She's just too full of herself 🙁

A bit of a conflict of interest there with the landlord holding the key to the lock-up ....

Everton FC has one as its emblem

We had some of these in our town when I lived in Snaith, England. It's right next to the church on the high street. Curious little building...

Yeah, I've been through worse...❤

I suspect that a morning wakeup was often ice cold water aggressively flung through the bars from a bucket?

Ye olde drunk tank

It's so wonderful that these quirky buildings are being maintained. We have these weird little buildings here in Aotearoa-New Zealand that were utility buildings for automatic telephone exchanges, electricity and drainage and water pumps. I've always wanted to buy one and turn it into a cool little bolt hole. They're all brick and really cute.

The Blind House, Shrewton, Wiltshire.

Domestic and urban architecture is far more fascinating than the majority stately homes and castles

Check out the Roundhouse at Castle Cary ,Somerset 😊

Money we'll spent and what a find. Shame about the modern modern monstrosity in front of it. Wonder what gem was demolished to make room for that.

We need public displays brought back

Thanks Prof. You’re Amazing. 😊

Gloucester Eastgate , the epitome of a turd town😂

Excellent video, I live a few miles from Gloucester and go there regularly, so it was nice to learn a little about a few of the buildings that I admire regularly. This presents a rather rose tinted view of Gloucester’s buildings, as far too much was lost in the 1960s in a sustained attack on Gloucester’s historic buildings by the Council, until was stopped in the 1970s, and the scale of loss of historic buildings is breathtaking - noted that Janina Ramirez didn’t venture into Eastgate Street for example! While it will be impossible to roll back the scale of post-war development, I would argue that on redevelopment the developers, should be forced to replicate the old facade on the replacement buildings. A general complaint that I have about almost every high street is the way that garish modern shopfronts have destroyed the character of high streets- in our daily lives we tend not to look up and see beautiful buildings on upper storeys, and it is the garish and soulless wall to wall plate glass shopfronts that define the visual environment.

Very interesting indeed! There are contemporary portrait drawings of the Klein Hollandia by Willem van de Velde the younger.

If I could go back in time, I would love to be a skilled artisan working on restoration of these buildings. So satisfying.

Seems a bit weird to use an historian who isn't an expert on architecture?

Are these women still alive?

‘Timber framed’ structure. I would never have guessed.😉 Haven’t seen Janina on the screen in a long while. JR is one of my favourite historians.❤

I'm not a cabman, but I do drive horses all day. It must have been a downright miserable job in the wintertime, wet through, frozen hands, frozen feet, a warm spot to step in and have a hot cup of tea and thaw out for a few minutes between calls must have been appreciated.

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The thing I really loathe is when just the facade of an old building is kept and the rest of the structure is some modern concrete block affair. Its so fake and dishonest.

Many years ago a chap called Maxwell Craven of Derby wrote books on the history & architecture of our wonderful buildings. He taught to look up past the lacklustre minimalistic drabness of modern architecture. To look at the thickness off the shop front( added new shop fronts over the centuries) or a timber framed building underneath a brick facade. The curb/cobble stones indicating an older road. Most grade one structures are in desperate need of repair, but the owners can’t afford the extortionate cost or the impossible legality involved. Therefore becoming uninhabitable & further fall to the times of decay.

How odd that an insult like "brutalisn" is used by architects! Almost as much of an insult as modernism!

Neat video. Thanks for posting. 👍

The tallest jetted bldng in G.B. is hidden in an alleyway by McDonald's.

As a city founded by the Romans (Glevum + castrum = Gloucester) this town is almost two thousand years old.

The principal advantage of jetting was that for a limited ground 'footprint'; land as now was expensive, you could extend the rooms above as much as the structure would allow thus giving a lot more room for business or personal purposes.

I've long maintained that if you look above 'shop window' level in most streets, it's really surprising what there is to be seen - ! 😊

The site of the British Ladies debut match is the Campsbourne Primary School at the top of Nightingale Lane. The land was owned by Hornsley School Board and the decision to build the school on the side as a result of the housing development proposed for the area but not before the famous women's match had taken place. In photographs and illustrations of the match the trees that appear in background survived the redevelopment of the area and can be seen today along Nightingale Lane.

Great whistlestop tour!

feels like i am watching a schools' programme. "you may be surprised that these columns offer no support and are purely decorative"

Very interesting and informative. The filming of the buildings were filmed well.

I grew up in Gloucester and I know many of these buildings well, though it is nice to see they being preserved. I watched the last building 'Boots' being built. There was a massive excavation there during the 70's as it covered part of the original Roman town wall, part of which can still be viewed through a glass canopy at street level. I spent far too many hours in that shop on my way home from school 🤭

We spotted you at The Wallace collection a few years ago ❤

Pity that you need a ticket number to have a drink on Christmas Eve. Don't bother if you're not a regular.

Love this channel, and love hearing all various wonderful stories from Londoners and beyond.

I don't understand how the older buildings have "responded to their local environment"?

Over the top enthusiasm

❤ Gloucester. I was lucky enough to tour some of the high street buildings while they were being refurbished.

Professor Ramirez, enjoyed your enthusiasm, passion and knowledge.

Really pleased Wakefield is the getting focus it needs. Wonderful work.

The Rock Against Racism gigs here were always a great night. Saw a young Benjamin Zephanaiah perform at one. The place had it's own atmosphere, along with Digbeth Civic Hall and the Tower Ballroom, my most memorable nights out were at the Mermaid.

Went the DRI gig if I remember they turned up in a fancy tour bus aspiring rock stars lol

Wow, very nice. Thank you ❤

I live not too far away from the Mermaid. A shame to see how the place has gone.

The Mermaid was a dump. Absolutely loved it!

Darren Russell was the Architect