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CAM, DURSLEY & DISTRICT Bulletin June 2019 CAM, DURSLEY & DISTRICT Bulletin June 2019 Bulletins are published a few days after each General Meeting, which is normally held at 10.30am on the third Thursday of each month at Dursley Methodist Church. Please try to ensure that anyone not on e-mail is made aware of the contents of this bulletin. Your New Committee: Alan Keith Chair Richard Barlow Treasurer Sue Gibson Secretary Pam Davis Groups Coordinator Nigel Dodd Assistant Treasurer Myrtle Moreton-Cox Welfare & Bulletin Carol Green Speaker Secretary Luke Wilson Membership Secretary Website: https://u3asites.org.uk/cam-dursley Membership: [email protected] Beacon: [email protected] BULLETIN ENTRIES Please ensure that entries come to me as soon as possible at [email protected] and no later than the date of the next monthly meeting to ensure that they go in the relevant month’s Bulletin. PLEASE use Arial 11 font for the body of the report and Arial 12 bold font for the heading - thank you. Myrtle Moreton-Cox CHARITY REQUEST The Oxfam Shop in Dursley is looking for new volunteers to join their team of people who ‘man’ the shop. If you can help please contact Suzanne Rowles @ [email protected]: EASTWOOD PARK WOMEN’S PRISON – APPEAL FOR MATERIAL, WOOL & CARDS Following an appeal for someone from our U3A to give a talk about U3As to some of the ladies in the Rubies Group at the prison, Pam Davis and I set off to do just that. The Rubies Group is for ladies over 50 who were keen to learn what a U3A could offer them when they were ‘out’ The visit was certainly an eye opener for both of us and we both felt very relieved when the gates were finally unlocked to let us out! Every door we went through was unlocked to allow us – and the inmates - through and immediately relocked behind us. Failure to relock any door by a member of staff would result in instant dismissal. Some of the poems written by members of the Rubies Group were very upsetting and gave glimpses of their harrowing life experiences but they also showed how much attendance at the Group meetings means to the Group Members. Although we were allowed to read them we cannot reproduce any of the poems even without names attached. The Rubies Wellbeing Group, run by Alma Hagenan, their dedicated Project Manager, enables the ladies to spend time in creative pursuits such as sewing, knitting, crochet and other crafts – hence the appeal for materials for them to use in their Group sessions. Please do let me know if you have anything you can donate – when I have a carload I will take the donations down and hand them in at the gate for Alma. Having witnessed the Group in operation I can vouch for how much materials are valued by the Group. Gwen Clift , our Country Dancing Group Leader, has also agreed to visit the Group to give a talk and demo – well done Gwen!. Myrtle Moreton-Cox POSSIBLE NEW GROUP One of our members has offered to lead a Modern Greek group. This would be great for those of you who enjoy visiting Greece and would like to improve your Greek conversation. If this group is for you please contact me and we’ll see if there’s enough interest to get a group started. Please contact me on [email protected] or via the website. Pam Davis THEATRE GROUP VISIT TO THE BRISTOL OLD VIC, 25th MAY 2019 On a sunny Saturday at the beginning of another Bank Holiday weekend we were taken by Applegates coach to Bristol, where Mary Ewens had booked for us a guided tour of the Theatre Royal and a performance of "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. We arrived in time for coffee in the recently opened spacious catering area. The newly revealed original wall of the 1766 building backs this space, reminding us of the historical heart of the complex which is the oldest continuously working theatre in the country. At 11am our tour commenced and was a feast of history and interest. Our guide was knowledgeable and enthusiastic and took us into so many nooks and crannies unseen by the theatre going audience. Her stories of actors and managers over the centuries included mention of the various ghosts associated with the theatre - not difficult to imagine in some areas! We were taken into the delightful and evocative auditorium where we were allowed to stand on the stage and encouraged to speak some lines - a suggestion bravely and ably taken up by Gill Lyons. Our tour finished with a short visit to the new Noises Off gallery where we saw the original thunder machine. By now we were ready for lunch, which was followed by the afternoon performance starring Niamh Cusack and Stephen Boxer. The first half was confusing with two plot lines running in parallel but the second half was much more