We can’t help but shout about it whenever anyone gives our beautiful county a plug, even more so when it’s in East Yorkshire. And, the latest came from Jeremy Clarkson as he shared his frustrations with his struggles with building plans at Diddly Squat Farm, home of Clarkson’s Farm.
The presenter said ‘we’re going backwards’ in a recent column for the Sunday Times admitting he felt architecture in the UK and his farm had “gone backwards”. He stated that everything since the marvelous Humber Bridge that takes his “breath away”, has “gone backwards”.
He wrote: “So is the Humber Bridge. Let’s be honest, the country didn’t really need to connect the villages of Barton and Hessle. But we just went ahead and did it anyway, and every time I see what used to be the longest suspension bridge in the world, spearing off into the morning mist, it always takes a little bit of my breath away.
“Since then, however, everything’s gone backwards. Sure, there were still great British architects throwing up stuff like the Millau viaduct in France and the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, which is my favourite building in the whole world.”
He continued: “But all of these things, along with the spaceport in New Mexico and the pencil-slim KK100 skyscraper in China and those upended indoor gardens in Singapore, are abroad.
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“Here, if we build a house, we want it to look Georgian. Or like a tech company’s Seattle HQ. And for everything else, we use shipping containers.
“I want to build a small stone barn at home so that I can grow mushrooms. But everyone is frowning and saying I should give the money this would cost to hard-working families in the community, and use a shipping container instead. But I won’t.
“Mainly because I’m running out of the damn things. We have one at the farm shop which is used for storage and one lying round in a field that’s used to house chemicals and two more which are welded together to create a farm kitchen. Honestly, my yard looks like the foyer at Maersk’s world headquarters.”
As usual, we love reading what Clarkson has to say on any given subject, and it only whets are appetite for the upcoming series three of Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm, which is set to return in May. We can wait to see the addition of pigs to the farm and all the other things that they’ve been up to in the past year.
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