# Concrete Reality (architecture &/or skateboarding)
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 14, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899 "2021-02-14T19:39:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/1 "2021-02-14T19:39:08Z")
A thread for celebrating 20th century architecture & how much of the design was pretty much perfect for modern-era skateboarding
& now most of it has been demolished…
To start with an obvious one (still standing, props & love to LLSB)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDGwyK4CJL8)
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/2 "2021-02-14T19:43:05Z")
Also, skateparks built into the design of housing areas
The now demolished Hyson Green Bowls in Nottingham:
> **[Nottskate Page Not Found](https://www.nottskate.org.uk/hysongreen)**
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/3 "2021-02-14T19:53:37Z")
5 Bridges in Gateshead a good infrastructure / skate spot example
[https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUj8u9pP4y/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link](https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUj8u9pP4y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/4 "2021-02-14T20:01:27Z")
Broadmarsh, Nottingham
2000s
1970s
More:
> **[Nottskate Page Not Found](https://www.nottskate.org.uk/broadmarsh)**
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/6 "2021-02-14T20:05:37Z")
Need to get the Courts in Leicester pic up, I think Deeg posted them or might have even been Mick?
Broadmarsh is probably my all time favourite spot.
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/7 "2021-02-14T20:09:37Z")
I found a few photos from here a while ago, will have a search
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/8 "2021-02-14T20:10:23Z")
I think it was @nut.
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/9 "2021-02-14T20:11:14Z")
I wish someone else other than Red Bull has put this out but it does feature some amazing buildings
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceuWCtrdGA)
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/10 "2021-02-14T20:11:24Z")
Ah yes, might well have been.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/11 "2021-02-14T20:14:59Z")
> **[Riverside Transport Museum](https://skateparks.skateboardscotland.com/view/riverside-transport-museum/)**
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> The ‘Transport’ spot at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow came out of a conversation Glasgow Museums had in 2017 with Jamie Blair at Clan Skates....
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz36uA3OQkw)
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/12 "2021-02-14T20:20:56Z")
Some more photos here, not of the whole spot sadly
I think from a FB group a few years back
\*edit - these look to be different banks, maybe still West Midlands though?
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/13 "2021-02-14T20:22:25Z")
Nobody other than Red Bull could have pulled that off.
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/15 "2021-02-14T20:23:08Z")
yeah just realised when posted - look decent too though!
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/17 "2021-02-14T20:28:30Z")
Which ones were in Skateboard! magazine? Some guy called Andy who I think was to do with Ideal, and the other Rick Cooper had photos there, I think.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/18 "2021-02-14T20:28:52Z")
Great thread idea.
As a result of Covid induced boredom and serendipity (someone gifted me a film camera) I started taking pictures of some of the buildings/skate spots that were important to me as a kid. The one below is sadly due to be demolished (if it’s not sold which I doubt).
Known as either ‘Purple Banks’ or ‘College Banks’ depending on your generation these super steep banks have been skated since the 1970s at least.
The building was erected in the late 60’s and used to have a platform in the middle so you could ride down a set of stairs - that bit was removed to provide wheelchair access in the early 90s.
They’re pretty fucked now as no one really skates there any more but all kinds of heads have skated there over the years from Poppalardo to Carl Shipman.
They’ve been in a bunch of videos too - In Motion, Baghead Flats and Remon’s Vans Excursion (bs noseblunt!!) as well as a pop video for The Editors (iirc)
    
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/21 "2021-02-14T20:30:04Z")
Lance Mountain in Gateshead on more brick banks, popular design across the UK I guess
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/22 "2021-02-14T20:30:22Z")
Was there a girl called Tracey on the scene? I can picture a full page photo with a quote about her on it. I can find it in the morning anyway.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/23 "2021-02-14T20:31:34Z")
Here’s Andy:
[https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZpS9llxrj/?igshid=1wggjcibanbbs](https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZpS9llxrj/?igshid=1wggjcibanbbs)
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/24 "2021-02-14T20:31:35Z")
I think those were the Leicester Courts ones
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/25 "2021-02-14T20:31:37Z")
Wow, looks amazing!
Great photos
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