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Southampton IS water. Water shapes the air and the energy, not a beach, a working, gutsy port. #WyndhamCourt was named after #ThomasWyndham, his namesake still collects nutrients from the sea air, feeding a secret habitat hiding in plain (gull) site. #PositionB https://bit.ly/4xPiOFd
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#PositionB #WyndhamCourt's rooftop oasis.
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Urban Oasis or concrete jungle? #WyndhamCourt 's #Concrete walls protect a hidden garden centre, originally designed for intergenerational living and relaxing. You won't find it a soft touch though, perhaps more a panopticon. Turns out its best for teenage footy practice! #PositionA https://bit.ly/4d8McPa
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#PositionA #WyndhamCourt 's secret garden.
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Social Housing? Now, that’s ownership #WyndhamCourt #PositionK https://pastewaves.com/player/d85bd8ce-aa9b-48bb-9299-c692c6b140fa
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Some ships pass, but not all. Study #WyndhamCourt 's lines, a ship in port & a place called home, where no one should be an island #PositionD https://pastewaves.com/player/4ad7e45f-f2a1-45ee-897e-f999931a5e2e
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It's oh so quiet…Imagine yourself at #WyndhamCourt daytime, night time, alone, in company. How does it make you feel? #PositionC https://pastewaves.com/player/834d953d-de29-47a4-b9c3-271680698f8b
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Boring/Ignoring? Aesthetics can resonate…but not always Concrete cast as timber, #WyndhamCourt cuts a modern style to which the fashionable nod. Those less charmed might not notice, but better yet why not adopt its ‘ugly’ mojo? The best seat in the house both inside and out #PositionH https://pastewaves.com/player/752dbbaa-d5b9-4ae4-9558-a53f751682ec
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Weather with you. Winds chase along #WyndhamCourt ’s walkways, gusts whistle through windows & under doors. No sheepskins in the shop window to warm the cockles. No mind, sunny days will bring theatre folk for fish and ships #PositionG https://pastewaves.com/player/44ef0751-9c40-4798-bd21-8ed72f47611d
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Buildings shape bodies, buildings are bodies #Modernist ideals designed into the bones of #WyndhamCourt, transformed lives, new hope, new aspirations, new homes. So, what & who counts as worthy of care when heritage is preserved? #PositionF https://pastewaves.com/player/1b311f39-5cd8-4c9b-ac8c-7f6fc1f6b5f3
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Is beauty just skin deep? 'John' takes pride in the care of his family & his appearance, but it’s hard to take pride in his #WyndhamCourt home when it's clothed with polluting particles. The grime of city life working its way into the #concrete, tainting his sense of safety & wellbeing. #PositionE https://pastewaves.com/player/993f9968-f4a2-4bb6-81e3-649f21066bd2
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From one Grade II to another. New views from St Peter’s church Sunday school. This listed place of worship now a landmark for Southampton diners. Where the bombs laid waste came the mammoth modernity of #WyndhamCourt, all hail utopia has risen #PositionI https://pastewaves.com/player/99f13ecd-0207-4e1f-b068-ccab6118622a
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A not so colourful life. Outside appearances don’t convey the vivacity of lives lived within the walls of #WyndhamCourt. Culture shapes preconceptions, resonances that can be hard to shake. #PositionJ https://bit.ly/46F0SSz
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Take a short listening tour of #WyndhamCourt. Walk to a position on the #ZineMap, wear your headphones, activate the corresponding letter on the app. #PositionA #PositionB #PositionC #PositionD #PositionE #PositionF #PositionG #PositionH #PositionI #PositionJ #PositionK. There’s no order, no right or wrong. Discover snatches of overheard conversation How does it make you feel?
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Walk to a position on the #WyndhamCourt #ZineMap, wear your headphones, activate the corresponding letter on the app. #PositionA #PositionB #PositionC #PositionD #PositionE #PositionF #PositionG #PositionH #PositionI #PositionJ #PositionK. There’s no order, no right or wrong, just take care!
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Concealed behind the cliff face of the #EastSussex coast is the fascinating #NewhavenFort. Completed in 1869, the #AncientMonument was designed by 24 year old #RoyalEngineer #LtJohnCharlesArdagh as part of an ambitious coastal defence project. Commissioned by Prime Minister #LordPalmerston to protect Britain’s #coastline from a growing naval threat from #NapoleonIII.
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#NewhavenFort has had many identities since it was handed over to the local council by the military in 1962. A 1970s failed holiday park venture left the #FortDerelict, & it became a haven & adventure playground for local youths & #Punks. Restored in the ‘80s visitors have since enjoyed its museum, remembrance events, ghost hunts, an amusement arcade & the #GeneralArdaghPub!
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In 1979, the Victorian #NewhavenFort was scheduled as an #AncientMonument. #LtJohnCharlesArdagh used #Concrete formulas innovated by the #RoyalEngineers to achieve the first mass use of the material in a military structure. Readily available shingle from Newhaven beach was mixed with #Chalk burned to #Lime and transported on the #VictorianRailway from the nearby #BalcombePit.
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#LtJohnCharlesArdagh’s #NewhavenFort is an exemplar of the #Victorian drive to both technologically innovate as well as design beautiful and powerful buildings. To span the unusually wide moat, Ardagh created (& patented) an #EquilibrumBridge & used Middle Eastern architectural design principles for the #Souq like #Casemates that flank the parade ground & ornate #JaliVents.
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Surrounded by natural beauty, #NewhavenFort is as much a haven for #Wildlife as it is for humans. Located within #CastleHillNatureReserve, it offers views across the #EnglishChannel, #NewhavenMarina and the #SouthDownsNationalPark. Its unique structure provides habitats for local wildlife and offers a rest stop for weary migrating birds crossing the channel.
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Although never directly attacked #NewhavenFort’s long military history includes both #WW1 & #WW2 with #Newhaven acting as a disembarkation point for both the #DieppeRaids & #NormandyLandings. One of the many units based there in #WW2 was the #RAF #AirSeaRescue & the crew created colourful #WarMurals to brighten up an area of the fort that had served as their recreation area.
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The heroics of #Newhaven #AirSeaRescue #ASR29, tasked with rescuing #RAF pilots who ditched into the sea, have links to #BritishFilm history. #TELawrence, depicted by #PeterOToole in #LawrenceOfArabia, was instrumental in the development of #HighSpeedLaunch (HSL) which saved countless lives. Lawrence & team’s prototype HSL100 was the first ASR craft to be stationed at Newhaven.
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#NewhavenFort’s #AirSeaRescue crew took part in #BritishFilm history when #EalingStudios shot the ground-breaking For Those In Peril (1944), directed by Charles Crichton in #NewhavenHarbour. Shot with the help of #ASR29’s craft and crew, the film was applauded for its respectful depiction of the valiant work of the #AirSeaRescue units stationed around the world.
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The #WW2 #RAF #AirSeaRescue crew stationed at #NewhavenFort, adopted rooms deep within the fort for their recreation area. Following the military tradition of talismanic #WarArt to protect vehicles & crew, the ASR men painted colourful murals on the stark concrete walls using RAF boat paints, to depict undersea scenes, Arabian deserts & the craft that had meaning to them.
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