The Grapevine SEAMER & TAME BRIDGE MAGAZINE
No. 173 April—May 2022 Keep up to date with what’s happening locally by visiting
Seamer Village Website: seamervillage.co.uk or Facebook group: Seamer Local’s Chit Chat
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EDITOR’S NOTES The next edition will cover June/July and articles should reach me by 25th May. I am struggling to produce a meaningful Grapevine due to lack of interesting articles. I have previously said that this is a reason for me to stop doing Grapevine Editing (I would continue to print and distribute it). So again I ask is there anyone who would like to take on the role of Editor? If not then Grapevine may cease to be published. With the website and Facebook’s Seamer Chit Chat now available maybe Grapevine has passed its life span. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Dave Campy ST MARTIN’S CHURCH At Stokesley Parish Church Easter kids crafts, ‘Coffee and Cake’ Saturday 2nd April, 9.30-11.30am Palm Sunday 10th April, 9.30am, Holy Communion Easter Reflections Tuesday 12th April, 7.30pm Maundy Thursday Service 14th April, 7.30pmHoly Communion with the Watch and Compline. The Hour at the Cross, a time of prayer and reflection Good Friday 15th April, 2pm Easter Vigil Saturday 16th April, 7.30pm. The Vigil and the Service of Light with Holy Communion Easter Sunday Services, Sunday 17th April, 9.30am Holy Communion and at Seamer Church Holy Communion at 11.30am For more information, visit www.stokesleyparishchurch.org.uk or their Facebook page @stokesleyparishchurch
St Martin’s Church Coffee Morning Stokesley Town Hall Friday 29th April 9.00 — 11.45 Gluten/dairy free options available
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VILLAGE HALL NEWS AND EVENTS
VILLAGE HALL BOOK SWAP
All the books in the Hall have been cleared out and we need some new ones. If anyone has any books they have read and no longer want, would they like to donate them to the village hall. They can be left at the hall when it is open for activities (see Hall Timetable). POP IN Pop in is held in the village hall on Mondays during school term times from 10am – noon. Come along and meet up with friends and neighbours for tea/coffee and home made scones. The Now & Then magazines are available to collect from the village hall when it is open. PLAY AND STAY The "Play and Stay" has started on a Thursday morning in the village hall at 10am until 11.30 (term time only) £2 per child. Allison (email: aroutledge7@sky.com) SEAMER QUEEN’S JUBILLEE CELEBRATIONS This is the first weekend in June. Ideas already proposed: Coffee morning Afternoon tea BBQ Band Children's games...bouncy castle, pony rides, races, etc Would you like to celebrate ? What would you like to do ? We would like ideas / helpers to make this a really good celebration. Come along to the Village Hall on Tuesday April 5th at 7.30 pm to share ideas and help us get it organised! BOOK CLUB. We meet monthly to discuss our chosen book, have refreshments and a good chat. Everyone welcome, the last Tuesday in the month at 7.30 pm. RECYCLING Thank you to everyone who has given me used stamps and Blister Strips. I take both to The Globe (Stokesley Library). Please keep them coming to the Village Hall or at our back door (21, The Green). Ann Thomas email catcabcam@googlemail.com mobile 07840 133857
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HALL TIMETABLE Monday
Pop-In
10.00 - 12.00 am
Pilates Class 6.00-7.00pm Hall Committee meeting 7.30pm Tuesday
Carpet Bowls 10.00am
(1st Tuesday every second month) Seamer Parish Council 7.00pm (3rd Tuesday every second month) Book Club 8.00—9.30 pm (4th Tuesday ) Table Tennis 7.00pm
Wednesday Thursday
Play and Stay 10.00am
Bridge Group 7.00pm
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SEAMER VILLAGE HALL 100+ CLUB February winners were (122 members) 1st £20 26 Jean Bainbridge, Tanton Close 2nd £15 85 Jim Scheilling, Hilton Road 3rd £12 129 Walter Pattison, Stainton Road 4th £ 9 36 Sheila Hobson, The Green 5th £ 5 14 Lynda Moore, The Green March winners were (122 members) 1st £20 51 Odette Price, Hilton Road 2nd £15 56 Tom McGowan, Yarm 3rd £12 79 Linda Sayer, Brackenhill Walk 4th £ 9 21 Marjorie Burn, Stainton Road 5th £ 5 48 Joan Barnes, Leconfield For those members who joined last April/May, this means that you are due to join again. I will contact you be email, phone or call and see you. If you are not at home, I will leave a letter with details of how to contact me. To help me to remind you when your renewal fees are due, could you please let me have your e-mail address or telephone number. This is easier than me coming to see you. If you have recently moved here and would like to become a member, it costs £12 a year per number and each month half the monthly money is given out as prize money and the other half goes to the village hall funds. I look forward to hearing from you. Christine Cooper Email chris_cooper1@hotmail.com Mobile 01642 701733
SEAMER METHODIST CHURCH UKRAINE The Methodist Church leaders have suggested that some time during the service on the 3rd of April, we light candles and pray for a peaceful reconciliation of the Ukraine situation and for the refugees it has created. We would like to encourage involvement of the local community in this and will hold the event at 10.30 am in the garden or the Church depending on the weather. It is expected to last a maximum of 10 minutes and is open to all. This event will be followed by the normal service. TIMES OF WORSHIP all at 10.30 am except Easter Sunday at 9.00 3rd April led by Rev Trevor Haigh 10th April led by Lesley Hopwood 17th April Easter Sunday led by Rev Rob Weir at 9.00am (Holy Communion) 24th April led by Peter Jackson 5
1st May Service led by congregation. 8th May led by Rev Rob Weir (Holy Communion) 15th May led David Sills 22nd May led by Rev Rob Weir 29th May led by Elaine Wilson
50 INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA
1. The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps 2. 90% of Australians live on the coast. 3. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world. 4. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space. 5. Australia has over 60 separate wine regions. 6. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. 7. The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world. 8. The Great Ocean Road is the world’s largest war memorial. 9. 80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia. 10. 5 km of Uluru is underground. 11. Australia has the world’s longest golf course measuring more than 1,350kms long.
