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195 January 2018
‘Friends of President’ is a support group working for the Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ
(Registered Charity No: 504481)
Committee 2017/8
President - David Powell email: [email protected] tel: 01799 523855 1 Reddings Close, Saffron Walden, CB11 4AZ Chairman - Nick Haynes email: [email protected] tel: 01527 517475 42 Tredington Close, Redditch, B98 7UR Treasurer - Simon Nuttall email: [email protected] tel: 01249 720978 Station House, Meadow Lane, Little Somerford, Chippenham, SN15 5JJ Secretary - Janet Ramsay email: [email protected] tel: 01772 827012 34 Beech Terrace, Preston, PR1 8DQ Chief Engineer - David Stott email: [email protected] tel: 01782 259363 13 Longfields Road, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6QN Membership Secretary - Nick Haynes, details above Crewing Secretary - Chris Walker email: [email protected] tel: 0114 258 3563 mob: 07711 946011 49 Lyndhurst Road Sheffield S11 9BJ Acting Editor – Janet Ramsay, details above Work Party Organiser - Richard Prince email: [email protected] tel: 01763 271252 Archivist - Richard Thomas email: [email protected] tel: 01992 466180 42 Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon, EN11 8AG Sales Stand - position vacant Committee - Jim Garratt email: [email protected] tel: 07415 698473
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Editorial First of all I want to wish everyone ‘Happy New Year’. Hopefully, 2018 will see President back in steam and out moving around the canal network. However, there will be a lot of work to be done before we reach that point and I am sure that David Stott, our chief engineer, will be sending out information about work parties and looking for volunteers to help with all the jobs which will need to be done on both President and Kildare. In this edition our Chairman, Nick Haynes reflects on the past year and looks forward to next year in his New Year message. I have included an item from our 195 archive in this edition. Like the Christmas Greeting in the last edition this article also comes from the December 1987 edition. I was interested to read the plea from the editor to send him items for inclusion in the next edition of 195 - it would appear that little has changed in 30 years! Like the editor 30 years ago, I need to remind you that this is the time to pay this year’s subscription. If you don’t pay by standing order, you will need to send your subs to Nick Haynes who as well as being our Chairman is also the membership secretary. I hope you will be as interested as I was to read about Tim Shields who has taken over as curator of Industry and transport from Irene de Boo who is now Head of Collections. Tim has also provided a photograph so you can recognise him when you are at the Museum. In the photo gallery there is a photo sent to me by the editor of Waterways World who described it as his favourite picture of Nick, our Chairman. Perhaps you have a favourite photograph or memory of President which you would like to share with everyone by sending it to me for inclusion in a future edition of 195. There is no news about the boiler this month as the Christmas and New Year holidays have intervened. There will be a Committee meeting in January and there will be further information from that and also about our AGM in the February edition. Thank you to everyone who emailed to say that the location of the sketch in the December 1987 Christmas greetings was the Standedge Tunnel Portal at Marsden. I thought that was where it was but I couldn’t think why it would have been used in 195 for as one of my correspondents noted it is highly unlikely that President and Kildare will ever be there. You will see the photographic evidence for the location at the end of this edition. I hope everyone spotted at least one ‘deliberate mistake’ alternatively know as poor proof reading in last month’s editorial! I’m not sure how many I have managed to miss this time!
Happy New Year
Chairman’s New Year Message
In some ways I am glad to get 2017 behind us, with President not in steam for the whole year. We did have some interesting boating behind joshers but not our normal duo. A big thank you to Malcolm Burge and Lawrence Williams for moving both boats away from the museum so some maintenance work could be undertaken and then on to Braunston and back to the Museum. Whilst at Grendon Dry Dock President had her bottom re-corked and shoeing replaced and both boats blacked. President was then taken to Hillmorton for Willow Ridge to do a complete re-paint. There was then a final tow to Braunston, where we received £4,000 towards the work and then back to the Museum. Fund raising for all the work during the summer and the boiler re-tube fell a bit short of the total required and FoP provided the Museum with a final £9,000 to ensure the costs were covered, leaving our funds very low. There is still further work to be undertaken once the boiler is returned and this is still to be funded. With this in mind, I’d like you to consider adding a donation to your membership renewal in January. We plan to have a full boating programme next year, Little Venice and back, but all dependent on the boiler being finished early in the new year. So let’s be positive and make this happen.
