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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd
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Helps turn liabilities into assets through heritage-led regeneration, creative re-use and constructive partnerships.
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Snow Graffiti has started work on the mural at Andy's All Day Breakfast in Ashton-in-Makerfield. This is part of the Public Art Project aimed at improving the street scene (funded by UK Government). We can't wait to see the final result! @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Didn't expect to be wowed by Chelmsford but have enjoyed the town trail this evening, learning about Marconi, ballbearings, Roman roads & 19thC feminist Anne Knight.
#heritage #HighStreet
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August 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Scaffolding is officially up at The Cupcakery and Vapour Trader! This is the first project to start on site as part of the Ashton-in-Makerfield Town Centre Building Grant Scheme. @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social #heritage #highstreets
July 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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As part of the Ashton-in-Makerfield Building Grant Scheme, we are producing a series of blog posts exploring the history of some of the town's shops and pubs. Our first one is about the Brian Boru Club, the oldest Irish pub in Great Britain! You can give it a read at: shorturl.at/3mtpv
June 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We're very pleased to be working with Richmondshire BPT again at the Old Grammar. Great new project to create a Centre for Creativity and Digital Enterprise.
That pesky ivy has grown since we were last involved! 🤣Asset transfer in progress. See www.rbptrust.co.uk/Projects/Old....

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Stone gable of the hall of the Old Grammar with large traceried window; adjacent secondary, older gable with oriel bay window of the former headmaster's office. Ivy, vegetation and heras fencing in the foreground. Small section of the 2-storey stone Old Grammar School building - recess between two gabled bays, with a green painted door and two square windows on the ground floor, and a 6-section gothic-looking window all the way across at first floor. (3 pairs of pointed-arched windows, with stone mullions in between.) This first floor window lighted a large room that used to be the Common Room of the original Victorian Old Grammar School. Ivy growing in the corner, up a drainpipe, as far as the top of the ground floor windows - and dead ivy higher up, suggesting that it has previously been cut back. Snowboards at eaves level, with vegetation growing in the gutter. Photo taken in 2018, when the building has been vacant for 5 years. Small section of the 2-storey stone Old Grammar School building - recess between two gabled bays, with ivy growing in the corner, all the way to the eaves, covering the windows of the first floor Old Common Room. Boarded-up door at ground floor but can’t see windows beside this, as they are covered in ivy. Photo taken in 2025, when the building has been vacant for 12 years. It looks very unloved.
May 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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One advantage of being on a very long train (for a very long time) is the ability to photograph the back end of it, from the front! Here the 15.19 from Plymouth crosses Brunel's bridge over the River Plym.
#heritage #engineering
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Two arches of an iron lattice railway bridge, sailing high over a wide river, with boats in the foreground and buildings on the shore beyond. The portal of the bridge says "I.K. Brunel 1859 Engineer" in large white letters, above the end carriages of a train which is passing over the bridge.
March 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Good to meet with Trustees at Gedling Old Station this morning - it was warmer outside than inside the building, so we held our discussions on the old platform!
@gedlingeye.bsky.social @railwayheritage.bsky.social @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Watched an excellent WHUK webinar last night about climate change mitigation in #Edinburgh #WHS. Made me appreciate how beautiful my home town is.. #RefreshinglyBuxton
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
Park with blue sky; war memorial and Georgian urn Street scene, looking over Buxton's town centre, with Victorian baths arcade and terrace of Georgian 3-storey houses and shops, stepping up the hill to the huge Palace Hotel View down towards Buxton's Opera House, with blue sky and copper dome of St John's church tower rising above. Pavilion Gardens park to the left and historic Old Hall Hotel to right. Beautiful stone-built buildings. One bright red car in a sea of tarmac in front of the theatre! Buxton's Georgian Crescent, with open arches of ground floor arcade and two floors of Georgian windows over. Skyline dominated by Palace Hotel behind. Slopes park and Pump Room in the foreground
March 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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We're proud to have switched Banks, choosing one with an Ethical Policy that matches our values. This completes one of our @carbonliteracy.bsky.social pledges!
@heritagenetwork.bsky.social #netzero
Image is a screenshot from a letter with the Cooperative Bank heading, saying 'Welcome'
March 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Had to have a coffee in this wonderful coffee shop in Kendal - rude not to when it has such a lovely shopfront!
Farrers have been trading here since 1819 (tho the building dates from 1639). Grade 2 listed primarily on account of its historic shop interior.
#heritage #HighStreet
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Bow fronted shopfront, painted black with white Georgian windows and 'Farrer, 'Tea' and 'Coffee' hand-painted in gold lettering on the fascia. Central door with two glazed panels above the midrail with narrow margin lights. Ornamental glazed overlight. Oval hanging sign.
March 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The pigeon holes in Marrakech's city walls were apparently left by the scaffolders. Should make it easy to put up scaff in future, for maintenance. Alternatively, there may have been a dispute with the contractor over making good....
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The terracotta pink-rendered 12th century historic walls around Marrakech were built of rubble, straw and mud. A series of regular 150mm square holes are now used by nesting birds, but are scaffolding putlogs. Bright blue February sky, with shadows cast by palm trees
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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It’s been a great day researching the history of Ashton-in-Makerfield and Leigh in the local archives! As part of the Building Grant Schemes, we will be producing blog posts exploring the history of a selection of buildings, so stay tuned! @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Check out this beautifully illustrated @veluxglobal.bsky.social case study. We were project managers for the re-roofing of Paradise Mill in Macclesfield, home of the Silk Museum's amazing historic jacquard looms. Great credit to architect Simon Revill.
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View over mill roof, with new rooflights to each side of valley gutter, and extensive views of the townscape beyond Interior of Paradise Mill, with timber machinery under a sloping roof, with light shining down from new rooflights
February 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The gutter cleaning works have started in Ashton-in-Makerfield!
Orb Rope Access have been appointed to complete the #maintenance works to 12 properties on the high street. This has been organised as part of the Building Grant Scheme. @wigancouncil.bsky.social @tourguideliverp.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We’re so proud of our colleague Kate Mitchell, who has joined the board of Leeds BPT. She’ll be a re-energising force! Look out Leeds #heritage at risk! @heritagenetwork.bsky.social @buttressarchitects.bsky.social @archhfund.org.uk @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Introducing Tyldesley, the office draught excluder (named after our Tyldesley HAZ project). When it comes to #ClimateAction, we have to do every little thing we can.

Proud to be Carbon Literate, thanks to Carbon Literacy Project course offered through @heritagenetwork.bsky.social & @HistoricEng
January 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Beautiful views from the Creative Heritage offices in Buxton today...
#snow
January 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Found myself in tears as I walked out of the office this lunchtime & watched my #snowdog friend being taken away. Hope he raises lots of £ for Blythe House Hospice & finds a new home where he can be enjoyed by many. He's been a joyous white splash in a #heritage landscape.
December 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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We've made a start on the prioritisation of EoIs from property owners seeking grant under the Town Centre Grant Scheme in Leigh, funded by Government. Can you guess our secret location?! @wigancouncil.bsky.social #weloveLeigh
December 9, 2024 at 10:54 AM