33rd. Year, MMXIX Founded Penrith, 1st. Dec. 1986. Edition No. 870 BroughamBrougham Hall News ::::::::::: Friday,Hall 12th. July,News 2019.
B.H.C.T. PATRON - The Rt. Hon. LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, C.B.E..
ITH BILL W R a m s e y. now busy in his workshop in Unit Twelve , and Hall News ’ editor Alistair Aynscough finding rather little on the Internet about Bill last night, he turned to Facebook social- media and found this story. So, just as we did last time, we apologise for using oth- ers’ posts, to chart a feline adventurer’s antics. A cat at the home of ex-Old . Smokehouse co-owner Georgina Per- kins managed, around 4 years ago, to clamber up a large spice-rack, which Bill had made for her, and managed to bring down literally everything. Georgina later posted this on her Facebook page: “I thought I would help with your marketing. Pictured is a very fine, bespoke spice-rack - made by Bill. In 2015, I took the opportunity to take a picture of the fine structure after the cat kindly emptied the shelves by climbing up them...”
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EE--MailMail ContactContact …… Please Remember - if you wish, you can send stories - with or Brougham Hall without attached photographs of events at Brougham Hall - toto Events for 2019 [email protected]@aynscough.net HALL THEATRE WEEKEND 1994 -2019 - Ovr 25th. Anniver ſary Yeare! ...... Thanks ! !
Three Inch Fools !all perform “Macbeth” Hither! Saturday, ye 27th. Daye of July, 7.30 p.m..
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Eden Valley Artistic Network The Second EVAN Arts Festival Thursday, 29th. August, to Sunday, 1st. September.
EVAN Autumn Art Trail and Open Studios … Saturday, 7th. to Sunday, 15th. September EVAN Christmas Fair, Rheged , Stainton … Saturday, 7th. December
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Interlude Ceramics [ Mary Chappelhow] Wheel-Thrown Pottery Day-Classes … .. .
£125, including tea/coffee breaks and 2-course Lunch.
The Next-Available Class Dates are - - - Saturday, 10th. August …, 9:30am-5:30pm. Saturday, 14th. Sept’r. …, 9:30am-5:30pm.
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Penrith Agricultural Show , Brougham Hall Showfield : Saturday, 20th. July. [Now on Third Saturday in July.]
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Brougham Hall News 870. Printed on Friday, 12th. July, 2019, by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH. Brougham Hall News 870 - Friday, 12th. July, 2019 . - Page 138 - [email protected] BROUGHAM-HALL THEATRE WEEKEND.
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ye 27th. Daye of July next, [2019], at 7.00 p.m.,
!all be Perform’d ye Shake ſpeare Tragedie of
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1994 -2019 - Our Theatre’s 25th. Anniver ſary Yeare!
Bill -Po $er Prodvć’d by: ALISTAIR AYNSCOVGH, [‘ Brovgham -hall New s’ ] , Colin ſburgh, Fyfe, in ye Yeare MM.X.I X . Far From “Sheepish” ------
Felt Artist Jane Shows Off Her Eye-Catching Creations in The ‘Gallery For Nature’ ETTING UP HER FINE DISPLAY in Simon Whalley’s S “Gallery For Nature”, last month, was Jane Firth , one of the artists who were taking part in the recent EVAN Art Trail celebration. Jane was busy hanging some of her truly eye-catching “Felt-Art” portraits on the wall opposite the fireplace of Simon’s Unit Ten studio-gallery on Thursday, 13th. June, in readiness for the Art Trail to begin on Saturday, 15th.. Her distinctive works continued to be on show for the duration of the event, until Sunday eve., 23rd. June. These are definitely no “average” artworks - as, working on her website, Jane wrote this about her business and vocation - Ullswater Felt Art : “I started felting after a career in education and a move to Cumbria. I was inspired by Cumbria’s long history of sheep-farming. Both Cumbria and sheep are very photogenic, so I am often out with my camera, looking for the perfect subject. Above: Jane Firth’s Border Leicester - priced at “Needle-felting is an ideal medium to capture textures and colours that characterise the animals which are my subjects. £225 - on show in Simon Whalley’s “Gallery For “Where possible, I use wool from whichever breed I am working Nature” on Thursday, 13th. June. The Gallery was with. Initially, I felted portraits of local Cumbrian sheep, but now I set to be busy; the reflections don’t do this justice! do a wide variety of different breeds, as well as some goats, Highland cows, alpacas and hares. “I also take commissions for my artwork .”
