ACO BRANCH NEWS wirh irs exhibirion and shop will be open rhroughour rhe day. The demonsrrarion is planned to run from 1 to 4.30 pm. Further derails from Graham Beaumont. As mentioned in the last Branch News, Leicestershire has offered to host the first Branch AGM when a most important item will be the 1995 school. Details will be circulated. Northants Heritage. The Group has moved to a new town centre location, a 1930s former Co-op store on the Local List. The new office, 27 Guildhall Road, is just 200 yards from the Guildhall (I 861, by Godwin), where a Framing Opinions Seminar was held in September, attended by abour 100 people including councillors and designers. The seminar was repeated at Nottingham where sponsorship enabled 135 delegates to attend ftee of charge. The I 8rh-cenrury Shire Hall, Nottingham, with its law courrs and prison cells, is to become a National Museum of Law. The City Council has jusr boughr the building and leased it ro the Lace Marker Heritage Trust, which is trying to raise £3.5 million. Notes Hisroric Gardens Trust is to be officially launched at Hodsock Priory, the home of rhe President, Lady Buchanan, on 19 March 1994. Contact: Tony Player. Tel (0602) 819911. Now only one of our five counties (Leicestershire) lacks a gardens trust. Graham Beaumont Heritage Lincolnshire has now secured enough commercial sponsorship to fund its new publication, Buildings at Risk in Lincolnshire, and is working rowards a December launch. The publicarion is a collaborative effort between the Heritage Trust, all the county's local authorities, and the Lincolnshire Police. The aims are to publicise the general problem and to promote around 70 specific examples, all suitable for repair and resale. SOUTH BRANCH East Midlands local authorities were parricularly good in responding ro the CAPS consultarion (English Heritage's words nor mine!) and pilot parrnership schemes are to be launched in Wainfleer (April 1994), Lincoln and possibly Buxron. Northants County Conservation Group has joined forces with archaeologist colleagues from the curatorial section ro form The venue for the Autumn Branch visit on 9 October was Highclere Castle. Michael Carden of the Radley House Partnership, Winchester (architect for rhe house and garden buildings) gave us an interesting and energetic tour. We started on the roof of the Castle viewing the necessary stone and roof repairs - much of the leadwork is contemporary wirh Sir Charles Barry's major remodelling in rhe Elizaberhan style of a Georgian house for rhe third Earl of Carnarvon in 1839-42. Also from the roof we viewed the Capability Brown landscape now in its beautiful Autumn colours. We came down ro earth with a -{QJ-[QJ [Q) iQl .- I l I ' I I,....,--.....,; , - I I I --1----1------ I?-";'"" I 4 s'::) I I I I ' I I __,,IL.J,fj~_ g_ _[§]__ [g_ _~ITT.JTT'--_ Jackdaws Castle,Highclere. CONTEXT 40 closer look at the poor condition of mosr of rhe garden buildings - including a large 18th century rotunda, altered by Barry, which has a tree growing our of the dome, and has lost its floors and windows, bur may become a Landmark Trust building. After an excellent picnic we examined Jackdaws Castle which has just been restored from irs previous imitation of a large bush. This inrenrionally roofless classical pedimented temple c.1743 utilises the srone columns from Berkley House (demolished before 1733). There followed a country walk to Heavens Gare (Marian's attempt to improve our bodies as well as our minds), passing on the way a ruined gothic warrener's cottage and flint lodge. Heavens Gate, 1739, is a red brick triumphal arch located on top of the hill so that 'heaven' is viewed through the arch from the Castle below. Now in a poor condition, this is the next building programmed for repairs. Thanks go again ro Michael Carden for such an interesting day, to Marion Brinton for organising the day and especially the picnic and also to Ann Morris for organising the perfect weather. Also organised under the auspices of the South Branch was a lime day in Buckinghamshire in early September. Bob Bennett of the Lime Centre, Winchester, came to the Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfonr Sr. Giles, for a 'hands-on' day which proved so successful that we have been asked ro repeat the day next Spring. Organisation for the 1994 Branch Conference in Winchester is now well underway and you should have received a leaflet in this issue of Context. The conference on Saturday 12 February is entitled 'A Brush with the Past' and will examine traditional paint and surface treatments. Contact Maureen Wi!Lbourne on 0962 848177 ext 2261 for details. Julia Smith WEST MIDLANDS BRANCH This report follows hot on the heels of the Branch's first local conference: a one day event on Timber frame buildings - repair and conservation' held at the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings on 30 Seprember. Given rhar rimber framing is ar the heart of rhis region's vernacular buildings, rhe subject matter chose itself and obviously sruck a popular nore witness the 300 applications for 200 places (incidentally, there's a lesson there for CPD organisers - keep your pnces keen). It was especially encouraging to see so many interests represented with archirecrs, surveyors and craftsmen rubbing shoulders with owners and ACO members. That in irself was anorher lesson, namely chat through our own extensive networks of conracrs and knowledge, members can ensure rhar rhe message of conservarion and good pracrice can be spread far and wide . The excellenr speakers covered many aspects. Roberr Demaus expanded on his rwo recent arricles in Context on 11011d estrucri ve resting, Dr Brian Ridout instructed on insect infesrarion and rhe varied kinds of fungus among us, and Roger Capps spoke about borh choosing and using rimber. It's fascinating to learn that in roday's high-tech rimes the skill of the sawyer is still just as imporranr as it ever was, even if the saw is controlled by a microADVERTISEMENT ~" <t '''Hfiic·iFiinof Li!fti;:duni 'it d ~nlLawrttrice, erset TA4 3S~/ 37
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