Northampton Bus Station, Greyfriars, Demolition
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Taken from channel 4's 2005 series demolition, part of the series covered one of Northampton's iconic (but for all the wrong reasons) building, the Greyfriars bus station.
Created in the haze of early 70s and opened in 1976, the town's bus station was meant to fuse together the requirements for public transport, office space and shopping to create a sort of all in one solution. Sadly, it failed to live up to its brief and since its creation, has been the centre of much discussion for all the wrong reasons.
The blame can be firmly be placed with the planners that devised Northampton's future in the 60s when during that era it was marked by the Government as the place to develop into what they dubbed a "new town". Its quaint village image was to be banished for the all that was new and for where the past was to be cast aside for a brutalistic future.
The planner's decision to locate the bus station in the heart of the was also joined in tow with the creation of the then must have shopping centre which would become the Grosvenor Centre. Their creation lead to a number of familiar streets being bulldozed and in their place rose these concrete jungles that leered over the town with menace.
Since its completion, only one question has ever been asked, when is it going to go? Much talking has been done since the mid-90s about re-developing the site but with no real outcome but with new facilities being built, the Bus Stations days now appeared number and rumour suggests that it will meet its maker in the latter stages of 2014.
from someone who actually lives in northampton i think this was a brilliant bus station much better than the new one, i say bring the old one back!
Laura are you stupid
I agree
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0:29 "It's dirty, it's smelly, it's old..." Well, so's my dad... but I still love him. What's your point?
The stupidity of the people begging to demolish this 70s icon is hilarious.
All this place needed was some modern LED lighting to brighten it up.
Instead, from reading the other comments, it was demolished and now Northampton is left with some undersized garbage that will be demolished within the next 2-3 decades.
5 years??? We still have it today and even though the new one has opened it has caused complete chaos!!!
Matthew McNicholas not any more.
Who cares if it looked like the mouth of Hell and if it ate our souls, at least the system worked and it was easy to get around and to😂😂
Greyfryers was big enough to have busses parked along side eachother down ether side. the new piece of crap isnt even big enough for the number of usses that use it!
I always thought the bus station was futuristic and spacious, ahead of its time. I used it everyday throughout my teen years at upper school. I knew my way around all the stairwells and shop short cuts etc. It was great! I was really sad when they demolished that awesome feat. A good part of my teens and young adulthood just obliterated because apparently it was too ugly? Well I don’t live there anymore and I don’t have to suffer the bane that they’ve replaced the bus station with. Big loss Northampton.
As a little kid I somewhat was not scared of this bus station.
You should of use the essclators, doh
True it looked like Satan's butthole, but at least it worked! The new bus station (from what I've heard and read) is a complete disaster. They made the new one too small, too cramped and they tried to squeeze more buses into it. Couple that with the longer turnover time and a few of the bays being too short for certain buses and you have a recipe of derp. No wonder fewer people catch the bus than ever before despite explosive population growth in Northampton.
Also, how did he get lost? There is an escalator right next to him that leads to the Grosvenor Centre. Also - I was one of those who refused to use the subways, I always crossed the roads to get into the station - much safer!
Svartmetall Sverige! you are right
they charge money for the toilets ffs
I love that bus station the old one
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Well he kept his promise
Even if it looked like something out of a horror film at least it bloody worked unlike the current one which caused more chaos and delays than the old one lmao not to add how the current one is like a sauna during summer
I loved the old greyfriars. Those orange lights were the signal I'd arrived home.
Do you have the rest of the series. I have looked for it for years!
Give north gate national express and rebuild new bus station
It was a bus garage with a bus station in middle of it
Funny how before the new bus station people wanted this to be demolished now you hate the bus station
If you had gone down the escalator you would have ended up inside the shopping centre1. Not a very good film if you didn't check it out first before filming.
The whole point was to show how confusing the station was for people not accustomed to it. Most people didn't have the luxury of 'checking this out' beforehand.
It took 10 years rather than five, but as of this very morning we are finally rid of it. Now we just need to rebuild a brighter and less imposing station in the same place, and get rid of the pathetically inadequate new Northampton bus station.
An absolute farce, as we have come to expect from the council.
love Graffias
4:50 The people of Northampton keep voting Tory to make their town uglier.
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If you don't live here, then you don't have to come. It worked unlike todays 💩station. Use the escalator and the lifts and you would be right into the shopping centre safely. All it needed was being revamped.