Page 2 - Wool Hall News Today

WORK is being carried out on two historically significant buildings at a Dorset Museum.

The 50-mile route aims to showcase and link up these historic Suffolk locations for the first time

The 50-mile route aims to showcase and link up these historic Suffolk locations for the first time

COUNCIL chiefs are facing a nervous wait to discover if a £2.2million funding bid will be approved to transform Poole Museum.

Hugh Victor McKay helped bring ‘the Sunshine’ to agriculture down under

Poole Museum DETAILS of the plan to remodel and improve Poole Museum have been lodged with local planners. The scheme involves changes to the internal layout to create new gallery spaces and a learning hub, new windows, better roof insulation and a larger lift. Details of the proposals for the Grade 1 listed building are contained in almost thirty documents submitted to BCP council. The museum says the changes to the inside of the building will improve the link between the main buildin...

A MUSEUM has applied for permission to carry out “opening up works” to develop the design of a “subsequent larger project” across the building’s estate. Poole Museum, housed in Oakley’s Mill, a grade 2 listed building, wants to carry out the investigative work which will then determine subsequent works focussing on the restoration and conservation and development of new displays. A design and access statement said: “This Listed Building Application is for a series of investi...