The Stonehenge Alliance is a group of non-governmental organisations and individuals that seeks enhancements to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) and opposes development that would cause it significant harm. 

The Alliance is a not for profit organisation that relies entirely on donations from campaign supporters and the voluntary efforts of activists.

Through its Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site campaign, the Alliance is concentrating its efforts on opposing the proposal for dualling the A303 including a short tunnel across Stonehenge WHS announced in December 2014, which would result in serious damage to the WHS landscape. This action includes our petitions to the Secretaries of State for Transport and Culture which continue to attract supporters from the UK and around the world.

The Stonehenge Alliance supported the Save Stonehenge WHS Ltd legal challenge to the road scheme and will continue to do so if necessary.

We raise awareness of the likelihood of Stonehenge’s loss of World Heritage Site status and its wider impact should UNESCO’s advice continue to be ignored.  
We have:

Hon Sec Dr Kate Fielden at National Trust AGM in 2017

- lobbied government at all levels and all relevant departments,
- held challenging dialogue with Highways England, the promoters of the road scheme,
- collaborated with over 90 members of the National Trust who object to the scheme, 
- engaged with campaign supporters from over 100 countries, represent all walks of life and backgrounds, hold a variety of beliefs or none and yet are united by the spirit of the World Heritage Site, and
- supported and helped to raise funds for Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site Ltd’s successful legal challenge to the Transport Secretary’s decision to grant a Development Consent Order for the road scheme in November 2020.

Together, our supporters and Alliance partners express the truth about the World Heritage Site’s Outstanding Universal Value. 

We believe that these actions are effective and have caused government to be concerned about our wide reach. 

Catherine Woolfitt is an architectural conservator, building archaeologist, and accredited member of the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA). She combines a wide knowledge of building archaeology and history with practical experience of conservation methods and materials appropriate to buildings, ancient monuments, and sculpture.

After completion of training in classical archaeology and art conservation in 1992, she worked in Rome (at ICCROM – the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage) and the UK (National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh and Bournemouth University).

Her work experience covers the range of architectural periods from classical Greek and Roman to medieval monuments and buildings of the twentieth century. Project experience encompasses major redevelopment schemes, including St Pancras and Kings Cross Stations, and input at various stages from planning and procurement to execution of remedial work to heritage fabric.

Becky is the Lichen Biodiversity Scientist at RBGE, responsible for research about lichens from an evolutionary perspective. Her research aims to understand the diversity of lichens using a wide range of tools from inventory and biogeography, to population genetics and the structure of symbiotic relationships. She teaches lichen biology and species interactions at the graduate level and lichen identification for the public, and she serves as Co-Chair of the IUCN Lichen Specialist Group.

Hot mixed air lime mortars, with or without small volumes of pozzolanic addition, were the ubiquitous lime mortar of traditional construction around the world, only falling from general use as the 20thC wore on, when the use of Portland cement or hybrid Portland cement and industrially produced dry hydrated air lime mortars displaced them from most building sites. This shift coincided with the growing disempowerment of masons and other crafts in the industry. Previously, mortar design had been the domain of the craftsmen, and wherever they were in the world, they chose to use hot mixed air lime mortars.

These mortars were the most economically made; they were quickly and efficiently prepared (by a variety of simple methods) and delivered mortars of eminent workability and usefulness. They enjoyed unparalleled water retentivity and excellent bond, and displayed maximum cohesiveness and adhesiveness.

All of these properties were shared with traditional earth-lime mortars, a mortar of similar ubiquity, which had dominated masonry construction throughout Europe and the Middle East before the 18thC and which were still commonly used for bedding mortars and base-coat plasters across the Americas even into the 20thC. Hot mixed lime and traditionally slaked lime putties were always used in conjunction with these.

Hot mixed air lime mortars, with suitable pozzolanic addition according to purpose, are eminently breathable – they have a vapour permeability more than twice that of a typical NHL mortar; they are much more effectively porous than other mortars and keep building fabric dry. They are durable and frost resilient in a properly detailed traditional building and are easy to prepare and deploy.

Hot mixed lime mortars are truly like-for-like and are compatible with all traditional fabric in ways that modern Natural Hydraulic Lime simply is not. Natural Hydraulic Limes were not much used for building in the air before the later 19thC – they were used, if at all, for water and underground works and for concretes. They were not available in North America unless imported from Europe, although natural cement was produced and was used for similarly wet situations, or as a gauge to otherwise hot mixed mortars in thick-walled military construction during the 19thC.

Launchpadd is a new breed of consultant architect. Launchpadd is creative, lean and nimble, can act fast and has more than 25 years of front end experience delivering buildings of a value between £2 and £40 million.

