Image: Three of the 30 photographs exhibited online by the National Portrait Gallery
Artist Thomas Duke, known as @steppingthroughfilm, revisited 30 locations now transformed by NLHF-backing
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has this week revisited some of the locations which have been transformed by projects it has funded.
The organisation is this week celebrating 30 years of grant giving, which began at its launch in November 1994.
Since then, it has raised over £50bn, and has distributed over £8.6bn of that to more than 47,000 heritage projects across the UK.
To mark the 30th birthday, thirty ‘game changing’ moments funded by the organisation are being showcased in a creative photography exhibition hosted by the National Portrait Gallery website.
Artist Thomas Duke has taken photographs of earlier existing photos in-situ, to recreate some of the achievements made possible thanks to National Lottery players.
Duke is well-known for the technique, posting online as @steppingthroughfilm as the same approach is used to revisit popular film locations.
The 30 photographs are available to view on the National Portrait Gallery website.
Pictured above L-R:
Bletchley Park was reopened in 2014, after a major restoration which began in 2009 and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
In 2012, the Giant’s Causeway’s visitor centre was officially opened by Northern Ireland’s then First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. The £18.5m centre received £3 million from The National Lottery.
With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, parts of a poppy installation, known as ‘Poppies: Wave and Weeping Window’, were toured around the UK in 2018 at iconic landmarks – including a temporary display at IWM London and IWM North – to help visitors refresh their understanding of the poppy as a symbol of the very human cost of war.
With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, parts of a poppy installation, known as ‘Poppies: Wave and Weeping Window’, were toured around the UK in 2018 at iconic landmarks – including a temporary display at IWM London and IWM North – to help visitors refresh their understanding of the poppy as a symbol of the very human cost of war.
Images include a recent photograph at the site of the 2012 opening of The Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre by First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Another photograph revisits the London newsagent in which Sir John Major was photographed launching The National Lottery in 1994.
Eilish McGuinness, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund said: “It’s thanks to players of the National Lottery over the past 30 years, and those to come, that our shared heritage will be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.”
