Department stores - ‘like fridge freezers that no one will take away’. theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Next event walk and talks Saturday 14 September 1.30 pm Holy Trinity Church, Pontargothi, & Allt-y-Ferin Promontory Fort & Motte. Speakers: Tom Lloyd, Heather James & Penny David Car-share essential. Meet at church, SA32 7PA, SN510226. £2 donation on the day. (Image: wikipedia).

One of my favourites from today in Port Talbot Steelworks. The scale of the works is incredible

🏠 Wanna be a big cop in a small town? Why not buy a model village! Polperro in Cornwall (1/24 scale version) was built in 1948 by local maker Jim Beddoes. It could be yours for £725k - with a three bed house (1/1 scale) included.

EVENT // Join C20 for a blockbuster one-day symposium on the architecture and legacy of Pithead Baths. Featuring UK and European speakers on mining and industrial heritage, health and welfare, the influences of Dudok and European modernism, parallels with the London Underground,

✉️ Here’s a very rare Air Mail pillar box for #PostboxSaturday. Introduced in 1930, these sky-blue boxes had a double plate on the front to display both collection times and charges for different countries. The oval enamel sign affixed to the cap declared ‘AIR MAIL’ in Trajan

📢ONLINE TALK Join us for an online talk by Adam Voelker on architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884-1971) - 'A Reluctant Modernist: the work of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes'. Tuesday 15 October 2024 18:30 🎟️bit.ly/SidneyColwynFo… 📸 W. S. Wood Dept Store, Colwyn Bay. RCAHMW.

📢 SGWRS AR-LEIN Ymunwch efo ni am sgwrs gan Adam Voelker am y pensaer Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884-1971) - 'A Reluctant Modernist: the work of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes'. Nos Fawrth 15 Hydref 18:30 🎟️bit.ly/SidneyColwynFo… 📸 Siop W. S. Wood, Bae Colwyn. CBHC.

Join us next weekend, where we are hosting a one-day conference on the topic of maps and buildings in local history! Find out more here: ow.ly/wJ7T50SE3iZ #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

The Right to Buy - the right of sitting tenants to buy their council homes - became operational on this day in 1980. Since then over 2 million homes have been bought (about 40 percent of these now in the private rental sector); a net loss of 24,000 social rent homes annually.

After the UK's last coal power station closed last week, the Twentieth Century Society has selected seven projects that demonstrate how the under-threat cooling towers at these "cathedrals of industry" could be reused. dezeen.com/2024/10/03/coo…

⛏️ From the end of coal-fired power stations last week, to the heritage of coal mining this week.   Today C20 Society welcomes international guests and speakers to London, for a one-day symposium on Miners' Modernism: #PitheadBaths. Stay tuned for more information on this new

Nominations for The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2025 are now open! Let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. The deadline is 31 December 2024. Here's how: bit.ly/3YzRjkp #heritage

NEWS // C20 has supported plans to restore the Grade II listed Tylorstown Welfare Hall (1933) - the last remaining Miners’ Welfare Hall in the Rhondda Fach valley. Led by Thread Architects, the project will conserve the original features, improve accessibility, and upgrade

#AdventAngels Click to see fiercely glorious #StainedGlass by #RichardStubington with the #Angel Gabriel from his c.1926 Annunciation window at St Mary's, Denbigh Alexandra Epps Posy Hill Maude Frome Lizzie Glithero-West Ian Archie Beck C20 Cymru C20 Society