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Concrete Eyesore

"In 1955, the British Ministry of Defense erected a reinfoced concrete blockhouse in Scotland which was so ugly that planting a forest round it was later made a condition of sale.

"In 1975, the Ministry told Lord Cawdor, on whose land it was built, that the army had no further use for it. He then had the problem of how to sell a single storey grey concrete blcokhouse, 175 feet long by 85 feet wide, with no windows, a box design, one camouflaged door and a flat roof.

"In a newspaper advertisement he said, 'For sale: Reinforced concrete eyesore. Would suit nervous spy or mushroom farmer with dangerous wife for whom outhouse with five foot walls ideal. Offers and suggestions, however inane, invited for monument to currupted endeavour. Forest planting a condition of sale.'"


Cawdor, Lord (?-    ) British aristocrat

[Sources: Stephen Pile, The Book of Heroic Failures]


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