Lynn Pearson

Trying out titles for my book on #tintabernacles etc - what do we think of 'Portable and temporary buildings in Britain, 1850s-1930s'? Hard to find an all-encompassing title while still explaining what it's about. Comments welcome!

Have wanted to see #DortmundU for years, great to get up top and close to the former Union Brewery's mega sign, which really is visible for miles around. The old fermentation building (1927) is now a cool arts centre. @AIndustrialArch @InsiderBuild

Another #Ruhr highlight was a ride on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated suspended railway (I think that's right), part of the local transport network running above the river and streets. Efficient, exciting! @AIndustrialArch @InsiderBuild @MrTimDunn

Back from amazing trip round #Ruhr #industrial area, so here's a few pics of World Heritage site #Zollverein near #Essen - hard to capture sheer scale in photos. Mine owner's desk at Ruhr Museum rather shocking. @AIndustrialArch @InsiderBuild

@Pott_Shrigley_ Amazing picture. I think one of the vase-shaped decorations was saved and put on display in the (?)shopping centre that replaced the co-op, but possibly disappeared later

The big Coop department store at the bottom of Ecclesall Road, Sheffield during demolition in 1990, now the site of Waitrose. The council had applied to have it listed, but it was refused by Westminster.

At long last I've moved to the other place - hopefully see you there. Thanks for reading the posts! @lynnpearson67.bsky.social

Did rather well for tower #views last week, first at #Brighton from @i360_brighton the cliffs looked fab. Then #London at sunset from chimney @BatterseaPwrStn (2 lifts and 39 steps, since you ask) - felt strange to be so close to chimney tops!

@BradshawLSWR @HistoricEngland Thanks very much for that, lovely story, and a great photo of the timber frame. The warmth of feelings towards the old hut seems typical of how people react to these CI buildings. As to hot/cold etc, CI suppliers would say that was just poor construction...!

@lynnpearson67 @HistoricEngland When we moved to Loders, Dorset the village hall was a CI ex-serviceman’s hut put up in 1926. It served its purpose until 1999 when the new one was opened and has since been demolished. More info here, scroll down to fourth page lodersparish.org/_UserFiles/Fil…

Not exactly a #tintabernacle but definitely a CI (corrugated iron) building, Innerwick's 1909 concert/village hall, East Lothian. Did you know that there are almost 700 similar early CI & wood buildings surviving in UK & Ireland today? @HistoricEngland

@SVBWG @HistoricEngland Maker, sorry, no, still looking. Speirs most likely so will check their catalogues I've seen. Tiny press rpt re opening 21 Dec 1909 by Lord Dunglass says could accomm 260 people, incl cloakrms, retiring rms, lavatory accomm, lighted by 'petrol gas'.

@lynnpearson67 @HistoricEngland Can you tell us anything about the maker? We did some recording here just weeks ago #EastLothian. The second Innerwick post office had been round the back and up those steps.

Unleashed! #Cambois beach if you were wondering...

Rescued (by local kennels) from probable death in Macedonia, may I introduce our new #dog friends Bonzo (left) and Maddy, who might be Bonzo's mum. First night here and they seem to be settling down OK, paws crossed. Just portable trip hazards really...

Thanks very much to Richard Hobson and @TheCricketerMag for this lovely review of my #Cricket Pavilions book - think @amberleybooks will like it too!

@Mikeashworth12 Thanks - quite substantial, probably by Speirs & Co with their trademark octagonal window (like the Fort Augustus one, now the mill shop).

To Scotland, where the sun was shining, to see the Barony Church at #Dalswinton, a #tintabernacle made in Liverpool by Isaac Dixon & Co in 1881. Even has the nameplate to prove it, a rare thing. North of Dumfries, on the excellent 236 bus #HoustonsCoaches

@hbap1924 I’m wondering whether the Stations of the Cross at Clifton Cathedral by Mitchell are also Faircrete but perhaps I’ve misremembered

We are delighted to see that the Southend-on-Sea Civic Fountain has been granted Grade II listing. The Civic Fountain stands as designer William Mitchell's sole documented public sculpture in Faircrete. historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-y… #Heritage #EverydayHeritage

In #Walberswick where we find #oysters in architecture (perhaps a book title) instead of the traditional flints. A wonderful idea! ⁦#Southwold

@C20Society @FCBStudios @zedfactory @TomGdwn I went there, got off train specially (was there a station?) hardly anyone else there but really interesting

#C20BuildingOfTheMonth for May 2024 // The pioneering Earth Centre near Doncaster, by @FCBStudios, @zedfactory and others, was part of Britain’s ambition in the 1990s to become a world leader in green technologies. Did all go to plan? @TomGdwn explores. ➡️c20society.org.uk/building-of-th…

Dunsdale #TinTabernacle (south of Redcar, North Yorks) built 1914 for local miners. Allotments thriving but church has seen better days, is now for sale