Our Projects
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Industrial, maritime and transport 

More than £780million has been awarded to over 2,350 projects in the industrial, maritime and transport heritage sector. We are supporting communities to retain and celebrate the buildings, ships and technology that helped to shape the modern world.

We have funded projects at all nine of our industrial and maritime World Heritage Sites, including the Ironbridge Gorge and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

With our help, disused railway stations have been brought back into use as part of heritage railways, such as at Sheringham, Norfolk, or as community facilities – the former station at Richmond in Yorkshire now features a cinema, a restaurant and an art gallery.

And we support volunteers to carry out important tasks at industrial sites – from restoring, maintaining and operating machinery, to staffing visitor facilities, and providing learning resources.

Facts and figures

  • More than £100m has been awarded to over 145 projects involving over 95 individual ships and boats.
  • More than £7.6m has been awarded for the preservation of over 66 railway locomotives and trams.
  • More than £91.4m has been awarded to over 215 projects on canals and river navigations.
  • Twenty industrial sites were taken off the English Heritage At Risk Register following an HLF grant.

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