Stories
- Article
Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
- Article
A flat-packed forest
The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.
- Article
Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Descriptive Catalogue of Sections: Collection of Models and Plans Illustrating Methods of Construction of economical forms of Sanatoria and other Temporary Buildings
Date: January 1912Reference: SA/RSP/A/4/4/9Part of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
Estate misdevelopment and temporary buildings / by C.R.A. Martin.
Martin, Charles Rupert ArthurDate: 1936- Archives and manuscripts
Garrow Hill House and Estate, 20th century
Date: Early-late 20th centuryReference: RET/2/2/18Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers relating to the building of the Gentlemen's Lodge
Date: 1875 - 1876Reference: RET/2/2/7/4Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence and Papers on Gardens and Grounds
Date: 1910 - 1919Reference: RET/2/2/13/1/1Part of: The Retreat Archive