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The Society's February Newsletter is out now, you can read it here: bit.ly/3XnSGBR Sign up to get our free newsletter in your inbox every month: bit.ly/3jbU9ue 📷Church of St Peter & St Paul, Birch, Colchester. Photo: (c) Dan Sceats & courtesy Birch InSpire

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The Victorian Society and HB&P are raising continued serious concerns over proposals to demolish part of the workshops of the pioneers of #railways and locomotives, George and Robert Stephenson, in Newcastle. More: bit.ly/41uJAWl 🧵 Photo: Locomotion No. 1. Science Museum Group. CC4.0 details below

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We welcome the fact North Yorkshire’s Enforcement Officer will be visiting Bramcote Tennis Pavilion, Scarborough shortly and will discuss the condition of the building with those responsible. It's one of the few 🌍 remaining tennis pavilions remaining from the first days of the sport. bit.ly/3Q3yqRZ

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Book your tickets for March 11th for our continuing series of Online lectures about 'Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture.' Laura Fitzmaurice is talking about 'Clotilde Brewster: A Life in Perspective: the Journey of the First Female international Architect' Book: bit.ly/4kkVeL0 #heritage

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The Vic Soc is calling on @ealingcouncil.bsky.social to put a Building Preservation Order on East Lodge at Lammas Park, Ealing. We are also objecting to the unnecessary demolition of this lodge which makes such a positive contribution to the local area. Make Objections here: bit.ly/4bdfI4c

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Funding confirmed today for major projects involving Victorian buildings: the British Library North at Temple Works + National Poetry Centre at the Trinity Church. Grade I Temple Works should now be able to come off our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list. 📷Sarah Grice licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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We hope the staff, guests and firefighters are all safe. We are sad to see the 1889 former Chiltern Street Fire Station has suffered a fire. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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The Society have objected to the proposed redevelopment of part of the former 1872 Howells department store in Cardiff including partial demolition. Planning ref: 24/02962/LBC 🧵

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The Monk Sisters at St James the Less: Women and Architectural Patronage 26 Feb Prof Alex Bremner explores Jane, Emily and Penelope Anna Monk's role in the commissioning of St James the Less, Pimlico, and what impact their vision had on Street's design for this Grade I listed church. bit.ly/3EvQth1

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Learn more about Octavia Hill and her work on 5 March in our Online Winter Lecture series. Professor William Whyte's lecture is titled ‘Hang drawing!! I must go and help people’: Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, and Victorian Society. Read more and book: bit.ly/4gL9iuk #heritage

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A proposal to deregulate the disposal process for church buildings is on the Church of England Synod agenda this week. Here is our joint statement on the new Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations to be debated at this week's #GeneralSynod. bit.ly/4hUurmu

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Tonight councillors on Nuneaton and Bedworth Council Planning Committee have the chance to vote to save the original buildings that were part of George Eliot’s family farm. Please like this post to ask the Cllrs to keep the original farmstead. 🧵

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The West Midlands Conservation Award 2024 has gone to @sandwellcouncil.bsky.social for its fine restoration of West Bromwich Town Hall & Library. The Society's Birmingham & West Midlands Group has announced its 10th award sponsored by Hortons Estate. More: bit.ly/4k0Nttw 📷Andrew Roberts Photography

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👶Less than a week to our next talk at Showroom5 in Sheffield- 11th February 7pm doors- Popular speaker Mary Garside will talk about the Workhouse Scattered Homes system for children- Link to details and booking here www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro... or you can just turn up on the night

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Hello All, Just arrived on Blue Sky and are looking forward to this more supportive and increasingly well connected social media platform We are a regional group for our national charity to be found here @thevicsoc.bsky.social Campaigning for South Yorkshire's Victorian & Edwardian heritage

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Thanks to Matthew Pells at This is Coast Radio for having our Conservation Adviser Tom Ollivier on the programme this morning to talk about the plight of Scarborough’s Bramcote Tennis Pavilion. It's on our Top Ten Endangered list. www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-n... #heritage #Yorkshire

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Join us on February 18th to hear about the life and legacy of a major Victorian architectural patron. James Lomax's lecture is on 'Victorian chatelaine: Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam and Hoar Cross.' Book here: bit.ly/4hJNYpM #heritage

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We have written to North Yorkshire Council to ask them to use their legal powers, up to and including compulsory purchase, to get the rare Victorian Bramcote Tennis Pavilion, Scarborough repaired. We put it on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024. 📷 Robert Walton More bit.ly/4gpohtH #heritage

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