Portmeirion
One of the places I really wanted to visit when we were in the UK was Portmeirion, the location for cult sixties show “The Prisoner” starring Patric McGoohan (yup that really was his name). Video after the jump.
#19: Oakdale Comprehensive School
Those inauspicious buildings above, squat and purposeful, house Oakdale Comprehensive School, an educational institution I’ve never visited but one which has for one reason or another provided the three key cultural forces to emerge from Wales over the last three decades.
Steve Strange, The Manic Street Preachers and Joe Calzaghe. Strange ran a club night, The [...]
