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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. Twice for Grove Park Youth Club.

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Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social · 8d

Catch me in the @theguardian.com today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain

Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social · 7d

My next @opencity tour of Canary Wharf and East India is Saturday 18th October. Booking and details here: open-city.org.uk/events/c-wha...

Canary Wharf and East India Docks Walking Tour — Open City

Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf and East India Docks

open-city.org.uk

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Andrew Eberlin @eberlin.co.uk · 15d

The revolutionary new MULTIDECK…

Thanks to the Bristol Post for this scan of an ad for the opening of Bristol’s iconic Rupert St car park. Due to be demolished for a couple more unimaginative boxes of student accommodation.

More photos here:

www.eberlin.co.uk/buildings/ru...

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 14d

I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards.

This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous.

It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.

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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 21d

Life Is Brutal

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Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 24d

It’s a very rainy Sunday evening so why not cheer yourself up with a visit to our fab little bookstore & stock up on some photographic inspiration!

Go here and see what we’ve got: www.photobookjunkies.com/products

Speedy UK delivery! 📦 ✨

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you to @willjennings.bsky.social for reviewing my new photo book @recessedspace.bsky.social - I am most grateful for his appreciation of my narrative throughout the book, an architecture photo book with a difference...
recessed.space/00285-Robert...
Please take look here:

00285 - Robert Clayton Provision — recessed.space

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

recessed.space

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Jul 31

stayfreepublishing.bigcartel.com

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus" chapter one; Housing. Available now directly from photographer: stayfreepublishing.co.uk
For more info, see latest review here: recessed.space/00285-Robert...

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Sep 2

Agreed. Been plain to see for a long time.

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Provision, Architecture of the Post-War Consensus" chapter one; Housing. Available now directly from photographer: stayfreepublishing.co.uk
For more info, see latest review here: recessed.space/00285-Robert...

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · Aug 16

New on Substack, my post on Balfron Tower - the experience of its residents and its controversial sell-off and renovation (The images below from 2011 and 2024 show how radically it was butchered.) It's now a hard-to-let block in the private rental sector.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/balfron-to...

2011 photo showing original fenestration

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · Aug 15

If anybody wants to commission me, I'm open. I thought that after five years of chasing, pitching & hassling for countless £100-200 gigs, which take a tonne of work, I may get better public or private commissions & offers coming my way. But, my £600 income this summer suggests not.

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 14

Worship 4 #1964
East Kilbride

“The epic scale of this book is as awe-inspiring as the buildings. All are accompanied by minimal - yet informative - captions and fascinating contextual quotations from the likes of #JonathanMeades, #JohnGrindrod and Elaine Harwood.”

C20 Mag, Gareth Gardner

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · Aug 14

💥 At 11am this morning the 8 cooling towers at Cottam Power Station will be demolished, after looming large over the Nottinghamshire landscape for more than 50 years.

Do you believe we should preserve a set of Britain’s fast vanishing cooling towers?

✍🏼 Sign the petition here: chng.it/ZqW2PZfRGj

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 14

Worship 4 #1964
East Kilbride

“The epic scale of this book is as awe-inspiring as the buildings. All are accompanied by minimal - yet informative - captions and fascinating contextual quotations from the likes of #JonathanMeades, #JohnGrindrod and Elaine Harwood.”

C20 Mag, Gareth Gardner

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 7

Another great review of my book can be found here:

recessed.space/00285-Robert...

Thank you @willjennings.bsky.social @recessedspace.bsky.social
for an insightful reflection on the themes running through the images and texts

00285 - Robert Clayton Provision — recessed.space

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

recessed.space

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Aug 7

Another great review of my book can be found here:

recessed.space/00285-Robert...

Thank you @willjennings.bsky.social @recessedspace.bsky.social
for an insightful reflection on the themes running through the images and texts

00285 - Robert Clayton Provision — recessed.space

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

recessed.space

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Jul 31

stayfreepublishing.bigcartel.com

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · Jul 31

New on Substack, the Watling Estate: ‘Building the new England’. It questions why a sometimes demonised, sometimes romanticised working class is so continually subject to middle-class judgement, whether liberal or conservative. It's one of my favourites.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-watlin...

The Watling Estate, Burnt Oak: ‘Building the new England’

We looked last week at the building of the Watling Estate and its early residents.

municipaldreams.substack.com

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you to @willjennings.bsky.social for reviewing my new photo book @recessedspace.bsky.social - I am most grateful for his appreciation of my narrative throughout the book, an architecture photo book with a difference...
recessed.space/00285-Robert...
Please take look here:

00285 - Robert Clayton Provision — recessed.space

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

recessed.space

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · Jul 29

I've now included 3 add-ons to the Kickstarter so it's a way you can increase your support if you wish, whilst getting something extra for it!
Signed copies of Travelogue 2 and The Last Stand, and of course the print of Bluebird the sheep.

shorturl.at/MgbKh

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Jul 29

Two concerned citizens are arrested as terrorists, and put in handcuffs, for the heinous crime of holding up cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile the Israeli government starves the people of Gaza to death, and uses their children as target practice, with total impunity.

Two people sitting on a wall in handcuffs with the back of a police officer visible to the left

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Robert Clayton Photographer @robclayton.bsky.social · Jun 30

Civic 9 #1971
Aldersbrook, London
City of London New Crematorium
E G Chandler
www.robclayton.co.uk/Provision/th...

From my new book, “Provision, Architecture of the Post-war Consensus”.
A visual journey through the 1950 to 1979 period of British modernist architecture.

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