Making for home : a tale of the Scottish Borders
Tait, A. A. (Alan Andrew), 1938-2017
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As a child living in a bleak coastal village on the Solway Firth during World War 2, Alan Tait's Dr Barnardo's papier mache collection box, with its thatched roof and chimney, represented a different world, a bright and safe one, and inspired him to imagine the homes that might lie in his future, and to invent the rooms he might inhabit. From such simple beginnings grew a lifelong obsession with houses and collecting. Alan Tait traces his journey from childhood imaginings to a tenement flat in Glasgow in the 1960s to the Moffat Valley, in the Scottish Borders, where he bought a remote farmhouse in the 1970s, since when he has overseen its restoration and renewal during four decades of continuing change.
Main title:
Making for home : a tale of the Scottish Borders / Alan Tait, Andrea Jones.
Author:
Tait, A. A. (Alan Andrew), 1938-, authorJones, Andrea, 1960-, photographer
Imprint:
London : Pimpernel, 2017.
Collation:
144 pages ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9781910258835 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.47
LC class:
DA880.D88
Local class:
712.6941.47
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1926880
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