Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 05/05/2026🏖️ ONLINE TALK! Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture in Wales: Pools, Piers & Pleasure with Dr Kathryn Ferry — 10th June 2025, 6.30pm. Join us for a tour along Wales's seafronts exploring how Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern and Brutalism shaped our resort architecture. Tickets: buff.ly/zBU9WpK 0107
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Despite the grey and drizzly weather on the North Wales coast, our @c20cymru SC Folkes day was brightened by a wonderfully eclectic mix of buildings & architectural styles. Diolch yn fawr to Adam Voelcker, Conwy Archives, and all who braved the rain with us. 📸 @christianlindsay @susiefielding123 093
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Er gwaethaf y tywydd gwlyb ar hyd arfordir gogledd Cymru, cafodd ein diwrnod S C Folkes ei loywi gan gymysgedd o adeiladau ac arddulliau pensaernïol gwych. Diolch i Adam Voelcker, Archifau Conwy ac i bawb ddaeth allan er gwaethaf y glaw. 📸 @christianlindsay @susiefielding123 052
Reposted by Susie Fielding capelicymru.bsky.social @capelicymru.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Last night, the Capeli Cymru team had a fantastic time at the Keith and Marj: Us, Pots, and a Welsh Chapel show! 151
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Casa Batllo - beautiful but busy #barcelona #Gaudi #architecture 040
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Barcelona Pavilion Mies van der Rohe 1929/1986 #architecturephotography #barcelona #modernistarchitecture #miesvanderohe 071
Reposted by Susie Fielding NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/04/2026A new national census of Nonconformist chapels across Wales has been launched, in a bid to build the most comprehensive picture in over a century of their condition, use and future wp.me/p8Mk4U-1iH4 03012
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Capel Rehoboth, a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel high above Arthog. Long derelict but not forgotten with a memorial to Gwynfor Evans and the final resting place of Dewi Prys Thomas. @capelicymru #capelicymru #welshchapels #gwynforevans #dewiprysthomas 011
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 31/03/2026@capelicymru.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social are carrying out a census of Welsh Nonconformist Chapels to get data on how many of the 6,500 chapels in Wales are open and what has happened to those which closed for worship. Please take time to submit info on the chapels in your area and share! 033
Reposted by Susie Fielding capelicymru.bsky.social @capelicymru.bsky.social · 06/03/2026This month, the Capeli Cymru project team are hosting and attending a range of events. We would love to see you at some of these events, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of caring for chapel heritage. 173
Reposted by Susie Fielding capelicymru.bsky.social @capelicymru.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The Capeli Cymru Project Team will be at the Market Hall, Holyhead on the 24th February, alongside Holy Island Landscape Partnership, Oriel Môn, Anglesey Archives, and Holyhead Townscape Heritage Initiative. 243
Reposted by Susie Fielding capelicymru.bsky.social @capelicymru.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Gweler isod wybodaeth am gynllun grant atgyweirio newydd yng Nghymru gan Ymddiriedolaeth Eglwysi Genedlaethol. See below information about a new repair grant scheme in Wales by National Churches Trust. #CapeliCymru #WelshChapelsnationalchurchestrust.orgCymru/Wales: Grade I & II* listed repair grantThanks to new funding we have received to support Grade I and II* listed churches, chapel and meeting houses in Wales/Cymru to make urgent repairs, we have created this additional grant scheme. This g... 021
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Thanks to a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, @rcahmwales.bsky.social is developing a new project to safeguard the heritage of #WelshChapels - we are recruiting for two posts to come and work with me on the development phase of #CapeliCymru so take look! rcahmw.gov.uk/royal-commis...rcahmw.gov.uk RCAHMW | Royal Commission Launches Major Project to Safeguard Wales’s Nonconformist Chapels 121
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Dewi-Prys Thomas (1916-85) First University of Wales professor of architecture, Head of the Welsh School of Architecture, and instigator of a Town Planning Department, he had a profound influence on Welsh architecture and town planning 📷 Talar Wen, Llangadog & Pencadlys, Caernarfon 032
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Telephone Exchange, Brackla Street, Bridgend which operated 1960-1987. Mrs Margaret Curnock from Pontycymer, who took the first call in the centre, was photographed also taking the last ever call ☎️ 061
