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Bit too much of a location clue but the rooflight is octagonal as are the frilly lampshades ( after much squinting)..... aaah! my year of Ancient Greek at school wasn't in vain......continuing the polygonal theme , my sisters French husband couldn't believe the British rollable heptagonal 50p coin
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Bit too much of a location clue but the rooflight is octagonal as are the frilly lampshades ( after much squinting)..... aaah! my year of Ancient Greek at school wasn't in vain......continuing the polygonal theme , my sisters French husband couldn't believe the British rollable heptagonal 50p coin
Not sure what this proves.....https://neweconomics.org/2024/05/more-than-4-in-10-council-homes-sold-under-right-to-buy-now-owned-by-private-landlords
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Not sure what this proves.....https://neweconomics.org/2024/05/more-than-4-in-10-council-homes-sold-under-right-to-buy-now-owned-by-private-landlords
Yes it's a revolutionary thought isn't it? It would turn Thatchers cunning plan on its head.At least everybody would be in on the endless property price inflation. Surprisingly many spec-built suburban houses in Middlesex 1928-1932 were bought with Local Council Mortgages
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Yes it's a revolutionary thought isn't it? It would turn Thatchers cunning plan on its head.At least everybody would be in on the endless property price inflation. Surprisingly many spec-built suburban houses in Middlesex 1928-1932 were bought with Local Council Mortgages
Unpalatable though it is surely it was ' right-to-buy' that made council housing a mixed community? What would be the effect if all council/ housing association rent was converted into mortgages so the occupier eventually owned the property?
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Unpalatable though it is surely it was ' right-to-buy' that made council housing a mixed community? What would be the effect if all council/ housing association rent was converted into mortgages so the occupier eventually owned the property?
No sackings at the BBC, please, but I wish I had a tenner for every time I heard that tune on RADIO4 !
GOOGLE goes even deeper on ' Sailing By's origins
The "Elizabethan Serenade" is a piece of music by Ronald Binge first published under the title "Andante cantabile".
GOOGLE goes even deeper on ' Sailing By's origins
The "Elizabethan Serenade" is a piece of music by Ronald Binge first published under the title "Andante cantabile".
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
No sackings at the BBC, please, but I wish I had a tenner for every time I heard that tune on RADIO4 !
GOOGLE goes even deeper on ' Sailing By's origins
The "Elizabethan Serenade" is a piece of music by Ronald Binge first published under the title "Andante cantabile".
GOOGLE goes even deeper on ' Sailing By's origins
The "Elizabethan Serenade" is a piece of music by Ronald Binge first published under the title "Andante cantabile".
....major repair not retail in previous!!!.... 😞
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
....major repair not retail in previous!!!.... 😞
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
On my only visit to Brixham around 2007 I came across what was a WW2 observation post ( a.k.a 'pillbox') and is now part of the Battery Gardens....whoever supervised its building was schooled in modernist architecture 😀 www.flickr.com/photos/74784...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
On my only visit to Brixham around 2007 I came across what was a WW2 observation post ( a.k.a 'pillbox') and is now part of the Battery Gardens....whoever supervised its building was schooled in modernist architecture 😀 www.flickr.com/photos/74784...
The hotel in Torquay has the biggest set of original? Crittall windows and doors I've seen .....seems to be a mix of residential flats and the Queens Quay holiday lets.. .the front was redecorated around 2009 ( streetview)
maps.app.goo.gl/bNfCiu7TmwtF...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The hotel in Torquay has the biggest set of original? Crittall windows and doors I've seen .....seems to be a mix of residential flats and the Queens Quay holiday lets.. .the front was redecorated around 2009 ( streetview)
maps.app.goo.gl/bNfCiu7TmwtF...
maps.app.goo.gl/bNfCiu7TmwtF...
Tower block on the edge of St Austell might be the tallest in Cornwall ? ( 2007 pic). Reportedly the St George flag is referred to as the butcher's apron by some .
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ENGLAND , MY ENGLAND?.....TOWER BLOCK ST AUSTELL, CORNWALL
On display for a few days, April, 2007. Could mean many things nowadays, even more complex in Cornwall !!! Shot from the back of the Western Greyhound 527 bus to Newquay, hence reflections
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November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tower block on the edge of St Austell might be the tallest in Cornwall ? ( 2007 pic). Reportedly the St George flag is referred to as the butcher's apron by some .
www.flickr.com/photos/74784...
www.flickr.com/photos/74784...
The existing building doesn't have many friends,perhaps beyond economic restoration? though some of its sheltered tenants didn't want to leave. The new flats will be 100% affordable so for sale to people on the councils waiting list?
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The existing building doesn't have many friends,perhaps beyond economic restoration? though some of its sheltered tenants didn't want to leave. The new flats will be 100% affordable so for sale to people on the councils waiting list?
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
Strange choice of Letraset trees around this ( I expected palm trees on this desert island).....gonna need a desalination plant to give them even half a chance!!
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Strange choice of Letraset trees around this ( I expected palm trees on this desert island).....gonna need a desalination plant to give them even half a chance!!
IQBAL AALAM has good pics of Evans&Shalev Newport High School ( demolished 2009) & the Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge
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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...
Very interesting bit of ' neo-deco' and I like it more than their Truro County Court and St Ives Tate Gallery....is there an illustrated list of their other work anywhere ?
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Very interesting bit of ' neo-deco' and I like it more than their Truro County Court and St Ives Tate Gallery....is there an illustrated list of their other work anywhere ?