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Projects
Crucial repairs for the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery
The Dundee Industrial Heritage Trust received a NHMF grant of £1,408,768 to allow them to begin vital conservation work on the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery.
Repairs to the historic Steamship Shieldhall
Thanks to NHMF funding, one of the UK’s best surviving steamships will be repaired following damage caused by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unique Ted Hughes works acquired by the University of Huddersfield
Thanks to £35,000 NHMF funding, five unique items from a private collection of Ted Hughes works have been acquired by the university’s Ted Hughes Network Archive.
Walter Sickert’s Tipperary (1914) acquired by Imperial War Museums
Sickert’s painting Tipperary (1914) was acquired in May 2021 thanks to a National Heritage Memori
Artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s cottage saved for the nation
The £3.5million campaign to save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage was supported by a £750,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund
One-of-a-kind Triumph sports car acquired and displayed at British Motor Museum
The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust acquired the Triumph TR2 for display at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon with a £250,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund
Rare ceramic crab by Robert Wallace Martin acquired by The Box, Plymouth
The Box, Plymouth has acquired a ceramic crab made by of salt-glazed stoneware by Robert Wallace Martin, June 1860
Acquisition of a pair of Champagne Standard Lamps designed by Salvador Dalí and Edward James
The V&A purchased a pair of Champagne Standard Lamps with funding from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and the V&A Members
Purchase of the Bruce Longitude Sea-Clock
The Bruce-Oosterwijck longitude pendulum sea clock is one of only two examples of a clock of its kind in the world
Acquisition of "Armistice Day, November 11th, 1918, Grosvenor Place, London" by Sir John Lavery
The British public had been notified of the armistice by the Prime minister, David Lloyd George,