English Heritage launches £11m training programme to preserve specialist construction skills
Conservation charity English Heritage has announced the launch of a heritage apprenticeship programme and skills training centre aimed at safeguarding endangered specialist skills.
The apprenticeship course will teach heritage brickwork, flint and stone masonry skills to a younger workforce.
The seven-year programme expects to train 48 young heritage skills apprentices and three professional apprentices.
The establishment of a heritage skills training centre in East Anglia and the creation of an in-house heritage crafts team will focus on the maintanence of 34 flint castles and abbeys in the east of England. These include the Roman Wall of St Albans, Bury St Edmuds Abbey and Burgh Castle Roman Fort.
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