ISSUE 121 Autumn 2018

The dredger in steam - Dylan Montell The ‘Friends’ is Registered Charity No. 800282

Editor Angela Marks 13 Six Acres, Upton-St. Leonards, Gloucester GL4 8AY Email: [email protected]

The Friends’ website: www.friendsofgwm.co.uk

2 In some respects, “time flies by”, yet at other times I look back to think of things I did a few months ago and it seems a lifetime away. Editors are always chasing contributors to supply their copy to meet the deadline and Angela, our editor of Llanthony Log, is no different. Last week the dreaded email arrived reminding me that it was time I wrote and submitted my Chairman’s report. I groaned and told her “it can’t be that time already!” So, I thought about what news I could tell you and realized that our first ‘Friends Event’ of 2018 took place since the last publication of our magazine. For me it seemed an age ago. Yet, it was only in May on a gloriously hot sunny Saturday morning that quite a few of us walked across the Severn Bridge. We were given exclusive rights to park adjacent to the Bridge Maintenance depot at Aust and so with ease we enjoyed the walk out onto the bridge, across to the far end above Beachley and back. A few brave souls carried on to walk across the Wye Bridge as well. Some of the group then visited the Boar Inn at Aust for lunch.

3 During July we held our second event, a personal guided tour of Gloucester Cathedral. It is one of my favourite Cathedrals and is certainly packed with history. In this edition of Llanthony log there is more about these and other exciting new events planned for the future. Not giving too much away, there is a report later on about Braunston. Back in June the Friends’ Craft Group were invited to exhibit at the prestigious Historic Narrowboat Rally. My thanks to these Friends and indeed all the Friends, who continually give support as it does make the hard work in arranging events worthwhile. Our ‘Ladies’ from the Craft Group are proving very popular as public speakers. During the very popular Gloucester History Festival they have been booked to appear at the EdShed, (the building at the rear of Gloucester Life Museum), to speak on “The Lives of the Narrowboat Women”.

Finally, I’ll end as I started, with time “flying by”. On Sunday 5th August the Museum celebrated the 30th anniversary of the official opening by His Royal Highness, Charles, Prince of Wales. Although the Museum had been open to the public for a while before this date and the Friends had been formed, it is felt that this date signifies the beginning of the Museum. The date was marked with a special cake, balloons and refreshments by staff with the help of Friends too. It was nice to see three familiar faces, who were present on the day that Prince Charles came to carry out the official opening: Hugh Conway-Jones, Trevor Hill and Glenys Pickersgill. Who knows where we will be in thirty years’ time?

4 Sunday 5th August 2018

5 With the Fielding engine now running regularly again at the Museum we felt that this is a good time to remind Friends of its history.

The Fielding engine was built in Gloucester in 1929 and was installed at Godwin Pumps of Quinington, Cirencester, to run approximately 500ft of line shaft to power machinery in the machine shop and pattern making shop. During the wartime it was fitted out to drive a 60KVA generator and with the introduction of mains electricity was used as a standby unit to provide electricity in the event of power cuts, etc. and was last running long term during the miners’ strike in 1974. After this the engine was used occasionally until the engine house and machine shops were burnt down in May 1980 leaving the engine exposed to the elements in the corner of the car park. Members of the Mid Glos Engine Preservation Society undertook to dismantle and restore the engine to its former glory when it was accepted as an exhibit at the National waterways Museum, Gloucester.

The engine is a single cylinder, 14” bore, 23” stroke compression ignition, delivering 80BHP at 22p rpm. Cooling water is held in two round tanks in the corner of the building, beneath which is the fuel tank. It is running on gas oil and if it was working under full load would use about two and a half gallons per hour. At the 6 moment it is running light and is using about a gallon an hour.

The engine is called an Oil Engine because it could be set up to run on whatever oil was available in the area where the engine would be working. Fielding’s stopped manufacturing engines in 1938 after a span of 50 years production. A large number of the engines have met an untimely end in scrapyards.

The engine is a Diesel and is started using compressed air to start the flywheel turning and when enough speed is achieved fuel is injected using Direct Injection and engine starts. When the engine reaches running speed, the Direct Injector is turned off and then fuel is injected using Indirect Injection. The engine is used to recharge the air receiver in preparation for the next start using a valve arrangement on the far side of the cylinder head. The unit on the side of the engine is the lubricator which contains eight pump elements which are adjusted to deliver the correct amount of oil to each moving part.

