Newsletter Friends of Congleton Museum

Friends of Congleton Museum
Newsletter
Where’s
Jiggy?
Chester had rhinos; Liverpool had lambs;
Manchester had cows; San Francisco had
hearts… Congleton has bears!
Jiggy, the famous jigsaw bear, has taken up
residence on the museum‘s first floor landing for
the duration of this summer‘s Bearmania festival.
For twenty weeks beginning on Saturday
21st May, upwards of 70 uniquely decorated 5ft tall
fibreglass bears, designed by sculptor Billy
Hyland, will be situated throughout the town,
directing visitors on a trail promoting schools,
organisations, businesses, and charities — such
as the museum! Jiggy is listed as number 9 on the
bear trail map.
Summer 2011
welcome and it‘s hoped they‘ll return to enjoy the
museum), and photos of children posing with
Jiggy are encouraged. Bear-shaped cutouts will
be available for children to colour in and a cuddly
teddy bear (donated by museum volunteer
Dorothy Robinson) will be awarded to the winner
of a Name the Bear competition. The museum
shop will also be selling Bearmania merchandise,
children‘s books and bear-shaped soaps.
Other bear sponsors include Barefoot Living,
VISYON, Berisford Ribbons, the Mercian
Regiment, Siemens, Top Nosh, Beartown Tap,
Churches Together, The Cubs, The Scouts,
Congleton in Bloom and many of the local
primary schools.
This community arts festival has been organised
by the Congleton Beartown Company, with
support from Congleton Schools, Congleton Town
Council, Congleton Community Projects,
Congleton Partnership, Plus Dane and Cheshire
East Council. Proceeds from the sale of the bears
and bear-themed merchandise
will be donated to local charities
and Animal Asia to help
rescue caged bears.
Kindly loaned to us by owners Paul Bates and
Sue Holmes of Jigsaw RTM, Jiggy was the
prototype bear. Painted in a colourful jigsaw
pattern by Sue, Jiggy was the first bear
unveiled at the preview day back in January
and has become a bit of a media darling.
According to the website mybeartown.co.uk he
―took to the red carpet like a natural.‖
Jiggy has been featured on the March cover of
Local Life magazine and in several issues of the
Congleton Chronicle. Surprisingly, he‘s even been
interviewed by radio station SILK FM. With his
fame preceding him, it‘s hoped that Jiggy will be a
big attraction, drawing many bear trail followers to
the museum. There‘s no admission charge for
visitors to view the bear (although donations are
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Greetings from India
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Earlier this ye
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we bid farew e
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volunteer Ale
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was
travelling to In
dia to live and
study for sev
eral months
before attend
ing university
in
England. We
asked Alex to
keep in touch
and tell us ab
out
her adventure
s. The followin
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is an extract fr
om her
first missive…
I am having a fabulous and
very interesting time working and
living at FLAME (Foundation of Liberal and
Management Education) University, situated near
Pune in a deep valley by a natural lake. Despite
the lake, the environment is dry and rugged with
sparse bushes. The temperature averages 32°C
every day. I share an
apartment with 7 other girls.
We all get along really well
and they are mad, loud and
to pass a breathalyser test.
fun, so there is always
I am a drama intern, so I work in
something going on and
the administration of the
never a quiet moment! It is
department and help with the
fully catered, but all the food
organisation of events. In return, I
is vegan. The campus has
can attend a few classes on topics
good facilities - a small gym,
such as comparing Indian drama to
a football field, a pool, an
Shakespeare, costume, make up
Alex (right) with friends Shinai Dominic (left)
outdoor theatre, a movie
and acting workshops. I am going
room and an amazing drama and Shambhavi Rai (centre).
to shoot a film for an alumni of
studio, which I am very jealous of! The power
FLAME, which will be fun. I am really excited, but
goes off about 4 times a day as the electricity has also nervous, as in front of the camera there is
to be shared out and diverted, so you can be mid nowhere to hide!
class and it goes pitch black!
