Richard
@rtruscott.bsky.social
Architect, work for a London Borough in Planning, Urban Design, Housing, Policy etc, like politics, culture & history, cycling…
A complaint I’ve made before, but I really don’t think Tarmac Ltd should refill the diesel tanks of their cement mixers in ordinary domestic petrol stations in residential areas like the one opposite my home, photographed earlier this evening; they should refuel in their depots!
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A complaint I’ve made before, but I really don’t think Tarmac Ltd should refill the diesel tanks of their cement mixers in ordinary domestic petrol stations in residential areas like the one opposite my home, photographed earlier this evening; they should refuel in their depots!
I had a short but great walk this afternoon, just before the sun set, from Over Haddon to Haddon Grove & back; the clear, golden, setting-sun-light on the village, fields & trees, was fabulous! #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I had a short but great walk this afternoon, just before the sun set, from Over Haddon to Haddon Grove & back; the clear, golden, setting-sun-light on the village, fields & trees, was fabulous! #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict
… I think one possibility would divert from Ph2a north of Stafford to join the existing West Coast Main Line (& the line to Stoke) at Norton Bridge. I’d probably add a shortening & straightening at Baldwins Gate as well
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
… I think one possibility would divert from Ph2a north of Stafford to join the existing West Coast Main Line (& the line to Stoke) at Norton Bridge. I’d probably add a shortening & straightening at Baldwins Gate as well
Thinking as an architect, I suspect hardline Classicists, especially the more bombastic sort, like Trump, will think as they see this huge White House ballroom emerge, in place of the East Wing, is they now need to enlarge the West Wing to exactly match! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Thinking as an architect, I suspect hardline Classicists, especially the more bombastic sort, like Trump, will think as they see this huge White House ballroom emerge, in place of the East Wing, is they now need to enlarge the West Wing to exactly match! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
…I think loops could be built just south of Redhill station, allowing both south-west & east-west (& v-v) for destruction of just a couple of resi buildings + rather more scrappy-looking (but undoubtedly important) industrial bdgs, possibly with curves station platforms: …
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
…I think loops could be built just south of Redhill station, allowing both south-west & east-west (& v-v) for destruction of just a couple of resi buildings + rather more scrappy-looking (but undoubtedly important) industrial bdgs, possibly with curves station platforms: …
… It should be easier, cheaper & quicker to get rail there from more places, specifically Gatwick should build loops to link north-south line they’re on to lines running east & west from Redhill, which connect northbound only; former easyish but less useful, linking just Kent:…
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
… It should be easier, cheaper & quicker to get rail there from more places, specifically Gatwick should build loops to link north-south line they’re on to lines running east & west from Redhill, which connect northbound only; former easyish but less useful, linking just Kent:…
Good to see the new #BankingHub due to open next week in my old home town, Bakewell, Derbyshire, un-banked since the last high street bank pulled out last year, despite many old people, small businesses & livestock market making bank counter services much needed
August 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Good to see the new #BankingHub due to open next week in my old home town, Bakewell, Derbyshire, un-banked since the last high street bank pulled out last year, despite many old people, small businesses & livestock market making bank counter services much needed
I’ve been on the Isle of Wight for the last week for a family holiday, & it’s been very pleasant, much more so, & much more interesting than I’d expected; it dealt is, as has previously been remarked, a kind of distillation of everything that’s touristy about all of SOUTHERN England!
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I’ve been on the Isle of Wight for the last week for a family holiday, & it’s been very pleasant, much more so, & much more interesting than I’d expected; it dealt is, as has previously been remarked, a kind of distillation of everything that’s touristy about all of SOUTHERN England!
Great to visit top floor of new New Scotland Yard, the Met Police HQ, earlier today, for a Secured By Design Award; wonderful views over River Thames, London Eye & County Hall, & gorgeous closeup views of newly restored Norman Shaw North parliamentary offices next door
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Great to visit top floor of new New Scotland Yard, the Met Police HQ, earlier today, for a Secured By Design Award; wonderful views over River Thames, London Eye & County Hall, & gorgeous closeup views of newly restored Norman Shaw North parliamentary offices next door
I’m at the opening of the Eat Wood Green community garden created by PUP Architects & Haringey Council Regen on the 1st roof terrace of Wood Green Library, for Ubele & Black Rootz to teach people to grow edible plants & enliven eventually all the roof terraces
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m at the opening of the Eat Wood Green community garden created by PUP Architects & Haringey Council Regen on the 1st roof terrace of Wood Green Library, for Ubele & Black Rootz to teach people to grow edible plants & enliven eventually all the roof terraces
I’m standing outside an excellent pub right now, engaged in a vigorous debate on the architectural qualities or not of THIS facade: to render (for insulation), or not?
June 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m standing outside an excellent pub right now, engaged in a vigorous debate on the architectural qualities or not of THIS facade: to render (for insulation), or not?
