Mastodawn

Started to re-watch "Travels with Pevsner" on #BBC #iPlayer. I really enjoyed this series when it came out 30 years. (Well, OK, not the Janet Street-Porter episode.)

Brought up short about 30 seconds in when the voice-over describes Pevsner's "Buildings of England" as unique. This is a typical bit of British exceptionalism!

Pevsner was really annoyed when he first visited Britain that there were no handbooks to buildings along the lines of the German Dehio series.

Guess what he did.

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SK53

Now watched episodes 1 & 3 (skipping JSP for now and Yotksheeeer).

Episode 1 was as delightful as I remembered it with Dan Cruickshank elegantly sequeing from one deceptively simple concept to the next, and driving a gorgeous DS convertible.

Dorset (Ep. 3) with Patrick Wright, in a Saab, reflected a bit more on people. Highlights for me were the massive Norman Shaw house, now Bryanston School; the decaying flax mill; and a short vignette about council housing at Milton Abbas.