“Fine in every last detail”

Mavisbank House has survived against all the odds. Today its future remains in doubt. Peter’s short films about Mavisbank House [please click on each image to play a different film] … Continue reading “Fine in every last detail”

Mavisbank: “On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank”

This is the talk I gave to the Civic Trust Conference on the 29th October 2014. The Conference was entitled “FEELING GOOD: Wellbeing & the built Environment”. The Civic Trust … Continue reading Mavisbank: “On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank”

Mavisbank: Repeats its Love

Mavisbank: Repeats its Love written by Dr Peter J. Gordon Opening Chapter of ‘Repeats its Love’ Ventures into our past may sometimes seem without place – but with Mavisbank, the … Continue reading Mavisbank: Repeats its Love

Strange Tales and Stranger Truths

Chapter two of ‘Repeats its love’: Strange Tales and Stranger Truths [1] Sir John Clerk, Baron of Taste died on the 4th October 1755 aged 78 years. In his last … Continue reading Strange Tales and Stranger Truths