This is the third of four posts telling the story of council housing in Walsall. Beyond any local interest, it reflects the dynamics of a wider national history of council housing. That fuller story will be told in my forthcoming book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing which will be published by […]
via Council Housing in Walsall, Part III: Postwar Estates and High-Rise — Municipal Dreams
The Alhambra is Granada’s love letter to Moorish culture, a place where fountains trickle, leaves rustle, and ancient spirits seem to mysteriously linger. It is part palace, part fort, part World Heritage site, part lesson in medieval architecture, enchanted a never-ending line of expectant visitors. Years ago I was one of these expectant visitors and […]
via The Alhambra is Granada’s cultural treasure — Janaline’s world journey
Mark Swenarton, Cook’s Camden: the Making of Modern Housing (Lund Humphries, 2017) To Mark Swenarton, the work of Sydney Cook (Camden Borough Architect from 1965 to 1973) and his talented team represents ‘an architectural resolution unsurpassed not just in social housing in the UK but in urban housing anywhere in the world’. Usually that kind […]
Codfish is the star of the Portuguese Christmas-eve supper, but a cabbage called “penca” plays an essential supporting role. It is a hardy variety, capable of surviving the frost that usually covers the fields in December. Penca is often planted next to “couve galega” a cabbage similar to kale used to make the traditional “caldo […]
During our Portugal trip we spent a night in Coimbra, a riverfront city. It is home to a preserved medieval old town and the historic University of Coimbra which was built on the grounds of a former palace. Published as part of Wordless Wednesday
Our first day in Tokyo this past September, Judy and I visited Hama Rikyu Garden. Some four hundred years ago this garden consisted of a shallow pond and marshland used by feudal lords for duck hunting. Today, however, it is surrounded by the skyscrapers of downtown Tokyo.
This is the second of four posts telling the story of council housing in Walsall. Beyond any local interest, it reflects the dynamics of a wider national history of council housing. That fuller story will be told in my forthcoming book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing which will be published by […]
via Council Housing in Walsall, Part II: The Interwar Period — Municipal Dreams
Casa Batlló is a renowned building located in the center of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces Published as part of Wodrless Wednesday
If we want to get children out of doors and away from screens, we need to up our game – and snowy days help show us the way.
via Snow 1, Snapchat 0 – and why this result matters — Rethinking Childhood
One of my favourite Cathedrals in England is definitely Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. I have visited this Cathedral a couple of times now and every time I have been amazed at the beauty and architecture of this Cathedral. Ely is only a 25 minute drive from my parents house so it is one of the […]
via Ely Cathedral, a wonder of the Middle Ages — Janaline’s world journey
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