# 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:  [@WallyBazoum](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/WallyBazoum)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/51 "2021-02-14T21:04:43Z")
Did Manhead’s backside flip over the super long kicker thing outside the demolished Ice Cream factory ever get used? Not an interesting spot but a hell of a trick!
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/52 "2021-02-14T21:05:32Z")
Yeah it’s in one of the National videos
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### Author:  [@WallyBazoum](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/WallyBazoum)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/53 "2021-02-14T21:08:33Z")
Ah yeah, it was on the DVD. I’m confusing it with the Netto kickflip that I didn’t think was possible (which didn’t make the cut).
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/54 "2021-02-14T21:08:59Z")
Always thought these flats in Killingworth would have had some good stuff around but they were demolished late 1980s.
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### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/55 "2021-02-14T21:10:35Z")
Redditch is another new town that has absolutely hundreds of under passes with brick banks either side on its suburbs.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/56 "2021-02-14T21:10:52Z")
I think that’s where Harry Bastard grew up.
Or was it Jesmond?
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/58 "2021-02-14T21:15:54Z")
Don’t forget Rotherham banks too.
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/59 "2021-02-14T21:17:04Z")
Fawdon i think - he had a mini there
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/60 "2021-02-14T21:17:39Z")
That’s the ramp where the nickname ‘sketchy Harry’ came from, right?
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/61 "2021-02-14T21:21:16Z")
I think so but I’m on second hand knowledge, my friend used to skate the ramp with him (before my time)
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/62 "2021-02-14T21:23:34Z")
When architects defend what they design: Edmund Bacon at Love Park
[ ](https://vimeo.com/57981966)
> The late Ed Bacon is the architect who conceived of Philadelphia’s Love Park (aka JFK Plaza).
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> In 2002 the park was renovated to deter skateboarders from using it.
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> On October 28, 2002—at age 92—Bacon rode a skateboard to protest the ban on skateboarding.
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### Author:  [@Dent\_Face](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Dent_Face)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/63 "2021-02-14T21:37:18Z")
Wolverhampton Civic Centre is probably the best example of a post-war bank heaven which is still about.
Was this shot at the Civic Centre @anon83623327 or somewhere else?
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### Author:  [@visuals0und](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/visuals0und)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/65 "2021-02-14T21:47:57Z")
Birmingham early 90s, from FB group a while ago
  
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### Author:  [@WallyBazoum](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/WallyBazoum)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/66 "2021-02-14T22:04:34Z")
The legendary Pig & Whistle Banks in Leeds, skated from the mid 70’s onwards. Sadly demolished a few years back. Was never the same after they closed up the underpass (and the pub, best pub in Leeds if you were a teenage punk in the 90’s!) but still a great spot.
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### Author:  [@42069666](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/42069666)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/67 "2021-02-14T22:10:53Z")
 
The ‘Get Carter’ car park in Gateshead centre 10 mins from 5 bridges was the best spot. Impossible to find pics or videos, I made an edit there 13sh years ago but it was sadly on mpora so gone forever.
Also Sunderland civic centre- soon to be demolished maybe? Childhood stair spot. Perfect cos you could learn shit and just keep going up a step.
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/68 "2021-02-14T22:26:53Z")
That’s very similar to Hammersmith college
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### Author:  [@jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jamjar)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/69 "2021-02-14T22:28:01Z")
This thread is fucking brilliant. Brutalism and Betjeman! So sad how much has been destroyed.
It would be good to make a google map with pins for brutalist/modernist spots still out there.
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### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/70 "2021-02-14T22:31:08Z")
It is sad. But alot of it is horrible and has been left to decay.
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### Author:  [@42069666](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/42069666)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/71 "2021-02-14T22:31:10Z")
Woah yeah that one looks sick to skate too! The one I posted has these kinda interesting but annoying-once-chipped hexagonal kinda tiles? So would send your wheels in all directions as they were super warped!
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/concrete-reality-architecture-or-skateboarding/1899/72 "2021-02-14T22:34:27Z")
I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw that and took the photo. It’s smooth brick but the pointing is very gappy now.
Deffo one for the crust monsters .
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