One should be able to nominate buildings as items of monumental sculpture, thus ensuring their preservation not for what they contain, but simply for the way they look, the shape they make, and the emotions they engender. I would like to nominate this group of buildings in Sowerby Bridge. Let's pickle them in aspic and sell little plastic models of them in souvenir shops throughout the land.
Reminds me of a few years ago re-visiting an abandoned factory building where once upon a time I used to work (in the office) - nowadays mostly in ruins, not fit for use, but also not torn down.
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