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Name: Turnpike Lane Station Date: 1932 Architect: Charles Holden Lines: Piccadilly Borough: Haringey Listing: Grade II Notes: Turnpike Lane opened on 19th September 1932, the same day as Manor...
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26 Millington Road, Cambridge 1934 Marshall Sisson Grade II Severe modernist house designed for Professor A.J.B. Wace by Marshall Sisson. Like most of the other 1930s modernist houses in Cambridge,...
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Name: Hazeldene Drive Date: 1937 Architect: RJ Lindsay Borough: Harrow Listing: Two houses built as an extension to neighbouring Elm Park Court and designed in a similar Dutch Colonial style. LIndsay...
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Name: Valencia Road Date: 1934 Architect: Douglas Wood Partnership Borough: Harrow Listing: Notes: Numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 were designed by Douglas Wood Partnership architects and built in 1935....
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1964 saw the completion of a number of buildings in Britain that have gone on to be lauded as classic designs and listed, as well as influencing future architects. These buildings by Denys Lasdun ,...
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Name: 97-101 Park Avenue, Ruislip Date: 1935-8 Architect: Connell, Ward and Lucas Borough: Hillingdon Listing: Grade II Notes: 97, 99 and 101 Park Avenue in Ruislip are a trio of Modernist houses...
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Our Mini Guide No.1 explores The Frinton Park Estate on the Essex Coast, the largest collection of interwar modernist houses in the country. The design of the estate was overseen by architect...
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Machines for Living: Connell, Ward & Lucas
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The partnership of Connell, Ward and Lucas only lasted from 1933 to 1939, but in this short time they designed buildings that had a lasting impact on British architecture, with their white walled...
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At The Zoo: Tecton’s Buildings for Animals
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London Zoo opened in April 1828 as a scientific study centre, with grounds laid out by architect Decimus Burton. It opened to the public in 1847, with the grounds expanding and new animal enclosures...
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Name: Alexandra Road Estate Date: 1972-78 Architect: Neave Brown Borough : Camden Listing: Grade II* Notes: Camden’s most ambitious project, an estate with a long curving stepped terrace which...
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Anatomy of a House No.16: Winscombe Street
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Architect Neave Brown is best known for his megastructure estates designed for Camden Boroughs Architects department under Sydney Cook, Alexandra Road and Dunboyne Road , both now listed. Also listed...
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Charles Holden was born on 12th May 1875 in Great Lever, a suburb of Bolton. He began working as an assistant to a surveyor, and eventually became an apprentice to a Manchester architect. Holden...
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Name: Langham House Close Date : 1958 Architect : Stirling & Gowan Borough: Richmond Upon Thames Listing: Grade II* Notes: Thirty flats arranged in two and three storey blocks, on a long thin plot...
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Name: The Windermere Date : 1938 Architect: Borough: Brent Listing : Grade II Notes: Grade II listed pub in South Kenton with brick dutch gables and an art deco interior. See Also- A Pint in...
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Name: Hounslow West Station Date: 1931 Lines: Piccadilly Architect: Charles Holden and Stanley Heaps Borough: Hounslow Listing: Grade II Notes: Almost identical to Ealing Common with...
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Way Out West: the opening of Boston Manor & Osterley March 1934
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The Piccadilly line had finally extended out east from Finsbury Park in 1932, with Charles Holden's new stations reaching up to Cockfosters . Those eight stations were among the first set of public,...
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Anatomy of a House No.15: Weston Point
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The name (or at least surname) of Michael Manser has become synonymous with beautifully-designed high end houses built for discerning clients. This comes from both his career from the early 1960s,...
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We are pleased to announce our second Tube anthology book. Covering 1900-1933, this volume covers the era of the private rail companies up to the birth of London Transport, with wonderful photos by...
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Highsett, Cambridge 1960-65 Eric Lyons A small Span estate near Cambridge station, built in three phases. Designed by Ericl Lyons, the scheme features a three-storey block of flats around a...
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3 Clarkson Road, Cambridge 1959 Trevor Dannatt Grade II Post war house designed by Trevor Dannat for historian Peter Laslett and his wife, Janet. It is built of concrete blockwork, with the upper...
