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| image = | name = Lucinda Lambton | birthname = Lucinda Lambton | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|05|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Newcastle upon Tyne | age = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Journalist | gender = Female | status = | title = | family = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | ethnicity = | religion = | salary = | networth = | credits = }} Lucinda Lambton, born 10 May 1943, in Newcastle upon Tyne, is a writer, photographer and broadcaster. Working both behind and in front of the lens; nosing out historic and architectural flights of fancy. She has researched, written and presented some fifty five films for the B.B.C. as well as some twenty five films for ITV. They include On The Throne - The History of the lavatory; The Great North Road - the architectural wonders from London to Edinburgh; A Cabinet of Curiosities – of strange collections - such as jewels made from the thighs of flies - that were the foundations of Britain’s Museums; The Other House of Windsor - The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s house in Paris. Her films are regularly shown on B.B.C.World Wide. In the Forty Minutes Awards, she won a certificate of Distinction for outstanding achievement in the category of The Best Writer/Reporter. Four films for ITV on the architectural and historic delights to be found in London’s suburbs; entitled Sublime Suburbia, won the Regional Television’s award for the best documentary series of 2003, as well as the nomination for the best Television Presenter. A further series of Sublime Suburbia in six parts, was made celebrating the suburbs of London and the home counties . She was the subject of B.B.C Favourite Things: one of six half hour portraits - including Lady Thatcher's. Her most recent television work has been on buildings in England that were created with the sugar money of the Caribbean; as well as a film on the scandal of Heritage Lottery funds being diverted from historic buildings to the Olympics. She has written and taken the photographs for fourteen books including: Temples of Convenience - the best selling, thrice revised history of the lavatory; Beastly Buildings - on architecture for animals, such as a Grecian temple for pigs in Yorkshire; Vanishing Victoriana - on the all too often undervalued oddities of 19th century architecture; An Album of Curious Houses and Lucinda Lambton’s A-Z of Britain; the best selling elaboration of the twenty six television programmes for the B.B.C. Old New World – The old-fashionedness of America was published to coincide with three hour long television programmes of the same name, showing, through architecture, how the New World is now, in many respects,more old fashioned than the Old. In Lambton with a p, Lucinda goes to America to find her roots, and ragingly romantic roots they turned out to be; including three signatories of the Declaration of Independence; one of whom went on to make The Louisiana Purchase. She found Princess Pocahontas was her seven times great grandmother; and that Mark Twain’s mother was a Lampton; his cousin William Lampton was the inspiration for Huckleberry Finn – a particularly extraordinary revelation, as unknowing of all of this, Lucinda had called her son Huckleberry 32 years before! On either of William Lampton’s grave in Mississippi, lie his wife Lucinda and his daughter Lucy Lampton. She gives talks — with or without her own slides — throughout the British Isles, and in America; for the National Arts Collection Fund at the Royal Geographical Society, as well as the annual talks for The National Trust at The Royal Festival Hall. She also speaks aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 for The National Trust and The Royal Oak Foundation and she has spoken at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She regularly opens new buildings and museums, as well as hosting architectural and canine prize giving events. She has made several series for BBC Radio 4, including: Bringing the House Down — fighting for buildings about to be wrongfully demolished; Elevations and Revelations — on extraordinary houses; Pride of Place — an argument against modern architecture. Hidden Treasures — revealed architectural and historic beauties that are to be found amidst the bland. Listed — reports on the efforts of the Twentieth Century Society to save notable post-WWII buildings. She has been the subject of Desert Island Disks. She is a regular contributor to such newspapers and magazines as The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Country Life and the Daily Mail She is an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of The Chelsea Arts Club, as well as President of the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings. She is also a patron of The Cinema Theatre Association. She is an Honorary Vice President of The Crossness Engines Trust – the Crossness Sewage Works. She is president of the Garden History Society. On the back burner is a book on where people of curious note are buried:, such as William Oughtred who invented the multiplication sign in the 1600’s; and Ben Caunt the 19th century prize fighter, after whom ‘Big Ben’ was named. The House of Teckelden, published in 2005 was written and painted in 1945 by Denys Dawnay, with the introduction by Lucinda, and with the forward by David Hockney. This is a book that is as curious as it is clever, as rare as it is beautiful; with fantastical musings about the noble yet notorious ancestry of a dachshund, and with parodies of the great masters recording generations of the dogs over the years. From the paintbrushes Van Eyke to Picasso, they all tackled the Teckeldens, and these exquisite parodies of their masterpieces are little masterpieces in themselves. Temples of Convenience has been reprinted for the third time 2008, updated to show that as our top architects, designers and inventors apply themselves to sanitary design, creating such forms as stainless steel pods and fibre glass eggs, it can be huzzaed that at the turn of the 21st century, there is as great Renaissance in lavatorial design as there was at the turn of the 20th century, when Britain ruled the sanitary waves. Recently published has been her book on Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House; the little building designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens in 1924, which, during the years of post- war convalescence, was seen as a symbol of the nation’s renewal. Over 1500 of the great men and women of the day contributed to its splendour: artists and authors, musicians, manufactures and industrialists; all of them showing off the very best that Britain could produce, and all on the miniature scale of one inch to one foot. From murals by William Nicholson and Edmund Dulac, to stamp size hand written books by Rudyard Kipling, G K Chesterton and Arthur Conan Doyle. From the Queen’s alabaster bath with running water, to a vaulted wine cellar with one hundred miniscule bottles of the finest champagne; here is a complete encapsulation of the grand life of 1924 - unsullied by human hand since the day that it was created. Two new books are to be published in the spring of 2011. 'Palaces for Pigs' will include such buildings as pyramids for pigs and poultry, as well as castles for bees and salmon. Brought out by English Heritage it will be a re-written and greatly enlarged version of Beastly Buildings. Discovering the splendours of the British architectural heritage in the Caribbean; she took photographs and wrote about these remarkable buildings, as well as making a BBC 2 hour long film, 'Lucinda Lambton’s Jamaican Adventure'. Throughout all the islands there is an wealth of largely unknown and unloved historic buildings; some of the most beautiful yet forgotten buildings in the world; often deliberately forgotten, for this is a sensationally beautiful legacy that was born out of the sensational evil of slavery. But change is in the air; of a realisiation throughout the Caribbean islands, that there is remarkable heritage that should be seen and saved, loved and lauded and reclaimed as their own, before it is too late. It was, after all, built by the skill and sweat of their forefathers 'Lucinda Lambton's Colonial Caribbean', due to be published in Autumn 2011. This no ordinary tramp along the tourist trail, but rather a wealth of architectural and historic surprises, dating from the 1600s, many unknown to even the islanders themselves. It does seem extraordinary that, while people pour through the West Indies, they have little or no idea of these treasures all around them; that there is so much more to be relished than the sun, sand and sea. Historic buildings could and should become the new trumpet voluntary for tourism in the Caribbean; rare architectural pickings in landscapes as rich as can be found on God’s earth. Lucinda is married to the distinguished journalist Peregrine Worsthorne and lives with him and two dogs in Buckinghamshire. She has two sons by a previous marriage. External links
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