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A weekend of tours, talks and events celebrating the county’s pioneering role in twentieth century architecture.

All events are free unless stated, to book go to radicalessex.uk Focal Point Gallery is delighted to be partnering with Firstsite Silver End Clockhouse Way Estate and Visit Essex to present ESSEX Architecture Weekend. Celebrating the county’s pioneering role in twentieth century architecture, the weekend will consist of tours, talks, events �4 and bus travel, allowing unprecedented access to over twenty Scout Hut HQ F rancis key architectural sites. 1� Way 15 heep ane S co L Bro tes Silver Street 1� a dwa ��

�1 B o Essex has not traditionally been defined by large historic estates, y a Francis Way r s leaving areas of the county with open unspoiled land. This, Bus Stop Tye Roa � Village Hall coupled with its proximity to the poorest parts of London, is key � 4 � 1� d � to understanding its development. The permeable relationship 3 e Lane � Templ 8 with the capital promoted innovation and experimentation with � diverse political ideologies and social makeups. Architectural pioneers regarded the region as a testing-ground for radical thought and alternative lifestyles. Silver End Village was built in 1926, conceived by Francis Crittall to house Often overlooked, the county boasts some of the earliest his factory workers at Crittall Windows. The village was designed by Thomas S. Tait, proponents of the Modernist style in Britain, with buildings Frederick MacManus and C. Murray Hennell, designed by Ove Arup, Wells Coates, Richard Rogers and amongst others, stemming from the design of Britain’s first Modernist building in nearby Thomas S. Tait, amongst others. This unique architectural Clockhouse Way. heritage is exemplified by buildings like the Royal Corinthian Silver End Village Hall is the hub of ESSEX SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch, Britain’s only contribution Architecture Weekend, with an exhibition to MoMA’s International Exhibition of Modern Architecture from the Silver End Heritage Society, new 1 The tour starts at the shops adjacent to commissions from Curl la Tourelle Head the Village Hall. Originally this was a 3 storey in 1932, and the early ‘Concrete Cottages’ at Cressing Road and Arnaud Desjardin, HAT Projects, and department store, catering to the needs of in Braintree, designed in 1917. Alan Kane who will host an evening disco, all residents, including a bakery, furniture with Depeche Mode tribute band Speak store and butcher with meat supplied by and Spell, and DJing from Bob Stanley. Crittall’s own farms. It came out as far as For the first time, visitors and residents have the opportunity There will also be a talks programme in the edge of the present car park and had the main hall, further details in the following a colonnade shop front. The store was to experience and learn about this undiscovered history. pages. Red Fox Brewery, Nazarí and destroyed by fire on 13 September 1952. Centred around three Modernist estates, Silver End village, The Rolling Bean will provide refreshments throughout the weekend, whilst Radical 2 Turn to look across the road to the large Bata at East Tilbury and the seaside modernism of Frinton- Essex shuttle buses will drop off and pick brick building, Valentine House. This was on-Sea, ESSEX Architecture Weekend seeks to place the up at the Village Hall. originally the Silver End Hotel, comprising of 11 rooms plus bars, a restaurant and county within the history of twentieth century architecture. The Silver End Heritage Society will lead a function room. It was used by Crittall to tours of the village at 11am and 3pm, accommodate clients and suppliers. Formally pre-booked at www.radicalessex.uk. You two large glazed earthenware tar pots stood I hope you enjoy the weekend. can check if space is available at Silver by the main door that were removed to a End Village Hall – where the tours will begin. private garden. Following a fire at Christmas If you prefer you can take your own tour in the mid 1980s, it became a lively pub with Joe Hill, Director, Focal Point Gallery of the village following the instructions here. an excellent carvery. 3 Walk to your left along the front of the car 15 Temple Lane was the first house to and maintained by its present owners. TOUR OF WOLVERTON, park to Jubilee House. Originally this was a be constructed in Silver End, designed by Opposite is the Boars Tye farmhouse, BOARS TYE ROAD, SILVER END bus shelter and public convenience but was C. Murray Hennell. The foundation stone is the first the Crittall’s bought. Dan Crittall pulled down in 1986 to build new premises low down on right of the side door. The first moved here from Le Chateau with his for Fred Robinson, a local insurance broker. six pairs of houses in Temple Lane are wife and lived here until the 1980s. different to the others, numbered 1A – 12A. It then became a residential home. 4 Cross Broadway, walk along the front of Valentine House, keeping left at the 10 Continue left along Temple Lane, from 15 Continue back along Boars Tye Road to roundabout to entrance of Memorial Gardens. the crossroad, to the T-junction with Boars the junction and turn right into Silver Street. Look across the roundabout. The Village Hall Tye Road. This was the site of the original 1–32 Silver Street were also designed by was designed by architect C. Murray Hennell Crittall Manufacturing Company factory Tait and McManus. These are all listed and opened by the Lord Mayor of London