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Dear Tribune readers, What a year!

No doubt 2020 will go down in history as one that none of us would like to see repeated! All of us, individuals, groups and businesses alike have suffered at the hands of the pandemic and had to adapt our lives accordingly.

The past 12 months have also been challenging for me personally; I was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the start of the year, lost my brother to cancer in May and said a final farewell to our family pet of 14 years, Stanley.

But as so often in life, there are ‘balances’; I have had the joys of being ‘hands on’ with the development of Arthur and Percy, working in a bubble with mum and dad Bex and Ben whilst they continued their key worker duties as a nurse and a police officer, we celebrated our youngest daughters’ wedding to Stephen (and the widening of our family circle) at the end of summer and caught up with so many great films and TV series!

We saw ‘community spirit’ come to the fore (especially during the first full lockdown in March) and witnessed great acts of kindness and compassion. We were delighted to be able to keep publishing and delivering ‘The Trib’ throughout the year – with grateful thanks to the generosity of many of our readers, associations, parish councils and local businesses.

With vaccines starting to be delivered we should start to see the fight against Covid19 swinging our way – let’s hope so!

Brexit is back on the agenda and at time of writing we seem to be no closer to knowing is we will be living in a deal or no-deal world come 1st January.

I wish everyone – readers, contributors, distributors, advertisers and supporters a heart-felt ‘Merry Christmas’ and let’s all hope for a less-challenging year ahead.

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The Comfort of Nature The Road to Success A Good Read Hula Fitness

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STAY SAFE | TIME TO PLAN YOUR 2021 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Time to plan your 2021 home improvements WHEN January rolls around, why not include you home – which has been working hard for you all year – in your resolutions?

By Eileen Le Voi – Safe Local Trades & Services Whatever the task – big or small – a few tweaks to some major revamping can bring your home right back up to scratch.

However, even in these unusual times, planning your home improvements is key to avoiding disappointment.

While Safe Local Trades has members across many disciplines; painting and decorating, plastering, electrician, kitchen / bathroom fitting, carpentry, handyman, carpet / upholstery cleaners, window/ conservatory fitting etc, many are already reporting bookings up until March 2021.

It is the case with many tried and tested traders that they will be busy, so don’t delay in getting in touch to secure a slot. Unfortunately, the majority of professions may not be able to start work within a couple of weeks of your inquiry.

Some projects, like a new kitchen for example, may be subject to a longer lead in time; there is the quote to

agree, designs to finalise, products to order and then securing the availability of a great kitchen-fitter.

Equally, if you are looking to sell • Home security - protect your your home come January, then time property with CCTV or intruder is off the essence if you required surveillance / security alarm some property pick me ups and stay systems / PIR external lighting. ahead of the game. Interestingly, • Garden landscape and according to research, a downstairs maintenance – think ahead to loo, built in storage (like wardrobes the summer months. Give your and cupboards), UPVC double garden a spring makeover and glazing, a lawned garden and get your project booked in now separate shower cubicle rank in to beat the rush. the top five home improvement • Extending your home - whether features to attract buyers. you desire a conservatory to But what do you have planned for relax in or a new home office the New Year? or study.

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• Painting and decorating – make 2021 the year you give your home a bright, fresh look.

NEWS & FEATURES | APPOINTMENT OF NEW RECTOR

Appointment of New Rector We are delighted to announce that the Bishop of Peterborough has invited the Revd Gary Alderson to become Rector of Barnack with Ufford, Bainton, Helpston and Wittering.

Gary is expected to move into the rectory in Barnack in late February, and he will be instituted by the Bishop, probably via Zoom, on Sunday 7 March.

Gary is married to Sharon, and they have two adult sons. He is currently a Self Supporting Minister serving in Northamptonshire. He has been working for many years in the world of retailing, logistics and IT, but now greatly looks forward to taking up this opportunity to engage in full-time parish ministry.

He is really looking forward to taking up his new post and to meeting people in each of the villages.

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PLANS FOR PROTECTION | NHS FRONTLINE

Plans, Procedures and Protection NHS Haematology Specialist Saqib Farooq writes from his Castor home.

Although the indications are that the vaccination process will be elective, I think it’s important that for everyone’s safety we get on board and overcome the bogus anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

To say that 2020 has been the most truly difficult year in living memory would be an understatement for most of us I imagine. COVID-19 has certainly left an emotional and economic impact, but this dreadful virus has brought us together, I’m told, like no other time since the last war. With necessity absolutely the mother of invention, at the time of writing this submission at least three vaccines for COVID19 have passed stage three (trial stage) with over 90% success rate, and over 30 further vaccines currently being developed at stage three. It appears at the end of the Coronavirus tunnel our light of hope draws ever nearer!

This is great news, and our government has responded promptly and agreed to purchase many millions of vaccines from Pfizer and another huge volume of vaccines from AstraZeneca, both which should be available imminently (subject to regulatory approval). Our City Council team and public health has already started planning the vaccination programme roll-out and are putting the infrastructure and resources in place to deliver these vaccines to vulnerable members of our community, scheduled to begin this month. Separately, my immunisation colleagues in the NHS have also started a planned roll out schedule of vaccination to our front-line staff. A massive overall campaign designed to deliver vaccination and protect all of us will be rolled out in the coming months.

There is however a concern among some of my colleagues that a

small minority of our residents may be reluctant to take the vaccine.

Although the indications are that the vaccination process will be elective, I think it’s important that for everyone’s safety we get on board and overcome the bogus anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

The government will drive a campaign to reassure people of all ages this treatment is safe and encourage participation in the nationwide programme. It is also conceivable that businesses will require their employees to come back to work but only once vaccinated. So I really do stress the importance of taking the opportunity to have the procedure when it’s available locally. We all know it has been and will remain a matter of life and death for some people within our elderly and vulnerable groups.

I and many other NHS staff and specialists will be working throughout the festive season, so I hope you wish them well. Our front line will remain committed and firm in its resolve to provide whatever care is needed, however demanding the circumstances. As we reflect and remember the many who have lost their lives during this horrible pandemic I would like to wish all of my fellow Tribland residents a very peaceful and safe festive season and New Year but most especially to our many front line people who do a brilliant job – including bin men, postal workers, council staff, teachers and school staff and many others – for keeping us going during these difficult times.

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ENVIRONMENT | COUNTRY LAD TO AMATEUR ENVIRONMENTALIST

The Amblers in Tribland

by Anne Lees

We are blessed with lots of lovely walks, and to walk with good friends is one of life's pleasures Sheila has summed up perfectly the views of the Amblers, writes Anne Lees. Covid-19 may have put paid to our plans to explore the local countryside as a group, but we have continued to walk on Fridays, alone or in pairs, according to the relevant guidelines, and share our experiences - and photos - via texts.

Locks in Deeping. “There’s so much to notice: the river life, swans, ducks and, if you are lucky, an otter. The views to the other side of the river are fields and hedgerow, providing yet more variety, and as you reach Market Deeping the river may be hidden but there are some lovely buildings to look at instead.”

My resolution (made in 2019), to improve my fitness by walking, is one that I will gladly renew again this year. There is so much more to see! Having shared some wonderful walks over the last 18 months, I asked our members to choose their favourites and, although their answers varied geographically, their reasons for choosing a particular place were fairly consistent: “There is something new to see each time I go”.

Deeping Lakes (or, as Mella describes it, “Paradise”) is popular with many in the group. Gill chose it as one of her favourites: “Every time you turn a corner there are different views to admire, as well as herons, squirrels and birdsong.” Maggie has enjoyed observing the changing seasons there since March: “It’s so green and peaceful, and calming for the soul. I always feel refreshed and uplifted afterwards.”

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There are so many wonderful sights to be enjoyed in Trib’land: starling murmurations at Etton/Maxey pits

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Spending 20 minutes watching the sun go down, observing the changes in colours and light levels, is a good way to ‘be in the moment’ and relax. at dusk; rare sightings of otters playing in local waterways; Grey Heron and Egrets hunting; birds of prey perched in the perfect place to survey their domain; deer and hares in the distance, across fields.

Lucy loves Maxey/Etton pits for their constant variety amidst the changing seasons. Currently, I think it is my favourite too. The mixture of woodland, rivers and Are you making resolutions for 2021? lakes, endless horizons, and You could try adding ‘a regular walk’ the accompanying sounds of birdsong and waterfowl are hard to your list. With sixteen villages to beat. in Trib’land to explore, you will be spoilt for choice. Happy New Year!

Friends have complained that they “never see anything” when they are out. One way to start noticing what is happening around you on a walk is to set yourself a task to find a ‘treasure’ along the way. The smallest stone you can find, maybe, or a feather; an acorn cup, or an empty snail shell. We cannot pick wildflowers but that doesn’t stop us from taking a photograph or

pausing to admire their beauty.

Sunsets can be spectacular at this time of year and are more easily experienced because they happen in late afternoon.

Spending 20 minutes watching the sun go down, observing the changes in colours and light levels, is a good way to ‘be in the moment’ and relax. The warm glow of low-level sunlight on long grasses and autumn leaves is a real delight. And, if you happen to be near water, there is the added bonus of beautiful reflections of orange and pink clouds.

As one year ends and another begins, it is natural to wonder what lies ahead, and to think about making changes to improve our lifestyle, health and well-being. The break from the year that is past somehow brings with it a sense of ‘wiping the slate clean’ and starting afresh, and this year we have to believe that things can only get better!

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THE COMFORT OF NATURE | NEWS & FEATURES

Starling murmuration with Etton church in the background, photo by John Parsonage

Many Trib readers will have spent some time over recent weeks on the Maxey Cut, looking out as the sun fades for the huge flocks of starling that wheel and dance over the pits, creating vast shapes in the sky.

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Richard Astle – Chair, Langdyke Countryside Trust – www.langdyke.org.uk These murmurations are just another of the wonderful sights and sounds of nature right here on our doorstep.

Throughout this difficult year, nature has been a constant source of pleasure and surprise for many of us – offering solace in tough times. Glow worms lit up the Helpston to Maxey Road in July; otters played on the Cut and on the Welland; cuckoos called more noisily for many years and there was even a white-tailed eagle at Castor Hanglands!

We’ve known for a while just how nature can help with our sense of well-being (in fact I would argue

we have always known this, but managed somehow to forget it more recently). There is a famous piece of research that shows that hospital patients with views of trees recover much faster than those without. And GPs and charities across the country are increasingly prescribing time in the country or actively volunteering with nature projects to help people with mental health issues.

But this year seems to have brought that connection with nature even closer to our hearts.

We are very lucky in Tribland to be able to walk out and see such a variety of the natural world close to home.

Perhaps it is time to say thank you? Langdyke and other partners in the John Clare Countryside Partnership are planning to bring all the wonderful work that is being done by the parishes through their nature recovery plans and organise a series of planting days in the spring and autumn – planting trees, hedges and wild flowers that will hopefully thrive for generations across our landscape and be remembered as our “Thank You to Nature”. Already we have a long list of projects, including managing road verges for wildflowers, creating ponds, planting orchards and helping local schools make their grounds more nature friendly.

If you’d like to get involved do email – chair@langdyke.org.uk or if you’re not a member already, why not join Langdyke as a Christmas present or buy a year’s membership for someone you know: https://langdyke.org.uk/welcome-to-langdyke-countyside-trust/about-langdyke/membership/

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HERITAGE | THE PAST YEAR'S PLANTING

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by Greg Prior Tree Officer, PeakirkParish Council

Year's Planting

PAST’s planting team; Autumn 2019.

L-R Greg Prior: Gregg Duggan, David Hankins, the late David Dearman In early November, Peakirk Archaeological Survey Team (PAST) completed our two-year planting programme of over 50 trees and shrubs (according to David Hankins’ count). This entailed restocking the hedgerow along the Peakirk-Glinton Footway and, at Parish Council Chairman Henry Clark’s recommendation, extending the yew and holly scheme along the B1143. The latter section was not for the faint-hearted since we had to contend with cutting back encroaching brambles before the real work could commence. By the time we had firmed in the last shrub, we were very tired and thirsty - until a kindly stranger brought us cans of soft drinks. Whoever you are, your gesture was very much appreciated!

