The Victorian Society in Registered Charity No. 1081435 Autumn Newsletter 2010

EDITORIAL This project will involve repairs to the highlights the collection at the This Autumn Newsletter of the key buildings and restoration of . The Manchester Group of the Victorian architectural features, as well as exhibition opens on 9 October 2010 Society is the vehicle for many good placing Middleton firmly on the and will explore Manchester’s role as news items. It seems that the work heritage map through the creation of a national centre of ceramic of many people over recent years is an Architecture Trail and innovation and design in the early achieving some positive results. a conservation skills training scheme. 20th century, showcasing 150 significant pieces of Pilkington In particular Metro- London Road Fire Station is also a pottery and tiles from 1890-1930. politan Borough Council is to be much loved building by Mancunians congratulated on passing the first and will be remembered by those A series of related events will also be round of funding for the develop- members of the Victorian Society taking place in association with the ment of Edgar Wood’s, Long Street who were able to visit shortly after it Manchester Literature Festival. The Methodist Church. The award, from closed in 1986. Since then it has Art Gallery will host poetry events the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Town- been used for storage but despite including,Odes on Vases a Poetry Workshop and Performance with John Siddique in October 2010. Manchester Literature Festival is also organising tours of Manchester and . In addition there are a number of events celebrating the bi-centenary of Gaskell’s birth, including an exhibition at The University of Manchester, John Ryland’s Library on Deansgate.

Meanwhile the Manchester Group continues to offer a regular monthly programme of events which we hope reflects the range of interests of the membership. The 2011 Events Card is published with this newsletter and both the events and newsletter can now also be found on the Victorian Society’s main site at www.victorian- society.org.uk/manchester/. Further details about the events and the Edgar Wood’s pen and ink drawing and plan of 1902 exhibited at the speakers can be found on pages 8 to Royal Academy: reproduction courtesy of Long Street Methodist Church 15. The agenda for the AGM in January 2011 is also included. scape Heritage Initiative Programme this the interior fittings remain as (THI), is the only impressive now as when it first Diana Terry September 2010 THI in the North West to be approved closed. Alex Baldwin, Conservation Newsletter Editor this year. This recent exciting news is Adviser for the Victorian Society has significant progress in the midst of written an account of her experiences [email protected] funding cuts and will be announced on a visit to the building which can be in the press soon. It is most found on page 3. The Manchester Victorian Society appropriate that 2010 marks the c/o Portico Library 150th anniversary of Edgar Wood’s A number of exhibitions and events 57 Mosley Street birth. There are also currently related to Victorian design are about Manchester M2 3HY exhibitions of Wood’s work at Mills to take place in Manchester. In Hill Baptist Church, Middleton and particular, Exporting Beauty: The Victorian Society is the champion for Victorian Art Gallery. Pilkington’s Pottery and Tiles, and Edwardian buildings in and Wales. 1 NEWS in tears. This had happened just Council. Advice was also sought from round the corner in Market Place the Methodist Conservation Officer An in when the Providence United Ian Serjeant. Middleton Reformed Church (Grade II) was Volunteer members of the Middleton closed twenty years ago. After being Conservation architects, Calls Heritage and Conservation Group sold to a succession of developers, Architecture, from , were have worked tirelessly for six years all of whom have failed to restore the appointed to investigate options, with David Morris, of Rochdale building, the Chapel is still including disposing of the building. Metropolitan Borough Council, to unoccupied and unused and in an After protracted debates and raise the profile of Edgar Wood and advanced state of decay. To restore it discussions with the Trustees for the importance of his work. Their will now cost a fortune. Methodist Church Purposes and their dreams of an Edgar Wood Centre professional advisors, it was agreed are now coming to fruition in the At a public meeting in Long Street that the ideal option would be for a 150th Anniversary year of Edgar Church in 2005, Heritage Trust for Building Preservation Trust to take Wood’s birth in Middleton in 1860. the North West agreed to ownership of the building and bring commission an Options Appraisal its expertise in raising funds and Even more importantly a new use and obtained funding for this from knowledge of dealing with historic has been found without abandoning Rochdale Metropolitan Borough structures. the building and letting it fall into Council, the Friends of Long Street decay. As Ian Serjeant, the and the Architectural Heritage Fund. The Church congregation having Conservation Officer for the A study team was appointed been relieved of its maintenance Methodist Church says ‘This is one including the Minister, Rev Malcolm problems now lease back the of Methodism’s most important Wetherby, Church Stewards, Geoff Church, excluding the Sunday historic buildings by an architect of and Christine Grime, Andy Marshall Schools, to enable worship to international standing. Happily it of the Friends of Long Street, John continue. The Trust’s plans are to use retains original furnishings and Archer, authority on Edgar Wood, part of the building for a conference fittings designed by Wood which Andrew Slim representing the centre and as a focus for the remain almost unaltered. The Trustees for Methodist Church understanding and appreciation of proposal will showcase this special Purposes and David Morris from Edgar Wood. building to full advantage to the Rochdale Metropolitan Borough wider public yet at the same time retain its original function as a place of worship and mission. This solution may well provide a model for other similar ‘problem’ buildings’.

Six years ago Edgar Wood’s Long Street Methodist Church in Middleton was threatened with closure. The rebirth of this famous Grade II* Church has come about through the intervention and support of a building preservation trust.

