Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
6 years it took them to fix the roof - which has leaked since it was built!
How about some proper modernism 100 odd years on?
- Thread starter Grant Fondo
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6 years it took them to fix the roof - which has leaked since it was built!
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
Could be the very first proper modernist house? Great stuff.
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
Quick shout for the Scandinavians, Villa Mairea, Alver Aalto 1938.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
My late S-I-L once lived in a Span house at New Ash Green.
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2016/06/2...-designed-span-house-in-new-ash-green-kent-2/
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
Thats a pretty little house!
New Ways in Northampton built in 1926, always been fascinated by it as I used to deliver the papers there as a kid in the late 1970’s
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2019/01/1...-new-ways-house-northampton-northamptonshire/
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2019/01/1...-new-ways-house-northampton-northamptonshire/
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
I got chatting years back to the librarian of Poole library about a famous modernist house near Sandbanks.
'Oh, Landfall?' she said. 'Yes my friends live in it!' She kindly asked them if i could visit, which i duly did. Lovely place, 1936, and the views .... wow
'Oh, Landfall?' she said. 'Yes my friends live in it!' She kindly asked them if i could visit, which i duly did. Lovely place, 1936, and the views .... wow
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Our friends 'the Cool Kids' are restoring one at New Ash Green. Labour of love!
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
One of our local walks - we only get as far as the cafe!
I remember my parents looking through the brochure for NAG housings and we're tempted, but choose a more conventional semi in nearby Sutton At Hone. Back then, NAG had a thriving village feel to it with a pub, shops and a Sunday Market. Alas the ending of Sunday trading restrictions and the opening of shopping centres like Bluewater have turned it into a bit of a run down area.
The posher houses are still very attractive, but the cheaper houses seem a bit run down now.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
If I remember they had some restricted rules for the owners eg certain days when it was permissible to hang washing out.
Spent a whole day there as a young teen on a class day out! It was an exciting development for adults at the time but not for us schoolkids - we had to draw maps, do traffic surveys and talk to village residents and shop owners etc.
It probably had some relevance to my future life but it didn't feel like it at the time!
I seem to recall there were restrictions.
It had a vibrant resturant - Jake's which was popular. My parents had their Ruby wedding there. Must have been in 1988, but sadly now closed.
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Grant Fondo
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- Location
- Cheshire
Another Oliver Hill house, same architect as Landfall in Poole, up for sale at £30m a few years back 
Andy in Germany
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- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I just looked that up: it's only 37k from my apartment. It'd make a good goal for a future ride...
