Primrose Path June 2009
The Snowdrop Season (Jan-March) was very successful as always. With more new visitors as before.
One of the lost Clock Hands from the Tower was found after being lost for at least two years when they where snapped off by a mystery wanna be "Spiderman" who had climbed up the scaffolding!
Restoration News
At present the plans and applications are going through the pipeline, as we are awaiting the go ahead to build an enabling development of housing to help fund the restoration of Bank Hall. This shall be in the site of the old orchard, which has very few fruit tree remaining and is located outside the Bank Hall grounds.
The ownership of Bank Hall is also in the process of being signed over to the Heritage Trust for the North West, who shall run Bank Hall along with the Bank Hall Action Group after Restoration. We shall use the allocated £1.69million by the National Heritage Lottery Fund to help build the new visitor and exhibition centre and public areas inside Bank Hall, while the rest of the building shall become luxury apartments with help from Urban Splash property developers.
We are still removing and recording artefacts from the building and grounds that shall be on display in the new visitor centre and some can be seen at events throughout the year.
The Gardens are being pruned around the specimen trees as sycamore and smaller unimportant trees (which are seen as weeds) have been causing them to become ill. So we are clearing space around them and thinning out the woodland so the best trees have the advantage.
