Sentinel, February 2009
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BRASS WITH A PAST BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR BAND IT'S NOT In this issue TOURIST INFO 2010 THE PAPER Plus ECUMENICALS PEOPLE BUY, Plus IT'S THE SOME SAUCY STUFF PAPER BY Plus ALL OUR USUAL THE PEOPLE UNUSUALS CRICKET REPRIEVE TRAINING FOR TREES Shipley Area Planning Saltaire Cricket Club is once again offering Committee has been told it must reconsider training for youngsters between the ages of Musical Director Morgan Griffiths with some members of its decision to remove Hammonds Saltaire Band. Photo with permission, from the the four trees at the seven and thirteen band's website at www.hammondsband.org.uk under the supervision junction of Saltaire Road and Victoria of coaches with full The Yorkshire Building John Myles , Chairman English Cricket Board Society (YBS) Champ- of the Band said "It was Road. The Council's Environment & Waste qualifications. ionship Brass Band, unanimously agreed, Sessions will be taking often thought of by local Hammonds Saltaire Management Improve- ment Committee has place at the Sports Hall folk as "the former Band was the right of Bingley Grammar Hammonds Band ”, now name to reflect the recommended that the trees remain at least School until the end of really is Hammonds Band’s heritage and March, from 4 to 6pm Saltaire Band , a name take us forward - back until other traffic on Sundays, costing a which reflects its 150 to the future! " The band measures at the mere £2-50 a time. year history and its new will be participating, junction have been The club quite rightly sponsorship deal with under its new name, in tried and tested for six already enjoys an with McCormick (UK) the Yorkshire Area months. The campaign outstanding reputation Ltd, which owns the Contest at St. George's by local people, which for its work in the Hammonds (famous Hall on March 8th. is responsible for the community, especially sauce of Shipley) brand The story behind the trees' survival thus far, with young people. name . name[s]: See page 2 >> continues. WHATEVER IT IS – SAY IT IN THE Sentinel ! E-mail: [email protected] Deadline: 20 th The Saltaire Sentinel Hammonds Saltaire Band A Very Brief History It’s official! Saltaire will be without an In 1855 a brass band was formed on-site Tourist Information Centre under the patronage of Sir Titus Salt (reportedly costing him a thousand until 2010 - at the earliest. pounds a year), almost all the Even then there are no guarantees that it won’t stretch on for much members being Mill employees, with longer, says Roger Clarke . Joseph Paley as conductor. Under the 2010 is the earliest guesstimate, but the process of obtaining funding great John Gladney, this band took which the Council and College have chosen to pursue is so complicated second prize at the prestigious Belle and unpredictable that no-one can be certain, and a hold up with any Vue September contest in 1874, but one of the ambitious plans can easily hold up all the rest. by 1894 Brass Band News regretfully Saltaire Project Team was recently told that the old Dining Room by announced that “the once famous the train station is being converted into a high quality, state of the art Saltaire Brass Band is no more”. TIC, which everyone applauds. But until then, visitors to Saltaire will Thirty-eight years later to the month, have to rely on information from Bradford. They will be able to visit the same publication was able to the TIC in Bradford City Hall, or the Bradford website, or consult the report the emergence of Salts Silver Council’s promotional booklet for the area. If you turn up in Saltaire Band under the tuition of H B without consulting any of these, you’ll find that the cupboard is bare. Hawley in the Royal Café, Saltaire. As a result, visitors will continue to wander round the village seeking Hawley was a local organist and out anyone who will help them, and chancing that local shopkeepers composer, publishing several will give them directions. marches. He was also the managing Patricia Tillotson is the officer responsible for making these decisions. director of Hammonds Sauce She is sure that there is a multi-million pound need for on-site tourist Company of Shipley and early in information in 2010 or beyond, but puzzlingly sees no need for on-site 1946 transferred his musical efforts to interim arrangements right now, just as she has ignored tourist on-site the formation of a new junior band needs since Saltaire became a World Heritage Site in 2001 and before there. This effectively meant the end this time. She bases this conclusion on the fact that she has not received of Salts Silver, but several of the any complaints from tourists or shopkeepers. It must be difficult for her players were happy to follow Hawley to stay in touch, even if she wanted to. She’s based 4 miles away in in his new venture. Hawley died on Bradford. She has the unlikely title of Bradford Council Visitor December 22 nd 1953 and was Economy Manager with the Commercial and Support Services succeeded by his son Horace. Department of the Council, and nothing which obviously links her with Hammonds Sauce Works Band TIC’s or Saltaire. There are no feedback forms around the village with enjoyed great success for over twenty her name on them, which would be an obvious way to check it out. years from 1966, when Geoffrey She’s not in any of the promotional literature which she recommends. Whitham became musical director, Life must be so much easier, not knowing. and in 1976 they were the first British Craig McHugh, Saltaire World Heritage Site Officer, has received brass band to tour Australia since complaints from visitors, and the local community are more than ready Besses o’ th’ Barn in 1910. to come up with examples. You have to be available on site in order to Changes in management at the Sauce appreciate the problems which are caused – which is why, as tour guide, Works brought difficulties and unrest I come into contact with it so frequently. to the band in the early eighties and Patricia says that she has also looked at possible locations for an interim again in the nineties, when their TIC, but believes that none of them are suitable. This means that sponsorship ended. From 1993 until suggestions from the meeting such as the Mill, Caroline Street Club and 2004, having been rescued by 13, Victoria Road possibilities were rejected because of Patricia’s Yorkshire Building Society, the Band, exacting standards. Nothing will do for her except the long term Dining then YBS, won the British Open Rooms project. It is difficult to see how she can adopt this position and Championships four times and the at the same time both she and Ian Durham of Shipley College European Brass Band Championships emphasise that there are “absolutely no guarantees that it will happen in an amazing eight. 2010”. We are grateful to Mr. John Myles , Saltaire residents are becoming used to the high handed treatment of Chairman of Hammonds Saltaire their concerns by councillors and officers, as the recent developments in Band, for this information. the saga of the trees at Saltaire Road junction can testify. 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