DOCSLIB.ORG

Alston HALL, Longridge, Preston, Lancs, PR3 3BP Case Number

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Alston HALL, Longridge, Preston, Lancs, PR3 3BP Case Number Historic England Advice Report 07 September 2016 Case Name: Alston HALL, Longridge, Preston, Lancs, PR3 3BP Case Number: 1433442 Background Historic England has received an application to consider Alston Hall for listing. The application has been prompted by the redundancy of the building and its marketing by the owners. Asset(s) under Assessment Facts about the asset(s) can be found in the Annex(es) to this report. Annex List Entry Number Name Heritage Category HE Recommendation 1 1434771 Alston Hall Listing Add to List Visits Date Visit Type 11 April 2016 Full inspection Context Alston Hall is mentioned in the ‘Lancashire: North’ volume of the Pevsner Buildings of England guide, but has not previously been assessed for listing. Assessment CONSULTATION Due to the impending sale of the building, a reduced consultation period of one week was agreed with the owners and the applicant. The applicant, the owners (Lancashire County Council) and their sales agents, the Historic Environment Record, and the local planning authority were invited to comment on the factual details of the case as part of the consultation process. The applicant confirmed that they had no additional information to add; no other responses to the consultation were received. DISCUSSION The statutory criteria for a building being included on the List are that it holds special architectural or historic interest. The general principles the Secretary of State applies when deciding whether a building is of special architectural or historic interest are set out in the Principles of Selection for Listing Buildings (DCMS, 2010). Further detailed considerations are published in Historic England's Selection Guides for specific building types, in this case the most relevant being Domestic 3: Suburban and Country Houses (2011). This highlights the need for progressively greater selectivity after 1840, and that key considerations will be the quality of elevational design, planning interest, the quality and survival of decorative elements, and innovation. As described in the entry in the Pevsner Buildings of England guide, Alston Hall makes good use of the progression of elevations, in particular on its garden front (south elevation). In addition, the varying height of the different projecting elements on that elevation helps to create a harmonious composition and to identify principal internal spaces. This careful use of recession extends to other elevations; for example through the tower projecting from the east front, which in turn sits forward of the east wall of the north range. This lends the square house an aspect similar to the phased, courtyard-plan houses built when the style was new. The Page 1 of 8 Historic England Advice Report 07 September 2016 overall Tudor Revival style is plain, but close inspection reveals substantial detailing beyond the obvious hoodmoulds to windows. This includes chevron courses and blind oculi in the gables, scrolls to the kneeler corbels, and even gablets to the shoulders of the tall chimney stacks and machicolations to their corbelled tops. The detailing to the tower is particularly fine, with machicolations, gargoyles and elaborate stops to the hoodmoulds of the (projecting) porte-cochere arches. The high standard of detailing is continued internally with Gothic details (mainly in the public spaces) mixing with what Darbyshire called the French-Italian style in the rooms. Together, the Entrance Hall, galleried staircase, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Drawing Room and Chapel make a very good suite of high-status spaces, with very finely-detailed plasterwork, good joinery and good use of high-quality stone such as marble and granite. Good detailing is also found in private and lower-status spaces such as bedrooms and the service stair, not just in the more prestigious areas. Overall, the design is carefully considered and well executed, and above the ordinary standard for its time. It compares well, for example, with the larger but similar-style Crookhey Hall (National Heritage List for England 1071793), of 1874 by Alfred Waterhouse, who was articled to the partner of Darbyshire’s mentor, Peter Alley. It is also of a similar style and standard to Shavington Hall (1877, NHLE 1258019). The designer of Alston Hall, Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), was a notable theatre architect, in particular having improved fire safety for audiences. His work was chiefly around Manchester (including The Palace Theatre, Grade II, NHLE 1271227), but also in London and Exeter. Some of his domestic work is already listed, mainly at Lyme Park where he designed or altered several buildings. His authorship of Alston Hall is mentioned in his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was elected an associate of the Institute of British Architects in 1864, fellow in 1870, and vice-president 1902–5. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1894. From 1901 to 1903 he was president of the Manchester Society of Architects, and did much to encourage the foundation of a chair of architecture at Manchester University. He was also a notable figure in Manchester society, being one of the original members of the Brasenose Club, and well-known in theatrical circles. He published several books on heraldry, and The Booke of Olde Manchester and Salford, A Chronicle of the Brasenose Club, Manchester, An Architect's Experiences: Professional, Artistic, and Theatrical, and The Art of the Victorian Stage. The attribution of the design to Darbyshire adds to the special architectural interest manifest in the fabric. Darbyshire’s work at Alston Hall is largely still extant, partly due to good stewardship of the building by its public-sector owners since 1949. Alterations have been carried out sympathetically, with