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January 2019

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Hello and welcome to the 1st edition of Love Local Magazines for 2019. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. I find the new year always starts so well with New Year’s resolutions and lots of positive thoughts. However, if you are anything like me, by the time February comes, the resolutions have fallen by the wayside and are a distant memory. However, this year I have decided to eat well and get fit, but more importantly, give up smoking.

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fits in with friends and family is definitely more motivating. It can be hard though, especially after a full day’s work in dark and cold January, but I am determined to make a difference this year. Everyone says moving a bit more and eating a bit less is the way to do it but with lots of Christmas goodies left over its going to be hard.

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Local History

When trams ran up Cleeve Hill Did you spend fruitless minutes in a traffic queue on Cleeve Hill last summer as the county council carried out slip stabilisation?

If you were caught in a queue at the end of the first week in September, you might just have noticed something remarkable - a short stretch of tram track, complete with wooden sleepers. Yes, trams once travelled up Cleeve Hill. This is the story.

As Cheltenham grew in the second half of the nineteenth century, the town council began to consider providing some sort of public transport, but when trams were first suggested in 1879 they were rejected in favour of buses. Yet nothing happened for another ten years when an hourly service began from Lansdown Castle, at the junction of Lansdown Road and Gloucester Road, to Southam through Prestbury. These were horse-drawn, but in 1895 the council built an electricity generating station, now the Strozzi Palace, in Clarence Street and the possibility of introducing the new-fangled electric tram became real. Enter Thomas Nevins, an IrishAmerican entrepreneur, who in 1898 set up the Cheltenham and District Light Railway Company. He had the idea of using the 6

electricity to power the trams. The town council was enthusiastic but why should Cleeve Hill ever be considered a destination, being such a long way out of town and approached up a steep slope? On the one hand the area was rapidly developing as an affluent outer suburb and on the other hand it had become a valuable recreational area for all Cheltonians (of course, the two functions were not always compatible!).

As one councillor rather optimistically forecast in 1896, “Cleeve Hill should be to Cheltenham what Clifton is to Bristol!"

The route was laid out from Lansdown Castle, past Cheltenham's two railway stations, at Lansdown (the present station) and St James (opposite St Gregory's church) to Cleeve Hill.

There was even talk of taking the trams to Winchcombe but knowledge that the Great Western Railway was originally planning a railway through the town meant that never happened. The necessary act of parliament laid down the gauge as a narrow three feet six inches with no more than eleven inches overhanging each side of the tram. The maximum speed would be 8mph. If this seems very slow, don’t forget alternatives still depended on horsepower! The three

and a half miles from Prestbury to the Malvern View Hotel cost ÂŁ36,000 to build. Work began in February 1901 and by the end of April over five miles of track had been laid.

This was quick work, no doubt the result of employing 120 labourers many said to have followed Thomas Nevins from the USA, from where the first tramcars were imported.

All was set for a grand opening in July 1901, but tragedy struck when a tramcar on a test run only reached Cleeve Hill terminus. Note the donkey cart ready the Rising Sun Hotel before it began to slip back with its brakes locked on, to deliver goods brought up by the tram. reaching 40mph before overturning The affluent Cheltenham middle classes now in Southam, killing two workmen. found themselves surrounded by hundreds, This meant that when the service did if not thousands, of the very townspeople start on the 17th of August no passenger they were trying to avoid by living on the hill. was allowed on the top deck. When two In my next article, I will investigate the attractions single deck tramcars arrived, built this time designed for 'the simple trammist' when he locally in Gloucester, all passengers for the or she stepped off the tram at its terminus. hill had to change in Southam. The trams were immediately popular although the report in the Cheltenham Examiner that 10,000 travelled on the first day needs Southam tram stop where passengers changed to be taken with a pinch of salt!

- David Aldred

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Cross the field to meet a junction with a good wide track and a sign post. Continue straight on (signposted Windrush Way) along the track downhill through a gate and the track turns left. Follow the track left B over a stream, proceeding ahead to pass between the abandoned buildings of Waterhatch Farm.

your footsteps to the junction C and bear right towards a footbridge and gate, partially hidden in the hedgerow. Go through and keep ahead over an open field towards trees. Go through two gates to pass through this narrow belt of trees, walk across the next field aiming for the far left hand corner.

Just past the buildings, before the track bears right, take the footpath on your left by an electricity pole. Cross an electric sheep fence and walk across the field to the far side keeping parallel with the posts to meet and cross over the electric fence.

Continue ahead along a track with trees either side to meet a junction C. Bear right and follow the grassy track with mature trees on your right for approx 400 metres and enter a wood.

Bear left through a metal gate D and continue along the track on your right soon passing a small reservoir on your left. Where the track bears sharp right towards farm buildings, turn left through a metal gate and immediate right to continue in the same direction but with the hedgerow now on your right hand side. Follow the hedgerow, go through a gate, continuing until you reach a track.

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Follow the main driveway, crossing the lake by the bridge and continue gently uphill; after approximately 150 metres take the footpath on your right A through a gate passing a play area on your left.

Keep going ahead and pass through a metal gate and bear right diagonally across the field following the way marked posts to the far right hand corner.

