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This must be a time-limited post in that while I have no intention of removing it, the link below will not last forever (or maybe it will; who am I to say?).
Gateshead Borough Council are offering for sale chunks of the Trinity Square multi-storey car park that featured in Get Carter back in 1971. I recall reading that the place was being demolished and being rather bewildered, though not surprised, that there were some that thought this piece of 1960s brutalism should be given Grade II Listed status and preserved. I guess the idea was that such an eyesore should be preserved as a warning against allowing trendy architects free-reign under a Stalinist local authority.
I am being unfair here; the worthy councillors of whatever local authority preceded Gateshead Metropolitan Council may have been Leninist, Maoist, or simply Trots. I am pretty sure they were insane lefties of some stripe.
Anyway. The place has been demolished and the world is none the poorer for it. Moving along with the times, Gateshead Council is offering commemorative chunks of concrete in a tin, together with a certificate of authentication from the demolition site. This puts it in the same bracket as the Berlin Wall, though I venture to say that rather like mediaeval pieces of the “True Cross”, there are far more pieces in existence than needed to make the object they supposedly originated from.1
So this is probably your first and last chance to own a definitive piece of cinema history for a fiver plus p&p. If you feel tempted please let me know; I have this bridge for sale…
(Alternative link to BBC, which may last longer)
1In the case of the “True Cross”, the fact that there were enough pieces from planks to slivers to build a cathedral of wood was clearly a miracle from on high, in the same way that any individual saint, particularly the apostles left behind enough ankle bones to suggest the Last Supper could have filled a stadium. The pieces of Berlin Wall, by contrast, are simply a con.
Gateshead Borough Council are offering for sale chunks of the Trinity Square multi-storey car park that featured in Get Carter back in 1971. I recall reading that the place was being demolished and being rather bewildered, though not surprised, that there were some that thought this piece of 1960s brutalism should be given Grade II Listed status and preserved. I guess the idea was that such an eyesore should be preserved as a warning against allowing trendy architects free-reign under a Stalinist local authority.
I am being unfair here; the worthy councillors of whatever local authority preceded Gateshead Metropolitan Council may have been Leninist, Maoist, or simply Trots. I am pretty sure they were insane lefties of some stripe.
Anyway. The place has been demolished and the world is none the poorer for it. Moving along with the times, Gateshead Council is offering commemorative chunks of concrete in a tin, together with a certificate of authentication from the demolition site. This puts it in the same bracket as the Berlin Wall, though I venture to say that rather like mediaeval pieces of the “True Cross”, there are far more pieces in existence than needed to make the object they supposedly originated from.1
So this is probably your first and last chance to own a definitive piece of cinema history for a fiver plus p&p. If you feel tempted please let me know; I have this bridge for sale…
(Alternative link to BBC, which may last longer)
1In the case of the “True Cross”, the fact that there were enough pieces from planks to slivers to build a cathedral of wood was clearly a miracle from on high, in the same way that any individual saint, particularly the apostles left behind enough ankle bones to suggest the Last Supper could have filled a stadium. The pieces of Berlin Wall, by contrast, are simply a con.
