{"id":44972,"date":"2025-12-30T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44972"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:26:40","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-vic-soc-doorstep-griff-rhys-jones-urges-public-to-nominate-historic-buildings-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44972","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (Vic Soc) doorstep\u2019: Griff Rhys Jones urges public to nominate historic buildings to save"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Griff_Rhys_Jones_VicSocwebsite.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Griff_Rhys_Jones_VicSocwebsite.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18065\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2000447777902161;width:382px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/\">The Victorian Society<\/a><\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the Victorian Society Griff Rhys Jones says some of the most successful growth areas in the UK have been those which maintain a mixture of old and new buildings, reports Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Sky News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griff Rhys Jones has been campaigning for decades to preserve Britain&#8217;s old buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From\u2026 the Hackney Empire to\u2026 Liverpool Street station, the comedian and presenter has been a loud voice for the country&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2026 wants the rest of us to help save some of the hidden treasures in our own communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhys Jones is president of the Victorian Society, which is calling on the public to nominate threatened buildings for its new \u2018Top Ten Endangered\u2019 list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/comedian-griff-rhys-jones-urges-public-to-nominate-historic-buildings-to-save-13487349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the nominations on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriansociety.org.uk\/national-news\/nominations-for-top-ten-endangered-buildings-2026-now-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Victorian Society<\/a> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: The Victorian Society President of the Victorian Society Griff Rhys Jones says some of the most successful growth areas in the UK have been those which maintain a mixture of old and new buildings, reports Sky News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,275,18,30,23,29,16,22],"class_list":["post-44972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-campaigning","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-planning","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44973,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44972\/revisions\/44973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}