Hollings College Students’ Union Handbook 1972-73. Published by Dominion Press Ltd, London. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Dancing Against Time
Architecture can be understood by everyone. You can feel gravity, therefore you can begin to feel architecture. Buildings experience the same stresses and strains of gravity that man does himself. For this reason, it is possible to translate the basic laws of building into physical feeling. Forrest Wilson – What It Feels Like To Be a … Continue reading
A Beginning Word
Toastrack architect L.C. Howitt shares his thoughts on the countryside, wartime romance, and piano practice. From the Evening Chronicle, 11/01/60: Continue reading
The New Activity: Second Phase
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1943) Rooms within the Toastrack, caught during unoccupied moments by photographer John Merrill, in collaboration with Manchester Modernist Society. Continue reading
More Fashion On The Roof
There was once a time when the roof of the Toastrack was teeming with fashionable types. Previously featured here on the blog at the very beginning of our creative residency, Manchester Modernist Society has since discovered further evidence of rooftop activity from these sartorial trailblazers. Where are they now that access to their natural habitat … Continue reading
Get There By Bus
Three beautiful wraparound colour-variant designs for early Toastrack prospectuses, produced by Richmond Press Ltd of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Note the faculty’s change of name to Hollings College in 1964 in honour of its former principal Elsie Hollings, who passed away on July 4th, 1962. And how to get there: NB. This bus information is only applicable … Continue reading
Down The Aisles, Along The Titles
Temporary accommodation for the Toastrack’s library circa spring/summer 1984, prior to the completion of a purpose-built facility by Mills Beaumont Leavey Channon (now MBLA), which adapted the structure of the existing examination and events hall within the Hollings Faculty known as the Poached Egg. The new library officially opened on March 21st, 1996. Further Manchester … Continue reading
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