Poole Pottery was established in the 1870s, and the collection includes the business records of the company and a representative series of working patterns from the 1920s to the 1990s.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 19-20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 22,493
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Item date: 1979
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 1,700
Item cost: $12,000
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The autograph manuscript of 'Under the North Star' was written by Ted Hughes (1930-98) in 1979 for children and was illustrated by the artist Leonard Baskin. The manuscript consists of 29 pages of autograph text abd illustrations.
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 195
Item cost: 195
Institution: Faversham Society
Town/City: Faversham
County: Kent
The book was lost from the Parochial Library of Doddington in Kent, formed by Daniel Somerscales, vicar (1694-1737). It is a variant issue from the three recorded in ESTC.
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: 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: 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: 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: 1792
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 2,062
Item cost: $75,000
Institution: Lancashire Record Office
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
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.
Item date: 19th and 20th century
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 255
Item cost: 1,011
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
The three items purchased are the minute book of the Forncett St.
Item date: 1407-1929
Date acquired: 2004
Grant Value: 9,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: Northamptonshire Archives Service
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
The Cokayne collection is a collection of records concerning the Viscounts Cullen of Rushton and various related families. The collection, which was formed by G. E. Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms, consists of over 3,400 documents covering the period 1407-1929.