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Worthing finally takes Pier of the Year award

Posted by CHB | Apr 10, 2019 | Heritage, Latest News |

After taking second or third place for the past four years the Grade II listed Art Deco Worthing pier has been voted Pier Of The Year 2019 by the members of the National Piers Society. Clacton came second and Clevedon third. A total of 29 piers received at least one vote in this, the 23rd annual Pier of The Year competition run by the Society. Worthing is one of very few piers to have won the Award twice, the last time being in 2006. Worthing Pier opened on 12th April 1862. It was designed purely as a landing stage but in 1889 a Pavilion was...

Vaulted memorial pavilion from poured concrete

Posted by CHB | Apr 8, 2019 | Heritage, Latest News |

Belgian studio Gijs Van Vaerenbergh has created a poured concrete reception pavilion for the German Military Cemetery in Hooglede featuring six vaults. Installed on a 20- by 60-metre plot of agricultural land next to the cemetery, Six Vaults Pavilion was installed to mark the centennial commemoration of the end of the first world war earlier this year. The German Military Cemetery dates from 1917, when the area was in still in German hands, and is the resting place of more than eight thousand German soldiers who were killed in the region during the war. Today, the cemetery is located in...

Historic Indiana church has been saved

Posted by CHB | Apr 7, 2019 | Christian, Heritage |

An historic church in Greenfield, Indiana, once at risk of being demolished will be preserved and renovated, and land on the same plot will be turned into senior housing. Work is expected to start by the end of the year on the century-old St. John United Church of Christ, 11000 E. Washington St., Cumberland, officials said. The announcement brings a years-long saga over the fate of the historic building to an end. Since the congregation moved out of the dilapidated structure in 2015, town officials and church leaders have debated whether the building could be saved or was better off being...

A lost monastery, and stolen plane parts, by Joseph Kelly, Editor

Posted by CHB | Jan 26, 2019 | Blog |

It looks like a typical picture postcard scene from a British Winter. On a cold November day the River Dee rushes down from Snowdonia, heading busily seaward through the arches of the famous seventeenth century bridge at Bangor Is-y-coed. Built around 1660, almost certainly by Inigo Jones, the charming but extremely narrow structure boasts five arches, each with parapets allowing for triangular shelters for foot passengers. Whilst perfectly adequate for horse-drawn vehicles, farm carts and pedestrians, the coming of the motor car put phenomenal strains on this little bridge, which had been in need of constant repair for centuries....

Concern over delays to Cadet Chapel, Colorado works

Posted by CHB | Jan 20, 2019 | Christian, Heritage, Latest News |

The landmark Cadet Chapel that towers over the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado is suffering from serious leaks and corrosion, so the school has drawn up the most ambitious restoration project in the building’s 55-year history. However, the project has stalled badly, as officials have been unable to settle on a contractor for the long and complicated project. Water has been seeping through seams in the chapel’s aluminum skin for years, said Duane Boyle, the academy’s campus architect. Repeated applications of caulk to seal the seams have contaminated and degraded the metal. “We had to make a serious...