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New Life for Remarkable Buildings

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🗞️"It is hard to appreciate now, but SAVE’s early activities fundamentally transformed the perception of heritage, & expanded the scope of what was deemed worth keeping"

🎂SAVE's 50th celebrated in the ‪@theguardian.com‬ ‪@ollywainwright.bsky.social‬

Read the story: shorturl.at/8gnse
From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball
Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings...
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📽️Building a Movement — a new film marking 50 years of SAVE.

The full film is live on our website!

Heritage, campaigning & reuse shaping towns & cities 🌱🏛️🔄

👉 Watch for free: https://bit.ly/46ssJGb

#heritage #historicbuildings #filmpremiere #SAVEBritainsHeritage #SAVEat50
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
SAVE’s new ACT NOW! Toolkit is a free step-by-step guide to help anyone campaign for threatened historic buildings — drawing on 50 years of SAVE’s experience.

💪 Practical, proven, and made for everyone who believes heritage matters.
🔗View now: https://bit.ly/3IvIjrB
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Thanks very much Mathew!!
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🙌 Grand Designs’ Kevin_McCloud will deliver SAVE’s 50th anniversary lecture, Reinventing Buildings: A Manifesto for the Imagination, at the V&A on 25 Nov.

🗣️ He’ll call for radical change in how we value and protect the places people love.

🎟️Book now: bit.ly/483JMzN
September 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🗞️The proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is "a huge and unnecessary waste of resources" and is "likely to be redundant on completion".

Look out for SAVE and Simon Sturgis interviewed on BBC TV News this evening.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Liverpool Street station plan 'waste of resources' - campaigners
Liverpool Street's redevelopment plan is
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
👏 Bravo to all the teams shortlisted for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Retrofit & Reuse Awards inc Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard Church (once a SAVE case, now workspace), Feix & Merlin's Walworth Town Hall and BDP's Egyptian Room, Oldham
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-retr...
July 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We had a fantastic time (ahem) in Liverpool, exploring some of the city's best buildings & hearing about #SAVEcampaigns over the last 50yrs, from the Lyceum to Albert Dock and the Welsh Streets

Thx to everyone who joined us- and 👏 to our expert guide Jonathan Brown
#SAVEis50 #heritage #liverpool
July 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What a great splash in today’s @thetimes.com by @davidbyers26.bsky.social celebrating the importance of SAVE’s work safeguarding historic buildings - from castles to cotton mills, dept stores to stations - for future generations ♻️

#SAVEcampaigns #SAVE50 #reuse 🏫

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
July 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
‼️EVENT UPDATE: Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to the very hot weather. A new date will be announced very soon. Thank you for your understanding.

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Postponed - SAVE at 50! Forging Futures: A Call to Action for Sheffield’s Heritage - SAVE Britain's Heritage
SAVE Britain's Heritage has been campaigning for historic buildings since its formation in 1975 by a group of architectural historians, journalists and planners. SAVE is a strong, independent voice in...
www.savebritainsheritage.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Loved Simon Jenkins’s piece in today's #CountryLife on our 50 years! 🙌
Join us in #Liverpool to see some of the stars of the article – from the #Bealtes’ childhood streets to the #AlbertDock, and other bold SAVE campaigns.
🔗 bit.ly/43NYQin BOOK HERE
📸 Image of article in Country Life, 9 July 2025.
July 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
‼️Today is the last chance to object to plans for a 19-storey tower over Liverpool St Stn, destroying much of the buiding, casting its light-filled concourse into shadow & harming the historic streetscape.

All in an area of the City designated inappropriate for towers 😕

#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
July 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
‘Buildings that are left derelict or vacant for a number of years –as Medlock Mill had been– are more vulnerable to tragic instances’

SAVE conservation ofcr Lydia Franklin talks to @itvnews.bsky.social abt urgency of bringing historic bdgs back to life

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June 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🎉 SAVE is 50!
We’re celebrating one of our greatest achievements — a resource that has helped rescue 100s of buildings: the Buildings at Risk register: shorturl.at/XmwOy
🚨 50 buildings added today!
🎟️ Join us tonight in London for the launch: shorturl.at/yXoD3
June 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🗞️"It is hard to appreciate now, but SAVE’s early activities fundamentally transformed the perception of heritage, & expanded the scope of what was deemed worth keeping"

