Andrew Eberlin
@eberlin.co.uk
Professional website designer, enthusiastic photographer of modern buildings and writer of The Monthly Jotter.
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The first newsletter of the year is out!
Would anyone like to buy a brutalist church in Somerset? Plus news of a 1930s cinema reopening and some exhibitions and events.
Huge thanks to @eberlin.co.uk for permission to use his photographs of the Good Shepherd.
Would anyone like to buy a brutalist church in Somerset? Plus news of a 1930s cinema reopening and some exhibitions and events.
Huge thanks to @eberlin.co.uk for permission to use his photographs of the Good Shepherd.
The Church of the Good Shepherd and other news (8 Jan 2026)
Would anyone like to buy a brutalist church in Somerset? Plus news of a 1930s cinema reopening and some exhibitions and events.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The first newsletter of the year is out!
Would anyone like to buy a brutalist church in Somerset? Plus news of a 1930s cinema reopening and some exhibitions and events.
Huge thanks to @eberlin.co.uk for permission to use his photographs of the Good Shepherd.
Would anyone like to buy a brutalist church in Somerset? Plus news of a 1930s cinema reopening and some exhibitions and events.
Huge thanks to @eberlin.co.uk for permission to use his photographs of the Good Shepherd.
Always a good read.
Around 500 words written for the main story in this week's newsletter. You can subscribe to get it in your inbox tomorrow.
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Free subs get some of the newsletters for, er, free.
A paying sub also gets you early access to the deep dives, and I'm holding it at £3 a month until the end of January.
West Country Modernism
A journey around modernist buildings in the West Country. Who built them, and why? Who used them, and what for? What lies in their future? Read more about the project in its introduction. Paid subscri...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Always a good read.
Prompted by @westcountrymodern.bsky.social excellent write up, we had pit stop on our way back from Lyme Regis to appreciate The Amulet in Shelton Mallet.
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The Amulet, Shepton Mallet — Photos of Modern Buildings
A wonderful brutalist style theatre in a Somerset, gifted to the town by Francis Showering (who invented Babycham). Let's Buy The Amulet is campaigning to get it reopened.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Prompted by @westcountrymodern.bsky.social excellent write up, we had pit stop on our way back from Lyme Regis to appreciate The Amulet in Shelton Mallet.
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www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/th...
Here is what I have enjoyed listening to most while I’ve worked and played this year.
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The best albums of 2025 — Brighter Side
This end of year album list is becoming a bit of a tradition. I’d like to say loads of people have been wondering when my list will be out, but I can’t mislead you - only one person has asked. So, her...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here is what I have enjoyed listening to most while I’ve worked and played this year.
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“When I go to the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, Martin sits contentedly in the corner, looking at books, looking at photos, calling out questions, getting up to reach another book, then offering to make everyone tea.”
From the introduction of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive by Wendy Jones.
From the introduction of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive by Wendy Jones.
No one is a prophet in their own land.
Thank you Martin Parr for helping us see, smile and for finding your Foundation.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“When I go to the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, Martin sits contentedly in the corner, looking at books, looking at photos, calling out questions, getting up to reach another book, then offering to make everyone tea.”
From the introduction of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive by Wendy Jones.
From the introduction of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive by Wendy Jones.
If you’d like to show your support for saving the Church of the Good Shepherd as a community space, please sign this petition. Thank you.
c.org/qCdhWyxBHG
c.org/qCdhWyxBHG
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you’d like to show your support for saving the Church of the Good Shepherd as a community space, please sign this petition. Thank you.
c.org/qCdhWyxBHG
c.org/qCdhWyxBHG
Church of the Good Shepherd, Batheaston. Permission has mistakenly been granted to demolish this rare example of brutalist architecture in Bath. I was invited inside with a group of people who are exploring an alternative future for this empty church.
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Church of the Good Shepherd, Batheaston. Permission has mistakenly been granted to demolish this rare example of brutalist architecture in Bath. I was invited inside with a group of people who are exploring an alternative future for this empty church.
Wes Anderson Archives at the Design Museum. Do go. It’s very good. If you like him that is.
If you don’t, you probably won’t.
If you don’t, you probably won’t.
December 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wes Anderson Archives at the Design Museum. Do go. It’s very good. If you like him that is.
If you don’t, you probably won’t.
If you don’t, you probably won’t.
Oh good, the albums of the year have started. Time to discover some good music I've missed.
Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts
What have been your top picks of the year?
