The ‘AHF: 50 Years of Reimagining Heritage’ exhibition is open Weds-Sun from 12-4pm until 18th February. Pop down to the amazing #AHFsupported Riddel’s Warehouse in Belfast to see it while there’s still time! 📸 Argyll Images #Heritage #Regeneration #NorthernIreland #Exhibition

The Grade II-listed West Haven Maltings and Migar House in Grimsby have been transformed into Horizon Youth Zone. The landmark site will officially open its doors to welcome in & support children and young people across North East Lincolnshire this Saturday! 🎉 More: ⬇️ ahfund.org.uk/what-we-do/i...

"It’s wonderful to see such a historic building buzzing with life again." Having once served as a bank & a Court of Petty Sessions, The Court House has now become Bangor's home of live music and the arts. Discover more about our fifth Project of the Week for #AHF50: ahfund.org.uk/anniversary/...

Further funding success for three #AHFsupported projects in Scotland! 🎉 Congratulations to the projects that have secured significant grants from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help progress with their plans: Marbles Warehouse at Portsoy Old Harbour, Grant Lodge, and The Belmont Cinema.

Belfast’s @riddelswarehouse.bsky.social looked incredible for our launch night. The exhibition is open to the public from the 6th until 18th Feb. If you're in town, come see how we’re supporting heritage across the UK. Don’t miss the start of the tour! #Architecture #Heritage #Belfast

Thrilled to launch 'AHF: 50 Years of Reimagining Heritage' last night at Riddel's Warehouse in Belfast with a packed crowd despite the cold weather. The exhibition celebrates 50 fantastic projects that have inspired us. On until 18 Feb - if you go, let me know what you think! @archhfund.org.uk

Big archaeological news coming from Wandlebury hillfort today - incredible new finds from the 9thC. Will be wonderful to learn more about how early medieval people thought about these ancient fortifications. @cambridgeppf.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is v little in life more satisfying than getting your hands at last on something you've written or edited, & boy was I thrilled at the end of a long day to flip through this beautiful catalogue filled w stories & photos & essays for #AHF50 Years of Reimagining Heritage, opening tomorrow!

Belfast is the first stop! We’re launching our 50th Anniversary UK tour this week at Riddel’s Warehouse on the 6th of February. See 50 years of heritage-led regeneration before the exhibition heads to Glasgow, Cardiff, and London. #AHF50 #Belfast #Heritage @riddelswarehouse.bsky.social

Lovely blues in the cloudscape this morning over the Irish Sea. Am en route to Belfast to install @archhfund.org.uk's 50th anniversary exhibition celebrating heritage reuse - opens Thursday night!

Looking forward to being in Belfast next week with the @archhfund.org.uk & @kwilsonlee.bsky.social for their 50 Year touring exhibtion opening. The venue, Riddel's Warehouse, is a beauty of Industrial heritage (photos © Joe Laverty)

Excitement today to visit workshop where @archhfund.org.uk's 50th anniversary exhibition is being built! We open next week in Belfast at #RiddelsWarehouse - nearly there...

A brief pop into St Bartholomew the Less yesterday in London, where I encountered William Markely, 'gentleman of London', who died in 1439, and his wife Alice, who lived on after him and probably installed this brass.

HUGE NEWS! We are so pleased to announce that investment of £46m from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will enable the expansion of our #HeritageRevivalFund through to 2030. ⬇️ ahfund.org.uk/what-we-do/i... (1/4)

Project of the Week 2 for #AHF50: Whaley’s Buildings. The 1990s saw the revival of this collection of 18th-century houses, when @hearthni.bsky.social stepped in to undertake the complex task of saving them from dereliction. Learn more: ⬇️ ahfund.org.uk/anniversary/...

Two weeks from today our exhibition celebrating 50 years of @archhfund.org.uk will open in Belfast at the extraordinary Riddel's Warehouse. Creating the exhibition & catalogue has been a labour of love - 50 extraordinary stories I've tried to do justice to. Hope you can see it & share your ideas! /1

The twin parish churches of Swaffham Prior: SS Cyriac & Julitta (early martyrs) higher on the hill prob earlier; St Mary's chief glory is early 12thC octagonal tower. Churches adjacent bc parish boundary runs through town centre & high ground good for building. Do you know of other such examples?