much of the accommodation for residential courses being provided in the attics, and with partitioning of service rooms on the main floors respecting and preserving the elaborate cornicing and skirting. Some fireplaces have been replaced or altered, but few have been blocked and many are probably original. Good quality flooring, joinery and fittings are still found throughout the building, including quarry tiles on the cellar floor. In addition, the only extension, in the north-east corner, is single-storey and has been carefully designed to match the original. This extension is not of special interest, but equally has not detracted from the interest of the original building, or the ancillary buildings with which it links. There is no special interest in the interior of the stable block other than the probable original roof trusses, although the exterior contributes to the interest of the hall, as do the surviving remains of the walled garden (not including modern alterations and repairs) and glass-house. The loss of the original conservatory is a minor one, and its replacement has also not reduced the special interest of the hall; neither has the loss of the attached glasshouses from the north-west corner. The most significant loss externally is the removal of some of the stone mullions and transoms on the south elevation, which are shown in a historic photograph, and also not present in another photograph of uncertain, but historic, age. However, similar windows survive intact on other elevations, and some mullions remain on this elevation. The pattern of the replacement timber windows follows that of the original divisions. Overall the hall can still be read more or less in its original form, and the additions could be reversed with little negative impact. The survival of the walled garden, stable block and ancillary buildings adds to the interest of the house as these elements form part of its original setting and assist in understanding how the house was run. In recommending the extent of designation, we have considered whether powers of exclusion under s.1 (5A) of the 1990 Act are appropriate, and consider that they are, which is clear in the proposed List entry. CONCLUSION After examining all the records and other relevant information and having carefully considered the architectural and historic interest of this case, the criteria for listing are fulfilled. Alston Hall is therefore recommended for listing at Grade II. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION Alston Hall, a country house of 1876 designed by Alfred Darbyshire, is recommended for listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Page 2 of 8 Historic England Advice Report 07 September 2016 * Design quality: with highly decorative elevations and interesting planning including a porte-cochere beneath a tower, and comparing well with other listed examples of similar age; * Architect: as a good domestic design by the notable theatre architect Alfred Darbyshire; * Degree of survival: due to its little-altered appearance and interior, in particular the dining room, drawing room and galleried stair hall, but with historic joinery, plasterwork, fireplaces and light fittings throughout. Countersigning comments: Agreed. Alston Hall (and it's associated walled garden and stable block) designed by the notable theatre architect Alfred Darbyshire, is nicely massed, planned and detailed and survives in relatively intact form. It compares well to other country houses of this date and scale that are already on the NHLE and therefore merits its own place on the List at Grade II. V Fiorato, 5 September 2016 Page 3 of 8 Historic England Advice Report 07 September 2016 Annex 1 List Entry List Entry Summary This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. Name: Alston Hall List Entry Number: 1434771 Location Alston Lane, Alston, Preston, PR3 3BP The listed buildings are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map, the iron gateposts and gates at the entrance, and the iron hoop-top fence and gate enclosing the S lawn) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • A Biographical Case Study of Social Mobility in Victorian Britain
    ORBIT-OnlineRepository ofBirkbeckInstitutionalTheses Enabling Open Access to Birkbeck’s Research Degree output The knight from nowhere : a biographical case study of social mobility in Victorian Britain https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40324/ Version: Full Version Citation: Powell, Victoria Elizabeth (2018) The knight from nowhere : a biographical case study of social mobility in Victorian Britain. [Thesis] (Unpublished) c 2020 The Author(s) All material available through ORBIT is protected by intellectual property law, including copy- right law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Deposit Guide Contact: email 1 ‘The Knight from Nowhere’: A Biographical Case Study of Social Mobility in Victorian Britain Victoria Elizabeth Powell Department of History, Classics & Archaeology Birkbeck, University of London Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) June 2017 2 Abstract This study re-examines social mobility in Victorian Britain, focusing on the experiences of the actor Henry Irving (1838-1905). Irving rose from ‘humble’ beginnings to become one of the most respected men in Victorian society, and was the first actor to receive a knighthood. The Victorians celebrated the possibilities of social mobility, or ‘self-making’ as they termed it, through independence, diligence and thrift, pointing to exemplary figureheads such as Irving. But self-making was a cultural fantasy, and this study tracks Irving’s experiences to investigate the realities of his unusual achievement. I explore life in the rural and urban places where Irving lived, and position him within cultures of education, theatre, and artistic bohemia. In this way I signal the importance of such contexts in modulating experience, behaviour, and bodily comportment.
