50 C O N T E X T 1 7 1 : M A R C H 2 0 2 2 who helped put together the new conservation area appraisal. The Ramsgate Conservation Area is so large (for a town) and diverse that it has 13 distinct character areas. Your favourite book? Not one but a series: Practical Building Conservation by English Heritage/Historic England. The relevant volumes are the course books for the BCMs at West Dean. I love their quality and how they index each other. Getting to meet some the authors and editors through studying at West Dean makes the books seem even more real and relevant. What organisations are you a member of? IHBC (affiliate) and south-east branch committee member; RICS; Ramsgate Heritage and Design Forum; Building Limes Forum; SPAB; Ramsgate Football Supporters Association. Which one issue would you particularly like the IHBC to campaign on? Countering inappropriate and misinformed climate change and retrofit ideas that will have a negative impact on old buildings, wasting energy and trashing historic fabric. Historic fabric is precious; once it’s gone, it’s gone. Energy is becoming more and more renewable. Michael Foley runs a RICS-regulated building surveying practice that deals exclusively with the historic built environment. Before becoming a building surveyor, he was a carpenter and joiner for 25 years, and a labourer before that. TRAVELS IN CONSERVATION An experience based exploration of how conservation works with a unique blend of fact and candid comment. It is available as an e-book with 1,300+ images, 160,000 words, an extensive bibliography and full internal links. £10 from Fat Old Owl Publications at indunicom.org BUI LD ING · CONS ERVATION I NSTITUTE · OF · HI STORIC · Heritage from the bottom up The potential of community-led heritage Chester’s most protected building Saving Dick Nunn’s bridge No 169 September 2021 Institute of Historic Building Conservation The River Severn The Severn navigation Powis Castle: a great survivor Repairing the Iron Bridge No 170 December 2021 Institute of Historic Building Conservation CONTEXT, the journal of The Institute of Historic Building Conservation, now goes out to all IHBC members four times a year. Keep in touch with the latest news and views and keep your finger on the pulse of professional building conservation. The home of the conservation professional INSTITUTE OF HISTORIC BUILDING CONSERVATION YEARBOOK The IHBC is the principal body in the UK representing professionals and specialists involved in the conservation and preservation of the historic environment. Its members include conservation architects, architectural historians, conservation officers, planners, surveyors and other specialist consultants, as well as academics, conservators and craftspeople. Published by Cathedral Communications, the IHBC’s prestigious 5,000 copy circulation Yearbook includes essential information on the institute and the conservation sector, and features useful articles and other information for frontline historic environment professionals. To subscribe, order a copy or request advertising details please contact Cathedral Communications Limited 01747 871717 The Grange, Ramsgate (Photo: Michael Coppins, Wikimedia) probably the ultimate immersive conservation experience in the world. I plan to do some more BCMs, as getting to eat, sleep, drink and learn practical and academic conservation in the comfort of a stately home is a proper busman’s holiday. Your favourite place? My hometown of Ramsgate in Kent. I realised a few decades ago how important architecturally and culturally the place is. From the arrival of the Romans to St Augustine and Christianity, and the birth of the modern house – AWN Pugin’s The Grange, and the most exquisite church he built for himself and the Catholic community, the Shrine of Saint Augustine. Ramsgate harbour is probably the most intact Georgian harbour in the world, and the views of the seafront from its pier ends are spectacular. Historic England acknowledged how important the place is by designating it their first heritage action zone in the south of England. I was one of the volunteers
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