Here is a miscellany of the heritage news for September…
Greater Manchester
Middleton Time Team dig at St Leonard’s Square
Heritage Open Day: Long Street Methodist Church
Middleton in step for more beautiful walkways
£50m plans submitted to convert Warwick Mill, Middleton
St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale upgraded to Grade II*
Future vision built to last – Oldham Cultural Heritage
Poignant memorial to thousands who are buried without a headstone at Salford’s biggest cemetery
Council in talks to sell Grade II listed building in Salford park to hotel chain
Ancoats Dispensary campaigners finally take official ownership of landmark building
Landmark Manchester buildings set for major revamp
Trafford town hall opens its doors… as a wedding venue!
Victoria Station’s revamp – by the architect driving Manchester’s modern railway revolution
Ordsall Chord: Lawyers argue decision behind chosen route was flawed, court hears
Ordsall Chord: Preserve the past or secure Salford’s future? Not an easy decision
National
Future heirlooms: Millinery Works celebrate modern day furniture makers
Clue up on Gertrude Jekyll, gardening’s forgotten woman
Arts and Crafts silverware set to go up for auction in Derbyshire
Campaigners buy William Blake’s cottage – and his vegetable patch
Major findings at Lancaster’s big Roman dig
Westminster Abbey lavatory block gives way to medieval burial find
Bronze Age ‘sauna’ unearthed on Orkney
The most endangered buildings in Britain – in pictures
How Downton Abbey helped to rescue Highclere Castle from ruin
Richard III grave in Leicester among top 25 sites to visit in the world
Historic swimming pools of Britain: Preserving our bathing heritage, in pictures
International
10 of the best architecture tours
This photographer is taking jaw-dropping photos of Europe’s abandoned buildings
‘They are barbarians’: meet the man defending Syria’s heritage from Isis
‘Islamic militant’ becomes first person ever charged with destruction of heritage sites