    [Show full text]
  • Final Resubmitted Thesis Title Page May 2008
    Nineteenth-Century Shakespeares: Nationalism and Moralism by Mark G. Hollingsworth Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2007 Contents i Contents Contents i Long Abstract iii Acknowledgements vi Textual Note vii Introduction 1 Part One Contexts Chapter One Nationalism 44 a) Shakespeare and Nationalism 44 b) Shakespeare and the Nation 58 i) Ancestry 64 ii) Geography 70 iii) Patriotism 81 c) Shakespeare and the Nineteenth Century 95 i) Whig History 101 ii) Tory History 107 Chapter Two Moralism 115 a) Shakespeare and Moralism 115 b) Shakespeare and Private Moralism 143 i) Relationships and the Family 143 ii) The Marriage of Anne and William Shakespeare 149 c) Shakespeare and Public Moralism 158 i) Social Status and Class Position 159 ii) The Business of John and William Shakespeare 167 Contents ii Part Two Case Study Chapter Three The Sonnets 176 a) The Sonnets 176 b) The Sonnets and Nationalism 199 c) The Sonnets and Moralism 222 i) The Dark Lady 235 ii) The Fair Youth 243 d) The Sonnets and Ancient Greece 251 Conclusion 288 Appendix One Publication Graph 297 Bibliography 298 Long Abstract iii Long Abstract This thesis shows that ‘Shakespeare’ (both the works and the man) was at the forefront of literary activity in the nineteenth century. By focusing on concerns about the identity of the British nation and its people it shows that Shakespeare was a constant presence in the debates of the day and that a number of agendas were pursued through what were ostensibly writings about Shakespeare’s plays and the biography of their author.
    [Show full text]
  • L.L.H.F. Newsletter 17
    local history federation ancashire LANCASHIRE LOCAL HISTORY FEDERATION NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 17 NOVEMBER 2016 ================================================================= LLHF NEWSLETTER EDITOR: MRS. M. EDWARDS Telephone: 0161 256 6585 email: [email protected] *DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: FEBRUARY 2nd, 2017 *PLEASE NOTE ALL DEADLINES FOR 2017: FEBRUARY 2nd; MAY 15th; AUGUST 15th; NOVEMBER 15th ================================================================= Chair: Marianne Howell 01942 492855 07779677730 [email protected] Vice-Chair: Morris Garratt 0161 439 7202 [email protected] Secretary: John Wilson 03330 062270 [email protected] Treasurer: Peter Bamford 01253 796184 [email protected] Membership Secretary: Zoë Lawson 01772 865347 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Margaret Edwards 0161 256 6585 [email protected] Website Manager: Stephen T. Benson 01772 422808 [email protected] =================================================================== * The Editor cordially invites you to submit your Society information, and your own news, notes, reports and articles.* =================================================================== View from the Chair This may be the first time you have read a copy of the Federation Newsletter – if so, welcome! You will see that it is full of useful information which our Editor, Margaret Edwards, diligently collects and presents. We hope that you will be able to attend some of the activities outlined in these pages. In doing so, you will be supporting
    [Show full text]
  • The Ockleston Memorial, Cheadle Green History & Heritage Significance
    The Ockleston Memorial, Cheadle Green History & Heritage Significance July 2014 The Ockleston Memorial, Cheadle Green A report on the history & significance of the memorial prepared for CHEADLE CIVIC SOCIETY by The Architectural History Practice Ltd July 2014 CONTENTS Executive summary 1.0 Introduction 1.1. Background to the report 1.2. Purpose of the report 1.3 Acknowledgements 1.4 Copyright 2.0 History, Design & Context 2.1 Background: Victorian Memorials 2.2. The Ockleston Memorial 2.3 Designer, Alfred Darbyshire 2.4 Form and design 2.5 Later alterations 2.6 Cheadle Green: outline history and development 2.7 The Memorial and Cheadle Green – recent history & new proposals 3.0. Significance of The Ockleston Memorial 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Summary of significance 3.3 Setting 4.0. Conclusion Sources Appendix 1: Listed Building Description Ockleston Memorial, Heritage Statement, July 2014 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Robert Ockleston was a popular doctor in Cheadle; after he died in 1888 a subscription was raised to fund a water fountain to his memory, erected in Cheadle in 1889. The memorial was designed in gothic revival style by the Manchester architect Alfred Darbyshire, using Aberdeen granite, Mansfield limestone and Titancrete. The fountain was a multi-purpose structure that provided water for horses in troughs around the base, water fountains for local people and a lamp. It occupied a prominent position at the junction of Manchester Road and Stockport Road next to Cheadle Green until it was relocated in 1967 to a site to the east, on the edge of a new residential estate. Some changes were made to the fountain at unknown dates between 1889 and the early 20th century; a comparison of historic images shows that additional lamps were added, and most of the water fountains were removed.
