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G E Street St James the Less, Pimlico, 1861 © Neil Jackson

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January

Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
Time: 7am
Venue: Online
Location: Online

February

Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online –
Location: Online

ƵShort Story Reading Group: ‘The Body Snatcher’, by Robert Louis Stevenson with June Lawrence

This Scottish short story of two grave robbers has characters based on criminals employed by the real-life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862).

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person

Enviable Reputation: An Indian Engineer and the Construction of ƵBombay

This lecture will examine the role of one prominent Indian architect and engineer of the Ƶera, Khan Bahadur Muncherji Cowasji Murzban (1839-1917) concentrating on his official career to examine his meteoric rise and his role in the construction of ƵBombay.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Life on the Buffalo River – the Development of East London, South Africa

The river port town of East London, on the eastern seaboard of South Africa, was born in conflict in 1848, and after a long period of penury, finally commenced with more substantial development in the 1870s. The talk will provide an overview of the history and development of the town and present some of the Ƶera architecture and structures.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Eclecticism and Ornament in Malaya’s Vernacular Classicism

This lecture explores how the eclectic ornamental classicism of Ƶand Edwardian Britain came to influence Malaya’s own syncretic brand of classical architecture, resulting in a unique regional style.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online
Location: Online

March

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Thrown Away’ by Rudyard Kipling

We start with stories of India. As we explore these stories, we should gain a more personal perspective of the lives lived within the colonial system than that recorded in the history books.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person
Date: Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
Venue: Sheffield Workhouse –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire

Building Better Britain: ƵArchitecture in New Zealand, 1840 – 1901

The nineteenth-century colonisation of New Zealand was seen as an opportunity to establish a new society on the far side of the world that would perpetuate British culture while avoiding the poverty, overcrowding and industrial pollution that afflicted contemporary Britain.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online
Location: Online
Ticket Price: £10 (£5 for students)
Date: Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Time: 7.00 for 7.15pm
Venue: Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS. Room F13 –
Location: In Person | Manchester

From Palaces of Art to the Studios of Bohemia: Artists’ Houses in ƵKensington and Chelsea, by Jo Banham

Successful Ƶartists, like Leighton and Luke Fildes, earned incomes that meant they were able to commission magnificent, purpose-built studio houses in the leafy suburbs of Holland Park and Kensington. The less wealthy and more unconventional, like Rossetti and Whistler, gravitated towards Chelsea, occupying picturesque old buildings in the area. This lecture reviews the two most famous artists’ colonies – Melbury Road, Kensington and Cheyne Walk and Tite Street, Chelsea – and explores the lives and interiors of the painters who lived there.

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Ticket Price: £10
Date: Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, W8 4LA –
Location: In Person | London

The Architecture of ‘Greater Britain’: Style and Empire, c.1885-1915

This lecture will consider the role architecture played in responding to perceived notions of British decline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Symposium to celebrate the completion of Birmingham cathedral’s divine beauty project

A celebration of the completion of the Divine Beauty Project, which involved cleaning and renovating the magnificent Edward Burne-Jones windows at Birmingham Cathedral. Speakers include Andy Delmage, Canon Missioner at the Cathedral, Rhian Tritton, Divine Beauty Project Officer, Steve Clare who restored the windows and Peter Cormack, former director of the William Morris Gallery.

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Ticket Price: £40.00 (£30 concessions) including lunch and refreshments
Date: Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Time: 10:15
Venue: The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS. –
Location: Birmingham & West Midlands
Ticket Price: Members Tickets: £5
Date: Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm – 4 pm
Venue: Meeting in front of Bootham Bar, High Petergate, York YO1 7EH –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire
Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Time: 6.00 for 6.30pm
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BT –
Location: In Person | Liverpool
Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Venue: Online
Location: In Person | Liverpool
Date: Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Venue: Sheffield Town Hall –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire

April

Visit: Great Malvern & Malvern College

A guided tour of Great Malvern Railway Station by Peter Clement from Malvern Civic Society; then a guided walk of Great Malvern by our Chairman, Stephen Hartland; lunch at the Mount Pleasant Hotel; then a tour of Malvern College by our Honorary Treasurer, James Fletcher, who works at the college. Malvern College was founded in 1865 and is regarded as one of England’s premier independent schools. The tour of the campus includes the main College (1865), Chapel (1899), Pavilion (1894), Music School (1862), St Edmund’s Hall (1905) and others. We will finish with refreshments in the Memorial Library (1924).

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Ticket Price: £23 including buffet lunch & afternoon tea/coffee.
Date: Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Venue: Online
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

ƵShort Story Reading Group: ‘The Rise of Ram Din’ by Alice Perrin.