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Sadly, our valued member, David Dearman, passed away in October and will be sorely missed not just for his diligent work but for his gentle company and sense of humour. PAST has placed two memorial plaques beneath the lime trees which he contributed, they will henceforth by known to us as ‘David’s trees’.

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Wild daffodil patch

Protective cages to ward off pests Mature holly September 2020 We would also like to thank Peakirk Parish Council for paying for the hollies and yews and members of PAST who donated blackthorns, birch, field maple, hazel, lime, spindle and walnut saplings. They may have been unwelcome intruders in our gardens but they will enhance the approaches to the village for future generations, so long as we take care of them during their early years.

Greg & Gregg planting a yew, St Pega’s Rd

Peakirk-Footway is becoming increasingly-popular with walkers, so we have planted 50 wild daffodils (Narcissus lobularis) along the grass verge. You will notice that they are protected by chicken-wire to deter squirrels who are notorious for bingeing on bulbs, as I have learnt from past experience. We do know what 2021 has in store for us but we can be certain that our countryside will still there for us to enjoy and will look as beautiful as ever as we watch the seasons change - so long as we look after it properly.

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NORTHBOROUGH | VILLAGE VIEWS

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NORTHBOROUGH We are still meeting by video link for the time being, however, Northborough parish councillors have plenty of projects in progress.

Initiatives like October’s Pumpkin Trail, the lighting of the village Christmas Tree and a visit

by Santa to over 100 homes as Advent began, help bring some normality to village life.

We’re very grateful for everyone who steps forward to help.

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Councillor Rob Chiva

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Councillor Elaine Mann

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Councillor David Aldwinckle

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Councillor Stewart Curtis

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VILLAGE VIEWS | HELPSTON

Helpston Announcements Hilary Dunne, Beaufort Barn, Helpston – died November 2020. She trained as a lawyer and practised in London, before following her heart and concentrating on her painting.

John Dyson, died November 2020 aged 104. John was a Churchwarden at Helpston many years ago.

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HELPSTON | VILLAGE VIEWS

Helpston HelCats

Santa still came to town

Well, Christmas was certainly different this year, like the rest of the year, but it would appear the end of the pandemic is in sight and it won’t be too much longer now before our routines and activities can go back to normal.

Sadly this year, the Helcats, like most organisations have not been able to do as much as we would have liked. However, we are delighted to announce that Santa did still come to town - albeit a little bit different this year.

Best wishes, Emma On behalf of The HelCats

The Helcats sleigh was able to ride around the village, with Santa and his elves waving at the children, and adults alike, wishing them a very merry christmas. It was a festive sight for all to see and brought some cheer to the village.

Santa loved his visit to Helpston so much, that he revisited again, to attend the Helpston Playhouse’s Christmas party -

where he waved to the children through the window and left gifts (that had been in isolation for some time) for the team to distribute to the children.

It is also with great pleasure that we can announce some small donations to local organisations this year. Sadly there are no presentations this year. However, we can announce that Helpston Scout and Guide Association, Friends of John Clare Primary School, Helpston Youngerz and The Friends of Chernobyl’s Children - Helpston Branch, all received donations, these were in addition to the donation to the Village Tribune earlier this year.

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VILLAGE VIEWS | ETTON

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Etton news With the lockdown restrictions we were not able to organise our usual Remembrance event. However, we laid a wreath at 11am on Remembrance Sunday and a number of villagers paid their respect in silence and socially distanced.

Brussels sprouts for Christmas anyone?

Spotted David Rowell bringing home some fine specimens!

On 23 November we held our first funeral in the church during lockdown to celebrate the life of Jack Harris a long-time resident of Etton who died of a heart attack during a short period in respite care. Jack had been ill for a while.

During the service Reverend Mark-Aaron spoke about Jack as a great whistler, who used this skill in his work with livestock.

Jack met Margaret in the Crown pub in Glinton and they lived happily in Etton for 37 years. They loved to travel in their caravan with Amanda and Stephen. Jack was a keen gardener, and with Margaret, always had a great display of flowers and ornaments for passers-by to enjoy.

Numbers at the funeral were limited to 30 and included Graham, Debbie, Gary and Dick from Howe Farm who carried Jack into church, Amanda and Stephen and family and friends from Etton. Our thoughts are with Margaret and the wider family at this sad time.

We have received some good news in respect of our historic heritage building, St Stephen’s.

The Jack Patston trust has awarded us £3000 towards our repair fund.

We have received some good news in respect of our historic heritage building, St Stephen’s. The Jack Patston trust has awarded us £3000 towards our repair fund. This means we are now only £3,600 short of having enough money to order the replacement of the south aisle roof which is leaking badly. There is still a need to raise a further £27,000 to replace the chancel roof, repair the Nave and fix the porch. The bad news is we were not successful in securing a grant from the National Churches Trust but we can apply again in January. We will now go ahead to get a more “permanent“temporary roof for the south aisle, while we try to raise the £3,600.

On 6 December the Christmas tree lights were switched on without the opportunity for a social gathering. Hopefully next year we will be able to celebrate properly again! With thanks to Graham

Smitheringale who supplied and put up the tree with help from Fred Morton and Pat Johnston. Thanks also to Les and Jackie at Pond Cottage for allowing us to use their electricity.

Hopefully, by the time you read this Santa will have visited Etton on his sleigh on 9 December.

The results of the Etton Parish Nature recovery plan survey have now been received; 26 people responded to the survey. Our gardens, Maxey cut and, in the village, were the favourite places to see nature and wildlife. 69% of respondents would like to see wildflower meadows created and 53% wanted to see more nature friendly gardens and hedgerows. There was an even split of species that residents would like to see more of between: hedgehogs, butterflies and wildflowers. 15 people added comments at the end or showed an interest in the project going forward.

Comments included: an environmental talk encouraging/educating villagers to be more eco-friendly; continue to use the churchyard to encourage wildflowers; tidy the orchard space between the church and Rectory Lane to encourage wild flowers; camera traps to catch fly-tippers; creating a village pond; creating thistle free walkways on the bunds; stop cutting the hedgerows at optimum time for blackberries, hips and haws; plant spring bulbs on the village green and roadside verges. There is plenty to include in the plan going forward and there will be lots of opportunities to get involved in the project. The next step is to complete a survey of the village land to identify what we already have to encourage nature. Thank you for all the valuable contributions so far.

Season's greetings.

AILSWORTH | VILLAGE VIEWS

Cllr Michael Samways on behalf of Ailsworth Parish Council

COUNCIL CORNER

AILSWORTH

News from Ailsworth Parish Council As one of the new villages on the Tribland block we’re pleased to take this opportunity to update villagers on what’s been happening at Ailsworth Parish Council and introduce ourselves to the wider readership.

The Parish Council meet on the third Monday of the month, usually at the Methodist Chapel on Main Street, though for the past several months at virtual Parish Council Meetings on Zoom.

I was pleased to see the Christmas decorations back up on the Ailsworth Green earlier today.

This year more than ever it has been wonderful to see the village post box and green change with the seasons. It is a timely reminder in these difficult times of just how lucky we are to live in such a close and caring community.

At our most recent meeting on the 16 November a wide range of topics and issues were discussed by councillors. These included planning applications and preparing for our forthcoming joint community meeting with Castor Parish Council where a joint approach to issues and projects affecting both parishes are discussed.

Details of all our Parish Council meetings are on our website at www. ailsworthparishcouncil.org.uk and get regular updates by following our Facebook page.

We currently have a vacancy for a Parish Councillor so if you have an interest in getting involved in community events and projects as well as attending our monthly meetings we’d be glad to hear from you.

Ailsworth Recreation Ground is a key asset for our community and we are keen to look at projects to improve facilities and update equipment at ‘the rec’. When the weather and the public health restrictions are more favourable we are hoping to get out and engage with users to get your views on what we should do.

As some of our parish forms part of the Nene Park Rural Estate we were pleased to hear of Nene Park Trusts plans to improve the land management practices on the estate.

It’s great to see rare breed sheep are already back on parts of Normangate Field. We would remind all those that use the footpaths around the village to always keep dogs on leads around livestock. Ailsworth Parish Council meets regularly with Nene Park Trust and will keep you updated with joint projects and progress towards our Parish Recovery Plan.

Over the last few weeks as the dark nights have drawn in, we have regrettably seen an increase in incidents of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour in the village.

It is very important to report these incidents to the Police’s nonemergency number (101) or let a Parish Councillor know so it can be reported. If the Police don’t know there are problems they can’t do anything about it! Ailsworth Parish Council try to meet regularly with the Community Police team for our area.

Finally, as I write this, I was pleased to see the Christmas decorations back up on the Ailsworth Green earlier today. This year more than ever it has been wonderful to see the village post box and green change with the seasons. It is a timely reminder in these difficult times of just how lucky we are to live in such a close and caring community. A big thank you on behalf of the village to the volunteers for their hard work to bring a smile to people’s faces!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Ailsworth Parish Council.

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GLINTON | VILLAGE VIEWS

COUNCIL CORNER

GLINTON Cllr John F W Holdich OBE

The Examiner recommended that the neighbourhood plan proceed to referendum, subject to certain modifications being made. PCC agrees with this decision.

GLINTON PARISH COUNCIL Enquiries - E: clerk@glintonparishcouncil.org.uk

www.glintonparishcouncil.org.uk Cllr JFW Holdich OBE - Chairman Cllr RW Johnson - Vice Chairman Cllr DJ Batty Cllr CB Bysshe Cllr DJ Lane Cllr Gerry Kirt Cllr RW Randall Cllr PD Skinner Cllr E Spendelow Cllr. Jeff Bell Cllr. C J Wilde Mr J Haste - Clerk

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I know many of you are struggling with the Glinton Surgery being closed. I have written to the Practice Manager with your concerns, asking when the surgery might be available to us again.

Peterborough City Council received the Examiner's Report on the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan in November 2020.

PCC has now considered the Examiner's Report and issued a Decision Statement. These documents, along with all other documents relevant to the Glinton Neighbourhood Plan, can be found on our Neighbourhood Planning page (under 'Submitted Neighbourhood Plans').

In summary, the Examiner recommended that the neighbourhood plan proceed to referendum, subject to certain modifications being made. PCC agrees with this decision.

Looking for a part-time job, or are at a loose end? Sam the gardener, who has been keeping the Rectory Lane cemetery groomed for the last 4 years, for which we thank him, is retiring on 31 March 2021, so the Parish Council is looking, hopefully for a local person, to take over.

We have not been able to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day , so the council has decided to replace the dead oak tree in the Play Park with another oak tree, and dedicate it to VE Day. The Welmore Road bench has been installed and dedicated to the memory of Dave Wragg, who did so much for our village.

Our Parish Clerk, John Haste, is moving house. Until he gets settled, you can still contact him by email clerk@glintonparishcouncil.org.uk.

PEAKIRK VILLAGE HALL Strength! Core! Conditioning!

Every Tuesday night starting 5 Jan 2021, this class will help weight loss, mobility and all over body tone.

GLINTON VILLAGE HALL Starting in Jan every Wednesday night, this is an all over body workout in a safe environment. So come along

and make friends, have fun and get strong!

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The virtual switch-on of the Glinton Christmas tree lights took place on the 3 December, which has been recorded, and can be viewed on the Church website. Thanks to Leigh Titman and his team for organising and erecting the tree again. On 2 December, our city centre lights were switched on virtually and has had 40,000 people view this on the Net. You can see this by accessing the City Council’s Youtube page.

The memorial bench near the village pump is very well used and the area around it has become uneven, and the Parish Council are dealing with it.

I am sure that 2021 will see us getting back to more like normal. Here’s hoping we can have a great New Year.

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Glinton FriendshipClub Best wishes, Barbara Holdich

3 January

Happy 100th Birthday

Nina Vergette

Well, 2020 will soon be past, with all its trials and tribulations, and I would like to wish you all, especially our Glinton Friendship Club members and helpers, a happy and very healthy 2021.

I have been so pleasantly surprised by the number of people who put up their Christmas decorations early, and the wonderful outdoor displays which really lifted our spirits, throughout our lovely villages in particular.

to see what the situation is then. It will have been a whole year closed in March, and I know how much you are missing being able to come, but better safe than sorry.

For those who have suffered illness or bereavement, let us all pray that 2021 brings new beginnings.

On a happy note, one of our members will be celebrating a very special birthday on 3 January; it is Nina Vergette, and she will be 100 years old!

