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- 9th April 2018
This is the third in a series of blog posts celebrating the life and work of timber-frame building specialists FWB ‘Freddie’ and Mary Charles. Funded by Historic England, the ‘Charles Archive’ project aims to digitise and make more accessible the Charles collection. Freddie Charles found himself teaching architecture at the University of Birmingham after...
- 12th February 2018
This is the second in a series of blog posts celebrating the life and work of timber-frame building specialists FWB ‘Freddie’ and Mary Charles. In this blog article we look at one of the most well-known and significant buildings that Freddie Charles worked on – the Great Barn of Bredon. Bredon Barn...
- 17th January 2018
This month we are taking a look at an exciting new project to catalogue and make available the records or practice archive of the Worcester firm of architects and timber-frame building specialists FWB and Mary Charles. F.W.B. “Freddie” Charles (1912-2002) was an architect and expert on the conservation and repair of timber-framed buildings. Freddie...