Lion & Lamb Yard / Farnham

Lyons+Sleeman+Hoare Architects. 120,000 sq ft retail development based on a courtyard of a C16 coaching inn. Farnham Conservation Area, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK. 

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UCA / Farnham

Farnham campus of the University for the Creative Arts. Seen here, the Craft Study Centre, architects A&Q Partnership, c.2005. Falkner Road, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK.

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Nelson Arms / Farnham

Grade II listed public house at corner of Castle Street and Park Row. Listed as C18 although some of the earliest structure is said to be vestiges of three C14 farm cottages. Farnham Conservation Area, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK.

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45 Castle St / Farnham

Early C18 front to a timber-framed core. Grade II* listed. Farnham Conservation Area, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK. 

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Happy Holidays / 2020

Recycling past Xmas pics due to Covid! From top-left, clockwise...

• Colosseum / Christmas

• Matisse / 'Nuit de Noel, 1952'

• Ganton St / Xmas lights 

• Sundrops / Angels Market 

• Happy Holidays / 2019 

• Festive Lamps / Hyde Park 

• Battersea Flower Station / SW11 

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Lockdown Diptych / XIV

• Left: Dale Chihuli / V&A 
• Right: Spring / Suns

Looking forward to spring... 

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Millennium Memorial / High Path Estate

Horse-trough style memorial installed January 2000 by High Path Estate Residents Association. One of two facing Merton High Street. London Borough of Merton.

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The Trafalgar SW19 / II

Earliest reference is 1868 and said to be the smallest pub in Merton. A single-storey extension was added in 1906. Notwithstanding its modest exterior it has won several CAMRA awards. 23 High Path, London Borough of Merton.

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Harris Academy / SW19

CPMG Architects, 2020. Academy schools are outside local authority democratic control. Criticisms have included that they are...

"a waste of money, selective, damaging to the schools and communities around them, forced on parents who do not want them, and a move towards privatisation of education by the back door" [source Wikipedia 17/12/2020]. 

This one looks like a factory, which I suppose it is in a sense. High Path, London Borough of Merton.

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Brighton / Western Bandstand x2

[from the archives of 2012]

 

Designed by Phillip Lockwood, Brighton Borough Surveyor, completed 1884. Renovation in 2009 managed by ABIR architects. Originally made of cast iron with copper-clad timber roof. Sometimes known as "The Birdcage", it weighs 23 tonnes. Grade II listed. King's Road, Brighton & Hove City.

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Great Arthur House / Roof wing detail

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon, completed 1959 at the Golden Lane Estate. Showing one of the concrete roof-wings that conceal the services (lift-room, water tanks, etc) from ground view. The use of yellow glass panels preceded the move to Brutalist functionalism. 17 floors, 120 units, Grade II listed. City of London.

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Christmas Tree / 2020

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Golden Lane Leisure Centre / x2

[from the archives of 2012]

Originally designed by Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon, completed in 1963. Renovated to designs by Cartwright Pickard Architects, 2012. Includes a pool, gym and sports hall. Grade II listed. City of London.

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Children's Eye Centre / x2

[from the archives of 2012]

 

Architects: Penoyre & Prasad, 2007. Moorfields Eye Hospital is a world-class centre, but the Victorian edifice can be a bit foreboding for youngsters. This happy building around the back of the main hospital is for the 0-16 year-olds, and has an interior to match — also direct connection to the main hospital's operating theatres without it being obvious that you have left the children's building :) Peerless Street, London Borough of Islington.

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Hammersmith Bridge / south

[from the archives of 2012]

Ornate suspension bridge designed and engineered by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, 1887. Utilizing stone piers of an earlier bridge and built of cast and wrought iron. The wrought iron is used in tension and cast iron for compression and casting. Grade II* listed. Taken from south bank in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Turnpike Lane Underground Station / North entrance

[from the archives of 2012]

Architect: Charles Holden, 1932. In the modern style and Grade II listed. Even the outpouring of the hot-dog shop can't compromise its charm. London Borough of Haringey. 

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Tottenham Hale / Waiting Room

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: Will Alsop, John Lyall & Jan Störmer, 1991. Station waiting-room looking like a slightly up-market Nissen hut, but curiously eye-catching! Steel and aluminium, frieze behind by Bruce McLean. London Borough of Haringey.

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Moorgreen House / exterior detail

[from the archives of 2012]

Part of the 1970s Earlstoke Estate. Renton Howard Wood Levin for the GLC. Low-rise apartments and maisonettes of concrete and brick construction, in a Brutalist style albeit with brick finish. Wynyatt Street, London Borough of Islington.

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Nonsuch Mansion / IV

Architect: Sir Jeffry Wyattville, 1806, in a Tudor Gothic Revival style, evoking Henry VIII's palace that was once in Nonsuch Park. Brick with 'Roman' cement render. Grade II* listed. Cheam, Epsom & Ewell Borough, Surrey, UK.

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32 & 34 High St / Ewell

"Originally The White House, a gentleman’s residence, long the home of the Andrew family. Built in the late 18thC" (source: Epsom & Ewell Business Explorer). Timber frame with C19 brick front and shop units added c.1904. Mansard roof with dormers. Grade II listed. No. 32 is vacant and rather neglected. Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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28 & 30 High St / Ewell

On the site of The White Horse pub in pre-1819 era (source: Epsom & Ewell Business Explorer). Brick-built C19 with 2 shops, replacement sash windows above. Pediment inset with half-round attic window. Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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St Mary Ewell / II

Rebuild architect: Henry Clutton, 1848, in a Gothic Revival style using coursed Swanage limestone rubble. Castellated tower with corner pinnacles. Grade II listed. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Mill Lane / Cottages

Grade II listing says: "Late C18 early C19. Two storeys, painted weatherboarding, Yorkshire casements to 1st floor, sashes to ground floor. Plank doors with simple hoods, old pantiles." No.7 on corner ("Crooked Cottage") has casement windows to ground floor also. Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Upper Mill / Ewell

Rebuilt c.1810 on a watermill site first recorded in the Domesday Book (1086). The Upper Mill was used for flour production until 1954 although by then water power had been replaced by gas. Renovated in the 1980s during a conversion to offices. Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK. 

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Bourne Hall / Park

Gardens of Bourne Hall, Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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Beaux / Rossa

C19 brick-built dwelling, now with two shops. Divided in the late C19 according to Surrey Archaeological Society, which also reported a fragment of Roman pottery found on-site. 38 High Street, Ewell, Borough of Epsom & Ewell, Surrey, UK.

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High Finance / DLR

[from the archives of 2012]

World HQ's of Barclays and HSBC banks by architects HOK (2005) and Foster + Partners (2002) respectively. DLR doesn't stand for Dishonest Libor Rigging, but for Docklands Light Railway: a rail transport system serving London's Docklands district. Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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