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 10/03/2025📢 Join C20 Cymru in Monmouthshire! Saturday 26 April We'll visit The Savoy Theatre for a talk on C20 theatres by Rob Firman, then go to High Glanau Manor, built for Henry Avray Tipping, editor of Country Life. We’ll have a tour of the Arts and Crafts gardens, followed by cream tea 🫖 bitly.cx/YmUA4 053
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 20/02/2025So pleased to have a successful outcome for Wrexham Waterworld, especially as this was the second attempt for designation! 🏊 041
Reposted by Susie Fielding C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 31/01/2025⚠️Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat! Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University. C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it. ✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve... 25925
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 04/02/2025📢Job alert: Trust Manager for Addoldai Cymru: The Welsh Religious Buildings Trust 22.5 hours a week £24,132.60 p.a. (£40,221.00 pro rata) welshchapels.wales/support-us/s...welshchapels.wales 044
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 04/02/2025C is: Theatr Clwyd Opened 1976, Theatr Clwyd was designed by Flintshire County Architect RW Harvey. Grade II as an important post war civic arts and theatre complex, extensive work is now underway, radically altering the original form @c20society.bsky.social c20society.org.uk/news/plans-t... 0113
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Fantastic Tim Burton exhibition at @designmuseum.bsky.social this weekend - old favourites and some additions to Ceinwen's 'must see's'... 131
Reposted by Susie Fielding The Heritage Alliance @heritagealliance.bsky.social · 27/01/2025We're seeking insights on the challenges facing the #heritage sector to shape our next sector support programme. Please fill in our questionnaire and let us know about the types of support you would find most useful. 🏰 📝 Fill Out Our Form Here 👉 buff.ly/3PQHyJy 066
Reposted by Susie Fielding John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 28/01/2025We’re doing this tomorrow! Zoom along for some Brutalism from the comfort of your sofa 5319
Reposted by Susie Fielding docomomoscot.bsky.social @docomomoscot.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Scotland's Superpits: Talk on 20 February in person and online Dr Miles Oglethorpe will outline the history of coal mining in Scotland in the 20th century and explore the emergence of superpits and their architectural development Info & tickets £7/£5/£3 at tickettailor.com/events/docomomoscotland 0168
Reposted by Susie Fielding Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 21/01/2025NEWS | Bangor’s Brutalist ‘Eyesore of the Year’ listed www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/bangors...architectsjournal.co.ukBangor’s Brutalist ‘Eyesore of the Year’ listedThe Brambell Laboratory at Bangor University has been Grade II-listed, while the Grade I listing for... 1175
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 17/01/2025www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comExperts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildingsArchitectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style 032
Reposted by Susie Fielding Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Y Fari Lwyd, ger Llangynwyd ar y penwythnos. 021
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Sad news that the Big Apple, Mumbles has been damaged by a car. A rare survival of a 1930s Cidatone kiosk of reinforced concrete, converted to an ice-cream kiosk. It's not the first time - the 2019 listing specified it was Ford Fiesta last time 😉 Hopefully support will be available to fully restore! 0357
Reposted by Susie Fielding Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Before the bleakness of 2025 really sets in, why don’t you treat yourself to me waffling on to the Mirror about post-war pubs www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...mirror.co.ukUK's weird, wonderful and largely overlooked estate pubs are quickly vanishingArchitectural investigators Matthew Bristow and Emily Cole warn that post-war drinking dens have fallen out of fashion, yet symbolise an important part of the UK's history 26022
Reposted by Susie Fielding Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hard to believe that this Milwaukee home was built over a century ago! It’s one of the “American System-Built Homes”, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915, as affordable kit-built housing for those “of moderate income”. Sadly, stymied by WW1 archive.curbed.com/2016/12/16/1... 920732