The Fielding engine is run by members of the Mid Glos Engine Preservation Society and the Friends of the National waterways Museum, Gloucester. The funding of the engine has been helped by the winning of the Dorothea award in 1988 which included a cheque for £500.

The Fielding Engine runs most Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm and from 2 to 3pm. Anyone and any group interested in engines will want to look at this engine running, and if a Tuesday is not convenient, we are pleased to make special arrangements for them. For further information please contact the museum on 01452 318200.

7 Another interesting entry in the almost 800 pages of Joseph Priestly’s 1831 is that for the Hereford and Gloucester Canal.

31 George III, Cap. 89, Royal Assent 11th April, 1791 3 George III, Cap. 119, Royal Assent 11th July, 1793

This useful branch of inland navigation, which is about thirty-five miles and a half in length from its commencement at Hereford to the tideway of the Severn at Gloucester, was projected under the superintendence of Mr. Joseph Clowes, civil engineer, in the latter end of 1790; and the first act obtained for the execution of the work, was passed the following year, under the title of

The act being obtained, the necessary works were soon after commenced; but it having been found necessary to vary the original line, and to make other alterations, a second act was obtained in 1793, entitled

The canal pursues a northerly direction from Byster’s Gate in Hereford, near to the banks of the Wye, till it comes to the River Lugg, near Sulton St. Michael and Sulton St. Nicholas; having crossed this river, it takes an

8 easterly course to Munsley; thence crossing the River Leadon, it proceeds in a southerly direction, till it again crosses the Leadon, two miles below Ledbury; after pursuing its course to Denimoch easterly, it crosses the same river for a third and fourth time at four miles from the last- mentioned place; proceeding onwards to its termination, it passes by Pountley, Newent, Rudford and Lassington, crossing for the last time the Leadon, and also a branch of the Severn, in which river, after going through a cut across Alney Island, it terminates opposite to Gloucester.

By the first act the proprietors of this canal were authorized to demand the following

TONNAGE RATES

For Manure, Bricks, Rubble, Lime and Clay ……………………………… 1d per Ton, per Mile

For Coals ………………………………………………………………………..………………… 2d ditto. ditto For Corn, Meal, Hewn-stone, Hops, Wool and other Goods, Merchandize and Wares .… …………………………………………………………………………………………….3d ditto. ditto And so on in Proportion for different Distances.

The original sum granted by the act for completing this work was £25,000, with the power to raise £30,000 more, if necessary; shares to be £100 each.

The advantages of the amended act are, the nearer approach to Hereford and a tunnel at Oxenhall, which saves the collateral cut to Newent, and avoids a great deal of circuitous navigation.

We have stated above that the length of the canal, when finished, will be thirty-five miles and a half, which is on the following levels, -- from Hereford to Withington March, six miles of level canal; from thence to Monkhide, (which is a summit level at an elevation of 195½ feet above low water of the Severn), there is a rise of 30 feet in a distance of three 9 miles: the canal continues on the summit level for eight miles and a half to Ledbury; from that place to Gloucester, where it terminates, there is a fall of 195½ feet in the remaining eighteen miles. The proposed cut from Newent to the canal has a fall into it of 10 feet in a length of three miles. The total lockage is 226 feet nearly; and the number of the tunnels on the canal three, all of considerable size; the first, near Hereford, being four hundred and forty yards long; the second on the high ground at Asperton, near Frome Cannon, the middle of the summit level, thirteen hundred and twenty yards; and the third at Oxenhall, two thousand one hundred and ninety-two yards.

In 1796 the line from Newent to the Severn was completed; and, after two years’ interval, the Oxenhall Tunnel was opened, by which means the navigation became practicable to Ledbury. The expense of cutting, &c. was very great; but the advantages derived from this work were great in proportion; as an instance, we may mention, that the opening of the Oxenhall Tunnel effected an immediate reduction in the price of coals at Ledbury of no less than 10 . 6 . per ton; that quantity being sold for 13 . 6 ., when, before the opening of the navigation, 24 . was the price. Nor is it with the coal mines alone that this canal opens a ready communication; limestone, iron, lead, and other productions of South Wales, as well as those of the immediate neighbourhood of Hereford, may, by means of this canal, be conveyed to London, Bristol. Liverpool, Hull, and various other parts of the kingdom, entirely by water carriage.

