local history

Sport and transport, movies and moving. Join Jane to admire and find out about a cross-section of 1930's buildings, collectively known as Art Deco. See how the innovative styles of that era still endure today. You'll see stadium and cinema architecture whilst hearing about design, typography and geometric embellishments,. There will be a chance to ... Read More

On this guided walk, Jane will show you some marvellous 'statement' architecture constructed in the interwar years during a design period that came to be identified as 'Art Deco'. The modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s with its clean geometric lines, simplicity, functionality and minimal decorative enhancement was designed to impress and inspire – ... Read More