In 2003 the outlook was bleak. Church Treasurer, Andrew Slim reported that the reserves were dwindling and, with a declining congregation, there was insufficient income to maintain the building. In these circumstances, the local Managing Trustees decided that they could no longer afford Edgar Wood’s beautiful building, and began to consider the future of the Church family in new affordable premises and the Grade 11* being sold. Group outside Long Street Methodist Church, 13 May 2010, after the Members of the congregation were lecture by John Archer to mark the 150th Anniversary of Edgar Wood’s horrified at the thought of the building birth. Left to right John Miller (HTNW), John Pierce (Chairman Greater being sold to an unsympathetic Manchester BPT), Peter Rowlinson (Rochdale MBC), Christine Grime developer and feared it might all end (Church Steward), John Archer, Cllr Terry Linden, Cllr Peter Williams. 2 Finally on 27 August 2010 the Alex Baldwin comments on the This is high accolade but one that I transfer of the building to the campaign to save Manchester’s think is well deserved. The building Heritage Trust for the North West iconic Fire Station housed not only the fire station but was completed. Under the terms of I first saw this building three years also an ambulance station, a police the Agreement the Long Street ago when I started as Northern station, a coroner’s court, a bank and congregation will use the Church for Conservation Adviser at the Victorian a gas meter testing station. On the worship on Sundays, have the use Society. On my first trip to upper floors there were flats for the on Saturdays for Weddings and one Manchester for our Northern firemen and their families as well as day each week, if required, for Buildings Committee meeting, my a laundry, a gymnasium and a billiard funerals. At other times it will be colleague David Garrard, a native of room. The accommodation is used by the Trust for conferences the city, pointed it out as we left arranged around an open courtyard and meetings. This is a very Piccadilly Station. I was surprised to with balconies running around all imaginative development and a most see such an impressive building in sides. generous gesture by the Trustees for the heart of Manchester sitting empty Methodist Church Purposes. and looking so neglected. The fire station was shut in 1986 and the site was bought by Britannia The long term development and day London Road Fire Station, designed Hotels in 1993. The coroner’s court to day management of the building by Woodhouse, Willoughby and continued in session up until 1998. will be the responsibility of the Langham, was completed in 1906. The building is used as workshops Greater Manchester Building Many of you will know the building and storage for the hotel chain and Preservation Trust. This is a new Trust and a wholly owned subsidiary of Heritage Trust for the North West. Its aims are to care for buildings at risk within the ten Boroughs of Greater Manchester. John Pierce, formerly Chief Executive Officer of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council is the Chairman of the Trustees. Other trustees are Les Coop (), Warren Marshall (Manchester), Mark Watson (Manchester), Steve Little (Stockport) and John Graham (Stockport).

Whilst it is an exciting development, in the current economic climate progress may be slow. However, there are already some positive signs. Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, through the support of Peter Rowlinson and David Morris, has secured a Stage I London Road Fire Station by Woodhouse, Willoughby and Langham, Lottery Pass with the promise of completed in 1906: photograph by Mark Watson, 2010 substantial Lottery money. When already but for those that don’t, the the rooms are piled high with Stage II is approved it will help fire station sits on a triangular site bedsteads, chairs, lights, TVs, towels restore not only the Edgar Wood bounded by London Road, Minshull and soaps. Centre, but also other Wood Street South and Fairfield Street. The properties. building is constructed of red brick It sounded as though there wasn’t and yellow terracotta supplied by the much hope for the building; over the John Miller September 2010 Leeds firm, Burmantofts. The listing years the owners had put in a Chief Executive of the Heritage Trust describes the building as ‘ebullient number of planning applications to for the North West Edwardian Baroque style, with convert it, with varying success, but turrets, domes and corner tourelles had never carried out any of the For further information on the Edgar and a tall south-east tower with schemes. Occasionally Manchester Wood Centre please contact domed belfry’. City Council would threaten to take Christine Grime [email protected] or action, but never did. After three John Miller of Heritage Trust for the According to the Conservation Area years in the job I have learnt what a North West on 01282 877686 or Appraisal the grade II* listed former terrible situation this is: when the [email protected] fire station is ‘arguably the world’s owner does not have the will to look most important building of its type’. after the building and the Council 3 lacks the resources to take problems with water ingress, mostly the benefit of community projects. enforcement action. This stalemate due to the silting up of internal drains, But the change in VAT rules at has been the downfall of far too but the damage is localized and European level in 2009 did not many buildings. repairable. Luckily, Britannia carried include the option for a lower rate on out water proofing works a few years repairs and maintenance of cultural Finally though, last year Manchester ago that are now helping to keep the assets. The Heritage Alliance is City Council agreed to issue a rain out and allow the building to dry campaigning hard for the scheme’s Compulsory Purchase Order which out. retention; see the Places of Worship spurred Britannia into action once campaign library http://www. again. In July of this year the We hope that this scheme will go heritagelink.org.uk/library-2/ Victorian Society was consulted on a ahead as it offers the former fire listed building consent application to station a viable long-term future, but Latest Government response to convert the former fire station into a having had our hopes raised so the petition 2 August 2010 The hotel. The application was many times in the past we remain a Listed Places of Worship Grant unexpected but the biggest surprise little sceptical that this scheme will be Scheme (LPOWGS) is well liked and of all is that the scheme by the realised. As does the Council, it has played a significant role in in-house architectural team at would seem, as they are pressing supporting repairs to places of Britannia seems to be incredibly ahead with the Compulsory Purchase worship. It has helped repair many sympathetic to the historic building. Order. This is probably a sensible buildings throughout the UK and All the principal rooms on the ground decision as it puts pressure on recent research, published by English floor are to be kept intact and historic Britannia to see this conversion Heritage, shows that 90 per cent of fittings and decorative treatments are through, but if they fail to start work listed churches are in good or fair to be retained or restored. The within a reasonable period then the state. biggest changes proposed are the building can be passed on to subdivision of the upper floors to someone else, already lined up by However, the scheme is currently create bedrooms and bathrooms, a the Council, who has the will and the due to end at the end of 2010/11 and small extension within the courtyard resources to revive one of any decision about its extension can to provide enough bedrooms to make Manchester’s finest historic buildings. only be taken as part of wider the scheme viable and the glazing discussions about Government over of the courtyard to create a A decision on the listed building priorities in the next spending round. more useable space. consent application is due later in September and we will be watching Alongside the LPOWGS Scheme, The proposals have been considered what happens next with great listed places of worship receive by our Northern Buildings Committee interest. support through other Government which welcomes the scheme in initiatives. English Heritage and the principle. Our only reservation is the Alex Baldwin August 2010 Heritage Lottery Fund made grants design of the glazed canopy which Conservation Adviser at the Victorian totalling £22.7 million to help 222 will be supported on large, inelegant Society. listed places of worship in 2009-10. columns. We have asked whether the canopy could be supported on the Listed Places of Worship Grant In addition, under new proposals by walls of the existing building, as they scheme Even the Archbishop of the Government, the share of Lottery are at the British Museum and the Canterbury was unable to secure money going to each of the arts, National Maritime Museum, or failing assurance from the former Prime heritage and sport good causes will that, whether the supports could be Minister over the future of the Listed increase to 20 per cent. The Heritage re-designed to be less obtrusive. Places of Worship Grant scheme Lottery Fund is looking at how it will beyond 2011. Gordon Brown’s reply distribute the additional money it I was shown around the site by one of 27 April declared: “I know how expects to receive as a result of the of Britannia’s in-house architects. I important the LPOWGS scheme has change in Lottery shares. It has said was surprised by the intactness of been and very much share your it will take account of the needs of the interiors. Among the highlights commitment to ensuring that our places of worship in England, along were the complete set of coroner’s churches can continue to play their with needs in other heritage sectors. court furnishings, the Art Nouveau tile pivotal role at the centre of so many work in the court waiting room, the communities right across the UK”. Heritage Open Days 2009 clocks original drying racks in the laundry But he would not make any up over one million visits This and the fireman’s pole cupboards in commitment until the forthcoming year’s evaluation of Heritage Open the flats (all of which are to remain). spending review has concluded. Days reports the ‘most successful We were also treated to a trip up the Since 2001, the grant scheme has event in the fifteen year history of tower and some of the best views reimbursed congregations of all faiths England’s annual celebration of local over Manchester. It came as a relief for VAT incurred on the repair and architecture, history and culture’. A to see that the building is in a maintenance of listed places of record 4100 properties and events reasonable condition, despite years worship by over £100 million and attracted over one million visits over of underuse. There have been attracted four times that amount to four days. New regional hotspots 4 emerged, such as Brighton & Hove, architecture is no match for future. The report is available direct Oxford and Cambridge; although the sustained neglect or poor planning.’ from SAVE at the special East, which contributes over a be nominated but they should be at introductory rate of £10 (£8 to quarter of the national programme. risk, perhaps of demolition, from Friends of SAVE) email office@ Roughly a third of properties taking insensitive development or simply savebritainsheritage.org or ring 020 part were religious buildings, but the neglect. They need to have been 7253 3500. range continued to grow reflecting built between 1837 and 1914. the diversity of local communities’ Pennine Lancashire Northlight heritage. Of the properties opening The nominations will be considered Weaving Shed Study published up for Heritage Open Days, 45 per by the Society’s experts on Members interested in northlight cent were not usually accessible to architecture and conservation, and a roofed buildings and former weaving the public, 15 per cent waived their Top Ten will be published in the sheds might find this report useful. It admission fees and 40 per cent autumn. was commissioned by Design and usually opened free of charge. 1443 Heritage Pennine Lancashire with the organisers registered a total of 4100 Buildings can be nominated in the support of English Heritage, Heritage events. Organisers and volunteers following ways: Trust for the North West, Lancashire spent around 655,000 working hours • Via the website at www.victorianso- County Council and the local to make HODs happen, which ciety.org.uk raise aspirations and to help dispel of £3,799,000. For the full report visit • By uploading a photograph and a some of the commonly held myths http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/ description to flickr; www.flickr.com/ about the limitations of this building documents/HODs_report_2009 groups/thevictoriansociety involved in the conservation and endangered buildings appeal The • By emailing katie@victoriansociety. development of the unique north light Victorian Society is calling for help in org.uk weaving sheds of the region and to tracking down the ten most at risk • By post: 1 Priory Gardens, London, generate enthusiasm for their buildings in the country. An appeal to W4 1TT retention and future use. For further find the ten most endangered historic details and to download the full buildings in the country has been One last thing: good photographs of report,go to

