Watson Fothergill's Home on Mapperley Road


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It is 50 years since the vandalism that saw Watson Fothergill's house on Mapperley Road being demolished to make way for some very bland flats.

 

At the time I lived in the house behind it on Chestnut Grove and was able to photograph the demolition work taking place:

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29 minutes ago, plantfit said:

Shear vandalism,the people responsible should hang their heads in shame

 

Rog

Can I alter that slightly:

Sheer vandalism, the people responsible should hang.

 

I remember the building. Had a compelling Gothic eerieness about it

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I quite agree the same with the black boy hotel  The 1960s councils where nothing but vandals to put 1960s shoe boxes up around the square shows they knew nothing about architecture whatsoever  Watson Fothergill was one of the great architects of his generation and much more should be done to acknowledge his work  meeowed

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In the latter years of the old house it had been sub-divided into flats / bed-sits and rented out. I seem to remember it was looking tatty and under-maintained towards the end - so maybe the landlord just cut their losses. Victorian architecture was not valued in the 1960s and fewer people wanted big houses.

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Never knew that Watson Fothergill's

real name was actually the reverse of that. 

He was actually born Fothergill Watson and can be seen on all the Census with that name up to 1891 .

He changed his name to the reverse to carry on his mother's surname .

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Have been reading the comments and looking with interest at the pictures, especially the first ones.  If you would google Saltwell Towers in Saltwell Park Gateshead there is a distinct similarity in windows and towers. Gem

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Yep school was not particularly interesting to me...………………………… learnt more there from the hardened socialists that had fought their way up the Co-op greasy pole than I did from disinterested teachers who taught to a strict GCE syllabus. 

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He'd never be able to produce beautiful buildings such as his, in this day and age, whereby everything is governed by accountants and pen pushers. There'd be some knownowt telling him not to use so many bricks. 

Nowadays, everything must be 'functional' and 'fit for use' . What utter nonsense !

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