Thanks to a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, @rcahmwales.bsky.social is developing a new project to safeguard the heritage of #WelshChapels - we are recruiting for two posts to come and work with me on the development phase of #CapeliCymru so take look! rcahmw.gov.uk/royal-commis...

Dewi-Prys Thomas (1916-85) First University of Wales professor of architecture, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture, and instigator of a Town Planning Department, he had a profound influence on Welsh architecture and town planning 📷 Talar Wen, Llangadog & Pencadlys, Caernarfon

Telephone Exchange, Brackla Street, Bridgend which operated 1960-1987. Mrs Margaret Curnock from Pontycymer, who took the first call in the centre, was photographed also taking the last ever call ☎️

📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire! Saturday 26 April We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖 bitly.cx/YmUA4

So pleased to have a successful outcome for Wrexham Waterworld, especially as this was the second attempt for designation! 🏊

⚠️Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat! Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University. C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it. ✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...

📢Job alert: Trust Manager for Addoldai Cymru: The Welsh Religious Buildings Trust 22.5 hours a week £24,132.60 p.a. (£40,221.00 pro rata) welshchapels.wales/support-us/s...

C is: Theatr Clwyd Opened 1976, Theatr Clwyd was designed by Flintshire County Architect RW Harvey. Grade II as an important post war civic arts and theatre complex, extensive work is now underway, radically altering the original form @c20society.bsky.social c20society.org.uk/news/plans-t...

Fantastic Tim Burton exhibition at @designmuseum.bsky.social this weekend - old favourites and some additions to Ceinwen's 'must see's'...

We're seeking insights on the challenges facing the #heritage sector to shape our next sector support programme. Please fill in our questionnaire and let us know about the types of support you would find most useful. 🏰 📝 Fill Out Our Form Here 👉 https://buff.ly/3PQHyJy

We’re doing this tomorrow! Zoom along for some Brutalism from the comfort of your sofa

Scotland's Superpits: Talk on 20 February in person and online Dr Miles Oglethorpe will outline the history of coal mining in Scotland in the 20th century and explore the emergence of superpits and their architectural development Info & tickets £7/£5/£3 at tickettailor.com/events/docomomoscotland

NEWS | Bangor’s Brutalist ‘Eyesore of the Year’ listed www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/bangors...

Y Fari Lwyd, ger Llangynwyd ar y penwythnos.

Sad news that the Big Apple, Mumbles has been damaged by a car. A rare survival of a 1930s Cidatone kiosk of reinforced concrete, converted to an ice-cream kiosk. It's not the first time - the 2019 listing specified it was Ford Fiesta last time 😉 Hopefully support will be available to fully restore!

Before the bleakness of 2025 really sets in, why don’t you treat yourself to me waffling on to the Mirror about post-war pubs www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...

And apparently we are on to Easter...

Hard to believe that this Milwaukee home was built over a century ago! It’s one of the “American System-Built Homes”, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915, as affordable kit-built housing for those “of moderate income”. Sadly, stymied by WW1 archive.curbed.com/2016/12/16/1...

Our next Day School, Anglesey and Ireland: connections through time, will be on 15 Feb. 2025. There will be five notable lecturers who are acknowledged experts on different aspects of Anglesey and Ireland’s history and there will be ample opportunities for questions and discussions during the day.

Y Fari Lwyd yn cyrraedd Pontcanna... The Mari Llwyd arrives in Pontcanna...

Os da chi yn #Aberystwyth ar 24 Ionawr dwi'n siwr bydd yn werth mynychu'r digwyddiad yma efo @gwallter.bsky.social yn trafod ei lyfr newydd yn The Bookshop By The Sea

Ever since seating first began to appear in churches in the 14th century, seating arrangements have been a contentious matter intertwined with local social hierarchies. 📷 St Cynhaearn's, Ynyscynhaearn, Gwynedd

And equally wonderful that the listing description for the Arts Building at Bangor has been upgraded to include the post-war additions - the Library Extension of 1963 and north-east range of 1968, both also Percy Thomas & Son. cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/list...

