Daily Archives: 22/03/2017

REMINDER – Celebrate your retired members with IHBC’s Marsh Award

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

IHBC Branches: Celebrate your retired members with a nomination for IHBC’s Marsh Award before 31 March: £500 and a Full School place for those contributing to the community Find out more about this year’s Marsh Award

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IHBC Guidance Note ‘Community Infrastructure Levy and Historic Buildings’ online

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

IHBC’s Guidance Note (GN), ‘Community Infrastructure Levy and Historic Buildings’ has been published on the IHBC’s Toolbox.

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School’s children help secure Chislehurst war memorial GII listing

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

The war memorial on Chislehurst Common has been awarded Grade II listed status, thanks to pupils at Montbelle Primary School.

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Nominations for Europa Nostra’s 7 Most Endangered 2018

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

Europa Nostra’s ‘7 Most Endangered’ programme for 2018 is open, so if you know of important heritage that is endangered nominate it before the closing date of 30 June 2017.

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Cheshire design consultancy works on NT’s HLF-funded Quarry Bank brief

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

Mather & Co of Cheshire has completed the first phase of a four-year project at the National Trust’s (NT) Quarry Bank estate in Cheshire.

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Hudson Heritage Awards 2017 – winners revealed

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

Penelope, Viscountess Cobham, CBE, chairman of VisitEngland, presented the awards at Goldsmiths Hall in London on 14 March.

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Bothy-bagging: Scotland’s best-kept secrets revealed

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

Bothies – remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge – have long been one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the mountain huts.

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Norfolk’s neolithic flint mines at Grime’s Graves open new pit to public

Posted on 22/03/2017 by IHBC NewsBlog

English Heritage’s Grime’s Graves, identified about 150 years ago as neolithic flint mines, has opened a second pit to visitors who will be winched deep underground to see the 4,000-year-old site where Neolithic miners used antlers to hack out flint.

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