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NEWS & FEATURES BOURGES TWINNING
Bourges Twinning
Anne Weyers
The Twinning Charter between Bourges and Peterborough was signed in July 1957. Since then exchanges have taken place every year between citizens of Peterborough and Bourges.
This year, members of Peterborough Anglo-French Association hosted 29 members and friends of the Bourges Twinning Association (FGB). Activities were planned for each day except Sunday, which was a free day for the hosts to plan something of their own choosing. On Friday, we met at the Broadway Theatre, Peterborough where the visitors were welcomed by the Chairman of the PAFA, Tony Elliott and the Deputy Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. They wished the group a very happy stay in Peterborough. Jean-Pierre Bodeux, the President of FGB replied, saying what a pleasure it was to be in Peterborough once again. He was looking forward to a pleasant weekend. He also invited the PAFA to visit Bourges next year. 4
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Then we visited Gordon Easton’s Engine Farm Museum in Coates, where we enjoyed going from building to building to see his many exhibits, including a collection of WWI memorabilia and a 1940s room. On Saturday we went to the English Whisky St George’s Distillery near East Harling, Norfolk, where we were shown how the whisky is made. We enjoyed lunch of fish and chips in their lovely restaurant. After that we were taken by coach to Wroxham for a boat trip on the Broads, along the River Bure. On Monday we were given a guided tour of the Grainstore Brewery in Oakham. This was followed by a tasting and a ploughman’s lunch. This was followed by a walk around Oakham and then a cream tea at Rutland Water.
A full weekend, enjoyed by all. We all gathered early on Tuesday morning to wave goodbye to our friends from Bourges.
Pictured above: Anne Weyers and Jean-Pierre Bodeux Sadly, just a few days later, we learned that Jean-Pierre Bodeux, FGB’s President for many years and a most entertaining and charming man, had died suddenly on holiday. He will be sadly missed.
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THE JOHN CLARE COTTAGE NEWS & FEATURES
The Cottage has been very busy during August and September with many groups visiting the venue.
The John Clare Cottage John Clare “returned” to the Cottage when Robin Hillman of the Theatre 17 came to give a one man performance, as John Clare, in “I Am John Clare” to a packed house. This was a view of Clare’s life as described by Clare in the Lunatic Asylum in Northampton. It was an excellent evening. The Art in The Cottage has been changed, we now have an exhibition of works by Northampton landscape and wildlife artist Jamie Poole. The landscapes, seascapes and diverse wildlife of the British Isles are a constant source of inspiration for Jamie's artwork. He enjoys chance encounters with animals and birds such as otters, red kites, deer, hares and foxes. These are the spark that ignites the ideas for his artworks. Jamie remains intimately bound to his surroundings in the Northamptonshire Countryside and continues to gather ideas whilst out walking down the many hidden paths and into the old villages in the surrounding area. Prints, cards and calendars are on sale in the Cottage. On November 22nd there will be a Poetry Sculpture workshop, lead by Jamie. During this workshop, you will create a wooden sculpture of an animal or a bird. These
will be decorated using the words of the famous Northamptonshire poet John Clare. Students will learn how to rip tear and manipulate lines of poetry to create beautiful collaged designs that can be proudly displayed at home. There will be a choice of making a free-standing piece or one that can be hung on the wall. All materials will be provided for this workshop including wooden kits, colour paper words and glue! The day will include tea and coffee on arrival, light lunch and tea and cake in the afternoon. Tickets are £45 and places are limited to 10 so that you get maximum time with the artist. Please contact the Cottage on 01733 253330 to reserve a place. In November popular local artist Heather Mizen returns to John Clare Cottage with an exhibition of original handmade cards, prints, mixed media work and hand painted silk cushions.Heather has always been inspired by her garden and the changing seasons, she has created individual designs combining the leaves, flowers and seedheads. We are now starting to plan for the 2019 season and details will be on the website as they are confirmed.
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VILLAGE VIEWS DEEPING GATE
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DEEPING GATE
Jane Hill Speeding. Disappointingly, only one householder requested 30 mph stickers for his bins following our entry in the last edition of the Tribune. Anyone living in a 30 mph zone who is plagued by speeding traffic and who would be willing to display such stickers, please email our Clerk, Lynn George, on clerk@ deepinggate-pc.gov.uk Litter Pick Please join us, if you can, on Sunday, 18 November, 10.00am meeting at the Fairfax Way/Riverside junction. Pickers, bags and hoops will be provided. Christmas Sing Along Our fifth Christmas Sing Along will take place on Sunday, 16th
December, starting at 4.00 p.m. on Riverside between the old stone bridge and the foot bridge. Enjoy live musical accompaniment with song sheets provided, along with mince pies and mulled wine. Invitations will be delivered to all Deeping Gate residents. Damage to trees. High winds have continued to cause damage to trees throughout the village. Amey and Peterborough City Highways have been very helpful and proactive, liaising with both affected residents and Deeping Gate Parish Council. Appropriate officials are aware that overgrown trees are obscuring several of the recently replaced street lights.
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A place to sit and reflect The Rotary Club of the Deepings has kindly donated a bench sited on the riverside in Deeping Gate, in memory of Rotarian Tony Martin. It overlooks the river from next to the Village sign.
He loved this place Tony, a passionate Rotarian, always there to help and offer advice, was a member of the Club for many years and served as President 1991 – 1992 and as District Governor 2007 – 2008. We all will miss his Rotary knowledge and his Yorkshire spirit. Tony had lived in Deeping Gate since 1974.
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HELPSTON VILLAGE VIEWS
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HELPSTON Syd Smith, Clerk to Helpston Parish Council In the last issue of the Tribune and to the original tentative ideas already on the Parish Council Facebook suggested. These will be offered to page, the Parish Council chairman, the community for consultation and Cllr Joe Dobson, and I were able to additions, and then the hard work of tell you about the Stage 1 hearings writing a plan will really start. Many concerning Peterborough’s new villages have taken up to two years Local Plan. The particular site to complete this process. When allocation concerning Helpston is drafted, and before the City accepts known as LP41.5. it, the draft plan must be put to the As offered by landowners for local community for acceptance, or inclusion in the plan, the site could rejection, in a local referendum. take an allocation of up to 82 new Another group of Helpston houses. Helpston Parish Council is volunteers have now taken delivery against this further building on good of the new Speedwatch equipment, agricultural land and its development bought by the Council for use in in the Local Plan because we know this Parish. They are very keen and that there are no new infrastructure already report that it is a highly arrangements included in the City’s effective kit with a sensitivity range plan to cope with the increased far in excess of that of the old traffic volumes, sewage disposal cameras. Initially, they intend to issues, the increase in level give some summary reports of their crossing traffic congestion and the results for Tribune publication. oversubscription of places at our own As we approach the Christmas village school. Councillor Dobson season, Helpston Parish Council has and I will try to put our case again accepted the Helcats group’s offer when these plans go forward to the to take on the organisation of a Stage 2 hearings, which are being Christmas Tree on our Village Green. held before a Government Inspector They will, no doubt, soon be giving in Peterborough on November 14th. more details of what they plan to do Meanwhile we have taken the first and the Parish Council has indicated steps in preparing a Neighbourhood that it will help by giving some Plan for Helpston. We hope that it Section 137 grant aid to them. will have a positive effect on any We look forward to joining them future developments that may occur. around the tree at Christmas and Groups of volunteers have now met, we hope that you will too and that some for a third time, and they will you will have a Happy and Joyful soon begin to put some “meat” on Christmas and New Year! Please contact the chairman Joseph Dobson or clerk to the council Sydney Smith ( 01733 252192 / 252903 ).
The Big Pink Beatz Party On Friday 12 October the big pink Beatz party took place in order to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. Over 20 people attended the event at Helpston Village Hall. This included a fun 30 minute exercise class followed by tea, coffee and cakes with a pink theme. Along with a raffle containing
Helpston Community Speedwatch Helpston Parish Council recently purchased it’s own Speedwatch equipment which is lighter and therefore more portable. When lit, the display is highly visible, raising awareness to any speeding motorists in our 20mph and 30mph zones. If you would like to help us run more sessions please do step forward and come along for training. The more volunteers we have, the more sessions we can run and the greater effect we will have on vehicles driving through our community. For further details contact csw.helpston@yahoo.com
Alexa Beatz Fitness some generous prizes from local businesses. After a successful fun evening for all £203 was raised. If you would like to join in the fun come and join us on Tuesday evenings 7.30pm in Helpston village hall or Wednesday evenings at Northborough village hall
8.15pm. No booking required.
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Helpston WI Diary Wednesday morning walks Meet outside the village shop at 9:00am. Thursday morning walks Meet outside the village shop at 9:00am. Contact June Dobson on 01733 252192 7 & 21 November; 5 & 19 December Knit & Natter At Botolph's Barn, Helpston. Bring your knitting or sewing to our friendly group. We meet fortnightly on Wednesdays from 2pm – 4pm Line Dancing Every Tuesday from 10:00 -11:00 in the Village Hall. Contact June as above, or just turn up. Monthly meetings 7:30pm in Helpston Village Hall: Thursday 1 November AGM. We will be planning for our anniversary next year, discussing future campaigns and catching up with friends Thursday 6 December: Christmas meal At St. Nicholas House, Deeping St. Nicholas – please contact June Dobson on 01733 252192 if you want to join us
Helpston Women's Institute September's meeting was addressed by Oliver Burke, Head or Operations at the Nene Park Trust, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Oliver shared the master plan for developing the whole corridor from Ferry Meadows to Wansford; providing a haven for wildlife, research into the wealth of historical evidence and a recreation centre for Peterborough and the surrounding communities. He is hoping to develop open-water swimming and a climbing centre next year, separating pedestrians from cyclists and encouraging people to climb the trees ! The trust is also developing its rural estate to support new entrants to farming and community food growing and hopes to establish a farmers' market. Members raised concerns about access and security and Oliver emphasised his
desire for feedback from the local communities.please contact him at visitor. services@neneparktrust.org. uk if you have any questions or comments. In October Mary Blackhurst-Hill from 'The House of Colour' gave a very entertaining talk about her work. Having been turned down for an accountancy job because she looked 'too boring' (!) she transformed her life by finding the colours that gave her confidence. She explained the colour theories of Johannes Itten and demonstrated their impact on members with differing skin tones. Mary was a very engaging speaker who is also a writer of 'redhot erotic novels' so we may be seeing her back to talk about those! As always, our hostesses provided delicious refreshments for us to enjoy while we caught up with our friends and WI business.
If you would like to come and make new friends, we would be delighted to see you at Helpston Village Hall (7:30pm on the first Thursday of each month). You can contact Jean Mead, our president, on 01733 252025, or June Dobson, our secretary, on 01733 252192, who will be happy to answer any questions you have, or follow the links on helpston.net to village organisations, to see this year's programme.
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HELPSTON VILLAGE VIEWS
The HelCats are getting
The HelCats will be hosting several Christmas activities
Christmas Carol Event
Christmas Dinner
The first of many events will be a Christmas carol event on Sunday 9 December on the Village Green. Refreshments will be available on the night and decorations will be provided for villagers to put on the tree. So, wrap up warm, warm up those vocal cords, and head on down for a fun festive family evening.
The funds raised from the Christmas collection will hopefully fund a Christmas dinner in the Bluebell for some of Helpston’s community who may be alone this Christmas. The dinner will bring residents of the village together and offer companionship this festive season. The public will be asked to nominate the recipients of the meal. Keep an eye out on Facebook or email helpstoncommunityactivityteam@ gmail.com for more details. Keep an eye out for the next issue for more updates and photos.
Santa Clause is Coming to Town – twice! The HelCats are very friendly with Santa and have arranged for him to visit the village not once, but twice this year. His first trip will be on Sunday 16 December where he will travel around Helpston on his sleigh (kindly provided by CASPRA Castor and Ailsworth Sports and Recreation Association, between 5pm to 9pm. Keep an eye on Facebook to see when he is in your street. He, along with his little helpers, will be collecting donations, which will be used to fund a Christmas lunch for residents of Helpston who’ll be alone this festive season. The second visit will be to the Helpston Playhouse om December 18 where he will visit the children, spend time with them during their Christmas party, and deliver gifts.
Young Person of the Year The HelCats would like to remind villagers that we are inviting you to nominate a young person from the village to win the HelCats’ “Young Person of the Year” award and the prize of a £100 gift card. This year there are four categories: under 12s, 13-17-yearolds, 18-24-year-olds and the very special ‘Young at Heart’ category which will recognise an adult within the village whose contributions to the community are outstanding.
Socks for the homeless
Email us now at (helpstoncommunityactivityteam @ gmail.com) or message us on Facebook @HelpstonCommunity to request your nomination form.
Community Race Night By the time the Tribune lands on your doorstep the HelCats will hopefully have raised lots of money at their annual (well this is our second one) Community Race Night. The event consisted of eight races, all sponsored by local businesses, and offered bottles of bubbly to winning horse owners and a tote betting system where people could bet on which horse they thought would win. Last year saw £800 raised for local organisations and activities including: • • • • •
Village Hall - £250 Young Person of the Year award - £150 Chernobyl's Children - £100 Christmas tree decorations - £50 Young person Santa visits - £50
Thank you to all of you who supported our Community Race Night and keep an eye out in the next issue for fundraising and donation updates.
HelCat Emma will once again be organising a collection of socks (and other items) for the homeless. Every year she asks that when you are out purchasing your festive stocking fillers that you pick up an extra pack of socks for somebody in need.The socks, and other items, are distributed to those who need them via the Peterborough night shelter, which runs through the coldest 12 weeks of the year. Email us now at helpstoncommunityactivityteam @gmail.com or message us on Facebook @HelpstonCommunity to arrange collection of your donation.
WE NEED YOU!
We’re always on the lookout for HelCats so if you fancy helping out with any of our activities (even if it is just one) please get in touch at helpstoncommunityactivityteam@gmail.com or visit us on Facebook @HelpstonCommunity.
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VILLAGE VIEWS BARNACK
Barnack Branch of the Royal British Legion
Commemorating the end of WW1 The Barnack & District Branch of the Royal British Legion and Barnack Parish Council are commemorating the centenary of the end of World War 1 over the weekend of November 9th, 10th and 11th. On November 11th Armistice Day services will take place at 9.45 am in the Church and at 10.45 am at the War Memorial. In the evening of November 11th from 6.45 pm to 7.30 pm there will be a special tribute to the local men who died in the war - one of thousands of similar events taking place in towns and villages across the country. It will be held at the cricket field and will include lighting the Beacon to
signify the return of light after the darkness of war. A commemorative exhibition will be staged from 10 am to 8 pm in the Village Hall on November 9th 10th and 11th. The exhibition will show how the war affected Barnack and district. Every man who was killed is commemorated. Photographs, maps, letters and newspaper articles tell the story of the war. The exhibition will also include a children’s art display. We are also inviting anyone who wishes to commemorate a relative who was involved in the War, whether or not they came from our area and whether or not they were a casualty, to contribute
to the exhibition. If you wish to honour a relative in this way please let me know. With the agreement of residents, we will be placing large commemorative poppies outside, or near to, the homes of the 35 men from Barnack and Walcot who lost their lives in the conflict. This will help us appreciate the impact their deaths must have had on the village. Commemorative poppies will also be placed in Pilsgate, Southorpe, Ufford, Bainton and Helpston. 5. In the cemetery in Barnack, flags will be placed on the graves of those who returned from the conflict and on any memorials naming casualties.