7 Joseph Burton stayed on and in 1928 MANCHESTER GROUP - EVENT The practice, under the differing he introduced a brief revival in pottery REVIEWS names of the partners at the time, fortunes when he discovered lapis a started in the 1840s under Sharpe, new underglaze decoration. Popular Splendour in the North: the and (disregarding the fact that E.G. taste and industrial modernisation Architecture of Paley & Austin. Paley married Sharpe’s sister) later by Joseph’s son, David, had already by Dr Geoff Brandwood, Architec- became Paley & Austin and it existed driven the tiles business into a tural Historian in total for almost a hundred years. routine range only differentiated by Wednesday 21 April 2010 YHA They undertook some major secular the brilliant tube-line work of Edmund commissions, e.g. the Neo-Gothic Kent. Pottery production ceased in Dr Geoff Brandwood started his facade of Leighton Hall and the 1938 and shortly afterwards almost lecture on the historically rather Tudorbethan rebuilding of the west all production ceased during the complicated Edmund Sharpe/ wing of Holker Hall following the fire Second World War. E.G.Paley/ H.A.Paley (son) and H.J. of 1871. Austin architectural partnerships of A brief resurgence of the pottery Lancaster in a rather intriguing way. However, they are noted mainly for in the 1950s lasted only ten years He passed round an image of what their Anglican Gothic revival churches but tile production continued to the he called a ‘corner shop’, albeit in a built mostly between 1840 and 1890 present day, although, sadly, the firm much grander architectural setting to satisfy the perceived need for the went into administration a few weeks than is usual. In this way, he made established church to cater for the ago. Its future is uncertain. the initial point that, because it was a increased populations of the North provincial practice, the architects West’s rural areas and towns. Whilst Angela and Barry Corbett – August turned their hands to a much wider the majority of these churches 2010 variety of commissions than would exemplified in some ways the early The images of William and Joseph have been the case had it been a Gothic architectural style favoured by Burton published courtesy of the London practice. Whilst the mainstay followers of the Cambridge Camden Pilkington’s Tile and Pottery Society

Industrial Revolutionaries Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 26 June–6 November 2010 This is a major new exhibition spanning 150 years of Preston’s history, looking at the personalities that helped create the modern world. Preston was the setting for great invention, protest, social reform and commercial success. Industrial Revolutionaries documents the people who created, experienced and tackled a new industrial world. In this major new temporary exhibition visitors can see fascinating objects, view long forgotten archive film and hear street music from 150 years ago. www.harrismuseum.org.uk/current- exhibitions

Death and the Working Class People’s History Museum, Manchester 23 October 2010 - 03 May 2011 This fascinating exhibition charts how St John, Birkdale, Paley & Austin 1889-1903 (enlarged 1903-1909): funeral traditions and customs have photograph by Mark Watson 2010 changed over the last 200 years, exploring how people’s notion of a of the firm throughout was Anglican Society, Dr Brandwood emphasised ‘good send off’ has evolved as our churches, even apart from the corner that there was not a definable culture and society have developed. shop, its designs included both a practice house-style. All these canteen and the Roman Catholic churches had to recognize the www.phm.org.uk/whats-on/ Cathedral of Lancaster. increased importance of preaching 8 (in terms of congregational sight lines to the pulpit etc) but there was great individuality, not only in the church designs but in the interior furnishings & fittings. This point is easily demonstrated by reference to three local examples- Holy Trinity, Platt Lane, Platt Fields with its terracotta decoration; the perhaps French influenced St John’s, Waterloo Road, Cheetham and the massive and decidedly English perpendicular St George’s, Heaviley, Stockport. The latter, in common with many of the practice’s churches, offers particularly superb examples of pew-end carving.

