Posted by axxxr
As if fake Phones and fake Cars were'nt enough,now china has copied a real English Town.
Yahoo News Article
An hour's drive from Shanghai's skyscrapers in the suburb of Songjiang lies Thames Town, complete with pub, fish-and-chip shop and even a bronze statue of Winston Churchill.
There is a neo-Gothic church as well as Georgian- and Victorian-style terraced houses that would not look out of place in the poshest parts of London.
Yet that copycat feeling has irked some people, not least Gail Caddy from Lyme Regis in Dorset, southwest England.
She said her pub and fish-and-chip shop have been replicated in Thames Town. Her establishments, the Rock Point Inn and Cob Gate Fish Bar, have both been reproduced almost exactly, though Caddy's fish-and-chip shop is spelt "Cobb".
"As you can imagine, the jokes are absolutely rife here," she told Reuters in Britain. "They are as follows: 'I have been Shanghaied' and 'My business is on the Chinese take-away menu'".
Caddy, who found out from the British press that her shops had been copied in China, is more peeved than amused.
"I feel cheated considering that they have copied the whole unique experience of my two businesses here," she said.
Paul Rice, an associate director from Atkins Shanghai, a British agency which designed the project, said they did not knowingly copy anything.
"Maybe it's a little bit of a misunderstanding," he told Reuters. "It's not in any way supposed to be a replica."
Rice said it just so happened that Atkins had offices in parts of England near historic towns like Lyme Regis and Bath, which inspired their designs.
Almost all the houses have been sold for prices starting at three million yuan (about 200,000 pounds). Most buyers are from Shanghai.
The city itself is no stranger to European architecture. Art Deco and neoclassical buildings put up in its colonial heyday at the turn of the 20th century still dot Shanghai, most noticeably on the historic Bund waterfront.
Posted by Xugaa
A statue of Winston Churchill, how dare they!
Posted by leeboy13
thats nuts!!!!!
So we gonna see chavs running around aswell?
Posted by djtwistter
lol they r such copys
Posted by joebmc
Some pics
More at http://www.thamestown.com/english/default.htm
Posted by The Lostprophet
does it come with althentic railway stations+chavs?
Posted by Xugaa
A spot of graffiti here and there...
How about bad weather simulators?
Posted by anterminator
actually looks pretty good when it's new, but soon it prob will be full of grafitis
Posted by Vein
It does look so fake
Would love to see it in abouty 10 years after the weather's got to it.
Posted by amnesia
much cleaner than an English town thats for sure
Posted by axxxr
I don't know what it is, but somethings not quite right about it.
Posted by Xugaa
It looks like the front to some large English shopping complex in a way...
Posted by joebmc
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I find it a bit spooky for some reason!
Posted by Vein
Anymore pics of it?
Posted by axxxr
You can see more pics on the link HERE
Posted by Vein
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Thanks, didn't see that before.