Ceramic citadel - a photo on Flickriver

Ceramic citadel

            I won't bother posting this in the "Bristol" group, where this view ...the only possible view of this hemmed-in site in a narrow street... is over-familiar.  This was the façade of the Edward Everard printing works in mediaeval Broad Street.  Little else survives.  I vaguely remember the long elevation in John Street, of which a fragment has been preserved.  All else went in 1972 for a new building belonging to the National Westminster Bank.  That's part of it on the right there, so you can imagine the kind of thing.
The architect was Henry Williams, but the architecture ...at least of this frontage... was merely a carte blanche whose purpose was to receive the elaborate screen of Doultonware, designed by W. J. Neatby.  Everard was a craftsman-printer and designed the alphabet used here to spell out his name.  The figures on either side are Gutenberg and William Morris.  At the top another figure holds a lamp and mirror, signifying truth and light.  Neatby is best known for the decorative tilework of the Food Hall in Harrod's.
The photograph was taken on Sunday 5th December 1982.  Note the van, carrying the current BT corporate logo and colour-scheme, probably contemporary with the sickening "Buzby" advertising campaign.

   

Taken on: November 14, 2008

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Henry Williams

W. J. Neatby

Art

Nouveau

architecture

Doultonware

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