In 1875 Edmund Sharpe was awarded RIBA’s Gold Medal for his architectural writings. He died two years later. The last known usage of the practice name Paley & Austin was in 1944, two years before the youngest Paley, Henry Anderson, himself died. In the course of his very well illustrated lecture, Dr Brandwood without doubt proved his case that Paley & Austin was “An Exceptional Practice”.

David Astbury May 2010

Weaste Cemetery : a Grand Victorian Necropolis led by Peter Kilvert 26 June 2010, Cemetery, Salford.

Peter Kilvert met the Manchester Group at the gates at 2 p.m. on a hot summer afternoon, with a useful booklet, Weaste Cemetery Heritage Trail. He is Secretary of the Salford Cemeteries Trust and the associated Friends group which started in 2000.

One-and-a-half miles from Salford One example of the many ornately carved memorial stones in Weaste Quays, and bordering on BBC Media Cemetery City, Weaste Cemetery is a peaceful place for visitors to learn about Weaste is the oldest of Salford’s Internments include a veteran of the Salford’s history. The Victorians cemeteries. Since it opened in 1857 Charge of the Light Brigade, Salford’s considered cemeteries to be over 332,000 interments have taken first MP, the founder of the Hallé amenities like parks and gardens and place in its 39 acres. It was Salford’s orchestra, a victim of the Munich air were usually designed in a similar first municipal cemetery to implement disaster, a local hero and members way. Weaste Cemetery is no the 1853 Burials Act, when of a circus dynasty. Ferdinand exception and its beautiful design churchyards could no longer provide Stanley who was immortalised in made it the most desirable resting- sufficient burial places. At that time Alfred Lord Tennyson’s epic poem place for well to do Salfordians and the Non Conformists controlled the Charge of the Light Brigade, after Mancunians. council so that when the land was surviving the battle in 1854 was separated by sectarian divisions they interred in 1898 and was one of four On the tour of twenty eight graves were able to choose the best location local survivors. there were many examples of the in the park. This was an unusual great and good who are buried there. situation at the time. Joseph Brotherton became the first 9 MP for Salford in 1832 holding the position for twenty four years. In 1849 he was instrumental in making Salford the first municipal authority in Britain to establish a library, a museum and an art gallery, and later with William Ewart Gladstone persuaded Parliament to pass the Public Libraries Act. His belief in clean living and a clean environment for working people made him a prime motivator in the establishment of Peel Park in Salford. He played an important role in the campaign for factory legislation and also helped set up the vegetarian movement.