The unapologetic Perpendicular of Burwell Church in Cambs on a glorious winter day. Built in 1460s prob under direction of Reginald of Ely - free due to hiatus in King's College Chapel works bc of the Wars of the Roses; the best feature is the wooden panels under roofs, carved like misericords.

We’ve launched our 50th year at Garrison Chapel! 🏛️ A fantastic evening celebrating 5 decades of rescuing historic buildings with Baroness Twycross & Ros Kerslake CBE. Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players for making it possible! #AHF50 #Heritage #UKHistory

Today starts our 50th anniversary year - when we'll celebrate what has been achieved through & together imagine what more heritage-led regeneration can offer for today and tomorrow. Thanks to the projects, our supporters & funders, our team, & communities across the UK for making it possible!

📢 Today, we are excited to be sharing our Annual Review 2024/25, showcasing our work in supporting heritage and community-led regeneration across the UK. Take a look at what we've been up to and read about some brilliant #AHFsupported projects. ➡️ bit.ly/4iQSAft

We had a productive time in Stoke with Heritage Development Trusts from across the UK, digging into the future of heritage-led regeneration. The energy and insights were exceptional. Watch the video to catch the highlights! 👇 (1/3)

It’s #GivingTuesday! For nearly 50 years now, we have provided advice and funding to projects across the UK to restore, adapt, and reuse historic buildings for community purposes. By supporting us today, you can help us continue this work in the future. 👇 ahfund.org.uk/support-us/

Great @archhfund.org.uk event @buildingcentre.bsky.social last night, featuring excellent research insights from @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk & @anooshc.bsky.social in conversation with a host of top projects. Emphasised once again the importance of heritage assets as vital social infrastructure.

England's churches contain one of our greatest national collections of art - extraordinary beauty, freely accessible near you! But these precious objects sometimes need repair. If you know an object in a church in need of some TLC, we have grants available! www.churchofengland.org/resources/ch...

Lovely roofscape from Cambridge Central Library, with nearly 900 years of historic buildings on view.

Autumn is the perfect time to curl up with a hot drink & Machiavellian intrigue - so join me from 7 Nov as, over 8 week, we read Book 2 of Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, BRING UP THE BODIES. Together we'll watch Cromwell climb the house of cards while queens fall. Details: share.google/WHsPr6tgZu6v...

Inspired by brilliant Works Team at @yorkminster.bsky.social yesterday, learning about ongoing masonry conservation: a great example of using technology to improve efficiency without losing traditional skills & human artistry. We can have both! Fabulous to get up close with old & new stonework!

Not everyday do you get to pop into one of England's greatest medieval parish churches. But today: All Saints, North Street, York. A double-aisled wonder with angels in the rafters, a surviving anchorite cell with squint, a Roman column propping up the chancel arcade... 1/3

The fabulous monument to Sir James Hales at Canterbury Cathedral. He was Treasurer on the Portuguese expedition of 1589 - retaliation for the Armada attack the year before - but died & was buried, armoured, at sea. Also his wife Alice & their son Cheney (named for Alice's maternal family).

Brilliant couple of days and one very colourful night in Bradford at @heritagenetwork.bsky.social conference. Wonderful to catch up with colleagues and friends, and meet new ones; mix of inspiration, practical advice sharing, and fun - always set within the most spectacular heritage buildings!

All aboard as we celebrate #Railway200! 🚂 On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway – an event widely recognised as the birth of the modern railway – we’re sharing a selection of #AHFsupported historic railway buildings. Take a look: 👉 bit.ly/46Yel8L

We are inviting tenders for an evaluation consultant for the #HeritageRevivalFund, delivered in partnership with @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social and Historic England. 🗓 Deadline: 10th October 2025 Find out more and read the full brief: ➡️ bit.ly/48wEg8K #Tender #Heritage

Fabulous blustery morning for a run along the coastal path from Ramsgate out to Broadstairs. Dramatic skies, white cliffs, and maybe the best house ever.

