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Say the name Walthamstow and it immediately conjures up a variety of associations. Our education and training manager, Maggie Goodall, writes from north east London.

2020-21 SPAB Scholar Lucy Newport writes: Finding myself in the city of Manchester, I’m using my daily walks around the Castlefield area to learn about its rich history....

We share some of our local heritage during lockdown. Alex Bannister, our director's assistant, writes from London

To keep in touch during isolation, 2016 SPAB Scholar Aoife Murphy writes to us from Ireland:

Lockdown has presented most of us with a renewed appreciation of our local area. Our director, Matthew writes from Sussex.

For April Fools Day we explore absurd, imaginative and eccentric architecture.
 

Malcolm Fryer Architects will lead the SPAB through the crucial initial steps of acquiring Old House Project listed building consent and planning permission for repair and alteration work.

An ancient churchyard wall in Feltwell, near Thetford, Norfolk will be rescued from collapse by the local community and master craftspeople on Sunday 8 – Tuesday 10 September.

Saving the 'sleeping beauty' house in Maidstone, Kent.

Matthew Slocombe, SPAB director is a practical person at heart, and that's why he's so excited about the Old House Project at an 'at risk' building in Kent.