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As I said on Talk:Tricorn when I rewrote it, I'd appreciate someone from Pompey to clean up this article - I've never even been there. Most of this article is my one from Tricorn, although I've added anything additional that Tricon Centre had to say. Kiand 21:18, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Could someone who can upload images upload the really cool Tricorn logo? It's on a few of the linked pages. Thanx 68.39.174.150 07:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Tricorn did not house the first Virgin megastore. The first one opened in Oxford street in 1979. The Portsmouth one opened about 2 years later in an area previously used by "FineWare".
Typically, a growth that would be described as "growing off a ledge" would be a stalactite hanging off and growing downward, rather than a stalagmite growing upward from the floor or ground. Could someone confirm which was growing from/on these ledges, and adjust appropriately? -- John Owens (talk) 22:11, 2005 August 19 (UTC)
Apparently, there were "designer" flats in the Tricorn. I have not been able to find much information on them, let alone a single picture. Apparently they were not occupied for long because they got damp and had various other problems.
i think the following need to be linked/cited, because they're simple statements of challangable fact and also they're interesting, and the kind of thing people might want to look up more:
1/ voted 3rd ugliest building 2/ voted most hated building 3/ grew stalagtites
so, you know, if anyone agrees and isn't as lazy as me :D
gotta love the wiki method -- Dak ( talk) 03:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of dead links on the page Gitfinger ( talk) 13:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I love the way that, after all the bellyaching and finally tearing down the Tricorn, what have they replaced it with? A surface level carpark! Oh how original! About as inventive and original as the blinkered twats who opposed the thing from the outset. Sheep. — Preceding
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85.210.158.49 (
talk)
19:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Absolutely agree. I actually liked the Tricorn, and went their often when I was growing up in the 1970s. I never really saw it as being more ugly than any of the blocks of flats in the Portsmouth/Havant area. Even the oh so wonderful Cascades shopping centre is little more than a box when viewed from outside. You'd think that after demolishing the thing, something attractive would have been put in its place (or at least SOME of the land could have been used for it....a landscaped garden perhaps? Fountain? But no....a car park. OK, you've made your point - you hate the 60s, you want to go back to the 50s and live in luddite heaven. Enjoy your carpark guys. / Stan Pomeray, 20/3/14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.225.149.5 ( talk) 10:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
I was in Portsmouth yesterday for the first time in about 15 years. To be honest the demolition of the Tricorn has done nothing to make the place any more attractive. The "Cascades" shopping centre which was built in 1989 over what used to be Portsmout's open street market area looks old and tired, there is an abundance of "pound shops" and the like, and where the Tricorn once stood all that has been put in its place is a surface level car park. I could understand it if something like a cinema had been build on the site. What a hole. — Preceding
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81.107.150.190 (
talk)
11:57, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
I am misremembering or did the Tricorn feature in Dr. Who as the City of the Daleks on Skyro? Certainly can'tseem to see an online source for that currently. Thanks. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
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As I said on Talk:Tricorn when I rewrote it, I'd appreciate someone from Pompey to clean up this article - I've never even been there. Most of this article is my one from Tricorn, although I've added anything additional that Tricon Centre had to say. Kiand 21:18, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Could someone who can upload images upload the really cool Tricorn logo? It's on a few of the linked pages. Thanx 68.39.174.150 07:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Tricorn did not house the first Virgin megastore. The first one opened in Oxford street in 1979. The Portsmouth one opened about 2 years later in an area previously used by "FineWare".
Typically, a growth that would be described as "growing off a ledge" would be a stalactite hanging off and growing downward, rather than a stalagmite growing upward from the floor or ground. Could someone confirm which was growing from/on these ledges, and adjust appropriately? -- John Owens (talk) 22:11, 2005 August 19 (UTC)
Apparently, there were "designer" flats in the Tricorn. I have not been able to find much information on them, let alone a single picture. Apparently they were not occupied for long because they got damp and had various other problems.
i think the following need to be linked/cited, because they're simple statements of challangable fact and also they're interesting, and the kind of thing people might want to look up more:
1/ voted 3rd ugliest building 2/ voted most hated building 3/ grew stalagtites
so, you know, if anyone agrees and isn't as lazy as me :D
gotta love the wiki method -- Dak ( talk) 03:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of dead links on the page Gitfinger ( talk) 13:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I love the way that, after all the bellyaching and finally tearing down the Tricorn, what have they replaced it with? A surface level carpark! Oh how original! About as inventive and original as the blinkered twats who opposed the thing from the outset. Sheep. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
85.210.158.49 (
talk)
19:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Absolutely agree. I actually liked the Tricorn, and went their often when I was growing up in the 1970s. I never really saw it as being more ugly than any of the blocks of flats in the Portsmouth/Havant area. Even the oh so wonderful Cascades shopping centre is little more than a box when viewed from outside. You'd think that after demolishing the thing, something attractive would have been put in its place (or at least SOME of the land could have been used for it....a landscaped garden perhaps? Fountain? But no....a car park. OK, you've made your point - you hate the 60s, you want to go back to the 50s and live in luddite heaven. Enjoy your carpark guys. / Stan Pomeray, 20/3/14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.225.149.5 ( talk) 10:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
I was in Portsmouth yesterday for the first time in about 15 years. To be honest the demolition of the Tricorn has done nothing to make the place any more attractive. The "Cascades" shopping centre which was built in 1989 over what used to be Portsmout's open street market area looks old and tired, there is an abundance of "pound shops" and the like, and where the Tricorn once stood all that has been put in its place is a surface level car park. I could understand it if something like a cinema had been build on the site. What a hole. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.107.150.190 (
talk)
11:57, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
I am misremembering or did the Tricorn feature in Dr. Who as the City of the Daleks on Skyro? Certainly can'tseem to see an online source for that currently. Thanks. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)