Buildings you've been in that are now demolished

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Was thinking (randomly) about buildings I've been in during my life that have now been knocked down. I'm intrigued as to whether I have a disproportionately large number.

It's a bit weird to think that they are not there anymore, especially the really familiar ones that I spent so much time in. All those corridors and rooms long gone into rubble and dust.

Secondary school - demolished in the 90s and is now a housing estate.
My local nightclub where I spent many happy hours dancing, being chatted up, and snogging the locals 🤓 mysteriously burned down after redevelopment planning permission to change it into flats was refused, It's now flats. Of course.

First proper job office where I met my 1st husband. Now a housing estate (a theme is emerging.......)
First 'big job' office, now demolished and is currently a big hole in the ground. Think it's going to be flats.

Am I unusual to have left so many heaps of rubble in my past or do fellow vipers have a similar catalogue of building destruction in their wake?

Would love to hear your flattened-building stories.

@ooooohnoooooo thank you.

My secondary school was demolished and rebuilt some time after I left - it was a rather lovely Sixties building, but replaced with one of those cookie-cutter atrium style modern schools that’s very noisy. A real shame.

One primary school I went to was demolished and rebuilt on a smaller site, but that was way back in the 90s. The old building was a grand but decrepit nineteenth century building and crumbling dangerously at the time.

Childhood home - a terrace that was demolished in the 70s
Primary school
Nurses home
World Trade Centre

R.e. the nightclub. If it was your local nightclub and you snogged other locals were they guys you knew? If not, did you feel awkward if you bumped into them like around town.

@Pensafp i was a teenager. It was the 80s. Go figure.

Not a building, but a country. We went to Yugoslavia when I was about 11 for a summer holiday. Soon afterwards, it didn't exist.

No 7 Millbank where I worked in the 80s. I think they're keeping the facade though everything inside has gone! I looked at it on Google maps last night and felt so sad.

Also an old hotel in New York where we stayed approximately 20 years ago. Can't remember the name but it was very central and not far from Times Square.

I feel a bit sad that my old school was demolished to build a completely new school. The building was falling apart when I was there and it was another 30 years after I left that it was finally demolished. I wish I'd gone to have another look around before it was taken down.

It was mainly the big old willow tree that I have memories of sitting under at break times with all of my friends that I felt sad about. There was so much chat on our school Facebook page about how awful it was that they were chopping it down.

The bank I worked in for 10 years was demolished some time ago and replaced by a shopping centre. I am now able to stand in a branch of Zara and pinpoint exactly where my desk was. It annoys my daughter that I mention it every time we go in there.

I'm another who visited the twin towers and stood on the roof ( I was petrified of heights so not a great memory for me)

The Astoria in London. It was on the junction of Charing Cross Road, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road.

I went to so many gigs there 😀 It was a real dive, sticky floor, dark, smelly and had great bands.

It got demolished for Crossrail and there's now a couple of hideous glass and chrome buildings in its place.

Four hospitals, possibly five (not sure if children's hospital is still there in Nottingham)
Baby clinic
One secondary school. (Not mine)
One school toilet block.
Clinic for autism diagnosis.
Unemployment office
Leisure centre/swimming pool
Shopping centre
Building society
Police station
Petrol station
Friend's house.
Asda supermarket.
Nottingham Ice rink
Registry office.
Two colleges

Partially demolished walk-in centre.
Prefab church but I think that moved somewhere else on the back of a lorry.
Maybe a pub

I am sure there are more that I can't remember right now. I find it really sad.

Lots of schools I have worked in have closed. They got shut due to falling birth rates in early 2000s just before birth rates went up again.

The original Design Museum in Shad Thames London. DH proposed to me there, we managed to go to the spot where he proposed to me not long before it went - there happened to be someone who used to work there on site who kindly took us inside!

