Fifty years on

I worked, briefly, in this Bristol building over fifty years ago. It is at the junction of Bristol Bridge, Baldwin Street and High Street, at the corner of the pre-war and pre-Luftwaffe main shopping streets, now Castle Park. It was built in the nineteen sixties and surrounded a war-damaged saxon church (St Mary le Port). It housed several financial companies and the Bristol branch of the Bank of England, at a time when there was far more cash used in business. It is now empty, boarded up and, I expect, due for demolition. If there was a law which prohibited the demolition of any building until it was, say, three-hundred years old, we might take more trouble with the quality and design in the first place.

As it was:

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