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Visit to Victorian Nottingham
Saturday, 20th March. Our guide for the day will be Ian Wells of the Nottingham Civic Society who is planning to show us a miscellany of Victorian buildings including the Shire Hall and the Lace Market district.
A walk around Manningham, Bradford’s “Premier Suburb”
Sunday, 18th April. The wealth of ‘worstedopolis’ (a name popularised by the Bradford historian William Cudworth in a book of 1888) is reflected in the plethora of fine villas built after 1850. Although the earlier houses continued to be built in the Neo-Classical style, the character of the area is shaped by Italianate and Neo-Gothic designs.
A visit to Thirsk and Sion Hill Hall
Saturday, 15th May. In the morning, Richard Tinker will lead us around the buildings of the Market Place and Finkle Street. After a lunch break in Thirsk, we will visit Sion Hill Hall (1912) which is situated four miles west of Thirsk. Designed by the York architect, Walter Brierley (‘the Lutyens of the North’) for the Stancliffe family, RIBA described the house as being of ‘outstanding architectural merit’ and one of the best country houses constructed before the 1st World War.
Edgar Wood Coach Tour
Saturday, 5th June( NB date to be confirmed) 2010 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Wood, an innovative architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a national and international reputation. To commemorate his contribution to British architecture we will be visiting Huddersfield and Middleton near Rochdale, the locations of a great many of his buildings.
Visit to Victorian Beverley
Sunday, 27th June. A walking tour of old Beverley. About one and half hours in the morning, a lunch break, then another hour and a half in the afternoon. The Victorians have contributed much to the Beverley we enjoy today. In the old shopping streets, the Victorian building is one of the elements in the glorious jumble of periods and styles that make the town such a fascinating place. In the residential areas there is interesting infill of extravagant Victorian houses among the Georgian facades. Whole streets of Victorian houses survive with examples of everything from the workman’s cottage to the architect-designed town house.
