Awards for Helping to Safeguard Heritage
Canterbury Archaeological Trust has presented special awards to supporters of its work in the county. Canterbury’s Lord Mayor, Harry Cragg, presented the awards in the new exhibition at the Canterbury Whitefriars Roman Tower. Awards were presented for building recording and excavation projects undertaken by the Trust and a special award was made for support of the Trust’s Education Service.
Kent Archaeological Society President, Chris Pout, was presented with the award in recognition of the county society’s long term and valuable support of the Trust’s commitment to bringing archaeology into the classroom. The award celebrates twenty years of partnership between the Trust and the Society in running the ‘Archaeology in Education’ service to schools and communities in Kent. Mr Pout responded for all the recipients by thanking the Trust and the developers present for choosing Canterbury Archaeological Trust to undertake the archaeological works at their sites, listing the virtues and advantages to site developers and to the communities of Kent of having a dedicated, local, archaeological unit working in the county.
Building recording awards went to Graham Lloyd-Brunt and Ewan Brown for their restoration of Calico House Newnham and to Glengate Developments, represented by Paul Markham, for redevelopment of the former Boots premises at the corner of Mercery Lane and High Street, Canterbury where historic properties have been converted into new shops and apartments looking out on the Cathedral.
Excavation project awards were presented to Ed Hancock of Marston Inns and Taverns for its support of archaeological work in advance of the development of a new Public House at The Meads, Sittingbourne and to Fresca Limited for its support of extensive archaeological work during the development of a major greenhouse complex at Thanet Earth, near Monkton on the Isle of Thanet.
A special award was given to the Manager of Debenhams, Canterbury, in recognition of work on its store in Sun Street. Although the restoration and refurbishment took place a few years ago, this project is still considered to be a model of developer, local authority and archaeologist working together.