The Trustees of the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust have launched an urgent crowdfunding appeal to raise £20,000 by February so that the museum and site can open in 2026. A combination of rising costs, the long-term impact of COVID-19, and recent operational challenges—including lock closures that reduced visitor numbers this year—has left the Foxton Canal Museum, the beating heart of Foxton Locks and a vital guardian of Britain’s canal heritage, under threat.

The MP for Walsall and Bloxwich has written to three major conservation trusts in a bid to prevent the borough's Leather Museum attraction from being relocated.

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet in Sheffield saw water burst through its dam walls two years ago.

The next in-person North East Industrial Heritage Network meeting will be held at Hopetown Museum, Darlington, on Tuesday 9th December 2025, from 11am to 1pm. This will be followed, after lunch (there is a cafe on site), by a tour of the site (2pm to 3pm). The themes for the 2025-26 IHN meetings are conservation and maintenance. All IHN members and friends are very welcome to attend.

The site of the Borough Cross once marked the exact centre of Penzance.

Historic England’s next free Technical Tuesday: Technical Conservation Webinar takes place tomorrow, 25 November, from 1300 – 1400 looking at the historical and technical challenges associated with the refurbishment of the Union Chain Bridge. To book follow this link: Opened in 1820 and listed Grade I ( the Chain Bridge is the world’s oldest vehicular bridge and connects England and Scotland spanning the River Tweed.

Volunteer Elizabeth Hitchings says fears the museum would close were

Fans of the long-running BBC sci-fi drama will be able to see the Doctor’s police box-shaped spaceship at the Unesco World Heritage Site in…

What happens when a community loses its champion?

Ardvrek Castle in Assynt is a 500-year-old former clan seat, and reputed to be haunted.

YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology

Evidence of a 4,500-year-old burial site was found on the land in Wigan after painstaking excavations.

The Annual Museum Survey undertaken by Museum Development England provides insights into the sector’s health as well as the challenges and opportunities it is facing. By benchmarking data generated every year, it has been possible to spotlight past and current trends such as the impact of the pandemic on volunteering and finances. Earlier this year Museum Development England published the Annual Museums Survey five year trends analysis. Insights generated by the Annual Museum Survey are used by museums to demonstrate their social and economic value, both locally and nationally. Data insights also aid museums in benchmarking their operational activity. 

Quaker Tapestry Museum and Museum of Carpet will both shut next month

The Museum of Carpet in Kidderminster has announced that it will close on the 20th December 2025. The announcement earlier this month by the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Carpet Museum Trust, adds another industrial heritage site in England to the closure list for 2025. For the Museum of Carpet, this was the culmination of a several years of rising energy prices, maintenance costs, loss of tenants, and reduced footfall.

No script, no plan! Join our spontaneous Rows tour where random prompts & your choices shape the stories we discover together.

A petition launched to save the Walsall Leather Museum has surpassed 1,900 signatures.

The London Underground’s Southwark tube station has been granted listed status as an outstanding example of late 20th-century architecture.

Applications for the Spaces, Places, and Belonging Community Hub Seed Corn Grants are open until 28 November. This new UK-wide programme, run by The National Archives and funded by the AHRC, offers grants, training, and digital tools to help you explore, share, and celebrate your community’s stories.  It is funded until December 2027. Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage.