Prospect Inn Public House
Article written for The Modernist
2026

Sample:
It’s 1939 in the Garden of England, I see a ship sitting on the skyline. As it comes into full view what I thought were ship funnels become curved tapered brick chimneys and the hull morphs in public and saloon bars. In the sky, Polaris - the North Star, is manufactured, a neon beacon not for marine vessels but the modern motorist. Looking through the portholes, I find not the bowels of a ship but a modern roadside public house. The Prospect Inn. Opened in 1939 and designed by Oliver Hill, it would be his only public house design..