Applications for collections care audits, collections care grants, and remedial conservation grants are now open and the closing date is Friday 29 March. The fund is administered by the Association of Independent Musems (AIM) with monies from the Pilgrim Trust. Those eligible for funding are: The grants enable museums to bring in conservation expertise to…
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New Historic England Heritage Assets Guide to Textile Mills
Historic England’s latest Heritage Asset guide deals with the above and below ground archaeology of the industrial textile mill, from spinning and integrated mills to weaving sheds and the power plants needed to run these sites. The textile mill is one of the iconic monuments of industrialization, and a variety of different ways of recording…
Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge, Re-opens
At the beginning of February 2024, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust’s Museum of the Gorge reopened after major conservation and restoration work. The building was built in 1840 as a river warehouse for the Coalbrookdale Company for the onward transport of its goods down river to Bristol and beyond. It became part of the Museum in…
Tonedale Mill & Tone Works to Benefit From £20million Through the Levelling-Up Fund
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) announced on November 20 the results of the third round of the Levelling Up Fund. Amongst the projects included is the ‘Vision for Tonedale’. A £19,987,663 grant will see the redevelopment and restoration of the Tondedale Mill and Tone Works textile sites in Somerset. Somerset Council…
AIA One Day Online CPD Workshop 0n Cast & Wrought Iron, January 2024
The AIA are running their inaugural online AIA accredited CPD workshop on the conservation of cast and wrought iron on 27th January 2024. The workshops are for anyone with an interest in industrial archaeology, anyone working in heritage conservation and restoration, council and museums decision-makers. Its also open to anyone in the industrial heritage and…
Folkestone’s Leas Lift Secures £4.8m Funding For Restoration
Folkestone’s Grade II* listed Leas Lift has reached its restoration fundraising target, thanks to a £4.8m contribution from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The capital means the overall goal of £6.6 million for its restoration has been met. Originally installed in 1885, it carried 2,389 passengers on the first day! It is one of only…
Historic England To Object ‘in the strongest terms’ to London’s Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment
Historic England will object in the strongest terms to current proposals to redevelop London’s Liverpool Street Station. The scheme proposes a giant new building above the existing station and the neighbouring Great Eastern Hotel, both listed buildings set within the heart of the City. It also proposes far-reaching redevelopment of the station complex. Historic England note that ‘The…
Thaxted Windmill Receives Grant Towards Conservation
Thaxted Windmill Trust Community Interest Company (CIO) has received a grant of £116,902 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the development of a project to conserve John Webb’s Mill in Thaxted, Essex. Historic England have provided additional funds of £33,326 for the development of the project, largely towards planning for the structural and millwrighting…
Europa Nostra Call for Most Endangered Site Nominations, 2023
Launched in 2013, the ‘7 Most Endangered Programme’ run by Europa Nostra forms part of a civil society campaign to save Europe’s endangered heritage. In most cases, the listing of an endangered site serves as a catalyst and incentive for the mobilisation of necessary public or private support, including funding. The listed sites are also…
Bourn Windmill, Cambridgeshire, Re-opens after Three-Year Restoration
One of the UK’s oldest working windmill, Bourn Mill is to reopen to the public after the completion of extensive repairs. According to recent Historic England research, the main post of Bourn Mill is from a tree felled in the first half of the 16th century, making this the earliest main post of a mill yet…
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