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1 F S M A NEWSLETTER The Friends of the Salford Museums Association (Registered Charity No ) February 2017 Editor: Philip Heyes Welcome to the Friends February Newsletter. Here are some forthcoming events for your diary. Date Event Venue and Time Monday 20 th February Monday 27 th February 2017 Weds 22 nd March See Agenda for AGM on page 13 Thursday 23 March Booking essential : Friday 7 th April Monday 15 th May Launch of latest book on the archaeology of Salford from the University of Salford, Recapturing the Past of Salford Quays edited by Dr Mike Nevell & David George. Launch followed by talk on archaeology of the Quays. SEE ALSO PAGE 9 Talk on the Markendale portrait its history and significance. The Museum are bringing out the painting for us to see. See article inside. Friends of Salford Museums Annual General Meeting, followed by an illustrated talk by Philip Heyes The Railways around the City of Salford A Wonder of the Waterway World: Barton s Swing Aqueduct A talk by Alexandra Mitchell, Peel Group Archivist Visit to Fairfield Moravian Settlement(1785), Fairfield Square, Droylsden, Manchester M43 6AE Visit to Gorton Monastery, Gorton Lane, Manchester, M12 5WF Further details on Friends website or phone Monica Ordsall Hall 2 4pm Admission 5. Book Online please: salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/culture FREE COPY OF BOOK TO EACH OF FIRST 20 PEOPLE TO BOOK 2 p.m. at Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park 6 p.m. in the Victorian Gallery at Salford Museum and Art Gallery. All current members warmly invited. 7pm to 9pm Alexandra House, 395 Liverpool Road, Eccles M30 7HB Free. Places are limited. Meet at Church, 2 p.m. Price 5 including refreshments Phone Monica ( ) for more details Meeting p.m. for lunch at Monastery. Please 'phone Monica ( ) for more details. Tour charge 7.50 (lunch not incl.) During JUNE 2017 FRIENDS TRIP BEING PLANNED See phone contact above See Friends Website or phone Monica PLEASE VISIT THE FRIENDS WEBSITE: 1

2 LET US HEAR FROM YOU! Members of FSMA this is YOUR Newsletter would you like to send us Copy or make a Comment? Please contact: Philip Heyes: tel or e mail (preferred): Jphilipheyes@aol.com or Don Rainger on Copy for the June 2017 Newsletter to P. Heyes (e mail as above) by Friday 19 th May Or, please write to the Secretary, F.S.M.A., Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, SALFORD M5 4WU We want your comments and suggestions. A VERY BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are planning a full and varied programme and will be supporting exciting projects at the Museum and Ordsall Hall. If you have paid your FSMA subscription for 2017 Grateful thanks! For those yet to renew a gentle reminder To renew, please use the form at the end of this Newsletter. Subscriptions for 2017 remain unchanged at 10 per person PRESIDENT S PERAMBULATIONS Hello Friendly, if belated, New Year greetings! Two dozen people attended our Christmas party and a most enjoyable time was had by all. Thanks must go first of all to Jane and her colleagues in the SMAG café for their culinary contribution. The pies were scrumptious and furnace-hot, just what was needed on a chilly, mid-december lunchtime, and the atmosphere and service were excellent. It was a hectic time, for not only were we enjoying our celebrations, so too were many of the Salford Community Leisure staff who were down from the Civic Centre holding their festive gathering. Mapas play at 2017 Christmas Party: Photo Rosemary Boardman We were all entertained by members of staff from MAPAS, Salford s music and performing arts organisation, and FSMA thanks them for their most appropriate contribution. To our very own Monica and Rosemary we say thank you for organising the event and for producing the quiz based on paintings in the galleries. The second part of the quiz, put together by yours truly and based largely on events which had happened in Salford at Christmas, mainly during the lifetime of the Friends, proved, shall we say, more testing. What the party did manage, though, was to bring people together and perhaps get them to chat to members they may not have met before. Numbers attending our events rose steadily during 2016 and, encouraged by this, we intend to arrange further visits in coming months. A reminder, now, that subscriptions for 2017 are due. At the time of writing around two-thirds of members have already paid their 10, and we hope that the remainder will sign up again. Membership has risen over the past couple of years. In this era of budgetary constraints, it is more important than 2

