Conservation and Projects
Since its inception the Society has contributed to over fifty worthy projects, including the restoration of monuments, providing commemorative plaques and helping fund planting schemes commemorating Nelson’s victory at the Battle of the Nile.
The Society’s most recent project has been to provide significant funding to and curation of the ‘Nelson Map Room’, just outside the Lord Nelson Public House in Burnham Thorpe. This facility is proving to[...]
In 2018 the Society contributed towards the creation of a copy of a portrait of Nelson by the Italian artist Guzzardi. The original of the portrait hangs in the Admiralty Boardroom in London but[...]
Two French ships managed to escape the Battle of Nile. One of those was ‘Le Genereux’. That ship was subsequently caught in 1800 and the flag of that ship was presented by Nelson to[...]
In 2017 the Society worked in conjunction with UNESCO World Heritage Group in creating a ‘Nelson Trail’ for the City of Bath, which has numerous connections to Nelson and his navy. The development of[...]
Between 2002 and 2004 the Society helped fund archaeological excavations on Nelson’s Island in Aboukir Bay, Egypt where a number of the dead from the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 were buried,[...]
