British TV programming regularly makes its way onto the US 'Telly' (e.g.,
Antique Roadshow, the historic period reality shows on PBS, the recent
string of reality shows, multiple sit coms).
Given that reality, archaeologists may want to check out the UK news
articles mentioned in Geoff Carver's recent posting. Towards that end, I
have cut and pasted the text of these here. The link to these news stories
can be found in Geoff's email attached below.
Now 'Restoration' aims to save our rural heritage
By Ciar Byrne, Media Correspondent
Published: 11 July 2006
An Edwardian swimming baths in Manchester and a timber-framed school set
against the tower blocks of Birmingham have already benefited from the
publicity it generated. Now, back after a year's break, Restoration, the
BBC2 series that has raised millions of pounds to rescue crumbling
buildings, has a new focus - the village.
From slate quarry buildings in the Welsh mountains at Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry
in the Nantlle valley, to a Gothic folly doubling up as a corn mill at
Howsham in North Yorkshire, 21 rural buildings will vie for the public's vote.
The winner can expect funding from a variety of sources, including the
telephone voting lines, which have previously raised £500,000.
Roly Keating, the controller of BBC2, said Restoration had enabled viewers
to "make a difference" by taking practical measures to rescue much-loved
buildings. But he said that this year, the makers of the programme wanted
to concentrate on rural buildings to highlight the massive changes taking
place in Britain's villages.
"This is not just about buildings, it's about communities, about people.
Heritage is not just about big, grand, urban buildings or great houses in
the countryside, it's as much about those extraordinary structures in rural
Britain, in small villages."
Each week Restoration Village will feature three buildings, each from a
different region, and ask viewers to select their favourite.
The seven regional winners and a surprise eighth runner-up will then be
summarised in an update programme, before a grand final in mid-September.
Since winning the public vote in 2003, work has begun on Victoria Baths in
Manchester, with the support of £3m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The Old Grammar School and Saracens Head in Birmingham, which won the
competition in 2004, has also received £2.5m from the HLF and is due to
reopen in early 2008.
The presenter, Griff Rhys Jones, said: "I am sure we all have a private
view of England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and I bet it probably
involves a village and a deserted road with a cottage in the foreground and
green fields swelling in the rear.
"But ... the countryside everywhere is facing change and disruption over
the next hundred years. It is going to be a challenge to all of us to
manage that change." Among the featured buildings is Dawe's twine works in
West Coker, Somerset, which retains much of its late 19th-century machinery.
The Dennis Head Old Beacon on the remote island of North Ronaldsay, is the
oldest surviving purpose-built lighthouse in Scotland. Abandoned since
1809, the hope is that more tourists will be attracted to the island if it
is restored.
Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, was built in the Arts and Crafts style by
the 19th-century portrait painter George Frederic Watts and his second wife
Maryto provide art in rural areas. The series starts on 28 July and will be
accompanied by a BBC4 series in which the architect Ptolemy Dean goes in
search of the perfect village.
The contenders
* SOUTH-EAST: Masseys Folly, Upper Farringdon, Hampshire; Watts Gallery,
Compton, Surrey; Woodrolfe Granary, Tollesbury, Essex.
* SOUTH-WEST: Dawe's twine works, West Coker, Somerset; Welcombe Barton,
Welcombe, Devon; Newlyn Trinity Methodist Chapel, Newlyn, West Cornwall.
* MIDLANDS: All Saints Church, Beckingham, Lincolnshire; Pennoyers School,
Pulham St Mary, Norfolk; Chedhams Yard, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire.
* SCOTLAND: Dennis Old Head Beacon, North Ronaldsay, Orkney; Greenlaw Town
Hall, Greenlaw, Berwickshire; Cromarty East Church, Cromarty, Black Isle.
* WALES: The Prichard-Jones Institute, Newborough, Anglesey; Pen-yr- Orsedd
quarry, Nantlle; Pembrey Court Farm at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire.
* NORTHERN IRELAND: The White House, Whitehouse Park, Whitehouse, Belfast;
Gracehill Old School, Gracehill, Ballymena, Co Antrim; Cushendun Old
Church, Co Antrim.
* NORTHERN ENGLAND: Howsham Mill, Howsham, North Yorkshire; Heugh Gun
Battery, The Headland, Hartlepool; Higherford Mill, Lancashire.
Listed buildings in North less likely to be rescued than those in South
By Ciar Byrne
Crumbling buildings in the North of England are twice as likely to suffer
further deterioration than in the South, according to English Heritage,
which launched its 2006 buildings at risk register yesterday.
Soaring house prices in the South mean renovation is often economically
viable, but the same effect is not being seen in the North.
Of the 30,500 Grade I and II* listed buildings in England, 3.3 per cent are
at risk through neglect and decay. In the north-east of England, this
figure rises to 7.8 per cent and in the North-west to 5.5 per cent.
In contrast, only 1.8 per cent of listed buildings in the east of England
remain at risk and only 2.3 per cent in the South-west. Simon Thurley,
chief executive of English Heritage, said: " It's about twice as difficult
to solve the problem in the North, because of the high proportion of
redundant industrial buildings and because the economy still has to catch
up with the South."
The Pithead Baths in Lynemouth, Northumberland, is a typical example of one
of the buildings at risk in the North-east. The 1930s building has been
vacant for nearly 20 years, and has been vandalised.
