Founded by Elizabeth Hirst ACR IHBC FRSA to provide a holistic approach to the conservation of objects, buildings and associated surfaces
Lincolnshire & London, UK
Joined November 2009
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Just under a week left to book tickets to our #AnnualConference "On & Off the Wall". Ticket sales close on Sunday 17th March. Join us for a day of #paint related talks & evening social #traditionalpaint #historicdecoration #heritagepaint #paint #research
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This Wednesday will be the last day to register for online attendance for the Colour Matters conference.
Please grab your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-ma…
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We're also delighted to share more details of our excellent programme! 👇
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Can you help? We need someone to visit Staunton on Wye war memorial in #Hereford #Herefordshire to check its condition and take some photos. Do you live nearby and could you visit for us? The info can be added directly to War Memorials Online: warmemorialsonline.org.uk/me… Thank you!
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Twitter! Can you help?
We have some oil lamps at a church in Monmouthshire that need refurbishment to get them working for a wedding. Does anyone know anyone who knows anything about mending 1890s oil lamps?
Maybe you do @lrbilson ??
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Come down to the community cabin on Tuesday 29 March to find out how you can get involved in the restoration of Rochdale Town Hall's ceiling with @HConservation
👉We're running info sessions between 10am - 4pm.
Find out more and book your space: facebook.com/events/65497282…
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#TilesOnTuesday Join the Historic Interiors Group and @InsallArch Patrick Duerden to hear about the #restoration of the Palace of Westminster #Encaustic #Tiles #SaveTheDate @Conservators_uk bit.ly/3FVTZ0C
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This month, more than 150 historic sites in Wales are offering free entry, special events or tours, as part of #OpenDoors, funded and organised by @cadwwales.
Participating monuments include Laugharne Castle, just a mile from St Oudoceus's church in Llandawke, Carmarthenshire.
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I need teaching cover for two Art History modules from October: if you are interested in teaching at Lincoln please DM me for more details: one module is a C18-C20 survey, the other 'Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes' - Morris St. Paul teaching at Athens sets the tone...
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Our newsletter is prized for its eclecticism, scholarship and quirkiness. It's a regular, comprehensive sweep of the sector, full of facts and fun.
We're searching for an editor. Could it be you?
Read more about the role bit.ly/3xExUQ3
(We'd be very grateful for a RT)
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missing our annual Spring conference? Join us on March 31st for our AGM and talk on #WentworthWoodhouse from Charlotte Owen #paintresearcher @HConservation details bit.ly/3bTllqU - booking required
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Great to see progress on the conservation of the much, much degraded Butterfield scheme at St Denis’s, East Hatley.
(Church was derelict for 50+ years before @friendschurches stepped in.)
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The #reawakening begins! We're thrilled to announce a £4.27m grant from the #NationalLotteryHeritageFund for our exciting plans to restore #DoverMaisonDieu dover.gov.uk/News/Press-Rele…
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Have you seen our exciting programme of Wednesday lunchtime webinars? We've got Chris Topp on wrought iron - his lifetime's passion - followed by cast iron and specification writing. A perfect trio for anyone who works with historic ironwork. nhig.org.uk/events/event/
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🚨 Exciting job alert 🚨
Stonemasonry is craft skill which can involve designing, quarrying, dressing and embellishing stone. It's an exciting and rewarding career so this apprenticeship opportunity with @SDSFife is well worth a look! 👇
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I’m looking for a trainee - a youngster preferably - for church conservation work around Somerset mainly - please DM me in here if interested - (Pic - repairs to the Duke of Somerset’s monument - St James Priory - Bristol).
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For @heritageopenday 2020, come ‘behind the scenes’ @Wentworth_House in the historically significant grade I listed Riding School and part of the Stable Block and in the grade II* listed Camellia House which are not open to the public.
Sunday 13 September @ 3pm live on Facebook. – at Sheffield, England
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Before and after. Painstaking conservation and restoration of The Drawing Room by Hirst Conservation. Come and see this beautiful and intricate work in real life - we’re open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm.
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Tickets have just gone on sale for our inaugural Conference @V_and_A 'FORGING AHEAD' so to celebrate here are some beautiful, colourful details from Scott & Skidmore's Hereford Screen in the V&A's ironwork gallery. Booking here: nhig.org.uk/events/event/for… Images copyright @V_and_A
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Let the countdown commence #1week to go for our #10th Annual Conference - for tickets see bit.ly/2IQHVnS #stainedglass #interiors #conservation #historictextiles #booksigning #wightwick #stoneywell #research #CPD @Conservators_uk
