Success stories

Two-thirds of the 1,930 structures on the first register 20 years ago have been saved. Heritage at Risk triumphs include:

The Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire The first Art Deco hotel in Britain when it opened in 1933, it later became a symbol of the decline of English seaside towns. An £11 million restoration programme took it off the list in 2008

Tynemouth Railway Station, Northumberland Built in 1882, Simon Jenkins describes its concourse as ‘a feast

of Victorian ironwork’. It had slumped into disrepair, but was removed from the register in 2012

Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Brighouse, West Yorkshire Some of the timber framing of the 16th-century gatehouse dates back to an older 12th-century nunnery—according to the legend of Robin Hood, the outlaw’s grave is sited there. Repairs to the picturesque

ruin allowed its removal from the register in 2017

Medieval chapel and buildings on St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumberland A site of huge religious and mystical significance. North Sea storms had eroded many of the structures, but

stabilisation works paved the way for the site’s removal from this year’s register

The Roundhouse, Derby This huge engine shed—the world’s earliest railway roundhouse— faced demolition as part of the now redundant Derby Railway Works, before its transformation into an educational facility for Derby College. It was removed from the register in 2008.