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Elizabeth Darling @ArchHistDarling

I work on 20s30s English modernism (Re-forming Britain, 2007/Wells Coates. 2012) & gender/space/reform (Suffragette City, 2019). Chair of @theSAHGB

Joined April 2011
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Am making the move away from here - am already on instagram (same address) & now @archhistdarling.bsky.social Haven’t posted yet but will!
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Elizabeth Darling retweeted
SAHGB@TheSAHGB
10 Oct 2024
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-…
Update on RIBA’s House of Architecture Programme and its impact on the British Architectural Library.

ALT Update on RIBA’s House of Architecture Programme and its impact on the British Architectural Library.
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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-ri…
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Elizabeth Darling retweeted
Lund Humphries@LHArtBooks
26 Sep 2024
Replying to @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/feat…

Getting to know Peter Gregory - by Valerie Holman

Ahead of the publication of her book on Peter Gregory (1887-1959), former Lund Humphries Chairman and patron of the arts, author Valerie Holman reflects on how her research into primary sources...

lundhumphries.com
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Very much looking forward to reading this. Peter Gregory was one of the good guys! ⁦@LHArtBooks⁩
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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 …
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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.
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Suffolk & Essex Free Press office, Sudbury.
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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.
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Also visited the original house, which is also rather lovely.
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Former BHS mural, Colchester 1976. Joyce & Henry Collins.@C20society
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Building on corner of high street Colchester - presumably a former Pharmacists.
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Amazing water tower (completed 1883) in Colchester.
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Day 3 of @TheSAHGB study tour - quick tour of civic centre and now on the coach to Hales.
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And then we went to St Margaret’s, Hales. Ditchingham for Tayler & Green, All Hallows Convenr & House of Mercy, then UEA campus.
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On UEA campus.
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A little bit of Taylor & Green in Ditchingham. Bungalows For older people. 1951/1858-9
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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).
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