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For Sale! Two rare Voysey chairs
26 May 2022
Listing Success in Manchester
23 May 2022
Could you volunteer to keep our South Yorkshire Group going?
11 May 2022
Young Victorian Committee Elected
10 May 2022
Sandwell Council Presented The Victorian Society’s West Midlands Group’s Conservation Award
03 May 2022
Victorian Society objects to 'badly thought-through' demolition of Victorian Villa in conservation area
21 April 2022
Successful listing in Birmingham, the Samuel Heath and Sons Head Offices (1888, David Henry Ward)
14 April 2022
Darlaston Police Station (1899-1902, Charles William Davies Joynson) successfully listed
14 April 2022
Our new Events Coordinator
12 April 2022
Listing success for Norfolk Convent
24 March 2022
The Threat to Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage: An Open Letter To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Olga Borisovna Lyubimova
18 March 2022
Theatres in the Spotlight - Spring 2022 Edition of the Victorian Magazine Out Now
09 March 2022
Oliver Architecture wins Victorian Society Birmingham and West Midlands 2021 Conservation Award
22 February 2022
Surprise ruling in case of G. E. Street’s St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley, Oxfordshire
11 February 2022
We are hiring: The Victorian Society is looking for an Events Co-ordinator
28 January 2022
The Victorian Society's 2021 Top 10 Endangered Buildings
13 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, Grade 2 Listed, Oatley and Skinner, 1902-1908
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Church of St Helen, Biscathorpe, Lincolnshire, Grade II* Listed, W. A. Nicholson, 1847
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Oldham Equitable Cooperative Society (Hill Stores), Oldham, Grade 2 listed, Thomas Taylor, 1900
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Minley Home Farm, Hampshire, Unlisted, Arthur Castings, 1896
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Jones & Higgins Department Store, London, Unlisted, Henry Jarvis & Sons, 1894
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Indoor Market, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Unlisted, Architect Unknown, (1897)
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Icknield Street School, Birmingham, Grade II* Listed, by J.H. Chamberlain of Martin and Chamberlain, 1883
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Healings Flour Mill and Warehouses, Tewkesbury, Grade II, by W H James of Tewkesbury for Samuel Healing and Son, 1865-6
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Horncliffe House, Lancashire, Grade-II listed, Architect Unknown, 1869
10 December 2021
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Coal Drops, Halifax, Grade II, Architect unknown, 1874
10 December 2021
Remembering Geoff Brandwood
30 November 2021
The Victorian Society is Updating - Joining the fight to save Victorian and Edwardian Heritage is even easier
12 October 2021
Andrew Saint: London 1870-1914: a City at its Zenith - Book Sale Now on
23 September 2021
Book your place now for our online talk series: Building the Victorian and Edwardian terraced house
20 September 2021
Want to save a threatened historic building? Nominate it for our top ten endangered list 2021
12 August 2021
Victorian Society and Georgian Group unite to oppose demolition of listed buildings which tell the story of Manchester’s past
29 July 2021
Victorian Society saddened by the loss of Liverpool’s World Heritage status
21 July 2021
Victorian Society calls for better protection of UK's World Heritage sites
13 July 2021
Victorian Society listing success for lodge and gateway in park associated with David Bowie
23 June 2021
Council urged not to destroy last pub on historic ‘golden mile’
28 May 2021
Victorian Society urges Kinmel Hall’s new buyer to carry out critical repairs
19 May 2021
South Cambridgeshire District Council urged to stop Hotel Felix demolition
17 May 2021
Victorian Society saves country house delisted by accident from demolition
04 May 2021
Victorian Society’s Birmingham & West Midlands Group commend restoration of Victorian school saved from demolition
24 April 2021
Crunch time for rotting ‘Versailles of Wales’ as Victorian Society urges suitable buyers to come forward
18 March 2021
Fight to save building designed by Sherlock Holmes author reflecting his spiritualist beliefs
11 March 2021
Victorian Society urges Secretary of State to prevent harm to some of London’s most important Victorian buildings
09 March 2021
Virtual book launch: AWN Pugin by David Frazer Lewis
02 March 2021
Victorian Society urges Mayor to reject Brixton’s Hondo Tower on environmental grounds
08 February 2021
Worcester’s Vesta Tilley House shouldn’t face the wrecking ball due to non-listing
29 January 2021
Listing success for Victorian Society’s Leicester Group
29 January 2021
Protect London’s historic heart from skyscrapers’ uncontrolled spread
28 January 2021
Victorian Society succeeds in having historic bank Grade II-listed
26 January 2021
Victorian Society slams damaging changes to Preston’s landmark Grade I-listed Harris Museum
07 January 2021
The Victorian Society back local campaign to stop towering 20-storey development in Brixton
05 January 2021
