June Diamond
@jjwy.bsky.social
Victorian buildings, culture and social history. Preservation and repurposing of built Heritage. Local History. Feminist. Yorkshire. Wensleydale cheese. Trade Unionist.
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Many towns and cities have public houses with fascinating frontages and facades. as is the case in this instance. Local tax records indicate that a public house has stood on the site of the Elephant and Castle on Westgate in Wakefield since at least the mid-18th century. One of the earliest
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Many towns and cities have public houses with fascinating frontages and facades. as is the case in this instance. Local tax records indicate that a public house has stood on the site of the Elephant and Castle on Westgate in Wakefield since at least the mid-18th century. One of the earliest
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Edgerton Cemetery Chapel, Huddersfield. Grade II, James Pritchett, circa 1856
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
Photo: Geoff Hughes
#Yorkshire
Edgerton Cemetery Chapel, Huddersfield. Grade II, James Pritchett, circa 1856
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
Photo: Geoff Hughes
#Yorkshire
May 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Edgerton Cemetery Chapel, Huddersfield. Grade II, James Pritchett, circa 1856
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
Photo: Geoff Hughes
#Yorkshire
Edgerton Cemetery Chapel, Huddersfield. Grade II, James Pritchett, circa 1856
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
Photo: Geoff Hughes
#Yorkshire
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Methodist Central Hall, Corporation St, Birmingham. Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1880
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#WestMidlands
Former Methodist Central Hall, Corporation St, Birmingham. Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1880
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#WestMidlands
May 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Methodist Central Hall, Corporation St, Birmingham. Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1880
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#WestMidlands
Former Methodist Central Hall, Corporation St, Birmingham. Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1880
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#WestMidlands
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Also sad to see a building from m'hometown in the @thevicsoc.bsky.social Endangered Buildings list 2025 here too- The Grade II* Methodist Central Hall - fabulous representation of #Birmingham civic & cultural history (incl a spell as the iconic Que Club!) www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...
Endangered building - Birmingham’s Methodist Central Hall towering symbol of West Midland city’s civic and cultural history placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025 - The V...
Birmingham’s Methodist Central Hall towering symbol of West Midland city’s civic and cultural history placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025 is on our list of endangered ...
www.victoriansociety.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Also sad to see a building from m'hometown in the @thevicsoc.bsky.social Endangered Buildings list 2025 here too- The Grade II* Methodist Central Hall - fabulous representation of #Birmingham civic & cultural history (incl a spell as the iconic Que Club!) www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
Former Marine Hotel, Penarth, Glamorgan. Grade II, perhaps Samuel Dobson, c.1865
Read more: t.co/5ehdITu4gL
#Wales
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Grade II, 1842 -1843
South Yorkshire’s last Victorian bath house in its original setting reflects Sheffield’s little-known spa heritage.
Read more:
bit.ly/43nCenk
#Yorkshire
Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Grade II, 1842 -1843
South Yorkshire’s last Victorian bath house in its original setting reflects Sheffield’s little-known spa heritage.
Read more:
bit.ly/43nCenk
#Yorkshire
May 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Grade II, 1842 -1843
South Yorkshire’s last Victorian bath house in its original setting reflects Sheffield’s little-known spa heritage.
Read more:
bit.ly/43nCenk
#Yorkshire
Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Grade II, 1842 -1843
South Yorkshire’s last Victorian bath house in its original setting reflects Sheffield’s little-known spa heritage.
Read more:
bit.ly/43nCenk
#Yorkshire
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Today our President Griff Rhys Jones reveals our Top Ten Endangered Buildings. Griff's on Good Morning Britain at 0815hrs. We've released the Society's list of Victorian and Edwardian buildings, that need restoration, investment + sensitive reuse, more than 15 times.
bit.ly/44TXzHz
#TopTen25
bit.ly/44TXzHz
#TopTen25
May 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Today our President Griff Rhys Jones reveals our Top Ten Endangered Buildings. Griff's on Good Morning Britain at 0815hrs. We've released the Society's list of Victorian and Edwardian buildings, that need restoration, investment + sensitive reuse, more than 15 times.