12. Australia is home to 21 of the world’s 25 most venomous snakes. 13. Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its Central Business District. 14. Australia is bigger than we realise, it’s almost the same size as mainland USA. 15. The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia, Anna Creek Ranch in South Australia, and it’s bigger than Israel. 16. The first Police Force in Australia was made up of well-behaved convicts. 17. It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day – there are 10,685 of them! 18. AFL invented to keep cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians. 19. The world’s largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia, and is actually twice the size of Uluru. 20. Australia is the 6th largest country in the world 21. There are 1 million camels that roam wild in Australia’s deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world, they are exported to the Middle East. 6
22. You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other. 23. There are over 60 different types of kangaroos, and a baby kangaroo when born is only about 2 centimetres long. 24. Aboriginal culture is the oldest on Earth – it is estimated that the continent’s original inhabitants, the aboriginal people, have been in Australia for between 40,000-60,000 years. 25. Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites. 26. 91% of the country is covered by native vegetation. 27. 33% of Australians were born in another country. 28. Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. In fact, 21% of Australians don’t speak English at home! 29. Western Australia is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth – the Stromatolites. 30. Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano. 31. In Australia, sheep out number people 2.5 to 1 (in 2020). (Don't let New Zealand know this) 32. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902. 33. Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation, with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind. 34. Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital. 35. Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long. 36. The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world – it’s waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit. 37. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country. 38. The world’s oldest fossil was discovered in Australia – 3.4 billion years old. 39. Australia has around 600 varieties of eucalypt trees. 40. Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations. 41. Stonemasons in Australia instituted the 8-hour working day back in 1856. 7
42. In Aboriginal culture women are not allowed to play the didgeridoo. 43. The venom of the elusive platypus can kill a small dog. 44. Australia’s most deadly marine animal is the Box Jellyfish, and is responsible for more deaths per year than snakes, sharks and saltwater crocodiles. 45. The only two mammals in the world that lay eggs are found in Australia – the echidna and platypus. 46. Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna, three-metre-tall kangaroos, seven-metre-long goanna’s, horse-sized ducks, and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard. 47. Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards. This was the reason they were chosen for Australia’s coat of arms – to symbolise a country always moving forward. 48. The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on earth. 49. Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders. 50. The Great Victoria Desert is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom.
OIL CLUB Order dates, 1 week of January, March, May, September and November. Delivery, approximately 3rd week in the month. Contacts, David Ward 01642 710333 or Gordon Reed 01641 711495 st
Seamer Parish Council – would you like to be a Parish Councillor? A vacancy has arisen for a Parish Councillor in the parish of Seamer. If you would be interested in serving the community and having an impact on local affairs, continuing to maintain and create a pleasant environment for residents, then this could be the role for you! Parish Councillors are expected to attend bimonthly meetings of the Parish Council, oversee the Community Fund, planning applications, financial conduct and to keep abreast of notifications from local governing authorities. For further details, please contact the current Clerk: Glenn McGill - glenn.mcgill57@gmail.com 8
SEAMER PARISH COUNCIL UPDATE The January meeting of the Parish Council was held at Seamer Memorial Hall. One member of the public was in attendance. The following matters were reported: The Police reported 7 incidents. At Hillcrest, accumulating waste had been tidied up and an overly bright light replaced. A planning application for replacement gates at St Martin’s Church was approved. Jayne Kendall was confirmed as a new Councillor. Councillor Paul Chapman advised that he would be standing down at the end of the financial year and this may precipitate a new vacancy. On financial and banking matters, progress has been made to sort out ongoing difficulties and cheques had been used to make payments in the interim. A precept was set with a 4.5% inflationary increase, to be reported to Hambleton District Council. On village maintenance, highways and footpaths had been surveyed and deemed satisfactory in general terms. Issues were reported on Rights of Way and litter and Phil Hyman from Speedwatch would be invited to the next meeting. On the village pond, the clerk had obtained a quote to undertake an ecological