For details of how to join the Royal British Legion please visit britishlegion.org.uk
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ETTON VILLAGE VIEWS
Etton news In the last week of August there was a break-in at 12 Main Road. The burglars created quite a mess and stole a number of valuable items. The people responsible have been caught but again we ask you to be vigilant and report anything suspicious to the Police. On a happier note many congratulations to Maurice Wright who celebrated his 90th birthday on 3rd September. His family treated him to a meal at the Golden Pheasant followed by drinks at home on 9th September. Whilst Maurice was celebrating a group of over 30 villagers and friends gathered at Etton church for the annual clean up. Many jobs were completed and lunch this year was a BBQ at the Curwen’s. Our thanks to all those who came along and helped, and for the generous contributions to the lunch. During the afternoon we returned to church to welcome Olivia Tucker at her Baptism. Her parents Sophie and Ben married at Etton and they continue to support us whenever they can. You may have noticed that the street light project has started to
Anne Curwen 253357 be implemented. Some of the existing lights have had the new LED heads installed. The Parish Council is still trying to get a price for installing heritage lighting in the centre of the village. However, this would need to be funded. The remaining part of the lighting project should be completed by the end of the year. Might you be interested in becoming a member of Etton Parish Council? An advert has been circulated and applications should be been submitted by 15th October. On 29 August there was a packed church for the funeral of Vera Robinson who died on 17th August aged 98. Vara was quite a character and much loved by her family and friends. The address was delivered by her son, Graham. Anna Chilton, Tom Gilman and Debbie Macleod (grandchildren) read poems and the reading. The Benefice All Souls service is being held at 6.30pm on Sunday 28th October at Etton church. All are welcome. On Sunday 11 November at 10.45am, there will be a simple
Remembrance Ceremony at the village green war memorial. The life-sized ‘Tommy’ will be installed on the green early in November and will remain until December. Are you up to completing a ‘steeple chase’ on Sunday November 18th? You could start with the 8am service, then it is a run to Maxey church, then Northborough church, Peakirk church and finally Glinton church for the service at 10.30am. After a rest and refreshments, it is a run back to Etton! Further details at any of the Benefice churchs or from Mike or Marian 01733 0253415. The switching on of the Christmas Tree lights will be at the new time of 5pm on Sunday 2nd December. Starting with Carol singing around the village accompanied by Graham and his wagon. We will be collecting for charity, then switching on the lights and finishing off with mulled wine and mince pies! Look out for details of our 6pm Christmas Eve service.
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VILLAGE VIEWS GLINTON
2018
Thursday 6 December at 6.45pm St Benedicts Churchyard Glinton Join us again this year for some festive family fun, with carol singing supported by children from the Primary School, Rainbows and Brownies, a countdown to the lights switch on, and the ringing of the church bells together with mulled wine and mince pies. Festivities start in St Benedicts churchyard on Thursday 6th December at 6.45pm with carol singing. Then there will be a countdown to the switch on at 7.00pm. The church bells will then ring out while mulled wine and mince pies are served in the church together with other refreshments. With children and staff at Peakirk cum Glinton C of E Primary School and the Glinton Rainbows and Brownies are supporting the event again this year it’s set to be a wonderful occasion. Children and parents will come along to sing some carols – and of course everyone can join in the singing too. The carols
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include favourites of the children such as Little Donkey, O Little Town of Bethlehem and Away in a Manger together with the traditional including Once in Royal David’s City, O come, all ye Faithful and We three Kings of Orient. The event is funded by Glinton Parish Council who support the project each year, thanks to St Benedicts Church for hosting the event - providing power to the lights - serving the refreshments on the night, Peakirk cum Glinton C of E Primary School, the Glinton Rainbows/Brownies, the Glinton Tree Crew and to everyone who volunteers to help with the event.
Festive fun - all welcome
Carol singing supported by children from the Primary School, Rainbows and Brownies
Countdown to the lights switch on at 7.00pm
The ringing of the church bells as the lights are switched on Mulled wine and mince pies served in the church
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GLINTON PARISH COUNCIL please contact the Clerk.
For general enquiries
COUNCIL CORNER
GLINTON
Glinton Parish Report Cllr John Holdich OBE
Cllr JFW Holdich OBE - Chairman Cllr RW Johnson - Vice Chairman Cllr DJ Batty Cllr CB Bysshe (Mrs) Cllr DJ Lane Cllr Gerry Kirt Cllr RW Randall
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Cllr PD Skinner 252591 Cllr E Spendelow 252524 Cllr. Jeff Bell 252395 Cllr. C J Wilde Mr J Haste - Clerk 252833 E: clerk@glintonparishcouncil.org.uk
More information including can be found at www.glintonparishcouncil.org.uk
Most of the street lights around the village have now been converted to LEDs, saving energy, money and on maintenance costs. There are some lamp standards that need to be replaced, which will be done before the end of the financial year. Good news; as promised by the City Council, the lamp standard at the end of the Willow footpath has now been replaced with a standard electric light, as the solar light was far from satisfactory. The electric connection to the new homes off Lincoln Road caused a problem with four-way traffic lights. Whilst I believe the contractors could handle things better, under the Health and Safety rules, this was difficult. It seems that this month it is all about street lights, but I am on the case again on the two street lights which have been out of action for some time on Lincoln Road.
I have arranged for Parish Councillors to meet city council officers in the Town Hall to discuss traffic and parking issues in the village and also in a follow-on meeting to express their views on some aspects of Planning, which are relevant to the village. Both Peter and I will be present at those meetings. You may have noticed that posts have been erected on North Fen Road, to stop people parking on the grass verges. I did advise you in the last issue that the Parish Council turned down parking restrictions in Rectory Lane. However, in the interest of child safety, the City Council is to proceed with it. Looking forward to seeing you at the Glinton Christmas Light switch-on, on December 6th. Be there at 6.30pm, for carols starting at 6.45pm. The light switch on will be at 7pm, followed by the usual refreshments. I would like to thank Lee Titman and his team, and also the church, for making this such a special occasion for our village, and the Parish Council for providing the refreshments. Whilst it may be early, may I, on behalf of the Parish Council, myself and Cllr Hiller, wish you all a joyful Christmas and a happy new year.
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VILLAGE VIEWS MAXEY
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M Webster No 183
D Johnson No 52
L Rockcliffe No 104
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H Garford No 108
J Shaul No 164
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J Edwards No 187
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J Roberts No 42
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Maxey News
Craft Club in Maxey Village Hall The Craft Club is looking for more members. You can bring whatever you are interested in. We don't just knit and natter. Recently we have been trying card making and a few people are making cards now for Christmas.
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Come and join us on Tuesdays from 2pm to 4pm. All welcome. We are a happy bunch willing to share what we know! £2.50 a session, includes refreshments. Contact Brenda for more details; 01778343588.
£100 (each June)
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Maxey Youth Club
This is going to close at Christmas if we cannot find someone to take the reins. We meet on Fridays in Term Time from 7.30pm to 9pm. If you are interested in lending a hand with this much loved and rare activity email; kevinlapinskis328@btinternet.com
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Brenda Brown
On behalf of my family and myself, I would like to pass on our grateful thanks for all of the lovely messages, cards, letters & flowers we received from friends and neighbours, after our Mum Brenda Brown sadly passed away at Longueville Court on 8th October. Mum had only been in Helpston for the last 10 years of her life, but I know that both she (and previously Dad) appreciated the Helpston community spirit, and that they felt very much part of our village life.
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Special thanks to Lesley and her team at the Blue Bell who produced a fabulous Afternoon Tea after the Funeral service earlier this week; Mum would certainly have enjoyed it, as she enjoyed so many lovely meals & occasions there with her family, particularly in the past 3 years since Dad died. It’s a great consolation to have so many lovely friends around us at this time, and we feel very loved. Thank you to you all. Alison Henthorn
Wonderful Langdyke Trustorganised walk around and through Southey Wood this afternoon with my wife Debbie. So much to see and learn about autumn fruits and fungi from clever folk hugely knowledgeable in these subjects. Most enjoyable couple of hours discovering things you'd never even look for normally and meeting new people too. We really are blessed to have this beautiful asset very close. Peter Hiller
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Following the Gardener’s World episode on TV last Friday in which they featured the problem of black plastic pots and the problems of disposal – I have been seeing, in my mind’s eye, these pots hanging upside-down and painted and looking like bells all strung on a rope. Also, since they take acrylic paint, they could be decorated and given as gifts with a plant inside, or with a circle of cardboard or cork tile secured in the bottom they could become containers in the kitchen for utensils, or in the office for pens and pencils, or in the garage or garden shed for any small items etc. The only limit is the limit of people’s imagination. Would it be feasible to suggest in a short article in The Tribune that people take their unwanted pots –
WASHED CLEAN – to a central collection point in each village and any adults, or school teachers interested could get the children or themselves busy in time for Christmas and every village could have some very cheap, weather-proof decorations. Even if the council would not allow them in the streets, there is always outside village halls, churches etc. or even in front gardens. The really creative could probably make a Santa Claus out of a few different sizes of pot, the way they make the scarecrow decorations you see on sale in garden centres. If all the villages in Tribland joined
in, it could become a local feature. Another idea could be a local version of the Scarecrow Festivals that some villages put on. Tribland could have a Potty People Festival. If you think all of the above is a load of rubbish and that I should be certified, then feel free to ignore this email. Since you will be more aware than me of the logistics of organising such collections and getting a large project off the ground, you may think it not practical. Either way, since I have been seeing ‘pot bells’ in my mind every day, I thought it would be worth sharing the idea. Let me know what you think. Maxey resident
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BAINTON VILLAGE VIEWS
Bainton News Now, towards the end of mists and mellow fruitfulness, we find ourselves on the cusp of winter, squirrels are busy burying nuts and the swallows have left for warmer climes. We who remain will soon be coating ourselves with a copious layer of goose grease and climbing into capacious woollen under garments until winter’s traces give way to spring. The Village however does not go into hibernation but remains active with many events as well as all of the ongoing ones, which include the Men’s Breakfast in the Village Hall (08.30-10.00) the next one being on Oct.27th. Please ‘phone Mike Mills (01780 740285) or David Laycock (740267) if you wish to enjoy a hearty breakfast with a speaker. The coffee stop on Wednesdays in the Village Hall (10.30-12.00) offering real coffee,
homemade cakes at reasonable prices can now offer “takeaway” drinks as a convenience, well worth a visit, perhaps after a ramble around the Hills and Holes. Additionally coffee and cakes can be had in the Church on every third Saturday of the month, something very satisfying to quaff and imbibe amongst the Saxon and Norman splendours of the Church, again perhaps after a ramble. All church services can be found on the Barnack website or in the Parish News. The saga of the new post box is now concluded. It has been placed at the Eastern Gate into the Church, where for some considerable time it stood shrouded in what seemed to be a black cloak, rather like Zoro waiting to pounce. The cloak has now been removed, the box stands in its prominent and
proud red garb reminiscent of one of the guards as Buckingham Palace’ and is accepting letters to be delivered by Her Majesty’s Mail. In addition the telephone kiosk outside what was once our Post office and Shop has been disconnected from the mains in readiness for its removal to a fresh site. New bus shelters are to be sited in the Village but their installation has been delayed until late November. The good news though is that the the PCC has waived the Parish contribution and will fund both shelters. Finally and although early, Christmas is again looming and the grand Christmas Tree “switch on” is planned for December the 8th. further details will follow and undoubtedly, if not too busy Father Christmas on his sleigh will put in an appearance for the occasion.
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VILLAGE VIEWS GLINTON
Glinton Horticult On 15 September the Glinton Horticultural Society presented their 75th show at Arthur Mellows College.
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he Show attracted 999 entries and despite the very hot summer the quality of entries was excellent, no doubt from enthusiastic watering! The Glinton Art Club and the Begonia Society had their own displays at the Show and we thank our sponsors Cherry Lane Garden Centres for donating prizes for the Children's Classes and Black Cab Studio for their framing vouchers. We'd like to also thank all those who took advertisement space in this year's Schedule. Some 25 people gave a lot of time and effort in enabling this show to take place and more volunteers are necessary for a show on this scale to continue in the future.
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tural Society’s 75th Annual Show
The Show was a great success with over 900 entries made up of Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers, Preserves, Baking, Wine, Art and Handicrafts, Photographs and Children’s exhibits. The local Art Club and the Begonia Society also had display stands. - The photographs show the number and the quality of the exhibits and the Society would like to thank all those who entered. With thanks to all those who worked so hard to set up the show and look forward to next year’s show on 14September 2019. Hope to see you there. (Please turn over the page for list of winners) >>
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Glinton Horticultural Society’s 75th Annual Show Winners
Cups & Awards
Society Cup No.1 Garden News Trophy George Garratt Cup Exhibitors Shield Joan Flint Memorial Cup Holmes Challenge Cup Arbon Challenge Trophy Society Cup No.2 Society Cup No. 4 Wisbey Cup Hobson Challenge Cup Plaistowe Rose Bowl Johnson Cup Frank Procter Memorial Cup Society Cup No. 3 Barker Novice Trophy Stevens Challenge Cup Osborne Novice Trophy Wright Challenge Salver Marguerite Collier Cup Tom Overton Shield Hill Challenge Cup Prem Eng Adult Photo Shield Junior Photographic Award Pre-school shield Society Junior Challenge Shield Garden News Shield GHS Childrens Trophy N.C.S. Silver Medal N.C.S. Bronze Medal N.D.S. Silver Medal N.D.S. Bronze Medal Thompson & Morgan Top Tray Thompson & Morgan Top Vase RHS Banksian Medal Neville Richardson Memorial Bowl Boyden Shield Greene King Shield – Begonias 22
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Vegetables Fruit Onions and Shallots Exhibition Veg Tomatoes Over 60s Preserves / Pickles Baking Wine Floral Art Most points, Glinton Resident Flowers excluding roses Roses Most Fragrant Rose Dahlias Novice Dahlias Chrysanthemums Novice Chrysanths Special Chrysanths Special Dahlias Heaviest Onion Handicrafts Adult Photo Junior Photo
A Perna A Perna R Pollington A Perna M Twaite J Best, D Marrington, J Rear, S Burrow A Samet J Pilgrim T Noyes J Quinn A Samet L Best I Mews A Perna J Jacques J Cowcill A Jillings R Scott Not awarded J Jaques A Perna T Johnson L Best C Harrison M Terry Key stages 3 and 4 C Harrison Key stage 2 R Marringron, L Nieddu Key stage 1 K Phillips S Travis S Travis J Jaques J Jaques 1st A Perna 2nd I Long 3rd R Pollington 1st J Jaques 2nd R Pollington 3rd M Long J Jaques S Travis Winner of class 521 L Best Most points in classes 547-550 D Staines
GLINTON VILLAGE VIEWS
Glinton WI
Our October meeting was a really fun evening! After a fish and chip supper for everyone there was an auction of items donated by the members. The wide variety of items were sold by ‘the auctioneers’ midst much hilarity with the proceeds going to WI funds.