This story provides an insight into the life of Indian servants, which is told through the voice of the Indian servant, rather than his Western master. There are many thematic contradictions such as loyalty/disloyalty; power struggle/duty; revenge and manipulation/honest labour.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person

Manchester’s theatre district – a walk with David Astbury

Back by popular demand! David Astbury (former Vic Soc Manchester Chair) will lead a repeat walk on the Theatres of Oxford Street and Peter Street, a walk of about two hours passing through what was once the heart of Manchester’s historic theatre district.

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Ticket Price: £10.00 – pay on the day
Date: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Time: 6.30pm till about 8.30pm
Venue: Oxford Road station approach on the traffic island under the ‘Oxford Road Station’ sign –
Location: In Person | Manchester

Ernest George and large country houses

In this talk, Hilary Grainger explores the larger country houses considered to be the backbone of his practice. He designed over two dozen with Peto and seven with Yeates, in addition to altering, restoring and adding to many others. Clients were drawn from a wide spectrum – the landed gentry, the professions, trade and industry and the middle classes.

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Date: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Venue: Online
Location: South Yorkshire

Exploring Oldham’s heritage as the “cotton-spinning capital” of the world.

This magnificent Ƶtown park was built by the people of Oldham during the cotton famine, sparked by the American Civil war. Now registered Grade II* it opened in 1865 and we will see its restored features, listed monuments and structures and well-maintained planting.

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Ticket Price: Come to one or both parts. Members Tickets: £5 for one, £8 both. Full notes will be provided
Date: Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Time: 11.00 am till 4.00 pm
Venue: Meet at the King Street Tram station (OL8 1EU) at 10.45 for 11.00. –
Location: In Person | Manchester

Exploring Oldham’s heritage as the “cotton-spinning capital of the world.

This magnificent Ƶtown park was built by the people of Oldham during the cotton famine, sparked by the American Civil war. Now registered Grade II* it opened in 1865 and we will see its restored features, listed monuments and structures and well-maintained planting.

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Date: Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Time: 10.15 for 11.00
Venue: King Street at the Tram station (OL8 1EU) –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire

Members’ Afternoon

Members and their guests are invited to bring a maximum of 6 images on a memory stick to explain and share.

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Ticket Price: £15 with light refreshments, including cakes.
Date: Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Time: 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Venue: The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS. –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

50 Years of the Liverpool Group of the The ƵSociety

Roger Hull has been an active committee member of the Liverpool Group of the Ƶfor many years and will tell the fascinating story of the group since its foundation in 1974.

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Date: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Liverpool Athenaeum, 12-18 Church Alley (off School Lane), Liverpool, L1 3DD –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

May

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Pipe of Mystery’ by G.A. Henty

This story involves the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 but is told at a jovial gathering from the perspective of an adventure, with no mention of the politics or problems which led to the troubles.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Time: 07:00
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person

A guided tour of the graveyard of All Saints, Childwall, by Diana Goodier

The tour will highlight some of the most interesting burials from the Ƶperiod – the shipping magnates, local politicians, founding members of the university and a couple of architects.

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Ticket Price: £5 (Cash or Cheque)
Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Venue: Meet by the war memorial at 11.00.Address: Score Lane, Liverpool, L16 0JW –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

June

West Norwood Cemetery

This story involves the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 but is told at a jovial gathering from the perspective of an adventure, with no mention of the politics or problems which led to the troubles.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Saturday, June 1st, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: West Norwood Cemetery, West Norwood, SE27 9JU –
Location: In Person

Gwrych Castle visit

Come and enjoy a guided walk around Gwrych Castle and meet the The ƵSociety’s Welsh group.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Monday, June 3rd, 2024
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Venue: Gwrych Castle –
Location: In Person | Wales

Visit: Day Trip to Stourbridge

This walking tour of Stourbridge will be led by Andy Foster and David Low and will highlight some of the town’s significant Ƶbuildings.

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Ticket Price: £30 which includes bus from St Augustine’s Birmingham, morning drink, lunch, and guided tour of the Glass Museum + donations
Date: Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Time: 9.00am to 4.00pm
Venue: 9.00 amBus departs from St Augustine’s Church, Edgbaston –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

An Exploration of Surrey led by Charles O’Brien

This story involves the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 but is told at a jovial gathering from the perspective of an adventure, with no mention of the politics or problems which led to the troubles.

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Date: Saturday, June 8th, 2024
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: Main entrance of Guildford Station –
Location: In Person
Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Time: 7.00 – 8.30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person

Ilkley, from village Spa to Ƶresort – a walk with Alex Cockshott

Ilkley started as a village with fresh air and pure cold water. It had an increasing number of visitors in the Ƶera. With the arrival of the railway station in 1865, and the Middleton family starting land sales against a planned grid, the village expanded. We shall look at how the town centre developed, including the Grove.

