Work is underway to protect the huge West window at Beverley Minster from further deterioration.
The dedicated maintenance team are currently in the initial stage of what is a large scale project.
It is without question Beverley’s most famous landmark and the people who are responsible for maintain Beverley Minster say Twitter has become a valuable tool.
Steve Rail and Paul Hawkins spend their time taking care of Beverley Minster and have for the past 12 months generated content showing the daily work they undertake which is shared on social media.
Nature conservation organisation the RSPB and Beverley Minster are hoping to provide a home for breeding peregrines after installing a specially designed nest box on the tower of the Gothic church.
Beverley Minster this week took delivery on a Beacon as part of the Queens Golden Jubilee Celebrations. The lighting of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Beacons takes place on Monday 4th June 2012.
Steve Rial and Paul Hawkins, the men who maintain Beverley Minster, opened up an old well inside the historic building for the first time in two years.
It might be the Beverley Classic Car Rally, but the annual event, held on Wednesday, is also a Mecca for bike and scooter enthusiasts. Bikes and scooters of all makes, ages and sizes drew as many admirers as the hundreds of classic cars on show in the town centre. Just as with the cars, British bikes made up the bulk of those on show, with Coventrys, BSAs and Nortons sat…
As spring inspires new optimism and re-discovered vigour in the people of England, so it energises the men who keep Beverley Minster in shipshape condition. Steve Rial is the ecclesiastical plumber/ glazer at the Minster. Or, rather more prosaically, he’s the man who, along with his mate Paul Hawkins, keeps the water out, the heat in and the Minster safe. For 21 years Steve, 54 and employed by the Minster…