2 C O N T E X T 1 4 4 : M A Y 2 0 1 6 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 2016 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 Context on-line archive Past editions of Context can be viewed on the IHBC website six months after publication. The archive provides a searchable database and reference for key articles. See www.ihbc.org.uk/page55/context_archive. 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 Copy deadlines Context is published five times a year, in March, May, July, September and November. The next four copy deadlines are: July, issue 145 13 May September, issue 146 15 July November, issue 147 16 August March, issue 148 13 January Merseyside prepares Fires at world heritage sites over the past two decades have presented special challenges to fire and rescue services worldwide, not only because of the loss or damage of historical value, but also because of the difficulties in fire-fighting and rescue. In 2011 the three-year Heritprot project was launched to promote the prevention of fire risk in world heritage sites in the centre of European cities. The project was funded through the European Regional Development Fund via the Interreg IVC programme. Representatives of public authorities and fire-fighting and civil protection institutions from nine EU countries worked jointly. Some of the partners have suffered fires in buildings or sections of the old quarters of their towns; others want to avoid future disasters. The project’s good practice guidance on how to protect historic buildings from fire was launched at a closing ceremony at the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MF&RS) Training and Development Academy. The Heritprot project gave MF&RS the opportunity to gather risk information about the historic buildings that would be needed in the event of a fire, flood or any other emergency. The project developed relationships with staff responsible for heritage buildings and enhanced emergency arrangements at those sites, improving joint working and developing a shared understanding of risk. The project has enabled MF&RS to focus on the Liverpool’s world heritage site, but the Heritprot model is transferrable to all parts of local authority areas in Merseyside. Each of the European cities involved held a two-day conference where they highlighted the areas of fire risk at heritage buildings in their city. MF&RS held a two-day conference in Liverpool in 2013. In the three years leading up to the conference, MF&RS held a series of training exercises at heritage buildings in Liverpool, focusing on the recovery of valuable artefacts in the event of a fire. Local listing with Placecheck Amenity societies in the London Borough of Wandsworth are helping to update the borough’s local list with the help of the new Placecheck app. The borough has around 500 locally listed buildings, and the review of the local list is expected to add a number of buildings, parks and gardens. The aim is to get most of the local listing done by September 2016. At the same time the borough council has prepared a draft historic environment supplementary planning document, which has recently been through the first round of public The towers of the Grade I listed Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol have been refurbished in a scheme that involved re-pointing and restoring the sandstone structures, providing cathodic protection for the Bath stone pillars, and painting the bridge chains.The specialist contractor Rateavon used a variety of Kemper System products. Merseyside firefighters outside St George’s Hall
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