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Concerns over misleading tactics and validity of the consultation in Liverpool Street Station scheme
President Griff Rhys Jones OBE and the Victorian Society’s Director James Hughes have expressed serious concerns about the validity of the public consultation process for the controversial redevelopment of Liverpool…
Planning chaos at Liverpool Street Station!
In a highly unusual situation, the public is faced with not one but two live and competing planning applications for the major redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station. The Liverpool Street…
How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
We have prepared this guide to help anyone who wishes to write an objection to the plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station How do I object…
Fine Edwardian girls’ school joins the list at Grade II* following application by Victorian Society
An application by the Society’s Birmingham and West Midlands Group has led to the listing of the King Edward VI Handsworth Girls’ School in Birmingham. The grammar school was designed by…
Griff Rhys Jones reveals the Victorian Society’s list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
The Society’s President, Griff Rhys Jones OBE, has today launched the list of the Top Ten Endangered Buildings in England and Wales. The buildings in the Top Ten are nationally…
The show will go on as the DCMS lists The Futurist Cinema in Birmingham
The Victorian Society is delighted that the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Historic England, has accepted our Birmingham & West Midlands Conservation Adviser’s request to…
The Victorian Society welcomes its new Membership Manager
The Victorian Society is delighted to welcome its new Membership Manager, Jack Edge. Jack will devise and implement the charity’s membership strategy. He will be seeking to increase, and support,…
The Victorian Society welcomes its new Fundraising Manager
The Victorian Society is delighted to welcome its new Fundraising Manager, Anna Tham. Anna will devise and implement the charity’s fundraising strategy. Anna’s work will include developing relationships with…
The Victorian Society welcomes two new Conservation Advisers
The Victorian Society is delighted this quarter to welcome both a new Northern Conservation Adviser, Tom Ollivier, and a new Southern Conservation Adviser, Morgan Ellis Leah. Tom Ollivier – Northern…
First major study of the Victorian polymath Matthew Digby Wyatt
Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77) was a Victorian figure with wide-ranging accomplishments as an architect, administrator, designer, artist, writer and connoisseur. He was a member of the distinguished Wyatt family of…
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