March and District Museum
Projects
ASLEF Banner to be unveiled at last!
ASLEF, the Associatied Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen was founded by William Ullyott along with 55 colleagues on January 3rd 1888, we have been lucky enough to be given this wonderful silk banner with heavy painted designs which has been consolidated by the Textile Conservation Centre of The University of Southampton.
The vivid green silk is in a very delicate condition and the banner has been attached to a supportive substrate to enable us to display it.
The banner is over 10 feet square (over 3m) and we have identified an area for a display case; a former March Grammar School pupil is building a suitable case for it. The Pilgrim Trust and Cambridgeshire County Council have given generous grants towards this costly project.
In the mean time we are still raising funds of our own (see Railway Slide Shows page) and have received donations from many individuals and ASLEF Branches.
We are grateful to the following branches for their generosity:
- Acton (266
- Barrow-in-Furness (014)
- Birmingham New Street (141)
- Colchester (053)
- Derby (059)
- Doncaster (061)
- East Ham (068)
- King’s Cross (110)
- Leeds
- Manchester Piccadilly No 1 (130)
- March
- Orpington (152)
- Peterborough (161)
- Portsmouth
- Sheffield (184)
- Three Bridges (13)
The face with the locomotive will displayed whilst a photograph of the reverse will be shown alongside with some information about the banner and its conservation.