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The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
...The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail, founded unofficially by the schoolboy Brooking in the mid-1960s and, officially, when a trust was formed to protect and nurture it in 1985, is in many ways the cradle of “architectural salvage” and “skip” culture, or the way many of us rebuilt our first homes, climbing in and out of skips laden with the kind of wonderful things museums and architects should have been proud of...
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...The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail, founded unofficially by the schoolboy Brooking in the mid-1960s and, officially, when a trust was formed to protect and nurture it in 1985, is in many ways the cradle of “architectural salvage” and “skip” culture, or the way many of us rebuilt our first homes, climbing in and out of skips laden with the kind of wonderful things museums and architects should have been proud of...
The rest of this article can be viewed here http://www.bdonline.co.uk/5000113.article
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