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Ticket Price: Members £5
Date: Saturday, June 15th, 2024
Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue: From Village Spa to ƵResort –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire

Visit:St John’s Church, Ranmoor, led by Mary Grover

A talk by Mary Grover about the History of the first St John’s Church in Ranmoor followed by a guided tour.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, June 15th, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: St John’s Church, Ranmoor –
Location: In Person

George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium – Day 1

G E Street (1824-1881), the bicentenary of whose birth we celebrate this year, was one of the most prolific architects of the nineteenth-century gothic revival. This symposium at St James the Less, celebrates Street’s work and achievements through a programme of talks in the morning, and visits to his works in the afternoon.

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Ticket Price: £30 for morning and £20 for the afternoon.
Date: Friday, June 21st, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: St James the Less church, Thorndike Street, London SW1V 2PS. –
Location: In Person | London

George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium – Day 2

G E Street (1824-1881), the bicentenary of whose birth we celebrate this year, was one of the most prolific architects of the nineteenth-century gothic revival. This symposium at St James the Less, celebrates Street’s work and achievements through a programme of talks in the morning, and visits to his works in the afternoon.

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Ticket Price: £30 in the morning and £20 for the afternoon
Date: Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: St James the Less church, Thorndike Street, London SW1V 2PS. –
Location: In Person | London
Ticket Price: £10
Date: Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Time: 1pm start
Venue: Meet in Bury Interchange at top of escalator from Metrolink platform –
Location: Manchester

July

Visit: Golders Green Crematorium, led by Hilary Grainger

A unique opportunity to visit Golders Green crematorium described as ‘London’s first crematorium and England’s first purpose-designed crematorium landscape,’ (Grade II listed) designed by Sir Ernest George in 1902. Professor Hilary J Grainger, Chair of the ƵSociety. She is the leading authority on Sir Ernest George and the architecture of UK crematoria.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, NW11 7NL –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: Hampton Court in the 19th Century

Hampton Court Palace is renowned as the finest surviving Tudor palace in the world. The history of the Palace in the Ƶera is often overlooked, but is equally as fascinating.

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Ticket Price: £35 (Over 65s £30.00)
Date: Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Venue: Hampton Court Palace –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: Coach Trip to Shropshire

A coach visit to Shropshire, taking in St Mary’s Church, Tenbury Wells; St John the Baptist at Stokesay Castle and Stokesay Court, near Craven Arms, described by Niklaus Pevsner as ‘the most grandiloquent Ƶmansion in the County’.

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Ticket Price: £56 including coach fare, lunch, donations and guided tour
Date: Saturday, July 13th, 2024
Time: 9.00am to 6.30pm
Venue: 9.00 am Coach departs from Church Street, Birmingham City Centre 9.20 am; 2nd coach pick up from St Augustine’s Road, Edgbaston B16 9JN –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

Visit: ‘The Cathedral of Sewage’ – Crossness Pumping Station

Discover one of London’s most extraordinary interiors in this outing where we discover the Victorian’s solution to sewage.

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Ticket Price: £28
Date: Sunday, July 14th, 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 2:30 pm
Venue: Crossness Pumping Station –
Location: In Person | London
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: City Road Cemetery –
Location: In Person

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Pestilence at Noonday’ by Cornelia Sorabji

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, starting with stories from India.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Weekend Visit to G E Street’s Churches in East Yorkshire

Join members of the ƵSociety as we examine the churches commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes II of Sledmere House, and others in the East Yorkshire area. Travelling by minibus, the weekend will include a visit to St Mary, Thixendale & vicarage (1870 & 1870), St Mary, Wansford (1868) and St Andrew, East Heslerton & vicarage (1877 & 1876).

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Ticket Price: Weekend tickets cost £230. Dinner and lunch are not included.
Date: Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Time: 09.30am
Venue: Travelodge York Layerthorpe Hotel –
Location: In Person | G E Street Bicentenary 2024

August

Walk: A Day Visit to Three Stourbridge Churches – SOLD OUT

Following the Group’s walking tour in June, we have now arranged access to three significant churches in the town centre: St John the Evangelist, St Thomas & Our Lady & All Saints RC church.

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Ticket Price: £7.00 includes a donation to the churches, but does not include the cost of your lunch.
Date: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Time: 10.30am to 2.30pm
Venue: 10.30 am Meet at Stourbridge Bus Station/Rail interchange –
Location: In Person | Walk | Birmingham & West Midlands
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, August 17th, 2024
Time: 10:30am
Venue: St Mary’s Church, Howard Road, Walkley S6 3RX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Walk

Walk: Exploring ƵClapham, led by Christopher Claxton Stevens

Clapham became part of the Metropolis with the coming of the underground in 1900. This walk will cover the earlier background of the area and focus on the grander Ƶarchitecture that still remains

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Saturday, August 31st, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Clapham Common Underground Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk

September

Walk: Liverpool Street Station and its Environs, led by Steven Brindle

This walk explores Liverpool Street Station and its environs, to see how the north-eastern City developed in the Ƶage, how the historic streetscape has fared in modern times, and what impact the proposed over-development of the station, which the Society strongly opposes, would have on this many layered and sensitive area.

