The Villager September 2012 by Betty-Ann Ambury

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Contents 5

Recipes from far & wide

Financial Facts

Upton Blues Festival

Welland Steam Rally

PUBLISHER & ADVERTISING

Pershore Town & River Festival

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September in the Garden

JM Paddock & Field Maintenance

Pershore Utilities

ALM Fitness

Fuel Consumption

Cloudy2Clear Windows

Jinney Ring

Rural Communities Transport

Events in September

FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Mike Ambury

Drakes Broughton Show

Coffee Time!

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10th September 2012

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Recipes

from far & wide

Asparagus Tart Crust Filling

315ml flour 65ml milk 125ml oil 8ml baking powder

410gm tin asparagus 250ml milk 2 eggs, separated 65g butter 100g grated cheese salt & pepper

To make the crust, sift the dry ingredients, add the oil and milk and mix well.

Press into a greased pie dish (this is a very oily mixture)

Drain the asparagus and layer on top of the crust.

Beat egg yolks and milk together and pour over asparagus.

Beat egg white stiffly and spread over the asparagus.

Sprinkle with grated cheese and dot with butter.

Bake for 30 minutes at 180째C.

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Financial Facts Financial Fact #1

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If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have £49.00 today

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If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have £33.00 today.

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Financial Fact #3

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have £0.00 today.

Financial Fact #4

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Northern Rock three years ago, you would have £0.00 today

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But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco, drunk all the beer, then taken the aluminium cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received £214.00.

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Upton Blues Festival Article & Photography by Brian Joyce

eaty, beaty, big and bouncy, smokin, sassy and rockin - all descriptors applied to an amazing blend of bluegrass, classic and Mississippi Delta Blues heard throughout the riverside town of Upton-upon-Severn in the . . . wait for it . . . yes, the weekend sunshine. Whether performing on the Riverside stage as did Motives + Matt Taylor, 24 Pesos, Mojo Hooker and more or on the Sports Field Stage like LR Phoenix and Mumbo-Jumbo & friends, or perhaps playing in the Acoustic venue behind the Plough like Hollow Belly, Willie & the Bandits and Dave Bristow or even playing out in front of The Plough Inn like Nice & Sleazy, Rickshaw Brides and Slide Boy Roy or then again in the Swan Hotel venue like Jack the Biscuit, Slowburner and Chicago Bytes, everywhere you turned could be heard a superb outpouring of emotion through music. Stompin, boppin, dancing and other adjectives to describe crowd reaction to their favourites, apart from yours truly desperately trying to capture images of the bands and yet still keep those feet still!

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Once again, running between venues trying listen to them all was never going to work with 9 different venues and 96 performances over 3 days, including a floating

venue, but those, once heard, are well remembered and were most certainly enjoyed. Highlights for the author, if he had to identify some would be the performance of Mojo Hooker with the fabulous voice of Camilla Blakemore and the sensational guitar playing of Tony ‘T-Bone’ Haran with a tie for joint second between Slowburner (Paul Bridgewater vocals & Mike Bannister on guitar) and LR Phoenix. That voice – LR Phoenix – like nothing the author has heard before plus steel slide guitar with a penknife!!! Unique just doesn’t cover it.

Crowds packed around the Riverside Stage on Saturday night to hear 24 Pesos belt out some quality stuff as they crammed shoulder to shoulder into The Muggery earlier in the day to listen to Nothin Personal. Hands clappin and feet stompin, blues galore, music in abundance, happy campers and yet another successful Festival – another Gold Star for Upton and long may they continue to host these Festivals. Going back for more next year ? Mais oui! To advertise call 0845 224 7061 or 07754 170286 or visit www.grapevinepublications.co.uk

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t was the turn of Pershore to hold their first ever River Festival and although the weather again took its toll in the Vale, unlike the Evesham Festival, this one went ahead. Sadly only the Life Saving & Rescue Crews were allowed out on the water on Saturday as a result of the Red Warning (RED Danger - stop and moor your boat) from the Avon Navigation Authority. Not the first time that rising water levels in the local Rivers have caused havoc in the Vale of Evesham! Mayor of Pershore, Charles Tucker opened the event on a soggy King Georges Field and ended his address with a plea for all to visit the stand and support his adopted, local charity: The Acquired Brain Injury Centre, Evesham. Dutch Lewis then kicked things off with a little clarinet music.

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September in the Garden Flower Garden

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Now is the time to start planting spring bulbs for next year: daffodils, hyacinths, lilies and small bulbs are best planted this month or in early October, whilst its best to plant tulips towards the end of October

Houseplants and catci that have been outside during the summer should now be brought indoors.

Give evergreen hedges a final trim to ensure they are neat for the winter Collect seeds from perennials and annuals, put them in paper bags and leave somewhere warm place to dry for a few days. Then clean and store in small envelopes.

Roses At this time of the year, shrub roses and ramblers can be propagated from cuttings. Cut a piece of stem about 30cm long, trim it off just below the bottom leaf and remove the soft tip just above a root joint. Remove all the leaves except for the top two or three. Push the cuttings about 15cm into a well dug trench in the garden, and leave for at least 12 months to root. Climbing roses and ramblers that have got a bit out of hand should now be tied in.

Lawn Whilst the earth is still warm, this is a good time to prepare the ground for sowing a new lawn. Existing lawns should be aerated using a garden fork, then fed with lawn food to keep them nourish throughout the winter. Re-seed any bare patches.

Herb Garden Parsley can be sown now for an early spring crop. Dead-head and trim back perennials, and discard annuals and generally tidy up your herb garden.

