h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: The Omega Workshops - A703063
Author: Abi - U281

Hi

This is my entry on another bit of forgotten London - the Omega Workshops.

All comments welcome.

Abi

Very nice Abi.

One place near the top you've got a bit of a run-on sentence: 'Fry was on a mission, he wanted to bring Post Impressionist ideals to applied design, moving away from the elegant, dark and retro curves of the Arts & Crafts movement.'

You should put either a full stop or a semicolon after the 'Fry was on a mission' bit.

Other than that minor thingie, it was a very fine little entry.



- X

Hi, Abi!

This is certainly a very interesting topic (and not one I'd ever heard of before!)

I think it would be a good idea to mention that Fitzroy Square is in (or near?) Bloomsbury, and that Fry, Grant and Bell were all part of the Bloomsbury Group which included the famous writers Virginia Woolf (Vanessa Bell's sister), EM Forster and Lytton Strachey. I had heard a lot about the writers of the Bloomsbury Group, but I didn't realise unitl I saw your entry that the artists also formed a very distinctive group.

There is an interesting site at
http://www.charleston.org.uk/about.htm
about Vanessa Bell's and Duncan Grant's country house in Sussex which has apparently been restored. It appears to have a collection of Omega Workshop objects, as well as other works by Fry, Grant and Bell.


Azara

Hi Azara and Jimi

Thanks for the feedback! I will redraft it.

Looks great! C'mon Abi, let's get this in the Guide!

I have nothing to do this weekend - so this is one thing I am going to work on.

Oh how I admire those looooong weekends of h2g2 italics!

Ask her about her University project on Mules...

Hi Abi! This is a good entry - short and sweet. There are a few minor spelling and punctuation points to be tidied up.

Poidatric --> Podiatric
mission, he --> mission. He
democratic, --> democratic;
high profile split --> high-profile split

Abi

Get your butt into gear girl - we need this for the Edited Guide.

*sigh*

Maybe this will go the way of the Ponies Uni Project...

I have to finish the thing I am on now and then I am going to do it.

Plus then I am going to do a bit of ponying too. So

And that great big 'H' in the Towers is where the pigs will land...

Haven't you heard, Ashley?

They are opening an ice rink in Hell!

I have made amendments and put extra stuff in. Would any one like to read it and see if it is ok?

Thanks honeys

It's looking good, Abi! You managed to include the extra bits very smoothly. I think you've now dealt with everyone's suggestions, so now it's up to any passing scouts......


Azara

Well done, Abi! Your entry has been recommended.

Thanks

all round!

I'll be your sub-editor for the evening. The new version of the entry is at A718544.

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