Some members had attended a sausage making evening at Willowbrook. This was enjoyed by all, with some having more success than others!! Diary Dates
13 November AGM & Talk by Toby Woods on ‘Blue Plaques’. Join us at 7.30 pm.at Glinton Village Hall. Visitors always welcome.
Glinton Friendship Club Pam Kounougakis
Once more unto the breech, dear readers, the fearnought group ventured forth by stagecoach to the very brink of the mighty River Trent in the city of Nottingham.
Thereupon the intrepid adventurers did board a sturdy water-craft with comfort aplenty and set out upon a journey to In November we were treated spy pirates and brigands. There being 22 November to an excellent flower arranging none they did feast and drink merrily and Christmas Lunch arranged at demonstration using a variety of much bawdy humour was exchanged Waterside Garden Centre. containers and designs. Stella before they disembarked and returned to Joyce stepped in at the last 11 December their hometown. Yes indeed... minute when our speaker had to Musical Evening by ‘Bondy’. Faith Back in the present time, and on cancel and she gave us a really Supper. Village Hall at 7.30 pm. the wettest day of the summer, we held entertaining evening. She gave us our annual Jumble Sale, with cakes and 18 December lots of helpful tips about looking refreshments, raising a good amount for Members Cheese & after our flowers and the foliage club funds, which all helps to subsidise Wine Evening at Jenny’s. we can use from our gardens. trips and meals and speakers... Talking of which we celebrate two big birthdays We are a friendly group and always look forward to welcoming with Linda and Val and a very big new members, so if you think you might like to join us, please come birthday for our birthday card expert, along or ring Jenny Dunk on 01733 254252 for more information. Edna, helped along by a sing-song with Brian on the keyboard. After our two week summer break we were back ready for a full programme of events and activities. These included quizzes, games and sales of books and bric-à-brac. Also some important information about fire-safety, and inviting other local groups to join us for coffee and some gift stalls. Peterborough Volunteers have given annual awards to specific helpers who have contributed to the wellbeing of group members for many years, but this year the format is changing and they are honouring a long term helper who has been instrumental in keeping groups successful. Glinton Friendship Club had nominated Barbara, our original and MacMillan Coffee Morning current secretary who has tirelessly taken Sue Lane A big thank you to all who came to Glinton on this important role. In case anyone is interested in finding Village Hall MacMillan Coffee Morning out about us come along to the Village on 28th September , we raised £405.00! Hall any Monday about ten thirty.. But Also thank you to Nisa Glinton and Tesco not 22nd October as the hall is closed for Werrington for donating cakes and raffle redecoration! Otherwise contact Barbara prizes, and also many lovely cakes and who can answer questions and let you bought into us to sell by some kind know if and when you can join our merry villagers. Glinton Village Hall Committee band! thank you for supporting our event. Barbara 01733 253078. Look out for our next event, Christmas Bingo on 30 November, 7pm. Pam Kounougakis.
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7.30pm The Cresset, Peterborough (Please see page 47 and advert below for more information)
Sunday 4 November Imma Setiadi - Indonesian soloist The City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra will play their next concert on Sunday, 4 November, at the Queen Katherine Academy (formerly The Voyager), 3pm-5pm. The programme features Indonesian pianist, Imma Setiadi, as soloist who is making a return visit to play with the CPSO. The programme features the Academic Festival Overture, by Brahms, Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 and Brahms Symphony No 1. Tickets are available on www.cpso.org.uk or Peterborough Visitor Information Centre in Bridge Street The concert is sponsored by V & A Vigar, business advisors and chartered accountants. 2424
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Christmas
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Throughout November there’s a whole host of workshops to help visitors prepare for the festive period. 4 November Christmas countryside candles 17 November Embroidered Decorations
18 November Christmas wrapped up: printing There are also several willow and woodworking workshops running throughout November and December, more information can be found on the website. Pre-booking at www.sacrewell.org.uk is advised due to the popular demand!
24 November Father Christmas is returning to Sacrewell Father Christmas will be welcoming visitors until he boards his sleigh on Christmas Eve. Children can meet Father Christmas in the farmhouse, receive a present from the elves toy workshop and enjoy Christmas themed crafts with Mrs Claus. There will also be a special Christmas tractor-trailer ride around the farm. 8, 9, 15 and 16 December Unique Christmas Breakfasts The onsite café Origin8 is hosting unique Christmas breakfasts where children and accompanying adults can meet Father Christmas over breakfast, receive a gift from him and hear Father Christmas read his favourite seasonal tale. 22 December Beauty and the Beast A professional production of Beauty and the Beast will be performed at Sacrewell this Christmas. Inspired by the original French fairy tale, the production is packed full of live music, comedy and energy, performed by Peterborough based theatre company Lamphouse Theatre. continued overleaf >> ·
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Nene Park Diary 3 November Adult Sailing Taster A taster designed for beginners, this session introduces the basic concepts of sailing. Learn about personal preparation, balancing and turning the boat through the wind. Taster sessions are suitable for anyone aged 16years +. All safety equipment, including wetsuits and buoyancy aids are provided. 10 am - 12 noon £25 per person. 16+ years 17 November Adult Sailing Taster A taster designed for beginners, this session introduces the basic concepts of sailing. Learn about personal preparation, balancing and turning the boat through the wind. Taster sessions are suitable for anyone aged 16years +. All safety equipment, including wetsuits and buoyancy aids are provided. 10am-12noon. £25 per person. 16+ years. 24 November Christmas fair Stalls and activities - everything Christmas related 10am - 5pm Free to enter - some activities will have a charge. All ages. Nene Park Trust, Ham Farm House, Ham Lane, Peterborough PE2 5UU Tel: 01733 234193 E: visitor.services@neneparktrust.org.uk www.neneparktrust.org.uk
The Glinton Horticultural Society Diary 16 November Glinton's local history A talk by Dave Marrington starting at 7.30pm in the the Glinton Village Hall. More info glintonhorticulturalsociety.org.uk or 01733 253591 27 November Annual General Meeting All our welcome. Starts at 7.30pm in the the Glinton Village Hall. More info glintonhorticulturalsociety.org. uk or 01733 253591 7 December A Christmas Evening A selection of hot food, Christmas Cracker jokes, a short quiz and good company. Starts 7.30pm in the the Glinton Village Hall. More info glintonhorticulturalsociety.org.uk or 01733 253591
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10 November Afternoon Tea for WW1 2pm in Maxey Village Hall. An atmospheric tea party awaits you all, a selection of sandwiches and cakes served on vintage china with lashings of hot tea. £5 for adults and £3 for children under 12. After the tea, around 4pm, we will be having a free film show, the award winning ' War Horse'. Based on the story by Michael Morpergo. All proceeds from the tea will be going to the British Legion Poppy Appeal. Email; maxeyvillagehall@ yahoo.com or call Vickie; 07763131990 for tickets. This event is part of Maxey Remembers Weekend. 11 November WW1 Beacons of Light. Battle's Over, a National Tribute. Lighting our beacon at 7pm on the John Perkin's field in Maxey. Free mulled wine served, courtesy of Maxey Parish Council. Everyone welcome. This event is part of Maxey Remembers Weekend. 17 November Maxey Barn Dance is on again! 7pm to 11pm, bar and raffle. The Fruitcake Band will be instructing us to swing our partners. £10 a ticket which includes supper. Email Jacqui; jacqui.barnard24@gmail.com or call her on; 07710150587 5 December Look out for Santa's Sleigh. We have been told that he will be coming to Maxey in the early evening. More details to follow, check out our website for times and route nearer the time. maxeyvillagehall@yahoo.com
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8 December Maxey children's Christmas Party. Check out the website for more details, coming soon. maxeyvillagehall@yahoo.com
Saturday 22 December Carol Service 4pm at St Andrew’s Church, followed by refreshments in the Village Hall.
Sunday 9 December Over 60s Christmas Lunch Northborough and Deeping Gate Village Hall. 12.30pm for 1.00pm sit down. £5 per person Booking essential: Contact 01778345143, 347464, 343126
Friday 1 March St David’s Day Quiz Please join us in Ufford Village Hall for a fun Quiz. 7.30pm, with prizes for the winning team. £10 per ticket which includes supper. There will be a cash bar available.
12 December Maxey over 60s Christmas Lunch. The Ukulele Band are coming! Watch out for flyers coming soon through your door with more details. Sunday 16 December Childrens Christmas Party 3-4.30pm at Ufford Village Hall. £5 per child, includes a present from Santa. Please contact Emma for tickets on 07769 587742 Friday 21 December Carol Singing by Tractor Please come and join us on the tractor to bring festive cheer around Ufford village – meet outside the White Hart at 6pm. All Welcome.
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With harvest over for another year, the sowing season begins again. The oil seed rape sowings for 2018 were completed by 24 August, with the recent rainfall they are growing well. Hedges have been lightly trimmed (we have to apply for a dispensation form of consent to be allowed to do this operation before 1st September) Talking about hedge cutting, it has become a nightmare for both farmers and contractors since Defra moved the cutting date from 1st July to 1st September from a contractor’s prospective it has put some out of business and cut others income considerably – we ask ourselves for what benefit. We as farmers are asked to look after the environment which we all do to the best of our ability and the circumstances we have to work with and to, this brings me onto a rather sensitive issue – dogs in the countryside. Common sense, looking after the nesting birds, livestock in fields does appear to be of little or no concern. There are a small percentage of dog walkers who follow the countryside code to the last letter. But for those who walk (not just to the permitted footpath, but anywhere their fancy takes them) let their dogs loose, don’t clear the mess up and interfere with nesting birds etc. It’s all rather sad and if these people are approached, more often than not they are quite indignant or oblivious to the fact that we do have a code of conduct in the countryside, the purpose of which is to protect the countryside, it is a living and working environment which people need to take into account when visiting. Preparing the land for next years crop starts as soon as harvest is finished. Fungicide application to keep sugar beet
clean (mill dew/rust etc) can impact on the sugar content as well as keeping the crop growing and healthy if not treated with a fungicide Like many farmers we have partially gone down the route of minimum till which has so far been the right decision and have ploughed some fields, we have also encouraged weed seeds and self-sown corn to germinate to enable us to get a stale seed bead which is then sprayed off, resulting in a good clean seed bed to sow into. In some cases sowing is delayed to obtain maximum kill possible. This year with the dry conditions we are experiencing it has been difficult for us to get a good as kill as we would like, but of course every weed destroyed is a bonus. Then as soon as is possible after sowing a pre-emergence spray is applied – again for weed control. Timing of these applications is critical to obtain the best results. Our winter oats (destined for the porridge industry) were sown in the last week in September with all the winter barley sowing completed by the 3rd October, following on with the winter wheat which will continue sowing up until December depending on the lifting of the sugar beet crop, with the winter beans being sown later in October. Autumn is a busy time on the farm, all arable work so much depends on the weather as to
whether you can keep up to schedule with all the different operations which need to be applied to the various crops you are sowing. With the livestock you are constantly watching the weather, hoping to keep them on the grass for as long as possible, although they are being fed outside to keep them in good condition. It’s not all happening outside, inside the farm shop staff are getting ready for our taster weekend on 9th – 11th November (see website for more details). In the run up to Christmas our usual top quality poultry and other meats as well as our own hand raised pork pies will be available to order for Christmas. The last two weeks have seen a dramatic change in temperature particularly the cold nights indicating Autumn is well and truly here, but what a magnificent display of all the different colours of leaves on the trees and hedgerows, and what a number of berries as well – I think this year could be a record number, every hedgerow has a colossal amount which could indicate we are in for a cold winter.
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HERITAGE
When was Helpston's Golden Age?
Frieda Gosling Maybe you are concerned about the rapid expansion of Helpston and are nostalgic about life in the village in years gone by? We admire its old stone buildings and despair about the loss of local character in the new estates, the traffic and the delays at the railway crossing. There has been a surge of curiosity about what village life was like in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in the years when John Clare was alive and in the extent and evolution of the village over the past 2000 years. The recently established Helpston Local History Group continues the investigations which started as the Exploring Helpston`s Heritage project. The House Detectives research is continuing. Sources include documentary records, old maps, household deeds, census reports and directories, newspaper records, personal recollections and photographs taken during restoration. There are a number of on-line sources, notably the census reports and these are being painstakingly transcribed to assist further researchers. The National Archives and the Northampton Record Office hold a wealth of information notably Hearth Tax records, wills, church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths and the Fitzwilliam archive. Records of manors and land ownership are held at the Lincoln Record Office. Documentary evidence and the George Boyden archive are available at the Local Studies Library at Peterborough. Helpston Parish Council Minutes provide another valuable source. The archaeology enthusiasts are about to dig their 27th pit in
the village and are pretty certain that the Anglo-Saxon and Roman settlement was close to the church. Their most exciting finds, all behind the Exeter Arms, have been a cache of Roman pottery, a section of Roman or medieval wall and part of a human skull. Not recent! The Local History Group meets at Botolph`s Barn about every other month. It aims to put its research on a website for use by future students and to produce some little heritage booklets once a year to provide a permanent record of its findings. It has already given presentations at village events and public meetings and led guided walks. A piece of research has been based on wills and church records for 35 years, 1685 - 1720. A will was not compulsory but it was unclear why there were over 300 records of burials but only 21 wills. Only about half of these had valuable possessions or money to hand on to their families. Another reason was that over 40% of the burials were those of children. We all expect to outlive our children but that was not the case at this time. John and Jane Blackbourne were typical in that they had a large family, but only Thomas, Henry, John, Katherine and Frances survived childhood:
Elizabeth was buried in 1691, aged 18 months, Robert was buried in 1698, aged 18 months, Joyce was buried in 1700, aged 10 years Jonathan was buried in 1701, aged 1 month Quincy was buried in 1703, aged 6 years, Jane was buried in 1714 aged 19 years. John and Jane Blackbourne were not typical because their house had 4 or 5 rooms (3 hearths). Death in childhood was not only during infancy and it affected all social classes. Most families lived in a 1 or 2 roomed cottage, in which the children would have slept on the floor. Infants were most vulnerable to infections and there were many tragic cases of the mother and baby dying in childbirth. We should not be misled by the costume dramas on TV in which the beautifully dressed characters live in a splendid town house in Bath. The period between 1685 and 1720 was certainly not Helpston`s Golden Age! Could that be now? For further particulars please contact: Margaret Courtman, Chairman of the Helpston Local History Group.