Why I Called it “Ullswater Felt Art”
“After a career in education, I completed my gradual move to the Ullswater valley in 2013. Along with spending a lot of time on the fells and training as a guided walk leader with the Lake Dis- trict National Park, I took up felting. I have evolved a style of felting sheep with a strong 3-dimensional element, using mainly-local wool. “I started with the sheep I see around me (Herdwicks, Swaledales, ‘ Mules’ , Rough Fell and Blue-Faced Leicesters…), but I now felt a wide variety of sheep and even some other species. My latest project is to felt the sheep on the Rare
Breeds Survival Trust ‘Danger List’. Many of these are wool breeds - and well worth saving. www.ullswaterfeltart.com “I work in a converted garage, overlooking [the lake] Ullswater. I have used wool from my neighbour’s sheep that I can see from my window. Shearing time is busy because it is an ideal opportunity to stock-up on the colours and textures I want. “There is a surprising variety of sheep in my local area, so putting my name on a fleece in advance is a good way of securing what I want! A whole fleece is a lot of wool, so takes a lot of washing, in many changes of hot, soapy water. I wet-felt my basic shapes - the same process that shrinks a woolly jumper in the wash- ing machine - and needle-felt the detail and the back- ground using a barbed needle that entangles the wool fibres in a similar way to wet-felting.” Right, All Three: Jane Firth is shown on Thursday, 13th. June, as she puts up six of her Felt Art portraits at Simon’s ‘Gallery for Nature’. She also has a selection of greeting cards, bearing prints of her vibrant portraits. Brougham Hall News 870 - Friday, 12th. July, 2019 . - Page 140 - [email protected] NewNew ShelvesShelves forfor Susan’sSusan’s WorkshopWorkshop Products of Recent Arrival Eleanor Barden Given The “Run-Around”?! ------Four Collies Explore Their Hall Surroundings
Above: A quartet of Border Collies on the Main Courtyard lawns at Brougham Hall on Thursday, 13th. June.
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HESE FOUR LIVELY CHARACTERS , who are T Owned by At Least Two of The Hall Tenants , are often given the chance of a run-around at Brougham Hall, as they were when Hall News ’ editor Alistair called in on that same mid-June Thursday afternoon on which he took several of the photographs for this edition. The Border Collies Above: The inner entrance to Susan Clough ’s Silver explored the grounds and Sta- Susan workshop is shown here, along with some of the bles Courtyard area and even displays in Susan’s “showroom”, on Thursday, 13th. June. Eleanor’s Carriage House area.
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RECENT COMMISSION for Eleanor ONE Barden - who we featured in Hall News last time, in her Carriage House workshop - was to produce a set of new shelves for the Unit Three work- shop of the jeweller Susan Clough, or ‘Silver Susan’ . The new shelving, made of wood but held in place by solid-looking, decorative black brackets, was set up just a few weeks ago and is prominently seen in the above photograph, and is just one of a wide range of things that Eleanor can create - as we noted in Hall News 869. Right: Brougham Right: Hall was formerly Eleanor known for its Grey- Barden in hounds , but on a repeat 4 November 1872 , they - around 12 of of a pho- them - were sold at tograph auction at Longtown, from last because the owner time, with had “gone abroad for the winter”. her pre- paring for Penrith Observer , Tue., her next 5 Nov’r., 1872; British Newspaper Archive task on Website - © British Thursday, Library Board; ALL 13 th. June. RIGHTS RESERVED. Brougham Hall News 870 - Friday, 12th. July, 2019 . - Page 141 - [email protected]
Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month in Previous Years ... 30 Years Ago
JULY 1989 Summer Garden Scenes Reported Chocolate Factory Summer Garden Scenes Rona Newsom’s New Project for Third C.T.C. Newsletter THE LATEST Crafts Centre Shop THE JULY EDITION of Cum- to open here at Brougham Hall bria Training Company News - came into operation in about the new equivalent to the mid-July, 1989. It is being run by August 1986-launched for- Rona Newsom, the careers officer mer Community Programme who started trading at the Old Newsheet (later Project Cum- Smokehouse on 17th. May, 1987. bria) - was published by the The new shop, in Unit Two , was recently-founded youth training painted from top-to-bottom early in business currently based at 44- July ’89 by some of Lee Barry’s Hall 45 Castlegate, Penrith - but Team trainees, and is gradually pre- now set to move to its new pared for business as the month pro- home at the stylishly-presented gresses. Unit Two is to be a chocolate “Ferric House”, in the town’s shop - or “chocolate factory”, as Hall Albert Street (near Sandgate News 98, at the end of the month, and the town’s bus station. calls it. We hear that Rona Newsom This is the third edition of will be producing luxury chocolate items C.T.C. News , and it has been such as truffles, and that the new shop could well become known as ‘Truffles’. produced by Brougham Hall News editor Alistair Aynscough. Ready for Hall News’ “Century”
Its lead story is all about A FORTNIGHT Before it is due , work a forward-thinking gardening is underway on Brougham Hall News project at Cumdivock, a ham- No. 100, which will be a “Project let just north-east of Dalston, Review”, featuring maps with numbers Carlisle, in which so-called that chart events and work at the Hall, “organic” food is being culti- to correspond with numbered entries vated, with crop being grown which are cross-referenced to enable only in a natural, no-nutrients, readers to follow stories of parts of the no-pesticide, environment. Hall structure that have been surveyed.
