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40 Silver Street Curtis and Mawers Department Store, later Courts 1922. By the Lincoln architect Fred Baker, who had been an assistant to William Watkins and William Scorer. The building is faced in white Doulton Carrara Ware Terracotta which was produced at the Doulton brickworks at Rowley Regis in Warwickshire. Examples of use of Carrara ware include the old Debenhams in Wigmore Street and the Russell Hotel in Russell Square in London. In Birmingham it was used in the Great Western arcade and Turkey Café in Leicester and also in the Everard Building in Bristol. Figure work on these buildings was often designed by Henry Charles Fehr (1867-1940). Pevsner(1989) remarks the the “building is a modest example of the department store style developed from Selfridges in London. White giant terracotta giant pilasters with swags and modillion cornice. Termini caryatids support the ground floor”. MC monograms are placed below the cornice. This appears to be an outstanding example of Inter-war years architecture when Lincoln was trying to establish itself as a regional shopping centre

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