Berwick YH Reaches Milestone
One year after the plan to open a hostel in Berwick was announced by the YHA, The Journal reports that the main external construction work has been completed. This appears to have been no mean feat: the eighteenth century granary in which the hostel is to be sited has a bigger lean than the tower of Pisa.
Work can now continue to the next stage:
The organisations that will operate in the granary can now gain access and begin internal work. Interpretive panels are also to be put up to show how the granary operated and explain its significance to Berwick’s history and heritage, including one on a rail line within the site and the part it played in the whole operation.
All work should be completed by the autumn of this year and it is hoped the site will be open to the public early in 2011.
I’m glad to see information panels forming part of the plan: it’s a chance to make the most of a historic site, and I’ve seen them work really well at Whitby and Wooler for example.
Roll on 2011!
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