Metropol

There are a lot of pictures of Belfast's lost buildings here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerryward/ ... 594092270/

What I don't understand is why quite a lot of them were only knocked down in the 1980s and why no one fought to save them; what they've been replaced with can never come close to what was there before.

One of my favourite Dundee relics was the Royal Arch - which was amazingly preposterous and incongruous - and was destroyed to make way for the Road Bridge

Is that during construction or demolition?

If there are any interested parties I have a few images of Newport's Transporter Bridge being constructed.

As Mark's 'cheated' and posted a link, then I'll do the same.

A few notes on the pictures:

Number 5 answers the question 'what was your Co-Op called in the 1970s'. Incidentally, that building was the one John Betjeman was highly critical of in his earlier documentary on the town.

Number 13 shows Mac Fisheries, after it had become Mac Market and before all its various stages up to the current change from a Somerfield into a Co-Op.

Number 21 isn't The Brittox, it's actually the cinema in the Market Place.

Number 28 shows the gate, far left, beyond which I used to live many years ago (but not when the picture was taken).