    [Show full text]
  • The Magical Body on the Stage
    1 The Magical Body on the Stage: Henry Irving Reconsidered Michael Kendrick Punter Submitted for the degree of PhD Royal Holloway College, University of London Department of Drama and Theatre March 2014 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 6 Declaration 7 Abstract 8 Introduction 1 Outline 10 2 Methodology 15 3 Early Biographies of Irving and the Irving Narrative 19 4 Negative Responses to Irving’s Acting 23 5 Later Biographies and the Irving Narrative 24 6 Recent Irving Scholarship 26 7 Irving, Shaw and Modernity 30 8 An Overview of the Thesis 35 Chapters 1: Henry Irving and the Great Tragedians 1:1 Introduction 37 1:2 Irving’s Self-Fashioning 38 1:3 Irving’s Early Work 40 1:4 Irving and J.L. Toole 41 1:5 Influences on Irving’s Acting Style 43 1:5:1 John Phillip Kemble 45 1:5:2 Edmund Kean 48 1:5:3 William Charles Macready 53 1:5:4 Samuel Phelps 61 1:6 Conclusion 69 3 2: Henry Irving’s Early Career 2:1 Introduction 71 2:2 Irving’s Initial Casting 72 2:3 Irving’s Public Readings 76 2:4 Irving in Dublin 78 2:5 The Davenport brothers and Occult Performance 83 2:6 Irving’s Spiritualist Burlesque 90 2:7 Changes to Irving’s Casting from 1865 101 2:8 The Dream of Eugene Aram 106 2:9 Conclusion 107 3: The Bells: The Spectacular Body and the Magical Body 3:1 Introduction 108 3:2 The Melodramatic Body 108 3:2:1 The Magical Body 110 3:3 Background to The Bells 114 3:3:1 Texts of The Bells 115 3:3:2 Origins 116 3:4 Melodrama 117 3:5 Le Juif Polonais 122 3:5:1 Becoming The Bells 123 3:6 Critical Reception 125 3:7 Changes to The Bells 129 3:7:1 Lewis’s
    [Show full text]
  • Storey Buildings at ALSTON HALL: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Page 2
    PPRROOPPOOSSEEDD ddeemmoolliittiioonn ooff ssiinnggllee-- ssttoorreeyy bbuuiillddiinnggss aatt aallssttoonn hhaallll alston, borough of Ribble valley HERITAGE ASSESSMENT GGARRY MMILLER Historic Building Consultancy PROPOSED demolition of single-storey buildings at ALSTON HALL: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Page 2 PROPOSED demolition of single-storey buildings at alston hall alston, borough of Ribble valley Heritage assessment OCTOBER 2018 GARRY MILLER Historic Building Consultancy Crosby House, 412 Prescot Road, Eccleston Hill, St Helens, Lancashire WA10 3BT Telephone: 01744 739675 [email protected] © Garry Miller 2018 GARRY MILLER historic building consultancy PROPOSED demolition of single-storey buildings at ALSTON HALL: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Page 3 Contents 1: Executive Summary 4 2: The Site 5 3: The Proposal/Scope of this Report 6 4: Historical Context 8 5: Analysis of the Listed Building 9 6: Summary of Significance 14 7: Planning Policy Context 15 8: Impact of the Proposal 16 Appendix 1: List Description of Alston Hall 17 Appendix 2: Garry Miller Historic Building Consultancy 20 GARRY MILLER historic building consultancy PROPOSED demolition of single-storey buildings at ALSTON HALL: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Page 4 1: executive summary The subject of this report is Alston Hall, a Victorian country house located at Alston near Longridge in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire. Alston Hall is listed at Grade II. Proposals have been submitted to Ribble Valley Borough Council for demolition of single-storey buildings attached to the north side of Alston Hall. The heritage issue arising is the impact upon the significance (i.e. heritage interest and value) of the listed building. The scope and purpose of this report is therefore to describe this significance and assess how it will be affected by the proposal.
