Victoria Tower
The Victoria Tower, Greenock, Scotland - is part of the complex of Municipal Buildings that was constructed largely between 1881 and 1886 in an Italianate style, and to a scale then unseen in the rest of Scotland.
The building famously has a corner missing, something that has never been fixed. This is called "Cowan's Corner" after the landowner of the time who refused to sell his plot for redevelopment.
A WW2 bomb destroyed the shop that sat there in 1941 and although it was always assumed that the Municipal Buildings would eventually be completed when temporary blank facades were erected bounding the site, it has never been fixed.
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Victoria Tower
The Victoria Tower, Greenock, Scotland - is part of the complex of Municipal Buildings that was constructed largely between 1881 and 1886 in an Italianate style, and to a scale then unseen in the rest of Scotland.
The building famously has a corner missing, something that has never been fixed. This is called "Cowan's Corner" after the landowner of the time who refused to sell his plot for redevelopment.
A WW2 bomb destroyed the shop that sat there in 1941 and although it was always assumed that the Municipal Buildings would eventually be completed when temporary blank facades were erected bounding the site, it has never been fixed.
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Bob Dylan -Working Mans Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPbQexwTR4
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