Hospital I was born in.
I did a course in health and social care, a few places I was on placement in have been demolished.
My first place of work (learning disability unit).
Nurses home I lived in at the time as well as the hospital it was in (different to where I worked).
Hospital I trained in was semi demolished.....parts were listed so bits were left and built into. The nurses home I lived in at the time was demolished.
Next block of HA bedsits I lived in was demolished.
I also lived in a council block which is awaiting demolition, they're waiting to rehouse a few residents.
I'm sure a few more....I'm in my late 50s!
Just remembered, couple of nightclubs from the 80s...Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, Production Village in Cricklewood, Ashtons in Cricklewood, Gresham in Archway, Turrets pub in Friern Barnet oppositethe hospital where I trained as a nurse. A pub I drank in was in ruins last time I saw it, wouldn't surprise me if now demolished.

House I grew up in and a neighbouring house has been demolished, and gardens taken from others, now a cul-de-sac of tiny box like town houses. Horrid! We used to get foxes, deer, wild rabbits all sorts in the gardens. Masses of birds too. Went and had a look last Easter, walked round it, and there was no bird song whatsoever, very sad.

The hospital I was born in and the eye infirmary

Nottingham Ice rink

@BlackeyedSusan

Oh no! Wasn’t that where Torville and Dean started out?

Not in UK, but a neighbourhood in Seoul where we stayed in a guest house a few years ago. The area was built after the Korean War and was a mixture of houses and low rise flats, some with roof gardens, and narrow alleys with loads of small shops and cafes. It wasn’t exactly beautiful but it had so much character and romance.
The whole area has been demolished and replaced by identical height rise flats.
Obviously, it’s not for me to tell Koreans what sort of houses they should live in, but I feel nostalgia for the place.

None apart from the Twin Towers and a uni campus I looked round once (didn't end up going there). I only know about that one as I now live near where it used to be. All former homes and workplaces still standing as far as I know.

Smugglers' Haven cafe on the Isle of Wight; one of my happiest memories is its beautiful gardens. Victim of a landslip, and the cafe itself now teeters on the edge of a cliff.

I had DD at a local hospital, but by the time I was ready to give birth to DS 18 months later it had been demolished, and replaced with housing
So DS was born in another town, and within a year that hospital had also been demolished.
The NHS should be grateful I stopped at two.

Infants school demolished to extend sister primary school next door (new infants school built on new site).

Church I was baptised in. Declared "redundant" and demolished. Parish merged with next door one and houses now on the site.

Office block I first worked in. Demolished and newer offices built on the site.

More pubs and shops than I can count.

Local swimming pool and local Liberal Working Mens Club.

My childhood home - the whole area with a mix of semis and small 6-flat units is torn down and rebuild as flats.

The army barracks my dad worked in - currently nothing there but I bet it will be flats as well.

A shopping center/office block in our town, my first company was based on the first floor, extended during my time and is now partly demolished, the office building part still stands but my company moved out 10 years or so ago.

A beautiful Edwardian-area post office building, now a glass office/shop building. There were lots of petitions to get the original building rescued, gutted and re-developed but no, they tore it down.

I found my post from this morning that accidentally ended up on another thread. 😆

Morning all. So good to know I'm not on my own, thank you.
So, recurring themes
Things being burned down in suspicious circumstances ( unscrupulous owners😡)
Terrorism 🥺
Rubbish redevelopments (planning cock ups and backhanders)
Flats, flats and more flats
Luxury houses
I think it would haunt me if I'd been in the world trade centre.
@mbosnz that sounds terrible. I'm sorry about your friend.
I saw a fascinating documentary once about Covent Garden in London (now a major tourist spot ). Council tried to demolish it in the 60s during a blitz on classic wonderful old buildings that was en vogue at the time, Local ragtag bunch of people grouped together and saved it. Yay!
I did also like the story of the developer who wanted to demolish an old pub, was refused and then it 'accidentally' fell down during renovations. He was prosecuted and had to rebuild it brick for brick in it original state 😂😂😂😂😂
Keep em coming

Was that in Kilburn/Maida Vale? The demolition people didn't have the necessary permission.

Great little pub near The Oval. Think it’s housing now