25 Years Ago : ‘Walled-In’ Unit Nine JULY 1994 Now Almost Ready Heat and 2nd Hall! VALUABLE WORK is being done to complete, and make available to poten- Strange Way of Life tial tenants, the newest addition to Brougham at Crossrigg Hall, Cliburn
Hall’s Crafts Centre - the central Unit Nine . ------The latest stage in the work has included the construction and setting in place of new, ONLY THE Wall-Calendar gives North-facing double doors and window the game away that this is part of of the Unit, and these now await their the modern age, but even this shows gloss paint, as used on other doors and December 1967. Other than that, windows at the Hall; familiar black for Crossrigg Hall, Below , near Cliburn, the doors and gates, white for windows. Penrith, and around 6 miles (9.6 kms.) The South window still needs repairs to stone-work before the glass can be from Brougham Hall, is in many senses fitted, but otherwise it is nearly ready, a huge time capsule. The late brothers together with a walled, potential out- Torbock, who owned this elegant 1864 door ‘tea-room’ or outdoor dining area. mansion house, led formal and very
Left Both: New window-frames and double regimented lives - being ex-military - doors of Unit Nine , and Syd. Walker with the and kept various items, including food outer wall, and “tea room” area, in Mid-July ’94 . tins and kitchenware, of decades past... even an old car, all but Heatwave: Sunniest Since 1990. - Prepara- tions for Brougham Hall’s Shakespeare Weekend forgotten, in a garage. - its first in modern times - continues amidst the sunniest, hottest, weather since the scorching con- ditions of 1990. The extensive lawns at the Hall have been neatly mown, chairs for the audience are being hired, and general tidying-up goes on.
Brougham Hall News 870 - Friday, 12th. July, 2019 . - Page 142 - [email protected] Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month in Previous Years ... JULY 1999 JULY 2004
20 Years Ago: Lintels, Girders ...... and Holidays! 15 Years Ago: The Old Smokehouse is Sold
ON T HURSDAY, 8th. July, 1999 - the day before Hall THE OLD S MOKEHOUSE (Unit One ) has been sold. That News ’ editor Alistair Aynscough starts his epic Barnardos ‘shock’ news, just days before similar developments at Carlisle United hit the headlines, was announced to Hall and Calvert Trust ‘Summer of Adventure’ of voluntary News by Jo Hampson on Thursday, 8th. July. Jo men- adventure holidays - he twice visits Brougham Hall, on tioned that their two units (including “Truffles”, Unit 2 ), the same day, to witness the placing of new Lintels on which have “come on in leaps and bounds” since they the north-facing door and window of Unit Ten , [now last changed hands early in 2001, are going to an ex- Simon Whalley’s ‘ Gallery for Nature’ ] as well as a roof- member of the Hall Crafts community. [He later turns out to support girder being slotted be 1996 Tea-Room ( Unit 3 ) tenant Richard Muirhead.] into place for Unit Twelve , the proposed ‘Library and Another Voluntary Adven- Resource Centre’, [now Bill ture Holiday. - There is an Ramsey’s Bill’s Bespoke Join- element of irony at the Hall ery ]. The large, 75ft. (23- on Thursday, 8th. July, 2004. metre) mobile crane used to There was significant news to place another lintel on one report on the same date in of the fireplaces of the A.2. 1999 ( Left Column ) as new ‘Kitchen’ back in Novem- lintels and a ceiling girder ber, 1998, is brought back were set in place. News of the for these latest lifts. Old Smokehouse sale comes one day before Hall News ’ ‘Galloping Off Into The Sunset’ ... editor Alistair Aynscough starts THE FELL PONY Society team his three-week, latest volun- ‘inexplicably’ leave their new offices at Brougham Hall at the end of July, tary adventure holiday, his 1999, after barely four months fourth, with the Bendrigg Trust , here. They have left no forward- near Kendal - or fifth includ- ing address for the Hall Trust . ing his original stay in 1983.
