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Brougham HallHall News Issue 800 10th. June, 2016. Page 121 Hall News Also in This Edition... No. 800. A New Bridge at Pooley Bridge Project Guide E.A.R.E.A.R. PenrithPenrith FashionFashion ShowShow FOUR-PART Ser- A ies of photographs of Dave Johnson’s and Hall Football Games Recalled Rebekah Wright’s impres- sive model of Brougham Hall , which first appeared Hall News 26X was pub- lished to mark the end of ‘PROJECT REVIEW GUIDE’ in Hall News in 1988, forms the basis of this the first year of Commu- HE LIST Here is intended as a guide, or index, to latest, our 800th., Edition. nity Programme training this latest “Project Review” , with the entries sorted The “Looking...” series at Brougham Hall, but this byT date and issue number, right the way from the begin- used photographs of the August 1987 “Index” was ning, at No. 1., in November 1985, to No. 3056. , which model to simulate views confusing to use (even its notes the sale of Scalesceugh Hall - one-time workplace from the North, South, creator admits this), and of the Editor. The Review is in four parts, with Entries 1 to East and West, adding Issue 100, in August ’89, 815, in this edition, covering the period from 1985 to the matching photographs of began the trend of gen- end of 1999. Hall News 801, will have entries for 2000 to the Hall itself in four direc- eral project guides every 2006, Hall News 802 will cover 2007 to 2011, and the tions to track how things hundredth edition. It had remaining entries will make up Hall News 803, bringing hereabouts were develop- the map - and some 140 our epic story right up to 2016 — although these arrange- ing, compared to the vari- points marked on it, to- ments could well be changed. Each of these four large ous buildings, as repre- gether with 140 entries, editions will include regular H all News content, but the sented on the model. culminating with Unit 3 general news pages, usually at the back, ma y not appear. That series was re- as Mark Heeley-Creed’s peated in this publication ‘Goldsmith’s Workshop’ … ENTRIES YEAR HALL NEWS ISSUE DATED in 1995, before being just where jeweller Susan 1-57 1985/’86 800 10.6.’16 adapted for Hall News Clough is based now ! 58-99 1987 800 10.6.’16 600, nearly eight years By January 1993, and 100-127 1988 800 10.6.’16 ago, with photographs of Hall News 200, the tally 128-150 1989 800 10.6.’16 the Model appearing with had reached 276, and 151-180 1990 800 10.6.’16 an array of numbers and there were colour-coded 181-213 1991 800 10.6.’16 arrows to match up with maps for each year so far, 214-276 1992 800 10.6.’16 the numbered paragraphs and a rather elaborate 277-347 1993 800 10.6.’16 map at the end, which of the main Project Guide. 348-388 1994 800 10.6.’16 That system has been could never be repeated for No 300 - the 10th An- 389-425 1995 800 10.6.’16 adopted again for this lat- 426-509 1996 800 10.6.’16 est Hall Project Review niversary edition in De- cember 1996 - as even by 510-616 1997 800 10.6.’16 Guide, which takes up the 617-714 1998 800 10.6.’16 bulk of this and the next 1993 there was just too 715-815 1999 800 10.6.’16 three issues of Hall News . much to cram in on one The Project Review is A.3. double-page spread! 816-941 2000 801 24.6.’16 almost as old as Hall Hall News 405 did the 942-1060 2001 801 24.6.’16 News itself, first appearing “honours” in 2000 as No. 1061-1192 2002 801 24.6.’16 in Issue 3, of 29th. De- 400. came up just days 1193-1319 2003 801 24.6.’16 cember, 1986, with all of after editor Alistair Ayn- 1320-1413 2004 801 24.6.’16 26 entries and a centre- scough’s move to Tait 1414-1498 2005 801 24.6.’16 page spread map with Street, , which 1499-1604 2006 801 24.6.’16 those 26 numbers written held up production, but by 1605-1706 2007 802 8.7.’16 on it by hand - before we the time of the ‘historic’ 1706-1839 2008 802 8.7.’16 hear anyone quip, it’s not No. 500., in July 2004, 1840-1965 2009 802 8.7.’16 things were back on THAT long ago! - and those 1966-2096 2010 802 8.7.’16 same 26 start off this schedule — and the first two-parter came out, with 2097-2253 2011 802 8.7.’16 Guide, all the way from the 2254-2436 2012 803 22.7.’16 South Wall to the Army’s 1,376 entries spilling over 2437-2593 2013 803 22.7.’16 ground layer of concrete in into Hall News 501. The the Stables Courtyard … old maps, drawn back in 2594-2756 2014 803 22.7.’16 only now they are joined 1993, oft repeated and 2757-2931 2015 803 22.7.’16 by all of 3,030 more !!! restyled, appeared for the 2932-3056 2016 (to May) 803 22.7.’16 After the first few months, last time. Things change... … … … after this, Hall News will be going Monthl y ...

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 122 - [email protected] Brougham Hall Conservation and Rebuilding Projects Kindly Supported by …

HERE COULD Be a T Second Wartime Weekend at the Hall, as was BACK ON PARADE suggested in the recent Her- ald report on the early -May gathering here , and, if there is one, next year, it would mark 75th . Anniversar y Repeat of Wartime the 75th. Anniversary of the time when detachments from the 1st. and 35th. Tank Bri- Weekend at Brougham Hall on Way? gades of the 79th. Royal Ar- moured Corps and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers set up an ultra- secret base here, where they worked on the Grant Canal Defence League “Dazzler” Tank. So ‘hush-hush’ was this base that even local people and farm-workers had to show identification documents as they moved around this area, and, in December 1942, it had visits from then Prime Minister [later Sir.] Winston Churchill, General [later U.S. President] Dwight D. Eisenhower — and even King George VI himself. There were three C.D.L. - type tanks — G rants , Churc hills and Matildas . The Base was in use for pretty much the rest of the war, and the “Dazzler”, with a 13,000,000-candlepower search-light intended to ‘blind’ an enemy, was also tested on nearby farm buildings, before being sent to the heat of battle in Europe — and Above: The Hall War reportedly used to light up Base Memorial the way to the Allies’ sei- opening ceremony zure of Berlin, in Germany, on 16th. July 1992 on 7th. March, 1945. and, Right , An im- The opening ceremony pression of the Hall for the Memorial Arch was Base entrance at held at noon on Thursday, Lowtherbridge, and “Somewhere in 16th. July, 1942, the its Air Raid Shelter, ” was a standard phrase used by 50th. Anniversary of the as seen here in Hall wartime media to cover an event whose day the forces moving in News 103, in Sep- location was a secret — it was regularly here, and was conducted tember 1989. used by the wartime cinema newsreels. by Brigadeer Ewan C. Mor- rison, and Brougham and Clifton Vicar the Rev’d. Brougham Hall News 800. B.H.C.T.B.H.C.T. Wilfrid Braithwaite, who Printed on Tuesday, 7th. June, 2016, are seen with Christopher M M X VI Terry at the Memorial. by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH . M M X VI

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 123 - [email protected] WARTIME WEEKEND Friday, 6th., to Sunday, 8th. May, 2016.

HALL NEWS Rounds-off its coverage of the recent, Wartime Weekend with the remaining photographs kindly sent by Christopher Terry and owner-exhibitor Ian Coates, showing displays, vehicles, weaponry and fashions of the time. They also come with Hall News ’ own contributions. … … …

Ian Coates Images C. Terry / B.H.C.T. Images

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Ian Coates Images Ian Coates Images

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 124 - [email protected] A.P.A. 5.9.’91 ‘PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!’ The Image Above , from Hall News 164’s ‘Review of The Year 1939’, depicts Penrith town centre in wartime — when everything was done to ensure no lights could ever be seen by any enemy bombers above. An Air-Raid Precau- C. Terry / tions officer stands sentry at B.H.C.T. the George Hotel . The ‘Black- Images Ian Coates Images Out Time’ notice is from the Herald of 9 September 1939.

C. Terry / B.H.C.T. Images C. Terry / B.H.C.T. Images Grant Canal Defence League “Dazzler” Tank Ian Coates Images A.P.A. 8.9.’89

“Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force.”

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 125 - [email protected] Memories of “France ’98” The New Bridge at as Footie Tourney Begins ------Pooley Bridge

The Terrys Shown at Play — Will Serve for a Few Years at Least ... HE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Football Tourney — “France 2016” — starts today, Friday, T10th. June, and, to mark this occasion, Hall N ews returns to a very appropriate scene at Brougham Hall. ... It was in the run-up to the last big football contest in France, the World Cup of 1998, in which the host nation won the title against ‘perennial’ champions Brazil , that the photographs Below were taken. It was Sunday, 18th. January — part of a very busy weekend for so early in the year. The day before had been spent digging a trench for laying drainage pipes for Unit Nine , now the Café or Tea Parlour, but at that time being prepared as Hillary and Nigel Braithwaite’s Serendipity Arts Studio . That digging was now done and, with the trench filled-in and covered over this Sunday, and while folks waited for the concrete to set, they had time on their hands — and feet. Christopher Terry decided to have some football kick- about with at least one of his two sons, Jonathan and Jimmy, and Hall News ’ editor Alistair Aynscough was on the “sidelines” to get these photographs of the occasion. Jono and Jimmy, aged 7 and almost 5 respectively, also had a go at BMX [‘bicycle moto-cross’] riding and stunts near Unit 9 , once the football was finished, to round-off a busy, and rather eventful, weekend. In the main contest, Scotland drew only one qualifying game and went out early. England bowed out 2-2, and 4- 3 on penalties, as one of the Last-16 teams, following a contentious tackle by David Beckham against an Argen- tina rival player at the St. Étienne game on 30th. June. Below: Hall News 330, of 2nd. February, 1998, shows Christopher Terry playing football with one of his young sons in the Main Courtyard on 18th. January, ’98. A dull day, some six years before we adopted digital photography at Hall News , means we can’t tell which of the youngsters it is ARE LY A WEE K who is defending the South-East Gate- B Befor e Easter, a way as a highly-elaborate goalmouth. … New Bridge was opened at Pooley Bridge, Ullswa- ter, reconnecting a vital trade and tourist route through ’s . The Bridge re- places one, from 1764, lost in the December floods, but is meant to be a temporary structure of the A.592, to be re- placed a few years from now by a more-suitable crossing. Top 1: The new Bridge on Easter Monday (28th March) and, Top 2 , it's seen from the village e nd. Top -Right: It also improves access with a "green lane" for cyclists, walkers — and wheel- chair users. L ower -Right: Footballer Image Courtesy: Regular traffic also finds Envision Publisher ‘Clip -Art’ Library. this new link ver y useful!

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 126 - [email protected] Damage to Road Verges from Eamont Bridge Diversions Penrith Fashion Show ------————————————————————————— ------£1,125 Raised for Eden Animal Rescue Photo. by Eden Animal Rescue

The “Fashionistas?” The models and fashion shop staff at Winters Park, Penrith, on Wednesday, 27th. April. ————————————————————————————————-————————— HE UNLIKELY SETTING of the Penrith Above: Verges on the T Rugby Union Footba ll Club House played B.6262. are shown with host to a memorable and very worthwhile Fashion Show damage from vehicles at on Wednesday, 27th. April. its junction with the A.6. The vibrant and colourful event raised £1,125 for at Lowther-bridge, be- Eden Animal Rescue , the charity that organises the tween Eamont Bridge annual ‘Easter Eggstravaganza’ dog shows at Brougham and the Hall, on Easter Hall. It was boosted by a ‘full house’ at Winters Park. Sunday, 27th. March. Helped along by two of Penrith’s long-establis hed ladies’ fashion retailers - Twentyone8 , of Middlegate, HE DIVERSIONS That Were Put in Place along and N DY , of Cornmarket - the popular animal welfare T the back -roads near Brougham Hall, after the Eamont organisation was able to showcase an impressive selec- Bridge was put out of action by the December Floods, led tion of top ladies’ wear at the evening gathering. to significant damage to the verges of the B.6262., past A range of styles were paraded on the ‘cat-walk’ by six here, and other routes, by vehicles passing one another elegant ladies who volunteered their services for the with little space to do so. Cut-up with tyre-tracks, the road- event. Each of them showed off six outfits as they put on sides at the junction at Lowtherbridge, and the Brougham the style for the packed and appreciative attendance. village road at Clifton Cross junction, are seen here. Christo- Vikky Pounder, from Twentyone8 , acted as compere pher Terry, of the Hall Trust , and many letters in the local that evening, giving a full description of all the outfits newspapers routinely raised concerns about the condition on show, which were produced by companies including of the roads, as well as the safety of those who used them. Sahara , Naya , Tuzzi , InT own Fas hion and Ruby Shoo . This was clearly a great opportunity of seeing just what these designs looked like in public, and of course, they were worn to the best effect. There were plenty of opportunities for inspecting the materials, and the quality, of each garment. Caroline Holland, the Chairman of E den Anim al Above: Traffic Resc ue , told a Herald reporter: “We are so grateful for cones are used in a the two stores putting on this display for us. It has bid to keep cars off already- proved to be very popular, and the money raised will help damaged verges along the us in our continuing work to look after unwanted or aban- road in Brougham Village, doned animals in the area.” as seen on Easter Monday, In an e-Mail to Hall News , Caroline also added to 28 March, on the way from these sentiments, by writing: “ Eden Animal Resc ue held the A.6. at Clifton Cross to- a wonderful fashion show on [Wednesday], 27th. April, at wards Bee-Keepers’ Cottage Penrith Rugby Club . — We made £1,125. A fantastic and Pembroke House Farm. night was had by all. Over 100 people attended.”

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Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th. June, 2016 - Page 127 B.H.C.T. MMXVI Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month inin PreviousPrevious YearsYears ...... JUNE 1986 JUNE 1991 30 Years Ago - After Inauguration Day in May ... 25 Years Ago — Celebrations at Hall after Work Ends Work Resumes BRIDGE CRISIS After Ceremony IS RESOLVED After the euphoria surrounding the inauguration Two Weeks of the Brougham Hall Restoration Project , and the ahead of sched- local council’s approval of the Hall Trust ’s ‘Crafts Cen- ule, the repair work on the Hall- tre’, it was now all but return-to-work time for members to-Chapel Bridge of the Hall Team … and they certainly all “mucked in”! was all done by June was a month when, apart from planning resto- the Alston-based ration to the Bridge to Brougham Chapel [for the first Hugh Kearton time; this was needed again in ’91], vital work contin- team on Friday, ued apace in several locations, most notably on the 28th. June, 1991. South Wall, which was being rebuilt after a lengthy There was a search for its foundations, and in the area nearest the great sigh of relief Bridge, where the Cellars were recently unearthed. that day, with the Bridge opened to traffic again, and to pedestrians above and below — and with little wonder! For two long months and nineteen days, the Crafts Centre units Above: Hall News 160, of 15th. July, within Brougham 1991, with its very welcome report. Hall’s now re- emerging fabric were all but cut off from their custom - ers … and at a time of economic recession, too. Their plight made news on Tuesday, 23rd. April, when Eric Wallace of ‘Lookaround’, the evening news on Border TV [ ITV ], covered the story of how the Bridge, a Listed structure itself, was struck by a lorry whose driver then attempted a getaway. Now we are glad to report that the so-called JUNE 1991: “Bridge Crisis” is in the past … … … resolved. Gargoyles Bare Their Teeth… ! There are two new Gargoyles above the inner portal of the Tertiary, South-Eastern, Gate now and make an (allege dly) prettier sight than the two holes that were there before. Made specially for Brougham Hall a few weeks ago, they have been stored in the Stone- mason’s workshop while the Gateway was tidied-up and prepared. There is already one Gargoyle on the other, outer, wall of this Gateway.

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 128 - [email protected] Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month inin PreviousPrevious YearsYears ...... JUNE 1996 JUNE 2001 20 Years Ago — Fashionable Filming at The Chapel 15 Years Ago - As Foot-and-Mouth Disease Goes On To Fill 200,000 Brochures ... To Benefit from Crisis Fund Two Models and a film crew from A.V.C. Creative “Rhythm of Life” , the concert organisers behind the come to Brougham Hall on Thursday, 13th. June, 1996, for forthcoming EdenFest 2001 music festival, on the doorstep a day’s filming and photo-sessions for the Coates-Viyella of Brougham Hall, and who also helped put together last fashion clothes company. On this bright and sunny day, the year’s great Eden Millennium Festival in the same venue, models parade different clothes in different locations get £25,000 - one of a number of grants awarded by around the Hall and DEFRA to assist Cumbria in Brougham Chapel - which overcoming the Foot-and- is where Hall News ’ editor Mouth Disease Crisis. Alistair Aynscough catches Cumbria is now routinely up with them. Everyone is being declared “Open for working to a pre-planned Business” as far as the schedule of filming and tourism industry and busi- photography. The Gallery, nesses are concerned. formerly used by House of The ‘ Made in Cumbria’ Eden and the draughtsman group, launched in the Pete Jackson, is a chang- late-1980’s. by Cumbria ing room between scenes. County Council , is another 20,000 promotional vid- grateful recipient, being eos will be produced for awarded £32,500. This Coates-Viyella ’s next mar- group have given support keting drive - and no less and advice to Hall-based than 200,000 brochures Art-Metalworker John will be distributed during Harrison, and others, at the marketing campaign. Brougham Hall in the past. 10 Years Ago — 5 Years Ago — Planning Ahead Got Here on Time…!

The Brougham Hall Annabel Candler ’s newly- Charitable Trust move up opened Weddings by An- to the ‘next level’ in their nabel concern, in Unit 3, long-running bid to have got its official opening on the former ‘Windsor of Sunday, 26th. June, 2011, The North’ restored to its with a grand and tradi- former glory - as por- tional ‘Wedding Fayre’. trayed in the model of Annabel, who began her Brougham Hall as it was. tenancy at Brougham Hall Hall News 545, of 16th. a week before the April June, 2006, features the 2011 Royal Wedding of model on the front page Prince William and Kathe- to mark the occasion. At rine, Duke and Duchess of about the start of this Cambridge, put together month, Christopher Terry Hall N ews 545 featured the Hall Model — So do Nos. 800, 801… ! and very successfully mar- received the final version keted this Fayre, which of the Conservation Management Plan , which envisages the attracted many people to Brougham Hall in the Main restoration of the mansion. This Plan w as commissioned two Courtyard that increasingly-sunny, warm late-June day. years ago, informing the Heritage Lottery Fund and the local planning authority, and was produced by Keevil Heritage ART SHOW. — Crafty Monkeys [since relocated to op- Consultancy , from Didcot, in Oxfordshire. There has been posite the Town Hall in Penrith] gather outside their units enough confidence in this project for £16,000 to be spent on at the Hall and stage arts groups during the Wedding it. The money has come from a generous consortium, including Fayre on Sunday, 26th. June, 2011. Other attractions at English Heritage , Rural Regeneration Cumbria , and Eden Dis- the Wedding Fayre include a promotions stall by trict Council, all three of them agencies that have the power Brougham Hall Holistic Therapy , while “wedding-themed” and resources needed to help Brougham Hall in the future. horse-and-carriage trips are also run from the Hall. JUNE 2006 JUNE 2011

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 129 - [email protected] today. In fact, alterations con- Legacy of The Past tinued on at Brougham Hall The South-East (Tertiary) until at least 1864. HALL NEWS 800 Gateway (3) figured heavily in the original work plans of Brougham Hall was left in the Brougham Hall Charitable a partially-demolished state Your Latest Hall News Project Guide Trust . In the last month of after a young man of 18 1985 – and certainly for all of (some say 22) was killed dur- ———————— 1986 – this archway was ing its destruction, though other decked out with scaffolding. accounts record it as having Photographs and Guides Even now, well over twenty been toppled just enough to Based on Hall Model ... years after the Trust was avoid having to pay taxes on founded and work began on it, and only structures such at the Gateways, the Tudor it, the Gateway still bears the Looking 10 2, 9 "scars" that over 50 years of “Bire” Building, the Stables West neglect inflicted on it – showed and the Carriage House arch- up by a clear line of different way remained... though they colours in the stonework, level were in such a bad, unsafe with the top of the arch. way that further demolition of That line marks where the the Stables, in 1967, could not new walling was added to a be avoided. Some accounts 6, 7 structure that had survived the suggest much of the main man- demolition and fifty years of sion remained as late as being left open to the 1950, but we have not yet 1 weather. Now the Gateway is seen any other documentary again complete, with Windsor evidence. In 1968 Christopher Castle-inspired battlements, Terry found the Hall and, with three gargoyles and also influential backing, set up the another B.H.C.T. MCMLXXXVI Hall Trust in 1985. The rest is, [‘Brougham Hall Charitable as we say, history. …..

Trust 1986’] plaque. The first section of this Pro-

4 —–—————————————-————————— 5 ject Guide is based on refer- ences for 1985 and 1986, 1985: Starting Out which appeared in the very ON A FREEZING, snowy first Hall Project Guide in Hall Photo Guide For Tuesday, 26th. November News Issue 3, of 29th. Decem- 8 1985, a new charity was set ber, 1986. That went all the 3 up...... …. … .. . way up to No. 26. The Num- 1985 NOVEMBER 1985 : This bers for each reference para- new and ambitious project is graph are intended to tally hoped to be the saviour of the with the reference numbers on HOW TO USE THIS once-grand Brougham Hall. the Year-by-Year Maps (or The gambling debts of Victor later Hall Model photographs) Peter Brougham were not included as part of this Guide. PROJECT GUIDE helped by the Great Depres- Numbers in brackets within, or sion of the 1930’s., and a feud mainly at the end, of a para- WELCOME TO the latest Brougham Hall Project Guide, between the Broughams and graph refer you to the corre- otherwise known as Brougham Hall News No 800 … … ! the Carleton—Cowpers of sponding paragraphs - so you Beyond its familiar front page, directly styled on that nearby Carleton Hall - the can follow developments in a of Issue 500, of 9th. July, 2004, the familiar listings, and Police Headquarters of the certain work-zone, Crafts Cen- the cross-referenced, numbered paragraphs, enable you &. Westmorland, tre Unit, or many other subjects later Cumbria, Police since for that matter......

to follow stories over weeks, months or even years of ——————————————————— 1950. Major Carleton-Cowper development, Hall News 800 continues a new and (we struck a blow at the 4th. Lord 1. The foundations of the origi- hope) clearer system than the maps we once worked by. Brougham's weakest hour, buy- nal South [‘Curtain’] Wall are This edition once again includes photographs from ing Brougham Hall on 2nd. found during a dig started in previous years on the Hall site, but, more significantly, March, 1934 - the same day December, 1985. They are pictures of Dave Johnstone ’s and Rebekah Wright ’s im- that Lord and Lady Brougham being used to guide the B ea - pressive Hall Model now provide the references, Above . divorced. Then, Major Carle- con Builders Hall Team in their ton-Cowper effectively sold task to rebuild the Wall, and Photographs of this excellent creation, seen from dif- the Hall for scrap. have it link the South-East ferent angles, depending on the stories for each year, Brougham Hall’s finest (Tertiary) Gateway, No. 3, appear in eac h year’s section of the Project Guide, pro- days were between 1829, with the Billiards Room, No. viding something no usual, flat, two-dimensional map can when a partial collapse of the 15. A Garden Gateway (56) ever hope to give the reader - a three-dimensional image. Pele Tower is said to have is also to be rebuilt in the near All you need to do, to use this Project Guide, is select triggered vital repairs, and future. A Plaque, prepared for a year (this edition goes from 1985 to 1999; other years 1840, when it was being com- the South Wall, reads: B.H.C.T. pletely redesigned and built MCMLXXXVI ( ‘Brougham Hall will follow), and a certain building or part of the Hall. into a very impressive struc- Charitable Trust 1986’ ). [The Then, read the number, or numbers, for the arrow point- ture, with the building work Plaque was removed from the ing to it, find the relevant paragraph number, and read being funded by the First Lord wall in 1992, and then set into on. -- You will find nearly Brougham's term as Lord the War Base Memorial Arch all of the paragraphs end Chancellor between 1830 and when that was built.] (2, 242, with other numbers in 1834. He was serving under 250, 2869, 3022) B.H.C.T.B.H.C.T. Lord Grey's ‘Whig’ [ Liberal ] brackets, referring to re- Government, for which he 2. The Bridge between the lated paragraphs, so you drafted the Reform Bill of Hall's Terrace and Brougham can read those too --- but, MMXVIMMXVI June, 1832, and helped shape Chapel of St. Wilfrid crosses only up to 815, for now ! democracy in Britain as it is the B.6262. road that comes

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 130 - [email protected] OFFICIAL B.H.C.T. Images of 1985 ...... PHOTOGRAPHY

...... as Brougham Hall Awaits Its Future

The Panoramic Photograph Above , which replaces a drawing by editor Alistair Aynscough for Hall News (which featured in some previous ‘Project Review’ editions, as well as Issue 85 back in 1989), shows the sorry state in which Brougham Hall existed at the time the Brougham Hall Charitable Trust was launched on 26th. November 1985. Only the gateways, the Carriage House, the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, parts of the former Stables (set against the North Wall), and the room below Lord Chancellor Brougham’s study, appeared to have been left standing. However, the rubble and trees were thought to hide much worth saving – not least the ‘curtain’, or South, Wall that would soon conceal all this once more. past Brougham Hall on its very Gateway” - so-called in early Westmorland Herald on 1st. 10. One of the first things short route from the A.6. at editions of Hall News - is the March 1986. The Cellars are shown to the new Hall Teams Lowtherbridge to the A.66. most westerly at Brougham believed to date to ‘about of Lee Barry and Mike Treece near and Hall to be passed by the 1820’. Besides the Well Cellar by Area Supervisor Brian Brocavum Roman Fort. In July, B.6262 road. It is the one with there are six other cellars of Chadwick on Wednesday, 1986, the bridge's parapets Christopher Terry’s office varying sizes and features; 27th. August, 1986, is a are rebuilt by the Beacon above it. In 1987 much of the one has a sizeable window blocked passageway leading Builders Team. A second BHCT work to create the Administra- linking to the Stables Court- underground and back to- 1986 Plague is placed here. tive Office is done, with the yard at ground-level, and wards the Hall. Besides a (3, 38, 185) repairs starting with the roof another two have ventilation quick look into this feature reinstated and the windows gaps that can be seen on the below the Terrace Wall, it is 3. The South-East (Tertiary) replaced. The Office should outside of the North Wall, left for later. (37, 107) Gateway is in the worst state be complete, along with much near to the Hall-to-Chapel of the Hall's three Main Gate- of the Stables, in Springtime Bridge, (2). A passage links 11. The old Steps to the ways. There is little left higher 1988. A new plaque in the four Cellars and the second Woodlands - Brougham Hall’s than 1ft. (30cms.) above the archway of the Westernmost flight of steps near the West former Victorian Gardens - actual archway. This was to be Gate commemorates the Hall Doorway, and leads to stor- are shown to the newly- such a massive task that scaf- Project’s Inauguration Day, age areas beside and under arrived Hall Teams in August, folding would remain in place Friday, 30th. May, 1986. (6, these steps (6, 68, 134) 1986. Overgrown with tree- around this Gateway for a 67, 123, 145) stumps nettles, and heck knows year. A third BHCT 1986 8. The Tudor “Bire” Building is what else, these Steps will be Plaque is placed above this 6. The so-called “Well-Cellar” the oldest part of the Hall left cleared later. (23, 109) Archway. (4) simply is a cellar with a well in standing after the demolition, it. Besides being surrounded reckoned to date to within 12. This Well isn’t so much a 4. "Unit ‘F.’" is a room with by other cellars, its main fea- twenty years of the year well as a covered ornamental only one small window but a ture is the Main Well that has 1500 a.d.. It is an ancient garden feature situated in the large doorway. Plans for the a "Secret Passageway” lead- byre, hence the old-fashioned Woodlands. The Well was featureless room are said to ing from it. The original dig- spelling of its name. Some “rediscovered” by Lee Barry include a fish-smoking "crafts ging work is done by members repair work was done here in and his Environmental Team in centre”. This room, near to one of the Youth Training Scheme, 1988, (114). Plans for the their first few days’ work in of the Gateways, has been led by Malcolm Temple in "Bire" include it becoming a late-Summer 1986; such was given its uninspiring name from early-1986, though the Com- Museum. (21, 33, 214, 407) the “jungle-like” state of the the letter ‘F’ on an architect's munity Programme Hall Team Woodlands that the Well was map drafted in November begin their survey there in Au- 9. The "Chicken Pen" is a late apparently forgotten alto- 1978 when plans to finally gust 1986, with the uncovering addition to the Hall. It is actu- gether. (27, 70, 79, 109, demolish the rest of Brougham of the Well (27). The Cellar's ally the Arbour, but was also 3033) Hall were announced. The dig takes place in the first dubbed the Summer House at Unit’s front wall is being re- months of 1986. Steps are one point. It was built into the 13. An ‘Oven’ feature beside stored in late-1986, and the found to lead down into the Terrace walling near where the Carriage House attracts fourth 1986 Plaque Is installed Well Cellar, while a passage- that meets the Bridge, (2). The some attention. But what ex- above the entrance with a way leads from there into the name "Chicken Pen" came actly is it for, we wonder?! roof, wooden doors and all Cellars, and out via another from the days when a Mr. Two of the ideas to be sug- else to be added sometime flight of steps. (7, 35) Hartley used it and other parts gested have been to heat early in 1987. It becomes of Brougham Hall for his flocks water for washing carriages Rona Newsom's Old Smoke- 7. The Cellars around the Well of champion poultry. One parked in the Stables Court- house in May 1987. (5, 89) Cellar are all being dug out in other place used for poultry yard or in the Carriage House early-1986, and are featured was the blocked South-West itself, or it may have been 5. The “Westernmost Main in a report in Cumberland &. Doorway. (17, 1066, 2918) part of the Hall's water-

Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th . June , 20 16 - Page 131 - [email protected] 85/’86 heating system. The of guard's sentry box. It seems the central section of bers of the Hall Team previ- ovens were first surveyed dur- to have been blocked by ei- Brougham Hall, where the ously suspect a well to be ing work on the E.1. “Drawing ther the Army in the War, or Drawing Room used to be. here. Around 7ft. (2.13 me- Room” (now Unit 9 ) in Septem- by Mr. Hartley for his poultry. (30). On Wed., 10th. Septem- tres) of cindery soil is shifted ber, 1986, and were partly (9, 16, 122, 741) ber, 1986, when the two Hall before the rest of the Team added-to in April, 1987, by Teams are properly estab- return on Monday, 1st. Sep- stonemason Paul Grundy, and 18. Above the old Cellars (7) lished, Mike Treece’s Archaeo- tember. Just two days later, a in 1996 by Syd. Walker. (30) is a window that is often pic- logical Team surveys the wall's “Secret Passageway” is found, tured along with the West probable foundations, and the leading towards Brougham 14. The Carriage House, first Doorway. This was first tidied point where it linked with the Chapel, (66). A miner, Angus known as the Coach House in up by the Hall Team during “Drawing Room”, whose survey Oliver, would do extensive Hall News , is one of the few clearing work on the Terrace began that day. (8, 23) work to clear the Passageway buildings to survive the Hall's in September, 1986, and has and go “divining” to plot its partial demolition in the had occasional work done on 23. Work on clearing course in the months ahead. 1930’s, although there was at it since. (28, 29, 589) (‘coppicing’ or ‘brashing’) the Glassons Brewery bottles, from least one more floor (and a Woodlands - Brougham Hall’s a now-closed Penrith brewery, fine window) above it. Its main 19. The West Wall, where the former Victorian Gardens - and a spearhead (sent away feature is a “Service Trench” A.2. Kitchen, (28), is situated, begins on 10th. September, for Carbon-14 dating) are lined in concrete. It is a legacy features a special window. 1986, when the initial Commu- among artefacts from the of Brougham Hall's war ser- This is an “Oriel” Window, or nity Programme Hall Team Main Well. (12, 79, 3033) vice. A roughly paint-marked at least the remaining base of splits into two. The Wood- tool-rack also remained on the it, which is basically a sus- lands, on an embankment that 28. Work progresses in what Carriage House's wall well into pended bay-window. One like faces west and south-west, is believed to be on old the restoration project in the this once existed above the resemble some kind of “Kitchen” Room. The Commu- 1980’s - and was later identi- Carriage House (14). The win- “jungle”, and it's all down to nity Programme Hall Teams fied as dating from the time dow in the “A2 Kitchen” would Lee Barry and his new Environ- spend Thursday, 28th. August, the Hall was used as a War- have offered fine views of the mental Team to clear it up. 1986, digging more in this time military base. It was also, Lakeland , although it ap- Most trees need careful re- A.2.-gridzone room which was apparently, used by the pears it was so high up in the pair, but others are felled and first surveyed by the Y.T.S. employees of Penrith saw- wall of the room that no-one burned, with undergrowth, Team, (6). This room is in the miller Mr. Hartley, who owned except cleaners will have fallen branches nettles, shrub- extreme North-West corner of the Hall until 1948. (15, 16, gazed out of it. (18, 28) bery and general rubbish also Brougham Hall, near the Hall- 88, 1065, 2899) cleared out. (22, 24, 113) to-Chapel Bridge (2) and 20. The West, ‘Peel’, or (more West Doorway (36). Its main 15. This ‘Billiards Room’ is, like properly) Pele , Tower is the 24. Pathways are noticed in feature is a large fireplace the Carriage House (14), a second-oldest feature of the Woodlands, especially where a cooking range is pre- feature that has survived the Brougham Hall, demolition or alongside the Terrace Wall sumed to have been. The A.2 demolition of Brougham Hall - not, after the Tudor "Bire" end up the old Steps (11). One "Kitchen” work is hampered by but also without its upper lev- Building, (8). It was once called day, during the Project, work huge slabs of sandstone and els. Known today as the “Lord the Birds’ Tower after the fam- will begin to restore these and limestone from time to time; Chancellor's Den" because the ily who lived at the Hall be- other paths, to replace those these are too heavy to lift by upper-floor room above here fore the Broughams moved that haven't survived. (102) hand and the ground, with cel- used to be Lord Chancellor here in 1726. After that, in- lars below, (7), is deemed not Henry Brougham's private deed for much of the Eight- 25. The Wall that forms the strong enough to support a study, where he drafted the eenth Century, Brougham Hall Terrace, or “Woodside Lane” crane. (18, 68, 72, 229, 389) Reform Bill of 1832. In some was dubbed "Birds’ Nest Hall", as Hall News called it early on, very early issues of Hall News despite its new owners. In goes the full length of the Ter- 29. Wednesday, 10 th Septem- it was wrongly referred to as 1986 the Pele Tower is found race (37), which measures ber, 1986, sees the first sod a private chapel. Work here to be almost complete as far around 100 metres. Repair removed in the “Terrace began on Thursday, 6th. No- as its ground-floor outer walls will continue from time to time Trench” survey near the West vember, 1986. (50) are concerned. A partial col- up to 1993. (2, 9, 11, 37, 61) Doorway (36). After the work lapse of the Tower in 1829 is to clear away slabs of stone, 16. An entrance to some more said by some to have 26. On the arrival at chicken wire, branches and cellars is the only feature dis- prompted the start of an ex- Brougham Hall of the Commu- other things from the Terrace covered, before 1987, in the tensive upgrading and re- nity Programme Hall Teams in has been done, the digging is main Mansion part of building programme at August, 1986, they prepare a started in earnest on the Ter- Brougham Hall, which remains Brougham Hall that was wartime concrete area of con- race Trench and eventually a hidden deep under a mound boosted by the First Lord crete near the Well Cellar to layer of cobbles are discov- of rubble. During the clearing (Henry) Brougham's fortune be the base for their mobile ered. They are sketched onto of nettles and other unwanted from being the Lord Chancel- work-huts, which are brought paper for archaeological re- undergrowth in October, lor. However, that really got here from near the South-East cords by Bernard Rowan, Sean 1986, the Hall Team discovers going around 1823, and Gateway, (3), on 27th. August, Egan and Alistair Aynscough. the entrance to what is report- maybe speeded up after 1986. Clearing the dirt from The trench is surveyed exten- edly an old Air-Raid Shelter 1829. Extensive excavation this concrete slab to receive sively in 1987. (37, 92, 96) used by the Royal Armoured took place on the Pele Tower the yellow “caravan” hut and Corps., who used the Hall as a in 1987, and further building two wooden ones is the first 30. Work on the central, base in the Second World work on it took place in 1995 thing members the new Teams "Drawing Room” area of War. The Carriage House was and 2001, and a ‘controlled’ ever do here - however well Brougham Hall, (now Unit also used by them. (122, 250) demolition and rebuild as from running rainwater tries to Nine ), begins on Wednesday, late-2015. (91, 1305, 2978) thwart them! (27, 64, 250, 10th. September, 1986, with 17. The blocked, South-West 1065, 2521, 2899) Michael Treece taking charge Doorway that used to provide 21. On the corner of the “Bire” of his group after the Hall a direct link with the Terrace nearest the Carriage House, a 27. The Main Well is discov- Teams' separation on this day. and the main mansion rooms of section of wall juts out in the ered on Friday, 29th. August, As Lee Barry’s Woods team Brougham Hall, still remains direction of the Courtyard 1986, by Lee Barry, Michael (Environmental team) take to free-standing, but it's a sorry Well. (See 8, 14, 22, 48) Treece and their superior, the Woodlands, Mike’s ar- sight now, Cluttered with rub- Brian Chadwick, when the re- chaeology team start two bish and chicken wire, the 22. Dividing the Main Court- mainder of the Community Pro- weeks or more at work in the Doorway resembles some kind yard from the Stables Court- gramme Hall Team are away Drawing Room. The Room's yard was a wall that joined having served the first week’s doorway and boundary walls BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 2 the Tudor “Bire” Building with 22½-hour duties. Some mem- are traced, while foundations heading back to the Tudor Wall" of riverbed-type stones here in October 1999. (14, visitors to Brougham 85/’86 "Bire" Building are looked for, was hauled away. Rubble was 82, 93, 111, 792, 2028) Hall, or national anniversaries. (8, 21, 22), with no success. also hauled away on the Site Western-Australian (for Tony The centre of the Room is dug dump-truck after being sieved 40. The fireplace of the “A.2. and Sue Terry in 1996), Cana- out, but not much is found ex- through to check for artefacts. Kitchen” is cleared of rubble dian (for Ian Burgham and cept for rusted, battered chim- (32, 33, 42, 160, 169) from above to avoid accidents family), Scottish (for 1996's ney-cowls (anti-bird guards) to folks working in the room. Macbeth Shakespeare Week- and a metal curtain pelmet. 35. The Steps to the Cellars This work is chiefly done by end), Royal Navy ‘Ensign’ (for However, a layer of slate rem- are cleared of rubble on Lee Barry’s Environmental Trafalgar Day on 21st. Octo- nants are discovered. Rubble 22nd. September, 1986, as Team on Tuesday, 4th. Novem- ber) and others have been from this “E.1.-gridzone” work work continues to clear out the ber, 1986. (28, 71, 73) hoisted by Christopher Terry in has to be taken for dumping Cellars below. However, this the past. In August, 1988, a among other piles of rubble work is not completed at this 41. The main passageway "Rampant Lion" flag was sto- outside the South Wall, near stage because of large slabs among the Cellars, (7), is len from here overnight; (44, where a lily-pond used to be of stone that cannot be moved cleared of obstructive stone by 462, 463). until 1934 - a tiring job con- lust yet. Though some more both Hall Teams as they shel- sidering we're still getting used clearance work is done here ter from heavy rain on 46. This "Watch-Tower" - as to this work. It was while doing on 5th. November, 1986, (41), Wednesday, 5th. November, Hall News dubs it - occasion- this work that one member of the bulk of the work to move 1986. For now, heavier stones ally serves as an extra flag- Mike Treece's Team, Alistair the obstruction is left 'til the are rolled into cellars to clear pole mounting, but it is best- Aynscough, originally had the concreting work in 1989. (6, 7, a decent path. An earlier Cel- suited for some impressive idea of launching this Hall 57, 141). lars ‘test-dig’ by Mike Treece's views for anyone brave News series. (13, 31, 32) Archaeology Team, on Tues- enough to tackle the somewhat 36. The West Doorway is close day, 7th. October, yielded steep and dangerous steps. 31. The fireplace of the “E.1.” to the Bridge, (2), and the Ter- shards of old window glass. There are often great or views Drawing Room (the would-be race Trench of Autumn 1986. (68) of the Lakeland hills, espe- Unit 9 ) is prominently seen, More importantly, it is the cially (or built into the east side of the main access for all Hall folks 42. This is the "site of a possi- ‘Saddleback’), and also most Carriage House structure - to the Terrace and Brougham ble direct doorway link" be- work-zones around the Hall. It along with the start-joins of the Chapel. (29, 38, 75). tween the Guard House and was well used for this during Drawing Room's external the Main Gateway; but this is the restoration work on the walls. (30, 186) 37. The Terrace, called the now thought to be very neighbouring Tudor “Bire” "Woodside Lane" in pre-1988 unlikely. (32, 43) Building, (8), between 1988 32. "Guard Room" Work is on issues of Hall News , leads from and 1991, and now also of- today, Wednesday, 17 th Sep- the Bridge, (2), to the Wood- 43. The Main Gateway of fers grandstand views of work tember, 1986, when there is a land Steps (11). It flanks the Brougham Hall used to be on the Carriage House and sudden turn to bitter, Autumnal west side of the Hall, and called the "Easternmost Main ‘North-West Tower’ areas. conditions that strips thousands passes the Pele Tower, (20), Gateway" in Hall News be- (47, 1847, 2650) of leaves from nearby trees in along the way. (10, 29, 91) cause it is the most easterly of a few minutes, and brings the two that link with the 47. Alongside the "Watch heavy showers. It also prompts 38. The Chapel of St. Wilfrid's B.6262 road that passes the Tower", (46), is the old, East- Mike Treece to take his Team of Brougham - Brougham Hall. Far more Importantly, this window of the Tudor "Bire" indoors to begin their work on Chapel - is situated in a neat, is the oldest, and most- Building. Until 1992 half of it the Guard House, then known little churchyard opposite important, Gateway - espe- was walled-up. (216). as the Guard Room. They be- Brougham Hall's north wall. cially as it is the one that gin to lift floor-flags and dig Accessed by the Hall-to- bears the flags (45) and 48. The Main Courtyard was into the sandy soil beneath. Chapel Bridge, (2), via a gate serves Brougham Avenue. Dat- once part of the fine lawns of They begin to investigate the (63) and path from the ing from the early-17th. Cen- Brougham Hall. Before im- possibility of there being a B.6262 road, or from its own tury, and the reign of Charles provements, including the lay- "Roman Wall'. However, it's a car park nearby, the Chapel 1 (1625 to 1649), it got a ing of grass-turf in 1989, how- short "aberration" and the was rebuilt on the site of an more-direct link with Royalty ever, the whole place, along weather returns to its "Indian earlier building by a team led when King Edward VII used it with several other parts of Summer" of fine days and bit- by Lady Anne Clifford, (Anne during his epic motor trip to Brougham Hall's work-site, re- terly-cold, foggy mornings. of Pembroke). It was com- Raby Castle, Staindrop (Co. sembled a quagmire whenever The Guard House has two pleted in April, 1659. Its Durham) and back to there was heavy rain, and doors and two windows; it also ‘churchyard’ was where Alis- Brougham Hall on 13th. Octo- throughout entire winters. It has a fine vaulted (arched) tair Aynscough viewed ber, 1905. It was one of sev- tended to mimic the weather ceiling and a large, stone fire- Brougham Hall close-up for the eral visits by him to the Hall, conditions. During the survey place. A few thin pieces of first time while on a family starting as a young Prince in of the Drawing Room area in blue glass are found during outing in the Summer of 1975 1857. (42, 1240, 1566, September 1986, (30), the the survey, as well at poultry - but rumours of a “haunted” 1567, 2992) ground was solid in the "Indian bones. The "Roman Wall" the- house made him decide Summer" conditions, the dusty 44. The "Balcony" is used, as it soil had compacted, making it ory is soon cast away like the against crossing the Bridge to always used to be, to gain stones of the supposed wall take a closer look ... even that little bit harder to dig, access to the "Flagpole Bal- even with pick-axes. It's a dif- when both Teams cleared all though his father did! (191, cony", (45), and also the the unwanted rubble out of the 2590) ferent story, though, in the “Watch Tower', as Hall News reins of November 1986! A Guard House on Wednesday, dubs it, (46). It is over the 22nd. October, 1986 - just as 39. The first day of October Driveway (137) is gradually Guard Room & Main Gate- taking shape and will link with rumours of a door directly link- 1986, is spent by Mike way, and major work was ing the latest room and the Treece's Hall Team sorting another near the former Main done here in 1990. (160). Door in the future. The Main Main Gateway begin to stone on ground close to the spread...... ! (33, 42, 701) Carriage House. They sort be- 45. The “Flagpole Balcony” Courtyard would come into its tween red, Lazonby pink, or above the oldest Gateway, own when the "Shakespeare 33. One of the Guard House's white (carboniferious) Sand- (43), of Brougham Hall has in Weekends” began with Romeo doors links it with the Tudor stone and some Limestone. It is the course of the Hall Project &. Juliet in August 1994 and, "Bire”. (8, 34) during this work that an 1876 been used to fly a range of later, the Easter Eggstrava- gravestone “from a pet- flags. The most familiar ones ganza charity dog shows and 34. This Door is the main door cemetery” is found near the have been "The Rampant Lion other theatre plays. (49, 373, into the Guard House, from the Drawing Room. The Broughams of Flanders" and the Union 1102) Main Courtyard, and is used were noted pet owners - and Jack, but others have been when the supposed "Roman a greyhound was found buried flown dependant on important BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 3 1986 49. Once closed-off Vaux, served as Lord Chancel- 1st. December, 1986, a clearing the Billiards Room of from the Main Courtyard, lor for the Whig (Liberal) “Rescue Dig” begins in what is rubble and the huge slabs of (48), by a tall Wall, (21), the Government for Lord Grey dubbed "Unit ‘F’.”, (4). A set of stone that belonged to its fine Stables Courtyard was ac- between 1830 and 1834. and brick ‘floor-joist’ walls are ceiling. Using the dump-truck cessed by either the Carriage he drafted the Reform Bill of found below ground-level, as and wooden planks from scaf- House, (14), or by the 1832. Like the “Watch well as several broken Victo- fold towers, the Hall Team “Westernmost Main Gate- Tower” (46), it is a fine place rian bottles. A toad is also haul stone out of the windows way”, (5), as well as through for photographs, with the found hibernating here ... and and onto the soft ground be- the house. Dominated by a Great Hall, Air Raid Shelter, may have lain in the cindery low, doing no damage to the fine, “8-day", three-faced the Main Courtyard and Sta- soil “for forty years”, some stone or the solidly-formed clock in all its finery, the Sta- bles Courtyard as its best people in the Hall Team sug- window-sills. (56, 85) bles Courtyard was the ‘subjects’. On Wednesday, gest. Despite this inauspicious “business” part of Brougham 12th. November, 1986, the 19 find, a smoked fish centre is 56. This Garden Gateway Hall - at least as far as the steps that remain of the Stair- due to open here in May, survived demolition and fifty domestic staff were concerned. well are cleaned off by Alis- 1987. (53, 89, 2028) more years - but had to be The Stables, servant accommo- tair Aynscough and Andrew toppled after all when it was dation, carriage “bays”, kitch- Bainbridge - with two or three 53. The East Window of the realised creeper-plants had ens and a lot more besides buckets of gritty rubbish from Billiards Room is cleared of spread their roots between the were served from this Stables each step! (Finds from the rubble at last. After much stones and made it too dan- Courtyard. The artesian Court- Billiards Room are noted in anticipation of this, and a gerous to leave as it was. By yard Well, (70), was a fea- Entries 53, 54 and 55; also possible “crypt”, the snow of the end of 1986 the sides of ture of the Courtyard. (2518) see Entries 1988, 2394, 2397) Tuesday, 16th. December, the new Archway are built up 1986, slows folks down a little again, with the new South 50. On Thursday, 6th. Novem- 52. Work is underway on the as the 1986-87 Winter ar- Wall, and the rest of the ber, 1986, work begins on the latest Room to be investigated rives. However, the last Gateway will be complete large “Billiards Room” of at Brougham Hall. This rather bucket-load of rubble from early in 1987. (54, 55, 3036) Brougham Hall: It is now featureless room, which has this section of the dig meets dubbed the Lord Chancellor's one small window and one the dump-truck today. (52, 54) 57. The “Bottlestore” is, up to Den because Lord Chancellor large gateway, is likely to April 1987, the little storage Brougham's private study, have been a storage area for 54. The East Door porch, or room for the Hall Team’s tools (51), used to be above here. horse tack, as well as other vestibule, of the Billiards Room — and their finds, including The Billiards Room, in 1986, is equine equipment such as - complete with its Lion's Head bottles of many kinds. Located up to ten feet deep in rubble, carriage harnesses. As the ceiling - has been half-blocked between the “Unit F.” room, and that doesn’t include the work continues on the Billiards with soil and bricks for years and the Westernmost (Office) extra depth to dig when foun- Room and starts again on the but, in late-November, 1986, Gateway, (5), the Bottlestore dations trenches are discov- Main Well, (with its ‘Secret this is all cleared. (55, 56) is to become a store for The ered during the survey. Passageway’ being surveyed Old Smokehouse when it is Around 25ft. (7.62m.) almost by the miner Angus Oliver in 55. The South Windows of the opened. Bottles are surveyed square, the ‘private chapel’, as the week beginning Monday, Billiards Room prove useful in here in Dec’r., ’86. (4, 52, 89) Hall News calls it in November, 1986, represents a huge task, Use the numbers on this photograph of Dave Johnson ’s and almost certainly one that will Rebekah Wright ’s impressive Hall Model to refer back to the take us into 1987. The Hall Photo Guide For 1986 numbered paragraphs in the main Guide. [‘Looking West’] Teams - now back as one be- cause atrocious weather has 11, 37 Door: 17 20, 29 25 36 18, 19 Chapel: made the Woods a bad place to be - have divided the huge Well: 12 38 area of rubble into four grid- zones to dig one at a time. This Room's main features in- 28, clude a red fireplace, a stair- 40 well that led to Lord Chancel- 14 lor Brougham's former study, 51 three ornate church-style win- 55 dows (one facing east; two 39 south) and on east-facing 15, porch or vestibule with an or- 50 16 13 27, 35, 41 nate Lion's Head gargoyle - 23, 30, 31 the Lion’s Head is the 54 26, Brougham Family’s logo - in its 24 53 49 ceiling. There is also the main west entrance for the group, who enter from where once 56 there would have been the 48 Hall’s grandest rooms. Once, the Billiards Room had a fine, 57 vaulted ceiling complete with 34 21, 22 a central ‘keystone’ made into a large “Lion's Head” like the one in the porch. (15, 51). 45 46 51. The North West part of 47 the Billiards Room, (50), is its 44 Stairwell that once led to Lord Chancellor Brougham's Private 32, 33, 52 Study, which used to be in the room above here. Lord Chan- cellor Henry Peter Brougham, 42 the first Lord Brougham and 43

BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 4 December 1986 ...... Hall News — In The Beginning ...

IN INTENSE FROST on Friday, 21st. November, 1986, the first photographs destined to appear in the four-page, “trial edition” of the Brougham Hall ar- chaeological and environmental magazine, were taken by budding editor Alistair Aynscough. Two of them appear on the front page of Issue One, Right , which was produced a week later, and Alistair happened to have the news-sheet with him in Penrith town centre on Saturday, 29th. November, showing it to team supervisor Lee Barry — the first person outside Alistair’s family to witness its debut. On Monday, 1st. December, 1986, a fittingly-busy day that provided plenty of stories for coming editions — with work beginning in the Main Well and the would-be Old Smokehouse — the new publication had its true ‘premiere’ at Brougham Hall as that week’s work began in cold and questionable weather. An early story from the very day Hall News was launched, if we are not mistaken on the date, was a dramatic exit from the Main Well by a miner who was employed to investigate a “secret passageway” that was found deep underground. Angus Oliver came rushing up from the well, visibly scared. He feared that the passage was falling in on him, until he was told that it was a jet fighter-’plane roaring overhead !! Images of 1986 - - Early Headlines! WORK Continued on the Billiards Room, or “Private Chapel”, as some called it, in Decem- ber 1986, but at- tention was turning elsewhere. Miner Angus Oliver busily investigated a “secret passage- way” in the Main Well, (No. 2, Right) , which apparently lead to Brougham Chapel. Plenty of late-Victorian crockery was found, but the pas- sageway’s route remains a mystery to this day. There was also the plain room that was to become the Old Smokehouse within just six months, (No. 3.) BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 5 1987 58. On Tuesday, 5th. that line the B.6262 road. (due to a fire burning nearby) bonised acorn. A piece of January, 1987, the ‘Ice Wire brushes ore specially and gloves are needed for the metal that resembles the front House’ is the first feature to be supplied for the task, but so task. Lee Barry, Sean Car- forks of a bicycle is also re- surveyed for the New Year. It hard do the Hall Teams work, ruthers, Kevin Dinham and covered. Finally, with the Team turns out to be ironic when that these are well worn by Mike Treece are all involved in having to oblige the Health & intense frosts and blizzards the end of it all! Road cones stripping the plantation away. Safety regulations on strike during the month. It be- borrowed from Cumbria By the end of 1987, work on ‘confined spaces’, and with a comes so cold on Tuesday, County Council’s Skirsgill High- the roof of the office is in pro- huge boulder around 23ft. 11th. January, that the Hall ways Department, Penrith, are gress, following the reconstruc- (about 7m.) down, work is Team are kept out of their brought in to protect the Team tion of a fireplace and chim- halted on this Well on Mon- “portaloo”, just outside the as they work. (62, 63) ney flue. This Gateway is also day, 18th. May. In Springtime, East Wall, because there is a often called the ‘Treasury 1988, a new surrounding wall huge slab of ice three or four 62. The B.6262 road, which Gateway’. (5, 123, 145) and protective guard are inches thick blocking the door. links the A.6 at Lowtherbridge added, complete with a me- No wonder – Tuesday, 12th. with the A.66 near Brougham 68. The Cellars below the morial plaque to the memory January, 1987, is declared the Castle and Brocavum Roman Kitchens are photographed of Denis Warwick (1932- coldest day of the 20th. Cen- Fort, also passes Brougham and measured for the 1988, father of Alan), the first tury so far, and even the gas Hall. It can become a busy Brougham Hall news-sheets stonemason to work in the cylinders for the heaters are diversion route when the others and for the Hall Project itself. restoration of Brougham Hall “shaken into life” by Hall ore blocked for whatever The work is done, with the aid in 1985 and 1986. (12, 28, Team member Jack Denton. reason. (2, 61, 63, 185) of site floodlights, by Alistair 73, 79, 100, 3022, 3033) On the Wednesday the Team Aynscough, the news-sheets' are sent home, “snowbound”! 63. A Gate, and steps behind editor, on a cold, snowy Tues- 71. The B.2. ‘Kitchen’ is March The “Ice House” itself is a spe- it, links the B.6262 road with day, 17th. February, 1987. (7, 1987's main workzone. This cial cellar deep underground Brougham Chapel (38, 61, 62) 28, 71) room is next to the A.2. which was used for storing ‘Kitchen’, and its best feature fresh food like the modern 64. This concrete patch has 69. Beyond an old, dilapi- is a fireplace backing onto the refrigerators do. In winter, been used for the work-huts dated, wooden gate near A.2. "Kitchen". It has a door slabs of ice would be left to since the start of the Commu- Brougham Chapel, Sean Car- that once led to a room di- form in the river nearby, using nity Programme in August, ruthers, Kevin Dinham and rectly above the Well Cellar, special crates. These crates 1986; in early-1987 two ex- Alistair Aynscough go to visit a and also doors to the A.2. and were then hauled on a cart tra huts are brought here. (26, second Ice House on Friday, C.2. ‘Kitchens’ that flank it. (7, back to 8rougham Hall and 58, 123) 20th. February, 1987. (58, 28, 72) taken down into the Ice 514) House... a daunting task, espe- 65. The ‘Chapel-side Woods’, 72. This is the C.2. ‘Kitchen’, cially as Brougham Hall’s Ice as Hall News calls them, are 70. The Courtyard Well (once which the Hall Team move on House is one of Britain's larg- cleared by the Hall Teams in dubbed the Second Well in to after clearing out the B.2 est! The Hall Team work by February 1987 in a bid to Hall News ) appears ‘by acci- ‘Kitchen’ in March, 1987. It is work-site floodlights to sal- trace the Main Well's ‘Secret ’ on Monday, 23rd. similar to the B.2. ‘Kitchen’ and vage a range of artefacts that Passageway’ to an entrance March, 1987, as "Woods also a door leading out above mainly date from the Hall's supposedly in these woods. Team" supervisor Lee Barry the Well Cellar. Work here is war service - a ration tin, There actually is an entrance- drives the dump-truck during completed in March 1987. (7, Army blanket, boot remnants, way in the wall at the west clearing work that is continuing 28, 71, 73) and a whole mass of broken end of Brougham Chapel, but on the A.2. Kitchen. Having got plates and other cutlery from there is no evidence that this the dump-truck full of rubble, 73. “The Pantries”: A wild 1942 and especially 1943, links with the Passageway Lee heads to offload it all at storm overnight into Friday, and marked with the initials leading from the Hall. How- the area where the Brougham 27th. March, 1987 - the storm N.A.A.F.I. , for ‘Navy, Army &. ever, an apparent mix-up Hall Gardens Houses will be, that caused havoc at the 1987 Air Force institute’. More bot- leads to the Woodlands being and returns to report a “big University Boat Race and as a tles are found here. (64, 69, declared ‘out-of-bounds’ to hole in the ground” where he result be recalled in the film 75, 88, 250, 426, 513) the Hall Team (and volunteer had passed moments earlier. ‘True Blue’ - dislodges bits of Russell Gee on 20th. February) Once Lee has thanked his masonry from walls here at 59. Work to clear up the so the clearance work halted lucky stars he hasn’t been Brougham Hall. High winds ground around the former in late-February, 1987. (38, injured, or worse had it sub- have left the C.2. ‘Kitchen’ and Stables is begun, in readiness 66, 166, 351) sided under him, the entire this latest workzone, the D.2.- for work to start on rebuilding Hall Team realise this is a gridzone ‘Pantries’, strewn with the Stables and other ports of 66. The ‘Chapel-side Woods’, major discovery. The Court- debris. On the following Mon- the Hall's stables and servants' while they are still ‘ours’, are a yard Well is actually an day, 30th. March, a wall be- quarters area as a ‘Crafts scene of drawing and measur- 'Artesian’ well, drawing water tween the ‘twin’ Pantries is Centre’. A trench dug in one ing the supposed route of the from the distant Fells through a toppled from around 30ft to corner on 29th. January, Secret Passageway. Angus water-bearing layer of rock. It around 3ft for safety reasons, 1987, yields nothing but the Oliver, a miner who worked to is, in fact, believed to be the to reduce future dangers. The Stables make a decent cricket- clear the Passageway of rub- original inspiration for wall is no longer needed any- ing area for the Team! (60) ble in December, 1986, re- Brougham Hall being built on way. The clearing of the Pan-

60. The ‘Garage’ - a likely turns to do some dowsing with this particular hill to begin tries takes place during April, space for carriages - is sticks to track hidden water- with. At the end of April, 1987, and a trench is also dug cleared out by the Hall Team courses and, by this, find the 1987, plans for its excavation to investigate the possibility of on Friday 30th. January, route of the Passageway. The are announced and, on Mon- a doorway leading to the 1987. Nothing but old metal result is negative, but it still day, 11th. May, 1987, the B.6262 road outside. There is brackets and similar debris is give members of the Hall week-long excavation begins no door - but a piece of deco- found. This would later make Team valuable surveying with Hall Team members being rated earthenware pottery up Unit 2 and Unit 3 , part of practice. (27, 65, 102, 351) lowered down, safely- said to be about 500 years the proposed new “Crafts harnessed, into the Well using old is dug out of the rubble. Centre”. (59, 108) 67. On Thursday, 12th. Febru- a special winch, so they can (62, 70, 72, 130, 3014) ary, 1987, the Gate Tower reach gritty rubble and bring 61. Monday 2nd. February, that is set to become the Ad- it out. Rubble is sifted to see 74. A communications trench - 1987, sees work begin on ministrative Office for the what valuables can be found or "Telephone Trench" - is dug cleaning up the outside walls Brougham Hall Charitable but there is nothing more sig- to lay supply lines and pipes around Brougham Hall walls Trust , has its front walls nificant than an old ‘musket for telephone, electricity and cleared of moss of creeper ball’ (or early bullet), pieces water-mains from the B.6262 BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 6 plants. A ladder, face masks of black clay pots and a car- road, outside Brougham Hall, to the site of the Stables. The a room or rooms above the the East wall of the Pele Tower Bay’ of the Carriage 1987 Stables are to be built up B.1 Passageway and Room. as work at the start of July, House is dug out between again to become Crafts Cen- (75, 76, 78) 1987, continues in what we Thursday, 23rd. and Friday, tre units, of which the first, a assume is the B.1. Passage- 24th. July, 1987. From it fish ‘smokehouse’ is almost 78. On Wednesday, 27th. way. One is an elaborate, we’ve gained several bits of ready for a tenant, due in May, 1987, pieces of stone arched door into the Tower's rusted old metal and an old May 1987. The Trench's ex- from the B.1-gridzone area ground-level room and fea- aerosol can. Some old plates posed soil-layers are surveyed are marked with the grid code tures two carved-stone heads, are found, with one or two in by Mike Treece's Hall Team ‘B1’ in yellow paint by Alistair but the other is a blocked colour, but not many are in- (stratigraphy). Besides the Aynscough and, later, Andrew feature whose only give-away tact. The best artefact is an discovery of an old driveway, Bainbridge. This takes place is its outline of two huge arch- old, electric light fitting with a later to be renewed, the Team near the Carriage House. (14, way stones, revealed when metal green shade. Its bakelite find a Vaseline -type white 39, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80) some plaster falls away. This is light-bulb socket has survived glass tub, around 3 inches likely to have been the origi- years of abandonment very (76mm) tall and with its lid still 79. On Wednesday, 3rd. nal door, used before the well indeed, but the shade intact. An 1870 gravestone is June, 1987, clearing work extensive 1829-40 upgrade hasn't. (14, 58, 76) also revealed, and this is later takes place at the Woodlands of the Hall. (20, 76, 80, 81, built into the wall of one of the Well. The work is done by 83, 91, 95) 89. The Old Smokehouse Crafts or office units upstairs in Shaun Martin, Bernard Rowan makes its mark - Smoke is seen the ‘Stables’). Old drainage and Alistair Aynscough and 84. Stone-sorting, as in Octo- rising from a chimney at channels are discovered, too, yielded part of the covered ber, 1986, takes place in the Brougham Hall for the first before the J.C.B. ‘tractor- Well's own gate and pieces of Main Courtyard in July 1987. time for many years, quite excavator’ returns to fill in the wine glasses. It is revealed This time, stone in the Main probably the first tome since Trench after a fortnight’s work. that the Woodlands, or “No. Courtyard is sorted. (39, 48, demolition in the 1930’s. On (137, 743, 792) 3.”, Well was only an orna- 86, 111) Tuesday, 4th. August, 1987, mental feature of the Hall's the chimney of careers officer 75. Work begins, at the start former Victorian gardens, and 85. Monday, 20th. July, 1987, Rona Newsom’s Old Smoke- of May, 1987, on a Room is only around 3 feet (92cms.) sees the arrival of volunteer house , Brougham Hall's first close to the West Doorway. deep, complete with a flat, workers Samantha Chin and a Crafts Centre Unit, which This is the B.1. Room, complete solid base and a drainage lad called Trevor. Trevor is opened in May, 1987, emits with its prominent black- hole. It is likely the well was deemed too young - he’s only smoke eight months alter the marble fireplace, still with used for springwater for filling a schoolboy - to work at the Hall Team worked there. shelves either side. The B.1. or washing drinks glasses. (12, Hall, but Samantha is a student Meanwhile, the “Bottlestore”, Room attracts as much interest 27, 70) who helps with a survey of the recently used by the Hall as the Courtyard Well at the Billiards Room and the network Team's tools and finds, looks time..... especially as Lee and 80. A Door found in the B.1. of walls and trenches revealed set to become a store for the Mike and their Hall Teams Passageway is marked by its in November, 1986. She works Old Smokehouse . (4, 52, 57, have a ‘race’ to fill the dump- ‘frame’ protruding out of the alongside Alistair Aynscough, 123, 701) truck the fastest. Lee and Brian two sides of the Passageway. Kevin Dinham and other mem- Davis take six minutes; Mike These were once its pillars. bers of the two Hall Teams 90. The Stables are being and David Cornthwaite take (76, 77, 79, 81) who can draw plans. Digging rebuilt, with Syd Walker mak- eight. Apart from pieces of begins again for this survey, ing good progress in August stone and remnants of fire- 81. The remains of a pointed- especially as Samantha 1987, on the first doorway to place hearths (including still- arch Doorway are found in spends three weeks here and show near the Ice House en- shining blue and red tiles), the late-June, 1987, on the south- wants experience in archaeo- trance. (86, 87, 108) east corner of the Pele Tower B.1. Room’s most-intriguing logical studying before going 91. Work on the Pele Tower, finds are remnants of white- (20, 91). In the search for to the University of Exeter . possible flight of steps buried on the west fringe of the Hall, porcelain toilet cisterns, which (Samantha returned to the Hall and bordering the Terrace, is very possibly date from the under the soil the Hall Team between 21st. and 25th. Sep- have discovered this link be- begun on Monday, 10th. Au- ‘latrines’ of the Hall Army tember, 1987, to help on the gust, 1987, with an initial base. The B.1. Room is cleared tween the Great “Armoury” Terrace Trench survey for a Hall (82, 112, 120, 121) and study of its rubble-strewn top out, and is then used as a Staircase Hall (99). (Also see week, and again for an after- being done by Michael Treece ‘store’ for ornate pieces of noon’s flying visit In July, and two visiting archaeolo- stone until it becomes a prime Entries 80 and 83) 1988. (50, 56, 96) gists, David Cranstone and his workzone for 1996-onwards; 82. Part of a huge Fireplace 86. Builder Syd Walker be- ‘apprentice’, Chris Richardson. it would ultimately become of the Great “Armoury” Hall is Lee Barry is not at the Hall Unit 11 (36, 58, 70, 76, 77, gins the work to totally rebuild discovered on Tuesday, 30th. the Stables complex of the that day and also misses a 78, 94, 178) June, 1987. It has the gold- visit to nearby Clifton Hall. The Hall on Wednesday, 8th. July, leaf letter “H” on its front - 1987. On the same day, some Hall Team then start their ex- 76. The B.1. Passageway has which is integrated into an cavation of the Tower. (20, become the latest workzone. Ministers from Mozambique, elaborate, carved pattern. It India and Pakistan pay a visit 37, 97) For the beginning of June, turns out that this is the left 1987, it has given us several half of a huge fireplace front- to Brougham Hall, praising the 92. Work is begin again on bits of blue-and-white china- Brougham Hall Charitable the Terrace Trench, near the age [chimney breast] that Trust ’s work. (87, 98, 128) ware (plates) that were half- dominated the north wall of West Doorway, on Friday, buried under a passage wall's the Great Hall. (The right side 87. 14th. August, 1987. (93, 96) foundations. However, beyond The Room in which Syd would appear later, and Walker is at work on Wednes- a newly-found door, a tree- would feature the letter ‘B’ to 93. Stone-stacking work is stump has halted progress in day, 8th. July, 1987, is coded make up the letters ‘H.B.’, for ‘E.2.’ on the grid system set up done on the Terrace on Tues- this part of the Hall. (75, 77, Henry Brougham.) The massive day, 25th. August, 1987 - the 78, 80, 2513) by members of the Community fireplace relic looked set to Programme Hall Team in Sep- first day of the second year of "trap" Lee Barry, twice, when the Community Programme tember, 1986. It is cleared out term. Stone salvaged from the 77. The Hall Teams have left it was found. It almost toppled by members of the Hall Team the ’first’ B.1 Passageway and onto his left leg and ended up not involved in sorting stone in nearby Pele Tower has to be are now working around the being propped up with pieces the Main Courtyard Area. Two stacked neatly to one side south side of the B.1. Room in of wood until removal in April, fireplaces are seen in the wall near the Bridge. (2, 20, 37, other Passages in mid-June, 1988 - then Lee also found the here, though one is for the 39, 92) 1987. A flight of steps has remains of a spring-jaw gin- room above - and which would 94. The B.1.-gridzone Room, appeared, and the Team are trap under it. (112, 118). be again. (84, 86, 90) surveying at their base. The Steps are assumed to lead to 83. Two Doors are found in 88. The concrete-lined ‘Service BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 7 1987 whose large and domi- the passageway that leads in from the Woodlands. nant black marble fire- Meanwhile, a section of a wooden ceiling beam from place is a main features near the Pele Tower is sent to Belfast's Queens University to the West Doorway, is worked be scanned for tree-rings - ‘Dendrochronology’. Using on in late-August, 1987, and a records that pick out certain rings from special se- layer of old cobbles is re- quences of years, natural historians can tell just when a vealed. (36, 95, 118) tree was planted, the era in which it lived, and when it . The dubious summers of 1985, 1986 1987 and 95. Cobbles are found in the 1988 - especially coming between two pairings of hot B.1. Passageway, close to the summers, 1983 and 1984, then 1989 and 1990 - are B.1. Room, where more cob- classic, if modern, examples of data that is useful to bles have appeared, and dendrochronologists. The results from the tree-scan are upturned sandstone flags. It known in March, 1988. The tree the ceiling beam came already yielded bits of blue- from was planted in 1425 and felled in 1586, so, and-white chinaware. (76, 96) short of a ceiling beam having to be replaced - and 96. More cobbles appear in that’s very unlikely, and hard to do - this part of the greatly-extended “Terrace Brougham Hall must date from 1586, or very soon Trench” first begun in Septem- after. (10, 107, 526, 2630, 3032)

ber 1986. It is believed the 98. Windows begin to appear in the walls being built cobbles in the nearby B.1. for the new Stables - Crafts Centre - in November, Room and passage are linked, 1987, four months after work began there. (86, 108) and all are reckoned to have come from the some area of 99. A new Room is located on the east side of the Pele cobbles from an earlier Tower - the Staircase Hall, called the ‘Towerside Room’ Hall News 33 ‘version’ of Brougham Hall. in Brougham Hall News at the time; mid-November, (of 23 November 1987), They likely date from the 1987. With work concentrated here in Autumn and shows Steps, and a wooden beam early-17th. Century; from the early-Winter 1987, it soon shows it has no fewer than sent for tests in Belfast. (Entry 97) days of James I - James VI of five doorways leading from it, and there are Looking East Scotland (1603-1625) - and still impressions of stairways in the plaster- 89 Charles I; (1625-1649). In work. A Land-Rover Defender owned mid-September, 1987, the by a member of the Hall Team year-old Terrace Trench is is used in the removal of extended to the Pele Tower's tree-stumps from this 90 north side, and widened to the room. (101, Tower's own width. While the 2975) work on this feature, later to be called the ‘Sunken Gar- 63 70 den’, progresses, the Cumber- land and Westmorlond Herald 69 reports on the Hall Project 64 82 after a £48,600 grant is awarded by English Heritage for the restoration of the Pele Tower. Other media folks also visit and report. In the Spring- 91 time of 1988 the ‘Sunken Gar- den’ will be given new walling and a stepped entrance, and 93 it becomes an attraction in its 75, 76, own right. (20, 74, 75) 94, 95 92, 97. The discovery of steps and 61 96 a ‘cellar’ entrance in the Pele 77, 80 Tower room survey on 12th. 97 October, 1987, sparks 65, 66 62 Woods: 79 rumours that the new ‘cellar’ may 71 72 link with ... 58 86, 60 67 Photo Guide For Images of 68 87* 81, 83 1987 1987 IN THE WET Autumn of 1987 , infamous for the “Hurricane” that raged 73 59 across South-East England, the Hall Team worked on, despite thick mud on-Site, 78 to clear out the inner room of the Pele Tower. Towards 88 98 74 the end of this operation, they found a flight of steps that led to the next room, 84 believed then to be a cellar on the south of the tower. It is a cellar, but a passage also leads from there to 99 85 ‘Looking North’ 58* the Woodlands. BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 8 [ * Please Note: Details of Rebuilt Structures do not necessarily correspond with this Image. ] 100. Workers on the new the place where the once- stone slabs as steps. (12, 113) located between two of 1988 Brougham Hall Gardens proud Great ‘Armoury’ Hall is the bay windows. Fire- Houses are behind the first big reckoned to be. Two door- 110. Another ‘Secret Passage- places, especially marble event of 1988. On Tuesday, ways, next to one another, way’ is found. This one is ones, figure among the arte- 12th. January, they discover lead from the corner of the dubbed the ‘4th. Well’, and is facts. (14, 37, 112, 116, 118) the foundations of a ‘Gazebo’ ‘Towerside Room’ (Staircase discovered at the end of the dating from no later than Hall) nearest the Billiards passageway that leads past 116. Two doors are discov- 1726 and possibly as early as Room. Finds include several the entrance-steps to the Ice ered on the Terrace side of 1450. The Brougham Family gold-leaf, plaster ‘Lions' House on Wednesday, 4th. the Great Hall in August and are reckoned to have had a Heads’ around six inches May, 1988. It is a rectangular September, 1988. Each serves grandstand view from here of (15cm.) in diameter and 4 shaft, and the Hall Team take one of the two rooms discov- the Battle of Clifton Moor, the inches (10cm.) front-to-back. it to around 20ft. (6m.) down. ered on that side of the Great last battle in England, when (15, 112) They attempt to trace it under Hall earlier in 1988. (115, the Highland Jacobites faced the road but cause a bit of a 118) up to the Duke of Cumber- 106. A room, which has the stir when it crumbles under a land’s forces at night of 18th. remains of a bay-window truck! Road-workers end up 117. Mowing grass inside and December, 1745, ahead of fronting onto the Terrace, is having to shore it up with a outside the Hall is part of the 1746’s Culloden horror. (103, the main workzone for April, heavy sheet of steel! (27, 58, Hall Team’s duties during Au- 104, 395, 399, 1251, 1252, 1988. With this being the 62, 70, 79, 107, 274, 2632) gust 1988. 2800, 3031) room on the south ‘flank’ of the Pele Tower, it is thought likely 111. More sorting of stone, or 118. A fireplace is discovered 101. Work is done on there’ll be some interesting well as bricks and slates, takes in one of the Rooms near the Wednesday, 27th. January, discoveries here. (20, 37, 97, place in the Main Courtyard in South-West Door [later called 1988, on a passageway re- 107) May, 1988. In advance of the “Sentry Box”], in Septem- putedly linking the Towerside work to lay a new Cobbled ber, 1988, and it’s another Room, or Staircase Hall, to the 107. The Pele Tower-to- Driveway, the area is further black marble one. In the fol- blocked door in the west side Woodlands Passageway is the cleared. When not losing grip lowing two weeks or so, a lot of the Carriage House. Even second ‘Secret Passageway’ to with the ground, a large fork- more pieces of black marble the two site dogs - Lee’s Bor- be discovered at Brougham lift truck proves very useful for come, including mantle-pieces, der Terrier “Jem” and the Hall, after the September, Lee Barry and the Hall Team frontages and hearths, many yellow Labrador ‘Porsche’, 1986, discovery of the one in in this work. (39, 84, 137, with gold-leaf patterning and later to be “adopted” by the Main Well. This one shows 296, 349) edging. (17, 94, 119, 125) future Hall Team member Billy up on Wednesday, 20th. Warwick, have taken to dig- April, 1988. On Friday, 17th. 112. Work around the Great 119. Bay-Windows, especially ging alongside Hall Team June, a large, metal ‘header’ Armoury Hall begins in May one near the blocked South members. The dogs appear to water-tank is found here. It 1988. By Wednesday, 13th. West Doorway, and a fire- writhe out stubborn tree roots takes three weeks to clear April, the second half of the place also found here, are with ease! (14, 99, 415, 417, rubble from inside and around room's massive Fireplace has dug clear and cleaned up in 2028) the tank, and the operation to been found and, on that day, September, 1988. (17, 118, haul it clear with the dump- the whole thing is hauled 121) 102. Work on the new Wood- truck takes a broken rope and away to safety by all of the lands Footpaths begins in late- until Wednesday, 6th. July, Hall Team and several other 120. The work focuses on the January 1988. String, then 1988, to succeed. (27, 110, people because of its weight; place where the Main Door of planks, mark out the routes of 2486) ten people in all. (82, 115, Brougham Hall is thought to the new Path, before the dig- 118, 121, 723) be. On Friday, 14th. October, ging and levelling-off of the 108. The white, wooden win- 1988, the door is found in the soil for the new Paths is begun. dow-frames for the new 113. In June and July, 1988, form of a gap between two A tree is in the way of one of ‘Stables’ complex begin to nettles and other unwanted pink (formerly red) door- the footpaths, which is a good appear on Wednesday, 20th. plantation are scythed down in frame ‘bases’, and walls lead- excuse for a ‘tree-detour bal- April, 1988. A total of eight the Woodlands. This work also ing from them. One passage cony’ offering some decent frames, each with two opening offers some kind of shelter leads to the Staircase Hall. views towards Lowtherbridge, windows, have been produced during the ‘Wettest July since (99, 251) Eamont Bridge and Clifton. by the Hall’s carpenter Geoff 1917’. (23, 102, 2860) (65, 66, 113) Bowerbank. Electricity will 121. Brown-and-gold, pat- soon follow and work on the 114. It's July, 1988, and Hall terned and inscribed Floor 103. A tin key fob numbered Stables, soon to become the News reaches Issue Fifty. The Tiles are found in the Great ‘15’ is the second item found ‘Crafts Centre’, is complete by lead story is the work mainly Hall in late-September. 1988. by the house-builders, early in May 1988, and special meet- done by Syd Walker to re- It soon turns out that these tiles February, 1988, though we ings for the Penrith Civic Soci- store the wall-tops of the still- date from 1848, and are admit it may not have come ety and Friends of Brougham roofless Tudor ‘Bire’ Building. prominently marked with the from Brougham Hall, and that Hall are held on Thursday He adds new coping stones ‘B. &. V.’ (Brougham and it isn't as special as the sup- 19th. and Saturday, 21st. along the tops of the walls. Vaux) family crest. Few tiles posed ’Gazebo’, found in May. The produce of potential The chimney between the ‘Bire’ remain here, however, and the January, 1988. Of course this, Hall Crafts centre tenants, and the ‘Watch Tower’ is also only ones like them are in the find may have come from the including Art-Metalworker repaired. (8, 46, 168) Smithsonian Institute in Wash- Hall, or from the Royal Ar- John Harrison (for Unit 8 ) and ington, U.S.A., and in the moured Corps , when they were Jeweller Mark Heeley-Creed 115. These Rooms in the main House of Commons in London. here in wartime. We keep it (Unit 3 ), is on show and, at Mansion - reckoned to have (112, 119, 142, 580, 693) with the other artefacts any- Saturday’s Penrith Civic Society included a Library and Music way. (100, 104) meeting, Dawn Tyler's History Room, among others - have 122. Work in October, 1988, of Brougham Hall book has its bay windows that once is dominated by the Hall's 104. The newly-laid access premiere. (60, 86, 90, 196, flanked the Terrace. The World War Two Air-Raid road for the Brougham Hall 250, 796, 857, 1240, 2472, bases, or sills, of the windows Shelter - which is a relic of the Gardens Houses, laid in Febru- 2937, 2974) are still visible. These rooms Royal Armoured Corps’ days ary, 1988, is swept clean by and the Great Hall are the when they developed the Shaun Martin and Alistair 109. The old Steps down to main workzones of Summer Grant Canal Defence League Aynscough on Tuesday, 29th. the Woodlands - otherwise and Autumn 1988. A row of ‘Dazzler’ Tank here between March, 1988. (103, 109) Brougham Hall's former Victo- floor joists, of brick, and one 1942 and 1945. (16, 58, rian gardens - are cleared of old wooden beam are re- 125, 250) 105. In March, 1988, Pas- nettles, soil and rubble in vealed, and a door is reck- sage-clearing work begins at April, 1988, revealing huge oned by some to have been BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 13 9 1988 123. Two Rooms of the partly- Team reach the ramshackle, old wooden rebuilt Stables - and Servants’ Gate that leads directly into the Wood- Quarters - become the Hall Team’s new lands of the Hall. (23, 270, 850, 904) bait room and storage area when the hired yellow cabin or ‘caravan’ is taken 125. The entrance trench of the wartime away in November, 1988, after two Air-Raid Shelter becomes the latest years. Some of the Hall Team members, workzone on Thursday, 8th. December, most notably Billy Warwick, Len Dixon 1988. The Hall Team have just cleared and Trevor Jackson, convert the new the top of the Shelter, behind the rooms into something like habitable. blocked South-West Door. (17, 118, 122, 126, 250) Their work is very timely as these rooms offer shelter from the bleak wintry 126. The furthest-in of the two rooms of winds. Snow arrives very early, on Sat- the Air-Raid Shelter is the first to be dug, urday, 19th. November, 1988, herald- but the work Is destined to take the Hall ing a week of freezing north-easterly Team well into 1989. The passage, al- winds, and the fireplace here is lit for ready noted by the Hall Team in 1986, the first time in over half a century. was the first to be cleared. (16, 122, Meanwhile, the "Treasury Gate" office 125, 127, 250) is pretty much ready for use as the office of the Brougham Hall Charitable 127. The second room of the Hall’s Air- Trust . (5, 64, 89, 129, 145, 701, 2813) Raid Shelter is studied in December, 1988. (17, 125, 126, 131, 250) 124. The bases of the walls along the B.6262 road, including Brougham Hall's North Wall, are cleared up and made presentable, with grass and soil being Brougham Hall News Issue 800 carted away in wheelbarrows, up the steep hill and deposited at the end of the East WaII, near the South-East Gateway. This work ends when the Hall “Project Guide” M MX VI

