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6 unusual facts about Marcus Binney


Birkenhead Woodside railway station

This was very unfortunate, as passengers arriving at the station never got to see the huge sandstone fireplaces, decorative brick work and massive timber roof trusses holding up the roof of the intended booking hall, which has been described by Marcus Binney of SAVE Britain's Heritage as "a station of truly baronial proportions and being worthy of any London terminus".

Marcus Binney

Chatham Historic Dockyard: Alive or Mothballed (1984) with Kit Martin, Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN 0-905978-19-6, ISBN 978-0-905978-19-2.

The Country House: To Be or Not to Be (1982) with Kit Martin, Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN 0-905978-12-9, ISBN 978-0-905978-12-3.

He was a driving force behind the foundation of SAVE Britain's Heritage (SAVE) the following year, and remains its president.

Sonya Butt

Marcus Binney, The Women Who Lived for Danger: the Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2002.

Virginia Hall

Marcus Binney, The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, ISBN 0-340-81840-9, pp.


Giles Worsley

Worsley joined Country Life weekly magazine in 1985 as an Architectural Writer, working for Clive Aslet and Marcus Binney, becoming Architectural Editor in 1989.


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