30th. Year, MMXVI Founded Penrith, 1st. Dec. 1986. Issue No. 801 Brougham HallHall NewsNews ::::::::::: Friday, 24th. June, 2016. B.H.C.T. PATRON - The Rt. Hon. LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, C.B.E.. 1986 ±≤ Thirty Years ≤± 2016 OF BROUGHAM HALL N E W S TWICE AN IMPORTANT Crafts and ‘Blood Bike’ VISITOR HERE ———————————————————— –———————————————————— -——— Shows at The Hall Wartime Premier Winston Churchill was ———————— –—————————————————————— -——————————————— at Brougham Hall Two Times in 1942 Some Memorable Scenes WO MORE Big Events that occurred at the ORE HAS BEEN Added to the Already-Rich T Hall in recent weeks have been faithfully recorded MHistory of Brougham Hall , with the discovery by the Hall Trust ’s Christopher Terry - after Hall News ’ that the Wartime leader (and post -war Sir., and Prime editor Alistair Aynscough was unable to visit Cumbria as Minister) Winston Churc hill made two visits to Brougham planned due to a failed booking for a few days’ accommo- Hall in 1942, and not just one. Along with King George VI dation - so that the events can be included in these pages. and General (later U.S. President) Dwight Eisenhower, it The success of the Wartime Weekend in early-May was was a good time for Mr. Churchill to go around personally quickly followed, in as little as three weeks or so, by the and for himself the progress on the Canal Defence Light first Craft and Gift Weekend, which is featured on the next tanks that were developed jointly at the Hall, Greystoke page of this Hall News 801. Then, the very next weekend, Castle and Lowther Castle. However, this belated (once again held in wonderful sunshine, came the “Blood Bikes” top-secret) news means that the memorial plaque at the day, complete with vintage vehicles, traditional stalls, beer Hall’s Main Gateway is now not so accurate. Besides the tasting with the Eden Brewery and travelling treasure 1905 Raby Castle motorcade involving King Edward VII, hunts. We will tell you the story in Hall News next time. ... this mentions visits to this tank trialling base in December 1942 - but Mr. Churchill’s call in Ma y 1942 is now amiss! Right: A scene \\\ Inside … … —u from the “Blood Left: The Plaque seen in the Bikes” charity Main Gateway on 22nd. day at Brougham August 2006, Hall on Sunday, and, Right , a 5th. June, with close-up view the main stand of the Plaque here to promote itself — then the emergency damp after medical couriers being set in who carry blood place a day and platelets or so earlier. for transfusion. AlsoAlso inin ThisThis EditionEdition ...... HallHall NewsNews ProjectProject ReviewReview -- PartPart 22 Brougham Hall News Issue 801801 WaitingWaiting onon BroughamBrougham OldOld BridgeBridge 24th. June, 2016. Page 179 ‘Blood Bikes’ Day - First Images Churchill’s Hall Calls Craft &. Gift Fair Scenes A Popular Event on Hall Calendar HIS YEAR’s First of Two Craft Image: Christopher Terry / BHCT T and Gift Weekends at Brougham Hall has been a popular and sun -blessed addition to the calendar of events here. The Fair, staged by the Creative Crafts Association between Saturday, 28th., and Monday, 30th. May — the “Late-Spring” Bank Holiday — attracted many visitors, Special Visits: Sir. Winston (even though these early-morning images Churchill. hide the fact) and featured a wide and rich Image: Microsoft Clip -Art Library ; array of craft-ware including ceramics, jew- [No Other ‘Credit’ References Given.] ellery, photographic art, much of this pro- vided by existing Hall crafts folks; clothes — Continued / The leg- endary leader of wartime and handbags, soft toys, candles, wood and glassware, and much more. Even the Above and Below: Photos., by Christopher Britain first became Prime celebrated “Derwentwater Bears” - chain- Terry, from the recent Craft and Gift Week- Minister in May 1940, as saw artworks - put in an appearance. The end , show marquees in both the Main and his predecessor Neville next fair here is due for the end of August. Chamberlain stood down, Stables Courtyards here at Brougham Hall. but soon found himself at the helm at a time of air- raids, Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, which raged all Summer that year. By the end of 1941 the worst of the air-raids were deemed to be over and Britain and the Allied nations, now aided by the entry of the United States into the war, began to go “on the offensive”. It was a good time for Winston Churchill to go around personally and see for himself Britain’s mili- tary developments and new weaponry, and often to be seen in the media for good morale - or propa- ganda - reasons. The Hall was one of those special places, “somewhere in Christopher England”, where he could Terry / BHCT follow the latest advances