With Launchpadd you will get the totally dedicated and focused service of a highly experienced Partner level architect for much less than you would pay one of the mainstream consultancies or frameworks to provide the same service.

Nick Allen is a Chartered Architect and Registered RIBA Client Advisor who founded Metz architects in 1996 and ran the practice for 20 years designing and delivering many of the buildings here. Nick is now a private consultant and the driving force behind Launchpadd.

London Historians was founded in August 2010 primarily to act as a facilitator which:

- enables all those interested in London’s history to find what they’re looking for quickly and in one place
- provides a hub for the many dozens of disparate institutions and societies and thousands of individuals, all of whom have a common interest
- supports conservation and historical research
- encourages both amateur and professional historians to meet and make new friends with like-minded enthusiasts

Belonging to London Historians is very much a shared experience. We can only be as strong as our membership. We hope you’ll join us for what we’d like to make a perpetual adventure, exploring the history of our amazing city.

The director of London Historians is Mike Paterson, who abandoned his career in the software industry to set up and run London Historians. Mike is a BA(Hons) history graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, class of ’93. “I am grateful to many Londoners – long-standing and brand new friends alike – who have all chipped in with ideas, work and encouragement to get this off the ground. As our membership grows, I’m certain that that London Historians will be much greater than the sum of its parts. Just through doing the research to set up our web site, I’ve become hugely more knowledgeable about London’s history than I ever was. But what I look forward to the most is making new friends who share my curiosity about our city’s past. It’s a never-ending process.”

Why use BE coaching? Through questioning techniques, lateral thinking, guiding you to find out for yourself, coaching focuses on helping you discover answers and learn for yourself. This has an empowering impact on you, as such an approach leads to longer lasting results.

- 40+ Years Experience
- General and building surveying, planning and legal work
- Vast industry knowledge
- Experience on a wide range of property types and periods
- Targeted Training
- Coaching, Training, and/or Mentoring tailored to suit you

The team work on Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian properties and are highly skilled in all aspects of heritage brickwork, including the use of lime mortar, lime pointing and repointing, tuck pointing, gauged arches, and carved brickwork. They work for individual clients and also support large or small contractors requiring a specialist service.

All brickwork repairs are undertaken with a sympathetic & professional approach. Work is completed to the highest standard of workmanship whilst following the over-riding conservation principle of minimum intervention to maintain the integrity of the original building. Their attention to detail and their skilled workmanship ensures that clients’ homes have a new lease of life and will continue to stand the test of time in the 21st Century.

Joinery Specialists for London and South East, our team of quality joiners have been working together since 1998.

From humble beginnings such as making staircases, wooden windows and doors, we started to diversify into commercial projects such as designing and crafting shop fronts and sign panels.

Our joinery work ‘back catalogue’ reflects the diversity of both our skills and our client base.

- Large and small houses (interior joinery & exterior joinery)
- Shops
- Pubs
- Churches

British Spirals & Castings has earned an enviable reputation for producing high quality spiral stairs, straight staircases, balconies, gates and railings at competitive prices. Our recognised service levels attract customers from all round the world and our family ethos ensures a pleasant experience from start to finish.

We also specialise in the manufacture of bespoke made to measure products including gates, railings and security grilles, and the manufacture and supply of cast iron and cast aluminium gratings, balusters and engineered castings. The range is wide and varied. We will build for you whatever you want, whenever, for installation wherever. We’re contributing to inspirational renovations, innovative refits and exclusive new builds.

Being a truly British manufacturer, we have total control over the quality of the castings, as we own our own non-ferrous foundry and with our full pattern making facilities are able to take on commissioned design work. From raw materials to finished product all our staircase, balconies, railings, gates and security grilles are manufactured here in the UK.
Where it all began…

The story goes back to a man who wanted a spiral staircase for a barn conversion. He could not find anything on the market that was right, so he designed it himself and had it made up at a local foundry.

It was an excellent piece of work. When others saw it, they wanted one for themselves, and before too long Richard Harding had the vision and drive to turn these one off projects into a thriving business – Cottage Craft Spirals.

To meet the specific demands of a core market Richard went on to found Tilleys London Castings, supplying London style cast stairs, railings and gates, as well as carrying out bespoke restorations of stair balustrades from a showroom in London.

Milton Aluminium Castings, a foundry in the West Midlands, was acquired in 2009. This ensured that the products would continue to be British made and quality controlled from start to finish.

In 2014 Richard drew together these three trading divisions of Harding Sales Ltd to create one new all-encompassing brand known as ‘British Spirals & Castings’. Truly a family business, Richard’s son Ben now work as part of the management team.