Sir Charles Hallé who founded the longest-established professional symphony orchestra in Britain is Housing at Port Sunlight photographed on the Manchester Group’s commemorated as is. recent visit July 2010. Eddie Colman, a Busby Babe who died tragically in the Munich air supplement to his visit (with Matthew (1913), and Lord Leverhulme (1925) disaster in 1958. Also Mark Addy, a Hyde) to Leverhulme’s Bolton and by Goscombe John, who also renowned local figure who worked in Rivington in July 2006, and featured designed the village’s war memorial a factory near the , and the work of a number of the same of 1921. during his life saved around 53 architects. Port Sunlight gave people from drowning is celebrated. Leverhulme the opportunity to There followed a brief look around A memorial in the cemetery implement his ideas about town the village, concentrating on the older dedicated to him, was erected by planning, architecture, and part (1889-97) with works by Grayson grateful local people. philanthropy, resulting in an unusual and Ould, Douglas and Fordham, combination of part formal Beaux William Owen, and J J Talbot who Amongst colourful local characters Arts plan (of the kind he failed to were among about twenty-five was Elizabeth, the wife of William implement in Bolton) with arts and architects later involved in Port Kaye who called himself Buff Bill and crafts housing. Sunlight. Over two-thirds of the together with their family ran circus village is now privately owned, but acts all over Britain. Six of the the Village Trust generally has done beautiful memorial stones at Weaste a good job of maintaining its have been given Grade II listed character and integrity. status by English Heritage, in recognition of their ornate structure After lunch, and a chance to look and significance. round the Lady Lever Art Gallery, we visited a later part of the It was with thanks to Peter Kilvert development: the housing at that we were able to find our way Brombrough Pool, dating from around the cemetery to the relevant around the First World War which sites. He was a font of information has a more austere style. Many about the cemetery and its houses have suffered from inhabitants. He recommended joining unsympathetic alterations, as the Friends of Salford Cemeteries whose Manchester Group Chair, David area, unlike Port Sunlight, has no website is http://www.salford.gov.uk/ Harwood, Julie Ashdown and statutory protection. friendsofthecemeteries.htm Helen Holmes at Port Sunlight [email protected] After a brief look at Thornton Manor, 0161 748 3123 We started at Christ Church (now the where Leverhulme transformed an United Reform, formerly Congrega- early Victorian house into a Diana Terry July 2010 tional Church) by William and Segar neo-Elizabethan mansion, with a Owen, of red sandstone with a gatehouse by James Lomax- Port Sunlight Excursion led by spacious interior and elaborate Simpson, we moved on to Thornton Michael Shippobottom 17 July woodwork, including a well-executed Hough. This is another model estate 2010 recent glazed enclosure of part of the village, adapted by Leverhulme, Michael Shippobottom’s tour of Port aisles. Outside is a richly detailed employing many of the same Sunlight in July was a logical loggia with monuments to Lady Lever architects as at Port Sunlight. At the 10 centre of the village is St. George‚s particular it focuses on the question Blackwell, built as a rural holiday United Reform Church ( originally as to why it was that the Scottish retreat for the Manchester brewer Congregational), designed by James architect, James Gillespie Graham Sir Edward Holt, was designed by Lomax-Simpson in 1906-07 in the [1777–1856] famous for his work in M H Baillie Scott between 1897 and then unfashionable Norman/ Edinburgh New Town, undertook his 1900 is a superb example of Arts and Romanesque style. The interior has one commission south of the border Crafts architecture. rich stone and woodwork depicting when he drew up plans for biblical and mythological scenes, with Birkenhead’s gridiron pattern of Broad Leys, built in 1898 on the each carved stone unique in streets and designed the impressive shores of Lake Windermere as a design. On the return to Manchester Hamilton Square, which claims to holiday for A Currer Briggs of a select group looked at the remains have the largest collection of grade I Leeds and designed by CFA Voysey, of Leverhulme’s Lymm estate listed buildings in close proximity, is now the home of the Windermere development. Three avenues laid anywhere outside London. Motor Boat Racing Club. down as part of a scheme for residential development and centred The talk charts the growth of the This is an ‘added extra’ trip and does on a magnificent reinforced concrete town from the building of St Mary’s not appear on the events card. A few bridge are now sadly overgrown and Church designed by Thomas places are still available. decaying. Rickman, the founding of the Laird boiler works, the opening of the Please contact Mark Watson Michael’s knowledge and enthusiasm shipyards, the creation of the docks, 18 Thomas Telford Basin, were enriched by contributions from the laying out of the first publicly Manchester M1 2NH. people with special knowledge of funded park by Joseph Paxton, and Tel 07831 267642 Leverhulme and his work: Sheila the establishment, a hundred and to reserve your place. Lemoine, whose grandfather, Dr. fifty years ago of George Train’s Barnish, was Leverhulme’s doctor, ‘street railway’. Parallel with these told of his generosity; Brian Kay gave ‘highlights’, it will look at the human WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2010 insights into life in the office of Ernest face of the town and the part played An illustrated talk Prestwich (part designer of the in its history by ordinary individuals. Randolph Caldecott 1846 – 1886: central layout of Port Sunlight) and a Great Victorian Illustrator Gavin Hunter, who guided us around The lecturer, Elizabeth Davey, well by Peter Boughton, BA FSA FRSA AMA Christ Church in the morning, popped known for her talks on local history, is up later in the day to talk in detail the author of Birkenhead – A History, 7 pm for 7.15 pm about the heraldic symbols in the recently published by Phillimore. Her YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool windows in St. George’s. enthusiasm for her subject was fired Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 as an undergraduate by W.G. 4NB David French August 2010 Hoskins, Reader in Economic History at Oxford. Since then her interest has Cost: £5.00 per person. A Guide to Port Sunlight Village by Edward never waned. In particular her family No need to book in advance Hubbard and Michael Shippobottom, Liverpool links with Skye have given her a University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780853234555 particular perspective on the Scottish Randolph Caldecott, one of the most connection with Birkenhead’s early important children’s book illustrators­ Manchester group years. of the late nineteenth century, was 2010 - 2011 Forthcoming born in . The talk presents a Events thematic ­exploration of his work WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2010 within a broadly ­chronological WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 A mini bus trip to the exhibition ­framework - his early work, the An Illustrated talk ‘: a Sense of Place’ picture books, work for the ­Graphic, The Road from the Isles: the Rise at Blackwell, South Lakes followed sculpture, later illustration, paintings of Birkenhead by a visit to Broad Leys. Led by Mark and watercolours. By Elizabeth Davey Watson. John Archer will also be joining us on this visit. Peter Boughton is Keeper of Art at 7 pm for 7.15 pm the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool 10 am at Store Street under His field of interest is Western Art Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 Piccadilly train station. We aim to from Late Gothic to Post-Modernism. 4NB be back in Manchester in the early Working at the Grosvenor Museum evening. since 1983, he has created the Art Cost: £5.00 per person. Gallery, the Silver Gallery, eight No need to book in advance Cost: £20 per person including period rooms and has acquired over return transport from Store Street 600 works of art. He has also curated This talk traces events that changed and entrance to the exhibition - does more than 80 exhibitions ­ranging an insignificant rural hamlet into the not include lunch which can be from Old Masters paintings to bustling ‘new town’ of Birkenhead. In purchased at Blackwell. ­contemporary art. 11 WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2010 from Victoria Station, Manchester. Peter Howell, a member of the An illustrated talk St Mary in the Baum, St Mary’s Gate/ Victorian Society Buildings Rows and Rows Toad Lane Wardleworth Rochdale Committee since 1965, and a former by Matthew Slocombe OL16 1DZ. chairman of the Society, has a Deputy Secretary of the Society for particular interest in 19th and 20th the Protection of Ancient Buildings St Mary the Baum, Rochdale, a plain century church architecture. (SPAB) brick church of 1740, was completely transformed in 1908-12 by Ninian Linda Walton is a Director of Design 7 pm for 7.15 pm Comper (1864-1960 - knighted in Lights, with overall responsibility for YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool 1950). It has been described by restoration/conservation. After Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 Father Anthony Symondson as ‘after obtaining a BA (Hons) degree, Linda 4NB Wellingborough, the most ingenious Walton worked and trained at church of Comper’s maturity’. He Goddard and Gibbs Studio in London Cost: £5.00 per person. synthesises classical and Gothic in for two years. Design Lights was set No need to book in advance the manner he called ‘unity by up in 1987. Since 2007 the company Joint event with SPAB inclusion’. The lofty interior is made has been involved with many glorious by the great rood-screen and projects including the restoration of Matthew Slocombe, Deputy ­Director . The talk will consider many of the windows at the Victoria of the Society for the Protection of how Comper, after his pupilage with Baths, Manchester. Ancient Buildings, will offer two talks G.F.Bodley, reached his mature and in one: a brief history of row and highly individual manner, and will set David Morris MCD MRTPI IHBC is terraced housing and an overview of St Mary the Baum within the context the Conservation and Design Officer, the history, work, ideas, campaigning, of his work as architect and as Rochdale Metropolitan Borough arguments of the SPAB since its designer of ecclesiastical fittings and Council. foundation in 1877. stained glass. The Victorian Society Manchester At St Mary we are being joined by Group is most grateful to Shaws of SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2010 Peter Howell who will give an Darwen for generously supporting Christmas Dinner & Excursion to introductory talk after which we will this event. Rochdale have time to look in detail at the splendid stained glass, fine www.shawsofdarwen.com/terracotta/ With Peter Howell, Linda Walton. woodwork and impressive rood Matthew Hyde and David Morris screen which this church has to offer. SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2011 Cost: £30.00 per person. Linda Walton (Design Lights) a Annual General Meeting and talk Please complete the booking form stained glass window restorer and Making the Past Part of our Future and menu choice form on pages 16 designer will also talk on her by Katie Gunning, Campaigns and 17 of the Newsletter to reserve extensive restoration of the windows Officer, Victorian Society. your place. at the church. 1.45 pm - 4.30 pm YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool The deadline for return of booking From St Mary in the Baum it is a Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 form and menu choice is short walk to for 4NB 26 November 2010 our Christmas dinner in the Reception Room (formerly the Free of charge - no need to book in We shall be holding our Xmas Dinner Council Chamber) at 12.30 pm. The advance. at ’s Reception room is decorated with magnificent Rochdale Town Hall of painted friezes depicting textile The Victorians shaped our world. 1871, preceded by a visit to J N processes and inventors, carved Their massive investment in Comper’s St Mary in the Baum. stone fireplaces and splendid infrastructure is all around us and architectural details. Following dinner has created the template into which We will be starting the day at St Mary we will be guided around some of the our modern towns and cities fit. Many in the Baum. Please arrive at St Mary principle rooms in the Town Hall, of these fine buildings are a good by 10.30 a.m prompt when tea and including the Great Hall, by Matthew deal more popular now than they biscuits will be served prior to the Hyde and David Morris were during the second half of the talks Twentieth century, but the cases we Matthew Hyde is an architectural deal with at the Victorian Society If you are travelling by train St Mary historian and co-author of reveal how much is still at risk. We in the Baum is approximately 20 Lancashire: Manchester and the are contacted about stations and minutes walking distance from South-East / by Clare Hartwell, town halls, libraries and swimming Rochdale Train Station and 10 Matthew Hyde and baths, bridges, hospitals, schools, minutes from the Town Hall. Yale UP, 2004 factories and mills, the list goes on. We recommend travelling by train isbn: 0300105835 We are often accused of wanting to 12 set these buildings in aspic, but the Midlands and the North West, this University of the Arts, London, having actually our obsession is not with the paper explores the ways in which the taught the history of architecture and past, but with the future. We want to competing claims of industrial and design for over thirty years at the ensure that the best examples of fine art collections in municipal Universities of Leeds, Northumbria, Victorian and Edwardian architecture museums foreshadowed the “two Staffordshire, Keele and are still there for future generations to cultures” debate of the twentieth Wolverhampton. She is a leading enjoy. Increasingly the arguments we century and led to very different types authority on George and also on the use are green ones. The talk will of museum provision. It shows how architecture of British crematoria. Her focus on how we try to persuade the long-standing nineteenth century book Death Redesigned: British people that these are buildings worth debate on the meaning of knowledge Crematoria, History, Architecture and recycling. exercised a direct impact on museum Landscape was published in 2005 provision that can still be observed and The Architecture of Sir Ernest Katie Gunning is the Campaigns today in the architectural style of George is to be published by Spire Officer for the Victorian Society. Victorian buildings. Books Ltd in late 2010. Hilary is the Before joining the Society she Chair of The Victorian Society and a worked as a journalist for the BBC. Dr. Bob Snape is a Reader at the council member and Trustee of The University of Bolton. He has Cremation Society of Great Britain. published widely on the history of THURSDAY 24 February 2011 Victorian and Edwardian libraries and THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2011 An Illustrated talk museums. His publications include An Illustrated talk The two cultures: Statuary and Leisure and the rise of the public Manchester and Chicago: Shock Machinery in the Victorian library (Library Association Cities- an architectural answer? Municipal museum. Publishing, 1995), The National By Steve Little By Robert Snape Home Reading Union, Journal of Victorian Culture, (2002) and a 7 pm for 7.15 pm 7 pm for 7.15 pm chapter on fiction in public libraries in YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool the Cambridge History of Libraries in Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 Britain and Ireland (2006). 4NB 4NB Cost: £5.00 per person. Cost: £5.00 per person. Wednesday 23 March 2011 No need to book in advance No need to book in advance An illustrated talk The Architecture of Sir Ernest This talk is inspired by a book The origins of the Victorian municipal George published recently by Harold L. Platt museum are found in the reform of by Hilary Grainger comparing Manchester and Chicago education for art and design in the as ‘Shock Cities’. Both were eighteen thirties and the need for 7 pm for 7.15 pm provincial industrial centres with a Britain to maintain its economic YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool history of social deprivation; Platt competitiveness by producing Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 looks at this and how the two cities desirable consumer goods. After the 4NB dealt with the problem. Steve’s talk Great Exhibition of the Industry of All will expand upon Platt’s comparison Nations in 1851 and the founding of a Cost: £5.00 per person. insofar as both cities were also hosts national collection of industrial art at No need to book in advance to a particular brand of architecture. the South Kensington Museum in 1857 there was a growth of interest Ernest George (1839–1922) emerges Steve Little has been a self-employed in establishing local collections of as one of the most significant of late industrial archaeologist for the past industrial art in municipal museums Victorian practitioners, by virtue not decade. Until recently he was a to educate artisan designers. This only of the quality of his work in member of Manchester’s Historic was followed by a further wave of partnership with Thomas Vaughan, Buildings and Conservation Area interest in the development of more Harold Ainsworth Peto and Alfred Panel, has sat on the Victorian general industrial collections of, for Bowman Yeates over a period of Society’s Northern Casework example, the raw materials of sixty years, but also the fact that over Committee and was formerly Chair of production and samples of machinery eighty assistants and pupils passed the Manchester Group of the in order to support commerce and through his office including Edwin Victorian Society. manufacture at a local level. Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and E Guy However, this interest was not shared Dawber. This lecture examines a Steve Little has a special interest in by those curators and critics who range of commissions designed the history and development of believed the purpose of a museum during the course of George’s long Manchester which he taught at the was to stand as a bulwark against and distinguished career. City’s College of Arts and Technology. industrial society by disseminating Chicago is his second city of choice fine art and high culture. Using case Professor Hilary J Grainger is a Dean and the place he visits as often as studies of municipal museums from of the London College of Fashion, possible. 13 Saturday 7 MAY 2011 building from ridge to pavement level. SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2011 A conducted tour, Manchester book This was followed a couple of years A trip launch and discussion. later with a similar phase to the west Across the Pennines to the Wool J A Hansom and the Holy Name side of the church. The work Included Metropolis: Victorian Bradford ‘The Church of Jesus. whole-sale re-roofing including all Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ with Father Ray Matus, Penny Harris leadwork and rainwater goods, & John Pritchard localised rebuilding of masonry and Cost: £15 including afternoon tea but stained glass windows, along with excluding lunch and transport to and 1.45 p.m. for 2 p.m. at the Holy the re-building of critical elements of from Bradford. We recommend taking Name of Jesus Church structure at low level. the train from Manchester Victoria Station. Cost: £10 The last phase of work includes Advance booking required - please extensive overhaul of the East end of Full details and booking form in the complete the booking form on page the church Including reslating with Summer 2011 newsletter. 16 and return by 1 May 2011 diaper pattern and replacing the filigree iron ridge based on Hansom’s An architectural tour of Bradford City The Grade 1 listed Holy Name original drawing. Centre and Little Germany. To Church was designed by J A Hansom include buildings and demolition sites In 1868. It Is regarded as one of his John Pritchard will lead a tour around from early Victorian to late 20th finest churches. Construction began the building, including the roof space century. Not for the faint-hearted, in the 1870s but became somewhat where the terracotta vaulting can be with Christopher Hammond and Mark troubled as funds began to run out. viewed close up, and also provide an Watson The resulting building, whilst insight into the extensive spectacular was part completed conservation of the church. Drawings We will start the visit at Bradford without tower, high altar and chapels. and plans will also be available on Interchange Railway Station at 11 The remaining work was completed the day. am. There will be a break at by Hansom’s son J.S.Hansom, J.F. lunchtime after which the tour will Bentley and Adrian G. Scott who John Pritchard Dip Arch(Manc), RIBA resume. The visit will finish at completed the tower in 1928. is a conservation architect who has approximately 3.15 pm when we will been involved with historic and listed take afternoon tea at the Grand One of the most extraordinary buildings and landscapes since the Victoria Hotel in the city centre. aspects of Hansom’s design was the 1980s. He is a partner in Lloyd Evans Incorporation of hollow hexagonal Prichard and carried out an extensive Chris Hammond is a vice-chair of the terracotta pots to form the nave, aisle survey of the condition of the Holy NBC and was formerly case-worker and sanctuary vaulting. The use of Name Church prior to its for the West Group. He these pots, in lieu of the traditional conservation. The 2008 King of recently retired from the Institute for solid masonry, ensured that the Prussia Gold Medal Award was Materials Research, University of structure was comparatively awarded to John Prichard of Lloyd Leeds where he taught microscopy lightweight, enabling the aisle Evans Prichard for his work at the and crystallography. columns to be surprisingly slender. Church of the Holy Name of Jesus

