Commute 5
Stormy Weather- Ella Fitzgerald
I thought I saw clouds ahead. At least the brief summer storm livens up the journey, as does this Thunderbirds style building. It is Lancaster South, known to all but it's owners as Forton Services. It was built in the year I was born and as a child it always filled me with wonder and delight, a futuristic dream in the middle of rural Lancashire. I'm not the only one who loves this building, it was added to the official protected list a couple of years ago. Originally a restaurant, it closed when it failed fire safety regulations 25 years ago. There isn't a proper fire escape route except jumping or driving off in your flying car. Bit of a design faux pas that, but back in 1965 flying cars were expected to be only a year or two away.
