tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post8322664078362477926..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Boscobel, ShropshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-7601458697026090062014-04-10T16:08:39.082+01:002014-04-10T16:08:39.082+01:00Eileen: Thank you. Yes, Urbexing is one modern dev...Eileen: Thank you. Yes, Urbexing is one modern development of ruin-fascination. It goes too with an appreciation of the random beauty of torn posters and rusty corrugated iron, the stark metalwork of old gasometers, and rotting old cars left in deserted yards - all things I have time for.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-41132042080772173662014-04-10T12:24:30.142+01:002014-04-10T12:24:30.142+01:00I love that 'softening of the edges' found...I love that 'softening of the edges' found in ruins such as these. It's almost organic, as if the building is slowly melting into the landscape.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading your very interesting thoughts Philip, including the history of the love of ruins and their picturesque nature. A modern continuance of that could be said to be the love of exploring abandoned asylums/hospitals/factories & other latter day 'ruins' in the activity of Urban Exploration, otherwise known as Urbexing (of which I have also been known to do, along with my more historical visits, lol).Eileen Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807348224003585870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-61259494163627389642014-03-31T18:01:29.964+01:002014-03-31T18:01:29.964+01:00Yes, I forgot to mention the poem known as The Rui...Yes, I forgot to mention the poem known as The Ruin. <br /><br />Even Britton, whose drawings were quite accurate architecturally, tended to stretch out ruined abbeys and castles - or that's my impression anyway.<br />Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-42693127167262354382014-03-31T17:52:42.470+01:002014-03-31T17:52:42.470+01:00Interesting to see the different accounts of who w...Interesting to see the different accounts of who was supposed to have "discovered" ruins. Gwenallt on 18th century Welsh poetry reckoned "from the English Graveyard Poets", but the Welsh poem "Stafell Cynddylan" (possibly about Shrewsbury or Wroxeter) is 9th century! And what about that Anglo-Saxon poem about the ruins of Bath? Romantic artists make ruined abbeys too tall - one in Cardiff Art Gallery peoples the ruin with very tiny figures - a bit of a cheat! I prefer my ruins "straight".Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-18159157536296441222014-03-31T15:16:18.889+01:002014-03-31T15:16:18.889+01:00Thanks for your appreciative comment. The exhibiti...Thanks for your appreciative comment. The exhibition is worth catching.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-72591121515908547822014-03-30T23:05:15.364+01:002014-03-30T23:05:15.364+01:00A lovely contemplative post. Thank you. I was at...A lovely contemplative post. Thank you. I was at the Tate today but need to go back to see the exhibition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com