Historyworks is delighted that on Tuesday 14th May we will launch our new place-making project called 'Cambridge Chisholm Trail Tales' which will research the histories from the past, present, and future of the area covered by the new cycling and pedestrian route to inspire Art works, poetry, songs, illustrations, photography, recordings.  We will be finding stories and producing art projects with schools and the local community in order to co-create exhibitions and performances in the Leper Chapel to engage the general public in order to develop the art and icons for the Chisholm Trail hoardings by the Leper Chapel illusrating the project to be produced by Historyworks; the tunnel art to be produced by the team at Paper Rhino beneath the Newmarket Road connecting the Leper Chapel to Coldham's Common based on historical research and memory-making in the area; and a series of interpretation signage and bespoke benches along the route, exact places to be decided in consultation with the local community.

To get us started, Helen Weinstein, is convening the Artists at Historyworks on 14th May and we aim to storyboard some of the iconic histories and co-create stencils we can use to decorate our art boxes and pop up staging donated by the ArcSoc Pavillion team; plus co-produce a Community noticeboard which will be placed on Newmarket Road at the Leper Chapel inviting the community to events and to participate in the project.

Here are Helen's suggestions for the team for stencil and cut outs to produce to illustrate the community board, and to be useable for community events for T shirt and Tote bag making, in order that particpants can contribute to the production of the artworks, but also have some super useful artworks to take home and wear and use!!

JURASSIC PERIOD: PTEROSAURS (flying lizards who left their deposits on Stourbridge and Coldham's Common which were mined in the Coprolite Mining rush during the Victorian period)

RIVER CAM AND THE ICONIC EEL (an Eel represents commerce of fishing aswell as representing shape of River)

ROMAN BARGE (used to invade Cambridge from seaside at The Wash to make fortified settlement of Duroliponte)

LEPER CHAPEL (poss oldest surviving building in Cambridge vying with St Benet's Church, both have a foundation almost 900 years old, an iconic shape of the Leper Chapel recognized by locals even if they've never visited)

SHELL SYMBOL (Scallop for pilgrims/lepers; Oyster shell for symble of Stourbridge/Poorer kinda fish&chips)

GROTESQUE AT THE LEPER CHAPEL (Michael Rosen & children writing poems for us about what a gargoyle on the outside may see and hear over the years)

STOURBRIDGE FAIR STALL HOLDER & an OYSTER & HORSE TRADER (We've no illustrations of the fair from the medieval period but a map recreating the geography, and Oyster shells from the Oyster House Feasts & Stalls)

BARNWELL ABBEY (we've the iconic Exchequer building surviving from Tudor times, before HVIII bashed down all the religious houses, but for centuries Barnwell had been made landowner & hosted monarchs visiting area)

CAMBRIDGE COAT OF ARMS (granted by Queen Elizaebeth I in 1557 and still used as the Coat of Arms today, depicting the River Cam with boats in sail, the Great Bridge over the Cam with Castle above, and the Seahorses to represent the link commercially between the marketing town & navigable river to the sea)

JACK OF THE STYLE, 1594 RIOT ON COLDHAM'S COMMON (we don't have illustrations from this event but it is hugely important to giving Cambridge a set of meadows & suggest base icon on 1600s Fen Clubmen)

PEST HOUSE (Wooden isolation house during the famous plague of 1600s especially bad in the 1660s because of the fenny climate which created 'miasmas' which were thought bad for health & incrased the plague)

COLDHAM'S COMMON AND STOURBRIDGE COMMON WILDLIFE (iconic for local families are the tan & white cows, pie-bald horses, the magpies, the butterflies - would be popular on community board stencils & t shirts)  

COMING OF THE RALWAYS TO CAMBRIDGE IN 1845 (iconic for our story of travel and commerce and developing Cambridge because it chopped up the Stourbridge Fair area especially isolating the Leper Chapel from meadows)

BRICK KILNS AND TILE WORKS AND TIMBER MERCHANTS (landscape of meadows up Newmarket Road was then transformed to develop Cambridge with landscape instead of chimneys over shadowing the Leper Chapel)

COPROLITE MINERS & COPROLITE MATERIALS  (could show man with a barrow on a scaffold or bearded man with a shovel iconic of Railway Navvies and Coprolite Miners with pile of fossiled poo)

STEAM ENGINE (see picture of Eagle Engine, the only steam locomotive made in Cambridge for the Railway, and/or make stencil of the mini train/steam tram with wagons used for transporting coprolites across Stourbridge Meadows and Coldham's Common to the weigh station and on to the Coprolite Mill ready for transporting to fields)  

FOOTBALL RULES & ABBEY STADIUM

TRAVELLER CULTURE & HORSE FAIR CONTINUITIES (pictures of the traveller symbl of red wheel on blue & green background)

WORLD WAR ONE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

SCHOOLS & EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATIONS

FLIGHT & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING TODAY

PICTURES & PHOTOS FOR ARTISTS = WITH LINKS TO ARCHIVES & RESOURCES TO SEE MORE:

JURASSIC PERIOD: PTEROSAURS (flying lizards with bulbous beak like a pelican left their deposits on Stourbridge and Coldham's Common which were mined in the Coprolite Mining rush during the Victorian period)

http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/songs-creative/resources/pterosaur-colouring-in-sheet/

