heritage

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:

A pump and well house at East Ilsley - a 1930's flywheel pump which is still in working order.

A pump and pump house at Burghfield - the pump in School Lane may have supplied the school with water in the early 1900's, while the pump house at Bunces Lane contains the remains of a pump base, and carries a dedication to Queen Victoria in the year of her son Edward VII's Coronation (1902).

There was a high attendance at the Tenth AGM of the West Berkshire Heritage Forum on 31st May 2019, hosted this year by The Old Bluecoat School, formerly St Thomas's Chapel, Thatcham's Grade I listed building. During 2018 to 2019 the Forum has carried out a further Local Listing Panel, and put forward five heritage assets to the Council,  the approval of which is awaited, and is setting up a working group to review the Historic Environment Action Plan (HEAP). Parishes and societies have been generous in their donations this year, and the Forum's finances are healthy as a result.

West Berkshire Council has launched a new Heritage website promoting the area's local heritage and the work of the West Berkshire Museum, and Shaw House. There's lot there for everyone interested in their heritage - have a look!

http://www.westberkshireheritage.org

On 27th November 2015 a Local Listing Panel met to consider submissions for the former Newbury Carnegie Library, the Falkland Memorial, Church & Child's Almshouses, the former Thatcham Police Station, the War Memorials in Brightwalton and Bradfield Southend, and a milestone on the old Newbury to Oxford coaching route at Chieveley. More information on the heritage assets can be found here:

http://info.westberks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=32179