Preston Bus Station: decision not to list “correctly made”

Preston Bus Station has a song!

St Mary’s, Leyland, near Preston, 1961-4

Text and Images by Robert Proctor Despite its sudden expansion in the 1950s with the arrival of the car industry, Leyland remains a pleasant Lancashire town of Victorian terraced cottages and suburban greenery. It would seem an unlikely setting for ...

1969: Preston Bus Station, Lancashire

Designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership, the Central Car Park and Bus Station in Preston was listed at Grade II in September 2013 after a 15-year campaign. This included a thematic survey of transport buildings and ...

C20 Society challenges unnecessary and wasteful demolition of major bank buildings

Irvine Centre, Irvine, North Ayrshire

Irvine Development Corporation (1973-75) At 1.5km long the Irvine Centre, when completed, would have been visible from orbit. Conceived as the megastructural centrepiece to Scotland’s fifth post-war New Town, the vital statistics for this enormous...

C20 Christmas Gift Ideas 2020

The Buildings of England: Sussex West

Elizabeth Williamson, Tim Hudson, Jeremy Musson and Ian Nairn (Yale University Press, 908pp, £45)

The small-format 1965 edition (covering both West and East Sussex) was written by Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner. This new volume is vastly expanded, and, with a wealth of new information, it is an indulgent pleasure to revisit familiar places and ma...

100 Buildings, 100 Years

100 British buildings celebrating the brilliant and diverse architecture of the last 100 years. The 100 buildings - nominated by C20 Society members and supporters - showcase the broad variety of architectural talent in Britain from 1914 to 2014. ...