jackyboy
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 22, 2011, 18:31
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Littlestone wrote: We might have to settle for AK saying to JR when handing over the deeds to the plot, "nice Art Deco building would look great on there" and a quick sketch on the back of his fag packet...
Yes, you might just be spot on there.
And my Or even, AK having seen JR's Garage design thinking, Yes
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Littlestone
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 22, 2011, 18:42
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nigelswift wrote: Well of course, concrete was the enthusiasm of the age. See all the listed Art Deco enclosures at Dudley Zoo.
Not to mention colleges. Couple of days ago I drove past the library here and, across the road where some nondescript building had just been demolished, the side wall of the old Art Deco college building, with an Art Deco stained glass window to boot!, is now visible for the first time in at least 30 years!
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nigelswift
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 22, 2011, 19:08
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"and a quick sketch on the back of his fag packet..."
saying, "make it something like Weston Pier"
Or, it also has the look of a builders catalogue job.
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jackyboy
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 22, 2011, 19:13
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nigelswift wrote: "and a quick sketch on the back of his fag packet..."
saying, "make it something like Weston Pier"
Or, it also has the look of a builders catalogue job.
Or AK was inspired by JR's design
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jackyboy
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 22, 2011, 19:44
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jackyboy wrote: nigelswift wrote: "and a quick sketch on the back of his fag packet..."
saying, "make it something like Weston Pier"
Or, it also has the look of a builders catalogue job.
Or AK was inspired by JR's design
I like the idea that this local man designed the garage and lets face it there is no evedence that he didn't. On that alone it's a shame that it was lost, It could have been quite the memorial to him had it survived.
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Littlestone
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 23, 2011, 08:03
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...that it really just shows that aside from people such as ourselves and the bodies that objected to the development, the local authority planners don't care a stuff.
Aye, and this, written nearly 90 years ago, is a reminder of the dire consequences that can result if we let our eye off the ball -
"Perhaps an even more horrible side of the proposal is that a large number of houses are to be built in connection with the scheme just outside the village of Avebury itself. Even Tom Robinson, the leader of the vandals who, in the eighteenth century destroyed so many of the mighty monoliths for the purpose of utilising the stone in the erection of trumpery cottages, could not have treated this greatest monument in Britain, or, for that matter of its kind in the world, with greater disdain and indifference"
Alexander Keiller, writing in a letter dated August 1923, about the proposed erection of a wireless mast on Windmill Hill. More on the Bonds issue here – Building houses within the Avebury WHS.
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Sanctuary
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 23, 2011, 18:17
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Littlestone wrote: ...that it really just shows that aside from people such as ourselves and the bodies that objected to the development, the local authority planners don't care a stuff.
Aye, and this, written nearly 90 years ago, is a reminder of the dire consequences that can result if we let our eye off the ball -
"Perhaps an even more horrible side of the proposal is that a large number of houses are to be built in connection with the scheme just outside the village of Avebury itself. Even Tom Robinson, the leader of the vandals who, in the eighteenth century destroyed so many of the mighty monoliths for the purpose of utilising the stone in the erection of trumpery cottages, could not have treated this greatest monument in Britain, or, for that matter of its kind in the world, with greater disdain and indifference"
Alexander Keiller, writing in a letter dated August 1923, about the proposed erection of a wireless mast on Windmill Hill. More on the Bonds issue here – Building houses within the Avebury WHS.
Unusually for me I watched BBC1's 'Escape To The Country' today and was pleasantly surprised that it was set in the Vale of White Horse. There were some nice bits about Wayland's and the Horse and pertinent to this thread, a lovely four and a half year old house in Drayton that had been built in a traditional manner in appearance showing that it can be done and even had a garage completely covered with overlap boarding. And they even had a pub called The Red Lion!! Well worth a watch from 16 minutes into the programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z1bkd/Escape_to_the_Country_Series_11_Oxfordshire/
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tjj
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Edited Feb 23, 2011, 21:22
Re: The worst kind
Feb 23, 2011, 18:42
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Sanctuary wrote:
Unusually for me I watched BBC1's 'Escape To The Country' today and was pleasantly surprised that it was set in the Vale of White Horse. There were some nice bits about Wayland's and the Horse and pertinent to this thread, a lovely four and a half year old house in Drayton that had been built in a traditional manner in appearance showing that it can be done and even had a garage completely covered with overlap boarding. And they even had a pub called The Red Lion!! Well worth a watch from 16 minutes into the programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z1bkd/Escape_to_the_Country_Series_11_Oxfordshire/
Ah yes, lovely shots of the White Horse and Waylands Smithy, thanks Roy.
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Littlestone
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 23, 2011, 18:57
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Thanks Sanctuary, will try to catch up on that.
Talking of the Vale of the White Horse, and if anyone’s missed it, this might be of interest - http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/20/watercolour-tate-britain-review-cumming
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VBB
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Re: The worst kind
Feb 24, 2011, 10:55
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Sanctuary wrote: Unusually for me I watched BBC1's 'Escape To The Country' today and was pleasantly surprised that it was set in the Vale of White Horse. There were some nice bits about Wayland's and the Horse and pertinent to this thread, a lovely four and a half year old house in Drayton that had been built in a traditional manner in appearance showing that it can be done and even had a garage completely covered with overlap boarding. And they even had a pub called The Red Lion!! Well worth a watch from 16 minutes into the programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z1bkd/Escape_to_the_Country_Series_11_Oxfordshire/
They also showed Leafield with one pub - until recently didn't it have three?
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