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The Restoration Business
When it comes to the houses that we live in and the buildings that we cherish, what we say and what we do aren't always the same.
We say we like living in old houses, we go all misty eyed at thatched cottages and we're even prepared to pay something like 20 percent more for a pre-1920's house. But what do we do when the sash windows need replacing and the builder tells us you can't get that sort of wood any more, and anyway it's terribly expensive, and wouldn't you prefer a nice bit of plastic double glazing? Well we cave in immediately of course.
But at long last, are things perhaps beginning to change?
Well interestingly they already have when it comes to the really deserving causes, the real chunks of history, as distinct from our 1900's home-sweet-homes. For a start there's been a huge influx of public funds into restoration.
The National Lottery is ten years old this year, and since it began the Heritage Lottery Fund has given away more than two billion pounds.
So who's benefitted? Well the owners of stately piles obviously, and we the public who gaze at them.
But there's a distinct class of people to whom much of that money has trickled down: the new generation of craft workers, the stonemasons and carpenters, the specialist architects and the rest, many of whom have had to learn the tricks of the trade their ancestors employed from scratch.
But can that sort of approach really co-exist with modern business methods and the rules and regulations our forbears knew nothing of?
Guests
Seamus Hanna
English Heritage
Stuart Page
Stuart Page Architects, email: info@stuartpage.co.uk
John Taylor
Building Crafts College
Jim Blackburn
The Timber Frame Company
Peter Stafford
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Jim Gault
Stonemason
Ightham Mote
The National Trust
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The Lost Gardens of Heligan
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