Restoration (television)
| Restoration | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Griff Rhys Jones, Marianne Suhr, Ptolemy Dean |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 mins (including advertisements) |
| Production company(s) |
Endemol (BBC Television) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC (BBC2) |
| Original release | August 2003 – 25 April 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Restoration Home (TV series) |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Restoration was a set of BBC television series where viewers decided on which listed building that was in immediate need of remedial works was to win a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund. It first aired in 2003.
The host of all three series is Griff Rhys Jones, whilst investigating each building in the heats are the show's resident "ruin detectives", Marianne Suhr and Ptolemy Dean.
Thirty buildings featured in ten regional heats in 2003, with money raised from the telephone vote being added to the prize fund. Viewers chose which of a selection of the United Kingdom's most important, but neglected, buildings should be awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant of £3m. The winning building was the turkish-bath section of the Victoria Baths in Manchester; however, bureaucratic and technical hurdles meant that the money raised could not be spent immediately, and final planning-approval to begin a restoration process did not go through until September 2005. The first phase of restoration work finally began on 19 March 2007.
Kate Humble co-hosted the 2003 live grand final.
A second series, featuring 21 buildings in 7 regional heats, appeared on BBC Two in the summer of 2004. The winner was the Old Grammar School and Saracen's Head in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Both buildings closed to the public in July 2006 for archeological investigation, restoration work began in February 2007. Both buildings were officially reopened on 13 June 2008.
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