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BASA members will know that national Heritage Open Days take place from 11th-14th September 2008. Do look at the website page http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory/HOD007993E/ which announces the participation of St Peter's Church, Aston, Cheshire (25 miles from Liverpool) for the first time - focused on the history of the gravestone of Chloe Gambia "a Negress" in the churchyard there. The church has been researching this memorial and found both the baptism and burial records for Chloe Gambia. She was baptised aged 7 as "servant to Henry Aston Esq" and buried in 1838 alongside other servants of the Aston family. Chloe Gambia's death certificate lists her as "Housekeeper" to the Astons and she was still at Aston when she died of breast cancer aged 78. Best wishes Rachel Head of Social Inclusion and Diversity, English Heritage Policy Team, 1, Waterhouse Square, 138-142, Holborn, London EC1N 2ST Tel: 020 7973 3827 _________________________________________________________________________________ Concerned about how climate change may affect older properties? What about saving energy? Visit our new website www.climatechangeandyourhome.org.uk today. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of English Heritage unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to English Heritage may become publicly available.