The Queen visits Crawley

[hans kraay fan club]

Not sure what she's doing in queens square though, ....

Whatever the f***, she wants to do. It is HER square, after all.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Have you actually been to Crawley any time recently?

Not that I'd like to stick up for the place but a lot of it's 50'2 and 60's architecture has actually been replaced with plastic fronted toytown like structures.

Even that hideous Crawley college builing looks like its days could be numbered

Yep - I work there every day. The middle part of the shopping centre looks exactly like Churchill Square did before it was redeveloped.

The rest of it looks like a hideous experiment that involved some brown bricks, smoked glass, a couple of trunk roads and an explosion in a JJB sports store.

 

[Bluejuice]

Are you talking about the square outside County Mall?

A lot of it's been redeveloped so the 50's architecture is largely hidden.

M&S and Woolworths still look pretty grim but with all the new developments sprouting up it's only a matter of time before all the evidence of the 50's and 60's boom is gone.

 

[goldstone]

She's probably got her can of spray paint to add some royal graffiti to the town.

 

[Tooting Gull]

'And what do you do?'

'Nothing, just sit about on my arse until benefit day.'

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

"Get your five-page preview in this week's Observer (out November 1) plus your very own cut-out-and-wave flag. Just cut it out and stick it to a piece of cardboard - such as an old cereal box - and help make Her Majesty's visit as colourful as possible!"





Is it still the 1950s in Crawley?! Bless the Crawley Observer's enthusiasm

No -- but a cut-out and wave flag INSTANTLY takes up half a page of newsprint, which they'd have to pay someone to write all over otherwise.

 

[Simster]

'And what do you do?'

'Nothing, just sit about on my arse until benefit day.'

Which one's the Queen and which one's the chav?