We are proud to be the largest manufacturer of bespoke cast spiral, straight and balconies in Europe. We offer the largest range of designs and diameters ensuring that we can provide a solution to meet your requirements. As evidence of our commitment to ensuring that our products are of the highest quality, we have been awarded CE accreditation, under European Legislation, which provides assurance to the client that our manufacturing process is to the highest standards. Very few manufacturers in our industry have achieved this accreditation. View the CE FCP Certificate and CE Welding Certificate.
Sustainability

Protecting the environment is important to us in our work. The aluminium we use when making cast spiral stairs is recycled and refined to British Standards specifications and all our wooden staircases are made using sustainable, kiln dried timbers. For every set of timber stairs that we build, we plant five new trees on the family farm.
The Team

British Spirals & Castings continues as a family run business, and has a dedicated team of 19 staff over 3 sites; with a range of skills and experience that cannot be rivalled. Many of our staff have been with us since leaving school and British Spirals and Castings run an apprentice programme to help support local employment and work closely with local community schools in providing invaluable work experience.

With a CE accreditation under European legislation and our fantastic specialists who also offer advice on Building Regulations, design ideas and layout services, we are the market leaders in the industry.
Expertise

You can rely on our specialist advice relating to all aspects of Building Regulations and we offer design ideas and layout services. Our bespoke CAD system allows us to provide dimensional drawing for all our clients and for our fabricators. We have a wealth of knowledge about staircases and balconies, and will be able to answer any questions relating to your project.

We welcome all interested clients to visit our extensive showroom to be able to see and feel the quality and range of the products available. Take a virtual tour of our Showrooms.

The Iron Age Metalworks Ltd is a well established and dynamic architectural metalwork company based in South West London. We have over 10 years of experience in design & manufacture of bespoke architectural metalwork. Since our inception we have worked with a series of cutting edge architectural practices, leading interior designers and property developers in London. Our product range is a testimony to exceptional design and craftsmanship, with each project we bring in new and fresh innovative ideas with the highest grade materials available.

Our services are frequently recommended by design architects who recognise our commitment to exceptional quality and reliability. Since our company inception we have worked on some of the finest residential properties and award winning commercial interior projects in London. None of this would be possible without the diverse skills of our dedicated and highly professional team.

Our Philosophy - To offer an affordable and reliable service for our clients in London and home counties, as well as to continue to supply the products and services of exceptional quality by keeping a fastidious eye on the smallest detail in all our products. Bring new and fresh innovative ideas to the design and fabrication process to meet the highest quality standards expected by our clientele.

When you are looking for individual, bespoke furniture for your home or business why not come and see what Kevin Boys Blacksmiths can offer you.

We are located in London on the River Thames opposite Canary Wharf and the City of London. Our business opening hours are 9am-5pm (unless by appointment) and we can also arrange for home visits if required.

Kevin Boys Blacksmiths is a family run business which has been operating for over 30 years. We are proud to have a showroom available for you to browse order and purchase some of our work.

We are conveniently located only 5 minutes from Riverbus pier and 15 minutes from London Underground and bus routes. Onsite we have a restaurant and 300ft of magnificent river views.

Call us today for more information. We look forward to welcoming you soon.

Agnes Jones is a sculptor based in Glasgow who draws in steel to make linear pieces full of character. Translating pen drawings into steel, her work changes this very solid material into something that looks like it has been sketched in the air. From large public art sculptures to garden and homeware commissions, her work can be seen across the UK.

"I have worked as an art blacksmith for ten years now, and have always been led by drawing. Working with line drawing allows me to create pieces that are full of character, movement and narrative, and allows a structural material to seem like I have quickly sketched it in mid-air. I have been exploring how to use line more sparingly and simply, leaving the viewer to fill in form on their own. The location and area around each piece is important as the work is forced to interact with the shapes, movement and feel of a site."

Art Societies and Prizes

- Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths
- Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
- Shortlisted for Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque Prize

Vlad Navratil is the founder and driving force behind our creative portfolio. A qualified Art & Heritage Blacksmith and Engineer with 20 years metalwork, carpentry and construction experience. Accredited with a Certificate of Merit from the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, Vlad has travelled globally working extensively with the Artisan Blacksmith community to learn and develop historically authentic work crafting techniques.

Services offered to commercial and residential customers are:

- Architectural design and repair
- Gates and Fences
- Staircases
- Antique/Structural Restoration
- Cast Iron
- Fabricating
- Gazebos
- Sculptures
- Housewares – Doors and Furniture etc
- Welding
- Souvenirs

Examples of Vlad’s work can be found at:

- Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- Greenwich Park, London
- Tobacco Dock
- St Clements Church/School

Bulmer bricks are made from the finest London Clays, dug from our seams almost continually since Tudor times. All Bulmer bricks are hand made, using traditional methods of making, drying and are fired in a coal burning, down draught kiln. This helps to give the distinctive finish that blends so well with the originals. The process takes time - something to consider at the project planning stage.

