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Abroad in Britain

Abroad in Britain (1990)

October. 29,1990

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Abroad in Britain

Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.

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Abroad in Britain

1990

Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1990

5 Episode

Episode 1 - Severn Heaven

October. 29,1990

Just north of Bewdley in Worcestershire, beside the Severn Valley Railway, is the largest surviving interwars 'plotland' settlement in Britain. This is a village of dwellings built by their owners from improvised materials: old railway carriages, chicken coops, the fuselages of gliders etc. Decried as an instant slum and opposed by planning authorities it is today regarded as a valuable manifestation of working class history.

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Episode 2 - Right is Wrong

November. 05,1990

Meades investigates a new age community beside a Scottish air base, a furniture factory in a Dorset wood, and an experimental school in East Grinstead, all of which are geometrically linked by buildings that shun the orthodoxy of the right angle.

Episode 3 - House Ahoy

November. 12,1990

Meades investigates unusual houses, houseboats and lifestyles of people on the Solent.

Episode 4 - Brick and Mortars

November. 26,1990

Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.

Episode 5 - In Search of Bohemia

December. 03,1990

There are a surprising number of places in Britain called Bohemia. Even more surprising is the fact that two of them - in Hastings and the New Forest - have connections to the artistic bohemia of such painters as Augustus John, two of whose studios demonstrate how much domestic design would take from this type of building. Features a red Lada that's a mobile tip.

Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.