bit.ly/44TXzHz
#TopTen25
bit.ly/44TXzHz
#TopTen25
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Edgerton, Huddersfield Cemetery Chapel at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huddersfield chapel added to endangered buildings list
Derelict Victorian building highlighted by charity as at risk of being lost without intervention.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Edgerton, Huddersfield Cemetery Chapel at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Torquay Pavilion, Torquay, Devon. Grade II, Edward Richards, 1911
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#Heritage #Torquay #Devon
Torquay Pavilion, Torquay, Devon. Grade II, Edward Richards, 1911
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#Heritage #Torquay #Devon
May 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
Torquay Pavilion, Torquay, Devon. Grade II, Edward Richards, 1911
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#Heritage #Torquay #Devon
Torquay Pavilion, Torquay, Devon. Grade II, Edward Richards, 1911
Read more: bit.ly/43nCenk
#Heritage #Torquay #Devon
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The Society is delighted to welcome its new Membership Manager, Jack Edge. Jack will devise and implement the charity’s membership strategy. He will be seeking to increase, and support, all the Society’s membership. Our work is largely funded by our members.
#heritage
#heritage
May 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Society is delighted to welcome its new Membership Manager, Jack Edge. Jack will devise and implement the charity’s membership strategy. He will be seeking to increase, and support, all the Society’s membership. Our work is largely funded by our members.
#heritage
#heritage
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The rights we take for granted – eight-hour days, weekends and safe workplaces – were won by workers of the past, who organised and fought for them.
This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
TUC Union Finder: Find Your Union >>
Tell us about your work and we'll find the right union for you.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The rights we take for granted – eight-hour days, weekends and safe workplaces – were won by workers of the past, who organised and fought for them.
This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
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The Society and other national heritage voices @savetoreuse.bsky.social, SPAB, HB&P and @archaeologyuk.bsky.social are all vehmently against the demolition proposed by @cyngorgwynedd.bsky.social tomorrow, May 2nd, of the listed Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn.
📷Jon Avent for SAVE
#heritage
📷Jon Avent for SAVE
#heritage
May 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Society and other national heritage voices @savetoreuse.bsky.social, SPAB, HB&P and @archaeologyuk.bsky.social are all vehmently against the demolition proposed by @cyngorgwynedd.bsky.social tomorrow, May 2nd, of the listed Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn.
📷Jon Avent for SAVE
#heritage
📷Jon Avent for SAVE
#heritage
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Available now! The latest title in our Victorian Architects series of books is the first major study of the Victorian polymath, Matthew Digby Wyatt. It's written by historian and consultant Robert Thorne, who is a long-standing member of the Society. #newbookalert
April 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Available now! The latest title in our Victorian Architects series of books is the first major study of the Victorian polymath, Matthew Digby Wyatt. It's written by historian and consultant Robert Thorne, who is a long-standing member of the Society. #newbookalert
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This lecture will (re-)introduce the American metallurgist, politician and preservationist Margot Gayle (1908 - 2008), who co-founded the Victorian Society in America on the advice of Nikolaus Pevsner in 1966, and established the Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture.
Book: bit.ly/4jRJTkv #heritage
Book: bit.ly/4jRJTkv #heritage
April 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This lecture will (re-)introduce the American metallurgist, politician and preservationist Margot Gayle (1908 - 2008), who co-founded the Victorian Society in America on the advice of Nikolaus Pevsner in 1966, and established the Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture.
Book: bit.ly/4jRJTkv #heritage
Book: bit.ly/4jRJTkv #heritage
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Morgan Ellis Leah, our Southern Conservation Adviser, headed on a casework visit to @NationalTrust Munstead Wood yesterday. It is not yet open to the public.
Photo: Morgan Ellis Leah
#heritage
Photo: Morgan Ellis Leah
#heritage
April 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Morgan Ellis Leah, our Southern Conservation Adviser, headed on a casework visit to @NationalTrust Munstead Wood yesterday. It is not yet open to the public.
