30th. Year, MMXVI Founde d Pe nrith, 1st. Dec. 1986. Issue No. 804 Brougham HallHall NewsNews B.H.C.T. PATRON - The Rt. Hon. LORD August 2016 BROUGHAM AND VAUX, C.B.E.. 1986 Thirty Years 2016 OF BROUGHAM HALL N E W S

AFTER A YEAR’S ILLNESS, Bravely Borne, Mr. Chris- HALL LOSES A topher Terry , the saviour and owner CHAMPION of Brougham Hall — and for 31 years a true heritage cham- AT 77 pion — passed away on the evening of Christopher Terry Tuesday, 9th. Au- R.I.P., 1938-2016 gust, aged 77. He “passed away quietly this evening”, Julia Churchill, the Brougham Hall Charitable Trust ’s secretary, said. Full Story: Page 364

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Pictorial A Fond Commemoration Farewell - Pages 358 to 363 to The

Man who was Brougham B.H.C.T. Images. Hall

Brougham Hall News August 2016 Also in This Edition ...... Issue 804 Page 357 Hall Team Anniversary ;; Rio Glory ;; Euro -Cash Hopes CHRISTOPHER TERRY — 1938-2016

Unit Nine , [Café], 12th. May, ’92.

V. E. Day, 8 May ’45

‘Showing Them Young’!?,

13th. July, ’92. With Syd. Walker, loses a Fireplace in U nit Nine , [Café]; 5th. Aug., ’92.

Assisting Lee Barry near the Courtyard Well on 21 Aug, ’89. [Hidden Floor Tiles]

Christopher and his two sons on the Shakespeare Weekend, 14 July, ’13.

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With the Glasgow Games Baton, aboard R.M.S. St. Helena ; Feb. ’14

Chatting with Pele Tower Survey Showing off Mark Dig Team Thomas’ Hall &. High Head Castle Aug, ’87. Book, 16 July ’92.

“Long John” On Inauguration C. T. Day of Brougham on 29 Hall Restoration July Project, 30th May, ’14 ’86. [Fred Wilson &. Herald Photo.]

With Thomas Arkle in “Pantries” ( Unit Eight ), Dec’r., ’89.

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‘Centre-Stage’, Fitting of Sanctuary Door-Knocker, 5th. March, ’93.

At The “Roman Road” Dig on the B.6262., Lowtherbridge, 7 Nov., ’92

There for Roof Assembly work on Unit Nine [Café], 18th. March, ’93.

With Lord [Michael] Brougham &. Vaux, CBE., Unit 9 ; August, 1993. Pele Tower; June 1995.

Apart from Family and the Hall, one of Christopher’s greatest loves was A LOVE OF Cricket. He was, however, unable to meet Brian Lara at Penrith on 10th. May, 1996 … … but then Hall News ’ THE GAME editor Alistair Aynscough was there.

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Christopher with Ian Burgham, a Canadian relative of the Brougham Family, 15 Aug., 1996.

Christopher Terry Building-Up, Heat- ing-Up, on U nit 12 as a Memorable Summer Gets Going; August, 1995.

Placing the Window Lintel of Unit 12 on 21 June, 1996.

“NOW Who’s The Boss? … !” Christopher and his son Jonathan at work — and play — in the “B.1.” Room ( Unit 11 ); 18 August, 1996. More in Hall News 805 Next Month - and Over Pa ge!

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Fingers Crossed! — Christopher Terry greets National Lottery Heritage F und executives on 13 March, 1997.

Christopher Terry with ‘sports art- ist’ Ashley Boon, ahead of Ashley’s Hall exhibition &. sale; 27 Oct, ’96.

“Look Through [Not Just] Any Win- dow”, ( Unit 12 ); 27 September, ’97.

Assembling the North Window of “Elevenses” was staged in October ’97 Unit Ten on 8th. July, 1999. for Hall New s ’ 11th. Anniversary.

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Using his Car as both shelter and Helping Clear Unit Ten ; Sept’r., ’98 — draughtsman’s table; 19 Dec., ’97. a rather less-tidy photo gra phic subject?!

Christopher is working again alongside the Hall builder Syd Walker — a legacy of his for mer business Beacon Build- ers — on Unit 10 in June ’98. ‘New Model..?’ To The Next Generation … (and New Car!)

11th. April, ’99.

Helping Syd. in Stables Courtyard Jonathan Terry (and Peter Braithwaite) (one of Syd.’s last jobs); 1 May ’99. at Unit Nine on 18th. October, 1997.