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HERITAGE
HOUSES OF NECESSITY
Sutton: wash-house and privy
Houses of Necessity: Bog s A rose by any other name... In Ryhope, the County Durham village where I grew up, was The Woodlands, a Victorian mansion divided into flats. Set in extensive grounds, it was a wonderful place to play ‘war games’ with the residents’ children. (After all, it was the 1950s and there was a battle-scarred town down the road as a reminder of what might have been). At the bottom of the garden, was a concrete air-raid shelter that we adopted as HQ for our ‘military campaigns’. Whilst on manoeuvres, we discovered another structure 32
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tucked away in the shrubbery at the end of an over-grown path. It was small, brick-built and contained nothing but a wooden seat with a hinged lid and circular hole. I remember crouching beneath it with my little friend, Suzie, to hide from “stormtroopers”. When I asked Suzie’s daddy what it was, he replied in his Scottish brogue, “Auch, d’ya mean the wee hoos?” “She means the netty.” His North-Country wife interjected and warned us that such places were full of germs and the haunts of bogeymen. As you will have guessed, the ‘netty’ was an outdoor toilet. The word (it is said) is an abbreviation of ‘house of necessity’,
lifted from the Latin ‘necessarium’ [‘an indispensable thing’], which describes it to perfection. As time went by, I heard such premises referred to as “the nessy”, “bog”, “kharzi”, “thunderbox”, “tin tabernacle”, “jakes” and “the John” (immortalising John Shanks, purveyor of ubiquitous sanitaryware) - and numerous unprintable pet-names. But in the North-East, it invariably was “The Netty”. Of course, the well-healed Victorian occupants of The Woodlands were fortunate in having indoor amenities, whilst the “wee hoos” was the domain of the gardener, who recycled the spoil to ‘feed’ his vegetables. Lowlier
HOUSES OF NECESSITY HERITAGE
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‘xxxxx’ A chance discussion with fellow-imbibers in Peakirk’s Ruddy Duck, about portaloos at sporting events and the merits and demerits of chemical and composting toilets, sparked reminiscences of evil-smelling, open-air school lavvies, waterproof, Izal loo-paper and substandard sanitation. by Dr Avril Lumley Prior
standards for old Tribland dwellings were more primitive. In the lane behind a pair of derelict cottages, stood an impressive ‘fiveseater’, with holes of varying sizes. Therefore, it seemed that in days of yore, visiting the privy was not a private business at all. In fact, in deprived urban neighbourhoods, families sometimes shared a single netty with up to 20 other households, crammed into multiple-occupancy tenements. Since night-soil men mucked out but once a week, such places must have reeked to high heaven, especially in summer. Meanwhile, attempts were made to suppress the stench with soil or ash from the fire-grate. Needless, to
say netties became a political ‘hot potato’ and local elections were fought with manifestos to build private facilities in backyards, then water-closets and, finally, indoor bath-rooms.
A matter of privacy? How uncivilised it seems in this age of en suites, hot water on demand and stylish, low-level loos! Yet, some folk relied solely upon the netty until well into the 1960s. Undeniably, the Romans (who invented the word ‘necessarium’) had much-better plumbing! They must have been absolutely appalled when they arrived on our shores, in 43AD, and discovered our lack of hygiene.
Public and private conveniences with running water were commonplace across their Empire. Next to the gymnasium at Salamis, in Northern Cyprus, was a stonking, semi-circular, 44-seater latrine with an 8-seater ‘Ladies’ at a respectable distance. Thus, it appears that multiple netties were akin to social clubs. Except that slaves were sent ahead to warm the marble seats and votive offerings were made to Strecutus and (reputedly) Crepitus, the gods of excrement and flatulence, and Cloacina, the goddess of sewers. At Housesteads fort on Hadrian’s Wall [Northumberland], there was a cosier arrangement. Here >>
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Housesteads www.thearchive.org.uk/thebook/journal.htm
>> only 20 souls could sit cheek-byjowl, whilst an attendant cleaned the sponges on sticks (used as wet-wipes) in a central channel of piped rain-water. Hands were washed in a bowl called a ‘lavarium’ from which our word ‘lavatory’ is derived. (Technically a wash-basin or bathroom.) It is tempting to envisage similar facilities at the state-of-the-art prætorium at Castor, perhaps, near the bathhouse that stood on the site of the school playing-field, and at the garrison town of Durobrivæ, across the River Nene near Water Newton. Standards plummeted after the evacuation of the legions in, AD410, as public works such as bath-houses and drainage systems fell into disrepair. Furthermore, when Britain reconverted to Christianity in late-sixth and seventh-centuries, bathing was denounced as a decadent pursuit with water reserved for Holy Baptism. Pious men and women like St Boniface of Fulda and Etheldreda of Ely gave up washing almost completely, whilst St Catherine of Siena strove to ration her ‘comfort breaks’ to once a day. Indeed, it was not until the twelfth-century that, in convents, cleanliness began to be deemed next to godliness. The Latinspeaking monks adopted the 34
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Roman ‘lavarium’ and ‘necessarium’ and revived the custom of communal ablutions, with latrines straddling water-channels. Handwashing became obligatory and towels were supplied, though brethren were strictly forbidden from using them for wiping their noses or nether regions. Instead, archaeological evidence reveals, they used moss, leaves, hay, bunches of herbs and old cloths and shells and rims of broken pots (for scrapers). The Norman ‘garderobe’, without which no medieval castle worth its salt was complete, made its debut in England after 1066. Originally a secure room off a private chamber where clothes and valuables were stored, it gradually morphed into another term for a latrine, from which excreta usually tumbled into the moat. At Berkeley Castle, there was a cess-pit, above which Edward II was imprisoned by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer, in anticipation that he would die from the miasma. Edward’s constitution held firm, forcing the dastardly duo to devise an even-more dreadful demise for him. The garderobe, at last, brought some measure of privacy for the lord and his family. Yet, at Portchester Castle, a tell-tale line of
Castor: bath-house (Edmund Artis, 1828)
chutes indicates that the privilege did not extend to servants and soldiers. At Lewes Priory, 59 monks could be catered for at one sitting, albeit in individual cubicles. Closer to home, a garderobe survives in the thirteenth-century tower of Woodcroft Castle, the oldest extant ‘necessarium’ in Tribland. It is extremely likely that similar features existed at the now-lost Maxey Castle and at Northborough Manor, which was drastically remodelled in the seventeenth-century.
Town and Country In Roman towns, there was a urinal at every street corner, though there were no ‘necessaria’ in private houses. Citizens answered the callof-nature in basins and pots, which were emptied into public sewers by slaves or tipped out of the window onto to the street and unwary passers-by. This disgusting practice persisted until the seventeenthcentury, though after the Conquest, there allegedly was element of consideration, for the deed was preceded by the cry, “Gardez l’eau!” [French for, “Watch out for the water!”] Hence our word ‘loo’! Not surprisingly, the open drains and sewers swiftly became clogged with ordure, dead animals and general detritus. Nonetheless, it was not until 10 years after the
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Porchester Castle: garderobe chutes
first visitation of the Black Death that the Sanitary Act of 1358 ordered regular street-cleaning and the prosecution of fly-tippers. Moreover, the link between raw sewage, contamination of the watersupply and disease was not entirely recognised until the nineteenth century. There had been public latrines in London and other towns since at least 1016, when it was rumoured that Edmund Ironside, (benefactor of Peakirk church) was murdered in one. They were ramshackle affairs, again constructed over a watercourse and surrounded by a wattle fence, partly to offer a modicum of privacy and partly to prevent people falling in at night. They were known as ‘the jakes’, a corruption of the ‘Jericho’, a wall (usually behind taverns) where men relieved themselves. This, in turn, referred to the Biblical fortress whose ramparts came tumbling down when Joshua’s soldiers blew their trumpets and whose place-name is perpetuated in its diminutive form, ‘jerry’ [‘chamber-pot’]. There also were ‘mobile’ urinals, men with pails who enveloped their clients in voluminous cloaks, enabling them to spend-a-penny surreptitiously. Obviously, jakes and cess-pits needed to be cleared out regularly
to prevent them from overflowing. The task was performed by gongfermors, an Anglo-Saxon jobtitle [meaning ‘to go off to cleanse’], suggesting that this was an ancient profession. Gongfermors justifiably were well-paid for their work was distasteful and hazardous. (We learn of the hapless Richard the Raker, who fell through a rotten plank, in 1327, and drowned ‘monstrously in excrement’.) The nutrient-rich slurry was carted out into the countryside and spread on the land just as nowadays human fæces are processed and reconstituted as biosolids to fertilise arable fields. Urine was sold to fullers who used it for purifying and whitening wool and linen; even dog-turds had a street-value and were collected by pure-finders as an essential ingredient in tanning leather. For the gentry, merchants and upwardly-mobile yeoman farmers, the ultimate medieval status-symbol was the indoor privy (nick-named ‘the draught’). The name evolved from the Latin ‘privatus’, alluding to ‘that which is done in private or secret’. From the twelfth-century onwards, they became commonplace in larger houses across the realm and, doubtlessly, our region once had some fine examples. Now, we must travel to Weald and Downland Museum [Sussex], where
a magnificent, fifteenth-century, timber-framed, Kentish farmhouse, known as Bayleaf, has been reassembled. The solar or upstairs family-room has its own wellventilated privy. An added benefit was that fumes from the prized dung-heap below were believed to deter lice and so clothes were hung there, reflecting the original function of the garderobe. In contrast, for the poor, rural communities of Tribland, toilet etiquette had changed little since prehistoric times. Human, animal and household waste continued to be piled, sometimes thatchhigh, and seasonally spread on the land. Often the peasant’s most valuable asset, his manure heap was bequeathed in wills, and inspired farmer-poet, Thomas Tusser to write in his Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie’ of 1573: ‘Foule privies are now to be cleansed and fide [purified] Let night be appointed such baggage to hide; Which buried in garden, such trenches a-low Shall make very many things better to grow’.
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Bayleaf: draughty privy
Sharpe’s of Swadlincote posh pedestal, c.1880s
>> Harington, inventor of the flushtoilet, which, operated by means of ‘a cisterne and halfe a tunne [of water] to keep it sweete and savourie’. In 1571, he produced but two embarrassingly-noisy contraptions, one for himself and one for Richmond Palace. Queen Anne is recorded as having a closet [small room] containing a modified version in the 1700s. Nevertheless, it was not until later in the century and households were connected to the sewers and drains that the water-closet began to be embraced by the middle-classes. Even so, apart from in new-builds, many were confined to the garden as (in Lucy Lambton’s words) ‘little temples of convenience’. Between 1859 and 1865, Joseph Bazalgette supervised the laying of 1000 miles of sewers beneath London, prompting other British conurbations to swiftly follow suit. These feats of engineering opened the flood- gates for the pioneers of plumbing and sanitary-ware, including. John Shanks, developer of the plungercloset (1864), George Jennings, inventor of the syphonic system (1870), Thomas Twyford maker of the one-piece ceramic pedestal, dubbed ‘porcelain ponies’ (1881) and Thomas Crapper, who installed the drains and bathrooms at Sandringham House (1886-1909). 36
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Over a century later, the technology has hardly changed. However, in rural areas, the water-closet was a non-starter. An alternative, the earth-closet and brain-child of Reverend Henry Moules, appeared on the scene in 1860, with soil cascading from a hopper into the pan, to minimalise aromas. Still, most country-dwellers made do with a ‘bucket-toilet’ in a purpose-built outside privy, sometimes flanked by a washhouse and coal-house. Such an ensemble survives in Rectory Lane, Peakirk, now converted into a workshop, woodstore and toolshed (built c.1900). The only relic of its netty days is a nail from which hung squares of newspaper used in lieu of toilet tissue. At Sutton, there is an idyllicallyset combination of a Collywestonroofed wash-house and privy, where the copper (for boiling water) and single-seater loo remain intact, a rarity this day and age. An ivy-clad stand-alone lavvy, minus its furnishings, is well-camouflaged next to a paddock in Peakirk’s Bull Lane. It gave Ivy House its name, when the Noble Family arrived in the 1940s.
For your convenience . . . Until the advent of indoor facilities, the preferred receptacle of ‘easement’ was the chamber pot,
which saved venturing outdoors in inclement weather and could be emptied into the netty or onto the dung-heap later. Understood to have been invented c.700BC in Sybaris (a Greek city in Italy noted for its hedonism), by the eighteenth-century potties were being produced in their thousands. Wealthy enthusiasts encased them in pieces of furniture like commodes (chests of drawers) or ‘close-stools’ (a kind of portable, plush-covered, miniature throne). Impervious to the pong, the hoi polloi tucked them under their beds and called them “gazunders”. Quirky, nineteenth-century varieties depict an all-seeing eye or po-faced chap promising, “Use me well and keep me clean, And I won’t tell what I have seen!”, betraying the Victorians’ underlying lavatory humour. My all-time favourite is an 1850s model, complete with a resident frog, which made glugging noises when emptied. It bears a little ditty divulging that the vessel was a wedding gift, urging the happy couple to think of their benefactor each time it is pressed into service. Fragments unearthed in Peakirk during PAST’s test-pit excavations have conformed to bog-standard, single-handled designs, either plain-white or with a blue-andwhite transfer pattern. They remind
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Peakirk: wash-house, privy, coal-house complex
us that the humble potty (now reserved for small children) was an essential piece of kit from Roman times until every home in Tribland was blessed with an indoor bathroom and twentiethcentury plumbing. What a relief!
Not in my backyard! Netties were smelly, dark, damp, unhygienic and the lair of flies Peakirk: Ivy House
Sutton: fully-fitted netty (CAMUS Project)
and gigantic spiders; and they could be dangerous, especially when someone forgot to close the hinged seat. Undoubtedly, all but the most stoical of Triblanders must have been euphoric when an up-to-date amenity were installed in his/ her property. Without making door-to-door enquiries, it is impossible to assess how
many redundant ‘houses of necessity’ linger locally. Whilst a few have been incorporated into building-extensions or redeployed as tool-sheds, sadly, many have collapsed through neglect, been demolished or, like The Woodlands', disappeared after chunks of garden were sold for development. If you happen to have netty tucked away in a corner of your property, please, let me know. Then, it can be recorded before your less-sympathetic successors consign another integral part of our social history to oblivion.
Sunderland-ware potty, c.1850 Many books and pamphlets have been published about this subject. Some are technical, some concerned the politics of public health and some are plain hilarious. I have found Jean Turner’s and Julie Wilson’s East Anglian and Northamptonshire Privies, Frank Graham’s The Geordie Netty and Lucinda Lambton’s Temples of Convenience the most entertaining and informative.
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Ah, ‘allo all you good residents in your nice Tribland villages I hope you are all well after the hot summer and looking forward to your rich casseroles and winter foods, non?
from the kithcn of
Chez Pierre Coq au Vin Blanc Autumn and winter at Chez Pierre is most certainly a time we love to create some of the best of French country cooking recipes. Most are slow-cooking prepared and using some of the cheapest cuts of meat, but best for flavour and keeping in the freezer. Beef and pork casseroles are always popular here with friends and guests but this issue of the great little magazine I am to show you my version of Coq au Vin Blanc. Yes, it’s chicken but not the normal way with red wine; it’s a dish from my history in North East France.
Many years ago my family visited my elderly great aunt Cecile in Strasbourg, in the Alsace region of France. She was very pleased to see us all but as she had only a very small apartment in the city centre we took her to lunch at her favourite restaurant, a small bistro called L'Épicerie, run by her family friends for many years in the Rue du Vieux Seigle. The name means ‘grocery shop’ in English and indeed it was very eclectic inside, resembling one of your old fashioned corner shops run by Mr Arkwright on the telly in his brown coat.
For 6 servings:
1 Trim the skin well as I say and season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a large shallow casserole, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the chicken and cook until it’s well browned, about 4/5 minutes per side. 2 Remove the chicken and set aside. Add the bacon and cook until the fat begins to render, about 3/4 minutes. 3 Add the onion and sauté until it becomes translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and mushrooms, and sauté until the mushrooms are tender, 5 to 6 minutes. 4 Pour in the wine, stir in the mustard and add the browned chicken back to the casserole.