In 1993 Lloyd Evans Prichard Penelope Harris, who has recently SATURDAY 16 JULY 2011 undertook a detailed condition survey completed a brief biography of An excursion of the church In order to enable the Joseph Hansom, will be joining us at Victorian Prestwich successors of the Society of Jesus - the Holy Name to talk about her led by Ian Pringle and Mark Watson for whom the church was built - to research. She is currently ascertain the extent of any defects. completing a PhD thesis on 1pm for 1.15 pm The survey report identified that the Hansom’s dependency upon the Meet at the Church Inn, Church building was suffering with major Gothic Revival, Catholic Revival and Lane, Prestwich. problems, including structural roof gentry patronage. This will be issues, problems with high level followed by a more in-depth Cost: £10 per person using own masonry and dry rot. biography of Hansom. transport Further details and booking form in Representatives of the Oratarians, We will also be joined by Father Ray the Summer 2011 newsletter. who had taken over the running of Matus a member of the Clergy the church, joined with Lloyd Evans closely involved in the project to Prichard to develop a phased restore this important Manchester SATURDAY 6 AUGUST 2011 programme with support from English building. An excursion to the Seaside Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund. Gothic and Exotic: Victorian and Church of The Holy Name Of Edwardian The first phase of work was to Jesus, Oxford Road, Manchester, with Mark Watson and Peter Wade overhaul the south side of the M13 9PG 14 Cost £15 including afternoon tea and NEWSLETTERS BY EMAIL above. This is approximately a 400 excluding travel costs yard walk. Thank you to those members who From Victoria station: catch the Further details and booking form in have agreed to receive the Man- number 2 bus outside and get off at the Summer 2011 newsletter. chester Group’s Newsletter by email. This has allowed us to reduce post- the second stop outside the Great age and copying costs. If you lose Northern complex; continue down Deansgate, turn right along ­Liverpool WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER your email copy or it disappears from Road and follow the directions as 2011 your computer a pdf of the Newsletter above. Address of the YHA: ­Potato An Illustrated talk in memory of can now be found on the Manchester Wharf, Off Liverpool Road, Edward Livesey (1938 - 2009) page of Victorian Society’s main site ­Manchester M3 4NB. Rodmarton Manor: the story of an as can the current talks and excur- Arts and Crafts house. sions. If you would like to receive by Mary Greensted, Curator & Writer an email version of the Newsletter PUBLICATION DATES: please email [email protected]. MANCHESTER GROUP 7 pm for 7.15 pm The next Manchester Group YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool POTATO WHARF YHA Newsletter will be published in May Road, Castlefield Our venue for talks in 2010-2011 will 2011. Manchester M3 4NB be the YHA, Potato Wharf, Castle-