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What have been your top picks of the year?
buff.ly/sltLcA7
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Oh good, the albums of the year have started. Time to discover some good music I've missed.
Happy 40th birthday to The Point in Milton Keynes. Britain's first American style multiplex cinema and under threat from the wrecking ball...
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The Point, Milton Keynes — Photos of Modern Buildings
This iconic pyramid building was the first multiplex cinema in the UK. Its piled boxes with reflective windows, framed in red steel, stands out amongst the straight roads and flat buildings of Milton ...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Happy 40th birthday to The Point in Milton Keynes. Britain's first American style multiplex cinema and under threat from the wrecking ball...
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www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/th...
It's a good one.
The first of 24 essays from 'I thought about that a lot' chimes with my sentiments about where to spend time at Christmas:
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The first of 24 essays from 'I thought about that a lot' chimes with my sentiments about where to spend time at Christmas:
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In 2025, I thought a lot about Christmas, my way – I thought a lot about that
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
It's a good one.
The first of 24 essays from 'I thought about that a lot' chimes with my sentiments about where to spend time at Christmas:
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/christm...
The first of 24 essays from 'I thought about that a lot' chimes with my sentiments about where to spend time at Christmas:
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/christm...
A little bit of variety is good for us all, which is why protecting one brutalist building amongst the Georgian splendour of Bath is a good idea.
Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A little bit of variety is good for us all, which is why protecting one brutalist building amongst the Georgian splendour of Bath is a good idea.
In search of Anna Ancher, the shining light of Danish art | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Bowie’s answers are golden.
"Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A: Reading."
David Bowie answers the famous Proust Questionnaire
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A: Reading."
David Bowie answers the famous Proust Questionnaire
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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire
“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.”
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November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Bowie’s answers are golden.
A bit of post-modernism to lighten up your day.
Kathryn Stevens Rare Books Library, Newnham College, Oxford. Completed in 1983. Grade II listed in 2018.
Kathryn Stevens Rare Books Library, Newnham College, Oxford. Completed in 1983. Grade II listed in 2018.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A bit of post-modernism to lighten up your day.
Kathryn Stevens Rare Books Library, Newnham College, Oxford. Completed in 1983. Grade II listed in 2018.
Kathryn Stevens Rare Books Library, Newnham College, Oxford. Completed in 1983. Grade II listed in 2018.
Another interesting round up of West Country modernism including unwelcome news on Bath Fire Station.
The newsletter is out! This week's free round-up of C20 modernism news includes a Deco hotel in Torbay and this absolute unit from Poole.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Another interesting round up of West Country modernism including unwelcome news on Bath Fire Station.
Patti Smith can write…
“I felt a gravitational force; my being truly shaken, kindling my desire for the One, the better savage. Fate had touched us; I knew at that moment he was the one I would marry.”
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“I felt a gravitational force; my being truly shaken, kindling my desire for the One, the better savage. Fate had touched us; I knew at that moment he was the one I would marry.”
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Patti Smith on the night that changed her life
In an extract from her new memoir, the punk poet recalls her chance meeting with husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith in 1976
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Patti Smith can write…
“I felt a gravitational force; my being truly shaken, kindling my desire for the One, the better savage. Fate had touched us; I knew at that moment he was the one I would marry.”
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
“I felt a gravitational force; my being truly shaken, kindling my desire for the One, the better savage. Fate had touched us; I knew at that moment he was the one I would marry.”
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
My favourite portrait photographer, Jane Bown, has an exhibition in Sussex. I love how she used to carry her one camera in a wicker basket, used natural light (with occasional help from an anglepoise lamp) and had an instinctive ability to get the photo she wanted.
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
Jane Bown: eye to eye with the artists | The Observer
Memories of the late photographer who, over a 60-year career at the Observer, indelibly captured cultural icons from Hockney to Bacon
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My favourite portrait photographer, Jane Bown, has an exhibition in Sussex. I love how she used to carry her one camera in a wicker basket, used natural light (with occasional help from an anglepoise lamp) and had an instinctive ability to get the photo she wanted.
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:
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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:
mailchi.mp/61aa797623d7...
mailchi.mp/61aa797623d7...
It’s arrived… more brilliant, thoughtful, atmospheric, mizzly photos by @marcwilson.co.uk (I hope he had good waterproofs).
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October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s arrived… more brilliant, thoughtful, atmospheric, mizzly photos by @marcwilson.co.uk (I hope he had good waterproofs).
www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...
www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...