The Tricorn Centre
[pictures from May 2004]
Known as the 'concrete nipple', as 'that ugly building', as 'that place you can see cool bands'. Left to decay for a decade as pigeons shat, art students took photos for their dissertation, and sad people wandered up cold concrete steps -- walking up to the top to end their lives. | |
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It housed Charlotte's Supermarket where my mum used to work many decades ago. Inside it, for many many years were clubs, pubs, places for bands to play. Once
it was a hub of entertainment. |  |
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Now, in 2004 it is a twisted mass of decaying concrete, metal and dust. A relic from the twentieth century which is slowly being destroyed. Each day I pass the Tricorn on the bus and each day a little bit more of it has gone. All that is left are strange metal dinosaurs living amongst the wreck of what they are demolishing. Their jaws pull at the strands of steel and boulders of concrete. These
photos were taken back in May 2004, of the cylinder section which was next to
The Dorchester pub. This part of the Tricorn has since been bulldozed to the ground. | |