Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Preposterous Erections: A Book of English Towers

4/5 ( ratings)

Eighteenth-century eye-catchers, nineteenth-century ego boosters, twentieth- century communicators, towers continually rise up into our collective consciousness. They are the landmarks of our journeys, the map pins of our personal geographies; always looked-out for, always in the corner of the eye. Preposterous Erections brings together sixty uniquely fascinating towers from all corners of England. From the parkland Brizlee Tower in Northumberland to the coastal Doyden Castle in Cornwall, Peter Ashley tells us their stories through his own very individual photographs and his witty and irreverent commentary. Although there is an obvious core of eighteenth and nineteenth-century landowner's eccentricities, the more recent past is not forgotten, including the instantly recognisable Post Office tower in London's Fitzrovia and the more retiring Lewis's department store art deco tower in Leicester.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Release: September 01, 2012

ISBN: 0711233586

ISBN 13: 9780711233584

Preposterous Erections: A Book of English Towers

4/5 ( ratings)

Eighteenth-century eye-catchers, nineteenth-century ego boosters, twentieth- century communicators, towers continually rise up into our collective consciousness. They are the landmarks of our journeys, the map pins of our personal geographies; always looked-out for, always in the corner of the eye. Preposterous Erections brings together sixty uniquely fascinating towers from all corners of England. From the parkland Brizlee Tower in Northumberland to the coastal Doyden Castle in Cornwall, Peter Ashley tells us their stories through his own very individual photographs and his witty and irreverent commentary. Although there is an obvious core of eighteenth and nineteenth-century landowner's eccentricities, the more recent past is not forgotten, including the instantly recognisable Post Office tower in London's Fitzrovia and the more retiring Lewis's department store art deco tower in Leicester.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Release: September 01, 2012

ISBN: 0711233586

ISBN 13: 9780711233584

More books from Peter Ashley

Unmitigated England

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Railway Rhymes

3.6/5 ( ratings)

London Peculiars: A Handbook for Offbeat Explorers

3.5/5 ( ratings)

More From Unmitigated England

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Cross Country: English Buildings And Landscape From Countryside To Coast

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Pastoral Peculiars: Curiosities in the Countryside

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Cigarette Papers: A Eulogy for the Cigarette Packet in Anecdote and Literature

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Whistle Stops: Railway Architecture

The English Buildings Book

Beside the Sea: Maritime Style

A Human Reaction

English Allsorts

Angry People Smiling

The English Buildings Book

Built for Britain: Bridges to Beach Huts

Bridging the Gap: Bridges (English Heritage Pocket Books)

Hard Furnishings: Street Furniture (English Heritage Pocket Books)

The Stone

GAMBLING Taking the Bookies to the Cleaners

Liam the Lonely Leprechaun

Rate this book!

Write a review?