A cold, wet, grey day in Aldershot – miserable, no good for
taking photographs but OK for shopping? The place is unappreciated but the town
does has a few good buildings and some interesting architectural details if you
stop to look around.
The town centre has no historic buildings having only
developed when the army set up camp there in the 1850’s (the older part of
Aldershot lies to the East), said to be one of only a few towns to just have shops along one side of its High Street.
One of the best buildings in my view is the ex Ritz/ABC cinema
(now Bingo) it’s very much in the 1930’s style, Historic England don’t think it
is worth listing (I have asked them) and it's not even locally listed so could well be lost to redevelopment.
