Past, Present and Future by Michael Rainey, Director - Rainey Petrie Architecture
A couple of years ago I wrote the forward to Robin McInnes’ fascinating book entitled ‘Art, Architecture and the Island Landscape’, in which I considered how the architecture of the Island has changed it over the centuries and continues to do so. This change and variety of both buildings and farming practice within a confined rural setting is what gives the Island its character. It never was, nor should it ever be, preserved in aspic.
Victorian architecture is now much admired but imagi
Yarmouth Castle
The last and most sophisticated addition to Henry VIII's coastal defences was completed after his death in 1547, with the first new-style 'arrowhead' artillery bastion built in England.
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