The 16 and 17 year-olds who study bricklaying at Stourbridge College are spending two days a week restoring some of the frameworks of the 300-year-old buildings which have been vacant for over 20 years. “The repairs began in February with a process of stabilising the building,” explained Andrew Hutchings, Site Manager at Croft Building and […]

“This is a unique restoration project where the students demonstrated a range of practical and specialist skills,” said Andrew Hutchings, Site Manager at Croft Building and Conservation Ltd. “There is a danger of certain craft skills within heritage conservation dying out, so for the students to have picked up some expertise in this area so […]