12 thighs, salt and freshly ground black pepper, 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, 4 strips bacon, diced, 1 large onion, diced, 3 fat garlic cloves, minced, 1 pint brown mushrooms, sliced, 2 cups dry white wine, 1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard, ½ cup double cream, ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley.
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My choice from the menu here was their wonderful Coq au Vin Blanc, like aunt Cecile had, as it was her favourite. The recipe is directly as they cooked it because even then I wrote it down from the Chef Patron Henri. Chicken pieces are how I use for this dish. I always get bone-in thighs with skin-on but trim the excess skin well before cooking. Be generous as this is probably the cheapest to buy and leftovers can always be reheated and used next day. Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium-low heat. 5 Cover and simmer until the chicken is almost fully cooked, 15 to 20 minutes. 6 Uncover and add the cream. Simmer until the sauce thickens and the chicken is fully cooked, 8 to 10 minutes. 7 Garnish with parsley and serve immediately. My plate shows a hefty serving yes, but it is so tasty and cheap and easy to create that we have always to serve more after the first plate! I serve a lightly-chilled sauvignon blanc with this plate and steamed broccoli/new potatoes for texture and colour.
Bon Appetit and Bon Chance Pierre x
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YOUNG TRIBUNE READING ROOM / SUNFLOWER SEED
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Sunflower Seed is a registered Harvesting Dreams: charity and the setting is run Hundertwasser for Kids by a Voluntary Management Committee is currently made Barbara Stieff up of parents and parents of former children who attend You may never have heard of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, but he was an eccentric artist, the setting. The Committee plays a humanitarian, environmentalist and architect. significant role in the setting as He dedicated his life to the beautification of a registered charity without it the world in which we live. In this colourful, quirky book Barbara Stieff introduces children Sunflower Seeds would not be to Hundertwasser’s free-thinking, inspirational functioning. The activities that the Committee support are approach to art and the environment. There is something about Hundertwasser’s many and varied to ensure the smooth running of Sunflower vibrant, exciting work which appeals to children and adults alike. Most children enjoy Seed these may include: colouring and love bright colours but often • Attending monthly become bogged down with making things meetings look ‘right’ rather than developing their own • Approving payroll creative style. Likewise, adults don’t always • Assisting with people fully appreciate children’s imaginative artwork management activities and gently admonish that cows are not pink • Managing the budget with yellow stripes…when of course there’s • Accountability no good reason why they shouldn’t be any for Ofsted colour at all in a painting. • Fundraising Stieff’s engaging and slightly off-the-wall • Health and safety and style suits the book. She spent many years Key holder support as an art educator at ZOOM, a children’s Our approach is a museum in Vienna and it shows. The book is collaborative style where packed with fun projects and suggestions for we empower the Nursery stretching children’s imaginations in an artistic Manager and team to deliver but also in a more general way. It is also all the operational aspects lavishly illustrated with Hundertwasser’s work of the setting whilst leaving which makes it a beautiful decorative item in more of the strategic and its own right; a fact of which Hundertwasser Governance activities to would certainly have approved. the Committee. We have
YOUNG TRIBUNE FUNTIME Can you match the pairs?
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a strong team partnership style to ensure the success of Sunflower Seed and along the way we have fun whilst volunteering! In addition to the regular activities the Committee are currently leading the design and delivery of the new build project for Sunflower Seed. There is never a more exciting time to join the committee as we shape the future of childcare provision for the children who use the facility today and for those who will join in the future. How do I get become a committee member? Any member of the public can become a Sunflower Seed Committee member you do not need to have a child at the setting! We are looking for enthusiastic committed people who have energy and time to help shape the future for Sunflower Seed. Simply register your interest at office@sunflowerseed.co.uk. To become a Committee member, you will require a full DBS check and sign up to the UK’s Charity Commission agreement as a Trustee of the Charity.
HELPSTON PLAYHOUSE YOUNG TRIBUNE
Helpston Playhouse The start of another school year and it was lovely to welcome so many new faces to the Playhouse and of course familiar faces too. The Preschool have been busy welcoming the change of the season and celebrating all things autumn. This has included harvesting apples and pumpkins and making bread hedgehogs. The lovely sunny days have also been perfect for utilising the strip of woodland at the end of the school playground for Forest School. Forest School uses natural resources to stimulate imagination, creativity and investigation and it is planned that going forward all children at the Preschool should have experience of Forest School. This is a fantastic addition to the provision offered at the Playhouse and one that we are certain the children will not only thoroughly enjoy but also gain valuable skills. In recent weeks there have been many activities taking place in Forest School including bug hunts and making wind chimes. The children have also been enjoying the pet & vet theme looking at different animals and
how to take care of them. This included a visit to the Playhouse by Rolo, the guinea pig which was much loved by the children. Baking has also been a popular activity this term with the children making biscuits and cupcakes. In the Out Of School Club it has been very busy with a different theme or activity running each week. The term started with a sewing theme where the children made sweet smelling lavender bags from dried lavender harvested from the Playhouse garden. Roland Dahl’s birthday was celebrated with lots of activities inspired by his much-loved books including experiments in the garden (George’s Marvellous Medicine) and the baking of a huge chocolate cake (Matilda). It was decided amongst the children that Matilda was the favourite story and some children even dressed up as characters to celebrate. The recent ‘Movie Night’ proved a huge success and was
loved by the children. Paddington 2 was shown on the big screen and popcorn and hot dogs were available for the children to enjoy. We are planning to hold fundraising events throughout the year and the next date for your diary is our Christmas wreath making evening. Join us and get ready for the festive season by making your own wreath and enjoying some Christmas drinks and nibbles.
Christmas wreath making Friday 7 December. Helpston Village Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets £20 available from Helpston Playhouse.
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MUSTARD SEED PROJECT YOUNG TRIBUNE
The Mustard Seed Project There is currently an air of excitement within the MSP community … Firstly: at the time of writing, we are in Kenya, catching up on developments and checking on the progress at Miche Bora School, Mgongeni. And our ‘babies’ – the children who were with us nine years ago as our first pupils, now aged 13 and 14 – are about to take their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams before moving on to their secondary education. We are so proud of them. Secondly: regular readers will remember that the school currently operates on two separate sites, until we have enough classrooms in the new building for all ages (see diagram). Once all the pupils are under one roof, we shall not have rent to pay - and,
more importantly, we shall be a long way along the road to sustainability. We have met with the building contractors today, going over ‘snagging’ work to be fixed now that the ground floor has settled, and we hope to get it signed-off before we leave so that we are ready to start the next phase. This is where it gets exciting… we are really hoping, with everyone’s support, to raise £60,000 to add the six classrooms on the upper storey before this time next
year, ready for MSP’s tenth anniversary! Our ambitious plan begins with this year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge, which provides ‘matched funding’ for any donations made during a certain period. As there is £5,000 available to us this year, we have the potential to raise £10,000. This would be a great start! Please, please help if you feel able to, at the appropriate time (see below). When we visited last, Rita, along with several members of the school’s staff, was struck down with Chikugunya. It is a debilitating, flu-like condition and recovery can be a long, drawn-out process (it was several months before Rita noticed any significant improvement). One
tentatively introduced the idea of a homework club to the teachers, to be run from 4.20 until 6 at night for those older children who wish to go. I expected outrage at the thought of their having to remain in school until that time, but the teachers were delighted: they felt it would make a huge difference. We really admire their dedication. Our daughters and their families are coming out shortly and look forward to joining in with school activities and sharing their expertise during teacher training days. As has happened previously, the Kenyan government has scuppered our plans by reintroducing a public holiday (announced three days before it happened) and, due to another one shortly after, the We are hoping, school will be closed from 26 with everyone’s October until January. Such long support, to raise holidays are not good for the £60,000 to add children’s well-being. the six classrooms If you would like to join our before this time supporters, in any way you can next year, ready (maybe a donation, maybe by for MSP’s tenth organising a fundraiser yourself), anniversary! please do check out our website: www.mustardseedproject. of the teachers affected is still co.uk. There are lots of ways suffering but she continues to to donate, including via those work because she must. There organisations that donate for is no cure, sadly, and little free when you shop online that her doctor can do but we (which could be quite a lot, in desperately hope that the painthe run-up to Christmas!). And relief gel we brought out for don’t forget to look out for the her (affordable in the UK but so Big Give Christmas Challenge in expensive in Kenya) will alleviate December – if you are planning some of her symptoms: she is to donate, it would mean double so ill. for us, thereby enabling us to Also, during that visit, we ‘grow a better future’ that bit realised that very few of our quicker! pupils can do their homework as they have no place to do it and With grateful thanks, Rita and no-one to help them. Today, I Geoff Fowler
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IN MEMORIAM NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 1918
Please also see page 12 for Barnack Royal British Legion commemmoration
This edition of the Tribune covers the centenary of end of WW1...
Lest we forget The fighting thankfully stopped on November 11th 1918 but the war was not officially over until 28 June 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which had directly led to the war. Over the last 4 years we have attempted to mention those men, whom we know about, who died during the war and had a connection with Helpston. This surely has been a very inadequate record. There must have been other deceased men for whom Helpston had a significance. We have used the memorial in Helpston Church as our main point of reference. War memorials, both grand and small, as in Helpston, started to be erected from about 1920. Service personnel who died overseas were not brought home for burial. The logistical impossibility of
doing this when numbers were so high, combined with a belief that the dead should be treated equally, regardless of rank and wealth, meant that casualties were buried in cemeteries near the battlefields where they died. This meant that there were many bereaved families who had no grave as a focus for their grief at home and so communities, whether residents of the same area or members of the same workplace, school, church or other groups, formed committees to create a war memorial to commemorate their dead and the losses they had suffered. How names for inclusion on the memorials were agreed upon can only be imagined now - hence the example in Helpston of Arthur Marshall who is mentioned on the Church's memorial but nothing could be found out about him apart from knowing he was born and lived in Peterborough. His loss must have meant a great deal for someone.
Other names, you would think should be included, are not; perhaps there was no-one to put their names forward or they are remembered elsewhere. As far as we know, Ernest Arthur Warner and Daniel Bean were the last 2 deaths, with a Helpston connection, to die before the war finished. Ernest Arthur Warner, who lived in Helpston was aged about 37 years when he died of his wounds on 26 October 1918. He had been a farm milkman. He was a gunner and was buried in Premont British Cemetery in Aisne France. For some reason, he is not remembered on the Church's memorial. Daniel Bean, who was about 21 years old when he died on 14 November 1918 in Belgium. He is buried in Mouscron Communal Cemetery with 5 other service men. He was a lance corporal in the Mounted branch of the Military Police. Daniel was born in Helpston but is not on the Church's memorial.
Into the next century following, all the men mentioned here over the years and those known only to God -
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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 1918 IN MEMORIAM
John Thomas Arbon
Percy Webster’s medals
Percy Webster
Pete Skinner and the students
Glinton Great War soldiers remembered
During September 2018 Year 5 and Year 6 students from Peakirk cum Glinton Primary School commemorated the centenary of the deaths of two of Glinton’s First World War soldiers by sending rockets into the sky high above the village which detonated with impressive explosions and stars. Peter Skinner provided a brief introduction and an insight into the soldiers lives and untimely deaths. To commemorate the death of Glinton’s final WW1 soldier, Percy Webster, two of his great nephews attended and showed the students his medals and his Memorial Plaque. The plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-ofkin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war. The WW1 team plan to launch further rockets above Glinton to commemorate the centenary of the end of the Great War at 11 am on 11 November 2018.
John Thomas Arbon was one of eleven children of Benjamin and Alice Arbon of Peakirk Road, Glinton. Born on 16 January 1896 in Glinton, he emigrated to Canada and at the outbreak of the war enlisted in the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles; part of the 3rd Canadian Division. He died on 14 September 1918, aged 23. Pte Arbon has no known grave and is remembered on the Vimy Memorial, France. Two weeks before his death his unit had been engaged in the Battle of the Scarpe, which was part of the second battle of Arras. In this action they captured Monchy le Preux and advanced east toward Canal-de-Nord. On 14 January the 1st Battalion were in the front line trenches on the West Bank of the Canal-de-Nord, near SauchyCauchy where they were under intense machine gun fire. On that day 7 other men from the battalion were also killed.
Percy Webster was born and lived in Glinton. He enlisted at Peterborough as a private in the 1st Battalion of the Northampton regiment. Local newspapers reported that Pte Webster was wounded in the Arm by shrapnel on the 8 July 1916. After recovering in hospital in Nottingham, he returned to France and was killed in action on 24th September 1918 aged 27. Pte Webster is buried in Berhaucourt Communal cemetery, Pontru, France, which contains over 70 casualties, mainly from the 1st Northamptons killed on 24 September 1918. The 1st Northampton s were involved in ‘The Advance to Victory’ which was the last major action of the First World War , on 24 September 1918 they attacked a sunken road on a ridge of land between the villages of Pontruet and Gricourt near St Quentin, France. Their casualties during this action totalled more than 250.
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IN MEMORIAM NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 1918
Pictured at Barnack War Memorial, with a few of the poppies, are John Dawson and members of the Branch committee. (L to R) Joe Dobson, Elizabeth Young, John Dawson, Max Sawyer, Columb Hanna and Geoff Dunkley. Max Sawyer, Branch SecretaryÂ
Commemoration Event Poppies As part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, the Barnack & District Branch of the Royal British Legion will be putting large event poppies outside the former homes of the WWI casualties listed on the Barnack War Memorial, which Nov. 1918 Private Arthur Hayes 4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment died 24th November, 1918, aged 26. He had worked as a cowman for Mrs.Ward at Poplar Farm, Ashton, before being conscripted. He lived with his parents in one of the five stone cottages on the east side of Tallington Road, Bainton before being drafted to the Western Front. Unfortunately, his mother became a victim of the severe ‘flu epidemic of the Autumn of 1918 and while on compassionate leave to attend her funeral, Arthur succumbed himself and died at home. He is buried in Bainton churchyard under a military headstone. 46
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covers not only Barnack itself, but also Pilsgate, Ufford, Southorpe and Bainton. Helpston, closely associated with the Barnack Branch, will also be displaying Event poppies. This event was made possible by the generosity of John Dawson (of Dawson of
Stamford), who sponsored the poppies, and Andrew Jones (of the Verdon Timber Group, Casterton Rd.) who donated the wooden stakes to which the poppies will be affixed. The Branch is extremely grateful to both for their support. Dec 1918 Private Fred Bradley 1st Battalion Essex Regiment died of wounds on 9th December 1918, in a military hospital at Sangatte. He was 26 years old. He is buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte, Calais. He was an Ufford man and is one of the eight men from the village who are named on the commemorative plaque in the village church.