The presentation at Braunston. A cheque for £2,000 was received from
Tim Coghlan as was a cheque for £2,000 from Tony Hales. Prunella Scales and
Timothy West made the presentation. Photograph courtesy of Waterways Images.
Tim Shields – Curator of Industry and Transport Tim Shields is the new Curator of Industry and Transport at BCLM and was formerly Curator, Vehicles & Engineering at the London Transport Museum (LTM). In his previous role Tim was responsible for delivering two Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)-Lottery funded projects, including the restoration of a late Victorian Metropolitan Railway Carriage for special operation on the London Underground (celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2013). More recently he project managed the rebuilding of a 103 year old London B-type Bus which was originally used to carry soldiers during the First World War. This restoration was completed in time for the main 100th anniversary events in 2014, culminating in a commemorative tour of the former Western Front Battlefields in the Somme area of northern France and Belgium. This is the link if you are interested in finding out more about this project https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/projects-partnerships/battle-bus After 14 years at LTM Tim wanted a new challenge outside of London and working with a new collection. Tim explained, “I have always been a big fan of open air museums, particularly the immersive experience they give to visitors. Joining BCLM is a fantastic opportunity to develop my interests in new areas of the heritage sector, including the preservation of historic boats.” Tim’s first task at BCLM has been to complete the restoration of Tram 5, built in 1919. Although Tim is experienced in the restoration of both road and rail vehicles, this project has proved particularly challenging due to its mechanical and electrical complexity. Thankfully now complete, the tram has carried its first passengers. In the new year, Tim’s attention will turn to overhauling the Newcomen engine along with increasing involvement dockside, working with the boat collection. Tim’s passion for being on the move extends, naturally, into his personal life. When he is not at work he is either out cycling, hill walking or restoring his small collection of Autocycles and Cyclemotors.
Tim Shields Curator of Transport and Industry
From the Archive December 1987
News from the Museum Jonathan Wilson asked for the following information to be circulated. Unfortunately, by the time you receive this, some of the ‘drop in sessions’ will have already happened. Dear Friends of President I’m pleased to let you know that the Museum has today submitted the first of its planning applications for BCLM: Forging Ahead. The application includes extensive designs for the new Visitor Centre and historic development along with a number of other documents including, amongst others, a heritage and design & access statement. Please do let me know if you would like me to send you any of the historic development designs. We now await validation and the allocation of a reference number from Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council along with confirmation of dates for the 21 day statutory consultation period.
We also intend to submit a full planning application for twelve of the buildings within the historic development before Christmas. We are holding two volunteer / staff drop in sessions (Thursday 14 and Wednesday 20 December, 9am) and also a Public Consultation Evening on Thursday 4 January 2018, 5pm – 7pm, at the Museum. I hope you are able to attend. Kind Regards Jonathan Jonathan Wilson Deputy Chief Executive (Collections, Learning and Research) Black Country Living Museum Mobile: 07824 513976 Phone: 0121 521 5606 Email: [email protected] Web: www.bclm.com
In the Media I am grateful to Neil Ratcliffe for the following: Neil writes: I got this link from a posting in a Canals list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDVdcTFV8Nk President features at approximately 16 min mark and President & Kilddare at about 30 mins with a short piece by Richard Thomas. There are two more very short pieces towards the end.
Photo Gallery
Nick on the front of President at Burton 2011
The next three photographs of the boat dock and President and Kildare were taken
by Tim Shields during the recent snowy weather.
The next photograph is one I took in 2001 just after the Huddersfield Narrow Canal re-opened and although it is taken from the opposite side of the canal to the 1987 Christmas sketch you can see that the sketch was indeed of the tunnel portal at Marsden.
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For comparison – the sketch from 195 December 1987
