Historian of buildings: The Workhouse, English Shops & Shopping, Carscapes, Woolworth's. Chain Stores published May 2025. Fieldworker for Hants @crsbi.
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They were meant to be carefully removed and retained for some future purpose. For them to last over 100 years only to be thrown to the ground and smashed is beyond infuriating. Apparently a few are left intact.
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Another week, another devastating fire in Glasgow, resulting in the very sad loss of the Category B listed Forsyth House (1851) on Union Street.
Architectural heritage is irreplaceable - whether from the 20th century or any other period. Attitudes towards the care, protection and maintenance of our historic buildings must change.
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🚨BREAKING: Highly contentious plans to bulldoze the former Debenhams store in Norwich approved by councillors – just moments after they voted to save it.
Find out more➡️savebritainsheritage.org/new…
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This week, researchers have been interrogating this 1938 store plan showing weekly takings for each counter - with Hosiery and Fruit top of the takings list for this particular week!
And here's a similar store layout in 1941.
ALT plan of a store, with notes showing departments and takings
ALT black and white photo of a store interior, with signs for pocket watches and art. silk blouses.
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People like to sneer at Brussels, but it is crammed with interest and beauty. This former department store on the Mont des Arts is now a museum of musical instruments.
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Fire damaged and derelict for 20 years, the remains of it have just fallen into the street as a result of Storm Amy.
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Gutting herring at #Stornoway in 1939
[source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/18]
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This striking photograph of Macpherson’s Central Emporium on Tain High Street captures a moment when global opportunity was advertised in the heart of the burgh. Among the posters for news and local notices, one boldly declares: “WANTED 20,000 men, Harvest work, Canada.”
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🐟 Concerning news has reached us that the most architecturally distinguished fish and chip shop in the country, Oakwood Fisheries in Leeds, closed in July 2025 after 85 years, with owner Steven Webster citing ‘circumstances beyond his control’.
Opened in the 1938, the fish bar occupies a 19th century building, but with a striking Moderne style shop front of Vitrolite, metal and glass, with bakelite, metal and neon signage and a fabulous four-light cross mullion circular window.
Grade II listed in 1986 the historic fabric should be safe, but the Society dearly hopes this doesn’t mark the end of its days as a local chippie.
ALT Oakwood Fish Bar, Leeds (1938-40), Grade II listed Image credit: Jonathan Taylor
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I’m strangely fascinated by the blinginginess of Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Here’s an art historical take. 🧵
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#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: It’s a nice touch that the new @paesano_pizza in Shawlands has incorporated the WH Dinwoodie #ghostsign into their shopfront fascia while including a pizza chef uniform clothesline mural. It certainly lifts this classic Glasgow corner tenement 🥰!
ALT This is the new Paesano Pizza on the corner of Pollokshaws and Minard Roads in Shawlands has incorporated the WH Dinwoodie ghostsign into their shopfront fascia while including a pizza chef uniform clothesline mural. It certainly lifts this classic red sandstone Glasgow corner tenement which glows with warmth on a hot summer morning especially against the backdrop of the blue sky.
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DE BIJENKORF DEPARTMENT STORE, 1926, Grote Marktstraat, The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands 🇳🇱
Amsterdam School.
Architect: Piet Kramer
(Photo credit: Jan Sluiter on Flickr)
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#cleethorpes #artdeco This is the former Electricity Board Showroom of 1937, a really striking design on a corner site with fantastic original glazing. Grade II listed #1930sarchitecture
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Electric signs for Bermaline Bread and Berina Food for Baby on the front of The Clydesdale Supply Company building, Bridge Street, March 1932.
Archive ref: D-CA8/394
ALT Electric signs for Bermaline Bread and Berina Food for Baby on the front of The Clydesdale Supply Company building, Bridge Street, March 1932. Archive ref: D-CA8/394
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Completed in November 1852 and first lit on 1st January 1853, Arnish Point Lighthouse was the last to be desgned by Alan Stevenson. It stands at the entrance to #Stornoway harbour. The light was automated in 1963
[photo: Ken MacKenzie / @HighlandCouncil]
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Imprimerie... enseigne et safari typo à Melun.
Avril 2022.
P'tit clin d'œil à @DelphDub
