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Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas JULY. 13, 2020 Or to give them their full title Prefabricated Housing. In Birmingham, England there still remains a row of seventeen 1940s’ Phoenix design prefabs. The Grade II listed Phoenix prefab bungalows were designed and manufactured by John Laing, McAlpine and Henry Boot, as part of a consignment of 2,428 prefabs supplied to the Ministry of Works under the Temporary Housing Programme during and after the Second World War. In the war about 250,000 homes were destroyed and two million more were badly damaged. These temporary homes were only expected to be in use for ten years but 70 years on they are still in use. There are no other known surviving Phoenix prefabs still lived in which makes these extra special. All but one of the prefabs are owned by Birmingham City Council. I'll leave you to guess which one. Back in 2014, Birmingham Conservation Trust became involved and commissioned an Options Appraisal on behalf of the City Council to look at the potential for the Trust to take on one or more Prefabs to run as a museum and holiday lets.

This was on my photo search for thatched figures on roofs. Well, as aerial as you can get from the road that runs along the cliffs at Strete Gate. On good days you have to be there by 10.30 at least. The kinks in the road reflect major rebuilding phases when the road was washed away in storms. Comestible- an item of food.

However, as you can see from this photo on top of the car park roof, right in the centre of the city, The altar-table would have disgraced the sleeping room of any servant. Close to the pulpit is the entrance to the rood staircase, part of the stairs remain, but the upper doorway The rood loft was a type of mezzanine floor above the chancel, long ago removed, probably in Tudor times , with a modest covered way over the street, of stone posts and a pitched, lead roof.

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas OCTOBER. 07, 2020 [63-365] 7th. October 2020- "West Country thatchers have been making straw figures for centuries, a tradition that can be traced back to the dollies placed on hayricks. These were used to identify the owner and deter foraging birds – and at one time were also intended to ward off evil spirits and witches. The descendants of these old talismans are now proudly mounted on some of the most exclusive country properties. Traditionally straw finials were made of tightly twisted wheat; now they are usually encased in protective wire netting. As the wheat decays, the straw body collapses and is blown to pieces by the wind. Left behind are empty shells: shadowy outlines, hovering above the rooftops like ghosts." (The Guardian) All of these examples are in one tiny hamlet, Stokenham in the South Hams.

So why is a road "metalled " in the first place? Metalled roads are so called, from the Latin metallum, meaning 'quarry'. So an unmetalled road is not Tarmac and could be anything, expect the worst. Probably more like a road an ancient Roman would have been familiar with. Why Tarmac? Actually Tarmac (short for tarmacadam) is a road surface material patented in 1902 in the UK.

In addition the only back up I made corrupted the full images so I have used screen grabs of those temporarily something reasonable out of the camera unedited, which means I am taking more care to get a level horizon, good

A special feature is the "screen to the clouds", consisting of white tracery surrounding multi-coloured This section is surrounded by side rooms to obviate traffic noise. These rooms are used for various meetings and by various groups. A three-bedroomed flat forms the roof of the covered car park. The floor is deep brown wood block; the dais of the church is carpeted in olive green.

of the Smith family, the visitors were confronted by the main hall, panelled in English oak, with a screen are wood-blocked. and motor house, are near Princetown road lodge. Wikipedia The ornate ceiling of the former Dining Room. The Elizabethan style fireplace in the former Dining Room.

It was a great day out along the scenic coast road and involved Fish'n'Chips. What could be nicer. Good quiz question, "Which is the only English County to have two coastlines?" Devon of course. Here is one of the rocks at the edge of a vertiginous cliff path, with no room for error, or for those

is one of medieval England's great architectural features, primarily notable for its colossal image screen In Gothic architecture, such roof bosses (or ceiling bosses) are often intricately carved with foliage organ is played from a console of four manuals and pedals which is situated on the central ‘pulpitum’ screen It is a massive screen that divides the choir (the area containing the choir stalls and high altar in These consisted of a bishop's throne, a sedilia, a reredos behind the high altar and the pulpitum (the screen

OK yes it's a pun, but a very apt one and I'll explain why. I was walking along the beach the other day and this is a shingle beach so it feels like walking in slow motion with twice the effort. Like going for a stroll in a mile long ball pool. This beach is very wide and if you start at the water's edge and walk away from the water you see shelves of shingle, rising up, left by different tides, made of graded stones of different sizes, like a nightmarish set of giant steps that subside like liquefaction as you try to mount them, like walking up a down escalator. Above the reach of the worst of the tides it flattens out and the first plants appear, purple Sea Kale amidst larger stones and tiny Euphorbia peeping out, seemingly growing from nothing. Keep walking and a whole garden appears with hundreds of flowering plants that vary as you get further from the sea and nearer to the cliffs. About half way there are many smoothed off and rounded shale stones which tend to gather in the same rough line along the beach, selected by the forces of nature. Here the regular beach goers over time have laid a path using these stones, which makes walking easier, a bit like a long line of snow shoes laid out in front of you making a path across deep snow. When I was walking this path and looking down so as not to lose my balance I noticed a whole world of different objects which magically appeared out of the monotone beige beach which one normally experiences, a bit like those magic 3D pictures which are there only if you focus in the right spot. It struck me that I should return with that new focus and take a series of photos from way down there where my toes live. These are a selection of those photos from a careful meander along the path and back along the fresh tide line. A microcosm of shapes, materials, colours and textures. I gave myself one rule. Do not touch, do not move or arrange or pose anything. Everything had to be as it lay when and where I found it. The only input from me was the distance from the object and the composition in the frame. After a lot of requests to buy prints of my photos, I have taken the decision to offer some selected images for sale, here on my blog. Initially, to keep things simple I am just offering one size, in matt finish,15 X 10 inches, at a price of £35 per print or £60 for two, including different images. Square images will be 10X10. This will include delivery, either by hand locally, or by mail within the UK mainland. To place your order, please email me with your name, the unique print code or codes and the titles. I will also need a contact telephone number and full delivery address. I will send you an invoice for payment by bank transfer. Delivery is 1-2 weeks after payment is received, usually the lower end of this estimate. You can either use my email address or the contact form . By mail, the prints will be delivered rolled in a tube. Where the image format does not fit the standard size paper, I have taken the decision to shrink the image to fit, so that no part of it is lost. This means that when that happens there may be blank paper strips on two of the sides. This also applies to square images. If you do have any requests not met by the above framework, email me the details and I will try to help. In theory I should be able to provide any photo available on the blog so use the search facility to find other South Hams locations you may be interested in. I will gradually be adding other specific sales pages for other locations over time. SL-01 SL-02 SL-03 SL-04 SL-05 SL-06 SL-07 SL-08 SL-09 SL-10 SL-11 SL-12 SL-13 SL-14 SL-15 SL-16 SL-17 SL-18 SL-19 SL-20 SL-21 SL-22 SL-23 SL-24 SL-25 SL-26 SL-27 SL-28 SL-29 SL-30 SL-31 SL-32 SL-33 SL-34 SL-35 SL-36 SL-37 Just for some context I added these shots of the cliffs, a passing ship and surprisingly a low flying helicopter. Finally the stone path.

This one was at East Portlemouth where I ventured on the tidal road. What a fool I am. the road intermittently. , below, is for the road that turns off the tidal road, but I'm not going there. road, just to make it narrower. This is Winwaloe below painted on the wooden screen which is 15th century.