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Six English Towns

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A Pattern of Building Written and presented by Alec Clifton-Taylor 6: Ludlow, Shropshire
' Local stone ... bricks baked from the local clays, oaks from the forests ... wherever local materials were used they look right.'
Ludlow, in the centre of the Welsh Marches, is probably ALEC CLIFTON-TAYLOR'S favourite small town. It exemplifies precisely his concept of a pattern of building - stone for the church, the bridges and the castle; wood for the medieval houses, often carved with great exuberance as at the Feathers Hotel; plaster for the ceilings, and brick for the handsome houses of the Georgian town. But there are some Victorian shockers in ' polychrome machine-made bricks in jazzy patterns' and the Market Hall, apostrophised by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as ' Ludlow's bad luck.'
Titles BOB ENGLISH
Film soundBOB ROBERTS PhotographyGODFREY JOHNSON
Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Producer DENIS MORIARTY
Book (same title), 17.25, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
Alec Clifton-Taylor
Unknown:
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Unknown:
Bob English
Unknown:
Bob Roberts
Unknown:
Godfrey Johnson
Editor:
Keith Raven
Producer:
Bruce Norman
Producer:
Denis Moriarty

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