Without wishing to encroach on Sir Peter’s domain I have often thought that these two wonderful towers on Queens Road need drawing to peoples attention. Diametrically opposed at either end of the strip they guard the area from unwanted influences. Well, they don’t really, but they do look good and I have to pause for thought to imagine that some poor sod had to do that tiling on the roof, in the style of a French Chateau, without a Health and Safety Policy, or Risk Assessment Document. Both of them look suitable for locking up some disturbed offspring back in Victorian times when that is what one did with the socially unacceptable. Thinking about it, the curtains are always drawn in the Howard Rd. one......
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Great post! One of the towers seems to make more sense than the other, being bang on a corner.
Unmitigated England rejoices in these towers and turrets. Worthy of note are the ones we find in North London, pigeon-haunted eyries that could still be overlooking carriers'canvas-sided carts, bluestripe-aproned boys whistling on butchers'bicycles and black-plumed horses nodding as they pull sad hearses up to Highgate. Actually, I think I need a lie down.
I remember The Towers in Leicester being the cracker factory. I tried to have myself admitted once but they didn't take American Express.
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