on and Power House, now hidden behind buildings. Note the windows at number 4 10 May 1928. It is ’s largest village a tall hedge to the right, and is all that and the original door and letter box at number hall with a main hall, sports courts, a stage remains of the large complex that has been 5. One of Crittall’s main concerns was the and two smaller halls on the ground floor demolished. The Power House closest to welfare of his workers. All houses were to and committee rooms on both floors. the hedge, produced dc electricity for the have power, light, hot and cold running water Saturday and Sunday: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, houses (unusual for rural workers’ houses in upstairs bathrooms and large gardens for 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, booking required 5 Turn round to face the gates of the in the 1920s) as well as for the factory. the workers to grow produce. Apart from the Memorial Gardens. To the right of the From here you can also see the unique Modernist movement styling, it is suggested The homeowners of Wolverton in Silver gates was a thatched roof tea rooms and Church of St. Francis and to the left that the flat roofs were used by Crittall to End welcome visitors to learn more about Mrs. Dunn’s open all hours shop, which is opposite the junction was the site of the display how windows could be used. All this property. Visits are pre-booked online now a private residence, owned by Fred bus garage. The bus service was originally houses were to have a view either of open or you can enquire for availability at Silver Robinson. The park gates show inscriptions set up by the Crittalls. The factory canteen countryside, sports fields or allotments, End Village Hall. of the Crittall family initials. Inside the and picture house were also near the use of which the ‘Guv’nor’ encouraged. entrance to the right there are the first of four bus station, but are now demolished. Employees could buy, part buy/rent or rent For places to eat, drink and stay whilst notice boards, owned by the houses but there was a strict ‘pecking in Silver End, please check the Radical Council but now managed by Silver End 11 Cross the top of Temple Lane to the order’, they could only have a house deemed Essex map at www.radicalessex.uk Heritage Society with photographic displays. left and continue along Boars Tye Road. suitable to their position in the company. To the left under the trees is a memorial to The large detached houses on the left Greenfields Housing now owns many houses Valentine Crittall, later Lord Braintree. were designed by C. Murray Hennell in the village and have recently replaced the LOOPED FILM SCREENING for the senior managers of the factory. windows and doors. As the original village SILVER END SCOUT HUT 6 Enter the gardens and look ahead to was designated a conservation area in 1983, a large white building. This is the Manors, 12 Stop before Silver Street/Boars Tye Road/ the conservation guidance says that they Francis Crittall’s home built in 1927 designed Sheepcotes Lane junction and cross the road. had to be steel although more recently, by architect C.H.B. Quennell. Note the Le Chateau was designed by Thomas S. aluminum is being allowed. blue plaque (top left). Servant’s quarters Tait of Sir John Burnet & Partners, built for were in the single story extensions on either Crittall’s son Dan, who had an interest in 16 Continue along Silver Street to the side. It is believed that the gardener and steam locomotion and had a miniature railway junction with the entrance to the playing chauffeur lived in the bungalows. in the garden. The house was later used for fields, cross over to the left and stop at the ‘65 Club’ a place for retired employees. entrance to the Village Hall sports field. Saturday and Sunday: 10am - 6pm 7 Follow the garden path to the left towards It was also a location for the 1980s TV series Here you can see evidence of the rail track the pond. Built in 1951 and designed by ‘The Nanny’. It is now a listed building. that was used to bring the gravel from the Walter ‘Pink’ Crittall with a Japanese inspired area behind Temple Lane/Valentine Way design, the pond included a pagoda. A 13 Cross over the top of Sheepcotes Lane. to build the houses. The flat roofed houses Silver End Scouts invite you to the Scout Hut memorial plaque is set in the wall nearby. Craig Angus was designed by Tait and at the lower end were built by Silver End for a screening of aerial footage taken over Frederick McManus who was Tait’s chief Development Co. set up by Crittall to develop Silver End Village. Enjoy seeing this historic 8 Continue towards the exit of the garden designer. It is also a listed building. Looking the village. These buildings are not listed. Modernist estate from the sky! The screening and turn left along Francis Way, towards further down Sheepcotes Lane you will will also include archival films from across the Broadway. 5 Francis Way was the original see the Roman Catholic church, designed Continue along Silver Street to Broadway. county coordinated by Big Screen Southend. telephone exchange. by Martin Evans, built in 1966. Turn left at the crossroads and end back at the shops. 9 Turn right along Broadway to crossroad 14 Continue along Boars Tye Road. with Temple Lane. Look across the road at Wolverton was built in 1926 by Tait the first house on corner with Valentine Way. and McManus, beautifully restored The Bata Estate, East Tilbury 1 East Tilbury Library TOUR OF 18 QUEEN ELIZABETH AVENUE, THE BATA ESTATE 2 Bata Corner