The week just gone was a holiday, which I spent
All my friends are Liberal Education students.
living with a friend called Henna and her family. I
Most speak three languages: their mother
really enjoyed my time there and I came to
tongue, Hindi and English, and they all speak to
understand Indian culture much better, such as
each other in English because it is guaranteed to their family values, the role of women and the
be understood. The university is very liberal, but
value of education. I also got to share what a
you must be in your room for 11.30pm (there is
typical Indian teenage girl does with her free time,
an alarm that sounds like an air-raid siren, which
which turns out to be similar to me!
gave me a shock first time I heard it!). The
students can leave campus, but must get
permission first and when you re-enter you have
Alex
The average person in the UK
uses 150 litres of water a day
but this is not sustainable; we
are using more water than the
rivers are receiving from rain.
Here are a few hints on
reducing our water
consumption:
 Remember to turn off the tap
while brushing your teeth
A running tap wastes over
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 Invest in a water butt
Your roof collects about
85,000 litres of rain each year
6 litres per minute.
which then just runs straight
into the sewers. This could fill
 Drop a hippo in your cistern
450 water butts with
Give your water company a
water: you could
ring; they can give you one of
water your garden,
these devices for free.
your houseplants, or
 Bathers beware!
wash your car for
A bath typically uses around
free! To get a
80 litres, while a short shower
butt, call your
can use as little as a third of
local water
that amount.
company.
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The 19th Century Poor of Congleton
The Poor Law Research Group
Congleton is fortunate to have
an excellent set of town records
dating back several centuries.
However, much information can
be obtained from documents
held in the County Archives at
Chester and the National
Archives at Kew. One group
relates to the administration of
the New Poor Law of 1834.
Under the New Poor Law
parishes or townships were
grouped into unions, which were
the unit of administration for
relieving the poor and other local
issues. Congleton Union, when
formed, consisted of Congleton
and some 30 nearby townships;
the workhouse was built at
Arclid.
Each union was under the
control of a board of guardians;
paid officers were responsible
for the day-to-day affairs of the
union. A brief search of the
county archives catalogue for
Congleton shows board
minutes, registers of births,
baptisms and deaths in the
workhouse, general and
parochial ledgers, vaccination
officer's report books,
statements of account and more.
These documents have been
used to good effect by authors
Marlene and Graham Langley in
their book (copyright 1993), At
the Crossroads, A History of
Arclid Workhouse and Hospital.
Unions were supervised by the
Poor Law Commission, based in
London, which was responsible
for ensuring uniformity across
the 600 or so unions. The
system resulted in a huge
amount of correspondence
between unions and the
David Jackson
Co-ordinator of the Poor Law Research Group
The complexity of the New Poor Law made it
necessary to publish handbooks for the
various officers. This is the actual book owned
by John Brocklehurst, Relieving Officer. (He
was not the dishonest officer referred to in the
text.) The inscription is probably in his own
handwriting. The book runs to 547 pages. An
eye-catching entry in the index is 'Corpse,
admission of, into Workhouse.' About 30
further pages are devoted to advertisements
for stationery associated with Poor Law
administration. This book is stamped to show
that it was bought from W J Harper of
Sandbach. According to Morris and Co.’s 1880
Directory of Cheshire, W J Harper, of Market
Square and Hope Street, was a music seller,
stationer, newsagent, dealer in musical
instruments, sewing and washing machines,
iron bedsteads, bedding etc.
Commission, much of which
has been preserved in the
National Archives at Kew.
While the correspondence for
each union is filed separately, it
is for the most part un-indexed,
and is known as Series MH12.
The matters covered by MH12
vary widely. One member of
the group, working on
documents covering a period of
under two years, found, among
other things, a reference to the
matron being paid in porter (a
dark-brown or black bitter
beer), a dispute between the
guardians and the medical
officers, inmates being set to
stone-breaking, and fraud by a
relieving officer (relieving
officers were responsible for
actually handing out relief, so
were in a trusted position which
was sometimes abused). Also
of considerable interest are the
appointment forms for officers,
which provide details including
age, former residence and
employment of people appointed
by the guardians; these had to
be approved by the Poor Law
Commissioners.
To make the content of the
MH12 documents for Congleton
Union more accessible a group
of us have started to summarise
and catalogue them. About
1,800 documents have so far
been photographed and put on
disk and each member of the
group can enter the information
on to a standard template at
home. When the group has
covered a sufficiently long
period, their work can be
combined into a single file.
