Conservation in Action at Ashdown House

Today I am playing truant from my writing in order to do some work for Ashdown House. Yes, Ashdown is spreading its wings on the internet. The seventeenth century hunting lodge now has a twenty first century Twitter account, facebook page and blog, of which I am the curator! This new development is to allow people to follow the major piece of conservation work that we are undertaking at Ashdown over the next year. In a couple of weeks the house will be covered in scaffolding and a temporary roof will be erected. The entire 17th century roof is being replaced and other structural work will be undertaken at the same time. It is a huge and complicated project but it will be so exciting – I can hardly wait to see what stories the house will have to tell us when we can see the beams and the mason's marks and possibly even 17th century graffiti! I will be giving blog and twitter updates on the work so that even if you can't come to Ashdown in person to see the special conservation work you can still follow the progress of the project on the web. There will be reports from our archaeologists, conservators, architects and all the other experts on site. It's a wonderful opportunity to see the conservation work of the National Trust in action. Please follow Ashdown House on Facebook http://on.fb.me/orrjXp, on Twitter @AshdownHouseNT and of course on our special blog at www.ashdownhouse.blogspot.com for all the action!

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