My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

Mary Davies, The Historic Building Investigator, in 1972 Mary Davies was an 'Investigator of Historic Buildings'. She travelled around the North of England, visiting various old buildings and evaluating them based on their historic and architectural importance. The clip is taken from a programme originally broadcast on 23rd February in 1972.  Whilst the video features Mary working in The Lake District, she covered the whole of the north of  England in her work, so would have spent a lot of time assessing buildings in Lancashire. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3e3WS8mFM Journey back to 1972 with a historic building investigator traversing Northern England . They meticulously assess structures, grading them based on architectural and historical significance. Witness the process of evaluating and cataloguing these buildings for preservation. Mary Davies has spent fifteen years working as an Investigator of Historic Buildings for the Department of the Environm...