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See Hokusai’s The Wave… in Blackburn

Japanese art had enormous influence on art nouveau and the British Museum’s  Hokusai – beyond the Great Wave exhibition is literally making waves of enthusiasm this summer.  But what if you can’t get down to London? Well did you know that Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery also has the Great Wave as well Hokusai’s  ‘Red Fuji’?They are not isolated prints, either, but part of the country’s second largest Japanese print collection which also includes much of 60-Odd Provinces and 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road series by that other great Japanese master, Hiroshige.

You could event visit both!

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Preparation for Middleton in Bloom

Members of the EWS were busy in the heat of today getting the garden in ship shape for Middleton in Bloom, the judges pass the frontage of the garden. If you can spot the difference in the two lawn areas, before and after, then our efforts have not been wasted.

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The Fifth Tour Group of the Season

Our fifth group of the season, the College of the 3rd Age, Crumpsall , visited the Church and School Rooms this morning and were welcomed on the steps by the tour guide of the day, Christine.  Previous group visits include a group of fourteen led by Manchester Tour Guide Sibby, who is also a committee member of the EWS.  Two groups of over twenty from the Oldham U3A members, a photographic group organised by Pride Media Arts  and the Rochdale Circle. If you would like to organise a tour around the Church or the Golden Cluster buildings or Edgar Wood properties, get in touch via the artsandcraftschurch.org web site or tel. 0161 6530512

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Will Mellor: an arts and crafts book artist – MMU Exhibition – ends 26th May

Will Mellor: an arts and crafts book artist

24 April – 26 May 2017

In the Foyer, Sir Kenneth Green Library. Continues upstairs on the 3rd Floor of the library, in the Special Collections Reading Room.

This exhibition  will be closing before the end of the month. See it while you can!

Special Collections
Sir Kenneth Green Library
All Saints, Manchester M15 6BH

Phone: +44(0)161 247 610
Fax: +44(0)161 247 6349
E-mail: lib-spec-coll@mmu.ac.uk

Monday – Friday 10.00 – 16.00
Thursday 10.00 – 19.00 (term time only)
Saturday 12.00 – 16.00 (term time only)

Continue reading “Will Mellor: an arts and crafts book artist – MMU Exhibition – ends 26th May”

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Filming for Edgar Wood has now begun…

Halecroft

Filming for Edgar Wood has now begun… it started on Thursday with the first tranche of shooting at the following Edgar Wood houses… The Sheil, The Hollies, Greystoke and Halecroft.

There will be another Hale shoot later in the summer. Next week, Anthony Dolan and crew will be filming at Briarcourt, near Huddersfield.

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Banney Royd – online 3D model

Conservation surveyor and Edgar Wood specialist, Rupert Hilton, has made a superb 3D bird’s eye view model of Banney Royd, Edgerton near Huddersfield – Edgar Wood’s largest and most elaborate house. Rupert has studied the building in great detail over several years.

 

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South Hale Conservation Area Appraisal completed

Trafford Council under the provisions of the 1990 Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act has approved…

  • SPD5.21 – South Hale Conservation Area Appraisal (March 2017)
  • SPD5.21a – South Hale Conservation Area Management Plan (March 2017)

The South Hale Conservation Area includes all of Hale’s Edgar Wood designed houses, including the Grade I listed Royd House. Continue reading “South Hale Conservation Area Appraisal completed”

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Edgar Wood Centre repair and restoration scheme approved

The application by Greater Manchester Building Preservation Trust for listed building consent (Ref: 16/01312/LBC) to restore the School buildings at Long Street Methodist was approved by Rochdale planning department on 7th April. The scheme was drawn up by Alan Gardner Associates last November, with assistance from Greater Manchester Building Preservation Trust conservation officer, David Morris. You can see the approved restoration work by clicking the ‘Documents’ tab on the online planning file HERE 

This is part of the rescue plan for the buildings, which so many people supported last Autumn CLICK HERE and HERE . Detailed grant bids are now being drawn up and it is hoped that restoration work will begin late summer or early autumn.

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Restoration of Edgar Wood’s Guardian Buildings – A Review

Before Restoration

An early Edgar Wood designed commercial building has  been restored by the Edgar Wood and Middleton Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) conservation scheme. The building was in a terribly mutilated state and its appearance is now a hundred times better than it was. The THI, which is superbly managed by Sue Oakley Rochdale MBC conservation officer, is warmly congratulated for its achievement. Bringing historic buildings forward for restoration is a slow and complicated procedure and one that doesn’t always bear fruit. Continue reading “Restoration of Edgar Wood’s Guardian Buildings – A Review”

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The Edgar Wood Society at the Victoria Baths

The EWS were on hand in the men’s second class pool (now with floor) at the Heritage and History fair at the Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road. It was a good opportunity to engage with members of the public about EW and to meet other groups promoting their interests. After being closed for 24 years, if you would like a swim in the first class pool on Sunday 14 May then get your ticket by lunch on 14 April. Information is on the Victoria Baths web site.