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August 2008 Newsletter Newsletter Newsletter of the Broseley Local History Society Incorporating the Wilkinson Society August 2008 MEETINGS PROGRAMME Meetings of the Broseley Local History Society 3 Sep The Realities of War. Further wartime are held on the first Wednesday of each month at memories with Ray Johnston and Janet 7.30 pm at the Broseley Social Club, High Street, Doody unless otherwise announced. Car parking is 1 Oct Annual General Meeting, followed by talk on Milestones by Tony Keegan available at the back of the Club. 5 Nov A talk on John Wilkinson, given by Members are requested to be seated by 7.30 pm to Michael Berthoud allow speakers a prompt start. 3 Dec Annual Christmas dinner Visitors are welcome but are asked to give a Further details from Neil Clarke 01952 504135. donation towards Society funds. NEW MEMBERS CONTENTS The Society would like to welcome the following new members: Programme page 1 New Members page 1 Mrs Amos, Shrewsbury Citizen of the Year page 1 Mrs C Beels, Shrewsbury Annual General Meeting page 2 Mr Chris Brown, Elland, Yorkshire Wilkinson Weekend Mrs Brenda Glasby, Suffolk Bicentenary Day School page 2 Mr Brian Gresty, Wrexham Trip to Brymbo page 2 Mrs Margaret Jacobs, Bristol A Cast-Iron Case page 3 Mr & Mrs M Kaiser, Broseley Local History Exhibition page 4 Mr & Mrs A Longmore, Swindon, Wiltshire Commemorative Collectables page 5 Mr & Mrs Lovegrove, Berkshire Mrs Ann Robinson, Broseley Celebrations at Castlehead page 5 Trip to Gloucester page 6 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR Previous Meetings Newsletter was delighted to learn recently that You try and stop me! Part II page 7 Gillian Pope, Chairman of the Society for the past The Plaque at the Lawns page 8 three years, has been named Broseley Citizen of Broseley in Bloom page 8 the Year. She was awarded this honour for her Fourth International Early ‘unstinting work on behalf of Broseley and the Railways Conference page 9 Trevithick 200 Steam Rally page 9 Obituary - Joan Davies page 9 Society Chair- Broseley on the Map page 9 man Gillian Pope, Broseley Blists Hill Development page 10 Citizen of the What’s on? page 10 Year, with Mayor of Broseley Bookshop page 10 Lynda Garbett, Mailbox page 10 left, and Deputy Mayor Roy Paying the Toll page 12 Childs, right 1 many ways in which she has supported the town and its community, among them her role as Chairman of Broseley Local History Society, her involvement in the Open Gardens scheme, her contribution to the Broseley Flower Club and her terrific commitment to and success with Broseley in Bloom.’ Members were given a fascinating tour of John Wilkinson’s Those who know Gill will also know how much Brymbo site by the Brymbo Heritage Group other work she puts in behind the scenes. They eventually became Brymbo Steelworks, an will also know just how much her husband enterprise which closed only in 1990 with the loss Michael does, not only in giving Gill support, but of 1,110 jobs. While the major part of the site has also the many community activities in which he now been cleared for building development, the quietly becomes involved. Broseley can be proud Brymbo Heritage Group is anxious to retain what of them both. industrial heritage still remains. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING In tidying up the site, two unexpected finds were a The Society will be holding its AGM on colony of great crested newts and a petrified forest; Wednesday, 1 October, when the agenda will the newts have now been fenced in while the forest include the election of the committee. Anyone is being excavated with the help of Aberystwyth interested in putting their name forward should University. contact secretary Dot Cox on (01952) 883568 for Members were made extremely welcome and a nomination form. given an intensive guided tour of the site by enthusiastic and highly knowledgeable members WILKINSON WEEKEND ‘Old Number One’ Bicentenary Day School blast furnace was recorded as pro- The Society has been marking the bicentenary of ducing 884 tons of the death of John Wilkinson all year, but pig iron in 1796 celebrations came to a climax in July with a series Below of Wilkinson related activities. Perhaps the most The three blast important was the Day School, arranged by Neil furnaces with Old Number One on Clarke, which took place on Saturday 12 July in the extreme left. Coalbrookdale, and in which various speakers The blacksmith’s presented recent research into the life and shop is behind the crane, while the achievements of this great ironmaster. Morning foundry yard, with lectures were followed by the option of a guided its stock of cast iron pipes, is in the