Above: Hall News 47, of 6 June 1988, follows rebuilding of the Stables as a ‘Crafts Centre’. 108 123 111 ImagesImages 110 of 1988 116 of 1988 122, The Woodlands, Above , continued to be a 125, key workzone during 1988, especially in 126, the first half of the year. This image was 127 taken just as Lee Barry’s Woodlands Team 117 were completing the first section of foot- paths among the trees, after they had 106 109 taken every effort in clearing the rubbish ‘Looking East’ 107 115 118, from between them, in 119 1986 and 1987, a task for 100, 103 102, which the original 104 112 113 “Environmental” Hall Team were dedicated, along with 115 the creation of a network of ‘Looking rustic footpaths during 117 1988 itself. South’ 120, 121 The other team joined 124 them briefly. In April, and 105 then in July, 1988, exten- sive clearing of nettles and other unwanted plantation was also needed, but, by the end of it all, the place 117 101 looked pretty impressive. A “balcony” had to be built around the base of 114 one substantial tree in the Woodlands, due to a short- age of space between trees, and the steep slope. 117 Back at the Hall itself Photo Guide For the “Great Hall” and two “S ec ret P as sagew ays ” BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 0 124 1988 made the news. 1989 128. The New Year of 1989 is up against weather damage - 139. Work has recently been Hall Crafts Centre, the heralded by the arrival of although the scorching 1989 in progress, in June, 1989, to only two-level Crafts Centre, ‘Art-Metalworker’ John Harri- Summer is already in its early shore up the walls near the ‘Uni t 4’ , changes hands once son at Brougham Hall, taking stages as this work is done In West Doorway. Now similar more when Hazel and Dennis on the window-less ‘E.2.’ room May, 1989! George White work is taking place, in July Walker, who run Country that was the scene of the start and Thomas Arkle, who mainly and August, 1989, on walling Furnishings , take it on after of work on the Stables in work on a Cumbria Training on the side of the West Door Morland Pianos leave 1987. For the Hall Team, Company / National Trust nearest the Pele Tower. (20, Brougham Hall. (59, 108, 129) though, the brief is to clear restoration project on a water- 36, 91, 133) ground near the Carriage mill at Acorn Bank, Temple 144. Richard Mawdsley and House, Drawing Room and Sowerby, but who are mainly 140. In August 1989 Mark his Team - together with a Ovens, one of their first tasks working at Brougham Hall on Heeley-Creed's jewellery unit lazy rough-collie dog - are of 1989. The surface dig, in Fridays. (36, 37, 134, 141) celebrates its first year’s trad- busy laying more of the cob- January, takes three days to ing at Brougham Hall. Now bled Driveway in September complete. (13, 14, 30, 86, 134. A small, ‘sunken window’ called Goldsmith's Workshop , 1989. (137, 149) 138, 142, 159, 532) below ground level, belonging it is situated in the ‘garage’ to the Cellar passageway, is feature dug out on Friday, 145. A Brougham Hall 129. New doors are added to uncovered in May, 1989, by 30th. January, 1987. (60) ‘Information Centre’-cum-shop, the Stables by carpenter Thomas Arkle and George featuring the brilliant Hall Geoff Bowerbank. On Tues- White. They then re-cover part 141. The work by George Model produced by Dave day, 17th. January, 1989, he of this Cellars Passageway to White and Thomas Arkle con- Johnson and Rebekah Wright, is busy putting glass in the provide a direct route be- tinues in the D.2. ‘Pantries’ as well as a selection of books, window sections of the doors tween the A.2. ‘Kitchen’ and section of Brougham Hall in mostly Wetheriggs pottery and double-doors he’s made. West Doorway. Work is done, August and September, 1989. and pictures on the walls, In Springtime 1989 his two- by Thomas Arkle and George Though Syd. Walker has not opens in September, 1989, in level Carpentry Unit is taken White in May and June, 1989, been able to get much done the room above the Truffles over by Morland Pianos , who in which the cellars are other than some layers of shop. It is also the room near- restore and sell various kinds cleared up and the ‘sunken’ stone above the twin door- est the Office. (98, 123, 136, of pianos. (123, 143, 1240) window unearthed at the end ways before reporting sick in 162, 405, 907) of the main Cellars Passage- April, has gone on well here. 130. The last traces of the way - opening at the base of George and Thomas have 146. In the run-up to the end D.2-area ‘Pantries' central the wall onto the Terrace, near taken his place, and have built of their contracts, as an- wall, downed in March and the Bridge. The interior of the five wall ‘pillars’ in this latest nounced at the end of August April 1987 (73), are removed Window has already been Crafts Centre site, which will 1989, the Hall Team and their when the rest of the wall is known about, although it was support the girders of a ceiling supervisor Lee Barry spend cleared to make way for a seen as a small, arched cubby- for this new room and the floor much of the time tidying-up the single room where the twin hole at the end of the passage of the one above. There are rooms they have been using Pantries had been. This work leading from the Main Well. two girder-supporting pillars since November, 1988. The takes place in late February Thomas and George lay a built up on each side-wall of Team’s Employment Training and early-March, 1989, and new concrete floor to provide the newest room, one between contract will end on Friday, the bricks and flagstones are a passageway above the the main windows at the north 29th. September, 1989, after saved for other building pro- Cellars and between the A.2. (Chapel) end, and a sixth a year on this scheme and two jects at Brougham Hall. The Kitchen, West Door and B.1. fixing-point is in the walling years on the Community pro- Pantries ore now being pre- Passage. (7, 27, 28, 36, 95) laid by Syd. above the doors gramme, up to September, pared for work to begin on at the other (Stables Court- 1988. The other Team Super- creating future Crafts Centre 135. More cobbles are found yard) end. He remains ill and visor, Michael Treece, left the Units, which Syd Walker will at Brougham Hall, close to the away from the Hall ‘til well Hall in October 1987. (90, make a start on in late-March D.2. Pantries, when Hall Team into 1990. (73, 130, 148, 123, 149) 1989. (132, 141) member Elizabeth Taylor digs 150)

around the area in July, 1989. 147. The Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, 131. Rubble dug out of the (73, 130, 132, 137) 142. Near the Courtyard Well Air-Raid Shelter is spread on which has been dated to be- (70) a major discovery is tween 1480 and 1520, is to the Driveway between the made when the Hall Team Shelter and the Billiards Room, 136. The new "Truffles" Shop - have a new roof added; in dubbed the "Chocolate Fac- begin their work again on the September, 1989, five where the tarmac ends, in ground near the Drawing April 1989, and it proves tory" in Brougham Hall News - wooden ceiling beams (trusses) is opened by former careers Room and Carriage House. In are delivered to the Hall. (8, useful in filling in the potholes. this area, first surveyed in It is hoped the driveway will officer Mrs. Rona Newsom in 114, 157) mid-July, 1989. Rona, who has September 1986, and coded no longer flood like it did ‘E.1.’ the Team find an ornate around the time of the also run The Old Smokehouse 148. Work, by Thomas Arkle since May, 1987, leaves the set of red, yellow, black and ‘October Hurricane’ of 1987, white Tiles arranged in octa- and George White, begins on when torrential rain, rather Careers Service (later Cumbria a new front wall for the C.2. Careers ) in April, 1989, to gon-and-square pattern. The than storm-force winds, struck Tiles, about a metre (39 ‘Kitchen’ in Iate-September, Northern England. (15, 104, take both her Hall Units on 1989. A window will be built full-time. (52, 89, 145, 422) inches) below ground, are 122, 127, 491) deemed so important that they here in future. (72, 141, 150) are buried on the day they're 132. Sandstone flags sal- 137. Richard Mawdsley and discovered - Monday, 21st. 149. Lee Barry's Hall Team's vaged from the former wall of Alan, his assistant, are busy August, 1989 - to protect them final dig: On Friday, 22nd. the ‘Pantries’ are used in lay- laying part of the new Cob- from the weather and greedy September, 1989 - a week ing a new footpath in front of bled Driveway in July and souvenir-hunters. (30, 121, before originally planned as the 1987-1988 - rebuilt Sta- August, 1989. Richard has 224, 312) Lee has found new work - the bles and Crafts Centre, pro- already worked on cobbles remaining members of the viding a less-muddy track around The Old Smokehouse 143. Advent of Country Fur- Team clear away rubble from here. (130, 135, 137) and the Westernmost Main nishings - On 17th. July, 1989 cobbles near the ‘Old Smoke- (Office) Gateway in late- [not 1990, as wrongly as- house’ before thundery rain 133. As the Terrace is being 1987. (4, 5, 144, 149) sumed for some time at Hall intervenes. Lee, Simon Alton tidied up, work to repair the News !], around seven months and Graham Plant spend their wall around the West Wall 138. Work is done outside the after its doors were added to last hours on-Site, finishing the and Doorway takes place, Carriage House in August, signal the completion of re- tidying-up and clearing-out of with the wall being filled with 1989, to clear out the curious building work on the ‘Stables’ cement and stone to shore it ‘Ovens’ feature. (13, 14) complex, and the Brougham BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 1 1989 their Hall rooms. Lee’s Photo Guide For new job, at the soon-to-open Focus D.I.Y. Centre , on Ullswa- 142 ter Road, Penrith, is the reason 19891989 for the earlier finish. The first that Hall News ’ editor Alistair 145 Aynscough knows of their de- 144 parture is when he finds their door locked the following 143 Monday; he’s put off cycling to the Hall by the weather of 137 Friday, 22nd. September. Lee later works on track mainte- nance for British Rail . The Hall 146, 149 Team’s final workzone, the cobbled area near The Old Smokehouse , is later worked 135 138 on, in Autumn, 1989, by Rich- ard Mawdsley. (4, 22, 26, 137, 651, 2728, 2813, 2849)

150. In early-November, 1989, service-pipes, for gas and water supplies, are laid in the D.2. ‘Pantries’, taking this section of Brougham Hall a stage closer to becoming the latest Crafts Centre – which Art-Metalworker John Harri- son, who first came to the Hall in January, 1989, hopes to 134 139 take on. On Monday, 13th. 133 November, 1989, a new con- ‘Looking East’ crete floor is laid, and, be- tween Thursday, 7th., and Friday, 8th. December, the AN ARRAY of red, white, ceiling-support girders are set black and yellow floor tiles in place by a team including were found in August, in a Christopher Terry, George pattern of squares, rectan- White, Thomas Arkle and also John Harrison himself. Later, gles and octagons -- and the first of 42 ‘Acrojacks’ are were deemed valuable brought in to support a tempo- enough to be buried right rary, wooden ceiling (and away! Lee Barry and a floor for a proposed gallery colleague fill the trench in above) that will form a mould after editor Alistair Ayn- for a concrete slab due to be poured into it soon. (151, 152, scough is called in spe- 153, 155, 159, 3014) cially to photograph them.

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131 BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 2 ‘Looking North’ 151. Walling above the twin 158. The ‘New Decade Storms’ Artesian Well, the Guard 1990 doors of the D.2. ‘Pantries' - a period of on-and-off high Room is now the Guard House; the new Mullion Win- area is built up more, by winds and heavy rain, and the Pele Tower, also called the dow of the Gallery is a lot around 1ft. or 30cm., to ac- worse, from 25th. January to West or (wrongly) the Peel bigger than the ones that used commodate the new concrete early-March, 1990 - is respon- Tower, and the Mansion, now to be here before demolition floor of a Gallery, and the sible for downing the top half dated 1550 on its plaque, is in 1934 means that the Gal- ceiling of John Harrison's pro- of a tree in the ‘Chapelside the area also called the Great lery steps are left ‘incomplete’. spective Art Metalwork Unit. Woods’ and almost landing it Armoury Hall. The Ice House Contrast the demolition and The work continues throughout on the belfry of the Chapel. keeps that name, but the for- this rebuilding work as we tell January 1990, and the girders Bizarrely not even a single mer ‘Terrace Trench’, complete you that both 1934 and 1990 erected in December 1989 piece of glass is broken in the with its age-old layer of cob- use the same calendars (49, are ‘boxed-in’ with wooden Chapel in the near-miss, but bles and 1988-built wall, is 163, 167, 175) panelling to form the ceiling of the surrounding wall is badly now the ‘Sunken Garden’, the John‘s new Unit. (141, 152). shattered. The remains of the Air-Raid Shelter and the so- 167. A new arched window, tree are left in place. (38, 65, called ‘Chicken Pen’ in the around 2ft. (61cm.) tall, is built 152. The last of 42 ‘Acrojacks’ 66, 178, 180, 198, 252). Woodlands, and close to the into the Gallery walls over- are set in place to hold the Hall-to-Chapel Bridge, is now looking the Stables Courtyard, concrete ceiling/floor layer 159. Art-Metalworker John the ‘Arbour’. The Steps into the together with a ‘B.H.C.T. steady when it is poured in Harrison moves into his new Woodlands are now identified MCMXC’ ( Brougham Hall place. The last jacks go into and larger Crafts Centre [Unit as the ‘Woodland Walks’. (2, Charitable Trust 1990 ) plaque, place on Friday, 26th. Janu- Eight], the former ‘Pantries’, to 14, 15, 20, 29, 32, 58, 70, in late-August and early- ary, 1990, and waits for the begin trading there on Friday, 96, 102, 112, 122, 159; also Sept’r., 1990. (49, 166, 170) 1st. June, 1990. Previous to mixers to arrive. (149, 153) Hall News 176) 168. The Tudor ‘Bire’ Building this he has occupied the win- 153. A seven-inch (18cm) dow-less Unit where work 162. In July 1990, work be- is shown in Hall News 134 of originally began on the Sta- gins on converting the Guard Monday, 13th. August, 1990, layer of concrete is poured complete with all of the into place In the D.2. ‘Pantries’ bles rebuild in July 1987. That House into a Gift Shop, to unit will be taken by wood- open in Summer ’90. (32, 169) wooden ‘former’ of its roof in area on Monday, 5th. Febru- place, and now awaiting its ary, 1990, and left to set for turner Walter Gundrey in a week to form the floor of a Summer, 1990. (73, 86, 87, 163. Work begins on a six- tiles. By late-Summer 1990, planned Brougham Gallery. 128, 141, 171, 3014) section ‘Mullion’ Window in some of the tiles are added, July 1990, for the proposed but the waterproofing will not (130, 152, 155, 163, 2781) be complete before Summer 160. The ‘Balcony’, above the Gallery above John Harrison’s Guard House and the Hall's new Unit. (159, 164) 1991. (114, 188) 154. Tuesday, 30th. January, 1990, is the 400th anniversary oldest Gateway, is the newest of the birth of Lady Anne Clif- workzone in June and July, 164. In the Room between the 169. The new, quaintly-named 1990, when the layer of tar- ‘E.2. Room’, soon (July 1990) ‘Brougham Cupboard’ - once ford - or Anne of Pembroke - the "Guard Room" - opens its who had a lot to do with the mac laid there previously as to be used by woodturner some kind of waterproofing is Walter Gundrey, and the doors in August 1990, as the building of Brougham Chapel, Hall's long-awaited, first gift in 1659, Ninekirks Church at lifted by George White and Country Furnishings Unit run Whinfell, in 1660, Brougham Thomas Arkle. The coping- since July 1989 by Dennis and shop. (32, 33, 34, 162) Castle, Appleby Castle, Skip- stones of the ‘Balcony’ are Hazel Walker, stonemason removed (along with the tar- David Fawcett is at work pro- 170. Two roof trusses arrive ton Castle, and many more. for the Gallery roof in August, Hall News Issue 124 joins the mac), but are returned after a ducing window—dividing layer of waterproofing plastic ‘mullions’ for the large Gallery 1990, as work above John celebrations. (38, 252, 2995) Harrison's Unit proceeds. It sheeting is laid over the bal- window; (163, 165, 171) cony and its wall. After sand is later transpires an aerial 155. The new doors for the photo was been taken of the D.2. ‘Pantries’ - soon to be- laid over the sheeting, the 165. Work begins all around coping stones are put back, the planned Gallery room in Hall with this work in progress come a new Unit for Art- - the photograph later ap- Metalworker John Harrison - and a fine, new layer of flag- Summer 1990, as well as on its stones is added to the Balcony big window. Around this time pears in Aerofilms ’ 1991 book, are made by carpenter Brian The Lake District from The Air . Dalton, and installed by him in place of the tarmac. The the builder Syd Walker re- on Friday, 16th. March, 1990. work is being done in readi- turns after an illness that has (108, 172, 250, 468, 857) ness for the Guard House's laid him low since April 1989. At this time, the work to box-in 171. The ‘E.2’ Room, once used ceiling girders is completed, ‘Brougham Cupboard’ plans. The walls all around the room, (32, 44, 162, 532) as well as around a little by Art-Metalworker John Har- then the ceiling is ‘pointed’ to rison until he moved to his new fill in any cracks in the con- ‘cubby-hole’ where the steps crete surface. (151, 159, 175) 161. All around Brougham lead, are built up again oppo- Unit on Wed., 29 May, 1990, Hall in June and July, 1990, site the rooms used by the Hall is taken on by woodturner Walter Gundrey. who pro- 156. Fire Alert at Old Smoke- new signs appear for the tour- Team between November, ists. Each one is an engraved 1988, and September, 1989. duces wooden fruit-bowls and house ! On Wed., 8th. May, similar items; (86, 130, 159). 1990, a fire in a smoking oven brass plate on a wooden A door is created, linking with back. They have all have been the stairs down to the Ice at Rona Newsom's Smokehouse made by Art-Metalworker House entranceway, and right 172. Hall News 136, of 10th. triggers an alert. A real fear September, 1990, contrasts of explosion has Rona calling John Harrison in his biggest outside. Apart from the main contract since moving into his Mullion Window, there is also the ‘Kitchens’ and ‘Pantries’ the fire brigade. Her quick areas (A.2 to D.2. on the Hall actions and the brigade's new Unit. From now on, Hall a back window looking north, News adopts the new names onto the Chapel area. The Team's old grid system) in quick arrival - roadworks on 1990 with what they were like the ancient Bridge to Eamont as seen on the Plaques. The work continues with the red-hot Bire is officially the ‘Tudor Bire Summer 1990 reaching its in 1978, when the Hall looked Bridge mean a diversion via set for final and complete the A.66 and B.6262 roads - Building 1480-1520’ . The peak in early-August. (58, Billiards Room becomes the 123, 153, 163, 166) demolition ahead of new de- avert a calamity. (89, 162, velopment plans, 44 years 220, 359, 396, 480, 2921). ‘Lord Chancellor's Den’ be- cause the room that used to be 166. Steps which apparently after a man's death while once led to the clock that over- working on the original demo- 157. Five wooden roof-trusses above was used as a study by Lord Chancellor Henry looked the Stables Courtyard lition squad. A 1978 photo for the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, are rebuilt, part of the way, shows that part of the Hall which arrived at the Hall in Brougham when he drafted completely derelict and look- the famous Reform Bill of and will now serve as access ing more like an orchard than September 1989, are installed to a skylight hatch (less lad- in May, 1990, and the resto- 1832. Also renamed is the its former catering facilities. Carriage House, called the der) onto the roof for service ration work proper begins on and cleaning work, once the the ‘Bire’. (8, 114, 147, 168) Coach House beforehand, the Courtyard Well is now the roof is added; the fact that BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 3 1990 is for weekends only until the Now that sorry sight is 1991 tourist season opens. The rather different from the same new Tea Room there opens area pictured in 1990, on the Images of 1990 soon afterwards. (176, 181) same front page. (175, 2766). 178. Art-Metalworker John 173. Sheds that once served Harrison makes stylish weather as the Hall Team's quarters vanes in December, 1990. until they moved into two of Some are sent to Culgaith, the Stables rooms in Novem- between Penrith and Appleby- ber 1988, are moved out of in-Westmorland, and others to the Stables Courtyard in Sep- Greece. Hall News sees it as tember 1990 and will be re- ironic after a fierce, 36-hour erected elsewhere in the Hall blizzard rages all around grounds. A third hut, a metal, Britain between Friday, 7th., yellow “Portakabin”, was and Saturday, 8th. December, taken away from the Hall in 1990. Farmers, Shire horses, early-1989. (26, 123, 182) plough-teams; loose horses and cockerels are featured, 174. The Terrace ‘returns to and John shows off his handi- nature’, reports Hall News in work on the Flagpole Balcony September ’90. There are no on Christmas Eve, Monday, ‘bald patches’ now — despite 24th.. (45, 159, 180, 826) the effects of 1990’s scorching Summer — a year after it was 179. Brougham Avenue, and sown with new grass in readi- Brougham Hall itself, are un- ness for use for the Autumn der at least an inch of snow wedding reception of Christo- (25mm) on Sunday, 30th. De- pher and Alison Terry. (133) cember, 1990, when Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- 175. Assisted by carpenter scough comes to take photo- Brian Dalton and others, stone- graphs, and also at Lowther- mason David Fawcett is busy bridge. (158, 178, 180) Using several pho- on the roof of the new Gallery tographs by the unit in September and Octo- 180. The blizzards of Friday, t h e n A r t - ber 1990. A new chimney 7th., and Saturday, 8th. De- Metalworker John stack is created for the fire- cember, 1990, make Cumbria places in the new rooms, in- national news, and not just for Harrison, Hal l cluding the one used by the ‘1963-like’, traffic-trapping News 125 reports Hall Team in 1988 and 1989, whiteout on the A.66 over on the laying of a along with the new roof and Stainmore. Lowtherbridge is concrete ceiling its two main skylights and featured on BBC News - even for his prospective hatch above the Steps. (155, ahead of news of the devel- Unit Eight on 5th. 166, 176) oping Gulf Crisis, which would February 1990. become ‘Desert Storm’ on 17th 176. A doorway to the Hall January, ’91 - that year’s Gulf Team’s former ‘bait-room’ and War. The broadcast shows ‘Looking ‘classroom’ is bricked up and pictures over the A.6. bridge, Photo Guide For replaced by another doorway, looking towards Brougham East’ knocked through the alcove on Hall, with traffic coping with the opposite side of the fire- horizontal snow-flurries. The 1990 166 160 place to where the door was scene is repeated on the front when the Hall Team used this page of Hall News 146 of 179 room as their bait-room. By Monday, 31st. December, November, 1990, the new Unit 1990. (178, 250, 429, 2929) 151, is complete, and the three rooms and their access pas- 153, sage from the steps leading 152, 155, 163, 165, 170, from the Ice House entrance 159, 178 175, 177 are handed over to House of 154, 180 173 Eden Gallery , run by Nigel and 158 Alison Blair, who spend around 174 two weeks setting things up for 176 business. The main Gallery is, 172 157, 168 as already known, above John Harrison's unit. The passage- way also serves as storage for paintings, as does the bait- room and class room. The Blair 178 Family also plan to use the ‘classroom’ as their office, and 179 intend to establish a tea-room where the Hall Team once ate 156 their lunches. (123, 177) 161 167

177. On Saturday, 17th. No- 171 164 161 vember, 1990, the new House of Eden Gallery at Brougham 161, 162, 169 Hall opens for business for the first time. For now however, it 173 161 BHN 800 - 10-6-’16 - Pg 14 4 ‘Looking North’ 181. With rain, ice, snow and Border TV. ’s ‘Lookaround’ news £1,327. A marquee is used for 1991 bitter cold of a 1990-’91 team, including Eric Wallace, refreshments for the congrega- ently working on a book Winter, a major problem visited during the Bridge Crisis, tion this dull, damp afternoon. about Brougham Hall, High emerges for the House of Eden on Monday, 22nd. April, The weather, however, may Head Castle and the people Gallery , when the wild weather 1991, though Eric himself have helped with the fund- who lived in these mansions at causes dampness in the wall caused a stir by reporting raising more than it would Eamont Bridge and at Ivegill. between the main Gallery from the damaged Bridge have on a blazing-hot day like Gaynor Bryant, a young, Aus- (formerly the D.2 ‘Pantries’, despite ‘Keep Off’ warning in 1989 or 1990, as people tralian lady who has connec- and C.2 ’Kitchen’). With the notices and barricades! (2, will have been more likely to tions with the Brougham Fam- ‘Kitchens’ section yet to be 187, 2427, 2919, 2956) think about the cold, wintry ily, is also here, having been rebuilt, the walling here is not days ahead! (38, 198, 1100) at the Hall for a few months, yet ‘capped’ to prevent mois- 186. Building of a wall around acting at Project Administrator ture getting in and causing the E.1 ‘Drawing Room’ area 192. The Brougham Legend and Assistant. (108, 197) problems with damp. Wind- of Brougham Hall is begun by ‘Unknown Soldier’ marble blown snow and heavy rain Syd Walker in late-April, plaque is built into the walling 197. The ‘Brougham Cup- has left the wall sodden with 1991, assisted by Christopher for the new stairs in the Tudor board’ Gift Shop serves as a damp and condensation, and Terry and a student called ‘Bire’ Building, by Alan War- Crafts Unit for Jilly Bradshaw some of the Gallery's por- Andrew Raw. The walls are wick at the start of July, 1991. during Summer, 1991, as she traits, or at least some frames, raised to around 2ft (60cm) Alan is a son of first Hall Pro- restores furniture, and paints it have reportedly been dam- above ground-level. This later ject stonemason, Denis War- in brilliant colours and flowery aged. Many have had to be turns out to be the start on the wick, to whom the Courtyard patterns. (196) taken down off the afflicted central ‘Unit Nine’. (30, 232) Well is dedicated. (70, 188, walls while stonemason David 195, 196, 2648, 3022, 3023) 198. Burglary at The Chapel. Fawcett ‘comes to the rescue’ 187. The Hall Crafts Centre is A sad comment of human na- with work to seal the gaps and the subject of more television 193. The Brougham Hall-to- ture shows itself on the night of voids in the wall-tops. Until the coverage. The Independent Chapel Bridge is completely Saturday, 27th., and Sunday, weather clears, and the wall Television (ITV) show This repaired after being rammed 28th. July, 1991, when intrud- dries out, the problem will Morning features Country by a lorry on Tuesday, 9th. ers force their way into continue. (72, 73, 184, 205) Furnishings , run by Dennis and April, 1991. The work is com- Brougham Chapel. What the Hazel Walker, and films here pleted on Friday, 28th. June; ‘New Decade Storms’ of 182. The Hall Team’s wooden on Thursday, 30th. May, the Bridge Crisis ends when early-1990 failed to do, the huts are placed at the top of 1991, for their sewing and wooden ‘formers’ to guide the burglars succeed to do in a the Woods steps on Wed., 6 patchwork feature shown na- Aiston-based H. Kearton and matter of minutes. They smash February, 1991. (173, 1424) tionally a day or so later. It is Sons team in the rebuilding, up Brougham Chapel. On the a tonic for the Crafts Centre at are removed and the B.6262 night after Penrith Show, raid- 183. The new Brougham Hall the height of the ‘Bridge Cri- road reopens. The end of the ers try to gain entry into the Gardens Houses go on sole for sis’. (185, 193, 2582) crisis is greeted with a barbe- Chapel, severely damaging the ‘starting price’ of cue held by the Brougham Hall the main door, but fail. Far £165,000 each. Advertise- 188. The Tudor ‘Bire’ Building Crafts Centre folks on Monday worse, though, is the damage ments appear in local newspa- work is progressing very well, 1st. July, 1991. (2, 185, 356) done to one of the west- pers, and many national news- it is reported in May, 1991. facing, stained-glass windows, papers and magazines. Alan Warwick and Stewart 194. The two new Dog’s Head at the belfry end, which has Patrick work alongside Chris- gargoyles ore installed above been damaged so badly it'll 184. The House of Eden Gal- topher Terry, and his brother the arch of the South-East probably take over a year to lery , now with Tea Room, Hugh, in laying the second (Tertiary) Gateway in June, repair. All this is a bitter blow, opens fully as from Monday, level and building of a stair- 1991. The Gateway already coming just 49 days after the 25th. March, 1991, having way at the Guard House has a Lion’s Head gargoyle on ‘Gift Day Service’ to raise been open for weekends only (east) end. A wall is to be its outer wall. (3, 189) funds for a heating system for since the beginning in Novem- built, with a doorway, to sepa- the Chapel. The burglars find ber 1990. (177, 185, 2584) rate the stairs from the main 195. Deterred slightly by the little of interest in the Chapel, lower-level ‘Bire’ Room. A downpours on Wednesday, but knock things about a bit - 185. Bridge Crisis! - On Tues- Brougham Legend (‘Unknown 24th. July, 1991, which made then they turn their attention to day, 9th. April, 1991, the Soldier’) marble plaque is the as-yet-unfinished roof of Brougham Hall. Here, they use Hall-to-Chapel Bridge is badly commissioned, and is to be the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building leak scaffolding erected in the B.2 damaged by a lorry, whose built into the walling for the profusely, the work by Alan and C.2 ‘Kitchens’ area for the driver then attempts to drive new stairs as work progresses Warwick, Stewart Patrick and rebuilding work, to gain access away without being seen. here. (32, 192, 196, 3008) others to build the new stair- to the Stables Crafts Centre Because of the Brougham way here goes on. The stair- roof. They drop in through a Horse Trials on this day, the 189. Two Dog’s Head gar- way is now complete, except skylight of the House of Eden police attending the event are goyles are made, and des- for the walling above the level Gallery and move on through a wise to his tricks after hearing patched to Brougham Hall, to of the upper room's floor. (8, rarely-used door to Country a loud bang. They chase and be set in place over the South- 196, 206) Furnishings , then downstairs in apprehend the driver, and East (Tertiary) Gateway in that Unit and out of its main read him his rights. The Bridge Summer, 1991. The gargoyles 196. The ‘Big Meeting’ of door. Again finding nothing of is a ‘listed’ building, and has to will fill two square holes In the Saturday, 27th. July, 1991, interest, they knock things be repaired and kept to its Gateway once taken by the the same day as Penrith Show about in frustration. On the former appearance as much originals. (3, 194) nearby, attracts around 150 morning of Sunday, 28th. July, people, from many parts of 1991, those going to a service as possible. It will cost be- at Brougham Chapel find the tween £30,000 and £50,000 190. The low boundary wall the world, who are members to repair, a job predicted to skirting Brougham Chapel is of the Friends of Brougham damaged door and instantly last around two months. The repaired by the Kearton Hall Society . The meeting is start checking for other dam- bridge repair team in May, headed by the present Lord age. At the Hall, a squint sky- upward (east) part of the 12ft light, seen from the outside, 3-inch headroom (3.74m.) 1991, having been damaged (Michael) Brougham & Vaux, tells all – there will be a lot of Bridge has been extensively in the ‘New Decade Storms’ in and is held to mark the near- early-1990. (158) completion of the Tudor ‘Bire’ tidying-up to do before the damaged, cracked and, in affected Units can re-open. part, thrust upward. While it is Building and to bring the After the raid, the door be- repaired, the B.6262 road will 191. On Sunday, 9th. June, Friends up-to-date with the tween the Gallery Unit's office be blocked, meaning hard 1991, a ‘Gift-Day Service’ is Hall Trust 's progress. Christo- and Country Furnishings ' top- times ahead for the folks of held in Brougham Chapel, to pher Terry gives a talk about level room is properly-secured the Brougham Hall Crafts Cen- raise funds for a new heating the restoration project, while tre, what with this vital link to system for the 332-year-old Mark Thomas also attends, the main A.6 route being lost. Chapel; the event raises and also speaks. Mark is pres- BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 5 1991 now. The East Window will Courtyard in Nov’r. 1991. (49) 1991. (221) and sealed for good, have to be structurally altered 212 . A new timber-and-glass while the skylights are better first, though the work will likely 213. The various Units of the secured. Key parts of the scaf- Door to keep the winter have to wait until 1992. (8, draughts out of the House of Brougham Hall Crafts Centre folding would be removed to 216, 2703) report a ‘mad rush’ of business prevent intruders from climb- Eden Gallery is installed at the top of the stairs that lead to leading up to Christmas 1991, ing it, to be replaced only 203. The roadside wall, or and New Year 1992. when building work com- North Wall, is continuing as a the Gallery in November mences in the ‘Kitchens’ area late-1991 workzone, with later in 1991. (38, 71, 72, attention paid to a stone win- 200, 256, 2590) dow-sill, around 6 feet., (2 metres), long, still perched on 199. Woodturner Walter the wall high above the road. Images of 1991 Gundrey and House of Eden it's secured in place with wall- Gallery and Tea Room are building done around it. (205) Right: featured in special reports in Build- Hall News 161, of Monday, 204. Art-Metalworker John ing 29th. July, 1991. Harrison makes two trophies work for the Pauls Agriculture Group 200. In the fine ‘Indian Sum- in September, 1991, each is mer’ of September and Octo- featuring a brass Friesian cow be- ber 1991, work takes place and they'll be presented as gun high up on the wall-tops contest prizes. (244) on above the ‘Kitchens’. A team the including the Terry brothers 205. When the weather dete- Christopher and Hugh, as well riorates after 1991’s ‘Indian would as Stewart Patrick and David Summer’, bringing frosts, wind - be Fawcett, are poised some 50 and rain, work ends on the Unit feet (15 metres) above the wall-tops above the ‘Kitchens’ Nine B.6262 road. Wall-building area at the extreme north- west (Bridge) corner of in here involves the walls’ innards late- being filled with cement and Brougham Hall. The wall is loose stone, all of which needs filled-in and ‘capped’ with 1991 to be hauled up to the scaf- cement to protect it from the as folding workzone in buckets on wintry weather. (2, 108, 181) seen

ropes and pulleys, along with 206. The roof of the circa in stone for the main building 500-year-old Tudor ‘Bire’ Hall work itself. The North Wall Building is completed as the News and the Gallery's exposed, final tiles go into place in Oc- 168 west-facing walls in the tober 1991. Now restoration ‘Kitchens’ area are built up a here - work will continue inside the with bit and sealed, with the Gal- ‘Bire’. (195, 214) lery section being given extra work work to avert another problem 207. Stonemason David Faw- also with damp, as happened early cett is making stylish bird ta- being in 1991. (28, 71, 72, 181, bles and other garden orna- done 202, 203, 2703) ments from his own share of in the the ‘carboniferous white’ sand- 201. When the newly- stone which is also being used back- redesigned covered market extensively in the rebuilding drop. between Middlegate and project. He puts them on sale Burroughgate, Penrith, opens in November and December, 191, 198 184, 199, 201, 212 188, 195, 206 as the new Devonshire Arcade 1991, in the ‘Brougham Cup- 200 on Monday, 5th. August, 1991, board’ Gift Shop. (32, 164) it includes stalls run as Penrith 213 branches of Brougham Hall's 208. The walls of the E.1 Room 189, House of Eden Gallery and The (Drawing Room, or Unit Nine) 194 Old Smokehouse , run by the area, on the east side of the Blair Family and Lerona Carriage House, are ‘capped’ Newsom respectively. (249) with cement in October 1991, to keep out the winter's ele- 201 202. An old door which has ments. (14, 30, 232) 204 199 hung from its rusted hinges in the west end of the Tudor 209. The sandstone-paved 186, 207 192, 197 ‘Bire' Building since long be- footpath that goes along the 208 fore the Hall Trust was front of the Stables Crafts founded in 1985 is restored Centre is extended a few ‘Looking North’ by Hugh Terry in late- metres more by Christopher September, 1991. Not a lot Terry during October 1991. Photo Guide For 187, 198 210

