The price of each book includes a donation to Nottingham Civic Society – you can join them and attend their program of talks and walks for just £12 per year.
There are very limited numbers of each book at the moment and there are also some copies of Ken Brand’s Watson Fothergill book available. Postage is at the flat rate of £2.70 which allows you to purchase multiple books.
Nottingham Civic Society have found a number of books on Nottingham architects and architecture that they have asked me to sell. I have now added some of these to my shop.
Nottingham Civic Society have found a limited stock of Ken Brand’s book on Watson Fothergill and asked me to get them out into the world!
I am going to be selling these from the site for £5 plus postage and hopefully, I will also be able to make them available on the walking tours (if they’re not too heavy!). Each sale will include a donation to Nottingham Civic Society. You can also join the society for a small annual fee – which entitles you to updates, access to talks and supports campaigns for Nottingham’s historic buildings. Thoroughly worthwhile!
NEWS FLASH! The first small batch of these books has sold out really fast! I hope to get some more within the next couple of weeks and will post again when they’re listed on the shop. So keep your eyes peeled! Meanwhile thanks for your enthusiasm for all things Fothergill and sign up to the mailing list for news and tour dates.
The late Ken Brand was responsible for formative research on Nottingham’s Victorian architects and his work is the basis of everything that has followed. This book contains a selection of black-and-white photos, reproductions and drawings of Fothergill buildings that are not available elsewhere. The book is not currently available on Amazon or Abebooks… so get them while there are some left!
Visit the SHOP page – payments can be made by card, PayPal or Apple Pay. The postage price is for 2nd class Royal Mail.
If you have any questions, please contact Lucy here.
Last week I attended the launch (via Zoom) of the new edition of The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, commonly known as The Pevsner Guide.
The hefty new edition of The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire.
You can watch the interview with Clare Hartwell, who has throughly revised and updated the Nottinghamshire guide, on Five Leaves Bookshop’s YouTube channel.
As you can see the new 2020 edition (bottom) has somewhat expanded on the previous editions! (the 1997 reprint of the 2nd edition, and the pocket-sized Penguin from 1951).
The Pevsner Guides are pretty much the bible for anyone doing research on architects and architecture and I’ve now got all three editions of the Nottinghamshire book, as well as Elain Harwood’s Nottingham City Guide.
The edition of the Nottingham city guide that I regularly use for researching my walks. As you can see, I’ve bookmarked a lot of buildings!
Nottinghamshire was the second county of England that Nikolaus Pevsner covered when he originally put the guides together in the 1950s. The guides have evolved from pocket-sized paperbacks to hefty hardbacks that offer a summary of the architecture of each county.
The first edition also features Southwell Minster on the cover, but the book was considerably cheaper and more portable!
Much as I wish they were a little more portable, the new one is more than double the size of the last edition and weighs almost a kilo, it is really worth taking them with you on your travels (or perhaps making appropriate notes before you set off). I wonder, have Yale University Press considered making an online version available to purchasers of the book? It would make a fantastic app! (So far there’s only a Pevsner Architectural Glossary available).
Plenty of bookmarks in this, the 2nd edition, that I bought second hand at the much missed Jermy & Westerman bookshop.
Something of Pevsner’s eccentricity may have been lost – indeed in his first Nottinghamshire edition he attributes the bank in Newark to “Fothergill & Watson”, Fothergill’s name change being the source of no end of confusion! – but as a basis for discoving more details about the architecture around you, the guides are completely indispensible.
The new edition has been lavishly illustrated with photographs, the majority of which are by Martine Hamilton Knight. Here’s Watson Fothergill’s Office (as well Papplewick Pumping Station and Trent Navigation Warehouse in Newark)
For more on Pevsner listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 Programme, Pevsner: Through Outsider’s Eyes (I’m off to listen to it again).
