Following a Consultation, the recommendation to add eight new heritage assets to the Local List has been approved by West Berkshire Council. The new Locally Listed assets are:
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A new website created by historian Christopher Marsh, from Queen’s University Belfast, features ballads and music from the C17. The 100 Ballads website can be found at 100ballads.org and will be of interest to anyone researching music and social history of the period.
The Roman Catholic Church of St Mary at Woolhampton, built in 1848 to a design by George Jonas Wigley, was added to Historic England’s National List of buildings on 8th August 2023. More information on this Grade II Listing can be found here.
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The War Memorials Trust has notified us of a new project with the SmartWaterFoundation which will see Smartwater crime prevention liquid being offered to all war memorial custodians free of charge in order to deter thieves from targeting the metal on war memorials. The SmartWater solution contains a unique chemical code and is only visible
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