The Atomic Energy Exhibition Train, which toured Britain for several months in 1947. Designed by Peter Moro & Robin Day to “popularise the subject of atomic energy”.

I'm reading Michael Gage's 'Guide to Exposed Concrete Finishes' (1970). Catnip for me - so here follows a thread of some of the tasty things in it.

One of the big stories of economic and environmental change in Britain since 1950 has been the massive decline of energy production in cities. Urban areas have ceased to be areas of energy production, instead becoming large consumers of energy imported from rural areas.

I've made an interactive map of wireless (radio) transmitting stations, 1923. If you click on a pin it calls up the call sign and other information. google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…

It replicates a map that was a supplement to Amateur Wireless magazine in January 1923, and is partly a test of techniques to gather such information and use mapping tools. The image was used in my #congruenceengine SMGJ paper on communications history journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/histor…

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Ian Waites @iwaites60 'Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty and the West Burton Power Station' in 'Decommissioning the twentieth century'. uniformbooks.co.uk/decommissionin…

Listening to BBC Radio 4 Today prompts me to post these CEGB adverts from the 1960s (incl. in the book I’m currently writing). Current debates about the siting of pylons strongly resonate with those erupting in the 1950s/60s with the expansion of the national grid and super grid.

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Fascinating short film about the Lower Swansea Valley Project & restoration of derelict industrial land. The 1963 footage of this wrecked landscape of extraction nicely illustrates the complicated temporalities of de-industrialisation. Rural Modernism youtu.be/BCT1rFB9weU

Yesterday we went by train to Windermere & from there by bus to Calder Hall Atomic Power Station, which was most interesting. There was a terrific thunderstorm during the night, but it has remained fine so far today. I'm going to have a rest now, as we have a Dinner Dance tonight

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The second highlight of Krankenhaus Festival - a magical micro-festival was Hayden Thorpe and Jack McNeill setting Robert Macfarlane's Ness to music

"Do that again" says man with camera, ensuring I am caught in the act of breaching copyright. Hydro Board aesthetics. Rural Modernism fits well in the glens.

St Michael’s water tower glowing in the gloaming… 🌾⛲️☀️ #Suffolk #TheSaints #StMichaelSouthElmham BWTAS Rural Modernism

For those unable to attend the Smallbrook planning committee tomorrow Thursday 28th September 11am, here’s the link to livestream via YouTube >>> youtube.com/@birminghamcit…

"My sound engineer, Bill Cadman, was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. I was very badly affected by that. One of the things that helped me was to write some music for him" Gavin Bryars, Hilliard Ensemble, Fretwork – 'Caedmon's "Creation Hymn"' buff.ly/46j1niX

The lovely bunch of environmental humanists I took to the Sycamore Gap as part of the asleuki (@ASLE_US) 2022 conference Northumbria Uni. Now a crime scene.

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