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Fantastic to see Oakes School on the #TopTen26 Hopefully this will help us find a solution for what could be a much loved community heritage asset.

👇Have you seen Top 10 Endangered Buildings 2026, published today by our friends @thevicsoc? 🚨It's great to see the national media spotlight falling on these outstanding structures, some of which you may recognise from SAVE's Buildings at Risk register #reuse #architecture

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Hackney Borough Disinfecting Station, London Grade II, Gordon and Gunton, 1901 Read more: bit.ly/4u8Q8Fv Photo: CAV Aerial

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Tees Transporter Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees/Middlesbrough Engineer: G.C. Imbault, constructed by Sir William Arrol and Co Ltd Read more: bit.ly/4uieRre Photo: CAV Aerial #TopTen26

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Former Strand Railway Station and Railwaymen’s Club, Barrow-in-Furness Grade II, E. G. Paley, 1863 Read more: bit.ly/4cF9f4s Photo: Thomas Ollivier / The Victorian Society #TopTen26

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Faenol Mausoleum, Pentir, Nr Bangor Grade II, Henry Kennedy, late 1870s Read more: bit.ly/4ufWlzM Photo: Dan Weatherley #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #Cymru #Wales #Gwynedd #Pentir

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Oakes School, Huddersfield Grade II, Charles Fowler, 1873, extended by Ben Stocks, 1885 Read more: bit.ly/4dbWhLv Photo: CAV Aerial #TopTen26

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Parndon Hall, Harlow, Essex Grade II, Architect: Possibly Joseph Clarke, 1867 Read more here: bit.ly/4uatQTR Photo: Alex Barty #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #EastofEngland #Essex #Harlow

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 St Michael’s Cemetery Chapel, Sheffield Grade II, Charles Hadfield, 1898 Read more: bit.ly/4eMCBPw Photo: CAV Aerial #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #Yorkshire #Sheffield

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Former Library and Mechanics Institute, Devonport Grade II, A, Norman, 1843-44 Read more: bit.ly/3P47tkd Photo: The Victorian Society #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #listedbuildings #heritage #architecture #Devon #Devonport

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026 Derby School of Art, Derby Grade II*, F.W. Waller, 1876 with additions 1899 Read more: bit.ly/49io0b1 Photo: YouTube Andy Savage@Comedyhunter

Thanks to everyone who nominated a building for this year's Top 10 Endangered Buildings list. We appreciate them all. We will be in touch if you asked for some help or advice. The list bit.ly/4dcmIkd Calls for the Top 10 Endangered Buildings 2027 take place this autumn.

There is a guide to writing your objection to this planning application for demolition on the link which will make it quick and easy to do. Please do object by or before April 11th. railwaybellfriends.org/2026/03/26/sav… #victorian #pub #heritage

Today we are revealing our Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026. Selected from nominations made by the public, this list highlights a striking and varied group of Victorian & Edwardian buildings at risk. While all are protected, listing alone has not been enough to secure survival.

Good morning from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery. 🌷🌷🌷

Please don’t hesitate to get your entries in before the deadline. The Awards are a great celebration of all that is good in the world of UK and Irish railway heritage.

Take a look and judge for yourself:   📍Broadgate House, Coventry – Donald EE Gibson, Coventry City Architect’s Department (1949-53). Grade II 📍Chrisp St Market Clock Tower, Poplar, Tower Hamlets – Frederick Gibberd (1951-52). Grade II 📍Central Parade, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest – F G Southgate (1957-58). Grade II 📍Stevenage Clock Tower, Hertfordshire – Leonard Vincent, Stevenage New Town Development Corporation (1957-59). Grade II

Bad News Friday (sorry): C20 is disappointed to learn that Shipley Clock Tower has been turned-down for listing by DCMS. Designed in 1960-61 as part of a redevelopment of Shipley town centre by the Arndale Property Trust, the freestanding 6 storey tower is in a late ‘Festival of Britain’ style and is a proud local landmark, overlooking the recently revamped Market Square.   Four post-war clock towers in England are currently listed (all at Grade II) and all are in the South East or the Midlands, in part due to their popularity as civic gestures in the first wave of New Towns, few of which were developed beyond the green belt around London. With Shipley being a rare exception, the Society felt listing the tower would help address this regional imbalance, while recognising the buildings historic interest as part of an important early redevelopment by the Arndale Property Trust. We submitted an application back in Jan 2024.   However, Historic England declined to recommend the tower for listing, their report concluding: “the freestanding clock tower is of some interest as a local landmark, possessing a degree of civic aspiration and pride in the newly rebuilt market area, but it lacks the quality of design and materials of other listed post-war clock towers.”

Good morning from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery.

🧵A little bit of Yorkshire history that should be shared. Founded in 1880, Bradford Reform Synagogue on Bowland Street is the oldest Reform synagogue outside London. Designed by T.H. & F. Healey in an Oriental/Byzantine style, it features red stone stripe. It has been called