walk to the Iron Bridge or a field trip to local foreground. Wilkinson sites, with the final lecture being given Photograph c1885 by Frank Dawson on The Importance of the Women in John Wilkinson’s Life. The full text of all the lectures will appear in the 2008 edition of the Society’s Journal. Trip to Brymbo The following day Society members visited Brymbo, the site near Bersham where John Wilkinson founded his ironworks in 1794. The blast furnaces and foundry which he built there 2 Wayne Turner of Chester who knew the area well, Old Number had been researching Wilkinson for some years One blast and has contributed articles to early numbers of the furnace today, Society’s Journal. alongside the original The steelworks were still in full swing at the time foundry and I remember the vastness of the hill-top site, the building which was skill of those working in the rolling mill and the in use until pride in the history of a works going back to Old 1985 Number One furnace – memories rekindled by our recent visit. of the Group, some of whom had been employed at the steelworks before its closure. Although A Cast-Iron Case many of the buildings have now been demolished, As part of the weekend’s celebrations, the John Wilkinson’s Number One Blast furnace still Broseley Amateur Dramatic Society (BROADS) remains. This furnace was operated continually staged a colourful son et lumière pageant based on for nearly 100 years, being blown out only in 1894. the life of John Wilkinson. Janet Robinson shares Alongside this is the original foundry building her enjoyment of the event. which was in use until the final tap took place in 1985. In July 1808 John Wilkinson, the great ironmaster, died at the age of 80. Two hundred years later, in The final stop of the tour was the old machine the gardens of The Lawns in Broseley where he shop. This more modern building was erected in once lived, a pageant A Cast-Iron Case took place, the 1920s and housed the engineering workshops recalling his life, inventions and influence on where fitting, pattern making, fabrication and industry and the history of Britain. blacksmith’s work were undertaken. Today it houses a number of wooden patterns as well as The play was written and directed by Mike Kaiser some of the fossils removed from the petrified of BROADS, with David Baxter as John Wilkinson. forest site. Other famous 18th century inventors, engineers and key figures in industry, such as James Watt, Members were then shown an exhibition of made their appearance and we learnt the maps and photographs taken from an archive of importance of their links with Wilkinson in the thousands accumulated over the last 100 years. development of steam power. We also saw how Cataloguing these is just one of the Brymbo Wilkinson’s accurate boring of cannon affected Heritage Group’s projects. This very successful trip was organised by David Lake. Wilkinson’s Return to Brymbo iron boat The Trial, ‘floats’ Neil Clarke recalls an earlier trip. into view in The recent coach trip to Brymbo was the fifth visit front of a sceptical by the Society over the years to Wilkinson-related crowd sites in the Wrexham area, but only the second to include this particular site. Children The original visit was made during the very first from Broseley year of the Society’s existence. On 26 May 1973 primary schools sing- we had a guided coach tour of the area that took us ing the to the Bersham ironworks site and Minera lead Children’s Cantata, mine as well as Brymbo Steelworks, which at the Iron Mad time was part of the GKN group. Our guide, Wilkinson 3 warfare and watched as his iron boat The Trial history. Old age and decrepitude caused some of ‘floated’ into view. us to miss the evening celebrations at The Lawns, We saw how John’s character aroused strong but reports are that we certainly missed a treat. feelings in those who knew him and how his self The following day saw a large party from Broseley belief and hard manner had been shaped by the coming to us at Brymbo Iron Works, which is the poverty of his early life in Cumbria. A game show most complete Wilkinson site in existence. It was allowed the audience to judge how well he had put a real pleasure to have such a well informed and his case and whether he was deemed to be a saint knowledgeable people visiting, and the depth of the or a sinner. questions and level of understanding was Songs from the folk group Cuckoo Oak interposed invigorating for us guides. It was obvious that the proceedings, dancers represented the flames of everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, visitors a blast furnace, there was a scrapyard percussion and residents alike.
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