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5 Oct, 6 tweets, 4 min read
More of those heavy mansard 80s executive houses that look like they were designed by Supermarket architects ImageImageImageImage
Have to say I'm quite a big fan of this variation in Abbeyhill ImageImageImageImage
These actually quite nicely channel the houses they replaced on Sunnybank Terrace/Place (a sort of 3-storey colonies setup), which had a mansard & dormer roof flickr.com/photos/sixties…
They also built some similar-looking townhouses next door to the little HA scheme. ImageImageImage
This little pocket of land was heavily cleared of housing in the 1960s due to subsidence and generally poor quality of the stock. Everything highlighted was demolished. The industrial premises all went too, and both the churches. Image
Or... were the supermarket and housing architects merely channelling carehome architects? ImageImageImage

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Today's auction house artefact is this Leith Banking Company £20 note from 1825, issued to the payee James Ker Image
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Why settle for a single mansard when you can have a double mandard split across 3 levels? ImageImageImage
Built on the site of the Argyle Place Church which burned down in 1974 during renovations (I believe a blow lamp set fire to paint) Image
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🥁Hold on to your hats everyone. You've seen and you have loved and you have hated the Immensard™ Roof.
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I believe this style is called East Coast Vernacular Ugly Image
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ESPC white paint and pine minimalism of the day ImageImageImageImage
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I have often wondered if something intriguing lay within this little copper-roofed heptagonal offshoot of Basil Spence's Great Michael Rise council housing (whose distinctive walls made from granite setts are just lovely in the light). ImageImageImage
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