My next online talk celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. I'll be looking at how the #seaside was represented at the South Bank and how design there, in its turn, influenced the look of resorts in the 1950s and 60s
Book your ticket at www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry
#RomanFortThursday
Burgh Castle is a #Roman #Saxon Shore fort, built in the 3rd century overlooking Breydon Water and the outlet of the River Waveney. The Romans built a trapezoidal fort here sometime between AD 260-280.
#Archaeology #History
An egg-sciting new construction has been hatching at the farm this Easter... 🐣
Our volunteer group 'The Experimentalists' have been ruffling feathers with their new Iron Age chicken coop!
Check out how their im-peck-able experiment has been going so far: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/3/...
A Lutyens building in Piccadilly, easy to miss.
The restored interior of Sheerness Dockyard Church, an AHF-supported project. Credit: Dirk Lindner.
📣 We are recruiting two new positions, an Operations Manager and Administration Assistant, to support the growth of the AHF’s team and work. For more details, please take a look below. ⬇️
Operations Manager: ahfund.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
Admin Assistant: ahfund.org.uk/what-we-do/i...
@jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - one of yours?
Congratulations!
I finished writing The Buildings Archaeologist this morning by quoting a 1910 description of Lydes House in Malvern (Worcs): 'a most desirable dwelling.
Its the case study which closes the book and dates to 1447-77 with remodelling in 1625-35, early 18thC, late 19thC & 1960s.
Great find. The Construction Historian loves temporary buildings' history. If anyone fancies doing a short piece (<2,000 words) for our magazine on them, DM me.
1924 ad for Wm Harbrow Ltd, 'Specialists in Design and Constuction of Temporary and Semi-Permanent Buildings.' Temp churches sprang up mid-C19th (until c. WWI) as places of worship for rapidly expanding populations in industrial towns & cities. Also a need for more nonconformist places of worship.
Shelves with large stone artefacts. There are people touring around the storehouse.
Amazing tour of the finds storage for Carnuntum in Austria. There’s 5 more like this, millions of artefacts. 40k coins alone. We are here for the #MAIA meetings before the @caaint.bsky.social🏺
Ángela Alessio Robles in 1960s dress leaning against balcony in front of #Mexican cityscape #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Ángela Alessio Robles, Mexican civil engineer & town planner. 1940/50s Director General of Planning for Mexico City, then President of Planning & Director of Plan for Urban Development. 1980s oversaw development of huge #Monterrey Macroplaza. b. #OTD 30 Mar 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81n...
The 9th International Congress of Construction History is going to be in #Turin #Torino 2027. I am hoping we get a guided tour of this famous building.
Call for sessions has closed but the call for papers #CfP is expected soon.
constructionhistorygroup.polito.it/icch/
Many thanks to Rachel O'Grady for coming along to our AHF: 50 Years of Reimagining Heritage exhibition at Riddel’s Warehouse, Belfast, in February.
You can read a review of the exhibition in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk now:
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/cul...
#AHF50 #Heritage #Exhibition
One of the country's finest libraries of books on town planning and housing policy - the Harry Simpson Memorial Library, currently located in Wisbech - is at risk of being pulped. Please publicise and support the campaign to save it.
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Bus shelter built of stone with slate roof
Born on this day in 1869, Edwin Lutyens. And therefore time to post my favourite design of his, the bus stop in the Somerset village of Mells.
The Construction Historian favours watching the earliest Taggarts with the sound off, for an accurate context of what our city was like back in the day.
Black granite cramp from Seti 1st's tomb with his cartouche carved into it, to make sure everyone knows it's his tomb and also to give magical protection.
Some models of building parts and an architectural diagram painted onto a scrap of limestone.
Architectural plan painted onto a scrap of limestone.
The Construction Historian visited the excellent Rameses exhibition next to Battersea Power Station this week & here are some construction history bits.
Been writing about the experience of the Triskele Heritage online talks, which I started 5 years ago, for The Buildings Archaeologist book. Its been amazing. Directly led to getting published, touring, broadcasting & fieldwork.
The next talk is in a week:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...
Keen garderobe-gogglers may be interested to learn that I've spent part of today writing a good chunky section on latrines for The Buildings Archaeologist book, including this reconstructed one in the parlour chamber of Bayleaf (now at the Weald & Downland Living Museum).
Another jolly bit of ironwork in a door reveal at Norham. Not wholly convinced this isn’t a primary-phase feature, in spite of clearly being cut into a jamb block rather than, perhaps usual, sandwiched between two blocks in the process of construction (see earlier post).
@everyheron.bsky.social
Derbyshire County Architect George Widdows and a 'revolution in the planning and arrangement of school buildings'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tickets for A Woman Named Edith are now sold out. Tickets are still available for other upcoming talks on Space House, Egon Riss and Seaside Architecture, but they are selling fast. Book your tickets on Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/o/10598755560
Have you ever wondered about tree rings and archaeology but been afraid to ask? My latest blog has all the answers from an expert! @dendrochronicle.bsky.social
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A long-held tradition maintained that the Tower of London was built by Julius Caesar. It was even referred to by Shakespeare in the 1590s.
To find out why, and much more about The Folklore of Ancient Buildings join us for an online event, 2 April:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...
#SydneyHarbourBridge formally opened 94 yrs ago #OTD 19 Mar 1932. Margaret Partridge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... was there & wrote an account twej.theiet.org/twej/WES_Vol... pg 225 w rememberance of "Trojan work" of Kathleen M Butler, project manager on project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...
And what looks like a very old tree.
#WHM
Women have only been able to work at the professional levels of construction engineering for about the past 120 years.
For SHB Kathleen Butler was project manager in Sydney & Scotswoman Dorothy Buchanan was in the design team doing calcs for the southern span at Dorman Long's offices in London.
