NCP Sheffield Furnival Gate

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Matilda Way Sheffield City Centre Sheffield S1 4QJ

Another day another car park.

A busy city centre multi-storey car park in Yorkshire has undergone a two-phase refurbishment programme to upgrade and weather-proof its top deck; with the MMA Rapid Cure Flexible System from TREMCO being preferred by the specialist contractor involved.

The contract was carried out over a four week period, with PBM ensuring customers continued to have safe access to one half of the one hundred plus parking bays at all times. PBM were keen to use the MMA Rapid Cure Flexible System due to the tricky nature of the project and based on previous experience, they know that the product is easy to apply and reliable.

The top deck to the Furnival Gate MSCP featured an ageing polyurethane running surface which was leaking water through to the lower decks. The product was applied with a grey finish to the aisle ways and ramps while the parking bays were finished in green.

The project was a success and was supported throughout by the TREMCO area sales manager and the technical services department.

TREMCO

Walking Toward Attercliffe

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A windy day with the incipient threat of rain.

Walking along the canal to the Brewery of St Mars of the Desert for a drink.

The towpath was barred and gated, necessitating a diversion along the road.

Roads lined with long stretches of brick and concrete, punctuated by metal doors and gates, along with blank eyed windows, staring blankly at the passing parade.

The remnants of an industrial past, reduced to scrap.

A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced.

Ask yourself who or what sort of creature could benefit from such a situation.

William S Burroughs: The Place of Dead Roads

Eventually, we arrived at our beery destination.

90 Stevenson Road S9 3XG.

We stayed a while – I suggest that you do too.

Here’s a previous visit to Attercliffe.

See also Sheffield Streets along with Gates and Doors.

Taliesin – Cwmbran

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What’s in a name?

Taliesin (/ˌtælˈiɛsɪn/ tal-YES-in, Welsh: [talˈjɛsɪn]; fl. 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.

Taliesin is the home, studio, and 800-acre agricultural estate of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright built Taliesin on his favorite boyhood hill, in the Wisconsin River valley homesteaded by his Welsh grandparents. He named it Taliesin in honor of the Welsh bard whose name means Shining Brow, reflecting his belief that the crown of the hill was reserved for nature, and that buildings should be constructed at the brow of the hill.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is also a name commonly found on many of the common place dwellings of the Principality.

Tre-Taliesin is a village in Ceredigion  nine miles south of Machynlleth.

The village is known for the Bedd Taliesin, a hilltop Bronze Age tumulus which is traditionally regarded as the site for the grave of the Welsh bard, Taliesin. It is listed as a Historic Monument. It is a round-kerb cairn with a cist about 2m long. The capstone has fallen; the side stone slabs are more or less in their original positions.

Wikipedia

Which brings us to Taliesin Cwmbran a group of 58 flats located at the northern end of a road named Forgeside.

This development is something of an anomaly, breaking the mould of the conventional New Town housing which surrounds it.

Broadly Postmodern – with passing references to half timbered buildings, yet with more contemporary cladding. A wandering profile and angular roofline which echoes Hollywood Medievalism, paired with a fortress like enclosure of space and scaled down passageways.

So far no architectural attribution – any clues anyone?

MacCormac Jamieson & Prichard 1981-82

Thanks to Richard Brook over at Mainstream Modern.