HERE'S a building that you'd like to think wouldn't see the light of day today, although in the mid-Sixties with architects crazy for concrete and straight lines, it was par for the course.
Maybe it's not just the design that makes Elgar House in Worcester such an eyesore, but where they put it: slap, bang in front of the Georgian-style Shrub Hill Railway Station, which was designed by Edward Wilson and built in 1865.
Probably the reason for the planning aberration was that at the time the property's occupiers, Kay & Co were among the city's largest employers and not to be sniffed at.
In fact, the catalogue company was responsible for another gem, the massive warehouse that towered over the city skyline in Bromyard Road. Now thankfully gone. As, sadly, has Kays.
But this photograph comes from its hey-day. It's January, 1966 and Elgar House is well on the way to completion.
What's more, over the years it has resisted several suggestions to knock it down.
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