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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 2h

Wood & Hutchings' winning design for the Sutherland Institute in Longton

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

Sheffield Town Hall #Sheffield #Yorkshire

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

Wood & Goldstraw built the City Arcade on Stafford Street in Hanley, which eventually made way for the new Lewis's store

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

"Maradona’s childhood home was designated an ‘historic place’ by presidential decree acknowledging his status as one of Argentina’s most recognisable symbols of the nation’s identity"

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 20h

A whole generation has been cut off from access to decent housing

#MyBackPages

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 21h

The Midland Hotel #Manchester

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Hall, Kidsgrove. Built by Wood & Hutchings in 1897

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute madness that masquerades as housing policy

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

Sheffield Town Hall #Sheffield #Yorkshire

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

Wood & Goldstraw built the City Arcade on Stafford Street in Hanley, which eventually made way for the new Lewis's store

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 18h

"Maradona’s childhood home was designated an ‘historic place’ by presidential decree acknowledging his status as one of Argentina’s most recognisable symbols of the nation’s identity"

Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing

'Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game'

#StreetFootball

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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 19h

The end of an era in its current guise. Ten years at www.theglosthouse.co.uk concludes. As a friend, and as a business correspondent, the owner Ann King included us in her stories from the start. The work is down and out but a new chapter will begin soon ..
Thanks for all the great times …

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 20h

A whole generation has been cut off from access to decent housing

#MyBackPages

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 21h

The Midland Hotel #Manchester

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Mike Best @bestlaidplan.bsky.social · 1d

I worked at Coventry in the early 90s for the last city architect/planner Harry Noble. I’ve also worked for 20 years for the university of Warwick, whose campus was originally master planned by Arthur Ling in the mid 60s. They were indeed a thing, now at best a design champion or panel

Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 2d

City architects used to be a thing. They still should be

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Tom Barrett @plannertomb.bsky.social · 1d

I got to meet John Thorp and go in his office with all his diagrams / designs etc when I was a planning student on a placement at Leeds in mid 2000s. Inspiring!

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Hall, Kidsgrove. Built by Wood & Hutchings in 1897

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute madness that masquerades as housing policy

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely over the moon with this

Huge thanks to the @footballheritage.bsky.social team for all the support

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 2d

J.T. Price and Co. HQ on Holditch Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 2d

May Bank Methodist Free Church and Schools by Wood & Hutchings

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 2d

City architects used to be a thing. They still should be

#MyBackPages

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 4d

Artist's impression of the Blythe Colours HQ at Cresswell, built by Wood & Goldstraw in 1938

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 6d

A real slice of Potteries' history from the Wood Goldstraw Yorath archive....

The outcome of the tender process for Tunstall Town Hall from 1883

Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'

The history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 5d

James Brindley and Josiah Wedgwood made the Potteries a place

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