With stringent restrictions still in place, the re-opening of our Club is still on hold, and we will have to wait until spring

What a wonderful achievement, and if someone is reading this to you Nina, we wish you a very special day.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS We’re so lucky to have grandchildren, Two girls, then three boys, And each and every one of them Give us so many joys.

To start with, nappies, bottles, hugs, Then soon, rag books and Tommy Tippee mugs!

Before you know, they’re toddling And simply into everything!

The years pass, dolls and dinky toys, Playdoh, painting and footballs for the boys.

Then off to school and studying books – No more going to feed the ducks!

Now it’s stunt scooters, bikes and one car!

Three out of five are taller, by far!

Boys studying, Xboxes, out with their mates; The girls are a long time out of the school gates!

Now we are older we think of those days.

The pleasure they give us will always amaze.

Be it happiness, laughter, troubles or strife, We’re blessed to be part of our family’s life.

In Memory The family of Peter Lake are saddened to announce his passing on Monday 9 November. Peter died peacefully in his sleep and was well known for helping organise whist drives at Glinton Village Hall.

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BAINTON & ASHTON - VILLAGE VIEWS

COUNCIL CORNER

BAINTON & ASHTON

Chairman - Susie Lucas 01780 740159 susie.hall34@gmail.com Responsible for: Parish Council Liaison Group, HR, New Projects

Councillors: Anita Phillips 01780 749128 anita@ruizuk.co.uk Responsible for: HR, Planning, Way Warden / Good Neighbour Scheme Cliff Stanton 01780 749123 Cliffstanton@btinternet.com Responsible for: Police, Neighbourhood Watch, Speedwatch, Village Assets and Maintenance, Parish Council Liaison Group Pete Charlton 07850 657200 petecharlton@me.com Responsible for: Financial Overview, Data Protection Chris Womack 01780 740925 womackuk@gmail.com Responsible for: New Projects, Data Protection, Barnack Ward Group Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer - Jenny Rice bainton.ashton.clerk@live.co.uk

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Spike Milligan Many thanks to Jeff Bell for reminding us what a wonderful poet we once had in Spike Milligan - here is one of his works, very 'appropriate' in these difficult times!

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Smiling is infectious You catch it like the flu When someone smiled at me today I started smiling too I walked around the corner And someone saw me grin When he smiled I realised I had passed it on to him I thought about the smile And realised its worth A single smile like mine Could travel round the earth So if you feel a smile begin Don’t leave it undetected

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Wittering Exercise Swift Pirate returned to RAF Wittering during November and we are happy to welcome the Rapid Reaction Force 16 Air Assault Brigade.

Brilliant work as usual from the Air Transport Fleet from RAF Brize Norton and the Movers from No 1 Air Mobility Wing.

RAF Wittering

Glinton Gift Bank I have been blown away by the generosity. So many gifts have been donated & I am having to empty the box regularly. However, we still has no nominated families to give the gifts to.

Please don’t feel you have to donate in order to name a family that could benefit. You could also name more than one family. Just leave their details in the special mini postbox in the chemist.

Gilly Drinkwater

PEAKIRK PARISH COUNCIL

For all Peakrik news, minutes and agendas visit: www.peakirkvillage.co.uk

Chair: Henry Clark 253203 cllr.h.clark@eclipso.eu 253483 Vice-Chair: Sally-Ann Jackson sajackson186@gmail.com 252200 Emma Crowson peakirk.cllrcrowson@gmail.com 254227 David Fovargue peakirk.cllrfovargue@gmail.com Contact via the clerk Greg Prior Anne Tuley 254114 peakirk.cllrtuley@gmail.com Gary Wright 252268 peakirk.cllrwright@gmail.com 253397 Clerk: Angela Hankins clerk@peakirk-pc.gov.uk

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VILLAGE VIEWS - WRITE AWAY

Living Advent Calendar Helpston villagers are setting aside the chocolate and taking their Advent calendar experience to a new level with a Living Advent Calendar.

Every night at 6pm throughout December, a new illuminated Christmas themed window will be unveiled somewhere in the village for some festive community cheer. Families and individuals will be able to wander around at their leisure to enjoy all 24 windows throughout December. The final window on Christmas Eve will be unveiled at St Botolph’s Church, Helpston at 6pm where you’ll be able to participate in some outdoors socially distanced carol singing. This event will all be within safe and practical guidelines, so let’s all look forward to some festive community loveliness in December. The location of the windows will be available on the Helpston Community Facebook page. A map and list of locations will be available from outside 16 Glinton Road, Helpston from the end of November.

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Peakirk Book Store Peakirk Book Stop is over flowing with books if anyone is short of anything to read... You can find it in the bus stop in Peakirk.

Heather Revell

Kingfisher A shot of a Kingfisher from a short walk on the river, got into a better ie closer position and he shot off as usual.

Dave Radcliffe

Tribland walk Inspired phone photo today from our Tribland walk after the torrential rain this morning. Just love being here in the countryside to enjoy these walks with management. Clears lungs and head.

Love where you live!

Peter Hiller

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Digital age has brought many advantages to the photographer, you might think this would have spelled the end for black and white photography, but it has made possible for photographers of all levels to achieve fantastic results with almost greater ease than the old ways of working in a darkroom. >>

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A computer screen does not have the mystery of the dark room or the magic of the chemical alchemy of the printing process, watching an image appear on the paper in the chemicals in the developing bath was, and still is, totally magic.

Humans have had a desire to make pictures from stone age man onwards , instead of cold dark caves to exhibit their pictures we have warm light caves called homes, but the basics have not changed. We like to show our work to others though not for the same ideals.

It is a trap easily fallen into. I have been there. I used to wonder 'will he, she, they, anybody like it?' Now, if I like it, even if it is technically wrong, not quite there, well, I will go with the famous quote 'publish and be damned'.

Black and white photography is where it all started, from FoxTalbot and Daguerre it has grown exponentially, B&W photography has a beauty and subtlety that for me colour can not match. It has an unrivalled grittiness and punch that colour can not match and yet can be soft and artistic such as the landscape images of Ansel Adams.

Until the present age of 24hour news and social media B&W had been the preferred tool/medium of the photojournalist.

One great exponent of this is Sir Don McCullin whose images I greatly admire.

Personally B&W photography is one of my most favorite forms of photography, and I could prattle on about it for ages, but having limited space I will reign myself in.

I think B&W lends itself to all forms of photography, from street to landscape via portraiture, still life and documentary, it make you think more about the images that you see, possibly the absence of colour takes the distraction away from the eye and lets your brain go to task on the image. It seems to bring to life an image often giving it more character and depth.

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As we don’t shoot film anymore, we either set up our digital camera or smartphone in a B&W mode or convert the images, via the processing software of our choice to B&W. There are many many editing programmes out there, from the manufacturers software to free apps and programmes that you pay for either by subscription or as a one off payment.

You pay your money, or not and you take your pick. One app I will recommend though is Snapseed.

This is for mobile platforms and is free from the app store of your choice,it is excellent!

One thing I must stress is this; when you look at an image you have created ask yourself do YOU like it?

This is what matters the most not what other people may think, you are the creator of that image you may not be able to say exactly why you like it but you do and that is all that matters, do not be swayed by detractors, you have made that image for a reason and you like it do not be swayed by others.

It is a trap easily fallen into. I have been there. I used to wonder 'will he, she, they, anybody like it?' Now, if I like it, even if it is technically wrong, not quite there, well, I will go with the famous quote 'publish and be damned'.

Shooting for a commission I may add is very different but that is not the gist of this piece.

So then folks, go out there have a play do your best do you worst but always remember if you like it that is all that matters.

Don’t forget you can always post your images on the Village Tribune pages of Facebook for those inclined.

Happy Snapping The Bainton Snapper

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NEWS & FEATURES | GARDEN VIEW

If I say ‘winter garden’ what do you imagine? A stately home?

Evergreen shrubs? Topiary maybe?

Garden View: This Month – The Winter Garden

By Rachael Leverton

It dawned on me a few years ago when I was out walking the dog on a frosty morning that winter gardens are really all about the light. From late autumn through the winter there is a pink-gold low slanting light in the morning and afternoon which makes frost and raindrops sparkle, casts interesting shadows and makes everything look magical.

Watch your garden throughout the day from the rooms you where you see it best. Watch where and when the sunlight falls and plan accordingly.

Grasses look beautiful when they are covered in frost and backlit.

The red or yellow winter stems of Cornus (or dogwood) however seem to glow when winter sunshine illuminates them directly.

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from the house so it’s important to choose plants which look good in more than one season.

As well as shrubs with good stem colour, look for smaller trees with pretty bark. There are plenty of small Japanese Maples which can be grown in tubs. If you have a little more space a silver birch can look stunning, or even my favourite, the paper-bark maple, Acer griseum, which is a slowgrowing small tree, pretty all year round with crimson leaves in the autumn then a characteristic chestnut bark which peels naturally to reveal bright orange red bark underneath.

Look for plants with architectural shapes such as one of the sculptural eryngiums (sea holly), salvias or sedums. All look beautiful in the summer and autumn but gain a second lease

of life when covered with frosted cobwebs.

Plants like these will make you want to get out in your garden even in winter, so add a little scent with a winter jasmine or a sarcococca confusa (Christmas box) which has tiny white highly scented flowers. These late flowering plants provide a source of nectar for early pollinators.

I no longer tidy my flower beds.

I leave piles of fallen leaves and debris in beds to provide shelter for wildlife. The leaves to rot down in the end which is good for the soil too. But I do spend time neatening the edge of the lawn and sharpening the edges of my borders. It’s amazing how much smarter my garden looks with minimal effort.

I wish you a Happy New Year and happy gardening.

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The Highways service provided by Peterborough City Council has, for some years now, been rated highly by both industry professionals and other local authorities, who recognise our higher level of efficiencies.

Cllr Peter Hiller – Glinton and Castor ward, Peterborough City Council

Our teams really do appreciate your understanding of some of the issues they face on these schemes and why, on occasion, lane closures are necessary for both personnel safety and network standards compliance as the work progresses.

So much so that we actually sell our professional services to other authorities and generate much needed additional income for our council’s front line services. The Peterborough Highway Services partnership we created seven years ago with global firm Skanska has improved the management and competency of what we do and introduced technologically innovative ways of implementing the services we provide, keeping Peterborough as one of the measurably fastest commute times of any city in the UK. As the PCC cabinet member with strategic responsibility for our highways service over the last ten years or so I’ve immensely proud to be part of the team who are responsible for the maintenance, improvement and winter service of our city’s 550 miles of carriageway, 718 miles of footways and many structures and bridges. During the last decade we’ve successfully completed many large and complex infrastructure improvement schemes across our roads’ network to facilitate our city’s growth and increase the capacity of our junctions, roundabouts and parkway system. In doing so we’ve made the original 1970’s ‘New Town’ network sustainable for the hugely increased 2020 traffic volumes, unimaginable some fifty years ago when they were created.

The Fix My Street app we’ve created also works well as a direct fault reporting system and it’s customer-friendly, so I do urge residents to download and use it.

It’s not always a smooth process however and on occasions our engineering teams do incur scheme schedule delays due to unplanned additional rectification

of poor original construction practice, unknown third party underground services needing repair and redirecting and time consuming bureaucracy when dealing with other agencies like Highways England during a project.

The recent J18 (A47/A15) ‘Rhubarb Bridge’ capacity-increase scheme was a case in point. What should have been a relatively straightforward, albeit large, civil engineering full bridge repair, lanes increase, at-grade signalised crossings installation and lighting upgrades scheme incurred unavoidable delays due to all of the above, and more!

Our teams really do appreciate your understanding of some of the issues they face on these schemes and why, on occasion, lane closures are necessary for both personnel safety and network standards compliance as the work progresses. All the more rewarding for them then when the industry’s annual benchmark-setting survey by the eminent National Highways and Transport Network (NHT) has, for the last three years, placed Peterborough the top local authority service in the East of England for customer satisfaction.

It gets better though - this year (2020) we’ve been ranked the best Highways Service in the country! Testament to the dedication and hard work of our highways and transport teams who help ensure that residents, visitors, commuters and businesses can travel swiftly and safely across Peterborough.

I’m rightly proud of course but during the next 12 months I will make sure we continue to listen to the residents across Peterborough and our rural areas to keep our service the best we can deliver.

