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Civic Trust News Discover Gloucester at your own pace... ‘Eavesdrop on History’ Audio Trails available from St Michael’s Tower and the Tourist Information Centre Hire the audio trails to discover Gloucester's architectural gems and uncover its rich heritage. Combined with a fascinating audio experience, they recreate the atmosphere of a bygone era! Gloucester Mystery Plays Civic Trust News Gloucester Civic Trust Ltd We have taken on many projects in the past composer Robert Perry, and we now have To top it all off we have Rick Wakeman coming to which have sparked the imagination and grown scripts and music to produce a performance of perform The Myths and Legends of King Arthur at Reg. Charity No. 264719 a little larger than we had anticipated, but never The Gloucester Mystery Plays which is uniquely Kingholm on the Saturday. Then there will be a Registered Charity No. 264719 one that has developed a whole life of its own and Gloucester’s. charity concert on the Sunday to raise, we hope, www.gloucestercivictrust.org.uk which we hope will unite the city in the way that a large sum of money for the Cathedral and other Email [email protected] the Gloucester Mystery Plays have. A cast and crew of over 100 is being assembled local charities. The County and City Councils, to tell the greatest story ever told, in two cycles; Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Small Since Edward II was performed, my association Fall of Lucifer to Death of Herod took place Businesses, Rotary, Women’s Institute, Tesco, Winter 2013 with Gloucester has continued, and when I in November 2012 and the Life of Christ to Sainsbury and Civic Trust to name but a few No. 123 was approached in April 2011 with the idea of Judgement Day in April 2013, thus fitting into have now pledged their support for this event, so performing the Mystery Plays at the Cathedral, a the church calendar. Performances will be at we willStart have an opportunity toyour create a wonderful discovery of chain of events was started that would make you Gloucester and Worcester Cathedrals. spectacle which will come around every few years believe that something was giving this idea a little and be uniquely Gloucester’s, raising hundreds push to make sure it happens. The City Council has asked us to take plays of thousands of pounds for the place that inspired A Very Happy New Year to All Members into the city to create a new tourist attraction it all in the first place - Gloucester Cathedral. York is the centre of the Mystery Play world (and and so, on the weekend of 15th and 16th historic Gloucester! world is the right word), with Mystery Plays now June 2013 the inaugural Gloucester Medieval Phil McCormack - Producer being performed not just in York, but in Lincoln, Mystery Play Festival will take place, with plays Gloucestershire Theatre Association. Lichfield, Chester, Coventry, Toronto, Sydney being performed at ten stations around the city Supported by and countless festivals around Europe. ‘on Wagon’ in the traditional way. We shall be This article which first appeared in the Friends 1972-2012 - 40th Anniversary Celebration supported by over 50 Medieval Groups turning of Gloucester Cathedral Newsletter Autumn Most use scripts in hard-to-understand Medieval the clock back to create a medieval town full of 2012, is reproduced by kind permission of Phil THE English. We have decided to modernise the all the sights and sounds, smells and activities McCormack and is included in this newsletter as language so that audiences can get the most that would have accompanied the touring the Trust is supporting the event. SUMMERFIELD from the performances, and we can involve the players between 1100 and 1700 when the plays CHARITABLE TRUST Youth Theatre, as the kids will be able to work were originally performed. with the modernised script. We have even thrown in a Legion of Romans Rachel Murray has spent countless hours just for good measure: if you are going to crucify creating The Gloucester Scripts working with Christ they do come in quite handy! Heritage Open Days 6th to 9th September 2012 Last September’s Heritage Open Days were the Perhaps the biggest change last year was the biggest and best ever with 118 events and our range and number of themed walks which we ➧ ABOVE: Face painting at the Tower. footfall up by 22% compared with the previous put on with 12 different walks led by Civic Trust BELOW: Tour Guide Tony Conder’s year. We stayed in the top five cities in the Guides with a total of 68 walks in all. As well as introductory talk to visitors before their tour country and we believe put on the most diverse these we had walks on Gurney, Gloucester Inns, of Winfields. offering of events. Gargoyles, Hempsted