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March 2018 Issue 117 Inside this month: Hoole Rangers, Hoole history - Boughton walk part three, beer awards, hospice volunteers, gardening and financial column.

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POLICE have stepped up patrols on the cycleway in Newton following reports of drug use. You can read more about the clampdown in this edition.

There is also news from the Chester Beer Awards, Hospice of the Good Shepherd Hoole History, gardening, thought for the month with Andy Glover, financial column, health and fitness, community listings and much more.

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Hospice thanks its volunteers The Hospice of the Good Shepherd held a thank you evening to show their appreciation to volunteers from across the local community. Held in the Hospice Café and Living Well Centre, the event saw hospice staff waiting on volunteers to say a big ‘thank you’ for the contribution they make to the running of the Hospice. Volunteer roles at the hospice range from receptionists, catering staff and fund-raisers to companions, retail assistants and drivers. Entertainment on the evening was generously provided by the Sing Me Mersey choir; John Holt, magician and beauty treats and a raffle prize from Kiehl’s Debenhams, Chester. Sue Beckett, who leads the volunteer team at the Hospice said: “Our volunteers do so much to support the running of the Hospice, so we wanted to show them just how much we appreciate their time. It is fair to say that the Hospice would not be able to continue to provide the high standards of care and support to people living with a life limiting illness without the support of our brilliant volunteers, so saying ‘thank you’ in this way is the least we can do.” Volunteering gives you the chance to meet people, make new friends, become part of a team and learn new skills while raising money for your local hospice. The Hospice of the Good Shepherd currently has volunteer roles available in the following areas retail shops, warehouse, van drivers and fund-raising department please email susan.beckett@hospicegs.com for more information.

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Pale yellow Primroses and Primulas in multi-colours will continue to flower in sheltered spots, along with some blue violets. I expect that blue Forget me Not will be starting to come out too and en-masse they make such a cheerful show. No need to sow seed, just let the plants set seed, shake them around and next year you will get a wonderful show. Another perennial that is good for early spring, will grow in dry light shade and has evergreen foliage, is the Epimedium x versicolour Sulphureum. With heart shaped leaves that turn bronze in winter it will bring forth stems with pale yellow flowers in spring. You can cut off the leaves to see the flowers as they form or leave the leaves on and hope the sprays pop up above the leaves. Continuing the yellow theme, the vibrant yellow flowers of Forsythia will be everywhere on the streets. These easy shrubs will form large twiggy plants with yellow flowers clustered on the leafless stems. You can grow as a hedge covered in yellow blooms before the leaves come out. Cut back just after flowering, to keep them within bounds. Another March flowering shrub is the evergreen Mahonia aquifolium Apollo. This is an unassuming low growing evergreen shrub (to 1m) often grown in shade to cover the ground and usually looking a bit tired as it is ignored. However, try feeding it in spring and you should be rewarded with clusters of yellow flowers. The photo is of a swathe of these shrubs grown as ground cover under taller trees and the scent from the flowers was quite superb. Work to do in the garden includes cutting back dead foliage from perennials, trimming the winter flowering heathers to encourage fresh new growth for next year and completing the pruning of roses. If you grow Cornus or Dogwood for the red or yellow stems, cut them back hard every two or three years to about 30cms tall and give them a good feed of general purpose fertilizer such as Growmore. Feed all trees, shrubs especially roses and perennials with Growmore or a specific Rose Fertilizer to give the plants a good start to the year. Weigh out the recommended dose as I find I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apply enough!