understandable, well acted and moving. A trouble free journey home was a good end to a lovely visit. Thank you, Mary! Sue Hollins HISTORIC PLACES – VISIT TO SUDELEY CASTLE On Friday 3rd May 2019, U3A members from the Historic Places group visited Sudeley Castle to see the house and gardens. The site has beautiful views across the surrounding countryside and, proven from the mosaics pavements found, was used by the Romans. The original castle was built in the 12th century, but this was replaced in the 15th century, using the stone from Winchcombe Abbey after the dissolution of the monasteries. The Abbey was founded in 798 by King Kenulf of Mercia and was one of the first Christian monasteries in England. Ralph Boteler, who was created Baron Sudeley by Henry VI, inherited Sudeley Castle in 1442 and built the current castle. He built quarters for servants and men at arms on the double courtyard that was surrounded by a moat, state and family apartments on the second courtyard, then the Chapel and the tithe barn. Unfortunately, Boteler failed to gain royal permission to crenellate the castle and had to seek Henry VI's pardon. Edward IV confiscated the castle from Boteler in 1469, and gave it to his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who later became Richard III. Richard used the castle as a base for the Battle of Tewkesbury and then swapped Sudeley Castle for Richmond Castle, making it the property of the crown. When Richard became king in 1483 he regained ownership and during his reign he built the Banqueting Hall with Oriel windows and adjoining staterooms. Sudeley passed to the new king, Henry VII, after Richard III's death at the Battle of Bosworth. It was then given to his uncle, Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. By the time Henry VIII succeeded to the throne, the castle was the property of the Crown again. In 1535, Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, visited the castle, which had been empty and unattended for some time. Edward VI inherited the castle when his father died and gave it to Thomas Seymour, whom he made Baron of Sudeley. Thomas Seymour married Edward VI's stepmother, the Dowager Queen Catherine Parr in 1547. Seymour began to renovate the castle for Catherine's use but only one room that he built remains today. Lord Seymour and Catherine decided that she should move to Sudeley for the final months of her pregnancy accompanied by Lady Jane Grey. Catherine died shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Mary Seymour. She was re-interred in the Chapel in 1817 after her grave was discovered in 1782. The English Civil War had left the castle and the chapel in ruins. When Thomas Seymour was arrested and beheaded,Sudeley Castle became the property of Catherine's brother, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton. It is not known what happened to Mary Seymour after her father was beheaded. Mary I stripped Parr of his titles when he plotted to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne but regained them later from Elizabeth I. The Castle remained property of the Crown. Mary I gave Sudeley Castle to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos in 1554 and it remained his property throughout her reign and the reign of Elizabeth I. Prince Rupert used Sudeley Castle as his headquarters during the Civil War and his uncle, Charles I found refuge there. Cromwell ordered it’s destruction at the end of the Civil War and Sudeley lay neglected and derelict for nearly 200 years. In 1837 John and William Dent, wealthy Worcester glove-makers, bought Sudeley and started restoration work that was continued by their nephew, John Coucher Dent, when he inherited the castle in 1855. His wife, Emma Brocklehurst, worked enthusiastically on the gardens and forged strong links with the nearby town of Winchcombe. The current owners are Elizabeth, Lady Ashcombe, widow of Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, and her two children, Henry Dent-Brocklehurst and Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. There is a large exhibition on the history of the castle containing information on the occupant and visitors who lived and stayed in the castle. Interesting items from the past included: Roman artefacts, textiles, clothes of the Tudor period, books written by Catherine Parr and short films on several topics. A few rooms of the house are open displaying an early English Sheldon tapestry, a portrait on Rubens by Van Dyke, rare bees wax portraits in three dimensions, a 1665 marquetry box from the Battle of Naseby containing letters from Charles I and a Dutch marquetry cabinet. The Chandos bedroom is a Royalist room of the Civil War period.
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