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11 Que Avenue, welcome visitors to learn more en M P ary rince Av . e. 10 Bata College about the factory workers houses. Visits Ave 1� ss Ma are pre-booked online or you can enquire Princes1s rg 2 a Bus Stop nue 9 11 The Avenues and Swimming Pool for availability in person at East Tilbury re Ave t Roa�d � In 1933, Bata Shoe Company opened a Ave. Library. Bat loucester their new factory on the Essex Marshes G � The best examples of the Modernist housing at East Tilbury. Based in Czechoslovakia, � can be seen on the Avenues: Bata Avenue, For places to eat, drink and stay whilst 4 the company was founded by Tomas Bata, �A Thomas Bata Avenue, King George VI in East Tilbury, please check the Radical who was killed in 1932 in a plane crash. � Avenue and Queen Elizabeth Avenue. Essex map at www.radicalessex.uk Over the next 70 years Bata was an important part of the local economy and an international community grew up on the Bata Estate, comprised of houses built for the workers by the Company. SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR

Throughout ESSEX Architecture Weekend, The best way to experience the Bata Estate the Bata Heritage Centre will host an on a self-guided tour is to download the exhibition in East Tilbury Library, open Thurrock Mobile Explorer App and follow between 10am and 5pm where you can the Bata Reminiscence Trail. This is experience a virtual tour of the area and available on both iOS (search Thurrock learn more about this pioneering estate. Mobile Explorer) and Android (search Travel They will also lead four guided walking Thurrock) devices. Please remember to bring tours of the area, exploring the estate and headphones to use this. If you do not have providing unique access to the old rubber access to a mobile device, a limited number factory site. Walking tours are held at of sets can be borrowed from the Bata 11am and 2pm on each day, booked in Heritage Centre in East Tilbury Library. advance at www.radicalessex.uk. You can enquire about availability at East Tilbury The tour is narrated by Mike Tarbard and Library, where the tour groups will meet. other residents of the estate, telling stories of the site, featuring both the architecture The Rolling Bean will be onsite at East and social history. Walking to the points listed Tilbury Library serving coffee throughout (also show on the map) and selecting the the weekend in the car park. Radical Essex related number on the tour, you will hear tales shuttle buses will drop off and pick up of a time gone by, and sites from each point here also. that would have previously been seen. Frinton Park Estate, Frinton-on-Sea & Co., Poole. This was illustrated in ‘The unfortunately demolished. Only one bay Architects Journal’ May 30 1935. Originally of the circus was ever built. designed to be the Information Bureau with an exhibition of modern architecture by RIBA, 6 Audley Way. Audley Way was designed the Office was taken over by Tomkins, Homer by Oliver Hill, the architect responsible and Ley in July 1935. It was converted into for planning Frinton Park Estate. Numbers a house c.1947. 1, 3 and 4 were featured in the original sales brochure. Number 4 was built for 2 The Leas. Designed by Oliver Hill, The the Rev. Robert Dobie as a seaside annex

Bus Stop Leas displays monolithic, reinforced concrete to his college at Gt. Chesterford, Cambridge. cavity construction, known as the Wheeler Originally there were two ladders on the 5 Frinton-on-Sea C Rainham Way 4 system. The building was originally washed outside, now removed, with the front door Railway Station Frinton and Walton entr Way on Heritage Trust st white with shell pink under the surfaces. repositioned and garage added to the right. a Warley Way a l Avenue E

A It was shown in F.R.S. Yorke’s ‘The Modern Pole u ay 8 dley Barn Lane don W House in England’ (1937 edition). The outside 7 Graces Walk. Graces Walk was designed n 6 3 ue Graces Walk W Q 7 a ladder has now been removed and a double by J.T. Shelton, the resident architect 9 y 2 Waltham Way garage has been added to the left. for Tomkins, Homer & Ley with houses still 1 The Leas showing many of the original features, for y a W Cliff 3 Warley Way. Number 16 is known example the outside ladder at number 18. as Willingale, another of Oliver Hill’s masterpieces. It displays render on brick/ 8 Quendon Way. Numbers 55 and 57 were blockwork and was a show home with five designed by Oliver Hill, named Dawn and bedrooms and a maid’s room. The show Sunnyholme. Both have been sympathetically Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust will lead home brochure indicated it to have Marion restored and extended for modern living. tours of the estate at 11am and 3pm on Dorn carpets and curtains and woodblock They were pictured in a Country Life article Saturday 10 September, and 10.30am and flooring in Deal or Columbian Pine. ‘A Planned Seaside Resort’ in 1935. 2.30pm on Sunday 11 September, meeting at Frinton Railway Museum. Tours are to be 4 Easton Way. Hill planned for plots 9 Waltham Way. Houses in Waltham Way Frinton Park Estate comprises of the largest pre-booked at www.radicalessex.uk. You can in Easton Way to be allocated to the cream were also designed by J.T. Shelton. Number group of individually designed Modernist also check if space is available at Frinton of young designers in the contemporary 4 displays a traditional style, with a Dutch houses in the country, planned by architect Railway Museum. style such as Frederick Gibberd, Erich gable over the front door. Numbers 14 and Oliver Hill in 1934, despite many of the Mendelsohn, Serge Chermayeff, Tecton, 22 both have new Crittall windows installed. houses never being built. The prime 40 acres The Railway Museum’s Crossing Cottage Wells Coates, F.R.S. Yorke, Maxwell between the railway line and the cliff top were houses an impressive selection of artefacts Fry, W.C. Holford & Gordon Stevenson, to be for expensive Modernist houses, whilst and archive material that tell the story of the Raymond McGrath and Connell, Ward TOUR OF 11 & 18 GRACES WALK, areas of the rest of the Estate would be local area. Situated in a well-maintained & Lucas. Unfortunately not many took up 12 EASTON WAY, FRINTON PARK ESTATE zoned for houses of high quality architectural cottage garden, the grounds also include a this opportunity, the houses were designed designs called Tudor, Georgian, Elizabethan, wildlife area and information board. This is by R.A. Duncan, Hall, Easton & Robertson, Homeowners of three properties on the Essex and Buckingham, and would be open 10am – 4pm on both days. Frederick Etchells, Marshall Sisson, estate invite you to explore the features brick-built cottage types. Included in the E. Warmsley Lewis, as well as Hill himself. of the original designs of the largest collection scheme was a new railway station and Of the home he designed, number 21, of individually designed Modernist houses Town Hall, churches, schools and a shopping SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR the Managing Director of the Frinton Park in the country. The Graces Walk properties centre designed as a circus at Walton Road. Estate Marshall Sisson said ‘it has an were designed by J.T. Shelton, with The Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust have unfortunate exterior ... (and will) be 12 Easton Way by Howard Robertson. Oliver Hill returned from a spring holiday in supplied the following information about the difficult to sell ... Simple square box with Visits are pre-booked online or you can Palm Bay, Monte Carlo, fired with inspiration key streets to help you explore the estate. row of five windows in first floor at front enquire for availability in person at Frinton and enthusiasm for Modernist continental and six on the left ... Rather neo-classical Railway Museum. architecture. Hill designed the whole scheme, 1 Cliff Way. Number 3 was designed and Italian fascist’. including specifying the road names (suffixed by R.J. Page, numbers 6 and 7 by Oliver Saturday: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, Ways) and some of the best houses as well Hill, and number 4 a combination of both 5 Central Avenue. Before 2 April, 2015, if 5pm, booking required as the Estate Information Bureau (now The architects. Number 7, also know as The you had gone over the railway bridge you Round House) and the proposed hotel in the Round House is Grade II listed, with a mosaic would have seen ‘Frinton Park Court’, the For places to eat, drink and stay whilst in undercliff, the design of which is reminiscent floor depicting the entire community designed derelict remains of the intended shopping Frinton-on-Sea, please check the Radical of The Midland Hotel at Morecombe. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis for Carter centre designed by Oliver Hill, but now Essex map at www.radicalessex.uk Dunton Plotlands University of Essex, Colchester Campus

