I always wait for the bit where he drives the wrong way up Queen Street, parks on the pavement (on double yellows) and calmly strolls into Clifton House... If I tried that now...
Good stuff! Many thanks!
Love the photos and the buildings but where was so much red sandstone quarried from?
Or maybe 'kind' offer even...
Many thanks Kate! Much appreciated. I have gazillions of images myself, but could I find some eroded stone?? I will bear your king offer in mind!
Hi Kate. Writing and delivering an online programme - Introduction to Built Heritage and I have been looking for a case of severe erosion to add to my Stone notes. I don't suppose you would allow me to use this? With all due accreditation of course. Wanted to use Whitby Abbey but not made it yet!
Don't forget that it has more re-used Roman material in it than any other church in Norfolk... and excavations against the walls hint at a Roman building beneath. Possibly a watch tower.
Not one of the Heritage craft skilled people I have met ever did a formal apprenticeship or had a piece of paper to wave... and I asked each one specifically. They learned on the job...
A gentleman. Opened the basement doors of the St John's College muniment room and gave me a free run as I wrote my Architecture thesis on the development of North Oxford. Shelf after shelf of boxes! But a goldmine. He was so patient with me!
Quite a few years back when this was full of scaffolding for renovation of this ceiling, I was allowed to climb up to within touching distance of it. Breathtaking. (I was actually helping them to look for bats, but that's another story...)
Well... sort of. A bit more convoluted than that. I and a colleague worked with the then conservation officer to get it listed, so I know it well. It does deserve a more unified use though... and its early use of concrete ignored for far too long.
I surveyed this building some 40 years ago for a potential developer. Back then it had internal concrete ramps to drive cars up, but they have now gone...
Just glorious ✨
Immerse yourself for a few seconds in glowing glass landscapes and resonant spoken folklore 👇
Late Father-in-Law's father was butler there... He moved on to Apethorpe as the last butler of the Brassey family before they moved out.
Doing my architecture degree I wrote a paper on Burges. I did a measured drawing of the facade of Park House, Cardiff. Many visits as a kid to Castell Coch and Cardiff Castle. Was looking at his furniture in the museum in Bedford recently. You could say I like him... he also had a pet parrot...
Dined with him once. A wonderful guide around the house and a good story about the origins of the design of the house. A real gentleman.
Second tutorials this week; Module 1 complete, so on to the architectural periods in Module 2...
She was the foundation stone...
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... community cannot be 'created' - it's organic, just like that...
Read the Bethnal Green study on the Architecture Degree. Level the terraced housing and move the community out to tower blocks... and that's where the community collapsed...
My Dad was driving lorries for Cynon Star Transport. All their jobs were cancelled by the lady owner and they were sent with a police escort to carry away spoil as it was excavated. He came home exhausted...
Held the first tutorials online yesterday. One at 1pm and again at 7pm, to give the best chance of attending. What a nice bunch of people!
Well, the Introduction to Built Heritage Programme is off and running. Second set of weekly notes already out there. Wait until we get to 'Why Bother with Built Heritage?'...
Many thanks! I'll give it a try... Cheers.
If you don't mind me asking, which software did you use to create the format? Thanks... I use Publisher, but the big M are pulling it next year.
My Great Aunt Nin was a spiritualist, and they used to meet in a first-floor room at the top of the Rhiw...
At least get rid of Grade II and Grade II*. What a daft system. Maybe four grades down to 'important contribution to its surroundings'.
As an Architect with experience of heritage buildings writing a course on this at the moment, the first rule is that buildings lie about their age...
Well, I would except mine turned out to be a ringer. Made from two different cars welded together... fun while it lasted though...
Father-in-Law worked for an undertaker. Short-handed he asked if I would help to collect someone recently passed. Returning, we wheeled him in with the others in the freezer. Seeing I was nervous, he said "Don't bother about this lot, it's all them live ones out there that you should worry about..."
