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Standing neglected in the centre of a complex of disused and decaying moats, this Grade II* building is an important example of an early brick manor farmhouse.

We visit the exhibition at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, London which shows another strand of Morris' influence on modern design.

By Roger Mears and Stephen Scammell

We both started volunteering for the SPAB as members of a committee in 1996, having worked together – as anarchitect and quantity surveyor - on a number of conservation projects. When the opportunity arose to join as members of the John Betjeman Award (JBA)  jury in 1997 we both volunteered, not knowing to what amazing experiences this would lead. To our surprise and pleasure we were appointed as JBA judges for 16 years  with the third member of the panel changing from year to year.

We're delighted to have lent a treasure from our archive to the current exhibition at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, which explores May Morris' life and work. 

Embroidery artist Niamh Wimperis was given our ‘Sketching with Thread’ workshop earlier this year as a gift. We asked her to share her experience.

For the first time, we are recruiting for millwright applicant on our crafts Fellowship for 2020. We asked 2009 SPAB Fellow Karl Grevatt to share his experience of moving from carpentry into millwrighting.

This Award is a scholarship in memory of Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi, who tragically died in the fire at Grenfell Tower. Giulia Pannocchia updates us on her career since the Award

For Halloween, we searched our records for people pictured in our some early photographs.

Rex Wailes was the leading advocate of historic mills within the SPAB in the 1920s. His important personal collection of notes, correspondence, photographs and drawings are being conserved by the Mills Archive Trust. 

2019 SPAB Scholar Bethan Watson describes a highlight of her Scholarship year so far.