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Chester Globetrotters The next meeting takes place on Saturday 17th March, from 1.30-4.30pm, at the Grosvenor Museum. Paul Gillingham will talk about ‘Pilgrim’s Progress: Santiago de Compostela by Bicycle’ and John Brinkley will speak about ‘A Small Collection of Stans – Travels in Central Asia’. Entrance Fee £3 – refreshments included. Enquiries to Hanna on 383392 or Eve on 01606 301762. www.chesterglobetrotters.co.uk Chester Family History Group The next meeting on Thursday 29th March, 7.30pm, at All Saints Church Hall, Vicarage Road, Hoole, featuring a talk by David Guyton entitled ‘To the other side of the world and back’. Members and non-members are very welcome The group also has a family history help desk at Chester Library at Storyhouse on Tuesday mornings between 10 and 12noon. Chester Adult Phab A social club for people with and without disabilities. We have 75+ members. We meet the second Monday of the month in a local pub or restaurant in Chester. For more details contact Lynda on 07828 571952 or email lynda.hesketh@sky.com or visit www.chesteradult.phab. org.uk

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The final part of a history walking tour led by Phil Cook, as described by Linda Webb, To Hoole Lane Lock and Hoole Lane Hoole Lane was the well-established route to Guilden Sutton, traditionally known as St. Ann’s Lane. It was informally called Workhouse Lane after the opening of the workhouse in 1878, but this name did not last. Brindley Place has replaced the buildings destroyed in an explosion and fire. The new complex is named after James Brindley, the great canal builder who surveyed the route of the Chester Canal to Nantwich and Middlewich in 1770. The site of Chester Engineering Company used to stretch along the canal here, and the site was the location of Looker’s until the late 1990s The small chapel with a spire dates from 1908. It was St. Paul’s mission, linked to the Church and its parish. It is thought that it may have been provided for the use of the travelling population of canal boatmen and their families. The Mission is also the work of John Douglas, now converted into houses, next to the lock keeper’s cottage. The black and white building is the Lock Vaults Public house. Between it and Station View Terrace, the AngloAmerican Company had a small depot just before the Second World War, listed in Kelly’s Directory 1939. In 1833 there were proposals to build a Birkenhead to Chester Canal that would have joined the Shropshire Union via a shallow lock just to the east of Hoole Lane Lock. The proposed route would have taken it through where Signal Court now stands, in a straight line roughly along what is now Crawfords Walk and Hamilton Street, passing just west of Newton Lane, curving gently at the junction of Brook Lane and Well Lane to pass through Upton and some of the site now developed as the Zoo, then crossing the Chester-Ellesmere Port Canal near Caughall. Had it been constructed, Hoole would have been an altogether different place. Here, the tower of the waterworks dominates the view. It is a prominent local landmark, also visible from many parts of Hoole. In the 1830s a pumping station was built at Barrelwell Hill to lift water out of the Dee, to be transferred by pipeline Proposed Canal 1833

to the Water Works alongside the canal, then filtered and stored prior to distribution. In 1889, the tower, with its 1,200 cubic metre capacity cast-iron tank was raised 20 feet and brickwork was added to cope with increased demand for water. On the opposite side of the canal Chester Cottage Improvement Company, founded in 1892 by the Duke of Westminster, built Tollemache Terrace, to help to improve social housing. The Terrace was in contrast to the nearby back to back terraces of Station View and Cross Street. The lock beyond Hoole Lane Lock, looking east, was originally called Spittle or Spittlefield Lock. It was built on land which belonged to the Hospital of St. John, a mediaeval foundation, hence Spittlefields. This name was in use in 1810. Gordon Emery, in ‘The Old Chester Canal-A History and Guide’, records the change of name in 1810, when Mr Jones of ‘the chemistry’ was instructed to lay no more soil on the towing path. In 1807 he had been granted permission to take cooling water from the canal for his steam engine, on condition that cinders from the engine be used to repair the tow path, and that he paid an annual rent of two guineas. Mr Jones, proprietor of the Gallic Acid Works near the Spittlefields, appeared on the Tithe Map for Great Boughton, on a site 80 yards east of the lock. The small chemical works probably used oak galls and bark to make the acid which was used in tanning. The name Chemistry Lock had become officially associated with this lock by 1856. The Canal Company appointed Samuel Dunning as the lock keeper, Hoole Lane and Chemistry Locks. Major and Co., listed as manufacturing chemists here, may well have taken over from Robert Lewis Jones, but after fires in 1845, 1852 and 1861, when the walls were ‘Much shaken such that the building will have to be erected afresh’, the works were transferred to Queensferry and eventually became part of the Midland Tar distillers. The re-alignment of Station View Road has been considered many times. The bridge over the canal at Hoole Lane was rebuilt in the early 1920s, but any re-alignment would require the widening of the bridge over the railway. Additional land has been purchased for this purpose.

