Street Furniture
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Our streets are enriched by a huge variety of objects, from water fountains and horse troughs to post boxes, signposts and more. Collectively, these objects are known as street furniture.
From Roman-era milestones to modern infrastructure disguised as artwork, they tell us much about contemporary life. This book relates the compelling history of street furnitureʼs design and manufacture, featuring notable architects and major ironfounders, as well as curiosities like King Edward VIII post boxes. It brings the story right up to date, detailing the new generation of environmentally friendly and digitally connected street furniture. The book also charts the dangers to our streetscapes, which are particularly vulnerable to change, with heritage street furniture at risk of being forgotten or lost.
This book includes many fascinating images of surviving street furniture and vanished pieces, with archive material allowing readers to see long-gone items in use. It will appeal to those interested in social and transport history, in how we lived in the past, and indeed how we may live in the future.
Dr Lynn Pearson is an independent architectural historian specialising in industrial buildings and sporting architecture. She has been based in Newcastle upon Tyne since the 1980s and has published over twenty books. Her England’s Co-operative Movement: An Architectural History (Historic England, 2020), won the Association for Industrial Archaeology’s 2021 Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Industrial Archaeology. She won the same award in 2015 for her book on brewery architecture, Built to Brew (Historic England, 2014). Her Tile Gazetteer (Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society) was runner-up in the 2005 National Reference Book of the Year Awards.