C O N T E X T 1 2 5 : J U LY 2 0 1 2 1 Cover: John Cobb in the 24-litre Napier-Railton taking the ‘bump’ on the Members’ Banking at Brooklands in 1935 (Photo: courtesy of Brooklands Museum Archive). See page 17. Institute ofHistoricBuildingConservation No125May 2012 The heritage of sport Editorial Fun and games www.ihbc.org.uk Registered as a charity in England andWales number 1061593 and in Scotland number SC041945. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England number 3333780. Registered Office: 3 Stafford Road,TunbridgeWells, Kent TN2 4QZ. 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As Anthony Calladine writes (page 14), in terms of designation assessment, the requirements for protecting the heritage of sports infrastructure are not so different from any other assets. Architectural, archaeological, historic and technological interest, age and rarity must each be weighed in balance. But sports and recreation buildings are subject to particular pressures. A great deal of the interest in them is driven by emotion. The more popular a football club becomes, for example, the more likely it is to outgrow its ground. At Highbury, parts of the east and west stands of the old Arsenal Stadium have been incorporated into a development of apartments, and the former site of the pitch has been kept as open space. The developers recognised its significance: the reverberating roar of the Highbury crowd has not quite faded away. Even two reclaimed turnstiles from Derby County’s Baseball Ground (pictured on page 3) flank the entrance to a local Starbucks in a fond attempt to hold on to history. Chris Balme (page 24) reports on plans to re-use the UK’s oldest surviving public open-air swimming pools for their original purpose and as a visitor attraction. ‘The site,’ Balme writes, ‘has a propensity to flood.’ Today that is seen as a problem: we do not want just any water in our pools. Lynn Pearson (page 18) discusses Britain’s historic cricket pavilions, and some distinctive examples of their vernacular and modernist architecture. She notes the vulnerability of many of the pavilions through being set in open spaces and not permanently occupied. Like many examples of the sporting heritage, the relationship between buildings and open spaces is often the key to their magic. Rob Sutton (page 21) remembers a time when that relationship was built in to the design of a housing development. At Moor Pool estate in Birmingham, the inspiration of the garden cities and garden suburbs movement suggested that sport should be planned for as an essential part of normal life. Now, where’s that remote control?
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