This building, on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street achieved some notoriety when Bill Bryson criticized it in his book Notes from a Small Island
In the centre of town, there stood a small building occupied by Lunn Poly travel agency. Upstairs the structure was half-timbered and quietly glorious, downstairs, between outsized sheets of plate glass covered with handwritten notices of cheap flights to Tenerife and Malaga, the facade had been tiled, tiled with a mosaic of little multi-toned squares that looked as if they had been salvaged from a King’s Cross toilet.
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Bill Bryson is right, of course, but personally I find the mention of ‘cheap flights to Tenerife and Malaga’ irritating. It seems to me that he’s saying that it would be less ugly if the adverts were for, say, Tuscany and Provence.
Anyhow, the building was briefly ‘Credit Crunch Corner’. As such it made a regional news story. I wish I’d taken a photo of it then.
As you can see it’s now ‘Fone Solutions’.
