Publications in Print
Here are our publications that are currently in print ...
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Found 34 publications, showing 11 - 20
Falling In Love - Buildings at Risk 2015-16 (2015)
£7.00 (£5.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-73-4
A must read for anyone interested in heritage and an essential tool for prospective restorers, SAVE's new Buildings at Risk Report 'Falling In Love' showcases historic properties in urgent need of new owners or imaginative reuses, revealing an array of exciting opportunities. Hopefully you'll fall in love with the 100 buildings at risk featured.
Spotlight articles focus on Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham's libraries, and Tbilisi in Georgia
From holiness to hamburgers
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
A lightning leaflet criticising efforts by the Diocese of London to sell the church of St Mark, Norty Audley Street to a hamburger restaurant chain. Published August 1986.
George Mayer-Marton: Murals and mosaics
£5.00 (£5.00 Friends Price)
Last few copies remainingPlease note that you do not need to login to purchase this or any of our publications. Friends and Saviours if logged in will get a discount on most other books.A new book on George Mayer- Marton highlights the life and work of the Hungarian emigre artist- including his Crucifixion mural in Oldham's Holy Rosary Church - the focus of a current SAVE Britain's Heritage campaign.Edited by Robert Waterhouse and published by Baquis Press, this Little Books publication features other known works by Mayer-Marton including his murals in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, and St Clare’s RC Parish Church, in Manchester.Baquis Press has very generously donated 75 copies of the book to SAVE and all proceeds will go directly to our work.Great Expectations - Buildings at Risk 2016/17
£5.00 (£7.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-75-8
Our 25th Buildings at Risk Catalogue 'Great Expectations' is a must read for anyone interested in restoring historic properties, with 100 buildings from across Britain in need of a new lease of life, inspiration from some of the most challenging cases, and plenty of practical advise.
Spotlight articles include historic cinemas, the state of heritage in Northern Ireland, and a Buildings at Risk success story in Cumbria.
Institutions - Friends or Fiends?
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
A short report published in July 1982, drawing attention to the large financial institutions to fund conservation projects.
Left to Rot
£1.00 (£0.80 Friends Price)
A report highlighting the failure of the present legislation to prevent large numbers of listed buildings from falling into decay, and giving recommendations on how the law could be improved. Published in the Architects Journal, 22nd November 1978.
London's Churches are Fighting Back (2011)
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
978-0-905978-68-0
In 1985 SAVE published the report London's Churches are Falling Down, revealing the desperate plight of some of the capital's most beautiful places of worship.
A quarter of a century on, SAVE revisits the subject with London's Churches are Fighting Back. As well as covering those churches currently at risk, this new report also recounts the many inspiring rescue stories, looking at how decaying buildings have been re-energised by new congregations or new uses, and kept alive by vital repair grants.
This 120-page report, by Edmund Harris, features stunning new photography by Matthew Andrews.
Mind over Matter
£10.00 (£8.00 Friends Price)
The first comprehensive study of the current plight of Britains mental hospitals. These attractive and imposing Victorian buildings, carefully designed with extensive landscaped grounds, are now facing an uncertain future. By the year 2000, 98 out of a total of 121 will have closed. The report calls for tighter planning controls to be brought in to prevent the loss of both buildings and grounds to over-development. Published October 1995.
Mortgage Myopia
£0.80 (£0.60 Friends Price)
A report revealing a disturbing picture of discrimination by building societies against older buildings. Published March 1980.
Pathfinder (2006)
£8.00 (£6.00 Friends Price)
A new report from SAVE, condemning the mass demolitions under the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Housing Market Renewal Initiative / Pathfinder. At current rates this will see the demolition of 168,000 terraced homes in the Midlands and North of England by 2015. Published 2006.
* If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in Reviving Britain's Terraces, Life after Pathfinder (published 2010).