Counterpoint: The Busy Bee is a shining* example of a flat roof pub built in the 1960s brutalist style, and I will fight anyone who tries to demolish it. *shitty
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I appreciate the "Down with this sort of thing" poster. Can be used for any occasion, really.
jul 13, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Just look at that. Beautiful British flat roof pub. All that’s missing is the dog on the roof and the knife fight on the lawn outside.
jul 12, 2025, 8:39 am • 50 4 • view
Suspiciously under-graffitied
jul 12, 2025, 9:48 am • 1 1 • view
Looks like police cells
jul 12, 2025, 8:41 am • 2 1 • view
To make the regulars feel at home?
jul 12, 2025, 8:49 am • 1 0 • view
Did the builder also have a contract for the new prison block and mix up the plans?
jul 12, 2025, 8:41 am • 2 1 • view
If you'd ever seen Sighthill Flats you'd get your answer about feeling right at home
jul 12, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
They should rename it The Murder a couple of months before demolishing, just for the lolz.
jul 12, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
It’s almost as bad as the Flying Shuttle in Bury (was)
jul 12, 2025, 9:26 am • 0 0 • view
For full 21stC authenticity, outside it needs most of these: signs of regular vomiting & spent body fluids with associated smells, used condoms & sanitary ware, drug 'paraphernalia' &, round the back, wheelie bins. @wheeliebinfed.bsky.social
jul 12, 2025, 9:54 am • 3 1 • view
Yeah, that's a big metal 440 litre job, metal to cope with the fires and fighting.
jul 12, 2025, 10:15 am • 5 1 • view
Previously plastic, but the local yoot kept setting fire to them to huff the fumes.
jul 12, 2025, 10:18 am • 4 1 • view
Haven't we all?
jul 12, 2025, 12:43 pm • 3 1 • view
This is the other *Busy Bee* photograph from the news item, without Angry People in front of it + blurred graffiti. The *BB* was a Tennent's pub it seems - what could have been better back in the day on a hot, hot, hot Saturday afternoon in Edinburgh but a pint of Ten's wi' a hair lacquer chaser?
jul 12, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 1 • view
💯 secret nuclear bunker. Hard to believe it was a pub let alone a church.
jul 12, 2025, 8:57 am • 1 1 • view
A flat roof church. And Mary Magdalene did say unto the Lord, “Leave him Jesus, he’s not worth it,” but it all kicked off and many of those present were smote.
jul 12, 2025, 9:01 am • 4 2 • view
Kudos to anyone who will stand behind a sign saying “Remove this eyesore”.
jul 12, 2025, 8:49 am • 3 0 • view
Estate pubs are the best.
jul 12, 2025, 9:03 am • 1 1 • view
Ah yes, the time when middle-class late-20s me went on a jolly ramble along the Thames Path in East London with then-girlfriend and we decided it would be just spiffing to pop into a pub we passed for, oh, maybe a jug of Pimm’s or a brace of G&Ts. Maybe a Babycham. It was an.. interesting place.
jul 12, 2025, 9:17 am • 1 1 • view