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Brick and Mortars

Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.

Writing:
  • Jonathan Meades
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Release Date: Mon, Oct 29, 1990

Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 30
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Season 1:

Severn Heaven
Episode 1: Severn Heaven (Oct 29, 1990)
Just north of Bewdley in Worcestershire, beside the Severn Valley Railway, is the largest surviving interwars 'plotland' settlement in Britain. This is a village of dwellings built by their owners from improvised materials: old railway carriages, chicken coops, the fuselages of gliders etc. Decried as an instant slum and opposed by planning authorities it is today regarded as a valuable manifestation of working class history.
Right is Wrong
Episode 2: Right is Wrong (Nov 05, 1990)
Meades investigates a new age community beside a Scottish air base, a furniture factory in a Dorset wood, and an experimental school in East Grinstead, all of which are geometrically linked by buildings that shun the orthodoxy of the right angle.
House Ahoy
Episode 3: House Ahoy (Nov 12, 1990)
Meades investigates unusual houses, houseboats and lifestyles of people on the Solent.
Brick and Mortars
Episode 4: Brick and Mortars (Nov 26, 1990)
Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.
In Search of Bohemia
Episode 5: In Search of Bohemia (Dec 03, 1990)
There are a surprising number of places in Britain called Bohemia. Even more surprising is the fact that two of them - in Hastings and the New Forest - have connections to the artistic bohemia of such painters as Augustus John, two of whose studios demonstrate how much domestic design would take from this type of building. Features a red Lada that's a mobile tip.

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