Wonderful that the Brambell Zoology Building at Bangor University has been listed at Grade II! 1971, William Marsden for Percy Thomas & Sons coflein.gov.uk/en/site/424425

Sunrise

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

📢 Wonderful job opportunity in Welsh heritage for the New Year! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Pamphlets are back in stock on my website: a motorway services fantasia and the story of a lost modernist Christmas www.johngrindrod.co.uk/shop

Help restore Llandudno Pier for 2027! ⬇️ #SeasideHeritage #WelshPiers #Llandudno

Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales. This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us

Even if all the negative consequences of this homeowner’s choice to obliterate their front garden - such as increased risk of flooding and overheating - were solely borne by them (they aren’t), this would still be an aesthetic tragedy. The car has has turned us into a heartless and artless people.

I know there are worse results of #StormDarragh, but sad to see the damage done to Llandudno Pier by the winds today #Llandudno Images @bbcwales.bsky.social

Closing Friday 13 December 2024 - the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is looking for a new section editor with expertise in post-1800 Irish history

Update on Zion Chapel, Newtown -sold for £200,000 to an 'anonymous artist of international renown' so fingers crossed for a bright future for the building! www.hallsgb.com/chapel-sells...

Recently published in the RSAW’s ‘Touchstone’ magazine, my article ‘Municipal master’, which records the life and work of Johnson Blackett (1896-1984) - the epitome in Wales of an architect as public servant.

Noswaith da! C20 Cymru covers the rich and unique 20th and 21st century built heritage of the Welsh nation as part of @c20society.bsky.social Mae C20 Cymru yn cynrychioli’r dreftadaeth adeiledig gyfoethog ac unigryw o genedl Cymru fel rhan o @c20society.bsky.social c20society.org.uk/about-us/c20...

Free to book now - Cwmbran: Where the future is happening now! a talk at Gwent Archives next Monday afternoon #Cwmbrân75

Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

Timber-framed (thatched?) barns with brick infill - perhaps the manor farm, given the proximity of the church (is this from life? I wonder where?) - framing the Ladybird post-war farming landscape of barbed wire fences and muck spreading, food for the corvids: crows, magpies, rooks and jackdaws. 🗃️

Starting my Christmas postcard advent calendar with a #seaside theme. Behind the door on day 1 come greetings from #Brighton Palace Pier

The Beveridge Report on 'Social Insurance and Allied Services', tackling the 'five giants' of idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want', was published on this day in 1942. This dry bureaucratic tome nevertheless presaged a new and better world. Over 630,000 copies were sold.

Hanging around Round things from the industrial history of Wales I've photographed with my drone The spoil tips are at Llanbradach, the concrete dome is Hafodyrynys, and the ruin is one of the round towers at Nantyglo

A report on the proceedings of our recent Researching, Writing and Presenting Welsh Country House Histories conference, held at Penpont, Breconshire on 16th November is now available to read on our website: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/re... (Authored by Bethan Scorey)

📰 More coverage of C20’s #ComingOfAge campaign in this week’s issue of @countrylifemag.bsky.social “Why wait until the bulldozers are poised, to intervene and protect outstanding buildings such as these, when it’s possible to make an objective judgment far earlier?”

#SchoolsOnSaturday Gaer School, Newport, 1949-53 by Johnson Blackett, Newport Borough architect - surveyed back in the spring when the skies were blue and the sun shining!

4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025. 1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b) Cont...

We've got a request :) Would you take a moment out of your day to sign our petition? We'll calling for an immediate end to the Badger cull and would love your support! Thank you! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Behold! A giant cake model of Newton Abbot station. Baked in 1926 to celebrate the station opening, and used for a “guess the weight” competition, according to the “Tuesday Treasures” blog of the Great Western Society. The cake architecture is probably more refined than the actual building...

*30th November Deadline* Are you about to complete a Masters (or UGrad) dissertation on the archaeology/history of Wales/Marches? If so, have you heard of our #Cambrians dissertation prize? Read all about it - bit.ly/3KKRtwL #Dissertation #WALES #Marches