That's a great shot.

Saw this today, from the 50s apparently, I just liked it so thought I'd put it here. Back when people used to read a lot. (He has a book and smokes tucked into his pants) lol

It's the middle of the countryside, mid 1970s, with no infrastructure around it but for a roundabout at the end of a farm track - and so begins the assembly of Milton Keynes Shopping Mall, which, once completed and opened by the new Prime Minister in 1979, would be the largest indoor shopping mall on the planet.

It does look big. What's that across the road from it?

The toilets

This is a great post btw

The first building - it had a bank, shop and pub for the workers.

Less than half the structure was erected at that point - all that foundation in the top right of the pic became the other half. The halls are a ladder layout and a kilometre long, which was odd for a city centre.. with no city.

The consensus was simple - We needed people. We had the billions, but buying people was the issue. If you build what people want, they will come. Word soon got around, if you show up with a set of tools, you get a house. They were being thrown up daily for people to come and muck-in. What a fkn project for anyone to come and be part of.

Today of course, and though wages are fair, a 3-bed house is now 12yrs wages.

I love them historical photos of people from years ago that look like celebrities from today, like they're identical twins or something.