Congratulations to chartered surveyor and fellow of the institute Gerald Green.

His octagonal bus shelter in Farmington, Gloucestershire – one of many built around the country to commemorate the Festival of Britain in 1951 – has been grade II listed.

Green, whose father was an architect, designed the building for free after being approached by the parish council. The reason for its listing is that ‘it is a good example of a Festival of Britain bus shelter, well designed in the vernacular tradition and using good quality local materials’. The Festival of Britain was an attempt to give Britons a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities following the end of the Second World War.

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Construction Manager