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3 December 2009
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Building on the Past

Join architectural expert Professor Malcolm Parry on an audio visual tour around Newtown in Powys. The former head of the Welsh School of Architecture visited the town in 2005 as part of the BBC Radio Wales series Building on the Past. The programme was broadcast in November 2005 but you can listen again by clicking on the link below or choose the audio clips to go with our photo tour...

Building On The Past...

Free Library and Robert Owen Museum, 1902. Grade II.

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" Architect Frank Hearn Shayler of Shewsbury. The Powys Pevsner thinks this the best building in Newtown and it's difficult not to agree. The framed Montgomershire building vernacular is given an Arts & Crafts' twist in the upper stories, while the base is a confident striped stone and brick. A neat little corner details separates two different, but complimentary, elavations which supplied two quarrelling clients with individual looking parts to the same building, just as required or perhaps demanded of their architect."
Malcolm Parry

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Mr J Williams, Bettws Cedewain
ref 17 High St; Excellent work,a real credit to the "Sandblaster" who had a hard time to complete the work in such limited time, space and daylight, considering most of the work was done at night
Thu Jan 15 09:48:09 2009

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