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Griff Rhys Jones has been campaigning for decades to sphere Britain's aged buildings.
From helping prevention the Hackney Empire to campaigning for Liverpool Street station, the comedian and presenter has been a large dependable for the country's heritage.
He present wants the remainder of america to assistance prevention immoderate of the hidden treasures successful our ain communities.
Rhys Jones is president of the Victorian Society, which is calling connected the nationalist to nominate threatened buildings for its caller "Top Ten Endangered" list.
"These buildings are important... There are galore reasons we should deliberation astir them. They're portion of the communicative and the past of the areas they're in," helium said.
Buildings connected past year's database are present person to salvation.
They scope from iconic seaside landmark The Kursaal successful Southend-on-Sea to a erstwhile vicarage successful Liverpool.
"These are conscionable things that radical whitethorn not person been alert of and, if we privation to prevention buildings, past advertizing their content successful them is simply a truly important portion of preserving that building," helium says.
A erstwhile doctor's country successful Anglesey, which stood derelict for years earlier appearing connected the database successful 2020, has present been renovated arsenic societal lodging for 4 families.
It is simply a lesson, Rhys Jones says, astatine a clip erstwhile unit for lodging is specified a talking point.
"There's been an tremendous magnitude of speech astir blockers and maturation and it's lone the astir stupid, who cognize thing whatsoever astir municipality fabric, who deliberation that maturation is astir clearing the crushed and starting again.
"That's astir the astir wasteful thing, it's the slightest greenish happening to do, to conscionable demolish and commencement again. Some of the astir palmy areas that we person successful this country, successful presumption of growth, person been a substance of caller and old."
Having leaped to fame successful Not The Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones successful the 1980s, helium demonstrated his emotion for preservation successful the BBC's Restoration and 2 bid astir the renovation of a workplace successful Pembrokeshire.
And the gathering manufacture is progressively conscious of the imaginable for re-use.
"There are each sorts of complexities and method challenges successful moving with historical places and they construe into fiscal challenges," says Elizabeth Smith, spouse and president of Purcell Architecture successful London.
"It tin often beryllium truly expensive, but erstwhile we bash it right, we get large examples."
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Ms Smith says the conservation question grew up successful post-war Britain successful effect to the nonaccomplishment of truthful galore historical buildings. Now there's a caller emergency.
"It's astir addressing clime change, and historical buildings person a relation to play successful that, some practically successful presumption of the assets that they offer, but besides successful presumption of communities, societies, historical buildings and places bringing america together."
Griff Rhys Jones says helium is ever startled by the prime and awesome quality of the buildings that are nominated.
The deadline for radical to marque their ain suggestions to the Victorian Society is 5 January.
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