2020年9月8日 星期二

Silver End, Essex.


Houses of the Silver Street development of 1927.


Silver End is located in Essex
Silver End
Silver End
Location within Essex
Population3,861 (2011)[1]

Silver End is a village in Braintree, Essex, in England. It was conceived as a model village by the industrialist Francis Henry Crittall who established a Crittall Windows Ltd factory there to manufacture components for metal windows.



The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Francis Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge. Of note are the steel window frames manufactured by Crittall's firm as a test for their use in the damp English climate.[2][3]




'Wolverton', Silver End, Essex. Thomas S. Tait. 1928.
Photo: Elain Harwood

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