☹️ Sorry to report we have had to CANCEL our planned visit to Loxley Cemetery tomorrow, 19th July. The forecast thunderstorms and potentially treacherous ground when muddy means we must put safety first.
We will be rearranging the walk for summer 2026, keep an eye out for more details.
18.07.2025 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A walking tour of Victorian and Edwardian Rotherham - The Victorian Society
🚶Tomorrow, Saturday 14th June-Guided walk through Rotherham Town Centre by our own Graham Hague
Starts 2pm at Clifton Park Museum, details here
bit.ly/400aqo6 Tickets still available
13.06.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Clock is ticking to prevent the Corbett Arms in Tywyn from partial demolition. We need as many objections as possible. Go to the planning portal bit.ly/43s4Mxn The Planning Application ref is:
C25/0403/09/CR. You'll need to register to be able to comment it takes a few mins.🧵
02.06.2025 17:52 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
BBC Sounds - From South Yorkshire
Sheffield
Vic Soc President Griff Rhys Jones and Fiona Milne of the Birley Spa Friends Group speak about number three of the 2025 Top Ten Endangered Building
bbc.in/43u0qEq
23.05.2025 10:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
News from the Victorian Society | Griff Rhys Jones reveals the Victorian Society's list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
News about Griff Rhys Jones reveals the Victorian Society's list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 from the The Victorian Society - National News news.
Nationally, The Victorian Society announce our 2025 Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings. Sadly there are sites from all parts of the country-all in need of serious help to survive into the future.
bit.ly/4jlKCtA
Keep an eye out for individual posts over the coming days, inc two in Yorkshire 🤍
23.05.2025 09:39 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Manchester Peace Trail - The Victorian Society
🌼First Summer event a walk through parts of Manchester with Steve Roman of Manchester Regional Group. Passing some highlights of Manchester’s Victorian and Edwardian buildings, themes will include Peterloo, popular reform and suffrage movements, Free Trade and free thinking
Book Here bit.ly/3GgQUgi
23.04.2025 13:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Talk: Philosophical Foundations: Origins of Sheffield's First Public Museum in Weston Park - The Victorian Society
Sheffield’s Weston Park Museum is 150 years old in 2025 – A Talk by Alistair McLean, Curator of Natural Science, Sheffield Museums Trust.
Tues 8th April is our talk at Showroom 5 in Sheffield. Our last talk for spring 2025 explores the origins of Sheffield's first public museum 150 years ago. Collections of the Literary & Philosophical Society from private house to public facility in 1875 with Alistair McLean 🏦
bit.ly/41Y7rhA
03.04.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Regional Group South Yorkshire - The Victorian Society
Join the South Yorkshire group of the Victorian Society to help preserve the region’s rich Victorian architectural heritage.
👶Less than a week to our next talk at Showroom5 in Sheffield- 11th February 7pm doors- Popular speaker Mary Garside will talk about the Workhouse Scattered Homes system for children- Link to details and booking here www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
or you can just turn up on the night
05.02.2025 13:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Concern at loss of three historic Sheffield buildings- with fourth at risk
Heritage campaigners have condemned delays to new protections in part of Sheffield that has lost three buildings this year - with a fourth at risk.
We have a campaign running for the designation of a Castlegate Conservation Area in Sheffield. See what the local @sheffieldstar.bsky.social had to say at the New Year. We look forward to a stronger expression of support from @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social with consultation proposals bit.ly/3WohWrj
17.01.2025 12:54 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Harmony Works Trust secures multi-million pounds in funding to restore historic Canada House
Harmony Works Trust has successfully secured a £4,677,306 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, contributing significantly to the proposed restoration of Canada House in Sheffield city centre...
Hoping 2025 willl be a good news year for South Yorkshire heritage- News that HLF have awarded over £4M to Harmony Works in Sheffield to refurbish and develop Grade 2* Canada House on Commercial Street into a Regional music education hub- Harmony Works vision has finally paid off
bit.ly/4gRrQdd
15.01.2025 15:51 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Regional Group South Yorkshire - The Victorian Society
Join the South Yorkshire group of the Victorian Society to help preserve the region’s rich Victorian architectural heritage.
Wishing all of you that are interested in our South Yorkshire Victorian & Edwardian Heritage a Happy New Year 🍾🥂
We have a busy year ahead campaigning for Castlegate Conservation Area and trying to save threatened buildings throughout SYorks
If you can help see our website bit.ly/4ahxXVL to join
01.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
'conservation is commercially very valuable. It gives an area its character, it creates places where people want to live and work. It’s not just about preserving an old building, it’s a record. A record of the continuity of this town that we live in...'
Griff Rhys Jones, @thetimes.com bit.ly/3BCWTKj
19.12.2024 18:37 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
💂 Looking forward to the day these soldiers of the Crimean war have a proper memorial in the city centre, with the reinstatement of the Crimean Memorial, long promised by @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social but yet to find a suitable home 💂
20.12.2024 11:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Regional News from the Victorian Society | Sheffield City Council buys Salvation Army Citadel in the city centre
Sheffield City Council buys Salvation Army Citadel in the city centre | The Victorian Society regional news.