The Plotlands existed on the heavy clay the difficult years of the 1930s and 1940s, In 1964 something fierce emerged in rural rational combination of steel and glass known to farmers as ‘three-horse land’, giving a glimpse to the life of Londoners Essex – a new University determined to in a graph paper pattern, Brutalists used which was the first to go out of cultivation who purchased land to turn into a country break with tradition. The University of Essex’s powerful sculptural forms and raw concrete in the agricultural depression. The Plotland getaway. The Haven is the last remaining Colchester Campus was built in the 1960s to create powerful memorable images rather properties were built on this land by families bungalow out of hundreds which once and designed in the new brutalist style by than beautiful ones. (mainly from London’s East End) who bought stood on the reserve. Visit the Haven architect Kenneth Capon. Intended as a individual plots. Although originally intended museum itself complete with authentic ‘vocational powerhouse to train a technocratic Jess Twyman, curator of Art Exchange as holiday homes, the Second World War memorabilia, gardens, workshop, elite’ there are no freestanding buildings at University of Essex will lead tours of meant that many families came to live in their washroom and Anderson shelter. for autonomous departments, and instead the campus, which will include the iconic Plotland homes permanently. The huts and they are distributed in a zig-zag around north towers, the paternoster lifts and the houses were made from various salvaged The Essex Wildlife Trust is set in a stunning five squares to encourage meetings between architectural exhibition ‘Something Fierce’, materials and structures: army huts, old nature reserve of 461 acres which comprises different disciplines and schools. co-curated by Jess. railway coaches, sheds, shanties and chalets, of woodland, meadows, lakes and former which evolved over time. plotland gardens. If you wish to explore The Architect’s Journal wrote that the campus Tours take place at 11am and 3pm, the area further and learn more of the embodied ‘the most adventurous academic lasting approximately 1.5 hours, The Haven is the last of nearly 200 Plotlands history, pick up a copy of the Plotlands and social ideas to have emerged from the booking required. Tours meet at the homes that occupied the site now owned Walk at Langdon visitor centre. universities’ due to the way the layout of Radical Essex shuttle bus stop on by the Essex Wildlife Trust. Owned by the the buildings mirrored the overarching ethos Boundary Road/Valley Road. Mills family since it was built in the 1930s, Radical Essex shuttle buses will stop for the university. The designers believed it was still standing when the Wildlife Trust at this venue. The museum is open in Brutalism, a major change in direction in took ownership of the reserve in the 1980s. 10am – 4pm over the weekend. architecture. Unlike the first wave of modern The Haven is now a museum, dedicated architecture in the 1920s with its sleekly to showing people what life was like during Across ESSEX owes something to Corbusian predecessors TOUR OF 73 VICARAGE HILL, (Vauxcresson, Stein/De Monzie), its main BENFLEET inspiration must have been the preliminary ESSEX Architecture Weekend has invited Modernist sites drawings for Tecton’s flats in Highgate. The Glebe on Vicarage Hill, Benfleet consists of 6 detached Modernist houses from across the county to participate in the weekend. Saturday and Sunday: 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, designed by renowned Essex architect We are grateful to all homeowners for opening their doors. 3.30pm, booking required Norman W.T. Brooks, displaying an early 1960s style, completed in 1963. The owner of number 73 will explain more BEECROFT GALLERY, of this development. TOUR OF TYDINGS, MAYLANDSEA TOUR OF 164 CRESSING ROAD, VICTORIA AVENUE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA BRAINTREE Sunday: 11am, 11.30am, 12pm, 12.30pm, This 1970s Modernist gem is open for 1pm, 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, visitors to explore at the grateful invitation 4pm, 4.30pm, booking required of the homeowners. An incredible property not to be missed! TOUR OF 180 BISHOPSFIELD ESTATE, Saturday: 10am, 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, HARLOW 12pm, 12.30pm, booking required

TOUR OF ROYAL CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB, BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH

Beecroft Art Gallery brings together the best Cressing Road is the site of the country’s first of local and historic talent, spanning fine art Modernist buildings, a pair of experimental and costume to inspire you. Sited in the old cottages designed in 1917. Homeowners of Brutalist library in Southend-on-Sea the a neighbouring property explain more about building was designed by Borough Architect the site. R. Horwell, opening in 1974.