Reposted by Susie Fielding Anglesey Antiquarian Society – Cymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Môn @antiquariansmon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Our next Day School, Anglesey and Ireland: connections through time, will be on 15 Feb. 2025. There will be five notable lecturers who are acknowledged experts on different aspects of Anglesey and Ireland’s history and there will be ample opportunities for questions and discussions during the day. 11610
Reposted by Susie Fielding Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Os da chi yn #Aberystwyth ar 24 Ionawr dwi'n siwr bydd yn werth mynychu'r digwyddiad yma efo @gwallter.bsky.social yn trafod ei lyfr newydd yn The Bookshop By The Sea 166
Reposted by Susie Fielding Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Ever since seating first began to appear in churches in the 14th century, seating arrangements have been a contentious matter intertwined with local social hierarchies. 📷 St Cynhaearn's, Ynyscynhaearn, Gwynedd 35711
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 10/01/2025And equally wonderful that the listing description for the Arts Building at Bangor has been upgraded to include the post-war additions - the Library Extension of 1963 and north-east range of 1968, both also Percy Thomas & Son. cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/list... 030
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Wonderful that the Brambell Zoology Building at Bangor University has been listed at Grade II! 1971, William Marsden for Percy Thomas & Sons coflein.gov.uk/en/site/424425 1153
Reposted by Susie Fielding The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive 528183158424
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 02/01/2025📢 Wonderful job opportunity in Welsh heritage for the New Year! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...civilservicejobs.service.gov.ukID 2056 - Senior Inspector of Historic Buildings, Parks and Gardens - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UKSearch and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service 198
Reposted by Susie Fielding John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Pamphlets are back in stock on my website: a motorway services fantasia and the story of a lost modernist Christmas www.johngrindrod.co.uk/shop 4355
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Help restore Llandudno Pier for 2027! ⬇️ #SeasideHeritage #WelshPiers #Llandudno 051
Reposted by Susie Fielding kimiannucci.bsky.social @kimiannucci.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales. This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us 2299
Reposted by Susie Fielding Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Even if all the negative consequences of this homeowner’s choice to obliterate their front garden - such as increased risk of flooding and overheating - were solely borne by them (they aren’t), this would still be an aesthetic tragedy. The car has has turned us into a heartless and artless people. 1121640
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I know there are worse results of #StormDarragh, but sad to see the damage done to Llandudno Pier by the winds today #Llandudno Images @bbcwales.bsky.social 1164
Reposted by Susie Fielding Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Closing Friday 13 December 2024 - the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is looking for a new section editor with expertise in post-1800 Irish historybuff.lyCall for Section Editor: Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience. 0910
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Update on Zion Chapel, Newtown -sold for £200,000 to an 'anonymous artist of international renown' so fingers crossed for a bright future for the building! www.hallsgb.com/chapel-sells...hallsgb.comImposing Newtown Chapel Sells for £200,000 at Property AuctionHope to use chapel sold in property auction asa space for exhibitions of international art and teaching seminars 251
Reposted by Susie Fielding Jonathan Vining @jonathanvining.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Recently published in the RSAW’s ‘Touchstone’ magazine, my article ‘Municipal master’, which records the life and work of Johnson Blackett (1896-1984) - the epitome in Wales of an architect as public servant. 0113
Reposted by Susie Fielding @C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Noswaith da! C20 Cymru covers the rich and unique 20th and 21st century built heritage of the Welsh nation as part of @c20society.bsky.social Mae C20 Cymru yn cynrychioli’r dreftadaeth adeiledig gyfoethog ac unigryw o genedl Cymru fel rhan o @c20society.bsky.social c20society.org.uk/about-us/c20...c20society.org.ukC20 Cymru – The Twentieth Century Society 0810
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Free to book now - Cwmbran: Where the future is happening now! a talk at Gwent Archives next Monday afternoon #Cwmbrân75 051