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The lost Crittall windows of Penzance pt2.... the house on Captains Row, (Promenade x Lower Queen Street) had Crittalls and a sunrise front gate !... round the Corner the Sunhome apartments had Crittalls till the 1980s and the auctioneers below had 1930s curved glass windows
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The lost Crittall windows of Penzance pt2.... the house on Captains Row, (Promenade x Lower Queen Street) had Crittalls and a sunrise front gate !... round the Corner the Sunhome apartments had Crittalls till the 1980s and the auctioneers below had 1930s curved glass windows
The lost Crittall windows of Penzance....we'll start with architect Colin Drewitt's Yacht Inn( 1937) near the Jubilee Pool.... double glazing installed early 1980s...they said 'Yes' to AGS ?( local TV ad jingles)....
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The lost Crittall windows of Penzance....we'll start with architect Colin Drewitt's Yacht Inn( 1937) near the Jubilee Pool.... double glazing installed early 1980s...they said 'Yes' to AGS ?( local TV ad jingles)....
Yes it seems the Torbay planners refused replacement of the Crittalls in 2001 and 2007/2008 when the major retail of the front started....the contractors have made a nice job of the window repairs and those glazed partitions between balconies
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yes it seems the Torbay planners refused replacement of the Crittalls in 2001 and 2007/2008 when the major retail of the front started....the contractors have made a nice job of the window repairs and those glazed partitions between balconies
A century before Plymouths Tinside Lido was built architect John Foulston designed a huge classical Marine Baths to sit on the Hoe with segregated changing and bathing pools for men& women but could not raise finances for its building
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A century before Plymouths Tinside Lido was built architect John Foulston designed a huge classical Marine Baths to sit on the Hoe with segregated changing and bathing pools for men& women but could not raise finances for its building
Seems Cornwall Street and Gun Wharf in Devonport were the first areas to be renovated nearly 20 years ago now.... and very nice, too by the LHC architects who then did Ker Street and more recently the Tinside Lido
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Seems Cornwall Street and Gun Wharf in Devonport were the first areas to be renovated nearly 20 years ago now.... and very nice, too by the LHC architects who then did Ker Street and more recently the Tinside Lido
IQBAL AALAM has good pics of Evans&Shalev Newport High School ( demolished 2009) & the Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge
www.flickr.com/photos/iqbal...
www.flickr.com/photos/iqbal...
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
IQBAL AALAM has good pics of Evans&Shalev Newport High School ( demolished 2009) & the Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge
www.flickr.com/photos/iqbal...
www.flickr.com/photos/iqbal...
Britain from Above pics include 1947
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Britain from Above pics include 1947
Swimming pool at Claridges ...best bit in an Art Deco piece in the Times online
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Swimming pool at Claridges ...best bit in an Art Deco piece in the Times online
www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/air_services...
abpic.co.uk/pictures/vie...
Railway Air Services ( and associates) map, 1939
abpic.co.uk/pictures/vie...
Railway Air Services ( and associates) map, 1939
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/air_services...
abpic.co.uk/pictures/vie...
Railway Air Services ( and associates) map, 1939
abpic.co.uk/pictures/vie...
Railway Air Services ( and associates) map, 1939
And a Google Image search on this Praa Sands "wedgie" house pic finds some well tended examples near Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall maps.app.goo.gl/TLA3aou3E6cR...
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And a Google Image search on this Praa Sands "wedgie" house pic finds some well tended examples near Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall maps.app.goo.gl/TLA3aou3E6cR...
A Google Image search on a pic of Coldrose Court,Truro pent/ monopitch roofed "wedgie" houses leads to many in Hawkins Rd,Newquay by the town architect, Dinsdale ca.1963 maps.app.goo.gl/BXJNnsNiA37r...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A Google Image search on a pic of Coldrose Court,Truro pent/ monopitch roofed "wedgie" houses leads to many in Hawkins Rd,Newquay by the town architect, Dinsdale ca.1963 maps.app.goo.gl/BXJNnsNiA37r...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
A Google Image search on this pic of the pent/ monopitch roofed MWT houses in Redannick leads to scores of -"wedgies"around Hawkins Rd, Newquay by the town architect Blisland in 1963 maps.app.goo.gl/BXJNnsNiA37r...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Google Image search on this pic of the pent/ monopitch roofed MWT houses in Redannick leads to scores of -"wedgies"around Hawkins Rd, Newquay by the town architect Blisland in 1963 maps.app.goo.gl/BXJNnsNiA37r...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
and around Deer Park Drive, Plymouth maps.app.goo.gl/AEECByQLR1TU...
In 2020 Will Self visited Ker Street, Devonport social club, first stop on his National Express powered fact-finding UK tour www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... but he missed the Devonport crews wild Halloween celebration around 2016
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In 2020 Will Self visited Ker Street, Devonport social club, first stop on his National Express powered fact-finding UK tour www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... but he missed the Devonport crews wild Halloween celebration around 2016
The Ker Street, Devonport area had fallen out of favour by Y2000 and was rebuilt around 2010. www.devonportonline.co.uk/millennium_d... The lively Ker Street social club is still in Foulston's Egyptian Odd Fellows Hall, and his Guildhall is alive again
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Ker Street, Devonport area had fallen out of favour by Y2000 and was rebuilt around 2010. www.devonportonline.co.uk/millennium_d... The lively Ker Street social club is still in Foulston's Egyptian Odd Fellows Hall, and his Guildhall is alive again
Miraculously Ker Street was almost untouched by the WWII bombing of Devonport and Plymouth but not by the council planners in the 1950s when the Grand terraces were replaced by flats ( Stalinist , I've heard them called !)