But there have also been success stories in the North, including The Albany
in Liverpool, one of the earliest large-scale speculative office buildings
in the country, built in 1858. After years of decay, it has been converted
to high-quality apartments and removed from the register.
An Edwardian swimming baths in Manchester and a timber-framed school set
against the tower blocks of Birmingham have already benefited from the
publicity it generated. Now, back after a year's break, Restoration, the
BBC2 series that has raised millions of pounds to rescue crumbling
buildings, has a new focus - the village.
From slate quarry buildings in the Welsh mountains at Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry
in the Nantlle valley, to a Gothic folly doubling up as a corn mill at
Howsham in North Yorkshire, 21 rural buildings will vie for the public's vote.
The winner can expect funding from a variety of sources, including the
telephone voting lines, which have previously raised £500,000.
Roly Keating, the controller of BBC2, said Restoration had enabled viewers
to "make a difference" by taking practical measures to rescue much-loved
buildings. But he said that this year, the makers of the programme wanted
to concentrate on rural buildings to highlight the massive changes taking
place in Britain's villages.
"This is not just about buildings, it's about communities, about people.
Heritage is not just about big, grand, urban buildings or great houses in
the countryside, it's as much about those extraordinary structures in rural
Britain, in small villages."
Each week Restoration Village will feature three buildings, each from a
different region, and ask viewers to select their favourite.
The seven regional winners and a surprise eighth runner-up will then be
summarised in an update programme, before a grand final in mid-September.
Since winning the public vote in 2003, work has begun on Victoria Baths in
Manchester, with the support of £3m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The Old Grammar School and Saracens Head in Birmingham, which won the
competition in 2004, has also received £2.5m from the HLF and is due to
reopen in early 2008.
The presenter, Griff Rhys Jones, said: "I am sure we all have a private
view of England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and I bet it probably
involves a village and a deserted road with a cottage in the foreground and
green fields swelling in the rear.
"But ... the countryside everywhere is facing change and disruption over
the next hundred years. It is going to be a challenge to all of us to
manage that change." Among the featured buildings is Dawe's twine works in
West Coker, Somerset, which retains much of its late 19th-century machinery.
The Dennis Head Old Beacon on the remote island of North Ronaldsay, is the
oldest surviving purpose-built lighthouse in Scotland. Abandoned since
1809, the hope is that more tourists will be attracted to the island if it
is restored.
Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, was built in the Arts and Crafts style by
the 19th-century portrait painter George Frederic Watts and his second wife
Maryto provide art in rural areas. The series starts on 28 July and will be
accompanied by a BBC4 series in which the architect Ptolemy Dean goes in
search of the perfect village.
The contenders
* SOUTH-EAST: Masseys Folly, Upper Farringdon, Hampshire; Watts Gallery,
Compton, Surrey; Woodrolfe Granary, Tollesbury, Essex.
* SOUTH-WEST: Dawe's twine works, West Coker, Somerset; Welcombe Barton,
Welcombe, Devon; Newlyn Trinity Methodist Chapel, Newlyn, West Cornwall.
* MIDLANDS: All Saints Church, Beckingham, Lincolnshire; Pennoyers School,
Pulham St Mary, Norfolk; Chedhams Yard, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire.
* SCOTLAND: Dennis Old Head Beacon, North Ronaldsay, Orkney; Greenlaw Town
Hall, Greenlaw, Berwickshire; Cromarty East Church, Cromarty, Black Isle.
* WALES: The Prichard-Jones Institute, Newborough, Anglesey; Pen-yr- Orsedd
quarry, Nantlle; Pembrey Court Farm at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire.
* NORTHERN IRELAND: The White House, Whitehouse Park, Whitehouse, Belfast;
Gracehill Old School, Gracehill, Ballymena, Co Antrim; Cushendun Old
Church, Co Antrim.
* NORTHERN ENGLAND: Howsham Mill, Howsham, North Yorkshire; Heugh Gun
Battery, The Headland, Hartlepool; Higherford Mill, Lancashire.
Listed buildings in North less likely to be rescued than those in South
By Ciar Byrne
Crumbling buildings in the North of England are twice as likely to suffer
further deterioration than in the South, according to English Heritage,
which launched its 2006 buildings at risk register yesterday.
Soaring house prices in the South mean renovation is often economically
viable, but the same effect is not being seen in the North.
Of the 30,500 Grade I and II* listed buildings in England, 3.3 per cent are
at risk through neglect and decay. In the north-east of England, this
figure rises to 7.8 per cent and in the North-west to 5.5 per cent.
In contrast, only 1.8 per cent of listed buildings in the east of England
remain at risk and only 2.3 per cent in the South-west. Simon Thurley,
chief executive of English Heritage, said: " It's about twice as difficult
to solve the problem in the North, because of the high proportion of
redundant industrial buildings and because the economy still has to catch
up with the South."
The Pithead Baths in Lynemouth, Northumberland, is a typical example of one
of the buildings at risk in the North-east. The 1930s building has been
vacant for nearly 20 years, and has been vandalised.
But there have also been success stories in the North, including The Albany
in Liverpool, one of the earliest large-scale speculative office buildings
in the country, built in 1858. After years of decay, it has been converted
to high-quality apartments and removed from the register.
, At 08:57 AM 7/11/2006 +0200, you wrote:
>guess it's one way to raise money, but then: should heritage protection
>necessarily descend into a popularity contest?
>http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1171396.ece
>
>
Patrice L. Jeppson, Ph.D.
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