Today's the day of our first Keelmen's Hospital Community Event, but don't worry if you missed out on a place this time, you can register for our second event next week here: buytickets.at/tyneandwearb...
12.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
An image of the Tower of London with the following text: 'The Heritage Alliance. Heritage Day 2025. Heritage Creates.'
We're looking forward to joining @heritagealliance.bsky.social at #HeritageDay2025 next week.
We will be hosting a panel session on #Heritage Housing with:
- @roskerslake.bsky.social
- Martin Hulse, @twbpt.bsky.social
- @mprinparr.bsky.social
- Sarah Allan from MHCLG
24.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3
What does the Montague Pit Disaster mean to people today? On Monday 17th of February, get a chance to learn about the stories of the disaster's victims, and to create art about stories important to you. Please share!
14.02.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dunston: Staiths, Steamers and Teemers - Tyne Derwent Way
Join our guide to discover more about Dunston Staiths. Free but booking essential.
Check out this free heritage walk at Dunston Staiths this Saturday: www.tynederwentway.co.uk/article/2742...
Join expert guide Tony Stephenson to discover more about one of Europe's largest timber structures. 🚂
30.01.2025 13:09 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
George and Margaret Binns, who established the drapery in 1804, went on to have 15 children! One of them being Henry Binns (pictured here). Henry took over the family business when his father died in 1836. His brother, George Jr, had a different career path ahead...
28.01.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today we're looking back at our work on Sunderland's High St. West. Beginning as a small drapery business, people in the NE remember Binns department stores. As well as telling the story of Sunderland's development, the story of the Binns family intertwines with working class politics in the region.
28.01.2025 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A Victorian pencil sketch of a man wrapped up in warm clothing being touched on the shoulder by a ghost.
Winter has long been linked with ghosts. C19 NE folklorists also saw late December as haunting season, noting that Co. Durham was on high alert for ghosts from St Thomas' Eve until Christmas Eve, when they returned to the spirit realm. If St Mary's had ghosts, we'd be sure they have stories to tell!
10.12.2024 10:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It looks like a another busy shopping weekend on Northumberland Street ahead, why not do get some of your Christmas list sorted online and gift a Trust membership to a heritage-loving loved one? Memberships support the work of the Trust in saving local buildings and sharing them with the public. 🎁
05.12.2024 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A staircase on the Dunstan Staiths, believed to be the largest timber structure in Europe. It was built to transport coal from the Durham coalfields along the River Tyne. Opened 1893. #staircase #photography #b&w #Gateshead
20.11.2024 14:21 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Welcome to the Bluesky page for Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust! We're looking forward to sharing updates about our sites in the North East including St Mary's Heritage Centre, Dunston Staiths, and Keelmen's Hospital. Here's an image of Keelmen's from 1885 when it was tenement housing. 🏫
28.11.2024 11:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Help us to create a museum about the witch trials held in Essex during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
EssexWitchMuseum.co.uk
The Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust (GGIFT) is a small building preservation trust founded in 2010, with the object of preserving the Grade II* listed Ice Factory and initiating a programme of heritage-led regeneration in Grimsby.
Working in property, housing, heritage and regeneration.
Chair Leeds Castle & AHF. NED Homes England, Sanctuary, UCEM, Re-Form Heritage.
Middleport Pottery is the UK's oldest working pottery and an award-winning visitor destination.
GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
Caring about buildings, streets, and nature in Beeston+ since ‘73. #bemorecivic
Registered charity 503241
Campaigners for Heritage & our Environment
*Protecting the Past
*Promoting the Present
*Planning for Posterity
Est. 1973
Registered Charity (2360340) established in 1964 to encourage high standards of architecture, town planning and heritage conservation in Wakefield.
Website: https://wakefieldcivicsociety.org.uk
We protect and regenerate London's historic buildings.
30 years of saving the City's Heritage at Risk 🏛️
https://linktr.ee/londonhistoricbuildings
Scottish Historic Buildings Trust is a charity dedicated to regenerating significant historic buildings for the benefit of others throughout the whole of Scotland.
www.shbt.org.uk
Hearth Historic Buildings Trust’s mission is to rescue and restore historic buildings at risk for the enjoyment and benefit of all.
We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
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