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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.
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Posted: 2006-11-08 14:57:24
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A statue of Winston Churchill, how dare they!
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Posted: 2006-11-08 16:48:40
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thats nuts!!!!!
So we gonna see chavs running around aswell?
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Posted: 2006-11-08 16:56:43
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lol they r such copys
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Posted: 2006-11-08 17:49:09
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Some pics
More at
http://www.thamestown.com/english/default.htm
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Posted: 2006-11-08 18:19:32
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does it come with althentic railway stations+chavs?
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Posted: 2006-11-08 18:22:42
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A spot of graffiti here and there...
How about bad weather simulators?
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Posted: 2006-11-08 18:33:32
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actually looks pretty good when it's new, but soon it prob will be full of grafitis
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Posted: 2006-11-08 18:57:19
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It does look so fake
Would love to see it in abouty 10 years after the weather's got to it.
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Posted: 2006-11-08 19:05:36
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much cleaner than an English town thats for sure
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Posted: 2006-11-08 19:06:47
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