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Spire Appeal Scrap-book 1

VOL. I Jan. '85 . Apr.'86

Jan 1985 - Apr 86

1 volume

One of a series of six clothbound purpose-made scrap-books with marbled paper covers containing material relating to The Salisbury Cathedral Spire Appeal, 1985-1993. Four of the books have a label on the inside back cover: "Hand Marbled Designed and Produced by Compton Marbling Tisbury, Wiltshire England". The spine of this volume has "VOL. I Jan. '85 . . Apr. '86" printed in gold. The Spire Appeal sought to raise £6.5 million to save the spire and tower of Salisbury Cathedral from collapse and to restore the West Front, and was said to be the largest ever appeal of its kind in England. This volume contains newspaper cuttings and other printed material beginning with the formal launch of the Appeal at a service in the Cathedral attended by HRH The Prince of Wales, President of the Salisbury Cathedral Spire Trust, on 10 Apr 1985. By April 1986, when this volume ends, £667,000 of the target of £6.5 million had been raised. This volume includes: Save Our Spire, a colour supplement to the Salisbury Journal, Apr 1985; a bulletin of the Cathedral Congregation Spire Savers; reports of discussions about banning coaches from the Close; the announcement of the reirement of Dean Sydney Evans, who had been due to retire in 1984 but was given permission by the General Synod to stay in post for a further year to guide the launch of the Appeal; an article about the work and staff of the Spire Appeal office. The volume also contains news of various fundraising initiatives which incuded: a car-wash marathon; a garden party at the South Canonry; a sponsored cycle ride; a cake stall; Gwendoline Laver, 82, whose daily walk into Salisbury, measured by a pedometer, was sponsored in aid of the Appeal; "Jazz at Vespers"; "Barchester Conversations - an Evening with Trollope"; a sponsored Hymn Sing; recitals by guitarist Julian Bream and by pianist Sophie Roper-Curzon; a Festival of English Music led by Anthony Hopkins; a Great Book Sale; a cookery book, Simple but Simply Delicious by Lady Tryon, mother of Lord Tryon, Chairman of the Salisbury Cathedral Spire Trust (including "Prince Charles' favourite watercress soup"); a performanace of Gilbert and Sullivan'sTrial by Jury by Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society; Mark Hatt-Cook, solicitor and Royal Marines reservist, climbing down a 20-feet deep well under his cottage in Broadchalke; John Burden, chairman of Salisbury District Council, running the London Marathon; Robert Key, MP for Salisbury and a former Cathedral chorister, singing at a Wassail Party; making dolls and felt chorister mice; models of the Cathedral made from perspex and from matchsticks; a Hurling the Haggis competition.

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