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1965

The Netherdale Stand at Gala Fairydean Football Club

18 May 2026

Concrete Dreams in the Borders: The Story of Gala Fairydean’s Netherdale Stand

In the Scottish Borders, football grounds are not usually destinations for architecture enthusiasts. You expect grass banks, modest terraces and practical little

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6 Apr 2026

Concrete, Distance, and a Lost Future: The Brutalist Pennine Tower at the Forton Services, M6

Heading back towards home following my visit to Preston Bus Station I had one further brutalist target in mind. You don’t arrive

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24 Feb 2020

The BT Tower

Better known to me as the Post Office Tower…but that probably shows my age. The tower itself isn’t a brutalist structure at

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