3 ever that groups like ours support, in as many ways as we can, our local cultural assets, so please sign up again and try to convince someone you know to join the Friends. Many of the events at SMAG and the Hall during Advent were well attended (both venues were closed from Christmas Eve to New Year Bank Holiday) and attendance was up by 280 at the Hall when compared to the previous year. Monton Voices choir enhanced the Victorian Gallery on 11 th December and the Eagley Brass Band, although only seven players strong, brought a warm glow to the Great Hall at Ordsdall on a chill, steel-grey Sunday afternoon a week later. I enjoyed both events. My personal favourite, however, was the concert given by the Fallowfield-based Alteri Choir at the Hall. An off-shoot of the Hallé Choir, these singers produced A Tudor Yule of simple beauty and complexity. If they return to Ordsall I urge you to buy a ticket. When it was over I headed off into the cold night reflecting how fortunate we are to have such quality experiences in stunning local surroundings. Before the end of last year the committee agreed to provide financial support for the restoration of one of the two Markendale portraits which have historic links to the Hall. Our Collections Manager, Peter Ogilvie, is currently looking to have one of the paintings, which is showing clear signs of wear and tear, conserved. FSMA is hoping to arrange an event at SMAG during which we can view and learn more about the portraits. At our January meeting it was agreed that we provide bursaries to two local young people to help them pay for their training and examinations for the Royal Horticultural Society courses for which they are studying at Ordsall under our Head Gardener and Trainer, Lindsay Berry. The courses are proving very popular and Lindsay is now teaching students on-line as well as at the Hall. She gives a fuller account of these activities later in this bulletin. See also her novel scheme for fund-raising. Some people sponsor pandas or tigers, now you will have an opportunity to sponsor a plant or vegetable in Ordsall s grounds. Speaking of the Hall, Liz McNabb is back in harness there as manager following her maternity leave. Both Ordsall and SMAG submitted their accreditation reports to the Museum Association prior to Christmas. The redesign of the Gallery at SMAG which housed FSMA s exhibition is ongoing. Students from Salford University are involved. Two students from Leicester are working with the pottery collection and writing a catalogue for the forthcoming RA exhibition. A note on the LifeTimes Link magazine. Despite time constraints it was published and distributed to subscribers before Christmas. It is on sale at SMAG, the Hall and libraries in Salford for 3 a copy. If you have not bought yours yet don t leave it long as they are selling well. The front cover photo shows the Friends holding their Carol Concert in Lark Hill Place on 16 th December We are described as singing with typical Victorian gusto that photo alone is worth the cover price. And no, despite what some of you may be thinking, I wasn t in the picture! Finally, the Friends AGM is again on the horizon. Details are elsewhere in this Newsletter. Please put the date, Wednesday 22 nd March, in your diary and do your best to attend. And just a reminder about those subscriptions if you haven t re-joined, do send us your cheque and do try to convince someone to sign up with you. Best wishes Don Rainger Hon President FSMA 20 th January

4 Ordsall Hall s new Garden Sponsorship scheme An exciting new Garden Sponsorship scheme, which began in December 2016, allows visitors, staff and volunteers to engage in a whole new way with the gardens and the plants and wildlife that call it their home. For those who fancy learning more about the gardens at Ordsall Hall, it will give them the chance to connect with and help to support a host of amazing plants, art works and garden objects. The Sponsorship scheme will also play a huge part in helping to develop key wildlife friendly habitats over the coming years such as wildflower beds, wildlife friendly hedging and bird and bat nesting sites. New ornamental borders and planting schemes, including a cut flower border, Edwardian bedding displays and beds with winter colour and interest and will also benefit from support via the scheme. A wide variety of items are available to sponsor, from entire garden areas such as the Orchard or Knot garden, to individual plants and objects, with prices ranging from just 10 to 30 depending on what you choose to sponsor. Each time a person sponsors an item they will receive a sponsorship gift pack which includes information and a photograph of their chosen plant, seed, animal or object, as well as a certificate. We send this directly to the sponsor or to a recipient of their choice, if being bought as a gift. On top of this, we ll provide regular updates on the plant, animal or object and people will even be invited to special workshops or gardens. Our sponsorship scheme can be accessed via the online shop as well as via the SCLL Just Giving Page. If you want any further information about the scheme you can also hunt down one of our gardeners in the garden or call the Hall s reception. What can you sponsor? RARE PORTRAITS RETURN TO THE WALLS WHERE THEY ONCE HUNG Ordsall Hall is delighted to announce that, working with the Friends of Salford Museums Association, it has secured 4900 from the Charles Hayward Foundation towards the conservation of a unique portrait of one of Ordsall Hall s former residents. Ordsall Hall is the one of the oldest surviving houses in the UK. From the 1100s up until the 1970s, it has always been lived in. One of its fascinating characteristics is that is has had so many different inhabitants - from medieval Lords of the Manor, to Tudor Knights of the Realm, dangerous temporisers of the Catholic faith to protestant priests in training, Victorian mill owners to the Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederic Shields. 4

