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BBC News
09-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Bradgate Park: Work to preserve ruins of Nine Days' Queen's home
A large-scale conservation project is under way to protect the ruins of the birthplace of England's Nine Days' Queen Lady Jane work at Bradgate House Ruins and Chapel near Newtown Linford in Leicestershire will cost almost £200, Dymond, director of the Bradgate Park Trust, said light touch repairs had been made to the site over the years but this was the first large-scale conservation project since the building was opened to the public in the first phase of work includes repairs to the windows, stone and mortar of the building, which Mr Dymond expects to be completed by June. Mr Dymond said: "This is phase one of what we hope to be an even bigger phase of repairs at the rest of the ruins probably later this year."This will be "an even bigger project beyond the chapel", he England provided a grant of £37,160 in 2023 which allowed the trust to carry out survey work which led to the current prosperity funding via Charnwood Borough Council is partly funding the works, along with a further grant of £71,000 from Historic trust is also putting in some of its own capital funds, with the total project cost just shy of £200,000. Lady Jane, a Protestant great-niece of Henry VIII, was born at the 15th Century Grade-II* listed scheduled monument in 1537 and became queen on 9 July was deposed by her Catholic cousin Mary I nine days later and then executed, aged 17, in 1554.A 400-year-old monument to Henry and Anne Grey, cousins of Lady Jane, is also being repaired and includes lifting the effigy of Anne from the monument to access the internal structure, which Mr Dymond said is "quite a lot of detailed, specialist work".He added: "We're hoping, subject to permissions and so on, to replace the whole ceiling because the ceiling's in a dangerous condition as well. "That's really important in terms of public access for the future because there are areas at the moment that are cordoned off."
BBC News
07-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Lancashire's working class history explored at Pendle Hill and Jubilee Tower
The working class history of Lancashire is being explored through two new community-led projects funded by Historic significance of Pendle Hill and Jubilee Tower on Darwen Moor to mill workers will be examined, as those from small villages used to retreat to the Phillips from Historic England, which is giving grants to 30 sites across the country, said the importance of the areas to local workers would be celebrated, along with the people and places at the heart of its said rural and coastal areas "became a sort of early place for leisure" for mill workers. "It's about how workers from the small villages would enjoy the local countryside as a sort of retreat from the way they were existing by working in the mills," he Wildlife Trust has secured a £25,000 grant from the Everyday Heritage grants programme for A Silent Right to Roam, a project to explore Jubilee Tower's relationship with Darwen and its in 1898 following a successful campaign by packmen, pedlars, farmers and labourers, the tower represents a historic working-class victory that saw 300 acres of moorland passed into public possession, Historic England Darwen is home to rural farming communities and many South Asian communities, whose stories and perspectives will also be shared over a year of co-creation. Andy Mather, who is leading the project, said it would work with local artists and communities to highlight the role the moors have played in Darwen's past as a place of solace, work, identity and protest. The WORK/LIFE project, which received £10,000 from Historic England, will be Pendle Hill Museum CIC's first major explores the evolving connection between work and leisure and how workers from industrial towns embraced rural leisure facilities in the 20th century, focusing on the picturesque villages of Roughlee, Barley and Newchurch at the foot of Pendle project will create a commemorative postcard series to celebrate its diverse heritage of working-class leisure in the countryside, and culminate in a co-created exhibition launched with a communal Cronshaw, of Pendle Hill Museum CIC, said Pendle Hill had been a place to rest and recover for many generations of Lancashire's workers. "There are fantastic stories to gather from the old boating lake in Roughlee, or the many thriving tea gardens and inns around Pendle Hill," he said. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
BBC News
05-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
South East projects aim to celebrate working class histories
Four new projects across Sussex and Kent that aim to celebrate working class histories are to be funded by Historic projects in Margate, Sheerness, Shoreham and Hastings will benefit as part of the public body's Everyday Heritage Grants will create a new ceremonial tradition for Sheerness, consider the local impact of Shoreham Harbour, look at the traditions of the Hastings fishing fleet and research the story of a school for deaf children in Wilson, Historic England's chief executive, said: "These projects will shine a light on the stories of local, working class people and their extraordinary contributions to our shared history." Historic England is funding 30 new community-led projects throughout the country, which will share almost £500, Deaf Voices will receive £24,300 so a group of people with hearing impairments can explore the history of the local Royal School for Deaf plan to produce a documentary film and premiere it at the Margate Film Festival in Rituals in Sheerness will also get £16,750 to create a new ceremonial tradition in the town ahead of a public performance in August. Historic England said: "New Rituals seeks to rediscover and celebrate Sheppey's unique community identity and establish a new ceremonial tradition that can be passed on to future generations."Port Stories in Shoreham will receive £19,200 so residents can research the local port and learn new digital skills to co-create a series of interactive walks combining audio trails, augmented reality and will be launched in 2026 at Eastbrook Manor Community Centre and at locations within the port Point in Hastings will also benefit from £18,500. 'Integral to the town' The collaboration between Hastings Fisherman's Protection Society and Hastings Contemporary will celebrate the cultural heritage of the local fishing ideas for activities include net-making and fish filleting workshops, flag-making and fish printing family days, plus the chance to engage with an oral history archive Cross, from Hastings Contemporary, said: "This is important to our community because cultural traditions, practices and sounds which are so integral to the town are at risk of being lost."
BBC News
28-01-2025
- BBC News
Historical Cambridge lamps found in theft investigation
Historical listed street lamps stolen in Cambridge have been recovered in a haul found by police in a neighbouring county earlier this of the lanterns - known as Richardson candle lamps - were reported stolen last year in Trumpington Street and St John's Street in the Police has now confirmed that two of the three lamps were among 296 lights and lanterns found at an address in Barkway, near Royston, on 11 18-year-old man from Barkway was arrested on suspicion of theft and has been released on police bail while investigations continue. The lamps in Cambridge were designed by architect Sir Albert Edward Richardson, who was commissioned to design bespoke new street lighting for the city in 1957, according to Historic vertical tubular lanterns became known as Richardson candles and nearly half of those installed in the 50s survive, and all have Grade II listed building were based on a design that had been on show at the Festival of Britain in lamps were removed at various times between about 13 September and 1 England said they were a "distinctive feature of Cambridge city centre" and described their theft as an "apparent heritage crime". Hertfordshire Police, which found almost 300 lights and lanterns, said they were believed to have been taken from various locations across Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire in the past six said it was trying to reunite the street lamps, or other ornate fittings, with their owners. Follow East of England news on X, Instagram and Facebook: BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Norfolk, BBC Northamptonshire or BBC Suffolk.