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 363 - [email protected] Hall’s ‘footprint’, and demolishing what little remained. To Jonathan, Jim, and all other Homes were built south of the Hall in the late-1980’s. and 1990’s., but these were of a higher standard than had members of the Family of reportedly been proposed earlier . That problem resolved, Mr . Terry over saw the r econstruction of a sizeable part of CHRISTOPHER TERRY ... the Hall , especially the former Stables, Kitchen and ser - vants’ accommodation areas, setting up the cherished Crafts Centre and other units to promote and preserve tr aditional crafts, and provide valuable training for a wide range of students and w ork trainees. Most of all , he was never afr aid to get his hands dirty , as many photos in this edition pr ove. Mr . Terry was first admitted to hospital a year or so ago, and remained there for tests for a number of days. He was discharged from hospital to convalesce at his bel oved Hi gh Head Castle home, near Ivegill, Carlisle. Things l ooked positive. He wrote in the year -ending Annual Report for the Hall Trus t : “The Founder Trustee, Christopher Terry, w oul d like to thank the Brougham Com- munity , friends and family, for the unconditional kindness and support that he has received since being diagnosed with widespread cancer in August 2015. The therapy i s 50%. complete, and doctors are cauti ously opti mistic. … Advice to fellow sufferer s - remain positive, keep busy , keep focused. While cancer can be tr agic, as was the case with John Cot- tam and Lisa Gardiner , it can al so be a tremendous spur to getting things done while there is still time.” Mr . Terry was back at Brougham Hall within a few From Alistair Aynscough, week s, and, indeed, things were certainly being done in Au- Editor of Brougham Hall News . gust last year , the very month he w as confirmed as having hi s illness. His sons, Jonathan [Jono.] and Ji m were busy preparing the Pele Tower for its comprehensive “demolition-and-rebuil d” restoration, and making a start on Death of Christopher Terry. a new flooring for the Mansion r ooms that flank the West Terrace: they were recorded in these tasks when Hall News ’ 22nd. December, 1938 - 9th. August, 2016. editor Alistair Aynscough visited on Fri day , 21st. August, —————————————————————————————————————————- ⊳— Cont. from Front Page (357). during one of his foray s into Cumbria from his home in Fife. Into the Winter , and Christopher Terry was certainly FTER A LONG ILLNESS, whi ch had been living up to that i nspirational ‘remain positive, keep busy, A diagnosed around a y ear ago, Christopher keep focused’ mantra. He made hi s regular trips to his office Terry , the saviour and owner of Brougham Hall - and above the Treasury Gate at Brougham Hall , and certainly for almost 31 years a true unsung charity champion, as kept himself busy on Hall Trus t business. an awards panel including the Lords Deedes and Putt- Then there was the next great challenge; to keep things nam called him back in 2003 - died on the evening of at the Hall on a steady keel — even when the infamous Tuesday, 9th. August, at the age of 77 years. storm Desm ond struck in early -December . Mr. Terry over- “Evening Alistair, sorry it’s late”, Julia Churchill, saw the second great “Bri dge Crisis” of his Brougham Hall career - or the third if you include the fall of the old Lang- Hall Trust secretary, wrote to Hall News via e-Mail wathby Bri dge, in March 1968, which l ed to the diver sion within an hour or so of this great loss; “I wanted to let that led to hi m and his new , first wife, Janet, coming acr oss you know that C.T. passed away quietly this evening. Brougham Hall in the first place. Sorry to be the bearer of sad news. Best Wishes, Julia.” He certainly kept himself busy over the next few week s, On Tuesday, 16th., Katy, Charlie, Jono., and Jim going out to record the damage and repairs to Eamont and Terry also wrote: “ Dear Friends, We regret to bring you Ol d Brougham Bridges, and, very kindly, sharing the images this news… It is with great sadness we write to let you with Hall News — and al so sharing his views with Cumbria know that Christopher Terry passed away on the County Council about the Bri dges and the pr oblematic and dangerous diversions past the Hall . evening of Tuesday, 9th. August, at the age of 77. In March, he w as able to host the Cumbria Tourism “Dad had been diagnosed with terminal prostate Week extravaganza, play host to “Windsor of The North” cancer which had metastasized into his bones. He put author (and Hall Trustee ) Ben Furnival at High Head Cas- up a strong fight with the help of radio- and chemo- tle, and visit Ben at hi s own place, Ayton Castle, where Ben therapy, but after a year of treatment he weakened and i s Factor, before returning to the Hall and mounting an ex- fell susceptible to an infection which pulled him away hibition for the Hall Trust in Unit Six in time for Easter . from us to an abrupt end. He was many things to many It was then, on Easter Monday , 28th. March, that Alis- people, and to us he was a wonderful father. tair met up with hi m for what would pr ove to be the last “The funeral service will be held on Monday, 22nd. ti me. Mr. Terry was having hi s customary, mid-morning cup of tea in Kim Oxland’s BettyAnn’s Tea Parlour . August, at 2 p.m., in St Andrew’s Church, Penrith, He would check i ssues of Hall News for publicati on, followed by the burial at Brougham Hall.” and - ironically and very fittingly - assessed and kindly CHRISTOPHER TERRY , as we all here likely know, cleared Hall News 803, the final part of our latest “Project bought Brougham Hall on 25th. November , 1985, and Review Guide”, after he had been re-admitted to hospital . formally establi shed the Brougham Hall Charitable Trus t Five days afterwar ds, Mr. Terry passed quietly away . the day after , thus saving the former “Windsor of The North” ———————————————————————–———————————————————--———————————————— from ultimate destruction. All four editions of the Project Review Guide may In fact, thi s accomplished businessman actually bought be uploaded to the Hall Trust website soon as tribute Beacon Builders , a 1962 -founded, Penrith -based house- to the achievements of the H all Trus t … a nd the M an . buil der , solely to prevent them building several homes on the ———————————————————————–———————————————————--————————————————

