Elizabeth Darling

Am making the move away from here - am already on instagram (same address) & now @archhistdarling.bsky.social Haven’t posted yet but will!

The Society has received an update from the team at @RIBA who have confirmed plans for when 66 Portland Place will close to the public to begin works for the House of Architecture project. Details: sahgb.org.uk/news/update-on…

The deadline to fill in @TheSAHGB 's survey for RIBA+V&A collections users to identify material they would likely use during the planned collections move is 16/10/24. Please fill it in if you haven't done so already & please retweet! sahgb.org.uk/features/the-r…

@ArchHistDarling Thank you @ArchHistDarling ! He was, indeed! Read more about #PeterGregory in Valerie Holman's blogpost, ahead of her book's publication: lundhumphries.com/blogs/features…

Very much looking forward to reading this. Peter Gregory was one of the good guys! ⁦@LHArtBooks⁩

This estate is being demolished for “posh flats”’as a local told me (5 blocks 1 - 8 storeys high£”) - and watermans is a very sad shadow of its former self.

In Brentford for the first time in many years. It’s barely recognisable from the town it was when I was growing up in west London. They seem to be doing their best to get rid of any architecture built between the 50s & 80s …

Suffolk & Essex Free Press office, Sudbury.

Also visited the original house, which is also rather lovely.

Super morning @GainsboroughsHouse for the Morris/LettHaines exhib. (Coates hung out in similar circles mid-20s). It was very good. & love the new building by @ZMMArchitects - very nicely detailed.

Former BHS mural, Colchester 1976. Joyce & Henry Collins.@C20society

Building on corner of high street Colchester - presumably a former Pharmacists.

Amazing water tower (completed 1883) in Colchester.

@TheSAHGB study tour was excellent - such an array of buildings & access to the expertise of custodians, archaeologists, curators & architectural historians to understand them & spot the things we might otherwise miss. All overseen by the expertise of Susie West & Stephen Gage.

Day 3 of @TheSAHGB study tour - quick tour of civic centre and now on the coach to Hales.

And then we went to St Margaret’s, Hales. Ditchingham for Tayler & Green, All Hallows Convenr & House of Mercy, then UEA campus.

On UEA campus.

A little bit of Taylor & Green in Ditchingham. Bungalows For older people. 1951/1858-9

I learn that the building work has been to remove a defunct nuclear bunker!!! (Also some renovation work on part of the building that bodies the police station).