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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: January 2009
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Saturday, 31 January 2009. The Joy of Listing. Another city that suffered badly in the War was Plymouth, where the same pattern of hasty clearance. A very loaded consultation has made it quite clear that the council see any further listings as a "constraint" (the City were livid at the listing of their own offices - which are admittedly difficult to like at first glance but are, on close inspection, excellent of their type and date http:/ www.plymouth.gov...And d...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: A Slice of Unmitigated Nostalgia
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Tuesday, 28 April 2009. A Slice of Unmitigated Nostalgia. Nothing much to do with architecture, but too good not to add. I'm a complete sucker for this sort of socialist realist (ie utterly fictional) film-making (. So here's "English Harvest" of 1938 in glorious Dufaycolour, courtesy of the British Film Institute and currently doing the rounds as part of a tour entitled "Britain at Bay". Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: The Decline of Civilisation
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Tuesday, 21 April 2009. The Decline of Civilisation. An architectural photographer's disappointing experience of the boys in blue combines the elegant work of one of the best firms of architects working in the period 1945-70 with further evidence of the paranoid new barbarism into which we are sleepwalking. All who spend any time enjoying, and recording, the built environment would do well to read Edward Denison's piece here:. Labels: mcmorran and whitby. A Slice of...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: It seems it's just as bad in Wales, after all.
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Saturday, 23 May 2009. It seems it's just as bad in Wales, after all. OK, that’s EH wrecked, now time to look at the previously pretty blameless CADW:. Even then, having mostly iron machinery which survived the fire, it could have been saved, and a couple of years ago, CADW dug deep in their pockets and agreed to finance the preservation of what was left:. Http:/ www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/default.asp? Will CADW be asking for their money back? Combined wind and watermill.
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: May 2009
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Saturday, 23 May 2009. It seems it's just as bad in Wales, after all. OK, that’s EH wrecked, now time to look at the previously pretty blameless CADW:. Even then, having mostly iron machinery which survived the fire, it could have been saved, and a couple of years ago, CADW dug deep in their pockets and agreed to finance the preservation of what was left:. Http:/ www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/default.asp? Will CADW be asking for their money back? Combined wind and watermill.
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: Portacabins are crap
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Wednesday, 9 September 2009. OK, I'll admit I've not been very active here of late, and I'll also admit that the title of this post is purely to arouse the wrath of an officious git, and hopefully lead to some entertaining correspondence. Http:/ www.portakabin.co.uk/news/newstwo/. Many years after his officiousness was first revealed. Normal service will, I hope, be resumed relatively shortly. 10 September 2009 at 10:02. Dont make it as long again. THE BLADE BUILDIN...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: April 2009
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Tuesday, 28 April 2009. A Slice of Unmitigated Nostalgia. Nothing much to do with architecture, but too good not to add. I'm a complete sucker for this sort of socialist realist (ie utterly fictional) film-making (. So here's "English Harvest" of 1938 in glorious Dufaycolour, courtesy of the British Film Institute and currently doing the rounds as part of a tour entitled "Britain at Bay". Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Monday, 27 April 2009. And here's the developers...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: Local Authority impotence
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Monday, 27 April 2009. Thanks to Mark Savage for the pic, from http:/ www.geograph.org.uk/. Today's prats are West Lancashire District Council, and their victim is Greaves Hall at Banks near Southport, a Grade II listed house which, under the local authority's nose, has been allowed to deteriorate to the point at which they have become minded to compulsorily purchase it, for demolition http:/ webdocs.westlancsdc.gov.uk/coins/ViewSelectedDocument.asp? Greaves Hall is...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: Dead in the water?
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Saturday, 9 May 2009. Dead in the water? I've moaned before about those, set by chance as custodians of our historic environment, who have no vision. But what happens when the vision is desperately wrong, and at odds with a century or more of best practice? I was going to hold off from this, but:. A wife, though she made Lady Macbeth look like the kitten cuddling type - which in itself speaks volumes) which would make the Dear Leader Gordon blush. Oh, EH aren't in S...
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer: September 2009
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Confessions of a Conservation Officer. Thursday, 10 September 2009. The Joy of Listing - Revisited. C) Ruth Sharville, http:/ www.geograph.org,uk/. Licensed under a creative commons licence. To quote from the list description:. The Royal Bank of Scotland, St Andrew's Cross, Plymouth, is designated for the following principal reasons:. It integrates high-quality decorative art works. It is one of the most important buildings of post-war Plymouth. It is a prominent and distinctive landmark. On the recommen...