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Prog ramm e for creating projects to support busi- and safeguarding private nesses through the Cum- Euro-Fund Deadline sector jobs. Their man- bria Growth Hub , and to aging director, Graham help young people remain Not Yet Up Haywood, said: “As it in employment or training ———————–———— stands, unspent Euro- through Ins pira , are al- pean Structural Invest- ready under way. A range Hall Trust Could Be Able to Bid for ment Funds allocated up of exciting projects linked Cash for Den ‘Stage Two’ Rebuild to 2020 remain available, to innovation, new busi- subject to official guid- ness premises, support Story Details: Cumberland &. Westmorland Herald , ance from the Depart- for key tourist attractions Saturday, 2nd. July. ... ment of Communities and a Cum bria Low and Loc al Governm ent . Carbon Hub are due to HERE MAY STILL even seven years, these talks have yet to really get “Whilst existing trea- come on-line shortly. T BE TIME to Bid ties remain valid and the “Cumbria L.E.P. will for European Funding underway. There could be, therefore, enough time for finer negotiation details continue to work with the After All for restoration the Hall T rust to apply for are drawn up, we expect business community, our or rebuilding projects at funding for continued the European Structural partners and MP’s to Brougham Hall, following work on recreating the Investment Funds pro- maintain investment at the recent vote to leave gramme will be delivered E.U. levels. This funding . building where the first the European Union Lord Brougham - the Lord at least through until the was allocated to help Due to the challeng- High Chancellor Henry end of 2018. Cumbria meet the needs of our ing, time--consuming work Peter Brougham - drafted L.E.P. is extremely keen to local economy, support on the Project Review his influential Reform Bill hear from organisations growth and create jobs. Guides these past two of 1832, and much more who are interested in ac- “Our focus for Cumbria months, a story in the legislation. cessing E.U. funding to remains firmly on support- local Herald newspaper Grant-making bodies ensure that essential pro- ing advanced manufactur- last month was missed by backed with European jects within the county ing growth, excellence in Hall News ’ editor Alistair funding reported soon can be supported.” nuclear and energy, a Aynscough, but now we after the Referendum that Sam Bramwell, from vibrant rural and visitor can also carry this encour- they are still able to ac- the S.B.E. LEADER group, economy and improved aging story. Now, with cept and consider appli- which offers E.U. -backed strategic connectivity of the passing of our genu- cations from Britain de- grants for rural small busi- the M6 motorway corridor.” ine “Uns ung Charity spite the uncertainty over nesses, said new applica- Beyond 2020, though, Hero”, there is every rea- how long Britain will be in tions for grants were still things are not certain, son to put in a bid for the the European Union . being accepted and those with other, British -based next stage of work on the Projects run by the which had been con- fund providers becoming Lord Chancellor’s Den, Cum bria Local Enter- firmed would still be paid. the main source of grants. hoping of course the Hall prise Partners hip and the However, she didn’t A DEFRA spokesman for Trust can muster enough Solway, Border and comment further, due to a said that an update on funds to actually match Eden (SBE) LEADER DEFRA ruling on making future funding under cur- the fund-m atc hing crite- group can continue for announcements in the rent E.U. sche mes would be ria for a bid, that is. another two years, ac- Press. Howev er, Mr. issued “shortly” … “We are ——————————— cording to those who ad- Haywood stated that ex- still a member of the E.U. , Until Britain is officially minister them. isting and upcoming pro- and we will continue to en- all but out of the Euro- Cum bria Local Enter- jects would continue as gage with E.U. business as pean Union , it appears normal and be engaged in prise Partners hip , is a normal; “The United King- E.U. decision-making in the that funds can still be had private and public part- dom is still part of Europe, from the European Ag ri- usual way. Once ‘Article 50’ nership to support growth and Cumbria has an E.U. is invoked, we will remain cultural Fund for Rural in the county’s economy, programme currently bound by E.U. law until the Development , and which runs the £8.5 M . worth around £73.8 M . withdrawal agreement LEADER , credited Above Regional Growth Fund up to 2020. Important comes into force .” along with the Westmin- ster department DE FRA , for as long as the “Article Brougham Hall News 804. B.H.C.T.B.H.C.T. Fifty” negotiations con- Printed on Sat., 20th. August, 2016, tinue. Expected to go on MM M M X X VI VI for two, five, or maybe by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH .

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 365 - [email protected] LEE’s &. MIKE’s HALL TEAMS’ THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY THIS MONTH UGUST 2016 Marks the Thirtieth Anniver- its kind in the North of England. Following previous work A sary of the Hall Teams that were set up as in the ‘North- West Tower’ (Cellars, Kitchens and Chapel part of a “Community Programme” job -training Bridge) area by a team led, under the Youth Training scheme at Brougham Hall ... the scheme that intro- Scheme , by Malcolm Temple, a local businessman and duced the Hall to the many young workers led by Site long-time job training centre manager, in early-1986, the Supervisors Michael Treece and Lee Barry. ‘Community Programme’ scheme at the Hall was set up Though there had been trainees here before , this was by the then Manpower Services Commission under its the first real effort to use Brougham Hall as a base for a “Special Temporary Employment Measure”. [ S.T.E.M. ] dedicated work-training project lasting up to a year for These new Hall arrivals, with the would-be Hall News ’ each team member. Such schemes as this have since editor Alistair Aynscough as a part of Michael Treece’s been discredited by many in terms of actually getting jobs “Archaeological Team”, attended the training centre at at the end - they were certainly controversial at the time - Cumbria County Council ’s Skirsgill depot on the edge of but the Brougham Hall set-up soon became the largest of Penrith, on Tuesday, 26th. August, 1986, and arrived at m the Hall the next morning - with the effects of Tuesday’s “Hurricane Charley” still felt - to begin their work here.

To Guide The New Arrivals

The Area Supervisor for the Cumbrian schemes, Brian Chadwick, was there to meet his new teams at the Skirs- gill centre on the Tuesday, and was also at Brougham Hall the following day to guide the new arrivals round the site, including the still rather overgrown Woodlands. The group noted for themselves the work they had ahead of them, in either clearing-out (or “coppicing”) the Woodlands on the West fringe of Brougham Hall, or shift- ing large mounds of soil, rubble or structural debris, ei- ther in the open or within the actual structures, in the months to come, and record anything that they found. They also saw the absolute state of desolation that the remaining buildings presented, but also saw various structures including the Tudor “Bire” Building — now the Above: This very early Hall News image, from May 1987, home of the “Brougham Museum” with CycleActive shows Carl Davis, David Cornthwaite and Brian Davis work- above it. There were also structures ranging in stature, ing in the “B.1. Room” [the teams’ site-grid reference for from the Lord Chancellor’s Den — or “Billiards Room” as the would-be Unit 11 ], and Lee Barry and Kevin Dinham Hall News would call it — to the ornamental “well” and with a winch over the Main Well which was being surveyed. “arbour” [‘Summer House’] in the Woodlands.

Above: Kevin Dinham, one of Lee Barry’s Hall Team, and stonemason David Fawcett, pose for the camera on 1st. June, 1987, during the work to re-site the old Hall Sign above a new money-box. They are joined by site Labrador “Porsche”.

