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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
Projects
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,
Paradise Restored: Reuniting Hestercombe’s historic landscape
Attracting over 100,000 visitors a year, Hestercombe Gardens combines four complete period gardens spanning four centuries of garden design
John Bellany: The Boat Builders, 1962
John Bellany was born in Port Seton, East Lothian in 1942.
Acquisition of the portrait of Dylan Thomas by Augustus John
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914 and Augustus John in Tenby in 1878.
Potential purchase of the 'Canterbury Trussel Bible'
The Canterbury Trussel Bible now named the “Lyghfield Bible”, after the monk William Lighfield, i