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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 1d

SAVE’s new ACT NOW! Toolkit is a free step-by-step guide to help anyone campaign for threatened historic buildings — drawing on 50 years of SAVE’s experience.

💪 Practical, proven, and made for everyone who believes heritage matters.
🔗View now: https://bit.ly/3IvIjrB

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks very much Mathew!!

SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · 22d

🙌 Grand Designs’ Kevin_McCloud will deliver SAVE’s 50th anniversary lecture, Reinventing Buildings: A Manifesto for the Imagination, at the V&A on 25 Nov.

🗣️ He’ll call for radical change in how we value and protect the places people love.

🎟️Book now: bit.ly/483JMzN

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Aug 29

🗞️The proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is "a huge and unnecessary waste of resources" and is "likely to be redundant on completion".

Look out for SAVE and Simon Sturgis interviewed on BBC TV News this evening.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Liverpool Street station plan 'waste of resources' - campaigners

Liverpool Street's redevelopment plan is

www.bbc.co.uk

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 31

👏 Bravo to all the teams shortlisted for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Retrofit & Reuse Awards inc Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard Church (once a SAVE case, now workspace), Feix & Merlin's Walworth Town Hall and BDP's Egyptian Room, Oldham
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-retr...

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 20

We had a fantastic time (ahem) in Liverpool, exploring some of the city's best buildings & hearing about #SAVEcampaigns over the last 50yrs, from the Lyceum to Albert Dock and the Welsh Streets

Thx to everyone who joined us- and 👏 to our expert guide Jonathan Brown
#SAVEis50 #heritage #liverpool

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 13

To find out more about SAVE’s work - and how you can Join The Movement advocating for the buildings that make our communities special & distinctive - visit our website or sign up for our free monthly bulletin www.savebritainsheritage.org

SAVE Britain's Heritage - SAVE Britain's Heritage

SAVE Britain's Heritage has been campaigning for historic buildings since its formation in 1975 by a group of architectural historians, journalists and planners. SAVE is a strong, independent voice in...

www.savebritainsheritage.org

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 13

What a great splash in today’s @thetimes.com by @davidbyers26.bsky.social celebrating the importance of SAVE’s work safeguarding historic buildings - from castles to cotton mills, dept stores to stations - for future generations ♻️

#SAVEcampaigns #SAVE50 #reuse 🏫

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 11

‼️EVENT UPDATE: Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to the very hot weather. A new date will be announced very soon. Thank you for your understanding.

SAVE & SHBT

Postponed - SAVE at 50! Forging Futures: A Call to Action for Sheffield’s Heritage - SAVE Britain's Heritage

SAVE Britain's Heritage has been campaigning for historic buildings since its formation in 1975 by a group of architectural historians, journalists and planners. SAVE is a strong, independent voice in...

www.savebritainsheritage.org

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 9

Loved Simon Jenkins’s piece in today's #CountryLife on our 50 years! 🙌
Join us in #Liverpool to see some of the stars of the article – from the #Bealtes’ childhood streets to the #AlbertDock, and other bold SAVE campaigns.
🔗 bit.ly/43NYQin BOOK HERE
📸 Image of article in Country Life, 9 July 2025.

Magazine spread from Country Life (9 July 2025) featuring a double-page photo of Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock, with its distinctive red-brick warehouses reflected in the water below. The headline reads “SAVE at 50,” marking the 50th anniversary of SAVE Britain's Heritage. The article highlights SAVE’s role in historic preservation efforts, including the restoration of the Albert Dock.

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 4

👉 How do I object? Here's a quick guide prepared by our friends @thevicsoc.bsky.social bit.ly/4lwkMV1

#heritage #railways #overscaleddevelopment #conservationarea #architecture #history #london #listedbuildings

News from the Victorian Society | How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station

News about How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station from the The Victorian Society - news.

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jul 4

‼️Today is the last chance to object to plans for a 19-storey tower over Liverpool St Stn, destroying much of the buiding, casting its light-filled concourse into shadow & harming the historic streetscape.