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Thursday, September 5th, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Liverpool Street Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk
Ticket Price: FREE
Date: Sunday, September 8th, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Town Hall, Sheffield –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Walk

Walk: Exploring Brixton’s ƵHistory

In this walking tour, led by the Brixton Society, we will explore the fascinating retail heritage of Brixton.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Brixton Recreation Centre –
Location: In Person | London | Walk

Online Talk: The Work of Horace Jones, the Architect who Designed Tower Bridge

This talk will explore the life and work of Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887), chief architect to the City of London who designed many of its most famous buildings including Tower Bridge, Smithfield, Leadenhall and Billingsgate markets, and the Temple Bar memorial.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Walk: Merton Park, “The Original and Most Unique Garden Suburb”, led by Tony Woolfenden

Tony Woolfenden leads a walk around John Innes’ Merton Park estate, “the original and most unique garden suburb” (to quote the estate company’s advertisements).

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Ticket Price: £22
Date: Saturday, September 21st, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Venue: Merton Park Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk
Ticket Price: £15 to include fee for tour, tea/coffee and biscuits and donation to Manchester Group of the ƵSociety
Date: Saturday, September 28th, 2024
Time: 2pm-4pm
Venue: Rochdale Town Hall –
Location: In Person

Talk: The History of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, by Christina Clarke

Discover the stories of one of Liverpool’s most famous art collections in this in-person talk given by Christina Clarke.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, September 28th, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane Liverpool L1 3BT –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

October

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Postmaster’ by Rabindranath Tagore

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, starting with stories from India.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

AGM Weekend in Bradford

ƵAGM 2024 which will be in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on Friday 4 October, followed by a weekend of architectural tours in Bradford and the surrounding area.

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Ticket Price: £260
Date: Friday, October 4th, 2024
Time: 2:30pm start on Friday
Venue: Bradford –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire

Talk: Lost Gardens of London, by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

This talk will focus on and celebrate the evanescence of the metropolis’s vast and varied garden legacy.

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Ticket Price: £10
Date: Monday, October 7th, 2024
Time: 07:00 pm – 08:30 pm
Venue: St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, W8 4LA –
Location: In Person | London | Talk
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Talk
Ticket Price: £10. Booking not essential.
Date: Saturday, October 12th, 2024
Time: 2pm for 2.15pm
Venue: Stretford Public Hall Chester Road, Manchester, M32 0LG –
Location: In Person

Walk: Peter de Figueiredo: A walking tour of Liverpool’s Mercantile Architecture

The walking tour will explore how Liverpool became a great commercial city as well as an international port, and how the redevelopment of the city centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries reflects its commercial importance.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, October 12th, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Nelson monument, Liverpool –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

Online Talk: Death and the Victorians – A Dark Fascination

In Death and the Victorians, author Adrian Mackinder explores the dark side of the nineteenth century, when hunger for truth about what lies beyond the grave was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Visit: Street’s Church, Holmbury St Mary – G E Street Bicentenary

This visit is to the church which G E Street built in in 1878-79 as a memorial to his second wife, Jessie, who died soon after their honeymoon in 1876. It is very much a personal statement which he paid for himself.

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Ticket Price: £22
Date: Saturday, October 19th, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm at the church or 1:00 pm at Royal Oak Pub
Venue: St Mary Church, Holmbury –
Location: In Person | G E Street Bicentenary 2024 | Visit

Visit: RIBA Drawings Collection at the V&A

The visit will start with an introductory talk on the history of the RIBA Drawings Collection by curator, Charles Hind followed by a look at a selection of Ƶdrawings from the collection, including several by Alfred Waterhouse for the Natural History Museum. We will move across to the Museum to look at the exterior and the Great Hall.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Monday, October 21st, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Exhibition Road –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Online Lecture: The London Gasketeers: The Fight to Save Westminster’s Historic Gas Lamps, by Luke Honey

Luke Honey discusses the fight to save Westminster’s gas lamps, their historic importance and the story of gas lighting in London.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Talk: Day School on Gas, Water and Sewage

How the Victorians improved life for people in the West Midlands

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Ticket Price: £40 including lunch & all refreshments. Reduced rate of £25 for full-time students & Young Victorians.
Date: Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Time: 10.15 am to 4.00 pm
Venue: The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BU. –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024: Crossing Boundaries-ƵArt, Design and Architecture-7 talks for 6

The 2024 Autumn Lecture Series discusses how 19th century architects conceived of the decorative and fine arts as part of an architectural whole. Our seven expert speakers will boldly break down disciplinary boundaries in a discussion of the use of colour and texture across the whole range of Ƶdesign and analyses of the important roles played by mosaic, stained glass, embroidery and three-dimensional wall coverings.