5 One family that lived at the Hall, and ran its surrounding farm, from 1815 to 1871 were the Markendales. The Markendales were famed in the Manchester and Salford area for being prominent and prosperous butchers and tanners. In 2011, two unknown portraits were discovered in an out-building of a farm in Cumbria, literally rotting away, not having seeing the light of day for decades. The farmer, a direct descendant of the Markendales, contacted the curator at Ordsall Hall as he thought that the portraits may have a connection with the Hall. Indeed they did! They were the portraits of Ellis and Mary Markendale who lived at Ordsall Hall between 1815 and The farmer kindly donated the portraits to Ordsall Hall in When the Markendales first moved into the Hall, they only lived in part of it. It was not until 1850 that they took on the tenancy of the whole Hall and became the sole residents of the manor house. It is likely that the two portraits were a direct response to the Markendales new found status and were commissioned to reflect their prominence in local society at that time. Ellis ( ) was painted in 1851 by the artist William Scott. William Scott ( ) was a portrait painter born near Leicester, England. He came from a humble background and painted portraits of those with enough money to sit for him mainly in Leicestershire, Manchester and Liverpool. He exhibited in The Royal Academy, London, and at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. An article written by Country Life in the 1860s describes the portrait of Ellis as a superb piece of work. The portraits of Elllis and Mary Markendale are significant historical works of art in that they represent unique examples of a surviving physical link to a very prominent local family who once lived and worked at Ordsall Hall. In Ordsall Hall s ownership, there are no surviving, original paintings of any of the past residents of the Hall and it has had many inhabitants since the 1100s! The portraits give us so many visual clues as to the status of Ellis and Mary and, because Scott painted the Hall in the background of the portrait, the pictures also reveal much about the condition of the Tudor mansion house in the mid-nineteenth century. They are historically valuable because of their unique Ordsall provenance and because they tell a story that no other pieces in the Hall s collection can. We no longer want these captivating works to be hidden from view. With grants from the Charles Hayward Foundation, the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund and The Friends of Salford Museums Association, Salford Heritage Services is going to professionally restore the portrait of Ellis and return it to the walls where it hung over 160 years ago. We are restoring Ellis ahead of Mary as he is in a far worse state than his wife! We will hang the portrait of Mary next to Ellis, in order to encourage visitors to the Hall to understand the need for Mary to get the same treatment as her husband. Hopefully, this will create debate, establish a visual case for support for restoration of the Mary portrait, and encourage public donations with which to carry out the much-needed restoration work. The proposed treatment on Ellis includes specialist works such as securing the flaking paint, removing the dirt and bird droppings, repairing the torn canvas fibres by weave mending, and filling the paint losses by in-painting with fine ground pigments. Help! 5

6 We still need donations to restore Ellis to his former glory and give Mary the same treatment. Please donate what you can to the appeal by visiting the Hall or donating online at: Left: Rescued for restoration Portrait of Ellis Markendale by William Scott. Copyright Salford Museum; not to be reproduced without permission. On Monday 27 th February 2017 Caroline Storr, Heritage Development Manager will give a talk about the portrait its history and significance at the Museum and Art Gallery Peel Park. The talk is at 2 p.m., admission free of charge. The Museum is bringing out the painting for us to see. A splendid opportunity to meet Ellis Martendale! Basic large print versions of this newsletter available Ring GIFTS, GRANTS AND GAMES: Celebrating 60 years of the Friends An article from the Autumn issue of the Journal of the British Association of Friends of Museums, by our secretary Rosemary Boardman and events organisa Monica Wright P T O 6