more than the outer frame of 210. Mark Heeley-Creed, who the door remained, but now it 209 183 is complete, and with sixteen runs the Goldsmith's Workshop 196 panes of glass each around six unit at Brougham Hall, lands a 1991 inches (15cms.) square. Around prestigious contract for a New 202 40 per-cent. of the door is Zealand barrister in Novem- 211 ber 1991. 191 original, with extra panelling newly-added by Hugh Terry. 211. Huge sandstone blocks, Most of the windows of the cubes measuring around 4ft. 185, ‘Bire’ are fitted with glass, (1.19m), which could come in 193 though temporarily fitted for very useful at a later stage of Brougham Hall's restoration, 203, 190 205 181 BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 6 are delivered to the Stables ‘Looking East’ 182 1992 214. In January 1992, Christo- Den (15 and 50) was the 1987. The head is thankfully January and February, pher Terry announces that the name given to the structure the found among rubble on the 1992, return and make a start top-level Room of the Tudor Hall Team once called the ground. (83, 142, 312, 452) on it by uncovering founda- ‘Bire’ Building will be used as Billiards Room. Above this tions of the wall on the north – a ‘Conference Centre’ before 1986-‘87 workzone was the 225. The first phase of electri- ‘Kitchens’ and cellars - side. it becomes the proposed new room in which Lord Chancellor fication comes to the Tudor Andrew Raw, Richard Craske ‘Jim Taylor-Page Childrens Henry Brougham drafted the ‘Bire’ Building in early- and Ed. Cole make a good Interpretative Museum’ . At the Reform Bill in 1832. That room Springtime, 1992. Outdoor impression on the wall's base, start of 1992, Mr. Terry goes was his private Study, and the Christmas ‘fairy’ lights prove a and then it is taken on by to London to lobby the Gov- story features in Hall News’ temporary way of providing builder Syd Walker. The West ernment’s Treasury department Review of The Years ‘Mystery light while heaters are in- Door Corridor is the passage for funds to launch a new Hall Year’ of 1832, in Issue 176 of stalled. (227) that once provided a direct Team. His ‘fund-hunt’ proves Saturday, 29th. February, 226. The Stables Courtyard link between the Terrace and fruitful as, on Thursday, 25th. 1992. There is also a story the Stables Courtyard. Lead- June, 1992, he will learn a about the Lord Chancellor (49) is described as a ‘hive of activity’ in Hall News 179 of ing from the ‘Corridor’ would new Team can be set up. In the Brougham heading to London be passages direct to the main meantime, the proposed Mu- at the start of 1832 - despite Monday, 5th. April, 1992, when the 1992 tourist season A.2 Kitchen, and direct to the seum is used to store a collec- suffering from English Cholera Staircase Hall, giving a link tion of chairs and sofas, useful - to pass two injunctions in the begins to hot up. (49, 484) also between the Kitchens and for conferences. (8, 216, 223) Chancery Court. The three-day the Staircase Hall. The Stair- journey south all but cured his 227. A protective iron grate is bolted onto the inside of the case Hall would lead on to all 215. The Ice House is flooded illness! Back in our region, major parts of the mansion in January, ’92, just as it was ‘boisterous weather’, as Car- recently-restored ‘Bire’ win- dow in March 1992, to guard part of Brougham Hall, where in August, 1987. (58, 247) lisle Patriot 's archives call it, the Brougham Family and their caused floods and toppled a against accident or intrusion 216. Restoration work begins by burglars. Other windows guests would be. Often, there parapet of the 15th. Century would be Royal visitors, too. on the east-facing window of Eamont Bridge. Nothing new also get barriers. (198, 216) the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, and On the south side of the Corri- there then! (73, 158) dor is the 1987-surveyed B.1 the walling above it. The main 228. In April 1992 work be- part of this task, to extend the 221. The House of Eden Gal- gins once again on the Terrace Room with its block marble Window to its original width, is lery and Tea-room Unit will Wall. (246) fireplace. (28, 36, 37, 49, 75, taken on by Stewart Patrick reopen this year, after rumours 99, 219, 434) 229. Stewart Patrick single- and David Fawcett in January otherwise, after the House of 232. The north-side wall of the 1992, and stonework that has Eden Mail-Order Company , an handedly clears much of the rubble left in the A.2 ‘Kitchen’ ‘West Door Corridor’ and blocked half of the window for associated but actually quite those of the E.1 Room grow many years is knocked away. separate business from the in April 1992. Helped by a walkway of concrete laid in simultaneously as Syd Walker The window is pretty much Hall and Devonshire Arcade alternates between these back to its original form, with (Penrith) Units, is sued for 1989, to link the ‘Kitchen’ with the West Doorway, Stewart workzones during Springtime, a dividing mullion down the £8,100 on Wednesday, 26th. 1992. Syd works on one wall middle, even if that is only in February, 1992, after appar- makes a great impression, clearing away around a quar- in the morning and moves on the new wooden frame. The ently not paying for a special to the other in the afternoon as old window looks much better advertising feature in the Sun- ter of what the Hall Team of 1987 left behind – that access the cement of the first one sets for the attention that it has day Telegraph Magazine . The - before coming back to the had. Above the east window mail-order company closes, to the West Doorway is some- thing the former Hall Team first one next morning. The E.1 (inside the room) is an impres- but House of Eden 's Units at the Room, worked on a little in sive ‘Roman Stone’ — a man in Hall and in Penrith continue never had; something they could have used in moving Springtime and early-Summer, a tunic, or similar garment; the trading. On Easter Saturday, 1991, is where Michael stone is built into the walling 11th. April, 1992, the Gallery away huge slabs of stone that ultimately stopped work in this Treece's Hall Team began just above the newly-changed opens to the public for the digging, on the east side of window. (8, 202, 218) 1992 season. (257) area of the Hall. The Kitchens and Cellars area is now being the Carriage House in Septem- ber 1986; it’s today’s Unit 217. The Cumberland and 222. Most Brougham Hall Gar- earmarked for ‘Treasury’ and dens Houses are now built, Library rooms. (28, 36, 254) Nine . (14, 30, 186, 234, 237) Westmorland Herald for Satur- day, 11th. January, 1992, around four years after work 233. The ‘Sunken Garden’, the tells of the time when the fa- first began on-Site, a report in 230. The ‘Hospitality Suite’, a ‘Terrace Trench’ of September, mous Brougham Triptych , or Hall News says on Monday, room above Mark Heeley- 1986 and September 1987, is Reredos , used to be in 9th. March, 1992. [However, Creed's Goldsmith's Workshop , declared temporarily ‘out-of- Brougham Chapel, showing it others were planned and built is now a key feature of the bounds’ in May, 1992, while it in a photograph that originally in around 1998 and 1999] 1987-’88 built Stables com- is given weed-killer to clear up appeared in the same news- plex of Brougham Hall. In its distinctive cobbles that are paper in February, 1968. That 223. On Saturday, 21st. 1991, a small printing business actually the foundations and was when it was announced March, 1992, the first meeting was temporarily based here, floors of earlier buildings. (29) that the circa-1490 Triptych is held in the ‘Conference but now these two rooms are would be taken to London's Room’ on the Tudor Bire's up- being used as meeting rooms 234. The ‘West Door Corridor’ Victoria Museum to be re- per floor - the site of the pro- while plans to set up the Jim is reported to be progressing stored. It went south for that in posed Jim Taylor-Page Chil- Taylor-Page Museum gets well, with the north-side well - December 1969, but is now on drens’ Interpretative Museum. under way (223). A meeting is now around 4ft. [119 cms) in show, behind security gates, at Christopher and Alison Terry held in these rooms on Tues- height. (229, 232, 234) entertain visitors from the Envi- day, 7th. April, 1992, be- Carlisle Cathedral. (38) 235. ronmental Studies Group from tween Christopher Terry and On Saturday, 16th. May, 218. The work on the east- Nottingham University. They officials from a special tourism 1992, the fourth day of an watch a 6-minute video about awards programme run by the intense Springtime heatwave, facing Window of the Tudor there are problems at ‘Bire’ Building is completed on the Hall project and then have English Tourist Board. The visi- tors are treated to a video Brougham Hall when the water Saturday, 29th. February, a tour of the Site. (219, 220, supply dries up. There are big 1992. (8, 227) 225, 407) show and site tour. (223, 266) problems for the Crafts Centre 224. Vandalising ‘souvenir 231. The latest workzone at units, especially the House of 219. Three University lads Eden Gallery , whose tea-shop work in the Woodlands in hunters’ are reckoned to have Brougham Hall is the ‘West had a go at stealing one of Door Corridor’ - as Hall News really needs water. The Gal- January and February, 1992. lery’s Alison Blair has to rush (223, 231) the ornate gargoyle faces calls it. Early in April, 1992, from the doorway to the Pele the three University students 220. The Lord Chancellor's Tower, uncovered in July, who were in the Woodlands in BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 7 1992 rains that went on to cause the farewell dinner is to be held in Brougham Hall and High Head home, near Tirril, for notorious ‘Muckle Spate’, or a few weeks’ time. Also, in Castle, and the Broughams, extra supplies just to keep the great flood, in the Scottish Summer, 1992, John has made has its debut today. Several place running. But it is the way Highlands in 1829. Lord Chan- a window-frame guard for the key members of the ‘Friends of In which Syd Walker copes cellor Henry Brougham had Post Office in Sanquhar in Brougham Hall Society’ also with the problem that causes plenty of income from his judi- Dumfries and Galloway, south- attend the event. From 16th. most comment. He lifts the cial and political duties, as west Scotland, after an attack July, 1942 - ironically a Thurs- grate of the Courtyard Well, well as the Brougham Estate, on it by vandals. The Sanqu- day like this day - to the end and uses a bucket and rope to to make the Hall look so spe- har Post Office, which was of the war in 1945, the Hall get water from it. The artesian cial - modelled partly on Win- opened in 1763, is the oldest was a highly-secret testing Courtyard Well has effec- dsor Castle and thenafter be post office in Britain. (315) base where the 1st. and 35th. tively been given its old job dubbed the Windsor of The Brigades of the 79th. Royal back. Being on artesian well, it North . (That title is now given 245. Working in the Stonema- Armoured Corps developed can draw water all the way to Alnwick Castle in Northum- sonry unit, David Fawcett the Grant Canal Defence from the distant Pennines berland). The Fairholt sketch, makes a wooden ‘former’ for League ’s Light Tank. They also through a porous (water- featured in Dawn Tyler's His- the War Base Memorial arch worked at Greystoke Castle, bearing) layer of rock. This tory of Brougham Hall book, in June 1992. (242, 248, 250) on related projects, while Low- effect on the natural water inspired Hall News ' editor ther Castle served as a train- table allows water to make its 246. Alan Warwick is fea- Alistair Aynscough to recreate tured in Hall News 187 as he ing school. Its fine Park was way to the Hall because the it in Hall News 184, of 1 June, used as a training ground for layer of porous rock happens works on the Terrace Wall on 1992. His new, colour, version Wednesday, 24th. June, tanks. The CDL Tank’s main to reach its defensive, hilltop is actually a mix of old and feature was a 13,000,000- location - and is said to have 1992. (25, 228) new, varying from the original candlepower search-light de- been a huge incentive to build by including the 1990-built 247. After lights and a safety signed to dazzle and point out here originally. (70, 236) ‘mullion’ window of the Gal- gate are installed in the en- enemy troops, and it was de- lery. However, some inaccura- signed with the North African 236. On Monday, 18th. May, tranceway to the Ice House, cies in the Fairholt sketch are this feature, which was a battles such as El-Alamein in 1992, a racing pigeon, resting duplicated in Alistair’s 1992 mind. Though that phase of the and sheltering from the heat in workzone early in 1987, is version, and he uses some opened to the public as from War had ended by the time the South-East (Tertiary) Gate- ‘artistic licence’ in drawing the June, 1992. The gate is in- the CDL Tank was completed, way, doesn’t even attempt to passage through the ‘West it is still reckoned to have fly off when pictured for a stalled at the Ice House's ac- Door Corridor’ and the Door tual door between the two played a part in the Battle of weather story in Hall News . (3, as straight when it is actually Remagen, on 7th. March, 235, 2028) flights of steps. (58, 69) offset around 2ft. (61cms.) by 1945, in which the Allies the position of the West Door- 248. On Wednesday, 8th. July crossed a critical bridge on the 237. The south wall of the E.1 1992, the first-ever Hall News Room now features a window way. (36, 163, 176, 231) way to blitz the German capi- photograph to be taken from tal, Berlin. (16, 58, 108, 122, in late-May 1992. The north 242. Work begins on the War the top of the almost-complete wall incorporates the unit’s 242, 245, 857, 2244, 3047) Base Memorial (back to South Hall Base War Memorial fea- door, and a window. (232) Wall) to the many soldiers 251. Richard Mawdsley and a tures the Stables Crafts Cen- who served at Brougham Hall tre, the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building colleague ‘size-up’ the Cob- 238. Stonemason David Faw- during World War II. At the and the Main Courtyard. On bled Driveway in July, 1992, cett produces the base or sill start of June 1992, the Memo- as part of their preparations of a new window for the C.2 this day the Driveway is also a rial base is set in concrete and scene of work in preparation for the Memorial Service. They Kitchen in May, 1992. He and stone, and building work on a do a bit of work on it during Syd. Walker set it in place for the memorial service in feature, an arch with steps up eight days’ time. (9, 48, 137, Summer 1992. They line the there in May, and Syd adds its either side, starts with the front Driveway up with the place frame, and also to a wail 242, 245, 250) walls. A plaque reading BHCT there the Hall's Main Door was begun by George White and MCMLXXXVI ( Brougham Hall 249. Art-Metalworker John located back in the Autumn of Thomas Arkle. (72, 148, 280) Charitable Trust 1986 ), which Harrison has a new appren- 1988. In this same doorway, in tice, Rusty Lomas, to help him 239. A sturdy metal and wood was built in the South Wall, is October, 1905, King Edward removed and put in store, and in his Crafts Centre unit as VII and members of the trolley is sold second-hand to later added to the Memorial from Monday, 6th. July, 1992. Brougham Family were photo- the Hall Trust for £15 by Mar- Rusty will mainly be involved garet Aynscough mother of itself. Another plaque is des- graphed as they were about patched to the Hall - the ac- in work such as polishing and to set off on an epic trip by Hall News ' editor Alistair Ayn- engraving, but does have a scough - on Monday, 18th. tual Memorial plaque itself. It motor car over Stainmore to will be added to the Memorial hand in some of the less de- Raby Castle near Staindrop, May, 1992. The trolley is used as it nears completion. The tailed art-metalwork. In 1993 County Durham and back. (43, by Syd Walker at work on the Royal Armoured Corps and Rusty will ‘enter the music busi- 137, 144, 250, 327, 1567) C.2. ‘Kitchen’ Window and the ness’ with his two Twilite Re- E1. Room the next day. (2747) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) worked on a cords stores, firstly in Victoria 252. At the end of August, Road and then Devonshire 1992, Brougham Chapel of St. 240. The curious ‘Ovens’ be- special tank. (1, 245, 250) Arcade in Penrith. (201) Wilfrid’s reaches a third of a tween the E.1 Room and the 243. The Brougham Hall Crafts millennium in age - 333 years Carriage House, are cleaned Centre have two busy and 250. ‘Saluting the Hall Sol- and four months. A team of up and rebuilt some more by hectic hours on Tuesday, 2nd. diers’. On Thursday, 16th. July, builders led by the inspira- Syd Walker in May, 1992. June, 1992, when around 100 1992, the Memorial Service to tional Anne of Pembroke (13, 14, 237) mark the 50th. anniversary of visitors from Epsom, off to visit (Lady Anne Clifford) com- a flower festival in Glasgow, the founding of the War Base pleted today’s Chapel, on the 241. The Stables Courtyard arrive in two tour coaches. at Brougham Hall is held at site of on earlier one, at the and its surrounds were once the Hall. Many former soldiers drawn by an artist called end of April 1659. In 1660 244. On a very sunny and who served here, as well as at they did the some for the re- Fairholt in around 1838, to- almost-cloudless Saturday, 6 th Lowther Castle and Greystoke wards the end of the extensive mote Ninekirks Church near June, 1992, Art-Metalworker Castle, attend the service, Whinfell. (154, 1727) re-styling of Brougham Hall John Harrison takes advan- conducted by the Rev. Wilfrid that took place between 1829 tage of the weather by work- Braithwaite. Also leading the 253. The Hospitality Suite and and 1840, quite possibly ing outside his Unit. He is ceremony is Christopher Terry the room next to it become the prompted by a collapse of working on a consignment of and Brigadier Ewan Morrison, office for the new ‘Employment part of the walling of the an- 100 brass plaques for the Commander of the North West Action’ Hall Team run by the cient Pele fewer during the almost-defunct Associated England Division of the British Cumbria Training Company, Lancashire Schools Examina- Army. Here, too, is Mark Tho- and its area supervisor Ian BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 8 tions Board (ALSEB), whose mas, whose new book about Sorrell. The first two Team members are archivist Robert inches, only for raiders to bases of new walls to be built 1992 Bell, who arrives on Tuesday, smash the place up in the soon on the south and east on the site of the former 28 July, 1992, and Hall News ’ name of greed. (38, 158, sides of the Well Cellar in Drawing Room, which is now editor Alistair Aynscough, who 198, 258, 288, 305) August, 1992. (6, 262) called Unit 9 . A date plaque - joins the new Team as assistant ‘BHCT MXMII’ ( Brougham Hall archivist on Monday, 3 August, 257. A cycle touring club from 262. Work is in full swing Charitable Trust 1992 , with an 1992. It is the third training Holland pay a visit to around the former ‘Kitchens’ unusual, but correct , equivalent project Alistair has attended Brougham Hall on Monday, and Cellars of Brougham Hall of the more-usual ‘MCMXCII’) - at the Hall. (230, 266, 274) 13th. July, 1992, and these in August, 1992. Hugh Terry, is placed over the door. (255, visitors have a browse around David Fawcett, Stewart Patrick 268, 272, 307) 254. Work is ‘nearing comple- the Hall Crafts Centre on the and others, begin the latest tion’ in the A.2. ‘Kitchen’, it is 268. The two doorways for a bright and breezy day. While project on Monday, 17th. ‘balcony’ on the north edge of reported in Hall News in late- they have a drink and some- August, 1992, making great July and early-August, 1992. thing to eat in the House of progress on getting the walls the Well Cellar are taking The work to clear out soil and shape - one for the B.2 Eden Gallery tea-room, Hall around the Well Cellar and a ‘Kitchen’ and one for direct rubble as well as huge slabs News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- future library to an average of stone that had halted work access from this door to the scough, a keen cyclist himself, height of around 3ft. (92cm.). A.2. ‘Kitchen’, and access to a back in 1987, is indeed pro- takes a photograph of the The arch of the passage lead- gressing well, with a useful Balcony area with the group’s ing from the Well Cellar to the potential ‘Library’. The second passageway direct to the door to this room is topped all-terrain bikes (mountain second flight of steps near the with a B.H.C.T. MXMII West Doorway, which they can bikes) lined up along the wall West Doorway is also re- carry things along. Ed Cole, (Brougham Hall Charitable nearby. (221, 269, 1410) stored. (6, 35, 36, 261, 434) Trust 1992 one of the University students ) date plaque like who arrived on the scene at 258. The Hall's Crafts Centre 263. Twelve-year-old Nicholas the new ‘Unit 9’ has just got. the start of 1992, and Julian is the scene of a burglary raid Terry helps work at Brougham This work above the Well Luton, who is a relative of the on the night of Friday, 14th., Hall on Monday, 24th. August, Cellar, takes place in late- Terrys, both work on the and Saturday, 15th. August, 1992, mowing grass on the September and early-October Kitchen that was one of the 1992. Apparently gaining lawn outside the South Wall, 1992, while bad weather halts earliest Hall workzones from access to the roof of the Sta- opposite the Houses. (1) other building work at early-1986. An A.2 ‘Kitchen’ bles Centre via scaffolding, Brougham Hall, and, after this, window facing the Chapel, the raiders drop in through a 264. The money-box below all building work for 1992 which had first been partly- skylight and break open the the large notice board, outside ceases. (7, 262, 267, 275) uncovered in April, 1987, is door of the Terrys’ office the Main Gate, is plundered in 269. The House of Eden Gal- cleared of soil on Thursday, above the Westernmost Main mid-September, 1992, with lery and Tea Room closes down 6th. August, 1992. (28, 36) Gateway and do the same for the top prized off to get at on Sunday 25th. October, the door of a key cabinet the money. No-one knows how 255. Due to safety reasons, 1992, after almost two years. there. Then, armed with a much has been taken as it was The Blair Family will concen- and to save problems for the selection of keys, the thieves un-counted donations to the Hall Trust, hopes of repairing trate instead on their shop In go on a free-for-all tour of the Hall Trust ; it just doesn’t bear Devonshire Arcade, Penrith, the shattered fireplace in the Hall by night. They attempt a thinking about. (258, 265). east side of the Carriage and hope to open a shop in raid on Mark Heeley-Creed's in future. Now, though, House are abandoned be- Goldsmith's Workshop before 265. Another raid at cause such a plan could cause Brougham Hall on Monday, they will spend their final full apparently being scared off. weeks packing everything the Carriage House to col- However, just two nights later, 28th. September, 1992, lapse, leading to an even leaves Mark Heeley-Creed's away ahead of the end of between Sunday, 16th., and their tenancy on Saturday, greater setback to the Hall Monday, 17th. August, 1992, unit plundered yet again, and Trust than the Bridge Crisis of the Old Smokehouse ’s till 31st. October, ’92. (276, 299) they come back and cause 1991. The lintel of the once- devastation. The window of dumped behind Brougham 270. The B.6262 road is the proud Drawing Room fireplace the ‘Hospitality Suite’ room, Chapel. Even the boot of the scene of work to relay electric- is cracked, and collapsed above the Goldsmith’s Work- Terrys’ yellow Mercedes car ity cables, this work being slightly in the middle, almost shop , is blacked-out with silver has been broken open and done by a Norweb Electricity certainly smashed during the spray-paint, giving the raiders plundered. After this, security roadwork team in October Hall's partial demolition in cover as they shine torches lights are installed. (258) and November 1992. A Ro- 1934. On Wednesday, 5 th around - while they cut a hole man Road is reckoned to have August, 1992, Syd Walker in the floor, and drop in 266. The ‘Hospitality Suite’ been discovered under the line reluctantly begins the task of among Mark Heeley-Creed’s base of the Hall Team wit- of the modern road, but these walling-in the fireplace with valuables. They take every- nesses changes in the Team. rumours turn out to be the back wall of the newest thing they can, leaving Mark On Monday, 5th. October, ‘probably false’ after a few Crafts Centre Unit. Ironically, shocked and reduced to ask- 1992, Clare Whitfield arrives days’ surveying by Christopher Syd. ends up having to rush ing for a Hall News Lowther as Personal Assistant to Chris- Terry and members of the Hall back and shore-up parts of 1992 picture of him and his topher Terry, and Paul Harris Team, beginning on Wednes- the Carriage House anyway lost valuables at the Show, becomes a groundsman. How- day, 25th. November, 1992, when it shows signs of slip- which he uses for an insurance ever, Paul leaves within days. on the same day the Norweb page and possible collapse in claim. (5, 230, 260, 264, 265) Another new arrival is Pete Electricity team start on a sec- Autumn, 1993. (14, 31, 343) Jackson, employed as a ond trench. They also clear 259. The first artefacts of the Draughtsman (buildings artist) away soil from the road 256. The West Window of planned Jim Taylor-Page Chil- with a knack for brilliant verges as was done four years Brougham Chapel, which was drens’ Interpretative Museum drawings of Penrith Town Cen- earlier. From the presumed smashed in a break-in on the are moved into the upper level tre, and many other places, Roman Road, they find several night of Saturday, 27th. and of the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building by using a dot-shading style. Pete tell-tale stones in trenches dug Sunday, 28th. July, 1991, is Hall Team members Robert quickly gets to work, among by Norweb [or ‘North West repaired, as seen in Hall News Bell and Alistair Aynscough on his new colleagues, drawing Electricity Board’ of many 190 of Monday, 24th. August, Monday, 17th. August, 1992. various features of the Hall. years earlier]. Meanwhile, a 1992. The valuable stained- (230, 253, 274, 276) castellated road sign for the glass window was so badly 260. A young couple move 267. Syd Walker and others Hall is re-erected at the damaged in the raid it has into the ‘Hospitality Suite’ of nearby A.6 junction, having taken around a year to re- Brougham Hall, while on stud- are working in the E.1. Room again. They are preparing it been repaired by John Harri- pair; a sad irony after the ies. The lad helps on restora- son after a recent attack by ‘New Decade Storms’ early in tion work; both act as a kind for a roof of ‘pre-fabricated’ reinforced concrete beams. vandals. (62, 124, 387, 896) 1990 toppled part of a tree of 24-hour guard, too. (264) that, almost by miracle, missed These beams will also form the smashing Brougham Chapel by 261. Kate Terry clears the floor of a room above this unit BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 14 9 1992 271. Nissen Huts that Lakes workzone becomes Roadsign, 240 238 261, 262, 217, once lined Brougham Avenue, weather-bound. Also during 270 268 252, leading up to the Main Gate- late-November and early- way of Brougham Hall, are In December 1992, the Hall 256 the news again following a Team work in the Woodlands. 220 visit by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, (58, 110, 269, 276, 277) 221, from Harrogate in Yorkshire, who were both born in Penrith 275. Stonemason David Faw- 242, 255 269, just before the Second World cett is rumoured to be in with a 245, 276 War. They recall the days chance of landing a contract 248, 237, 244, when they used to cycle for carved stone for repairs to 249 around the Brougham Hall Windsor Castle after Queen 250 271 267, area just before starting col- Elizabeth Il’s favourite home, 272 lege in Festival of Britain Year on which Brougham Hall is 1951, and remember the Nis- supposed to have been styled, 258, sen huts being there, following is ravaged by a fire on Fri- 231, 232, 234, 241 265 the Avenue that is the modern day, 20th. November, 1992. 273 B.6262 road. They also re- In December he works on a member the famous Brougham lintel destined for a window in 257 Photo Guide For ‘Sanctuary’ Door Knocker the C.2. ‘Kitchen’. (280, 2816) (modelled on one from Durham 216, Cathedral) which used to be 276. After Max Newsom, son bolted to the Westernmost of Old Smokehouse and Truf- 218, 19921992 Main (Office) Gates before fles proprietor Rona Newsom, 264 227 mysteriously disappearing at works with her and other 236 ‘Looking West’ some stage after the war. The Smokehouse colleagues in the Nissen Huts were taken down former Tea Room of the House 224 219 270 in or after 1962, after con- of Eden Gallery (and former 222 cerns were raised about their Hall Team bait-room in Lee ramshackle condition, although Barry’s time at Brougham 228, bases remain today. (5, 43, Hall), at packing Christmas 263 246 62, 290, 735, 2729, 2814) orders of fish and other items from Rona’s two units, electri- 272. Eleven reinforced con- cians John and Andrew Blenk- 251 233 crete ceiling beams for ‘Unit arn arrive to do work here. Nine’ are ordered by Christo- John and Andrew do some 239 pher Terry in November 1992, work for the Art-Metalworker to be delivered and installed John Harrison’s new unit in 243 sometime early in 1993. (296) 1990; now they are rewiring 214, 235 the former Gallery to become 223, 275 229, 273. A feature on Country a new base for draughtsman 226 254 Furnishings ' Dennis Walker Pete Jackson and his brilliant 225, appears in Hall News 197, of drawings - wiring it up in mid- 259 Monday, 30th. November, December 1992 after an elec- 230, 253, 215, 1992, showing him in a Cum- trical fault was discovered. A ‘Looking South’ 260, 266 247, 274 berland and Westmorland chunk is said to have been Herald report from 13th. blasted out of a pair of (very August, 1966, when he was thankfully insulated!) pliers involved in on archaeological when that discovery was survey on ground destined to made. On Thursday, 17th. ImagesImages ofof 19921992 form a new route for the A.66 December, 1992, a Gallery at Whinfell, east of Penrith. Party is held in Pete Jackson’s Below: Stewart Patrick, facing away from the camera, and 274. New Hall Team arrival new studio — and very soon Pete comes in to start work. stonemason David Fawcett busy in the ‘Tudor Bire’ in Janu- Richard McVittie paints the ary 1992 — with the East Window under repair beyond them. walls of a new toilet room at (159, 266, 269, 2813) the end of the corridor serving the icehouse entrance and he stairs to the former Gallery in early December, 1992. The toilet is situated above the ‘Fourth Well’ secret passage- way discovered by Lee Barry's Hall Team on 4th. May, 1988. Richard McVittie and Michael Wheeler are new to the Hall Team in late-November and early-December 1992. Mi- chael leaves after a few days to become the Supervisor for a Cumbria Training Company project elsewhere in the county. His successor, Michael Thompson, keeps the new Hall Team at its highest member- ship of six, although a team of fourteen Aira Force () teamsters come to work at Brougham Hall for a day in December 1992 when their

BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 0 277. Tuesday 5th. January, “scheduled to be toppled 3rd., to the early-afternoon of 296. Eleven new, re- 1993 1993, the second day at the soon”. Ironically, February Friday, 5th. March, 1993, the inforced concrete ceiling Hall for the Hall Team, also 1993 turns out to be the driest operation to get the Knocker beams intended for Unit Nine sees several members of the month yet to be recorded for safely on the wall first involves are brought to Brougham Hall Aira Force ( National Trust ) Hall News by Alistair Ayn- a cardboard outline cut-out of on a Mays Motors Transport team, who helped out at scough, with a total of just 12 the Knocker, which is then fas- Ltd lorry at around 8.45 a.m. Brougham Hall in December, millimetres (0.5 inches) of rain tened to the 4-inch [10cm.] on Thursday, 18th. March, 1992, return for a day or two, or snow. [In fact, the tree was thick, solid-oak gate as a 1993, and are off-loaded on Cobbles Driveway and still standing at the start of guide to drilling holes for the from the lorry with a fork-lift Woodlands work. (276) 2016, 26 years after the four one-inch (25mm.) holes. truck brought along for the storms - it also survived Janu- However, it is a lengthy and days work ahead. The ceiling 278. The Aira Force Team help ary 2005’s storm... and 2015’s very accurate job because the beams have to be hoisted up clear the Woodlands a little in ‘Desmond’]. (38, 158, 2919) holes have to be exactly in the to the tops of the walls of Unit January, 1993. (277, 326) right places so that no stress at 9 using the fork-lift truck, and 285. Building work on the all is put on the Knocker, that taken off its forks by David 279. The Old Smokehouse Terrace wall continues in Janu- may weaken its structure, and Fawcett and Christopher Terry, weathers the ‘storm’ over the ary 1993, done mainly by the task of lining the holes up among others - or at least Braer oil-tanker calamity in the Alan Warwick, Michael properly is no easy task when that's the idea. There is prob- Shetland Islands, north of Scot- Thompson and Alan Palmer. the bolts have to be passed lem almost right away when land, on Tuesday, 5th. Janu- (25, 292, 316, 3022) through the Knocker’s eyes or the machine ditches itself by ary, 1993. Rona Newsom buys mouth, and tightened using the Unit's south window even her stock, mostly salmon, from 286. Work continues on Unit wrenches with extenders and before the first ceiling beam is waters in the more northerly of Nine as its ceiling beams are universal (bending) joints. despatched. The work is the islands, above the capital on their way, it’s stated in When the new Sanctuary halted for almost an hour Lerwick, whereas the stricken February 1993. (296) Knocker is finally bolted onto while a tractor-excavator is 85,000-tonne tanker has run the door, after an operation driven to Brougham Hall by aground among the more- 287. A new ‘Sanctuary Door taking up to six people, two owners S. &. K. Plant , and is southerly Islands … but there Knocker’ has been made on locking-nuts are tightened onto used to haul the stranded fork- is still a problem, after all, request of a mystery benefac- each of the four bolts, to- lift truck clear. Then the exca- when a truck bringing supplies tor and generously donated to gether with a thick metal plate vator takes the ceiling beam - meets snowdrifts on the A.9 in the Brougham Hall Charitable for all bolts as extra protec- and the job. From then the the Highlands near Pitlochry, Trust in February, 1993. It will tion. Then the threads are work continues without any Perthshire. (284) replace one apparently stolen battered, subjected to a weld- more hitches. Each ceiling from the Westernmost Main ing-torch and basically made beam is specially created with 280. The C.2 ‘Kitchen’ window (Office) Gateway many years impossible for the nuts to be a ridge down each side, which lintel goes into position on ago. It has been created by unscrewed again. Stories of Is designed to accept blocks of Saturday, 30th. January, bronze-founders working from Brougham Hall being haunted concrete that will fill the gap 1993. David Fawcett, the old photographs. (5, 271, may be down to the old between them; a few hundred stonemason who made the 289, 290) Knocker being lit up at night so of these blocks will be needed white ‘Carboniferous Sand- that its eyes and mouth to fill the ten voids between stone’ lintel, is assisted by Syd 288. The Chapel is shown in showed up. (5, 291, 930) the beams, and the gaps be- Walker in putting the lintel in Hall News 203 of 22nd. Feb- tween the first and last, and place. (275, 298) ruary, 1993 - complete with its 291. The idea of securing the the walls..... thus forming a new perspex window (“plastic- new ‘Sanctuary’ Door Knocker neat new ceiling for Unit Nine, 281. New lamp-posts for the glass” or acrylic) intruder firmly in place in the Office and a floor for the room driveway for the Brougham guards for its two west win- Gateway and then destroying above. The work to install the Hall Gardens Houses are dows. (198, 305, 618) the threads on the bolts hold- beams takes around six hours, erected in January 1993. ing it there proves to be a once the forklift truck is Ornate lights styled on old- 289. Fifty-nine years and a very wise idea when, the night dragged clear. The blocks will type gas-lamps are added day after Brougham Hall was after the operation is com- arrive soon after. (30, 308) soon after. (344) basically ‘sold for scrap’ by plete, a video recorder is Major Carleton-Cowper on stolen from the Hospitality 297. The lower-level room of 282. Wood is passed through 2nd. March, 1934, the ‘Office’ Suite, and reported missing the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building is to the window of the former Gateway is open for maybe early on Saturday, 6th. March, become a new Crafts Centre House of Eden Gallery Tea the first time since then on 1993. (230, 290, 1171) Unit, it is announced in March Room, a former bait room of Wed., 3rd. March, 1993, by 1993. New tenants Hobo and the Hall Team in between Christopher Terry, in prepara- 292. Securing work on the The Jester , who make childrens' November, 1988, and Sep- tion for fitting the ‘Sanctuary buttresses of the Terrace Wall clothing, will take on this latest tember, 1989. In February Knocker’. (5, 287, 290, 801) is done in February and unit on Monday, 26 th April, 1993, the Gallery is used by March, 1993. (285, 316) 1993, so the Bire is being Hall Team draughtsman Pete 290. The new anonymously- prepared for them. (8, 304)

Jackson, who took it on in De- donated [as we knew at the 293. Michael Thompson is 298. The new door and win- cember 1992. The wood is to time] ‘Sanctuary’ Door Knocker ‘pointing’ the walls - tidying-up dow of the B.2 and C.2 be used for a new doorway is installed on one of the gates by filling cracks with cement - ‘Kitchens’ both look much leading into the room from the of the Office Gateway in at the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building in nearer completion when the passageway leading from the early-March, 1993. It takes February 1993. The job is door's lintel is added in mid- Gallery - it is in lengths too two-and-a-half days to install expected to last several March, 1993. (280) long to be taken up the steps. the Knocker, which is a repro- months. (297, 302, 317, 322) (123, 276, 283) duction of one on the main 299. Mark Heeley-Creed entrances to Durham Cathe- 294. Alan Palmer sorts stone in leaves his Goldsmith's Work- 283. In Pete Jackson’s Gallery dral - which celebrates 900 the Main Courtyard (48) on shop Unit in March, 1993, in late-January, 1993, the new years in 1993. That Sanctuary Tuesday, 23rd. February, after nearly five years - re- door leading into the former knocker reputedly dates from 1993. (84, 111) grettably forced out of the Gallery Tea Room is being around 1140, and a replica of Hall after a series of burglar- installed by Hugh Tarry and it was made in the late- 295. Philip James O'Neil ies in 1992, and the resulting latest Hall Team member Alan 1970’s. There are only four of Terry, around five-and-a-half hike in insurance premiums. His Palmer. (282) these knockers – which are all weeks old, makes his Hall former Unit will become a extremely-heavy, brass lion News debut on Thursday, 18th. Tea-Room now that the House 284. A tree ravaged by in the ‘gargoyles’ with back-plate March, 1993. He is pictured in of Eden Gallery tea-room is no 1990 ‘New Decade Storms’ is styled on the rays from the a carry-cot, with his two-and- more. (265, 269, 303, 2469) further damaged in a storm in sun. The fourth one was the a-half year old brother, Jona- January 1993. Already miss- one lost from the derelict than, looking on, in a scene in 300. John Harrison and his ing its top half from three Brougham Hall. Taking place the Stables Courtyard. (49, years earlier, the tree is from early on Wednesday, 296, 2850) BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 1 1993 apprentice Rusty Lomas Robert Bell, leaves and is re- ing’s walls for a century’ - as pher Terry for Hall News , on build a new trade-stand placed on Monday, 5th. April, Christopher Terry suggests - is the Cobbles outside The Old for John and wife Marion to 1993, by Simon Sylvester- begun by Alan Palmer and Smokehouse . use while showing John's art- Meats, M.A.. Hall News ’ editor Michael Thompson during metal crafts at shows like Low- Alistair Aynscough also left in Springtime, 1993. (302, 322) 326. Members of the Aira ther Horse Trials and Country early-February, 1993, having Force National Trust Team Fair . (332, 894) been assistant archivist. (230) 318. Work continues on the return to Brougham Hall on Driveway in May 1993. (251) Tuesday, 15th. June, 1993, to 301. The toilet block between 310. Brougham Horse Trials repair and tidy up the Well the South-East Gateway and are cancelled due to the 319. The path along the ‘front’ Cellar steps. The Team, led by the Balcony is painted and weather, as they were in of the Stables unit, serving the John Colling, includes former redecorated in Spring 1993. 1987. They had been due to individual Crafts Centre Units, Hall Team member Trevor take place on Tuesday, 13th. sees more work on some more Jackson, who worked here in 302. The walls of the ‘Balcony’ April, 1993. (185, 300, 354) in May 1993. (323) 1988 and 1989. (7, 277, are tidied up and ‘pointed’ - 278, 330) cracks in its walling are filled 311. The bases of the walls 320. An historical connection is with cement. (44, 293, 317) for the room intended to be made in May 1993, 150 327. The Brougham Hall visi- above Unit Nine are begun by years after a trespass case tors’ book, featuring the names 303. The new Tea-Room, in the the builder Syd Walker, as between the Brougham and of kings, queens, princes and former Goldsmith's Workshop , others on-Site concentrate on Bird Families in 1843, when princesses over half of the is opened by Clare Whitfield water-proofing work here wooden panelling from the Nineteenth Century, is brought on Saturday, 17th. April, during April, 1993. (314, 321) Appleby ‘Assizes’ courtroom in back to the Hall in June 1993. 1993. (299, 398) which the case had been It is studied by Hall Team 312. While doing work on his heard all those years before, archivist Simon Sylvester 304. Work to prepare the ‘Review of The Years’ series in is brought to Brougham Hall Meats, M.A., in the ‘Hospitality lower level of the 500-year- Hall News , Alistair Aynscough for use in future restoration of Suite’. (230, 309) old Tudor ‘Bire’ Building is checks out the Cumberland and Hall rooms. In April, 1989, old prepared for its new tenants Westmorland Herald archives wood panelling from Penrith’s 328. ‘Rest Cure’ - A bench during April 1993. A new wall for 1976 - and finds there branch of Midland Bank (now outside The Old Smokehouse is - made of old brick found and was a raid on Hall gargoyles, HSBC .) came our way. The often used by members of sorted on-Site - goes up at the as in 1992. Nothing was taken Bird Family lived in the Hall in Crafts Centre staff for a rest Guard House end of the ‘Bire’, in either incident. (224, 312, the days before it was sold, and a drink, as seen in a Tues- forming a new room which 387, 452) for £5,000 on 9 November, day, 15th. June, 1993, Hall contains the stairs built in 1726, to John Brougham of News photograph. 1991. An old door is also 313. Shadows against the wall Scales and his family. Before added to give access between of the Chapel Yard are show- then, it was nicknamed the 329. Initial damp-proofing is the new Hobo and The Jester ing how rebuilding work at Birds' Nest . The 1843 court added to ‘Unit Nine’ in June Unit and the stairs, or cloak- Brougham Hall is progressing - case, which former Lord Chan- 1993, as well as the dividing room as it is likely to become. there are only about half as cellor Henry Brougham eventu- mullions of the new Unit’s south The new Unit's walls are many images of windows ally won on 11 th August, 1843, window. The glass for this ‘pointed’, or tidied up, and showing against the wall on began after a member of the window is added by the end painted white. It opens its days like Wednesday, 14th. Bird Family got into Brougham of the month. (308) doors on Monday, 26 th April, April, 1993. Many windows Hall on 29 th May that year, 1993. (8, 481) have been built into new complaining that the 1726 330. The Aira Force National Crafts Centre Units since the sale of the Hall to the Trust Team are at Brougham 305. Some windows of the last study like this was done Broughams had been con- Hall in mid-June, 1993, and prestigious Hall Model are for Hall News 115, in Novem- ducted in ‘suspicious circum- completely restore a section of poked-in, apparently by chil- ber 1989. stances’. To mark the anniver- woodlands steps near the dren, in March, 1993. To pre- sary, the latest ‘Mystery Year’ ‘Arbour’, once dubbed the vent further damage, a bar- 314. More work is done by in Hall News ' Review of The ‘Chicken Pen’ because of the rier of perspex (‘plastic-glass’) Sid Walker on the ‘Ovens’, Years series turns out to be….. remains of chicken wire that is soon constructed around the beside the Carriage House, 1843! (623, 1305, 2978) had been used to fence in table holding the Hall Model, during May, 1993. (13, 14, champion wildfowl in the to prevent further damage, as 321, 343) 321. Work continues on Unit 1950’s. (9, 326) was done for the full-size Nine with a new doorway for Brougham Chapel recently. 315. The Hall Crafts Centre an outside wall planned in 331. New Automobile Associa- (288, 306) sees a ‘mad rush’ of visitors June 1993. (329) tion (A.A.) road-signs are when 70 of them flock in by erected at various places in 306. Hall Team artist/ tour-coach on Thursday, 29th. 322. Scaffolding is erected on the area of Brougham Hall to draughtsman Pete Jackson April, 1993. (243) the front wall of the Tudor attract tourists, although these updates the Hall Model with a ‘Bire’ Building in early-June, black-on-yellow markers are model of the 1992-built War 316. A new plaque – ‘In Mem- 1993. The work to finish only temporary, and the Hall Base Memorial in April, 1993. ory of Peggy Stacey 1923- ‘pointing’, tidying up the circa- Trust and, especially, Art- (250, 305, 309) 1992 Who Loved Brougham’ - 1500ad structure’s walls will Metalworker John Harrison,

307. A “B.H.C.T. is built into one of the but- last ’til August 1993. (8, 293) are campaigning for proper MXMII” ( Brougham Hall Chari- tresses of the Terrace Wall, English Tourist Board signs table Trust 1992) plaque, with which has been built up higher 323. Stone slabs for the Sta- instead. (393, 418) unusual Roman coding, is in- than the wall itself to form a bles path are cut to size by stalled above the door of Unit plinth to take the plaque. It is David Fawcett, using the Hall's 332. Brougham Hall Crafts Nine in April 1993, as the erected in May, 1993, for the own stone-cutting machine in Centre folks show off their work on its walls and roof memorial service to Peggy May 1993. (319, 427) wares at Lowther Horse Trials continues during March 1993. Stacey, a notable Brougham and Country Fair 1993, be- (308) family historian who, with Pe- 324. New trees are planted tween Friday, 6th., and Sun- ter Brougham-Wyly, had on the lawn, on the Houses day, 8th. August. This year 308. The lintel is added to Unit helped Mark Thomas compile side of the South Wall, in history is made here as Lord Nine's south window on Thurs- his book History of Brougham early Summer 1993. (1, 388) Lowther, close to announcing day, 25th. March, 1993. (307) Hall and High Head Castle , his retirement, has the Gate- released in 1992. The cere- 325. Mr. Cassin, an Assistant house restored, a stone block- 309. The ‘Hospitality Suite’ mony takes place on the Ter- Commissioner of the Charities ade knocked down, and the sees another Hall Team race on Monday, 17th. May, Commission, visits Brougham gates replaced. The gatehouse change when the new Team's 1993. (37, 250, 476) Hall to see how its restoration forms part of the horse-trials original member, archivist is progressing. On his visit, on course, and it’s the first time 317. ‘Probably the first tidying Tuesday, 15th. June, 1993, he the gates have been opened BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 2 up of the Tudor ‘Bire’ Build- is photographed with Christo- since the Castle was shown to the public one last time before slippage, and possibly its partial demolition in 1957. even collapse. Syd (250, 399, 413) Walker has to do some Images of 1993 emergency work to build Images of 1993 333. Wall-building work be- a retaining wall in an gins again in the ‘Kitchens’ effort to save the struc- area of Brougham Hall in ture, one of the few to August 1993. (334) survive the Hall's demoli-

334. The doorway between tion and almost sixty the B.2 and C.2 ‘Kitchen', years before. Work is cleared out by the Hall Teams concentrated on the join of Michael Treece and Lee between the Carriage Barry in February and March House and Unit Nine , 1987, is given a new lintel in whose extra weight, now August, 1993. (71, 72, 338) it’s nearly finished, may be putting extra pressure 335. Syd Walker is back at on the Carriage House. Brougham Hall at weekends, The area of the ‘Ovens’ and concentrates on ‘Unit Nine’ receives special attention. during Summer 1993. (337) Thankfully, it seems Syd. has been successful. (13, 336. During early-September, 14, 255, 346, 917, 919) 1993, while Alistair Aynscough is away helping disabled holi- 344. The new lights for the daymakers at the Calvert Trust Houses’ Driveway come Adventure Centre , near Kes- into their own as British wick, a new flight of steps is Summer Time ends in the begun in the Woodlands, using morning of Sunday, 31st. October, 1993. natural materials. (342, 2817) 345. A large new ‘Cooler’ 337. Lord Michael Brougham fridge is installed in the is himself ‘drafted' into Hall Old Smokehouse for Rona duties! – While on one of his Newsom. It is bought in Hall News 218, 20th. September, 1993. regular August visits, in August, September 1993, and 1993, his Lordship helps for a installed in October. (402) day in the work on the roof of 319, 323 279, 328 ‘Looking ‘Unit Nine’. (338, 341) 346. Work finally does 345 East’ end for 1993, when the 338. In October 1993 Unit severe frosts of late- 301 Nine is almost ‘rested’ for the November, 1993, freezes 281 winter, after a hectic year. the ground solid and 294 We say almost — see Entries makes work impractical as 313 341 &. 343. Work is winding it also interferes with ce- 293 346 down in late-September 1993, ment-mixing. Work on the 315, 324, although work in the B.2 and ‘Kitchens’ and ‘Library’ 307 308, C.2 ‘Kitchens’ - now a planned doorframe, near the West 332 329 344 ‘Treasury’ - seems set to go on Door, and the Carriage for a few weeks yet. (334) House’s new retainer-wall, 295 ends during this month. 339. The former Goldsmith's (14, 36, 71, 72) Workshop - and Tea Room - is tenanted to Isabelle Wood’s People in Miniature crafts busi- 347. The ‘churchyard’ of 334, 338 ness in October 1993. Brougham Chapel is fea- tured in Hall News 223, of 333 340. Work is halted at Monday 29th. November, Brougham Hall when, in the 1993, completely covered 314 312 316 frosts of mid-October 1993, in autumnal leaves during 288, 330 we have the 'coldest October October 1993. (475) day since 1948’. (343) 347 310 285, 292

