Projects

To assist development of Big Pit as a working museum, acquisition of 3/4 mile of railway land and t

Salvage of the first submarine of the Royal Navy, known as Holland I after her American inventor.

Acquisition of mahogany altar table made by William Gomm in 1764 for the chapel at Stoneleigh Abbey.

A major late nocturne landscape by Peter Paul Rubens.

Preservation of the remains of a 12th-century stone house Norman House, St Martins-at-Palace Plain,N

Acquisition and repair of two passenger coaches; 1 brake guards van; 8 china clay wagons, smoke tube

Acquisition at auction of SSSI of old pasture meadows for management as nature reserve.

Acquisition of 16.8 hectares, part of Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve, in order to construct