tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post3927396897162803265..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Church Stretton, ShropshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-28136023368009890252014-07-30T13:36:07.198+01:002014-07-30T13:36:07.198+01:00Very interesting, Peter. I had a look at the Swain...Very interesting, Peter. I had a look at the Swains trucks and they do seem to be a very similar colour. I shouldn't be surprised if there's a link.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-58805838928665809552014-07-30T12:33:43.726+01:002014-07-30T12:33:43.726+01:00Ah, now then. when I first saw this the blue paint...Ah, now then. when I first saw this the blue paintwork reminded me of a haulage company called Swains of Stretton. Their lorries were (and indeed still are) painted in just this blue. With yellow and red shadowed lettering. In the beautiful BBC film The Combination (1982), set in 1950, one of the contemporary trucks appears. The film, written by actor Tim Preece, was shot in and around Church Stretton. I wonder if this film and the corrugated iron are related? Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-28497258401443647952014-07-27T12:07:24.198+01:002014-07-27T12:07:24.198+01:00Joseph: Thanks for the Kilpeck tip. I, too, have h...Joseph: Thanks for the Kilpeck tip. I, too, have had my eye on other things when visiting Kilpeck.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-1985421945480072332014-07-27T12:06:32.431+01:002014-07-27T12:06:32.431+01:00Joe: Yes. It's quite possible to appreciate th...Joe: Yes. It's quite possible to appreciate this building in a way that's not to do with nostalgia – something I tried to imply in my allusion to its 'purposefulness', a term that I intended to be a workable synonym for the current cliché 'fit for purpose'. Vitruvius distinguished three qualities that a building should have: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (solidity, utility, beauty). It was the utilitas that I was thinking about.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-75659481509378648542014-07-27T10:12:35.998+01:002014-07-27T10:12:35.998+01:00I share your enthusiasm for corrugated iron, Phil....I share your enthusiasm for corrugated iron, Phil. Buildings likes this, scruffy and ramshackle as they are, have grown into the landscape like the allotments you glimpse from trains with their random, neglected sheds. <br /><br />Neil is absolutely right, of course, and puts it well, though there are more timeless distinctions also between beauty ugliness (in the eye of the beholder, at least). Buildings of both kinds are currently going up all over London, and examples of both survive from previous generations.Joe Treasurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452665782271458318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-58464015918469434772014-07-27T09:42:29.632+01:002014-07-27T09:42:29.632+01:00Thanks for this: I suspect a lot of these building...Thanks for this: I suspect a lot of these buildings survive, if they can be found. Big corrugated iron barn on the back lane near Kilpeck - most visitors don't go to see that! Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-21529648567226609642014-07-27T09:09:51.386+01:002014-07-27T09:09:51.386+01:00Neil: You put it with admirable brevity. Tony Ben...Neil: You put it with admirable brevity. Tony Benn had a similar (less concise) line about political ideas, which began, 'First they think you're mad,' and finished with orthodoxy. Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-39155885151778713812014-07-27T09:06:31.041+01:002014-07-27T09:06:31.041+01:00Francois-Marc: My apologies. Campaign for the Pres...Francois-Marc: My apologies. Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England.<br />Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-51662046189847415182014-07-27T01:32:57.109+01:002014-07-27T01:32:57.109+01:00Please forgive my ignorance but "CPRE"?
...Please forgive my ignorance but "CPRE"?<br />With many thanks, as ever, for your wonderful blog.<br />François-Marc ChaballierAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-56441711442506339482014-07-26T22:20:15.957+01:002014-07-26T22:20:15.957+01:00The things that annoy one generation bore the next...The things that annoy one generation bore the next and fill the one after that with nostalgia...Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.com