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Right: Quite apart The “Main Well” Excavated

from the arrival of On 29th. August, 1986, the Friday at the end of the Lee Barry’s and first full week of the Community Programme , and after Michael Treece’s the trainees had worked their weekly three days, or 22½ Hall Teams, August hours, Site Supervisors Lee Barry and Michael Treece, 1986 also saw the together with Area Supervisor Brian Chadwick, unearthed debut of Cumbria the top of the Main Well, sited in the floor of the largest County Council ’s Cellar. They presented this challenge to their charges the “Community next Monday, 1st. September, and the work progressed Programme very well over the next ten workdays or so, and an im- Newsheet” , in- mense amount of soil and grit had been lifted out. The tended to cover Well is around 1.5 metres (5 feet) in diameter, and in several work those few days the combined teams had reached around schemes in Cum- 7.5 m. (25ft.) down. They found the “Secret Passageway” bria, including the at that stage, but then the Well was left alone when the Kendal Cyclepath group moved on — and split into two teams in September along the former 1986. Michael Treece’s archaeology team began digging canal-bed through up part of the Terrace, while Lee Barry’s “Environmental that town. Cycle Team” began the work of clearing out the Woodlands. paths are common They would be there until late-October, while the others - now but, back in including Alistair - worked in various places; the “Terrace 1986, this was still Trench”, the “Drawing Room” [the site of the would-be a revolutionary idea Unit Nine Café] and the Guard House alongside the Main in Great Britain. Gateway]. Lee’s team re-joined them briefly on that dig The ‘Community Programme Newsheet’ before the onset of heavy Autumnal rains and the start of When the new work teams had their first bait-time at Winter led the teams to merge once again to clear the “Billiards Room”, or Lord Chancellor’s Den. That and the Brougham Hall on Wednesday, 27th. August, one of the Ice House, deep underground, kept everyone busy well things they had to read was the very first edition of the into 1987. Community Programme Newsheet , which had been That year, progress was made on the Kitchens and produced at the head offices of Cum bria County Council in Kendal, South Cumbria. Its type-written text reminded Pantries, while others began the rebuild of the Stables Alistair Aynscough of his own work on a book he had and servants’ accommodation as a Crafts Centre, and the Old Smokehouse became the first business unit. The typed three years previously, to tell the story of his first Staircase Hall (now “Inner Pele”) and the Pele Tower it- adventure holiday at Bendrigg Lodge, near Kendal, early self were cleared towards the end of the year by the Com- in 1983. That book, and the Newsheet itself, became the munity Programme teams. They merged “for keeps” true inspirations for Hall News , which began on Monday, when Michael Treece left the Hall project in October ’87. 1st. December, 1986, little over three months after the ‘Community Programme’ training itself began. It featured “Cloisters” Passageway a selection of photographs taken at the Hall on an extra visit by Alistair on a bitterly-cold Friday, 21st. November. In 1988, the main Mansion part of Brougham Hall Later that same day, he began the work - on his was the centre of attention as the team completed their work on the Staircase Hall early-on, before venturing out- brother’s Amstrad CPC-6128 ‘ home computer’ - of set- ting up the first edition, printing out columns of text on wards from there and finding the Doorways to both the blue paper and literally pasting the photographs on with a Great Armoury Hall and the passage direct to the Main stick of ‘UHU’ paper-glue. On Friday, 28th., this was com- Door - now the part-rebuilt “Cloisters” passageway. plete, and it duly got its “premiere” - being shown to Lee Rooms on the Terrace side of the Mansion were also Barry in a chance meeting in Penrith town centre the next cleared, as well as Cellars on the south side of the Pele day, and at Brougham Hall for its official launch on Mon- Tower. These rooms, apparently, included the Dining day, 1st. December, 1986 Room, Library and Music Room, and had a array of fine, ground-floor bay windows. There was also, at the south Emerged Hastily, Visibly Shaking end, was the “Octagon Room”, while, below that, uncan- That same day was one that proved to be a very use- nily, was the Hall’s Air-Raid Shelter, which led the team ful one for further stories as the temporarily-rejoined Hall into 1989, their final, ‘tidy-up’ kind of year at the Hall.

Teams began work on the would-be Old Smokehouse , Work Would Still Continue continued excavating the Lord Chancellor’s Den — and witnessed a shock for a visiting miner, Angus Oliver, who Lee’s team were disbanded in September 1989, emerged hastily, visibly shaking, from deep underground when Lee himself found work elsewhere, having already after a jet -fighter ’plane roared past overhead. He heard that his Brougham Hall contract was up. thought there was about to be a collapse of the “Secret Their departure, though, certainly did not mean that Passageway” from the Main Well, where he was working. the work at Brougham Hall would grind to a halt. With Early days for these Hall Teams included surveying the much of the digging of the various rooms and other fea- West Door area (measuring the carved features of the tures of the Hall complete, and the Woodlands clearance walling around the door), and resuming work on clearing now also done, the focus turned to actual rebuilding work the “Kitchens” [Butler’s Pantry], in the North-West Tower — especially the creation of Unit Eig ht in the ‘Pantries’ and, into 1990, the House of Eden Gallery unit above it. area nearest the Chapel and the Bridge leading to there. That work had been started early in 1986 by Mr. Tem- “Backdate 30” , our regular archives feature, will recall ple’s Youth Training Scheme group, who had also the progress of Mike Treece’s and Lee Barry’s Hall located the old Cellars beneath this part of the Hall site. Teams of the 1980’s., and other progress at the Hall.

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 367 - [email protected] Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month inin PreviousPrevious YearsYears ...... AUGUST 1986 AUGUST 1991 30 Years Ago - Community Programme Team Here 25 Years Ago — ‘Topping-Out’ Hall’s Oldest Structure New Hall Team: SEALING THE In “Like Wind” “BIRE” ROOF

INDUCTED at Skirsgill, Penrith, on Tuesday, 26th. August, [ day of ‘Hurricane Charley’] and on-Site at Brougham Hall the next day, the new “Community Programme” trainees begin work here. One of the first tasks for their leaders is to take several photographs ...

