A Spotter's Guide to High Street Architecture with Janina Ramirez

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@trancewinston1027 Ай бұрын

A great video that everyone from Gloucester should see. I only wish that Janina also featured The New Inn building here too.

@dominofalling2038 2 ай бұрын

This was brilliant, by making people aware of their historical surroundings means you never need to be bored when you are out and about. We now have a chance to be entertained by the history in our built environment. Thank you Prof.

@Incognito-turnip 2 ай бұрын

I was born in gloucester in 1987. The city centre needs something to make it feel more special. Gloucester has always been upstaged by cheltenham. I would love to see some great decisions made to help the city thrive. Perhaps a nice inviting green space for people to meet and socialise in the city centre in summer.

@55nimrod55 2 ай бұрын

Professor Ramirez, enjoyed your enthusiasm, passion and knowledge.

@isthereanybodyoutthere9397 2 ай бұрын

Visit Canterbury and nearby Isle of Thanet, and particularly Westgate-on-Sea.

@simongee8928 2 ай бұрын

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 - ! 😊

@suzannemortimer9752 2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. While travelling on a bus in central London, you can spot not one but two lighthouses!

@Jon-es-i6o 2 ай бұрын

Yes! Once you look up, you’re looking back in time. Then you realise how we’ve regressed!

@simongee8928 2 ай бұрын

And I think it should be illegal to remove or destroy any feature of a building which tells of it's history, e.g., signage.

@stephr7637 2 ай бұрын

Good maintenance

@brakecompo2005 2 ай бұрын

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.

@Showsni 2 ай бұрын

She did venture onto Eastgate Street - that's where Lloyds Bank is. But I agree it's sad to lose many of our historic buildings.

@Degjoy Ай бұрын

Dass diese Infos mir so sehr interessieren würden, hätte ich nicht niemals gedacht

@leightonolsson4846 2 ай бұрын

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

@moiraallen3841 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Prof. You’re Amazing. 😊

@chris5706 Ай бұрын

Very interesting and well presented video. It’s a shame the nice buildings - from all ages - are sandwiched between ugly unplanned monstrosities. Thank you professor.

@simonhodgetts6530 Ай бұрын

Brilliant film - thank you!

@peckerdecker Ай бұрын

I like the aerial photography. Excellent camera work.

@TheMightyAntar Ай бұрын

A wonderful video. It would be good to look at street furniture, lots of tiny details which can make a massive difference to the atmosphere and individuality of any town or city

@silverbaker2194 2 ай бұрын

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 🤭

@Jon-es-i6o 2 ай бұрын

‘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.❤

@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this insight, Philomena.

@simongee8928 2 ай бұрын

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.

@jojojo8835 2 ай бұрын

Mansplaining why?

@jennytodd5091 2 ай бұрын

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

@BenEllwood 2 ай бұрын

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

@colinayki2350 Ай бұрын

Wonderful. Many thanks!

@faithlesshound5621 2 ай бұрын

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

@thehearingaid 2 ай бұрын

I would presume that it had been a settlement before the roman occupation. But Romans defiantly came and did what they do best; build impressive infrastructure and fortify.

@burgundybootz 2 ай бұрын

Great whistlestop tour!

@mike-myke22 2 ай бұрын

Neat video. Thanks for posting. 👍

@Cranky301 Ай бұрын

Is it wrong that the Brutalist buildings are always my favourites?

@zacmumblethunder7466 Ай бұрын

Yes.

@charliebramley 2 ай бұрын

Made Gloucester look good

@chrishall7915 Ай бұрын

The only historic aspect to my local high street is that it resembles London during the Blitz.

@HighWealder 2 ай бұрын

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

@bob_the_bomb4508 2 ай бұрын

Sad that Grommit doesn’t get a mention…

@davidcole8268 Ай бұрын

London’s Walkie Talkie is an updated take on the jetty principle - but arguably not very successfully..

@jackbudgen8858 Ай бұрын

2:46 top right on the carpark - who is that man

@AtheistOrphan Ай бұрын

I would guess that’s the drone operator.

@TheGinglymus 2 ай бұрын

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

@HistoricEngland 2 ай бұрын

Hi there, thanks for your message. Buildings can respond in two ways. Firstly materials. Often, medieval and 16th/17th-century buildings were built using materials that were available locally - in Gloucester, that was timber, but in other parts of the country, that might have been a stone, brick or even mud! That meant that that local towns were characterised by these materials which still often provide a distinct local character today. Secondly, scale, design and proportion. Even after materials like brick became more common across the country, buildings often responded to their setting by following the typical overall form or proportions of a street or town - with distinctive local design motifs often recurring as well. We hope this helps.

@Rinahoidhche 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I doubt the buildings are aware of their environment at all.

@zacmumblethunder7466 Ай бұрын

@@HistoricEnglandBuildings are inanimate and therefore incapable of responding to anything. The builders were the ones responding. One expects a rather better use of the English language from an organisation promoting English heritage.

@slyfoxsly 2 ай бұрын

Over the top enthusiasm

@wartsnall7332 Ай бұрын

"Lloyds funding fascism with your money". As the advert didn't quite say.

@marieascot Ай бұрын

Is Historic England the new home for Professor Ramirez now the BBC has forsaken educational programmes? I thought she might end up on History Hit.

@zacmumblethunder7466 Ай бұрын

Why shouldn't the BBC forsake educational programmes? They've already abandoned the informative and entertaining ones. Lord Reith would go apeshit.

@emergingloki Ай бұрын

Forsaken education programmes? 🤣🤣🤣 Did you see Solar System recently? Everything put out by the NHU? Their podcast output (Lucy Worsley has a new series currently running), BBC Bitesize.... I'd love to hear you justify your statement without sounding like a petulant child.

@marieascot Ай бұрын

@@emergingloki Isn't that reused footage from Wonders of The Solar System and The Planets and isn't is paid for by US companies for their channels? Pod casts are VERY cheap to make you just need a mike and an expert a couple of hundred quid.The NHU documentaries are paid for by US channels and shown there first. Okay I looked at the top result for BBC Bitesize and got some failed actors in front of Greenscreen, Something Steve and Maggie does on his tod and better. You then resort to personal insults a sure sign you have lost the argument.

@goffyglos5675 2 ай бұрын

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

@stevejones4275 10 күн бұрын

How come the mayor's house is hemmed in by monstrous carbuncles?

@wartsnall7332 Ай бұрын

@3:00 Just a shame that Costa Crap have uglified to ground floor.

@wartsnall7332 Ай бұрын

@3:50 "Craft Union". Well. there's a misnomer if ever there was one.

@robertstorey7476 2 ай бұрын

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.