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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · 23d

💻 ONLINE EVENT
🏫 Twentieth Century Schools in Wales
🗓 Monday 22 September 2025 | 6.30pm The talk will provide a visual overview of Welsh schools in the twentieth century. Speaker: Dr Meilyr Powel, Investigator of Historic Buildings, RCAHMW
Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

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Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks 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 | Royal Commission Launches Major Project to Safeguard Wales’s Nonconformist Chapels

rcahmw.gov.uk

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Jul 9

Those dark events took place in real Sussex locations close to Pevensey, impacting powerless people at a time of immense change. One day we might find and archaeological trace of it, and the Norman invasion fleet, but until then we have this wonderful, vivid, multicolor record of the events of 1066.

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Apr 27

Much lower pitched than ours!

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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 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

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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · Jan 13

Visited as part of our Swansea weekend in 2023, this is such an important survival of our seaside heritage. Very much hope to see plans for its repair being supported by Cadw and others.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · Jan 12

Sad 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!

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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · Feb 4

C 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
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c20society.org.uk/news/plans-t...

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Wowhaus @wowhaus.bsky.social · Feb 4

With an auction price of £18k, this 1970s modernist church in Neath, South Wales could be a dream of a project for someone. bit.ly/4hJmhgY

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Feb 1

A Hird and Brooks cabin at Cenarth, West Wales. Read about these in our book - order here: the-modernist.org/collections/...

Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Feb 1

I still bang on about my time at HISAR department, Matt, so much that my daughter was planning to study there too. I feel so sad.

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Jan 29

First we saw Lampeter gutted & now the humanities at Cardiff. The Archaeology department was my undergrad Alma Mater & I've always been so proud of that and every opportunity they gave me. Solidarity with them & their colleagues as they face what's coming from above.
Senseless, souless, vandalism
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jan 27

I'm very much afraid that the first of the really big explosions is about to drop in Higher Education: at Cardiff University, where management speak of an 'immediate existential crisis'. And this is just the start. Solidarity with and to all colleagues at Cardiff. nation.cymru/news/huge-jo...

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garethdpotter.bsky.social @garethdpotter.bsky.social · Jan 30

Dwi’n arwain taith cerdded o gwmpas Pontypridd ar Ddydd Sul. Bydde fe’n hyfryd tase chi’n ymuno da ni…

I’m doing my walkie talkie amble through Pontypridd on Sunday. Bring sandwiches, a flask and a bunch of questions and opinions. It’ll be fun 😊

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · Jan 31

⚠️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...

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · Jan 24

📸 Love brutalist architecture as much as we do?

The Guardian is doing a call-out for photos of your favourite brutalist buildings worldwide: from well-known landmarks to hidden gems. Get to it!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Share pictures and stories of your favourite brutalist buildings

We want to see people’s most loved brutalist buildings around the world and why people treasure them

www.theguardian.com

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 24

Great film.

A Complete Unknown (2024)

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutio...

boxd.it

Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you Matt 😀

Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 22

Definitely here for the triplets and dotted crotchets…

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · Jan 20

More interesting than the whole Blue Monday bullshit (which isn’t saying much) is my rambling analysis of the drum machine break in the New Order song and the difference between triplets and dotted crotchets

youtu.be/-5JQ6ymeGdg?...

Why Blue Monday did my head in for 34 years

YouTube video by Rhodri Marsden

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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · Jan 21

NEWS | Bangor’s Brutalist ‘Eyesore of the Year’ listed
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/bangors...

Bangor’s Brutalist ‘Eyesore of the Year’ listed

The Brambell Laboratory at Bangor University has been Grade II-listed, while the Grade I listing for...

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 22

Drove through Port Talbot this evening and admired the Bladerunner aesthetic. Then noticed Bladerunner was on TV when I got home. And now you’re telling us you’ve got a tap that sounds like Rachel’s Song. I really didn’t expect to think about Bladerunner so much today 🙂

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 21

I co-wrote a book and I am super proud of it.
the-modernist.org/products/cab...

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Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social · Jan 17

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings

Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style

www.theguardian.com

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · Jan 15

NEWS: Bangor University's brutalist Brambell Laboratory (1969-71) - derided as 'Eyesore of the year' upon its completion - and the New Arts building (1963) have become the latest post-war listings in Wales. Both were designed by architects Sir Percy Thomas & Son.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/bangors...

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Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 14

Had a wander round Lampeter Uni recently, sad to see the decline.

Bethan @bebs63.bsky.social · Jan 14

Y Fari Lwyd, ger Llangynwyd ar y penwythnos.

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@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social · Jan 7

B is for: Brooks, Graham (1928–2020), Architect and “Danish-inspired pioneer of Welsh modernism” (Prof Richard Weston)

1: “The Mount” Dinas Powys 📷 B Dalton
2: 1-18 The Mount Scandinavian-influenced housing development 1975
3: “Caban Corgi”, Penlan Holiday Park, Cenarth 📷 @cabancorgi
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