Newcastle's Grainger Town: An Urban Renaissance

by David Lovie and Fiona Cullen

Grainger Town is as much an idea as it is a place. It is an important phenomenon, both historically and in today's debate about conservation in our cities and towns. Richard Grainger, a native of Newcastle and a builder and speculator unparalleled in the region, in the middle decades of the 19th century co-ordinated a radical re-planning that turned the town of his birth from an already handsome regional capital to one which excited the admiration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1873592779
• ISBN13: 9781873592779
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Historic England Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 8.3"