Photos. - Top: The former Stables in 1986, as they appeared before any work was done on them. Unit 6 is at the far end of this line-up, along with the Stonemasons’ Workshop and part of the “Potteries” Unit (4). It wasn’t even worth thinking of ‘upstairs’ back then! Centre: Debris Above: The top level of the Tudor “Bire” Building, seen in the foreground marks the on the front page of Hall News 164, of 9 Sept’r. 1991. site of the still half-buried It is now the base for the CycleActive holiday company. ————————————————— Pele Tower, while the old site dump-truck is lined up THE TUDOR “BIRE” Building - given an old version beyond to receive a load of the name ‘byre’, for a barn or shelter for cattle - at of rubble and soil from the Brougham Hall has again been the centre of attention Kitchens area, or Butler’s for all concerned with the Hall’s restoration. The Bire, Pantry, via the West Door. which dates from around 1500, is likely to become a Lower: The Hall Trust ’s museum, and its roof is top of the work-list as water- would-be office, above the proofing task continues. During August 1991, this work “Treasury Gate”, as it ap- was begun in earnest by a small group of workers, peared in 1986 — roof- spurned-on after heavy rain leaked in during July, and Photos. by Lee Barry and less, window-less and cov- has been progressing on and off since then. Michael Treece ; Processe d ered in ivy. Scaffolding is A pair of wide, lead-lined drainage channels has by David Wilkinson . visible inside, however. … been laid to deflect rain in future, and tiles will follow.

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 368 - [email protected] Backdate Highlights of Hall Trust History Backdate 3030 for This Month inin PreviousPrevious YearsYears ...... AUGUST 1996 AUGUST 2001 20 Years Ago — Significant Summer Visitors 15 Years Ago — THE ‘EDENFEST 2001’ CONCERTS

LORD BROUGHAM visits Brougham Hall on three EdenFest 2001 , despite the rainy weather and a days in mid-August, 1996, seeing how the project of reputed loss of thousands of pounds, has been a won- rebuilding his family’s former Westmorland home is derful event. The Festival, which was put together by doing. Hall News catches up with him for a photograph, Andrew Lennie and his Rhythm of Life at Lazonby, who with the ‘Office’ Gateway as a backdrop. Another arri- partly arranged 2000’s Eden Millennium Festival , is val at Brougham Hall, for a few days in August 1996, badly affected by rain on the main days, and this thins is Benjamin Furnival, who helps out in various tasks, out the crowds. A pity, as this was the event promoted including building near as a “tonic” to the county the Tudor ‘Bire’ Building, hit by the foot-and- and being a museum cu- Mouth Disease Crisis. rator. He has links with However, the music and the Brougham Family. revelry just carries on

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. regardless. The Jazz leg- — SEVERAL Aerial Photo- ends Acker Bilk and graphs are taken of Kenny Ball top the bill, Brougham Hall from a heli- and are followed by copter operated by Com- modern bands such as mission-Air on Thursday, The Bluetones , Feeder 15th. August, 1996. Due to and locals Tarras . The too much ‘priority’ – air- defence exercise - traffic final day is given over to the day before, the helicop- tribute acts including T- ter’s fly-over for the Hall Rextasy , Abba Max , and other places nearby is Queen B. , Police Force delayed for a day. and Backbeat Beatles .

10 Years AgoAgo — 5 Years Ago — HALL THEATRE 2006 “GET STUCK IN!”…

FOR THE First Time ADAM DICKINSON , who since the great Solar Total once worked at Eclipse - which, in the dis- Brougham Hall as a de- tant past, many people velopment officer for the would have put down to Cumbria Scout Move- witchcraft - Brougham Hall ment , has set a formida- has successfully hosted a ble challenge in the Shakespearean play, county - and for around courtesy of the C’est Tous 2,000 people from far Theatre Company , seen in and wide. Along with ‘Macbeth’. It was on the friend and co-organiser Friday and Saturday of Andrew Murray, Adam the weekend following the has come up with the August 1999 Eclipse that EdenFest 2001 : The ‘Bright Lights’ came rather closer than Hollywood! “Total Warrior - Super the last Shakespeare play Ten” endurance event. to be staged here, The Comedy of Errors , took place. The first of these races with a difference is held near The show for 2000, ‘Love Labours Lost’, was cancelled the historic Shap Abbey, near the village of Shap, at very short notice by another theatre company. In south of Penrith, on the first weekend of August 2011. contrast, C’est Tous , or Say Two as they are also called, There are two different courses, of 10 kilometres (6.21 Theatre Company put on an impressive show on the eve- miles) or 10 miles (16.09 kilometres), of deep mud, nings of Friday, 21st., and Saturday, 22nd. July, 2006, swamps, barbed wire, freezing water and blazing aided by fine weather. Hall News 548, of 28th. July, bales of hay - and the weather is about as hospitable, 2006, becomes another of those old-style Theatre Spe- too! [This turns out to be one of a range of similar, cials — and the great Hall open-air theatres are back! charity-minded, annual events held around Britain.] AUGUST 2006 AUGUST 2011

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 369 - [email protected] Busy Times at Brougham BackdateBackdate ExtraExtra COMING EVENTS AT BROUGHAM HALL

- August 1996 The Triumph Classic Car Group - August 1996 Visit Brougham Hall on Sunday, 21st. August.

———————————————————— Right: ‘Here’s One More for the Fa mily Creative Crafts — Craft Fair Albu m’. — In Saturday, 27th., to Monday, 29th. August.

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The Survey Dig on Castle Hill Story: BBC News Website , Monday, 23rd. May. …

NEW Archaeological Survey Dig was done A recently near Lancaster Castle, with the desire to learn more about the Castle’s Roman past. The two-week ‘Castle Hill Project’ was completed in a bid to confirm existing theories that this was once the site of a much bigger, Roman shore-fort. A succession of such forts is thought to have been built on Castle Hill between the First and Fourth Centu- ries, during the time the Romans were in Britain. The latest excavation partly re-opened trenches that Above: Lancaster Castle on Easter Saturday, 26th. March. were dug in the late-1920’s., and early-1970’s., in the hope of understanding that earlier research. Mr. Jason Wood, the heritage consultant and excava- Evidence of Roman Wall - and Road tion director on the Beyond The Castle Project , said: “The dig represents an important opportunity to test our Evidence of a significant Roman fort, designed to defy theories relating to the location of Lancaster’s late- a British invasion, may well be the outcome of the archaeological dig at Lancaster Castle, the Roman Shore-Fort. two -week BBC News Website stated on Wednesday, 1st. June. “Hopefully, it will enable us to consolidate our under- Evidence of a Roman wall and road was found in a standing of the site and what this might tell us about the nature and character of Lancaster in Roman times.” field close to Castle, suggesting “the remnants of a large Shore-forts are situated on shorelines, and inland on Fourth-Century shore-fort built to stop seaborne raids and immigration”, the website added. navigable rivers. “In Roman times”; Mr. Wood said, “…the “This is a remarkable find”, said lead archaeologist Lancaster shoreline would have been slightly different.” Jason Wood, who specialises in Roman fortifications. “Witches’ Tower” “We did a geo-physical survey a couple of years ago,

