Had a little walk around Worcester city centre today (in additon to my usual walk along the River). Here's Sir Edward William Elgar. A great composer made even greater (in David's eyes, at least) by dint of the fact that he was a staunch supporter of The Mighty Wolves and regularly cycled to home games from Worcester on his trusty bicycle. He was inspired to compose such stirring pieces as the Enigma Variations and Pomp and Circumstance after The Wolves won the FA Cup for the first time in 1893 and then, when The Rev Kenneth Hunt led the Gold and Black army to victory over Everton in the 1908 FA Cup Final, he composed I Was Born Under A Wanderers Scarf and then his finest composition The Liquidator (ripped off in the 20th Century by Hollywood's Paint Yer Wagon and Harry J and The All Stars respectively). And how do the City Fathers pay homage to his memory? By surrounding him with some God-awful 1970's slab-sided concrete facaded shopping development. At least he's gazing towards the Cathedral. Let's hope he hasn't noticed what's lurking over his left shoulder.
Next, we come to the new Diglis Canal Basin Development. Very nice, you might think. But note how generic it is. There's one just like this in Birmingham and any other city/town with a canal basin in need of some tarting up.
Good to know that Town Planners still don't use the imagination they were born with, eh? Use some different materials/colours fergawdssake.
Gits.
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