2 C O N T E X T 1 3 7 : N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Fiona Newton, 01507 602567 editorial@ihbc.org.uk Editorial Board Nigel Crowe Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) Rebecca Madgin Fiona Newton (chair) Elizabeth Smith Michael Taylor Cartoons by Rob Cowan Context is distributed to all members of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. © Institute of Historic Building Conservation 2014 ISSN 0958-2746 Publisher Cathedral Communications Limited, High Street, Tisbury,Wiltshire, England SP3 6HA 01747 871717 context@cathcomm.co.uk www.buildingconservation.com Non-member subscriptions to Context Context is available to corporate bodies at an annual subscription rate, including postage, of: United Kingdom £60.00 Elsewhere £90.00 The views expressed in Context are not necessarily held by the IHBC or the publisher. Neither the publisher nor the IHBC shall be under any liability whatsoever in respect of contributed articles. We gratefully acknowledge the support of firms whose advertisements appear throughout this publication.While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this issue of Context is current and correct, neither the IHBC nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions which may occur. Briefing Context Copy deadlines Context is published five times a year, in March, May, July, September and November. The next five copy deadlines are: March, issue 138 16 January May, issue 139 13 March July, issue 140 15 May September, issue 141 17 July November, issue 142 11 September Stable condition Students from the Scottish Waterways Trust’s canal college are to carry out work to protect a historic stable building on the Forth and Clyde Canal. The project will see canal college students undertake a programme of maintenance and archaeological investigation at Craigmarloch Stables near Kilsyth. Run by the Scottish Waterways Trust and supported by Scottish Canals, canal college is a training programme for 16 to 25-yearolds that teaches heritage, environment and employability skills on the Lowland Canals and at the Falkirk Wheel. Built in the early 19th century, Craigmarloch Stables was once a staging post to rest teams of horses that pulled swift passenger boats along the Lowland Canals. Following the decline of the waterways, the stable fell into disuse and eventually ruin. The building, located some distance from the canal, is the second stable to be built at the site. The original block was constructed on the banks of the waterway but sank as the land near the canal was too boggy to support a building of the size required to house the colossal barge horses. Craigmarloch Stables is one of a number of similar buildings, built to a standard pattern, on the banks of the Lowland canals. The impact of war English Heritage is asking the public to help ‘tag’ a vast online archive of aerial photographs known as Britain from Above with sites, ruins and remains that show the impact of the first world war on British soil. Britain from Above is a four-year project, funded through a £1.7 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant, run by English Heritage to conserve, digitise, catalogue and make available online a unique collection of photographs taken by the pioneering Aerofilms company CS Jagger’s Royal Artillery Memorial is one of over 100 significant war memorials in London, France, Belgium and northern Italy for which the Twentieth Century Society has put information and photographs online. Gavin Stamp (who took this photo) has written the notes.The site is part of a 1914–18 centenary project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has also included guided walks around the London memorials. Craigmarloch Stables was once a staging post to rest teams of horses that pulled boats along the Lowland Canals.
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