    [Show full text]
  • Heaton Moor Conservation Area
    HHEEAATTOONN MMOOOORR CONSERVATION AREA CHARACTER APPRAISAL March 2006 (Updated 2012) Special Character of the Heaton Moor Conservation Area The special character of the Heaton Moor Conservation Area derives from the following elements: • Development of an affluent railway suburb of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, over-laying earlier field and settlement patterns, which can still be traced in the land assembly and arrangement of building plots. • Trees, hedges and boundary walls, albeit of an urban form which still reflect the leafy, rural character of the earlier agricultural use of this area. • Sub-areas of special character reflecting the historic periods and multi-functional nature of its development. • Social and civic amenity buildings on Heaton Moor Road give the area a strong sense of local identity. • Distinctive architectural style, grandeur, spatial significance and maturity - most evident along Heaton Moor Road itself, and in those roads in closest proximity to Heaton Moor Road, with the exception of the densely developed areas around Derby Range and Moor Top. • Predominant architectural influences are Free Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts, with building materials predominantly red brick with yellow brick and stone detail, eclectic decorative finishes, slate and tile roofs • Individual roads of particular character such as the enclaves of Hawthorn Grove , Hooley Range and St Alban’s Avenue, the latter given particularly strong identity by the imposing stone gateposts to the road on Heaton Moor Road. • Stone gateposts, garden walls of brick or/and stone, and clear alignments of building plots with building frontages set well back from the road. • Significant views in the Area which focuses on development along Heaton Moor Road, its local centres, landmark buildings and features.
    [Show full text]
  • Harvard University
    PR EF AC E . So long a period has elapsed since a list of the Scholars m tt i nt A kw rt S l wa s u l t t no l ad i ed o c o h choo p b ished , ha apo ogy for the present v olu me is needed . “ The nl r v u L t w wa s t l C t lo u o y p e io s is , hich s y ed a a a g e a nd r nt i n 1 8 1 wa s m l WI LLI AM DOEG t n p i ed 3 co pi ed by , he a Teacher i n the School . The nu m r of n m n rt i n t at l st w a s 1 1 w l t be a es i se ed h i 5 5 , hi s 6 k he t m t 948 names are contained i n this bo o . T lis is co ple ed to th e time of the C elebration of the Centenary of the I nstitu tion on the 2 th of 6th m nt 1 8 . 7 o h , 7 9 It may be i nterest ing to mention that there are abo ut 1 3 00 ff r n u rn m i n t v l u m a n dt t 1 0 0 of t u r di e e t s a es his o e , ha 3 hese occ l in he l t of 1 8 1 r v n how l l r l t v n a so t is 3 , p o i g c ose y e a ed ha e bee n n kw r r the successive ge erat io s of Ac o th Schola s .
    [Show full text]
  • Information 92
    ISSN 0960-7870 BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY INFORMATION 92 SEPTEMBER 2003 OFFICERS OF THE BRITICH BRICK SOCIETY Chairman Terence Paul Smith Flat 6 BA, MA, MLitt 6 Hart Hill Drive E-mail: [email protected] LUTON Bedfordshire LU2 OAX Honorary Secretary Michael Hammett ARIBA 9 Bailey Close Tel: 01494-520299 HIGH WYCOMBE E-mail [email protected] Buckinghamshire HP13 6QA Membership Secretary Keith Sanders 24 Woodside Road (Receives all direct subscriptions, £10-00 per annum*) TONBRIDGE Tel: 01732-358383 Kent TN9 2PD E-mail [email protected] Editor of BBS Information David H. Kennett BA, MSc 7 Watery Lane (Receives all articles and items for BBS Information) SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR Tel: 01608-664039 Warwickshire CV36 4BE E-mail: [email protected] (term-time only) Honorary Treasurer Mrs W. Ann Los "Peran" (For matters concerning annual accounts, expenses) 30 Plaxton Bridge and Bibliographer Woodmansey BEVERLEY East Yorkshire HU17 ORT Publications Officer Mr John Tibbles Barff House 5 Ash Grove Sigglesthome HULL East Yorkshire HU11 5QE OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION : BRICK SECTION* Chairman Terence Paul Smith Address as above Honorary Secretary Michael Hammett Address as above Members of the BAA may join its brick section and, as such, will be eligible for affiliation to the British Brick Society at a reduced annual subscription of £7-00 per annum; for BAA Life Members, the subscription is waivered: they should infirm the BAA:BS secretary of their interest so that they can be included in the Membership List. Telephone numbers of members would be helpful for contact purposes, but will not be included in the Membership List.
