Voice Magazines - Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote Edition - September 21

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From the Editor Hi Readers, Here we are, three quarters of the way through the year….I’m not even going to tell you how many days until the dreaded ‘C’ word, but it isn’t many and I have no doubt it’ll be upon us before long!!

Every year, I have a plan! It starts around now and it involves me getting organised by purchasing some gifts for our loved ones…..and this is where the plan ends until around the 18th December!! I mean, it’s the same time every year! I don’t know what I’m surprised but yet I am doomed to repeat the same mistake like some kind of merry ground hog day!

I suppose the only exception was last year as we knew we weren’t going to see some of the family, so what happened there was a ridiculously elongated gift obtaining session! It started around the 18th as usual (remember covid was initially planning to take a Christmas week hiatus!) and then sort of rolled into a cycle of sporadic gift buying – forgot what we bought them – bought more gifts – hunt down Christmas paper – wrapped gifts – can’t remember what they are – buy more presents…until we

saw the family in June!

Anyway, this year is going to be different!!

Honest!!

Perhaps our front covers will help this month with the stress of it! In honour of International doodle day, we’ve changed the material of our front covers so that you can whip out your felt tip pens/ crayons/paints and join in the fun. Laura has written a cracking article on this, see page 31 for details and keep your eyes peeled on our social media where we will be posting some of our attempts and please feel free to share yours!

Happy Reading,

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WHAT IS CHURCH, TO YOU? When you think of Church, do you think of people who are more “Dot Cotton” than Bear Grylls? When you see adverts about South Normanton Community Church, what do you know about us?

Did you know, hidden off Market Street, SNCC were meeting for Church in the Post Mill ? And now, after lockdown, WE’RE BACK! Although, technically, we didn’t go anywhere.

Our vision, is to be ‘Church, without walls’.

How does this impact you? We believe Church happens wherever people who follow Jesus are. So, you might see us popping-up in some surprising places!

and any other burning questions you have, at Alpha.

Why not discover what SNCC is all about for yourself? You’re welcome to join us on a Sunday, 10:45am at The Post Mill.

As you’ll see from the stunning picture, I’m new to the SNCC team. Although, you’ve possibly seen me before, like at “Together Time” at Zion.

I joined SNCC three years ago, and recently became Associate Pastor, alongside Mark Oldershaw.

Friday mornings, come and chat to us on one of our Friendly benches at the Market place; grab a free drink and refreshments.

After all the restrictions, it’s great to socialise with others!

In July, we broke down the walls when we “had Church” in Zion’s carpark. It was such a glorious day to sing outside! Watch out for us again, over the summer.

All South Normanton churches regularly meet to pray and plan events we can host together: So watch this space.

SNCC’s purpose is to be present in the village, available for anyone who needs us. Here are some other things you might be interested in: We’re arranging a free trip to Mablethorpe, on 5th September. Why not come along? Enjoy a paddle!

Have you ever wondered who Jesus really is? Why did the Pandemic happen?

Why do bad things happen to good people? Over a delicious free meal at the Boundary, you’ll hear answers to these,

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Having been a Christian since I was 7, I’m now embarking on my second year of uni, studying Theology and Ministry. I love putting theory into practice, so have been meeting with school staff, linking-up with agencies like FoodBank, and talking to our parish councillors.

On top of all this, I’m married, with a 17-year-old daughter, lively 6 year old twins, and our even livelier Springer Spaniel! So, if you see me out-andabout, please do come and say “Hi!”

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South Normanton Pre-School A big welcome from South Normanton PreSchool. We are a Community Interest company based at the Hub, Shiners Way (off Market street).

We are registered with Ofsted and offer care and education to children from the age of 2 to school age with a range of free childcare options. Our Early Years Practitioners are qualified to level 3 and above in Early Years Education, all staff hold a paediatric first aid certificate.

At South Normanton Pre-School we recognise that all children are unique and develop at their own pace. Our aim is for your child to feel safe and secure and form good relationships with other children and staff. We will get to know your child, discover their interests and build on what

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they already know and can do. Our learning environment will encourage your child to be curious, use their imagination and investigate the world around them.

This September we are excited to begin a new year of learning with our new and existing children.

Over the summer our learning environment has been enhanced and we have begun to purchase new outdoor equipment with money raised from our summer fundraiser.

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Woman with terminal cancer does epic skydive for charity with her twin sister A woman with terminal cancer has raised almost £2,000 for charity after doing a tandem skydive with her sister.

Lyndsey Allen, 35, was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer during the first lockdown, after living with months of agonising stomach pain.

“Nobody wanted to listen,” she explains about how she tried to explain to doctors over the phone that the pain was “just terrible”. She was mistakenly diagnosed her as having Irritable bowel syndrome, then gall stones, before the agonising pain compelled her to take herself to hospital. A scan revealed that Lyndsey had 18 cm tumours in her abdomen and neck. She began chemotherapy almost immediately.

“I was in a such a weak state at this stage,” she says. “I fell ill with sepsis and almost died. The hardest part was having to battle this alone as my family weren’t able to visit me in hospital. But I was determined to keep going.”

