Volunteers help collect fragments from Fairfax House artefacts (From York Press)
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Volunteers help collect fragments from Fairfax House artefacts
8:02am Saturday 31st December 2011 in History articles
Hannah Phillip, the house’s director, is pictured holding a piece of veneer from an early 18th-century Thomas Tompion clock
WORK taking place at an historic house in York gives an insight into how meticulous conservation projects must be to preserve our past.
Student volunteers at York’s Fairfax House in Castlegate have been helping to collect hundreds of fragments that have fallen off artefacts in the Georgian town house.
Hannah Phillip, the house’s director, is pictured holding a piece of veneer from an early 18th-century Thomas Tompion clock, which is also shown in the background.
The fragments will now be itemised and made ready for expert renovation.
