Following objections from the Society, and local residents, the Denmark Arms in East Ham will not be turned into a mini-casino. The pub is a fine, remarkably intact example of a late-Victorian public house. 📷 More: tinyurl.com/med6wm8r 📷 London Pub Map on Facebook

Guildhall Feoffment has submitted plans to demolish a number of unlisted, single-storey almshouses built in 1912, on Northgate St in Bury St Edmunds. They wish to build eight homes on two floors for the elderly. The front building is being retained. Numbers 3 to 8 behind will be demolished. #suffolk

One of our Top Ten Endangered buildings now has residents again after its restoration. Plas Alltran now has four affordable rent flats. www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/cr...

The Red House in Godalming is an early and seminal House by Sir Edwin Lutyens. 🧵 bit.ly/4al91On 📷 Facade by Rebecca Lilley, Lutyens Trust Rear facade by Paul Waite, Lutyens Trust

Thanks to the member of the public who brought this planning application for the listed Denmark Arms in East Ham to our attention. We have recommended the application be refused as we remain to be convinced an adult gaming centre is genuinely the only viable option for this Grade II Victorian pub. 🧵

On 14th June engineering titans Beyer Peacock will be celebrated at Brookfield Church, Gorton with a service, wreath-laying and talks. 2026 marks the 150th anniversary of the death of firm co-founder Charles Frederick Beyer. Beyer is a notable LGBTQ+ innovator and engineer. 🧵

It's Volunteers' Week 2026. We'd like to thank everyone who supports the Victorian Society by giving their time, expertise and dedication. We value all our volunteers past and present. If you'd like to volunteer to support our work please get in touch bit.ly/3QrptFP #volunteersweek #thankyou

Free Online Talk Join our caseworkers and Director as we discuss this year’s Top Ten endangered buildings and structures. Reserve your free ticket: bit.ly/4atQRcZ #TopTen26

🌻 We're celebrating England’s Suburbs as part of the Bedford Park Festival. It's 60th! Its first patron was Vic Soc founder, John Betjeman. Our event's an Open House, for charity, at our Grade II HQ , with a talk by Joanna Smith, Historic England, author 'England’s Suburbs 1820–2020'. bit.ly/3S9Q3Uj

Manchester's Albert Memorial and its square have reopened following restoration. In the early 1970s the Memorial was saved from demolition by the Victorian Society’s Manchester regional group. The Group are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year. 🧵 📷 Patricia Smith

Our latest newsletter is out now! Read it here: bit.ly/4nY0WVh 🧵 🌴 Image: The Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Grade I,1844-1848, Decimus Burton, designed by Richard Turner of Dublin engineer. 📷 UpSticksNGo CC BY 2.0

The Victorian Society is looking for an Evaluation Consultant to support the monitoring and impact evaluation of our project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Read more and apply: bit.ly/49Nh1qU #heritage #amenitysociety #hiring Photo right: Morgan Ellis Leah

Part of the roof of the Old Town Hall in Sheffield has collapsed. It was on our first Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2007. Empty since 1995. @vicsoc-syorks.bsky.social & Friends of the Old Town Hall have been campaigning since 2007 for this key civic building. 📷📽️: CAV Aerial for Vic Soc🧵

We welcome the £6.7m funding given by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to protect the Grade I Highgate Cemetery in North London. The monies will support the £19.5m restoration and conservation programme for this Victorian cemetery in use since 1839. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 📷 Thomas Ollivier

Community action + objections from the Vic Soc, other heritage groups, and MP Rupa Huq, means Ealing, Queen of Suburbs, has saved another unlisted building from demolition! Clive Lodge is not going to be facaded this time. Thanks to everyone who objected. Join us: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/join/

Architect + photographer David Valinsky marks his book published today in our next talk. E. S. Prior is known for 2 experimental houses, The Barn and Voewood. This talk explores what came next: 5 closely-related houses built in the south of England. David's monograph is out now. bit.ly/4wrxpHk

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council revealed it wishes to demolish the Friendly Society Hall, leaving only the facade on Camden Road. The Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society have made an application for listing to Historic England.

Thanks to the media for covering our Top 10 list 2026 this week. Without their hard work and skill the Society couldn't tell the story of these buildings and structures nominated by the public.

Thanks to everyone who nominated a building or structure for this year's Top 10 Endangered Buildings list. We appreciate them all. We will be in touch if you asked for some help or advice. The list bit.ly/4dcmIkd Calls for the Top 10 Endangered Buildings list for 2027 take place this autumn.

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Former Library and Mechanics Institute, Devonport Grade II, A, Norman, 1843-44 Read more: bit.ly/3P47tkd Photo: The Victorian Society #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #SouthWest #Devon #Plymouth #Devonport

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Derby School of Art, Derby Grade II*, F.W. Waller, 1876 with additions 1899 Read more: bit.ly/49io0b1 Photo: YouTube Andy Savage@Comedyhunter

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 St Michael’s Cemetery Chapel, Sheffield Grade II, Charles Hadfield, 1898 Read more on the link on our bio. Photo: CAV Aerial #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #Yorkshire #Sheffield

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Parndon Hall, Harlow, Essex Grade II, Architect: Possibly Joseph Clarke, 1867 Read more here: bit.ly/4uatQTR Photo: Alex Barty #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #EastofEngland #Essex #Harlow

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Oakes School, Huddersfield Grade II, Charles Fowler, 1873, extended by Ben Stocks, 1885 Read more: bit.ly/4dbWhLv Photo: CAV Aerial #TopTen26

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Faenol Mausoleum, Pentir, Nr Bangor Grade II, Henry Kennedy, late 1870s Read more: bit.ly/4ufWlzM Photo: Dan Weatherley #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #Cymru #Wales #Gwynedd #Pentir

