76: The High Street Issue

This edition of our membership magazine was published in July 2024 and features the following articles:

4 Where is the High Street going?

Ptolemy Dean on the glories and challenges of Colchester High Street

8 Chain stores

Kathryn A. Morrison on how the chain store transformed the Victorian and Edwardian High Street.

10 Selling almost every imaginable article

Johanna Roethe on the Victorian and Edwardian Department Store.

12 The London Gasketeers

Luke Honey on the campaign to preserve gas lighting

14 Hidden in plain sight

Lynn Pearson on the glories of Victorian street furniture

15 House Notes

Moses Jenkins on the conversion of Victorian and Edwardian shops.

17 Obituary

Fr Antony Symondson, SJ, by Peter Howell

18 Casework

An update on the societies recent casework

23 Case study

Kathryn Harris on Birmingham Cathedral's Burne-Jones' windows.

24 Top ten 2024

Marie Clements introduces the Top Ten Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings 2024

26 Book reviews

The revised Oxford and Oxfordshire: South; London cemeteries; surveyors of Scottish castles; a record of Wonersh Seminary and the unexpected joys of Victorian Country House cooking.

30 News

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This is a 32 page magazine and can be ordered below for £10 including postage and packaging.