English Heritage
About English Heritage
Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked with protecting the historic environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, scheduling ancient monuments, registering historic parks and gardens, advising central and local government, and promoting the public's enjoyment of, and advancing their knowledge of, ancient monuments and historic buildings.
On the show — 6 mentions total
There was an interview with Howard Spencer, who's in charge of English Heritage, and he said that it does increase the value of your house, for sure, but not by enough. He said you'd be better off modernising a bathroom than trying to get a blueback.
from No Such Thing As A Safe Toothpick, 2021-07-09 at 00:40:13 · read transcript
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Not quite from the present, though. Still got that Nokia ringtone from 10 years ago. I spoke to a very nice man this afternoon called Phil Harper, who's from English Heritage, and he's not one of the guys doing the full stint. He just sort of helped a bit with the setup. They're going all the way down, they're half horse riding and the half walking, and they're sleeping in churches and village halls along the way, and, you know, tying up their horses at night and things. they've had to improvise a bit with the route because they think that the route they would have gone when the real Saxon army was going from Stanford Bridge down to Hastings was directly on the A1 so they've compromised there but there are bits which they know they would have gone through so there's an old Roman arch and Lincoln that these guys would have gone through so they're going to go through that and they're going to go on various Roman tracks and things like that.
No Such Thing As Paranoid Ants, 2016-09-30 · listen
They're so great. They live in Cornwall. They're hoping to hand down the business to their son, Justin. There's a great video. I think it's on the English Heritage site of Sue, the mother and her son, Justin, who I guess they've been training up. It's just a great family bickering session. They're obviously doing a documentary about plaque making. He's making this plaque, like doing the engravings.
No Such Thing As A Safe Toothpick, 2021-07-09 · listen
Time trouble! Not quite from the present, though. I still got that Nokia ringtone from ten years ago. I spoke to a very nice man this afternoon called Phil Harper, who's from English Heritage, and he's not one of the guys doing the full stint. He just sort of helped a bit with the setup. They're going all the way down. They're half horse riding and they're half walking, and they're sleeping in churches and villi-tools along the way, and, you know, tying up their horses at night and things.
133: No Such Thing As Paranoid Ants, 2016-10-01 · listen
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