maintenance plan and it was agreed that this be commissioned. There was an update on Council reorganisation and projects for the community fund were discussed including a refuge over Seamer Hill crest; a shelter for children near the school pick up point; footpaths near Cooks; plastic mesh to protect grass at the Memorial Hall, with match funding from local businesses to be investigated. Vic Brown, who attended the meeting, gave an interesting explanation of his local tree planting efforts and Mr. Nicolls of Seamer Farm had planted wildflowers. Minutes of this meeting (and agendas prior to meetings) are displayed on the noticeboards and on the website. An update from the March Parish Council meeting will appear in the next Grapevine once ratified at the May Parish Council meeting. The Parish Council meeting on Tuesday 17th May will take place at the Village Hall, commencing at 7pm and will include the AGM. Residents can access information about Parish Council and Community Fund matters in the following ways: a) Attendance at the bimonthly Parish Council meetings, details of which are publicised in various locations: e.g., Parish Council noticeboards, website. b) The Grapevine, where articles are regularly published. c) Parish Council minutes; these are displayed on noticeboards and on the website. d) Residents can contact the Parish Council via email or telephone to discuss any matters that are of concern to them. 9
All matters concerned with the Community Fund are discussed as an agenda item at Parish Council meetings. Any residents who attend form part of the discussion and all viewpoints are taken into consideration when making a final decision. Maureen Marshall, Acting Chair of the Parish Council Email: glenn.mcgill57@gmail.com (Parish Clerk) Seamer Parish Council encompasses Seamer and Tame Bridge. YOUR PARISH COUNCIL URGENTLY NEEDS YOUR HELP Can you spare approx. 8-10 hours per month? Do you want to help your community? Do you have experience in an admin role or are keen to learn?
Seamer Parish Council urgently needs a new Parish Clerk Role details are: Receive emails and action or distribute as required Ensure any bills received are paid Keep accurate records of financials Prepare agenda for bi monthly meetings and take minutes at these and distribute as required. This would ideally suit someone who is retired or currently working part time and is keen to be involved in village affairs. An online tutorial is available for this role and would be funded by the PC if required. The role is supported by a modest stipend of £300 pa. Our current clerk works very long hours in his own business and does not have the time to continue with this role as he only took it on initially on a temporary basis. If you can help please contact glenn.mcgill57@gmail.com
TIME TO GET WALKING AGAIN! At this time of year we start to think about the mud drying up and getting out to walk in the beautiful English Countryside again, but where to find new and interesting walks? Walking in Yorkshire https://www.walkinginengland.co.uk/yorkshire has hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, details of all the walking groups in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own or with a group all the 10
information is there in one place. John Harris (the custodian of the website) said “There is so much walking information on the web but it is difficult to find. Walking in Yorkshire (part of the Walking in England website) has brought it together in one place so whether you are walking from home, or away on holiday, you will be able to find a walk suitable for you”. With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to enjoy. So home or away, check out the websites and get walking! John Harris www.walkinginengland.co.uk INFORMATION ABOUT HISTORY OF SEAMER I'm Scott Farrel and I am looking into the history of Seamer. I'm trying to get old maps of the area to map out any old dwellings or walkways that may have past through the farm lands in the area in which Greystones farm sits. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated Thank you for your time and look forward to hearing back from you. Kind regards Scott scottfarrell2008@live.co.uk or 07716949361 POST OFFICE VAN IN SEAMER The Post Office will continue to offer full services (from a van) on Tuesdays 10.30 -11.15 between the Post Box and Seamer Motors. There will be stamps, cards Newspapers, Magazines, etc. Give it a try! Please make full use of this or we may lose it
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GRAPEVINE CONTACTS
All Landlines are prefixed with 01642 Magazine Layout, Editor, Printing and Distribution Coordinator David Campy, 5a Holme Lane, Seamer E mail: david.campy123@btinternet.com 710320 Front Cover Illustration Vivien Hyman 269663 St Martin’s Judith Turland Judithturland@gmail.com 710489 John Groom john@hillviews.co.uk 712138 David Hand david.h49@talktalk.net 07801 366029 Methodist Church Ron Kirk, 2 Rosehill, Great Ayton 722053 Seamer Village Hall Chairperson: Mark Murphy Email : medinnov8@hotmail.com Bookings: Ann Thomas catcabcam@googlemail.com 710822 Village News and Events Contact: Ann Thomas catcabcam@googlemail.com 710822 Dave Campy david.campy123@btinternet.com 710320 Oil Club Contacts David Ward 710333 Gordon Reed 711495 Seamer Parish Council E-Mail: glenn.mcgill57@gmail.com Seamer Correspondent for Darlington and Stockton Times Christine Cooper 701733 Seamer Village Website seamervillage.co.uk The Globe, Stokesley Website http://www.theglobelibrarystokesley.org ooooOOOOooo
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