Projects

HMS Cavalier, Relocation to Chatham and Repairs 1

Relocation of HMS Cavalier from South Tyneside to Chatham Historic Dockyard, and restoration work

27 July 1998

Grant increase.

21 September 1998

Repairs to the hull of HMS Gannet, built in 1878, the only Victorian navy sloop to survive.

22 June 1998

Acquisition of a library of 96 books devoted to the history of the mechanical clock, collected by Mr

23 June 1998

Acquisition of painting 'Industrial Landscape' by L S Lowry, 1953, one of a very limited number of l

21 September 1998

Feasibility study into the relocation of the destroyer HMS Cavalier to Chatham Historic Dockyard.

27 April 1998

Acquisition of the Gwernyfed Commons which lie on the north scarp of the Black Mountains within the

27 January 1998

Acquisition of 24 acres of Greywell Fen, near Basingstoke. Grade 1 SSSI (NCR site).

27 July 1998

Restoration of the Chancel Screen created for Hereford Cathedral by George Gilbert Scott.

26 May 1998

Acquisition of one of the largest, new-complete fossil Ichthyosaur skeletons ever found in Britain.

27 April 1998