The C20 Southern Group will be hosting their Virtual AGM via Zoom at 4.30 pm on Saturday, 27 March 2021. If you are a member of the Southern regional group, you will have received the joining link via email. If you live in the Southern region and wou...
Despite this hot summer we are enjoying, we do not tend to think of Britain as a place particularly conducive to outdoor bathing. In a country where the average temperature hovers around 17 degrees nothing testifies to the optimistic spirit of interw...
The Elain Harwood Memorial Fund has been created by the Twentieth Century Society (C20), to ensure that Elain’s invaluable contribution to the safeguarding of Britain’s remarkable modern architecture and design lives on. The Fund will help sec...
For over forty years, C20 Society has successfully campaigned to save some of Britain’s most beloved modern architecture and design. From iconic red phoneboxes, to art deco lidos, brutalist bus stations to pop-art murals, even helping Bankside powe...
From our much loved red telephone boxes and art deco lidos to raw concrete Brutalist structures and sleek modernist homes, the Twentieth Century Society is celebrating 40 years of campaigning to save the very best of 20th century architecture and des...
The Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards. Explore the timeline below to see highlights from our 40 years of campaigning for modern British architecture. Click on each pi...
At heart, we’re a campaigning organisation and when necessary we can activate our experts, members and supporters to highlight and resolve urgent preservation challenges. This involves much more than C20 Society experts making a polite yet compe...
Background Designed between 1931-4 by Captain F. Latham, the Borough Engineer of Penzance, and opened the following year. Jutting out from the Battery Rocks into Mount’s Bay, the tidal pool was an impressive feat of engineering. It is one of the be...
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