tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post121482346619491358..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: BristolPhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-65047572815171576192016-03-03T07:05:26.528+00:002016-03-03T07:05:26.528+00:00I spent several years doing professional valuation...I spent several years doing professional valuations of fish & chips shops but never saw anything like this little gem! Although it's a very 'busy' style it all hangs together in a wonderful way.<br />I really like Park Street and we usually head their to eat when in Bristol - it's usually worth the climb!<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s fabulous Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-37939821522812749792016-03-02T09:02:33.232+00:002016-03-02T09:02:33.232+00:00Leaving aside for the moment the Art Nouveau motif...Leaving aside for the moment the Art Nouveau motifs, the white Neo-Baroque building - often neglected, tatty, and unnoticed - seems to be a local signature in the South Wales Valleys. The date 1912 on at least one of them fixes them as belonging to the heyday of the South Wales Coalfield. I wonder if any firms working in Bristol were designing our local Neo-Baroque at the same time? Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-44270640018861632182016-03-01T20:31:58.989+00:002016-03-01T20:31:58.989+00:00Jameso: Yes! Everard's works is one of the ver...Jameso: Yes! Everard's works is one of the very first buildings about which I posted, back in 2007 (crumbs). Copying and pasting this will take you there: http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/everards-printing-works-bristol-bristol.html<br /><br />There are other bits of art nouveau in Bristol (plaques on the Colston monument, for example), but I'm aware of nothing quite so magnificent in this line as Everard's.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-61981276983441929202016-03-01T20:14:35.910+00:002016-03-01T20:14:35.910+00:00Bristol's also got that wonderful Everard prin...Bristol's also got that wonderful Everard printing works, which is a very different sort of art nouveau indeed. I don't know the city well enough to say if there are more, but I rather assume there may be on this evidence.Jamesohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08789882865184599450noreply@blogger.com