One face of the tall brick chimney glows red as it catches the evening sun.
The buildings which once crowded Spittal Point are long gone, leaving the chimney in splendid isolation as a monument to Spittal’s industrial past.
One face of the tall brick chimney glows red as it catches the evening sun.
The buildings which once crowded Spittal Point are long gone, leaving the chimney in splendid isolation as a monument to Spittal’s industrial past.
June 21, 2018 at 2:35 am
The chimney looks wonderful Judith. A local council here is establishing an industrial park on a site where industry had already been. They cleared everything away but my husband Nigel, landscape architect, advised them to retain this wonderful big rustic looking silo which had a wonderful steam-punk look about it. Another senior person involved was keen to keep it too. Did the rest of them take any notice? No of course not! Now its just a flat boring site that they’ll no doubt plonk a whole lot of boring buildings on to. Why do decision-makers not have respect for the sense-of-place and time that keeping a few landmarks like this imparts? Its so short-sighted! This comment turned into a rant – apologies for that. Your top photo is really lovely!
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June 21, 2018 at 8:59 am
Thanks for your comment Liz. Spittal has had it’s share of dull, inappropriate buildings but the village is now a Conservation Area so developers have to be more imaginative. Around the turn of the century British planners started to pay attention to the ordinary buildings which can be important to a community’s sense of history and identity. You might find this report on Berwick by Historic England interesting: https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/berwick-upon-tweed/berwick-upon-tweed.pdf/
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