A New Year, a new challenge!
In 2020 I joined the Society of One Place Studies with my Street Study of The Crescent in Taunton, Somerset, England. It was one of the best decisions I made in the craziness that was the year 2020! Like everyone else, I have had real ups and downs this past year, but working on my study has been a stabilising force in a changing world. I am fortunate in that I live just a short walk from the place that I have chosen to focus my One Place Study on, although the residents of The Crescent came from and moved away to many different areas around the globe.
This year, the Society of One Place Studies has invited everyone to take part in their Blogging Prompts 2021. I look forward to taking part. So what are the blogging prompts that have been set for the first six months of 2021...
OK...so January 2021 is #OnePlaceLandmarks. In my very first blog post, I discovered that many of the structures on The Crescent are listed on Historic England's Listed Buildings. This includes most of the buildings that were once people's homes but are now business premises. The Listed Buildings are the following:
- Unison House (Formerly listed as the Somerset County Club)
- 1-11 The Crescent
- 15-20 The Crescent
- 20 and 21 The Crescent
- The Masonic Hall (Formerly a Roman Catholic Church)
- A Block County Hall and Entrance Forecourt and Pavements
[1] Pevsner, Nikolaus (2001) [1958]. The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset London: Penguin Books. p. 317–8. ISBN 0-14-071014-0.
What a great start to the New Year which promises to be full of interesting blogs about your street study and the fabulous progress you have made! Thank you for including the three Directory logos too.
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Deletehttps://twitter.com/TheCrescentOPS The Crescent is a great choice for a one place study. Lots of work done in 2020, sounds like you have plenty planned for 2021! I am looking forward to seeing which landmark you choose and why. I too am choosing - so far thinking about a Well, a Bridge, some Dartmoor Standing stones and, depending on time, the Village Hall. I am really pleased that someone from Sticklepath Heritage Group is also hoping to do a post :). The #oneplacelandmarks and monthly prompts are a great encouragement for me to start pulling information together :) (alongside creating a database and family tree for residents from the 1851 census).
ReplyDeleteYour Sticklepath website is so awesome! My 5 year aim is to get to a website of the calibre that your one is...
DeleteI look forward to reading about the #OnePlaceLandmarks that you write about. I am just going to do one of the buildings on my Street Study.