All in an area of the City designated inappropriate for towers 😕

#SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

Station concourse filled with people. Natural daylight pours in through the glazed roof

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 30

‘Buildings that are left derelict or vacant for a number of years –as Medlock Mill had been– are more vulnerable to tragic instances’

SAVE conservation ofcr Lydia Franklin talks to @itvnews.bsky.social abt urgency of bringing historic bdgs back to life

Sign up for our news bulletin👉 bit.ly/4kaRFqC

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎉 SAVE is 50!
We’re celebrating one of our greatest achievements — a resource that has helped rescue 100s of buildings: the Buildings at Risk register: shorturl.at/XmwOy
🚨 50 buildings added today!
🎟️ Join us tonight in London for the launch: shorturl.at/yXoD3

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 24

🗞️"It is hard to appreciate now, but SAVE’s early activities fundamentally transformed the perception of heritage, & expanded the scope of what was deemed worth keeping"

🎂SAVE's 50th celebrated in the ‪@theguardian.com‬ ‪@ollywainwright.bsky.social‬

Read the story: shorturl.at/8gnse

From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings...

shorturl.at

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 24

🎉 SAVE is 50!
From fragile stately homes to vibrant public places — like Wentworth Woodhouse — SAVE has spent 50 years turning risk into opportunity.
Be part of what comes next.
🔗 shorturl.at/shortener.php
#SAVE50 #SupportSAVE

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 17

Join us on Wednesday 25th June for the launch of this year’s Buildings at Risk register🏚️🥳

🗣️Hear from Liz Fuller, our Buildings at Risk officer &
@ArchHFund
's Matthew Mckeague 🏛️ + see our new 50th anniversary film 🎬 + drinks 🍷

🎟️Book now: www.savebritainsheritage.org/events/save-...

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 12

Interested in what makes places special? Care about the buildings around you? Want to be part of the conversation?

Then #JoinTheMovement!

👉Subscribe to our free monthly bulletin for priority info: bit.ly/4kaRFqC

#SAVEcampaigns #architecture #history #memory #reuse

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 12

🤔Where are the places you feel you have 'emotional ownership'?

Maybe the biggest landmark in town - or a humbler place you pass every day?🏤🏨

Thx @SiHenley & @thegentleauthor for such a stimulating @LFArchitecture convo on 'embodied memory'💡

#belonging #heritage #SAVEis50

Three people in front of a packed audience (Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain's Heritage, writer and historian The Gentle Author and architect Simon Henley)

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 11

BREAKING NEWS // Massive congratulations to our partners #NudgeCommunityBuilders in Plymouth

🤩They've won £10k Davidson Prize w their imaginative ideas for 300 affordable homes reusing empty buildings on Union Street

Catch our video showcasing their awesome work next week
bit.ly/45kbIhh #heritage

People taking part in a sunny event outside a brightly painted historic building with the word HOPE emblazoned on the top

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 4

How do buildings shape your sense of identity? Should a community's attachment to a building be relevant to planning decisions?

Join us, @thegentleauthor.bsky.social and architect Simon Henley to discuss this critical issue on June 11: shorturl.at/m60vX

👉 Join our free mailing list: bit.ly/4kaRFqC

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · Jun 3

As part of London Festival of Architecture I am speaking at an event hosted by @savetoreuse.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June, entitled BEYOND CARBON: HOW EMBODIED MEMORY GROUNDS US IN PLACE, exploring the concept of embodied memory in the loss and reuse of buildings. Tickets: shorturl.at/m60vX

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 2

👉 Sign up for SAVE's free monthly bulletin to find out more about our work and how you can join the movement >>> bit.ly/4kaRFqC

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SAVE Britain's Heritage Email Forms

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · Jun 2

'We'll look back to these decades of demolition & just wonder what was going through our minds'🤔

Our director Henrietta Billings interviewed by #NLA about 50yrs of SAVE's work advocating for #retrofit not #wreckingballs ♻️

nla.london/news/five-mi...

#SAVEis50 #heritage #buildings #reuse #carbon

Five minutes with... Henrietta Billings

David Taylor meets Henrietta Billings of SAVE to talk through the campaigning group’s 50th anniversary celebrations – and whether heritage is more or less in pe

nla.london

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · May 30

Planning to spend the #weekend browsing properties 🏠on @themodernhouse.bsky.social?

🌟Dream a little bigger!🌟

Check out #HistoricEngland guide to awesome buildings ripe for new owners & investment.

From cotton mills to pumping stations, what would you pick?🏫

historicengland.org.uk/advice/plann...

Heritage Investment Prospectus | Historic England

Historic sites and buildings across England where owners are actively seeking investment partners or buyers right now.

historicengland.org.uk

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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social · May 26

👏 Thanks for the warm welcome, #Plymouth & Nudge Community Builders. What an inspiring couple of days seeing your brilliant work bringing derelict buildings back to life step by step - and sharing SAVE’s national experience. 👷 Your creativity, grit and joy are contagious! #SAVEis50 #heritage

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