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| The following are some of the letters and e-mail I have received after publication of the book. |
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Having just received your book “Tiles Of the Unexpected” in the mail today, I was, to say the least, overwhelmed by the sheer scale, dedication and love that has been put into it. Quite simply, this has to be THE book that takes pride of place in my collection of Underground literature. |
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| Your marvellous, excellent, delicious (even the smell of the pages had me almost drooling) book comes as a real delight – I had realised that many of these wall tiles were there for a reason, and your writings and illustrations have made it all clear to me. I know I am raving on, but felt I had to email you just to say “thanks”. Alistair Kerr |
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| I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of Tiles of the Unexpected as a Christmas present and, having spent almost the entire holiday period reading it from cover to cover, I feel compelled to write and congratulate you on a truly magnificent piece of work. As a transport enthusiast myself I can fully appreciate the twenty years work that went in to the project and I particularly admire the fantastic work that you have done in managing to convert all the data onto computer. The book is a veritable tour de force! David Berguer, Friern Barnet & District Local History Society |
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| Tiles of the Unexpected (a wonderful title) really is a stunning production, which will become the standard work on the subject. You are to be congratulated on such a superb work. I am glad you found sponsors to permit such an excellent quality in its publication. Mike Stollery, of the former London Regional Transport Architects’ Department |
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| WOW! More later once I have calmed down. Jeremy Frankel |
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| A truly magnificent work - congratulations! My girls got fed up with me going on about it. Not surprising, I suppose. Roger Hall, of the former London Regional Transport Architects’ Department. |
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| I had trouble putting your book down - absolutely fascinating! I think it could rightly be called “tile porn” ;-) Richard Travers |
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| Having got your book home and opened it up, I have to say that (even having seen the proof) it is better than I could ever have imagined. The pain of publishing it yourself I assure you was worth it for the quality which has resulted. Couldn’t put it down, which is rare with non-fiction titles. Just tremendous work, I hope that readers get a true impression of the huge amount of effort and determination that went into getting it done at all. When I think back we were so lucky with the period of time in the 1980s when we had access and the station mods were going on – just a five year difference would have made getting anything like complete patterns impossible. The health & safety Gestapo wouldn’t allow amateurs with paint stripper anywhere near a station now! I feel that compared with all of the effort that you and others put in, my contribution was really quite small, but now that the book is out I’m pleased to have been able to make a contribution. Well done. Dave Burton |
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| I am overwhelmed with admiration for all aspects of this epoch-making work, particularly the work that was devoted to recording the tile patterns on site, the research into contemporaneous newspapers, the studies of the platform environment and the reconstruction of Yerkes’s conceptional support for the tiling scheme. Desmond F. Croome |
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| Just to say I purchased my copy of the tile pattern book at the Museum last week - it’s a fantastic achievement and worth every penny! Guy Burton |
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| I hope that you will understand my sincerity when I say that your book is a treasure that I will always value as an example not only of its stated subject matter, but also of the high quality of achievement that is possible to human beings when they engage all of their faculties. Paul Ohannesian (architect - Canada) |
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| I am truly ‘gobsmacked’ at the attention to detail and excellent quality of the publication. This is worth every penny, and Yerkes stations have even more of my attention now. Such a wonderful publication, has taken pride of place on my bookshelf. I must admit I didn’t want to take it out of its plastic wrapper, but having bought a Perspex foolscap file box which it fits snugly, it now has all the love and protection such a book deserves. Mark Turner |
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