April 2022

The above picture (attributed to Howard Coster on the relevant Wikipedia page) shows Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health 1945-1951 in Clement Attlee’s Labour government, and thereby responsible for housing in Britain. His, and the government’s, policy was to focus on building council houses rather than leaving housing provision to the free market. As in the […]

Today’s photo is taken from Wikipedia (despite what I stated last time) and has the author’s attribution as ‘By Peter Church, CCBY-SA20,https://commons’. It shows the Regal cinema in Ferensway, Hull, built in the 1930s by Tarran Industries and demolished in 2005 to make way for the new St. Stephen’s shopping, entertainment and eating emporium. Robert

Today’s photo shows the Georgian entrance to the market hall in Hereford town centre, picture taken Christmas Eve.After writing blog 32 I realised that there may have been a connection between the Charterhouse Board school picture and the development of North Hull Estate as some of the children that attended Charterhouse may have been re-home

This morning (Wed.) I attended a meeting to discuss a revised website for Hull Civic Soc. (incidentally, the meeting room was part of the ‘Clubhouse’, Elm Avenue, Garden Village estate, East Hull – a fine Arts and Crafts building, more inside than out, and open to the public in the morning throughout the week usually,

Today’s picture, taken from the internet, shows a short section of a street in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) was, arguably, more committed to the ideal of improving working class housing that Barry Parker (s.p.b.). ‘The partners preferred the simple vernacular style and made it their aim to improve housing standards for the working

Although sounding for all the world like a comedy double-act Parker and Unwin were very significant in the history of house design in the early 20th century, their residual influence stretching on through the century. Barry Parker (1867-1947 and see above) started an architectural and town planning partnership with Raymond Unwin (his brother-in-law) in 1896.