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Gone, but not forgotten.

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    Gone, but not forgotten.

    Just discovered that the Allt-yr-yn campus of what used to be Gwent Institute of Higher Education has been demolished.

    Campus building, Allt-yr-yn, Newport (C) Jaggery :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

    Site of former Allt-yr-yn Campus,... (C) Jaggery :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

    I spent some interesting times there.

    More Sic transiting of glorious mondays.

    Looking on google maps, all that is left is a fecking big muddy hole.

    Stone me, it's now nearly 20 years since I did a short course on PLC programming there.

    That was then, now there's a housing estate:

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.58...!3m1!1e3?hl=en
    Last edited by zeitghost; 1 June 2017, 09:21.

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    It's more fun when they leave the buildings so you can break in and photograph them
    Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

    No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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