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| Local Heritage Projects |
What part of your local heritage do you think is worth preserving? These days anything from a stately home to a telephone box can be consideredÌýfor a heritage grant, so what should take priority? Here are just some of the projects You and Yours listeners are campaigning on in their areas. Tell us what you think, or send us your photos here.
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 ÌýThe Cleveland Pleasure Baths, on the banks of the river Avon make up one of the only surviving Georgian lidos in the country, but have been unused for 20 years. Local residents areÌý to re-open the pools for public bathing, but the site is up for sale and their future remains uncertain. Sent in by Janice Dreisbach.
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 ÌýThe Thornborough Henges in north Yorkshire are the remains of a Neolithic-early Bronze Age settlement, and were thought to be a sacred landscape during the fourth to second millennium BC. Some of the surrounding landscape has been quarried for sand and gravel, and Clare Lindley from Thornborough is part of a group trying toÌý from more large scale mineral extraction. Image by Dave MacLeod.
For more information about the quarry, and the current planning permission, visit theÌý website
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 ÌýRod Hutchinson from the Wirral is campaigning to save this view over the New Brighton Marine Lake, at the mouth of the river Mersey. Proposals to fill in the lake to create a site for a supermarket, apartments and leisure facilities would osbcure the view of theÌýRock Lighthouse (left) and the Fort Perch Rock (right), both listed buildings.
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 ÌýDavid Roemmele is campaigning to stop this red sandstone building in GalashielsÌýbeing demolished by a large supermarket chain. It was opened in 1908 as a technical college, and became the base for the world famous Scottish College of Textiles in the 1920s. It is currently used as government offices.
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 ÌýThe Wilson Memorial Fountain in Gateacre, Liverpool, was erected in 1883 as a public drinking fountain using funds subscribed by the villagers. The hexagonal building has been listed since the 1970s, but the drinking fountain was removed years ago. Beryl Plent's committee is trying to get it
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