#basford

[honest-signals]

Top: My great uncles Raymond and Theodore "Pay" Basford and great grandfather George Bassford around 1920, colorized by my cousin (first once removed) Francine. Bottom: My great aunt Sissy (Virginia), her grandfather George, and cousin Francine. 1968.

Frederick county, MD.

[inelegantsquid]

1982 photos (by Miles Glendinning, who hasn't returned me emails for years smfh) of the Basford flats, mostly vacant at this point. The few trees that were planted upon completion had not even had time to grow much by the time of disposal.

There is also this homevideo clip, showing the estate.

[inelegantsquid]

One of the most intriguing estates, was the exceptionally complicated "Old Basford" estate in the North of Nottingham, sometimes known as the Basford Flats, the Basford Flats Complex, Old Basford Estate or the Davids Lane Estate (one of the main boundary roads of the development). It occupied an area previously occupied by a mixture of old tenements, industrial plots and scattered historical infill terraces, which had been cleared in stages in the 1950's and 60's, leading up to the new estate, approved in 1967. It is also one of the rare panel estates to actually display a 'Brutalist' aesthetic; the unsophisticated, aroused by the word 'brutal', like to throw it around for everything and anything they find 'oppressive', in this case, such a raw aesthetic was intentionally aspired to. The technical details for the prefabricated elements were delivered with the aid of Concrete Ltd's 'Bison' panel system, itself a modified derivative of an imported early version of the Danish Larsen-Nielsen system (which would also be directly imported by Woodrow-Anglian), but the construction contractor of the estate was a company called Drury--it also worked on the Gibson Street and Beswick-Bradford estate groups in Manchester (colloquially known as 'Fort Beswick' and 'Fort Ardwick'). It seems they little experience with such construction, for all the estates suffered from issues of varying severity.

Basford consisted of 17 lower maisonette-flat blocks between 5 and 7 storeys in height, straddling the steeply sloped site down towards the railway to the east. It also included four point blocks, ranging between 18 and 20 storeys (due to the terrain; they were roughly at the same height at roof level). The interesting and rather unusual component was that the access decks were linked not only between the maisonette blocks, but also the point blocks; pedestrian and cycle path bridges with inclined slopes used the terrain to access the upper levels without steps.

[razrafiq]

#babylambs #socute #basford https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZRu5chmUCbsQ29lApkkdhYm0iCnhyt_XCC200/?igshid=sg179t312xuh

[iainmerchant]

Basford by Iain Merchant Via Flickr: Basford I decided to create an image for every Tram stop on the Nottingham Tram Network, and I have named them according to the stop they represent. I enjoyed the project and I hope you enjoy the results… Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/iainmerchant/ Website: www.iainmerchant.com/ Blog: www.iainmerchant.com/blog #IainMerchant #art #photography #photo #pics #home #PhotoOfTheDay #PicOfTheDay #ArtofLife #thinking #happiness #life #live #love #Learn #Nottingham #Trams Photo by: Iain Merchant Photography (www.iainmerchant.com)

[watchaholics]

Felnőtt színezők, és amit magukba rejtenek

Két-három évvel ezelőtt új őrület kezdett terjedni a világban. Ez pedig nem más, mint hogy újra szárnyra kaptak – immár a felnőttek körében, de gyerekek is szívesen forgatják – a színezők. Magam is nagy rajongója vagyok – gyerekként is az voltam – a színezésnek, ezért amikor két éve kolléganőimtől megkaptam az első felnőtt színezőmet, madarat lehetett volna velem fogatni. Azóta már több könyv…

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[juliacpetersson-blog]

Mindfulness time ❤ #mindfulness #colorsplash #coloringbook #coloring #johannabasford #basford #johanna @johannabasford #relaxing #secretgarden #adultcoloringbook #coloringbook #owl #inprogress

[my-name-is-dahlia]

One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many interrogations, a student; many exclamation, a fanatic.

J. L. Basford