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#Geograph Picture of the Day #POTD from West #Sussex, 1985 #England
#EastGrinstead #HighStreet
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https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2413410
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The Stephen Collins cartoon: "Meet the Big Not-So-Friendly Giant ruining our high streets"
![A long cartoon with a dozen panels, showing a hugely tall figure dressed in black with a pointy black hat. He plays a horn and wanders around a high street at night. Because the cartoon is so long and the panels are essentially described in the captions, I'll just post the text from each:
They say there's a man who appears in the night,
In our towns up and down this great nation,
With his magical horn
blowing tunes of decline
And high street enshittification...
He's changing the bookshop in dead of the night
And the butcher is now called Vape Lizard,
He's re-named Smiths after a man he's made up [TG Jones],
And the pub is a rates-dodge called: WIZARDZ.
The Shop Changer's coming!
The Shop Changer's coming!
He loves vapes and American candy,
And when he bends down
'neath his trousers you'll find
An Amazon locker - so handy!
So next time you find you've got something to buy,
Just wave your QR near his crack,
Then run from the high street as fast as you can,
And never, ever go back.
[Stephen Collins].](https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/358/937/296/580/437/original/f21fff9d702bab9c.jpeg "A long cartoon with a dozen panels, showing a hugely tall figure dressed in black with a pointy black hat. He plays a horn and wanders around a high street at night. Because the cartoon is so long and the panels are essentially described in the captions, I'll just post the text from each:
They say there's a man who appears in the night,
In our towns up and down this great nation,
With his magical horn
blowing tunes of decline
And high street enshittification...
He's changing the bookshop in dead of the night
And the butcher is now called Vape Lizard,
He's re-named Smiths after a man he's made up [TG Jones],
And the pub is a rates-dodge called: WIZARDZ.
The Shop Changer's coming!
The Shop Changer's coming!
He loves vapes and American candy,
And when he bends down
'neath his trousers you'll find
An Amazon locker - so handy!
So next time you find you've got something to buy,
Just wave your QR near his crack,
Then run from the high street as fast as you can,
And never, ever go back.
[Stephen Collins].")
Dusk at the junction between George Street, High Street and Duke Street in Glasgow. The mural depicts Saint Enoch cradling her young son, the future Saint Mungo, founder of Glasgow Cathedral and the city's patron saint.
A Classical style tenement designed by Alexander B. McDonald for the City Improvement Trust and built on High Street in 1891. This is a beautiful blonde sandstone building, but it's easily overlooked due to the incongruous frontage of the ground floor commercial premises and the street furniture positioned in front of it.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #highstreet #buildingphotography #architecturephotography
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I found this fantastic little ghost sign today at the entrance to a tenement close on High Street in Glasgow. The tenement was built in 1901, but the phone number (Bell 976) indicates the sign dates from sometime between 1936, when the Bell Telephone Exchange opened on nearby Ingram Street, and the 1960s, when the Bell prefix was phased out in favour of the numerical ones 552 and 553.
We already know that in the competition between the #highstreet & #onlineshopping, #businessrates are a key issue impacting on shops ability to remain viable... so the prospect of an inflation-linked rise in business rates next year is already leading to concerns about the future of many retailers (big & small)....
Some may see this as special pleading by #retail, but when hight street retailers are closing we are losing a vital social resource...
The Guardian · Business rates could rise by £1.95bn in ‘bleak picture’ for UK retail and hospitality