James Nairn

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🚧 Sadly we were too late to save the former Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

Designed in a Japanese pagoda style by architects Michael Cook Associates (1990), it contained wildly themed interiors, was built from sustainably sourced timber, and was reputedly the first office in Britain to have a purpose-built creche.

A perfect candidate for reuse, demolition is already under way to create a retail village.

https://t.co/C9dxqTK0vV

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@SimoninSuffolk @churchartnature @todbooklady a window of a comparable date here:

https://t.co/deln5hsSLZ

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@SimoninSuffolk @churchartnature @todbooklady that monogram is for John Hall & sons I believe

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@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk Yes - did the same. V odd. Imagine they can’t think 38 was young, especially when they compare to Devon one (who died aged 8) to make their point. Does @ChurchMonuments know?

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@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk him looking much older not necessarily a blocker

for example Thame here or figure of William of Hatfield on tomb of Edward III

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@Portaspeciosa @lukejsherlock @SallyBadham @JaneEAppleton @CathyRLowe @SimoninSuffolk Other small effigies like this I know of commemorate the young (Haccombe, Devon good example, or more famously William of Windsor &Blanche at Westminster Abbey)

Youlgreave with those dates a puzzle. Pevsner convinced it was because he was young,so do they think different Thomas?

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@Grizzlegutweed1 think this poppyhead itself is c19 (but it is wonderful!)

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@LoveOfGates many many fine examples in Oxford, as would be expected

I love the delicate gates of a similar date at Trinity (by Thomas Robinson), but they are somewhat overshadowed by the enormous baroque gatepiers!

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@LesleyCD Brilliant! I will definitely go when next in Cambridge. Thanks

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On holiday in York & family miffed as to why I am so *fixated* on having lunch specifically at ASK Italian

No real reason of course, but as an aside it happens to be in the Assembly Rooms designed by Lord Burlington - built 1730s

(received the all knowing look from my wife…)

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@zarahandley I’m always at it. In a listed pub as we speak!

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@BanditoCatticus Yes well worth a visit!

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@choir_christ Yes bizarrely they have the whole thing. It is rather cavernous for a restaurant, but does mean it’s happily accessible everyday!

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@nejafeja Amazing isn’t it? Well worth a visit

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@IncroyableLies Thornhill was still knocking about then wasn’t he? Missed opportunity!

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@CheshireRO Number two is Morris Bridge (no 76) on Macclesfield Canal I believe

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@KeithStalker2 Oh thanks for that - top tip. Will try it out!

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@GriffithStephen I’ve been waiting ages to visit - didn’t disappoint!

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@Bowermanland I think they saw right through me as soon as I entered - looking at ceiling instead of menu etc.

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@KWCook57 Success! 124 & 149 here:

https://t.co/mpY7L6UmRG

(V interesting document too)

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@KWCook57 surely must be! Back to google for me…