We took the lead in the conservation of the Grace Darling Memorial in Bamburgh. When Grace Darling died in 1842 at the age of 26, she was one of the most admired and well publicised of Victorian heroines, after helping her father to rescue 9 passengers from the wreck of the paddle steamer Forfarshire, on 7 September 1838. The memorial, designed by the well known architect, Anthony Salvin, stands in the churchyard of St Aidan's, Bamburgh. In 1893 the canopy was rebuilt after it collapsed in a gale. A century later our conditon report found the iron posts which supported it had rusted away and the canopy was again on the point of collapse. The conservation project involved investigating and recording the structure, and completely rebuilding the memorial with new bronze and stainless steel reinforcement. A time capsule was included. Laser and micro-abrasive cleaning of the stonework and specialist conservation of the sculpture, iron railings and bronze cresting were also carried out.