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8 EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM AND ORDSALL HALL In the North Gallery - Salford Art Club Annual Exhibition 18 February to 18 April North Gallery A popular yearly event for visitors, the annual Salford Art Club exhibition will present the very best works produced by members. A mixture of landscape, portrait and still life are shown in a variety of media. Ten Salford 29 April to 5 September North Gallery An exhibition of contemporary textile art by northern based collective Ten Plus Textiles. The work includes hand and machine embroidery, needle felting, quilting, beadwork, patchwork, weaving and 3D pieces In the Bluestairs Community Gallery - Ups and Downs from 1 October to 4 June 2017 Maria Carroll has collaborated with her brother Matt to create works for this exhibition. Maria has always been an inspiration to her family, manifested in her innate visual and artistic approach to the world around her Queues, Clogs & Redemption Salford From 10 June to 5 November Bluestairs Community Gallery Wood Street Mission has been helping children and families living below the poverty line in Manchester and Salford since Victorian times. This exhibition looks at the work of Wood Street Mission from the days of rescuing street children in the nineteenth century These stories are told through panels, historical artefacts and a film featuring former / current service users. In the Langworthy Gallery Being There from 12 November to 30 April 2017 An immediacy of time and place is vividly captured in painting, drawing, and collage in this wide ranging exhibition by Colin Binns. The artwork reveals his fascination with the colour, form, and sense of movement found in explorations of our towns and cities. Their character is powerfully conveyed through mixed media drawings, whilst urban energy and atmosphere come to life through his strong and expressive semi abstract painting What s in Store? University of Salford Art Collection From 20 May to 19 November To mark the University of Salford s 50th anniversary, this exhibition launches their art collection to the public. A unique chance to see rarely shown works by artists including L.S. Lowry, Adolphe Valette, Liam Spencer, Cao Fei and Mishka Henner. These highlights are brought together to tell the story of the University of Salford s art collections. Ordsall Hall Egerton Gallery - Salford s Early Past Revealed 11 September 2016 to 11 June 2017 Many archaeological investigations have been carried out across Salford, but particularly in the central part of the city. Previously unknown prehistoric sites have been located, Roman roads rediscovered and some of the city s finest timber buildings recorded, greatly increasing our understanding of the way Salford s communities grew. This exhibition takes you on a journey from the first Salfordians in the Iron Age right up to industrial Salford. 8

9 FOR OTHER EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES AT SMAG AND ORDSALL HALL PLEASE CONTACT ORDSALL HALL Tel SALFORD MUSEUM - PEEL PARK Tel LOCAL HISTORY LIBRARY Tel OR GO TO: LifeTimes Link Winter 2016/17 - Issue no. 40 is available now! Look out for this at Salford Museum! Price 3 Summer Issue in preparation, expected by the end of May announcement in next Newsletter A Wonder of the Waterway World: Barton s Swing Aqueduct A talk by Alexandra Mitchell, Peel Group Archivist Thursday 23 March, 7pm to 9pm Alexandra House, 395 Liverpool Road, Eccles M30 7HB Alexandra Mitchell, the Archivist for The Peel Group, will discuss the Barton Swing Aqueduct built in 1893 and officially opened the following year, including previously unseen photographs and drawings from the Peel Archives,and describing the history and workings of the aqueduct and its future. Free but places are limited and booking is essential at AT ORDSALL HALL Recapturing the Past of Salford Quays: Book Launch and Talk Monday 20 February / 2 4pm Join us for the launch of the latest book from the University of Salford on the archaeology of Salford, Recapturing the Past of Salford Quays edited by Dr Mike Nevell & David George. The launch will be followed by a talk on the archaeology of the Quays. 5, booking required A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK AVAILABLE FOR EACH OF THE FIRST 20 PEOPLE TO BOOK FOR THE LAUNCH AND TALK Book Online please: salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/culture SOME TALKS ON WORKS OF ART AT THE GALLERY SEE ALSO EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES LEAFLET Wednesday 22 February Women of Imagination An introduction to the work of women Surrealist painters, spotlights Variation on Red by Marion Adnams held in the Museum s own collection. 7-8pm at Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park Admission 3, booking not required Wednesday 8 March Tryst As part of the Wonder Women festival special talk on the artist Annie L Swynnerton, the first woman associate member of the R A 7-8pm - Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, - Admission 3, as 22 nd Feb Wednesday 26 April Columbus and the Egg / A closer look at this unusual painting by the intriguing Czech artist Benes Knüpfer 9 7-8pm S M A G Peel Park admission 3, booking not required FSMA MEMBERS - SEE RENEWAL FORM ON LAST PAGE PLEASE BRING PAGES TO A G M