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Ticket Price: £36
Date: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

Online Lecture: A W N Pugin – ƵTile Designer Par Excellence, by Hans van Lemmen

This lecture will look at the floor and wall tiles designed by the Gothic Revival architect A.W.N Pugin.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

November

Visit: All Saints’ church, Putney Common – G E Street Bicentenary

All Saints’ church, Putney, was opened as a chapel of ease in 1874. The interior is richly polychromatic and the many Morris & Co windows are of outstanding quality. This visit is our final look at a church by G E Street.

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Ticket Price: £15
Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: All Saints, Putney –
Location: In Person | London | G E Street Bicentenary 2024 | Visit
Ticket Price: £5-£8
Date: Monday, November 4th, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: The Adelphi, 1-3 Hunslet Road, Leeds LS10 1JQ –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire

Visit: St Mary’s atWest Tofts

A unique opportunity to visit a small medieval church transformed by A W Pugin and his son in the 1840s and 1850s.

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Ticket Price: £29
Date: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm at Thetford Station
Venue: Meet at Thetford Station –
Location: In Person | Visit

Online Lecture: Colour Revolution: ƵArt, Fashion & Design, by Matthew Winterbottom

Matthew Winterbottom talks about the recent Ashmolean Exhibition Colour Revolution: ƵArt, Fashion & Design that sought to challenge widely held perceptions that the Ƶage was dark and gloomy.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

Online Lecture: ‘Fair and Beautiful to Behold’ – Ecclesiastical Embroideries, by Mary Schoeser

This lecture discusses the neo-Gothic in relation to textiles and wallpapers, which focuses on ecclesiastical embroideries in particular. The title, Fair and Beautiful to Behold is after a quotation from G.E. Street. The lecture spills into the Edwardian period to include a Pankhurst banner and Ann Macbeth frontal, to bring out the double meaning of ‘fair’ (in social/political terms).

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Salt Inspector’ (Namak ka Daroga) by Munshi Premchand

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, starting with stories from India.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Walk: Westminster by Gaslight Walk, led by Elan Walks

Discover the magical gas lamps of Westminster and marvel at their fascinating history and world-changing legacy.

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Ticket Price: £26
Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Green Park Underground Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk
Ticket Price: £10. Booking not essential
Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Time: 2pm for 2.15pm
Venue: Stretford Public Hall Chester Road, Manchester, M32 0LG –
Location: In Person

Online Lecture: Owen Jones and the V&A, by Olivia Horsfall Turner

This talk will examine each of the projects that linked Ƶdesigner Owen Jones and the early V&A: his famous illustrated publication The Grammar of Ornament (1856), his decorative scheme for the so-called ‘Oriental Court’, and his relatively little-known book Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867).

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

Talk: More Wallpaper, Vicar? A Talk by Rowena Beighton-Dykes

Rowena will explore the socio-economic and political context of wallpaper purchases by members of the Anglican Church in the 19th century.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane Liverpool L1 3BT –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

Online Lecture: The Mosaics of Westminster Cathedral, by Peter Howell

This talk will examine the decorative interior of Westminster Cathedral, particularly the mosaics. J F Bentley intended that the interior should be covered in marble revetment and mosaics but he never had any mosaics installed. However, he approved the designs for the Holy Souls Chapel by his friend William Christian Symons.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024
Ticket Price: £26 or £15 for members of BMAG, Art Fund or holders of the Birmingham Museums Card
Date: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
Time: 10.45 am and 11.45 am start – two sessions
Venue: Gas Hall, Birmingham & Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3DH –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

December

Online Lecture: Innovations in the Art and Craft of Stained Glass in the 19th Century

The quest for materials that would evoke the chromatic and textural qualities of early medieval stained glass inspired the work of manufacturers, artists and architects during the Ƶera. This illustrated lecture examines how the art form evolved alongside new technical developments.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Talk

Visit: Palace of Westminster

Join us on a crisp winter morning as we discover one of London’s best known buildings.

