C O N T E X T 1 3 7 : N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 3 over the course of the 20th century. Sites needing to be tagged might be defence structures erected on the coast or secret listening stations that intercepted enemy communications. They might be shipyards, factories and other buildings where armaments and supplies were produced, gardens and parks turned over to allotments, hospitals where wounded soldiers were treated or country houses requisitioned as convalescent homes. The high resolution Britain from Above photographs, especially those of the 1920s and 1930s, are often the only record left of the first world war’s impact on Britain’s towns, cities and countryside. Users can zoom in to the details of the photographs and tag sites with a description. They can add close-up contemporary photos, historic photos or photographs of relatives who were associated with the site, or share the untold stories of these places. Buildings at risk English Heritage has announced the latest findings of its annual Heritage at Risk Register. Places added to the register and in need of rescue include Geevor Tin Mine in west Cornwall, built in the 18th century and still operational until 1991, the largest and most complete surviving tin mine in Europe; Eastbourne Pier in Sussex, ravaged by fire this summer; Bedlam Furnaces, Ironbridge Gorge, where the nearby world-famous bridge was forged; the shipwreck Hazardous, an 18th century British warship, beached in Bracklesham Bay, Sussex, during a storm of 1706. Sites that have been rescued in the past year and are now off the register include Langham Airfield Dome in Norfolk, built in 1942 to train antiaircraft gunners, and one of only six second world war training domes left in the country; Newman Brothers coffin works in Birmingham, built in 1894, the most prestigious manufacturer of coffins in the world, providing coffins for the funerals of Sir Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain; the London tomb of performer Emile Blondin, most famous for crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope, at Kensal Green Cemetery; the wreck of the Holland No 5, discovered off the southeast coast in 2000, the only surviving example of this class of submarine on the seabed anywhere in the world. The 2014 register is the most comprehensive to date, with listed buildings, places of worship, industrial sites, scheduled monuments and Roof repairs at St Peter’s on the Green, Froxfield Green, East Hampshire. Funding for toilets and roof repairs were the top requests made to the National Churches Trust grant programmes in 2013.Toilets headed the list of requests made to the community grant programme, and roof repairs were most in demand for repair and cornerstone grant funding. archaeology, conservation areas, parks and gardens, protected wrecks and battlefields identified as at risk, and in need of rescue. English Heritage launched the register at Battersea Power Station, a Grade II* listed building that was added to the Heritage at Risk Register in 1991 following its closure in 1983. After many years work is now under way to repair this landmark and bring it back into use. More than 15 years on from the first Heritage at Risk Register, English Heritage has identified five more buildings ready for redevelopment and reuse. All of them have been on the register for at least a decade. English Heritage wants to draw attention to these entrenched cases, where seemingly there is no way forward. The buildings are the Police and Fire Station, London Road, Manchester, Grade II*, on the register since 1997 (built in 1901–6, designed by architects Woodhouse,Willoughby and Langham, the red brick building dominates its corner plot in Manchester’s city centre); the Price and Kensington Teapot Works, Stoke on Trent, Grade II*, on the register since 1998 (one of the oldest potteries to survive in Stoke, the building closed its doors in the 1990s); the Carriage Works, Bristol, Grade II*, on the register since 1998 (built in 1862 for Perry Martin Ashley, Surveyor of the Fabric at St George’s ChapelWindsor, has overseen the installation of a series of new grotesques, part of programme of carving by students at the City and Guilds of London Art School.The programme, continuing a 650-year-old sculptural tradition at St George’s Chapel, was commissioned by the College of St George. Proposed new sculptures were assessed by the Fabric Advisory Committee at St George’s Chapel.The new sculptures reproduce the scale, massing and detailing of the original medieval conception.
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