Saturday: 10am, 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am, Saturday and Sunday: 10am – 5pm Known locally as ‘the Kasbah’ the 12pm, 12.30pm, booking required Bishopsfield Estate, just south of Harlow New Town, is credited as influencing many TOUR OF 52 AND 62 CLATTERFIELD later generations of architects and town TOUR OF THE SUNSHINE HOUSE, GARDENS, WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA planners. Its design was chosen via an Members of Royal Corinthian Yacht Club 64 HEATH DRIVE, open competition in 1961, and the winner lead a tour of this wonderful building. Royal The properties of Clatterfield Gardens were was 24 year old graduate Michael Neylan, Corinthian Yacht Club was designed by designed by Douglas Niel Martin-Kaye, a who at the time was working with Chamberlin, Joseph Emberton and represented Britain Swiss architect who moved to England to Powell & Bon. in MoMA’s ‘Modern Architecture: International lecture in architecture in Southend-on-Sea. Exhibition’ in 1932, and has been compared He was responsible for a number of buildings Sunday: 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, to an ocean liner for its sleek white structure in the area, including the tennis pavilion in 2pm, 3pm, booking required and location. Westcliff-on-Sea. He was admitted ARIBA in 1919 and FRIBA in 1929, before leaving Saturday: 11am, booking required Essex in the 1940s, moving to London where he had a practice in Doughty Street.

Sunday: 1pm, 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, booking required 64 Heath Drive was the responsibility of Francis Skinner of Tecton, then around 25 years old, and was the prize-winning house in its class. Although the design ESSEX Architecture Weekend Talks Programme THE JOY OF ESSEX postwar period. The session will explore how architectural developments from the Screening and Q&A with Jonathan Meades continent and the United States influenced Curated by Warren Harper and Stephanie Sutton, the talks Britain’s architectural projects, forming a trajectory between local contexts and will investigate the significant role Essex has played within international trends. British Modernism, in terms of geographical and social position Discussions will touch upon architect and proximity to the capital. All talks take place in Silver End Wells Coates and his involvement with Village Hall priced at £5.00 per ticket. These can be booked in EKCO, the British radio company based in Southend-on-Sea; the worker villages advance or bought on the door, subject to availability. of Silver End and Bata, East Tilbury as well as architect Raymond Erith and his work in the village of Dedham. A Q&A with the writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker Jonathan Meades will Sunday: 2pm – 3.30pm follow a screening of the BBC4 programme ‘The Joy of Essex’ (2013) which sees Meades explore the county’s radical VISIONS OF UTOPIA and nonconformist past. Gillian Darley, Owen Hatherley, Saturday: 4pm – 6pm Sam Jacob and Verity-Jane Keefe

THE CRADLE OF BRITISH MODERNISM? ESSEX ARCHITECTURE, THE INTERWAR YEARS AND POST-WAR LEGACY

Catherine Croft, Elizabeth Darling, Alan Powers and Ellen Thorogood

Visions of Utopia presents a series of short talks that relate to the wider themes within the ESSEX Architecture Weekend talks LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY and the shared waterway of the Thames, programme, exploring the notion of utopia AND THE LONDON SPILL a landscape that has offered both industry in either built or ideological form. and recreation. The session will also Tim Burrows, Matthew Butcher, reflect on the ever-changing perceptions Subjects include Trotskyist Summer Camps Charles Holland, Rachel Lichtenstein of the county, considering life on the Can Essex claim to be the ‘birthplace’ on Mersea Island, the 1973 Essex Design and Ken Worpole periphery of the city and the redrawing of Modernist architecture in Britain? If so, Guide, the imagination of postwar urban of county lines in the creation of cultural what evidence is there to suggest this and planning, and the evolution of the Essex As an introduction to ESSEX Architecture identities. Exploring this relationship will what roles have building projects such as Plotlands. Focusing on individual subject Weekend, this panel discussion will explore contextualise the weekend’s programme Silver End and Bata, East Tilbury played matters, these talks will place a spotlight on the relationship between London and Essex, and lay out why Essex holds particularly in this wider narrative? The aim of this lesser-known examples whilst questioning mapping out a collective cultural history fertile ground for radical architectural session is to discuss the somewhat established narratives within social and between county and capital. The session developments and the socio-political overlooked architectural history of architectural history. will consider why Essex in particular has projects they foster. Essex in relation to both the International been a site of experimental thought and Style prevalent during the interwar years Sunday: 4pm – 6pm lifestyle, examining its proximity to London Saturday: 2pm – 3.30pm and architectural developments of the Commissions ‘Building the Future’ Family Workshop

