Bracknell in Bloom

Following the resounding success of last year's inaugural "Bracknell In Bloom" campaign, Bracknell Council has thrown its full weight behind this year's entry into the Royal county of Berkshire's initiative. The result: residents flock to enjoy another sun-soaked shopping frenzy among the flowers in the boulevards of Bracknell.

Getting About in the City of The Future

This Bracknell resident sips coffee as he cruises about in his nuclear powered moon-scooter from pound shop to charity shop. He is shielded from the searing heat by a thin cling-film-like membrane that allows him to remain at a steady 74 degrees Fahrenheit (that's about 22 centi-Euro-litres per kilojoule), which is proven to be the perfect temperature for maintaining an acute sense of paranoia.

Transport and Café Culture

In Bracknell, city of the future, walking is a thing of the past. Residents prefer to get around the extensive shoppers' paradise by means of nuclear powered moon-scooters. This scene shows Bracknell's most sophisticated, affluent residents enjoying the continental piazza culture of the Royal county of Berkshire's most precious jewel: Bar Torino at the boulevards of Bracknell.

Leisure and Relaxation

Its commitment to the future means that Bracknell is inevitably a fast paced and changing environment. The city boasts plenty of spaces in which the busy and active residents may take a few moments of well earned refuge from the maelstrom of commercial activity in order to relax and bask in the permanent sunshine.

Community and Recreation

A group of Bracknell residents enjoys the traditional lunch time game of "catch the shopper" in which the hapless victim is ensnared in a huge length of rope and, after hours of hilarious taunting, is hanged by the neck from the nearest tree.

Dining Out in Bracknell

Bracknell is blessed with myriad opportunities to enjoy a dazzling array of cuisine. In a typically idyllic setting, this happy Bracknell couple enjoy their American fast food lunch off of a rubbish bin in the town centre.

Beautiful Bracknell

Beautiful Bracknell: The boulevard of decapitated trees, flanked by empty shops leading to a faceless, monolithic tower block. Ah, life is good in the city of the future.

Space Age Bridges

In 1999, as well as wearing belted trouser-suits and eating only vitamin pills everyone will get from building to building on space-age concrete bridges like this one. Separate trousers and shirts, solid food and walking on the ground will be a thing of the past.

Skyways

Bracknell's council offices look out over the most extensive, complex and pointless network of elevated walkways (known locally as "skyways") in the world. Residents enjoy seeing them criss-cross and snake above but, since all twelve members of the Thorpe family have been missing since 1978 when they were seen trying to work out how to get down to Burger King, nobody has dared to use a skyway.

The Hanging Gardens of Bracknylon

Bracknell: city of the future. This is the top floor of the truly incredible Hanging Gardens of Bracknylon. Shoppers saunter nonchalantly about their business, unaware that owing to the extraordinary height of the tower, they are closer to the sun than any other shoppers on earth.

Bracknell's Ministry of Books

Bracknell, city of the future, has facilities that are admired and envied worldwide and its library is no exception. This extraordinary building not only won the Flash Gordon Design Award 1975 but also accommodates the largest collection of celebrity biographies in the world.

The Vacant Sky

Everyone knows Bracknell is a space-age city of the future. What is less well known is that this huge tower, which doubles as a luxury hotel for dangerous dogs, actually generates the conditions under which the lucky Bracknell residents enjoy permanent blazing sun shine. Here we see the enormous structure viewed from Bracknell's extensive council offices, as it stretches thousands of feet into the soulless, vacant, azure sky.