tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post5191758115834901457..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Radstock, SomersetPhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-47736275181698106112019-01-29T22:03:49.074+00:002019-01-29T22:03:49.074+00:00The internet makes it easy to find what Nairn wrot...The internet makes it easy to find what Nairn wrote about Radstock:<br />'A real odd-ball all round, and a wonderfully eccentric place that has never had the slightest encouragement (Pevsner: desperately ugly). It lives by coal-mining only 10 miles away from Bath: at the bottom of a steep valley, with two ex-G.W.R. stations side by side (Radstock East and Radstock North). Public buildings like the glass-fronted market are scattered up and down the slopes in an arrangement that charms by its utter oddness: real Somerset countryside seeps in along the narrow slit between the two railways and burst out immediately on either side. Complete incomprehension is the danger here: the recent Co-op is one of the nastiest new buildings I have seen.'Jack Kirbyhttps://twitter.com/jdk653/noreply@blogger.com