A305/15: English Houses of the Thirties

[@bjd798]

I enjoyed listening to this video of Amyas Connell very much! Very interesting Architectural history program. He is my grandfather on my mother's side ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyas_Connell ). Amyas Douglas Connell (old man with the beard in the video above). Amyas had four children: James (88 yrs), Graham (died ~2014), Diana (77 yrs) and Kate (Katherine) (~57 yrs). Best wishes to you all, Brendan Darrer (49 yrs).

[@sharidavenport5283]

That's wonderful for you to find this video narrated partially by your grandfather, Brendan! 😊 I'm pleased for you, as he had a very pleasant voice🗣 to listen to! And a Rhoades Scholar🎖to boot! I also enjoy a rather narrow era of architectural history very much, including both later 19th and early 20th century American and British. (It seems that Great Britain did much better financially in the long run during the Great Depression than did the States. But everyone tried their best to come out as well as possible.) 👏👏 😊

[@rskb1957]

Interesting narrative, falling as it does before the Thatcherite revolution of the 80s and the fragmenting of a sense of cultural cohesiveness. There is something more quintessentially English than any narrative that could be given by any English nationalist of the ilk of Nigel Farage.

[@paddyskate]

Design in Britain went downhill when the working classes stopped going to university/art schools

[@doktoruzo]

@@paddyskate.. Did the working classes go to university in the 50's, 60's or 70's? Not many to my knowledge.

[@chriskappert1365]

I think the Internationel Stile works pperfectly for office buildings , because of its stark and clean design , no distraction just concentrate on the work . For a home to live in , I find it to cold , to much hard surfaces , to masculine .