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Alan Soldat
Добавлен 4 апр 2020
West Wilts U3A Architecture Group
Buildings of Newport
A slideshow about some of the more interesting buildings and public art of Newport, South Wales
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The Quest for Wansdyke
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Unlike most of the videos on this channel, which are about architecture, this is about archaeology. It is a summary of my recently published book, "The Quest for Wansdyke".
A Walk Around Trowbridge Part 2
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The second in a series of architectural walks around Trowbridge, The County Town of Wiltshire, this time concentrating on its unique and important collection of buildings connected to woollen cloth manufacture
A Walk Around Trowbridge Part 1
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A slideshow prepared as part of West Wilts U3A High Street Project.
A Walk Around Melksham Revised
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A Video produced for the West Wilts u3a Architecture Group (Revised Version)
The Architecture of Nancy
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A slide show for West Wilts U3A Architecture Group.
Historic Buildings Of Westbury
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A walk around the Wiltshire town of Westbury for West Wilts U3A Architecture Group
Buildings of Antwerp
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A short virtual tour of the buildings of Antwerp for West Wilts U3A Architecture Group.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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A ten minute slideshow on the work of the eccentric Austrian Architect who produced some wonderful buildings.
Sydney Opera House
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A short slide show about this remarkable building and the story of its design and construction.
Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
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A short piece about this pioneering reinforced concrete building, preceded by a virtual tour of Wroclaw.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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A short survey of his and Margaret Macdonald's work
Viennese Architecture - The Road To Modernism
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Viennese Architecture - The Road To Modernism
Dutch Architecture - The Road To Modernism
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Dutch Architecture - The Road To Modernism
Border between Wessex and Mercia dug around the time of Penda King of Mercia.
Rubbish! Much older & it's proven now!
Excellent really enjoyed this 👍🏼
Very nice video, it stands out among many many others due to your great summary of research so far. I'm still unconvinced by Reynold's assurance that Alfred of Wessex still traced his lineage back to Woden means that the society of Wessex was uninfluenced by Christianity. There is a HUGE gap between the lineage of kings (a mere tradition) and huge projects such as Wansdyke involving thousands of people for years. If any Wessex king had built it c 800 it would have been named after him, not Woden. I noticed you've used some of my maps. ;)
Delighted to hear form you and thank you for your kind words. Your wansdyke21 website was an important source when I started researching this project. Thank you also for your interesting comments which make a lot of sense.
@@alansoldat1779 my pleasure!
Could it be like permaculture water management ?
I don't think so for two reasons. First, there would be no need to build such an enormous bank on one side of the ditch. Second, the bank and dich is anything but level, going up and over hills. I think they would have chosen a different line if they were interested in managing water.
@@alansoldat1779 Yes why do they call them Dyke's ? I understand there are Tax Borders to check the flow of Goods. But why do they call these things Dykes ? And call things Causeway's going to monumental sites ? Like are there other things in the area which might be for water management ? Just how things are often built over or near, but retain the nomenclature of what might have been in the area. I just wonder why they settled on the word Dyke.
Great in depth video on such a fascinating construction, otherwise underrepresented on RUclips. I would not say the people in the area in question in the 5th and the 6th C were Durotriges, but it was all part of Dumnonia. I do not believe there is any evidence for the Durotriges to exist as a political body in this period. However, Dumnonian princes such as Cyngar and Cadwy are represented in the place names of the re-occupied hillforts.
You could be right, though the evidence I have reviewed in the book all points to Dumnonia not extending further east than the River Parrett. The important point regarding Wansdyke is that what is now Somerset continued to be part of a Romano-British kingdom, with West Wansdyke at or near its northern boundary, well into the seventh century.
I’ll try and get hold of a copy! For my money that Brythonic kingdom would be Dumnonia, attested to by place names. The river Parrett becoming the border with Wessex post battle of Deorham at the very least. John Fletcher’s ‘the Western Kingdom’ is a good resource which I imagine you’ve come across.
My source for this point was Ken Dark's "Britain and the end of The Roman Empire" but I haven't dwelt on it because it is peripheral to the point I was making that Somerset was Romano-British/Brythonic up to the the Battle of Peonnum in c.658.
GREGORIAN FINANCIAL CALENDAR ADOPTION.....1752.....BRITAIN AND WEST !!
John 10.9.....I AM THE DOOR
Don't Forget.....the Adootion of the Gregorian Financial Calendar.....1752.....Britain
Interesting.....The Identical....Facilities and Changes In My Town !!