High Court quashes planning permission for skyscraper after Victorian Society advice ignored
11 December 2020
Victorian Society asks Secretary of State to call in Exeter’s Harlequins development
10 December 2020
Listing success for Victorian Society’s Birmingham Group
03 December 2020
Victorian Society applies for listings to protect Worcester’s historic cityscape
19 November 2020
Herefordshire Council must reject demolition of historic rectory to reach 2030 environmental targets
11 November 2020
Victorian Society comments ‘should not be brushed aside’ says judge in Birmingham skyscraper challenge
05 November 2020
Victorian society expresses concerns over proposed planning changes
30 October 2020
Listing success for Victorian Society’s Leicester Group
22 October 2020
Victorian Society's Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list 2020
30 September 2020
Joe O'Donnell appointed new Director of the Victorian Society
10 September 2020
Win for the Victorian Society as Liverpool zip wire blocked after our legal challenge
03 September 2020
Victorian Society legal challenge to Liverpool Council's zip wire decision
19 August 2020
Victorian Society slams Liverpool Council’s approval of zip wire
20 July 2020
Victorian Society celebrates as plans are approved to finally restore Smithfield Market
24 June 2020
Victorian Society urges councils and owners to protect historic buildings from arson
28 May 2020
Victorian Society condemns Birmingham police station's needless destruction
27 May 2020
Partial demolition plans for St Joseph's in Preston recommended for approval
01 May 2020
Victorian Society calls for public inquiry into losing a key part of Bristol's waterside heritage
12 March 2020
Victorian Society calls for reuse of Bradford's historic Fountain Hall
27 February 2020
Birmingham & West Midlands group's 2019 Conservation Award winner announced
10 February 2020
Historic Exeter deserves better
06 February 2020
Victorian Society winter lecture series
10 January 2020
Victorian Society oppose unnecessary loss of Preston’s gothic Victorian orphanage
10 December 2019
Who will protect Sheffield’s historic buildings from circling developers? Victorian Society slams reports of proposal to slash planning department
18 November 2019
Victorian Society announce Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings 2019
13 September 2019
The Victorian Society's 2019 Top 10 Endangered Buildings
11 September 2019
Save the historic Watson's Hotel Building
21 June 2019
Fisons Factory fire
10 April 2019
Towering office block would be a shattering blow to Southwark’s industrial heritage
09 April 2019
The Birmingham & West Midlands group of the Victorian Society donates £2000 to Birmingham Cathedral restoration project
08 April 2019
Save the Still and Star!
21 March 2019
Presentation to winner of 2017 Conservation Award
22 January 2019
Save Conan Doyle’s last building from demolition
14 December 2017
Fight for Bath Abbey pews culminates in Consistory Court hearing
11 December 2017
Irresponsible development razes Tudno Castle Hotel
09 December 2017
Grade I St Botolph’s to keep chancel fixtures following heritage battle
08 December 2017
Defeat for Bath’s heritage as Abbey pew removal is permitted
05 December 2017
Not over yet: Victorian Society appeals against Bath Abbey judgement
04 December 2017
Save our gasholders! Iconic skyline at The Oval at risk of being lost
03 December 2017
Griff Rhys Jones appointed President of the Victorian Society
02 December 2017
Fison’s Fertiliser Factory in Bramford, Suffolk on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 September 2017
New Tiger’s Head pub in South East London on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 September 2017
Victorian Society marks 10 years of endangered buildings campaign with new top 10 list
12 September 2017
Chance’s Glassworks in Smethwick on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Derby’s Great Northern Railway Warehouse Derby on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Feversham Street First School on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Llanelli’s Buckley’s Brewery Maltings on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Ince-in-Makerfield cemetery chapels near Wigan on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Folkestone’s Leas Pavilion on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
St Andrew’s Church in Huddersfield on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
St Helen’s Cannington bottle shop on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
12 February 2017
Top Ten endangered buildings list highlights neglect outside South East
14 September 2016
Cardiff’s old Bute Road Station on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Philip Webb’s Red Barns in Redcar on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Wakefield’s Clayton Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Stafford’s Old Library on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Preston’s Mount Street Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
St Joseph’s Seminary near Wigan on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Wigan cotton mill on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Grimsby mill tower on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
