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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Earlier action should and could have been taken to secure a different future for this church. Across the UK, former places of worship have been successfully adapted for new uses that benefit their communities, from arts centres to housing.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The grade II-listed All Souls Church in Manchester - a shocking end for a building which has suffered years of deterioration and decay.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📣'Mentmore Towers is an astonishing building capable of modern use. There's no good reason why it should be allowed to fall down as it waits for a purpose' @countrylifemag.bsky.social on #Batman house. It praises @buckscouncil.bsky.social for its stand 👉 t.co/fiOoSLm2L1 📸 Jigsaw Aerial Imagery
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨Breaking: SAVE signs @scotcivictrust.bsky.social letter calling on Chief Executive of @glasgowcc.bsky.social to reverse demolition plans for Hillhead Baptist church 🏗️ www.scottishcivictrust.org.uk/news/read-ou...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🍿🎞️When the Bradford Odeon was threatened with demolition it sparked local uproar. But what could be done? ♻️Read the story of this incredible restoration bit.ly/4zCI3fS Images: David-Oxtaby, Archive of Leslie Overend
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
✨Nearly 800 events at this years #OpenHouse London SAVE is hosting several, including: 📌Lost Aldwych, 19 Sep, 11:00–12:30 📌Georgian Grafton Street: Sprüth Magers Gallery, 19 Sep, 15:30–17:00 See the full list: programme.openhouse.org.uk/calendar
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📢 Campaign Spotlight: Save Braughing Railway Bridge! 🚂 Campaigners in Hertfordshire are rallying to save the historic Braughing railway bridge from being infilled with concrete. Ensure repair options are fully explored by signing their petition 🔽 www.change.org/p/save-bridg...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
✍️We've written to Housing Secretary Angela Rayner asking her to prioritise reuse over demolition to create thousands of homes and jobs. Historic England estimate 670k homes could be created by repurposing historic buildings. Let's unlock the potential of England’s housing stock
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
💡 Did you know? St James’s square is the former residence of three prime ministers, aristocrats and Nancy Astor, Britain's first woman MP. 🔍Explore St James's, the West End and Clubland with us on 18 July📍 Book your spot: t.co/CHEgNMzNna
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢Statement re. recent fire at the category B-listed French Renaissance-style former Palace Hotel at 109-111 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢BREAKING: Today we've added a record number of buildings to our Buildings at Risk list. From pubs and pits to town halls and theatres – all with potential for new life♻️ Browse the collection: www.savebritainsheritage.org/buildings-at...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
‼️Another loss to Glasgow’s heritage The 1883 Hillhead Baptist Church is set is to be demolished. At a hearing today councillor votes were split (3 for / 3 against), but the Chair (SNP) cast their vote in favour of the developer. 📝SAVE formally objected twice to demolition.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thanks to everyone who came on our 2 London Underground design tours this w/e - learning about the Piccadilly & Jubilee line stations Huge👏 to our expert guide Mike Ashworth. Is there any Q he can't answer?! Our Tube tours always sell fast. Find out first: sign up for our bulletin bit.ly/4ckOvyC
People in a silver Tube tunnel listening to a tour guide pointing out design features
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Join SAVE this Sunday 7 June for a guided tour of the Jubilee Line Extension, exploring the award-winning stations that transformed the Underground. Part of #LFA26 📍 Discover the stories, design +heritage beneath London’s streets. 🎟️ Last few tickets: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/explo...
