Demonstrations

Live demonstrations and short talks programme 2024

Held throughout the day, experts will demonstrate practical skills, conservation techniques and give short talks on issues including:

PRACTICAL DEMOS

Practical Demos in, Decorative Objects Conservation covering, care, cleaning, handling and damage restoration (including porcelain, fine china, terracotta and earthenware)
Stonemasonry & Woodcarving

SHORT TALKS

Collections Management Lighting, display, temperature regulation, inventory management, listing, auditing, conservation: practicality and cost efficiency.
Climate change adaption and resilience for historic buildings and gardens.
Renewable energy technologies, advantages and pitfalls

There will also be a SPAB short talk and a Technical Advice Surgery. Once registered for the event you can pre book your slot. If you need free, friendly and impartial technical help with an old building, you can have direct assistance from the SPAB tailored to answer your query.

We are adding to the programme all the time, so please check back regularly, but already confirmed are:

FINE ART RESTORATION

Practical Demo in Decorative Objects Conservation Amy, Decorative Objects Conservator at Fine Art Restoration will demonstrate how to care, clean and handle decorative objects (including porcelain, fine china, terracotta and earthenware) within historic properties as well as what to do when damage occurs and the results restoration can achieve.

BUILDING CRAFTS COLLEGE

Practical demos in Stonemasonry and woodcarving

ART ADVISORY

Group Collections Management: Crispian Riley – Smith, Founder of the Art Advisory Group Considers, Lighting and displaying to best effect. Heating: impact and options, Inventory management: listing and auditing, Conservation: practicality and cost efficiency.

INGLETON WOOD

Climate change adaption and resilience for historic buildings and gardens: headline hazards, implications and actions.

Morwenna Slade (Director, Climate Change), Ingleton Wood

Renewable Energy Technologies: advantages and pitfalls of air, ground, and water source heat pumps, biomass boilers, HVO boilers, direct electric heating.

Peter Webb (Director Building Services), Ingleton Wood

SPAB

Meet the SPAB team with Douglas Kent, SPAB Head of Technical and Research offering an advice surgery throughout the day (you can book your slot to guarantee a place) as well as a short talk on a topic to be confirmed.

Meet the experts

Building Crafts College, The SPAB, The Victorian Society, William Morris Society, London Gardens Trust, Professional Gardeners Guild, The Gardens Trust and many specialist organisations, suppliers and professionals are on hand to help with all aspects of historic buildings, landscape and heritage conservation.