Like many seaside towns, Ramsgate has fabulous buildings but also suffers from significant deprivation. Has been great today to visit projects led by Heritage Lab (an @archhfund.org.uk Heritage Development Trust) & Town Council that are putting the town's heritage into use for community benefit.

We welcomed #HeritageDevelopmentTrusts from across the UK to Portsoy today for a chance to compare notes, share updates & hear from host North East Scotland Preservation Trust celebrating 40 years regenerating historic buildings - including Sail Loft & current projects at the Cat. A-listed harbour.

Alongside grants and loans, we provide advice and support to help communities across the UK find enterprising ways to revitalise the old buildings they love. Looking to breathe new life into a treasured historic building? Take a look at our website to see how we can help you: 👉 ahfund.org.uk

Lovely day in Wymondham last week visiting #AHFsupported Becket’s Chapel with one of our wonderful supporters. Interested in helping us support more heritage and community-led regeneration projects like this across the UK? Find out how you can become a Friend of the AHF. ⬇️ ahfund.org.uk/support-us/

I've seen worse views than the end of summer early evening light bouncing off clouds and water, sparkling from gilded towers and silhouetted against an ancient obelisk. Evenings like this, where better than London?

Join me this autumn for a course that I should have titled 'Reading Mantel Like You're a Historian'. We'll read Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Book 2) together & explore the rich context & historical background to all the action. More info & how to book here: share.google/mNJUnz23yEM5...

Fundraisers: looking for a new challenge? We at the AHF are hiring our first-ever dedicated fundraiser, a post promising beautiful buildings, incredible community impact & fabulous colleagues. Could this be the perfect role for you? More info below & drop me a line if you'd like an informal chat!

✂️ On The Cutting Edge! Modernist Textile Studio Gets Funding Boost. We have awarded an #HESsupported grant to enable @shbt-charity.bsky.social to carry out specialist surveys at the Cat. A listed Bernat Klein Studio - starting a journey to bring this unique place back to life. Read: bit.ly/3VjKv85

Back during my doctoral research 20 years ago, churches I visited seemed closed as a norm baring services; had to phone ahead. One of the best recent heritage stories has been that they now normally are open. Was surprised to find 2 closed yesterday. Guard them too well & people will forget to care.

Early medieval people thought the god Grim (Odin) was buried under a hill here, so they called it Grimshoe. Under its modern name, Grimes Graves, has been of antiquarian interest since at least the 17thC. Today, you can climb down into a flint mine thanks to @englishheritage.bsky.social 1/2

Dolwyddelan Castle at golden hour. Built c1220 by Llywelyn ab Iorwerth on a hill in a pass to control movement through. The castle has a keep (heightened by Edward I & later by 19thC owner) & another stone building w a grand fireplace upstairs, w/in a curtain walls. Yesterday we had it to ourselves.

Job alert: Calling archivists, manuscript & rare book specialists, @sidneysussex.bsky.social is looking for a new caretaker of their historic collection. Check out the link below and please spread the word! www.sid.cam.ac.uk/node/33528

Wonderful to hear directly from some of the brilliant architects involved with heritage-regeneration projects the @archhfund.org.uk has supported about why they got involved, how we helped & what the projects mean to communities 👇 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/heritag... @memckeague.bsky.social

Harlech Castle is one of Edward I's great coastal fortresses, but the land here has grown since 1280s, so now there's about a mile from castle to a glorious sandy beach. Across the bay toward the Llyn Peninsula you can just spot Criccieth Castle, built by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth 50 years earlier.

Some views on the way up and down from Carnedd Dafydd (Dafydd's Seat - for Dafydd ap Gruffydd, last of the Welsh princes) yesterday. We saw three other groups at the summit along the Cambrian Way, but the route up from Bethesda was just us, some sheep, and ponies.

Ruins of Wroxeter bath complex & its tantalising 'old work'. One of Roman Britain's largest cities & the capital of the Cornovii after they were compelled to move from earlier settlement atop the Wrekin, an imposing nearby hill. A reconstructed villa sits on site of forum, behind vast column bases.