The built environment
Historic building preservation and restoration has been and still is an area of interest and of concern. I have served as a trustee on a number of Charitable Trusts spanning 20 years or more. My main interest has been industrial archaeology, consequently in my earlier years I developed a specialism in historic watermills. This also led to gaining experience in the installation of contemporary hydropower technology as a renewable resource of energy.
Conservation and RestorationAs a preservation trust, we rescued and restored The Space an historically important chapel on the Isle of Dogs, London, in order to give new life as a Performing Arts Centre; founder and project manager Robert Richardson, patron Sir Ian McKellen.
As founder and project manager of another Building Preservation Trust, I led the campaign and the fundraising strategy to rescue Crabble Corn Mill from demolition, to restore and regenerate it as a Kents' Working Mill Museum; founder trustees R.J. Spain, Paul S. Jarvis, patron The Rt.Hon. Lord Brabourne. |
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Four other memberships
As well as serving on the Board of other Building Preservation Trusts, other memberships include these four organisations.
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