10 Years Ago: Hot to Wet ! 5 Years Ago: A First Visit
SO SOON after the Heat- BROUGHAM HALL ’s wave conditions of late- much-respected stonema- June and early-July 2009, rain and floods lead to the son, Piers Merry, who we hurried abandonment of the have known for fifteen Cumberland Show in Rick- years or more, celebrates erby Park, Carlisle, on Sat- a new chapter in his life, urday, 18th. July. The show with his wife Anna giving directors accept the offer birth to their new son, of a new venue, and the Finlay. He has just made first show at Carlisle race- his debut at Brougham course is soon booked for Hall. Piers Merry, Anna 2010. [The event has since and their new son visited moved on, to East Park, at 20042004 Brougham Hall during a nearby Brisco, and 2019’s call to Cumbria between show was on Sat., 15th. June.] Above: Hall News 500 is the latest of the publication’s periodic Project Reviews , and Work at Brougham Hall is is also dated to the start of its editor’s latest voluntary-adventure holiday in July 2004. Monday, 7th. and Thurs- also affected in some way. day, 10th. July, 2014. Heatwave temperatures Piers was engaged to Anna [neé Nowak] in his native also prevailed for many days in late-May and early- Australia on 6th. July, 2013, and they married soon af- June 2009, reaching a peak in Carlisle at 29’C., (84’F.), terwards. Their son was born in February, 2014 — and and also affecting some of the work at Brougham Hall. Hall News dubbed him “Mr. Multinational”!
Driveway Work. - A new Driveway is created, in July 2009, Showing The Way. — Carpenter Bill Ramsey, of Bill’s Bespoke on the south side of the Carriage House, to replace the Joinery , in the Carriage House, has been busy replacing the visitor muddy track that has existed here. It has been laid to enable guide “lollipop” signs that are located at significant sites around the access to stonemason Piers Merry’s Carriage House workshop Hall. Each is painted in the familiar, eye-catching white, and, no so vehicles can now easily be backed-up to the Carriage doubt, updated versions of the laminated sheets for the signs have House to load or off-load Pier’s stone, or completed artworks. been added by Christopher Terry in time for the summer holidays. JULYJULY 20092009 JULY 2014
Brougham Hall News 870 - Friday, 12th. July, 2019 . - Page 143 - [email protected] HEAVY R AINS AND INTENSE S TORMS .