10 M Bryan

11 Able to take ships up to 235.5 metres long and 32.5 metres wide, the large locks allowing entrance to the Kiel Canal are among the largest in Europe. At present there are two locks of this size at the Brunsbüttel entrance to the canal from the River Elbe, with two smaller 125 metre long locks, built when the canal was first opened in 1895, alongside them. Between these the canal authorities are currently constructing a fifth lock, which will be 255 metres long, so that they can continue to fully operate the canal while the existing 100 year old locks are refurbished after many years of neglect by the German government. Hopefully the locks at the northern end of the canal that lead into Kiel Harbour at Holtenau, one of which had to be repaired in 2014 after a ship collided with the lock gate, are long enough to take let longer ships out.

Because the canal is crossed by a number of rail and road bridges whose height is around 42m there is also a restriction on the height of vessels using the canal of 40m. Luckily the Fred Olsen ship Boudicca we travelled along the canal on can, when it lowers its mast, creep under the bridges as its height is only 39.5 metres, though to me it did not look as if there were more than a few inches of clearance between the funnel and the Rendsburg rail bridge as we passed under.

12 It was somewhat of a surprise to find that we had to lock down into the canal from the River Elbe at high tide. It took 4 minutes to close the outer sliding gate, 20 minutes to drop the level a foot or two, and then 4 minutes to open the inner gate. But it was another 20 minutes before we could clear the lock as we had to wait for two ships to come down the canal because there are restrictions on the size of ships that can go into each section of the canal, and our cruise ship was the largest size of ship allowed in a section. This meant that we had a number of periods of waiting in the passing laybys along the route while waiting for ships to come out of traffic light controlled sections of the canal.

The trip took 8 hours, so that it was well after midnight before we left the canal, and we had to wait until our return to see the locks at Holtenau in Kiel Harbour. Somewhat to our surprise our cruise ship was accompanied into this lock be a small commercial grain barge, but a number of sailing and cruising boats that hoped to enter with us were turned back and had to wait until the next lock load was ready. We again had to drop slightly before entering the canal.

13 On returning to the Brunsbüttel exit to the canal to the River Elbe the tide was out, so we had to drop down by 10-12 feet before exiting into the fast ebbing river.

14 It's been a busy time for the Crafts Group as we just finished painting and dressing Cylgate in time for the re-opening of the Museum, following the closure to enable a new frontage to be built. We were really pleased that Steve allowed us to get on and make the most of the closure and spruce Cylgate up. Every member of the Group cleaned , painted, polished and made items to get it ready on time. I do hope you will go to the Museum and see the results of our hard work. Over the opening weekend our group spent both days outside the Museum demonstrating and doing rope making in the sweltering heat to support the Museum. Sadly none of the photographs were printed with us in them only the ones with the hired actors. Our spirits were lifted though as we had a wonderful time at Braunston Historic Boat Festival in June. We arrived on the Friday to set up and then spent 2 wonderful days in the Craft tent demonstrating to some very interested people. We also sold quite a lot of our items and have orders for others. The last afternoon was completed with a photograph of us with DAVID SUCHET the actor and keen canal enthusiast, and Tim Coghlan the Marine owner. It was a very exhausting weekend as it was again sweltering hot, but we felt very much appreciated with many comments of the colourful display we presented. The people on the display next to us were sure they had more visitors interested in their product as a result of being drawn to us! We very much hope to go again next year if possible.

CLEANING GROUP Thank you so much to the Friends who showed an interest in joining our 'adopt and clean and exhibit' group. Now that I know a few of you are interested I will set up a date to meet once the holiday season is over. This is an activity that Friends can join in and support the Museum without a big commitment, so If anyone else would like to join in please contact me.

15 Sunday 15th July was the 200th anniversary of the laying of the first stone in the wall of the old dock at Sharpness in 1818. The first phase of building what was then called the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal had run out of money in the 1790s, and work only started again after the Government agreed to a loan as part of a national programme to provide work for soldiers returning from the war against Napoleon. By this time, the Canal Company's engineer, John Upton, had pointed out that Sharpness would be a better place than Berkeley for the southern end of the canal, and he drew up plans for a walled dock to be built on the foreshore adjoining Sharpness Point.