Jubilee line stations
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Mason's Arms, named after the community of stonemasons who've worked nearby for nearly 200 years. 🍺The pub retains exceptional Victorian features, including a rare casket display case - used during funerals so mourners could pay their respects through the window!⚰️
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🆘Demolition Alert! Historic Victorian pub in Kensal Green. SAVE is urging Brent Council to halt plans to demolish the pub - beside one of London's 'Magnificent Seven cemeteries' - to build a 6-storey block. Have your say, write to Brent here: pa.brent.gov.uk/online-appli...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨Breaking : SAVE successfully challenges ‘irrational’ decision for 18-storey tower in Whitechapel. Tower Hamlets Council must reconsider controversial plans after High Court ruling. Read about our campaign alongside local residents, Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Hall➡️ bit.ly/4ekkbWo
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨Sign the petition to stop the DEMOLITION of a 100+ year old church in Lancashire. A developer submitted plans to Wyre Council to bulldoze the Cleveleys United Reformed Church + build a "cardboard' box style" convenience store 💥🏗️ It's not too late to have your say➡️ www.change.org/p/save-the-c...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Catch our director Henrietta Billings on The Brief podcast with Sahiba Chadha✨ 🎙️Get the latest on Oldham's Mayer-Marton mural, the former London Museum building and the latest developments at Liverpool St station 👀 🔊Listen to the podcast: shows.acast.com/opencity
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
SAVE has long advocated for the many ways to reuse department stores. In 2022, we published Departing Stores, a report on the decline of these high street titans, showing how across the country second lives are being given to these local landmarks. www.savebritainsheritage.org/docs/general...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🍻ANOTHER ROUND OF GOOD NEWS: Demolition of The Anglesea Arms has been refused! 🔔A few weeks ago, SAVE rang the bell to notify the public about the proposed razing of this 184 year old pub in South London. 📷Ewan M
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🍻SAVE has written to Greenwich Council to ask them to halt the total demolition of the locally-listed, 184 year-old Anglesea Arms pub. A Developer has submitted plans to build 7 flats. You can object here➡️ planning.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online-appli...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
👣Walk past a neglected building that makes you sigh every time? Do you imagine it alive again – as housing, a performance space or maybe a hub for your community? 📢SAVE’s 2026 Buildings at Risk register is open for entries. Nominate a building here➡️ www.savebritainsheritage.org/buildings-at...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🚨Breaking news: Network Rail's plans for Liverpool St station have been approved by City of London councillors by 19 votes to 3. See our statement below.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🗞️Breaking! SAVE submits JMP alternative vision for Liverpool Street Station to the City of London. 💬SAVE's director, Henrietta Billings said: "This is a signal of our intent and our belief in this alternative vision." Find out more @news.architectsjournal.co.uk bit.ly/4byRALw
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
✨Our Director Henrietta Billings, has written a thoughtful piece for @thegentleauthor.bsky.social on plans for Liverpool St Station, showing how we can protect the Victorian heritage alongside essential accessibility upgrades. Read here➡️https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/01/30/liverpool-st-station/
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🎤What can you do to stop Network Rail's plans for years of disruption at Liverpool Street Station? You can object! 👏Well said, Griff Rhys Jones! There's still time to make your voice heard ✍️ 🔎There is an alternative! Read more on our website: bit.ly/45Zb0p1 #LiverpoolStreetStation
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
From Glasgow to Plymouth, Yorkshire to E Anglia, we've spent our 50th year travelling the country, collaborating with brilliant local groups & celebrating remarkable buildings🏛️ We've had a blast. We hope you have too. Here's to the next 50!🙂 #buildings #history #architecture #heritage #SAVEtoreuse
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚂SAVE first flagged Gosport Station as an risk in our 1979 publication 'Off the Rails'. This grade II*-listed former station was converted into housing in an award-winning scheme. ➡️Read our latest piece on what’s next for our railway heritage bit.ly/4lxYlyu
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
BREAKING: A fresh approach to upgrading Liverpool St Stn unveiled today. We welcome John McAslan + Partners ‘valuable contribution’ to debate on changes at UK’s busiest station. It shows how upgrades could be achieved without disruption to passengers. Learn more👉 bit.ly/4lxYlyu
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
GOOD NEWS // One of the most memorable & theatrical spaces on the #Tube has been saved! We’re delighted #Southwark Station has been nationally recognised with grade II listing by Historic England for its architectural & historic importance😍 👉https://bit.ly/43lrAyo #architecture #design #stations
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🎟️JOIN US ONLINE! In-person tickets for Kevin’s lecture have sold out – but you can still book to watch online: bit.ly/483JMzN If you’re longing to come in person, just add yourself to the waiting list!
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📽️Building a Movement — a new film marking 50 years of SAVE. The full film is live on our website! Heritage, campaigning & reuse shaping towns & cities 🌱🏛️🔄 👉 Watch for free: bit.ly/46ssJGb #heritage #historicbuildings #filmpremiere #SAVEBritainsHeritage #SAVEat50
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
SAVE’s new ACT NOW! Toolkit is a free step-by-step guide to help anyone campaign for threatened historic buildings — drawing on 50 years of SAVE’s experience. 💪 Practical, proven, and made for everyone who believes heritage matters. 🔗View now: bit.ly/3IvIjrB
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🙌 Grand Designs’ Kevin_McCloud will deliver SAVE’s 50th anniversary lecture, Reinventing Buildings: A Manifesto for the Imagination, at the V&A on 25 Nov. 🗣️ He’ll call for radical change in how we value and protect the places people love. 🎟️Book now: bit.ly/483JMzN
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
We had a fantastic time (ahem) in Liverpool, exploring some of the city's best buildings & hearing about #SAVEcampaigns over the last 50yrs, from the Lyceum to Albert Dock and the Welsh Streets Thx to everyone who joined us- and 👏 to our expert guide Jonathan Brown #SAVEis50 #heritage #liverpool
Giant clock in ornate library
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
What a great splash in today’s @thetimes.com by @davidbyers26.bsky.social celebrating the importance of SAVE’s work safeguarding historic buildings - from castles to cotton mills, dept stores to stations - for future generations ♻️ #SAVEcampaigns #SAVE50 #reuse 🏫 www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Loved Simon Jenkins’s piece in today's #CountryLife on our 50 years! 🙌 Join us in #Liverpool to see some of the stars of the article – from the #Bealtes’ childhood streets to the #AlbertDock, and other bold SAVE campaigns. 🔗 bit.ly/43NYQin BOOK HERE 📸 Image of article in Country Life, 9 July 2025.