IN MEMORIAM
Festival of Remembrance
One hundred years ago, the guns fell silent on the world’s first truly global war
7.30pm Friday 9 November, The Cresset, Peterborough
o commemorate the city’s fallen soldiers and the centenary of the end of World War One, award-winning choirs Peterborough Male Voice Choir and Peterborough Voices will present a moving evening of words and choral music at The Cresset on Friday 9th November, supporting the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. Over one thousand Peterborough men were killed in World War One. When war was declared in August 1914 there was a rush of volunteers to the recruiting office on Cathedral Square and by July 1915 nearly two thousand men had joined up, with even more being drawn into the conflict when conscription was introduced in 1916. Most of them served in the trenches on the Western Front, where conditions were appalling. New weapons on both sides added to the carnage, some manufactured locally by companies including Perkins, Peter Brotherhood and Frederick Sage and Co. in Walton. “We went out to meet the dreadful fire of matching guns and rifles
leave, often leaving messages and cartoons in the visitor’s books at the refreshment stall at Peterborough East Station, two of which survive. And possibly the most famous visitor to Peterborough - one who never left - was Sergeant Thomas Hunter ‘the lonely ANZAC’, who was critically wounded in 1916 at the battle of the Somme in 1916 and died in the city. “Peterborough played a significant part in the war effort. While its men went off to fight, its companies manufactured important weapons and supplies, and soldiers and sailors from across the country passed through on the railway” says William Prideaux, director of Peterborough Sings! “Peterborough Male Voice Choir has a long history in the city, going back to not long after first world war when so many local men made the ultimate sacrifice. Given our roots in the local community it seems fitting to mark the occasion with what promises to be a nostalgic evening of wonderful melodies and touching moments, while raising money for a really good cause.”
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amid a constant rain of bursting shells, which decimated our men” said Sergeant Samuel Yerrell from Woodston in 1915. “If the worst comes to the worst, so be it, I am ready. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take what comes” said Corporal Eric Bunyan from Peterborough in 1916. One of the city’s most celebrated heroes is pioneer of modern nursing Edith Cavell who, educated in Peterborough, became probably the most well-known female casualty of the conflict. Respected for nursing both German and Allied soldiers, she helped some 200 allied servicemen escape German-occupied Belgium and was executed by firing squad 1915 amid worldwide condemnation. Displaying remarkable courage, she refused to be blindfolded or have her hands tied and declared “I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” Peterborough’s links with World War One don’t end there: many soldiers and sailors from across the country passed through the city by rail on their way to the front or home on
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CHURCH NEWS
New Reader
for Barnack, Bainton, Helpston, Ufford & Wittering Group Su Fletcher from Bainton came to the end of a long journey and came to the beginning of another as she was licensed to the position of Reader by Peterborough’s Bishop Donald Allister at Bainton Church in September. The church was packed as people from all the churches in the Benefice gathered to support Su. It was 2008 when Canon Margaret Venables, then vicar of Barnack recognised that Su had gifts that would be valuable to the ministry, but at that stage Sue was told she was “not ready”. After completing many training modules and going through an interregnum (a time when the church functions without a regular priest), she was finally accepted to the office of Reader. For those to whom this word ‘Reader’ is a mystery, it is mainly a preaching role, but one which can encompass many other types of church work – taking services, working with children, pre and after baptism work and other pastoral work. Coming from a Roman Catholic background in London, she was active in that church, taking out Home Communions and taking services using the Reserved
Sacrament, for example. She moved to Bainton 11 years ago, where she lives with her husband Graham, who, along with Canon Margaret got a special ‘Thank You’ from Su at the Celebration lunch party at the Reading Rooms after the service. “This has been a long road,” Su told the Tribune, “and Graham has been very patient.” She has been involved in “Messy Church” at Wittering, which has now evolved into a service of Morning Praise. She has helped with Confirmation Classes and led Evensong at Bainton. “Being licensed as a Reader is a fantastic opportunity for me to work in this Diocese and get to know all the churches in the Benefice better. I look forward to exploring ways in which we can be more and more effective as we work together to draw more people to the Christian faith.”
Su Fletcher from Bainton – Licensed as a Reader in the Church of England at Bainton Church in September.
Su Fletcher, newly licensed as a Reader in the Bainton Benefice, helps Wittering Beavers as they work towards their Faith Badge.
St Benedict’s Church Photographic Competition
The inaugural photo competition organised by the Social Committee of St Benedict’s Church in Glinton saw around 60 entries covering three categories : Village Life, Architecture
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and Nature from the Nine Bridges Benefice. The photos were judged by an independent professional photographer and winners and runners-up were announced in the church in front of a display of all the photographs, with the prizes being awarded by Rector Mark-Aaron. Photos had been submitted from around the villages featuring scenes taken throughout the year. The judge had provided some very helpful feedback on the photograph entries, including some tips on composition. The committee is very grateful for her contribution. The winning photographs will be collated into a calendar which will be on sale in December - an excellent Christmas present that showcases the talent in the Benefice.
The winners were: Nature: 1st - Simon Richards, 2nd - Mandy Grierson, 3rd - Michael Hickin Juniors - Neve Malcolm Architecture: 1st - Ian Halstead, 2nd - Cathy Hannan, 3rd - David Hare Village Life: Mandy Grierson All of the entries, displayed in St Benedict’s Church
SERVICES CHURCH NEWS
November
Sun 4
Sun 11
Sun 18
Sun 25
St John the Baptist Barnack
9.30am Parish Communion with Children’s Church 4.00pm Messy Church at Barnack Village Hall
9.45am Remembrance Sunday Service
9.30am Parish Communion with Children’s Church 6pm Informal Worship Service
10.30am All Age Praise
St Mary’s Bainton
6pm Taize Service
6pm Evening Parish Communion
6pm BCP Evensong
9am Parish Communion
St Botolph’s Helpston
10.45am All Age Praise
10.45am Remembrance Sunday Service
10.45am All Age Communion
10.45am Parish Communion with Children’s Church
10.30am Remembrance Sunday Service
10.30am Holy Communion
All Saints Wittering
NO SERVICE
St Stephen Etton
10am Family Service Freda Skillman
10.45am Village Memorial Wreath Laying Derek Harris
8am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
St Peter Maxey
9am Holy Communion Canon McCormack
9am Remembrance Service with wreath laying Rev Mark-Aaron
10am Family Service Village Hall Mark H & Freda S
9am Holy Communion BCP Rev Mark-Aaron
St Benedict Glinton
10.30am Holy Communion Canon Alban Jones
10.30am Remembrance Service Mark Hotchkin
10.30am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
10.30am Benefice Confirmation Service Bishop Donald Allister
St Andrew Northborough
9am Holy Communion Canon Alban Jones
10.30am All age Remembrance Service Freda Skillman
9am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron 6pm Evensong Derek Harris
10.30am All age Praise Freda Skillman
St Pega Peakirk
6pm Evensong Rev Mark-Aaron
10.30am Remembrance Service with Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
11am Morning Prayer Derek Harris
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
CHURCH ADDRESSES: St John the Baptist Church, Main Street, Barnack PE9 3DN St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Bainton PE9 3AF St Botolph’s Church, Church Street, Helpston PE6 7DT All Saints Church, Church Road, Wittering PE8 6AF St Andrew’s Church, Main Street, Ufford PE9 3BH St Stephen, Main Rd., Etton PE6 7DA St Peter, Main St. Maxey PE6 9HF St Pega, Chestnut Close, Peakirk PE6 7NH | Glinton St Benedict, High St., Glinton PE6 7JN St Andrew Church St., Northborough PE6 9BN
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CHURCH NEWS SERVICES
December
Sun 2
Thu 6
Sun 9
Sat 15
Sun 16
St John the Baptist Barnack
9.30am Songs of Praise Service (followed by a short Communion Service)
NO SERVICE
9.30am Parish Communion with Children’s Church 4.00pm Messy Church
NO SERVICE
9.30am Parish Communion with Children’s Church
St Mary’s Bainton
6pm Taize Service
NO SERVICE
9am Parish Communion
NO SERVICE
6pm BCP Evensong
St Botolph’s Helpston
10.45am All Age Praise
NO SERVICE
10.45am Parish Communion with Children’s Church
NO SERVICE
10.45am All Age Communion
All Saints Wittering
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
10.30am Morning Praise
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
St Stephen Etton
10am Family Service Mark Hotchkin 5pm Christmas Tree Lighting on Village Green
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
8am BCP Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
St Peter Maxey
9am Holy Communion Canon McCormack (Canon McCormack's last service at Maxey before he retires)
NO SERVICE
9am All age Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
5pm Trees and Carols Rev Mark-Aaron
10am Christingle Service in Church Mark H & Freda S
10.30am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
6.45pm Lighting of Christmas Tree with Carols and Mince Pies Rev Mark-Aaron
10.30am Parish Praise Mark Hotchkin
NO SERVICE
10.30am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
St Andrew Northborough
9am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
10.30am Morning Praise Freda Skillman 4pm Christingle Service Freda Skillman
NO SERVICE
9am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron 6pm Evensong Derek Harris
St Pega Peakirk
3.30pm Christingle Service followed by 4.30pm approx Lighting of Christmas Tree in churchyard Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
10.30am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
4pm Carol Service Rev Mark-Aaron
St Benedict Glinton
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SERVICES CHURCH NEWS
Fri 21
Sun 23
Mon 24
Tue 25
Sun 30
Sun 6 Jan
6.30pm Carol Service
9.30am Benefice Communion Service
4pm Crib Service 11.30pm Midnight Communion Service
10am Christmas Day Service
NO SERVICE
9.30am Parish Communion
NO SERVICE
5pm Carol Service
NO SERVICE
9am Christmas Day Communion Service
(Low Sunday) 10am Benefice Communion Service
6pm Taize Service
NO SERVICE
6.30pm Carol Service
5pm Crib Service 11.30pm Midnight Communion Service
10.45am Christmas Day Service
NO SERVICE
10.45am All Age Praise
NO SERVICE
10.30am Carol Service
4pm Crib Service
10.30am Christmas Day Service
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
6pm Family Nativity Service Mark Hotchkin
NO SERVICE
10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
10am Family Service Mark Hotchkin
NO SERVICE
9am Holy Communion BCP Rev Mark-Aaron
4pm Crib Service Freda Skillman
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
9am Holy Communion
9.30am Parish Worship Derek Harris
4pm Family Crib Service Rev Mark-Aaron 11.30pm Midnight Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
10.30am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
10.30am Carols & Mince 11.30pm Pies Midnight Communion Rev Mark-Aaron & Canon H Smart Freda Skillman
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
9am Holy Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
10:30am Benefice Family Communion Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
6pm BCP Evensong Rev Mark-Aaron
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
NO SERVICE
11am Parish Worship Derek Harris
NO SERVICE
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Saturdy 3 November Saturday 1 December Benefice Prayer Breakfast Benefice Prayer Breakfast in Botolph’s Barn every 1st Saturday of the month. The next ones are on: - Saturday 3rd November 2018 and Saturday 1st December 2018 in Botolph’s Barn. Sunday 4 November St Pega's Café Brunch By popular demand! In Peakirk Village Hall from 9-11am Bring along your family and friends Everyone very welcome. Full English and Continental Breakfasts served or just pop in for a coffee Newspapers to read and Children’s play area. 11 November Armistice Day/ Remembrance Sunday Church Bells ringing The church bells at St Andrews, Ufford, will be rung to mark Armistice day and at the same time there will be coffee and cakes served at the church, organised by the Village Hall Committee. The exact time is TBC But if you hear the bells ringing that’s when to come! We hope to see you there. 11 November 100th Anniversary Remembrance 10.45am at St. Botolph's Helpston would like to invite you to join us on this 100th Anniversary of the end of World War 1. Uniformed Organisations, Village officials and others will be joining us on this special occasion. Lest we forget.
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11 November Act of Remembrance Service 9am. St Peter's Church. Led by Rev' Mark-Aaron. A small plaque will be on display for each member of our Community who lost their life in the First World War. This is an All Age Service and refreshments will be served afterwards. A wreath will be laid at the Memorial, during the Service. This Service is part of Maxey Remembers Weekend. 11 November Remembrance Sunday Service Service to mark Remembrance Sunday will be held at 0945 in Barnack Church and will be followed by a commemoration, including wreath laying, at the War Memorial at 1045. All very welcome at either.
CHURCH NEWS
17 November St Benedict’s Dance & Social Eventfeaturing 'Fourth West & Jones' Peakirk Village Hall from 7:30pm Tickets £12.50 to include a ploughman’s supper. Bring your own drinks and glasses. Tickets available from Pat Hoppe 253009, Pat Pooley 252760,Sue Lowe-Lauri 252881 & Helena Richards 01778 341686 Email stbenedictssoc@btinternet.com All proceeds to St Benedict’s Church, Glinton. Saturday 17 November St Andrew's Christmas Fayre 2.30pm Northborough Village Hall. Stalls, cakes, gifts, games, raffle and time for tea and chat! Raising Funds for our Village Church.You are all welcome! St Botolph's - Helpston Church invites everyone to the regular monthly Coffee Mornings held in the Church from 10am until 12 noon. The next event is: Saturday 24 November Special Christmas Fair Stalls, raffles, mulled wine and mince pies, hampers etc. Saturday 24 November Christmas Fair St. Botolph's Church Helpston. Mulled Wine and Mince Pies. Preserves. Bottle Stall. Handicrafts and Gifts. Raffles - Christmas Cake, Flowers etc Fabulous Hamper. Carol Singing. Lovely coffee and cakes galore Sunday 2 December St Pega's Church Christmas Tree Light Switch-on 4.30pm. Get in the festive spirit and join us as we switch on the lights on the Christmas tree in the Church Yard. Free festive hot drinks and seasonal biscuits are provided. Everybody welcome! Sunday 2 December Christingle Service at St Pega's Church, Peakirk At 3.30pm. We would love for you all to come and join us at our second Christingle Service at St. Pega’s Church. Children will receive a Christingle and all contributions are donated to the Children’s Society to support their tremendous work with very needy children across the country. 9 December Candlelit Christingle Celebration St Andrew's invites you all to come to Northborough Church at 4pm. Donations go to the Children's Society: envelopes from the Church or from Polly 01778 380849 15 December Maxey Christmas Tree Festival Come and view the trees in Maxey Church from 12 Noon to 5pm and enjoy a warming drink! Trees can be brought into Church on Friday 14th from 4- 8pm.
15 December Carols by 'Christmas tree' light. Enjoy singing your favourite Carols by the light of our sparkling tree displays. St Peter's Church. Starts at 5pm followed by something warming to finish the evening. 16 December Make your own Christingle & Christingle Service Starts at 4pm. St Peter's Church. Everyone welcome, proceeds go to The Children's Society. Sunday 16 December Carol Service by candlelight St. Pega’s Church at 4pm led by Reverend Mark-Aaron Tisdale. Sunday 23 December Traditional Carol Service. St Botolph's Church, Helpston at 6.30pmwith Choir and Readings. Always a packed house. Sunday 23 December Carols, Mince pies and Christmas Cheer! Come and worship with us at St Andrew's Church Northborough at 10.30am. You will be so very welcome! Christmas Eve Maxey Crib Service. 4pm @ St. Peter's with Freda, a candle lite setting, children dressed as members of our sacred Nativity. What's not to like! Come to darkest Maxey and feel the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas Eve Crib Service Bring all the family to our Crib Service at St Botolph's Church, Helpston at 5pm. Probably the most popular, and certainly the most boisterous and noisy service of Christmas. Great fun! Christmas Eve Midnight Communion 11.30pm at St Botolph's Church, Helpston. Our traditional Midnight Communion service, as we see in Christmas. Christmas Eve Midnight Communion St. Andrew's Church Northborough Service begins at 11.30 pm Celebrant Canon Haydn Smart. All welcome on this most Holy Night Christmas Day Christmas Day Praise Christmas Day at St Botolph's Church, Helpston. 10.45am - with toys and something for all the family.
