The Blackden Trust Blackden


Benefactors

The Labyrinth between the Old Medicine House and Toad Hall

The labyrinth

  


 

Donations will help us to

  • maintain The Old Medicine House
  • promote research
  • create educational opportunities
  • support young scholars and craftsmen

If you would like to support us with a donation, please fill in the donation form.

Your donation will be acknowledged in the list of benefactors, unless you would prefer to remain anonymous.

Bequests to The Blackden Trust are free from Inheritance Tax.

We are grateful for the support of our benefactors:

Mary H. Burns
Phillip Day
Adam Garner
Alan Garner
Rachel Giles
Roger Hill		 Eric and Shirley Morten
Peter Plummer
Janet E. Rawstrone
Patsy Roynon
and those that wish to remain anonymous

 

Phillip Day sent us a set of vinyl long-playing records of The Stone Book Quartet to be used to further the work of the Trust in whatever way the Trustees think fit.

This was a most encouraging donation as it was the first gift from someone who did not have a previous link with any of the Trustees.
 

The record of Granny Reardun

The record of Granny Reardun, one of the complete set of recordings of all four books of The Stone Book Quartet, donated by Phillip Day

The Garner family photograph that precipitated the writing of The Stone Book Quartet
The Garner family photograph that precipitated the writing of
The Stone Book Quartet 
Adam Garner has donated his grandfather's gooseberry scales.
Alan Garner has bequeathed his home to the Trust.
Boys demolishing a television set!

Children playing while Salford is demolished.  The church in the background is one of the ways
to the land of Elidor.
Photograph Roger Hill 1962

In 1962, Roger Hill and Alan Garner worked on an article together about the culture of the north and were taken round Salford by the painter, Harold Riley. Roger took photographs of children playing in the streets as their back-to-back homes were being demolished around them. Thirty-six of these photographs were shown in an exhibition.

Alan used the desolation of the slum clearance in his novel Elidor. Roger and Alan also collaborated on two photographic picture books Holly From The Bongs and The Old Man of Mow. In 2006, Roger gave the photographs to Alan and asked him to find an appropriate permanent home for them. Alan approached his friend, Eric Morten the antiquarian bookseller, who offered the photographs to Manchester Metropolitan University, where they now form part of the archive of the history of Salford.

Eric and Shirley Morten donated the fee they received from The Manchester Metropolitan University for the collection of 36 mounted black and white photographs.
Peter Plummer left a bequest to Alan and Griselda Garner, which they used to create the labyrinth in the space that physically separates, but visually unites the two buildings. Peter was a much-loved friend and the director of The Owl Service for Granada Television.
 
Visitors dancing the labyrinth

Visitors dancing the labyrinth

DVD of The Owl Service

DVD of The Owl Service

(Image reproduced by permission
of Network DVD)

 

In April 2008, forty years after the series   was  made,  a  DVD  of The Owl Service was released .
Mrs Janet E Rawstrone kindly sent a donation after reading about the founding of the Trust in a national newspaper.
Patsy Roynon, whose friendship with Griselda Garner stretches back to their school days, has most generously donated The Old Medicine House to The Blackden Trust. This gift secures the future of the building by protecting it from insensitive development and transfers a valuable asset to the Trust.
© The Blackden Trust 2008
    Updated: 19/09/2008		 The Blackden Trust is a registered charity no. 1115818