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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Back from the brink: Bringing new life to the UK’s industrial heritage

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, November 27, 2015 — Culture

Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) Historic Environment Advisor

Ben Greener, Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) Historic Environment Advisor, explains the huge economic potential of industrial buildings and sites across the UK. This week, the Heritage Lottery Fund announced a £2.5million investment in Birmingham’s iconic-but-underused Roundhouse, a major industrial building at the heart of the city’s canal network. Built in the 1870s, the horseshoe-shaped Roundhouse…

146th anniversary of Cutty Sark’s launch

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, November 21, 2015 — Uncategorized

On 22 November, Cutty Sark will be celebrating the 146th anniversary of her launch, after far outliving her original life expectancy of 30 years. Commissioned by Scottish ship owner John Willis, Cutty Sark was built in Dumbarton in 1869 by Scott & Linton to be the fastest of the clippers serving the China tea trade. However after just eight voyages to…

London’s Korean Film Festival

, November 2, 2015 — Culture

Korean Film has a long, proud history dating back to the 1930s, however, it has only been in the last 20 years that we have seen Korean cinema truly take its place on the world stage. In the second half of the 20th Century, Korea’s film industry thrived and each year at our Festival we…