    [Show full text]
  • Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection
    Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, Delaware Art Museum Acquisition Information Bequest of Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, 1935 Extent 47 linear feet Processed Betty Elzea, 1992 Access Restrictions Some restrictions apply to materials in Boxes 36 and 37A Contact Information Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Parkway Wilmington, DE 19806 (302) 571-9590 www.delart.org Preferred Citation Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection, Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, Delaware Art Museum Table of Contents History of the Collection Scope and Contents Note Organization of the Collection Description of the Collection Added Material – Bancroft Archives Drawer List – Bancroft Archives History of the Collection The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, is unique. No other art collection is devoted specifically to this important nineteenth century movement, and it is doubtful that there are many other collections so thoroughly documented. The collection came about through the personal taste and enthusiasm of Samuel Bancroft, Jr. (1840- 1915), a Wilmington Quaker industrialist, and his family and business connection with Manchester, England. Bancroft was the son of Joseph Bancroft (1803-1874) of Rockford (now part of the city of Wilmington), who emigrated from Lancashire to the U.S.A. in 1824. Joseph was following his brother John, who had emigrated in 1821, and his parents, John and Elizabeth (Wood) Bancroft who, with their other eleven children had emigrated in 1822.
    [Show full text]
  • The Victorian Society in Manchester Registered Charity No
    The Victorian Society in Manchester Registered Charity No. 1081435 Registered Charity No.1081435 Winter Newsletter 2013 history a mid-point between the was abolished in the decade following EDITORIAL Napoleonic Wars and the mechanized the conflict. CRIMEAN WAR: Commemoration carnage of the First World War. In and the adjustment to reality. common with that war, its causes are All the contemporary Times reports inexplicable if you leave out meticulous from the war front had immediate and observation of international treaty dramatic consequences including obligations. Essentially the Crimean the eventual fall of the then British War was a religious war between Government. One of the less the Christian Russian and Islamic exalted outcomes of these reports Ottoman Empires with Turkey having of the privations at the front was the as its allies the British and the French. appearance in the Crimea of an army Our involvement in the war was of black market privateers willing and strange enough but so was the war able to supply every need at a price. itself. It combined some up-to-date More famously, Florence Nightingale technologies with medieval chivalric and Mary Seacole fled to the war zone codes, for example, truces to clear to attend to the sick and the injured. the battlefields of the wounded and The chef Alexis Soyer went to improve the dead. It was the first war which the lot of the troops with his newly left a photographic legacy, images devised field stove and to bring a taken by mainly British and French more professional approach to military photographers.
    [Show full text]
  • The Victorian Society in Manchester Registered Charity No
    The Victorian Society in Manchester Registered Charity No. 1081435 Registered Charity No.1081435 Autumn Newsletter 2012 EDITORIAL where demolition is proposed, English things done. Latest achievement is the Heritage has allowed the relevant Local restoration of the twelve Saint’s statues Conservation – a Tale of Two Cities Authority to take the decision provided now replaced on their plinths in the The present is a good time to review that Local Authority was not the owner nave. the conservation and regeneration of the building in question. That is of our built heritage in Manchester not the case with Grade I and Grade and Salford. Over the past couple II* listings where the view of English of decades, the salvation of many Heritage would have to be sought and buildings has involved conversion in general their view would prevail. for two principal end usages – apart­ ments, and hospitality and catering. Many experienced professionals and Conversions to hotel, restaurant and volunteers in England’s heritage and bars have been particularly significant conservation lobbies feel that because in regenerating important buildings of current economic circumstances this in Manchester city centre where the different approach to Grade II listed scale of apartment conver sions has buildings may be seen as relaxed also caused the city to lead the way indifference by English Heritage and in a return to provincial city centre can be exploited to the detriment of living. However, current economic their cause. A further difficulty is that circumstances have led to a dramatic grants for Grade II listed buildings are decline in conversions and buildings by and large much harder to find than for residential purposes – apartments for the higher grades.
    [Show full text]