This document provides information about Dick Raines Design Ltd, an interpretation and design company located in York, UK. It summarizes the company's services such as exhibition design, illustration, and research for museums, heritage sites, and leisure projects. It provides examples of past clients and projects, which include designs for churches, museums, and historic sites. Brief descriptions are given of the owners Dick and Sue Raines' backgrounds and roles within the company.

1. DIC K R AINES DESIGN
Dick Raines Design Ltd
5 Albemarle Road YORK YO23 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626
E sue@dickrainesdesign.com
E dick@dickrainesdesign.com
www.dickrainesdesign.com
DICK RAINES
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DICK RAINES
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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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THE MONKS OF MICKLEGATE
We prepared designs and costings for a submission
to the HLF who provided £50,000 towards the
total cost of £100,00.00. Other funding came from
the PCC.
For more information visit the website -
www.holytrinityyork.org
800 years ago a small band of French monks came
to York. Over time they built a large and important
monastery. The Monks of Micklegate tells the story
of these Alien Benedictines. It explores how the
monastic ideal has developed over the centuries in
Yorkshire and brings the story into the 21st century
with the involvement of local monastic houses.
We were commissioned to research and design this
exhibition in 2006. Possible the most exciting aspect
of the research was the rediscovery of the Holy
Trinity Bestiary. We travelled to Oxford, to St John’s
College library, where the Bestiary has been in safe
keeping since 1661; we were amazed by the beauty
and brilliance of the pictures and knew that they
would form a major part of the exhibition. With
permission from the library we took photographer
John Potter and photographed the Bestiary from
beginning to end, acquiring an archive of 300 high-
quality digital images. Many of these images can be
studied on a touch screen in the exhibition and many
more can be seen on the panels.
The exhibition has transformed a dusty corner of the
church with colour and light and brings in many
visitors daily. Translation sheets give a precis of the
text in six languages; education resource booklets are
available to download from the website. Simple
interactives appeal to children of all ages.
The exhibition was built with help from the Heritage
Lottery Fund. It was opened in March 2007 by the
Dean of York, Keith Jones.
When a bull-like creature called a Bonnacon was fleeing from hunters, it
could defend itself by producing a horrible dung that would spread over
three acres and set fire to trees and bushes!
Photo:JohnPotterPhoto:JohnPotter

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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THE STONES OF
ST. OSWALD’S
St Oswald’s Church, at Lythe in North Yorkshire,
was rebuilt in 1910-11. As the mediaeval church was
demolished a remarkable collection of 49 Anglo-
Scandinavian carved stones, mainly dating from the
10th century, was revealed, built into the walls and
buttresses.
This exceptional collection of Viking stones, mostly
funeral monuments from a Christian graveyard, is
one of the largest and most important in the country.
In addition there are stones dating from mediaeval
times indicating the existence of an elaborate stone
church.
The stones remained in and around the church for
nearly a century before we were commissioned to
design a new exhibition. The stones chosen for
display were taken to the Conservation Laboratory
at York Archaeological Trust for treatment; special
racking was installed in the crypt for the remainder
to make them accessible for research. The display
was constructed from steel and oak; custom-made
steel brackets secure the stones to the structure.
The artist Peter Snowball was commissioned to
illustrate the story of the stones.
During the restoration of St Oswald’s in 1910-11 this almost complete
hogback was placed in the graveyard where it accumulated almost a
century’s growth of moss and lichen. In 2007, when the stones were
cleaned and conserved, an amazing discovery was made.
On one side of the hogback an image emerged — a crude figure, looking
very like a modern-day ‘gingerbread man’. As the painstaking conservation
process continued it became clear that the figure was being attacked by two
fierce beasts. The scene may depict wolves devouring Odin at Ragnarok
(the Viking end of the world).
We prepared designs and
costings for a submission
to the HLF who provided
£50,000 towards the
total cost of £56,000.00.
Other funding came
from the PCC and from
the North York Moors
National Park Authority.
A double-sided cross head was
mounted on a revolving steel
frame set into a window recess.
St Oswald’s Church
Lythe
North Yorkshire
www.stoswaldslythe.org.uk
This exhibition was built with help
from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Photo:MediaVision(Design)LtdIllustration:PeterSnowball
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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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This poster (above) is a poignant reminder of the
slaughter and maiming that went on in the trenches.
At about 7 feet wide It was designed to go on the
side of a tram or omnibus.
Ryedale Folk Museum
Hutton le Hole
York
YO62 6UA
Tel: 01751 417367
info@ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
WELBURN HALL
in the First World War
We produced a travelling exhibition to be taken
around local schools as part of the Ryedale Folk
Museum’s educational programme. Welburn Hall,
a nearby ‘big house’, was a WW1 hospital; many
photos survive of the wounded soldiers who passed
through as well as clinical records and diaries kept
by some of the nursing staff.
As well as the panels there are seven booklets
looking at various aspects of the war - Life and Death,
Women at War, Songs & Poetry and the VAD nurses.
We supplied some costumes: a VAD outfit, white
coat and stethoscope for a doctor, a fine coat and a
magnificent hat for the lady of the house and hospital
blues (the standard blue uniform worn by all the
wounded during their spell in hospital), all made for
us by Angela Burt. We gathered a collection of
objects including original officers field glasses - a bit
battered but still working - some emergency rations,
and the tobacco tin sent out to all the troops by the
Queen Mary Fund.

