- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd; New edition edition (16 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854106252
- ISBN-13: 978-1854106254
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Follies are buildings which are fun-loving, engaging, whimsical. The result of 20 years of joint research, this book offers a guide to Britain''s follies and their close relatives, grottoes and garden buildings.'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I recently bought this book and love it. It's packed full of mouth-wateringly wild and wonderful buildings and structures, and written with a very fine humour. This book is such a delight and an insight and a very fine read that you don't need to move from your armchair to enjoy Britain's finest absurdities. The only criticism is that I would like to see some larger and colour photos.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a massive book which gives an excellent overview of the odd and intertesting buildings in Britain. The authors' love of follies come across on every page.
Whilst there are any number of omissions, every building which I've found through the book has been worth visiting.
If you love follies, you'll love this. Buy it, keep it in the car and surprize yourself how many times you find yourself drawn to it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is invaluable on any holiday or trip to the countryside (or even to town), because it makes you realise there are follies _everywhere_ in Britain. Look up the area you're going and you'll find, in a hidden side road, the most remarkable and unexpected building you'd otherwise have missed. We drove past Wattisham Castle, an obscure farm in Suffolk disguised with towers and traceries to look like a Disney castle: the newish owners (doing it up) were astonished to find their house in a book and treated us to tea.
This book isn't a dry encyclopedia: as well as being highly informative, it's peppered with a deep, subtle wit which makes it a very entertaining read. (A random sample, on Lord Ducie's house at Tortworth, Avon: "When the house because Leyhill Open Prison the word 'WELCOME' over the archway was removed". One of my favourites on p.195-196 is their description of two follies built - clearly at some expense - to display two criminally dreadful poetic inscriptions. I won't spoil it, you just have to read it.)
For a walk in the country, just take this book and the Good Pub Guide.
This book isn't a dry encyclopedia: as well as being highly informative, it's peppered with a deep, subtle wit which makes it a very entertaining read. (A random sample, on Lord Ducie's house at Tortworth, Avon: "When the house because Leyhill Open Prison the word 'WELCOME' over the archway was removed". One of my favourites on p.195-196 is their description of two follies built - clearly at some expense - to display two criminally dreadful poetic inscriptions. I won't spoil it, you just have to read it.)
For a walk in the country, just take this book and the Good Pub Guide.
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Keep Britain Weird!
As the previous 2010 review states; good trips to the countryside require this volume, the good pub guide and a battlefield tour book. Read more
Published on 28 May 2010 by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
Disappointing
A flippant approach to the subject conceals a lack of research. See the item under "Fife" for 'The Mount'. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2005
Rather disappointing
This book is a gazetteer of follies up and down the country. Fine as far as it goes, but it has many omissions - several of the best follies near me aren't listed, for example -... Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2001
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