Projects

Acquisition of 35-acre SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) site in the Lower Wye V

Cost of 'certain capital works' necessary to prepare for opening.

Acquisition of painting Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet by the Venetian artist Tintoretto/his stu

Acquisition of an Anglo-Saxon gold and blue glass jewel.

Repairs to roof of Brunel's engineering centre at Temple Meads Station, Bristol.

Acquisition of the Interleaved Set of the Waverley Novels (also called 'the Magnum Opus') is one of

Restoration of an organ made by J C Bishop for Millichope Park, neo-Grecian House, in the 1830s.

Acquisition of an 1884 gaff cutter, Vagrant, built by William Fife at Maidens, South Ayrshire.

Acquisition of Grade I-listed silk mill, one of the few working silk mills to survive.

Acquisition of marble bust of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) by John Rysbrack. Incised and dated 1730.