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 <title>The Victorian</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Victorian is published three times a year, and is sent to all members of the Society free of charge. As well as the feature articles listed below, the magazine contains book reviews, Society news and events, casework reports, and interviews.]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/8757/saving_a_century.html</link>
 <title>Saving a century...</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[This issue, as we celebrate 50 years since the first meeting of the Society on 25 February 1958 in the drawing room at Linley Sambourne House, we can be forgiven for being a little introspective. <br/><br/>It's curious how opinions about Victorian architecture have changed. Now, cab drivers and corporate leaders alike will unhesitatingly tell you how beautiful they find St Pancras Station whereas even ten years ago  admiration was accorded only grudgingly if at all. <br/><br/>Popular credit for saving St Pancras has gone to cuddly Sir John Betjeman. But, as Simon Jenkins wrote in the Guardian, 'the true saviour of St Pancras [was] the Victorian Society, which single-handedly fought ...  ministers and railwaymen']]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/7519/redundant_churches_who_cares.html</link>
 <title>Redundant churches: who cares?</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Invariably, it seems, churches become redundant. The country changes around them and for one reason or another they find themselves bereft of the worshippers needed to keep them going. Many, if not most, of the buildings seem eventually to find new uses, but it is not easy to generalise about how often these uses preserve their architectural and historic interest. A significant minority are demolished. A tiny minority find their way into the careful hands of three organisations which have been specially established to look after redundant places of worship of extraordinary quality. Between them, the Friends of Friendless Churches, the Historic Chapels Trust, and the Churches Conservation Trust care for only 395 buildings. And it is difficult, given their present funding situation, to see how they could take on many more....]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/3807/campaigning_special.html</link>
 <title>Campaigning special</title>
 <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[As well as the ongoing work of commenting on applications for listed building consent, from time to time the Victorian Society runs campaigns to get a bit more public attention for buildings that really need it. This issue covers our 'Heritage Crime Scene' demonstration at Waltham Forest Town Hall to protest about the cuts to the William Morris Gallery, as well as some of the more high profile cases we've been dealing with recently. ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/4142/victorian_schools_beacons_of_the_future.html</link>
 <title>Victorian schools: Beacons of the future?</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/4139/beside_the_seaside_reasons_to_be_cheerful.html</link>
 <title>Beside the seaside: Reasons to be cheerful?</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[There is a certain amount of head-scratching going on at present about the future of coastal towns. The ODPM Committee has been busy gathering evidence, and one volume has already been published. How will they assess the value of the Victorian legacy? It will be interesting to see. ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/4138/victorian_swimming_pools_going_down_the_drain.html</link>
 <title>Victorian swimming pools: Going down the drain?</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:13 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Public swimming pools are a threatened species. By the Government's own estimate, swimming pools owned by local authorities need maintenance costing something like £500 million. Local authorities' preferred method of dealing with this problem is to close them. The London Pools Campaign tells us that, every year, one London swimming pool closes and is not replaced. It seems odd that, in the lead up to the Olympics, local swimming pool provision is shrinking. The real problem is that most local authorities are hopeless at maintaining their buildings, and pools are no exception. Routine maintenance is neglected until the state of a building is such that only a massive capital project will save it. ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/4137/the_victorian_terrace_an_endangered_species_again.html</link>
 <title>The Victorian terrace: An endangered species again?</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Victorian terraced houses have been in the news a lot over the past year. The government is convinced that demolishing them is the solution to the 'housing problem' which affects some areas in the North of England: low demand and consequently low prices. It is typical of our times that the programme is called the 'Housing Market Renewal Initiative', as Stefan Muthesius points out in his article, which considers the state of the Victorian terrace today. The 1960s might at least have preferred 'Housing Renewal'. It also goes by the name of 'Pathfinder', a meaningless moniker chosen to give a positive gloss. ]]></description>
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 <link>http://www.victorian-society.org.uk/Publications/Victorian/4136/londons_pevsners_capital_gains.html</link>
 <title>London's Pevsners: Capital gains</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, pictured on the cover with a salvaged bust of Robert Stevenson, was Chairman of the Victorian Society for almost twenty years from our foundation in 1958 until 1976. His work on the Buildings of England guides, with county visits crammed into Easter and summer vacations, shows his prodigious energy. Had he not started the series, it is hard to imagine that anyone else would have taken on such a mammoth task. Forty-six volumes appeared between 1971 and 1974, thirty-two of them by Pevsner alone. <br/><br/>This issue of the Victorian celebrates the completion of the London 'Pevsners' as we now call them. Originally dealt with in two slim volumes, or three if you count Middlesex, London now fills six solid hardbacks, brick-sized and only just portable. <br/>]]></description>
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 <title>North Wales: The price of neglect</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In this issue we consider the problems that face the heritage in North Wales, which has a wealth of listed historic buildings, from castles and country houses to traditional stone cottages. Sadly, a fair number of these are at risk, including three Grade I-listed nineteenth-century houses. We highlight the problems which led to their decline and the urgent need to find some solutions. ]]></description>
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