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A History Walking Tour around Hoole and Boughton – Part 3

ebb, from the Hoole History and Heritage Society The existing bridge is narrow and without footpaths, and requires reconstruction. After the Second World War, it was felt that, should the reconstruction be achieved, the road could be connected with Hamilton Street by widening Crawford’s Walk, creating a traffic link between Boughton and Hoole.

To Lightfoot Street and Westminster Road The brick arch on the canal side of the Westminster Road Bridge dates from the opening of the Chester & Crewe Railway on 1st October 1840, when the Chairman of the Crewe & Chester Railway Company was Jack Uniacke, the Mayor of Chester. The principal contractor on the line was Thomas Brassey. A note in the plans, dated November 1836, requires the road to be raised by 12 feet in order to pass over the railway line. The Act of Parliament which authorised the line was one of the first signed by Queen Victoria, ten days after her accession to the throne on 20th June 1837. Prior to the introduction of railways, it took a couple of days to reach London from Chester in the fastest stagecoaches, but, by 1848, it was possible to reach London by train in six and a half hours. Water Tower and Westminster Road Bridge over the railway line in the distance Land from the estate of Thomas Brassey was later purchased by the Chester Poor Law Union Guardians to use as the site of the new workhouse in Hoole Lane. A good view of Chester Station used to be possible from the footbridge which is now closed. There were railway allotments between the two View from Chester General railway bridges in the past, but the introduction Station 1962 of the Power Signal Box brought this use of the land to an end. There have been three major fires in the area of Lightfoot Street in living memory. On 8th May 1972 the brakes of a freight train failed, and it ran into Chester Station, carrying kerosene, sulphur oil and petrol. One of the tank wagons exploded and a major fire broke out, leading to the evacuation of properties in Lightfoot Street. Fortunately, the train had been routed into a bay in order to prevent its derailment, which might have led to much worse consequences.

On 25th October 1996 a large fire broke out in Pickfords warehouse. It took 100 firemen 12 hours to put it out. 12 houses on Lightfoot Street were destroyed and 100 people were evacuated. On 2nd December 2010 the large LNWR Goods shed was badly damaged by fire and the roof and gable ends were removed. After crossing the railway bridge towards Hoole, on the east side was the British Rail Staff Association Club, complete with its own miniature steam operated outdoor railway. Railway workers formed a close-knit community, working and socialising together. Anti-social working hours affected the way of life of railway families from the area until the mid- to late- eighties when employment patterns and transport changed significantly with the greater reliance on the car. At the junction with Lightfoot Street, Flookersbrook passes beneath the road. It was culverted in 1865. The culverts were made at Thomas Brassey’s Canada Works in Birkenhead. Looking across to Westminster Road, the white building is remembered as the Drury House Off-Licence. It was originally designed as a public house by John Douglas for the Drury Brewery but was not given a license. Mr. Crawford, whose name was given to Crawford’s Walk, and the building of Hoole Park, also had his name on this The Drury building in the 1870 Town Plan. It is a good point from which to remember the plans for a canal and a widened ‘through road’ which, if constructed, would have had great consequences in this area. l Website articles will be updated as new information comes to light. You can read this article by visiting the Hoole History website at http://hoolehistorysoc.btck. co.uk/PlacesRoutesinHoole/WalkingTour2017.

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