“I was very down to begin with,” she explains. “But I figured, I just had to get on with life. And the NHS staff who’ve been supporting me have been incredible.”

Lyndsey has found the help she’s received at John Eastwood Hospice has helped keep her strong. She is taking part in a drugs trial for fatigue and is also given complementary therapy.

Lyndsey says she’s always embraced the conviction of ‘Do what you want to do,’ and has never allowed fear to stop her from following her dreams. It was this attitude which made her decide to do a skydive to celebrate her thirty fifth birthday.

“I’m of the opinion that we need to give back to people who’ve given to us,” she adds. “So seeing how much money has been raised so far for the charities we care about – John Eastwood Hospice and MacMillan Cancer Support - is great.”

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Olympic Games!

Over the next two editions we’re excited to share an interview with Jacob Whittle, the 16 year old swimmer from Alfreton who became the youngest swimmer ever to make the British Olympic team. This month we look at how he began his swimming career.

Did you always love the water?

Yes I did - my mum first took me to a mother and toddler session when I was maybe 1 year old and we went together every week. As soon as I was old enough my parents signed me up in a learn to swim programme - they aren’t swimmers but wanted me to learn to swim and not to be afraid of the water.

How old were you when you first learned to swim?

I was 3 years old, possibly younger, I just transitioned from the mother and toddler water rhymes sessions where me and my mum were in the water together singing nursery rhymes. I went every week to learn to swim sessions on a Saturday at Water Meadows, Mansfield.

When did you realise you had the ability to swim competitively?

I joined Ripley Amateur Swimming Club & Life-Saving (RASCALS) when I was 8 or 9, but I was 10 before I attended my first swimming competition. Derbyshire County Championships was my first major competition, and I didn’t make a final but the following year at the same competition I pretty much won every event I swam. At that age I was swimming all strokes and distances. I competed at the Regional Championships (East Midlands) and came away with a handful of gold medals, and I was given the opportunity to supplement my training at RASCALS by joining Dervenio Excel on a part time basis, moving to full time 6 months later as part of their national squad. From the age of 12 I was selected each year to be part of the talent programmes for Swim England. In 2019 at the age of 14, I qualified for the British Swimming Championships and whilst there I swam a huge lifetime best breaking the British record for aged 14 in 100m Freestyle. As a result of this competition I was selected for the European Junior Championships and European Youth Olympic Festival. Later that year I was selected onto British Swimming’s Podium Potential Programme.

How many hours a day do you train?

Usually it is 4hrs per day in the pool and then I also do gym and circuit sessions a few times a week too.

Do you eat a special diet?

No, but I eat a balanced healthy diet, with lots of greens, lots of food rich in iron, fish, chicken, plenty of carbs, lots of fruit, milk and I also drink lots of water. At the end of the day I am a teenager and my parents have always allowed me to eat like a teenager in moderation, which means I will have treats sometimes!

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SOUTH NORMANTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB Before I start, I hope this article finds you and your loved ones in good health.

I spoke, in my previous notes, about hopefully England winning the Euros. When I wrote it, it was the day before the final. Obviously, the result was highly disappointing but, I’m sure we can all agree - the Euros and the Olympics have been a very welcome splurge of positivity. After all the doom and gloom of the last few months, some positivity has been a very welcome relief.

As I write this month’s article it’s 2 days before the start of the season and we’ve played our last preseason game. We’re looking all right, I think all the management will agree, it’s been very stop-start having to contend with holidays, moving games and training because of the Euros plus the dreaded Covid ‘pings’ all playing a role in making it a little more difficult. Despite all of that, we’re all set for the start of the season. Performances have been consistently good throughout the

preseason, we have got our new formation sorted out and we’re optimistic of a good season.

It was nice to also see one of the U18 players making the senior reserves and his first team debut a month after the U18s joined the club. Hopefully, it’s going to be the start of many players stepping into the reserves and the first team from our youth teams. The U9s also held a training session at Lees Lane, and it was great to see them enjoying their time on the pitch. I think it can safely be said that if some of these U9’s are still at the club in a few years they will certainly be making an impact in the club senior teams.

I’ll sign off by wishing every local team, club, coach, volunteer, and player all the very best for the upcoming season. It’d be superb to see as many of you as possible down at Lees Lane every week. Come on down and support your local club!

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W E I V ' A 'C Nourishing Mother September 1967. My first day at Swanwick Hall School. I didn’t have a clue what to expect having spent the previous 7 years at Riddings Infants and Juniors.

Those 7 years had been gentle and kind. In all of those 7 years I had only met one teacher who “worried” me a little – and her bark was hugely worse than her bite. Her name was Joyce Duffield and she later became a colleague and friend during my early membership of Alfreton Golf Club. My formative schools were great but absolutely no preparation for Swanwick Hall Grammar.

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Yesterday, August 8th 2021, I went back to Swanwick Hall 54 years later. Around 40 to 50 of us old boys and girls returned to savour the feeling and speak to the ghosts of our mutual past. They didn’t let us down.