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Ticket Price: £30
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Time: 8:45 am – 10:30 am
Venue: Palace of Westminster –
Location: In Person | London | Visit
Ticket Price: £10 per person Booking essential by calling [email protected] indicate if you wish to have lunch afterwards. Closing date for bookings: 30 November.
Date: Saturday, December 7th, 2024
Time: 11am
Venue: Werneth Grange, Grange Avenue (off Manchester Road), Oldham, OL8 4EL. –
Location: In Person | Manchester

Online Lecture: Alfred Stevens: Master of Design, 1817-1875, by Teresa Sladen

When Alfred Stevens was waiting to hear who would finally be given the commission to design the Wellington Monument he said “They must give it to me. No one else knows anything about ornament”. What he meant by this is the subject of this lecture.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor’ by B. M. Croker

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, starting with stories from India.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Online Lecture: Street Closure: A Discussion about Recent Visits to Buildings by G E Street

Join Neil Jackson as he examines the themes that have been raised from these visits.

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Ticket Price: £6/£10
Date: Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: Online or Head Office at Priory Gardens, London –
Location: Online | In Person | London | G E Street Bicentenary 2024

January

Online Lecture: ƵColonial Short Stories 2: Dominions, Colonies & Protectorates

This lecture will survey short stories of colonial voyagers, squatters and settlers in Africa, Australia, British Malaya, Canada and New Zealand.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Online Lecture: London’s Lost ƵInteriors, by Steven Brindle

Steven Brindle takes us through the wealth of Ƶinterior design, most of which is long vanished.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

Visit: An 1890s House in Clapham

This is a rare opportunity to see the colourful and atmospheric candlelit interiors of this house in Clapham.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Address available closer to the date. –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

60th Anniversary AGM inc. Lecture ‘Liverpool Scottish’, by Joseph Sharples

The Liverpool Regional Group of the ƵSociety welcomes all to our 60th anniversary AGM and lecture presented by Joseph Sharples.

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Ticket Price: £10
Date: Saturday, January 18th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Venue: Liverpool Medical Institution & Conference Centre –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Ghost upon the Rail’ by John Lang

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London
Ticket Price: Free
Date: Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Time: 2pm AGM followed by talk at 3pm
Venue: Stretford Public Hall M32 0LG –
Location: In Person
Ticket Price: £28.00
Date: Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Time: 12.30 pm for 1.00 pm
Venue: Bistrot Pierre, 46 Gas Street, Birmingham, B1 2JT –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

Online Lecture: Ƶand Edwardian Women in Architecture, by Lynne Walker

Lynne Walker introduces a series of lectures that will extend our knowledge of women in architecture and the Ƶperiod.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

Visit: Old Bailey

Discover the architecture of the Old Bailey.

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Ticket Price: £30
Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Venue: Old Bailey –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

February

Online Lecture: Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, ‘House Decorators’: the History of a Business, 1874–1905 by Elizabeth Crawford

Elizabeth Crawford discusses the first women to run a professional interior design business.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025
Ticket Price: FREE
Date: Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Time: 10:30
Venue: The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS. –
Location: Birmingham & West Midlands

Talk: Scattered Homes by Sheffield Hospitals History Group

Mary Garside of Sheffield Hospitals History Group looks at why children were in the workhouse and what other options were available for those in need of care.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Talk

Online Lecture: A W N Pugin and Women by Rosemary Hill

Pugin’s biographer explores the role women played in both Pugin’s personal and professional life

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025
Ticket Price: £10
Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Time: 7 for 7.15pm
Venue: Friends Meeting House M2 5NS –
Location: In Person | Manchester

Visit: Royal Albert Hall

This is a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes of Grade I listed building and see parts of the Royal Albert Hall that are normally off limits to the public.

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Ticket Price: £25
Date: Monday, February 17th, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Venue: Royal Albert Hall –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Online Lecture: ƵChatelaine: Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam, by James Lomax

The lecture will explore the life and legacy of a major female architectural patron.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Dead Witness’ or ‘The Bush Waterhole’ by Mary Fortune

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London
Ticket Price: £5 non-members. Members are free.
Date: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Time: 11.30am-1pm
Venue: The Bobbin Room, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley (0.9 mile from New Pudsey rail station) –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire | Talk

Talk: The Manchester Art Workers’ Guild, by Barry Clark

Barry Clark will explore the Guild in the context of the Arts & Crafts movement in Manchester.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: The Quakers meeting house, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

Online Talk: The Monk Sisters at St James the Less: Women and Architectural Patronage in ƵBritain, by Alex Bremner

In this talk, Professor Alex Bremner will explore the role of Jane Emily and Penelope Anna Monk in the commissioning of St James the Less, Pimlico, and what, if any, impact their vision for the church had on G. E. Street’s design.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online

March

Online Lecture: Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, and ƵSociety, by William Whyte

William Whyte looks at her approach to social work as it was particularly shaped by her understanding of art and architecture.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

Visit: Day Trip to Walsall

A visit to Walsall town centre on Friday 7th March 2025
Cost: £23 to include morning refreshments, lunch and donations

