Top Museums face £150M+ repair backlog, say Government reviews

By |2018-03-08T11:02:18+00:00January 17th, 2018|General, Maintenance, Marketing|

Two strategic reviews of the Museums sector, published on 14th November, draw attention to the dire state of maintenance and repair of many of the nation’s museums and galleries and may force Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic England to review their long-time refusal to support routine maintenance. One report concerns the top 16 directly-funded museums

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Case Study – A failed ball-cock saturates a listed Waterstone’s bookshop

By |2018-03-08T11:18:41+00:00January 13th, 2018|General, Maintenance, News|

Waterstone’s, the book shop, has a magnificent Edwardian store in Gower Street, London, which was designed by architect Charles Fitzroy Doll. It has a mass of complex detail and is listed Grade 2. In January 2012, George Allan visited the store on a book-shopping trip and was disturbed to see out of a window

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Campaigns for the better maintenance of Britain’s historic buildings.

Maintain is a UK-wide not-for- profit group set up in 1997. It is unique in the UK in being concerned entirely with encouraging maintenance.

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Maintain Our Heritage
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