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CHURCH NEWS
St Peter’s, Maxey
Interested in old churches?
Avril Lumley Prior
Our area is generously-endowed with ancient places-of-worship. Some, like Barnack, Castor, Maxey and Peakirk, can trace their origins back to Anglo-Saxon times, whilst others, including Newborough and Ailsworth Methodist Chapel, are relatively modern. All have their individual character and charm and, without exception, contain unique treasures in the form of medievalwall paintings, stone-carvings, stained-glass, memorials to past parishioners and rolls-of-honour to fallen heroes. In effect, they are windows into local history and reminders of our cultural heritage.
Sadly, in recent years, many have had to be kept locked for security reasons. So, it would be good to set up a Historical Churches Group, whose members could partake in a tour of the building and possibly the surrounding area followed by light refreshments, either provided by the hosts for a small charge or at a nearby café. The
Group would welcome members from all faiths and should be a light-hearted way of exploring together, sharing knowledge, understanding each other’s communities and making new friends. We hope that the Group will be up and running by January 2019 with our first event at St Pega’s Church, Peakirk.
We will keep you informed via The Trib. and Facebook about events. Please, come and join us.
Service on the Green If you came through Helpston on Sunday 19 August you may have been surprised to see Helpston Church out of doors. Services on the Village Green have proved popular. Rev Dave Maylor said: “When people see us out of doors and not tucked away in church they realise that week by week there is a fair-sized group of faithful church members who meet for worship. We are always keen for people to join us and we want them to realise that there is a Christian Community here who will welcome them.” In the foreground is Will Jones on keyboard, Rev Dave and Dave Bearman on guitars. 54
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CHURCH NEWS
Christmas Magic at Peterborough Cathedral 2.30pm and 7.30pm, Saturday 15 December
Christmas is coming, and Christmas in Peterborough wouldn’t be complete without Christmas Magic, which will round off Peterborough Cathedral’s 900th anniversary year in spectacular style.
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ow in its eighth successful year, the ever-popular Christmas extravaganza has become an established high point of the festive season in Peterborough and is bigger and better for 2018 with the addition of a 2.30pm matinee for the whole family to enjoy a well as an evening performance at 7.30pm, so bring the kids and the grandparents too! Featuring all your festive favourites including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Walking in the Air, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Little Saint Nick, Santa Baby, Carol of the Bells, Sleigh Ride, Gaudete, We Three Kings, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland and Mary’s Boy Child there will be something
for everyone young and old to get your Christmas off to a flying start! Directed by William Prideaux and hosted by Jane Smith, Christmas Magic will showcase performances by the city’s awardwinning choirs Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Peterborough Voices and Peterborough Youth Choir, accompanied by Cathedral’s organ - one of the finest in the country - and featuring Peterborough Festival Brass who will perform Christmas classics including Sleigh Ride. William Prideaux says “We’re delighted to be bringing Christmas Magic to Peterborough cathedral in its 900th anniversary year and we’re thrilled to play our part in celebrating the heritage of this
glorious building. Christmas is always a very special time for our choirs - it’s a wonderful opportunity for us to have fun, celebrate and put on a thoroughly fantastic show for our home audience, who give us such tremendous support throughout the year. We’re looking forward to digging out our Christmas jumpers and presenting a really memorable afternoon and evening of festive fun for all the family.” So, when you’ve finished the shopping, the tree, baubles and bangles are up, and the mistletoe’s hanging from the door, there’s only one thing left to do – celebrate the magic of Christmas with Christmas Magic, Peterborough’s biggest Christmas celebration!
• Christmas Magic will be at Peterborough Cathedral at 2.30pm and 7.30pm on Saturday 15 December. Tickets from £18 from Peterborough Visitor Information Centre, by phone on 0333 666 3366 or at www.peterboroughsings.org.uk • Early Bird Offers available until 1 October.
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Harvest Helpston These three, (pictured right) along with other helpers, were much appreciated for the fine meal of coq-au-vin with a choice of delicious puddings served at Helpston’s Harvest Supper. L-r: Sharon Ward, Kim Maylor and Dave Bearman. After supper, Dave joined vicar Dave for a few songs from the sixties with a cheerful sing-a-long to their last offering- the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”. Proceeds raised from the supper and church collection raised around £3,000 for
Christian Aid. This is because the EU have promised to donate £4 for every £1 given. At the Sunday service, Helpston’s vicar showed a short film which demonstrated how a small donation improved the lives of four women from Ethiopia.
Announcements
Ringing Remembers On 11 November 2018, 100 years since the Armistice, bells will ring out from churches and cathedrals in villages, towns and cities across the country. Big Ben will also strike at 11am to mark the centenary. For this year in particular, the UK Government has invited all bell ringers to join the nation in marking the end of the First World War by ringing together on Remembrance Sunday. They would like the ringing to take place from 12.30pm on Sunday 11 November, in addition to ringing for services. Church bells across the UK remained restricted throughout the course of the war and only rang freely once Armistice was declared on 11 November 1918. Many bell ringers joined the war effort, and many lost their lives. Just after the war, the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers wrote to all bell towers to compile the Roll of Honour. At the time 1,100 men were reported as lost. During the First World War Centenary the Central Council of Bell Ringers has been reviewing this list and has discovered further bell ringers who died in service to come to a figure of 1,400. To mark the final year of the First World War centenary commemorations, it was 56
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Pictured above: Getting ready to enjoy their Harvest supper R-L: Joe & June Dobson, Peter Holt, Judy Holt, Elizabeth Snowball.
announced in 2017 that 1,400 new bell ringers would be recruited in honour of the 1,400 who lost their lives during the First World War. This campaign, called “Ringing Remembers”, aims to keep this traditional British art alive in memory of the 1,400 – linking together past, present and future. This campaign has been very successful and to date there are some 1,800 new ringers registered with the website. The Peterborough Branch has been doing its bit in encouraging new ringers and many are being trained throughout the area. The Roll of Honour on the CCCBR website identifies 7 ringers linked to Peterborough Churches who lost their lives in first world war, and significantly more than that number have been recruited and trained over the last year. It is intended that as many of these new ringers as possible will take part in the ringing across the Branch on Sunday 11 November. In our villages ringing will take place at: Glinton 10.00am. The bells will be rung half muffled before the Armistice Day service Maxey - a quarter peal will be rung in memory of those who lost their lives. We will remember them!
Weddings Joshua Olim & Lindsey Irons (28/07/2018) Helpston Church Samuel Maylor & Sarah Kay Gibson (04/08/2018) Barnack Church Matthew Smith & Lucy Mumby (11/08/2018) Barnack Church Matthew Balmer & Jessica Jones (11/08/2018) Helpston Church Jamie Rowley & Gabriella Clarke (15/09/2018) Wittering Church Peter Hotchkin & Lauren Jones (06/10/2018) Helpston Church Funerals Denise Bailey (22/06/2018) Ufford Church Sylvia Calderbank (03/07/2018) Helpston Church Nora Broomfield (19/07/2018) Helpston Church John Smith (22/08/2018) Stamford Cemetery Sheila Berrill (23/08/2018) Barnack Church Geoffrey Northend (10/09/2018) Barnack Church Stanley Goodacre (19/09/2018) Peterborough Crematorium Irene Thompson Lee (20/09/2018) Barnack Church Grace Elwood (17/10/2018) Barnack Church Baptisms Jessie Belle Moss (08/07/2018) Leah Ann Pumpr (08/07/2018) Matthew Daniel Pooley (05/08/2018) Barnack Church Elsie Rose Mence (26/08/2018) Barnack Church Frederick John Dawson (16/09/2018) Barnack Church
CHURCH NEWS
Peakirk’s St Pega Project presented the Stamford Singers
On Friday 28 September Peakirk church was packed to listen to the Stamford Singers and enjoy drinks and nibbles. A total of £751 was raised to go towards the cost of installing a toilet and conserving the important medieval wall paintings. A big debt of gratitude is owed to the Stamford Singers who performed without charge.
Community Collaboration at St Benedict's Church
In what will hopefully be the first of many joint community projects, St Benedict's Church Maintenance Group invited 1st Glinton Rainbows to join them to plant bulbs in the churchyard, ready for Spring. The Rainbows were delighted to be involved and so it was on the evening of 18th September, sixteen suitably dressed and
equipped Rainbows could be found working alongside Shirley Hodgkinson, Gaye Swan and Rev'd Mark-Aaron making holes, planting bulbs and generally having a great 'hands on' time. The girls enjoyed the opportunity to get their hands dirty and now wait in anticipation to see the fruits of their labour next year.
Harp Concert
Chris and Freda Skillman
Glinton Harvest Festival On Sunday 7 October St. Benedict’s Church held their Harvest Festival in a beautifully decorated church. There was a large congregation and tea, coffee and cake were served after the service. Peakirk cum Glinton C of E Primary School had held their Harvest Festivalin the church on the previous Thursday and as a result the Altar was surrounded by a large amount of donations. These were significantly added to during Sunday’s service and on the Monday over 200kg was delivered to the Peterborough Food Bank who sent their thanks to all who donated.
St Andrew's Church was nearly full for the Harp Concert at the end of September - and what an evening it was! Not only was the music, (which covered a wide swathe of folk music from the British Isles and Sweden in particular) sublime, but the lighting of the church enhanced what was a truly inspirational and moving occasion. For their finale, the harpists played a beautiful duet from opposite ends of the church, and the audience was enveloped in what can only be described as heavenly waves of sound.
Thanks go to Andy Lowings for assembling such a wonderful evening; to the harpists, Mark Harmer and Susan Syverson, for playing so beautifully and weaving their music into their own life stories; to those who decorated the church and provided delicious refreshments; and finally to everyone who came along and helped to make it such a wonderful and memorable evening.
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PLANNING
Cllr Peter Hiller, Glinton and Castor Ward
Tree and Woo Living within our Tribland villages we are lucky enough to be able to enjoy beautiful trees and woodland pretty-much everywhere we walk, cycle or drive and we are gifted with a landscape which I imagine, like me, most of us really value and want to keep healthy and well-maintained.
Our rural woodlands have a unique character, much of which is achieved by their content of historic trees, as well as those growing within the surrounding countryside. As the seasons change we are presented with an evolving panoply of colours and textures which move and change shape in even the lightest breeze. 58
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With the protection of our rural landscape firmly in mind, on Monday 24th September I presented the council’s Tree and Woodland Strategy to my Cabinet colleagues, recommending they approve it for adoption to full council. This strategy was last updated some six years ago and was
certainly in need of revision to recognise not only a completely different financial outlook for PCC and local authorities nationally but also our City’s record growth, our emerging Local Plan, considerations about Ash Dieback, climatic change evidence and other external impacts which have affected our
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I’d be pleased to send a link to the full strategy if any resident would like to read it. Email me on peter.hiller@peterborough.gov.uk
odland Strategy rationale since 2012. The Unitary Peterborough extends to about 34,000 ha. and the current population of approximately 200,000 is expected to increase by over 40,000 by 2036. Within our City’s streets and residential areas we have a complex stock of about 50,000 trees, coping with the level of vehicle pollutants associated with a busy urban environment and finding space to live alongside pavements, utilities, driveways, road signs and
streetlights. Perhaps against the odds, but with the help of expert care and planned maintenance, our trees not only survive but also contribute hugely to a range of important ecosystems, improving air quality for residents’ wellbeing and contributing towards the sustainable future of our City. Our updated draft T&W Strategy was the subject of much public and peer consultation, including the Woodland Trust, and explains in great detail what we do and what we don’t do,
the council’s health and safety policies and how a well-planned and structured arboricultural maintenance strategy protects our urban and rural woodland as a beautiful asset, not a future liability. The Strategy highlights the importance of our tree resource under the stewardship of the Council and sets a standard for its management, to ensure its long term conservation and development for the benefit of the people of Peterborough and future generations.
