The WWI centennial celebrations will be upon us next year and it is only natural that there would be a influx of war memorials requiring repair and cleaning as parishes and custodians prepare ahead to the calendar event.  Inspire Conservation undertake numerous war memorial conservation programmes every year and we are known for our understanding of [...]

  Here is another example of our cleaning system in action on a war memorial in Bedfordshire which is currently being restored for the centenary next year. There are approximately 70,000 war memorials in the UK, that is almost one in every village.  These monuments and memorials are in various states of repair and we are proud [...]

  Inspire Conservation have completed a comprehensive condition survey and treatment recommendation plan for another new client, PWR events, who organise well known events including Hampton Court Festival from their head office in London.  Their head office building is known as the Brick House or Grove House in Hampton and has an interesting history and a very [...]

  Inspire Conservation is now 5!  Michael Sheppard set up Inspire Conservation five years ago after completing a two year project with Payne and Stewart at Cardiff castle.  Michael acted as the site manager over seeing a large team of wall painting and decorative surface conservators and specialist subcontractors. The companies humble beginnings started as [...]

  Inspire Conservation was approached by Milton Keynes Council to restore the last remaining relic for the London and North Western Railway link between Newport Pagnell and Wolverton in Buckinghamshire.  This line was well utilised from its inception for the boat manufacturers and train labour in Wolverton but was closed in the 1960′s.  Wolverton in [...]

  Our new office is now open for business in Little Horwood.  We have the facility to work on various movable objects including gilding, specialist decoration, stone masonry cleaning, conservation and stone carving.  Inspire Supplies products are being stored here at our workshop so if you are in the home counties and require quality lime [...]

  We have launched our new website and the Inspire brand has grown to include our other sister companies.  This now includes Inspire Supplies and Inspire Lime which continue to provide great free advice and stone conservation products.  We are now also part of the up and coming Ionic group manufacturing lime mortars and ecological [...]

A new year is upon us and we have had some pretty amazing things happen over the last two years.  As part of this continued positive improvement we have decided to have a little make over and we are incorporating some of our other projects in to the Inspire brand. You are all aware of [...]

An unprecedented start to 2013 with some fantastic historic buildings and structures being conserved and restored by the Inspire team and some news from the office concerning our health and safety policies.  As part of our ongoing commitment to health and safety in the work place we have undertaken our CHAS accreditation and we are glad [...]