The Victorian Society
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The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us!
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Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
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Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
📢 The City of London Planning Sub-Committee will be considering Network Rail and Acme's plans for Liverpool Station on Tuesday 10th February.
🚂 The way to make your voice heard is to write an objection. Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🧵
🚂 The way to make your voice heard is to write an objection. Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🧵
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
📢 The City of London Planning Sub-Committee will be considering Network Rail and Acme's plans for Liverpool Station on Tuesday 10th February.
🚂 The way to make your voice heard is to write an objection. Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🧵
🚂 The way to make your voice heard is to write an objection. Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🧵
🧨 If the City of London give planning permission for Network Rail's plans for Liverpool Street Station it will mean eight years of disruption for station users and local residents. 🔨🔨🔨
January 22, 2026 at 11:42 PM
🧨 If the City of London give planning permission for Network Rail's plans for Liverpool Street Station it will mean eight years of disruption for station users and local residents. 🔨🔨🔨
📣 SAVE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION!
🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳
💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵
🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳
💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
📣 SAVE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION!
🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳
💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵
🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳
💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵
Join us live in-person or online for our next Lecture Series, 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement', from Jan - March 2026.
On 28th January Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors. 🧵
On 28th January Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors. 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Join us live in-person or online for our next Lecture Series, 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement', from Jan - March 2026.
On 28th January Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors. 🧵
On 28th January Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors. 🧵
🍾 Today is the 60th anniversary of the event that led to the creation of our Manchester Group. We send our best wishes to our members in Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness and the High Peak. 🧵
#Manchester #Northwest #architecture #heritage
#Manchester #Northwest #architecture #heritage
January 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🍾 Today is the 60th anniversary of the event that led to the creation of our Manchester Group. We send our best wishes to our members in Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness and the High Peak. 🧵
#Manchester #Northwest #architecture #heritage
#Manchester #Northwest #architecture #heritage
🚂 The City of London Planning Committee will soon formally consider Network Rail and Acme's destructive plans for Liverpool Street Station, which induced 2147 resounding objections from members of the public, heritage and civic organisations. 🧵
#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
January 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
🚂 The City of London Planning Committee will soon formally consider Network Rail and Acme's destructive plans for Liverpool Street Station, which induced 2147 resounding objections from members of the public, heritage and civic organisations. 🧵
#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
Well done the Canterbury Society and Ptolemy Dean! Following public and heritage sector concerns, national media coverage and the petition signed by thousands, Canterbury City Council has confirmed that no further historic cast-iron lampposts will be removed while options are reviewed bit.ly/4sD3ieg
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Well done the Canterbury Society and Ptolemy Dean! Following public and heritage sector concerns, national media coverage and the petition signed by thousands, Canterbury City Council has confirmed that no further historic cast-iron lampposts will be removed while options are reviewed bit.ly/4sD3ieg
Join us on 13th January for an online talk 'Mapping Dorset’s Victorian & Edwardian Buildings.'
Michael Hill reveals the suprising delights of the Victorian & Edwardian period in the county.
Read more and book: bit.ly/45p5BaT
St James Kingston by G E Street
📷Jack Pease CC BY-SA 4.0
Michael Hill reveals the suprising delights of the Victorian & Edwardian period in the county.
Read more and book: bit.ly/45p5BaT
St James Kingston by G E Street
📷Jack Pease CC BY-SA 4.0
January 9, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Join us on 13th January for an online talk 'Mapping Dorset’s Victorian & Edwardian Buildings.'
Michael Hill reveals the suprising delights of the Victorian & Edwardian period in the county.
Read more and book: bit.ly/45p5BaT
St James Kingston by G E Street
📷Jack Pease CC BY-SA 4.0
Michael Hill reveals the suprising delights of the Victorian & Edwardian period in the county.
