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Woolton Hill Church Hall – Silent Auction Prizes Lot 1 2 3 Description Starting Bids £30 Toni and Guy Hair Salon Blow Dry Top Newbury hair salon, Toni and Guy, are offering a Blow Dry by senior stylist -­‐ perfect for a special event or as a gift. £30 Waitrose Pamper Gift Set Treat someone special with this delightful pamper gift of a scented candle, delicious chocolates and indulgent toiletries, all presented in a green oval pail. Contents include: Chococo Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova Clusters 100g, Pintail White Lilly & Silk Candle Tin, Winter in Venice Classic Blend No.3 Bath & Shower Gel and Winter in Venice Classic Blend No.3 Hand & Body Lotion. South with the Endurance Book £20 Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-­‐Antarctic expedition of 1914-­‐1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -­‐-­‐ one vividly captured in the powerful and dramatic pictures taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's official photographer. These images, appearing together here for the first time in print, constitute an amazing body of photojournalism created under the most adverse circumstances imaginable. As this book reveals, however, they are far more than visual reportage; they also are images of great artistry that capture the life-­‐and-­‐death drama that was played out against an arctic landscape of magnificent and terrible beauty. Shackleton DVD Shackleton is not a biopic of the great Anglo-­‐Irish explorer but a dramatisation of the failed trans-­‐Antarctic expedition of 1914-­‐16. As written and directed by Charles (Longtitude) Sturridge the production, filmed on real ice floes in Greenland, stays remarkably close to the facts, capturing the look of the surviving expedition photos of Frank Hurley with great fidelity. Kenneth Branagh makes no attempt at an authentic accent but otherwise gives a powerful impression of a most commanding personality. When the expedition ship Endurance became locked in the Antarctic ice Shackleton vowed to bring every man home alive, and against virtually impossible odds, including a 700-­‐mile journey in an open boat through some of the worst seas in the world, he did just that. Shackleton's Whisky: The extraordinary story of an heroic explorer and twenty-­‐five cases of unique MacKinlay's Old Scotch Sir Ernest Shackleton could never have imagined his name being closely associated with whisky, certainly not in the title of a book. Rarely did he consume strong drink. On his expeditions, he tolerated a 'mild spree' at times of celebration. But that was all. Drinking to excess appalled him. From an early age, growing up in a teetotal home, he was wary of alcohol. How, then, must he have felt about signing an order for twenty-­‐five cases of whisky -­‐ 300 bottles -­‐ for his 1907-­‐09 British Antarctic Expedition? Shackleton's Whisky follows the story of the Rare Old Highland Whisky taken south on his Nimrod expedition. It celebrates the extraordinary achievements of men exploring an extraordinary place. It dips into the human-­‐interest stories of polar life in the 'heroic era' of Antarctic exploration. Shackleton once wrote of his interest in documenting 'the little incidents that go to make up the sum of the day's work, the humour and the weariness, the inside view of men on an expedition'. Here is one such account, based largely on what he wrote and said about the expedition and also on what the members of his expedition wrote, for most participants kept a diary or journal. Antarctic exploration and whisky, in their own way, are both steeped in history, maturity, endurance, character, and technology. Both have a worldwide following, millions of fans. Their pathways coincided on the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-­‐09. With the recovery 100 years later of three cases of Scotch from icy entombment under the hut at Cape Royds and the subsequent return of three bottles to Scotland for sampling, analysis and a near-­‐magical replication, the relationship of whisky and Antarctic exploration came sharply into focus, making a unique odyssey to the end of the Earth and back. 4 1 x Bottle of Shackleton's Whisky Mackinlays Rare Old 47.3% £100 In February 2007, after almost a century entombed in thick ice beneath Shackleton's expedition hut in Antarctica, three crates of this long lost whisky were discovered by a team from the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. The team was carrying out a full programme of conservation work on the aging expedition hut at Cape Royds when they made their stunning discovery. However, in line with international protocols agreed by the Antarctic Treaty Nations, the crates could not be removed from Antarctica unless it was for conservation or scientific reasons. In early 2010, one crate of the whisky was removed from the ice by the Antarctic Heritage Trust and flown directly back to Canterbury Museum for careful thawing and stabilisation. Eventually, this crate was returned – and became one of over 14,000 expedition artefacts which the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust cares for across this frozen continent. Never before in the history of whisky experts had access to a century old bottle of whisky that had been stored in a natural fridge well beyond human reach. So it was arguably only a slight exaggeration when this rare and valuable malt was described as ‘a gift from heaven for whisky lovers’ by Richard Paterson, Master Blender at Whyte & Mackay, the owners of the Mackinlay brand. And, with the bottles now ice-­‐free, plans were made to undertake an analysis of the whisky so that it could be re-­‐