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ON M ONDAY , 22nd. July, a thun- derstorm in the Penrith district caused mayhem, bringing rain in “pailfuls”, proving no less than “disastrous”, and being called the “most violent we ever remember”. 1872 The thunder reportedly “made the ground tremble ... lightning GOING FROM ‘HARD AS I RON’ vividly flashed in all directions, striking terror in the stoutest heart”, and, but for Penrith’s new drainage system, there must have TO VERITABLE ‘QUAGMIRE’. been extensive floods. The storm lasted for well over three hours TOO H ARD TO D IG IN S UMMER - E XCEPT IN 1872! R AILWAY and was particularly destructive NAVVIES IN B OTHER OVER T REACHEROUS B OULDER -CLAY . around Arthur Street and Meet- ing House Lane; large blocks of being so waterlogged. Whereas it has been stone were left in the streets as a almost as hard as iron to take a pick-axe result of a torrent of water and to in hot weather, up to now, the clay has debris from the Beacon hill. been utterly transformed; it has the consis- Farmers had, most fortunately, tency of soup and is being shifted in buckets. They had been shifting it with dynamite. got much of their hay in, but the The works have been seriously retarded countryside was much afflicted. by the driving away of many workmen from The lightning was particularly these remote moors, reducing the number of destructive in the Langwathby working days available, and leaving much area, where Mrs. Kidd’s house of the material for the embankments so was obliterated and the gable soft that it can not be tipped until the fine end of neighbour John Hodg- weather returns. Many of the large cut- son’s house was brought down - tings have had to be deserted for a time. both houses will likely need to THIS YEAR’s Dire Summer , especially in These three years past, since work on be wholly rebuilt - and a beauti- the bleak moorland districts, has greatly the railway began, there have been reports ful tree nearby was destroyed. held up construction work on the Settle-to- of men accommodated by the dozen in ‘living- Around the end of August, a Carlisle Midland Railway extension over vans’, especially in the settlement at Rib- new Maypole had to be raised on blehead that is locally called “Batty-wife- the wild moors of Yorkshire and Westmor- hole”. On their way to or from work in that Milburn Butt Hill, after its an- land. have had to contend with cient predecessor fell to the Helm Navvies place, men have had to contend with deep Wind , a local phenomenon. Then, treacherous boulder-clay and days of satu- mud-holes that might swallow them entirely on Wednesday, 4th. September, rating, incessant rain for so much of 1872, but for the desperate efforts of their mates Penrith was again visited by a with conditions being little short of dreadful. in digging them out, often at night. Firstly, the masons of Batty Moss Viaduct, “At the bottom of Rise-hill, or Black- terrific storm. This time the town moss”, one wrote in the Lancaster Guardian ; badly affected, the sewers at Ribblehead, as well as on Dent Head Via- was duct, and other sections of the new line, were “We came to a deep and wide gully, through being totally overwhelmed. The which runs Cowgill-beck. Many disasters of house of a Mr. Nicholson, near on strike for over a week, indignant at being paid just 6 shillings three-pence for a nine-hour a nature to retard operations have occurred Thackagate, was much damaged during the progress of the work on account by the , which was day. When the contractors asked them to do electric fluid ten-hour shifts in the Summer, for four shillings of the frequent rains and floods. At times it dazzling and in frequent sheet was impossible to go on. As it was imprac- or forked in form throughout. extra in all, they walked out, the Lancaster ticable to divert the stream in consequence This time, homes and businesses Guardian reported. That was only part of the of the gully on both sides being so steep, in Queen Street were flooded. drama. The Summer itself has been dismal, the staging (wooden scaffolding) and other Cattle galloped around fields along with so much of the year, weather-wise; materials were frequently washed away. in the Skelton area the previous some 92 inches [2,339 millimetres] of rain was “The filling-up of this gully will be a night, in terror, and birds were recorded at Dent Head during 1872, and 60 great and a difficult operation on account darting about in all directions, inches [1,524 millimetres] at Kirkby Stephen, a of its great depth and the miry nature of while homes “shook” and many short distance to the north of the line’s highest the earth in the immediate district. It was animals cowered in apparent terror. point at Ais Gill. In many locations along the calculated that it would take about 200,000 On the night of Monday, route, boulder-clay has become a veritable and cubic-yards of earth to fill this gully, now it dangerous, cloying quagmire with the ground is thought that it will take 155,000 more”. 17th., and Tuesday, 18th. December, around eighty sheep were lost to floods on different IMPRESSIVE MOORLAND B RIDGE AND V IADUCT . farms in the Burthwaite area, a “N EAR Garsdale is Moorcock Bridge, which few miles to the south of Carlisle. ‘skews’ at an angle of 70 degrees. This fine, massive-looking bridge, which crosses FIRST C ONTEST FOR the Hawes and Sedbergh road, contains THE “F.A. C UP ”. about 3,000 cubic-yards of masonry. The
THE FOOTBALL A SSOCIATION ’S structure is finished, with the exception first ‘Challenge Cup’ final was played of the coping stones. It has a span of 35ft., on Saturday, 16th. March, at Kennington and is 36ft. high. Close by, to the South, Oval, London, the local Wanderers beating will be the 12-arch Dandry Mire (or the Royal Engineers by one goal to none. Garsdale) Viaduct.” - Lancaster Guardian.
Original Reports: British Library Board [British Newspaper Archive Website, All Rights Reserved] ; Penrith Observer; Lancaster Guardian …, The Marriage of CHOIR “BANNED”. Mystery of The ‘Mary Celeste’.
