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Penistone House

Stokes Croft development opportunity destined for colonic improvement. Architecture meets irrigation at the behest of capital and Minerva Ledwitch.

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  • Herod ← operates facility at (1 passage)

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…I see that now. Very well. I refer of course to Penistone House. The Kumerazovs have in the past submitted a number of planning applications, but these …”

“Don shares my positive estimation of the new proposals for Penistone House,” said Miss Minerva Ledwitch, helping herself to a generous proportion of the breeziness which ever swirled about the Titan to whom she alluded.

…Huge balls on chains swung and shattered the facade of Penistone House, and great mechanised teeth abstracted from the corpus delicti of that once noble edifice the mangled debris, which wheeled scoops bore thence to sequestered purlieus known only to the pikeys.

During the ensuing weeks, the redevelopment of Penistone House gathered pace. The former edifice being razed and effaced and the ground levelled, the jackhammers and engines of destruction were removed by the horny handed sons of toil, these gentlemen returning with girders and planks and joists and plasterboard, which they proceeded to assemble and hammer into place. And in this manner, there rose like a phoenix, from the ashes of…

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