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Miraculously Ker Street was almost untouched by the WWII bombing of Devonport and Plymouth but not by the council planners in the 1950s when the Grand terraces were replaced by flats ( Stalinist , I've heard them called !)
Foulston put a cluster of exotic buildings at the end of the terrace of of grand houses in Ker Street, Devonport..the pillared Guild Hall, the Devonport column (statue of King George never erected), a 'Hindoo' temple (actually Baptist) and the Egyptian library just in time for photography
October 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Foulston put a cluster of exotic buildings at the end of the terrace of of grand houses in Ker Street, Devonport..the pillared Guild Hall, the Devonport column (statue of King George never erected), a 'Hindoo' temple (actually Baptist) and the Egyptian library just in time for photography
Architect John Foulston 's Ker Street was the finest in Devonport 2 centuries ago
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Architect John Foulston 's Ker Street was the finest in Devonport 2 centuries ago
AFAIK the last flying boat to put down in Plymouth Sound was in 1986 and it was a slightly too exciting SPLASHDOWN! as the wildly flickering bit of VHS newsreel shows....all survived! youtu.be/7Cd9XTuUKg4?...
October 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
AFAIK the last flying boat to put down in Plymouth Sound was in 1986 and it was a slightly too exciting SPLASHDOWN! as the wildly flickering bit of VHS newsreel shows....all survived! youtu.be/7Cd9XTuUKg4?...
Blimey, that was a DeepDive grade FieldNotes!! Love to see it when the trees are bare ( still blue sky of course!!) You just caught the Paul Mount sculpture on the Queens Building. assets.buttondown.email/images/ae141...
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Blimey, that was a DeepDive grade FieldNotes!! Love to see it when the trees are bare ( still blue sky of course!!) You just caught the Paul Mount sculpture on the Queens Building. assets.buttondown.email/images/ae141...
Central Exeter but 60+ years after WWII, curiously low-rise shop on a prime retail corner...was it originally a bomb-site ?....must have been taken with my first digital camera on a rare visit about 2006?
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Central Exeter but 60+ years after WWII, curiously low-rise shop on a prime retail corner...was it originally a bomb-site ?....must have been taken with my first digital camera on a rare visit about 2006?
A 'stone's throw' from the RITZ Penzance is the EXCHANGE GALLERY (2007) which has an electronic window night feature that changes colour contnuously with wind pressure @New St X Princes St now spoiled in my opinion by the anti- rough -sleeper rocks under the cantilever window
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A 'stone's throw' from the RITZ Penzance is the EXCHANGE GALLERY (2007) which has an electronic window night feature that changes colour contnuously with wind pressure @New St X Princes St now spoiled in my opinion by the anti- rough -sleeper rocks under the cantilever window
Tut-tut SPECTATOR....Bored OF Banksy , should it not read, Bored WITH Banksy? .....though I think the English language maybe mutating as it must inevitably do.
September 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tut-tut SPECTATOR....Bored OF Banksy , should it not read, Bored WITH Banksy? .....though I think the English language maybe mutating as it must inevitably do.
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Carry on regardless!....Central Exeter after some WWII bombing a Margaret Tomlinson photo i0.wp.com/historycolle...
Carry on regardless!....Central Exeter after some WWII bombing a Margaret Tomlinson photo i0.wp.com/historycolle...
September 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Carry on regardless!....Central Exeter after some WWII bombing a Margaret Tomlinson photo i0.wp.com/historycolle...
Carry on regardless!....Central Exeter after some WWII bombing a Margaret Tomlinson photo i0.wp.com/historycolle...
Public Art by the railway into Plymouth....don't know the artist
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Public Art by the railway into Plymouth....don't know the artist
Edwin Heathcote on Public Art exhibition 2019
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It featured frieze panels by W Cornwall sculptor Paul Mount for Co-Op Leo's Falmouth ( also Co-Op's HOMEWORLD*, ...*Lastonet factory reclad)
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It featured frieze panels by W Cornwall sculptor Paul Mount for Co-Op Leo's Falmouth ( also Co-Op's HOMEWORLD*, ...*Lastonet factory reclad)
www.facebook.com/groups/60448...
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Edwin Heathcote on Public Art exhibition 2019
www.ft.com/content/a8e5...
It featured frieze panels by W Cornwall sculptor Paul Mount for Co-Op Leo's Falmouth ( also Co-Op's HOMEWORLD*, ...*Lastonet factory reclad)
www.facebook.com/groups/60448...
www.ft.com/content/a8e5...
It featured frieze panels by W Cornwall sculptor Paul Mount for Co-Op Leo's Falmouth ( also Co-Op's HOMEWORLD*, ...*Lastonet factory reclad)
www.facebook.com/groups/60448...