Please email David Jackson for
further information and future
dates of Poor Law Group
meetings:
[email protected]
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Life During Wartime
Patricia Anne Hurst (nee Jolley)
Pat Hurst was born at her maternal grandparents’
smallholding in the rural village of Smallwood. Only a year old
when England entered WWII, Pat shared her parent’s house
on Willow Street (since demolished to make way for a car
park) with her younger brother and began attending nearby
St Stephen’s school in 1943. When her father volunteered for
service, Pat was often sent to stay with her paternal
grandparents near the park. Interview by Betty Butterworth
Q: Were your parents working
when you were born?
A: My mother didn‘t. My father
had been doing a college
course. He did a degree in art
and he qualified to teach art.
Q: Did he ever get to do that?
A: No, because the war came.
Q: You told me he volunteered
for the war. What does that
mean exactly?
A: Instead of having calling up
papers… he joined before
then. He went into the
Cheshire Regiment.
Q: You told me that your
mother was upset that he‘d
volunteered.
A: She said, ‗You should have
waited until you were called
for.‘ She was worried about
him. He was only a little man.
Q: And she had one baby and
another on the way?
A: Yes, so she sent me to my
grandmother‘s most of the
time. My little brother wasn‘t
very strong. He was baptised
on the kitchen table – using a
mixing bowl for the water because they thought he was
going to die. He was very
weak, but he survived.
Q: Did your house have an air
raid shelter?
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A: We didn‘t have a shelter.
The shelter was near my
grandparents‘ house.
Q: Do you remember going
into the shelter?
A: Definitely. I can even
remember the outfit… I was
only about two, but I can
remember the outfit that they
put me in – a blue ‗siren suit‘.
You put it on when you heard
the siren. It was an all-in-one,
like babies wear now. It was
all in blue!
Q: You wore a special outfit
to go into the shelter?
A: Well… I was spoiled,
wasn‘t I? I had everything!
Q: Even during the war?
A: I never went short
because my grandmother at
Smallwood, she‘d got
animals… And she was
always baking; she had a big
Aga. And she had fruit, with
having an orchard. She made
apple pies and raspberry
pies. It was gorgeous! And
she had goat‘s milk. I didn‘t
drink much milk, but she did
have goat‘s milk. And she
made cheese – goat‘s milk
cheese. And we had bacon.
She‘d swap something with
someone else, so there was
bacon.
Q: Do you have any other
memories of going into the air
raid shelter?
A: It was horrible. It was dark,
cold… and the smell of
cement… I can smell it now you know when cement‘s not
dry? These shelters were
underground, at the bottom of
Rood Hill, where the chippy is
now – just round the corner, at
the bottom of the hill.
Q: How many people would go
down there?
A: Oh, you could get 50 people
or more; it was very big. And
there were wooden forms to sit
on - no chairs, just long
wooden forms. But they had
entertainment. I can remember
they had me tap dancing!
Because I‘d had some tap
dancing lessons, they thought I
was Shirley Temple! And they
told stories, there was
singing…
Q: Did you have a favourite
subject in school?
A: Yes, nature! We had a
nature table competition and I
won a prize – it was a game
called Knight Errant. It came
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from a paper shop along
Willow Street called
Davenport‘s. I‘d worked hard.
We had to go down to the park
and find things of interest,
nature… and we had to label
them, set them out nicely. I
loved it!
Q: Did you have a lot of
friends?
A: Not really, because the
children that went to St
Stephen‘s School all lived on
the estate, which is Bromley
Farm. They all congregated
together, but because I didn‘t
live up there I wasn‘t one of the
crowd. It was a bit lonely.
Q: Were there a lot of evacuee
children in Congleton?
A: Yes! We had one –
Margaret. She came from
Manchester. She was very
independent… streetwise,
more grown up. I think she‘d
been somewhere else first and
then she came to us.
Eventually she went to Mow
Cop and I never saw her again.
Then & Now
Q: Did you know where your
father was stationed?
A: My father was at Dunkirk;
he was in Belgium and
France. And my uncles were
in Egypt and India - one was.
Another one went to
Normandy and East Africa.
Q: Did they all come back?
A: All except one. He got
malaria in Egypt. There was a
Red Cross ship — it was the
only Red Cross ship that got
bombed. He was on the ship.
she‘d say, ‗Go back to bed! I‘ll
let you know when he comes.‘ I
could hear his footsteps
coming along the street… I
listened all night, till about
midnight, when I could hear his
footsteps coming along the
street and I knew it was him.
