QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 18 2013, 10:51 PM)
I see the Mail is using a photo of the apartments that used to be Luker to represent a Berkshire school.
That was my first thought, but, on closer inspection, is it?
There are some subtle differences, but differences nonetheless. The clock tower in the article is white, but the Luker building one was black (and didn't to my recollection, have a clock).
Also, I'm trying to place where the door is with the visitor sign adjacent but not able to figure out where it would be. Certainly on the Andover Road side, there was no doorway halfway down the building (as well as there being more greenery by the buildings as parking was more towards to the history block). And on the Buckingham Road side it was a grand entrance with steps and a pillar.
The triangular wall sections on this one are brick whereas Luker they were smooth and painted white. Overall Luker just seems 'grander' for want of a better word.
Google Maps still has images from 2009 at Street View so maybe someone else has a better viewpoint.
The brochure (p2 specifically) for those apartments now has a good image of the non-Road side of the building and again, too many differences.
http://www.lindenhomes.co.uk/live/developm...uker_Lowres.pdfAs an aside, when I googled the image itself (love modern technology) all that came up were stock photos on company websites for purveyors of security systems and the like. It's also on istock photo as "Boys Grammer School built in 1913' which again is close to the Luker building (built in 1910 I believe) and was the girls school not a boys. Not that I put a whole lot of faith in a throwaway caption on istock but it could just be a stock photo used by the paper to represent a school rather than a picture of St Barts as it was.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-181...ol-building.phpYou've got me intrigued now
It looks incredibly familiar and yet I can't quite place it all the same.......