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AXE FALLS ON SNIBSTON DISCOVERY MUSEUM
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CRANLEIGH
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Return of the
Second life for a Hindley horizontal engine
The role of a transport museum conservator
Farewell to engineman Len Crane
England cricketer’s classic commericals
JACK RUSSELL MBE
Welcome
As a tribute to Len Crane (pages 8-9), here are some happier times at The Bratch Pumping Station on one of Len’s steam-ups in 2009. Len restored one of the
pumping engines here at the Severn Trent-owned premises. Sadly, the site is now closed to visitors.
BARRY JOB
o sooner had we recorded the
death of Richard Preston (of
haulier Prestons of Potto fame
and owner of showman’s engine
Lightning II)
than we heard of
the loss of another highly respected
engineman – Len Crane of Wolverhampton.
Lenny was another ambassador for the steam
preservation movement and a top engineer
to boot.
One of his many achievements in life (and
there were certainly
very
many – see pages 8-
9) was to return to steam the left-hand engine
Victoria
at The Bratch Pumping Station. We
can but only hope that there is now a
concerted effort to restore The Bratch as a
fitting tribute to Len. Sadly the Severn Trent-
owned Ruabon red-bricked building in the
Gothic turret style has not opened to the
public since 2010 – and that’s a crying shame.
Unfortunately, The Bratch is not alone; the
Tees Cottage Pumping Station in Darlington
(Northumbrian Water-owned) did not open
last year, citing “serious safety and structural
issues”, despite the recent completion of a
brand new toilet block at the site.
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And now we have what is reported to be the
last season for Snibston Discovery Museum at
Coalville, Leicester, before the site disappears
under new housing, leaving just a small
‘mining museum area’ – and even that is in
doubt until post-election. The council has
approved its closure as it cannot afford to run
the place under the next round of budget
cutbacks, despite protestations from local
residents and the Friends of Snibston.
Where next? Bressingham Steam Museum
has sounded the alarm bells that it is
desperately short of volunteers and is actively
promoting for some new blood. Geography
doesn’t particularly help Bressingham’s cause –
any steam and vintage fans living in the
nearest town of Diss (population 7000) would
probably already be involved. The problem has
no doubt arisen due to ageing volunteers; there
are probably none there now that worked
alongside Alan Bloom to share his original
vision for the place.
The ‘age problem’ will happen more and
more of course, and yet there are still plenty of
bright lights twinkling on the horizon for
steam generally. There’s good news this month
for the future of steam – the Lottery-funded
Engineering Skills Initiative in the north east
had apprentices working on 172 projects
through 22 firms with 91% of students now in
employment and half of them also now
volunteer in the heritage sector.
Closer to home, I note that over half the
members of my local steam club are younger
than me (!) and that my local railway has
appointed a new locomotive superintendent
who is a whole generation below the previous
incumbent, with the side effect that many
younger volunteers have since ‘returned’ to
active volunteering in the department.
Get the young involved; it’s the only way
forward.
Colin Tyson
Editor
ctyson@mortons.co.uk
OLD GLORY
MARCH 2015
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Contents
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No 301 | March 2015
NEWS
6-25 News & Events
99 Old Glory in Miniature News
FEATURES
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The Cranleigh Belle
The story of Burrell Gold
Medal Tractor No 4072
The
Cranleigh Belle,
which returned
to the rally field last year.
Popes on Wheels!
The transport museum in
the Vatican, dedicated to the
many vehicles that have kept
our popes on the move.
Bowled over by commercials
Former County and England
cricketer Jack Russell and his
collection of classic
News updates at oldglory.co.uk
commercial vehicles.
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Transport museum
conservator
A day in the varied life of a
94 Know your engines
professional transport
Injectors – thermodynamics
museum conservator.
or magic?
A Marshall comes home
100 Six-inch Burrell
The restoration of Marshall
Showman’s engine
traction engine
William Scott
Peter Bowles’ miniature
has begun in earnest again.
masterpiece comes under
the spotlight.
J & F Howard of Bedford
From steam and agricultural
implements to petrol
locomotives, the story of one
REGULARS
of our greatest engineering
70 Steam Archive
pioneers.
74 Vintageworld
78 Enginelines
New home for a Hindley
80 Helpline
Horizontal engine
92 Reviews
A rare 1860s survivor from
104 Events Diary
Hindley of Bourton has a
new life at Sherborne Steam
114 Tail Lamp Tom
& Watermill Centre.
Bradford’s illustrious
history in profile
Yorkshire’s first industrial
museum celebrates its 40th
anniversary.
The signwriter’s art
The skills of the signwriter as
he adds the final flourish to
restored vehicles.
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READER SERVICES
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Front Cover: Howard ploughing engine No
110 ‘The Farmers Engine’.
ALAN BARNES
This issue was published on Thursday,
February 19, 2015. The April 2015 issue of
Old
Glory
(No 302) will be on sale from Thursday,
March 19.
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Meet the team
Colin
Tyson
Editor
Derek
Rayner
Technical Advisor
Steve
Dean
Correspondent
Mike
Dyson
Correspondent
Roger
Hamlin
Correspondent
Colin
Smith
Advertising Executive
Malcolm
Ranieri
Photographer
Photographer
James
Hamilton
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