LONDON - 1992 planning
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Thurs Sept 12
west of Bloomsbury:
Victoria & Albert Museum - Cromwell Road
J. Floris perfumes - 89 Jeremyn Street (Mayfair)
Burlington Arcade (Penhaligon's perfumes) & Brook Street
At Bond Street --> Oxford Street - much touristy junk, especially north of
Soho
(HMV Shop - 363 / Virgin Megastore 14/16)
(Tower - Piccadilly Circus)
British Museum
(Vinyl Experience - 20 Hanway Street)
* Kramps Creperie - 6 Kenway Road at Earl's Court Road
Fri Sept 13
Kensington High Street: Kensington Market, Hyper Market, Dillons books
(Ealing Commons)
Covent Garden: >> Neat Street / Monmouth <<
London Ecology Centre - Shelton Street
Beadstore
Stanfords maps
walk: Bank ---> St. Paul's
walk: Holborn ---> Inns of Court
Strand ----> Charing Cross
(Caravela Portuguese $$ (Chelsea) )
Sat Sept 14
Portobello Road: Plastic Passion Records - 2 Blenheim Crescent
* Cambden Lock (canal)
Hampstead Heath - walk to Spaniards Inn
(Andreas Greek Restaurant - 22 Charlotte St, Soho - ok)
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Bluebird - 378 Edgware Road (St. Marylebone)
English Folk Dance & Song Society - headquarters: Regents Park Road, London
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ENGLAND - more notes from 1992 planning
WILDFOWL TRUSTS:
x Sussex: Arundel
- Gloucestershire: Slimbridge
- Peakirk & x Welney - near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- near Ormskirk: Lancashire: Martin Mere, Burscough
- Washington, Tyne & Wear: Middle
Barmston Farm, Pattinson
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CO-OPS:
Rochdale, Toad Lane, Lancashire (just north of Manchester)
flannel-weavers 1844 1860s (Cotton famine due to civil war)
Historic Communities:
Saltaire - Wykshire
Liverpool - Port Sunlight +
>> South Scotland - Corra Lynn + falls of Clyde & Wildfowl Trust
Bristol: Blaise Hamlet + 10 estate houses 1811
Back to the Land, page 102:
Essen, near Purleigh, south of Maldon 1896-
Whiteway Colony, Cotswalds - near Sheepscombe & Miserden, 6 miles from Stroud
1898-
bakery still there
Guild of Handicraft - Chipping Campden
1890s: Surrey hills - back to the landers - Gertrude Jekyll
i.e. The Hill, Birket Foster's house, Godalming - Wittley
watercolors of Hambledon Common & Chiddingford village
Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll: Munstead Wood house near Godalming
Back to the Land, page 175:
Stonewall Cottage, Leicestershire - stone seems to grow from the ground
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Current Intentional Communities:
(Some People Community, Leicester - 12 Bartholomew Street)
Taena - Whistley Court, Upton Street - Leonards, Gloucester: six houses on 135-acre
dairy farm, WWII pacifist, Catholic - silversmithing, stone & wood carving,
calligraphy, pottery
Mickleton Emmisary Comm. - Gloucestershire