just as they came along. Images. Your Event at Brougham Hall...? If you are interested in hosting an event, using the grounds at the Hall, or would like further information on holding events here, Please visit the Brougham Hall Charitable Trust Website www.broughamhall.co.uk, and click on “News from Brougham Hall” or “Contact Us” ….. …. … .. Brougham Hall News 801 - Friday, 24th. June, 2016 - Page 180 - [email protected] Brougham Hall Conservation and Rebuilding Projects Kindly Supported by … Invited to The Reform Club Christopher Terry’s Presentation on History of Lord Chancellor Brougham Next Week HRISTOPHER TERRY, the Founder of the C Brougha m Hall Charita ble Trust , is to head to London in a day or two, having been paid the very great honour of being asked to give a talk at the Reform Club , on Pall Mall, on the life of 1830’s. Lord High Chancellor Henry Peter Brougham &. Vaux — he of the 1832 Reform Bill, and “The Greatest Reformer of All”. This First Lord Brougham, and his greatest achieve- ment, were the very inspiration for the Reform Club . Michael Brougham, C.B.E., the current, Fifth, Lord Brougham &. Vaux, will officially open the exhibition to his illustrious forebear next Tuesday, the 28th., and Mr. Terry will give his much-anticipated talk, to a gathering of the Thac keray Society there, on Thursday, 30th.. The Reform Club was founded in Pall Mall - London’s traditional “Clubland” - in 1836, and its membership was limited to those who had pledged their support for the Reform Act four years earlier. They commissioned the noted architect Sir. Charles Barry to build their “imposing and palatial Clubhouse” on the lines of a Roman Palace — which, their website says, is “as splendid today as it was when it opened in 1841”. The Thackeray Society ‘honours’ William Makepeace Thackeray, the Nineteenth- Century novelist, of Vanity Fair fame, in the plural. Image: Christopher Terry / BHCT APA 23 -2-’92, fromHall News ’ ‘Review of 1832’. Above: Lord Chan cellor Brougha m depicted busy in his priva te study, on his Reform Bill at the start of 1832; and the image of an apron decorated with flowers, made by Reform support- ers during fevered campaigning for the Bill. This i ma ge was found by chance by Alistair Aynscou gh at C arlisle Library , and shown in Hall News in August 2002. [Main Guide, No. 1145] —u Brougham Hall News 801. B.H.C.T.B.H.C.T. Printed on Friday, 24th. June, 2016, Above: Anoth er 5 June Bloo d Bikes MM M M X X VI VI event image — more next time… ! by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH . Brougham Hall News 801 - Friday, 24th. June, 2016 - Page 181 - [email protected] The River Barriers Go Up - But Brougham Bridge May Still Need to Be Taken Down — Before Rebuildin g. ARTS OF The Flood-Stricken Brougham Old P Bridge may need to be brought down before being painstakingly rebuilt — assuming it doesn’t fall down first Bridging the Fact Gap? - to be replaced with only a footbridge — building specialists * In February 1822 the Carlisle appointed by Cumbria County Council believe. Patriot reported that a “Bridge by Using the same system as adopted for the Brougham Brougham Castle” was just one of the Hall-to-Chapel Bridge in 1991, and now underway on the many to fall during huge floods. That was perhaps wrong. It is Pele Tower at the Hall, all the structure around where there dated to 1812 by the British Listed Buildings Website - and this is damage would be dismantled, with cracked or otherwise is also backed -up now by recent mention of an 1813 dateplaque. compromised stonework removed and wholly replaced in the rebuilding work. Brougham Old Bridge which, we hear, bears an 1813 date-stone, but was erroneously thought in Hall N ews to be later, from reading an old news report *, was extensively undermined by the floodwaters six months ago, as these dramatic scenes by Christopher Terry readily show. Materials and machinery needed for a rebuild were despatched there before Easter, and ‘pontoon footpaths’ — which also appear to act as barriers to calm the waters — have been erected on either side of the Bridge. In an e-Mail to Hall News on Thursday, 19th. May, Mr. Terry wrote: “[This] selection of photographs [show] the extent of the damage to one of the buttresses at Brougham Bridge. From the photographs it would appear that some effort is being made to save this listed bridge.” The photographs in the opposite column were all taken by Mr. Terry on his way home on the evening of Wednesday 18th. May. He continues his message: — “The contractors have erected two pontoon footpaths either side of the bridge and they are extremely lucky with very low water on account of our not having had much rain for the last three or four weeks [mostly during May].