341. Unit 9 ’s ‘last work for 1993’ turns out not to have 277, 284 300 282, 283 Photo Guide For been so, when a layer of as- 278, 287, 290, 291 1993 phalt waterproofing is added 336, 280, 309, 327 1993 around 20th. October. (343) ‘Looking 342 298, 342. The new Woodlands 326 325 317, North’ Steps, started in early- 322 September, 1993, are com- pleted by November 1993. Wooden surround for steps 337, 341 are made of pieces of branches, still with bark at- tached, cut lengthways down 331 the middles, and then fixed in 343 286, 299, position on stakes. The natural, 296, 303, 339 297, 304 "rustic' look is completed with 289, soil being used to fill the voids 321, 311 277, to make up the steps. (336) 335 320 318 343. Suddenly, despite the fact that work should have 340 302 been winding-down for 1993, it is discovered that the Car- 306 riage House is showing signs of 305 BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 3 1994 355. The Brougham Hall Gar- (43, 264, 361, 382) the Peggy Stacey Memorial on 348. In January 1994 dens Houses Showhouse - which the Terrace in Springtime, the Houses Driveway past the had been reserved for ‘tours’ 363. Woodturner Walter 1994, is taking root and doing Lord Chancellor’s Den is given by prospective buyers thinking Gundrey leaves the Brougham well by August 1994. a New Year treat when the of coming to live here - is sold Hall Crafts Centre in Spring- team building the last few in February 1994. time, 1994, after nearly four 372. Country Furnishings’ Den- houses lay down of gravel and years. His former unit is con- nis Walker has a bad back soil to firm it up. (104) 356. The “Bridge Crisis” of verted into a gift shop on the Injury In Summer, 1994, and 1991 is recalled when we late-Spring, late-May 1994, the new ‘Unit Nine’ is given its 349. In January and February, hear that the Alston-based H. Bank Holiday weekend, to first real use when he and his 1994, Alan Stubbs sorts stone Kearton & Sons company is take over from the Brougham wife Hazel are able to use it in the Main Courtyard, piling it forced out of the building Cupboard in the Guard House, as a workshop because Dennis up on palettes to form a new trade by the recession. (2, also established In the Summer can't carry furniture into the but narrower driveway be- 185, 193) of 1990, when Walter made workshop of the Country Fur- tween Unit 9, and the edge of his debut here. (32, 169, 364) nishings unit. Hall News fea- the Courtyard grass. It turns 357. The west side of the Car- tures Hazel working in Unit out that the stacks mark the riage House is rumoured to be 364. The Tea-Room opens Nine in June 1994. (440) margin of a planned ‘outdoor the next workzone, and Syd again following the winter and theatre’ for the Hall. (48, 353) Walker is set to return follow- the short tenancy of Isabella 373. The Hall’s First ing the winter. A network of Wood's People in Miniature , on ‘Shakespeare Weekend’ - 350. In the Houses area there passages between the Car- the late-Spring, late-May Romeo and Juliet , William are two public footpaths that riage House and the Staircase 1994 Bank Holiday weekend. Shakespeare's great love lead from near the Hall to Hall, excavated as the (339, 363, 365) story, is staged at Brougham either Brougham Village, or an ‘Towerside Room’ in late-1987 Hall by the Curwen Players old gateway on the Clifton and early-1988, is still to be 365. The Tea-room is taken on from on the beau- Cross junction that links the A.6 surveyed, states Hall News by Dave and Irene Gaskell in tiful evenings of Saturday, 13 road between Eamont Bridge 235 of Monday, 16th. May, June 1994, for the season. and Sunday, 14 August, 1994. and Clifton with the Brougham 1994. (14, 99, 358, 411) Incidentally, this is the same road and the one heading off 366. Syd Walker has been weekend as the Woodstock to Cliburn, Bolton and on to 358. After builder Syd busy in the ‘Kitchens’ area '94 music festival in the United Appleby-in-Westmorland. In Walker’s return to Brougham during June, 1994, building States of America – but the the village, and at the Clifton Hall in March 1994, his main more on to the wells on the British weather has been mas- Cross junction, new wooden work is to build an outer wall Well Cellar's west side. (367) sively better than at either that footpath signposts with en- for ‘Unit Nine’. The new Unit is event or the 1969 original! graved words appear, point- being tipped as a future Tea- 367. Syd Walker does more The Main Courtyard serves as ing to Brougham Hall - surely room for Lerona Newsom, who building the walls outside Uni t a fine Outdoor Theatre - es- with others at the houses point- runs The Old Smokehouse and Nine , especially having a very pecially in the fine weather of ing the other ways. (445) Truffles Units, and the idea is busy weekend on Saturday, these two days. We now to provide a separate area 9th., and Sunday, 10th. July, await more than just an 351. Hall News 229 of Mon- for tables and chairs to be 1994. The walls are now ‘encore’. (48, 378, 938, 2741) day, 21st. February, 1994, placed. Two entrances are nearly the full height they're features a report on the also emerging in the new needed to be, around 3ft. 374. Based on the planned ‘Chapel Tunnel’ in the wall at walls. (321, 367, 918) 3ins, or a metre high. They’re Museum in the lower-level the west (belfry) end of now getting flagstones along room of the Tudor ‘Bire’ Build- Brougham Chapel. Today the 359. Another fire breaks out in their tops. New doors and ing, the new Hall Tour is tunnel exists only as a passage the Old Smokehouse in late- windows are installed on the launched by would-be museum that leads to the Chapel, but May, 1994, but it is thankfully north side of ‘Unit Nine’ during curator Simon Sylvester-Meats, its actual route is unknown and much less serious than one here July 1994. (369, 376) M.A., in late-Summer, 1994. In the entrance is bricked up for almost exactly four years aid of the Hall Trust, tours are safety reasons. The nickname previously. Rona Newsom is 368. In early-August, 1994, charged at £1 per adult, 60p Chapel Tunnel, incidentally, is able to put he fire out herself the Main Courtyard is being for a child. (375) a ‘play’ on the new Channel with no risk to herself. The fire prepared to be the venue for Tunnel, now about to open. brigade are not needed this Brougham Hall’s ‘outdoor 375. A notice on the Tudor (27, 66) time. (156, 396, 480) Theatre’ for the Romeo and ‘Bire’ Building’s main (west) Juliet Shakespeare Weekend door tells us all to ‘watch this 352. After a break for wintry 360. Some more work is done in the middle of the month. The space’ - the Brougham Museum weather, and the return from on the Cobbled Driveway in Courtyard - formerly the Hall's will be here shortly. The story Gibraltar for the Terrys after April, 1994. (137) fine lawn - is being tidied up, is told in Hall News 244 of a second ‘term’ there, work its grass mown, and has now Monday, 19th. September, begins for 1994 when the big 361. Hall News ’ editor Alistair been laid out with around 500 1994. (380) task of grass-mowing begins in Aynscough ‘infiltrates’ the chairs for the new ‘theatre’. in earnest during April. former home of a bitter enemy (48, 369, 373, 378) 376. The double doors of ‘Unit of the Brougham Family on Nine’ are pointed back by 353. A new role for the Main Thursday, 26th. May, 1994. 369. The walls outside Unit university student Ed. Cole in Courtyard is confirmed when Together with other members Nine are completed in early- August, 1994. the first ‘Shakespeare Week- of Penrith Rotaract Club , he August, 1994, and the new end’ for Brougham Hall is visits Carleton Hall, which has Unit is being prepared as a 377. Trees on the east side of announced in April 1994. The been the Cumbria - previously temporary wine-bar for the the houses of the Brougham staging of William Shake- Cumberland and Westmorland forthcoming Shakespeare Hall Gardens estate are speare's Romeo and Juliet will - Police Headquarters since Weekend. (373, 376) ‘thinned out’, the less-healthy take place on Saturday, 13th., 1950. Before that, though, it ones felled, and the area and Sunday, 14th. August, was home to Major Carleton- 370. A lintel intended for the generally tidied up in mid- 1994, by the Curwen Players Cowper who was in a feud doorway between the pro- October, 1994. from Curwen Hall, Working- with the Broughams, and posed Library and the Well ton. (48, 368, 373) seized on the troubles of the Cellar, and the door here to 378. Within weeks of the gambling Third Lord Brougham the B.2 Kitchen, is shown in Hall hugely-successful Shakespeare 354. After being rained-off in (Victor), buying Brougham Hall News in August 1994, ready W eekend in mid-August 1994, 1993, the Brougham Horse in 1934, yearning to have it to be positioned on the door- the 1995 version is confirmed, Trials take place on a lovely, razed to the ground. (362) way between the Library and featuring the Curwen Players though shower-prone, Tues- Well Cellar (and probable and Henry V for late-July, day, 12th. April, 1994. (310, 362. The money-box near the balcony), and will be put in 1995. (378, 401, 403, 404) 441) Main Gateway is raided once place later this month. again in the early-hours of 379. Alison Terry is featured in BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 4 Monday, 30th. May, 1994. 371. A tree planted beside Hall News 247 of Monday,

31st. October, 1994, doing is commissioned to make an 385. New ‘Carbonised White’ 387. The castellated 1994 weeding and gardening work 18-inch (45-cm.) brass moun- Sandstone slabs – looking A.6. Lowtherbridge Hall on and near the Stables foot- tains and horizons plate for remarkably like limestone sign is put up again - feet in path in Summer, 1994. visitors to Penrith's 937ft. previously used at Brougham cement - in December 1994, (286m.) Beacon. The moun- Hall - are delivered to the after another vandal attack. 380. Display cabinets begin to tains’ outlines will be featured Hall in December, 1994, for (224, 312, 451, 643) arrive for the planned all around in a circle, identify- future building projects. ‘Brougham Museum’ in Octo- ing names, altitudes and dis- 388. Images of intense frost ber, 1994, giving a huge tances from the Beacon Pike, 386. More Woods work is conditions at Brougham Hall on boost to this project. The cabi- for each mountain visible all done, in Autumn 1994, by Monday, 14th. December, nets have come from the Tho - around on a clear day. (2679) Michael Thompson. 1994, appear in Hall News . mas Althams (Holdings) Com- p a ny , who have been cele- 384. More display cabinets Althams brating 150 years in business from of Penrith are 386 371 354 in 1994, and they used the brought to the Hall in Decem- cabinets for a display of Al- ber ’94, for use in the Museum. thams memorabilia in their Many artefacts are loaned by newer Ullswater Road Estate the current Lord Brougham &. warehouse. (384) Vaux. (400, 1262) 387

381. The central ‘Unit Nine’ is 352 officially advertised for ten- ancy, for the first time, as from Tuesday, 1st. November, 388 1994. (435, 439)

382. Another raid is focused on the money-box below the 373, 378 385 Hall's visitor information 353, board. This raid, on Sunday, 368 30th. October, 1994, is the 352 357 worst to date. The thieves are 358, reckoned to have parked their 364, 365 367, 383 car near the Brougham Hall 388 369, Gardens ‘Showhouse and then 356 walked quietly round to the 374, 375 372, front of the Hall - before go- 376, ing in on the attack on the 381 money tier of the box with 350 372 hammers and chisels. The top of the box is shattered and 352 366 will likely remain out of use Photo Guide For 359 until the metal innards ore 351 repaired or replaced and all ‘Looking South’ 348 the stonework restored. (362) 1994 ‘Looking West’ 355 383. In December, ’94, John Harrison, the Art- Metalworker at the Hall, 370 Images of 352 349 360 1994 380, 384 363 UNIT NINE , which was first starting to show in 1991, was 361 completed during 377 362, 382 379 1994, and made ready for tenants by 1994 was the year that Brougham Hall the Summer. How- had its first “Shakespeare Weekend” — ever, in spite of its not counting any theatre sessions that prominent, central may have taken place before the Hall’s location, it never had destruction in 1934. As in 2008, Romeo a tenant until April and Juliet was the play being staged, 1996. It did have a and preparations being made for it in- significant role for the cluded building a wall at the front of the firs t Shakes peare new, central , a wall that was Weekend in August Unit Nine 1994 — as a wine bar constructed in good time by builder Syd run for the occasion Walker, and made ready to use as a by Christopher Terry wine-bar at the first theatre evenings. and other Trust folks. The wall was soon to prove to be an It did not actually be- ideal feature of today’s Café, enclosing a come a café until an- welcome outdoor eatery — weather per- other tea room closed mitting, of down in 2000. course! BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 5 1995 389. Jan’y., 1995: It is chicken while taking other had no difficulty sending the Hall on Fri., 30th. June, 1995, suggested in Hall News food items. Little else seems to water all the way up the slope to advise curator Simon Syl- that the ‘North West Tower’ of have been taken - but then it is and still had more than enough vester-Meats, M.A., on setting Brougham Hall - nearest the discovered that a prestigious power to spray It high up, on the new ‘Brougham Museum’ Bridge and Brougham Chapel, mail-order parcel on its way to the roof near the Pele up to best please visitors. and where the ‘Kitchens’ are to the Fortnum and Mason Tower, itself up to fifty feet (407, 414, 423, 424, 2422) located - will be 1995's top business empire is somehow (15m) high, to where the sup- workzone. (28, 409, 2768) intercepted in the post and lost posed fire was. The exercise 401. The Main Courtyard is to other thieves. Raiders at was deemed a complete suc- again transformed into the 390. The Hall’s Air Raid Shel- Brougham Hall also try to cess, and showed the fire ten- Brougham Hall ‘Outdoor Thea- ter is a reminder of the Hall's enter both the new and old der was very capable of tack- tre’ in July ’95, for the Shake- war effort in the year that gift shops, formerly wood- ing a difficult-to-reach blaze. speare Weekend, ‘Henry V.’, marks 50 years alter the end turner Walter Gundrey’s unit After a reception of tea and which takes place at the end of World War Two. Its survey and the Brougham Cup- coffee laid on for the fire- of the month. (48, 403, 404) takes place between October board / Guard House. The fighters by Lord and Lady 1988 and early-Summer Brougham Cupboard door has Brougham, they headed back 402. A former employee of 1989, and, in Hall News 257 had some panelling knocked to ‘base’ just as the thunder- Rona Newsom's The Old of 13th. March, 1995, the out, while the money hatch in storm finally broke. (37, 156, Smokehouse is found guilty, in Grant Canal Defence League ’s the Main Gateway (43) has 480, 794, 882, 2420, 2816) July 1995, of a raid on that ‘Dazzler’ Tank’s suggested also been damaged, while an Unit four months earlier, in involvement in the Battle of attempt at entry is made on 397. 1995’s sunlit Brougham which the door to the Smoke- Remagen is studied. The Tank the window of the former tea- Horse Trials do the event jus- house and the door to the was developed at Brougham room of the Gallery Unit and tice, and the change of day large refrigerator inside were Hall, hence the existence at Hall Team bait-room. (43, from Tuesday to Wednesday both forced open, and the Brougham Hall of an Air-Raid 123, 402, 453) seems to have helped. Local food inside plundered. A piece Shelter for the soldiers who runners and riders do well in of chicken was actually eaten served here. (122, 250, 3047) 395. ln April 1995 plans are the event staged on Wednes- during the raid. The employee, announced to re-enact the day, 12th. April, 1995. (441) who also worked on the Hall 391. Hall News dubs this the Battle of Clifton Moor, the last Team itself in the late-’Eighties, “Severe (Rainy) Winter”. A battle to be fought on English 398. The Tea-Room opens is ordered to compensate for rare snowfall for the 1994-’95 soil, to mark its 250th. anniver- again for the 1995 tourist damage done, and also pay Winter is featured, in Issue sary. The battle was fought season. Trading begins on Mrs. Newsom compensation for 257, with snow on the Terrace late on 18th. December, 1745, Saturday, 6th. May, 1995, the raid on the night of 30th. and in the Main Courtyard at between the Jacobites of Bon- with Hall Team member Clare March, 1995. (345, 394, 408) Brougham Hall on Wednes- nie Prince Charlie and the Whitfield at the helm. (303) day, 8th. March, 1995. The ‘Redcoats', for the Duke of 403. The evening of Saturday, comparative lack of snow this Cumberland. (399, 1252) 399. The Battle of Clifton 29th. July, 1995, is ‘First Night’ time around contrasts greatly Moor is re-enacted by the for the Henry the Fifth Shake- with the 1894-’95 Winter, 396. Around the time of the White Cockade Society from speare Weekend. As in 1994, which was possibly Britain's 1995 opening of the new Blairgowrie in Perthshire, in the the Curwen Players, from worst-ever. Hall News 258 Firefighters' Benevolent Fund 's Scottish Highlands, on Satur- Workington's Curwen Hall, presents 1895 as a 'Mystery new Jubilee House care centre day, 17th. June, 1995, in a stage the great event, which is Year', part of our Review of at Eamont Bridge, within sight field south of Clifton's primary helped by the sunny weather. The Years series. (396, 2610) of Brougham Hall, the follow- school, and across the road (404, 407) ing story is told in Hall News : from the ancient Rebel Tree. 392. Rona Newsom fully re- The Terrace and the ‘fish- The original battle was fought 404. The second night of Henry opens the Truffles Unit for the pond’ that used to be in the late on 18th. December, 1745, the Fifth is more like another of coming Summer, after an ‘off- field at the bottom of the hill between the Jacobites of Bon- William Shakespeare’s plays, season’ concentrating mostly where Brougham Hall is lo- nie Prince Charlie and the The Tempest , when a thunder- on mail-orders. The opening cated (Lowtherbridge side) Redcoats , for the Duke of Cum- storm arrives just as the Cur- day is Saturday, 25th. March, are the subject behind the berland, with the Jacobites wen Players ‘enter stage’ for 1995. (394) anniversary of a special event successfully staging an am- the second half of the 1995 at the Hall. On 28th. May, bush, their feared ‘Highland Shakespeare Weekend on 393. National rules on road- 1895, the Penrith Fire Brigade Charge’. This rearguard ac- Sunday, 30th. July, 1995. signs and their abundance - decided to use the Hall for a tion, however, would be their Though the rain thwarts the ‘too many could distract mo- fire-fighting exercise, having last true success before being interval, the actual play itself torists’, say many people - are just acquired a brand new, routed on the bleak Culloden is not too badly disrupted by relaxed early in 1995. This steam-powered fire tender, Muir, just east of Inverness, on the weather, thankfully, except government proposal means hauled by three stout horses. 16th. April, 1746 - freeing for when the Players have to that Brougham Hall and other On that thundery day, the and fleeing the ‘Border City’ wait for, or shout above, the national monuments may be fire-fighters were at their of Carlisle, which they’d just thunder. There is, however, a able to advertise themselves station, poised for action, seized, along the way. The five-minute pause early-on for better. John Harrison leads the when the alarm bells rang. original Rebel Tree is so the audience to get coats and way in pleading to the English Within minutes they had the named because five Highland- umbrellas. There is a fair Tourist Board, and English horses harnessed to the new ers are buried here from the amount of lightning, and the Heritage , for a new set of appliance - which they kept in- battle, although the tree itself Players mock the weather’s signs for the Hall. (331, 418) steam all the time except for is dying too. A new Rebel Tree antics by mentioning visits by the essential fire-box cleaning, is planted on Monday, 18th. ‘Tempest’s Chariot’. Once the 394. The Old Smokehouse ’s maintenance and servicing - December, ’95, by Lord Lons- play is over, the weather is Rona Newsom is counting the and were racing off to dale on the field where the re- bright, and there's a brilliant, cost of another raid on Brougham Hall. They turned- enactment took place. White hazy sunset. The climate sud- Brougham Hall. On the night off the Kendal road at Low- Cockade Society members denly remembers this i s 1995, of Wednesday, 29th. March, therbridge, and heeded to- returned for this event, mark- a year blessed with one of 1995, there is an audacious wards the Hall, turning off into ing the actual 250th. anniver- Britain’s best Summers ever! raid on the Smokehouse , when the field where the ‘fish-pond' sary of the Battle. A proper (401, 403, 420, 449, 2357) both the main entrance to the was. They set the hoses to memorial to the Battle has Unit, and the door of the large pump water from the pond since been built, centred on 405. Pottery teacher Gwen ‘Cooler’ refrigerator inside, and, with no small amount of 1995’s Rebel Tree. (332, 431, Bainbridge sets up shop in are forced open and badly effort, dragged the hoses up 1251, 1252, 2800, 2992) Walter Gundrey’s former damaged. The thief even has the embankment (now the woodturning unit ( Six ) during the cheek to eat some of the Woodlands) and onto the 400. Judith Aitken, from C um- August, 1995. (145, 363) haul, taking a bite out of some Terrace. From here they bria County Council 's Public shouted for the water to be set Records Office, based at Car- 406. Syd Walker and Christo- BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 6 pumping. The new machine lisle Castle, visits Brougham pher Terry work at shoring-up the west side of the Pele Vaux (Michael) has being ‘Monuments At Risk Survey’ 423. A ‘World History 1995 Tower in July, 1995. honoured as a Commander of based at Bournemouth Univer- According to Brougham The British Empire (C.B.E.) in sity!” The Survey is being Hall’ is compiled by Brougham 407. The new ‘Brougham Mu- the Queen's official birthday done on thousands of monu- Museum curator Simon Syl- seum’ opens on Saturday, honours list in June, 1995, for ments across England and vester-Meats, M.A., during 29th. July, 1995, during his services to politics, and Wales, so that costs of overall October and November 1995. Shakespeare Weekend. Its Westminster in general. Lord repairs on aII monuments can The dualled list is to be dis- first curatar is the Hall Team’s Brougham went on the Wool- be worked out for the years played on the Museum's walls, archivist, Simon Sylvester- sack in 1993, acting as the ahead. The Hall and the sec- and comprises of lists, on dif- Meats, M.A.. (214, 414) ‘Speaker’ for the House of ond Ice House - visited by ferent-coloured paper, of Lords - repeating family his- Sean Carruthers, Kevin Dinham world events matched with 408. Rona Newsom’s Old tory after his forebear, Lord and Alistair Aynscough on Brougham events of the some Smokehouse / Truffles show- Chancellor Peter Brougham, 20th. February 1987 - are date. Some events link up stand earns her the Silver some 160 years earlier. (407, two subjects of this Survey, directly - quite apart from just Salver at Penrith Show on 423, 465, 2698) which is being being done for appearing side-by-side - Saturday, 22nd. July, 1995, English Heritage and will take events such as the passing of for the ‘Best Stall in The Food- 415. Work west of the Car- two years of work. (27, 69, the Reform Bill in 1832, and crafts Division’. (413, 422) riage House is progressing 418, 513, 514, 762) the work done on the highly- well, with several passages secret Grant Canal Defence 409. Building work begins in being unearthed. The one 420. The Terrace shows up the Lea gue ‘Light Tank’ at the ‘Kitchens’ area in August direct from the Carriage ravages of the amazing Sum- Brougham Hall during World 1995, with Syd Walker, Chris- House and the Staircase Hall is mer of 1995, in a photograph War Two - events here that topher Terry and new Hall now cleared, as is a small in Hall News 271 of Monday, had a much-wider influence. Team members James Wilson- fireplace nearby. The passage 23rd. October, 1995. The The list is later re-fashioned Fish and Andrew James con- seems to show signs of a Terrace's grass is virtually for inclusion in Ben Furnival’s centrating on a window and blocking wall across its floor. bright yellow in colour, with 1999 Windsor of The North walls for a ‘Library’. (410, (14, 99, 101, 416, 675) only a few blotches of green. book. (150, 250, 424, 465, 411, 412, 2768) The picture is contrasted with a 796) 416. ‘Criss-cross’ patterned spectacular one taken from the 410. James Wilson-Fish clears wall-plastering and carvings Hall in the stormbound Febru- 424. B.B.C. Radio Cumbria the Terrace Wall of plant from the West Doorway area ary of 1995, showing a snow- feature the Brougham Museum growth in July and August, of Brougham Hall are discov- shower raging in the fell-side in a report in mid-November, 1995. (25, 409, 411) ered in the new passages Gamblesby and Lazonby 1995, its reporting team com- workzone in August 1995 - areas. (72, 404) ing away after an interview

411. Helped by James Wil- and is found to match up with 421. Much work is being done with curator Simon Svlvester- son-Fish for the first few days scenes in a John Jameson pho- on the ‘Kitchens’ area during Meats, M.A.. ‘well-impressed’ before James leaves the Hall tograph from the Hall’s demo- Summer and early-Autumn, with this new Hall project. Team after three weeks, An- lition, which appeared in Cum- 1995, including more work (400, 432, 489) drew James works at unearth- berland &. Westmorland Her- done on the walling on the ing the passageways to the ald of 29th. September, 1934. west side of the Well Cellar. 425. In November, 1995, Art- west of the Carriage House in (411, 415, 417, 742) The window of the proposed Metalworker John Harrison early-August, 1995. On Satur- Library is well-advanced, produces a batch of finely- day, 5th. August, 1995, An- 417. During the work by An- being almost up to lintel made brass coasters for a drew removes the stonework drew Jones, west of the Car- height, on the ‘Kitchens’ side, major conference to be held blocking the west door of the riage House, Syd Walker has by October, 1995. (6, 446) within a few weeks at Newton Carriage House and makes a been building up any walls Rigg College , near Newton start of clearing out a passage whose foundations Andrew has 422. Rona Newsom is having a Reigny, Penrith. The College, reckoned to lead straight to unearthed. By Saturday, 19th. ‘Feast of Fame’, as Hall News incidentally, will be celebrat- the main Staircase Hall of August, 1995, the day Hall 272 terms it on Monday, 6th. ing its Centenary in February Brougham Hall. (14, 99, 101, News ' editor Alistair Avnscough November, 1995. She has 1996. Also, by coincidence, 409, 410, 412) begins his first of sixteen gained a second award and a Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- ‘working holidays’ helping at a mention in the B.B.C. Food scough starts a new Computer 412. Andrew James adds the Barnardos ’ adventure centre at Lovers' Guide for 1996 and Literacy and Information Tech- last pieces to the ‘Stables Barrows Green, near Kendal, 1997, having already had a nology (computing) course at Footpath’ in 1995, and also most walls have been uncov- good call in the 1993-1994 the College a few days later, helps Syd Walker in the work ered that are likely to show up edition of the “Beeb”’s book, on Monday, 20th. November, on building a window for the this year. Syd has built the written by the author and 1995 – intent on finishing future ‘Library’. (409, 415, walls of the main passage, presenter Henrietta Green. where he left off on a similar 417) from the Carriage House to Both Rona Newsom’s Units, The course between December the Staircase Hall, up to Old Smokehouse and Truffles , 1991 and July 1992. Former 413. John Harrison’s Lowther around 5ft. (153cm.) in height. are named in the book, and Hall Team colleague Shaun Showstand for the weekend of (14, 99, 101, 415, 416). local newspapers also carry Martin is also on this same Friday, 4th., to Sunday, 6th. her story. (408, 413, 424) training course. (1788) August, 1995, with which his 418. With help and guidance wife Marion helps, wins him from Art-Metalworker John the honour of ‘Best Made in Harrison - who is a former Cumbria Stall’. As a result his police officer - new and per- Images of next 'Big Day’ is Monday, manent road-signs are erected 25th. September, 1995, when at junctions near Brougham he is visited by officials from Hall. They incorporate the ‘red 1995 the Cumbria County Council- rose’ emblem of the English “THREE Fine Days and a run Made in Cumbria scheme, Tourist Board , and English Thunderstorm” is a tradi- who have decided to use his Heritage ’s ‘castle keep’ em- products as the main feature blem. (331, 393, 419, 438) tional saying about British of their promotional leaflets, Summers and, after a storm books and films. (408, 418, 419. Brougham Hall and the affected the Hall theatre in 1421, 1797) Ice House in Brougham Hall July 1995 following a run of Field (the scene of the annual lovely weather, we could 414. An extra piece of infor- Penrith Show) both receive mation is reported to Hall ‘Visitors from MARS’ on Friday, well have been forgiven for News by Christopher Terry in 22nd. September, 1995. “No, thinking so — but we were August, 1995, having returned do not be alarmed, dear Earth- in for a real treat this year ... from time spent In Gibraltar - lings - we don’t mean the planet the 5th. Lord Brougham and Mars ... We mean MARS, the BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 7 1995 Images of 1995 : Visit to (B.H.C.T. 10th. Lakeland’sLakeland’s “Lost“Lost Atlantis”Atlantis” Anniversary) WHO COULD Forget 1995? We certainly couldn’t ! That amazing Summer for a start … memorable, indeed, for those images of a de- pleted Haweswater Reser- voir, ably demonstrated here by this sun-blessed photo- graph of part of the former village of Mardale, lost to the Reservoir in the 1930’s., — so soon after Brougham Hall was dismantled. Hall News dubbed it “Lakeland’s Lost Atlantis”, after the fabled sunken city of that name. At Brougham Hall, mean- while, work was done - in defiance of the summer heat - on the “North-West Tower”, or Kitchens, area. This was touted as the top workzone as soon as the year, the Hall 395 390 Trust ’s tenth anniversary ‘Looking South’ year, got underway. The new 399 391 396, Broug ham M useum opened in the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, 410, 420 and clearance work was Photo Guide For done around passages west of the Carriage House. The 419 Broug ham Hall Charitable Trust also hosted the second 19951995 391 416 Shakespeare Weekend, with the Curwen Players ’ ‘Henry V’, defying one last storm before that fabulous Summer ‘Looking North’ of 1995 reall y got going. 408

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BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 8 426. 1996, the Tenth Anniver- 432. In February, 1996, ex- 439. Ann Bilbrough moves into by walkers several 1996 sary year for Hall News , starts tension plans are announced Unit Nine on Tuesday, 9th. times because they will badly as far as Brougham Hall for the Brougham Museum , April, 1996, setting up her not have been able to shut the itself is concerned. After the which Christopher Terry says Inspired By Nature unit. She gate, let alone not be both- ‘Freak Frost’, as Hall News will be ‘doubled in size’ by the begins producing a ‘range of ered to shut it. (350) called it, between Christmas end of 1996. wild flowers hand-made in 1995 and the start of 1996, natural fibres and arranged 446. The four-section (four- the Hall is a scene of frantic 433. Study Centre plans are on unusual wooden bases’. arched) window lintel for the activity on and around New announced by Christopher (440, 443) would-be Library Window, Year’s Day, Monday, 1st. Terry in February, 1996, and made of ‘Carboniferous White January, 1996. The day after, he also forges links between 440. Taking advantage of the Sandstone’ and not Limestone vital repairs are needed for the Hall to Cumbria College fine, bright weather of Thurs- as originally reported in Hall burst pipes in the Masonry of Art and Design at Carlisle. day, 4th. April, 1996, Country News in late-1994, is lifted Workshop and Old Smoke- Seven students from there are Furnishings ’ Dennis Walker into place on Friday, 21st. house Units. The Smokehouse working at Brougham Hall as works outdoors to repair a May, 1996. The work is aided is particularly badly-hit, with part of their Heritage Man- sofa in the Stables Courtyard. by a special ‘giraffe’ crane virtually every section of pipe agement degree courses in It is a similar scene as in June, designed to reach forward as shattered by ice expanding early-1996. They attend lec- 1994, when Dennis was laid well as upwards - lifting things inside - thankfully, the water tures by Mr. Terry and play a low with a bad back, and his around like a fork lift truck, supply was actually switched lead role in preparing a dos- wife Hazel worked in ‘Unit but with an extra-long reach. off when Rona Newsom com- sier to submit to the National Nine’ (now Inspired By Nature ) (459, 710) pleted her last bit of work for Lottery Millen nium Com mission as they couldn't easily move 1995! There is flooding and in an effort to attract funds to furniture into their own Unit. 447. In June and July 1996 sheet-ice in the Masonry Shop, rebuild key parts of Brougham (49, 372) Mark Aylwood, a Cumbria but this has apparently caused Hall in future. (447, 454) College of Art and Design no real problem — except in 441. The Twentieth Anniver- (Carlisle) student, takes over hacking it all up and throwing 434. Work begins again in the sary Brougham Horse Trials as a part-time curator of the it outside. (58, 427) ‘Library’ area of Brougham take place on Wednesday, Brougham Museum in the Hall, near the ‘Kitchens’ and 24th. April, 1996, later in the month that he and other stu- 427. The Masonry Unit is back Well Cellar, on Saturday, 2nd. month than before. They are dents are at the Hall using it in action in early-January March, 1996. (436) success, and Hall News 286 as part of their studies. (448, 1996, having been put back features them properly for the 454) together after floods caused 435. A new tenant is on the first time. by burst pipes. A team of way to take up Unit Nine , it is 448. Philip Ballingall a young workers, from another building reported in mid-March, 1996. 442. The ‘Library’ Window is resident of one of the project, hire the Unit and its Syd Walker is busy there now, reported in Hall News 286 of Brougham Hall Gardens special Za tto ni stone-cutting laying tiles. (381, 439) Monday 20th. May, 1996, as houses, helps out at Brougham machine to cut slabs of La- being ‘as good as complete’, Hall, mainly by mowing the zonby ‘pink’ sandstone into 436. Former Hall stonemason with its ‘frame' on both sides grass on-Site. (449, 469) more-suitable pieces for their Paul Grundy delivers new built up to lintel-height during building work. (426, 429) pieces of stone which he has April, 1996. In that month the 449. The Main Courtyard is carved for the Library window new four-section lintel is des- being prepared once again or 428. The Brougham Museum in March, 1996. (442, 461) patched, but a delay on-Site the ‘Outdoor Theatre’ during celebrates its first six months halts the work for a few days. early-Summer, 1996, for the on Monday, 29th. January, 437. Hall News 282, of Mon- The lintel cannot be placed forthcoming Shakespeare 1996, though its curator Simon day, 25th. March 1996, fea- yet, so building above and Weekend at the end of July Sylvester-Meats, M.A., has tures an 1847 boundary around the window is held up 1996. (48, 455, 456, 463) been away, ill for a few marker at the bottom of the likewise. (446) weeks. (432, 447) hill to Brougham Hall, from the 450. Two models and a film Lowtherbridge (West) side, by 443. Ann Bilbrough, of Inspired crew from A.V.C. Creative 429. The worst blizzards since the B.6262. The marker is for By Nature , and her father are come to Brougham Hall on 1963 in Cumbria - and the a Parish boundary between at the Hall on a fine and sunny Thursday, 13th. June, 1996, worst since 1947 in South- the Brougham Church Parish day in May 1996. They work for a day's filming and photo- West Scotland - sweep in on and that for Yanwath and in the outer, walled enclosure sessions for the Coates-Viyella the afternoon of Monday, 5th. Eamont Bridge. A more- of Unit Nine as things warm up fashion clothes company. On February, 1996. By the next significant marker is situated at the end of a very cool May. this bright and sunny day, the morning Penrith town centre is partway up Kemplay Bank at (466) models parade different under 12 to 15 inches (30-38 Eamont Bridge, marking the clothes in different locations cm.) of level snow, and it is former Cumberland and West- 444. The new Tea-Room - around the Hall and Brougham deeper at Brougham Hall. Not morland county boundary, Fillers - opens on Monday, Chapel - which is where Hall wanting to miss out on such a which was made obsolete 3rd. June, 1996. It is being run News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- rare photo-opportunity, Hall when those former ‘Two Coun- by Lisa Gardiner and Mandy scough catches up with them. News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- ties’ were taken up by the new Carruthers, who also intend to Everyone Is working to a pre- scough gets through to the Hall Cumbria on 1st. April, 1974. run a sandwich-round, deliver- planned schedule of filming despite the conditions, taking ing to canteen-less businesses and photography. The Gal- pictures there, and in Eamont 438. Only seven months after in the area, and taking turns lery, formerly used by House Bridge and Penrith, for coming being erected, one of the new between running that and of Eden and draughtsman Pete Hall News ‘Winter Specials’. Brougham Hall road-signs - serving in the Tea-Room - Jackson, is a changing room (180, 430, 440) the one at the lower end of meaning really early starts! between scenes. 20,000 Brougham Avenue - is found to (450) promo-videos will be pro- 430. The Bridge and the have been damaged, and the duced for Coates-Viyella 's next B.6262 road make a brilliant ‘Brougham Hall’ part of it 445. A new metal gate is marketing drive, and no fewer severe winter photo-scene on finally breaks off in April, installed at Clifton Cross junc- than 200,000 brochures will Tuesday, 6th. February, 1996. 1996. The winter's storms are tion, near Brougham Village, go out with them. When the The picture is on the front of believed to be the cause of where a footpath leads filming is all done, the film Hall News 280 of Thursday, the sign's downfall, but mis- through fields direct to the crew, models, photographers 29th. February, 1996. (2, 62) chievous kids are suspected of Brougham Hall Gardens and everyone else have a rest interfering with it to begin houses and the Hall itself. A in the sunshine and tea and 431. An appropriate thing to with. Meanwhile, new signs are dilapidated old gateway is cake at Fillers tea-Room – then see in the field adjacent to to be erected at the A.6. / replaced with the new, dark- they do the whole thing again Brougham Chapel, right after B.5320 (for Ullswater) junction orange one after being at High Head Castle, Ivegill, the recent snowstorms, is a at Eamont Bridge later in deemed beyond repair. In near Carlisle. (478, 741) herd of Highland cattle! (399, 1996, to complete the ‘set’. recent months and years the 429, 430, 475) (451, 507) old gate had been left open BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 15 9 1996 451. A new road sign Weekend. (463) Workington-based Curwen 96 years!] The Bottle, in the goes up at the junction 457. The former ‘Hospitality Players on Saturday, 27th. shape of Lord Chancellor at the lower end of Brougham Suite’ is taken up as offices of July, 1996. The third night of Brougham in his robes, bears Avenue in June 1996. This sign architect John Cottam in July this extended Shakespeare the phrase: ‘The True Spirit of replaces one badly damaged 1996. (458) Weekend, on Sunday, 28th. Reform’. An old fork said to earlier in 1996, and looks July, 1996, runs it close for a have been used in a mountain- stronger, due to being shorter 458. The former Gallery, once washout, something which top feast to celebrate the end and broader. The ‘Brougham run by House of Eden and then 1995's Sunday act of Henry V of the “Corn Laws” in the Hall’ part of the sign has been by Hall Team artist Pete Jack- also just about averted. The 1840’s, is also presented at replaced - now the Hall's son, is taken over by another Saturday performance, how- the Brougham Museum. (400, name is on two rows of print artist, Bob Woolley in July ever, becomes infamous for 407, 500) instead of one. (387, 466) 1996. (177, 276, 458) the unscheduled ‘fly-past’ by a massive hot-air balloon 466. A new sign for Inspired 452. The Brougham Cupboard , 459. New walls and doors shaped like a Chubb fire- by Nature - fashioned from a opened in the Guard House in begin to appear in the area extinguisher, which almost flies tree trunk - is put up by Ann August, 1990, serves as a around the ‘West Door Corri- right overhead during the Bilbrough and John Harrison workshop for Alison Terry's dor’ in July 1996, as Syd play. It is just as the script in on Friday, 26th. July, 1996. new venture in early-Summer, Walker begins another sum- the centuries-old play calls for Later, that same day, the Unit’s 1996. Alison is busy making mer of weekend working for ‘spirits’ in the sky, that one of walled ‘yard’ is again being clay-casts based on various 1996, working on the feature the characters points up at the used as a wine-bar for the stone faces and gargoyles first begun in 1992. Syd is sky… to their modern-day Macbeth Shakespeare Week- around the Hall Site, which will often aided In this work by shock! That aside, this is an- end as in 1994 and 1995 – be sold as garden ornaments Christopher Terry. (231, 460, other brilliant Shakespeare although the Inspired By Nature and the like. Hall News 290 464, 474) Weekend at the Hall. In the unit doesn’t open during the features Alison making a cast run-up to the weekend, the performances. (439, 463) of a stone face built into the 460. Syd Walker begins the Main Courtyard provides a Pele Tower Doorway. (20, 32, south (B.1 Room) side of the fine sunbathing area for Hall 467. The application to the 91, 169, 224, 312, 484, 769) 'West Door Corridor’ in July folks. [Since Shakespeare National Lottery Millennium 1996. The north side is what Weekend 1996, it has been Commission dossier, which has 453. The Old Smokehouse 's was done in 1992, on the discovered in newspaper ar- been produced by students Rona Newsom celebrates after Cellars and ‘Kitchens’ side. He chives that there was a massive from Cumbria College of Art landing a prestigious order for begins to build around the B.1. ‘garden party’ at Brougham and Design , at Carlisle, is sub- smoked char fish in early- Room itself and also begins a Hall in 1930, also during Vic- mitted to and received by the 1996, to be despatched to the door between the Room and tor Brougham’s time, which Commission in August, 1996, Fortnum and Mason business the Corridor. The B.1 Room is attracted around 800 visitors.] although the Heritage Lottery empire. (394, 1586) the one close to the West (48, 586) Fund takes on such cases. (433, Door, and its best feature is its 447, 454, 469, 524) 454. With quantity surveyor black marble fireplace - it was 464. Foundations of old walls Mr. Martin, from the Carlisle- a major workzone during May begin to appear near the 468. Several aerial photo- based C. J. Laing building 1987. (75, 231 232, 234, workzone of the ‘West Door graphs are taken of Brougham company, Christopher Terry 459, 474). Corridor’ and B.1 Room. They Hall from a helicopter oper- and most of the “Heritage are being dug up between the ated by Commission-Air on Management” students from 461. Christopher and Alison B.1. Room and the Carriage Thursday, 15th. August, 1996. Cumbria College of Art and Terry take pieces of stone House, and are causing no Due to too much ‘priority’ – Design (of Carlisle) tour the away from Brougham Hall on small amount of interest - es- air-defence exercises - traffic Hall Site, especially the Pele Saturday, 6th. July, 1996 - a pecially as the builder Syd the day before, the helicop- Tower, ‘mansion’ area and day when the Curwen Players Walker needs to know exactly ter's fly-over for the Hall and Lord Chancellor's Den, on Tues- come to Brougham Hall to where to rebuild the walls as other places nearby is de- day, 2nd. July, 1996. Their rehearse their Macbeth play his own work progresses. In- layed for a day. (170, 485, plan is to cost-up everything for the forthcoming Shake- triguingly, there are several 499) for a proposed rebuilding of speare Weekend – and hand signs in these foundations, much of Brougham Hall - and it over to stonemason Paul discovered in July 1996, that 469. While Clare Whitfield then apply for a grant from Grundy, who formerly trained point to the ‘second-thoughts sells Macbeth tickets beside the the National Lottery ’s Millen- at the Hall. He now turns out of people who have built them Garden Gateway (56) student nium Com mission . Once the high-quality, ornate stonework - there are places where walls Mark Aylwood and local tour is finished, everyone with a special machine that don't actually join up with each youngster John Barlow do the heads for the Brougham Mu- allows him to work faster and other, as if they were added same at the Main Gateway seum, where Christopher Terry more efficiently. (436) on afterwards; they show how (43) in a Saturday, 27th. July, shows Mr. Martin various different structures have been 1996, scene in Hall News 293. plans, drawings and old pho- 462. A Scottish St. Andrew's added as ‘home extensions’ at tographs of Brougham Hall as (‘Saltire’) flag hoisted above later stages. Inaccuracies 470. A major art exhibition is it was, to help in ‘summing-up’ the Flagpole Balcony on Thurs- shown up in a sketch of the announced for the Tudor ‘Bire’ work. (467, 521, 524, 2166) day, 25th. July, 1996, in Stables Courtyard can be seen Building’s upper-level room. readiness for the Macbeth before Syd ends up building Work by Barry Carruthers, to 455. The Flagpole Balcony Shakespeare Weekend start- the wrong way! (14, 75, 149, add wall panelling to the displays various flags during ing the following day. (45, 241, 488) ‘Cloakroom’ (stairs area) of Summer 1996, including that 455, 463) the ‘Bire’ lower-level is com- of Western Australia, for the 465. A very-rare Brougham pleted on Saturday, 19th. visit by Tony and Sue Terry in 463. After a few weeks of Cordial Bottle, recently found October, 1996. (481, 489) July, 1996, and Scotland's being made ready for the in Sussex, is brought to the Saltire flag of St. Andrew, for 1996 Shakespeare Weekend, Brougham Museum at the end 471. The cobbles outside the 1996's Macbeth Shakespeare and after the opening Night of July 1996. Believed to date Brougham Museum provide the Weekend play. (45, 456, for Macbeth on Friday, 26th. from 1832, it is a reminder of ‘photo-point’ for Christopher 463) July, 1996, the Main Court- the passing of the Reform Bill Terry and lan Burgham, a yard is the scene of the great- that year. The Bill had been distant relative of the 456. The First Night of the est gathering of visitors to drafted by Lord Chancellor Brougham Family, who now Curwen Players’ performance Brougham Hall ‘since 1927’. Henry Brougham over a pe- lives in Canada. The spelling of Macbeth goes well and with Not since the days of the gam- riod of around eighteen of Ian’s surname is how no incident. Their show, on the bling Lord Victor Brougham months here at Brougham Hall; ‘Brougham’ was spelt in 1272, evening of Friday, 26th. July, has Brougham Hall hosted so and it revolutionised Britain’s when the de Burgham Family 1996, is the first of three for many people on one occasion. political system by allowing ended up without a male heir Brougham Hall’s third Theatre All these people, around 200 twice as many people as be- and their estate was split up of them, have come for the fore to vote. [Though most between the Crackenthorp, BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 0 second Macbeth play by the ladies still had to wait another Rydin and de Burgham fami- lies. He visits the Hall on Thurs- mentary by former television ‘Bire’ Building is tidied up by over from their October 1996 day, 15th. August, ’96. (472) newscaster Angela Rippon - Alan Stubbs and Christopher 1996 work of resurfacing the have been distributed to po- Terry on Wednesday, 14th. Driveway, which was first 472. Another arrival at tential customers by Coates- August, 1996, in readiness for aid in early-1988. (15, 104; Brougham Hall, for a few days Viyella , and 200,000 bro- aerial photographs to be 161, 548) in August 1996, is Benjamin chures produced from ‘stills’ taken from a helicopter by Furnival, who helps out in vari- photographs from the day Commission-Air . The roof itself 492. Gwen Bainbridge, the ous tasks including building have also been sent out. The provides fine views to most pottery lady, leaves the near the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, letter from the A.V.C. Creative parts of Brougham Hall – but Brougham Hall Crafts Centre and being a museum curator. crew states: ‘Our time at the new pictures ought to be on Sunday, 3rd. November, He has links with the Brougham Brougham Hall was our best even more impressive. (8, 45, 1996, ready to start a full- Family. (471, 473, 477, 796, day ever - if only all our 170, 468) time job the next day. She is 2703, 3012) video-shoots were as good as also a teacher of pottery. this!’ (196, 373, 403, 404, 486. Three stone ‘mullions’ - (482, 493, 494, 2214, 2218) 473. The latest Summer 1996 450, 469, 741) vertical, dividing pillars - of visitor to Brougham Hall is the east-facing ‘Library’ win- 493. After just five weeks, M. Brigadier John Heelis, of the 479. The south-side wall of the dow are installed in early- &. B. Catering , run by Richard famous Gurkha Regiment , who West Door Corridor, and its October, 1996. and Christine Muirhead, closes is at Brougham Hall on Friday, door to the B.1 Room, are the Tea Room at the start of 23rd. August, 1996. He brings progressing well in late-August 487. The ceiling beams for the November, 1996; the Muir- with him a special ceremonial 1996. The walls on both sides West Door Corridor are heads leave for the Dominican fork once used to serve up a are now up to around 7ft. added in mid-October 1996. Republic (Jamaica) part of the roasted ox on after (around 2m) in height. (474, Both side-walls of the Corri- world. (482, 492, 494, 1377, the repealing of the Corn Laws 483, 487) dor, between the West Door- 1700, 2404) in Summer 1846. The former way and the Stables Court- Lord Chancellor Brougham and 480. Another fire, the third, yard, are built up to ceiling- 494. There is a big problem other local dignitaries at- breaks out in The Old Smoke- height, and around the ends of with Ann Bilbrough's Inspired tended a very special dinner house on Monday, 9th. Sep- the pieces of wood set in By Nature , in Unit Nine, when party. (471, 472, 474) tember, 1996, and the inci- place to support the ceiling the heavy rains of early- dent is at least as bad as the when that comes. (36, 49, November, 1996, lead to 474. The lintel for the door at one there in May, 1990. Just 479, 483, 488) extensive problems with damp the Stables Courtyard end of like the 1990 incident, there that also start to cause prob- the West Door Corridor is has been a real fear of an 488. More foundations of lems with the lighting. As a installed on Saturday, 17 th explosion, with the fire raging former walls near the Car- result, Ann has to move out of August, 1996, in an arduous in the chimney leading from riage House and the B.1. Room the Unit as it waits to be operation Involving around six the ‘smoking’ ovens. Once are discovered in mid- sorted out, which may not be people and a ‘ladder’ of again, the fire brigade is October, 1996. (464) until spring 1997 when the planks. This is placed one called. (156, 359, 794, 2726) weather improves. In the notch up at a time, up the 489. The Ashley Boon sport- meantime, the former Unit run scaffolding, in order to haul 481. During September and ing-portraits exhibition and by potter Gwen Bainbridge, the new Lintel up stone-by- October 1996, the top level sale opens on the evening of and the now-closed Tea-Room stone. (49, 479, 483, 487) of the Tudor ‘Bire' Building is Saturday, 26th. October, serve as workzones for Ann, being prepared for the forth- 1996, in the upper-level room with the Tea-Room's tables, 475. Friesian cattle from coming ‘sports-art’ show by of the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building. chairs and all else stored in nearby fields manage to get Ashley Boon. Windows are The first night is a brilliant the ‘Office’ Gateway. The into the ‘churchyard’ of fitted with glass, the floor is success, with portraits repre- Tea-Room is now a temporary Brougham Chapel on two suc- varnished, and Barry Car- senting around 9 months of a showroom for Inspired By Na- cessive days in mid-August ruthers continues his work on year's hard work being sold ture as Ann Bilbrough works in 1996. (347, 431, 2028) the ‘cloakroom’ at the bottom and ‘red-spotted’, raising Gwen Bainbridge's former of the ‘Bire’ stairs in October thousands of pounds for Ash- Unit. She later sets up a work- 476. Lord Brougham visits 1996. (8, 470) ley. The portraits, however, all shop at Appleby Castle. (5, Brougham Hall on three days, remain here while the exhibi- 181, 492, 493) Saturday, 17th. to Monday, 482. M and B Catering , run by tion continues; it lasts ’til Sun- 19th. August, 1996, seeing Richard and Christine Muir- day, 3rd. November, 1996. 495. Hall News 298, of Mon- how the Project of rebuilding head, take over the Tea Room Other than the Boons and the day 4th. November, 1996 his family's former Westmor- of Brougham Hall on Monday, Terrys, up to 200 people are marks the tenth anniversary of land home is doing. Hall News 30th. September, 1996, from reckoned to have attended the the start of the excavations of catches up with him for a pho- Mandy Carruthers' and Lisa opening ceremony on Satur- the Billiards Room (now the tograph, with the ‘Office’ Gardiner's company, Fillers . day 26th. October, having Lord' Chancellor's Dan) back Gateway as a backdrop. (15, (492, 493, 1700) being personally invited by on 6th. November, 1986; (50). 489, 2468) Lord Brougham. (8, 490) 483. The doorway linking the 477. Syd Walker and Benja- B.1 Room with the West Door 490. For the exhibition of 496. There are more problems min Furnival work on the out- Corridor has its lintel added in Ashley Boon's portraits, a spe- with the road-sign at the lower crop of walling that juts out September 1996, and walling cial sign he uses regularly is end of the former Brougham from the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, continues to ceiling height erected at the door to the Avenue. The Brougham Castle towards Unit Nine, the former during September and Octo- Guard House, the exhibition part of the sign has been Drawing Room part of ber 1996. (474, 479, 487) entrance, using posts that al- pushed around on its post by Brougham Hall. The work takes low the sign to be tilted at 45 either the weather or by kids, place late in August, 1996. (8, 484. In a link with 1992, the degrees. Christopher Terry and is now pointing up the 22, 30, 472, 2703) Stables Courtyard is again and Ashley Boon himself battle road towards Pembroke Farm dubbed a Hive of Activity in the gale of Sunday, 27th. and Brougham Village. (418, 478. The A.V.C. Creative film Hall News . Pottery teacher October, 1996, to put the sign 438, 451, 497) company, who produced the Gwen Bainbridge and Alison up. (489) promotional video for the Terry are both pictured as 497. Less than three years clothes company Coates- they work on their pots and 491. The Driveway for the after a similar mishap during Viyella on Thursday, 13th. clay-cast gargoyles and other Brougham Hall Gardens the frost and ice at about the June, 1996, write to Christo- faces. The scene, from August houses is extended with new start of 1994, a ‘Sharp pher and Alison Terry in early- 1996's Lowther Weekend, is in tarmac to well beyond the Turn’ (chevron) sign is wiped September 1996. Since the Hall News 296 of Monday, Lord Chancellor's Den. This out by a car that slides visit of the film crew and their 7th. October, 1996. (49, 226, new covering, which extends straight on instead of taking model subjects, 20,000 video 452) the driveway by over 20 me- the ninety-degree right turn at copies of the film they pro- tres, is donated by a team duced – complete with com- 485. The roof of the Tudor who have plenty of tarmac left BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 1 1996 Avenue. Unless the dow, complete with its three driver lost attention vertical ‘mullion’ dividers, in an Images anyway, the crash can be put October 1996 photograph. down to the ice and snow of of mid-to-late November 1996. 504. Brougham Hall News is of The first snow of the 1996-‘97 praised in letter from the pre- Winter arrives on 19th. No- sent Lord Brougham & Vaux, 1996 vember, the same date as in with an August 1996 picture of 1996