field, Manchester M3 4NB (tel: 0161 The next Programme of Events card Cost: £5.00 per person. 839 9960) will be published in September 2011 No need to book in advance Further details in the Summer 2011 Directions to the YHA by public Disclaimer: You participate in Victorian newsletter transport From Deansgate or G-Mex Society events at your own risk and (Metrolink) stations: turn right along neither the Society nor its officers or Thursday 27 october 2011 Deansgate, then left along Liverpool servants accept any liability of any kind An illustrated talk Road as far as Castlefield Hotel (also whatsoever, howsoever arising. The “William Fairbairn (1789 - 1874) known as the Y club – note this is ­Victorian ­Society reserves the right to Journeyman Millwright to World not our venue). There, turn left along cancel, alter or ­­ ­postpone events if Famous Engineer” Potato Wharf. The youth hostel is on necessary. by Richard Byrom, retired architect the left after you go under the railway 7 pm for 7.15 pm bridge. This is approximately a 700 Please note that buildings we visit may YHA Potato Wharf, off Liverpool yard walk. present a variety of hazards including Road, Castlefield Manchester M3 uneven surfaces, stairs, low head 4NB From Piccadilly station: take a train heights, low lighting, building and to Deansgate or a tram to G-Mex demolition works. Cost: £5.00 per person. then follow the above directions. No need to book in advance Alternatively, catch the number 3 We would like all our events to be Further details in the summer 2011 free bus which runs every 10 min- accessible to everyone, but there may be newsletter utes and the last bus is 19.00 from stairs or uneven surfaces which cannot the forecourt - get off at the second be avoided, and long periods of walking stop on Quay Street (after the Opera or standing. Should you have any House). From there go back along questions about your ability to participate Quay Street and right along Lower in an event, please contact us. Some of Byrom Street to Liverpool Road. Turn our events are unsuitable for children. If right and proceed as above. This is you have any special needs or ideas approximately a 600 yard walk. about how we can improve our events, From Piccadilly Gardens: catch the please let us know. number 33 bus which runs every 20 minutes, (currently at 18.28, 18.48, Participants are reminded that the 19.08) to the second stop on Victorian Society does not accept any Liverpool Road (opposite the Science liability of any kind whatsoever Museum). Then go back to the howsoever arising. The Victorian Society Castlefield Hotel and follow the reserves the right to cancel, alter or above directions. This is postpone events if necessary. approximately a 200 yard walk. The Victorian Society is a Registered From Oxford Road station: catch Charity No 1081435 and a Company the number 2 free bus (times as for Limited by Guarantee Registered in the number 3 above) from the England No 3940996 forecourt to Liverpool Road (first stop only). From there follow the ­directions

