BBC Television Centre Building, White City
BBC Television Centre Building, White City Only four years after the end of World War 2, the BBC announced that new Television Studios were to be constructed at a 13.5 acre site (previously used for the Franco-British exhibition of 1908), 4 miles from central London, at White City within the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Although many households […]
Commercial Street, Maesteg, Wales
Commercial Street, Maesteg, Wales This town was established north east of Bridgend in the Llynfi Valley due to good accessible reserves of coal and iron ore. Up until the early 1820s, it was a sparsely inhabited area of small farmsteads, and there is evidence of Iron Age settlements nearby. Once mining had been proven viable, […]
Torwood Street, Torquay
Torwood Street, Torquay Facing the picturesque Torquay Marina, Torwood Street heads up the hill towards the oldest inhabited part of the South West, Kent Caverns, where prehistoric human remains have been found. This pleasant part of the town, one of three which make up the area known as the English Riviera or more commonly Torbay, was built up during the […]
Lockerbie High Street
Lockerbie High Street Lockerbie, a small town on the strategic main routes between London and Glasgow, both road and rail, grew around the crossroads and railway station in the centre of the town. History of the town goes back at least as far as the Vikings, and traces of nearby Roman camps indicate that this […]
Kenmont Gardens, London
Kenmont Gardens, London The College Park area of North London grew around the transport links, starting with the Paddington arm of the Grand Junction Canal, and later the expansion of the railway lines. Bordered in the south by the Kensal Green Cemetery, most of the development was along the Harrow Road running approximately East/West. Numerous […]
Fernside Avenue, Poole
Fernside Avenue, Poole The Borough of Poole was an early adopter of soil cells beneath hard surfacing. Enlightened borough council officers were quick to take on board the essential requirements for long term healthy tree canopy and used the GreenBlue Urban RootCell system in this suburban street. Using highway build-outs to assist with traffic calming […]
Nr 1 Ballsbridge, Dublin
Nr 1 Ballsbridge, Dublin This scheme in Dublin, designed by Plus Architecture and installed by Shaffrey Landscapes, was completed in spring 2018. The challenging site conditions allowed for only a very constrained planting space between the foundation slab of the high rise building and the service runs located in the footpath. Small cutouts in the […]
Wokingham Market Place
Wokingham Market Place Wokingham was late to be settled in comparison with other nearby towns, as it was always a heavily forested area. It appears it was first settled by Saxons travelling west from Woking, but there is no early record of it, until the church was built during the 1100s. The real town building […]
St Martins Precinct, Reading
St Martins Precinct, Reading Caversham, just across the river Thames from the city of Reading, has been a seat of human habitation for over 1,000 years. As mentioned in the Domesday Book, the river was bridged here sometime during the early 13th Century, and a chapel dedicated to St Anne stood on the island partway […]
North Street Keighley, West Yorkshire
North Street Keighley, West Yorkshire North Street in Keighley is one of the few streets remaining in this historic town nestled in the South Pennines in Yorkshire. Built at the confluence of two rivers, the town has long been related to the mills, powered by these watercourses, and the manufacture of textiles and textile-related machinery continued right […]