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Your Places or MineThe Tale of Parliament Part 2 - The House of LordsSend us a textLast week’s Your Places of Mine celebrated the rebuilding of the House of Commons after the original interior was bombed during one of the last raids of the Blitz. This week, Clive and John consider the Palace of Westminster, otherwise known as the Houses of Parliament, as a whole. After the old Palace had been all but destroyed by fire in 1834, Charles Barry won the competition to rebuild it, producing a building that may have shortened his life but is surely one of the herculean achievements of the Victorian age. With the help...
2025-11-201h 02
Your Places or MineWar Memorials Of WW1: The Secret Meaning of The StoneSend us a textIn advance of Remembrance Sunday on November 11, Clive has been visiting the Commonwealth War Graves in France. The Imperial War Graves Commission, as it was called when established in 1917, was the brain child of Fabian Ware, a civil servant turned newspaper editor who commanded a Red Cross dressing station during the First World War and was therefore saw the horror at first hand. Ware realised that the hundreds of thousands of young men who died for Britain deserved proper burial and commemoration. The losses were on a scale unknown in previous wars, and th...
2025-10-0258 min
Your Places or MineHot History: The Great Fire of Northampton 1675Send us a textEveryone has heard about the Great Fire of London – but what about the Great Fire of Northampton…or Marlborough…or Blandford Forum? Fire has frequently wrought destruction on towns, cities and country houses, and this was particularly the case in the 17th century. Clive and John discuss why this should have been—what caused the fires, what the consequences were for the places concerned and how they were rebuilt. Northampton was a spectacular example, not only because over 80% of the town centre was destroyed but (as John has discovered from rarely seen drawings) ambitious d...
2025-08-141h 00Your Places or MineCharles III's Love Affair With RomaniaSend us a textThe then Prince of Wales first came to Transylvania in the late 1990s on an official visit. It’s the only time he’s come on business. He fell so much under the spell of the place that he bought a house here, in one of the wooden villages, settled, many centuries ago, by Saxons from Germany. Then he acquired another property, which he has turned into a comfortable, folksy lodge. He makes a private visit every year, if he can. Clive and John discuss King Charles III and his passion for this...
2025-08-0754 minYour Places or MineSovereignty in Stone: The Kings of Windsor CastleSend us a text Windsor Castle has been imbued with symbolism since William the Conqueror founded it after the invasion of 1066. He took the name of Windsor from an existing Anglo-Saxon palace which stood on a different spot. On a bluff overlooking the Thames, Windsor Castle continues to play a central role in Britain’s national identity, being a great inheritance from the Middle Ages, which no one generation could have the resources or imagination to build. It has always been there, was always important, it seems to transcend time. Both a formidable stronghold and a sumptuous palace...
2025-07-2450 min
Start This Addictive Full Audiobook — Perfect On The Go.King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture by Clive AsletPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/331to listen full audiobooks.
Title: King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
Series: Triglyph People, Book 2
Author: Clive Aslet
Narrator: Clive Aslet
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
Release date: 05-06-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Architecture
Publisher's Summary:
King Charles III’s affection for architecture is wellknown, but the extent of his engagement has never been fully presented to the public. This is the first book to draw together the many threads, from the "carbuncle" speech, made at Hampton Court in 1984, until his accession to the throne. He has created model settlements such as...
2025-05-065h 54Your Places or MineThe Majesty and Splendour Of Westminster HallSend us a textClive and John discuss one of the most spectacular medieval buildings in Britain, Westminster Hall. Originally built by William the Conqueror’s heir, the voracious William Rufus, it was a structure of immense ambition — said to be the biggest hall of its kind north of the Alps. In the 14th-century, this huge space was reimagined as a statement of royal majesty by art-loving Richard ll; carved angels looked down on the divinely appointed king from the hammer beam roof. Ironically, this would be where Charles I was tried and condemned to death in 1649. At...
2025-04-2453 minYour Places or MineKing Charles III's Royal Passion For ArchitectureSend us a textOne of the greatest of HM the King’s many enthusiasms is architecture. He made his first pronouncements on the subject in 1984 with the famous ‘Carbuncle’ speech and has been championing the causes of tradition, community, Classicism and Transylvania ever since. After 40 years it is time to take stock of his achievement, seen most obviously in the model town extensions (Poundbury outside Dorchester, Nansledan outside Newquay) that are the Duchy of Cornwall’s visionary answer to the housing crisis, but also at Dumfries House, which he rescued from break up. Thanks to the training pr...
2025-04-171h 03