michel
Neuschwanstein Castle
York Minster
The Treasury at Petra
The Temple at Abu Simbel
Technically I don't think the last two are buildings in that the were carved from the rock face, but you can enter them, so I have included |
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