10 The Friends of the Salford Museums' Association Financial Summary for year ended 31st December 2016 The following pages contain financial statements which will be presented and discussed at the Annual General Meeting on 22nd March If you have any questions or comments, please contact David Jenkins on or Income Total General income for 2016 was 8,598; an increase of 12% on the previous year. Total subscriptions received in 2016 were 1,330 and accounted for 16% of general income. Membership continued to grow steadily throughout the year. At the end of 2016, there were 125 members (108 at end of 2015). 82% (2015: 64%) had signed up for Gift Aid. 54% (2015: 45%) had requested the newsletter to be sent by , as against by post. Donations were 4,650 (2016: 4,691) and represented 64% of general income (2015: 61%). They included collections at Salford Museum, Ordsall Hall and from Friends. One interesting donation was a banknote for 10,000 South Korean Won (worth 6.17). Charitable activities, such as sales from 'Mr Tomlinson's Sweet Shop' and from the sale of strawberry cream teas at the Ordsall Hall Garden Party, contributed 1,873 (representing 22% of general income). This was significantly up on the 2015 total of 981. Gift Aid ( 355) and interest from the Deposit Account ( 390) continued to be useful sources of revenue. Expenditure Total General expenditure for 2016 was 12,124, compared with 11,949 for ,913 was paid for gifts and support to the Salford Museums. Notable outgoings were 5,000 (Upgrade for the Collections Gallery), 1,600 (RHS bursaries for students at Ordsall Hall), 1,500 (support to Ordsall Hall Garden Party) and 960 (Map hangers for the Local History Library). We also contributed 642 to Salford Museums for our 60-year exhibition and 500 as the final payment of the 1599 video production. Printing and postage costs continued to reduce as a result of sending more newsletters by . We also invested in some publicity material and application forms which have proved popular and effective. Restricted Funds The WW1 project, 'Salford Remembers', finished in 2016 and the final payment was received from the Heritage Lottery Fund. After payments to SCLL, the balance is now zero. Ordsall Hall were successful in obtaining a grant of 4,900 from the Charles Hayward Foundation for restoration of the Markendale portrait. The Friends agreed to donate 500 as part of the grant application and the total of 5,400 has been set aside as a restricted fund. Financial Reserves Total Bank balances at 31st December 2016 were 41,623 (2015: 58,200) which includes the Restricted Funds described above. General Funds held at Banks excluding Restricted funds were 36,223 (2015: 40,719). This represents 6.1 times the income from subscriptions and donations (2015: 7.0) and is therefore in line with our Reserves Policy of between one and ten. The majority of funds are held in a Virgin Money Deposit Account earning 0.5% interest. 10

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13 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDS: PEEL PARK, SALFORD, 6 p.m. 22 nd March next The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Salford Museums Association (Registered Charity no ) will be held at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford, on Wednesday 22 nd March 2017 at 6 p.m. and all members of the Association are invited to attend. AGENDA- PLEASE BRING THIS PAGE & PAGES WITH YOU TO THE MEETING ON 22 nd MARCH Welcome by President. 1. Welcome by the Chairman, Deborah Ivill 2. Apologies for absence 3. Minutes of A.G.M. held on 23 rd March, Matters arising 5. Report by our President, Don Rainger 6. Secretary s report/committee report 7. Presentation of the Association s annual accounts for 2016 (See Financial News pages) 8. Auditor s report 9. Approval of the annual accounts for Subscriptions for Election of Officers for the posts of: Chairman: Presently: Deborah Ivill Vice-Chairman: Presently: John Finley Secretary: Presently: Rosemary Boardman Treasurer: Presently: David Jenkins 12. Appointment of Committee Members: There are vacancies for Committee Members The following are currently members: Philip Heyes Martha Scott-Finley Monica Wright (3 Vacancies) 13. Appointment of Auditors 14. Report of BAFM representative 15. Any other business of which notice has been given by 15 th March 2017 under Constitution Clause 23(d) to the Secretary of F.S.M.A. at Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU 16. Closing Remarks by the Chairman 17. Illustrated Talk by Philip Heyes on Railways Around the City of Salford 13

14 NOMINATION FORMS Nomination Form for FSMA Officers I. of Nominate of. to be Chairman / Vice Chairman / Secretary / Treasurer (delete as appropriate) of FSMA Seconded by of. Please make copies of this form for further nominations for officer posts: note that all present office holders are eligible for re-election. All nomination forms to be sent to the Secretary, FSMA, at the Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU no later than Wednesday 15 th March Nomination Form for a FSMA Committee Member (Three current vacancies) I. of Nominate of. to be a Committee Member of FSMA Seconded by of. Please make copies of this form for further nominations to the committee there are up to two vacancies All nomination forms to be sent to the Secretary, FSMA, at the Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, Crescent, Salford M5 4WU no later than Wednesday 15 th March NEED TO RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? PLEASE TURN TO THE LAST PAGE OF THIS NEWSLETTER! 14

15 The Friends of the Salford Museums Association Registered Charity No