Swindon in 50 Buildings - Couverture souple

Atkinson, Angela

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1445690470 ISBN 13 : 9781445690476

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Swindon's unusual history as a large industrial town in the heart of Wiltshire has defined its townscape for the last 200 years. The town is largely the creation of the 19th century, built around the Great Western Railway's Works, but it nonetheless has more than 600 listed buildings, not to mention scheduled monuments and three registered parks and gardens. In Swindon in 50 Buildings, local author Angela Atkinson examines not only such well-known Swindon landmarks and areas as the GWR Railway Village Conservation Area and the Old Town, but also everyday buildings that reveal aspects of Swindon's always fascinating and surprising story. It is inevitable that many of the buildings in this book reflect Swindon's great railway heritage, but others are small stories written in brick and stone that tell of a time before the railway came and changed everything. There are farmhouses now engulfed by 20th-century housing estates and grander buildings such as Lydiard House. Rebuilt in the 18th century with a formal park, the Lydiard estate served as both an American army camp and prisoner of war camp during World War II. The story continues to the present day with buildings designed by such well-known architects as Hugh Casson, the creator of the Wyvern Theatre, and Norman Foster, architect of the landmark and award-winning Spectrum Building. It includes, too, the most recent of Swindon's additions to the listed building's register--and it's one that will surprise you.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born and raised in Whitwell, Derbyshire, Angela Atkinson moved to Swindon in the 1990s and is now a Swindon enthusiast and 'born again Swindonian'. She worked at Swindon's Research Councils for a number of years. Following early retirement, she undertook voluntary work and gained a 1st Class Joint English Hons degree. Now pretty much retired from paid employment, Angela combines writing about Swindon via her blog, Swindonian.me, with being a trustee for Swindon Heritage Preservation Trust and the Friends of Museum and Art Swindon and spending time with her grandchildren.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1445690470
• ISBN 13: 9781445690476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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