An invitation to a tour of Plas Llanmihangel organised by The Victorian Society South Wales Group, Cardiff, 17 August ????

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The Victorian Society's invitation to a tour of Plas Llanmihangel, which was scheduled for Wednesday 17 August. All those who wanted to attended were asked to complete a booking form at the bottom of the invite, and to meet at Plas Llanmihangel at 2.30pm.

The Society was interested in the house due to its exceptional architecture and it being of historic interest. After the tour, they organised a Victorian Tea, which would finish at 5.30pm. The cost of the tour and Victorian Tea was £17 per person.

The foundation of The Victorian Society began when Anne, Lady Rosse, inherited a well preserved family house at 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, after the death of her brother in 1946.

In 1957, she invited a group of 32 friends (who included John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner), to consider creating a society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian arts and architecture. The Victorian Society was founded in the same house, a year later.

From the beginning it was agreed that despite being called ‘The Victorian Society’, they would also include arts and architecture from the Edwardian period up to the outbreak of the First World War.

However, the founding of the Society took place against the backdrop of an almost universal dislike of the Victorian arts and all things Victorian, with a widespread destruction of Victorian buildings being common place in the post war reconstruction. The Society strove to avoid an over emphasis on London and began forming groups across the UK.

Glamorgan Archives, DVS/10
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