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Stoke-on-Trent in 50 Buildings (Paperback)
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Stoke-on-Trent in 50 Buildings (Paperback)
Series: In 50 Buildings
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Undervalued, under-listed and under threat, the buildings of
Stoke-on-Trent stand defiant, reminders of the area's glorious
economic heyday and its unique, almost perverse, municipal growth.
The city's building stock often holds a mirror up to its people:
pragmatic rather than flamboyant, humble rather than flaunting. It
was not without reason that architectural historian Nikolaus
Pevsner described Stoke's towns as an 'urban tragedy', yet their
buildings reflect the innate qualities of local inhabitants. Their
creativity and nose-to-the-grindstone graft produced handsome yet
functional buildings such as Tunstall Town Hall, Etruria Methodist
Chapel and the Twyford's factory at Cliffe Vale. Yet, here and
there, we find extravagance and even eccentricity in the way of
polychromatic facades, ceramic fascias, baroque detail and
eye-catching relief pub signs. Stoke-on-Trent in 50 Buildings
examines the city's notable architecture and offers original
comment on how it compares with buildings and structures in other
locations. Local historian and author Mervyn Edwards has spent
nearly thirty years describing - and often drawing - the buildings
of Stoke-on-Trent, and has seen many of them fall to the wrecking
ball. This book offers his insights on some of those that stand
today as cultural anchors in the city.
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