Q: Were you aware of the
American GIs or Dutch soldiers
in Congleton?
A: He‘d had a bomb dropped
on his toe, but he was all
right. I remember him saying
that he was lucky to get back
in one piece. He‘d lost loads
of friends, you see. He never
really got over it. He must
have seen some horrible
things.
A: Oh, yes! The evacuee
taught me this one… She says,
‗They‘ve got chewing gum and
sweets. We‘ll sit on the step
and when they come past we‘ll
say, ―Have you got any gum,
chum?‖ I remember my mother
said, ‗That‘s very naughty! You
shouldn‘t do that.‘ One was a
coloured man. I‘d never seen a
coloured man before, and I
used to look out for him - he
was so interesting!
Q: Did you know him when
he came home?
Q: Besides gum, did you get
other sweets off the GIs?
A: Oh, I did! My mother knew
he was coming. He came
from Crewe station, and he
had to walk. We were
upstairs, me and my little
brother… I‘d creep down and
A: Marshmallows! They used
to bring little pink
marshmallows. My mother
said, ‗You‘ve been talking to
the Americans again.‘ I‘d say,
‗It wasn‘t me; it was Margaret.‘
Q: Did your dad come back
safe?
End of
Bridge Street
looking
towards the
town centre.
Then
Now
The top of
Rood Hill
where the
lighthouse
once stood.
Then
Now
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Modern photos
by Mark Bennett
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Meet the Volunteers... Mark Bennett
Our volunteers are our most important resource. You are the backbone of the museum and vital
to its continuing existence. Simply stated, without volunteers there would be no museum.
Interview by Colin Lansley
Mark Bennett, aged 42, is a Congletonian and proud of his roots,
and he thinks the people of Congleton are pretty special too. After
leaving school and trying his hand at several jobs, he thought he
would like to try working abroad. He gained all the necessary
qualifications and landed a job in Calgary, Canada. However,
things changed dramatically for Mark on a return visit to England
to see his parents in 2009 when he suffered a severe brain
haemorrhage. This life-changing event stalled his career but
nothing could keep him down. Two years later, we are very
fortunate to have him here at the museum where, among other
duties he utilizes his PC skills by electronically improving worn or damaged photographs. Mark also
assists us by photographing the books in the museum‘s library for inclusion in the database as well
as researching possible sources for grants—essential for funding on-going projects.
Q: Where did you go to school?
A: My last school was
Westlands High School. It‘s
been knocked down now and it‘s
nothing but houses.
Q: Did you receive any further
education?
A: Yes, I went to Manchester
University to study Chemistry.
After a few minor jobs I went to
Manchester Metropolitan to get
my MSC in Science Instruments.
I left, had a few more minor jobs;
then I went to Exeter University
to achieve my PHD in Electrical
Capacitance Tomography,
which is similar to an electrical
version of a CT scan. I was then
able to apply for jobs in
universities and succeeded at
Leeds. After this I started
applying for jobs abroad.
Q: Why abroad?
A: After working at Leeds
University for five or six years I
and decided I‘d really like to try
Canada because the people I‘d
met from there seemed so
friendly and positive. I stayed in
Vancouver for a while and
looked for jobs on the Internet,
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and that‘s how I got the job at
Calgary University.
Q: How long were you there?
A: From February 2006 to
June 2009.
Q: What brought you back?
A: I was back in England on
holiday visiting my parents and
had this brain haemorrhage. I
was in hospital for three to four
months. After I had recovered I
went to live with my parents,
but everything had fallen apart
in Canada.
Q: So what made you come to
the museum?
A: I was looking for voluntary
work to get myself a bit more
active, feel more useful and the
museum was one of the first
things that came up.
Q: How long have you been
here at the museum?
A: I‘m not sure. I would think
about a year.
Q: Do you think the museum
does enough to involve the
people in Congleton?
A: Yes, I think it‘s really good.
It‘s a shame that not many
people know of it. I do think,
though, we should advertise a lot
more.
Q: Where do you see yourself in
the future, or where would you
like to see yourself?
