Victorian Society News Archive: 2010
The Grimsby Ice Factory
Grimsby, Lincolnshire Grade II*-listed, 1901, W.F. Cott This vast factory produced ice for Grimsby’s fishing industry for ninety years. The building and its early-twentieth-century ice machinery represent an important part...
The Unitarian Chapel
Upper Brook Street, Manchester Grade II*-listed, 1837-9, Charles Barry The former Unitarian Chapel, later known as the Welsh Baptist Chapel is owned by Manchester City Council. It is the first...
Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage
Tuebrook, Liverpool Grade II-listed, 1871, Alfred Waterhouse Alfred Waterhouse was commissioned by the Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institution to provide a home for children who had lost their families at sea....
Normansfield Hospital
Teddington, London Grade II*-listed, 1866, architect unknown The state of the interior of this former private sanatorium for mentally handicapped children is appalling and clearly in a state of rapid...
The Old Fire Station
Barry, South Wales Grade II-listed, 1901, architect unknown Sadly after sitting empty for nearly 10 years this custom designed Edwardian fire station is now in an advanced state of decay;...
Wedgwood Institute
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Grade II*-listed, 1869, G.B. Nichols, John Lockwood Kipling, Robert Edgar Until recently the Wedgwood Institute was home to Burslem’s public library. In 2006 the council pledged money to...
Former Moseley School of Art
Moseley Road, Birmingham Grade II*-listed, 1898, W.H. Bidlake This is an area of Birmingham where a remarkable number of distinguished Victorian and Edwardian buildings still survive, but like the Moseley...