Elgin Town Hall

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 8 Apr 2016

This was built in the 1960s and replaced a much older and more elegant building which was destroyed by fire. As well as being ugly and grubby-looking outside, the internal layout is potty, with nothing other than a curtain separating the main auditorium from whatever noise is going on in the foyer. The row of daffodils occupies a space where there used to be parking for about a dozen cars, until the council closed it off. (They also painted parking boxes one most of the surrounding streets, cleverly cutting the available number of parking spaces, and now they are wringing their hands because there's a shortage of parking in Elgin.) I suppose daffodils are prettier than cars, but they're not there all year round.

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