Edgar Wood’s Middleton home Redcroft hit by a car
Edgar Wood’s 1891 Arts & Crafts home Redcroft has been hit and damaged by a car. Full details are here on Rochdale Online.
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It’s back on again… The Victorian House of Arts and CraftsThe Victorian House of Arts and Crafts
If you missed it last year, now is the time to catch up. Put you feet up and enjoy this series where modern crafts people go back in time to live the lives and reproduce work of the Arts and Crafts people of Edgar Wood’s time. Click here. It’s laid back and very enjoyable.
Lottery Heritage Scheme Completed
This week Maureen put her final touches to our returns to Lottery Heritage Fund for the Edgar Wood Society website outreach project, which has now formally ended. The project included creating this website, its online Image Compendium, training, new photographs of Edgar Wood buildings and a series of successful events held during 2019. A big …
Edgar Wood Centre update
Today, officers of the Edgar Wood Society, Victorian Society, Historic England and Manchester City Council met with the owner and manager of the Edgar Wood Centre, formerly First Church of Christ Scientist, Manchester. The meeting was to discuss the present condition of the building, what the repair and conservation issues were and how best to …
Edgar Wood in Italy – 17th January 2020
The Edgar Wood Society hosted an Italian themed evening celebrating Edgar Wood’s time in Italy, which he visted regularly before finally settling there and building the last of his three homes in Porto Maurizio, Liguria. In England, Wood is remembered primarily as an exceptional architect but in Italy, he is reknown for his paintings. Lots …
Edgar Wood Rooms taken off the heritage at Risk Register
The Edgar Wood Society has now achieved one of its longe term aims in that Edgar Wood’s Long Street Methodist School, aka the Edgar Wood Rooms, has at last been taken off the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register following the repairs and alterations carried out last year. A big ‘thank you’ is in order …
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Edgar Wood Society – AGM and Annual lecture – 26th October 2019
On Saturday 26th October, we had our annual general meeting, which like all others before it, was a quick race through the business section to the main item, the Society’s Annual Lecture. This year was the first to be held in the newly restored Edgar Wood Rooms at the Arts & Crafts Church, Long Street …
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Heritage Open Days
A big ‘thank you’ to all members who assisted or led events in the Heriatge Open Days celebrations at the Arts & Crafts Church and in Middleton. The events were well attended, though perhaps not as much as previous years owing to the reduced level of publicity following the end of the THI project.