We are a small family business continuing the traditions of brickmaking on this site dating back to the Middle Ages. Our facings and specials can be made with almost any texture, from coarse veined to smooth with some 150 different sizes o facing and a range of over 5000 special shapes, including all standard plinths, squints and copings, and extends to purpose made chimney bricks, terracotta, mullions, jambs, floor bricks, pamments, decorative plaques, garden edgings and a full range of rubbing blocks.

We work on large projects for the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces, but are just as proud of some of the small private work undertaken by individuals.

Place Services is the leading public sector provider of environmental assessment, planning, design and management services. We trace our roots back to 1968 and became a local authority traded service in 2014. From our local authority beginnings, we have developed a unique specialism in this sector. Our role is to support public sector organisations enabling them to deliver sustainable development.

We lead and enable Scotland’s first historic environment strategy Our Place in Time, which sets out how our historic environment will be managed. It ensures our historic environment is cared for, valued and enhanced, both now and for future generations.

We’re a non-departmental public body with charitable status. We're governed by a Board of Trustees, who were appointed by Scottish Ministers.

We’re responsible for more than 300 properties of national importance. Buildings and monuments in our care include Edinburgh Castle, Skara Brae, Fort George and numerous smaller sites, which together draw more than 5 million visitors per year.

We’re also responsible for internationally significant collections including more than 5 million drawings, photographs, negatives and manuscripts, along with 20 million aerial images of locations across the world.

We invest about £14 million a year in national and local organisations, supporting building repairs, ancient monuments, archaeological work, the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme and the voluntary sector.

Our conservation experts provide guidance, training and technical research into Scotland’s built environment. Through our outreach programme, we promote community and individual learning engagement with Scotland’s heritage. We contribute to the Scottish Government’s strategy to tackle climate change and reduce Scotland’s carbon footprint.

Whitworth is an award-winning practice of Chartered Architects and Chartered Building Surveyors based in Hatter Street in the historic town of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Our offices are also located in Norwich, Norfolk, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire and Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Our in-depth knowledge of these local areas serves us well in projects where sensitivity to context is concerned, and allows us to develop, improve and maintain our professional connections.

Our experience in architecture and building surveying

Since 1963, we have established a reputation for high class architectural and building surveying services. Find out more about our company history here. Our team has a combined 252 years’ experience, encompassing a range of expertise and interests, from church re-ordering, to sustainable practices, to barn conversions. Our work involves cottages to castles and from mediaeval to modern. Although we will tackle any building type, much of our work has centred on historic building conservation and heritage consultancy, with staff accredited in Building Conservation with either the RICS, RIBA, or AABC.

Our services

We provide a bespoke and comprehensive service from inception through to completion, offering flexibility over our involvement to align with our clients’ needs. The practice undertakes a wide range of professional work, including: condition surveys; defect analysis; design of alterations, extensions and new build; contract administration; planning applications; feasibility studies; etc.

The office of Wiles and Maguire Ltd is located in a bright and airy 1950’s school building close by the river in York. Founded in 2001 by Andrew Wiles and Martha Maguire the staff currently comprise of the director, Andrew Wiles, and a small team of assistants.

Andrew Wiles, Director - Andrew is a fully qualified architect and is on the Historic England approved register of ‘Architects Accredited in Building Conservation’ (AABC). The specialist research carried out for his MA was in the ‘timber construction of the early medieval period’ this remains a passion to this day. He sits as an architect member of the Sheffield Diocesan Advisory Committee and the Catholic Diocese of Hallam as their Historic England liaison. He is registered as a Church inspecting Architect (suitable for Grade 1 listed churches) with the Diocese of York, Sheffield, Ripon, Durham and Lincoln.

Andrew has worked exclusively with the repair and regeneration of historic buildings since 1988. His expertise and confidence in tackling any conservation challenge arises in part from these many years of experience actually seeing traditional skills being carried out by experts. For the first 10 years he worked with Martin Stancliffe who was at that time the Cathedral Architect for St Paul’s in London. A life encountering these special buildings is an invaluable resource but he also regularly attends, and contributes to, specialist courses and workshops to keep abreast of the ever evolving modern conservation technology and trends.

Will Rudd Davidson provides Civil, Structural and Conservation Engineering and Construction Consultant Services. From Concept Design to Completion, we provide an exemplary service, and aim to exceed all expectations making the journey as seamless as possible. With main Offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, we deliver Civil and Structural Engineering services across a wide spectrum of sectors throughout Scotland and across the UK.

We are skilled at providing cost effective, practical and elegant solutions. We thrive on Problem Solving…..providing robust solutions to challenging briefs. Whether in City Centre gap sites, Buildings at Risk, poor ground conditions or marginal plots of land…