Down your Way: Toil and dedication of the volunteer 'young bloods' Middleton Hall in Warwickshire was saved from collapse 21 years ago. Ross Reyburn witnesses an outstanding example of the charity ethic at work.

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: April 21, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Ros Dodd

Pictures/JOHN JAMES

Middleton Hall, an elegant moated Grade II listed Georgian mansion in the Warwickshire countryside, may appear a classic case for a Lottery heritage grant. But the interesting Tudor jetty building alongside the hall is currently being restored entirely by volunteer labour.

'We went to the Lottery but we were turned down,' says Max Ellerslie, a retired photographer who has masterminded the preservation of the hal...

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