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@SPAB1877
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. We're here to help old buildings and the people who care for them.
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https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on 06-10-2010 14:20:20
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Fancy having a go at traditional signwriting?
Join SPAB Fellow Owen Bushell at our Working Party at Tibbermore Church to try painting your own pew number, plus other heritage skills including harling and Scotch slating. Historic Churches Scotland
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📷 Owen Bushell
As part of the Survey of London's annual lectures, writer, broadcaster and former SPAB Chair gillian darley will give a talk exploring the University of London’s site since 1894. Take a look 👀 ow.ly/b5Ub50RFCKy
📣 Calling all Architecture students...
Entries are open for The Philip Webb Award, a design competition that champions the sympathetic reuse of old buildings. ow.ly/lH0O50REBtV
#SPABHeritageAwards are kindly sponsored by Storm Windows
📷 2022 Winner Michał Saniewski
Sun’s out; trowels out! ☀️
Join our Working Party at Castle Bromwich this summer and get hands-on experience with historic brickwork 🧱
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📍 Castle Bromwich, Birmingham
📅 Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 June
Photo © Lewis Hobbs C Brom Hall Gardens
A visit to perhaps my favourite church, St John the Baptist at Inglesham, Wiltshire with Sir Tony Robinson for a Ch 5 prog a couple of years ago. It was saved by William Morris @spab1877 & is today carefully looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust #churchgoing Profile Books
📣 One month to go! Have you booked your place?
Join our Working Party and help to repair Tibbermore church. You'll learn traditional building craft skills along the way including harling, Scotch slating & signwriting. ow.ly/XKEl50RqnMf
Historic Churches Scotland
📷 Lucy Stewart
Witch marks, graffiti and the (thankfully historic) risk of explosions... volunteer Graham Watts shares some of the secrets of our repaired windmill for #NationalMillsWeekend .
Find out more at ow.ly/xjR950RCfiQ
📍 Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill, Leicestershire
We caught up with Daniel Cheetham, carpenter and 2023 SPAB Millwright Fellow, to hear about the next steps in his journey with this endangered craft.
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#NationalMillsWeekend
If you’re visiting a mill this weekend for #NationalMillsWeekend , why not make a whole day of it?
Find other participating mills in your area. ow.ly/l8zx50Rw93J
Fab day with SPAB Scotland working party at Mill of Benholm. Even got the
Pleasure of meeting Mill of Foresterhill
“What we’re seeing now is an extinction-level event.”
Our friends at Heritage Crafts spoke to The Guardian about endangered crafts.
We're doing our bit to help save them, from millwrighting to pargeting.
spab.org.uk/whats-on/cours…
Do you help to care for a church building? Don't miss this free online training session with National Churches Trust 👇
Thank you Plaisterers' Company for your continued support of our lime plastering courses 🙏
Come and learn the essentials of lime plastering (and get a bit mucky along the way!) at our next Plain Lime Plastering course this autumn. All the details here 👇
spab.org.uk/whats-on/cours…