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BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY SUGGESTIONS FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 2019 North of line from Boston, Lincolnshire, to Aberystwyth, Ceredigion Members attending the AGM in Port Sunlight will be asked to choose a possible venue. 1. Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire Brick: Grimsby: Dock Tower, 1851-52; various churches; board school, 1876; Town Hall, 1861-63; Dock buildings. Cleethorpes: Southern Outfall Pumping Station, 1982-83; Council Offices, 1904 and 1987. Public Library, 1984. Vicinity: Thornton Abbey Gatehouse, 1360s and 1380s. Non-Brick: Grimsby: various churches; Cleethorpes: railway station; Victorian seaside town. 2. Manchester Brick: New buildings at Chetham’s School; original C19 buildings at Chetham's School; C19 brick and terracotta buildings on Whitworth Street, Oxford Road, Princess Street; the Midland Grand Hotel; Opera House. Non-Brick: Town Hall, Library, Royal Exchange, St Ann’s Church; Manchester Cathedral; former Free Trade Hall, G-MEX centre (former Central Station); Bridgewater Hall; Calatvara bridge over River Irwell 3. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Brick: Holy Name Hospital (1681); Alderman Fenwick's House (late C17); Keelman's Hospital (1701-4); good brick warehouses (various C19); Discovery Museum (in 1890s Co-op warehouse); Newcastle University (late C19 and C20); Sunderland Building of University of Northumbria (1887: originally a medical school); Byker Wall (mid C20); Gateshead: the Baltic (1950); Outside the city: remains of estate brickworks at Belsay. Non-Brick: Castle; Town Walls; New Town; Tyne Bridges. 4. Ripon, North Yorkshire Brick: Former House of Correction, now museum (1686 and 1816); former Workhouse now council offices (1854); grammar school (1888); primary school (2000); Spa Baths (1904); cottage hospital (1850); Georgian houses; canal building (1770s). Non-Brick: Ripon Minster; various C19 churches; Town Hall built as Assembly Rooms. 5. Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Brick: Central Library, 1974, of yellow brick with bold use of red brick patterning; Civic Centre, 1957-63, yellow brick with grey slate posts; St George’s church, 1914-24; St Hugh’s church, completed 1939; St Paul’s church, 1925; Roman Catholic churches dedicated to Holy Souls, 1911, and St Bernadette, 1980; Congregational church, 1912; (Scunthorpe is a new town of the last years of Edwardian England). Non-Brick: St John the Evangelist church, 1891; St Lawrence church, Fordingham, medieval. 6. Sheffield Brick: The brick mural of the Miner; Leah's Yard (mid C19); C19 houses in Norfolk Street, East Parade; Victoria Hall (1906-08: Waddington Dunkley & Son); original buildings for Sheffield University (1903-05: E.M. Gibbs); Orchard Square (various dates); Royal Exchange Buildings; Common Lodging House (1912: J.R. Truelove); various industrial buildings; St Paul's church, Wordsworth Avenue (1958-59: Basil Spence). Non-Brick: Town Hall; Sheffield Cathedral; City Hall; Cutlers’ Hall; Millennium Galleries; Crucible Theatre; Park Hill Estate above rail station. Botanical Gardens. 7. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Brick: City Museum (with sculptural frieze of bricks of many colours over entry); Bottle kilns, Bethesda Chapel (opposite museum); Stoke Railway Station and Hotel (1854); 1930s buildings for Staffordshire University; War Memorial opposite Stoke Town Hall (only brick memorial in UK known to DHK); Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston, with Barlaston Hall; Burslem has pottery works, the Burslem Institute. Non-Brick: various town halls; Stoke parish church. 8. Southwell, Nottinghamshire Brick: The Workhouse; Prebendal Houses round the Minster. Non-Brick Southwell Minster; medieval bishop’s palace. 10. Wigan, Lancashire Brick: Town Hall, built as technical college; Police Station with fine royal arms in brick. Cotton Mills; former public library; early cinema faced in faience (built 1916). Non-Brick: Wigan Pier (a coal tipping device); Wigan parish church. 11. Wolverhampton, West Midlands Brick: Two former railway stations (one now incorporated within an hotel; the other in the bus station); art gallery, public library, Georgian houses; outer Wolverhampton has brick churches. Non-Brick: St Peter’s church with Anglo-Saxon cross shaft; former St John’s church. .