There have been a couple of comments on Bentley’s Brownlie Towers, built in 1969. I went up to see how the extensive renovations are going. Mixed results by the look of it. It’s not just the building that needs work. I wish I’d taken a shot before the scaffolding went up.

The scaffolding is definitely an improvement. Too bad it couldn’t cover the carpark as well.
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Yeah i’ve only driven around Brownlie once, and it was late, suffice to say, i didn’t feel safe.
It’s like a little part of the ghetto broke free and moved to Perth!
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The car is going to be shifted to the base of Brown Towers as a breakfall.
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It’s like a little part of the ghetto broke free and moved to Perth!
It’s like a little part of Anthony Burgess broke free and moved to Perth!
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Ah Brownlie Towers, suicide centre of Perth.
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I don’t get the Burgess reference. something to do with A Clcokwork Orange and dystopia?? “please explain”.
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I used to go past this place on the bus several times a week and it filled me with a sense of despair so deep and abiding that it took a liberal dose of sugar and kittens to remove.
Seriously though, it looks like the kind of place a down-on-his-luck fictional character goes to kill himself in.
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