Brooke House, Hackney (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ernest A. Mann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133287018X ISBN 13 : 9781332870189

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Brooke House, and all dwellers in East London indeed all Londoners are the gainers by being reminded that so beautiful a thing is still with us. Mr. Mann smonograph, giving as it does a careful and well-planned account of the whole fabric, speaks for itself; but a word from the Editor may perhaps be permitted as to the value and purpose generally of antiquarian research among existing buildings, and as to what the Committee sspecial function may be said to be in regard to it. This function may be termed an educative one. We desire to remind Londoners of the beautiful things still in their midst, and to encourage an endeavour and determination for their maintenance. It is often difficult, it is often costly, to do this, but it is never impossible where the public are sufficiently educated to desire the maintenance of historical 6c beautiful architecture. In two of our previous publications the Committee had to lament the destruction of noble buildings which, with a little more intelligence on the part of local governing bodies, could quite well have been saved turned to wise public service. Scarce two weeks after the appearance of the Committee smonograph on the Great House, Leyton, the splendid work of Sir Fisher Tench with the Thornhill frescoes, the fine later A dams workmanship, the terraced garden, and all the other beautiful things it contained was relegated to the housebreaker, and swept away. We now see spawned over the site rows of tiny brick cottages, doubtless in a few years some enlightened Councillor of Leyton will be raising the twin cries of overcrowding and the need for a public library, garden, and institute; whereupon ten times the sum that bought the Great House will be levied on the rates, and nothing near so fine as what we have lost will be given us again. It is a curious reflection how singularly unpractical the average Englishman somet
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133287018X
• ISBN 13: 9781332870189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 65
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