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ENVIRONMENT | COUNTRY LAD TO AMATEUR ENVIRONMENTALIST

From Trib Country Lad Tribune Land has been my playground, my classroom, my work place and my home for my 47 years. Forty seven I hear you say ‘you are nowt but a Pup’ and compared to some village stalwarts this would undoubtedly be true. Many of our villages have families which descend several generations back into the local area (mine included).

John Parsonage

I observed all the other life in the ditch from Dragon Fly larvae, Fresh Water Shrimps to Water Voles. As I got older, I shot the Rats (and sadly Sparrows) in the garden with an air gun.

Later it was Rabbits and Pheasants. We built dens, climbed trees, lit fires along with a multitude of other things.

This social history is as diverse, varied and colourful as the landscape we have around us from limestone heath, ancient woodland, gravel pits, farmland and out onto the flat open Fens with their slow moving rivers and man made dykes and drains. Successive generations have walked, worked, inhabited and left their impression on this rich and varied landscape from Neolithic hunters to modern man.

Growing up in the local area to me was a great big adventure. Having an unconventional upbringing with my elderly Grandparents allowed me a great amount of freedom throughout my childhood. I and my older siblings didn’t have a great deal materialistically but we had untold love, care and attention bestowed upon us. The other thing we never went without was wholesome home cooked food and discipline. The latter though didn’t always stop me, as being the youngest from doing things I shouldn’t! Luckily for me there wasn’t the technology to record my misdemeanours.

As a child I caught Sticklebacks from the drainage ditch by the bucket full and kept them in old galvanised bath tubs. In doing so I observed all the other life in the ditch from Dragon Fly larvae, Fresh Water Shrimps to Water Voles. As I got older, I shot the Rats (and sadly Sparrows) in the garden with

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an air gun. Later it was Rabbits and Pheasants. We built dens, climbed trees, lit fires along with a multitude of other things.

Once I had the freedom of a bicycle my friends and I explored further afield. Many days were spent fishing various local waters (with and without permission).

Hours were spent in and around Maxey Quarries. We put bread between our toes and let the newly stocked carp suck it off.

We teased Crayfish from their burrows by aggravating them with sticks. In winter we played on the ice (with hindsight sheer childish stupidity) and in Summer we ran around on the baked hard sand in the silt pit until we cracked the crust and dared each other to stay on the quicksand the longest. Another one was to climb the gravel sorting towers and jump into the piles of sand and gravel below (again sheer stupidity). Another haunt was Lolham or Nine Bridges where we would dam the tunnels with stones and then stuff the upstream side crevices with blanket weed. This diverted the flow of water and made it possible to hunt and catch the Eels and Bullheads / Millers Thumbs on the downstream side.

As adults today we would be horrified at the thought of some of these shenanigans but looking

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As adults today we would be horrified at the thought of some of these shenanigans but looking back it also taught us children a great deal.

It taught us about risk, danger wildlife and the environment around us.

It taught us teamwork and the value of friendships. Observation, stealthfulness, resourcefulness, imagination, respect, achievement were also valuable learned lessons.

back it also taught us children a great deal. It taught us about risk, danger wildlife and the environment around us. It taught us teamwork and the value of friendships.

Observation, stealthfulness, resourcefulness, imagination, respect, achievement were also valuable learned lessons. Many of these things could be applied to our adult lives and education.

Education to me came fairly easy but it certainly wasn’t something I enjoyed. I would look longingly out of the window planning my next fishing trip or escape into the wide outdoors but finally through trial and error and some effort I managed to obtain my GSCEs and A levels and in time a BSc Hons.

So what has all this got to do with Tribune Land and the environment I hear you ask. Well my degree was in Landscape and Amenity Management. This encompasses a wide range of subjects from the management of parks and gardens, to pure Horticulture, Forestry, Sports Turf and a multitude of other subjects. Above all though it allowed me to work outside in an environment which I could relate to.

An environment which Trib Land had provided and an environment which I understood and valued. My efforts were channelled into landscaping, firstly for a local business and then for the last 17 yrs as a self employed contractor. Probably for the first ten of these I strived for tidiness, order and perfection (OCD’s can be awkward to live with!) Much of this was directed towards the grounds of the property in which I had grown up but also demanded by many customers. One day however something started to dawn on me and this something was the thought or observation that I wasn’t seeing the amount of wildlife I did as a child growing up in the same location / area!? This one thought has undoubtedly changed the way I now think, how I try to live my life and how I see and approach the wider environment. I would like to think it has allowed me to use my childhood and community knowledge along with my education to better the local environment. In subsequent articles I hope to look at Owls, Otters, Litter, Taxidermy, Wildlife Gardening and Shifting Baseline Syndrome but for now I’m being drawn to the view from the window!....

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Christmas sheep move at Barnack Hills and Holes It feels strange to be writing about Christmas, when it seems like yesterday that I was fixing gaps in the Barnack Hills and Holes fence line in my shorts.

Well at the time of writing the Christmas holidays are about 4-5 weeks away.

Currently our mixed flock of Highland and Herdwick sheep are in CP2, the compartment nearest to the main car park. With the expected upsurge in Christmas visitors, we have decided to move the flock back into CP1 (south-west corner of the reserve) for the period of the holidays. CP1 is the only compartment with no direct access from a car park. Moving the flock will facilitate visitor access and afford some more protection to the sheep.

This is the 3rd winter the flock has grazed the site and some of the older ewes are getting very tame, even approaching one to have their noses scratched. Although tempting, please don’t feed the sheep anything as they are effectively a tool for grazing down coarse and removing nutrients from the site. Feeding only distracts from their task and adds nutrients to the site, which we definitely do not want. The orchids and the Pasque flower only thrive in a nutrient deficient habitat.

Finally we have listened to your feed-back and tried to improve our signage around the site and inform you of the flocks movements in advance. We have had no major incidents of sheep worrying so far this season and wish to the thank everyone for their support and co-operation. I must re-iterate that the compartment which houses the sheep is out of bounds to dogs, whether on a lead or not.

Under the CROW (country side rights of way act) we have obtained an exemption making it a criminal offence to enter this compartment with a dog. If you witness any sheep worrying or attacks please dial 999 immediately.

Government guidelines permitting, please continue to enjoy and absorb nature, we are privileged to have some wonderful sites in the immediate area. The changing seasons on a crisp autumn day can be a great time to explore.

Have a great Christmas and maybe see you around the Hills & Holes. Keep safe.

Steve Bighi, NE warden, Barnack Hills & Hollows

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ENVIRONMENT | NINE BRIDGES

Nine Bridges From 'A Topography of the Lower Welland Valley Villages' (in revision)

by Robert Beasley robertbeasley155@btinternet.com

Perhaps it was the floods of this year that interrupted travel between Glinton and Northborough enough for the cost of a causeway to be considered. Ordnance Survey maps suggest that the causeway was built from B1 to B2 between 1885 and 1892

Drawn seven years after the 1756 'Market Deeping to Peterborough Westgate; Lincoln Heath' Turnpike Act, John Featherstone’s map of 1763 is the first to show a road on the modern line between Glinton and Northborough marked as the “High Road to Bourne”.

Rivers flowed between the villages at this time through an area called 'The Meadows' that combined into a single course just before the road.

The Meadows were bounded to the north and south by low medieval earth banks (dotted yellow above).

After the 1819 Enclosure, the meadows rivers were corralled behind two new banks which formed the north bank of the north drain and the south bank of the south drain, and two bridges B1 and B2 were built over the new drains.

Between the bridges new roads were constructed to the west to Etton (Etton Road) and to the east towards Peakirk (Mile Drove).

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The broad road between the new bridges was called “Bridge Road” but it could become impassable whenever the rivers were in flood.

1872 was a particularly bad year with floods in April, November and December. Of the December flood, it was said: 'The Welland rose so high that the low-lying thoroughfares near the river were flooded, and a very large tract of land in the Welland valley was inundated'.

Perhaps it was the floods of this year that interrupted travel between Glinton and Northborough enough for the cost of a causeway to be considered. Ordnance Survey maps suggest that the causeway was built from B1 to B2 between 1885 and 1892.

The new causeway B3 consisted of seven new bridges, four of three arches, one of two and two of one arch. In total, including the existing north and south drain bridges, the causeway then formed nine groups as follows: from north to south:-

NINE BRIDGES | ENVIRONMENT

1. North Drain bridge 1 arch (original 1819 Enclosure bridge) 2. Single arch bridge 1 arch 3. Triple arch bridge 3 arches 4. Triple arch bridge 3 arches 5. Triple arch bridge 3 arches 6. Two arch bridge 2 arches 7. Triple arch bridge 3 arches 8. Single arch bridge 1 arch 9. South Drain bridge 1 arch (original 1819 Enclosure bridge) When the causeway was built, ‘Bridge Road’ was rebuilt from bridge B1 down to the Etton road but it seems that the path from the junction up to bridge B2 remained just a ‘footway’. This footway was still in evidence with a metalled surface in the 1970s.

A 1923 flood caused the eastern parapet of the southern flank of the structure to collapse and the causeway had to be closed to traffic until repairs were completed

by R.S Jellings in February 1924 at a cost of some £2,000

Northborough historian Bobby Layen uncovered records showing that three years after the 1912 flood, all the arches were concreted and two of the main arches repaired.

A 1923 flood caused the eastern parapet of the southern flank of the structure to collapse and the causeway had to be closed to traffic until repairs were completed by R.S Jellings in February 1924 at a cost of some £2,000. In the meantime, traffic was diverted down the ‘footway’ and along Bridge Road and up and over the north drain bridge. Some emergency repairs had to be made to this route to cater for the increased traffic.

While now allowing interrupted road travel, the construction of the causeway still allowed the rivers to flood between the 1819 Enclosure banks and this meant that large tracts of valuable farmland were still at risk, to say nothing of Etton Road and Mile drove being submerged.

This situation continued for about another sixty-nine years until the floods of 1947 caused action to be taken. Additional banks began to be built soon after 1954 to corral most of the water into the North Drain – now called the Maxey Cut. This allowed river levels to rise and increased flow without endangering nearby land. Etton road was diverted slightly and brought up to the main road outside the new banks so that both this road and Mile Drove were no longer at risk of flooding.

The repair work in 1923-4 also included levelling out the ‘switchback’ over the bridges and the road was metalled at the same time, kerbs installed, and a path created on the eastern side.

The opportunity was also taken to protect the causeway structure by removing the telegraph poles and placing them on the land alongside.

In June,1925 a tender for £300 10s

by Messrs Hodgson and Son was accepted for the erection of palisade fencing. The structure was again in need of repair in September 1930 when a tender by D Crowson and Sons for £404 14s was accepted for the work. In 2010, the palisade railings were removed and replaced with crash barriers and wooden fencing. This work disturbed the southeast flank of the causeway which had to be rebuilt again.

The picture of floods in 1912 (top left) taken from the 1819 south bank looking northeast shows bridge B2 in the foreground and two cyclists on the footway. Note the telegraph poles and the ‘switchback’ nature of the road over the bridges, possibly caused by subsidence. Locals would have noticed the addition of the seven new bridges to the two existing and no doubt this gave rise to the ‘Nine Bridges’ name.

The strategy of ‘canalising’ the river to form the Maxey Cut seems to have worked, as no floods have occurred in the area since the banks were built. However, there have been several instances in recent decades when water levels have reached the top of the Maxey Cut banks. Whether the bank heights will be maintained to cope with the additional flood risks caused by global warming is a moot point.

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TASTE BUDS | CHEZ PIERRE

‘Alo to all you good people in your Tribune villages from Chez Pierre I hope you are well during these very strange times and I hope also you are cooking and eating well, non? For this issue I ask you all if you thought there was no way you could turn the humble sausage into a sophisticated dish well, frankly, you maybe wrong.

Saucisse Provence from the kitchen of

This sausage and lentil stew is good on our menu here at CP and is elegant enough to serve at one of your posh village dinner parties but is still warm and comforting enough to scoffing from a bowl in front of the TV. The basic dish originated during the early 19th century from the beautiful village of Ménerbes in the Provence region of France as a cheap but very appetising way of using all the tough cuts of meat which were minced and used to create rustic home-made sausages.

