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Issue 8 Draft E NEWSLETTER Issue 8: May 2010 http://fotsm.org.uk Welcome to what may be the penultimate the Mercians) in 914 a.d. What remains of Westminster Abbey, with the best architect edition of the Friends of The Salt the site is a scheduled ancient monument. of his day, Walter of Hereford, in charge of Museum’s Newsletter! The changes to our That does not stop nature from continuing the construction. Tony told us about the constitution, to reflect the change in to erode the site so one day it may truly lives of the monks and all the jobs at which name of the museum and to bring it up to have gone for good. they were adept, such as glassmaking, date, are progressing well. The final beekeeping, quarrying, looking after sheep version will be presented at the A.G.M. in Next time you visit Frodsham, and you go and even engineering works to manage October and offered for adoption by the into the Castle Park Arts Centre, you are water, together with presumably their Friends. If anyone would like a copy of on the site of a castle destroyed by fire in religious duties. Despite all these talents the draft version before the A.G.M. 1654. The then owner, John Savage, died and all the monies received from the Black please email me or ask to see a copy at that year and within hours of his death the Prince in 1350s, the abbey was still not one of the Friends events held at the building was destroyed, very mysterious! finished. museum. Another example of buildings being lost is Disaster struck in 1360 when the building Membership continues to rise and we the clearance of slums in Chester, from the collapsed! Tony wasn’t sure what had now number just over 300, double that of mid eighteen hundreds through to the caused the collapse, but there is a just three years ago. With the AGM nineteen thirties. Small, packed together suggestion on a website, (www.vra.co.uk) coming up in October there is plenty of and overcrowded houses just off Prince’s that there had been a hurricane across time for members to consider standing Street. Imagine, if you can, seven families Cheshire! The Abbey was finished by for election to the committee. If you are living in one small house - 39 people in all. Richard II on a much reduced scale. interested, would like more information If that was not bad enough, then consider of what is involved, or maybe sit in and that several houses shared an outside toilet! Tony went on to summarise why he felt observe a committee meeting, then email that Vale Royal Abbey was a failed me, speak to any of the current Also gone are a Roman Villa in Eaton, near enterprise quoting evidence such as committee members or write in to the Tarporley, although the remains of the scandals, intrigue; mismanagement of address at the end of the newsletter. hypocaust (heating) system can still be funds, poor relationships with local people, seen. More obvious and recent were the local gentry, local churches; riots and an Robert Marshall, Editor. losses of shops and houses in Northwich abbot was even murdered in 1437. A sorry due to subsidence; Railway Stations, such tale for the ‘whiter than white’ Cistercian Previous Events as in small villages like Mickle Trafford; monks. Lost Buildings of West Cheshire. cottages throughout the county and, of Report by Robert Marshall course, many of the buildings that used to An interesting talk by Tony, taking us to The launch of this exhibition took place on be part of the site the museum sits on! the end of the medieval period. There is 14 January and, as the name indicates, was more information, up to the present day, on aptly timed as ‘Cheshire’ itself starts to Vale Royal Abbey - A Failed the above website and, of course, Tony's disappear. It was formally opened by Tom Enterprise? own book "Vale Royal Abbey and the Hughes who said how difficult it is to put Repor t by Cistercians 1277 - 1538", if you want to on an exhibition about things that mostly Jenny Tyson continue your interest. This can be no longer exist! The evening of bought from the museum or from 4 February saw the Northwich Heritage Society's own Although the subject matter itself may the Friends website: www.northwich-heritage.org.uk well have disappeared it is amazing following the for the price of £4. that so much of what was is still timeline for known. There were over Vale Royal All The Fun Of The Orbit. Report by Robert Marshall twelve panels of Abbey, ably Hugh Beggs, the speaker for this talk, is information, many guided by Tony one of our regulars and he always gives a photos and Bostock, Chair of good talk. So popular is he that he is now newspaper Northwich Heritage cuttings and Society. We were told even some that the Cistercian monks were given a exhibits charter and a considerable endowment of related lands and churches by Edward 1st in 1270 to build an abbey near Darnhall. to some of the lost sites and buildings. However, by 1276 the Abbot decided that a site near Over was better situated, and he Eddisbury Hillfort, dating back to around moved the 50 or so monks, and thus it 1000 b.c., was the oldest site to feature. became known as Vale Royal Abbey. Tony This particular site was fortified as an amazed us by showing us the plans for the booked up to 2012! Anglo-Saxon burh by Aethelfeada (Lady of abbey. It was equal to the size of Hugh started by putting us in our place, in where the canal had collapsed and exhibition was all the work of local artists the universe that is, three quarters of the disgorged thousands of litres of water. The and showed a variety of media and subject. way out from our Galaxy’s core, in one of evidence of a canal dock and the canal Salt, in one form or another featuring countless galaxies. Then it was down to diversion were more obvious, but only after throughout, and I heard many people Earth with a bump as Hugh explained how being pointed out by Colin! comment on which was their own we orbit the Sun, with gravity and inertia in favourite piece. balance. At Marbury Lane we made our meandering way through salt marshes, and reclaimed The exhibition room housed ‘You’ve never After that it was ‘back to school’ drawings land, and passed flashes, none of which had it so good’, a review of the 1950s. The to explain the phases of the Moon, how were actually natural. Colin quoted us some title of this exhibition refers, of course, to eclipses happen and the thorny problem of mind boggling figure as to the volumes of the speech made by Harold Macmillan - in the tides. How the Moon, not the Sun has water that disappeared down the big hole 1957 - to fellow Conservatives in which he the greatest influence on tides, because which formed with the collapse of Ashton said ‘most of our people have never had it being closer is more important than being Mine in 1880. There are miles of footpaths so good.’ So, what were some of the massive. There is a technical term for this, to explore in this area, all with a hidden memorable events of the 50s? but if I write it down he warned that you history to unlock. may not read much more! On 25 We had the added privilege of the Lion Salt D e c e m b e r Hugh continued with an explanation of Works being especially opened for us by 1950 The why the tides are 52 minutes later each day David Roberts, Chair of the Lion Salt ‘Stone of and why there is also a high tide on the Works Trust. Destiny’ was opposite side (not facing the Moon) of the removed Earth. Then it was onto the Four Seasons - from no, not Vivaldi! This was all to do with why Westminster winter is so much colder than summer, i.e. Abbey by the angle of inclination (currently 23.4ºC) Scottish changing the surface area that a given Nationalists. amount of sunlight falls on, and increased cloud cover preventing more of it reaching The Festival the ground. Of Britain was launched in 1951 and John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids was Hugh finished off the talk on the subject of published. tidal bores, Britain having the second This enabled us to see the extent of the largest one, on the River Severn - reaching In 1952 over two thousand people died in a wave height of some seven feet, in the work being carried out using the Heritage London’s smog and Britain tested an Lottery funding. It also enabled us to view World. The variation in tidal heights atomic bomb. In 53 Elizabeth II was between inshore and offshore locations, the exhibition in the Colin Edmondson crowned Queen and Edmund Hillary and Gallery. This had especially excellent maps which means that you can row up and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest. down hill on the ocean! of the area we had walked through. Some of us then repaired across the road to the The four minute mile barrier was broken This was a thoroughly enjoyable night and Salt Barge pub for lunch. This was an and Tolkien published The Fellowship of excellent follow up to Colin’s talk and showed that learning can be fun.
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