Magazine spread from Country Life (9 July 2025) featuring a double-page photo of Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock, with its distinctive red-brick warehouses reflected in the water below. The headline reads “SAVE at 50,” marking the 50th anniversary of SAVE Britain's Heritage. The article highlights SAVE’s role in historic preservation efforts, including the restoration of the Albert Dock.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
‼️Today is the last chance to object to plans for a 19-storey tower over Liverpool St Stn, destroying much of the buiding, casting its light-filled concourse into shadow & harming the historic streetscape. All in an area of the City designated inappropriate for towers 😕 #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
Station concourse filled with people. Natural daylight pours in through the glazed roof
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
‘Buildings that are left derelict or vacant for a number of years –as Medlock Mill had been– are more vulnerable to tragic instances’ SAVE conservation ofcr Lydia Franklin talks to @itvnews.bsky.social abt urgency of bringing historic bdgs back to life Sign up for our news bulletin👉 bit.ly/4kaRFqC
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🎉 SAVE is 50! We’re celebrating one of our greatest achievements — a resource that has helped rescue 100s of buildings: the Buildings at Risk register: shorturl.at/XmwOy 🚨 50 buildings added today! 🎟️ Join us tonight in London for the launch: shorturl.at/yXoD3
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🎉 SAVE is 50! From fragile stately homes to vibrant public places — like Wentworth Woodhouse — SAVE has spent 50 years turning risk into opportunity. Be part of what comes next. 🔗 shorturl.at/shortener.php #SAVE50 #SupportSAVE
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Join us on Wednesday 25th June for the launch of this year’s Buildings at Risk register🏚️🥳 🗣️Hear from Liz Fuller, our Buildings at Risk officer & @ArchHFund 's Matthew Mckeague 🏛️ + see our new 50th anniversary film 🎬 + drinks 🍷 🎟️Book now: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/save-...
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🤔Where are the places you feel you have 'emotional ownership'? Maybe the biggest landmark in town - or a humbler place you pass every day?🏤🏨 Thx @SiHenley & @thegentleauthor for such a stimulating @LFArchitecture convo on 'embodied memory'💡 #belonging #heritage #SAVEis50
Three people in front of a packed audience (Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain's Heritage, writer and historian The Gentle Author and architect Simon Henley)
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BREAKING NEWS // Massive congratulations to our partners #NudgeCommunityBuilders in Plymouth 🤩They've won £10k Davidson Prize w their imaginative ideas for 300 affordable homes reusing empty buildings on Union Street Catch our video showcasing their awesome work next week bit.ly/45kbIhh #heritage
People taking part in a sunny event outside a brightly painted historic building with the word HOPE emblazoned on the top
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
👏 Thanks for the warm welcome, #Plymouth & Nudge Community Builders. What an inspiring couple of days seeing your brilliant work bringing derelict buildings back to life step by step - and sharing SAVE’s national experience. 👷 Your creativity, grit and joy are contagious! #SAVEis50 #heritage
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Idyllic spot to end SAVE’s Bournemouth tour led by expert guide Hattie Miles: clifftop @Russell_Cotes gallery, built by Victorian collector Merton RC for wife Annie’s bday. Without a kitchen… because all their meals came from the 5* hotel they owned next door. Thanks to all who came 😎
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
'Demolition would be like chopping off a leg to treat someone with a sprained ankle' SAVE's structural engineer 👷‍♂️ Jon Avent quoted by @northwaleslive on the proposed destruction of the Corbett Arms Hotel. 🗞️Read the story: t.co/m9olKTLUGc
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨Breaking News // Save the Corbett Arms Hotel! 👷"No justification": SAVE engineer refutes total demolition of Welsh hotel planned for this Friday! 📰 Read our press release: shorturl.at/ei5SF Email the CEO of Gwynedd Council to object dafyddgibbard@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"I would love for it to be restored. It would fill me with so much joy, it would also make me very proud of Trimley station" 🚂💭 A survey has generated over 140 suggestions for the future of this building, including reuse as an art gallery, community café, or library📚☕️
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