It was hugely enjoyed at Maison de la Truffe et du Vin du Luberon by your English author Peter Mayle, who ate it there regularly

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and was inspired to write his popular novels about Provence whilst living in the village. More famously perhaps was Picasso, who also lived here and is reputed to have loved the recipe so much he painted it in many of his works.

It is also said if you look closely at his more abstract paintings what are thought might be arms and legs are in fact depictions of sausages from his stew that day… So, good people of Tribland villages you can cook this fine fare easily and produce a feast fit for one of the most notable artists the world has known!

Over many years it remained pretty-much

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Ingredients for four: 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 150g cooking bacon, diced; 12 good sausages; 2 onions and a large stick of celery roughly chopped; 1 large carrot, chopped into small pieces; 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 3 sprigs fresh rosemary, 300g Puy lentils; 650ml/1½pts hot chicken stock; 200ml red wine; 2 tbsp tomato puree; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 400g can chopped tomatoes; 2 tbsp chopped flatleaf parsley; green winter salad with a mustardy dressing, to serve

unchanged due to its popularity, but from humble peasant fare origins it was popularised in the local bistros and it has become now familiar with the finest restaurants in Provence – often served with an edible flower perched atop half a sausage cut diagonally on a fancy splodge of lentils, at up to €100 !! Madness.

When you make yours do try to get your hands on some good-quality sausages and make sure to use Puy lentils as they hold their shape far better than other varieties. The kind of sausage I use varies widely depending on where I am when I make this stew. In France I will most probably use Provencal French garlic sausages but here in the UK I buy Italian sausages from The Pasta Shop, in Fletton or I will use a Cumberland type and up the garlic accordingly.

Method: STEP 1 - Heat the oil in a large casserole or very large sauté pan with a lid. Add the pancetta and sausages and sizzle for 10 minutes, turning the sausages occasionally until nicely browned and sticky.

Scoop the sausages out on to a plate.

STEP 2 - Add the onions, celery, carrot and garlic to the pancetta and continue to cook for 3-4 minutes until the onions soften.

Return the sausages to the pan and add the rosemary, tomato puree, lentils, stock, wine, vinegar and tomatoes, then season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer rapidly for 5 minutes, then lower the heat, cover and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring every so often until the lentils are tender. (It can now be chilled and frozen, if you are preparing ahead as we often do, for up to 1 month.)

Check the seasoning, scatter over the parsley and serve from the pan with French bread and a winter leaf salad or sauteed potatoes maybe?

Regarding wines to enjoy, I would most likely recommend a hearty red Fronsac from Bordeaux or, to be authentic to the dish, maybe a wonderful Bandol or a more commonly found Luberon.

Exquisite.

PS – To Mrs A from Castor. Thank you for your emailed kind words regarding last issue’s recipe I’m very happy you and your family enjoyed the cassoulet you created by yourself. Your husband’s subsequent dumping of your stash of Dolmio jars of gloop is not uncommon I have to tell you.

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FRIENDS OF CHERNOBYL'S CHILDREN | YOUNG TRIBUNE

Friends of Chernobyl's Children As soon as it is safe we will be ready to bring the children to Helpston again and to visit them in Belarus.

We are with them in spirit and plans are afoot!

I woke up on Friday, which is the day that Morag Sweeney and I should have been flying to Belarus to visit the Chernobyl families, to take food parcels, clothing, warm boots and other aid, to spend time with these marginalised families. We had packed bags many months back ready for our charity visit. It felt such a sad day, as we all know, those in the poorest situations are generally the ones who suffer most in this terrible global pandemic. I know that there are many families who depend on us that we are powerless to help right now. However, we all find our inner strength to carry on, to plan for when we can step back into our charitable roles and once more bring help and kindness to our Chernobyl families. As soon as it is safe we will be ready to bring the children to Helpston again and to visit them in Belarus. We are with you in spirit and plans are afoot!

Thinking back to last year, we delivered food parcels to about 60 families, every family receiving a good amount of staples, plus yoghurts, cake, biscuits and sweets much to the joy and excitement of the children. Bags ripped apart by children who simply can’t

believe their eyes. Of course I will be doing a big appeal for people to sponsor food parcels, the minute we are able to! It is an exhausting but fulfilling 9 days. We take so many clothes, toothpaste and toothbrushes, vitamins, toys and teddies etc.

Many of the families we visit live in very crowded conditions, sometimes in hostels with one room with one kitchen shared by up to 20 families. Last year we gave out precious slow cookers, which enabled hostel families to cook in their rooms and to keep their food safe. For another family we were able to pay for the children’s school dinners, not very expensive, but beyond the reach of this family.

It is such a joy to help these children, to help the families to become stronger and more capable. So many fridges filled.

We all long for the days when we can all get back to what we do best. It gives us a sense of purpose and satisfaction to know that there are children with food in their tummies and clothes on their backs as a result of the kindness of our community. We are not collecting clothes at present but will let you know as soon as we are ready to do so again. Please do keep any warm coats for when we are open.

Thank you to everyone who has helped change the lives of the Chernobyl Children and we look forward to the next charity summer visit.

Cecilia Hammond: focc_helpston@msn.com or 07779 264591

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Helpston Playhouse

Preschool & Out of School Club We have had a colourful and creative few weeks in the Playhouse. The children have produced some spectacular firework pictures and discussed the importance of firework safety. As well as having had the opportunity to explore Diwali the Festival of Lights.

Children in the Out of School Club have enjoyed a vast range of activities over the past few weeks from creating salt dough Diva lamps, experimenting with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to create their own firework bag of explosions ...

During Road Safety week the Playhouse was buzzing with excitement with a vast range of vehicle inspired play. From building on our number recognition through matching numbered cars to the numbered car park space to developing our cutting skills by cutting around different vehicles and a very tough lettuce! The children thoroughly enjoyed Road Safety Week especially when they played the traffic light game.

Helpston Shop which has been extremely busy with lots of customers and staff.

The children have thoroughly enjoyed taking on the different roles in our shop.

Our wonderful Forest School has been a hive of activity and discussion through talking about how to look after the animals, insects, and birds.

Feeding them, finding them homes and hibernation. We hope our garden birds will enjoy the children’s Cheerios Christmas wreaths this winter.

Children in the Out of School Club have enjoyed a vast range of activities over the past few weeks from creating salt dough Diva lamps and experimenting with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to create their own firework bag of explosions as well as making some delicious coconut laddo, a traditional Diwali sweet treat and so much more.

Their imaginative play has benefited from our very own

Along with performing a fantastic puppet show of The Billy Goats Gruff and enjoying the classic stories of The Three Little Pigs and The Gingerbread Man. The children cannot wait to bake some delicious gingerbread men soon!

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FARM FOCUS | ROSEMARY'S FARMING DIARY

Rosemary’s FARMING Diary The Autumn of 2020 appeared to be coming as difficult as 2019 from a cultivation and sowing perspective, but somehow with changing sowing equipment, dodging the rain, working long days; and some nights, we managed to get all sowing completed, including the winter beans by the first week of November

I think the majority of farmers did sow most of their intended acreage with winter varieties as planned in their rotation. With the mild weather most of these sowings are up and growing well. We have had our second lift of sugar beet, including the fodder beet,

which are already being fed to the cattle. Our final lift will most probably be the end of December. Those fields then will be sown with spring barley as was planned in our cropping rotation.

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As 2020 draws to a close I think we could all be forgiven for saying we can’t wait to see the end of this year – roll on 2021.

Our outstanding problems with both Covid-19 and Brexit haven’t gone away, hopefully as we go forward into 2021 both problems may have some light at the end of the tunnel, with a successful vaccine for the virus and a better deal for the UK when we leave the EU at the end of this year.

When this Tribune reaches you Christmas will be upon us, so here’s wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

for the various problems which we have to deal with every day and to the best of our ability; having said that the weather does have a big impact on the various crops we grow, it makes life so much easier when we get rainfall at the right time, sun and warmth too – not just to plant life, but to animals and we, ourselves. With the damp and mild weather, we have experienced recently this has had a significant impact on the slug and barley yellow dwarf virus – both of which if crops are left untreated will have large issues on the yield potential on that particular crop at harvest time.

With October turning out to be such a wet month the cattle were all brought into their winter housing, plenty of dry straw bedding for them to lie on and a dry comfortable environment for their winter home; again with the weather being warm, the cattle have done exceptionally well this summer out on the grass, if left outside too long they can loose condition and also ‘poach’ the grass fields which could become a sea of mud, leaving the fields with less growth next spring for turning out time as well as damaging the environment.

With all sowing completed for this year, ditches cleaned out so that the field drains can work effectively; getting the water away from the fields - crops do not like their feet in water!

Where water is left standing on fields it can show up in the crop next spring, also other outside jobs to check and deal with which have accumulated that were less urgent before Winter sets in – there are always lorries to load which are collecting grain out of store, fertilizer to unload if not already on the

farm; cattle to feed etc, all that said it’s then into the workshop to repair and service equipment in readiness for the spring work – cultivations and sowings, fertilizer and any herbicide equipment.

As 2020 draws to a close I think we could all be forgiven for saying we can’t wait to see the end of this year – roll on 2021.

Our outstanding problems with both Covid-19 and Brexit haven’t gone away, hopefully as we go forward into 2021 both problems may have some light at the end of the tunnel, with a successful vaccine for the virus and a better deal for the UK when we leave the EU at the end of this year. Let’s hope the politicians have got it right, a great deal of businesses are reliant on it being a successful outcome for the sustainability for the farming fraternity and many other businesses as well.

With only three weeks to the shortest day by early January we gradually begin to see longer daylight hours. I’ve noted the small birds are already singing as dawn is breaking and at sunset.

The bulbs are emerging in the garden so Spring is not very far away. I think the impact that Covid-19 has had on all our lives has had far reaching problems, perhaps more than one can imagine, for those of us who can remember the Second World War, conditions and restrictions were different, but nothing compared to today. Over the last nine months our lives have changed irrevocably and how we live and work is controlled by ever changing guidelines and rules to keep us all safe, which people in general have come to terms with and abided by and as a local business at the centre of this community we have witnessed it first hand.

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NEWS & FEATURES | A GOOD READ

A Good Read

By Willow Coby

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Retirement is meant to be relaxing, isn’t it? You do what you love doing and enjoy yourself.

But what if you suddenly receive a letter out of the blue? A woman who worked in your office many years ago has cancer and is dying.

She just wants you to know. This touches you for reasons you can’t quite explain, so you write her a note to say that you are sorry to hear that. Putting on your coat and your yacht shoes you leave with the note. Your destination?

The post box. Just as far as the end of the road.

And so, starts Harold Fry’s extraordinary journey: 627 miles in 87 days. With no plan, other than to reach Queenie, he sets off on a journey of faith. Scribbling on the note he tells her to wait for him. This debut novel from radio and TV writer, Rachel Joyce, will take you on a gentle journey with Harold and the various people he meets along the way.

Totally unprepared for what he will encounter, his faith in positive thinking keeps him going as he learns more about his life and relationships with his wife and son.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner Post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature is perennially popular with teens and adults alike, and the events of 2020 only served to increase its attraction. The Maze Runner was initially published in 2009 but came to prominence with the release of the film adaptation in 2014. Thomas is a teenager who awakes to find himself in a box in a place called the Glade. He has no memory of who he is or how he came to be here, but he is thrown into this new community, and as a reader so are you. Before long you become familiar with the terminology used by the boys and you feel as if you are a Glader along with them.

As Thomas adjusts to his new environment, he learns about the Maze which surrounds the Glade.

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daylight hours exploring and mapping it. It is a race against the clock because at sunset the Grievers – giant robotic creatures – enter the Maze and they are deadly. The walls close to protect the community and overnight the structure of the Maze changers, leaving the runners to start again in the morning.

The big mystery is why. Why are Thomas and the other boys there and why do the Grievers come out to get them? Why do the walls in the Maze change and will the runners ever solve it?

However, more importantly why has a girl been sent to the Glade and why has all communication with the outside world suddenly stopped?

This is the first book in an engaging series which develop the story and characters beyond the original theme.

HULA FITNESS | NEWS & FEATURES

Hula Fitness: The Perfect Lockdown Exercise

By Tracey Anderson

During the first lockdown I rather enjoyed the enforced laziness. I am a gym member, but I don’t really love it.