1988, and the most snow on his Lordship standing at the BROUGHAM one day - around 1.5 inches, entrance to the ‘Westernmost HALL and the 38cms. - falls on Sunday, 24th. Main Gateway’, or ‘office November, 1996, and there gateway’, (5), included in neighbouring are several days and nights of Sunday, 1st. December 1996’s Chapel became intense frosts down to 23.5'F Issue 300. His letter is also catwalks for the (minus 4.7'C). (123, 496) included in the special edition, day when film- and is dated 28th. November ing and model- 498. After the highly-successful 1996 – ten years to the day sporting art exhibition by after Hall News Issue One ling was done in Ashley Boon, between Satur- (dated 1st. December, ’86) June 1996 for a day, 26th, October, and Sun- was actually printed. new range of day, 3rd. November, 1996, clothes by the upper-level room of the 505. The work has now ended Coates- Viyella . circa-1500 a.d. Tudor ‘Bire’ for 1996 – not counting Hall Photographs Building is soon to be made News and the pre-Christmas were taken en- ready to become the new rush for the Crafts Centre Museum involving the artefacts teams - with the Library and masse, and a loaned as the Jim Taylor-Page West Door Corridor area video too, which Children's Interpretative Mu- receiving the final attentions of would carry seum. It will also be used as a the year. Hall News recaps the narrative by ex- Gallery, too, from time to time, work done here during 1996. newsreader after the success of ‘Ashley’s Angela Rippon. Boontime’ – as Hall News 506. Road-signs at the foot of The group had called it. (489, 500, 574) ‘Brougham Avenue’, on the 434, B.6262, are knocked flat tea at Lisa Gar- 499. Using a ‘six-by-four’ (15 again in late-November or diner’s tearoom Photo Guide For 19961996 436, x 10cm) photograph reprint early-December 1996, in an 442, from Thursday, 15th, August, incident similar to one that 460, 479 459, 464, 454 446, 1996, one of the aerial pic- happened at the start of 507 474, 483, 486, tures from that day’s helicop- 1994. A vehicle has skidded 487, 505 ter fly-past by Commission-Air , off the ice-bound road at the 503 Christopher Terry compiles the sharp corner near Rose 475 441 1996 annual report for the Cottage, and hit the 509 Brougham Hall Charitable ‘chevron’ (sharp right turn) sign Trust , handing it to Hall News' square-on, severely damaging 495 492 editor Alistair Aynscough, who it. Meanwhile, another sign for will later be printing it along- the junction close to Rose Cot- 488 440 side the Tenth Anniversary Hall 491 News 300, on Sunday, 1st. tage appears to have been December, 1996. (468, 510) knocked about by local chil- 448 494 443 dren, and is pointing the 500. An appeal is to be made wrong ways for Brougham 445 448 429, 484 by the Brougham Hall Charita- Hall and Brougham Castle in 430 ble Trust for extra artefacts December 1996. (270, 438, 499 466 for the new and old Brougham 507, 583). 449 Museums, announces Christo- 476, pher Terry on Saturday, 30th. 507. New signs are erected on 456, 429 472, 504 November, 1996. (498) the A.6./ B.5320. junction at 463, 477 461 King Arthur’s Round Table in 467 501. The tenth-anniversary Eamont Bridge at around the 501 470, 481, Hall News 300, of Sunday, 1st. start of December 1996. The 489, 490, December, 1996, reports that while-on-brown signs direct 485 498, 502, the Shakespeare Weekend of people to Brougham Hall, and 1997 is to feature The Taming other local attractions. (438) 469 508 of The Shrew , and even 1998’s event is pencilled in for Julius 508. An art show featuring Ceasar . (572, 674) works by Lakes artist Jane 448 438, 451 Matthews is announced for 502. The upper level of the ‘Looking West’ 15th. to 24th. August 1997. 450, 478 427 453, Tudor ‘Bire’ Building is cited as The event, announced in De- ‘Looking North’ a possible venue for a music cember 1996, is likely to take 431 426 480 concert due to take place in place on the upper level of the June 1997, Christopher Terry 433, 471 455, 496, announces in December 1996. Tudor ‘Bire’ Building. (570) 462 497, 454 This is to safeguard against 509. The Terrys now, in De- 506 bad weather, and an audi- cember 1996, have a flat at ence of 300 could potentially Brougham Hall, where the 468 be accommodated in the room. House of Eden Gallery used to 444, (541, 566) be. Lately used by Bob Wool- 482, 458 ley, the flat will be a kind of 435, 457 493 503. Hall News 300, of Sun- ‘second home’ for ‘Christopher 439 452 day, 1st. December, 1996, and Co’., when they are not at features the new Library win- High Head Castle, Ivegill - 40 428, 432, 447, years on from the devastating 465, 472, 473, BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 2 fire that ruined it. (275, 2816) 437 469 500 510. Hall News 303, the first photographs taken of the some of the worst weather 10th. March 1997. It is 1997 issue for 1997, features an other Icehouse, taken by Ian since the ‘New Decade Storms’ certain he will concentrate on aerial photograph, taken of McKenzie. (58, 69, 419, 513) of 1990. (528, 2921) the Library and West Door- Brougham Hall by the Commis- way areas, as had been the sionAir team from a helicopter 515. The ‘Chevron’ sign at the 521. Former trainee stonema- case during 1996. on Thursday, 15th. August, bottom of the B.6262. son Paul Grundy, who worked 1996. The photograph, one of Brougham Avenue is hit once at Brougham Hall between 526. The first meeting of stu- several taken on the day, and again by a vehicle sliding on 1986 and 1988, and for the dents of the proposed Horti- of various places, was used on ice late in January 1997. It is Hall Trust , both on and off site cultural and Arboreal [Tree] Christmas cards produced for not the first time this has hap- at various times since then, is Studies course at Newton Rigg the ‘Friends of Brougham Hall’ pened, as Hall News 226 re- back again in February 1997. College , Penrith, takes place in association. (468, 499, 547) ported in January 1994. (583) He is discussing possible work the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, Hall for the Hall Trust – dependant News 307 reports on Monday, 511. The ‘Hall of Mirrors’?! – 516. While on a work place- on National Lottery funding 10th. March, 1997. The meet- Les Harrison of SmallFab , the ment at Cumbrian Newspapers for the Hall. Paul has spent ing of scholars was held on Hall’s new ‘heavy’ metal- at Carlisle in January and much of 1996 and the first Wednesday, 19th. February, worker, moves in to the Guard February 1997, Hall News ’ weeks of 1997 working for and outlined Brougham Hall’s House, dubbed the Guard editor Alistair Aynscough re- the Carlisle-based building potential role in their aca- Room at the time of its survey searches the rebuilding of company C. J. Laing , on the demic lives. (97, 537) in the Autumn of 1986. His Warwick Hall at Warwick restoration of the city’s old arrival on Saturday, 1st. Feb- Bridge, near this city. Warwick Citadel Court towers and 527. Local newspaper ruary, 1997, means his new Hall had been destroyed in an buildings – once also the city [‘Cumberland News’] photo- place is at one end of the line overnight fire in September jail – as noted in Hall News graphs of the rebuilding of of Brougham Hall crafts units, 1933, and was rebuilt be- 307 on Monday, 10th. March fire-hit Warwick Hall, War- and John Harrison, the art- tween 1934 and 1935 by the 1997. (539, 454, 833) wick Bridge, between 1934 metalworker, is at the other renowned local builders, C. J. and 1935, are reproduced in end, presenting a kind of Laing . The same company is 522. Antiques Roadshow televi- Hall News 308 on 24th. March ‘mirror-image’ between the top of the list for winning the sion ‘star’ Eric Knowles, who 1997. (516) two. Les’ daughter, Amanda contract to rebuild Brougham appeared at a Sailors’ Fund Harrison, is about to do some Hall too if the Hall Trust ‘wins day at Nunwick Hall, Lang- 528. There’s trouble for Les work here. (32, 162, 512) the Lottery’. Ironically, War- wathby, on 4th. July 1992, is Harrison of SmallFab when he wick Hall was rebuilt just as to come to Brougham Hall in has to contend with the leaking 512. The Tea Room will be Brougham Hall was being late-May, 1997, it is an- roof of his new Guard House operated by Amanda Harri- toppled. (521, 524, 527) nounced in March. He will host unit, following the recent son, daughter of recently- a meeting of the National Arts heavy rain. Les rigs up plastic arrived ‘heavy’ metalworker 517. Visitors to Brougham Hall Collectors’ Fund in the Tudor sheeting, on wooden frames Les, for Easter 1997, it is an- in February 1997 include ‘Bire’ Building. He normally hung from the ceiling, to de- nounced in Hall News 305 on Jonathan Terry Snr and also works for the London-based flect the worst of the leaks to 10 th February, 1997. Since the Hon. Francis Noel-Baker, auctioneers, Bonhams . (560) protect his machinery and his late-1996, the Tea Room has founder of ECOVAST – the produce. (532, 550) been used as a temporary European Council for Preser- 523. Hall Trust folks are all showroom for the wares of vation of Villages and Small ‘on tenterhooks’ – as Hall News 529. New volunteers to the Ann Bilbrough’s Inspired by Towns – and holder of many 307 of 10th. March 1997 puts Hall Trust for March 1997 Nature operation, whose Unit high-profile posts in British it - as a National Lottery Heri- include Sheelagh and Alan Nine has suffered damp trou- political circles. (2468, 2485) tage Commission delegation Mason, who have been help- bles following the wet Autumn. are to visit in order to assess ing in the Library-area work, (511, 528, 532) 518. Hall Trustee Christopher the Hall for possible Lo ttery particularly in readiness for Terry announces a possible funding for rebuilding. (524) the Lo ttery inspectors’ visit of 513. Memories of the arte- link-up with Newton Rigg Col- Thursday, 13th. March. (524, facts retrieved from the Ice lege , Penrith, which could see 524. Lo ttery Commissioner Dr 557) House just on a decade ago – the Hall regularly being used David Fraser, and Nick Read- hundreds of fragments of war- by students on a Horticultural ing, senior assessor, visit 530. Former Brougham Mu- time N.A.A.F.I. crockery – are and Arboreal (plant and tree Brougham Hall on Thursday, seum curator Simon Sylvester- revived by the news in Janu- studies) course. On Wednes- 13th. March 1997, a day for Meats, M.A., gives a talk on ary 1997 that the N.A.A.F.I. is day, 12th. February, 1997, which much preparation work Brougham Hall, the former to be sold to a private con- ten students, led by Shiela had been done, such as the ‘Windsor of The North’, to a tractor. The Navy, Army and Todd, visit the Hall and do removal of scaffolding around meeting of the Appleby-in- Air Force Institute, to give it its some survey work in the the proposed Library. With Westmorland Society , as re- full title, was a key player in Woodlands. (526, 700) them also come other Lottery ported in Hall News 308 (24th. the life of wartime Britain, officials charged with assess- March) and Cumberland &. they were the caterers respon- 519. First moves at building ing Brougham Hall for a possi- Westmorland Herald (8th. sible for keeping Britain’s work at the Hall for 1997 ble grant for the rebuilding of March 1997). forces “marching on their stom- come when long-serving its ‘three main towers’. They achs”. Pieces of N.A.A.F.I. builder Syd Walker returns to are treated to a tour of the 531. The first pictures of Les crockery dating from 1940, work on the Library, together site and, later, in the Tudor and Amanda Harrison - and 1942 and, especially, 1943, with Christopher Terry. How- ‘Bire’ Building, a talk and film the only ones of them outside were among artefacts un- ever, rain halts their work on presentation of progress the their first unit at Brougham earthed after Brougham Hall’s Sunday, 16th. February, Brougham Hall Charitable Hall, now the Guard House role as a top-secret tank- 1997, after three busy days. Trust has made since its incep- has ‘sprung a leak’ - appear development base jointly run The weather would affect the tion on 26th. November 1985. in Hall News 308 on 24th. by the Royal Armoured Corps work for a week – but enough Helping out on the day are March 1997. (32, 511, 528, and the Grant Canal Defence had been done to satisfy the Dave and Irene Gaskell, who 532, 535) Lea gue . (58, 514, 2969) needs of Hall News 306 of ran the Tea Room for the 24th. February. (520, 525) 1994 season; they do the 532. Following the problems 514. A decade on from a visit catering from the former with damp caused by heavy to a ‘second icehouse’ in the 520. Eamont Bridge is House of Eden Gallery Tea rain in February 1997, as well fields beneath Brougham flooded, along with many Room for the inspectors’ visit. as November 1996, there are Chapel, made on 20th. Febru- other parts of the country, and (184, 365, 454, 529, 537, changes in the Brougham Hall ary 1987 by Alistair Ayn- the crisis on Saturday, 22nd. 558, 582, 2743) Crafts Centre. Ann Bilbrough, scough and colleagues Kevin February, 1997, calls for of Inspired By Nature , moves Dinham and Sean Carruthers, sandbags to be used as it 525. Plans for work to be out altogether, to set up at Hall News 305 and 306, of floods riverside homes in the done by Syd Walker in 1997 Appleby Castle. Les Harrison 10th. and 24th. February village. The rain had set in the are laid out in March, and 1997 respectively, reproduce previous Sunday, bringing reported in Hall News 307 on BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 3 1997 is therefore able to fireplace remnants begins to Brougham Hall around Easter tion, with a capacity of accom- move into the unit now take shape between March 1993 following a spate of modating up to 7,000 holi- left vacant by Ann – the win- and April 1997. burglaries the year before. daymakers a week (assuming dow-less unit once used by (258, 630) they all happen to be fully- John Harrison between 1989 541. The date of Sunday, booked and all change on the and 1990 and by wood-turner 22nd. June, 1997, is booked 549. Rona Newsom’s Old Monday and Friday change- Walter Gundrey from 1990 to for the first outdoor concert at Smokehouse celebrates its over days in the 3,500-bed 1994. Gwen Bainbridge, pot- Brougham Hall by the More- tenth anniversary on Saturday, resort) opens its doors on Mon- ter, has also been based here. cambe Nuclear-Electric Band , 17th. May, 1997. The cele- day, 19th. May, 1997, after a (128, 159, 171, 363, 439, as reported in Hall News 310 brations for the Smokehouse, brief delay. (562, 565) 494, 531, 574, 3027) on 21st. April, 1997. which was the Hall’s first Crafts Centre Unit, are made 554. Hopes for a visit to 533. Another wall is emerging 542. Stonemason Paul Grundy even sweeter when it is re- Brougham Hall by the Two Fat by the B.1. Room and West may be contracted to restore vealed that ‘Harrods Likes the Ladies Clarissa Dickson-Wright Door Corridor, as seen in Hall the Guard House fireplace, it Taste of Old Smokehouse Fish’ and Jennifer Paterson are News 309 on Monday, 7th. is announced in Hall News 310 – as Hall News 311 states on dashed. It was planned that April 1997. Syd Walker is on 21st. April, 1997. (32, 701) Monday, 12th. May, 1997. the cooks, who travel by mo- pictured working on the wall Meanwhile, it is revealed that torbike and sidecar in their early in March 1997. 543. Amanda Harrison and Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa BBC2 show, would record at Sarah Bewick are photo- Dickson-Wright, the unlikely least part of an episode at 534. Another black-on-yellow graphed in Hall News 310 of new television personalities of Rona Newsom’s Old Smoke- ‘Rampant Lion of Flanders’ 21st. April 1997, as they work the year, may be recording an ho use , but their producer has flag is stolen from the mast in the Tea Room at Easter episode of their ‘cult’ cookery had second thoughts, reports above the Main Gateway 1997. (535, 557) show Two Fat Ladies here. Hall News 312 on Monday, early on Saturday, 29th. (554, 555, 565) 19th. May, 1997. (549, 555, March, 1997, in a repeat of a 544. A survey of benchmarks 558, 560, 563, 630, 1339, raid in August 1988. This time – ‘crows feet’ marks carved 550. A new weather vane, 2023, 2623) the flag is crudely cut away, into walls, which denote the inspired by the ‘Old Father leaving a part still attached to height above sea level when Time’ one at the Lords’ cricket 555. The tenth anniversary of the rope. (3018) checked with Ordnance Survey ground in London, is made for The Old Smokehouse is maps – is done by Christopher Brougham Hall by recent arri- marked by Hall News 312 of 535. ‘Tea’s Up!’ – Amanda Terry in April 1997. There are val Les Harrison of SmallFab . Monday, 19th. May, 1997, Harrison and Sarah Bewick run hopes of installing a sea-level The vane is installed on the with a chronicle of events con- the Tea-Room together for height plaque at the top of a walling high above the former cerning this unit, right back to Easter 1997, which is the rebuilt Pele Tower when the Gallery’s mullion window, the ‘Unit F.’ survey of Decem- weekend from Friday, 28th. time comes, and Mr Terry is overlooking the Stables Court- ber 1986. (4, 52, 74, 565) March, to Monday, 1st. April. curious as to what that height yard, near where a fine, (543) would be – estimated from a ‘eight-day’ clock used to be. 556. The lawns and Main benchmark at the Main Gate- (49, 564) Courtyard of Brougham Hall 536. Following the cancellation way. (552) are tidied up and mowed in of a controversial ‘NIREX’ nu- 551. John and Marion Harri- readiness for the Summer clear dump planned for land 545. Doors and gates of the son put Hall duties to one side 1997 events. Some sections near Gosforth, West Cumbria, Crafts Centre are repainted in for a day to run polling sta- where the ground was slightly art-metalworker John Harrison black on the weekend of Sat- tions at Hunsonby and Ousby, raised have been levelled out. loses a contract for ceremonial urday 12th., and Sunday 13th. two villages about where they (560, 566, 572) brassware intended to mark its April, 1997, along with other live east of , Pen- eventual opening. After the doors around Brougham Hall. rith, for the General Election 557. The Hall’s Tea Room is news of the scheme’s downfall, on Thursday, 1 st May, 1997. taken on for Summer 1997 by on Thursday, 27th. March, 546. The Brougham Hall Gar- They are on duty for sixteen Paul and Norita O’Neil, who 1997, John says he is “not too dens ‘show house’ - the one hours, but not all that many begin trading here on Thurs- upset” over losing this work directly opposite the Lord people come to vote in either day, 22 nd May, 1997, having and its contentious associa- Chancellor’s Den, or Billiards village between the hours of arrived to set-up on Friday, tions. [1587; See Hall News Room - goes on general sale 6am and 10pm, and that’s 9th . (535, 543, 598) 555; 27th. October, 2006.] for £168,000 in Springtime despite an extra opportunity 1997. The drop in house prices to vote in local Council elec- 558. Christopher Terry, leader 537. The Woodlands are in recent years shows itself, as tions. The General Election of the Brougham Hall Charita- reported as having been this is only £3,000 up on the results in an historic 179-seat ble Trust , talks on BBC Radio cleared in readiness for the price each of the houses was majority for Tony Blair’s New Cumbria, suggesting there National Lottery team’s visit in offered at six years earlier. Labour , ending an 18-year run could be ‘a cash-rich entity’ March 1997. (524) (50, 183) for the Conservatives, but both that’s tipped as a possible John and Marion rapidly come donor of funds to help rebuild 538. Les Harrison begins pro- 547. ‘Invaders!’ – Candidates to the conclusion there are Brougham Hall, even if the ducing weather vanes in fighting for the ‘Referendum better ways to spend such a National Lottery Heritage March 1997 – just as his Party’ in the 1997 General lovely, sunny day as this! (547, Commission is in no position to namesake John Harrison had Election visit the Hall as cus- 559) help. (424, 524, 599, 630) done in December 1990. tomers of Country Furnishings (178, 550, 559) in April 1997. However, as the 552. A ‘crows foot’ Benchmark 559. It’s ‘nostalgia-time’ for Referendum Party are a - at 445ft (137 metres) above Les Harrison when he recalls a 539. Long-serving Hall stone- highly-contentious offshoot of sea-level - is featured in Hall rain-lashed charity walk of 21 mason Paul Grundy is fea- the Conservatives, Hall Friends Ne ws 311 of Monday, 12th. miles (34kms.) from Penrith to tured in the ‘Grundy Story’ in David MacLean and William May, 1997. The benchmark is Hallin Fell, Ullswater, and back Hall News 309 on Monday, Whitelaw wouldn’t have been engraved in the stonework of on Sunday, 31st. March, 1968 7th. April, 1997, including an overly impressed – they’re Brougham Hall’s ancient Main - just eight days after the fall impressive 1987 view of him eminent Tories themselves! Gateway, and is featured of the old Eden Bridge near working on the Terrace wall, (551, 2678) after a recent survey of such Langwathby. The story is re- high above the B.6262 road. marks at the Hall. (544) counted in another charity (521, 542) 548. Former Brougham Hall- ‘event’ for Hall News and its based jeweller Mark Heeley- 553. The future of Brougham editor Alistair Aynscough - the 540. The new wall between Creed - based at Priest’s Mill, Hall, and other attractions in story of his sixth Barnardos the ‘A.2. Kitchen’ (28) and Caldbeck, in April 1997 - is the vicinity, could be much voluntary holiday at Barrows proposed Library and Re- interviewed on radio on Mon- rosier following the opening of Green, Kendal. Hall News 314 source Centre, complete with day, 21st. April, and says he is the new ‘Oasis’ Holiday Vil- of Monday, 16th. June, 1997, ‘confident’ of his future there. lage near Whinfell, Penrith, in and Cumberland & Westmor- BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 4 Mark reluctantly had to leave Brougham Parish. The attrac- land Herald of Saturdays, 30th. March and 6th. April, Electric’ Band proves a bit of a 1997, is perfect with unbroken 576. A Bank Holiday 1997 1968, give further details. flop when heavy rain, despite sunshine, and things look prom- day-trip on Monday, 25th. (562, 564, 581, 2960, 2963) a bright and sunny morning, ising. However, the weather August, 1997, is spoiled for keeps so many folks away hampers the second night, one group of Hall visitors when 560. The ‘star’ of BBC1’s An- from what is a great perform- Saturday, 26th., with persis- their car is plundered for valu- tiques Roadshow , Eric Knowles, ance. The concert, on the af- tent heavy rain for the bulk of ables, including a rucksack full comes to Brougham Hall on ternoon of Sunday, 22nd. the show, resulting in a piti- of pricey climbing gear and at Wednesday, 28th. and Thurs- June, 1997, manages only to fully-small audience. The third least one camera. (265, 584) day, 29th. May, 1997. In the attract an audience of around night on Sunday 27th., is little Tudor ‘Bire’ Building on the 20 hardy souls, who tend to better with heavy cloud and 577. The Alice’s Wonderland evening of Wednesday, 28th., take shelter in the arch of the showers. It later transpires that Doll and Toy Museum , opened Eric, who is a auctioneer and Hall War Base Memorial Penrith Agricultural Society’s at Brougham Hall on Sunday, antiques expert for Bonhams in (250) or against the wall of annual show held in the 6th. July, 1997, by Margaret London when not in front of the the ancient, Tudor ‘Bire’ Build- nearby Brougham Hall Field, Blackwell and special guests, cameras, gives a talk to repre- ing (8). The month turns out to on the Saturday, has suffered notches up its 1,700th. visitor sentatives of the National Art be the wettest June since its wettest day for fifteen in well under three months. Collectors’ Fund. On the Thurs- 1860. Undaunted, and despite years. Unfortunately, Hall Hall News 321, of Monday, day the Hall’s Main Courtyard a loss of some £544 to the News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- 22nd. September, 1997, re- becomes the scene of an off- Hall Trust , Christopher Terry scough is unexpectedly de- veals that the tally doesn’t camera ‘edition’ of Antiques decides to give the Band a tained at home in Penrith on include two uninvited, over- Roadshow when Eric Knowles second chance – they’re to be the Friday, the only decent night visitors to the Museum in and his team meet the public invited back for Summer day, and is therefore forced early-September – two kittens, and value the many items they 1998. (666, 671, 773) to rely on photographs taken who cause mayhem after acci- bring along. One visitor brings on the previous Tuesday’s dentally being locked in! (587, a painting that turns out to be 567. ‘Dolls’ Day!’ - The Alice ’s rehearsal to use when running 600, 782) a rare view of Buttermere – Wonderland Doll and Toy the story ( Hall News 318). He painted by the celebrated Museum , formerly based in has already booked a week- 578. It is reported by Christo- ‘haywain’ artist John Consta- Gretna, and before that, The long Barnardos’ volunteer- pher Terry that the builder ble, and worth at least White House in Clifton, and in holiday, starting on Sunday, Syd Walker, who has worked £30,000. He is featured in , sets up on the up- 27th. July, 1997. (566, 575, on the Hall since at least May Hall News 315 of Monday, per-floor of the Tudor ‘Bire’ 648, 674, 677) 1987, has been off sick for 30th. June, 1997, and Cum- Building. The day, Sunday, 6th. several weeks, hence an ap- berland & Westmorland Herald July, 1997, is a big one for 573. The Fellrunner Bus tour – parent lack of building work of Saturday, 31st. May, 1997. the curator, Margaret Alice titled ‘Hidden Cumbria’ – in- during Summer 1997. Despite (554, 2546, 2895) Blackwell, of Ivegill, Carlisle, cludes a visit to Brougham suggestions he will be away who owns the 1973-founded Hall, visiting on the fine, sunny until 1998, Syd returns to the 561. A group of ornithologists collection that includes around morning of Sunday, 27th. July, Hall within days of the an- - or bird-watchers - visits the 1,700 dolls, as well as a wide 1997. (891) nouncement, as seen in Hall Hall on Thursday, 22nd. May, range of dolls’ houses and News 321 of 22nd. Septem- 1997. (562, 2028) other toys. A grand opening- 574. Another Brougham Hall / ber, 1997. (141, 165, 585) day ceremony is conducted by Lowther feature for Hall News 562. On Thursday, 22nd. May, Penrith Museum curator Judith 318 and 320 includes photo- 579. At the start of Septem- 1997, the day Hall News ’ Clarke and local vicar the Rev. graphs of Hall folks attending ber, 1997, the Main Room of editor Alistair Aynscough be- Wilf Braithwaite – he prays the 25th. Lowther Horse Trials the former House of Eden gins his sixth Barnardos for success for the Hall’s latest and Country Fair , or the ‘Silver Gallery, and office for Bob (Barrows Green, Kendal) vol- new attraction. (577, 667) Show’ as Hall News calls it. The Woolley, becomes the new untary holiday, Brougham Hall event takes place on the base for the Burdess Family’s begins to receive other holi- 568. The Terrace is the venue weekend of Friday, 8 th . to Fleetstat Bureau Services . (880) daymakers itself – from the for a sun-blessed evening Sunday, 10th. August, 1997, vast new ‘Oasis’ complex at barbecue by the Womens’ and is attended by Hall regu- 580. In September, 1997, Whinfell Forest, near Cliburn Institute on Wednesday, 2nd. lars John Harrison, Marion Christopher Terry begins to lift village. (553, 561) July, 1997. Harrison and also Lerona the colourful, old Tiles of the Newsom and helper. Also here former Armoury Hall, or Great 563. A team of Channel 4 569. Stonemason Paul Grundy are Inspired by Nature ’s Ann Hall, rediscovered by Lee Television executives visit returns to carve stone for Bilbrough, formerly of Barry’s Hall Team in Septem- Brougham Hall over four days builder Syd Walker’s latest Brougham Hall, with her fa- ber, 1988. He soon finds, in late-May 1997 - looking for work on Brougham Hall’s pro- ther, Geoff, and Ashley Boon, however, it’s probably wiser to potential ‘star-quality’ of the posed Library. Hall News fea- the artist whose Autumn 1996 leave them in-situ, and rebur- former Windsor of The North. tures the story from Saturday, exhibition at the Hall was a ies them. The almost-unique (554, 2022) 17th. May, 1997. (571, 593) brilliant success. (498, 532) tiles, laid in 1848, are again hidden from the twin dangers 564. The first Hall News pic- 570. The proposed Lakes Art- 575. At least one big Summer of frost and souvenir-hunters ture of Les Harrison’s ‘Old Show by Jane Matthews is 1997 event at Brougham Hall as they enter their tenth winter Father Time’ weather vane in postponed indefinitely, due to has worked out well - although since being found. (121, 693) place appears in Issue 315, of reported illness. The show was the ‘Gospel Circus’ has been Monday, 30th. June, 1997. due to have taken place in the put together by the Church in 581. Busy times are reported (550, 581) former House of Eden Gallery The Barn team from nearby for folks at the Brougham Hall from Friday, 15th. to Sunday, Pembroke Farm, Brougham Crafts Centre - especially for 565. Rona Newsom wins pres- 24th. August, 1997. (572) Village, and not the Brougham Les Harrison, who has begun tigious orders for her Old Hall Charitable Trust . The Trust work on a large hangar for an Smokehouse fish and Truffles 571. The new Fireplace for the does not benefit by the event, aeroplane based at Kirkbride confectionery from the new planned Library and Resource though is happy to have it Airfield, near , Carlisle. ‘Oasis’ Holiday Village of Centre is beginning to take here on the afternoon of Sun- It will be quite a challenging Whinfell Forest (Brougham shape, as seen in Hall News day, 17th. August, 1997. The commission - the ‘plane it is Parish) in June 1997 - al- 317, of Monday, 28th. July, Gospel Circus is a religion- intended for has a 13-metre though quality inspectors from 1997. (585) based show for children and (40ft.) wingspan. (588) the Village paid a visit to her their families, most of whom two Brougham Hall units be- 572. ‘Shakespeare Weekend have been on summer camp at 582. The outcome of the Hall fore the order was placed. 1997’ – This is the fourth Pembroke Farm, and uses the Trust ’s application for a grant (553, 562) weekend to feature the Work- War Base Memorial as part of from the National Lottery Heri- ington-based Curwen Players, its stage. Around 40 children tage Commission , to help in 566. ‘Water Music!’ - The and their presentation this time and almost as many adults rebuilding the ‘Three Towers’, long-awaited outdoor concert is Taming of The Shrew . First attend the sun-blessed event. by the Morecambe ‘Nuclear- Night, Friday, 25th. July, (250, 886, 2905) BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 5 1997 is likely to be known negatives or photographs - on a training flight flies over O’Neil. Margaret is helped in within six weeks, it is reported and every single one of the Brougham Hall at such a low the role by her regular Dolls’ in September, 1997. (599) Museum’s 1,700 dolls, plus altitude on Tuesday, 21st. Museum assistant Christine other exhibits, is pictured and October, 1997, that it triggers Lockerbie. (600, 606) 583. The former Brougham catalogued. It takes around six burglar alarms in at least one Avenue is used by Police ca- weeks to complete the task, of the Brougham Hall Gardens 599. ‘No Lottery Joy’ - The dets learning how to go about and it is proposed the images houses. (586, 613, 614, 2711) National Lottery Heritage Com- investigating causes of road will be placed on the Internet, mission has decided against accidents. A group of officer- or “world-wide web” as it’s 593. Paul Grundy delivers handing out a cash grant to hopefuls gathers at the corner often called now. (598, 608) more cut stone to Brougham help rebuild Brougham Hall, or of the Avenue, where the Hall on Tuesday, 21st. Octo- at least its ‘Three Towers’. B.6262 does a steep, 90- 588. Les Harrison’s aircraft ber, 1997, for future use in Despite the decision, architect degree turn, and their Sep- hangar is beginning to take building projects, especially John Cottam is not despon- tember, 1997, outdoor ‘class’ shape, with metal panels be- the work on the Staircase Hall dent, and he and Christopher comes after a series of acci- ing added in early-October outer walls. Work has been Terry continue the detailed dents here, in which vehicles 1997. By mid-October the done here only the previous planning and designing with a have skidded off the road in whole kit-and-kaboodle’ is Saturday. (594, 727) view to either appealing icy conditions and demolished transported to Kirkbride Air- against the decision or starting sharp turn ‘chevron’ signs in- field. Though there are no 594. The beautifully-sunny on an entirely new application tended to avoid just that sort pictures in Hall News yet of the Saturday, 18th. October ’97, ‘portfolio’. They are kept busy of mishap. (515, 584) complete hangar as it is being is spent working on the outer for several weeks after the assembled at Kirkbride, Issue wall of the Staircase Hall. At Lottery Commission’s ruling on 584. A second car is raided 322 of Monday, 6th. October, this point the wall was a total Monday, 21st. October, 1997. while its owners visit Brougham 1997, records the assembly of of 52ft. (16 metres) in height, (605, 762, 2743) Hall – only this time the vehicle this intriguing structure. (592, and featured the huge window in question belongs to the de 613, 614) that overlooked the Hall’s 600. The two young cats at Burgham family, Canadian main staircase. (593, 601) Brougham Hall are reportedly relatives of the Broughams, 589. Wall-building is in pro- unwell. To make conditions that who are here for a few days gress again, around the old 595. In November, 1997, Hall bit more comfortable for them, as they were in 1996. Ian de Window closest to the West News runs a three-part seriali- a cat-flap is installed in the Burgham and Christopher Doorway, at weekends from sation, basically a reproduc- double-doors of Unit Nine by Terry are exploring Brougham late-September to early- tion, of Penrith Observer editor Alice’s Wonderland Museum Chapel on Thursday, 25th. October, 1997. The wall, on Daniel Scott’s 1897 report of curator Margaret Blackwell in September, 1997, when they the side nearest the ‘Kitchen’ a visit to Brougham Hall, for November, 1997, so that they hear the sound of breaking rooms – away from the West which he was guided round the can escape the cold and take glass nearby, and give chase. Doorway – is now up to the Hall by the then Lord shelter in the unused Unit. Items taken include a haver- height of the Window, as is Brougham and Vaux. Mr Scott (532, 577, 607, 611, 619) sack and a camera – and the the walling above the re- saw, and reported on, all the family’s return air-tickets to cently-placed Lintel between priceless belongings including 601. A tea-break scene cap- Canada. There is hope of the A.2. ‘Kitchen’ and the pas- the suits of armour in the Ar- tured on film during the wall- justice as Mr Terry sees the sage leading to there from the moury Hall, brilliant portraits building work on the Staircase getaway car speed off, and it West Door. (585) and dozens of Sevres plates. Hall on Saturday, 18th. Octo- is also noted that this and a The original report, dated ber, 1997, forms the basis of previous raid have both oc- 590. Memories of the great 30th. November, 1897, and Hall News 326’s main story. curred on the 25th. day of the storm of Friday, 16th. Octo- obviously from a time when The headline - ‘Elevenses!’ - month. (471, 576, 583, 591) ber, 1987, are revived a dec- burglary appears not to have marks Hall News ’ eleventh ade on when the ‘Backdate been much of a threat, was anniversary on No. 326’s issue 585. A new Lintel is installed Ten’ feature in Hall News 323 one of a series the Penrith date, Monday, 1st. December, on the doorway between the of Monday, 20th. October, Observer ran on the homes of 1997. A.2. ‘Kitchen’ and the passage 1997, catches up with the the district’s most famous fami- leading from the West Door- story. At that time the work lies. (604) 602. The massive limestone way, past the proposed Li- concentrated on the Pele Fireplace rescued from the brary and Resource Centre, on Tower, and rest and play, er, 596. John Harrison, Art- Great Hall area in April 1988 Saturday, 4th. October, 1997. shelter , took place in the site Metalworker, gets down to is in need of ‘rescue’ again New volunteer Thomas Rod- huts located on the concrete work again after his ‘well- following the collapse of an gers helps out, as does local slab in the Stables Courtyard, earned holiday’ with family in old, wooden bench it has lain householder Ray Chappels. (26). Ironically, a partial col- Spain, having returned from on outside the Carriage House Syd Walker spends the week- lapse of the Pele Tower - said the caravanning trek just in since around the start of 1990. end laying new walling above to have started as a result of time to avoid devastating (82, 112, 723) the lintel and on the surround- the torrential downpours of the floods there. ing walls. (589, 614) legendary 1829 storm that in 603. A Volkswagen ‘Camper’ the Scottish Highlands would 597. Rona Newsom, of The van is the new transport for 586. Hall News 322, of Mon- become known as the Muckle Old Smokehouse and Truffles Old Smokehouse and Truffles day, 6th. October, 1997, Spate (‘great flood’) - very units, is involved in an horrific operator Lerona Newsom, features a Derek Horn photo- probably led to a wholesale crash outside Tirril, in which 15 following the demise of her graph of the hot-air balloon restyling and rebuilding of sheep – and her own van – previous (Citroen) van in the that flew above Brougham Brougham Hall. (20, 91, 97) are destroyed. Though unin- crash with sheep at Tirril in Hall as the 1996 Ma cb eth jured, Rona is shocked by the October, 1997. The new arri- Shakespeare Weekend was in 591. A number of people are accident at the Sockbridge val - which actually dates from progress. The huge, red-and- arrested and charged on fish-farm junction, just east of the “C” registration of 1985 black balloon, shaped like a Thursday, 16th. October, the village, on Tuesday, 28th. or 1986, about the time the fire-extinguisher, is used as an 1997, with the two raids on October, 1997. It leaves her Hall Trust began - is delivered advertisement for the Chubb cars at Brougham Chapel car having to hire another van at at the end of November, company. (463, 592) park. Several items, including considerable expense, until she 1997, by Lerona’s mountain- cameras, kit bags, climbing is able to obtain another one. eer son Max, who collected in 587. The many dolls of Alice’s equipment and even the return (603, 815) from the South-East and used Wonderland Doll and Toy Mu- air tickets for the visiting de it as his ‘base camp’ on a seum are all ‘electronically’, or Burgham family (relatives of 598. In late-October and much climbing weekend. (597, 608) digitally , photographed for the Broughams) had been of November, 1997, Margaret posterity - with images to be taken in August and Septem- Blackwell, curator of the Al- 604. Hall News 326, of Mon- stored on computer ‘compact ber, 1997. (576, 584, 597, ice’s Wonderland Doll and day, 1st. December, 1997, disc’ rather than traditional 958) Toy Museum , is in charge of completes the re-run of Daniel the Tea-Room after the depar- Scott’s Penrith Observer ac- BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 6 592. A fighter-jet aeroplane ture of Paul and Norita count of a visit to a still-intact and treasure-laden Brougham and gales to snow and ice, Hall in 1897. (595, 739) during November and Decem- ber 1997. (616) 605. Hall Friend and former Images of 1997 minister David Maclean – the 612. A new house is nearing Conservative MP for Penrith completion on the Brougham and The Border – slams the Hall Gardens ‘estate’, it is ’NINETY -Seven was National Lottery Heritage reported in Hall News 327 of a year with, well, Commission ’s refusal to grant Monday, 15th. December, an average sum- funds for the restoration of 1997. This is almost ten years mer - not too bad Brougham Hall. In a December since the bulldozers moved on 1997 letter to Christopher to the site at around the be- but just no match Terry, he denounces the Co m- ginning of February, 1988. for either 1995 or missio n ’s ‘obscene’ pay-outs to (103, 613) 1996. There was restore London’s Royal Opera decent weather but Ho use while it shows an al- 613. Les Harrison spends much the first of three leged reluctance to back of early-December 1997 hard Morecambe Brass ‘more-deserving’ projects such at work on a set of highly- as repairs to village halls in his elaborate, black and gold Band Concerts was constituency. The MP says he gates, and railings, for one of spoiled as crowds cannot be of more help due to the houses in the Brougham stayed away. There strict parliamentary rules. The Hall Gardens estate. (614, was still plenty to story, together with a reply 664) from Mr Terry on the subject, is report on the build- ing at various loca- reproduced in Hall News 327 614. Les Harrison installs the of Monday, 15th. December new gates and railings at Ray tions, and another 1997. (720, 762, 916, 1102, and Beryl Chappel’s house, metalworker called 2568) “Hilltop”, in Brougham Hall Harrison created a Gardens, on Tuesday, 16th. 606. The out-of-season Tea novel “Hall of Mir- December, 1997. (585, 613) rors”, and then the Room is transformed into a “Christmas Shop” in December 615. The pre-Christmas rush enchanting Dolls’ 1997, to raise extra funds for for the Hall Crafts folks is Museum arrived. ... the Hall Trust . (598, 615, 644) finally over and done with, as 607. The two cats brought to everyone heads for home on ‘Looking South’ 518, 610 Brougham Hall as kittens in or before Christmas Eve, 526 523, 599 Summer 1997 are buried side- Wednesday, 24th. December, 553, 546, by-side in the Woodlands on 1997. The Tea Room’s Christ- 562 592, Wednesday, 10th. December, mas Shop looks its best for the 533 1997, having both succumbed occasion! (606, 644) 612 544, 590

