TREASUR.BR 1S REPORT Thank you for supporting the £6 subscription at the AGM. Subs are coming in steadily. To any who have not sent off their renewal cheque or made out a Bankers Order - please try to do it soon. (in fact you haven't paid for this copy of 'Context•) Application Surname First Name Qualifications Local Authority (Members) or Public Body (Associate members) or other position (Honorary members) Work Address Work Phone Home Address Home Phone CONFIDENTIAL Preferred Address HOME/WORK _______ _ for Correspondence (marked PRIVATE) Any further information (optional) _______ _ eg. job title & grade I apply to become a Member/Associate member/Honorary member of the ACO and enclose a subscription/donation of £ (minimum £6) and a stamped addressed envelope. (signed) _______________ _ I endorse this application to join the ACO. (signed) Cheques should be made payable to the Association of Conservation Officers GOSSIP (Ed.note: writs,etc.to J.Fidler) Champagne-loosened tongues wagged at the International Council on Monuments & Sites UK Committee's binge at the Ritz in London two months ago.Incongruously sponsored by the Secretary to the Royal Fire Arts Commission's developer friends the glamorous event was aimed at fund raising but took the opport- -unity to appoint the English Heritage Commission's deputy chai~ man, the Duke of Gloucester, as president. "I've got a lot to learn about conservation" quipped the bespectacled duke worryinglyt Elsewhere amongst the hors d I cewres tipsy tit-bits fell from sozzled lips. The DOE mandarins responsibJe for the planning side of the "Streamlining the Cities" project to abolish the met.counties and the GLC had not realised that the Survey of London publication team of architectural historians was not administratively part of the GLC's Historic Buildings Division thus giving logistical difficulties in the proposed shipping of these organs respectively t'o the RCHM(UK) and to the CHB & M. Whilst the Royal Commission had gained a promise of extra funding to look after the Survey of London, no such cash has been set aside for -13the HB Division to join the company of Lord M. Down at the Mansion House Square Inquiry the forces of evil had sent one Richard Rogers into the inquisition to extol the virtues of Mies van der Rohe's detailing. Collapse of stout party when, after ranting fo~ minutes on the classical timelessness of Mies's glass and steel junctions, Rogers could not identify same from three naughty photos cunningly brought forth by the GLC. Every inquiry witness's dread overheard ·at the MH Square chat show: GLC QC to spurious historian .for Mr.Palumbo -"I'm just going
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