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UK’s oldest mainland amusement park shares in £5.1million bonanza 27/06/2019 Wicksteed Park in Kettering – the birthplace of the modern playground - has been awarded £1.78m to create the world’s first ‘Heritage Play Area’. The amusement park is one of six …

#MidlandsEastHeritageA2Z 09/09/2019 Over the last few weeks, our Midlands & East England area has been sharing heritage highlights A2Z style on Twitter. If you missed it, follow the hashtag to see all the great posts. Some of the team have shared with us …

Beckenham Place Park celebrates major restoration 19/07/2019 Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham is celebrating the completion of a major National Lottery-funded restoration. Visitors will be able to enjoy wild swimming in a reinstated 18th-century lake, …

First large-scale LGBT+ project to be funded in Northern Ireland 05/09/2019 A new project, which will tell the story of people's experiences of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland, will be the first of its kind. Homosexuality was …

Jodrell Bank named as new UNESCO World Heritage Site 08/07/2019 Jodrell Bank in Cheshire has today been named a new World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Other newly designated World Heritage Sites for 2019 include the Royal Building of Mafra in Portugal and  …

Iconic Manchester music venue to be saved 28/05/2019 In an era when many music venues are closing, Band on the Wall in Manchester is coming back for an encore. Band on the Wall in Manchester is well known to music fans across the country for hosting some …

Black Country Living Museum to build historic new town 29/05/2019 Thanks to £9.4million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Black Country Living Museum will undergo a huge transformation to share stories of life in the 1940-60s. The project, …

Five Cornish treasures found at Kresen Kernow 06/09/2019 A derelict brewery has been transformed into a state-of-the-art archive centre, bringing 850 years of Cornish history under one roof for the first time. Kresen Kernow in Redruth is now the world’s …

#NationalLottery25 - Share your memories with us on social media 12/06/2019 It was on 19 November 1994 that the first lottery draw took place. This year the National Lottery celebrates its 25th birthday. Since then more than £40billion of National Lottery …