Alistair Hardaker | Image: The Canning Town Old Library, completion drawing (Haworth Tompkins)
Investment includes £2.3m for Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street as part of Heritage Places initiative and funding for six other locations.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced an investment of over £10m in seven places across the UK.
Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street Culture and Heritage District has been awarded £2.3m, part of the Heritage Places initiative. The funding will preserve the McLellan Galleries. The Scottish Ensemble, Glasgow Film and youth charity Articulate will use the space. The funding includes restoration of the Victorian Cameron Memorial Fountain, a building improvements programme, shopfront restoration, artist residencies and a community grants scheme.
Airdrie in North Lanarkshire has been awarded £1.4m for restoration of Airdrie Library, Scotland’s first library under the Public Libraries Act and home to the UK’s smallest public observatory. Girvan in South Ayrshire has received £2.5m for Stair Park Bandstand, the Stumpy Jail steeple, the former Dalrymple Street Bank and McKechnie Institute. Tarbert Heritage Regeneration Scheme in Argyll and Bute has received £850,000 to return ten vacant properties to residential use, repair fishermen’s store buildings and restore shopfronts.
The London Borough of Newham has been awarded £2.7m to convert Canning Town’s Grade II listed Old Library into the Newham Heritage Centre. The museum collection will go on display for the first time in over 30 years. Collections include over 3,000 photographic images, over 100 pieces of Bow Porcelain and the largest collection of works by outsider artist Madge Gill. The building has ties to the Trade Union and Suffragette movements and Will Thorne’s founding of the GMB Union in 1899.
Eilish McGuinness, Chief Executive, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said the projects “will boost wellbeing, create learning opportunities for young people and make heritage a powerful driver of local pride and prosperity.”
Barking & Dagenham has received £587,000 for research, archives, mapping and community engagement. The former House of Fraser building in Grimsby Town Centre has been awarded £62,000 to develop repair plans and restore the frontage.
