Restoration was a 2003BBCtelevision series in which viewers chose which of the United Kingdom's most important but neglected buildings that were nominated were to be awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant of £3m. 30 buildings were featured in ten regional heats, with money raised from the telephone vote being added to the prize fund. The winning building was the Victoria Baths in Manchester, which it is hoped will be fully restored and open to the public ahead of the building's centenary in 2006.
A second series, featuring 21 buildings in 7 regional heats, appeared on BBC2 in the summer of 2004. The winner was the Old Grammar School and Saracen's Head in Birmingham.
Restoration literature covers writers active at this period, most notably English poet and dramatist John Dryden, English religious writer John Bunyan, English poet John Milton, and English non-fiction writer Samuel Pepys.
Restoration comedy, popular drama played in the theatres newly reopened since the time of the Protectorate, was characterized by its bawdiness and wit.
The Restoration Period, from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Dryden in 1700.
** In the History of England the term Restoration has a specific meaning in as much as it is used to describe the process whereby Charles II regained the English throne after the Parliamentarian rule in the wake of the English Civil War.
* In telecommunications, circuit restoration is action taken to repair and return to service one or more telecommunications services, including repair of a damaged or impaired telecommunications facility, that have a degraded quality of service or have a service outage.
Restoration may be done by various means, such as patching, routing, substitution of component parts, or selecting other pathways.
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