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APPLICATIONS
BARNACK
S1 and S2 Silver Birch and P1 Pine - 1-1.5 metre phone line clearance at Mistletoe House Wittering Road: Permitted 1 x Cherry (T505400) - Removal of a single large limb from over the Highway 3 x Cherry (T505412, T505416, T505420) - Removal of small diameter branches (<3cm diameter) to provide 1-2m clearance from building 1 x Apple (T505424) - Prune small diameter (<3cm diameter) branches back to previous point of reduction to give c. 1m clearance from building at Land At Main Street: Permitted Use of converted barn as tourism annex at Sandall House Stamford Road: Withdrawn by applicant Replace roof timber work to small outbuilding (w.c) after removing and storing roof tiles at Church Cottage Main Street: Awaiting decision Convert barn into Tourism Annex - retrospective at Sandall House Stamford Road: Awaiting decision Demolition of single storey extension and construction of single storey and two storey rear extensions and alterations to side and front windows at 4 Bainton Road: Awaiting decision Single storey side extension and internal alterations at 2 Kingsley House Bishops Walk: Awaiting decision Barn conversion at 2 Kingsley House Bishops Walk: Awaiting decision
BAINTON
Walnut - Fell at Blue Boar Helpston Road: Permitted Cherry (T627000) - Prune small diameter branches (<3cm) back from building and clear light cone (45 degrees downwards from lamp). at Land At Tallington Road Bainton Stamford. Decision: Permitted Single storey rear extension and flue to rear at andpipers Ufford Road: Awaiting Decision To erect a double carport at Oak House 2 Beever Way: Awaiting decision
CASTOR
Single storey rear extension and erection of front boundary wall at 2 Splash Lane: Awaiting decision Single storey rear extension and erection of front boundary wall at 2 Splash Lane: Awaiting decision Change of use from D2 Sports Centre to C2 use, comprising 24 assisted living units and ancillary Community Hub, the erection of a 68 bedroom care home with 12 close care units at second floor and associated parking and landscaping at Woodlands Splash Lane: Awaiting decision
DEEPING
GATE
Proposed two storey and single storey rear extensions and front porch extension at 23 Suttons Lane: Permitted 60
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Proposed replacement windows and doors to entire property, and new entrance door to principal North elevation at 65 Riverside: Awaitng Decision Change of use of agricultural land to domestic garden, retention of garden room and construction of ground floor front and rear extension and first floor extension to form chalet bungalow - part retrospective at 104A Lincoln Road: Permitted Proposed replacement windows and doors to entire property, and new entrance door to principal North elevation at 65 Riverside: Permitted
ETTON
1 Yew - Reduce to create 1.5-2m clearance from the pub building and 1-1.5m clearance from the marquee at 1 Main Road: Permitted Retention of two marquees at Golden Pheasant 1 Main Road: Awaited Decison
GLINTON
Elder (T1) Prune overhanging branches approx. 2m from the ground at 8 The Green: Permitted Single storey rear extension at 13 High Street: Refused Erection of garden wall and gates at 9 Dovecote Way: Awaiting Decision Erection of Bungalow and access alterations resubmission at 5 Helpston Road: Refused Remove conifer hedge at 29-31 High Street: Awaiting Decision Variation of condition C16 (plans) of planning permission 15/00895/FUL to provide garden room to rear of 8 Dovecote Way at Scotts Farm Welmore Road: Permitted Remove conifer hedge at 29-31 High Street: Permitted Change of use from 'Training Centre' (use class D1) to 'Offices' (use class B1) (Retrospective) at McIntyre Electrical Ltd Waterworks Lane: Permitted
APPLICATIONS
Fell Leylandii, Spruce, Fir and Scotts Pine trees at Mouse Cottage 1 North Fen Road: Awaiting decision
HELPSTON
Removal of Conservatory, single storey rear extension and alterations at 17 Woodland Lea: Permitted Proposal 1: T1 Sycamore - Crown lift to 5m (TPO 02/2002) Proposal 2: T1 Sycamore - Fell (TPO 02/2002 at Two Willow House 2 Willow Mews: Part Refused/ Part Permitted Erection of single storey rear extension at 26 Woodland Lea: Permitted Erection of two storey side extension and single storey front and rear extensions, and erection of 1.8m timber fence to the front at 40 Broad Wheel Road: Awaiting Decision Single storey rear extension Distance from original rear wall 4.5m Height 3.22m (2.82m to eaves) at 12 Woodland Lea: Awaiting Decison Change of use from storage to B1 Office/studio/light storage with associated access and parking at 5 Heath Road: Permitted Erection of single storey rear extension and demolition of existing outbuilding at Wisteria House 5 Church Lane: Withdrawn Single storey rear extension at 24 Arborfield Close : Awaiting decision Change of use of land to Equestrian use including the demolition and erection of stable blocks and the creation of equine school, livery yard and access road (part retrospective) at 4 Eastwell Court: Awaiting decision Replace the existing wooden-framed windows in the ground floor (south-facing) front elevation, replacement windows to match the existing in terms of material (wood), size and width of glazing bars,
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but be double glazed with a 4mm gap between 4mm panes of glass (12mm overall). at Willowgate Cottage Helpston Road: Awaiting decision Single storey rear extension, Distance from original rear wall 4.5m, Height 3.22m (2.82m to eaves) at 12 Woodland Lea: Permitted
NORTHBOROUGH
Removal of existing garage and erection of single storey rear extension to dwelling at 7 St Andrews Road: Awaiting Decision T1 Chestnut - Fell at Church Farm 7 Church Street: Awaiting Decision Proposed single storey rear extension with flat roof at 70 Granville Avenue: Permitted Removal of existing garage and erection of single storey rear extension to dwelling at 7 St Andrews Road: Permitted Proposed single-storey rear extension at 10 Castle Drive: Permitted Erection of a 3m x 4.3m conservatory to side of the house and move the back garden fence to be in line with front of house. at 2 St Andrews Road: Awaiting decision
MAXEY
Rowan in the front of garden - Fell at 38 West End Road: Permitted Extension to the existing car park to provide additional parking at DegaFloor Ltd Crusader House: Awaiting Decision Pitched roof to garage and car port to create utility room. Reduction/replacement of windows and doors. Existing cladding alterations/replacement and construction of single storey rear extension at 18 West End Road: Permitted Single storey rear extension at 4 School Close: Permitted Removal of condition C5 (agricultural restriction) of outline planning permission 04/00213/OUT - resubmission at 37 West End Road: Awaiting decision
UFFORD
Two storey side and rear extension and open porch to front elevation at 3 Hillside Close Ufford Stamford PE9 3BW. Decision: Permitted Single storey rear extension, conversion of existing garage and creation of new garage with new vehicular access at Honeysuckle Cottage Main Street: Permitted Replacement of all windows, single door to rear elevation and french doors to front elevation at Walnut House Main Street: Permitted Replacement windows at Clarendon Cottage Main Street: Awaiting decision
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DIRECTORY
Bainton Church
Richard Hardy, Churchwarden ............................. 01780 740505 John Wreford, Churchwarden............................... 01780 740362 Mary Gowers, Lay Pastoral Minister .................... 01780 740097 Dave Maylor, Priest in Charge ............................. 01780 740234 Elizabeth Snowball, Organist .............................. 07821 460505
Bainton & Ashton Parish Council
Catherine Franks, Clerk......................................... 01780 765984 Graham Fletcher, Chairman.................................. 01780 740034 Richard Harris, Vice Chairman.............................. 01780 740886 Susie Lucas............................................................. 01780 740159 Cliff Stanton............................................................ 01780 749123
Barnack Bowls Club
Phil Collins ............................................................. 01780 740124
Barnack Church
Dave Maylor, Priest in Charge ............................. 01780 740234 John Ward, Churchwarden .................................. 01780 740016 David Laycock, Churchwarden ............................ 01780 740267 Elizabeth Snowball, Organist .............................. 07821 460505
Barnack Coffee Stop
Carol Pickering ...................................................... 01780 740438
Barnack Community Association
Roy Chowings ....................................................... 01780 740755
Barnack Cricket Club
William Armitage, Chairman................................. 01780 740749
Barnack Home from Home Club
Diane Wright, Manager......................................... 07847 956602
Barnack Men’s Breakfast
Mike Mills................................................................ 01780 740285 David Laycock ....................................................... 01780 740267
Barnack Messy Church
Rev Dave Maylor ................................................... 01780 740234 Julie Stanton ........................................................ 01780 749123
Barnack Parish Council
Chairman, Harry Brassey ...................................... 01780 740115 Vice Chair, Margaret Palmer ................................ 01780 740988 Sophie Moore Phil Broughton ...................................................... 01780 740379 Ivor Crowson ......................................................... 01780 740430 David Laycock ....................................................... 01780 740267 Martin Bloom ........................................................ 01780 740966 Clerk, Susie Caney ................................................ 07595 377236
Benefice Administrators/ Lay Readers
Rachel Wright ........................................................ 07425 144998 Dick Talbot ............................................................. 01778 342581 Licensed Readers, Derek Harris............................ 01733 574311 Freda Skillman ....................................................... 01778 380903 Mark Hotchkin........................................................ 01778 347847 Mike Mills................................................................ 01780 740285
Botolph’s Barn
Choirs
Benefice, Simon Richards Singers (Glinton) Choirmaster .............................. 01778 341686
Cubs, Brownies, Scouts & Rainbows
Helpston Cub Scouts, Sarah Owen ..................... 01733 897065 Helpston Explorer Scouts, Nick Drewett.............. ....................................................01778 348107 / 07900 585072 Helpston Scouts, Tom Boughton......................... 07966 614556 Helpston Cub Scouts, Paula Metharam............... 07896 163598 Helpston Rainbow Guides, Julia Mason.............. 07780 688542 Helpston Brownie Guides, Morag Sweeney....... 07801 357701 Helpston Guides, Nicola Kerr............................... 07739 098113 Helpston Beaver Scouts, Alison Cook.................. 07437 909735 Glinton Brownies.................................................... 01778 346668 1st Glinton Rainbow Leader,Sally Nash............... 01733 254174 Glinton Beavers/Cubs/Scouts, Sharon Pallister....................................................... 01733 735776 Northborough Guides, Jane Knott, ................... 01778 345101 Barnack Little Lambs Group, Julie Stanton.......... 01780 749123
Deeping Gate Parish Council
Jane Hill, (Chair) .................................................... 01778 343066 Phil Thompson, Vice Chairman............................ 01778 346619 Geoff Purllant......................................................... 01778 344288 Janet Lill.................................................................. 01778 342647 Nicola Kerr.............................................................. 07739 098113 Carol Fuller............................................................. 01778 344378 Sandra Hudspeth................................................... 01778 343735 Lynn George, Clerk................................................ 01778 346402
Doctors and hospitals
Peterborough City Hospital ................................. 01733 678000 Deeping Practice (Main line) ................................ 01778 579000 (Appointments only).............................................. 01778 579001 Glinton Surgery ..................................................... 01733 252246
Etton Church (St Stephen’s)
Rector: Mark-Aaron Tisdale................................... 01733 252359 Anne Curwen, Churchwarden .............................. 01733 253357
Etton Parish Council
Fred Morton, Chair ............................................... 01733 252912 Emma Tajar, Clerk ................................................. 01733 234542
Friendship / Welcome Clubs
Glinton Friendship Club, Pam Kounougakis........ 01733 252018 Maxey Welcome Club, Robert Ford, ................. 01778 346288
Friends of Chernobyl Children (FOCC)
Cecilia Hammond ................................................. 07779 264591
Glinton Church (St Benedict’s)
Rector, Rev Mark-Aaron B. Tisdale ...................... 01733 253638 Churchwarden, Veronica Smith, ......................... 01733 252019 PCC Secretary, Shirley Hodgkinson, ................... 01733 252351 PCC Treasurer, Simon Richards, .......................... 01778 341686 Bell Ringers, Mike Goodall.................................... 01733 253469
Citizens Advice
Kate Hinchliff ......................................................... 01733 253192
Citizens Advice ...................................................... 0870 1264024
Max Sawyer ........................................................... 01780 765507
Chair, John Holdich OBE, ................................... 01733 253078 Clerk, Mr John Haste, ........................................... 01733 252833
British Legion
Bus & Train Services
Delaine Bus Services ............................................ 01778 422866 Stagecoach ............................................................ 01733 207860 Train Services ......................................................... 0845 7484950 62
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Helpston Church (St Botolph’s)
Priest in Charge, Dave Maylor, ........................... 01780 740234 Church Warden, Clive Pearce, ............................ 01733 253494
DIRECTORY
Helpston Helcats
E: Helpstoncommunityactivityteam@gmail.com Facebook: @Helpstoncommunity Phil Roberts............................................................ 07925 720195 Emma Long............................................................ 07827 297053
Helpston Lawn Tennis Club
David Packer ......................................................... 07766 600694
Helpston Parish Council
Joe Dobson (Chair) ............................................... 01733 252192 Sydney Smith Clerk .............................................. 01733 252903 Rosemary Morton Vice ......................................... 01733 252243
Horticultural Societies
Frank Samet Glinton ............................................. 01733 253591 Debbie Martin Barnack Show............................... 01780 740048 Kirsty Scott Peakirk ............................................... 01733 253952
Langdyke Countryside Trust
Richard Astle ......................................................... 01733 252376
Maxey Church (St Peter’s)
Rector, Rev Mark-Aaron B. Tisdale ...................... 01733 253638 Mandy Loveder Bell Tower Captain .................... 01778 343100 Michael Loveder Churchwarden .......................... 01778 343100 Tina Lapinskis, Maxey Sunday School ................. 01778 347280
Maxey Parish Council
Lynne Yarham, Chair ............................................. 01778 343077 Dick Talbot, Clerk .................................................. 01778 342581
Neighbourhood Watch
Dick Wilkins, Maxey .............................................. 01778 348368
Northborough Church (St Andrew’s)
Rector: Mark- Aaron Tisdale................................. 01733 252359 Polly Beasley, Churchwarden ............................... 01778 380849 Jane Knott, Churchwarden .................................. 01778 345101 Freda Skillman, Licensed Reader ......................... 01778 380903 Alison Butler, PCC Treasurer ................................ 01778 345499
Northborough Parish Council
John Dadge, Chair ............................................... 01733 254145 Robin Morrison, Clerk ........................................... 07944 054546
Peakirk Church (St Pegas)
Rector: Mark- Aaron Tisdale................................. 01733 252359 Trish Roberts, Churchwarden ............................... 01733 253111 Sheila Lever, Churchwarden ................................. 01733 252416 Christine Dearman, PCC Secretary ..................... 01733 252404 Pauline Cooke, PCC Treasurer & Social Events ..................................................... 01733 253116
Peakirk Parish Council
Angela Hankins, Clerk .......................................... 01733 253397 Henry Clark, Chair ................................................. 01733 253203
Peterborough City Council
John Holdich OBE Peterborough ....................... 01733 253078 Peterborough City Council .................................. 01733 747474
Police and Emergencies
Police - emergency calls ....................................... 999 Less urgent crimes ................................................ 101 Power Failure ......................................................... 0800 7838838 Samaritans .....................................................Freephone 116 123
Pre and After School Clubs
Lucy Garwood, Helpston Playhouse pre-school ........................................... 01733 253243 Roz Sowinski, Helpston Before and After School Club............................... 01733 253243
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Pre and After School Clubs
Nicola Litchfield, Glinton pre-school playgroup ........................................... 07515 364909
Pre and After School Clubs (cont.)
Jennifer Rice, Peakirk Tots Toddler Group ............................................... 07515 364909 Glinton Toddler Group, Linda Dean..................... 01733 574446 Julie Stanton, Little Lambs ................................... 01780 749123 Kirsty Wislawski. Manager, Sunflower Seed Pre-School, Church Street, Northborough .............................. 01733 253685
Rotary Club
Al Good Rotary Club ............................................ 01733 252064
Schools and Education
Mike Sandeman, AMVC Head ............................ 01733 252235 Rachel Simmons, John Clare Primary Head ........................................................ 01733 252332 Neil Fowkes, Barnack C of E Primary .................. 01780 740265 Craig Kendall, Peakirk-cum-Glinton Primary School Head ............................................ 01733 252361 Mr S Mallott, Northborough Primary Head ........................................................ 01733 252204 Maureen Meade, Peterborough Adult Learning ...................................................... 01733 761361
Ufford Church Enquiries
Peter and Sally Hudson ........................................ 01780 740475
Ufford Parish Council
Keith Lievesley Ufford Chairman ......................... 01780 740679 Julia Alexander ..................................................... 01780 740017 Frieda Gosling ....................................................... 01780 740343 Susie Caney Clerk ................................................. 07595 377236 Graham Bowes ..................................................... 01780 740578 David Chadwick .................................................... 01780 740893
Village Halls
Barnack Village Hall, Michelle Goodwin, ............ 01780 749337 Glinton, Bowls, Roy Pettitt.................................... 01733 252049 Glinton Village Hall Bookings, Sue Lane.............. 07923 475966 Glinton, Whist, Joyce Heathcote.......................... 01733 253790 Glinton, Whist, Peter Lake ................................... 01778 346749 Helpston Village Hall, Caryn Thompson ............. 01733 252232 Les Cunnington carpet bowls, Helpston ............ 01733 253832 Maxey Village Hall, Jacqui Barnard, .................... 07710 150587 Northborough Village Hall, Karen Cooper, ........ 01778 347464 Peakirk Village Hall bookings ............................... 07938 386226 Ufford Village Hall bookings, Mr Peter Grist....... 07887 634300
Village Tribune
Editor, Tony Henthorn .......................................... 07590 750128 Design Team, Dimension 6000............................. 01733 772095
Ward Councillors
Barnack David Over ............................................. 07920 160053 Glinton & Castor Peter Hiller & John Holdich ..................................................... 07920 160487
Women’s Institute (WI)
Jean Mead (Helpston WI) President..................... 01733 252025 June Dobson (Helpston WI) WI (Secretary) ........................................................ 01733 252192 Margaret Stafford (Glinton WI).............................. 01733 701268 Jenny Dunk (Glinton WI) ...................................... 01733 254252 Barnack Linda Huckerby (President)..................... 01780 740342
Youth Clubs
Kerrie Garner, Barnack Youth Club ...................... 01780 740118 Tina Lapinskis, Maxey Youth Club ....................... 01778 347280
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