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Oxford excrescences St Giles' east end up the Banbury Road past the Ashmolean Worcester College over the wall surviving gatepost Oxford Lighthouse approaching the Lighthouse pub bussing along Park End Street Park End Street old factory chimney Hollybush Row weather at Oxpens new flats on Thames Street past the covered market up Oxford High Street majestic Magdalen Tower trip round The Plain storm clouds over Magdalen college in the stormy sunlight sunlight on Magdalen College sunburst round the corner into Longwall Street IT Services bland blocks in Parks Road ugly new physics building Wadham College entrance past the Kings Arms top deck of an old Oxford bus a window on Broad Street Linacre College Holywell in the rain Alfred Street alley rainy day begging Fellows tourist shop round the old Imperial new-style OCC black litter bin Oxford Natural History Museum old bus in Broad Street grey sky over Mount Place Bumble and Coracle The Teal narrowboat Stray Away narrowboat Silk Purse narrowboat Oxfordshire Fire Service crest

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Posted: 13 Sep 2017

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Isisbridge ^club

The Pevsner Guide to Oxford describes this carbuncle as "a straightforward, eight-storey tower" with the "butterfly roof-line" adding "a note of the new passion for peculiar shapes".

Modern architects can be very skilled at describing ugliness in pretentious language.

7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.

Isisbridge ^club

Dear Mr Thom (if you're still around),

This is beauty. Yours isn't.

Jenkin Building

7 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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