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over rough ground and is not suitable for anyone who
cannot manage a stile. The coach leaves the Assembly


Founded 1898


Rooms at half past nine and is back by six. The cost,
including the coach and the entry to the harbour office,

## Reviews


A History of the Marnhead Salt Trade , by J. Cavenshaw
(Vardenne, 2025, 214 pp). This is a careful book and a
slightly frustrating one. Cavenshaw has worked through
the harbour board's papers properly and his chapter on
the tramway is the best account we have. But he is not
much interested in the pans themselves, and a reader
who wants to know how salt was actually made at
Marnhead will have to go back to Sandiman.
Recommended, with that reservation.


## Letters


Sir - your correspondent's note in the autumn bulletin
on the naming of Croyde Gut may interest members
who know the Ordnance sheets of 1897 and 1923. The
name appears on neither, and the reach is called
Crowder's Gut on both. Whether Croyde is a correction
or a corruption I cannot say, but the older form is at
least the surveyed one. - R. Vale, Thrimby.


## Wanted: the Vardenne ferry


The Society is trying to establish when the Vardenne
ferry stopped running. The date usually given is 1961,
which is the year the ferry office was pulled down, but
the office may well have stood empty for some time
before that. A member recalls being taken across as a
child in the summer of 1958 and is sure the boat was
still working then; another remembers it ending just
after the war. A timetable, a ticket, or a photograph with
a date on the back would settle it.


The same member has given the Society a copy of the
1957 timetable for the Marnhead bus, which connected
with the ferry and may therefore date its last summer
more exactly than anything else we hold. It is on the
notice board at the Assembly Rooms for anyone who
wants to look at it.


## The chapels survey


The survey of the town's chapels, begun in 2019 and
interrupted twice, is now complete for the four
buildings still standing and for two of the three that are
not. What remains is the Bethel on Kellow Lane, of
which no plan and only one photograph have been
found. The survey will be printed as an occasional paper
in the autumn, and the members who took part are


asked to check their entries before then.
The Society is grateful to the trustees of two of the
chapels for access to their records, and to the county
archivist for the loan of a plan that had been catalogued
under the wrong parish for sixty years.


## Membership


Membership stood at two hundred and six at the end of
January, four more than a year ago and the first increase
since 2019. Twenty-two members live outside the
county and six outside the country; the Society posts the
bulletin to all of them and would rather do that than
lose them. Anyone who would prefer it by e-mail
should tell the secretary, who keeps a list and is happy
for it to grow.


## Notices

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