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Former Strand Railway Station and Railwaymen’s Club, Barrow-in-Furness Grade II, E. G. Paley, 1863 Read more: bit.ly/4cF9f4s Photo: Thomas Ollivier / The Victorian Society #TopTen26

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 New Market Buildings, Bridgnorth Grade II, Robert Griffiths, 1855-1859 This Italianate market hall is an impressive survival of a high-status nineteenth-century commercial building. Shrewsbury and Ludlow have both already lost their market halls. bit.ly/3ORJNPZ

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Tees Transporter Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees/Middlesbrough Engineer: G.C. Imbault, constructed by Sir William Arrol and Co Ltd Read more: bit.ly/4uieRre Photo: CAV Aerial

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Hackney Borough Disinfecting Station, London Grade II, Gordon and Gunton, 1901 Read more: bit.ly/4u8Q8Fv Photo: CAV Aerial

Today we are revealing our Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026. Selected from nominations made by the public, this year’s list highlights a striking and varied group of Victorian & Edwardian buildings at risk. While all are protected, listing alone has not been enough to secure survival. #TopTen26

Let's not leave The Mayor of @london.gov.uk decision to chance! Write to Sir Sadiq Khan now to ask him to refuse the plans for Liverpool Street Station. Information on writing your own letter here: bit.ly/4844PBo Thanks to Richard Morrison and The Times for the article. bit.ly/4sLuExA

🔔 Good News! The campaign for the Railway Bell has won through. Congrats to Friends of the Railway Bell for their good work and the wider community in Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace too. The Victorian Society, other amenity societies and heritage charities wrote objections.

Our next walk in London is led by author Tom Levitt. This tour explores the subjects of Tom’s book 'The Business of History' which largely focuses on companies in the Victorian era. Read more and book: bit.ly/4cyuof6

The cumulative impact of Network Rail's plans for Liverpool Street Station & its setting would be huge. See the photos on this thread. Write to the Mayor of London @london.gov.uk and call for it to be refused. More info: bit.ly/4844PBo 🧵 Compare + contrast visualisations Network Rail + Acme

Information on writing to the Mayor is here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new...

This is a critical moment for Liverpool Street Station. A damaging and unnecessary scheme now stands to be approved unless the Mayor of London intervenes. The Mayor now has the power to step in and refuse this scheme. Write to the Mayor and urge him to refuse these proposals. bit.ly/4844PBo

Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection, is delivering an in-person lecture on 28th April at St Mary Abbots church on Kensington High St. Mr Knox traces the afterlife of George IV’s myriad collections and building projects and discovers how his sometimes-reluctant heirs coped with his legacy. 🧵

The development of the British Museum, our greatest Greek Revival monument, spans the Georgian, Victorian + Edwardian ages. Steven Brindle, published widely on the history of architecture, considers Smirke’s design, the ideology that produced it, and its strange later history. Book: bit.ly/41XfOJe

We support this campaign to stop developers demolishing Gipsy Hill's historic, local pub, the Railway Bell. Please object to the planning application by 11th April. Full info on how to quickly mask your object here: railwaybellfriends.org 📷 CAMRA

A.W. N Pugin intended St Giles church in Cheadle to be 'a perfect revival of an English church of the time of Edward I.' In the east end of the church is the ‘Easter Sepulchre’ inspired by the Mediaeval founder's tomb at Hawton in Nottinghamshire. Photo: Michael Garlick, CC by SA 2.0 #Easter

There's a petition to help keep the Moseley Road Friends Institute open for the community in Birmingham. The Institute opened in 1897 commissioned by Richard Cadbury. Please sign and share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... Photos: Tony Hisgett cc by SA 2.0

It's worth searching out a charming detail at St Mary’s on Horse Fair, Banbury. It's the lovely rabbit that hops from the corner of one of the stained glass windows. A restoration of the Georgian church by A.W. Blomfield, who directed the design of the new stained glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne.

Architects’ Journal is essential reading today for all following the LISSCA campaign to #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation #architecture #heritage #planning #railwaystation #heritagerailways #railwaystationarchitecture #spitalfields #London #cityoflondon #EastLondon #LondonTransport #EastofEnglandtransport

Valued former Quaker meeting hall and institute building, built under the patronage of Richard Cadbury, that is a valued community hub, kept open against the odds of council cut backs, is slated to shut tomorrow. The building opened in 1897. www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

Join us on Thur 16 April for a visit to St Bride’s Printing Library at St Bride Foundation. The St Bride Foundation Institute was set up in 1893 for printing education, with a strong social and recreational function. This visit will take us behind the scenes of Fleet Street. Tickets: bit.ly/41qeMp7

Concerns grow for the fate of Special Forces historic ‘Big House.' Inverailort House, in Lochaber in the Highlands, is tragically unlisted & is rapidly growing more dilapidated. 📷 © Richard Findlay - FotoFling Scotland #heritage #Scotland #UKspecialforces #BritishArmy #warhistory #worldwartwo #WWII

William Sugden's Big Mill in Leek has burned. The Society is relieved to hear that no one was hurt, our thoughts are with evacuated families from nearby. This is such a significant building locally. It is Grade II listed, an important example of large-scale building for the silk industry,(1860).

📩 Our latest newsletter is out now! 🧵 Read it here: bit.ly/3Ny6msq Our lead image: St Peter's Church Radway

Remembering architect Sir George Gilbert Scott on the anniversary of his death. 🧵 Albert Memorial, London - View East, 1875 📸 Txllxt TxllxT CC BY SA 4.0.

A recce around Halifax for my Victorian Society walking tour on Saturday week and one of the obvious highlights: the Town Hall of 1863 by Charles Barry and son E. H. Barry. @thevicsoc.bsky.social #halifax #architecture #westyorkshire #history #heritage