The Red Book contains four watercolour sketches with overlays, a ground plan of the estate and drawings for a proposed dairy in the Gothic style, as well as a commentary by Repton on his proposals.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1792
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 2,062
Item cost: $75,000
Institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 9,180
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University, Library
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
The strength of this collection of modern illustrated books is in wood-engraved books of the 1920s to 1940s. Illustrators include Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious. The Gregynog Press and Trianon Press are represented in the collection.
Item date: c. 1906-14
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,400
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: Holst Victorian House
Town/City: Cheltenham
County: Gloucestershire
This is the manuscript of one of Holst's best-loved songs. The arrangement is scored for voice, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two horns and strings
Item date: Early 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 472
Item cost: 1,560
Institution: Gloucestershire Archives
Town/City: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), composer, was also one of the most significant poets of the First World War. The Sketch-Book dates from before 1914 and contains previously unknown early pieces.
Item date: Early 14th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 1,700,000
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
The Macclesfield Psalter is a work of art of exceptional beauty. Its 250 leaves are painted with exquisite finesse, page after page of precious pigments and gold.
Item date: c. 1340
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £132,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Manuscript roll of seven vellum membranes, England c,1340, containing both the earliest surviving English ordinary of arms, with 589 painted shields, and the oldest roll of arms for Scotland on the dorse. The latter, apparently copied c.
Item date: 1761
Date acquired: 2003
Grant Value: 130
Item cost: 520
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
The map of Toulston, near Tadcaster, adds to the records of the Fairfax family which are held by the Record Office.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 265,000
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
The photographic archive of Aerofilms, one of the largest aerial photographic companies in the world. It documents the changing face of Britian from the 1920s to the present day, and provides an invaluable record of British urban and rural landscapes, buildings and archaeological sites.
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
A small group of design archives of the metal working firm of Francis Skidmore (1817-96) and Son, makers of the Hereford Screen, now in the V&A, and many artefacts, notably to accompany the building and restoration work of George Gilbert Scott.
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,050
Item cost: 4,500
Institution: William Salt Library
Town/City: Stafford
County: Staffordshire
Two volumes of 18th century MS notes, complied firstly by John Le Neve (1679-c.1741) and relating to office holders of the Church of England; and secondly by Rev John Allen (1699-1778) relating to the history of Staffordshire. The dates of the contents are 1717-18 (Le Neve) and c.