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Wednesday 2 February 2011

7: Electricity Substation 14/3/1956

Site: Electricity Substation 14/3/1956
Amenities:  None
Parking: Street (some)
Public Transport: No
Access: Fine view from street

Notes:  rendered building with pagoda style slate roof, set in its own garden with cherry trees.  Remains in use and therefore well maintained.
Further Notes:  The curve of the roof put me in mind of Brunel's 'pagoda' waiting shelters on the GWR.  A lot of effort went in to the design of this, so as not to offend the neighbours in 1956.
Postscript:  Anyone who saw the first post on this blog (the crumbling decorative concrete block wall) may be interested to know that, this last weekend, the wall was demolished, apart from its 'gateposts', and a brick wall put in its place, finished in pebbledash that reminds me of those Heinz sandwich topper things.  If you imagine a pebbledash washing line, coloured like sandwich topper, you have the image.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting places, substations. Completely off-limits, with neatly mown little lawns. This one sounds more carefully designed than most.

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