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Advance notice, although further info and reminders will be forthcoming in due course!
SAVE Britain's Heritage (a registered charity) was formed by a group of architects, historians planners and journalists in 1975, Architectural Heritage Year. Its remit is to campaign against the needless destruction of historic buildings.
Since that time, for an organisation hardly awash with cash but rich with great expertise and commitment, much of it given voluntarily, SAVE has had many successes in saving individual buildings from the bulldozer, and also has been infuential in the wider area of national policy making. It publishes both lightening reports on buildings and also has a range of other publications available on historic building types. It keeps going financially by the generosity of its Friends (which I urge people to join) and others with a commitment to the protection of the historic environment.
To celebrate this birthday, the V and A and RIBA Architecture Partnership is holding
'SAVE Britain's Heritage 1975-2005: 30 Years of Campaigning'
in the V and A - RIBA Architecture Exhibition Gallery from November 2005 through until February 2006.
The exhibition has been enabled by the huge generosity of the DARE Group, based in Cumbria at Hackthorpe Hall ( a recent winner in the RICS national conservation awards) but operating nationally. The DARE Group is a partnership which is rescuing country houses from the 'at risk' registers, and sensitively turning them into apartments. Anyone interested - contact them for further information:
http://www.daregroup.co.uk
On the evening of 14th December, SAVE President Marcus Binney OBE, author, architectural historian, former Architecture Editor of Country Life and currently Times Architecture Correspondent, is giving a talk at the V and A on the work and history of SAVE, 'Battle against the Bulldozers'. This is one of the 'Late at the V and A' lectures, cost is £8.50, and further details and booking info are available on the V and A website.
http://www.savebritainsheritage.org
SAVE Britain's Heritage (a registered charity) was formed by a group of architects, historians planners and journalists in 1975, Architectural Heritage Year. Its remit is to campaign against the needless destruction of historic buildings.
Since that time, for an organisation hardly awash with cash but rich with great expertise and commitment, much of it given voluntarily, SAVE has had many successes in saving individual buildings from the bulldozer, and also has been infuential in the wider area of national policy making. It publishes both lightening reports on buildings and also has a range of other publications available on historic building types. It keeps going financially by the generosity of its Friends (which I urge people to join) and others with a commitment to the protection of the historic environment.
To celebrate this birthday, the V and A and RIBA Architecture Partnership is holding
'SAVE Britain's Heritage 1975-2005: 30 Years of Campaigning'
in the V and A - RIBA Architecture Exhibition Gallery from November 2005 through until February 2006.
The exhibition has been enabled by the huge generosity of the DARE Group, based in Cumbria at Hackthorpe Hall ( a recent winner in the RICS national conservation awards) but operating nationally. The DARE Group is a partnership which is rescuing country houses from the 'at risk' registers, and sensitively turning them into apartments. Anyone interested - contact them for further information:
http://www.daregroup.co.uk
On the evening of 14th December, SAVE President Marcus Binney OBE, author, architectural historian, former Architecture Editor of Country Life and currently Times Architecture Correspondent, is giving a talk at the V and A on the work and history of SAVE, 'Battle against the Bulldozers'. This is one of the 'Late at the V and A' lectures, cost is £8.50, and further details and booking info are available on the V and A website.
http://www.savebritainsheritage.org