to feline bronchitis. (600) 510 568 616. The severe gales and 608. Using two Hall News heavy rain that strike over the 539 photographs, Old Smokehouse Christmas Day and Boxing 573 521 600 and Truffles proprietor Rona Day period (Thursday, 25th. Newsom hopes to establish a and Friday 26th. December 575 519, ‘page’ on the Internet, or 1997) leave a window broken 611 525 World-Wide Web, the com- at the Brougham Museum in 545 570, puter-based information bank the lower-level of the circa- that’s becoming a more and 500-year-old Tudor ‘Bire’ 547 579 more popular way of advertis- Building. (611, 714) ing products, and for may other reasons. The pictures are 544, 552 534 549 574 584, 591 to be sent to the United States 585, 589 540 of America, where a specialist 511, 536, 514 512, 535, 543, Photo Guide For should electronically copy 520 529, 551, 596 them on to the Internet. (587, 532 548, 557, 598, 2715) 517 569, 606, 615 1997 571, 609. The Crafts Centre com- 609 munity reports another hectic 516, 578 616 522, rush of orders in the weeks 527, 524, 511, 528, leading up to Christmas 1997. 531, 542 558, 560 610. A Parish Boundary 582, marker, dated 1847, is fea- 605 513, 595, 604 tured in Hall News 327, of Monday, 15th. December, 581, 515, 1997, the marker being lo- 593, 588, 530 583 cated close to a gateway to 594, 602 538, 559 the field opposite the main 613 Penrith Showfield, along the 601 554, 567, B.6262 road between Low- 541, 566 555, 577, therbridge (Eamont Bridge) 565, 587 and Brougham Hall. 550, 564 597, 611. The weather keeps eve- 556 561 563 603, 572, ryone guessing about its next 576 move after repeatedly chang- 556 608 586 ing between mild and freezing conditions, from heavy rain 537, 607 580 556 BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 7 556 614 ‘Looking North’ 1998 617. It’s a less-than- Terry’s revelation that he has February, 1998. (640) 639. The Tea Room opens perfect start to 1998 plenty of people ‘in the pipe- again at Easter, for the 1998 for Old Smokehouse folks. line’ wanting to set up in busi- 632. A customer of Art- Season. (644) Friday, 2nd. January, sees the ness at the Hall in the future. Metalworker John Harrison ’phone link to the unit fail and sees the large, copper lion’s 640. Serendipity Studio leaflets Rona Newsom, and her son 625. An internal door with head plate - about 2ft. (61cm) are produced and distributed Max, try in vain to restore the stylised glass is made and in diameter - which was made to local tourist centres, and at service at their end. It’s ulti- installed in the would-be by John’s father in 1926… the Serendipity Studio itself, in mately put right by engineers “Serendipity Studio” by Nigel and requests a new one! John, early-April 1998. (685) off-site, but further communi- Braithwaite on Thursday, 28th. however, has to reluctantly tell cations work is done at the January, 1998. (628) her it would cost as much to 641. The Terry kids play Hall weeks later. make a new one as it would to around the new Serendipity 626. Bricks and lintels, to- find an identical original. The S tud io , in a picture in Hall 618. A window of the gether with other items, have customer had seen another News 335 (10th. April 1998). Brougham Museum in the Tu- been brought to Brougham plate during a shopping visit The photograph was taken six dor ‘Bire’ Building, broken in Hall, according to Hall News to Kendal, priced at £260, but months earlier, long before the the Christmas gales, has its 331 (12th. February 1998) by it would cost at least that to Studio opened. (706) glass replaced with a resilient Hall Friends and other kind make anew, John said. (643) ‘perspex’ (plastic) pane early donors to the Hall’s Charitable 642. ‘Les’ Lair’! – Les Harri- in January 1998. (288) Trust. A powerful, tractor-style 633. Dennis and Hazel son’s SmallFab Unit, compli- lawnmower is loaned by Beryl Walker, of Country Furnishings , mented by some of his fine 619. A trench is dug on Satur- and Ray Chappels, while Paul win a lucrative contract to products, is seen in a Photo- day, 17th. January, 1998, in Paulson hands over a large supply quality curtains to high- Feature in Hall News 335 of order to lay the mains water consignment of bricks for use class, local hotels. Their clients 10th. April 1998. (643, 685) and power services for the during rebuilding work. The are the Shap Wells Hotel , the proposed new Serendipity long-serving stonemason Paul Ladstock Hotel in Keswick, the 643. A ‘new, old-style sign’ to S tud io in Unit Nine. (620) Grundy, who trained at the Tebay Mountain Lodge Hotel , attract tourists to Brougham Hall in 1986 and 1987, makes near the Tebay M6 Services – Hall is erected just inside the 620. On the weekend of Sat- and donates new lintels. (710) and even Castle. Main Gateway in April 1998. urday 17th., and Sunday 18th. It will surely keep them busy Jointly produced by John and January, 1998, new arrival 627. Thomas Rodgers is busy for a good few weeks in Les Harrison, the medieval- Nigel Braithwaite puts a new, clearing much of the blockage March and April 1998. (668) inspired sign points the way to wooden and felt roof on Unit in the B.1. Passageway during the various crafts workshops Nine , for the Serendipity Stu- February 1998, over a dec- 634. Hall News 334, of 31st. and the other attractions of d io , or arts class, unit planned ade after Lee Barry and Mi- March, 1998, recalls the tragic Brougham Hall. (1711, 2941) to open at the start of March chael Treece sent their teams story of demolition worker 1998. He and his wife, Hilary, in, during May and June 1987. James ‘Ginger’ Maughan, the 644. Students Lawrence are also involved in making a This is the passage between Tyneside lad who was killed Goodall and Andrew Crofts new ceiling for the new Studio, the B.1. Room and the external during work to dismantle are seen outside the Tea Room of which Hilary will be in over- ‘Sunken Garden’, and it once Brougham Hall. The feature at Easter ’98, where they have all charge. Having already linked the West Doorway to borrows from a Cumberland been helping David Burdess, installed a new stove, Syd the former Staircase Hall Evening News (pre-‘News & son of Ian and Hilary Burdess Walker is due to do more (Mansion) part of the Hall, and Star’ ) report on his inquest of Fleetstat , who is in charge. building work on the walls also to the Kitchens. (76, 629) held in the Beehive pub at [There was a misunderstanding around the new roof. Eamont Bridge. The report at the time in Hall News , about 628. Hall News 332 features appeared on Wednesday, who ran the Tea-Room ]. (598, 621. The Main Courtyard the interior of the future Seren- 26th. September, 1934, two 606, 669, 684) doubles as a pre-‘France ’98’ dipity Studio in Unit Nine . The days after a section of wall football pitch for Christopher unit is due to be opened on fell on him in the north-west 645. More B.1. Passageway Terry and his sons Jonathan Sunday, 1st. March, 1998, by part of the Hall. (839) wall photographs are fea- and Philip James (‘Jamie’) on Hilary Braithwaite and her tured in Hall News 336 of 27th Sunday, 18th. January, 1998. husband, Nigel. The photos 635. Work begins on rebuild- April 1998. The Pele Tower (622, 641, 659, 765) are from Wednesday, 18th. ing the walls of the B.1. Pas- and Terrace are also shown. February, and the following sage, on the side overlooking 622. The Terry kids take to Friday, and show Nigel pre- the Sunken Garden and Ter- 646. In the first, regular Fri- B MX (‘ bicycle ‘moto-cross’ ’) paring for the opening. (631) race, which is around 1ft. 8 day-fortnightly edition of Hall stunts on the driveway close to inches (50cms.) taller. The work News , [No 337 of Friday, 1st. Unit 9 on Sunday, 18th. Janu- 629. ‘New Way Through’ – is done during the weekend of May, 1998], there is an ary, 1998. (621, 2734) Hall News 333, of 24th. March Saturday 22nd., and Sunday ‘Exclusive’, but the sensational- 1998, records the completion 23rd. March 1998. ist headline ‘Arms Deal!’, which 623. The 1843 invasion of of the work by Thomas Rod- might infer some underhand Brougham Hall by members of gers, Piers Merry and Christo- 636. The Upper Eden Historical dealing in lethal weapons, in the Bird family is recalled on pher Terry to clear the B.1. Society are to visit the Hall on fact tells of Les Harrison’s Tuesday, 3rd. February, 1998. Passageway. (637) Saturday, 22nd. June 1998, contract to produce old-style The invaders are said to have Christopher Terry announces in weapons for use in mock bat- entered the kitchens, among 630. Rona Newsom of the Old March. (663) tles by a battle-re-enactment other rooms. Bizarrely, Hall Smokehouse and Truffles units, society at Appleby Castle. News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- takes part in what is supposed 637. The recently-cleared B.1. (399, 494, 2943) scough finds a report of these to be a discussion show and Passageway is shown in a uninvited guests in the long- potential ‘advert feature’ for photograph in Hall News 334, 647. The ‘Teletubbies’ - latest closed Penrith Observer – her produce, but the BBC Ra- taken on Wednesday, 11th. . sensation in television for dated Tuesday , 3rd. February, dio Cumbria show on Friday, March, 1998. (638) young children, and students 19 48 . He then lists the many 27th. Feb., 1998, turns out to too if some rumours turn out to historic local buildings that the be a rather lively, live debate 638. Work on the B.1. Pas- be true! - make their debut at Penrith Observer ran a series on the subject of “The Good sageway wall-building is ham- Brougham Hall in May 1998. on in the late-1940’s.. (320) and Bad of Eating Chocolate”. pered by snow as the weather Models of the four colourful It was a lot more than she had ‘goes to pieces’. It is the first characters from the cult BBC 624. ‘Tradespeople are bargained for! (1315) time in the 1997-’98 Winter series are added to the ever- Queueing for Hall Tenancies’ – that any significant snow has growing collection of dolls at that’s the lead headline of Hall 631. A day before the previ- fallen — but this Easter-time Margaret Blackwell’s Alice ’s News 331 (12th. February ously-quoted opening date, ‘reverse’ in the weather is only Wonderland Doll and Toy 1998) after Christopher the first Serendipity arts class is the first of many climate- Museum in the Tudor ‘Bire’ held by Hilary Braithwaite in related problems experienced Building. Meanwhile, Margaret BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 8 Unit 9 on Saturday, 28th. during 1998. (645, 662) is celebrating 25 years since starting her vast and impres- 1062) Hall News 340, of Friday, tor Margaret Blackwell 1998 sive collection in 1973. (667) 12th. June 1998, reports. welcomes her 2,000th. 654. Architect John Cottam is visitor here since first opening 648. There are major prob- to leave Brougham Hall, it is 662. Rain, and the pessimistic on 6th. July 1997. (567, 696) lems for the Hall Trust as announced in late-May 1998. forecasts of more to come, Shakespeare Weekend 1998 John, who has been a key lead to hold-ups in the build- 668. Country Furnishings ’ Den- is cancelled, allegedly due to player in the Hall Trust’s ap- ing work on the “Tower Tex- nis Walker is off work and ill the Curwen Players not being peal for National Lottery tiles” shop site. Little real pro- early in June 1998, suffering able to perform effectively funding since his arrival in gress is made in late-May and from severe back pains, and here because of the noise of Summer 1996, has found work early-June 1998. looks set to be away for sev- the M6 Motorway. The motor- on the developing new Mary- eral weeks. (633, 689) way is only half-a-mile or so port Marina. (676, 737) 663. In early-June, 1998, the from the Hall, and traffic can Hall is being prepared and 669. Students who have be heard easily when the wind 655. The Morecambe Nuclear- made tidy for the visit by the worked at Brougham Hall on is coming from the west or Electric Band are to return to Upper Eden Historic Society , recent work placements attend south-west, which is often so in Brougham Hall for another due for the evening of Mon- a great party at High Head summer. It is hoped that a year, Mr. Terry says in May day, 22nd. June, 1998. In Castle, Christopher Terry’s replacement act can be 1998. Their second concert September 1998, also, there is home near Ivegill, Carlisle, to booked in time to save the here will take place on Sun- to be another prestigious visit celebrate honours and de- event after four brilliant plays day, 26th. July, on what was to the Hall, this time by the grees recently bestowed on by the Workington Hall-based to have been 1998’s Shake- local branch of the Historic them. Students who had company. They were due to speare Weekend. (566, 660, Houses Association . (690) worked in the Brougham Mu- stage Julius Caesar later this 671) seum, and elsewhere around summer. (655, 660, 736) 664. “Gate Grills with an the Hall, are there for a mam- 656. There are suggestions Historic Link” – Les Harrison of moth, 18-hour ‘rave-up’ that 649. Hawick-based Tower that a ‘hidden stairway’, or at SmallFab is busy around the attracts a total of 160 guests Textiles express an interest in least a few steps, may lie start of June 1998 restoring a – not bad for what was actu- the area west of the Carriage buried in the earth flanking the set of ornate ‘gate grills’ (and ally the weekend of the World House in May 1998 – prompt- west side of the Carriage makes two new ones to match) Cup soccer final, Saturday, ing a start at building a new House, as reported in Hall for No. 27 Bryanson Square, 11th. and Sunday, 12th. July, shop unit there at the weekend News 339 on 29 th May 1998. W.1, London – a house once 1998. of Saturday 23rd., and Sun- (661) owned by a minister of Ger- day 24th. May. (652, 676) many’s Count Otto van Bis- 670. Syd Walker is still being 657. John Harrison’s love of marck (1815-1898). Ironically, badly thwarted in his work by 650. A red-and-white Citroen Rugby leads to him making the the house was one of a very the weather of the supposed van that once belonged to Birkett Ball trophy for the few in that Square in west Summer of 1998 – not just at Rona Newsom of the Old Penrith Rugby Union Football London to escape the wartime Brougham Hall, but also on Smokehouse and Truffles units, Club in May 1998. The trophy ‘Blitz’ visited upon the capital projects elsewhere in the dis- fetches up again in Penrith. features an impressive rugby by later Germans, of less- trict. (671, 892) The van, bearing the 1986- ball fashioned in silver. honourable intentions. (613) ‘87 registration ‘D924TRM’, is 671. Another concert by the spotted in May 1998, at the 658. The new Window for the 665. Nigel Braithwaite pro- Morecambe Nuclear-Electric site of a new bus station at south side of Unit Ten, the duces new attractions for the B a nd is washed out! Weather Sandgate, Penrith, and is proposed “Tower Textiles” frontage of his wife Hilary’s even more dismal than at their owned by one of the builders shop, is shown in Hall News Serendipity Studio at June 1997 concert leads to working there. 339 (29th. May 1998). The Brougham Hall in late-May another low turn-out for the photograph was taken on 1998. A new, ornamental Band’s return on Sunday, 26th. 651. Former Hall Team super- Saturday, 23rd. May, 1998, wishing well and gardener’s July, 1998. (566, 660, 673, visor Lee Barry, who worked the day the sill and other wheelbarrow appear on the 697, 718, 773) at the Hall from 27th. August lower parts of the window are walls outside the Studio, and a 1986 to 22nd. September set in place by Syd Walker. new notice board with leaflet 672. The new, inner wall of the 1989, pays a surprise return The window ‘frame’ is com- dispensers is constructed by proposed Library and Re- visit to the Hall with his wife plete a few days later. him to go up on the wall by source Centre, alongside the and family on Sunday, 23rd. the Studio entrance. Nigel also Cellars stairway (7), is built to May, 1998. Pictured outside 659. “My objections to this finds time to help in clearance ceiling-height in early-Summer John Harrison’s unit, along with latest development…!” – Hall work west of the Carriage 1998. Christopher Terry and John News 339, of 29th. May House in late-May and early- Harrison himself, Lee catches 1998, tells the story of the June 1998. 673. In August 1998, following up with news of the Hall, and demise of the ‘den’ that Jona- the washout of a second con- then confesses: “I miss this than and Philip James O’Neill 666. Work at the Hall is again cert, Brougham Hall News ap- place – it holds great memo- Terry have established in the being held up even more by peals to the Hall Trust and ries”. (149, 2827) part-built Unit Ten . A bemused the ‘sad summer’ of 1998, with Christopher Terry to seek out- Jonathan sits on the sidelines Hall News 341 carrying the side help with staging future 652. Scaffolding is erected in as his father and others de- front page headline on Tues- Morecambe Band concerts, to the passage leading from the molish the youngsters’ hideout day, 30th. June, 1998 - seek financial or other backing doorway on the west of the to make way for the proposed “Weather Still Rules, But It’s and possibly linking their con- Carriage House to allow textile shop. (662, 2800) Not O.K.!” The month of June, certs in with Penrith’s annual builder Syd Walker to con- which was also the month of Music Festival or some other tinue his work there. (653) 660. Shakespeare Weekend Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- local event. The advice ap- ‘On Again’! – 1998 will have scough’s only Barnardos help- pears to have been heeded. 653. A new, ‘Gothic- a Theatre Show at Brougham ing holiday of 1998, was (718, 745) style’ (pointed-arch) window is Hall after all. ‘The Merry almost as wet as June 1997 to be built on the south side Wives of Windsor’ is to be had been – and that was the 674. The Hall gets ready for wall of the planned “Tower enacted by the London-based ‘wettest June since 1860’. Hall the revived but rescheduled Textiles” Unit ( Unit 10 ), the Eccentric Planet Theatre Com- News 341, nevertheless, still Shakespeare Weekend of wall that also forms the north p a ny on Friday 14th., and manages to feature wall- 1998, the fifth to date. Hall side of the passage leading Saturday, 15th. August, 1998. building in the ‘B.1.’ area in News 344 reports the success directly from the Carriage (674, 736) June 1998. (670, 671) of the Eccentric Planet Theatre House. The Window is pre- Company’s staging of The pared from reclaimed stone 661. There are no ‘mystery’ 667. Alice’s Wonderland Doll Merry Wives of Windsor – laid out on the lawn by Chris- stairs or steps to the west of and Toy Museum , in the Tudor especially its first night on topher Terry to see how it the Carriage House, according ‘Bire’ Building, prepares to Friday, 14 August, ’ 98. (677) would look when eventually to the latest beliefs as digging celebrate its first year at the built into the wall. (652, 658, at this workzone progresses; Hall as in June, 1998, as cura- BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 16 9 1998 675. Relics of the their story. (683, 777) tion of the drab weather is a 698. Work starts on the new- Hall’s long-lost ‘version’ Hall News 347 (25th. Septem- est Brougham Hall Gardens of the Bayeaux Tapestry are 683. Art-Metalworker John ber) photograph of the cement house in October 1998. (612, discovered in the void behind Harrison uses a newly- mixer with its electric motor 614, 700, 709) the old Fireplace between the delivered sheet of tin as a and other components Carriage House and the new ‘magic mirror’, which he gently wrapped in plastic to keep the 699. A Brougham Hall Charita- Unit Ten being built for “Tower flexes and bends to amuse the rain off and prevent the dan- ble Trust team headed by Textiles”. The discovery of local kids, especially Nigel ger of electric shocks or short- Christopher Terry restores and crumbling, but painted, pieces and Hilary Braithwaite’s young circuits. (697) repaints the iron gates and of plaster on the weekend of lad, Peter, in August 1998. railings at Lowther Lodge, Saturday, 8th. and Sunday, 692. Hall News 347, of 25th. Eamont Bridge, in late-Summer 9th. August, 1998, is one of 684. A ‘rare sight’! – Sunshine September 1998, has a 1998. the highlights of the entire lures visitors to dine outside photo-feature of the work Restoration of the Hall. (415, the Tea Room as Summer west of the Carriage House, 700. In late-October 1998 676, 678, 722, 873, 2378) 1998 finally obliges – the showing the ‘main work team’ Rosalind Wood, a Newton gathering is featured in Hall of Christopher Terry, Syd Rigg College tutor who lives in 676. In early-August, 1998, News 345 of Friday, 21st. Walker and Thomas Rodgers, Brougham Hall Gardens, is the “Tower Textiles” team, August, 1998. (754) and some of the artefacts they helped by Christopher Terry in from Hawick in the Scottish have found – including an setting the former ‘Brougham Borders, move into temporary 685. In August 1998 Small- octagonal floor or hearth tile, Cupboard’ Gift Shop in the office and shop space in what Fab ’s Les Harrison and Hilary a section of window frame Guard House up as a flower- were recently the offices of Braithwaite, of the Serendipity with a Fleur de Lys emblem, an arranging classroom that she architect John Cottam. They S tud io , begin a joint venture in old electrical socket and the will use for three Fridays in now wait for their would-be which they produce impressive supposed fire door from a November 1998. (32, 518, shop in Unit Ten to be com- metal-framed, mosaic-topped stove. (693, 706) 701, 2476) pleted, weather permitting, of tables. Their handiwork makes course. (680) it onto the front page of Hall 693. A decade after their 701. In October 1998, the News 346 on Friday, 4th. Sep- discovery by Lee Barry’s Hall large, stone fireplace of the 677. The 1998 Shakespeare tember, 1998. (2017) Team in September 1988, the former Guard House is lit for Weekend has been a success almost-unique red-and-gold, ‘the first time since 1931’, – and aren’t we thankful ! The 686. There is a mad mid-to- 150-year-old floor tiles of the states Christopher Terry. It will Eccentric Planet Theatre Com- late Summer rush of activity at Great Armoury Hall are stud- provide much-needed heat for pany, who stepped in at a Brougham Hall, especially ied again by Christopher Rosalind Wood’s forthcoming late hour to put the event on at around the would-be ‘Tower Terry, who contacts Medieval flower-arranging classes the Brougham Hall, have done Textiles’ Unit ( Unit Ten ) in the and Victorian tile expert following month. A new fire themselves proud. They earn few weeks in August 1998 Diana Hall to see if she can grate has been made for it by plaudits for their two evening when the weather finally tries give any advice on producing Les Harrison. (89, 123, 709, performances of The Merry to behave itself in an other- new ones to match. (112, 121, 1438) Wives of Windsor on Friday, wise dismal season. Hall News 580) 14th. and Saturday, 15th. 346, of Friday, 4th. Septem- 702. Another aerial photo- August 1998. (736, 745) ber, 1998, compares the 694. Serendipity Studio is graph of the Hall, from July scenes of Summer 1998 with featured in the ‘Town and 1997, is reported. Due to a 678. The Hall’s “Bayeaux those of Summer 1995 – when Country’ page in The Cumber- holiday taken that month by Tapestry” remnants – of which the weather was rather better! land News on Friday, 25th. Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- around twenty fragile pieces (415, 416, 417, 687, 703) September, 1998. The Studio scough, he did not know of the of the hugely-important wall has been visited for the report story at the time, but the story mural have been found up to 687. Syd Walker, Thomas by style writer Irene Shearer. is belatedly told in Hall News mid-August, 1998 – are put Rodgers and Christopher Terry 351 of 6th. November 1998. ‘on show’ and photographed have spent weekends in Au- The photograph also depicts for Hall News 345 on Friday, gust and September 1998 at 695. The Burdess’ Fleetstat Bureau ‘moves into larger 1997’s Penrith Agricultural 21st. August, 1998. (706) work on the rain-affected Unit Show in progress in nearby Ten project. They do extensive premises’ – the remainder of the three rooms once used by Brougham Hall Field. 679. Lord Brougham pays work on the walls and the another visit to Brougham Hall Fireplace, and then move on to the House of Eden Gallery , and most-recently by the Ter- 703. New stonemason Trevor between Wednesdays, 19th. the proposed Library room Askins ‘triggers a late-year and 26th. August, 1998. close by. rys as accommodation – on Saturday, 10th. October, building surge’ at Brougham Hall during November 1998 680. A new, reinforced- 688. The classic tale Wind in 1998. (176, 177, 579) when he arrives to work on the concrete Lintel for the Fire- The Willows may be staged at developing Tower Textiles place for Unit Ten , west of the Brougham Hall, possibly in 696. Alice’s Wonderland Doll and Toy Museum is to be shop ( Unit Ten ). Ironically, his Carriage House, is brought to August 1999, suggests Christo- arrival coincides with the news the Hall site and installed pher Terry in September ‘wired for sound’ in an audio project by its curator Marga- that the company who are to early in August 1998. (681, 1998. (712, 2844) take it on have called in the 808) ret Blackwell in October 1998. She hopes to give talks to Receivers. Hawick—based 689. Dennis Walker of Coun- Tower Textiles have become 681. The floor of the new Unit try Furnishings is still laid-up visitors and thus avoid too much walking herself. (708) just another casualty of the 10 is cleared of rubble and with a bad back in September Scottish Borders’ diminishing tree roots by Thomas Rodgers, 1998. He visits the Hall for the textile industry, and reluctantly Alan Stubbs, Christopher Terry first time in many weeks, but is 697. A sodden pile of sand - have to leave the Hall. Their and others early in August now said to be “on light duties intended for building projects offices in the former ‘Stables’ 1998. (686) only until 1999”. (740) at the Hall – is testament to complex is up ‘to let’ once the dismal weather of October again. The story is told in Hall 682. John and Marion Harri- 690. The Historic Houses Asso- 1998. The mass of sand on son, as well as Rona Newsom News 355 on Friday, 1st. ciation pay their long- ground on the south side of the January, 1999, but it is de- and her Old Smokehouse and anticipated visit to Brougham Carriage House has had its Truffles team, are at the cided nevertheless to carry on Hall on Saturday, 12th. Sep- usually grainy surface texture the building work on Unit Ten . ‘Made in Cumbria’ display tember, 1998, and are ‘smoothened’ by days of again for the Lowther Horse (710, 719, 724, 725) treated to a comprehensive heavy rain impacting on it. The Trails and Country Fair on the tour of the site, including the faltering ‘Indian Summer’ is weekend of Friday, 7th. to 704. Hall News catches up with Museum and Crafts Units. now definitely no more, and Art-Metalworker John Harrison Sunday, 9th. August, 1998. the month is the wettest re- Once again, Hall News tells as he prepares to celebrate 691. Work goes on west of corded by Hall News ’ editor ten years based at Brougham the Carriage House in Summer Alistair Aynscough in over Hall. The anniversary will come BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 0 1998. Perhaps the best indica- twelve years. up in January 1999. (716) 705. During the second half of speare play Comedy of Errors November 1998, Les Harrison is the one chosen to feature in begins work on a contract to 1999’s Shakespeare Week- construct and erect railings for end at Brougham Hall, it is ImagesImages ofof 19981998 a new access ramp for dis- announced in November 1998. abled church-goers at the The dates for the Hall’s sixth United Reformed Church in Shakespeare show are to be AS IF Lowther Street, Penrith. (711) Friday 30th. and Saturday, We knew 31st. July, 1999. The Eccentric some- 706. A ‘new’ Doorway is Planet Theatre Company , from discovered by Jonathan and London, plan to feature a thing… ! Philip James O’Neill (Jamie) '‘cast of twelve” for Comedy of This Terry in the void on the west Errors - and are also prepar- cartoon side of the Carriage House. ing to stage the ‘newly- strip, Their mid-November 1998 discovered’ and little-known drawn by discovery made while playing play The London Prodigal on nearby – they reported seeing the corresponding weekend of editor Alis- ‘something strange’ amid the 2000; 28th. and 29th. July. tair Ayn- soil - leads to renewed dig- Christopher Terry had also scough, ging and studying of the site. suggested Kenneth Graheme's featured in This is where it was rumoured Wind in The Willows for 1999. Hall News in May 1998 that a hidden (2864) flight of steps may be located at the start – and where remnants of the 713. On Saturday, 5th. De- of a year Hall’s ‘Bayeaux Tapestry were cember, 1998, Piers Merry with a found earlier in 1998. (678, and Christopher Terry produce rather poor 692, 792) a new concrete Lintel for the doorway into the Library and Summer. Resource Centre, using a 707. The Old Smokehouse and mould they have specially 617, 630, 650, 707 Photo Guide for its proprietor Rona Newsom made of wood for the mix to are prominently featured in be poured in. 625, 665 641 The Lady magazine for November 1998. 714. Damp leads to trouble in 648 19981998 Alice’s Wonderland Doll and 639, ‘Looking East’ 708. The Toy Museum as storms rage in 644 621 Brownies ‘pack’ visit Alice’s on Christmas Day evening and Wonderland Doll and Toy Mu- all Boxing Day of 1998. Rain 636 seum on the evening of soaks in through a tiny gap in 684 Wednesday, 11th. November, the window seal, forced in by 1998. the high winds. A group of 695 655 elderly teddy-bears on dis- 709. The third and last flower- play on a window sill in the arranging class is held by age-old Tudor ‘Bire’ Building 619 Newton Rigg College tutor act like sponges and soak up Rosalind Wood in the Guard the water, leading to an emer- 626 House on Friday, 20th. No- gency operation by museum vember, 1998. Rosalind says curator Margaret Blackwell, she hopes to return in future who moved the bears to a following her classes’ success; warmer and drier place and 623 713 693 she has attracted twenty-two took their tiny clothes to a full- 627, 629, 635, students. size laundry. (616) 634 710 637, 638, 645, 710. A 75ft. (23-metre) mo- 649, 652, 653, 672 632, 651, 642, 646, 666 bile crane, having lifted roof timbers into place on the latest 656, 658, 659, 657, 682, 664, 685, Brougham Hall Gardens house 661, 662, 670, 683, 704 705, 711 633, 702 on the bright but cold after- 675, 678, 680, 668, noon of Tuesday, 24 th Novem- 689 ber, 1998, moves to the Hall 681, 686, 687, 624 site itself before dusk to lift 691, 692, 703, 647, 667, 696, Paul Grundy’s new Lintel into 708, 714 place on the fireplace on the 706 south wall of the ‘A2’ Kitchen’, 690 aided by new stonemason 620 Trevor Askins, among others. 618, (446, 626, 703, 719, 774, 669, 798, 809) 690 711. The first photo-call for 697 701, Hall News at the United Re- 654, 709 formed Church in Lowther 628, 631, Street, Penrith, comes on 640, 685, 622 676 Wednesday, 25th. November 679 674, 1998. Les Harrison, of Small- 694 Fab , produces the railings for 660 663 677, the church’s new disabled 688, access ramp, and begins the 671 673 712 643 process of erecting them, helped by Church Elder James 699 Owens as seen in Hall News 353 and 354. (706, 730 698, 700 712. The William Shake- ‘Looking North’ BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 1 1999 715. New Year’s Day tured, at work on fireplaces 9 - after the Braithwaites relo- 731. Health and Safety in- – Friday, 1st. January, and other items in the Hall’s cate their Serendipity Studio spectors subject the Brougham 1999! ‘Earth 1999’, prompted ‘Stonemasonry Workshop’, in to Penrith in mid-February – Hall site to two separate in- by the late-1970’s. television Hall News 356 of 22nd. Janu- and consider establishing a spections on one day, Thurs- series Space 1999 , is the sci- ary, 1999. He trades as Cum- main office here at Brougham day, 18th. March, 1999, and ence fiction-inspired lead bria Stonemasonry Ltd. (703, Hall. (728, 753, 756) report no problems. headline of Hall News 355, 710, 727, 806, 2413) which is issued that day. With 725. Stacks of bricks donated 732. The row of trees on the this very long-anticipated year 720. In the main Office above to the Hall Trust are being South Lawn – outside the South now here, the report jokingly the Westernmost Main Gate- made ready – by Piers Merry Wall and facing the Brougham compares ‘building schemes’ in way, also known as the on Wednesday, 17th. Febru- Hall Gardens homes – is the stars, i.e., space stations or ‘Courtyard Gateway’, Christo- ary, 1999 – for work to begin tended to by Christopher cities, with certain ones being pher Terry and others are for the year. With the reluc- Terry on Thursday, 18th. planned on Earth for 1999 - clubbing together in February, tant departure of the Tower March, 1999. Some have died the Brougham Hall Charitable 1999, to establish a new Textiles team, their planned and have been replaced with Trust ’s hopes for a ‘Millennium Brougham Hall Charitable Trust shop in Unit 10 may take new saplings, while others are Project’ to mark the occasion. Lottery Committee. After the second place as the main in better health and are being failure of the 1997 bid, the workzone to the proposed prepared for the better sea- 716. Art-Metalworker John Trust are going all-out for a Library. It means work for sons ahead. (733, 735) Harrison marks his tenth anni- renewed bid to the Heritage 1999 is not so far off. (703, versary of working at Commission in the near future. 727) 733. Memories of the very Brougham Hall. The official (5, 524, 599, 767) earliest days of restoration start of his tenancy was 16th. 726. ‘ Old Smokehouse For work at Brougham Hall are January, 1989, but John - or 721. Art-Metalworker John Sale’ – An advertisement in revived when the somewhat at least Hall News - chooses Harrison suggests that a ‘ Hall Cumberland &. Westmorland inspirational song ‘When The Friday, 1st., as the day to News style’ display should be Herald on Saturday, 27th. Going Gets Tough, The Tough celebrate. (128, 704, 717) established in the Brougham February, 1999, confirms Rona Get Going’ returns to the top