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Ticket Price: £23 to include morning refreshments, lunch and donations
Date: Friday, March 7th, 2025
Time: 10.45 am to 3.30 pm
Venue: 10.45 am The Crossing, St Paul’s Church, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DD –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands
Ticket Price: tbc
Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2025
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Talk: Christ Church Friezland OL3 7LQ Walk: from Uppermill Library OL3 6AP –
Location: In Person | Manchester | Talk | Walk
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Talk

Online Lecture: Clotilde Brewster: A Life in Perspective: the Journey of the First Female international Architect

Laura Fitzmaurice discusses the life of Clotilde Brewster (1874–1937) who became the first woman to work internationally as an architect.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

Walk: Westminster by Gaslight Walk, led by Elan Walks

Discover the magical gas lamps of Westminster and marvel at their fascinating history and world-changing legacy.

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Ticket Price: £26
Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: Green Park Underground Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk

Winter Online Lecture Series 2025: Ƶand Edwardian Women in Architecture – 7 talks for 6

The Winter Lecture Series 2025 explores Ƶand Edwardian’s women’s connections with architecture.

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Ticket Price: £36
Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

Online Lecture: Marion Mahony Griffin: ‘Stage 1’ of a remarkable career’, by Anna Rubbo

Ann Rubbo discusses the early career of Marion Mahony Griffin who worked in the USA, Australia and India.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online
Location: Online | Winter Online Lecture Series 2025

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Drover’s Wife’ by Henry Lawson

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: Makers of Modern Gothic: A.W.N Pugin and John Hardman Jr: Curators’ Tour

Join Angus Patterson & Max Donnelly, co-curators of Makers of Modern Gothic: for a exhibition talk at the V& A museum, London.

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 pm
Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Exhibition Road –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Artistic Houses: London’s Pre-Raphaelite Interiors by Jo Banham

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood not only challenged conventional definitions of beauty within the fine arts, they also rejected many of the fashions associated with the mid and late Ƶhome. This lecture explores the decoration and lifestyles associated with these and other famous Pre-Raphaelite homes.

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Ticket Price: £10
Date: Monday, March 24th, 2025
Time: 07:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, W8 4LA –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: A Guided Tour of Two Temple Place, London

Discover this extraordinary Ƶbuilding and its history.

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Venue: 2 Temple Place –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

April

Online Lecture: The London Dustheap – Sifting through the ƵImagination

London’s dustheaps were mountainous. For centuries they shaped the city’s skyline and spoke of the societies and industries that made them. This lecture examines the (literal) rise and fall of these lost landscapes, their associated industries and the people who made them.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online –
Location: Online
Ticket Price: £5 members. £8 non-members.
Date: Saturday, April 5th, 2025
Time: 11am – 4pm
Venue: Scarborough town centre starting at the railway station. –
Location: In Person | Walk | Visit

Visit: Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington including a Visit to the Restored Chapel

Join us on a tour of Abney Park, one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries, as we discover its history.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Abney Park Cemetery –
Location: In Person | London | Visit
Ticket Price: £5
Date: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Showroom 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BX –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Talk

ƵShort Story Reading Group:The Cast-iron Canvasser’ by Banjo Paterson

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: Tour of Stanley Arts in South Norwood

Discover this delightful Grade II listed building hidden in the depths of south London.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Stanley Arts –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Visit: A Guided Tour of Guildhall Art Gallery, London – Morning

Looking at one of the country’s best collections of Ƶart at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Venue: Guildhall Art Gallery, London –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Visit: A Guided Tour of Guildhall Art Gallery, London – Afternoon

Looking at one of the country’s best collections of Ƶart at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Guildhall Art Gallery, London –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

Talk: The History of Port Sunlight with Gavin Hunter

Leverhulme historian Gavin Hunter will explore the vision of Port Sunlight and its development as an early exemplar of urban planning.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Lyceum,Bridge Street, Port Sunlight –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

Members’ Afternoon

Members and their guests are invited to bring a maximum of 6 images on a memory stick to explain and share.

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Ticket Price: £16 with light refreshments, including cakes.
Date: Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time: 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Venue: The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS. –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands
Ticket Price: £10.00
Date: Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church, Swinton M27 0WA –
Location: Manchester

Online Lecture: Restoring the Doulton’s Carrara Ware Façade at Findlater’s Corner

This talk, by Benedict O’ Looney, looks at the restoration of the Beaux Arts shop at Findlater’s Corner at London Bridge.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online –
Location: Online

May

Ticket Price: £10.00
Date: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
Time: 1.00 pm
Venue: Oxford Road Station, Manchester –
Location: In Person | Manchester | Walk

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘Promotion’ by Guy Boothby

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Walk: Liverpool’s Waterfront, A Walking Tourwith Peter de Figueiredo:

Discover Liverpool’s famous waterfront as we hear how the George’s Dock became the site of the three monumental Edwardian buildings.