A: Hopefully back in full-time
research. Also, I‘m interested in
becoming a writer – a
screenwriter. I had some interest
recently from a company in
Canada and it allowed me to get
a good agent there. The film
business seems quite unstable
though, so I try not to get my
hopes up too much.
Mark has come a long way since
the beginning of his illness in
June 2009. It’s only two years
and he’s working at the museum
and socialising with friends, and
speaking to him you wouldn’t
know anything had happened. In
March, he arranged a return visit
to Canada to see his old work
colleagues and take care of
some medical requirements. He
made the trip on his own, which I
think is a marvellous
achievement. I truly think
whatever Mark sets his mind to,
he achieves.
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Step Back in Time on a History Walk
Mill Walks and
Industrial Yarns
A Pub Crawl
Through Time
At the
Chalk Face
5th June 2011
3rd July 2011
7th August 2011
Leader:
Lyndon Murgatroyd
Leader:
Lyndon Murgatroyd
Leader:
Ian Doughty
Discover how the cotton, silk
and fustian industries
shaped Congleton‘s layout
as well as its fortunes: this
walk takes a leaf out of
Lyndon Murgatroyd‘s popular
book Mill Walks and
Industrial Yarns with stops at
many of the mills – some
transformed into chic shops,
offices and flats, some
derelict, some only
memories – whose tales he
tells. The route takes in Park
Mill on Mountbatten Way and
Victoria Mill on Foundry
Bank as well as mills in
Worrall Street. Mr
Murgatroyd will point out the
weir that once fed both the
Old Mill and the Corn Mill
and the memorial plaque for
the Old Mill. You will also
visit the site of Roldane Mill,
the derelict Brook Mill and
the converted Providence
Mill.
Long lost town centre
drinking establishments are
the focus of this ‗pub crawl
through time‘.
At the turn of the
20th century, Congleton
was one of the smallest
Education Authorities in
the country. However, the
conditions within the
schools left a great deal to
be desired, with one being
described as ‗dirty and
depressing in the extreme
and so crowded with
children that healthy and
convenient conditions of
work were impossible‘.
You will stop where The
Mechanics Arms once
stood, and pass the former
Prince of Wales pub and
the house that was called
The White Bear. The Red
Cow building and the site of
the Globe Inn on Cole Bank
Hill are also on the route,
before the walk returns to
the High Street.
Noting the disproportionate
number of inns, taverns
and drinking houses for the
size of Congleton‘s
population, Mr Murgatroyd
says, ―In the process of
walking up the High Street
on the way to the Lion &
Swan, I‘ll point out and give
some history on over 30
more public houses.‖
On this walk you will visit
the sites of some of the
schools of the time – the
Grammar School in the
Cockshoots, St Peter‘s
School in Chapel Street
and St James‘s School in
North Street – to look at
the type of education they
provided and hear about
some of the remarkable
incidents that occurred
within them.
All walks depart at 2.00pm from the museum, situated behind the town hall.
Price including cream tea £4.00. Friends of Congleton Museum £3.00.
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Story & Research by Mark Bennett
Congleton has its fair share of ghosts, but library
worker Sheila Dutton was at first taken aback by
the angry spirit of a WWII Polish Air Force pilot at
the library. Sheila says she had ―strong feelings of
a psychic nature‖ and ―sensed it, like when
you know someone‘s in the room or
right behind you‖. However, she
gradually realised the ghost was
mainly angry at not being noticed,
and she resolved to help.
After escaping from Poland
through Romania when the
Germans invaded his home
country, Flt./Sgt Zygmunt Kowalski
of the 316th squadron of the Polish Air
Force (P.A.F.) was eventually stationed at R.A.F.
Woodvale (near Southport). He was killed on
21st March 1944 at 10.45am (one month short of
his 23rd birthday) when his Spitfire crashed into a
stone wall on The Cloud in bad weather.
For a time, the scrapped Spitfire was stored at the
site where the library would one day be built and,
feeling it was his duty, the spirit of Flt./Sgt
Kowalski remained with his plane. When the
wreckage was dismantled and the parts
split up, Kowalski was left stranded
and confused and in due course
took up residence in the library.
