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'Top job' as Dunston Staiths reopens alongside £1.5m trail

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Vincent
Published date13 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The Grade II-listed structure closed after arson attacks in 2019 and 2020, racking up £300,000 worth of damage. These fires came after The Staiths underwent an £800,000 restoration in 2014 and 2015

And the structure's owners the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation

Trust are delighted that it will now open again, after four years of restoration to that former glory.

Martin Hulse, manager of Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust, said: "It's a bit of a relief! What we realised with the Staiths is that we needed help, we needed a bigger partnership and the National Trust and the council have given us a lot of help. The Staiths is a lovely structure to look at, but we only really understand it once we get on it.

"And to stand on top of it, it's a wonderful place to show people."

The Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust has also taken over the running of St Mary's Heritage Centre from Gateshead Council, the starting point of the Tyne Derwent...

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