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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In Nevil Shute’s ‘Slide Rule’, his account of working
with Sir Barnes Wallis on the R100, he says that on
the early flights the crew would climb out of the
hatch and sit on top of the airship as it powered its
way through the clouds at around 75 mph at 5000
feet. Heath & Safety was obviously less of an issue
in those days.
The R100 was a magnificent piece of engineering,
and, at 219 metres (719 feet) it was substantially
larger than the London Gherkin at 180 metres
(590 feet) and considerably longer than York Minster.
‘Pioneers of Aviation: Yorkshire Connections’
is a permanent installation at the Yorkshire Air
Museum at Elvington, near York. It looks at five
aeronautical pioneers -
• Robert Blackburn, founder of Blackburn Aircraft
Company, was a very early aviation enthusiast who
gave demonstrations at Filey and in Roundhay Park in
Leeds and founded his eponymous aircraft company.
• Sir George Cayley 6th Baronet, the ‘Father
of Aviation’, was an 18/19th century pioneer of
aeronautical engineering and science whose work
was acknowledged by the Wright Brothers. He built
a glider and sent his coachman up for the first flight.
The coachman promptly resigned.
•Amy Johnson, pioneer aviatrix from Hull, became
a worldwide celebrity.
• Sir Barnes Wallis, scientist, engineer and inventor,
was not actually a Yorkshireman, but the R100 airship
was built at Howden and made its first flights in the
area. Barnes Wallis became famous as the inventor
of the ‘bouncing bomb’, used on the Ruhr Valley
dams in WW2.
•Nevil Shute Norway, engineer and author, who
became known worldwide as the novelist Nevil Shute.
After working on the R100 he set up the Airspeed Ltd,
Aircraft Constructors, which began life in the former
tram shed in Piccadilly, York.

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We possess a large collection of copyright-free
images to use in our designs.
Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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We commission illustrations from a number of
artists, all of whom have specialist knowledge of
their subjects.
Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
Linda Combi
Anthony Barton
Peter Snowball
John Wright
Carry Akroyd

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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A selection of models, panels and interactives.
A working loom for the Weaver’s House,
Spon End, Coventry.
Monks of Micklegate: push-buttons and LEDs showing important buildings
on a large reconstruction illustration.
Exterior panels at Spon End, Coventry.
Who’s on the Ark? Interactive model
with sounds and peepholes.
Interactive corner, including a video microscope,
at the Birdwatching Centre, Rutland Water.
Monks of Micklegate: Carmelite Nuns admire the Holy
Trinity Bestiary touchscreen.
Monks of Micklegate: magnetic jigsaw and a one-sixth
scale figure of a Franciscan friar.
Ryedale Folk Museum:
lightweight panels for the
Education Department, to be
taken round local schools.
We also supplied dressing-up
costumes and objects
to handle.