Radical ESSEX has commissioned three new projects for ESSEX ‘Building the Future’ is a free drop-in family Florence Dwyer and Simon Worthington work arts workshop from the Focal Point Gallery together to produce work and run workshops Architecture Weekend, all available to view at Silver End Village learning team. Taking place in Silver End that explores themes of communal making Hall, celebrating the architectural history of the county, past, Village Hall, with artist-led sessions that and ways of living. Recent projects include will reference the county’s pioneering ‘Making the Bed, Laying the Table’, a group present and future. twentieth century architecture, you will exhibition of functional household objects be guided to create your own family design produced with Katie Schwab, exhibited at and artwork using drawing, collage and Glasgow’s Sculpture Studios and a Research ALAN KANE: THE RADICAL NATIONAL HAT PROJECTS: cardboard construction. Residency at Project Ability, Glasgow. TRUST OF SOUTH ESSEX ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION Two workshop sessions will take place India Harvey is a cross-disciplinary artist Essex based HAT Project’s installation for simultaneously. In the first session, Florence with a focus on constructed textile and Silver End translates the spirit of Dwyer and Simon Worthington will run participatory work. In the past India has experimentation that the Radical Essex a wearable building workshop. Inspired worked on projects with the South London programme celebrates, into their own by the Plotlands developments and the Gallery, the Arnolfini and National Gallery exploration of lightweight engineering and county’s Modernist architecture, you will as well as working and exhibiting in Sweden methods of creating the maximum visual and be encouraged to create your own wearable and the UK. spatial impact with the least possible material paper building to add to a utopian landscape. consumption. The second focuses on basketry and These are free drop-in workshops for all sculptural weaving techniques, using ages, however children must be accompanied Influenced in form and colour by constructivist industrial and unusual materials to by an adult. Book your activities on the sculpture, graphic design of the Crittall create imagined built landscapes, day in person at Silver End Village Hall period, and Cedric Price’s experimental led by India Harvey. from 10.30am, for one of the following engineering, the installation is created from sessions: Saturday and Sunday: lightweight aluminium poles and a kilometre 11am – 12pm, 12pm – 1pm, 2pm – 3pm, of shockcord, with a tetrahedral geometry that 3pm – 4pm, all are welcome. creates both strength and stability but also a pleasingly irregular spatial dynamic.

Alan Kane launches ‘The Radical National It is designed to be easily demounted and Trust of South Essex’ with a free fundraising erected on multiple occasions and with the disco, featuring Speak and Spell, a Depeche potential for alternative configurations. Mode tribute band and DJ sets from Bob Stanley. ‘The Radical National Trust of South Essex’ was inaugurated to recognise CURL LA TOURELLE HEAD and celebrate places of unofficially significant ARCHITECTURE AND THE architectural design and places bearing EVERYDAY PRESS: DETAILS aspects of notable human influence. A new volume of the Details booklet Made partly in response to the apparent lack will be dedicated to a selection of significant of ‘official’ National Trust properties in the buildings in Essex, continuing the method region TRNTOSE will also attempt to record of drawing peculiar architectural features and endorse the often ephemeral aspects and compiling them into a portable booklet. of the built environment which are in the This volume, augmented with an essay by hands of the woman/man on the street. architect Charles Holland, is supported by Kane will be awarding plaques to remarkable London architecture practice AHMM and examples of recent South Essex heritage published by The Everyday Press. landmarks over the coming months and into 2017. The Essex volume will be available to purchase for £12.00 from Silver End Saturday: 6.30–10.30pm Village Hall. Bus Route and Passport

Silver End Village Hall University of Essex Colchester Campus Boundary Road/Valley Road bus stop

Frinton-on-Sea Railway Station Frinton Railway Museum

Dunton Plotlands Essex Wildlife Visitor Centre

Get your passport stamped at the five destinations on our bus Bata Estate route to claim your free ESSEX Architecture Weekend T-shirt. East Tilbury Library Bus Timetable Events Listings

South Essex Route: Silver End to Bata Saturday

Depart Silver End Village Hall ..... 10:45 11:45 12:45 ..... 14:45 15:45 16:45 18:00 18:15 18:35

Arrive Witham Railway Station ..... 10:55 11:55 12:55 ..... 14:55 15:55 16:55 18:10 18:25 18:45 SILVER END THE BATA ESTATE

Depart Witham Railway Station 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 13:30 15:00 16:00 ...... 18:30 ..... Self-Guided Walking Tour of Silver Arrive Dunton Plotlands Visitor Centre 10:55 11:55 12:55 13:55 14:25 15:55 16:55 ...... End Village, start at Silver End Village Hall, Main Hall, Witham, CM8 3RQ, Depart Dunton Plotlands Visitor Centre 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 14:30 16:00 ...... 10am – 6pm Arrive Bata Estate East Tilbury Library 11:25 12:25 13:25 14:25 14:55 16:25 ...... 19:25 ..... Silver End Heritage Society Exhibition, South Essex Route: Bata to Silver End Silver End Village Hall, Silver End Heritage Society, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 10am – 6pm Depart Bata Estate East Tilbury Library ...... 10:30 11:30 12:30 13:30 14:30 15:00 ..... 16:30 .....

Arrive Dunton Plotlands Visitor Centre ...... 10:50 11:55 12:55 13:55 14:55 15:25 ..... 16:55 ..... Looped Film Screening – Silver End Archive, Silver End Scout Hut HQ, Silver Street, Depart Dunton Plotlands Visitor Centre ...... 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 15:30 ..... 17:00 ..... Witham, CM8 3PQ, 10am – 6pm Arrive Witham Railway Station ...... 11:55 12:55 13:55 14:55 15:55 16:25 ..... 17:55 17:55 Self-Guided Walking Tour of the Bata Estate, Walking Tour of Silver End Village led start at Bata Heritage Centre, East Tilbury Depart Witham Railway Station 10:00 11:00 12:00 ..... 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 17:00 18:00 18:30 by members of Silver End Heritage Library, Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST Arrive Silver End Village Hall 10:10 11:10 12:10 ..... 14:10 15:10 16:10 16:40 17:10 18:10 18:40 Society, meet at Silver End Village Hall, 10am – 6pm Main Hall, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 11am North Essex Route: Silver End to Frinton and 3pm, booking required Bata Heritage Centre Exhibition, East Tilbury Library, Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST, Depart Silver End Village Hall ..... 10:45 12:15 13:15 14:15 14:45 16:15 17:15 18:15 Tour of Wolverton, Boars Tye Road, 10am – 5pm Silver End, Witham CM8 3QE, 11am, Arrive Witham Railway Station ..... 10:55 12:25 13:25 14:25 14:55 16:25 17:25 18:25 1 2pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, booking required Walking Tour of the Bata Estate led