Sometimes known as John o’Gaunt’s Castle, this par- which suggested that the corner of the fort lay in this field. We excavated here, and you can see the junction of the ticular Castle was originally a Roman fort which stood as edge of the wall and an external road surface. a bastion against the forces of the ancient Picts and “Romans were particularly concerned with seaborne Scots tribes. The buildings within include a Twelfth- Century Norman keep, the Fourteenth-Century “Witches’ raiding. In the later period, in the Fourth Century [the A.D. 300’s.] the Romans were particularly concerned with Tower”, and a Fifteenth -Century Gatehouse. seaborne raiding and immigration. The Castle became infamous as the place where ten “The borders were becoming more porous in the Ro- people were convicted of witchcraft at the Summer man Empire, and these large shore-forts were erected Assize (seasonal Courts sessions) of 1612. They all went to the gallows on the moors in what became the “Pendle around the south, the east and latterly the west coast of Britain to control immigration, to control raiding and to act Witch” cases. as supply bases for the army.” King John (of England, from 1199-1216) and King Henry IV (1399-1413) were just two of the monarchs who Stone -Lined Well — Project’s Own Report held court there. Until modern times, it was a working courtroom, and was where the wrongful conviction of the “In May 2016”, the Beyond The Castle Project web- Birming ham S ix took place in 1975, for the murders of site stated, “… our new theory about the location of 21 people in two pub bombings the previous November. Lancaster’s Late-Roman Shore-Fort was proved when the Lancaster Castle was also a Category C prison until excavations on Castle Hill, just below the Priory, revealed 2011 and is a Grade I listed building. It had been a the corner of the fort along with road surfaces, a drain prison for centuries, at least since the days of the and, surprisingly, a stone-lined well set within the thick- “Lancaster Martyrs” of the Sixteenth Century, according ness of the 4-metre wide (13ft.) walls. to Wikipedia and the official Lancaster Castle Website . “The depth of the well is not yet known. The deeper it and the excavation goes, the more complicated and ex- “Still Many Gaps to Our Knowledge” pensive the work, but the higher the chances for really The Beyond T he Castle Project is supported by the interesting finds and environmental information that will Heritage Lottery Fund , and is led by both Lanc aster City help paint a fuller picture of life in Lancaster in late Council and Lancashire County Council . Roman and perhaps medieval and later times. A late- Councillor Janice Hanson said there are “still many Victorian Ordnance Survey map marked the spot with a gaps to our knowledge” about Lancaster’s history. pump, but they don’t yet know when it fell into disuse. So “This exciting project delving into our ‘hidden depths’ far, only the top 1.5m. (5ft.) of modern infill has been ex- could potentially have a huge influence on the way we cavated. The real archaeology lies much lower down, at see our city, and the way in which it has developed over the bottom, and could be still waterlogged so that organic the millennia.” objects made of wood and leather may be preserved.”