The construction of an enclosed harbour in a strongly tidal estuary was recognised to be a major undertaking for its time, and it was thought appropriate to arrange an event to mark the start of work. Those attending included HRH the Duke of Gloucester, Col Berkeley and other gentlemen, the Mayor of Gloucester, members of the Corporation and members of the Committee of the Canal Company. The reported that a procession was formed, led by a band and colours, and they all descended Sharpness Point to the spot where the stone was to be laid. HRH was provided with a silver trowel and silver- mounted mallet, and he laid a stone of nearly four tons weight.

Affixed to the stone was a brass plate with the following inscription: 'To extend the advantages of commerce into the interior of the kingdom and to facilitate the intercourse with foreign countries, the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company projected that work. The approbation of the most illustrious and dignified personages sanctioned the undertaking, and the countenance of His Royal Highness William Frederick Duke of Gloucester, assisted by the noble house of Berkeley, was particularly evinced in graciously condescending to lay the first

16 stone of this harbour the fifteenth day of July 1818. Long may it remain unmoved, a monument of national enterprise, a benefit to the proprietors and a secure harbour for the commerce of the world.'

John Phillpotts thanked HRH on behalf of the Canal Company, and the party went off to Berkeley Castle for lunch. In the evening, the royal guest was entertained to dinner by Gloucester Corporation at the Kings Head, and the reported that many toasts were drank 'with three times three'.

Unfortunately, attempts to locate the stone and its brass plate have not so far been successful.

June 2017 saw Terry and myself staying on a small caravan site at Todmorden Cricket Club. The plan was to walk the , the first trans-Pennine waterway to be completed in 1804. The canal was re-opened to navigation along its entire length in July 2002 and forms part of the South Pennine Ring. James Brindley was commissioned to look at plans for the canal in 1766 but nothing came from this work but in 1799 parts of the canal were opened and in 1804 was fully opened some twelve years before the Leeds Liverpool Canal. The canal runs for 33 miles between and Sowerby Bridge where it joins the Calder and Hebble Navigation. In the time we had we walked from Sowerby Bridge to the edge of Rochdale. The route is through beautiful countryside and runs through a valley that also is the course of a river, a railway and the main road between Halifax and Rochdale. It was a difficult route for the builders but today boaters and walkers can enjoy spectacular scenery. Along its length the river, road, railway and canal criss cross each other. One of our walks took us to the summit of the canal at lock 37 which is the highest broad lock in England 183 metres (600 feet) above sea level. 17 The canal did not seem over popular with boaters – I wondered if this was because of the number of locks – some quite deep that boaters had to negotiate. I have never seen so many geese on a canal before, the Rochdale was certainly a popular place for them to call home. I enjoy the canals because of the sense of history you get as you walk along their towpaths and the opportunity to see the numerous flowers and grasses that flourish on the banks. I would love to recognise all the species but I am slowly beginning to learn more of their names. At Todmorden the lock does not have the traditional wooden gates that open and close but has a metal barrier that rises and lowers – not so attractive as the traditional lock gates but perhaps it will last longer and need less maintenance. As you leave Todmorden going west there is a high brick wall on the north side of the canal and the railway runs a short distance from the top of the wall. June this year found us in Scotland and exploring the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde. The Union Canal (full name Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal) runs from Falkirk to Edinburgh a length of 31½ miles . The purpose of the canal was to move minerals, especially coal, from mines and quarries to Edinburgh. It was opened in 1822 a wonderful feat of engineering and was linked to 18 the Forth and Clyde by a flight of eleven locks at Falkirk, it had three major aqueducts, one that crossed the River Avon was 810 feet long and 86 feet high one of the longest in the country but it was built too late and once the railways were operating it took over the movement of goods and passengers and soon became unused and was officially closed in 1965. It was reopened in 2001 and in 2002 reconnected to the Forth and Clyde by the Falkirk Wheel making a route across the country. The Forth and Clyde was opened in 1790 but it suffered, like many canals, when it lost business to the railways. It closed in 1963. In 1971 it was suggested that the canal could be restored and work began with Scotland Inland Waterways Association and other groups including the Local Authority working together. The biggest obstacle was linking it to the Union Canal at Falkirk (where there had once been eleven locks) but this was overcome by the Falkirk Wheel. The Falkirk Wheel is a wonderful structure – a rotating boat lift that was opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link Project a canal that would link Glasgow to Edinburgh. It cost £84.5 million. The parts were constructed like a giant Meccano set in Derbyshire, it was then dismantled and transported to Falkirk in 35 lorry loads. At Falkirk it was bolted back together and put in position. 1,200 tonnes of steel was used and it took 1,000 staff to construct it. It was amazing to visit and see it working lifting boats so that they could continue their journey eastwards on the Union Canal or travelling in the opposite direction lowering boats so that they could continue their westward journey to Glasgow. The owner of the caravan site where we stayed (just a short walk from the Union Canal) said that the restoration of the two canals had made an immense difference to the prosperity of the area.

