The Arts In Berwick --Architecture
Modernism comes to Berwick

The European architectural style known as 'International Modernism' arrived in Berwick with the building of Royal Tweed road bridge. Opened in 1929 by that most modern of princes, the future Edward VIII, it was the largest concrete bridge in Europe at the time. Celebrated in a Royal Academy drawing by F.Woodhouse and by the knights of the LNER poster it was a bold self-assertive statement of the new motor age


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