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)
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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

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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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?

Landside view south Foulstons Marine Baths, Plymouth Hoe ( not built)

View from Plymouth Sound northwards Foulstons Marine Baths ( not built)

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

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!!

Evans& Shalev's Newport High School Gwent (demolished 2009)

IQBAL AALAM has good pics of Evans&Shalev Newport High School ( demolished 2009) & the Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge
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Bits & pieces online
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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www.aaschool.ac.uk/obituaries/d...

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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 ?

www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/search?ke...

Britain from Above pics include 1947

Amazing what comes up on ebay and from Audtralia., too !!
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_...

Swimming pool at Claridges ...best bit in an Art Deco piece in the Times online

Hi Webrarian..We used to talk on Flickr and I remember you describing the 1960s built Ker St flats as ' Stalinist'...I saw a Facebook post from a district nurse who just missed being hit by a fridge pushed off one of the flats balconies in Ker St

www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/air_services...
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Railway Air Services ( and associates) map, 1939

Alexandra Road Estate - Wikipedia

These must be inspired a bit by those concrete council terraces in Camden, London built in the 70s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

Funding secured to start building social houses in Plymouth Plymouth Community Homes says the first phase of the £33.5m scheme in Millbay will start in spring.

BBC online newsfeed article about a social rent/'affordable' housing development go-ahead near Plymouth's Millbay Docks...won't be occupied until early 2029 though www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Funding secured to start building social houses in Plymouth - BBC News Plymouth Community Homes says the first phase of the £33.5m scheme in Millbay will start in spring.

Go-ahead for a social rent/ affordable housing build near Millbay Docks,Plymouth.....first occupants early 2029? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dumb question but is this derived from the National Library of Scotland's OS map archive?

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...

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...

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Postmodern architecture: TV-am studios by Terry Farrell As part of our Postmodernism series, we look at Terry Farrell's TV-am television studios in Camden, which featured a Japanese temple and 11 rooftop eggcups

One iconic late 20thC building I did see was the TV AM studio and its eggcup on canal-side rear view www.dezeen.com/2015/08/26/p...

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"That generation of men who grew up toying with Meccano and went on to change the world is finally leaving the stage" Following the recent deaths of British architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, Catherine Slessor reflects on their intertwined but highly distinct careers.

The DEZEEN online newsletter is currently commemorating architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell who were at the front of high-tech and post-modern architectural styles in the last third of the 20thC www.dezeen.com/2025/10/06/n...
I lived near but never saw : www.dezeen.com/2019/11/14/p...

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

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

Architect John Foulston 's Ker Street was the finest in Devonport 2 centuries ago