Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Baltic Cruise, Trips at 12:00 on 9 April 2020
There was quite a lot of Deco style (certainly Moderne style) in Warnemünde. Most of it is of relatively recent construction though.
This was directly across the River Warnow from the ship’s berth. Loads of horizontals and verticals, then there are those semi-circular projections at the entrance:-

From beach. Wellenrausch Restaurant and Cafe. Kurhaus. Paulo Scutaro Ristorante. Hellas Greichische Gastlichnet. Rule of three in windows, canopies, rounded ends.

This also fronted (backed?) onto the beach:-

Seebad, Eines der schönsten erholungsgeblete der Ostsee, (one of the most beautiful relaxation spots on the Baltic Sea.) Sweeping curves, plus horizontals and rule of three in windows:-

On the walk back to town there was this shop. Meermode (Sea Fashion):-


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Posted in Art Deco, Baltic Cruise, Trips at 20:00 on 7 April 2020
Rooftop garden:-

Close-up on rooftop plants:-

Deco-ish style house. It’s mainly the rounded bay window, here:-

Civic planting:-




Just at the ship’s de-embarkation point there was an exhibition of sand sculptures, Sand Welt (Sand World):-

By Susanne Ruseler, The Netherlands:-

By Andrius Petkus, Lithuania:-

Detail:-

S S Magellan at Warnemünde. Ferry across River Warnow in foreground:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Baltic Cruise, Dundee, Trips at 20:00 on 4 April 2020
The Verdant Works Dundee is a museum of the city’s heritage of jute production, housed in a former jute mill. It’s somewhere we had meant to visit for a while but when we’re in Dundee we’re usually busy doing something else or going on somewhere else. The cruise ship docking there gave us the opportunity to pop in for a look.
The guide was a former jute worker who operated all the machinery for us. The noise of each one was very loud. Considering that the machines are only third-size it made you realise what a cacophony the real environment with twenty or more carding, rolling, spinning etc machines on the go must have been. Many people went deaf.
Jute bales:-

Interior from upper floor:-

Verdant Works ceiling:-

Upper floor and ceiling. The wood is lovely:-

Beam engine which used to power the machines:-

Photo in the Verdant Works of the Art Deco Taybank Jute Works, Dundee, Spinning Department, opened 1949. I have photographed this building myself in 2009.

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas at 20:00 on 12 March 2020
In November 2018 we visited Rochdale for the second time.
I photographed two more Deco style buildings.
Former King’s Cinema later converted to Bingo but that has also closed and the building is now in a sad state of neglect:-


Spotland Bridge. The unusual roofline, projecting beyond the slope of the roof, gives it the deco look:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco at 20:00 on 8 March 2020
A thirties pair of semi-detacheds near to Links Park. Pity its windows have been replaced. Typical 1930s style otherwise.

Frontage:-

From left:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco at 12:00 on 3 March 2020
Turriff is a town in Aberdeenshire. We passed through it on our trip up north in October 2018 and stopped for a look around.
There were two buildings which had aspects of Art Deco.
Turriff Fish Shop/Bliss Gift & Flower Boutique. Horizontals, verticals, rule of three in windows. Decoration just below roof line:-

A much more borderline case. Grant Smith law practice. This may once have been a bank. It has that look:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco at 20:00 on 27 February 2020
I observed this school (Gordon’s School) while photographing Huntly’s War Memorial, so naturally had to take these as well.
Horizontals, verticals, flat roofs, square chimney, rounded corner:-

Rounded corner again and strong verticals:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas at 20:00 on 24 February 2020
Inverurie is a town in Aberdeenshire.
The closest thing to Art Deco I saw there (and definitely 1930s in style) was the Gordon Highlander pub:-
From side:-

Now a Wetherspoons:-

Face view. Vertical and horizontal brick banding and rule of three in windows to side blocks:-


Edited (16/12/23) to add:-
This it seems was once the Victoria Cinema.
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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Trips at 12:00 on 9 February 2020
We were in Peterborough in Sep 2018 to attend an antique fair. Cruising round the town centre the evening we arrived I found some Art Deco buildings.
Minor deco, brick-built:-

The Burton’s was hard to photograph due to trees in the way:-


Close-up shows the typical deco styling:-

Edward’s, however, was a stunner:-

Horizontals, verticals, rounded corner, canopy…:-

Note windows with streamlined and canopied decoration:-

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Posted in Art Deco, Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 8 February 2020
Matlock Bath is a village in Derbyshire, 1½ miles from Matlock on the A6 and by the River Derwent.
As we were to be travelling along the A6 and I have a crested china model of Matlock Bath’s War Memorial I was keen to stop and photograph the real thing. It lies between the main street and the river in a little wooded area and would be easy to miss if you’re just passing through.

It’s slightly unusual in style bearing the figures of a soldier and sailor holding a Union flag.

The inscription reads, “Our glorious dead,” and, “In honoured memory of the men of Matlock Bath who gave their all in the Great War of Nations 1914 – 1919,” with at the bottom of the column, “Their name liveth for evermore.”
An information board sits to its side:-

Memorial from West, inscribed , “Duty nobly done, Honour bravely won, Loyal hearts now rest, By God’s peace now blest.”

From north, inscribed, “Also in honoured memory of the men who gave their lives in the World War 1939 -1945.”

From east, inscribed, “Greater Love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Further along Matlock Bath’s main street there is a café with hints of Art Deco:-

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