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Salisbury Cathedral Scrap-book 6

Cuttings 6

1936 - 1988

1 volume

A purpose-made scrap-book with a coloured, diagonal stripe design on the cover and a banner heading, "Cuttings". The book contains mainly press-cuttings with some illustrations and material from other printed sources, all relating to the history, features and contents of the Cathedral and to people associated with it. Most items have been glued to the pages of the scrap-book but some are inserted loosely. Contents and principal topics referred to include: a photograph captioned "Reconstruction has begun on the leaning spire of Salisbury Cathedral and the cracked finials round its base are being renewed" (21 Oct 1936); funeral of Sir Walter Alcock, Cathedral organist (19 Sep 1947); restoration, and replacement of the topmost part, of the Cathedral spire; installation of a new cross at the apex and of aircraft warning lights; insertion into the new capstone of a sealed container inscribed with details of the work undertaken; illustration of how "the whole spire will continue to lean 22¾ inches out of perpendicular, as it has done for the past 600 years"; some information about fundraising for the project (Sep 1949 - Dec 1950); enthronement of William Anderson (? - not named) as Bishop of Salisbury (undated); opening of new workshops for glazing, masonry, carpentry and other maintenance work on the Cathedral, a two-storey building between the South nave aisle and the North wall of the cloisters (1955); "the cloisters and cattle pens of Salisbury" (26 Nov 1949); dedication of the Glider Pilot Regiment war memorial window in the presence of Field-Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke (11 Dec 1950); opening of Salisbury Festival of the Arts, Salisbury's contribution to the Festival of Britain (8 Jun 1951); "Twentieth Century Keepers of Our Christian Heritage: behind the scenes at Salisbury Cathedral" (8 Jun 1951); installation of a new "speech reinforcement system" in the Cathedral (20 Apr 1956); dedication of the new Sanctuary (1960); installation of a new heating system in the Cathedral - "the biggest single building in Britain to be electrically floorwarmed" (1965); illustrated article about Dr Salome Pelly (née Wordsworth) and some memories of life in the Bishop's Palace before the death of her father, Bishop John Wordsworth, in 1911, and of her own near-50 year career as a General Practitioner (1988); three illustrated articles about craftspeople working at the Cathedral, being Tony Lever, senior plumber (30 Jun 1988, with later news of his recovery from injury after a fall from the Cathedral roof,4 Aug 1988), Caitriona Drumm, stonemason (28 Jul 1988), and Ray Stevens, carpenter (1 Sep 1988); obituary of Alfred Wallbridge, steeplejack, the first man to climb the Cathedral spire after the Second World War (14 Jul 1988); the Southern Cathedrals Festival (21 Jul 1988); copy of a tribute to Dean Sydney Hall Evans by Bishop John Baker (1988); "Biggles Saves the Spire", a "musical comedy-thriller", part of the Southern Cathedrals Festival, written and peformed by Lay Vicars of the Cathedral Choir in aid of the Salisbury Cathedral Spire Appeal (Jul 1988); commemoration of 15 years of episcopal links between Salisbury and the Sudan against the background of disastrous flooding in the Nile Valley and Khartoum (Aug 1988); Bishop John Baker interviewed wwith an auduence in the Cathedral by Ludovic Kennedy as part of the "Come Alive!" faith-sharing mission (Sep 1988); completion of the first phase of repair work on the Spire (Nov 1988); occasional sightings of what was thought to be a peregrine falcon around the Spire, with photographs of its "game larder" on the scaffolding (Nov 1988); and damage to the High Street gate by delivery lorries (24 Nov 1988).

English

Material: paper

Eward, Suzanne
Dimont, Elisabeth
Parsons, Mrs K M