We were visiting family in Leighton Buzzard, north of London, and this pizza house has its home in a most appropriate old building...
The town itself can claim a lineage back to the Domesday Book (1086 AD), but the Fire Station only goes back as far as 1851, first used as a Town Hall. It became a Fire Station in 1919 and was in use as such until 1963.
The architecture on these Victorian (?) buildings is phenomenal. The perspective in this shot is great also. I'm obsessed with perspective these days as I'm also taking a drawing class.
A friend of ours bought a house at Leighton Buzzard in the 1970s, he was a keen railway enthusiast and his unsuspecting wife didn't realize there was a narrow gauge railway running almost at the end of their garden until they moved in.
Great shot of this building - and it gave me a jolt when I saw it as it's familiar, although the roads weren't pedestrianised then. Leighton Buzzard used to be the route to the M1 from where we used to live when I was a child, and the route took the right at this junction. So this took me right back to seeing this building regularly, although it can't have still been in use as a fire station as my memories don't go back that far.
A friend of ours bought a house at Leighton Buzzard in the 1970s, he was a keen railway enthusiast and his unsuspecting wife didn't realize there was a narrow gauge railway running almost at the end of their garden until they moved in.
Ian
thanks for sharing