717. ‘Rheged’s Ravens’! – Art- Museum. While stating the Newsom’s plans to scale down of the music charts in February, Metalworker John Harrison, present display is fine, he also her Smokehouse work at 1999. Recorded by Ireland’s helped by his wife, Marion, suggests, in February, 1999, Brougham Hall in future. Rona Boyzone this time around, for produces one-hundred coast- that the Museum would be has had ambitions to sell the the Comic Relief appeal, the ers to commemorate the debut ‘improved’, and ‘visitors would Smokehouse – no mention of song originally charted for and renaming of the formerly- like to see how the Hall Project her plans for her Truffles unit Billy Ocean around March, titled Hills of The North centre itself has progressed’, as well here – and possibly take up 1986, while work by the Ha ll at Stainton, Penrith. The centre, as concentrate on Brougham writing as a career. She has Trust was just starting in places presently under construction, is Hall’s heyday, if a series of run The Old Smokehouse for such as the ‘Kitchens’, Cellars now to be called Rheged Up- Hall News photographs is put almost twelve years, and Truf- and South Wall. (1, 7, 1801) land Kingdom Discovery Centre , on display, charting the pro- fles for nearly ten. (89, 794) after the ancient Celtic king- gress of the restoration since 734. Art-Metalworker John dom on which modern Cumbria early-1986. The Hall News 727. Stonemason Paul Grundy Harrison produces a set of is based, and its logo is a collection is stored in the Mu- delivers parts of a new Win- sixteen coasters to commemo- curious-looking raven. This seum, whose walls are still dow for Unit Ten ‘in kit-form’, rate the ninetieth anniversary raven, and the ancient styling taken up by history timeline as Hall News 359 terms it, on of the Rural Development of the name ‘Rheged’, are compiled by former curator Saturday, 6th. March, 1999. Commission – which, partly engraved on each coaster, Simon Sylvester-Meats, M.A., The pieces of an excellently- assisted also by the Made in requiring hard and very tech- in 1995. (423, 734, 838) carved, two-arched window Cumbria initiative of Cumbria nical work to get each coaster are despatched the day be- County Council , has played a just right. The new name is 722. In a ‘Report Photo- fore on two wooden pallets, major role in helping himself officially announced on Tues- Feature’ slot based on infor- and look as if they have been and many others to set up in day, 19th. January, 1999, mation in the Brougham Hall specially ‘shrink-wrapped’. business. (717, 757) and Hall News 356, dated Charitable Trust’s report for (593, 719, 729, 749, 789) Friday 15th., is held back until 1998, Hall News 357, of Fri- 735. A controversy of exactly local councillor and public day, 5th. February, 1999, 728. The Fell Pony Society fifty years earlier – in which relations manager Tony Brun- focuses on work done to date confirm that they are to set up many of the oak trees of the skill gives the name the final in the ‘void’ area between the at Brougham Hall for April, once-majestic Brougham Ave- go-ahead on behalf of the Carriage House and the de- 1999. (737) nue were being felled for centre’s owners, Westmorland veloping Unit Ten – where ‘safety reasons’ – is recalled in Motorway Services Ltd. Hall remnants of the Hall’s plaster 729. Paul Grundy delivers Hall News 360 of Friday, 19th. News later runs a photo-series version of the famous Bayeaux more stone to the Hall in the March, 1999. It was in the of the development of the Tapestry have been found week leading to the publica- Cumberland & Westmorland ‘Rheged’ centre, beginning in recently. (675) tion of Hall News 360 on Fri- Herald of Saturday, 19th. October, 2000. (721, 734) day, 19th. March, 1999, fur- March, 19 49 , that such local 723. The big limestone Fire- ther signalling an imminent dignitaries as local councillor 718. It is announced in Hall place from the Great Armoury start of building work for and magistrate Isaac G. Sim News 356 of Friday, 22nd. Hall, which was found by the 1999. Christopher Terry hopes and Herald editor Tom January, 1999, that the More- Hall Teams of July 1987, and that this will all begin by ‘Silverpen’ Sarginson keenly cambe Brass Band will return in later retrieved, may be re- Easter. Mr. Terry is now draw- debated the subject. Summer 1999. The date of turned to its original place as ing up his plans for 1999 at ‘Displaced’ European families, their third Concert at part of a Millennium Project, Brougham Hall. Meanwhile, living in the wartime Nissen Brougham Hall will be Sunday, reports Hall News 357, of Hall News 360 compares the huts in Brougham Avenue at 1st. August, and, needless to Friday, 5th. February, 1999 – new proposals with a similar the time, had expressed con- say, fine weather is being although it could be made to list made up by then Hall cerns that the trees were in hoped for! Following the ap- face the opposite way, into Team supervisor Lee Barry for such a state that branches peal by Hall News after the the Staircase Hall, to make 1989. (749, 789) were at risk of falling and Concerts of 1997 and 1998 way for plans for future seriously injuring or killing both got washed out, it is ‘student accommodation’ at 730. Metalworker Les Harrison someone. By 19th. March hoped that 1999’s will be Brougham Hall. Hall News 357 is busy in March, 1999, on an 1949, twenty-one of the trees, linked in with other local and 358, of Fridays, 5th., and ornamental garden bridge for some of which had been up to events. (566, 671, 673, 745) 19th. February, 1999, follow a lady in Ousby, in the East 300 years old, were felled, the story. (82, 112, 602, 797) Fellside area near Penrith. The and controversy was very 719. Recently-arrived stone- bridge will span around 12ft. quick to follow. Similar con- mason Trevor Askins is fea- 724. On Tuesday, 16th. Febru- (nearly 4 metres) and be cerns were raised in the same ary, 1999, officials from the around 3ft. 6 inches (around 1 edition of the Herald , about BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 2 Fell Pony Society meet in Unit metre) wide. (748, 776) trees lost to Kemplay Bank road improvements on the A6 carpenter-fretworker Grinlin triangles. Much soil has been 29th. April, 1999, 1999 in Eamont Bridge in 1948 and Gibbons, and removed from displaced in the recent dig- as part of their studies. 1949 – Hall News 360 repro- the mansion part of Brougham ging of this intriguing site. An un-named student from a duces letters from the time. Hall, had been bought at auc- (416, 738, 787) different college is here in (271, 736, 772, 791, 2585) tion at the Hall by a solicitor March, 1999. (741) named Eugene Andrews as a 743. After problems with tele- 736. In February, 1999, Chris- memorial to his mother, Mrs phone links to the Hall Crafts 748. Hall News 363 of Friday, topher Terry appeals to the Catherine Rigby Andrews. He Centre in February, 1999, as 30th. April, 1999, includes a Ministry of Transport to had the screen adapted by well as at the start of 1998, photo-feature following the ‘baffle’ the M6 Motorway Penrith cabinet-makers John engineers from B.T. (formerly construction of an ornamental between Yanwath and Clifton, Johnson & Sons, to fit inside St. British Telecom) are called in garden bridge for a lady at where it comes closest to John’s Church in Girvan, near to repair the cables laid in the Ousby, on the hillsides east of Brougham Hall. Recalling the Ayr, as a Chancel Screen, so-called ‘Telephone Trench’ in Penrith, during March, 1999. troubles over the rearranged between the choir and congre- 1987. They relocate the ac- (730, 764) Shakespeare Weekend of gation areas. Photographed in cess pit for cables, to make the 1998, in which the Curwen the 2nd. October, 1934, Pen- lawns tidier. (74, 617, 792) 749. On Bank Holiday Week- Players of Workington were rith Observer and re-shown in end Saturday, 1st., to Mon- said to have pulled out of the Hall News 361 of Friday, 2nd. 744. The latest Brougham Hall day, 3rd. May, 1999, Syd event because too much back- April, 1999, the Screen still Horse Trials, held on Saturday, Walker returns for another ground noise from the motor- had its array of family shields, 27th. March, 1999, prove to season of building work at way was spoiling their act, Mr or crests, in place after being be a success - as seen in Hall Brougham Hall, starting his Terry decides he has to do relocated to its quite suitable News 362 of 16th. April, 1999 work by beginning on something . His hope is for the new home. Mr. Terry has ex- 1999. (737, 758, 759, 879) the north-facing Unit 10 win- erection of special sound- pressed a wish to go and see dow that was made and des- shields, or ‘baffles’, along the for himself if it is still there, 65 745. Brougham Hall’s 1999 patched ‘in kit-form’ by Paul offending section of motor- years on. (595, 738, 752, Shakespeare Weekend is Grundy in February, 1999. way, having noticed how quiet 761, 1925, 1935) unexpectedly rescheduled by (727, 753, 755, 773, 785) it could get on a day such as the Eccentric Planet Thea tre Christmas Day 1998. (745) 740. Dennis Walker, of Co un- Company , due to their lead- 750. Following the successful try Furnishings , dies after a actor being called away to fashion-shoot of Sunday, 11th. 737. The Fell Pony Society short illness on Saturday, 10th. ‘important new engagements’ April, 1999, another such team arrive at Brougham Hall April, 1999. He was 58 years in Ireland. The rearranging of event is reportedly being on Thursday, 25th. March, of age. As a mark of respect, the play, Comedy of Errors , is planned at Brougham Hall for 1999, in suitable style – in a the flag at Brougham Hall flies far from funny for Christopher the coming Summer. (741) full-size ‘horse-box’ lorry! In at half-mast for a week. A Terry, who has already this they have brought all their tribute to Dennis is paid in Hall booked a family holiday in 751. Hall News 364, of Friday, office furniture, computers, News 363 of Friday, 30th. Cornwall, to see the Total 14th. May, 1999, commenting machines and records, which, April, 1999. (689, 2232) Eclipse due for Wednesday, on a meeting of the Appleby with the help of folks at 11th. August, 1999. The new Archaeology Group, as re- Brougham Hall, they take to 741. ‘Designer Day’ – On dates for Shakespeare Week- ported in the Cumberland & the former offices of architect Sunday, 11th. April, 1999, the end 1999 are to be Friday, Westmorland Herald of 27th. John Cottam and Tower Tex- blocked ‘South-West Door- 13th. and Saturday, 14th. March, 1999, recalls a major tiles. Over the following week way’ of Brougham Hall is the August - two weeks after the ‘Peace Treaty’ signed between they set everything up and perfect backdrop, and frame, original dates, which would Scots King Consantine, King prepare to start work as their for two young ladies model- have comfortably cleared the Uwen of Gwent, and Ealdred Hall lease begins on Thursday, ling clothes for budding Car- Terrys’ holiday. That still goes (son of Ealduff of Bamburgh) 1st. April, 1999. Hall News lisle designers Sarah Kelly and ahead, which means they will at Eamont Bridge, close to 361 tells the story of the Wendy Gibbons, who recently miss ‘First Night’. Carefully- Brougham Hall, on 12th. July ninety-minute moving-in op- attended the Cumbria College laid plans to link the Shake- 927ad. These, and many more eration in words and pictures. of Art and Design in the speare Weekend with the 1st. thousand-plus-year-old histori- (703, 724, 728, 744, 759, ‘Border City’. They now run a August outdoor concert by the cal facts, have been gleaned 775) company called Delight in Morecambe Nuclear-Ele ctric from the Saxon Chronicles . The Disorder . Models were also Band have been dashed as story continues into Hall News 738. Blue-and-gold ‘dog- photographed at High Head the Band cannot be expected 365 of Friday, 28th. May, toothed’ pieces of plaster, as Castle, Ivegill, and in a Rolls to rearrange their schedules 1999. (752) well as ‘alcove’ archways, Royce car recently acquired with barely three months to go have been unearthed by by the Brougham Hall Chari- ….. as the theatre group 752. A Leyland bus on display Christopher Terry in the area table Trust . (17, 450, 746, clearly have. (673, 677, 736, at a fete at the Appleby Heri- between the Carriage House 747, 750, 810) 783, 790, 887) tage Centre, near that town’s and Unit Ten. They are said to railway station, on Saturday, be relics from the old Norman 742. Hall News 362, of Friday, 746. A 1972 Rolls Royce car – 1st. May, 1999, turns out to Room of Brougham Hall, and a 16th. April, 1999, runs a spe- registered VBY240L - which date from the darkest days of 29th. September, 1934, Cum- cial feature (including a 29th. once belonged to Lord Thomp- Brougham Hall. Registered in berland & Westmorland Herald September, 1934, Cumberland son of Fleet, then owner of The July, 1934, the blue-and- photograph from the time the &. Westmorland Herald photo- Times newspaper, is acquired white, Alexander -line vehicle Hall was being demolished graph of Brougham Hall’s by the Brougham Hall Charita- remains in immaculate condi- shows that room complete with partially-demolished Norman ble Trust . The newly-restored tion, but dates from the time the alcoves, and the plaster Room, taken by their re- tango-and-gold car, which has when the Hall was awaiting still in place where walls still nowned photographer John a surprisingly-low mileage of demolition and being stripped stand. That same John Jameson) of the alcoves and 52,884 (85,109 kms.) for its Jameson photograph is fea- ‘dog-toothed’ plaster remnants age, has been part of a col- of saleable contents. The bus is tured in Hall News 362 of from the area between the lection in America for many one of a fleet now owned - Friday, 16th. April, 1999. Carriage House and Unit Ten years, but will earn its keep and often operated - by the (739, 742, 752) workzone. A Hall News dia- by being privately-hired for company Cumbria Classic gram of one of the plaster tours of the Lake District, rais- Coaches . The fete has been 739. A fine old wooden remnants shows that the pat- ing funds for the Hall Trust organised to mark the ten ‘Screen’ bought in pre- tern was of interlaced gold along the way. (741) years since the Settle-Carlisle demolition sales at Brougham squares surrounded with Railway was saved from clo- Hall in 1934 is traced to a raised edges and studded 747. Art students Helena Mar- sure in April, 1989, following church in Girvan, South-West with raised, ‘mid-blue’ centres. shall and Adam Purfitt, from a six-year battle for its future. Scotland, courtesy of microfilm Each blue part measures Kent College of Art and De- That event was recorded in archives of the discontinued around 45mm or 1.75 inches sign , visit Brougham Hall, and Hall News at the time, as is the Penrith Observer . The screen, square and has a geodesic, High Head Castle, Ivegill, over supposedly made by specialist part-recessed design of eight five days starting on Thursday, BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 3 1999 May 1999 celebration of Saturday, 5th., and Sunday, highly-significant story. (419, – Perth Highland Show. (770, staged at Appleby-in- 6th. June, 1999. Keswick was 524, 599, 767, 772) 792, 826, 829, 2427) Westmorland, in Hall News home to John is his youth. 364 of Friday, 14th. May, (759, 770) 763. The proposed Library 772. Following English Heri- 1999. (739, 1935, 2827) and Resource Centre is nearly ta ge ’s description of the Hall 759. The annual Dalemain Fell ready to have its roof added, as ‘the ruins of Brougham Hall’ 753. Unit 9 is back in use as Pony Show is the first event to Hall News 367 of Friday, 18th. in their Buildings at Risk Survey new tenants arrive at be organised by the Fell Pony June, 1999, states. of 8th. June, 1999, Christo- Brougham Hall in May 1999. S o ciety since their move to pher Terry writes an open Boat-builder Rob Fairweather Brougham Hall in March. Dale- 764. Les Harrison’s latest crea- letter to the Cumberland & and Siobhan Pringle are busy main, the Hasell Family’s home tions, in early-Summer, 1999, Westmorland Herald on Satur- converting the former Seren- between Penrith and Ullswa- include stylishly-framed mir- day, 19th. June, 1999. The dipity Studio into their Ca b - ter, has much-stronger links rors. (776) letter, in which he criticises bages and Kings workshop, to with Fell ponies than Brougham English Heritage for its produce garden furniture in- Hall, as this was where Sylvia 765. The Main Courtyard is ‘entirely false impression’ of spired by renowned 19th. McCosh, founder of the Soci- transformed into a cricket pitch the Hall’s condition and deny- Century Scottish designer ety, lived. Hall News 366 re- (complete with its mowed ing that the Hall is ‘a ruin or Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ports on the Show, which took ‘crease’) in June, 1999. (621) endangered’, is reproduced in Syd Walker has been busy place on Sunday, 15th. May, Hall News 368 of Friday, 9th. getting the central Unit ready 1999. Some exhibitors came 766. ‘Syd’s Busy at Sixty!’ – It July, 1999. (762, 800) for its new occupants. Mean- from as far afield as Holland was a Saturday, and maybe while, the Tea Room is already to compete, but winners came he could have just put his feet 773. Finally, the weather is back in action. (724, 728, from Abbeytown and Halt- up and watched television….. perfect for the outdoor concert 754, 755, 756, 760, 2651) cliffe, near Caldbeck, both but Syd Walker opts to spend for the now-renamed More- Cumbria. (758, 761, 843) much of sunny Saturday, 26th. cambe British Energy Band 754. Like Unit 9 , the Tea Room June, 1999, his 60th. birthday, when they come on the scorch- is also being put into use 760. Newcomers Lucy Kerrs, of working at Brougham Hall, on ing-hot Sunday, 1st. August, again in May, 1999, in time the Tea Room, and Rob Fair- the Library and Resource Cen- 1999 – but the crowds stay for the coming Summer season. weather, of Cabbages & Kings , tre. (749, 774, 932) away anyway. The Hall Trust ’s The tenants this time are Lucy are both featured in pictures dreams of being ‘third time Kerrs and Gordon Cooke. in Hall News 366, of Friday, 767. Another team of National lucky’ with this well-performed (753, 760, 793) 11th. June, 1999. Lucy has Lottery officers visits Brougham event are dashed and it is made a stylish sign for the Tea Hall on Thursday, 17th. June, rather unlikely the Band will 755. Work done by Syd Room - ‘Brougham Cupboard 1999, in connection with the return after barely thirty peo- Walker on the proposed Unit Café’ - with raised letters cut Hall Trust ’s latest bid for funds ple turned up, hardly any 10 , especially its latest win- from a piece of three-quarter from the Heritage Lottery more than during the 1997 dow in recent months and inch (19mm) plywood with a Fund . (524, 720, 767) and 1998 washouts! (566, weeks - mainly May 1999 - is jig-saw, and varnished to show 671, 778, 783, 826, 867) featured in photos in Hall the grains. (753, 754) 768. Alan Stubbs, who has News 365 of Friday, 28th. done various work at 774. On Thursday, 8th. July, May, 1999. (753, 766, 785) 761. A Cumberland & West- Brougham Hall - especially 1999, the day before Hall morland Herald archive of clearing the Main Courtyard in News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- 756. Hilary and Nigel 14th. August, 1948, is shown January 1994, to make way scough starts his epic Barnar- Braithwaite, of the Serendipity to the Fell Pony Society team for the first Shakespeare dos and Calvert Trust ‘Summer Studio , who were recently at Brougham Hall. The ‘cutting’ Weekend that year - achieves of Adventure’, he is at tenants of Unit 9 at Brougham is from a collection kept by his First Class Honours Degree Brougham Hall to witness the Hall, have set up in a new Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- in Mathematical Physics at placing of new Lintels on the shop in The Narrows, Penrith. scough from when he ran his Edinburgh University in Sum- north-facing door and window They moved into a former Review of The Years series, mer, 1999. (349, 373, 769) of Unit Ten, as well as a roof tobacconist’s shop on Satur- and tells of a Fell Pony called support girder going into day, 13th. February, 1999, Heather Bell, who won a top 769. Alison Terry, who has place on the proposed Library though asked to be left to prize at Roehampton Show in been making neat bird-baths and Resource Centre. The establish themselves there 1948 for Sylvia McCosh, from hollowed-out cement in large, 75ft (23-metre) mobile before inviting Hall News to Dalemain, around a year be- Brougham Hall’s Carriage crane used to place another run their story – Issue 365 of fore she founded the Fell Pony House, and coating these with lintel on one of the fireplaces Friday, 28th. May, 1999, tells Society . (738, 739, 759, 775) ceramic paint in early-Summer, of the A.2. ‘Kitchen’ in Novem- the tale. Their new shop is also 1999, has passed her first ber, 1998, is brought back for to be called Serendipity . (724) 762. ‘Danger Zone!’ – year’s examinations in Infor- these latest lifts. (710, 755, Brougham Hall is included on a mation Systems Applications at 766, 777, 785, 788, 798, 757. One of Art-Metalworker new survey of Cumbrian build- the University of Central Lan- 807, 2817) John Harrison’s projects in ings commissioned by English ca shire , in Lancaster. Hall News May, 1999, is to restore a Heritage on Tuesday, 8 th June, 370 carries a photo-story of 775. The Fell Pony Society telegraph from a sunken ship. 1999, but its description of the Alison’s latest creations on team ‘inexplicably’ leave their This item, vaguely the marine redeveloping Hall as ‘the ruins Friday, 6th. August, 1999. new offices at Brougham Hall equivalent of a car’s gear- of Brougham Hall’ are proba- (452, 768) at the end of July, 1999, after lever, which tells the crew bly just a little behind the barely four months. They have below decks what speed to set times. The Hall and High Head 770. Art-Metalworker John left no forwarding address – the engines at, has been sal- Castle, at Ivegill, are among and Marion Harrison’s time at but Hall News hopes to catch vaged by a diver friend of 28 structures said to be in real the inaugural Arma th waite up with them at the 1999 John’s. John has also begun danger, but the list cites Car- Hall Horse Driving Trials near Lowther Trials and Country restoring a large, old gas lisle’s 1836 landmark Dixon’s Bassenthwaite Lake, Keswick, Fair a few days afterwards. lamp-standard for a private Chimney as an excellent ex- is recalled in Hall News 368’s (737, 777, 779) customer at Grange-over- ample of a structure that’s feature of the event of Satur- Sands, south-west Cumbria. been saved for the future. day, 5th., and Sunday, 6th. 776. Pridelands , one of the (734, 758, 2826) Christopher Terry, who lives at June, 1999. (744, 758, 771) homes in Penrith’s classy Bea- High Head Castle, is rather con-side ‘district’, has been 758. John and Marion Harri- perplexed with this descrip- 771. John and Marion Harri- given a new set of brilliant- son take the Art-Metalwork tion, and intends to ask English son set of for a holiday in looking railings made by Les stand to the very first Ar- Heritage what this really Perthshire in the Scottish High- Harrison of SmallFab , who has mathwaite Hall Horse Driving means for the Hall – and its lands on Thursday, 1st. July, made them at Brougham Hall Trials near Bassenthwaite Lottery pay-out prospects. Like 1999… taking with them all in the Summer of 1999 - as Lake, Keswick, on the weekend the local newspaper News & they need to mount an Art- shown in Hall News 369 of Star , Hall News 367 of Friday, Metalwork display at one of Tuesday, 3rd. August, 1999. BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 4 18 th June, 1999, covers this Perthshire’s top country events (764, 792, 804) 777. 1999’s Lowther Horse ‘Calvert ’99’ holiday, while regularly use. Editor Alistair very productive one. 1999 Trials and Country Fair, on the watching the torrential rain in Aynscough has his own special (788, 797, 799, 802) weekend of Friday, 6th., to the Keswick area - only thirty memories of the event – sailing Sunday, 8th. August, is noted hardy souls watch the Eccentric on Windermere with Calvert 796. The temporary new for the fact Her Majesty Planet Theatre Company enact Trust folks, and also the front- ‘tenant’ of the Tea Room for Queen Elizabeth II pays a visit. Comedy of Errors . (745, 784) page photograph of Hall much of Autumn 1999 is Ben The event once again attracts News 371 of Sunday, 15 th Furnival - previously at the Hall regulars John and Marion 784. The weather is bright and August, 1999. (2783) Hall to do work in the Summer Harrison, as well as Lerona sunny for the second and last of 1996 - who is now busy Newsom and her Smokehouse- evening of 1999’s, Shake- 791. Brougham Avenue is the researching and compiling his Truffles Team. On the after- speare Weekend, the sixth, at focus of attention for Hall new Brougham Hall book, noon of Friday, 6th., Alistair Brougham Hall on Saturday News 373 when the sixtieth Windsor of The North . He Aynscough records the event evening, 14th. August, 1999. anniversary of the start of checks Hall News , and newspa- for Hall News , a day before Christopher Terry is back from World War II passes in Sep- per archives kept by Alistair his week-long Calvert Trust holiday (as is Hall News ’ editor tember 1999. The Avenue, Aynscough, as part of his de- (Keswick) voluntary holiday. Alistair Aynscough) to witness once an impressive tree-lined tailed preparation work. (108, (682, 895, 1252, 2817) an impressive performance. access-way to the Hall, used to 472, 793, 801, 815, 857, Photos of the event appear in be the site of wartime ‘Nissen 889, 910, 2703, 2899, 3012) 778. Hall News 370 of Friday, Hall News 371 on Sunday, Huts’ in the Hall’s days as a 6th. August, 1999, features in 15th. August, and Hall News top-secret tank-development 797. The Hall Trust ’s revived photos the ill-fated third con- 375 (with story) of Friday, base, and these huts later plans for a “Millennium Memo- cert by the Morecambe British 15th. October, 1999. (773, served as home to ‘displaced’ rial” concentrate on the section Energy Band , which took place 783, 832, 887) Polish citizens. Bases of most of walling between the Stair- on the red-hot Sunday, 1st. huts are still visible among the case Hall and Unit Ten , rather August. Despite the beautiful 785. Hall News 371, of Sun- trees. (250, 735) than the big Fireplace of the weather that day, only thirty day, 15th. August, 1999, in- Armoury Hall. The Staircase or so spectators turned up, cludes photographs of the 792. The remains of a grey- Hall’s doors to the West Door- with some seeking shade under progress on the rooms of Unit hound are discovered after way, and to the Carriage the War Base Memorial Arch. Ten during May and June, ground alongside the Tudor House passage area, are (773, 783, 889, 3011) 1999. (755) ‘Bire’ Building subsides close to being topped with fine Gothic Christine Lockerbie as she and arches, as seen in Hall News 779. On Monday, 2nd. August, 786. Hall News 371, of Sun- Alice’s Wonderland Doll and 377 of Friday, 5th. November, 1999, the arrival of a new day, 15th. August, 1999, in- Toy Museum curator Margaret 1999. Hall News 378, of Fri- tenant for the offices recently, corporates the regular Lowther Blackwell have afternoon tea day, 19th. November, 1999, suddenly, vacated by the Fell Show feature, showing Hall on Sunday, 10th. October, tells the story of how Piers Pony Society is heralded by ‘regulars’ John and Marion 1999. The incident triggers Merry and Christopher Terry work on the unit. Land agent Harrison, as well as Lerona three days of great excite- used no small amount of ge- Nick Scholefield soon moves in. Newsom and her team. Missing ment among Hall folks, with ometry - and the Guard House (773, 792, 880) from the line up, as it later digging work even attracting - to create the templates for turns out, are Rob Fairweather the Terry youngsters. John these arches, made of five 780. Rubbish including a tree and Siobhan Pringle of Cab- Harrison and Les Harrison, who heavy pieces of intricately- stump that lay near the bages & Kings, for which Hall makes a long-handled shovel carved masonry. (82, 112, ‘Arbour’ (Summer House) be- News 375 makes up for it by for the excavation team, also 723, 811, 845) neath the Terrace, are burned running their story. (821) become involved. It is possible as Christopher Terry clears that an 1870 gravestone, one 798. The mobile crane, which much of the Woods in early- 787. Artefacts remarkably of two now built into the walls visited the Hall for previous August, 1999. similar to those found at of Nick Scholefield’s new of- tasks on 24th. November Brougham Hall in the earliest fice but discovered during the 1998 and 8th. July 1999, 781. Six years since the Car- days of the restoration project ‘Telephone Trench’ work of returns on Friday, 15th. Octo- riage House showed signs of – such as May 1987’s ‘B.1. April 1987, could relate to the ber, 1999, to help in the task slippage and potential col- Room’ collection of red fire- greyhound, whose ‘photo.’ and of sorting a large pile of stone lapse in the Autumn of 1993, place hearth tiles, lumps of full story come in Hall News near the former Mansion of July 1999 sees extensive work wall-plaster and pieces of 377 of Friday, 5th. November, Brougham Hall, looking for done on the north (Stables thick, blue-ish window glass – 1999. (39, 74, 706, 771, pieces of old window or door- Courtyard) side of the Car- emerge from one of Summer 776, 779, 861) frames. The operation is fea- riage House, in which new 1999’s main workzones, the tured in Hall News 377 of walling is constructed. A new narrow ‘room’ between the 793. Lucy Kerrs and Gordon Friday, 5th. November, 1999. archway for this side of the Carriage House and Unit Ten . Cooke leave the Tea Room on (710, 774, 812) structure is now being planned (75, 742, 788) Bank Holiday Monday, 30 th for, and the wall that showed August, 1999. (754, 796) 799. Piers Merry is seen at the dangers in 1993 has been 788. Work continues on the work on the Unit Ten / Stair- doubled in height by Syd inner rooms of Unit Ten during 794. Another fire breaks out in case Hall wall on Friday, 15th. Walker and others. (393, Summer 1999, as reported by the Old Smokehouse on Thurs- October, 1999, as seen in Hall 917) Hall News 373 of Tuesday, day, 14th. October, 1999. It is News 377. In September, 21 st . September, 1999. (795) the fourth such mishap to hit 1999, Piers receives high 782. Alice’s Wonderland Doll Lerona Newsom’s old unit - but praise for his standard of and Toy Museum welcomes its 789. Long-serving stonemason the first to be actually re- workmanship. (797, 2674) 6,000th. visitor in just over two Paul Grundy makes the news corded in pictures by Hall years after curator Margaret in a big way ….. and an im- News – Issue 377 of Friday, 800. The early stages appear Blackwell opens the doors for pressive stone eagle for New- 5th. November, 1999. Thank- in a story destined to run and the red-hot weekend of Satur- ton Arlosh church in late- fully, as before, there is mini- run well into 2000, the year at day, 31st. July and Sunday, Summer 1999. (808, 833) mal damage. (156, 359, 480, its centre. With plans being set 1st. August, 1999. (577, 792) 726, 816, 834) down for the forthcoming 790. Memories of the won- ‘Eden Millennium Festival’ in 783. Horrendous weather drous Solar Eclipse on 795. Continuing work by Syd Summer 2000, hampers the opening night of Wednesday, 11th. August, Walker, Christopher Terry and Council decide, in late- 1999’s Shakespeare Week- 1999, are revived in Hall Piers Merry in the Unit Ten October, 1999, not to offer end on Friday, 13th. August, News 373 of 21st. September. area is covered in Hall News any financial help to rebuild 1999. With Christopher Terry Both Les and John Harrison tell 375 of Friday, 15th. October, the ‘Library’ part of Brougham yet to return from his Cornwall Hall News how they were able 1999. The walls begin to grow Hall for an arts show destined Eclipse family holiday – and to view the Eclipse, Britain’s on this side of the Staircase . Hall News ’ editor Alistair Ayn- first to achieve ‘Totality’ since Hall. The weekend of Satur- to form part of the Festival scough having fun dancing the June 1927, through the pro- day, 9th. and Sunday, 10th. night away with others on the fessional welding masks they October, 1999, was a very BHN 800 - 10 -6-’1 6 - Pg 17 5 1999 Christopher Terry then nine days apart, in April in one Sunday, 19th. Decem- bles in December 1999. A van sends another letter to 1931. Coincidence, or what??!! ber, 1999, photograph at driver delivering to The Old the local Cumberland & West- — You decide. (801, 820, Brougham Hall, which appears Smokehouse is alleged to have morland Herald newspaper, 839, 854, 857) both in the Hall News Review rammed Marion’s car, denting expressing his views but defi- of 1999 (Issue 380R) and Issue the boot-lid, before making antly declaring the show must 804. Les Harrison’s latest crea- 381 of Saturday, 1st. January, off after failing to report the go on at the Hall, regardless. tion is an ornamental garden 2000. incident. Ben’s car is exten- The letter from the 30th. Octo- gate arch, produced in Octo- sively damaged in an accident ber 1999 Herald is repro- ber 1999. (776, 813, 817) 815. ‘Unwanted Christmas in the ice-bound Safeway duced in Hall News 378 of gifts’ - Marion Hudson, of [later Morrisons ] supermarket Friday, 19th. November, 805. Vandals are thought to Country Furnishings , and Ben car-park in Penrith. (185, 597, 1999. In the letter, Mr Terry have damaged a light fitting Furnival both report car trou- 796, 820, 821) and the Hall T rust also quote in the mens’ toilet at the Hall. a price to totally restore Brougham Hall – a cool 806. Stonemason Trevor Askins £329,692. (772, 807, 819, is shown hard at work at the 823, 842, 882) Hall, on projects for elsewhere, Images of 1999 Images of 1999 in Hall News 379 of Friday, 801. In the Tea Room in No- 3rd. December, 1999. (719) vember 1999, Ben Furnival ’NINETY -NINE , a continues on Windsor of The 807. Wooden ceiling support very special year any- North , his new book about beams are set in place on the way because of its Brougham Hall and its rich proposed Library and Re- pre-Millennium tim- history. However, unable to source Centre, as seen in Hall ing, was a special find a photograph of Major News 379 of Friday, 3rd. General Geoffrey Carleton- December, 1999. (774) one for Hall News ’ Cowper - the man who Hall editor Alistair Ayn- News has called ‘the villain of 808. A new chimney stack scough, who volun- the Hall’s pieces’ (Issue 378 of appears in Unit Ten in the teered at two amaz- Friday, 19th. November) - Ben second ‘Pictures in Progress’ ing Cumbrian holiday asks Hall News editor Alistair feature, in Hall News 379 of Aynscough if he has any of Friday, 3rd. December, 1999. centres for disabled Major Carleton-Cowper. He (680) adults and kids — hasn’t… but then he believes and so ended up on he saw one and manages to 809. ‘Birth of a House’ – a Windermere as the find it in microfilm newspaper year’s progress on the latest Eclipse occurred! records at Penrith Library, as house to be built on the a result of doing his early- Brougham Hall Gardens estate Back at the Hall, 1990’s Review of The Years has been followed for a year the year began with a local history series. A Cumber- by Hall News 380 of Friday, very special contract land & Westmorland Herald / 17th. December, 1999. It was for Art—Metalworker John Jameson picture of the the one whose roof timbers John Harrison. … … … opening of Eamont Bridge’s were added on Tuesday, 24th. Village Hall on 5th. October, November, 1998 - before the 1933, with the Major looking mobile crane involved moved on as the then Lord Lonsdale on to do a job for the Hall does the honours, duly finds its Trust. (710) way into the new book and into Hall News 378 of Friday, 810. It is announced in Decem- 19th. November, 1999. Within ber, 1999, that one of the Hall one year of that event, News photographs from the Brougham Hall was partly- ‘fashion-shoot’ at Brougham demolished on the Major’s Hall on Sunday, 11th. April, behest, and only the tragic 1999, is to be used for the death of a demolition worker Brougham Hall Charitable is thought to have stopped its Trust ’s Christmas cards for total destruction. (289, 472, 1999. (741, 818) 796, 803, 2703) 811. The Guard House be- 802. A new Hall News series, comes a latter-day Billiards ‘Pictures of Progress’, begins Room for Brougham Hall, as with a five-page update on seen in Hall News 380 of Fri- work on Unit Ten in Issue 378 day, 17th. December, 1999, of Friday, 19th. November, recalling the events of Autumn, 1999. The newly-emerging, 1986, when both this room north-facing window between and the genuine Billiards Room the Carriage House and Unit (‘Lord Chancellor’s Den’) be- Ten’s doorway proves just one came the main workzones, prominent feature. (808) aside from the Woodlands. (23, 32, 50, 797) 803. A startling revelation emerges as research continues 812. A pile of carved masonry for Ben Furnival’s new Windsor sorted out with the help of a of The North book. The story mobile crane in mid-October, of a post-wedding ‘garden 1999, is shown beforehand, in party’ at Carleton Hall in Au- Hall News 380 of Friday, 17th. gust 1931 is followed up – to December, 1999. (798) reveal that the intense rivalry between Major Carleton- 813. Once again there’s a Cowper and Lord Victor mad pre-Christmas rush for Brougham seemingly extended Hall Crafts Team folks during to their marriages being all of December, 1999. (815)

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THE LEGENDARY American ‘British Steel’ Back after Sale boxer Muhammad Ali died S N on Friday, 3rd. June, at the THE STEEL Industry Crisis age of 74. Widely seen as that Britain has endured in force has made as part of “Are EU In or Out…?” recent months seems to be the firm's transformation one of the greatest boxers THE Much -talked -about plan. For many it has in- of all time — certainly the relenting — with one certain best, as far as he Referendum for Britain’s outcome being that the volved tough choices about was con- cerned, but at least he was membership of the Euro- Britis h Steel brand-name is pay and their jobs.” Bim- pean Union is now less on the way back. This “new lendra Jha, the chief execu- easily able to back up this than a fortnight away — tive of Tata Steel UK , said claim in his heyday — Mu- chapter”, as many in the hammad, when aged just “Thankfully”, most of us say industry are calling it, came he hoped that the business — after weeks of pessimis- at the end of May when the would continue to improve, 18, won a Gold Medal at tic, negative sounding cam- sale of the giant Scun- and paid tribute to “a dedi- the Rome Olympics in paigning that, towards the thorpe works by the Indian cated and hard- working” 1960, and quickly shot up workforce. the boxing hierarchy. end of May, prompted the Tata Steel was completed. authorities— complain‘Built to Last’! at the” The Long Products busi- By 1963 he was up Greybull C apital are offi- against Briton Henry Coo- activities of the “Remain” cially the new bosses at the ness employs 4,800 people and “Leave” groups. ‘long products’ business in - 4,400 in the UK and 400 per, who actually floored The Treasury Selec t in France. The Scunthorpe Cassius Clay, as he was the N orth Lincolnshire town, then named, before a cut Com mittee called Vote where around 4,000 highly- plant makes steel for the Leave ’s claim that ‘£350 M. rail and construction sec- above one eye forced the valued jobs are saved. They British man out in Round 5. a week could be saved’ by bought the business for a tors, two mills in Teesside, an engineering workshop in Within a year the Louisville Britain leaving the conti- “nominal” £1, but have pugilist faced up to the invinci- nental s oc ial- ec onomic pledged to invest up to Workington, in Cumbria, a design consultancy in York, ble Sonny Liston, virtually group “deeply problematic” £400 M. in it. However, staff unbeaten in 50 heavyweight - but also rounding on the have been obliged to ac- and associated distribution bouts, but gave him such a RemainCCP Clients In and side Staff forPlay theirOn … cept pay-cuts and pension facilities, as well as a rail fight that the champion stayed “mistaken” ass umption mill in northern France. seated at the beginning of reductions for the deal to that British families could be struck after weeks of Sajid Javid, the Business Round 7, and the title fa- mously changed [glove d] be IN left THIS out-of-pocket Edition of Hall by tough negotiations. The Secretary, said: “I believe Newshundreds,, we or have even already thou- there is a viable, sustain- hands. A rematch between the Com munity union said the two in 1965, by which time addedsands of more pounds to a the year. sorry revival of the Britis h Steel able future for world-class The main arguments steelmaking in Britain”. Muhammad had chosen the tale of the storm Desm ond , name meant “the chance Islam name and religion, seemwith the to be damage whether done or not to of a brighter future for Tata Steel is assessing ended in an even-greater win, BritainBrougham can Old thrive Bridge outside and steelmaking in the UK”. A bids for the rest of its busi- and a famous photograph the loss European of England’s Union, and last great ceremony was held to ness in Britain, including its emerged of him standing whetherGolden Eagle, or not possibly money sent due re-launch the famed brand. Welsh site at Port Talbot — proud in the ring — with Sonny to the the Union storm could five be months spent Peter Hogg, the commer- at the centre of the recent Liston flat-out on the canvas betterago. Now, by though, government we have in cial director, told BBC crisis — and the steelworks after a first-round knockout. Britainone of itself. the more-curious Immigration at Shap, also in our County. After this came the contro- News : “said some custom- versy over Muhammad Ali’s continuesstories from to the be chaos. a major … concern, with no controls ers were ‘really, really ex- New Cumbrian -Made refusal to fight in the Vietnam cited’ by the resurrection of War, and in 1967 he risked on immigrationThe Carlisle baseinto Europe of arts ‘Fivers’ Due Soon the Britis h Steel brand; “A prison, but remained free as andcharity the Prism perception, Arts , along- by pay cut was one in a series THE FIRST Hardwearing, the courts deliberated on his sidesome, the that Cathedral, the newcomers was of measures that allowed plastic banknotes are on the fate. He was, however, barred flooded,are “taking with British much jobs” of the - the company to return to way, the Bank of England from boxing for three years. puppetrybalanced byand the props suggestion from profit over the last two website states. Produced at He returned to winning domi- theof others Carlisle that Pageant they contrib- last the Innovia plant at Wigton, nance in the Rumble in The months”. Jungle against George Fore- Augustute “more destroyed. to the economy Among Martin Foster, convenor in Cumbria, the “Fivers” — thethan they ‘survivors’, take away”. however, the £5 notes bearing an im- man in 1974 and Thrilla in With current P.M. David of the Unite trades union in Manila against Joe Frazier in were the ‘Tree of Life’ sheet age of Sir. Winston Churchill 1975, after which his career portraitCameron enteredfor Remain into In , last up Scunthorpe, said: “ Britis h — will be issued in Septem- Steel ’s first day of trading began to wane. Defeat by againstyear’s C-Art his former Festival London guide, ber. The Polymer notes are Leon Spinks in 1978 and mayor Boris Johnson, for marks the beginning of a said to be exceptionally- and the life-size puppet of new chapter not only for Larry Holmes led to eventual LadyVote Waugh, Leave , once and resident ex-P.M. durable and will last far retirement after a loss to ofJohn Tullie Major House. laying Both heavily fea- Scunthorpe, but UK steel- longer than the current, pa- Trevor Berbick in December turedinto the in “Out” a play side by— includ-Prism making. It should not be per currency. They are also 1981. “The Greatest” ulti- Artsing Justice and clients Minister of Cumbria Michael forgotten, though, that to- ‘less-prone’ to counterfeiting. mately began his epic fight Gove — the feuding seems day would not have been The £10 notes will be issued against Parkinson’s Disease possible if it had not been next year, and the £20 will in 1984 — but lit the flame of to be among the same party, let alone their usual for the sacrifices the work– come out..., well..., in 2020. the 1996 Atlanta Olympics . rivals. The vote itself is due for Thursday, 23rd. June. Brougham Hall News 800 - Friday, 10th. June, 2016 - Page 178