Depart Witham Railway Station 10:30 11:00 12:30 13:30 14:30 15:00 16:30 ..... 18:30 by members of Bata Heritage Centre, ‘Building the Future’ Family Workshop, meet at Bata Heritage Centre, East Tilbury University Of Essex, Colchester Arrive 11:10 11:40 13:10 14:10 15:10 15:40 17:10 ..... 19:10 (Boundary Road/Valley Road) Silver End Village Hall, Small Hall, Witham, Library, Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST, CM8 3RQ, sessions 11am – 12pm, 12pm 11am and 2pm, booking required University Of Essex, Colchester Depart 11:15 11:45 13:15 14:15 15:15 15:45 ...... 19:15 (Boundary Road/Valley Road) – 1pm, 2pm – 3pm, 3pm – 4pm, booking

Frinton-on-Sea Arrive 11:55 12:25 13:55 14:55 15:55 16:25 ...... 19:55 required (onsite at Silver End Village Hall) Tour of 18 Queen Elizabeth Avenue, (Railway Station car park) Bata Estate, East Tilbury, RM18 8SP, ‘Landscape, Identity and the London 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, North Essex Route: Frinton to Silver End Spill’ with Tim Burrows, Matthew Butcher, booking required

Frinton-on-Sea Charles Holland, Rachel Lichtenstein Depart ..... 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:30 (Railway Station car park) and Ken Worpole, Silver End Village Hall, University Of Essex, Colchester Arrive ..... 10:40 11:40 12:40 13:10 14:40 15:40 16:40 17:10 Main Hall, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 2pm – 3.30pm, FRINTON-ON-SEA (Boundary Road/Valley Road) £5.00 University Of Essex, Colchester Depart ..... 10:45 11:45 12:45 13:15 14:45 15:45 16:45 17:15 (Boundary Road/Valley Road) Self-Guided Walking Tour of Frinton Park ‘The Joy of Essex’ Screening and Q&A with Estate, start at Frinton Railway, Cottage Arrive Witham Railway Station ..... 11:25 12:25 13:25 13:55 15:25 16:25 17:25 17:55 Jonathan Meades, Silver End Village Hall, Museum, Station Approach, Frinton,

Depart Witham Railway Station 10:00 11:30 12:30 13:30 14:00 15:30 16:30 ..... 18:00 Main Hall, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 4pm – 6pm, 10am – 6pm £5.00 Arrive Silver End Village Hall 10:10 11:40 12:40 13:40 14:10 15:40 16:40 ..... 18:15 Frinton & Walton Heritage Trust Exhibition, Alan Kane’s free fundraising ‘The Radical Frinton Railway, Cottage Museum, National Trust of South Essex’ Disco Station Approach, Frinton, 10am – 4pm Buses will return from Silver End Village Saturday only Sunday only with Speak and Spell and Bob Stanley, Hall to Witham Railway Station at 8.30pm Silver End Village Hall, Main Hall, and 10.30pm on Saturday evening Witham, CM8 3RQ, 6.30 – 10.30pm Walking Tour of Frinton Park Estate Sunday ‘Visions of Utopia’ with Gillian Darley, Owen Walking Tour of Frinton Park Estate by by members of the Frinton and Walton Hatherley, Sam Jacob and Verity-Jane Keefe, members of the Frinton and Walton Heritage Heritage Trust, meet at Frinton Railway, Silver End Village Hall, Main Hall, Witham, Trust, meet at Frinton Railway, Cottage Cottage Museum, Station Approach, SILVER END CM8 3RQ, 4pm – 6pm, £5.00 Museum, Station Approach, Frinton, Frinton, 11am and 3pm, booking required 10.30am and 2.30pm, booking required