Jonathan Fawcett (Headteacher), Martyn Richmond (Site Manager) and a group of spectacular students made us all feel like VIPs and did us more than proud. Next year Swanwick Hall School celebrates her centenary. Our “nourishing mother” (Latin scholars will understand) can expect a telegram from the Queen.

If you have any stories about your time at school or any photographs or artefacts the school can beg or borrow to help with the celebrations, please let me know on the email address below and I can pass them on.

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There are some books which just make you happy – and The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared by Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson – is one of them.

It’s not just that it’s funny and fun and clever and loopy. It’s warm, silly and endearingly full of the best of human nuttiness. A brilliantly written antidote to the sometimes grim news outside our windows and a great cure for the glums.

Allan Karlsson – he of the hundred years – is sitting in his room in an old people’s home gloomily waiting for his 100th birthday party to begin. The Mayor is going to be there, and the newspapers. But then Allan decides he won’t be. With a sprightliness which belies his years he climbs out of the window, makes his way through the flowerbeds and he’s off for the best adventure ever, involving murders, vodka, criminals, an elephant, and a suitcase full of cash. And some pretty useless policemen.

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PINXTON PORCELAIN: PART ONE

The Pinxton porcelain factory has been described as Britain’s most enigmatic factory.

In 1958 in their book, ‘English Porcelain and Bone China 1743 – 1850’, Bernard and Therle Hughes wrote of the Pinxton factory, ‘so few examples of “Pinxton porcelain”, are known that nothing can be usefully said about it. Perhaps its day will come tomorrow.’

of Pinxton collectors. It has been calculated that over 95% of Pinxton wares are NOT marked with a pattern number.

In 1968 Mr W D John in his book ‘William Billingsley 1758 – 1828’, stated, ‘William Billingsley was able to commence the manufacture of soft paste porcelain at Pinxton according to his own formulations; ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING HAPPENINGS IN THE HISTORY OF BRITISH CERAMICS.’ Today ‘gram for gram’ Pinxton porcelain regularly attracts higher prices than any other comparable European example.

Why is this? There are a number of reasons.

Scarcity is certainly one. Secondly is the factory’s association with William Billingsley: he is credited with making some of the whitest, most delicate and translucent, soft-paste porcelain ever made.

Billingsley also excelled in two other of the main arts of ceramics; he is known world-wide as a floral decorator par excellence; he was also an excellent landscape decorator and gilder (painter with medium of liquid gold). Pinxton was one of the pioneers in English landscape decoration on porcelain.

Examples of Pinxton porcelain demonstrate all these skills.

The Pinxton factory was one of eighteen softpaste English porcelain factories founded in the second half of the eighteenth century; only two of which survived well into the nineteenth.

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Collectors of Pinxton wares therefore need to be proficient in other aspects: • Identification of patterns • Pinxton shapes (helped by the Pinxton Coffee Can being different to any other factory) • Glaze, this was liquid glaze mixed with lead • Feel of the paste, determined by the mix.

THE BIGGEST MYSTERY OF ALL HOWEVER WAS WHO WAS BEHIND THE FACTORY AND WHY WAS IT FOUNDED? A STORY FOR ANOTHER TIME! Anyone with a genuine interest in Pinxton porcelain is invited to telephone Norman Taylor 01773 863743.

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Just like many a young lad today, George was football mad and entranced by the stories of when, according to his grandad Horace Twigg, Hilcote was at the centre of the footballing universe and responsible for many aspects of the commercial side of the ‘beautiful game’ that we take for granted today.

You’ll recall a few months ago, George telling me of how Thomas Palfreyman, prior to beginning his illustrious career in journalism, had sold copies of the Hacademicals Herald, an award winning football programme, prior to home matches at the Harena.

The Club had provided him with shelter, initially Tommy’s Teepee, and after the devastating gales of November 1897, the more substantial Tommy’s Tin Hut. Recognising his success in raising revenue for the Club, a supporter suggested at a public meeting that more could be made of the young programme seller’s ‘retail outlet’. NB – those were not his actual words of course as back in those days, they still used old fashioned words like ‘shop’.

The Hacademicals’ management team could see merit in this and were soon to appoint a Commercial Director whose main task was to create the first ever ‘club shop’. These days of course, regardless of the level they compete at, almost all football clubs, from Barcelona to Alfreton Town, offer supporters the opportunity to buy a range of goods in club colours. Well, I wonder how many wide-eyed and excited youngsters these days visiting the likes of the Manchester United Megastore would believe that, as Horace assured his grandson, it all started in Hilcote?

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Initially, there was a very limited stock of items available in the Hilcote colours of chocolate and cream – the shirts were in the ‘quartered’ style currently associated with clubs like Bristol Rovers – but the scarves, woolly bobble hats, rosettes and rattles proved popular with fans and sold like ‘hot cakes’ and the recently appointed Commercial Director was rewarded with an extended contract and asked to come up with more profitable lines.

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