tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post3908298683260678793..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Wantage, BerkshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-3508558115331051652021-11-14T09:48:43.952+00:002021-11-14T09:48:43.952+00:00Now sadly closed and scheduled for demolition.Now sadly closed and scheduled for demolition.Tim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07197685945061099461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-85938027945453378032013-08-13T20:24:20.674+01:002013-08-13T20:24:20.674+01:00What a delight your blog was today. I would never...What a delight your blog was today. I would never have noticed the letters if you had not pointed them out. I am reminded of a poem my Mother used to read to me something like this:<br /><br />Ten men walked along the path that day and all but one passed by.<br />He saw the hill and the cloud and the sky and he put them down on paper for the other nine men to buy.<br /><br /> AnnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-43101753653019362512013-08-09T08:20:41.766+01:002013-08-09T08:20:41.766+01:00Evelyn: You're quite right. I should have adde...Evelyn: You're quite right. I should have added that I habitually use the old, pre-1970s counties. I do this for two reasons, firstly because I have a sentimental and historical attachment to them, secondly because they are also used by the county-based volumes in Pevsner's invaluable series, The Buildings of England. Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-9663600492062690782013-08-09T00:11:05.265+01:002013-08-09T00:11:05.265+01:00You can correct me if I'm wrong but my maps an...You can correct me if I'm wrong but my maps and current materials place Wantage in Oxfordshire rather than Berkshire. I know it's close to the mutual border but not so close as say Mapledurham being claimed by both counties. Don't want to quibble I just want to make sure I'm correct. Thanks !Evelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120674466504955780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-5367365818315966792013-08-08T15:00:33.503+01:002013-08-08T15:00:33.503+01:00Worm: Spot on! As it is, the facade reminds us in ...Worm: Spot on! As it is, the facade reminds us in a timely, literal, and unhipsterish way that The Wantage Novel Library must have been just that, a library, in Wantage, from which people borrowed novels.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-28358917643189959132013-08-08T13:40:41.617+01:002013-08-08T13:40:41.617+01:00what a cool building and a cool name - the sort of...what a cool building and a cool name - the sort of thing that would be snapped up and used in an 'ironic' hipster fashion for some overpriced london emporiumwormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.com