THERE is an unholy row at a ————–———————————————————————— Sir. Henry Tufton to festival to mark the anniver- Miss Harriet Stracey. sary of the Penrith Primitive FOUND ADRIFT … AND CREWLESS.
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————–———————————————————————— when the Brougham Chapel Choir and crewless - apparently “THE M ARRIAGE of Sir. Henry were reportedly “banned” from deserted - near the remote performing at the Festival. Azores Islands, in the mid- Tufton, Baronet , Appleby Castle, The Rector of Brougham, Rev. and Miss Alice Harriet Argyll Atlantic. The Mary Celeste, W. S. Salman, noticed a placard an American (formerly British- Stracey, second daughter of that stated that his Chapel Choir the Rev. William J. Stracey, would participate in a Primitive Canadian) brigantine, the was Methodist anniversary, and promptly found afloat on Thursday, 5th. Rector of Buxton, Norfolk, forbade them from doing so. Mr. December, by the crew of the Dei Gratia - another brigantine, from took place at St. George’s, A. McDougall, of Barco, Penrith, Canada. The Mary Celeste was found to be “in a dishevelled but Hanover Square [Mayfair, London] , said he was “extremely pained” seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat miss- on Tuesday, 10th. December. to hear of Rev. Salman’s move, ing”, en-route from New York to Croatia. The crew seem to have That evening, at the best saying: “I can only regard it as been overtaken by some strange event four weeks in; and her log- one of the bad fruits of the con- book was last dated ten days before the ship reappeared. There were commanding sites in Appleby, nection between the Church and still plenty of food and other provisions on board, and neither the Brough, Dufton, &c., in the the State. I am glad to find that crews’ belongings nor cargo of ‘denatured’ alcohol were touched. neighbourhood, bonfires, fire- a prominent member of the Choir works and other such tokens of has repudiated any connection, on NEW RAILWAY TO Death - aged 14 - of his part, with what has been done”. demonstration were on display”. Greyfriars Bobby . There are hopes that, in time, the CONSTANTINOPLE. ‘S TEAMER ’ IS L ATEST connection between Church and State MODERN A DVANCES IN T RANS- THIS Poor though interesting will be cut - leaving all participants PORT reach an ancient port dog died on Sunday evening, IN ROAD T RANSPORT . believing that they might be equal. ... 14th. January, at the sup- city when a railway is at last “On Thursday evening [12 Jan.], built into the Ottoman port posed age, in human terms, of a ‘road steamer’ [wagon] passed INTER -CITY R UGBY of Constantinople. Although 14, having for much of his life through Kirkby Lonsdale, draw- the original plans had to be guarded his master’s grave in ing a wagon-load of coals on its UNION F OOTBALL . the elegant Greyfriars Kirk------scaled back (Constantinople way to Underley. This is the first was to have been connected yard, Edinburgh, since he , a time that anything of the kind Glasgow vs. Edinburgh. lowly shepherd known only as to Vienna, Austria, but for finan- has been seen in the town and, as AT Burnbank, Glasgow, home cial troubles within the Ottoman Auld John Gray, died in 1858. a natural consequence, it created of the Glasgow Academicals Empire ), a hugely-positive A notable court case, in a great amount of curiosity. It is Rugby Football Club , on Satur- 1867, ended with Lord Pro- outlook for the age-old city’s vost Chambers granting the to run chiefly between Underley day, 23rd. Nov’r., was played economy is being envisioned. and Kirkby Lonsdale Railway Skye Terrier Freedom of the the first of two matches under CLOCK FOR K IRKBY S TEPHEN Station. The engine is about 20- this designation. Much antici- City , with him being identi- horsepower, and has been made CHURCH T OWER . - A fine, clock, fied for the public by his spe- pated and watched by many with three handsome dials and by an Ipswich firm for the Earl hundreds, the match was badly cially-engraved collar, after it of Bective.” - P/Obs’vr ., Tue., 16 Jan’y.. full set of chimes, and adopting was accepted and ruled that affected by heavy rain and mud, the very latest mechanical im- Bobby would always refuse to APPLEBY F OOTBALL . as with so many things in 1872, provements, has been provided be taken in by new owners or “ON T UESDAY , (3rd. Dec’r.), and saw the men of Glasgow , in for Kirkby Stephen Church even his ‘guardian’, a cafete- a match was played between white, take on the rival twenty tower, thanks to the benevo- ria owner named Mr. Traill, Appleby Grammar School and the of Edinburgh , in dark blue; not lence of Miss Thompson of and insist instead on remain- Town. The sides were evenly that either team stayed in the Stobars Hall. - Penrith Observer , ing ever by his master’s side. matched but, after some exciting colours in which they started. Tuesday, 10th. December. and spirited play, Barnes scored a Edinburgh , the heavier side, at DEATH of The EARL length won the contest, and a STANLEY F INDS L IVINGSTONE . goal for the School.” - Penrith THERE Was remarkable inter- of LONSDALE. ‘return’ game is much anticipated. Observer, Tuesday, 10th. Dec’r.. est in reports that Mr. Morton ONE OF S EVERAL L OSSES T HIS Y EAR . A P ENRITH P LACE OF R EST . - BELLS S TRIKE . - Bell-ringers Stanley had found Dr. David An Extensive, new public at All Saints’ Church , Cock- Livingstone in the heart of Af- WILLIAM LOWTHER , the 2nd. cemetery has just been opened ermouth, went on strike on rica. It took forty days for the Earl of Lonsdale, of Lowther Cas- on the upper Beacon hillside Sunday, 14th. January, for news to reach the coast at Zanzi- tle, near Penrith, died at Carleton (by Beacon Road) in Penrith. want of a rise in their pay. bar. - Penrith Observer , Tue., 7th. May. House Terrace, his residence in London, on the night of Mon- day, 4th. March, in his 85th. JOHN R USKIN S ETS U P L AKES H OME . year. His was only one of several ------deaths among the local gentry THE NOTED ARTIST AND ART CRITIC. this year. Colonel Edward Wil- liams Hasell, of Dalemain, passed ONE OF The greatest art-critics of the age, and an artist and on Sunday, 7th. April, aged possessor of many skills, Mr. John Ruskin has made a home 75; William Marshall, of Pat- in the Lake District. He bought for £1,500, from Mr. W. J. terdale Hall, died on Thursday, Linton, the rather dilapidated Brantwood House , on the 11th. May, in London, aged 76; shores of Coniston Water, in August last year and, intending it and Sir. George Musgrave, of to be his main home, has made various improvements, Eden Hall, on Sunday, 29th. such as the provision of larger boat-landings and an ice- in pouring rain. He had not got off the train before it set off for Oxenholme, and had to let December, in his 74th. year. house [for the refrigeration of food], as well as a turret for On Thursday, 8th. February, his bedroom, to afford him a panoramic view of the lake. himself fall into the mail-collection net and be thus hauled in - once he’d managed to Lord Mayo (Richard Southwell STUCK ON MAIL TRAIN ROOF. - ONE of the ‘lamp-men’ attract the sorters’ attention by kicking the Bourke, 6th. Earl of Mayo and from Carlisle (who change the roof-mounted lamps in rail carriages; roof. He was soaking-wet and benumbed with an ex-Cockermouth M.P., latterly they slot in from above) was rescued near Plumpton on Wednesday cold, and was also obliged to continue the jour- the Viceroy of India) was assassi- night, 2nd. October, after being on the train roof for around 12 miles ney to Oxenholme before finding any dry clothes. nated at Port Blair, India, at 49.
