Notice is hereby given that the Third Annual General Meeting of the Charity Jerome Gatehouse Collection Trust will be held at Beechwood House, Christchurch Road, Newport, NP19 8AJ on Friday 13th May 2011 commencing promptly at 1:30 pm.
We have just been awarded two Grants to enable us to archive and digitise the Collection.
Welsh Church Fund administered by Newport City Council awarded £900 towards a specially designed database to list all items in collection including the histories of over 2,000 Military and Police Bands of the World.
Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations (GAVO) have awarded £1,502.94 for computer hardware not including Microsoft Office - we have to fund this ourselves.
We still have a shortfall of about £500.
Sian receiving her certificate from Chairman Paul Williams and Councillor Charles Ferris
We have two long term volunteers Andrew and Karen who are doing splendid work listing all the videos and cassettes on spreadsheets, these are from the collection which was left to the Trust by the late Stanley Templeman. We also have a young lady Sian from the Career's service who is undertaking voluntary work as part of her training course. Sian states that she 'loves military bands'.
We have an agreement with GO Wales (an organisation run by our local university) to provide students with opportunities to volunteer with local businesses' in their chosen field. The Gatehouse Collection is providing an opportunity for graduates to gain experience in archiving, digitalising, general museum/archive work and computer skills.
This is an excerpt from a letter received from GO Wales: "It is rare that students/graduates have an opportunity to handle and archive a collection that is largely untouched and to be part of the very beginning of the inventory and archiving process and we are very grateful that you passed this opportunity to the work taster programme".
We also have a good working relationship with Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations (GAVO).
Stanley R A Templeman was born in Devon on 14th August 1920. At the age of 14 he applied to join the marines as a bandboy, but was refused for being half an inch too short, Stan then applied to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and so began a life of travel and adventure taking him around the world, becoming a competent clarinettist and ending his career as a Sergeant Instructor in the junior depot instructing many of our Bandmasters and directors of music of today. Upon completing service in 1964, Stan took up a post in the Regimental Museum of the Light Infantry in Shrewsbury at Copthorne Barracks for 21 years.
He recorded music for many years and passed tapes on to friends for them to enjoy the music played by the bands. He also recorded many events, including Shrewsbury Flower Show, beating retreats at Chester, and recording concerts held in Newport including the last concert of The Royal Regiment of Wales before they were disbanded
Stan spent the last years of his life in Shrewsbury; he passed away on 16th July 2010. Stan’s wish was that any things relating to military music be given to the JGCT to be kept as a record of his service and the life of a bandsman in the British Army.
His collection is in the process of being sorted and logged on a spreadsheet and will be kept in the collection as a memento of Stan.
We are now registered as a charity.
Our charity number is 1127433.
There is now a listing for Jerome Gatehouse at the National Archives.
You can view this online here.