Cuthbert Brodrick - Disappearing Architect

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 26 Apr, 2007 2:32 pm

The BBC have just announced a documentary which should be of interest to our Dear Readers...JOHNATHAN MEADES: ABROAD AGAIN. THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING ARCHITECT.BBC2, MAY 23RD, 1900."The short and lustrous career of the most mysterious of High Victorian architects is dissected to show the effects of landscape, Francophilia and adultery on his gigantic buildings. At the age of thirty Cuthbert Brodrick was unknown, supported by his shipowner father, earning infrequent minor commissions in the flatlands around his native Hull. By the time he was forty-five his career was over. Yet during those fifteen years he was, briefly, the most celebrated architect in Britain and designed three tours de force that are the finest secular buildings of their age - the Town Hall and Corn Exchange in Leeds and The Grand Hotel at Scarborough. And after that: nothing save almost half a century of apparently willed obscurity in a Parisian suburb".Director: Francis Hanly.Sounds good...

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Thu 26 Apr, 2007 7:54 pm

did he design the town hall in Hull, seem to remember reading about this in his life history yonks ago.

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 26 Apr, 2007 10:09 pm

He did. He was from Hull. But the Town Hall that he designed is no longer there - possibly hit by a German bomb, though I am not 100% sure about that.

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 02 May, 2007 11:46 am

Not Cuthbert Brodrick.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Wed 02 May, 2007 5:46 pm

munki wrote: Not Cuthbert Brodrick. was this taken at a Blues Brothers fancy dress party

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Thu 03 May, 2007 1:05 pm

You owe the Luftwaffe an apology, Munki. Brodrick's OTHER Town Hall was completed in Hull in 1866, 8 years after he completed Leeds Town Hall. It was demolished rather than bombed, in the early years of the 20th century, to make way for the Guildhall. Some of its ornamentation was used as wall posts for a Brantingham cemetery.

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Thu 03 May, 2007 1:07 pm

Another fragment can be found in Pearson Park, where the cupola of the Town Hall is now used as a folly.Information and pictures taken from hullcc.gov.ukSo Our Cuth is a 'Disappearing Architect' in more than just the sense that the BBC mean it...

jf · Post by jf » Thu 03 May, 2007 11:30 pm

Is the whole thing buried there in the park, with just that bit showing?

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Thu 22 Mar, 2012 5:23 pm

Jogonhere's the thread from 5 years ago, tempus fugit

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 23 Mar, 2012 9:59 am

[q"geoffb"]Jogon-here's the thread from 5 years ago, tempus fugit Geoffb taLotta folks (like me) haven't seen the Meades Documentary on Broderick (2007 didn't know SL existed).+ now viewable on Youtube. So I'll kill my 'new' thread and repeat on here:-Excellent 5 part BBC Programme fronted by Meades, a good bloke.Sorry if already covered, it's from 2007.http://youtu.be/4vMh8JAKYAQWHAT & WHEREis the spooky Monument at 0.30 to 0.56? This lists all 5 episodes:-http://tinyurl.com/7qo7kvn