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Casework Building of the Month Campaigns Supporting our Work Events and Activities Regional Groups (coming soon) About the Society Publications Audio Research Contact Press Information Links Site Map (coming soon) From cinemas to chapels, leisure centres to libraries, and phone boxes to factories, The Twentieth Century Society campaigns for the preservation of Britain's architectural heritage from 1914 onwards.	Post war listing controversy – new Government decision to be disputed The latest overturn by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) of English Heritage’s advice to list a major post war building further fuels the controversy over ministerial involvement in heritage decision making. The C20 Society considers the reasons given for not listing Preston Bus Garage to be unsound and will ask for a formal review. Read more here ...			Join Now ! Join now and get a copy of our latest magazine and a FREE copy of a past C20 journal.

	Building of the Month Salvation Army Men's Social Services Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trying to find buildings by Ryder and Yates in their native North-East surviving in their original condition is tricky today. ... But visitors to the North East need go no further than central Newcastle to find two of Ryder and Yates’s most interesting and best preserved buildings. Read more here ...	C20 Spring Lecture Series 'Britain's Changing Towns' Thursday 28 January - Thursday 4 March How have our towns changed over the last 40 years? Do we now rate of revile the modern buildings and infrastructure admired in the 1960s? After an introductory lecture on Ian Nairn, by Jonathan Meades, the C20 Society asks the authors of five recent Pevsner City Guides . . . Read more here ...	C20 Magazine Winter 09/10 The new issue of C20 is being sent to members on 8 January 2010. Features include London underground stations recently put forward for listing by the Society and articles on Portmeirion, architect Blunden Shadbolt, and event reports, including one on the Society's recent trip to Brazil. Read more here ...	Press Statement 23 November 2009 Minister's Refusal to List Birmingham Central Library The Twentieth Century Society is tremendously disappointed by the Minister’s decision not to follow the advice of English Heritage and list Birmingham Central Library. EH advice on listing is not often overturned and this is a key case in that regard. Read more here ...

	Upcoming Talks & Events see all events here Online bookings for the Spring events programme are now live. Apologies for the technical problems over the last few days. Members' Slide Evening 1 - C20 Events Thursday 21 January 2010 Members Slide Evening 2 - Members' Travels Thursday 11 March 2010		Recent Casework News see all casework here We currently have a few technical problems, but 2010 casework and listing reports will be added to the website by Friday 15 January. September 2009 Battersea Power Station — A casework perspective As Gavin Stamp has said in his article in the Autumn C20 magazine, the battle to preserve Battersea Power Station (BPS) has been one of the Society’s longest running concerns. Whilst the building itself has steadily declined and inched ever closer to ruin, the level of both conservation activity around it and public interest over its possible futures has only grown. Read more here ... The Spinney, Westerfield Road, Ipswich, Suffolk Set back from the road and partially screened by trees, a very particular house is “tucked away in suburban Ipswich in a bosky setting almost Californian”, as Alan Powers noted in 1992. Standing as a pavilion in the middle of its elongated wooded site from which it derives its name, The Spinney was designed between 1957 and 1959 and built between January and August 1960 by major regional architect Birkin Haward (Senior) (Ipswich, 16 October 1912 – Ipswich, 9 February 2002) for himself and his family. Read more here ... An invitation to pry behind closed doors.... Thanks to a recent grant from English Heritage, we have started an exciting new project, that we hope will appeal to members and to potential future supporters. Over the coming months, we will be adding to our website audio slideshows and podcasts that tell the inside story of some of our cases, as told by the voices of people who have been involved in designing the buildings, and those that use or live in them. Read more here ...
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