19 We did three walks on the canals – we walked into Falkirk on the Forth and Clyde and returned on the Union Canal. Another day we walked from Falkirk to see the Kelpies. The Kelpies are modern art standing 30 metres high designed by the sculptor Andy Scot in October 2013. They are built of structural steel with stainless steel cladding. They are a reminder of the use of horses in Scotland's industries, farming, mining, manufacturing and pulling barges on the canals. A good piece of modern art. Our third walk took us westward towards Glasgow and we returned to our site by walking along the Antonine Wall. It was known by the Romans as Vallum Antonini. It was a turf fortification on stone foundations, is was 63 kilometres, 39 miles long and ran from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde. It was 3 metres, 10 feet high, 5 metres, 16 feet wide and represented the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire. It was the second of two walls built by the Romans in northern Britain but it is not so well known as Hadrian's Wall to the south. Work began in AD142 and took twelve years to build and it was abandoned after only eight years but was used again at a later date. It had sixteen forts built along the route with a road linking the forts that was known as the Military Way. From the wall you have good views of the surrounding countryside and you have good interpretation boards along the wall giving information about the Romans who lived there and what type of buildings were at the different sites. When we are out and about we always look for links to Gloucester and we found just a small link along the wall. The 20th Legion arrived in Gloucester and settled in our city and they also made their way to the Antonine Wall. Both the Forth and Clyde and the Union Canal are interesting historically and run through attractive countryside but if we visit the area again I would like to spend more time on the Union Canal. It was built higher than 20 the Forth and Clyde so you have better views across the countryside. On our way home from Scotland we stopped at Berwick on Tweed, an interesting walled town and enjoyed a riverside walk on the Tweed and Durham where we were able to take a walk along the River Wear but our last port of call was Foxton on the Leicester section of the Grand Union Canal. Our first walk, on a very hot day, was from Market Harborough to Foxton, there was not a lot of interest on that particular stretch of waterway but at least we had our exercise for the day. Market Harborough seemed a very pleasant town with very good floral displays. Our main reason to visit Foxton was to see the staircase flight of locks that are Grade 11 listed and over two hundred years old. The flight of locks were started in 1810 and completed in 1814 and comprises ten locks, two staircases of five. This system is used where a canal has to climb a steep hill and groups of locks open directly into each other. It is the largest flight of staircase locks on English canals. It has always been a bottleneck because of the time needed to negotiate the locks and in 1898 it was decided to build an inclined plane boatlift designed by Gordon Cale Thomas to be used in place of the locks to speed up the boat traffic. Two tanks or caissons were linked by a wire rope and a 25 horse power steam engine provided the power to raise and lower the caissons. It was completed in 1900 but did not have a long life. It was mothballed in 1911 and slowly declined and eventually sold for scrap in 1928 but you can still see today where the plane was, but all is not lost because the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is looking into the possibility of restoring the plane. Watch this space. The FIPT operate a museum that is housed in the old boiler house. It is only a small museum but it is packed full of 21 interesting items and information – well worth a visit. We are now thinking about our next trip to explore more of our canal network.

22 NEWS ROUND-UP by Janet-Illingworth-Cooper

In brilliant sunshine, thousands waited at Gloucester Docks to cheer Prince Charles when he arrived to officially open the National Waterways Museum. Although Prince Charles, who is President of the National Waterways Museum Trust, became the Museum’s first official visitor on August 5th, some 40,000 people have already seen this unique heritage site since the doors opened on April 1st. Guided by Chairman David Ingham, Curator Tony Conder and Senior Architect Roger Beckett, the Prince’s visit lasted more than an hour and covered the entire complex, beginning with the two floors of the Museum building. After talking to Friends en-route about their activities, the Prince signed the visitors’ book and emerged into the forecourt to the unveiling of a plaque commemorating his visit.

