February 2019
A Life in Architecture
Lecture by Kate Macintosh, a retired architect, celebrated for her ground-breaking work in the public sector. She worked for the London Borough of Southwark where she won an internal competition to design the acclaimed Dawsons Heights and also for Lambeth where she designed a sheltered housing scheme, 269 Leigham Court Rd, which was listed grade II in 2015. Taking early retirement in 1995, she went into private practice with George Finch. Their most important commission was an adventure playground and play-hall for the…
Find out more »Brighton and Hove then and now in James Gray’s photographs
Work has been gathering momentum with over 70 volunteers working over recent months on a new website for our historic images based on the James Gray Collection. This evening we shall hear from Chris Horlock, photographer, author, photographic collector, local historian and close collaborator with James Gray about some of the images in the James Gray Collection, and his work alongside James Gray. There will also be a short presentation about the progress of the project to create the new…
Find out more »March 2019
The Monuments Men and Women
The Antony Dale lecture by Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of the newly reconstituted Historic England. He will give a brief illustrated talk on how England’s heritage has been protected and the challenges we face in keeping it. He will be joined by Gavin Henderson for a general discussion and Q&A session. Duncan Wilson OBE became Chief Executive of the newly formed Historic England in May 2015. Prior to that Duncan was Chief Executive of the Alexandra Park and Palace Trust from…
Find out more »April 2019
The Architecture of John Leopold Denman
Lecture by David Robson, architect and former Professor of Architecture in the University of Brighton. David is a former Vice-Chair of the Regency Society. John Leopold Denman was a leading architect in Brighton between the two World Wars and was noted for his restrained, if slightly unconventional, Neo-Georgian architecture. His surviving buildings include the offices for the Brighton Herald in Pavilion Buildings (now ‘All-Bar-One’) and the Allied Irish Bank in Marlborough Place. He was a founding member of the Regency Society…
Find out more »June 2019
Merseyside Study Tour
The last few places remain for our tour of Merseyside in June 2019. The tour is being organised with a company called Tailored Travel and will be led by Delia Forrester, Roger Hinton, Richard Carroll and Richard Robinson, all trustees of the Society. The tour will run from Sunday 9 June to Thursday 13 June 2019. Travel will be by luxury coach from and to Brighton and the 4 nights’ accommodation will be in the **** Mercure Hotel on Liverpool’s…
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