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Blackburn, Blackburn Road, Golden Circle Hotel
Hotel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blackburn, Blackburn Road, Golden Circle Hotel
Classification Hotel (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cairn Hotel
Canmore ID 275476
Site Number NS96NE 150
NGR NS 98533 67205
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/275476
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Bathgate
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Golden Circle Hotel, c.1966, faced the truck plant brashly; perched above an arched colonnade, a crowned spire as a landmark but all character lost in recent modernisation. Cheap flat-roofed groups of houses with cutaway corners on either side of Bathgate Road have been handsomely enveloped, harled and pitch-roofed by SSHA. Sustained pressure from a residents' group, architectural advisor Tom Henney, has transformed the crude 1960s concrete maisonette slab-and-point blocks of Murrayfield (thrown up in a hurry to accommodate workers for the truck plant) with curious Chinese touches, some slabs reduced to terraces.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
