![]() It’s too far east to be in the East Midlands, too far south to be in the north. It has none of the barge-punting prettiness of East Anglia. Lincolnshire is best defined by lacks and absences. ![]() ![]() If you want to wrap yourself in the central belt – at once Scotland’s most populous and, for outsiders, the most forgotten, most passed-through, most cliche-free region of Burns’ “haggis” land – take a wander around the cold concrete and cracked pavements of Cumbernauld. Its megastructure has a brash muscularity that knocks out the competition Tourist boards would have us stroll around bosky Palacerigg country park or the museum, which, in turn, points visitors out to the Antonine Wall – the turf fortification built by the Romans between the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde. ![]() Called the Alien’s Head by some, it divides the town even more than the motorway, the M80, which pierces its heart, and was built “between 19”. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The ObserverĪs a new town, it never garnered the ironic appeal of Milton Keynes, and yet its megastructure has a brash muscularity that knocks out the competition.Ĭonceived in the 1950s, it fairly claims to have the UK’s first shopping precinct and “the world’s first multi-level covered town centre”, but this is earmarked for demolition. Cumbernauld’s ‘Alien’s Head’ building is set for demolition.
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