23 Friends of Gloucester Waterways Museum Registered Charity No 800282 Llanthony Warehouse, Docks, Gloucester, GL1 2EH

The Remainder of our Winter Talks from 2018

Don’t forget we shall have our usual evening winter talks on the 22 January, 26 February, 26 March and our AGM and talk on the 23 April.

24th APRIL 2019 We are delighted to be able to offer you a talk on our Historic Dunkirk little ship, Queen Boadicea II, when we shall have a speaker from the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships talking to us about the evacuation of our troops from Dunkirk in World War 2, when Queen Boadicea II played her part on Friday 31st May 1940. 2020 will be the 80th commemoration of that historic event, so we thought we should get in first.

15th JUNE, 2019 Alney Island, surrounded by the Severn, is on our doorstep and yet so many local people know nothing about it and have never set foot on it. We shall be taking a gentle walk on the Island including a look at Llanthony Lock, where we hope to have someone available from the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust to talk about their future plans for this area.

24 7th JULY, 2019 Again, we are grateful that Chris Witts, through his contacts, has been able to arrange a visit to SARA’s new lifeboat and station at Sharpness. This date is a Sunday and we hope that Friends will be able to join us afterwards for Sunday lunch at The Dockers’ Club.

21ST JULY, 2019 Sharpness is the subject of our next event, when we will have a tour around the Docks and the area, and again, if you enjoyed the Sunday lunch at the Dockers’ Club on the 7th, enjoy another Sunday lunch after this tour.

14th AUGUST, 2019 Now for something completely different, we’re offering the Friends the opportunity of having an afternoon on the Stroudwater Navigation in one of 2 Katakanus, which are very stable catamaran canoes, plus a Wheelyboat is available for any of our Friends who are in wheelchairs. This will be for a limited number who want the opportunity to be really close to the water, close to the wildlife and to see our industrial heritage.

WINTER TALKS And, of course, we shall be offering our 2019 Winter Talks – although not yet arranged. Are there any talks which you would like us to try and arrange. Please let us know!

We hope you will find something in the above to interest you and, as usual, please help us make your friends our Friends

25 At Level 3 at the museum at 7.30.

Our talks restart in September , and we have a slightly different topic than usual in the first one :

25th Sept. Donna Cavill of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust presents The work of the Trust in the County, and the wildlife we can expect to see around the canals and waterways.

23rd Oct. Our speaker will be Nigel Jeffries of the Hereford & Gloucester Canals Trust giving a history of the canal and the latest developments .

27th Nov. Marks the return of Paul Barnett with his presentation “ D – Day Wrecks to Relics “

Talks for the New Year will follow..

26 Chairman Chris Witts 01452 526202 15 Riversley Road, Gloucester GL2 OQU Email: [email protected] Membership Secretary Hans Rackham 01452 528939 12 Ryelands, Gloucester GL4 0QA

Treasurer Gill Bryan 01452 859991 29 Oldbury Orchard, Churchdown, Gloucester GL3 2PU Email: [email protected] Secretary Martin Bryan 01452 859991 29 Oldbury Orchard, Churchdown, Gloucester GL3 2PU Email: [email protected] Meetings Maurice Boye 01242 570457 17 Gordon Road, Cheltenham GL53 0ES Email: [email protected] Boaters’ Crafts Jill Ruiz 01452 418310 14 Althorpe Close, Tuffley, Glos. GL4 0XP Email: [email protected] Fielding Engine Trevor Hill

Press Officer Chris Witts 01452 526202 Mob. 0790 302 1835 15 Riversley Road, Gloucester GL2 0QU Email: [email protected] Research Hugh Conway- 01452 312667 Jones Flat 27, 51 Friars Orchard, Gloucester GL1 1GD Email: [email protected] Engineering Team Vacant

Education Patsy Williams 07932 687572 341 Westward Road, Ebley, Stroud, Glos. GL5 3T Email: [email protected] Front of House Nick Dutton

Events Pat Harper 01453 757412 44 Middle St. Stroud, Glos. GL5 1DZ Email: [email protected]

The archives have been moved to Ellesmere Port. Archive enquiries should be made to:- The Archive Assistant, Ellesmere Port, email address: [email protected]

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