Tour of 11 and 18 Graces Walk, Frinton Park BATA Estate, CO13 9PQ, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, PLOTLANDS 4pm, 5pm, booking required Self-Guided Walking Tour of the Bata Estate, start at Bata Heritage Centre, East Tilbury The Haven Plotlands Museum, Essex Wildlife Tour of 12 Easton Way, Frinton Park Estate, Library, Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST, Trust Langdon Visitor Centre, Lower Dunton C013 9NU, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 10am – 6pm Road, SS16 6EB, 10am – 4pm 4pm, 5pm, booking required Bata Heritage Centre Exhibition, East Tilbury Library, Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX PLOTLANDS 10am – 5pm Walking Tour of University of Essex, The Haven Plotlands Museum, Essex Wildlife Self-Guided Walking Tour of Silver End Walking Tour of the Bata Estate, led by Colchester Campus led by Jess Twyman Trust Langdon Visitor Centre, Lower Dunton Village, start at Silver End Village Hall, members of Bata Heritage Centre, meet at University of Essex, Colchester Campus, Road, SS16 6EB, 10am – 4pm Main Hall, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 10am – 6pm Bata Heritage Centre, East Tilbury Library, CO4 3SQ, 11am and 3pm, booking required Princess Avenue, RM18 8ST, 11am and 2pm, Silver End Heritage Society Exhibition, booking required UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Silver End Village Hall, Silver End Heritage ACROSS ESSEX Society, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 10am – 6pm Tour of 18 Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Walking Tour of University of Essex, Bata Estate, East Tilbury, RM18 8SP, Beecroft Gallery, Victoria Avenue, Colchester Campus led by Jess Twyman, Looped Film Screening – Silver End Archive, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX, 10am – 5pm University of Essex, Colchester Campus, Silver End Scout Hut HQ, Silver Street, booking required CO4 3SQ, 11am and 3pm, booking required Witham, CM8 3PQ, 10am – 6pm Tour of 180 Bishopsfield Estate, Harlow, CM18 6UT, 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, Walking Tour of Silver End Village led by FRINTON-ON-SEA 2pm, 3pm, booking required ACROSS ESSEX members of Silver End Heritage Society, meet at Silver End Village Hall, Main Hall, Tour of 73 Vicarage Hill, Benfleet, SS7 1PD, Tour of 164 Cressing Road, Braintree, Witham, CM8 3RQ, 11am and 3pm, booking 11am, 11.30am, 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, CM7 3PL, 10am, 10.30am, 11am, required 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 11.30am, 12pm, 12.30pm, booking required 4pm, 4.30pm, booking required Tour of Wolverton, Boars Tye Road, Silver Beecroft Gallery, Victoria Avenue, End, Witham CM8 3QE, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, Tour of 52 and 62 Clatterfield Gardens, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX, 10am – 5pm 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, booking required Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 0AX, 1pm, 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, Tour of Tydings, Esplanade West, Mayland, ‘Building the Future’ Family Workshop, booking required , CM3 6AW, 10am, 10.30am, Silver End Village Hall, Small Hall, 11am, 11.30am, 12pm, 12.30pm, booking Witham, CM8 3RQ, sessions 11am – 12pm, Tour of The Sunshine House, 64 Heath required 1 2pm – 1pm, 2pm – 3pm, 3pm – 4pm, Drive, Romford, RM2 5QR, 2pm, 2.30pm, booking required (onsite at Silver End Self-Guided Walking Tour of Frinton Park 3pm, 3.30pm, booking required Tour of Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Village Hall) Estate, start at Frinton Railway, Cottage The Quay, Burnham-On-Crouch, CM0 8AX, Museum, Station Approach, Frinton, 11am, booking required ‘The Cradle of British Modernism? Essex 10am – 6pm Architecture, the Interwar Years and Post- Tour of The Sunshine House, 64 Heath Drive, war Legacy’ with Catherine Croft, Elizabeth Frinton & Walton Heritage Trust Exhibition, Romford, RM2 5QR, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, Darling, Alan Powers and Ellen Thorogood, Frinton Railway, Cottage Museum, Station 3.30pm, booking required Silver End Village Hall – Main Hall, Witham, Approach, Frinton, 10am – 4pm CM8 3RQ, 2pm – 3.30pm, £5.00 Radical Essex would like to give special ESSEX Architecture Weekend is part of thanks to the following people: ‘Radical Essex’ a project led by Focal Point Gallery in partnership with Visit Essex and Abellio Greater Anglia, Albany Arts, Arts Firstsite, taking place throughout Essex Council England, Isobel Baird, Anna Basham, in 2016 and 2017. Supported using public Bata Heritage Centre, Beecroft Art Gallery, funding by the National Lottery through Tim Burrows, Matthew Butcher, C2C, Arts Council England it forms part of Colchester Council, Catherine Croft, Curl la the country-wide Cultural Destinations Tourelle Head Architects, Gillian Darley, programme, a partnership with VisitEngland, Elizabeth Darling, Arnaud Desjardin, Florence supporting arts organisations to work Dwyer, Essex County Council, Essex Wildlife with the tourism sector to deliver projects Trust, Jes Fernie, Firstsite, Five Leaves to maximise the impact culture has on Publications, the team at Focal Point Gallery, local economies. Frinton and Walton Heritage Trust, Francesca Genovese, Go Ahead London, Warren Photography: Catherine Hyland Harper, India Harvey, HAT Projects, Owen Design: Fraser Muggeridge studio Hatherley, Heritage Open Days, Paula Hobbs, Pauline Hockley, Susie Hodge, Charles Radical Essex Holland, Julie Hopkins, Catherine Hyland, Director: Joe Hill Charlie Inskip and Nancy Stevenson, Project Manager: Hayley Dixon Sam Jacob, Judith and Tony Jones, Project Assistant: Hannah Rose Whittle Moira Jones, Alan Kane, Verity-Jane Keefe, Volunteers: Teresa Bianchi, Nat Bullard, Kate Knights, Rachel Lichtenstein, David Doherty, Eva Duerden, Connie Malvern and Emma May, Jonathan Meades, Gallagher, Tom Houghton, Alice Jackson, Fraser Muggeridge studio, Nazari, Mary Lister, Mark Napier, Laura Phelps, Kaveeta Parchment, Alan Powers, Sean Rowlands, Holly Shuttleworth, Riah Pryor, Clare Purser, Red Fox Brewery, James Torble, Jacob Watmore Alex Rich, RIBA East, Rivenhall Hotel, The Rolling Bean, Silver End Heritage www.radicalessex.uk Society, Silver End Scouts, Silver End @RadicalEssex Social Club, Alan Smith, Sound Choice Hire, Southend Borough Council, Speak and Spell Band, Members and Management, Bob Stanley, Michael Sullivan, Stephanie Sutton, Mary Tebje, this is tomorrow, Ellen Thorogood, Rachel Treliving, Twelve, Jess Twyman, University of Essex, May Vaclavik, Lauren Verney, VisitEngland, Visit Essex, Alan and Victoria Waine, the late Colin Ward, Wivenhoe House, Ken Worpole, Simon Worthington.