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 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 [...]

It’s the end of another year and here at Inspire Conservation it has certainly been eventful.  First and foremost I would personally like to thank everyone who has been a part of 2012, both positive and challenging, as you have helped shape the company to what it is today. The year has had its ups and downs, [...]

Amersham War memorial was recently cleaned with the DOFF system by Inspire Conservation in time for the 11th November 2012.  The Portland limestone monument benefited from the clean and any open joints filled with lime mortar and stone dust. Click on the links to watch our YouTube videos. This is what The town council had to say [...]

It’s war memorial season again and there have been several war memorials that have been worked on over the last month in time for the 11th November. Shenley Church End is one of the original villages that were incorporated into the new town of Milton Keynes.  A lovely village with the church at the heart [...]

For the last few months Inspire Conservation have been conserving and repairing a timber WWI memorial in the new workshop for an independent school in east London.  The monument was salvaged from the church of St James the Less in the borough of Tower Hamlets in the second world war due to bomb damage and hastily fixed in [...]

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Granborough parish council have commissioned important stone conservation works to the war memorial at St Johns church with funding assistance from the War Memorial Trust. Inspire Conservation have now completed the work which included stone cleaning, lime re-pointing, french drain around the monument base and selective pinning repairs and stone replacement. These treatments will ensure [...]