NOTES: The exhibition "Experiments in Living" was presented by The Daily Telegraph Magazine and the furniture department store Maples, from 25 September to 2 November 1970. Max Clendinning was one of 8 designers featured and showed his "Expandospace" range.
NOTES: Built for the Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd (PCT), this cinema was designed by Robert Atkinson with interiors by Walpole Champneys and murals by Walter Bayes. It closed in 1973 and was demolished in 1974.
NOTES: Commissioned by the 3rd Earl Grosvenor (later the 1st Duke of Westminster from 1874), this lavish mansion was designed to display his enormous wealth. It comprised 150 bedrooms, massive stables, huge kennels and a chapel. Deemed too costly and large to maintain by the trustees of the Westminster estate, the mansion was demolished in 1961, leaving only the chapel and the stable block. A smaller house was built on the edge of the footprint of the old building in 1967.
NOTES: This building was demolished. Embassy Court, a retirement home development, now occupies the site. Mollo and Egan were the interior designers of the cafe, Nye was the architect of the building.
NOTES: This building was demolished. Embassy Court, a retirement home development, now occupies the site. Mollo and Egan were the interior designers of the cafe, Nye was the architect of the building.