A miscellany of recent news items across the web…
Greater Manchester area…
Elizabeth Sibbering – Middleton guided walk
Middleton gateway roads and heritage to get £1.6m facelift
Manchester’s Heaton Park and its historic hall to get £800,000 revamp
Visitor numbers boom at revamped Whitworth gallery
Work starts on uncovering the River Roch in Rochdale town centre
Archaeological dig reveals secrets of gruelling Salford prison
Ancoats Dispensary is saved after mystery donor stumps up last-minute £28,000
Watch: Massive operation to move 2.5 tonne Easter Island statue into Manchester Museum
East Lodge at Rochdale Cemetery restored
Amazing pictures show how Oldham’s Old Town Hall is shaping into cinema in £36m revamp
History team rolls out honour to WW1 fallen
Sir Ninian Comper church given Grade I listed status
Further away…
The dreams of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Glasgow School of Art: ‘One of the great buildings’
New season of art and crafts classes at Stanton Guildhouse
Blaze destroys antiques at Arts and Crafts Eco Project
Inspiration by Design: the world’s most beautiful books come to Melbourne
Review of ‘Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Their Impact’
Arts and Crafts styles reflected social changes of the early 20th century