A journey around mid century modernist buildings in the West Country. By @magslhalliday.bsky.social
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He was one of several young architects Hicklin recruited to Cornwall County Council’s Architecture department and they were all thoughtful and clever modernists. I’ve been honoured to have Hicklin’s daughter in touch about my writings on her father’s work.
Ooh! Good news about the good shepard, @eberlin.co.uk.
Here are a selection of photos which show why it's such good news that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston will hopefully be saved (if only for the stained glass window).
www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/ch...
Oh my! One of Royston Summer’s lakeside house is for sale!
I wrote about him in my deep dive into Saltash Library. He’d spent his national service spying on Soviet planes in East Germany. And he built eco houses before it was a thing.
MACHAN, on the edge of Gillan village, near Manaccan on the Lizard peninsula was built in the 1930s for a man who was a wholesale meat merchant and used in WW2 to accomodate evacuated children...old b&w postcard shows it had a few less curvy bits then
