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THE PROJECT'S FUNDERS
The Local Heritage Initiative
The LHI is a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Nationwide Building Society and the Countryside Agency. It makes grants of up to £25,000 to groups undertaking projects at a local level with a heritage focus. The website has details of how to apply for a grant and information on all the LHI projects which have been funded to date.
Rushcliffe Borough Council
Ruddington falls within the administrative area of Rushcliffe Borough Council, which gave a small grant towards the Bombs to Butterflies project. The Borough Council also maintains the Rushcliffe Country Park and it's Education Centre which will house a permanent display of the project.
Ruddington Parish Council
Ruddington Parish Council grant aided the Bombs to Butterflies project and generously allowed the group to meet at St. Peter's Rooms periodically.
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
Ruddington Village Museum
The Village Museum explores the life of ordinary Ruddington residents during the period 1900 to 1940 through a series of village shops, which have been reconstructed within the former Ruddington Infant and Girls school. Displays include Mick's fish and chip shop, Ironmonger, top shop pharmacy and cobblers, together with a collection of agricultural tools, telephone exchange and a reconstructed Edwardian schoolroom.
Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre
The Heritage Centre hold a large collection of locomotives and vintage buses, together with equipment and ephemera relating to road and rail transport. The Heritage Centre is located within Rushcliffe Country Park and part of the collection is housed in two of the original Ruddington depot buildings. Steam locomotive rides are available on the original line from Ruddington Depot to Rushcliffe Halt.
Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
The Framework Knitters' Museum is the country's best preserved example of a complex of framework knitters' cottages and workshops which provide an rare insight into the working and domestic lives of framework knitters during the period 1850-1900.
Rushcliffe Country Park
The Country Park covers most of the area originally occupied by Ruddington OSSD. The reclamation project has produced an attractive park which is used by a wide variety of visitors - dog walkers, cyclists, bird watchers and kite flyers. For children there is a impressive looking play area and a skate park.
UNDERSTANDING RUDDINGTON
A Brief History of Ruddington
This section of the village website, written by Margaret Lawson, gives a potted history of the village from pre-history to the 20th century. The text is also available in booklet form from Ruddington Village Museum.
Ruddington Village Museum
Ruddington.com gives an insight into life and activities in present day Ruddington. The photograph section includes a number of albums of historic photographs of the village and contemporary albums featuring Rushcliffe Country Park and the Framework Knitters' Museum.
UNDERTAKING RESEARCH
Nottinghamshire Archives
The National Archives
National Monuments Records Office
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