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Ticket Price: £5
Date: Saturday, May 10th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: TBC –
Location: In Person | Liverpool

Walk: A Lutyens walk in Mayfair, led by Paul Waite of the Lutyens Trust

Explore the buildings of Ƶarchitect Edwin Lutyens, and his associates, which can be seen in the Mayfair area of London.

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: 7 St James Square, London –
Location: In Person | London | Walk
Ticket Price: £10.00
Date: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Time: 7pm for 7.15pm
Venue: Stretford Public Hall, Chester Road, Stretford M32 0LG –
Location: In Person | Manchester

Walk: Angel Islington to Smithfield Walk, Led by Alec Forshaw

Discover the stunning Ƶand Edwardian buildings to be found in the Angel neighbourhood during this evening walking tour.

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Ticket Price: £18
Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: Angel Tube Station –
Location: In Person | London | Walk

Walk: The Thames Path, from Tower Hill to Canary Wharf, Led by Steven Brindle

A chance to discover the Ƶheritage along the Thames path from Tower Hill to Canary Wharf.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Tower Hill Station Exit –
Location: In Person | London | Walk

Visit: Woking, England’s First Crematorium: A Visit led by Prof Hilary J Grainger

A unique opportunity to visit the UK’s first crematorium, designed by Edward Francis Channing Clarke in 1885.

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Ticket Price: £20
Date: Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Woking Crematorium –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

June

Online Lecture and in person: The Magnetic Margot Gayle , by Joshua Mardell

This lecture will (re-)introduce the American metallurgist, politician and preservationist Margot Gayle (1908-2008), who co-founded the ƵSociety in America on the advice of Nikolaus Pevsner in 1966, and established the Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture in 1970.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online or In-Person –
Location: Online | In Person | London
Ticket Price: Members £5. Non-members £8.
Date: Saturday, June 7th, 2025
Time: 2pm-4.30pm
Venue: Manningham Mills and surrounding area, Bradford –
Location: In Person | West Yorkshire | Walk | Visit
Ticket Price: £10.00
Date: Saturday, June 7th, 2025
Time: 11am
Venue: Meet at the Britannia Hotel, 35 Portland Street Manchester M1 3LA –
Location: Manchester

Visit: Lutyens, Flockhart, Waterhouse and Voysey Day – Visit to Goddards

A unique visit to explore the architecture of Goddards and surrounding buildings.

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Ticket Price: £55
Date: Sunday, June 8th, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: Goddards, Surrey –
Location: In Person | London | Visit

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘The Golden Shanty by Edward Dyson

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: ƵSudbury, Suffolk including a visit to a Functioning Brickyard

A unique opportunity for members to learn about the brickmaking process for historic buildings at a brickyard normally closed to the public.

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Ticket Price: £70
Date: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Venue: Sudbury (Suffolk) Station –
Location: In Person | Visit
Ticket Price: £5.00
Date: Saturday, June 14th, 2025
Time: 2.00 pm
Venue: Clifton House Museum Rotherham S65 2AA –
Location: In Person | South Yorkshire | Walk
Ticket Price: £10.00
Date: Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate Manchester M3 3EH –
Location: Manchester

Visit: ‘The Cathedral of Sewage’ – Crossness Pumping Station

Witness this extraordinary interior on a steaming day at Crossness Pumping Station. Join us as we go on a tour of the site to discover the historical context and impetus for Bazalgette’s revolutionary sewage system for London

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Ticket Price: £35
Date: Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: Crossness Pumping Station –
Location: In Person | London

Visit: Early Evening Walk in Birmingham City Centre

Birmingham city centre has a wealth of Victorian/Edwardian buildings, many of them around the Colmore Row area. This circular walk will allow us to discover and appreciate the architecture and design of some of them.
Cost £10.00. Led by Andy Foster

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Ticket Price: £10 including a hot drink at the start
Date: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
Time: 6.00 pm start
Venue: Java Lounge Coffee House, 124 Colmore Row, B3 3SN –
Location: In Person | Birmingham & West Midlands

July

Online Lecture: ƵTop Ten Endangered Buildings 2025

Join our caseworkers and Director as we discuss this year’s top ten endangered buildings and structures.

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Ticket Price: Donations
Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Venue: Online –
Location: Online
Ticket Price: £10.00 booking essential via [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Time: 12.30pm – 2.00pm
Venue: Meet at the corner of Newton Street and Piccadilly –
Location: Manchester

ƵShort Story Reading Group:‘Billy Skywonkie’ by Barbara Baynton

The ƵShort Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The current theme is colonial short stories, with stories from Australia.

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Ticket Price: £6
Date: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm
Venue: Priory Gardens, London W4 1TT –
Location: In Person | London