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2 & 2a Grantchester Road, Cambridge 1963 Colin St John Wilson Two houses in concrete blockwork, designed by Colin St John Wilson, with No.2 for himself. The ground floor has glass bricks and...
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Name: Southgate Station Date: 1933 Architect: Charles Holden Lines: Piccadilly Borough: Enfield Listing: Grade II* Notes: One of Holden's most distinctive stations, Southgate is a low circular...
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Name: Cockfosters Station Date: 1933 Architect: Charles Holden Lines: Piccadilly Borough: Enfield Listing: Grade II Notes: The end of the eastern Piccadilly line extension, originally planned as a...
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Architect of the Week: Peter Caspari
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Peter Caspari (1908-1999) Like many of the European emigre architects of the 1930s, Peter Caspari’s career had three acts. The first was his early years practicing in Berlin, before the second act...
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Name: St Aidan, East Acton Date: 1961 Architect: Burles, Newton and Partners Borough: Ealing Listing: Notes: Post war church located near East Acton station, designed by John Newton of Burles,...
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Our " A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land " has now been published by Unbound It is the essential guidebook to discovering the modernist treasures of London’s suburbs. From the underground...
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Name: Dollis Hill Station Date: 1938 Architect: Stanley Heaps Borough: Brent Listing: Notes: Underground station built as part of the New Works Programme of 1935-40, when it became part of the...
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Name: Rayners Lane Station Date: 1938 Architect: Charles Holden and Reginald Uren Lines: Piccadilly, Metropolitan Borough: Harrow Listing: Grade II Notes: Rayners Lane station was designed by New...
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Name: Uxbridge Station Date: 1939 Architect: Charles Holden and L.H. Bucknell Lines: Metropolitan, Piccadilly Borough: Hillingdon Listing: Notes: This station terminus features paired entrance...
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Name: Peter Jones Store Date: 1937 Architect: Slater & Moberly, with Crabtree and Reilly Borough: Kensington & Chelsea Listing: Grade II* Notes: One of the first examples of curtain...
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Anatomy of a House No.13: The Sunspan House
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All the houses we have explored so far in our Anatomy of a House series have been dominated by the right angle. The next house we are going to investigate has much less of the straight and narrow...
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Name: Lawns Court, Wembley Date: 1933 Architect: Welch, Lander & Day Borough: Brent Listing: Notes: Six moderne style low rise apartment blocks containing 50 flats, designed by Welch and Lander for...
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Name: Sloane Avenue Mansions Date: 1933 Architect: George Kay Green Borough : Kensington & Chelsea Listing: Notes: Art deco apartment block in Kensington designed by George Kay Green, also...
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Name: Walthamstow Town Hall Date: 1937-42 Architect: P.D. Hepworth Borough: Waltham Forest Listing : Grade II Notes: Grandiose civic centre, designed by architect P.D. Hepworth, for the then...
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Name: 66 Frognal Date: 1938 Architect: Connell, Ward and Lucas Borough: Camden Listing: Grade II* Notes: House built for solicitor Geoffrey Walford in the Frognal area of Camden. Due to delays and...
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Speculative Suburban Houses 1928-38 is the third in our series of Mini Guides, each exploring the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. This edition documents the art deco and...
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Name: Brentford Health Centre Date: 1938 Architect: L.A. Cooper and K.P. Goble Borough: Hounslow Listing: Grade II Notes: This building was completed in 1938 to designs by L.A. Cooper, borough...
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Name: De Bohun School Date: 1936 Architect: Curtis and Burchett Borough: Enfield Listing: Grade II Notes: Another Curtis and Burchett designed public building, completed in 1936. The Oakwood school...
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Name: 9 West Heath Road Date: 1964 Architect: James Gowan Borough: Camden Listing: Grade II Notes: House designed for furniture manufacturer CS Schreiber by James Gowan. Gowan also designed the...
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The Life and Death of the Firestone Factory
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Sunday August 23rd 2020 is the 40th anniversary of the demolition of the Firestone Factory on the Great West Road in Brentford. It is an event which sparked a backlash against the quick demolition of...
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