Forget modernism , lets go back to the Amsterdam School , Dudok and Berlage , together with a lot of grass and trees ..... Lets make Netherlands cosy again ! 😂😂😂
Fantastic i have just ordered your book and now came across this. I live in south Bristol not far from Meas knoll , and walk my dog on the Dundry ridge every day. This subject fascinates me. Im convinced there is a lot going on up there and the way the land is would be a perfect defensive boundary for the Wansdyke to extend to the river Avon. Im planing on visiting the more impressive east Wansdyke soon. Looking forward to your book when it turns up
Structural architecture , not domestic violence
I just finding these sites
Knees is only online now. Such a demise. All those jobs lost after all that previous industriousness. Surely a reflection of Britain, isn't it, Alan?
Times change, but it was a blow to the town when Knees moved out of the centre.
This was a great find (RUclips recommendations doing a good job!) I'm really impressed by the level of detail and thoroughness here Alan! I've just ordred a copy of your book.
Many thanks for your kind words. Enjoy the book
As a frequent visitor to Trowbridge over last 12 years I've found these videos very imformative.
A friend and myself walked some of the Dyke on the 12th of October (near Devizes) We parked at local village. This is a fascinating breakdown of its history. We will go back in March hopefully.
A good walk for another day is to park at the car park by Knapp Hill and do a circular walk around Milk Hill.
@@alansoldat1779 Thanks or the tip , will do in March. I have ordered the book :o)
@@milsub59 Many thanks
Campus just opened, Melksham House has scaffolding around it.
Very interesting, thank you.
Can you do a video covering Westbury Leigh? The house that used to be attached to Leigh Mill is beautiful
Thank you for your comment. My priority is Trowbridge at the moment, where I live, but I did Westbury during lockdown as I had enjoyed walking round it. I will have a look at Westbury Leigh, which I don't know that well.
@@alansoldat1779 Fantastic - thanks so much!
Very interesting yet again!
Very interesting, thanks!
Great video thank you
This makes me appreciate my hometown more, all this time I’ve been so oblivious and never appreciated the buildings in this town. So thank you.
Great video. Makes me sad as my parents moved me away from Melksham at the age of 8 in 1978 just up the road to Shaw, but then again in 1980 to Somerset. I really miss my home town an wish it knew it more.
Thanks for your comment. I hope the video helps.
@@alansoldat1779 It cant turn back time, so many if's an but's, but yeah so many problems in later life that due to being moved away from my extended family an friends at such a young age. On the up side so many good mems brought back. Kenilworth Gardens from 1970 to 1977/8.
In additon, the social housing in those days was private non-profit initiative, through associations with members. Some financed by filantropists, but most by future rentpayers and/or with national government loans. Mainly for better housing for the working class, hence the nick name 'labourers palaces', from a broader vision of a better future, with in house elektricity. Amsterdam came from a situation of many, many very unhealthy slums in an empoverished city in an empoverished country only decades before. So there's an optimism to the project that might explain the flamboyance, and it's probably not what city council would have had designed for just the poorest when it was from their budget.
Thank you for your most interesting comments
@@alansoldat1779 My pleasure. Thanks for the video.
Looking at the last part I suddenly thought that Nijntje, or Miffy, is probably also inspired by the Stijl.
Miffy is from Utrecht too, and it's no secret Dick Bruna was inspired by De Stijl, but broke the rules too. One can also wonder about it's influence on 'de klare lijn', the clear line to characterize the style of cartoons/comics with TinTin as the example for which the term was coined.
That wasn't a sorting office before it became Morrisons.
Philip, thank you for your comments. Do you know what was on the Morrisons site.
@@alansoldat1779 Hi Alan. Morrisons was preceded by another supermarket called Coopers, in the same building. The sorting office used to be behind the former post office which was converted into a hotel called The Garden House. It's directly opposite what is now the library. I'm not sure if the hotel is still a going concern.
@@philipareed Thanks for that, Philip. Yes, I know where the garden house is.
@@alansoldat1779 I've just been to Davies next door and the hotel is open.
A reason the mausolea are in a poor state of repair is because one is very close to a public footpath that runs adjacent to the perimeter fence of the cemetery. Morons walking up the path project missiles at the windows, causing a great deal of damage.
Thank you, I found this very interesting.
My home town
@@lesmorley9628 yeah it is lol
Thanks for the information 👍
Thank you for a very clear documentary
Very Interesting, Alan. I've been a frequent visitor to the Netherlands for work, so some of this resonates with me