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St Austell Earth Goddess sculpture vandalised with a traffic cone before official unveiling

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[chickenstrip]

It's a bit gaudy, but then the buildings look like they're made of lego blocks anyway
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The architectural ruination of St. Austell dates back to when I was a kid: the classic Brutalist grey concrete shopping centre was knocked down and replaced with Brutalist beige concrete
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[Im-a-Ridah]

Do you have a picture from before it was vandalised or is that how it is supposed to look?

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TBF I did have to look at it twice but yes: the inserted traffic cone *is* the vandalism. I assume late at night some wags bowled up ready with spray cans and went "oh... what do we do now?"
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[pepperami]

How much did that cost?
Whoever created that* and convinced the local authorities to pay them for it , must be laughing all the way to the bank.


*Childish nonsense made with no skill
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Government money, lotto money, EU money (before the bad times, i.e. Brexit.) Cornwall was, till we left the EU, about the poorest locale in Europe so loads of money to be snaffled up for the "right" idea

And there's plenty of those to be found. If you check out the satellite images most of the solar farms are around the moors and the downs... you know, the places wreathed in fog and low cloud for 50% of the year
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One should obviously have a soft spot for one's own home town but every time I go back it never fails to disappoint
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[MCN]

Im a bit of an art critic masel, I believe Glasgow owns the most Artistically Disfigured Sculpture/statue than anywhere.

First they came with a cone on Wellington. It was removed by the cooncil.
It was swiftly replaced by drunks.
Removed by the cooncil.
Replaced by drunks.
Removed. A tooing and frowing ensued over decades until now it has been accepted by everyone that we like oor duke of Wellington statue with a cone for a hat.
His horse sports one too.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

So our candidates for arsehole of the Universe:

1. St. Austell, Redruth and Camborne. Which Google maps tell me is actually a line.

Why? Ruined by immigrants [from London and Oxfordshire].

2. Luton, Watford and Aylesbury

Why? Ruined by people who according to government statistics aren't even in the country.

3. Hell, Grimsby and scunthorpe

When governments hand out left overs of London development to the North, the Grim Triangle is just that little bit too far to get any. No immigrants though?

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As I've mentioned before one of the main issues in Cornwall is housing. All the even vaguely nice looking old cottages are either rented out to holidaymakers or snapped up as 2nd homes. Up spring breeze-block shoeboxes for the displaced locals in highly inappropriate areas. Mostly it's so-called clay tips and pits. Thing is most of these areas have been left untouched by man for many years and home to quite a lot of wildlife but fuck that, get them houses built! St.Austell and the surrounding area are particularly bad for this.

But as for the town the centrepiece has always been how to fuck up the "shopping centre" area (down from Fore Street) and that sets the tone for everything else.

Charlestown is entirely in private ownership and so Restormel and Cornwall County Council don't get to fuck with it.
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[A100man]

Cornwall, Cornwall, Cornwall..

Cornwall can fuck itself...

a bloody long way and sod all to do when you get there.

Equivalent/nicer places without crowds of wankers in Northern France
or even south Wales..

Sympathy for the younger locals and all that, but someone had to sell those properties to the out of towners in the first place, so greed has a part to play.
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