That opening of this evening’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social by @faisalislam.bsky.social - the sudden breakup between Trump & Musk as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of a SpaceX rocket, was very on point!
June 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That opening of this evening’s @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social by @faisalislam.bsky.social - the sudden breakup between Trump & Musk as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of a SpaceX rocket, was very on point!
…high on the #PeakDistrict limestone plateau, far from any canals or the possibility of building any! Wormhill is a classic grand #WhitePeak village, with large, run-down or lavishly restored farms along a tree lined straight main street in a slight dip in the windswept high plateau
April 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
…high on the #PeakDistrict limestone plateau, far from any canals or the possibility of building any! Wormhill is a classic grand #WhitePeak village, with large, run-down or lavishly restored farms along a tree lined straight main street in a slight dip in the windswept high plateau
Another interesting part of my walk yesterday (though I didn’t realise at the time) is that this elaborate Victorian Gothic well housing in the village of Wormhill is apparently in memorial of James Brindley, the great Georgian canal engineer, who was (surprisingly) born in this #Derbyshire parish…
April 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Another interesting part of my walk yesterday (though I didn’t realise at the time) is that this elaborate Victorian Gothic well housing in the village of Wormhill is apparently in memorial of James Brindley, the great Georgian canal engineer, who was (surprisingly) born in this #Derbyshire parish…
Despite the gloom turning to drizzle, managed a completely different walk from Millers Dale today, mostly on the White Peak plateau, including part of the Limestone Way
#Derbyshire #PeakDistrictwalks
#Derbyshire #PeakDistrictwalks
April 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Despite the gloom turning to drizzle, managed a completely different walk from Millers Dale today, mostly on the White Peak plateau, including part of the Limestone Way
#Derbyshire #PeakDistrictwalks
#Derbyshire #PeakDistrictwalks
…dramatic tunnels & bridges, plus old lime works
April 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
…dramatic tunnels & bridges, plus old lime works
…then returned to Millers Dale along the #MonsalTrail; the track of the old Midland Railway main line to Manchester;…
April 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
…then returned to Millers Dale along the #MonsalTrail; the track of the old Midland Railway main line to Manchester;…
Second part of my walk yesterday, emerged from Chee Dale gorge at Blackwell Mill, which is a row of railway cottages & a cycle hire hut/snacks kiosk with no road only a track, in the triangle between railway lines,…
April 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Second part of my walk yesterday, emerged from Chee Dale gorge at Blackwell Mill, which is a row of railway cottages & a cycle hire hut/snacks kiosk with no road only a track, in the triangle between railway lines,…
… (very different return journey later!)
April 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
… (very different return journey later!)
…before becoming a gorge with overhanging limestone cliffs, vertiginous scrambles & stepping stones! …
April 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
…before becoming a gorge with overhanging limestone cliffs, vertiginous scrambles & stepping stones! …
Discovered yesterday a new to me & magnificent walk here in the #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict, up the part of the Wye valley known as Chee Dale, from Millers Dale, which starts as a lovely steep sided wooded valley with occasional water meadows & the old Midland Railway line above,…
April 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Discovered yesterday a new to me & magnificent walk here in the #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict, up the part of the Wye valley known as Chee Dale, from Millers Dale, which starts as a lovely steep sided wooded valley with occasional water meadows & the old Midland Railway line above,…
I’m back in Derbyshire now, for my Mum’s funeral a week today, & probably a week after, & the sadness is lessened by the glorious weather, scenery & spring flora & fauna bursting out everywhere! #LathkillDale #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict
April 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I’m back in Derbyshire now, for my Mum’s funeral a week today, & probably a week after, & the sadness is lessened by the glorious weather, scenery & spring flora & fauna bursting out everywhere! #LathkillDale #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict
Oooo, I’m in the presence of Architecture!
#QueenElizabethOlympicPark #StratfordWaterfront #EastBank #SadlersWellsEast #BBCMusic #V&AStorehouse etc
#QueenElizabethOlympicPark #StratfordWaterfront #EastBank #SadlersWellsEast #BBCMusic #V&AStorehouse etc
February 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Oooo, I’m in the presence of Architecture!
#QueenElizabethOlympicPark #StratfordWaterfront #EastBank #SadlersWellsEast #BBCMusic #V&AStorehouse etc
#QueenElizabethOlympicPark #StratfordWaterfront #EastBank #SadlersWellsEast #BBCMusic #V&AStorehouse etc
Professor Simon Schama’s tweet earlier today, that masterfully sums up today’s meeting between the US Secretary Of State, Marco Rubio, & Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, facilitated by Saudi Arabia, to (seemingly) agree to Russia carving up & castrating Ukraine: x.com/simon_schama...
February 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Professor Simon Schama’s tweet earlier today, that masterfully sums up today’s meeting between the US Secretary Of State, Marco Rubio, & Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, facilitated by Saudi Arabia, to (seemingly) agree to Russia carving up & castrating Ukraine: x.com/simon_schama...