Heritage
Edinburgh Castle named top UK heritage attraction
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, UK, has been named the top UK Heritage Attraction for the third year in the British Travel Awards. The historic attraction was the only
Scottish attraction to make the shortlist and is Scotland’s number one paid-for tourist attraction, attracting more than 1.2 million people a year. “To win this award three times in a row
confirms that Edinburgh Castle’s fascinating history, dramatic location and panoramic views have an enduring appeal for visitors of all ages both in the UK and around the world,” said Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for culture and external affairs. Details:
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Stonehenge opens visitor centre
Global icon Stonehenge, UK has a new exhibition and visi- tor centre, aimed to transform the site from a quick stop off and photo opportunity into an immersive visitor experi- ence, giving a sense of what it was like to live back in the Bronze Age. (Turn to page 48 for our full report) Tis marks the first phase
of English Heritage’s £27m project to transform the vis- itor experience of the site, which receives one million visitors each year. Visitors can now see origi-
nal artefacts which Neolithic and Bronze Age people used on a daily basis, as well as two 14th century manuscripts, which are among the earli- est known drawings of the monument in existence.
Te new Stonehenge visitor centre is 2km from the iconic stone circle The new exhibi tion
also includes the first ever reconstructed face of a 5,500-year-old man, who was found buried in a long barrow 1.5 miles from Stonehenge.
A 360-degree virtual expe-
rience lets visitors stand in the stones and allows them to experience both winter and summer solstices. Details:
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Mail Rail could get lease on life as attraction Te palace generated £11.6m during the tax year
Buckingham Palace urged to become more profitable
British MPs have criticised the Royal Household for mismanaging its finances, calling for Buckingham Palace, London, UK to be opened to paying visitors more frequently to help balance the books. Te Public Accounts Committee found
the Queen received £31m ($51m, €38m) from British taxpayers in the 2012/13 finan- cial year for official duties, but Buckingham Palace required a further £2.3m ($3.8m, €2.8m) from its reserves due to overspend- ing, “leaving a balance of only £1m ($1.7m, €1.2m) at 31 March 2013 - a historically low level of contingency.” The committee, chaired by Margaret
Hodge, concluded the Royal Household is “not looking aſter nationally important heritage properties adequately.” Its report stated that in March 2012, 39
per cent of the royal estate was “below what the household deemed to be an acceptable condition,” adding that Buckingham Palace needs “to get a much firmer grip” on how it plans to arrange and pay for repairs. Details:
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Plans are afoot to take a dis- used underground mail line in London, UK and transform it into a tourist attraction. The London Post Office
Railway – known as the Mail Rail – was approved by an Act of Parliament 100 years ago and in its heyday would carry 12 million postal items a day between Whitechapel and Paddington, but it was shut down – bar a skeleton staff for maintenance pur- poses – a decade ago. Plans include using a con-
verted mail train to carry passengers through the 6.5m (10.5km) underground net- work in tunnels 7ſt (2.1m) in diameter to create a mail rail experience as part of a new £22m British Postal Museum charting 400 years of social and communications history. Te proposals submitted to
Islington Council would see visitors board trains at Mount Pleasant and ride a section of the tunnels. For the project to be successful however, the team behind it need to raise
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attractionsmanagement.com/digital London’s Mail Rail tunnel could be brought back as a tourist attraction
£2m from sponsors by the end of March to secure Heritage Lottery Funding. New York’s High Line saved
an abandoned 1930s elevated railway and reinvented into a linear park, which is one suggestion for the disused Royal Mail tunnel. In 2012, London Mayor, Boris Johnson launched a green infrastruc- ture competition which was won by London-based archi- tectural firm Fletcher Priest,
which suggested an under- ground mushroom park could be built along the length of the disused tunnel. Islington Council
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expected to make a decision on proposals next month and if approved, the attraction would be fully open by 2020. More information on linear
parks is available on p17 of the Leisure Handbook 2014 available here:
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