About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: 20-22 Marlborough Place, Brighton, 59 Rodney Street, 61 Queen Charlotte Street, Bristol, 6 King Street, Bristol, All Saints Church, Shirburn, Barford Court, Hove, Church of St James, Liverpool, Dee House, Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, Georgian House, Bristol, Greenbank, Chester, Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, Home House, Judges Lodgings, Lancaster, Mottram Hall, Old All Saints Church, Great Steeping, Old Bishop's Palace, Chester, Park Square, Leeds, Portland Square, Bristol, Queen Square (Bath), Royal Crescent, Shakespeare Public House, Bristol, St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, St John's Church, Threapwood, St John the Evangelist's Church, Lancaster, St Swithun's Church, Worcester, St Thomas' Church, Friarmere, Sutton Hall, Little Sutton. Excerpt: Barford Court is a care home operated by the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution and situated on the seafront in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The building, completed in 1937, has had this function only since 1996; it was constructed by renowned cinema architect Robert Cromie as a private house for Ian Stuart Millar, an eccentric iron industry tycoon, who occupied it for only nine years. The large building later accommodated the Brighton and Hove School of Nursing, which for the first time brought together training provision for all local hospitals' staff on one site. When the school moved away in 1989, the house spent several years on the market awaiting a buyer-and in steadily deteriorating structural condition-before being refurbished, extended, renamed and converted to its present use. The building is distinctive and idiosyncratic in its layout, positioning, materials and architectural style. Many interior touches are reminiscent of interwar Art Deco cinema architecture, contrasting with the "austere" Neo-Georgian exterior. Handmade, specially...
