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Discovering Places - Making the most of the Olympic torch relay
Posted by Discovering Places on 7th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Summer 2012 will be a time of UK-wide celebration. It will also be a time of exploration as the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay will spend 70 days travelling across the UK. The torch will be within one-hour journey time of 95% of the population at many points along the route, and thousands of people will be coming out each day to see the torch travel through their town, village or city.
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Children are the future
Posted by Zoe Potter on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Yes, that old cliché. Children are the visitors of the future, the supporters of the future, the members of the future and even the heritage open days organisers of the future. So it’s worthwhile coming up with some creative ways to help them engage with heritage, and I don’t mean by using standard colouring or quiz sheets.
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Watch out for the gargoyles!...
Posted by Chris Cox on 26th August 2011 | 3 Comments
…And the corbels, columns, and even the odd green man. Yes, I’m talking about the weird and wonderful carvings that you can find in historic churches up and down the land. As Development Officer for The Churches Conservation Trust, I’ve visited many of the historic churches we look after. But I am a long way from visiting all of the 344 in our care, ranging from the dinky Anglo Saxon to the imposing Victorian. I have, however, seen a wonderful array of stone and wooden carvings that adorn these buildings.
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What to look out for in architecture
Posted by Roger Woodley on 19th August 2011 | 2 Comments
Here are just a few tips – not a deep lesson – on what to look out for to form an opinion about your surroundings. (Deep lessons are available, but you don’t need them to enjoy architecture: we can all enjoy it, without training, because we’re all in or around buildings nearly all the time, so we get opinions about them quite naturally).
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Top tips for tip top entertainment: how a drama performance brought a coffin fittings works to life
Posted by Lucie Thacker on 16th August 2011 | 2 Comments
We didn’t decide to be dramatic – but Tin Box Theatre Company did. After many years of work and several turns of fortune, Birmingham Conservation Trust bought a semi-derelict Grade II* late 19th century manufactory on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham last year (with the aid of a grant from Birmingham City Council). The Coffin Fittings Works is a handsome red brick building, fronting the road and with two rear wings arranged around a courtyard. Without services and with boarded-up ground floor windows, the Coffin Fittings Works looked doomed to wait for the results of major fundraising before it was used again. Heritage Open Days were the only opportunity the public had to have a look inside and then the two Jo’s got in touch...
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Guiding tours that people enjoy
Posted by Tim Prevett on 5th August 2011 | 7 Comments
Guiding tours that people enjoy is about allowing the visitor to connect with a place and linking it with a lasting good memory of their visit. That’s not as intimidating as it sounds because much of what makes an enjoyable tour is common sense when you pause to collect your thoughts.
