The Job Centre
Bilston High Street
It is sad that one of the biggest new buildings in Bilston
High Street is the Job Centre. In its favour, it is not a bad
building, though it is unfortunate that the ground floor presents such a
lifeless front to a shopping street. But the corner panel is a
great compensation:
It may be ironic - even conscious irony - that the panel
depicts the steel industry for which Bilston was famous, which was its
major employer and which, on closure, was the greatest single cause of
the need for a very large job centre. Whether the panel is made
out of tile, terracotta, sculpted brick, or what, I do not know.
Nor do I much care. It certainly includes earth that was burnt at
some time and that is good enough to get a good piece of public art onto
these pages.
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