TRUE PRINCIPLES vol.1 no.1

1) Pugin in Ramsgate

As part of the 'Unlocking the Past' programme put together by Kent Heritage Services Group and to accompany Pugin in Kent, a series of special events was arranged to illustrate Pugin's love of Ramsgate...

Penny Ward


2) What is a Pugin?

'What exactly is a Pugin?', I was asked by a Ramsgate resident during the preparations for the Pugin in Kent exhibition at the Library Gallery in September [1996]. It was a potent reminder of the degree to which one of Ramgate's most famous sons, the creator of the Victorian Gothic style, remains largely obscure and without honour in his home town...

John Brazier


3) Pugin and the Great Exhibition

On Saturday 25th November, the first Pugin Society lecture was given, by Jean Field... [who] commenced her talk by giving a general picture of architecture in England during the run up to the Great Exhibition...

Michael Blaker