After a while though I noticed that while I didn’t miss weights and running on the treadmill, I did miss the classes, and the rush of endorphins that followed.

Then one day while idly flicking through YouTube videos I came across a ‘hula-fitness’ workout. It looked fun. I grabbed one of my daughter’s neon hula hoops and had a go. Much harder than it looked but I enjoyed it. The next afternoon I had another go and my teenage daughter joined in. We laughed a lot (which was a bonus as anyone who has a teenage daughter will acknowledge) and afterwards we investigated hulafitness a bit more.

Hula hooping is inexpensive, and you can do it practically anywhere, which was kind of the point back in lockdown. All you need to get started is a hoop and room to move.

Standard hula hoops are cheap as chips but after a few sessions we invested in weighted ones. Even they didn’t break the bank. Ours cost about £15 each but even the

more expensive ones were only £40.

It is important to find the rightsized hoop. Larger hoops are a little easier as a beginner because you spin more slowly. If using a weighted hoop, begin with a lighter one (around 0.5-1Kg) and increase the weight as you get more proficient. Correct form is more important than weight, and I did have a little accident where I pulled a muscle in my back for a few days because in my enthusiasm the first hoop I bought was too heavy.

There are a few online tutorials that talk you through how to hula hoop with proper form. To my delight I found our gym offered a beginner’s online hula fitness class, so we signed up for that.

With hula hooping, you teach your body how to move the right way with the hoop while working your cardiovascular system.

Shorter workouts are better at the start. We started with two ten-minute sessions a day and worked up from there.

Basic form and posture Feet should be a little more than shoulder-width apart, with one foot slightly in front of the other.

Your back should be straight, and your core engaged to protect your back.

Hold each side of the hoop around your waist, resting against your back.

With the hoop against your back, start spinning the hoop in whichever direction you find easiest. As the hoop starts to spin, move your waist in a circular motion to keep the hoop moving.

Push your hips slightly forward as the hoop moves across your stomach and push back when the hoop moves across your back. KEEP THE CORE MUSCLES ENGAGED – TUMMY TIGHT. If the hoop drops just pick it up and get going again.

Finally - If you have a back injury or chronic back pain, check with your doctor or physical therapist before trying hula hooping to make sure it’s safe for you.

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Probably, one of the best BBC documentary series of late has been 'A House through Time', in which Professor David Olusoga presented case-studies from Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol.

The diversity of the properties’ residents and the buildings’ decline from des. res. to rundown tenements within a couple of decades made compulsive viewing and prompted us to research the history of Greg’s cottage in Rectory Lane, Peakirk.

We didn’t turn up anyone famous or infamous but we did have a few surprises!

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Sources - and Snags Our main sources of information were the house itself, its architecture and, crucially, the title deeds which named previous owners and some of their tenants. We added flesh to their bones by delving into parish records, Electoral Rolls and (after 1841) Census Returns, which we accessed via genealogical websites. Trades’ directories were consulted but, like Census Returns, they tend to omit streetnames and house-numbers in rural areas. Finally, maps, plans and old photographs (which show Rectory Lane as an unmade road) helped us understand the changes to the property and its surroundings over time.

By the late-tenth century, most of Tribland belonged to Peterborough Abbey.

After the Norman Conquest, the manor of Glinton-cumLocation! Location!

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Peakirk remained its possession under Archaeological evidence dictates that 1 Rectory Lane was not the the direct control first structure on the site. When a pond was excavated in 1971, a of a military monk section of herringbone masonry called Turold de was revealed together with several sherds of third/fourth-century Fécamp (1070-98), grey-ware. Other Romanowho was determined British pottery fragments and an to exploit his domain amphora (used for importing wine and olive oil) were unearthed for all it was worth. in the Old Rectory grounds in 1919, whilst a well of similar date was uncovered in the garden of Butterfly Barn (8a St Pega’s Road), in 2012. So, we have deduced that our ‘Roman wall’ belonged to an ancillary building of a fairly high-status farmstead.

By the early eighth-century, the area north of the present Rectory Lane, with its church and St Pega’s hermitage, had become the settlement’s ‘religious quarter’; while to the east of Car Dyke, the undrained fens stretched far beyond Mercia’s boundary with East Anglia. Therefore, it is 50

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likely that the Anglo-Saxon lay settlement developed along the southern edge of the Rectory Lane, which continued as the Peakirk-Glinton Footway, an ancient drove-road which led to summer grazing on the North Fen. By the late-tenth century, most of Tribland belonged to Peterborough Abbey. After the Norman Conquest, the manor of Glinton-cum-Peakirk remained its possession under the direct control of a military monk called Turold de Fécamp (1070-98), who was determined to exploit his domain for all it was worth. Abbot Turold remodelled Peichirche (as it was called then), carving five or six peasants’ holdings, large enough for a croft (homestead) and toft (vegetable garden) from the South Field, one of the vast open or common fields to the west of St Pega’s Road. Under the feudal system, tenants were obliged to work a certain number of days a week on the lord’s demesne and the rest (apart from Sundays) on their allotted land to support their families and pay their tythes [taxes]. After the 1348/9 visitation of the Black Death wiped out an estimated 50% of the population, there were labour shortages and land value plummeted. This enabled savvy, better-off survivors to increase and consolidate their acreage and even purchase the freehold.

In 1541, two years after the monastery’s dissolution by Henry VIII, Glinton-cum-Peakirk was transferred to the newlyestablished Dean and Chapter of Peterborough Cathedral which, in effect, became the new lords of the manor. The old medieval system of land tenure continued with ‘customary’ or ‘copyhold’ [leasehold] tenants, who owned the buildings but not their plots,

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Inclosure Map (1819)

The Elizabeth White who inherited the property married Henry Smith and, eventually, the copyhold passed to their son, Henry junior, who farmed at Deeping St James.

For his Peakirk holding, Henry paid one shilling and five pence (9p) per annum ground rent and, presumably leased it out.

Plan of Rectory Lane (1925). No 1 is outlined. for which they paid ground rent.

Copyholders were entitled to right of common (seasonal grazing) on North Fen and in the Glebe Field north of the Peakirk-Glinton Footway after harvest. In return they were expected to perform ‘boon work’ for the Dean and Chapter such as carting produce and building materials, working on the rector’s land or glebe, hedging and ‘scouring’ dykes to reduce the risk of flooding. After Peakirk’s open fields were enclosed between 1809 and 1819, the common land disappeared and services to the clergy ceased though many still felt obligated - or even pressurised - to carry on.

Dating the Cottage Architectural evidence strongly suggests that 1 Rectory Lane began as a single, two-bayed structure.

Conversely, the ‘Inclosure Map of Glinton-cum-Peakirk’ of 1819 describes it as divided into two sections, abutting the street to the north and the land of Mary Percival to the south. A deed of 10 April 1815 confirms this, citing ‘two customary messuages [dwellings] with outbuildings, yard-gardens and appurtenances [adjacent land]’. It also mentions three generations of previous tenants, pushing the construction-date back into the eighteenth century.

Owners and Occupiers We have trawled the parish records for background information about our first named copyholder, Edward White, and his wife, Jane, with limited success. We may have traced their daughter, Elizabeth, who was baptised at St Pega’s on 4 February 1732, though we cannot be 100% certain. The Elizabeth White who inherited the property married Henry Smith and, eventually, the copyhold passed to their son, Henry junior, who farmed at Deeping St James.

For his Peakirk holding, Henry paid one shilling and five pence (9p) per annum ground rent and, presumably leased it out. Indeed, Henry could have been responsible for sub-dividing the cottage to generate more income. By then, Glinton-cum-Peakirk’s open fields were being enclosed; therefore, the dwellings probably were inhabited by tradespeople or agricultural labourers employed by the Dean and Chapter’s wealthier tenants or by freeholders, like Mary Percival, the Websters and Bodgers.

The Rectory-Lane messuages appealed to John Blake (17861834), horse-collar and harnessmaker. A native of Crowland, he married Peakirk farmer’s daughter, Ann Day (1789-1850), at St Pega’s on 17 November 1812. After purchasing Henry Smith’s copyhold

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Deed: Peakirk Provident Society The Prentice family (c.1895)

Dora Prentice

Mary Avery

Blake seems to have prospered in Peakirk, tactically leasing part of the Rector’s glebe. This entitled him to vote in the 1832 General Election, the first after the Reform Act which enfranchised minor land-owners, shopkeepers and tenants who paid £10 or more in annual rents.

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from the Dean and Chapter, in April 1815, he and Ann settled in one of the cottages (possibly, the larger eastern one) and let the second to her brother, John Day. Blake seems to have prospered in Peakirk, tactically leasing part of the Rector’s glebe. This entitled him to vote in the 1832 General Election, the first after the Reform Act which enfranchised minor land-owners, shop-keepers and tenants who paid £10 or more in annual rents. John died on 13 May 1834, bequeathing his ‘messuages, lands, tenements and appurtenances’ to his widow for her lifetime and afterwards to their spinster daughter, Elizabeth (1821-48), who predeceased her mother.

Upon Ann Blake’s death on 27 July 1850, her estate passed to John’s brother, James Blake (17891853), a Peterborough saddler.

James rented out the cottages to railway employees, John Marshall and James Norman, who moved to Peakirk to work on the Great Northern Boston-to-Peterborough link line, which opened in 1848.

James Blake died in December 1853, having instructed his executors, William Lounds (‘saddler’) and John Laurence (‘city gentleman’), to dispose of his copyhold or customary messuages either by ‘Public Auction or Private Contract’.

Accordingly, the ‘two well-built cottages with gardens’ went under the hammer at Crowland’s

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George Hotel, in August 1854.

They were bought for £60 by Peakirk farmer and butcher, Thomas Cole (1809-80), and Borough Fen farmer, John Sisson (1819-58), on behalf of the Peakirk Provident Association, which they had founded in May 1853 ‘to relieve the sick and destitute’ of the village.

Elizabeth Blake’s gravestone (1848)

Widowed aged 60, Rose Prentice soon began planning her retirement. In June 1921, she purchased the freehold of 1 Rectory Lane from the Dean and Chapter for £11.15 shillings (£11.75) and she and Dora moved in with her sister, Mary 'Polly' Avery (1856-1941).

We have no idea how long John Marshall and James Norman remained tenants. The Deeds generally were more concerned with the names of the copyholders, namely Messieurs Cole and Sisson. However, we do know that the Provident Association, relied upon the cottages’ rents as well as donations to provide for the needy. John Sisson died on 7 December 1858 and Thomas Cole swiftly married his widow, Eliza, decamped to Sissons’ Farm, sired Thomas junior (18631932) and expired on 20 March 1880. He and John Sisson were succeeded as Trustees by their sons, namesakes and half-brothers.

Thomas II resigned as Trustee and surrendered his share of the copyhold in 1892, when he (albeit briefly) emigrated to British Columbia. Thereupon, Charles Neaverson of Peakirk (merchant) and Philip Smith (corn merchant’s clerk, late of Peakirk) joined John Sissons junior (1851- 1934) on the Board.

Interestingly, a transaction of 1878, describes 1 Rectory as a ‘messuage formerly divided into and occupied as two tenements’ and rented to Peakirk-born railwayman, Philip Webster, his wife Sarah, and a family that would increase to eleven children.

The Websters were still there in 1895, when Peakirk-born John William Prentice (1858-1919), baker (and later grocer, farmer and postmaster) of neighbouring 3

Rectory Lane, purchased Number One’s copyhold for £84 from John Sisson jnr, Charles Neaverson and Philip Smith, ‘Trustees of the Peakirk Provident Association’. We have no idea how long the charity endured or whether it owned any other properties without examining its Minute Books and Ledgers, whose whereabouts are unknown to us.

When John Prentice died on 26 August 1919, his wife, Rose (18591925), inherited both the shop and post-office at Number Three and the cottage at Number One. Of her five children, Lilian (18881967) and Ellen “Nellie” (1889-46) qualified as teachers and worked in in Basford, Nottinghamshire, and Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, though both died in Peakirk. George Harold (18901975) farmed at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, whilst John Frederick (1893-1969) taught in Uxbridge. Only Dora Evelyn (18991965) remained at home, catching the train to Peterborough to work as Secretary to the Cathedral Dean and Chapter.