If you have indoor cyclamen plants kept from last winter, now is the time to start watering them. Stand them a shallow tray and water from the bottom, allowing them to drain thoroughly.

Containers Plant two layers of daffodil bulbs in containers, one slightly staggered above the other. This will ensure that you get a really good display. Plant the bulbs deeply enough to allow you to plant winter and spring bedding, such as winter pansies, primroses, violas and wallflowers on top of the daffodils.

Vegetable Garden Harvest sweetcorn when the silks have turned from golden to brown. When ripe, onions should be lifted and laid out to dry before storing Continue to harvest runner beans and courgettes; don't leave it too long to pick French and runner otherwise they will be stringy and tough.

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Water

Following last month’s feature, I have been asked why it was that Pershore was so late in being given piped water, which could have been due to the fact that for many years the town was divided into two parish councils. The two councils, Holy Cross and St. Andrews, continued to do business separately until they amalgamated in 1949. There are numerous instances when these two authorities were unable to agree on projects that consequently were shelved. For example, in 1909 it was proposed to erect a Town Hall at the end of Broad Street, at an estimated cost of £3000, but the two parishes were even unable to agress as to whether it be known as a town hall or a market hall! Pershore was far from unique in being unable to provide enough water or adequate sewage for its inhabitants; small parish organizations had for years been unable to cope with these problems, but in 1888 a Local Government Act made the County Council responsible for these. In 1893 the County Medical Officer reported that domestic water supplies in Pershore came from many shallow wells, only twelve to eighteen feet deep sunk in the subsoil on private premises or from open draw wells, many of which were less than 20 feet from privy middens. He also reported that ‘7 householders had no drinking water on their premises and 90 had only scanty supplies’. The sewage system consisted of pipes which in some places were formed of agricultural drain tiles connected to brick culverts that discharged into the Avon. In 1902 42 out 47 wells sampled were found to be unfit for domestic use. In Plough Lane (Priest Lane) nearly all wells failed due to the hot dry summer, and some houses in High Street, Bridge St and Nash’s Yard had no water at all. In Church Street only the White 18

Pershore Utilitie Horse had water and was selling it at 1d a week per house! With the failure of the wells, and water of the Avon contaminated with sewage and animal pollution, most people continued the old tradition of drinking ale; even the children drank small beer. On 1st April of that year Mr Wilcox, the Engineer, wrote to Mr Hill (Lord Coventry’s agent) asking permission to sink trial holes in a field on Hungerhill farm (The Vineyards).

View of the bottom end of Bridge 'Street with one o used to bring drinking water to local hom

Mr Hill replied that having considered the application he could not advise Lord Coventry to grant permission. Other plans considered for improving the water supply were pumping it from the Avon or piping it from springs at Elmley Castle or Kemerton. These came to nothing although the Parochial Committee was of the opinion that ‘if a good system of drainage were adopted so as to prevent sewerage matter finding its way into the gravel strata, underlying the greater portion

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of the town, the water in the wells would be suitable for domestic use.’ Due to the difficulties with drinking water, by the beginning of the 20th century, bowsers were regularly being brought into the town to supply homes with safe drinking water. It wasn’t until 1931 that a water supply was obtained by taking water from springs at Overbury to a reservoir on Allesborough Hill, and when houses on the Abbey Estate were built following WWII these were connected to a sewage treatment works in Defford Road.

Sewerage

In 1961 a comprehensive sewerage scheme for the whole town was undertaken at a cost of an estimated £408,000. It took two years to build and was inaugurated by Lord Balniel, MP and president of the Rural District Councils Association. The new works at Tiddesley of the bowsers Woods provided for the main mes sewerage of Pershore town and the outlying villages of Pinvin, Wyre, Wick and Pensham.

Gas

Although gas mains were laid in Pershore High Street in the 1890’s this was well after the formation of the Pershore & District Gas Company, and did not arrive without a great deal of controversy. Chief amongst those opposed to the new fangled street lighting was the incumbent vicar. A local printer, William Conn, in August 1852 published

a poem castigating the local parson for his opposition to the scheme and following this, in October he published another supporting the ‘promoters of the Pershore Gas Company’. Thanks largely to local solicitor, Mr. Edwin Ball, gas street lighting arrived in Pershore in October 1853 when it was greeted with ‘great jollification’. The Berrows Journal for that year reported that ‘More than 70 gentry and tradesmen dined together at the Bell Inn, High Street under the presidency of John Yeend Bedford'. By the early 1890’s the Pershore Gas Company had been formed, with Mr Edward Humphries, whose firm made much of the street furniture, being one of the partners. By 1933 the company was known as the Pershore & District Gas & Lighting Company, under its chairman Mr E G Grizzell, with a registered office at Glengarth, Station Road. The Company went into liquidation in 1934 when it was taken over by the Cheltenham & District Gas Co., and was nationalised in 1947, the huge gas holders (in Cherry Orchard) that over-shadowed the town being dismantled in 1986.

Electricity

The laying of cables for electric light commenced on 4th July 1927, when seventy consumers in Pershore received their first electricity and on 19th February the following year Pershore Abbey had electric light installed for just over £100. However it was May 1932 before a meeting of Pershore Lighting and Watching Acts Joint Committee appointed a committee to discuss lighting the streets by electricity. This eventually superseded the gas lighting and put an end to the job of the lamplighter. John Smith’s father, who later became a pipe-fitter and gas fitter, was the last to serve the town in this capacity.

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