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From Timbuktu to Grimsby, heritage deserves to be restored and revered

Edit The Guardian 25 Aug 2016
If you demolish a historic building in Timbuktu you commit a war crime. If you demolish one in Britain you apply for retrospective planning permission. What is the difference? ... For the first time, the concept of war criminality has been extended from killing people to trying to wipe out their cultural heritage ... Photograph. POOL/Reuters ... Warsaw rebuilt its old square, Dresden its Frauenkirche and the National Trust its fire-damaged Uppark ... ....

Clandon Park's Marble Hall to rise again from the ashes of 2015 blaze

Edit The Guardian 18 Jan 2016
National Trust to fully restore only ground floor spaces of Surrey mansion, including one of most celebrated rooms in England, in project costing ‘many tens of millions’ ... Related ... The restoration approach will be different from the most famous in the National Trust’s history, at Uppark in West Sussex, which went up in flames in 1989, and reopened six years later restored down to the last bell pull as it had been on the eve of the fire....

Rebuilding stately ruins is not always the wise response

Edit The Guardian 21 Dec 2015
After the reconstruction of Uppark, after it burned down in 1989, and the reconstruction of parts of Windsor Castle, after a fire in 1992, and the reconstruction of Scotland’s Raasay House, after it was gutted in 2009, it would probably have looked a bit unfair on Clandon Park, an 18th-century masterpiece which burned down in April, if the National Trust’s response had not followed convention....

The Day Before the Fire by Miranda France, book review: Restoring faith in nuanced prose

Edit The Independent 14 May 2015
The 1989 fire at Uppark in West Sussex, and the subsequent restoration of the stately home, is the inspiration for Miranda France's new novel. Instead of Uppark, we have Turney House in Roehampton, south-west London, owned by the aristocratic Marchant family ... The book, narrated by paper conservator Ros Freeman, is an exploration of the contradictions and ambiguities of the heritage industry ... It brims with a gentle humour, too ... --> ... ....

What now for Clandon Park House? The fate of fire-hit stately homes

Edit BBC News 05 May 2015
But despite the house being long gone, Dunsland has become popular with visitors who come to walk around the parkland and admire the scenic views.Uppark. The fire at Uppark was caused by builders who were using a blowtorch to repair lead flashing on the roof. Uppark house in West Sussex was devastated by a fire in August 1989, days before a restoration was due to be completed....

Clandon Park House fire: Investigation 'will take time'

Edit BBC News 01 May 2015
Parts of the hall remain in tact and there is "a glimmer of hope" it could be restored, according to Christopher Rowell, who oversaw the restoration of Uppark House after a similar blaze in 1989 ... Two chimney pieces have survived in the marble hall Some original pieces survive in the rubble, the National Trust says The National Trust expects it to take several days to damp down Clandon Park House Uppark fire....

Clandon Park fire: Fears of damage to iconic state bed

Edit The Daily Telegraph 01 May 2015
The most treasured exhibit in Clandon Park, a state bed more than 300 years old, is thought to have been badly damaged in the fire that ravaged the National Trust site ... Rex Features. 10.29PM BST 01 May 2015 Follow ... He said ... They escaped the fire ... "It was a big room in the house and part of the original house," said Mr Rowell, who was involved in the salvage effort after the fire at Uppark House, in South Harting, West Sussex, in 1989 ... ....

South Harting daffodils tribute for Mothering Sunday

Edit BBC News 15 Mar 2015
They were then "planted" in clusters along the main drive of the National Trust's Uppark House in South Harting ... The daffodils were "planted" in clusters along the main drive of Uppark House in South Harting....

2015 Inter Centre Team Enduro Date Announced (ACU - Auto-Cycle Union)

Edit noodls 19 Dec 2014
(Source ... The South Eastern Enduro Combine will organise the event on Sunday 12th July at West Harting Down, Nr Uppark, West Sussex ... » Categories.Enduro. distributed by ... (noodl. 26338520) ....

Book reviews: Get your Joss fix and step inside the 'Housekeeper's Tale'

Edit Toronto Sun 11 Sep 2014
The housekeepers Boase introduces are Dorothy Doar, who worked for the widely disliked Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall; HG Wells’ mother, Sarah Wells, who was housekeeper at the 17th century pile Uppark; Erddig Hall’s Ellen Penketh; the colourful character Hannah Mackenzie, sacked from Wrest Park but eventually head ......
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