Go through a gate in the corner of the field, turn right to cross Beesmoor Brook via a bridge and after about 15 metres and before reaching the road, turn left through a gate signposted ‘Windrush Way’.

Cross the field bearing slightly right moving away from the brook, through a gap in the hedgerow and walk gently uphill towards a wood. (This next section can be muddy after rain). Cross a footbridge and stile, follow the path with the wood (No Man’s Patch) on your left over three more stiles to a gate. Go through and up a slope to emerge in a large open field (with an electric fence when occupied by sheep).

Follow the narrow path for approx 200 metres and look for the remains of the villa on your left and a narrow footpath on your right leading to a small roofed structure. The structure is protecting a mosaic floor beneath a corrugated tin roof and some plastic sheeting held in place with stones.

Cross the track and go through a gate in the hedge on the right to enter a field with Sudeley Castle visible in front of you. The path bears left, walk across the open field to pass the castle on your right. Upon reaching the main driveway turn left to retrace your steps back into Winchcombe and the start of the walk. © Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome 2017

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Holy Wellington Boots Ronnie lifted his forehead from the steering wheel and prodded Uncle Graeme’s shoulder.

Graeme spluttered awake.

“Have we arrived?”

“Nope, we’re out of petrol,” Ronnie replied. “Turns out your car doesn’t run on fresh air after all.”

The ladies of the Women’s Institute were expecting Graeme in half an hour for a talk on success and being in tune with the universe. Graeme had decided over Christmas to pursue a career as a professional motivational speaker. He’d bagged this, his first gig, after the gentleman booked to demonstrate flower arranging had to cancel due to allergies. This, Graeme claimed, was just more evidence of the universe working in his favour.

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The fact that he’d lost his driving licence was not an obstacle. It was a gift from the universe claimed Graeme because all successful people were chauffeurdriven. Ronnie considered it a bit rich that the universe was taking all the credit when he was the one doing all the driving.

“The village is two miles up this road.

If we run we could make it?”

“Run?” Graeme spluttered. “It will hardly give the right impression if I arrive out of puff.” He shook his head. “They need to see me as I am, a hugely successful man.”

Ronnie looked at his map for clues.

“Found it!” he said, pleased with himself.

“A footpath cuts across that field, we could walk it in twenty minutes.”

“I’ll just get my wellies,” Ronnie said,

climbing out of the car.

“Aren’t you the proper little boy scout!”

Graeme declared, following him.

“It’s just common sense,” Ronnie replied.

“My shoes are leather-soled and bespoke.”

He presented his toe in the manner of a portly ballerina. “Do you not think if we were to ask the universe,” he continued, “it would indicate that I should wear the boots?”

Ronnie sighed; once more Graeme and his universe had ganged up on him. He handed the wellies to his uncle, who stared at them indignantly.

“I’ll never get so much as a toe in these!”

He thrust them back at Ronnie. “The universe has other plans for my feet.

Let’s be off.”

After a weekend’s rain the verge was soft and boggy, but just ahead was a public footpath sign. The clouds above them cracked open and a weak shaft of sunlight picked out something on the ground.

Sitting neatly, waiting for them, was a pair of wellington boots. They looked exactly Graeme’s size.

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“We have a problem.” He held the boots up like binoculars, while two rubber soles remained on the ground. “Their bottoms have fallen off.”

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GARDENING

Winter Colour Happy New Year to you! Despite the winter weather, with planning and strategic planting your garden can still look gorgeous, with colourful plants to add interest to your plot.

Dogwoods or Cornus are great winter stem-colour plants. Planted in a moist sunny spot, the crimson-red stems are stunning during winter, plus in autumn you’ll get red and purple foliage. To keep these colourful stems coming, cut them back to ground level in late spring every alternate year.

Winter classic good looks come from hollies, either green-leaved or in variegated form, such as ‘Argentea Marginata’ with silvery leaf edges, ‘Golden Queen’ with golden-yellow leaf edges, or ‘Ferrox Argentea’ with silveredged leaves covered with prickles!

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and have stunning coloured winter stems.

For egg-yolk yellow stems go for Salix alba ‘Vitellina’, for scarlet-orange stems there is ‘Britzensis’, or Salix acutifolia ‘Blue Streak’ has purple stems with a silvery-grey bloom and grey buds. These stems also need to be cut back to ground level every two years.

The ghost bramble, Rubus cockburnianus, a relative of the standard bramble, has arching white stems that look great in winter sunshine. In summer it produces sprays of small purple flowers.

Christmas Roses or hellebores, including Helleborus argutiflorus, have cup-shaped green flowers with prominent stamens, are tough and perform well. The classic Christmas rose is white-flowered (developing a pink tinge as it ages), and looks stunning against the central cluster of golden-yellow stamens. The variety ‘Potters Wheel’ has flowers up to 10cm in diameter.

Snowdrops in single and double forms look great planted in drifts or naturalised on a grassy bank. Buy ready-to-flower snowdrops in pots now, plant them out, and then plant them ‘in the green’ in a month or two’s time, when you can get the bulbs, complete with leaves, ready for planting by mail order.

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