Let's not leave The Mayor of @london.gov.uk decision to chance! Write to Sir Sadiq Khan now to ask him to refuse the plans for Liverpool Street Station.
Information on writing your own letter here:
bit.ly/4844PBo
Thanks to Richard Morrison and The Times for the article.
bit.ly/4sLuExA
The Railway Bell was built in 1864/65 in what was then George Street. It is now the only surviving original building in Cawnpore Street - a rare mid-Victorian 2-storey “cottage pub” in London stock brick, with its original stable block still standing at the rear.
Thanks to the Lambeth Council Planning Committee for their positive decision. There is no reason that this building can't be used as a pub or for some sympathetic re-use. Local listing should have a bearing on planning decisions.
🔔 Good News! The campaign for the Railway Bell has won through. Congrats to Friends of the Railway Bell for their good work and the wider community in Gipsy Hill and Crystal Palace too. The Victorian Society, other amenity societies and heritage charities wrote objections.
Our next walk in London is led by author Tom Levitt. This tour explores the subjects of Tom’s book 'The Business of History' which largely focuses on companies in the Victorian era.
Read more and book: bit.ly/4cyuof6
The cumulative impact of Network Rail's plans for Liverpool Street Station & its setting would be huge. See the photos on this thread. Write to the Mayor of London @london.gov.uk and call for it to be refused. More info: bit.ly/4844PBo 🧵
Compare + contrast visualisations Network Rail + Acme
Information on writing to the Mayor is here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new...
Up to 10 years of commuter disruption if Network Rail's plans go ahead. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Thanks for sharing your pictures. Our helpful guide to how to write and send a letter to the Mayor of London is here:
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new...
This is a critical moment for Liverpool Street Station.
A damaging and unnecessary scheme now stands to be approved unless the Mayor of London intervenes.
The Mayor now has the power to step in and refuse this scheme.
Write to the Mayor and urge him to refuse these proposals. bit.ly/4844PBo
King George IV died on 16 June 1830 and bequeathed to his successors a vast array of furniture and works of art, assembled during a lifetime of omnivorous collecting, as well as unfinished building projects in Windsor and London.
Book your tickets to find out more: bit.ly/4tf72T8
Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection, is delivering an in-person lecture on 28th April at St Mary Abbots church on Kensington High St. Mr Knox traces the afterlife of George IV’s myriad collections and building projects and discovers how his sometimes-reluctant heirs coped with his legacy. 🧵
Everyone counts. Thanks
This online talk is highly topical following on from the much-debated planning application from the British Museum which was recently given permission despite objections from the Victorian Society and the Georgian Group.
The development of the British Museum, our greatest Greek Revival monument, spans the Georgian, Victorian + Edwardian ages. Steven Brindle, published widely on the history of architecture, considers Smirke’s design, the ideology that produced it, and its strange later history.
Book: bit.ly/41XfOJe
Hello Gavin, help make it someone else's local by writing an objection. Thanks railwaybellfriends.org/2026/03/26/s...
We support this campaign to stop developers demolishing Gipsy Hill's historic, local pub, the Railway Bell. Please object to the planning application by 11th April. Full info on how to quickly mask your object here: railwaybellfriends.org
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St Giles' Nave, Cheadle. Photo: Brian Deegan, creative commons
St Giles Cheadle details. Photo: Michael Garlick CC by SA 2.0
Angels detail, St Giles, Cheadle. Photo: Michael Garlick CC by SA 2.0.
St Giles Cheadle, roof detail. Photo Michael Garlick CC by SA 2.0
Piscina and Decorated Walls, St Giles, Cheadle. Photo: Brian Deegan creative commons
Sedilia, St Giles Cheadle. Photo Michael Garlick, CC by SA 2.0
A.W. N Pugin intended St Giles church in Cheadle to be 'a perfect revival of an English church of the time of Edward I.' In the east end of the church is the ‘Easter Sepulchre’ inspired by the Mediaeval founder's tomb at Hawton in Nottinghamshire.
Photo: Michael Garlick, CC by SA 2.0
#Easter
We placed the house and hall on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2024. Both were sold after we raised concerns. The future should improve for these important Norman Shaw buildings: bit.ly/3PIjgEX We have just put a Reel about the Grade I St Agnes church on our Instagram + Facebook accounts.
The Instagram Reel about St Agnes Church is here - it forms a group with the Vicarage and the Hall: www.instagram.com/reel/DWbkG8U...
We placed the house and hall on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2024. Both were sold after we raised concerns. The future should improve for these important Norman Shaw buildings: bit.ly/3PIjgEX We have just put a Reel about the Grade I St Agnes church on our Instagram + Facebook accounts 🧵
