| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | More Members for the Friends / The membership is nearing 1000. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Gonville Cottage / A longterm lease of the cottage is being negotiated. Estate records show that it was built in 1805. The building is listed under the T and C P Act 1974 in Grade III. Mr Warren considered it would be practical to renovate it to an acceptable modern standard without any great change to the exterior. Mr Lowe questioned the adequacy of the windows. The thatch was repaired about three years ago, but it will need attention in the near future. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Progress on Buildings at the Museum / Titchfield Market Hall should be complete by the summer. Hambrook Barn has been finished and Roger Champion is making the display fittings. Chris Zeuner is supervising the layout of the museum in the barn to the designs of Julian Hayward. Volunteers are working on the two wings of the Kirdford cattle shed; the wing covering the lavatories should be completed by Whitsun. A team of volunteers has been working on the Patching Horse Gin, which should be working by Whitsun. Don Glue has worked throughout the winter on the woodland area. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Lurgashall Mill / The Committee debated how it might be possible to incorporate this building in the setting of the Museum's lake without offending against the accepted policy that buildings should be reconstructed in their original form wherever this was apparent. Modification may be inevitable because of differences of alignment to the water supply and difference in water level. AGREED the problems be studied further and additional expert advice be sought. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Staff News / Chris Zeuner has worked six days a week on all kinds of jobs outside his official role. Doug Bryant has made benches and tables. Anthony Simmons is Roger Champion's assistant. John Hill is our new treasurer. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | The Museum's Schools' Programme / Last year some 35,000 children visited the Museum. The Education Committee encourages schools. Every school in Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and Surrey has been circulated about the educational opportunities offered. The charge is 10p for a child. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Director's Visit to Romania / John Lowe has been invited by the Romanian Government to spend two weeks in Romania studying Open Air Museums. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Open Air Museums in Europe - a Weekend course 6th to 10th June for Friends and Volunteers at West Dean College / Recruitment for this course has been disappointing. Please support it. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Dear Member / The Museum will be open from 1100 to 1800 on Easter Weekend, then all Sundays to 19th May, then Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Bank Holidays until. 30th September, then 1000 to 1700 on Wednesdays and Sundays until end of October |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Volunteers & Friends Seminar Saturday 17th March 1973 / This was the first of a series of seminars for Friends and Volunteers. Roy Armstrong and Chris Zeuner spoke about the work of the Museum to an audience of over 120 people. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | Booking Form for Weekend Course "Open Air Museums in Europe" / A booking form for the weekend course on "Open Air Museums in Europe" at West Dean College, on 10th June 1973 |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Little Winkhurst / Alternative treatments of the upper end bay were discussed. AGREED in the reconstruction the bay should be replaced, its exterior should match the rest of the building in profile and materials (although vertical tilehanging would be an acceptable finish) and the interior of this bay should be planned to serve as a museum office. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Titchfield Market Hall / AGREED that tiling of the roof should include torching with lime and hair plaster. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Patching Horse Gin / AGREED the large stone trough be associated, and possibly a lead pumphead, and the water be routed back into the well. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Screening of the Workshop Area / The planting of shrubs to screen the workshop area could serve as a means of excluding the public as well as a visual interruption. However, the existing permission for the temporary workshop building terminates in about eighteen months, when it may be convenient to change the location. AGREED if necessary hurdles might be used to make a temporary barrier, and a comprehensive layout for the Bayleaf complex, including all ancillary farmyard buildings, be prepared. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | The Friends' Committee and the Council of Management / The Friends' Committee has appointed their Chairman, Major General Hawes, to represent them on the Museum's Council of Management. The other members of the Committee are: Miss C. E. Barson, Roy Armstrong, Kim Leslie, Chris Zeuner, John Kessler, Mrs. N. West, Mrs. A. Wilson, John Lowe, Mr. D. Robertson-Ritchie. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Kirdford Sheds - treatment of the inner courtyard / There is a slope of 3 feet over the courtyard area. It was decided that the yard should be sloped in a natural way, as similar as possible to normal farming practice. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Pendean / Because of pressure on Mr Champion's time, erection is not now likely during 1973. Funds are available from a grant from the V and A Museum and from the Friends of the Museum. Mr Champion reported that examination of the timbers revealed that about half the roof members and most of the outshot timbers are missing, and that there was considerable breakage of timbers during dismantling. This would necessitate the inclusion of a large quantity of new wood during reconstruction. AGREED there must be more care in dismantling and transport, and that in the reconstruction secondhand timber might be used, with discretion and with care to avoid misleading mortices or pegholes. Introduced timbers should be permanently marked. |
| 1973/5 | SBC Minutes / 6 May 1973 | Titchfield Market Hall / Concern was expressed for the stability of the building. Angle-iron set into concrete foundations would secure the posts, but this would be difficult to implement if the posts were to be seated on stone pads. Mr Rigold and Mr Zeuner undertook to investigate the possibility of obtaining suitable stone and arranging for a mason to cut it. |
| 1973/5 | Newsletter Number Six / May-Aug 1973 | The Finances of the Museum / Although there were over 80,000 visitors and the Museum made a substantial profit from gate money and sales, overheads and running costs are increasing. For money for the re-erection of buildings it is necessary to go outside the Museum to Trusts and private individuals. Volunteeers are asked to practise every economy with materials and equipment. |
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