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Jon Neale

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Jon Neale

@JonNeale

Researches cities, property, economics. Professional if accentless Brummie. DFL in Lewes. Beer & Music Snob. History buff & wannabe linguist. Views my own.

Lewes near Brighthelmstone

Joined January 2011

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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Feb 27, 2024
Between 1934 and 1939 tens of thousands of upmarket apartments were built for rent in Britain’s cities : a phenomenon that is almost completely written out of history. An absolutely fascinating piece to write and research
Sam Bowman
@s8mb
Feb 27, 2024
NEW: How Art Deco conquered 1930s Britain, and led to tens of thousands of apartments being built that are still iconic today. By @JonNeale for Works in Progress. worksinprogress.news/p/britains-int…
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Aug 29, 2024
Not sure how good the coffee is, but the view out of this new cafe in Lewes….
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Feb 22, 2022
Lose your anti-Midlands myopia and admit Colmore Row is one of the grandest Victorian streets jn England.
Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Dec 22, 2022
1/13 Corporation Street was one of the defining achievements of Joseph Chamberlain's mayoralty, an attempt to give Birmingham the grand boulevard it deserved. Here it is in its prime.
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Apr 10, 2024
It's wild how geographically concentrated "professionals" are in the big cities outside London
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Mar 7, 2024
1/21 Amid such bleak news from Birmingham here’s a more detailed look at something distinctive about it - its legacy of inter-war art deco private flats. No other UK city outside London has so many, and there are virtually none in the obvious peers like Leeds and Manchester.
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Jul 31, 2024
Do we really need new towns? England has a lot of small towns already, many of which struggle. We need urban extensions and densification. The obsession with "new settlements" demonstrates how embedded early 20th C planning thinking is in the UK. To quote Jane Jacobs...
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Mar 26, 2023
Corporation Street Birmingham, if they hadn’t demolished so many of the Victorian buildings.
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Jan 20, 2023
1/21 The thread I did on Corporation Street's history seems to have gone down well - so I've decided to do another: this time on the eastern side of the city centre, focussing on the High Street. Here it is from the junction with New Street. Every single building no longer exists
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Aug 29, 2024
Replying to @samofsamshire
Blame the garden city movement and ideas of open development that became law, policy, common practice
Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Aug 16, 2024
Replying to @JonNeale
2/4 And here he is having a pop at Letchworth and its legacy. "If a modern Craig were to desire to build a modern New Town Edinburgh, he would not be allowed to do so... A triumph indeed for Howard and the builders of Letchworth."
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Feb 21, 2024
1/9 The CBSO was founded by Neville Chamberlain as the first pubicly funded Orchestra in Britain, building on the internationally renowned Birmingham Triennial festival, held in the Town Hall. Its 1st season included Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Sibelius conducting their own works
Ashley Beauchamp
@ashbeauchamp
Feb 20, 2024
Replying to @lewis_goodall
And all of these incredible arts organisations - losing 50% funding this year, then 100% next year: City of B'ham Symphony Orchestra Birmingham REP Theatre Birmingham Royal Ballet IKON Gallery Birmingham Opera Company FABRIC Sampad Ex Cathedra Legacy Centre of Excellence B:Music
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Feb 5, 2021
Sod Bridgerton. I’d like to see a Georgian period drama in Birmingham. All the architecture, Darwin and Priestley arguing about electricity, Watt fiddling with steam engines, Boulton installing central heating, flogging jewellery and marrying heiresses.
Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Jun 1, 2023
Hereford is surprisingly beautiful and interesting, much more unspoilt than Worcester and certainly Gloucester
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Jon Neale
@JonNeale
Sep 2, 2024
Replying to @Samfr
The amount of people on this thread who think the only way you get abroad is by flying. I’ve got 3 kids and we’ve been to the Italian lakes, all over France, the Black Forest, Bruges, Ghent, Amsterdam, Northern Spain, Switzerland over three past ten years without a single flight
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