… Also: the Wikipedia Website (and ‘Credits ’), and the Websites of The Scotsman newspaper and the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line, (FoSCL) . Brougham Hall News News Page Closure of 700 Betting Shops Select, Recent Local, National, and International Stories . . . . . ——————————— —— ———————— —— ——— After-Effects of Changes in Gambling Laws FIRST SCHEDULED PASSENGER FLIGHTS Story: BBC News Website , Thursday, 4th. July.: FROM CARLISLE AIRPORT SINCE 1993 S N BOOKMAKER William Hill Flights For London, recently announced that they Collapse of The Oldest Ms. Willard said: “The plan to close down around British Building Firm Dublin and Belfast launch of passenger flights seven-hundred of their high------Story: Simon Meechan , Newcastle Evening . at Carlisle Lake District Air- street betting-shops in the Rich 528-Year-History Chronicle Website (“Chronicle Live”) , port (formerly Carlisle Crosby- next few weeks or months - Thursday, 4th. July.: on-Eden Airport) is of huge a move that could end the CARLISLE LAKE DISTRICT significance for the Northern jobs of 4,500 employees. Airport has welcomed its Powerhouse as it will connect William Hill currently have first commercial passen- regions and economies. 2,822 shops and 12,500 em- ger flights for 26 years. “Airports are symbols of ployees but suggest the clo- On Thursday, 4th. July, confidence and this shows sures could begin by year’s the first of these flights left Cumbria is open for busi- end. The firm stated they’re the airport a few miles east ness. It was unbelievably obliged to reduce services of Carlisle, which is owned disappointing for every- after the Government deci- Above: Poundsbridge Manor, and operated by the haul- body - particularly for the sion, three months ago, to at Penshurst, Kent, was originally built age ‘giant’ Stobart Group team who worked so hard reduce the maximum stake by R. Durtnell &. Sons in 1593 - then and is now renamed Car- when the launch day for on fixed-odds betting-machines partly rebuilt by them after bomb dam- lisle Lake District Airport . these flights was delayed from £100 a time - to just £2. age in World War II. - Image: Paul Am- The services are to [twice] last year. “We’ve seen a significant sinck / Letitia Byrne (1810); Wikipedia . London [Southend], Belfast “We have now moved fall in gaming machine reve------City and Dublin, and are forward, and we have a full nues since the changes”, a Story: BBC News Website , Thu., 4th. July.: operated by Scottish airline cohort of air-traffic control company representative said; THE OLDEST Construction Loganair using a fleet of staff here, and ready.” “The group look to ap- Company in Britain closed 33-seater Saab 340B air- Flights were initially set ply voluntary redundancy down early this month - end- craft, offering nine return to return to the Airport in and extensive re-deployment ing a rich, 528-year history. services on weekdays and June 2018, but an air-traffic measures, and will provide R. Durtnell and Sons ceased five, daily, at weekends. control staff shortage led to support to all colleagues trading, and left over 100 The first flight, for Dub- a year-long delay. This throughout the process.” skilled craftspeople jobless. lin Airport, was waved off airport, like so many others William Hill have not yet Durtnells ’ (or Dartnell’s , to following a blessing from around Britain, is a former stated which of the stores “update” their name), was the Archdeacon of Carlisle, RAF airfield, and its previ- will close but the shop staff set up on 22nd. July, 1591, the Ven erable Lee Townend. ous commercial passenger were informed right away. specifies Wikipedia - in the Stobart Group Director flights were made in 1993. of Partnership Develop- Cheapest fares today are Money Can Be Quickly Lost reign, rather ironically, of Queen Elizabeth I. It was run ment, Kate Willard, said: priced from £39.99 for Bel- The Government greatly by thirteen generations of “It’s going to be an extraor- fast, and £44.99 for both reduced the maximum stake dinary day for the airport Dublin and London Southend. the family. The company was on fixed-odds terminals in and for the city of Carlisle.” working on a £22m., partial- The Huge Success of response to great and wide- refurbishment of the Royal The Roads to The Skies . spread concerns that many Womens’ World Cup players were quickly losing Pavilion Estate in Brighton The airport is accessed USA as Winners, England Fourth when it closed forever. They from the A689, six miles (9.6 large amounts of money. were based at Brasted, Kent, kilometres) east of Carlisle THE WOMENS’ Foot- Electronic “gaming” - or and started as carpenter- city centre, five miles (8 kms.) ball World Cup tourney, gambling - machines allow builders, building wholly in from the A69 road between which is seen as a hugely- players to bet on the out- wood rather than in brick or Newcastle and Carlisle and successful one in the ad- come of various, simulated stone. In 1593, only two years 18 miles (29 kms.) from Halt- vancement of ladies’ sport, games such as Black-Jack , after their establishment, they whistle, in Northumberland. concluded on Sunday (7th. Roulette or Bingo , as well designed and built the Picture It is hoped that the air- July) with a 2-0 win by the as horse races - actual or House , Poundsbridge Manor - port will boost Lake District United States of America, in virtual reality . William Hill the kind of black-and-white, tourism and bring new travel defending champions, over feared the Government deci- timber-framed house that opportunities for people in the Netherlands ; Bronze Medal sion would cut annual bet- is so symbolic of the age. Cumbria and the general area. Game: Sweden 2 - England 1. shop sales by up to £100m.. Brougham Hall Charitable Trust — Registered U.K. Charity Number 517943 BROUGHAM HALL NEWS is Produced by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH , Colinsburgh, Fife.
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