Widowed aged 60, Rose Prentice soon began planning her retirement. In April 1921, she sold 3 Rectory Lane with the goodwill of the grocery and Post Office to Frederick Robert Bent, who sold it on to Mary Ann Tyers three years later. In June 1921, Rose purchased the freehold of 1 Rectory Lane from the Dean and Chapter for £11.15 shillings (£11.75) and she and Dora moved in with her sister, Mary 'Polly' Avery (1856-1941). Polly had been ensconced there since least February 1915, when her husband, retired Rushden boot-finisher James Edward Dale Avery, was laid to rest in Peakirk churchyard.

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Recycled oak beam

Early 20th-century kitchen or scullery (Weald & Downland Museum)

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Rectory Lane, with central doorway, 1920s Berengaria (‘the first Cunard queen’) to join their brother, Jabez Mould, in South Dakota, leaving Rose and Dora with the place to themselves.

Rectory Lane, with door to No 1 on left, c.1904

After Rose’s death on 25 June 1925, Dora Prentice bought her siblings’ share of 1 Rectory Lane for £100, selling the detached western portion of the property to Mrs Tyers for £1, in 1934. A church stalwart, Dora played the organ at St Pega’s and left a bequest in her will for a replacement north door. Her ashes were interred with her sister, Ellen, on Christmas Eve 1965, and Lilian, who inherited 1 Rectory Lane, joined them on 21 November 1967.

Roger Kimbell purchased the cottage in May 1968 for £2,500 and he, in turn, sold it for £3,750 in April 1971 to Greg, who immediately embarked upon an ongoing conservation and improvement project.

The Cottage through Time Typical of many mid- to lateeighteenth-century vernacular builds, 1 Rectory Lane was constructed from a variety of salvaged materials,

some perhaps from a RomanoBritish structure. The coursed-rubble walls contain a hotch-potch of Northamptonshire ironstone and limestone from Ketton and Barnack.

The latter must have been recycled several times, since the quarries were worked out by the mid-fifteenth century. Moreover, some of the stones are oxidised and pink-coloured as if they had been exposed to a fire.

A distinct change in the masonry 2.68 metres above street-level verifies that the cottage was once singlestoried. The original roof was steeply pitched to the rear to just 1.8 metres above ground-level and, probably, was thatched with reeds which grew abundantly along the fen-edge. The interior comprised two rooms (kitchen and parlour/bedroom) separated by a cross-passage and quarry-tiled throughout. The loft, supported by a massive, recycled oak beam and accessed by a ladder or dog-legged staircase, offered additional sleeping accommodation and storage space.

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Replacing the Collyweston roof, 1981

The late Dr Barling, who lived at the Old Rectory, proposed that 1 Rectory Lane once was a ‘dame school’, where an unqualified teacher taught scripture and ‘the Three ‘Rs’ to village children for a few pennies a week. His theory is supported by the number of slate pencils that were unearthed during excavations in the garden of Butterfly Barn (thrown over the wall by disgruntled pupils).

divided. Yet, although the exterior walls and brick partition were raised simultaneously, the ceilings and floors were inserted independently for they differ in level by 15cm. The central doorway was blocked and a new one created to the east of the present window. (Look closely and again you will the outline.) The rear door became the entrance to the western cottage. It led directly onto the garden and served as the back door after the two cottages were knocked into one by the Provident Society, c.1878, perhaps to accommodate the Websters’ large brood. The communal well (excavated in 1971) become redundant once a parish pump was installed virtually opposite, c.1903.

The 1886 Ordnance Survey Map tells us that the wash-house (with a copper for boiling linen), privy and coalhouse and had already been erected by this time. Photographs confirm that it was not until the 1920s and the arrival of Dora and Rose Prentice that the central doorway was re-instated (when a lobby was created between the two downstairs rooms) and the eastern window moved slightly to the right.

The scullery (for food preparation) and bathroom were added and water and electricity laid on during Dora’s residency.

Greg has also left his impression upon the building, by laying concrete floors, replacing the Collyweston slates with pantiles, installing ‘sympathetic’ windows, central heating (powered first by a wood-burner and then by gas), solar panels, fitted kitchen and bathroom and by landscaping the gardens. In the 1980s, two fireplaces were designed and built

by Dave Barford, who converted Butterfly Barn.

An Old School House?

The late Dr Barling, who lived at the Old Rectory, proposed that 1

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Rectory Lane once was a ‘dame school’, where an unqualified teacher taught scripture and ‘the Three ‘Rs’ to village children for a few pennies a week. His theory is supported by the number of slate pencils that were unearthed during excavations in the garden of Butterfly Barn (thrown over the wall by disgruntled pupils).

Furthermore, Anne Ireland’s Will of 1711 left provision for charity schools in Glinton and Peakirk for poor but god-fearing boys.

Consequently, ten ‘free scholars’ from Glinton and five from Peakirk were taught to read in the north aisle of Glinton church. One of the later alumni was John Clare (17931864), the Helpston poet, who divulged that he was introduced to literature by Widow Bullimore, who ran a ‘dame school’ until her death in 1798. Since there was such an institution at Helpston, why not one in Peakirk too?

No place like home As Professor Olusoga has demonstrated, it’s not only bricks, stones and mortar that make a house-history fascinating but the people who called it home and their interactions within their communities. In our casestudy, it was the occupants of 1 Rectory Lane, who worked and shopped locally, sent letters from the Post Office (in the days before telephones and electronic mail), had their boots repaired at the cobblers, imbibed in the pubs, were baptised, married and worshipped at St Pega’s and could expect to be buried in her churchyard.

Every elderly house is a palimpsest, upon which successive owners have wrought their changes. Each has a unique story waiting to unfold. And, if you decide to research the history of your home, be prepared for the unexpected!

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CHURCH ADDRESSES & DIRECTORY | NORTHBOROUGH REMEMBERS | IN MEMORY | CHURCH NEWS

Northborough Remembers even as we ‘lockdown’ in the year 2020.....

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

Anglican Church Directory Lay Pastoral Minister: Mary Gowers 01780 740097 Reader: Su Fletcher 01780 740034

Reader: Mike Mills 01780 740285 Bainton Churchwarden: John Wreford 01780 740362 Bainton Churchwarden: Michael Perkins 07587 240607 Barnack Churchwarden: David Laycock 01780 740267 Barnack Churchwarden: John Ward 01780 740016 Helpston Church Treasurer: Clive Pearce 01733 253494 Helpston Churchwardens: David Bearman 01780 757246 Gary Ward 01733 254197 Ufford Church Enquiries: Peter and Sally Hudson 01780 740475 Church Organist Barnack/Bainton: Elizabeth Snowball 07821 460505 Barnack Messy Church: Julie Stanton 01780 749123 Barnack Coffee Stop: Carol Pickering 01780 740438 Barnack Little Lambs Group: Julie Stanton 01780 749123 Barnack Men’s Breakfast: Mike Mills 01780 740285 / David Laycock 740267

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Services

Tribland Church

Jan

Sun 3

Sun 10

St Stephen 10.30am Parish Praise Mark Hotchkin Etton

Sun 17

No Service

8am Holy Communion Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10am Family 9am All Age Holy Service Village Communion Rev'd Hall M Hotchkin & Mark-Aaron F Skillman

St Peter Maxey

No Service

St Benedict Glinton

10.30am Holy Communion Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am Parish Praise Mark Hotchkin

9am Holy

9am Holy Communion BCP Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev'd Mark Aaron Church To Be Advised (see your local Church notice board) 10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev'd Mark Aaron Church To Be Advised (see your local Church notice board) 10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev'd Mark Aaron Church To Be Advised (see your local Church notice board)

10.30am Holy 10.30am Morning 10.30am Parish 6pm Evensong Rev'd Communion Prayer Derek Worship Derek Mark-Aaron Patronal Festival Harris Harris Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev'd Mark Aaron Church To Be Advised (see your local Church notice board)

Sun 7

10am St Stephen Family Service Etton Mark Hotchkin

St Peter Maxey

No Service

10.30am Family Communion Praise Rev'd Mark-Aaron Freda Skillman

Derek Harris

Feb/Mar

Sun 31 10.30am Benefice Holy Communion Rev'd Mark Aaron Church To Be Advised (see your local Church notice board)

10.30am Holy 9.30am Parish Communion Worship Derek Rev'd Mark-Aaron Harris

All Age Communion St Andrew 9am Holy Communion 10.30am Praise Freda Rev'd Mark-Aaron Northboro' Rev'd Mark-Aaron Skillman 6pm Evensong

St Pega Peakirk

Sun 24

No Service 10.30am Holy

St Benedict Communion Rev'd MarkGlinton Aaron

Sun 14

Sun 17

No Service

8am Communion Rev'd Mark-Aaron

9am All Age Holy Communion Rev'd MarkAaron

No Service

Sun 21 8am Communion Rev'd Mark-Aaron

Sun 28

Mar Sun 7

No Service

10.30am Parish Praise Mark Hotchkin

10am Family Service 9am Holy Village Hall Mark H Communion BCP & Freda S Rev'd Mark-Aaron

No Service

10.30am 7pm Ashing 10.30am Holy 10.30am Joint 10.30am Holy Morning Praise Communion Communion Rev'd Parish Worship in St Communion Mark Hotchkin Rev'd Mark-Aaron Mark-Aaron Pega's Peakirk Rev'd Mark-Aaron 9am Holy

9am Holy 10.30am Family All Age 12pm Ashing Communion Rev'd 9am Holy St Andrew Communion 10.30am Communion Praise Praise Freda Communion Mark-Aaron 6pm Communion Rev'd Mark-Aaron Northboro' Rev MarkSkillman Rev'd Mark-Aaron Evensong Derek Rev'd Mark-Aaron Aaron Freda Skillman Harris

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6pm Evensong Rev'd MarkAaron

10.30am Holy Communion Rev'd MarkAaron

No Service

10.30am Morning Prayer Derek Harris

10.30am Joint Parish Worship 6pm Evensong with St Benedict's Rev'd Mark-Aaron Glinton Derek Harris

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PLANNING | REVIEW

 AILSWORTH

Removal of existing wooden sheds and replacement with a wooden garden room at 3 Maffit Road Ailsworth Peterborough PE5 7AG: Awaiting decision Various works to trees as stated on tree survey at 9 Maffit Road Ailsworth Peterborough PE5 7AG: Awaiting decision Robinia Tree - Reduce Height by 4m for safety concerns of upper crown stability at 3 Maffit Road Ailsworth Peterborough PE5 7AG: Awaiting decision T.1 Sycamore - Remove at Sycamore House 1A Maffit Road Ailsworth Peterborough: Permitted

 BAINTON

Part conversion and rebuilding of existing outbuilding, erection of new double garage and alterations at The Green Helpston Road Bainton Stamford: Permitted Erection of an agricultural building at Land To The South Of Allotments Helpston Road Bainton Stamford: Permitted Non-material amendment (omit window on north east elevation) to planning permission 19/00581/ HHFUL at 1 St Marys Close Bainton Stamford PE9 3AN: Determined

 BARNACK

First floor side, rear and front extension, and replacement front porch at 6 Owen Close Barnack Stamford PE9 3EH: Awaiting decision Cherry plum (red) remove tree at 2 Bishops Walk Barnack Stamford PE9 3EE: Awaiting decision Demolition of single storey front extension, construction of ground floor rear extension, installation of two dormer windows to front elevation, removal of former garage building, alterations to outbuilding, erection of a porch, and associated alterations at The Post House Main Street Barnack Stamford: Permitted 60

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Erection of single-storey extension to form a new entrance and classroom; new security fencing works around the majority of the site; change of use of the existing school playing fields with current open access to the public, to enclosed school playing fields, with erection of 1.8m high fencing; new Multi Use Games Area on the existing playing field, with out-of-school hours public access at Barnack Church Of England Primary School School Road Barnack Stamford: Permitted