🎂SAVE's 50th celebrated in the ‪@theguardian.com‬ ‪@ollywainwright.bsky.social‬

Read the story: shorturl.at/8gnse
From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball
Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings...
shorturl.at
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🎉 SAVE is 50!
From fragile stately homes to vibrant public places — like Wentworth Woodhouse — SAVE has spent 50 years turning risk into opportunity.
Be part of what comes next.
🔗 shorturl.at/shortener.php
#SAVE50 #SupportSAVE
June 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Join us on Wednesday 25th June for the launch of this year’s Buildings at Risk register🏚️🥳

🗣️Hear from Liz Fuller, our Buildings at Risk officer &
@ArchHFund
's Matthew Mckeague 🏛️ + see our new 50th anniversary film 🎬 + drinks 🍷

🎟️Book now: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/save-...
June 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🤔Where are the places you feel you have 'emotional ownership'?

Maybe the biggest landmark in town - or a humbler place you pass every day?🏤🏨

Thx @SiHenley & @thegentleauthor for such a stimulating @LFArchitecture convo on 'embodied memory'💡

#belonging #heritage #SAVEis50
June 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
BREAKING NEWS // Massive congratulations to our partners #NudgeCommunityBuilders in Plymouth

🤩They've won £10k Davidson Prize w their imaginative ideas for 300 affordable homes reusing empty buildings on Union Street

Catch our video showcasing their awesome work next week
bit.ly/45kbIhh #heritage
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How do buildings shape your sense of identity? Should a community's attachment to a building be relevant to planning decisions?

Join us, @thegentleauthor.bsky.social and architect Simon Henley to discuss this critical issue on June 11: shorturl.at/m60vX

👉 Join our free mailing list: bit.ly/4kaRFqC
As part of London Festival of Architecture I am speaking at an event hosted by @savetoreuse.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June, entitled BEYOND CARBON: HOW EMBODIED MEMORY GROUNDS US IN PLACE, exploring the concept of embodied memory in the loss and reuse of buildings. Tickets: shorturl.at/m60vX
June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
'We'll look back to these decades of demolition & just wonder what was going through our minds'🤔

Our director Henrietta Billings interviewed by #NLA about 50yrs of SAVE's work advocating for #retrofit not #wreckingballs ♻️

nla.london/news/five-mi...

#SAVEis50 #heritage #buildings #reuse #carbon
Five minutes with... Henrietta Billings
David Taylor meets Henrietta Billings of SAVE to talk through the campaigning group’s 50th anniversary celebrations – and whether heritage is more or less in pe
nla.london
June 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Planning to spend the #weekend browsing properties 🏠on @themodernhouse.bsky.social?

🌟Dream a little bigger!🌟

Check out #HistoricEngland guide to awesome buildings ripe for new owners & investment.

From cotton mills to pumping stations, what would you pick?🏫

historicengland.org.uk/advice/plann...
Heritage Investment Prospectus | Historic England
Historic sites and buildings across England where owners are actively seeking investment partners or buyers right now.
historicengland.org.uk
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
👏 Thanks for the warm welcome, #Plymouth & Nudge Community Builders. What an inspiring couple of days seeing your brilliant work bringing derelict buildings back to life step by step - and sharing SAVE’s national experience. 👷 Your creativity, grit and joy are contagious! #SAVEis50 #heritage
May 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🏗️We need to build a lot of homes & amenities. Can we do it without destroying what makes historic places special?🏘️🌳⛪️🌸(Spoiler: Yes!)

Excited to hear the speakers today at SAVE’s #BuildinginContext conf in #Norwich on how to build well

#heritage #development #architecture #urbanism
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Building in Context: - SAVE Britain's Heritage
SAVE Britain’s Heritage campaigns to bring new life to threatened historic buildings of all types and ages We do this through the media, the planning system and where necessary the courts – in collabo...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Idyllic spot to end SAVE’s Bournemouth tour led by expert guide Hattie Miles: clifftop @Russell_Cotes gallery, built by Victorian collector Merton RC for wife Annie’s bday. Without a kitchen… because all their meals came from the 5* hotel they owned next door. Thanks to all who came 😎
May 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🗞️on Corbett Arms Hotel: "Heritage groups & local advocates, including Mike Stevens from Tywyn & District Chamber of Tourism & Commerce, urge Gwynedd Council to reconsider, citing new structural evidence and potential economic benefits."

👀Read the story: www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/tywyns-...
Tywyn: Save the Corbett Arms Hotel!
The Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn, a historic landmark, is at risk of demolition. Heritage groups and local advocates, including Mike Stevens from Tywyn & District Chamber of Tourism and Commerce, urge ...
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM