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Campaigners are battling to save Newcastle's most famous cinema by getting it listed. Here, Sonia Sharma takes a look at weird and wonderful North East buildings preserved for future generations
It's a modest little thing standing in a quiet allotment with no architectural genius to speak of.See the full content of this document
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Flights of Fancy Now Our Heritage
No skilled designers worked on it for months - it was built by two miners within a fortnight.
Yet this pigeon cree in Sunderland is ranked alongside some of the country's most distinctive buildings. It is the pride and joy of pigeon-fancier Maurice Surtees; he and his late brother, William, built it in 1955 and painted it in the colours of the Union Flag."It's not a stately home, it's just an ordinary cree," points out Maurice, "but that doesn'...See the full content of this document
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