Photo: Morgan Ellis Leah
#heritage
Photo: Morgan Ellis Leah
#heritage
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The Society is pleased to welcome our new Southern Conservation Adviser, @morganellisleah.bsky.social. Morgan's casework includes secular buildings in Southern & Eastern England, all London boroughs including the City, & the South of Wales. Our conservation advisers contacts are here: bit.ly/4hfzY7k
March 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Society is pleased to welcome our new Southern Conservation Adviser, @morganellisleah.bsky.social. Morgan's casework includes secular buildings in Southern & Eastern England, all London boroughs including the City, & the South of Wales. Our conservation advisers contacts are here: bit.ly/4hfzY7k
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Scotland does not need nuclear power stations because we are already able to meet Scotland’s energy needs and power 1.4million homes in England! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/27/l...
Latest – Scotland produces enough renewable electricity to meet all its needs and then power 1.4 million homes in the rest of the UK
Professor John Robertson OBA From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q4 2024, published today A record 38.4 TWh of renewable electricity was generated in Scotland in 2024 – a 13.2% increase compared …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Scotland does not need nuclear power stations because we are already able to meet Scotland’s energy needs and power 1.4million homes in England! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/27/l...
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On April 15th the Society will be visiting one of the country’s best collections of Victorian art at Guildhall Art Gallery, in the City of London, guided by the Society's deputy chair of the board of trustees Kate Davey. There are AM and PM tours, book tickets on the link in our bio. #artgallerytour
March 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
On April 15th the Society will be visiting one of the country’s best collections of Victorian art at Guildhall Art Gallery, in the City of London, guided by the Society's deputy chair of the board of trustees Kate Davey. There are AM and PM tours, book tickets on the link in our bio. #artgallerytour
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'There are no freestanding statues of women in the city centre, and only a handful in the surrounding area.'
‘A cultural embarrassment’: anger as male sculptor commissioned for statue of suffragist
Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
'There are no freestanding statues of women in the city centre, and only a handful in the surrounding area.'
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When it was built between 1866-1875, the Town Hall at Todmorden straddled the Yorkshire/Lancashire border. The Tympanum reflects that in that it includes two central female figures linked in friendship are seated on a pedestal inscribed with the names of the two counties.
March 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
When it was built between 1866-1875, the Town Hall at Todmorden straddled the Yorkshire/Lancashire border. The Tympanum reflects that in that it includes two central female figures linked in friendship are seated on a pedestal inscribed with the names of the two counties.
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The Victorian is out now dedicated to West Yorkshire!
Our members have just taken delivery of the March edition of our magazine. It is part of the Society's membership benefits, and comes out three times a year. Join the Society to receive your copy bit.ly/3OnP6mx
#WestYorkshire #heritage
Our members have just taken delivery of the March edition of our magazine. It is part of the Society's membership benefits, and comes out three times a year. Join the Society to receive your copy bit.ly/3OnP6mx
#WestYorkshire #heritage
March 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Victorian is out now dedicated to West Yorkshire!
Our members have just taken delivery of the March edition of our magazine. It is part of the Society's membership benefits, and comes out three times a year. Join the Society to receive your copy bit.ly/3OnP6mx
#WestYorkshire #heritage
Our members have just taken delivery of the March edition of our magazine. It is part of the Society's membership benefits, and comes out three times a year. Join the Society to receive your copy bit.ly/3OnP6mx
#WestYorkshire #heritage
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Published this coming Friday, the 14th of March, the new edition of History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine is almost ready. We are delighted that ahead of the publication of his new novel, acclaimed author Chris Nickson has written a piece for us on WWII in Leeds. Add in Whitby Abbey according to
March 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Published this coming Friday, the 14th of March, the new edition of History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine is almost ready. We are delighted that ahead of the publication of his new novel, acclaimed author Chris Nickson has written a piece for us on WWII in Leeds. Add in Whitby Abbey according to
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Starmer: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
Proud to be British tonight.
#SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Proud to be British tonight.
#SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
March 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Starmer: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
Proud to be British tonight.
#SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Proud to be British tonight.
#SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
February 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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'The date is not in many history books. But it should be. It is 60 years on Tuesday since Britain’s first minister for the arts, Jennie Lee, published the first UK government white paper on the arts.'
The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again | Editorial
Editorial: Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain’s first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'The date is not in many history books. But it should be. It is 60 years on Tuesday since Britain’s first minister for the arts, Jennie Lee, published the first UK government white paper on the arts.'