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 373 - [email protected] Hall News - Extra News Columns as big, but was set against a true artistic marvel — the moving, glittering, truly- THE RIO OLYMPICS wonderful “Sun Sculpture”, ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- a kinetic structure created by Anthony Howe, a Cana- Team G.B.’s Remarkable Progress dian artist. It’s 40ft. (12.2 metres) in diameter, and “consists of spinning bars at South America’s First Games [with] reflective spheres Hall News Image. and plates, designed to Rio Image: Microsoft ‘Clip -Art’ Library . Right — Victor : evoke the ‘pulsing energy Mark Cavendish gets his ‘Yellow and reflection of light’ of Jersey’ on after the sun”, as the Wikipedia winning Stage 1 website stated. YouTube of the Tour of videos and the website Britain on 11th. www.howeart.net g iv e September, more details — but you’ll 2011, at need a serious amount of Dumfries. money — as well as plenty of space and possibly local 2011’s Tour of Britain , Council consent — if you finally won his first Olym- fancy one for yourself… !! pic medal — a Silver — dur- The cauldron was lit by ing a 6-race challenge Brazilian marathon runner known as an “omnium”. He Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lim a four years ago successfully has only just won 4 stages — who was set for a Gold G.B.’s Greatest defending their Champion in the Tour de France this medal himself at Athens status — not least tennis year, making a total of 30 2004 when he was jostled “Away” Games star Andy Murray, triathlete stages. In London 2012 to the ground by a protest- THE Summer Olympic Alistair Brownlee, boxer he faired badly in the road ing priest who had run on Games , held this time in Nicola Adams, track ath- race after taking part in the to the Silverstone track the city of Rio de Janeiro, lete Mo Farah, and the Tour — in which [Sir. to be] during the previous year’s Brazil , and for only the very (now engaged for a wed- Bradley Wiggins had be- Britis h Grand Prix . He first time in South America, ding) track cyclists Laura come Britain’s first overall came in third, but won a have proved to be an in- Trott and Jason Kenny. winner — and steered clear special Baron de Couber- credible time indeed for Nick Skelton, with his of the Rio road race. … tain award for sportsman- Considering a spate of dev- Team G.B. — even after horse, “Big Star”, won the ship; the priest was later their successes at London individual Gold medal for astating crashes, that was ‘de-frocked’, or struck-off. 2012 . At the time of writ- show-jumping, becoming, probably a good move. Golf was back on the ing - Saturday afternoon, at the age of 58, the first However, Mark Cavendish Games itinerary for the 20th. August - Great B rit- British horse-rider to win caused a crash himself first time since St. Louis along the way to his Silver. ain had won 26 Gold Med- that accolade since 1972. 1904 — and the mens’ als, 22 Silver and 15 Apart from suffering a bro- The Team G.B. hockey contest was won by Justin Bronze..., or a total of 63. ken neck in the past, Nick ladies have proved to be a Rose, for Great Britain. The Also, for several days’ (a Brou gham Horse Trials sensation, too, especially ladies’ game was yet to competition, they have veteran!) was also the eld- their goal-keeper, Maddie end at the time of writing. been in second-place over- est British Gold m edal win- Hinch, as they took Gold all on the medal table, ner since London in 1908. against the Netherlands, Charlie Brougham ahead of China , and with Overall star of the show having toiled against them Olympic Commentator only the United States of was Usain Bolt, Jamaica’s for a 3—all finish. The FREELANCE Broadcaster Dutch had managed to Americ a doing any better. celebrated sprinter, who, and BBC Sport commenta- This compares well with by late-Friday, 19th., had beat Germ any in a semi- tor Charlie Brougham has London 2012 , when, on won the 100- and 200- final penalty shoot-out - but been in the heart of the home soil, they took 29 metre races at Rio, as well the Brits then beat the action in these memorable Gold, 17 Silver and 19 as winning in the 4x100m. renowned Dutch in another Rio Games. He has been Bronze — 65 in all — with a Sprint Relay to get nine such nervy shoot-out. reporting on beach volley- final table placing of third, Gold medals in all between We propos e to inc lude ball — a top national sport This makes this year’s Beijing 2008 and Rio the list of Team G.B . med- for the host nation — arch- event, the 31st. staging of 2016 .Mark Cavendis h, the allists in Hall News 805 … ery and hockey, so he will the ‘modern’ Olympic ex- world champion cyclist The “Sun Sculpture” have been a witness to Games , the best-ever over- from the Isle of Man — who The cauldron of the Rio Team G.B. ladies’ sensa- seas Games, indeed ‘Away’ we featured in Hall News Olym pic Flam e was not as tional win over the Nether- Games, for Great Britain as after a m ajor win at Dum- elaborate as that at Lon- lands , in their very first several of the victors from fries, in September 2011’s don 2012 , or anything like Olympic final at that sport.

Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 374 - [email protected] Hall News - Extra News Columns Farage Stirs It Up; Stands Down “H IS Job Done” — to ‘get Britain out of the European EXTENSION OF THE Union ’ — Nigel Farage for- mally stood down from lead- ing UKIP ( UK Independence Party ) on Monday, 4th. July NATIONAL PARKS … for a second time. He pre- ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- viously announced he was leaving his post, for family Howgill Fells Among New Additions as Borders Altered reasons, after failing to be elected as an MP at last year’s Westminster General Election..., but they wanted him to stay in office — espe- cially as former Prime Minis- ter David Cameron pledged a Referendum in the Conser- vative manifesto, and UKIP wanted Mr. Farage to see it granted. UKIP will continue to exist, no doubt, to keep watch until Britain is formally withdrawn from the Euro- pean Union . Nigel Farage famously survived a ’plane crash during the 2010 Elec- tion campaign. He has been Above: July 2006 Bendrigg Trust holiday images — “Devil’s Bridge”, near Kirkby Lon sdale, and the a Member of the European Howgill Fells, seen from Bendrigg Lodge, Old Hutton, Kendal. The canoeists were from elsewhere. Parliament since 1999. He caused an uproar there last ON MONDAY, 1st. Au- October last year, follow- A NEW LANDMARK month by telling fellow gust, the two great Na- ing a recommendation by MEPs.: “Virtually none of you tional Parks of Northern Natural England . FOR BRIGHTON have done a proper job in England were extended, The Lake District Na- A SHINY, New Tower, com- your lives — a hypothetical and, in parts, they have tional Park has been ex- plete a with revolving viewing failure by the EU to forge a now joined together. tended by rather less of a platform , has opened on the trade deal with an exited UK The Yorkshire Dales Na- margin, but this still sea-front of Brighton, in Sussex. would be far worse for you was en-larged means that it takes in the British Airways i360 is the than it would be for us”. He tional Park “w orl d’ s fi rst ve rti cal ca ble ca r” also suggested Britain would by nearly a quarter, to add area to the east of Birk- is around 530ft. high; made by “not be the only country to 161 square miles or 417 beck Fells Common, and the firm behind the London Eye . leave the Union ”. square kilometres. on to Whinfell Common — The revised boundary that’s Whinfell north of will cover new areas in Kendal, not between Pen- Cumbria and into Lanca- rith and Temple Sowerby shire, and, to the north, it — and an area in the Brougham takes in the stark lime- south from Helsington Brougham stone-terraced plateau of Barrows to Sizergh Fell, Great Asby Scar, and the together with part of the velvet rounded contours of Lyth Valley, south-west of the northern Howgill Fells, Kendal. This expands the HallHall NewsNews the distinctive Wild Boar Lake District National Fell and Mallerstang, and Park by around 3%.. all the settlements in that “We are supportive of the E-Mail Contact ------Please district, such as Outhgill. extension to the Lake Dis- Westwards, the wild, trict National Park as we Remember that, if you wish, believe it will create a bound- exposed fells of Casterton, ary line that is most appropri- you can send stories with or Middleton, Barbon and ate for the landscape”, the Leck, around Kirkby Lons- www.lakedistict.gov.uk web- without attached photographs dale, are incorporated into site stated last October; “We the Yorkshire Dales, along welcome the opportunity to with the tranquil valley that maintain and improve the of events at Brougham Hall to is sculpted by the River environment in these areas, Hall News by this e-Mail : Lune and the bustling particularly rights of ways, for the benefit of everyone who “Devil’s Bridge”. enjoys the Lake District and [email protected] The Department for surrounding areas.” Environment, Food and The Lake District Na- Rural Affairs , or DEFRA , tional Park was founded in announced the changes in 1951, and the Dales in ’54...... Thanks!Thanks! m Brougham Hall News 804 - August 2016 - Page 375 - [email protected] Select, Recent Local, National, Hall News - News Page and International Stories . . . . . Premier League” season, Bank of England Reduces Vital Economy Marker which includes their great rivals, Rang ers , for the first time in four seasons. Rang ers were sent to the S N Are We Just Losing Interest? lower leagues after being made bankrupt in 2012. Drake Chart Run Interest Rate is Now at HUGE CROWDS AT 2016’s BHS Goes THE Song “One Dance” , by 0.25% - All -Time Low THE TOTAL Closure of the LOWTHER SHOW former High Street giants, ‘Drake featuring Wizkid &. THE UNCERTAINTY in Brit- British Home Stores , is ex- Kyla’ , was finally relieved of ain’s Economy left in the EIGHT Years after being pected to take place at its place at the top of the wake of the historic ‘Brexit’ cancelled for what might around the end of August — British singles charts on vote in late-June continues, seem forever, as excessive after a brief ‘stay of execu- Thursday, 4th. August, after and, on Wednesday, 4th. rain left the Lowther Show tion’ to sell extra, unsold an impressive, fifteen-week August, the Bank of E ng- field hopeless ly mud- stock to help their creditors. stay, and was replaced by land reduced interest rates bound, the annual show The company, originally “Cold Water”, by another of — seen as a way to keep seems as popular as ever. founded in 1928, was put in those multi-artist collabora- the economy in check, to at Originally held on the business administration early same venue near Lowther this year in contentious cir- tions who often chart nowa- least some degree — to an cumstances, with its owner days -- ‘Major Lazer’, featur- all-time low … just a quarter Castle in April 1973, it was alleged to have run it into the ing Justin Bieber and ‘MØ’. of one-per-cent.. revived by Countryman ground, plundered its pen- This was still at the top on It was also the first time Fairs in 2011, and the sions reserves and sold it to a Friday, 19th., 3 weeks in. ... since March 2009 that latest Lowther gathering relatively-inexperienced busi- there had been a change, was held on the weekend ness rival for just £1 last year. New Role for Rory from 1% to 0.5%., but, back of Saturday, 13th., and Around 11,000 jobs have then, the world’s economy Sunday, 14th. August. been, or are to be, lost, and the Penrith M.P.. was suffering the shock Fine weather — so different there are calls from commit- from the so-called “credit to the rainstorms of 2008 tees of MPs, for the former PENRITH and The Border boss, Sir. Philip Green, to pay [Conservative ] MP Rory crunch” and stock-market — contributed to the suc- back at least some of the Stewart, O.B.E., F.R.S.L., [a slide of October 2008. cess of the event, and the shortfall in the pensions. Fellow of the Royal Society However, it may be a News &. Star for the Mon- Kendal Canal Aqueduct Appeal of Literature *], was ap- case, literally, of ‘losing day afterwards reported a interest’ … not for those AN APPEAL to raise £1.5 M. pointed the new Minister of “record-breaking number needed to repair an aque- State for International De- who don’t follow such of visitors to the county for things, but for the Bank of duct on the Lancaster Ca- velopment, as part of the a much-anticipated coun- nal’s “Northern Reaches”, England , which would have tryside festival. … Visitors first Cabinet set up by new towards Kendal, was re- Prime Minister Theresa a huge dilemma if it’s made travelled from all over the to reduce interest rates to country, filling car parks cently launched. The C a- May last month. Rory, who nal and River Trust is is aged 43, was a Second “minus” territory — some- and bringing the A6 to a thing that would have its “working closely with local Lieutenant in the Black standstill, with organisers residents” to try and se- Watch , and attended Eton own great dangers. confident that last year's Mark Carney, Governor 40,000-strong crowd cure funds needed to re- College . He has a vast store Grade 2 -listed Stain- wealth of international dip- of the Bank of England , would be topped easily.” warned all banks to pass ton Aqueduct. Chantelle lomatic experience despite on a total of £170-Billion Glasgow Celtic vs. Red Imps Seaborn, Waterway man- relative youth in the role. he has made available to CELTIC , of Glasgow, won ager, said last December’s 3-0 “at home” to Gibraltan So Sensitive! - The hamlet of shore-up the economy. floods left “a costly repair Uldale, near Caldbeck, in North Suggesting that rates amateur team Lincoln Red bill” for the structure and Cumbria, endured an ‘earthquak e’ could indeed fall lower, Mr. Imps on Wednesday, 20th. the footpath beneath it; without ever knowing it on Mon- Carney told a BBC reporter July, avoiding what would “The charity, which tends day, 1st. August. The Bri tish Ge o- that he would take a “tough have been a rather embar- 2,000 miles of waterway in logical Survey . Logged the tiny stance” on Banks and im- rassing early exit from this England and Wales, con- tremor at only 0.4 on the Ri ch te r pose the introduction of the season’s “Champions’ tacted Cumbria County Scale and, understandably, no Term Funding Scheme League” football tourney. Council about accessing damage or injury were reported. upon them, lending directly The Imps had beaten central government funds By con tra st, the “ Bo xin g Da y Celtic 1-0 at their meeting Earthquake” of December 1979 to banks at rates close to awarded for flood repairs”. on “The Rock” the previous was recorded at 4.7 and damage the new 0.25% base-rate, Football. - Penrith F.C. are 20th., out was recorded at Carlisle and peo- basically making the Banks week. Now Celtic , besides of 22 team s, in the Northern Lea gu e’ ple reported “thunderous” noises pass on the lower interest hoping to progress well in after three ga m es. Carlisle Utd . are amid the mountains around Glen- rates direct to businesses the contest, are now start- 10th. of 24 in ‘Lea gu e Two’ after 4 ridding, in Cumbri a’s Lake Di stri ct. and households. ing on the regular “Scottish ga mes up to Saturday, 20th. August.

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