RIVER CAM AND THE ICONIC EEL (an Eel represents commerce of fishing aswell as representing shape of River)

Eel on Fen River Way signage:

http://www.bertuchi.co.uk/fenrivers3.php

Eel trap basket maker in Ely:

https://www.facebook.com/174505238875/posts/10156729382718876/

ROMAN BARGE (used to invade Cambridge from seaside at The Wash to make fortified settlement of Duroliponte)

https://brewminate.com/the-growth-of-london-as-a-port-from-roman-to-medieval-times/

LEPER CHAPEL (poss oldest surviving building in Cambridge vying with St Benet's Church, both have a foundation almost 900 years old, an iconic shape of the Leper Chapel recognized by locals even if they've never visited) see:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyworks/30120127503/in/album-72157704552568692/

SHELL SYMBOL (Scallop for pilgrims/lepers; Oyster shell for symble of Stourbridge/Poorer kinda fish&chips) see medieval pilgrim badges:

https://www.heritage-images.com/preview/1192548

GROTESQUE AT THE LEPER CHAPEL (Michael Rosen & children writing poems for us about what a gargoyle on the outside may see and hear over the years)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyworks/30455436050/in/album-72157704552568692/

STOURBRIDGE FAIR STALL HOLDER & an OYSTER & HORSE TRADER (We've no illustrations of the fair from the medieval period but a map recreating the geography, and Oyster shells from the Oyster House Feasts & Stalls)

BARNWELL ABBEY (we've the iconic Exchequer building surviving from Tudor times, before HVIII bashed down all the religious houses, but for centuries Barnwell had been made landowner & hosted monarchs visiting area)

CAMBRIDGE COAT OF ARMS (granted by Queen Elizaebeth I in 1557 and still used as the Coat of Arms today, depicting the River Cam with boats in sail, the Great Bridge over the Cam with Castle above, and the Seahorses to represent the link commercially between the marketing town & navigable river to the sea)

JACK OF THE STYLE, 1594 RIOT ON COLDHAM'S COMMON (we don't have illustrations from this event but it is hugely important to giving Cambridge a set of meadows & suggest base icon on 1600s Fen Clubmen)

PEST HOUSE (Wooden isolation house during the famous plague of 1600s especially bad in the 1660s because of the fenny climate which created 'miasmas' which were thought bad for health & incrased the plague)

COLDHAM'S COMMON AND STOURBRIDGE COMMON WILDLIFE (iconic for local families are the tan & white cows, pie-bald horses, the magpies, the butterflies - would be popular on community board stencils & t shirts). Butterfly in the area is the Brimstone and if you scroll down you'll see it has a lovely shape which would look good on a stencil - with the males in a buttery colour and the females in pale blue - which are very unique for Cambridge to find in the spring in the meadow by the tunnel entrance adjacent to the Leper Chapel - see:

COMING OF THE RALWAYS TO CAMBRIDGE IN 1845 (iconic for our story of travel and commerce and developing Cambridge because it chopped up the Stourbridge Fair area especially isolating the Leper Chapel from meadows)

BRICK KILNS AND TILE WORKS AND TIMBER MERCHANTS (landscape of meadows up Newmarket Road was then transformed to develop Cambridge with landscape instead of chimneys over shadowing the Leper Chapel)

COPROLITE MINERS & COPROLITE MATERIALS  (could show man with a barrow on a scaffold or bearded man with a shovel iconic of Railway Navvies and Coprolite Miners with pile of fossiled poo)

STEAM ENGINE (see picture of Eagle Engine, the only steam locomotive made in Cambridge for the Railway, and/or make stencil of the mini train/steam tram with wagons used for transporting coprolites across Stourbridge Meadows and Coldham's Common to the weigh station and on to the Coprolite Mill ready for transporting to fields)  

FOOTBALL RULES & ABBEY STADIUM (stencil showing a footballer in action kicking or heading ball)

TRAVELLER CULTURE & HORSE FAIR CONTINUITIES (pictures of the traveller symbl of red wheel on blue & green background)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Romani_people

WORLD WAR ONE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

SCHOOLS & EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATIONS (photo of opening of Barnwell Library)

FLIGHT & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING TODAY

 

MICHAEL ROSEN POEMS = USE TEXT ON TUNNEL?

Coldham's Common

Stourbridge Fair

Leper Chapel Gargoyle

Home: What Home Means To Me

Flying Lizards in the Sky

Pterosaur Poo Rap

AUDIO TOURS OF LEPER CHAPEL AND STOURBRIDGE FAIR - TELLING HISTORY OF THE AREA PRODUCED BY HISTORYWORKS, WITH HELEN INTERVIEWING EAMON DUFFY & HONOR RIDOUT

PLAYLIST GROUPED FOR LEPER CHAPEL AND STOURBRIDGE FAIR = 

https://audioboom.com/playlists/4614541-leper-chapel-stourbridge

STOP 1

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STOP 12

1845 Coming of the Railwas & end of the River Cam as Travel/Commerce = demise of Fair

https://audioboom.com/posts/5835741-stop-12-barnwell-junction