No Bus Stop Is Too Good For Ordinary People: Finsbury Health Centre, Highpoint, the Penguin Pool and...a Cotswold rural vernacular bus shelter?
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain, C20 has submitted a listing app for a little-known memorial shelter by Berthold Lubetkin
Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in happier times.
#CoolingTowers #TowerTuesday
📷 My own, 2012
Monday blues: Bye-bye to Bath Fire Station (1938-39)
How did it come to this? A rare pre-war building by a female architect, Molly Taylor; survived the Baedecker Blitz; located within two UNESCO World Heritage Sites; recommended for listing by C20 & Historic England, yet rejected by DCMS in 2025.
Did you watch ‘Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain’ last night, visiting Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Notts? The last coal-fired power station in the country, it closed in 2024 and now exists on borrowed time.
✍🏼 Sign and share C20’s petition to save our majestic cooling towers!
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Broadcasting House by George Val Myer and Raymond McGrath, 1932. Elizabeth Darling and BBC's @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social will explore its story in a lecture for @c20society.bsky.social
📺 Dont miss tonight's episode of Kevin McCloud's Listed Britain at 9pm on More4, as Kevin looks at modern places challenging the idea of what heritage can be...including plenty of C20 action! 👀
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Located in the village of Hillesley, Gloucestershire, the shelter was designed during the final phase of Lubetkin's career.
'It was possible for the architect to carry the taut lines of machine aestheticism into the wide tolerances of Cotswold tradition.’
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NEWS: The Grade II listed Coventry Central Baths (1962-66), once described as ‘one of the finest swimming pools in the world’, is to be demolished by Coventry City Council after the Secretary of State, Steve Reed MP, formally approved the bulldozing the building.
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I shall be wearing my official @c20society.bsky.social presidential robes for the occasion..
Did you watch ‘Kevin McCloud’s Listed Britain’ last night, visiting Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Notts? The last coal-fired power station in the country, it closed in 2024 and now exists on borrowed time.
✍🏼 Sign and share C20’s petition to save our majestic cooling towers!
www.change.org/p/save-brita...