Hams and other tours around the museums, St Mary de Crypt Crypt The lunchtime talks clearly benefited from the and Tower. All in all surely the most extensive History Festival synergy and for the first time ever guided walks offering in the country. they were fully subscribed with 100 people at each talk. One talk celebrated our great composer and This was my last year of organising the Heritage poet Ivor Gurney and we also had a walk around Open Days but I am pleased to be handing over Ivor Gurney’s Gloucester led by author Eleanor to the very able Colin Youngson who will be Rawlings who read a poem at each stop. supported by Jenny Williams, someone who has been a key member of the team for a number of We also benefitted from the Lock200 event and years now. arranged a number of new events in the Docks of which the main successes were the Cotton Report from Alex Bailey Owners Club display which was busy all day long Heritage Open Days Co-ordinator and the Brewery who commented afterwards that after the HOD weekend and Lock200 they felt that people now knew they existed! A real highlight was the opening of the Undercroft ➧ Trust Chairman, Robin Morris addresses members and guests at the 40th Anniversary Reception held at the Guildhall on Saturday 27th October 2012. at the Fleece Hotel for the first time since 2008 and we had nearly 1,000 visitors. We had a number of buildings open for the first time, the Carriage Building, Wotton House/Redcliffe College and the former All Saints Church. Obituary Membership Subscription Phillip Brown We had our usual diverse musical offering with the Cathedral Junior Choir and a Brass Band Renewal performing for the first time alongside established It is with great sadness we report the death favourites like the Gloucester Waites and the ➧ ABOVE: Town Cryer Alan Myatt and Alex of Phillip Brown who died in Gloucestershire Membership subscriptions became due on 1st Mr John Lane, Membership Secretary, 13 Lewis Silver Singers. Bailey, Heritage Open Days Co-ordinator. Royal Hospital on 17th November 2012. January, as is my usual practice, enclosed is Avenue, Longford, Gloucester, GL2 9BQ. RIGHT: Hannah Talbot-Cooper performs on Phillip was a long standing member of the a standing order mandate for those who do The city’s museums also took a full part with a behalf of the Gloucester Music Society in St. Trust and had made a number of interesting not already use this method of payment - it Current annual subscriptions remain: welcome return of the Waterways Museum. Mary de Lode Church. contributions to Civic Trust News, the last means you do not have to remember to send a Single membership £12.50 of which was in the Spring 2012 issue. cheque each year; your bank will do the work Joint membership £18.00 for you. However any member still wishing Information and articles are always appreciated. We offer our condolences to his wife Pat to pay by cheque, should make it payable John Lane Please contact Terry Brooks, 44 Wheatway, Abbeydale, Gloucester GL4 5ER and all members of his family. to Gloucester Civic Trust Ltd. and send it to Membership Secretary Tel: 01452 411827 or e-mail [email protected]. 8 1 Concrete Barge NewsNews fromfrom thethe DocksDocks The concrete barge that was once an exhibit at B and B (or Bells and Board!) the Waterways Museum has sunk at its moorings near the old Marshfield timber pond south of Purton. Only the tiller is visible above water and As the 40th anniversary of Gloucester Civic Trust Rhodes, Nigel Spry and Phil Moss for their input ➧ Interpretation boaters are advised to be careful. drew nearer, we were anxious to complete the with the Board. board in latest St. Michael’s Tower project in time for the place outside celebrations. When the board arrived, it was stored very kindly St. Michael’s by the City Council’s firm of contractors until the Tower. It was August 2011 when we embarked upon our Highways gave us permission for the licence. Dredging Started latest Civic Trust project to reinstate the flagpole Come the time when the board was due to be on top of the Tower, to bring back the ‘curfew bell’ installed, the firm recommended to us by the City On 5 November, dredging contractor Land & and to erect a quality interpretation board outside Council, said that they had ceased trading all of Water started a trial of cutter suction dredging to St. Michael’s Tower. a sudden. remove silt from the Main Basin. It is expected in place in the Tower. They need a bit of a clean that this will be more efficient than water erosion The project was to cost us £22,000 and thanks When I asked the contractor for our board back with warm soapy water, which will be done in the dredging used in recent years.
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