September 8, 201114 yr It's quite sad to see it being demolished. Anybody else from WW used to go there?
September 8, 201114 yr I'm not sad. It was an awful building, the Architect should have been shot for it And that Brian Tetlow, Civic Trust Chairman wants shooting too
September 8, 201114 yr Do we know what is to be built there? Edited September 8, 201114 yr by Theboybell
September 8, 201114 yr I'm not sad. It was an awful building, the Architect should have been shot for it And that Brian Tetlow, Civic Trust Chairman wants shooting too I went there straight from school in 92. Had many a day sat around doing fuck all. One took a trip and just sat in the basement all day (seemed like a good idea at the time) and gazed at the man with little arms (a bit like T-Rex arms) wondering how he'd be able to open the pre-packed sandwich he'd bought. My last lesson there I got thrown out of class for having a set-to with an epileptic lad. He nicked my chair and I was supposed to "not be tight" and let him have it. Fuck that. He was an epileptic, not a paraplegic! I pushed him off it and took it back. That'll learn him.
September 8, 201114 yr Do we know what is to be built there? Nothing as yet. Brian Tetlow and his ilk are convinced someone could form it into apartments. Which they could just not at a cost that makes it viable. Keeping an empty building standing costs a surprising amount of money. So it's being flattened.
September 8, 201114 yr Brian Tetlow and his ilk are convinced someone could form it into apartments. Which they could just not at a cost that makes it viable. That's a shame really. My first thought was that they could/should do that. A bit like what was done with the old Salford Infirmary.
September 8, 201114 yr That's a shame really. My first thought was that they could/should do that. A bit like what was done with the old Salford Infirmary. If the building was in central manc then they probably would do as the apartments would be double the value of being on manny road
September 8, 201114 yr That side of town centre should be renovated now. Fuckus DIY has been empty for Yonks now too, hasn't it?
September 8, 201114 yr That side of town centre should be renovated now. Fuckus DIY has been empty for Yonks now too, hasn't it? Some one has just bought the freehold on that retail park. So they must have some plans for it.
September 8, 201114 yr Some one has just bought the freehold on that retail park. So they must have some plans for it. If there was any sense, thats where the railway station main entrance should be. Within half a mile of the station platforms. And decent drop-off/pickup facilities rather than the treacherous Trinity St fuckup. Edited September 8, 201114 yr by jayjayoghani
September 8, 201114 yr It's quite sad to see it being demolished. Anybody else from WW used to go there? Late 70's I did my ONC there. 3 memories that spring to mind were, the amount of time I spent in the Library. Missing an afternoon session to go to watch the whites beat Derby in the League cup quarter final and spending the whole of one lesson reading the morning papers the day after we beat Blackburn to win promotion. Sorry to see it go.
September 8, 201114 yr I went there straight from school in 92. Had many a day sat around doing fuck all. One took a trip and just sat in the basement all day (seemed like a good idea at the time) and gazed at the man with little arms (a bit like T-Rex arms) wondering how he'd be able to open the pre-packed sandwich he'd bought. My last lesson there I got thrown out of class for having a set-to with an epileptic lad. He nicked my chair and I was supposed to "not be tight" and let him have it. Fuck that. He was an epileptic, not a paraplegic! I pushed him off it and took it back. That'll learn him. The spazzy technician. There was some other not-right kid hung round there thought he was a technician but wasn't, nicked his trolley once and it kicked off.
September 8, 201114 yr I did computing there and got offered a job teaching COBOL or some other bollocks but it wasn't for me. Happy memories. The vending maching in the basement you could twat and it paid money out. The day computing got moved upstair next to the hairdressers.
September 8, 201114 yr Do we know what is to be built there? World of Wicker are extending to make one huge World of Wicker complex.
September 8, 201114 yr a mosque like the one at the edge funny you should mention drove past the other day, they've put the minaret in not out of the roof though it's coming out the wall through The Edge Tavern sign proper symbolic
September 8, 201114 yr I did one hell of a lot of work in there after they moved to the new college, distributing most of the furniture and fittings to schools and council buildings around Bolton, so nothing got wasted. By the time we had finished it was nearly empty. I can honestly say that building was more depressing than a prison and needed demolishing, luckily for Bolton the new college had been budgeted for and built before the recession.
September 8, 201114 yr They used to have some of the looms down there when I was at BIHE back in the late 80s. God it was a shithole back then. I used to find it fascinating watching the lads doing building studies, or whatever it was called as they were in the basement too. A shit load of not rights in riggers building a wall, then knocking it down whilst a teacher stood and watched. Most odd.
September 8, 201114 yr did 3 years there 1987/1990 1 day a week...thought the front of it was listed so has to stop?
It's quite sad to see it being demolished. Anybody else from WW used to go there?