 CASTOR

The replacement of existing timber windows and door at Village Manor 48 Peterborough Road Castor Peterborough: Awaiting decision Proposed garage conversion to study and store, First floor extension to form bedroom and conversion of bedroom to en suite and dressing room. Cut back roof to separate No 9 from No 10. at 9 Old Pond Lane Castor Peterborough PE5 7BX: Awaiting decision Leylandii x2 (A) trim to reduce height of crown to 3m-4m tall, Hawthorn (B) reduce to a height that can be managed approx 3m high, Cherry trees x2 (C) shaping and light maintenance pruning, Self-seeded Sycamores (D) to be felled (x2 next to drive, x6 amongst leylandii) and Leylandii x2 (E) reduce from 10m to 5m at Hanover House 17 Church Hill Castor Peterborough: Awaiting decision Demolition of existing outbuilding and construction of two storey rear extension at 33 Peterborough Road Castor Peterborough PE5 7AX: Permitted Replace roof tiles to corridor between main dwelling and two storey extension at 5 Clay Lane Castor Peterborough PE5 7AT: Permitted

 DEEPING

GATE

Proposed new double height front porch, replacement of existing front dormers with pitched roof dormers. Rendering of front elevation, replacement windows including the removal of existing bay windows. Creation of an additional vehicle access on to Suttons Lane to create an in and out access arrangement at 21 Suttons Lane Deeping Gate Peterborough PE6 9AA: Awaiting decision Single storey side and rear extensions, first floor side extension, erection of a front porch, garage conversion, render at ground floor level, timber cladding at first floor level, and associated alterations at 11 Riverside Deeping Gate Peterborough PE6 9AJ: Permitted Internal conversion of present garage/store/home office to allow for use as incidental living accommodation at Honeysuckle Lodge Suttons Lane Deeping Gate Peterborough: Lawful

 GLINTON

Replace three first floor windows to the front and one first floor window to the south facing side at Red House 12 Rectory Lane Glinton Peterborough: Awaiting decision Proposed continuation of use of land and siting of mobile home in connection with and use of land, kennels and associated fencing as licensed establishment for breeding dogs and erection of additional timber kennel at Buffingham Kennels Waterworks Lane Glinton Peterborough: Awaiting decision Fell two Ash Trees at 5 The Green Glinton Peterborough PE6 7JN: Awaiting decision Erection of 3 bedroom dwelling with amenity space, parking area, and associated works

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in combination with works to reinstate 29 and 31 High Street as a single dwellinghouse at 29-31 High Street Glinton Peterborough PE6 7LS: Awaiting decision New cladding and render to rear and side elevations, new PVCU fenestration with grey frames, amendments to fenestration generally to suit change of use, new railings to the front and flat roof dormer window to the rear at 9A High Street Glinton Peterborough PE6 7JP: Withdrawn

by Applicant

 HELPSTON

Silver birch (red) reduce 3 main leaders by approx 1m to reduce windloading & reduce west side of tree by approx 0.5m bringing branches closer to boundary line at 30 West Street Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DX: Awaiting decision Two storey rear extension at 77 Glinton Road Helpston PE6 7DG: Awaiting decision Complete modernisation of Front Elevation to 3A and 5A, new rendered panels to 3A garage and side elevation, 2 story rear extension to 5A with refurbished boundary treatments at 3A - 5A West Street Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DU: Awaiting decision Fell and remove a conifer tree at the rear of the property T1 at 22 Maxey Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DP: Awaiting decision

Peterborough PE6 7DT: Permitted Non-material amendment to alter the internal layouts of the Former Public House (3 Church Lane) and The Barn (1 Botolph Lane) pursuant to planning permission reference 18/02197/ FUL at 3 Church Lane Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DT: Permitted T.1 Laburnum - Remove (dead/ dying) at 17 West Street Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DU: Permitted Two storey and single storey rear extension at 77 Glinton Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DG: Permitted

 MAXEY

Proposed construction of a two storey dwelling at Land Adjacent To 9 Barn Close Maxey Peterborough PE6 9EN: Awaiting decision Ash (T1) - Reduce lower branch over the entrance by 5 m to enable access to the playing field.

Ash (T2) - Monolith the ash stump.

Willow (T3) - Pollard the willow to reduce the weight on the main stem at Playing Field Adjacent To 7 Castle End Road Maxey Peterborough PE6 9EP: Awaiting decision Ash (T1) - Reduce the stem over the road by half, back to the forked union above the hedge at Land To The West Of Wisteria Farm West End Road Maxey Peterborough: Awaiting decision

 NORTHBOROUGH

Demolition of existing glasshouse and proposed erection of additional B1 Storage / workshop building at The Nursery 5 Heath Road Helpston Peterborough: Permitted

Single storey rear extension Distance from original rear wall: 5.1m Maximum height: 3.9m (to eaves: 2.25m) at 16 Clare Road Northborough Peterborough PE6 9DN: Awaiting decision

Minor internal alterations to conversions of barn and public house to dwellings (approved under reference 18/02198/LBC) at The Barn (1 Botolphs Lane) And The Former Exeter Arms Helpston

Demolition of existing rear kitchen and single storey rear extension and replacement of existing front porch at 46 Church Street Northborough Peterborough PE6 9BN: Awaiting decision

 PEAKIRK

Cut back overhanging tree branches on neighbouring property at no. 10 Rectory Lane at St Pegas Church Chestnut Close Peakirk Peterborough: Awaiting decision Use of first floor of garage for beauty premises at 3 The Sanderlings Peakirk Peterborough PE6 7NZ: Awaiting decision Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two two-storey dwellings and and rebuild of existing outbuilding at Ivy House Bull Lane Peakirk Peterborough: Permitted Replacement of the 2 front windows- Retrospective at 8 St Pegas Road Peakirk Peterborough PE6 7NF: Refused

 PILSGATE

T.1 Horse Chestnut - Crown reduction to a max of 3m in height and width, plant an Oak tree in a park guard to establish a sutiable replacement due to age succession at Pilsgate Farm Stamford Road Pilsgate Stamford: Permitted

 SOUTHORPE

Non-Material Amendment (Change a proposed window to a pedestrian door) to Planning Permission 19/01880/HHFUL at Stud Farm Main Street Southorpe Stamford: Permitted

 UFFORD

Construction of outbuilding to include storage area, garden room and greenhouse at Highlands Marholm Road Ufford Stamford: Awaiting decision Proposed two storey side extension and alterations to existing dwelling at The Firs Newport Way Ufford Stamford: Awaiting decision Insertion of door into converted stables at 7 Fountain Court Main Street Ufford Stamford: Permitted

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TRIBUNE DIRECTORY

 Bainton Church

Michael Perkins ..................................................... 01780 740720 John Wreford, Churchwarden............................... 01780 740362 Mary Gowers, Lay Pastoral Minister .................... 01780 740097 Elizabeth Snowball, Organist .............................. 07821 460505

 Bainton & Ashton Parish Council

Chairman: Susie Lucas .......................................... 01780 740159 Councillor: Anita Phillips ....................................... 01780 749128 Councillor: Cliff Stanton......................................... 01780 749123 Councillor: Pete Charlton ..................................... 07850 657200 Councillor: Chris Womack .................................... 01780 740925 Clerk Jenny Rice bainton.ashton.clerk@live.co.uk

 Barnack Bowls Club

Phil Collins ............................................................. 01780 740124

 Barnack Church

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

Sally Hullock........................................................... 07795 565658

 Barnack Cricket Club

William Armitage, Chairman................................. 01780 740749

 Barnack Home from Home Club

Niamh Holman.........................................hfhbarnack@gmail.com

 Barnack Men’s Breakfast

 Citizens Advice

Citizens Advice ...................................................... 0870 1264024

 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts & Rainbows

Helpston Explorer Scouts, Nick Drewett...................................... ....................................................01778 348107 / 07900 585072 Helpston Scouts, Mark Crookes........................... 07808 633018 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 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 Sandra Hudspeth................................................... 01778 343735 Diane Templeton, Clerk: E: clerk@deepinggate-pc.gov.uk ................................................................................ 07879 043785

 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)

Mike Mills................................................................ 01780 740285 David Laycock ....................................................... 01780 740267

Rector: Mark-Aaron Tisdale................................... 01733 252359 Anne Curwen, Churchwarden .............................. 01733 253357

Julie Stanton ........................................................ 01780 749123

Fred Morton, Chair ............................................... 01733 252912 Emma Tajar, Clerk ................................................. 01733 234542

 Barnack Messy Church

 Barnack Parish Council

Barnack Parish Council e-mail..............clerk@barnack-pc.gov.uk Chairman, Harry Brassey .................................. 01780 740115 Vice Chair, Margaret Palmer ............................ 01780 740988 Phil Broughton .................................................. 01780 740379 David Laycock ................................................... 01780 740267 Martin Bloom .................................................... 01780 740966 Councillor, Susie Caney .................................... 07747 033990 Clerk, Debbie Lines .......................................... 07595 377236

 Benefice Administrators/ Lay Readers

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

Kate Hinchliff ......................................................... 07745 116621

 British Legion

Max Sawyer ........................................................... 01780 765507

 Bus & Train Services

Delaine Bus Services ............................................ 01778 422866 Stagecoach ............................................................ 01733 207860 Train Services ......................................................... 0845 7484950

 Castor Parish Council

John Haste, Clerk E:clerk@castor-pc.gov.uk........ 01733 252833

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 Etton Parish Council

 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 252359 Churchwarden, Veronica Smith, ......................... 01733 252019 PCC Treasurer, Simon Richards, .......................... 01778 341686 Bell Ringers, Mike Goodall.................................... 01733 253469

 Glinton Parish Council

Chair, John Holdich OBE, ................................... 01733 253078 Clerk, Mr John Haste, ........................................... 01733 252833

 Helpston Church (St Botolph’s)

Church Treasurer, Clive Pearce, .......................... 01733 253494 Churchwarden, David Bearman............................ 01780 757246 Gary Ward ............................................................. 01733 254197

 Helpston Helcats

E: Helpstoncommunityactivityteam@gmail.com Facebook: @Helpstoncommunity Phil Roberts............................................................ 07925 720195 Emma Long............................................................ 07827 297053

TRIBUNE DIRECTORY

 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

John Best - Glinton................................................ 01778 342115 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 252 359 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 Anglea Hankins, Clerk .......................................... 01733 253397

 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 Carole Spinks, PCC Treasurer .................. ........... 01778 343585

 Northborough Parish Council

John Dadge, Chair ............................................... 01733 254145 Catherine Franks, Clerk .................clerk@northboroughpc.co.uk ................................................................................ 07748 637555

 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

 Pre and After School Clubs (cont.)

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 Mrs S Nicolson, 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 (Chairman) ................................... 01780 740679 ......................................................keith.lievesley@btinternet.com David Chadwick..................................................... 01780 740893 ..............................................................david@chadsonline.co.uk Frieda Gosling........................................................ 01780 740343 ............................................................friedagosling@yahoo.co.uk Paul Wilde.............................................................. 07960 018148 ...................................................................paul@worldofskills.com Margaret Sargent .................................................. 01780 749482 ........................................................................m55arg@gmail.com Susie Caney (Clerk)................................................ 07747 033990 ...................................................................clerk@ufford-pc.gov.uk

 Village Halls Barnack Village Hall Bookings, Sally Hullock...... 07795 565658 email: bookings.barnackca@gmail.com Glinton, Bowls, Roy Pettitt.................................... 01733 252049 Glinton Village Hall Bookings, Sue Lane.............. 07923 475966 Glinton, Whist, Joyce Heathcote.......................... 01733 253790 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, Fiona Spire............ 07795 111319

 Village Tribune

 Peterborough City Council

Editor, Tony Henthorn .......................................... 07590 750128 Design Team, Dimension 6000............................. 01733 772095

 Police and Emergencies

Barnack David Over ............................................. 07920 160053 Glinton & Castor Peter Hiller & John Holdich ..................................................... 07920 160487

John Holdich OBE Peterborough ....................... 01733 253078 Peterborough City Council .................................. 01733 747474 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 Jennifer Rice, Peakirk Tots Toddler Group ............................................... 07515 364909

 Ward Councillors

 Women’s Institute (WI)

Janel Pike (Helpston WI) President....................... 01733 253834 Conney Varley (Helpston WI Secretary) .............. 01733 260558 Margaret Stafford (Glinton WI).............................. 01733 701268 Jenny Dunk (Glinton WI Secetary) ....................... 01775 630163 Sarah Thurlow (Glinton WI President).................. 01780 740342

 Youth Clubs

Kerrie Garner, Barnack Youth Club ...................... 01780 740118 Tina Lapinskis, Maxey Youth Club ....................... 01778 347280

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