created in all its long-­‐lost glory. In Canterbury Museum, the temporarily liberated crate of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt was slowly de-­‐
frosted in a purpose-­‐built cool room. Over a two-­‐week period in mid-­‐
2010, while captured in the increasing glare of worldwide media interest, the temperature of the crate itself raised extremely slowly from around -­‐20ºC to 0ºC. The team of conservators were able to examine the contents and were eventually delighted to recover 11 bottles, 10 of which are perfectly intact, still wrapped in protective paper and straw. With the whisky finally freed from the frozen crate, the museum conservators were able to complete their detailed analysis of the packaging, labels and bottles. However, the global spotlight was intensely focused on what these precious artefact bottles contain – a Highland malt whisky that was already well over 100 years old. Book: Goodness Nose by Richard Paterson, Master Blender Richard Paterson has Scotch whisky running through his veins. His grandfather and father were both prominent in the Scotch whisky industry in Glasgow for decades before Richard joined a competing whisky brokerage firm to start his apprenticeship. But this is no dry textbook on blending. Far from it. Humour, insight, history, a love of people and an abiding and evangelical passion inform every page. For the first time one of the world's foremost whisky blenders reveals how he rose through the ranks to top of his profession. He also candidly reveals some of the secrets of his craft and gives his thoughts on where he feels the industry is heading today. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white with black and white line artwork, this is destined to become a whisky classic and an essential item on every whisky lover's bookshelf. 5 £50 A framed photo by local photographer, Simon Ball: ‘Looking towards Pilot Hill’ £50 6 ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent x 2 tickets to attend the show at Fountain Studio's in Wembley (date to be confirmed -­‐ approx June). 7 8 £30 A House of Commons Bottle of Wine, donated by Sir George Young. ( Wine similar to bottle seen here) £10 Apple Mac Mini -­‐ Uses -­‐ Store and organise photos, compose music, create playlists, make movies or watch DVDs 1.25 GHz Model M9686LL/B Processor 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 Software: iLife ’05 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand), Mail, Dashboard, Spotlight, iChat, Safari, Sherlock, QuickTime, iSync, iCal, DVD Player, Address Book, AppleWorks, iWork (30-­‐day trial), Classic environment, Quicken 2005 for Macintosh, Nanosaur 2, Marble Blast Gold, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Zinio Reader, XCode Developer Tools and Apple Hardware Test £50 9 A framed print of an original watercolour of St Thomas’ Church, Woolton Hill by Jane Vince. 10 11 Manufactured 2005 Memory: 512MB of PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM, supports up to 1GB Graphics: ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support Hard drive: 40GB Ultra ATA Optical drive: Slot-­‐loading Combo Drive (DVD-­‐ROM/CD-­‐RW) Ports: One FireWire 400 port; two USB 2.0 ports; DVI output; VGA output (adapter included) Networking: Built-­‐in 10/100BASE-­‐T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem2 Wireless: Airport Extreme and Bluetooth available as build-­‐to-­‐order option Audio: Headphone/audio line out System software: Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger A print of Highclere Castle by Ronald Sichel, signed by the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon. The picture kindly donated to us will be confirmed nearer the time. £40 Shackleton Bundle: £15 Endurance Book: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, and then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-­‐hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land. South (DVD) Photographed by Frank Hurley, South is the film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but ill-­‐starred attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914-­‐
16. It is both a unique historical document, and a tribute to the indomitable courage of a small party of men who set out on a voyage of discovery that turned into an epic struggle for survival. 12 13 Shackleton Bundle: South with James Cracknell (DVD) Shackleton (DVD) Endurance by Alfred Lansing (See above for details.) Picture of Sir Ernest Shackleton £20 £10 per book Two books: Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey and Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey written and signed by The Countess of Carnarvon. If you are unable to make the Shackleton Evening on 14 March, but would like to make a bid for any of the above items, please email Bridget Wheeler on mailto:bridget.ultimate@btopenworld.com with the auction number you’re interested in and your bid.