Read more and book: bit.ly/45p5BaT
St James Kingston by G E Street
📷Jack Pease CC BY-SA 4.0
Have your say about the future of the Torquay Pavilion. Torbay Council are running an online public consultation to gather views about the future "viable, sustainable uses" for the Grade II listed Pavilion. The cut-off for comment is 25th January. Survey here: bit.ly/453wnFz
📷 Morgan Ellis Leigh
📷 Morgan Ellis Leigh
January 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Have your say about the future of the Torquay Pavilion. Torbay Council are running an online public consultation to gather views about the future "viable, sustainable uses" for the Grade II listed Pavilion. The cut-off for comment is 25th January. Survey here: bit.ly/453wnFz
📷 Morgan Ellis Leigh
📷 Morgan Ellis Leigh
The Society is delighted to see that the Clifton Hotel in #Scarborough has been listed at Grade II. Wilfred Owen worked on his World War I war poetry whilst billeted at the hotel during the conflict. He worked from the tower whilst convalescing. Read the excellent list entry here: bit.ly/4jDs9uk
January 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
The Society is delighted to see that the Clifton Hotel in #Scarborough has been listed at Grade II. Wilfred Owen worked on his World War I war poetry whilst billeted at the hotel during the conflict. He worked from the tower whilst convalescing. Read the excellent list entry here: bit.ly/4jDs9uk
Ptolemy Dean and the Canterbury Society are calling on
Canterbury City Council to save the Victorian cast-iron streetlights across the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more and sign the petition to keep the originals:
bit.ly/4bhXNv1
Canterbury City Council to save the Victorian cast-iron streetlights across the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more and sign the petition to keep the originals:
bit.ly/4bhXNv1
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Ptolemy Dean and the Canterbury Society are calling on
Canterbury City Council to save the Victorian cast-iron streetlights across the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more and sign the petition to keep the originals:
bit.ly/4bhXNv1
Canterbury City Council to save the Victorian cast-iron streetlights across the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more and sign the petition to keep the originals:
bit.ly/4bhXNv1
Our President Griff Rhys Jones is on Sky News today asking everyone to nominate a Victorian or Edwardian building or structure for the Society's Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026. Watch Griff here:
news.sky.com/story/comedi...
Thanks to Greg Milam and all at Sky News for the report.
news.sky.com/story/comedi...
Thanks to Greg Milam and all at Sky News for the report.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our President Griff Rhys Jones is on Sky News today asking everyone to nominate a Victorian or Edwardian building or structure for the Society's Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026. Watch Griff here:
news.sky.com/story/comedi...
Thanks to Greg Milam and all at Sky News for the report.
news.sky.com/story/comedi...
Thanks to Greg Milam and all at Sky News for the report.
The Victorian Society office closes from 23rd December for the holidays, and we will be back from 2nd January 2026.
We wish all our members, supporters and followers a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year.
Wreath crafted by the team.
📷 Marie Clements
We wish all our members, supporters and followers a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year.
Wreath crafted by the team.
📷 Marie Clements
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Victorian Society office closes from 23rd December for the holidays, and we will be back from 2nd January 2026.
We wish all our members, supporters and followers a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year.
Wreath crafted by the team.
📷 Marie Clements
We wish all our members, supporters and followers a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year.
Wreath crafted by the team.
📷 Marie Clements
Hear on BBC Norfolk and read on the link about our intrepid Conservation Adviser Morgan Ellis Leah and BBC journalist Clare Worden's visit to the interior of our 2025 East Anglian Endangered building, 33-39 St James Street in King's Lynn:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside historic King's Lynn concrete building
The BBC is granted a rare look inside one of Britain's most endangered buildings.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hear on BBC Norfolk and read on the link about our intrepid Conservation Adviser Morgan Ellis Leah and BBC journalist Clare Worden's visit to the interior of our 2025 East Anglian Endangered building, 33-39 St James Street in King's Lynn:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📣 NORTH WEST ENGLAND! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January.
Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🙏
Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🙏
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📣 NORTH WEST ENGLAND! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January.
Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🙏
Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🙏
The Government has launched an eight-week consultation, which proposes the removal of the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee in the planning process. Read the Gardens Trust’s statement bit.ly/3MPRRiM
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Government has launched an eight-week consultation, which proposes the removal of the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee in the planning process. Read the Gardens Trust’s statement bit.ly/3MPRRiM
📣 YORKSHIRE! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January. Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated + neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across Yorkshire. 💻 email us at media@victoriansociety.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📣 YORKSHIRE! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January. Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated + neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across Yorkshire. 💻 email us at media@victoriansociety.org.uk
📣 If you live in EAST ANGLIA don't forget to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings in your local area. 🧵
📷 Connor McNeill
📷 Connor McNeill
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
📣 If you live in EAST ANGLIA don't forget to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings in your local area. 🧵
📷 Connor McNeill
📷 Connor McNeill
📣 SOUTH + SE ENGLAND inc. LONDON! You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened and dilapidated Victorian & Edwardian buildings in your local area. 📩 media@victoriansociety.org.uk to suggest a building or structure 🧵
📷 Trevor Bishenden
📷 Trevor Bishenden
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📣 SOUTH + SE ENGLAND inc. LONDON! You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened and dilapidated Victorian & Edwardian buildings in your local area. 📩 media@victoriansociety.org.uk to suggest a building or structure 🧵
📷 Trevor Bishenden
📷 Trevor Bishenden
Make a nomination for the Vic Soc’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026. Let us know about your local threatened and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across England + Wales.
Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure, here's the info we need bit.ly/4hybqrc
Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure, here's the info we need bit.ly/4hybqrc
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Make a nomination for the Vic Soc’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026. Let us know about your local threatened and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across England + Wales.
Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure, here's the info we need bit.ly/4hybqrc
Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure, here's the info we need bit.ly/4hybqrc
🥂 Last week, our Young Victorians celebrated their annual Christmas party at Priory Gardens.
Membership is £25 if you’re 35 or under. Enjoy priority booking on tours, discounts on events, and copies of The Victorian magazine. 🎁 Buy before 15 Dec to arrive for Christmas! bit.ly/3OnP6mx
📷 M Naumova
Membership is £25 if you’re 35 or under. Enjoy priority booking on tours, discounts on events, and copies of The Victorian magazine. 🎁 Buy before 15 Dec to arrive for Christmas! bit.ly/3OnP6mx
📷 M Naumova
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🥂 Last week, our Young Victorians celebrated their annual Christmas party at Priory Gardens.
Membership is £25 if you’re 35 or under. Enjoy priority booking on tours, discounts on events, and copies of The Victorian magazine. 🎁 Buy before 15 Dec to arrive for Christmas! bit.ly/3OnP6mx
📷 M Naumova
Membership is £25 if you’re 35 or under. Enjoy priority booking on tours, discounts on events, and copies of The Victorian magazine. 🎁 Buy before 15 Dec to arrive for Christmas! bit.ly/3OnP6mx
📷 M Naumova
The Society is delighted that it has successfully secured formal designation and statutory protection for the Church of St Barnabas, a remarkably intact small rural church in Mayland, Essex, built in 1867. The church has now been added to the List at Grade II. 🧵
📷 Peter Stack CC SA 2.0
📷 Peter Stack CC SA 2.0
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Society is delighted that it has successfully secured formal designation and statutory protection for the Church of St Barnabas, a remarkably intact small rural church in Mayland, Essex, built in 1867. The church has now been added to the List at Grade II. 🧵
📷 Peter Stack CC SA 2.0
📷 Peter Stack CC SA 2.0
In the New Year join us live in-person or online for our next Lectures. The subject is the Arts and Crafts Movement. In-person lectures will take place at NYU London, The Strand. We'll live-stream with an audience, as well as making our lecture series available as recordings. Book: bit.ly/4oFf30g
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In the New Year join us live in-person or online for our next Lectures. The subject is the Arts and Crafts Movement. In-person lectures will take place at NYU London, The Strand. We'll live-stream with an audience, as well as making our lecture series available as recordings. Book: bit.ly/4oFf30g
Do you live in the EAST MIDLANDS? You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings. Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure. More bit.ly/4oxz88Z
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Do you live in the EAST MIDLANDS? You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings. Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with a building or structure. More bit.ly/4oxz88Z
🎄 Want to give something special this Christmas? Share the gift of Victorian Society membership!
Members get a year of priority event access, discounts for selected events, and a subscription to The Victorian magazine. As the donor, we'll be thanking you with links to 3 online recorded lectures.
Members get a year of priority event access, discounts for selected events, and a subscription to The Victorian magazine. As the donor, we'll be thanking you with links to 3 online recorded lectures.
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🎄 Want to give something special this Christmas? Share the gift of Victorian Society membership!
Members get a year of priority event access, discounts for selected events, and a subscription to The Victorian magazine. As the donor, we'll be thanking you with links to 3 online recorded lectures.
Members get a year of priority event access, discounts for selected events, and a subscription to The Victorian magazine. As the donor, we'll be thanking you with links to 3 online recorded lectures.