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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RECENT CLIENTS
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, National Trust
Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Micklegate, York
St Hilda’s Priory, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Waterways Museum, Goole
St Oswald’s Church, Lythe, North Yorkshire
Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre
Milton Mausoleum, The Churches Conservation Trust
Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre, Rutland Water
Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire
Spon End Building Preservation Trust, Coventry
The Yorkshire Wolds Building Preservation Trust
HYMS – Hull York Medical School
Normanton Church Museum, Rutland Water
NHS Estates
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York
Anglian Water Services, Huntingdon
York Minster Centre for School Visits
The Quilt Museum, York
Yorkshire Museum of Farming, York
York City Archives
Beck isle Museum, Pickering
Hull Museums

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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DICK RAINES studied art and design and worked in the
theatre and museums before joining the York Minster
Archaeological Group as surveyor and Illustrator, and York
Archaeological Trust where he worked on the prestigious
Coppergate site.
As a designer he worked on a wide range of projects, from
multi-million pound exhibitions in the Far East to small
exhibitions for museums and heritage sites, before setting
up his own design company where his passion and
knowledge for the past has been a great advantage.
Dick Raines - Design & Artistic Direction email: dick@dickrainesdesign.com
SUE RAINES studied English, mediaeval studies and art
history at York University. She was a partner in an
independent TV production company for a number of years,
producing a wide range of films documenting the changes
taking place in the Iron Curtain countries before the fall of
communism.
She then joined Dick Raines Design as researcher and
writer, where her knowledge of art history and love of
mediaeval history has added to the experience the firm
brings to its many projects.
Sue Raines - Research, Scriptwriting email: sue@dickrainesdesign.com
DICK RAINES DESIGN LTD - PROJECT COSTS
The Monks of Micklegate, The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Micklegate, York
Pioneers of Flight - Yorkshire Connections, Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York
York 800, York City Council Archives
The Weaver’s House, Spon End Building Preservation Trust, Coventry
The Stones of St Oswald’s, Lythe Church, North Yorkshire
Anglian Water Education Trailer
Ballater Royal Railway Station
Milton Mausoleum (The Churches Conservation Trust)
Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre, Rutland
Bronze Age Logboat, Derby Museum
Ryedale Folk Museum
St Hilda’s Priory, Education Centre, Whitby
Corfe Castle Visitor Centre phase 2
Thixendale Village Hall
York Minster Centre for School Visits
Sheffield Cathedral, Interpretation Centre Proposal
Jefferson’s Rum Experience, Whitehaven
EcoTech, Swaffham, Norfolk
Corfe Castle Visitor Centre
Wimpole Hall, Exhibition & Reception Areas
Caernarvon Castle Exhibition
Plas Mawr, Conway
St David’s, Bishop’s Palace
Lifelines, Bradford
Barnstaple Heritage Centre
£100,000.00
£50,000.00
£17,000.00
£45,000.00
£60,000.00
£21,000.00
£75,000.00
£5500.00
£95,000.00
£36,000.00
£30,000.00
£8,600.00
£15,000.00
£10,500.00
£13,000.00
£7,900.00
£675,000.00
£500,000.00
£75,000.00
£69,000.00
£120,000.00
£55,000.00
£65,000.00
£240,000.00
£65,000.00
DICK RAINES DESIGN LTD
VAT no: 758 7530 88
Company registration no: 4068020
Professional Indemnity insurance:
HISCOX 1491150
Combined liability insurance:
AXA LS VPS 1159806 Combined Liability
Magnetic panels on castors for York800 exhibition
under construction.

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Dick Raines Design Ltd 5 Albemarle Road YORK Y023 1EN
T 01904 622529 M 07977 440626 E dick@dickrainesdesign.com www.dickrainesdesign.com
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ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS
AND MANUFACTURERS
John R. Walker - metalworker, York
Workhaus Projects Ltd - exhibition contractors,
Sherburn in Elmet, York
Sandra Oakins - graphic design, North Yorkshire
Leach Colour Ltd - graphic production, Huddersfield
Colour Options - graphic production, York
Ceejay Graphics UK Ltd - screenprinters, York
PryorSign Ltd - exterior graphics, Rotherham
FusionLX Ltd - specialist lighting and A/V
installation for museums, Ripon
John Potter - photographer, York
Peter Snowball - illustrator, York
Anthony Barton - illustrator & modelmaker, York
Linda Combi - Illustrator, York
York Archaeological Trust Conservation Laboratory -
conservation advice and treatments
The Tudor Group - for reconstruction, historical
artefacts, furnishings and re-enactment, Quainton, Bucks
Interpreting Interiors - reconstruction historical
furniture and domestic equipment, Llangunllo, Powys
Hangar Services/Gary Hancock - construction
& militaria,York
Ruth Matthias - paper conservation, York
Mediavision Ltd, multimedia production, Whitby
Peter Donohoe, figure sculptor & modelmaker, York