Wednesday 27 January 2010

Bletchley Pyramid Demolished

Finest of 1970s outrages on an urban landscape, a modernists's dream, one of the ugliest items in the South Midlands. And now it's all over for Bletchley's pyramid.
In truth, it has long lost the scary concrete multi-storey car park with which it had inevitably been shackled in its original incarnation.  Maybe it lost its mystic powers at this point.  But it will still be a cause of sorrow for those who went to play the interesting games of "random squash" where you wondered which way the ball would ping out of the holes in the wall, or whether indeed the ball would stick in the piles of mud in the corner of the court.  And sometimes it would be worse than mud.

I fear for Milton Keynes now, though.  For Bletchley's was not the only pyramid in the "New City".  There is another one, in Central MK - the appropriately-named "Point".  The Point is built on Midsummer Boulevard which, like its parallel neighbour Avery Boulevard, is aligned on the Midsummer sunrise / Midwinter Sunset just like Stonehenge.
I'm a bit worried that Bletchley Leisure Centre may have been acting as a geomantic counter-weight to the immense spiritual power generated down the solar-aligned "grid roads" system - which we actually know are a cunning modernistic overlay of ley-lines.  The whole of Milton Keynes, some have suggested, is lined up to take advantage of Earth Power.  And now that the Leisure Centre has gone, perhaps the brakes are taken off.
Let's just put it this way.  Come Summer Solstice it will be no surprise to me if the centre of Milton Keynes is a desolate spiritual wasteland.  You can insert your own joke at this point.

For those who have no idea what Bletchley Leisure Centre looked like, you can see it here.

1 comment :

  1. Indeed, we must lament the passing of such a great edifice and I too will in due course shed a tear. But we should not fear because though pyramids fall, Hubs arise.

    Archdruid Eileen shall surely be comforted by great winds that whistle through the new great temples to Mamon in Central Milton Keynes and the fact that she can park free for up to three hours in the Sainsburys car park.

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