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Latest Books

The Colour of Water, published 2013

ISBN NUMBER 978-0-9573435-7-3, Price £18.95 +post and packing £5. Portsmouth, where I live, is a city surrounded by water: the seafront facing the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Langstone harbours and the tidal Portscreek.  Water in all its guises inspires me.  I love sea swimming, buoyed up in waves’ embrace or leaping over wave peaks.  The rivers Thames and Hudson flow through the places where our children live.  Salt water is pictured at sea level in the Mediterranean’s many moods, the varicoloured Atlantic in Bermuda and Martha’s Vineyard, the Bohai Sea in China…

Celia and Deane Clark's Portsmouth

Celia & Deane Clark's Portsmouth, publication date: 2013 and  ISBN number: 978-1-9096-08-3, £18.9 Post and Packing £5: Celia was lucky enough to marry Deane Clark and thereby gain a home town, his birthplace. As living organisms, cities continually change - but whether all changes in Portsmouth were for the better is still debated. Living in there since 1970, they have seen Portsmouth change – rapidly at first during the ‘Second Blitz’ - new roads, slum clearance and comprehensive redevelopment, and then more slowly as conservation areas, general improvement areas and creative reuse of buildings took hold. The photos are a mix of old and new. Deane took the photos of the now demolished buildings, before Celia acquired her own camera. Excellent new structures enhance the city, highlighted in the Portsmouth Society’s annual Design Awards.

 

The Tricorn The Life and Death of a Sixties Icon Celia Clark and Robert Cook.

Corrected re-print, full colour.  ISBN: 978-0-9562498-5-2, 2009,2012, 2014: price £19.95 + post and packing £5.. Love it or hate it, there’s no middle ground in reactions to the Tricorn: the Brutalist, bold, multi-layered and multi-use megastructure built in Portsmouth between 1962 and 1966, and demolished in 2004. Celia Clark and Robert Cook explore what makes an architectural icon - and what unmade it.

All these books available from Celia Clark celiadeane.clark@btopenworld.com or 8 Florence Road Southsea PO5 2NE.

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More Books by Celia

Granny's Gourgeous Alphabet

Granny’s Gorgeous Alphabet Celia Clark  ISBN 978-0-9567597-4-0 £10 + post and packing £2

White to Black

 Celia Clark  ISBN 978-0-9571074-6-5 £25. 148 pages, full colour. A collection of photographs from academic, campaigner, author and photographer, Celia Clark that takes you on a journey from light to dark and white to black.

Maritime City Portsmouth 1945-2005

Portsmouth 1945 - 2005 edited by Ray Riley - Celia Clark was a contributor: chapters on the Changing City, Building Conservation and School Buildings

The Colour of Water

The Tricorn

The life and death of a sixties icon ... by Celia Clark

Celia and Deane Clark's Portsmouth

Collaborative photographic book on the architecture of Portsmouth past and present

Vintage Ports or Deserted Dockyards

Differing futures for naval heritage across Europe, Research and consultancy July 2000, published by University of the West of England Bristol UK

Previous titles from Celia

Celia published her first major title in 2008 and has gone on to a further three re-prints

The Tricorn The Life and Death of a Sixties Icon - By Celia Clark

Love it or hate it – there’s no middle ground in reactions to the Tricorn: the Brutalist, bold, multi-layered and multi-use megastructure built in Portsmouth between 1962 and 1966, and demolished in  2004.  The Tricorn features in histories of architecture.  Its  chunky imagery spawned progeny -  the Lloyds building’s exterior  staircases, the Barbican’s curving upstands  - leading ultimately to  the birth of high-tech

The Tricorn: the Life and Death
of a Sixties Icon
Celia Clark and Robert Cook
Foreword by Tom Dyckhoff
ISBN 9780956249807
£19.99
Reviewed by Jon Wright - Twentieth Century Society Journal

As the years continue ton pass since its short-sighted destruction, Portsmouth's 'concrete casbah; gets more fondly remembered. The Tricorn: the life and death of a sixties icon, written by the building's staunchest local defenders, Celia Clark and Robert Cook, is therefore both a requiem and a warning. Exploring how it came to be built and how the subsequent tide of local and national dislike and ambivalence finally overwhelmed its ramparts, Clark and Cook leave no stone unturned. More widely, it's a timely investigation into why Portsmouth along with so many other towns in the country has so struggled to value its monumental civic architecture from the 1960s. The book is something of a compendium, a scrapbook of the building's front and back pages with all the various viewpoints allowed a voice. Structurally the book is unconventional, with fascinating and passionate passages devoted to the building's colourful history mixing with rather more prosaic architectural detail-chapter 7 is devoted to the history of the Tricorn Club. Anecdote forms a huge part of Clark's all-encompassing study, and in collecting so many fond memories, Clark has uncovered a whole stratum of the city who actually loved the building and clearly loved being there.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Colour of Water

The Colour of Water Celia Clark, £17.95. Portsmouth, where I live, is a city surrounded by water: the seafront facing the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Langstone harbours and the tidal Portscreek.  Water in all its guises inspires me.  I love sea swimming, buoyed up in waves’ embrace or leaping over wave peaks.  The rivers Thames and Hudson flow through the places where our children live.  Salt water is pictured at sea level in the Mediterranean’s many moods, the varicoloured Atlantic in Bermuda and Martha’s Vineyard, the Bohai Sea in China…

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White to Black

White to Black Celia Clark  ISBN 978-0-9571074-6-5 £25. 148 pages, full colour. A collection of photographs from academic, campaigner, author and photographer, Celia Clark that takes you on a journey from light to dark and white to black. Snatches of observation and juxtapositioned, the photographs are taken from places around the world that are important to her. "Light and Place are my life’s twin poles.

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SAVE, Britains Heritage

Beacons of Learning, Breathing new life into old schools

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