St Paul’s Church, Chester on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Barnstaple’s Oliver Buildings on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
13 September 2016
Brighton’s Madeira Terrace on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings
15 September 2015
Carlisle hotel on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Kinmel Hall in Conwy on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Ipswich’s Tolly Cobbold brewery on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Hunslet Mill and Victoria Works in Leeds on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
London’s Ladywell Baths on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Overstone Hall, Northampton, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Sheerness Boat Store, Kent, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Wolverhampton’s St Luke’s Church on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Griff Rhys Jones launches 2015 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
15 September 2015
Sheffield’s missing Crimean War Monument
07 October 2014
Trentham Hall, Staffordshire
07 October 2014
Crumlin Navigation Colliery
07 October 2014
Abney Park Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Newington
07 October 2014
Tonedale Mill, Somerset
07 October 2014
All Souls Church, Hastings, East Sussex
07 October 2014
Cardiff Coal Exchange
07 October 2014
Hartlepool’s former Wesley Chapel
07 October 2014
Greengate Public Baths, Salford
07 October 2014
Hammerhead crane, Isle of Wight
07 October 2014
Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings 2014 revealed
07 October 2014
Palace Theatre, Plymouth
16 October 2013
Royal Victorian Pavilion in Ramsgate
16 October 2013
Winteringham School and School Board Offices, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
16 October 2013
St John’s Church, Crawshawbooth, Lancashire
16 October 2013
Haggerston Baths, Hackney, London
16 October 2013
Fenton Town Hall, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent
16 October 2013
Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester
16 October 2013
Heeley Bank School, Sheffield
16 October 2013
Accrington Conservative Club, Lancashire
16 October 2013
Palace Theatre, Swansea
16 October 2013
Revealed: top ten endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings 2013
16 October 2013
Revealed: nation’s Top Ten most endangered buildings 2012
17 October 2012
Wingfield Station, Derbyshire
17 October 2012
Langton Dock Pumphouse, Bootle, Merseyside
17 October 2012
Holborn Circus, London
17 October 2012
Hendrefoilan House, Sketty, Swansea
17 October 2012
Agecroft Chapel, Salford
17 October 2012
Waterloo Hotel and Grill, Smethwick, West Midlands
17 October 2012
Mechanics Institute, Swindon
17 October 2012
St Peter and St Paul, Birch, Essex
17 October 2012
Butterley Spillway, Marsden, West Yorkshire
17 October 2012
Ipswich’s former County Hall
17 October 2012
The cemetery chapels survey
23 November 2011
Temple Mill, Leeds
10 October 2011
Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire
09 October 2011
Wansford Station, Peterborough
09 October 2011
Crumpsall and Cheetham District Library
09 October 2011
Ancoats Dispensary
09 October 2011
Former South Eastern Railway offices, London
09 October 2011
Manningham Baths
09 October 2011
Cricket Pavilion, Bletchley
09 October 2011
Former YMCA building, Merthyr Tydfil
09 October 2011
The Old Rectory, Columb Major
09 October 2011
Hammerton School, Ouseburn Road, Darnall, Sheffield
09 October 2011
The Victorian Society declares Manningham Pool a heritage crime scene
08 July 2011
Give Manningham Pool one last chance!
23 June 2011
Tell Bradford Council why the pool must stay open!
20 April 2011
Saturday free for all at threatened Bradford pool
06 April 2011
Historic London pool restored
10 March 2011
Council urged not to close historic Bradford pool
23 February 2011
Former Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road, Birmingham
11 October 2010
Normansfield Hospital, Kingston Road, Teddington, Middlesex
11 October 2010
The Grimsby Ice Factory, Gorton Street, The Docks, Grimsby
11 October 2010
Bradgate House Stables, Bradgate Hill, Groby, Leicestershire
11 October 2010
30 Euston Square, London
11 October 2010
The Unitarian Chapel, Upper Brook Street, Manchester
11 October 2010
Old Fire Station, Court Road, Barry, South Wales
11 October 2010
Former Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
11 October 2010
Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park, Tuebrook, Liverpool
11 October 2010
Council urged not to close historic Staffordshire pool
11 January 2010
Grand finale of 1000 Year Swim
02 September 2008
Why the 1000 year swim?
01 September 2008
When? It’s all over!
01 September 2008
What people have been saying about the 1000 year swim challenge
01 September 2008
Health Hydro, Swindon
27 August 2008
St Luke’s pool, Brighton
27 August 2008
Manningham baths, Bradford
06 August 2008
Queensbury pool, Bradford
05 August 2008
Batley baths
05 August 2008
Camberwell baths
30 July 2008
Camberwell baths
30 July 2008
Beverley Road baths, Hull
28 July 2008
Bramley baths, Leeds
25 July 2008
Campaigners fight on for London’s longest-serving pool
11 June 2008
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