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Bardrainney
Bardrainney is a neighbourhood of Port Glasgow, in the Inverclyde district of Scotland. Bardrainney, possibly from the Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic for "hill of thorns", is (post 2000) a housing area, dating from the 1950s and built by the local council, on the hills above Port Glasgow, just to the south of the A761 road to Kilmacolm. The area is called after the farm of that name whose fields the houses occupy. Inverclyde Council. Accessed April 17, 2012. The farm buildings no longer exist, but they were roughly on the site of the house of Alexander Dalzell, factor (Scotland), factor to the Earls of Glencairn, on the highest spot in the area in the open space at the top end of the present Moss Road, and they may have co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BISF House
The BISF house is a British steel framed house, designed and produced by the British Iron and Steel Federation, and erected around the country from 1946. BISF was an association of steel producers, formed in 1934 in order to provide central planning for the industry. It was prominent in coordinating output through World War II. Post-war, BISF became key in the new Ministry of Works (United Kingdom), Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme. It sponsored a solution for a permanent steel framed housing to a MoW conforming design by architect Frederick Gibberd, Sir Frederick Gibberd, who also designed the Howard house. The BISF is of a conventional design, with simple architectural devices of projecting window surrounds encasing Crittall Windows Ltd, Crittall Hope windows, and differing cladding to the upper and lower stories deal with the junction between components in an understated fashion. The main structure is of steel columns spaced to take standard metal wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