15 Booking form : Manchester Victorian Society - Holy Name Church

Saturday 7 May 2011 Tour of the Holy Name Church with John Pritchard, Penny Harris and Father Ray Matus Arrive at the Church by own transport at 12.45 pm for 1 pm - Cost: £5.00 per person excluding transport. CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKINGS : 1 MAY 2011 First name Surname Address Postcode telephone numbers* *mobile number preferable - please switch on your mobile and bring with you to the event names of others attending First name Surname First name Surname First name Surname I enclose an S.A.E. (confirmation will be sent approximately 5 days before the event). Enclose your completed form, a stamped self-addressed envelope and a cheque for £5.00 per person made payable to: The Victorian Society and send by 1 May 2011 to: Mark Watson 18 Thomas Telford Basin, Manchester M1 2NH. Tel 07831 267642   Booking form : Manchester Victorian Society - Christmas Dinner SATURDAY 11 december 2010 Dinner and tour of Rochdale Town Hall and St Mary in the Baum - with Peter Howell, Matthew Hyde, David Morris and Linda Walton Meet at St Mary in the Baum at 10.30 a.m - by own/public transport Cost - including three course Christmas dinner: £30.00 per person. Menu choices on page 17 CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKINGS: 26 NOVEMBER 2010 First name Surname Address Postcode telephone numbers* *mobile number preferable - please switch on your mobile and bring with you to the event

Names of others attending First name Surname First name Surname First name .Surname I enclose an S.A.E. (confirmation and a map and train times will be sent by 4 December 2010). Enclose your completed form, menu choices, stamped self-addressed envelope and a cheque for £30.00 per person made payable to: The Victorian Society and send by 26 November 2010 to: Mark Watson, 18 Thomas Telford Basin, Manchester M1 2NH. Tel 07831 267642  

Disclaimer: You participate in Victorian Society events at your own risk and neither the Society nor its officers or servants accept any liability of any kind whatsoever, howsoever arising. The Victorian Society reserves the right to cancel, alter or postpone events if necessary. Victorian Society Manchester Group Committee Secretary email:[email protected]

16 Manchester Victorian Society Christmas Dinner 11 December 2010 MENU CHOICES Please return one separate form for each attendee

Forename……………………………………...... Surname………………………………………... STARTER (choose one and please tick your choice) Homemade vegetable soup, warm bread roll and butter ( ) or Smoked salmon and cream roulade, salad garnish, warm bread roll and butter ( )

MAIN COURSE (choose one and please tick your choice) Roast Turkey dinner stuffing, chipolata sausage and bacon, roast potatoes, new potatoes and vegetables ( ) or Roast Topside of Beef with Yorkshire pudding, seasonal vegetables and potatoes ( ) or Vegetarian option - Vegetable Filo pastry parcel with white wine sauce, potatoes and seasonal vegetables ( )

DESSERT (choose one and please tick your choice) Christmas pudding and rum sauce ( ) or Fresh fruit salad and cream ( ) Followed by tea and coffee with warm mince pies A bar will be available – not included in the price of the Dinner Please return your menu choices with your booking form and your cheque made payable to The Victorian Society  

Forename……………………………………...... Surname………………………………………...... STARTER (choose one and please tick your choice) Homemade vegetable soup, warm bread roll and butter ( ) or Smoked salmon and cream roulade, salad garnish, warm bread roll and butter ( )

MAIN COURSE (choose one and please tick your choice) Roast Turkey dinner stuffing, chipolata sausage and bacon, roast potatoes, new potatoes and vegetables ( ) or Roast Topside of Beef with Yorkshire pudding, seasonal vegetables and potatoes ( ) or Vegetarian option - Vegetable Filo pastry parcel with white wine sauce, potatoes and seasonal vegetables ( )

DESSERT (choose one and please tick your choice) Christmas pudding and rum sauce ( ) or Fresh fruit salad and cream ( ) Followed by tea and coffee with warm mince pies A bar will be available – not included in the price of the Dinner Please return your menu choices with your booking form and your cheque made payable to The Victorian Society

17 Manchester Group of the Victorian Society

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Saturday 29 January 2010

1.45 p.m. YHA Potato Wharf, Castlefield, Manchester. M3 4NB

AGENDA 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of last meeting 3. Matters Arising 4. Membership Secretary’s report 5. Conservation report. 6. Treasurer’s report. 7. Chairman’s report. 8. Election of Officers and Committee. 9. AOB

All members are entitled to attend and there is no charge for this event.

NOMINATION FORM FOR A COMMITTEE MEMBER:

NOMINEE Name of nominee: ......

Address: ......

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Tel: ...... Email: ......

Why do you nominate this person to the Manchester Group Committee?

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Your contact details:

Name: ......

Address: ...... postcode......

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Tel: ...... Email: ...... Return to: The Secretary, Manchester Victorian Society, c/o , 57 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HY or bring along to the AGM.

Minutes of the 2009 AGM will be provided on the day.

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