After doing ―lots of research and
discussing it with various friends‖,
Sheila recited the Air Force
procedures for releasing a pilot from his
responsibilities and Kowalski‘s spirit was
finally released. He was last seen embracing
his younger sister, Valeska, on the Carpathian
Mountains, perhaps finding some peace in his
own version of heaven.
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C rner Museums are always looking for that all important item with which to
illustrate a local or national event, such as commemorative medals, mugs,
Co
cups, bookmarks and tea towels, as well as that now forbidden item, the ashtray.
This one, made in 1938 to commemorate
the installation of a new 2,000 volt
transformer in the council‘s electricity
substation, reflects the growth in
importance of this new source of energy to
the town.
Electricity is something we all take for
granted but it was not until 20th February
1931 that premises on the town‘s principal
streets were able to receive power from the
council‘s new substation in Bromley Road.
This was later than in most neighbouring
towns, and may have been because the Corporation owned the very profitable gas works, the
income from which was used to subsidise the town‘s rates.
Although originally discussed in 1919, it was not until 1929 that the Congleton Electricity Special
Order was approved and work began on building the substations and supply cables. This venture
involved the council purchasing power for the North West Midland Joint Electricity Authority and
then reselling it to both private and commercial consumers. It proved to be as successful as the gas
works, hence the need for an improved supply and the new transformer in 1938.
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Local History from only £1
‘On yonder hill my uncle stands
(Congleton Edge)
But he will not come near
For he is a Roundhead
and I am a Cavalier’
Excerpt from
The Upper Biddulph Valley
by Peter Boon
Read more about the
Upper Biddulph Valley from its
role in the Civil War through to
early industry and agriculture
Other booklet titles include...
Congleton Town Halls
Peter Boon
George Sandbach
Albert Williams
Chemists of Congleton
Ray Rowe
The Old Mill 1752-2003
Lyndon Murgatroyd
The Parnells
David Daniel MBE
Geology and Geography of Congleton
Peter Boon
John Bradshaw of Congleton
Peter Jackson
The Inn Signs of Congleton and District
Joan P Alcock
Bath House
Albert Williams
Astbury Village
Peter Boon
My Grandmother’s House
Peter Boon
Between the Howty and the Dare in Congleton
Peter Boon
More titles are available in the museum or visit our website
www.congletonmuseum.co.uk
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Contact Us
Address
Congleton Museum
Vintage Visit
to the Museum
Market Square
Congleton
Cheshire
CW12 1ET
Phone
01260 276360
E-mail
[email protected]
Website
www.congletonmuseum.co.uk
Opening Times
Tuesday - Friday
According to the group‘s website, the DLOC was formed in June
1964 with the primary aims of promoting interest in and
preservation of all vehicles manufactured by Daimler,
Lanchester and BSA.
Among the 16 vehicles displayed that afternoon were a Daimler
Dart, a Daimler V8 Saloon and a Daimler Conquest. A 1927 2door Daimler 20/70 with a rare sleeve valve engine was also on
view (see photo with proud owners Harris and
Andrew Alston).
12.00 - 4.30pm
Saturday
10.00 - 4.30 pm
Sunday
12.00 – 4.30pm
Monday
Closed
For holiday opening times
please contact the museum.
Can You Help?
Are you a budding writer
or history enthusiast? If
so, we’d love to include
your articles or story
ideas in the Friends of
Congleton Museum
Newsletter. If you can
help, please get in touch!
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The car park across from the
museum was filled with a
colourful array of vintage
automobiles as we played
host to a group of visitors
from the Northwest division
of the Daimler and
Lanchester Owners’ Club
(DLOC) during their winter
run on Sunday 27th February.
The group‘s 30-mile drive began in
Knutsford, with a stop at the museum
for refreshments and a guided tour by
Collections Manager Ian Doughty,
before carrying on to Little Moreton
Hall and then a return journey to
Knutsford and dinner at the Cottage
Restaurant.
The group discovered Congleton
Museum while researching additional
venues to visit near Little Moreton
Hall.―We like to choose activities that
are different and unusual; places that
our members haven‘t been to before,‖
said organiser David Page.
―Something to interest the ladies,‖
added cheeky chairman Brian Baker.
This year‘s winter run was held in
memory of previous DLOC chairman
Mike Taowey and secretary Lionel
Morris, both of whom recently
passed away.
Preserving the past, recording the present, educating the future