Our last story in this series about the mixed results for heritage in Sheffield is a good news story. Years of neglect and pressure from campaigners has secured the Salvation Army Citadel for the city.
bit.ly/4fl2UJs
Council now needs to find the political will and the partners to make this work
14.12.2024 14:20 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Regional News from the Victorian Society | Wiley & Co Facade lost to the Sheffield Cityscape
Wiley & Co Facade lost to the Sheffield Cityscape | The Victorian Society regional news.
The 3rd and final heritage building lost during 2024 was derelict and neglected for 6 years before it was deemed dangerous to the public and demolished with no attempt to save any of the significant historic fabric.
See the story here.
bit.ly/41xkFBN
Tomorrow good news for the weekend?
13.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Regional News from the Victorian Society | Unique Sheffield Heritage Asset Lost to Redevelopment
Unique Sheffield Heritage Asset Lost to Redevelopment | The Victorian Society regional news.
The 2nd of our significant heritage buildings lost in 2024 is the Old Coroner's Court, Nursery Street, Sheffield. A irreplacable example of a combined Coroner's Court and Mortuary from before the first world war, now lost to another modern box with little merit. See the story here.
bit.ly/3ZQN44I
12.12.2024 21:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Regional News from the Victorian Society | Shocking Demolition of Heritage Asset “…in error…”
Read about the shocking demolition mistake in our latest regional news. Learn how we're working to protect our valuable Victorian heritage. Stay informed and engaged with our efforts.
🎄As 2024 draws to a close it has been a mixed year for our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. 3 significant heritage buildings lost and one brought into public ownership by Sheffield City Council.
Over the rest of the week I'll highlight those stories.
1st The Market Tavern bit.ly/3Dawns8 demolished
11.12.2024 16:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A looming office block overshadowing Liverpool St Station would have a profound & harmful impact on the surrounding Bishopsgate Conservation Area. The harm to the historic environment from Network Rail's & Acme's proposed design would be substantial. A small tour:
Bishopsgate Institute by wirewiper
05.12.2024 16:37 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
South Yorkshire - The Victorian Society
There are key buildings under threat in every part of the region, including the Old Town Hall in Sheffield.
Find more information about our heritage campaigning and events in South Yorkshire through our web pages on the National Website
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-gro...
Picture shows the Old Town Hall on Waingate in Sheffield which is deteriorating rapidly and suffering from years of neglect
27.11.2024 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The chapel site was badly overgrown. We started clearing it in 2013. The chapel was demolished in the 1950s. The mound on which it stood has become a performance space and is where we hold our Remembrance Service.
The neatly cut grass on the chapel site with poppy wreaths laid at the base of the obelisk memorial.
The overgrown chapel site in 2013.
How the chapel site looks now with neatly cut grass. The view is from the far end towards the obelisk and beyond that the entrance to the cemetery.
The chapel site in 2013 and how it looks today.
27.11.2024 09:17 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Nominations for The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2025 are open! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated + neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings. The deadline is 31 Dec 2024. Here's how: bit.ly/3YzRjkp #heritage
Kennington Boys’ School, Lambeth 📷 Connor McNeill
13.11.2024 13:55 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Hello All,
Just arrived on Blue Sky and are looking forward to this more supportive and increasingly well connected social media platform
We are a regional group for our national charity to be found here @thevicsoc.bsky.social
Campaigning for South Yorkshire's Victorian & Edwardian heritage
27.11.2024 16:53 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
West Yorkshire group of the @thevicsoc.bsky.social fighting to preserve our Victorian and Edwardian heritage.
We run a regular programme of walks and talks across West Yorkshire: https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/regional-groups/west-yorkshire/
Victorian buildings, culture and social history. Preservation and repurposing of built Heritage. Local History. Feminist. Yorkshire. Wensleydale cheese. Trade Unionist.
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Join us on our journey to bring the last Carrickfergus built ship 'Result' home as a heritage attraction & community events space. Built in 1893 to trade in the Irish Sea, 'Result' was also a First World War Q-Ship
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Books, bandstands, Black Sabbath, PhD in Public and Urban Parks, postcards, parkitecture, public speaking, music, vinyl, and photography. www.paulrabbitts.co.uk
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Writer and historian looking into the history of our best seaside hotels.Now focussing on the Royal hotels of Yorkshire
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Executive Director @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social. 24-years of local government leadership. Director @theied.bsky.social and Member of ADEPT UK. Fellow @cihhousing.bsky.social . Love coffee and doing a bit of amateur art …
We are the Friends of Friendless Churches — we rescue, repair & protect historic ‘closed’ places of worship in England & Wales.
Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Recovering former Parish Councillor now living in Lincolnshire. Functioning #coffee addict, keen interest in public affairs, defence and heritage. 🏳️🌈
HOLT restores London's historic buildings and monuments ✨ heritageoflondon.org
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