Too Many Ideas - Archive for January, 2023
Pilf ’81 Day 25: The Éclat, 1 Fyrenordan Road
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023Built on land exchanged by the Pifl family to the Auk, Pickling and Pifl Railway for the construction of railway lines to the town in 1839 The Éclat has over one hundred rooms. In a cost cutting measure all the cliff top hotels and grand houses on Fyrenordan Road were built in a similar style […]
Pifl ’81 Day 24: The Babylon (Part 2)
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023The first spa was built by the de Pifl family in the 1750s to encourage the aristocracy to visit the town to take the airs. It was designed in the gothic revival style. Within ten years they had decided it was too small and lacked many features they wanted to incorporate so they had it […]
Pifl ’81 Day 23: The Babylon
Monday, January 23rd, 2023The Babylon is a purpose built spa and hotel complex on Fyrenordan Road at the furthest end of the road from Pifl Harbour. The first spa was built by the de Pifl family in the 1750s to encourage the aristocracy to visit the town to take the airs. It is a fine example of 1920s […]
Pifl ’81 Day 22: The Sea View Hotel and Restaurant
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023Licensed Hotel & Restaurant Fyrenordan Road, Pifl, Aukshire Tel. Pifl 4111 Resident Proprietors Mr and Mrs CA Rice OPEN ALL THE YEAR All Main Bedrooms with Sea Views Central Heating Throughout Hot & Cold in all Bedrooms Television Lounge Residents Bar Lounge “A Free House” Parties (up to 100) arranged and catered for on Ground […]
Pifl ’81 Day 21: Barren Coast
Saturday, January 21st, 2023To the south of Pifl cliffs rise straight from the sea. Lost smugglers caves can be found here, some maybe not so forgotten. Inland the land merges into the lonely moor. Smugglers caves Coterel Bay Caravan Park Camp grounds
Pifl ’81 Day 20: Sommervin
Friday, January 20th, 2023To the north of Pifl on the way up into the hills is a cluster of villages broadly known as Sommervin but which can be divided into three distinct groups. Former mining villages include Sallis-Clegg, Foggy Wilde and Compowen are properly the Sommervin villages. The lost and largely forgotten village of Blamyire can be found […]
Pifl ’81 Day 19: Hibernal
Thursday, January 19th, 2023A group of charming villages with a murder rate higher than Baltimore sit along the river valley west of Pifl. Abandoned Workhouse Camp Sites Caravan Parks Churches Cricket grounds Priory Ruin Heritage Railway
Pifl ’81 Day 18: Manor Reservoir
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023Surrounded by a wooded park near Nordan is the reservoir, built in the 1890s, that supplies the town’s water. The boat club and rowing club use the res. The town’s sports centre and athletics fields are in the park.
Pifl ’81 Day 17: Pifl Polytechnic
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023Inland and to the south of South Pifl lies the local Poly’s main campus. Formerly a technical college which became a poly in the 1960s it is mostly based on this purpose built, landscaped, 1960s campus of slowly rotting concrete brutalism. Some departments are still based in buildings elsewhere in the town but the plan […]
Pifl ’81 Day 16: South Pifl
Monday, January 16th, 2023The Victorian area to the south of the harbour built as an extension of Old Pifl is the home to the town’s student population. First years live in the Polytechnics Halls of residence while many second and third years live in adapted houses and flats above shops. Locations: Cricket Ground Crucible Design and Print Games […]