Other – £60,000 distributed in 3 grants
The largest grant in this category was to the Landmark Trust which was established to rescue historic and architecturally interesting buildings and their surroundings from neglect and, when restored, to give them new life by letting them out to stay in as places to experience. The Trust has now restored almost 200 buildings, with the holiday lets covering the costs of ongoing maintenance. The current £50,000 grant is towards the restoration of the Grade II listed Silverton Park Stables in Devon, a rare example of an unconverted stable block built in the mid-19th century and in itself the size of a large country house.
Friends of Anne of Cleves House in Lewes, Sussex, received £5,000 towards renovation work and a similar amount was provided to the Heritage of London Trust for the restoration of the Minnie Lansbury bracket clock which hangs in Bow Road, Tower Hamlets. This memorial clock commemorates the brave East End suffragette heroine from the 1920s, who was a Labour councillor in Poplar, and who served a six week prison sentence for refusing to levy full rates in the poverty-stricken area.
