Overleigh Roundabout April 2015 by Talkabout Publishing

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Inside this month: Hough Green History, PCSO Jenna Smith, Butcher’s Blog, University move controversy, Queen’s Park High School, Handbridge WI

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THE University’s move into the old Capital Bank building has caused rumblings of discontent, with one campaigner claiming it will lead to the ‘studentification’ of Handbridge. You can read more in this month’s magazine. On a sad note, in this month’s Butcher’s Blog Bruce Edge pays tribute to his father John Edge who died recently. We also have news from Queen’s Park High School, Chester Croquet Club’s forthcoming season, Handbridge WI’s appearance on national television, Hough Green history, Dodleston Castle, as well as the usual features, including the crime update with PCSO Jenna Smith and health and beauty.

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John Edge 1940 -2015 It is with great sadness that this month’s blog will be in memory of my father John Edge who passed away on the 18th February after a long battle with cancer.

He was born on the 20th October 1940 during the Second World War and lived in very cramped accommodation above the shop in our current location. My Grandfather Ernie, founder of our family business then left to go to War leaving my Grandmother, Florrie, to run the business with no previous experience of butchery whilst looking after a newborn baby. My father lay in a drawer at the side of the shop till while she served the customers.

In 1955 aged 15, Dad joined the family business. He was to put 50 years of his life into the shop, working hard and modernising as he went. Over his lifetime in the shop he and my Grandfather saw the emergence of the supermarkets and the domestic freezer. The freezer revolutionised how people shopped like the supermarket did but the supermarkets were to prove a huge threat to small independent shops all over the country. At one stage there used to be 12 butchers shops between our shop and The Cross in town. Now we are the only one.

My father’s way to compete with the supermarkets was to provide better quality, provenance and better service. This was the way we remained in business over some very difficult trading years. He put all of himself into the shop on a daily basis. He had a great sense of humour and always had a laugh and a joke with customers. In addition, he had a very caring side which saw customers confide in him with their ups and downs in their own lives.

His funeral on the 10th March was attended by nearly 400 people which showed how fondly he was thought of by his friends, family, customers and the whole local community. I had the pleasure of working alongside him for 12 years before he retired which will always live with me. He will be hugely missed and I am told will be held in great affection for many years to come by the people of Handbridge and Chester.

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Uni article lacked depth Your article in the March edition about the sale of the Lloyds Bank site to the University of Chester is, as was the CWAC Planning Committee debate leading to the decision you report, woefully inadequate. You consistently fail to reflect the concerns of the local community in your reports of major development issues and impacts in Handbridge in these very limited reports as and when a matter arises as is the case here. In this case it may not have crossed your minds but the question we are left asking is if there will HANDBRIDGE community campaigner be no residential use of the Bank site for students Reg Barritt has spoken of his fears that where will they live then; and what impact is that the area will become a student enclave going to have on Handbridge itself and indeed once the University moves into the old the actual aims and objectives the new strategic Capital Bank building. Local Plan sets out for future regeneration of Mr Barritt has concerns that there will Chester with which this change of use very likely be a big rise in the student population conflicts? in Handbridge which would change the Before reporting matters like this you really complexion of the area. should get the balanced view of the local His view is that the number of families community which you have failed to do in this will be reduced, with more houses being case. taken up by students. The Garden Lane For example have you considered the impact area is home to thousands of students, change of use might have on the sale value of with many houses used as ‘student the site given this Bank is in hock to the nation digs’ and Mr Barritt fears a repeat in and has debt to pay back? Maybe an interested Handbridge. housing developer, which we agreed to have He also claims that ‘studentification’ the site used for, would have paid a lot more for changes the character of the area, even it than the University may now have to with that affecting school intake and causing competition removed? You also fail to report parking and litter problems. the fact that the University failed to consult the The University is keen to promote the community or declare the actual intended use positive aspects of the move, with Viceof this site. And despite the committee criticising ChancellorTim Wheeler saying: “We are the University for failing to consult the local very mindful that one of those interested community and not turning up to the meeting parties is the surrounding community they still gave permission instead of deferring and can assure residents that over the it until the University met the local community summer we will restore the Capital and came along to a Planning Meeting to answer Bridge buildings and their grounds to reasonable questions of concern and to explain their former glory.” itself. We sent someone to the meeting to The building will be used by the address those issues that committee on the day University’s Business School from the actually in the end overlooked but our speaker start of the academic year in September was told they could not address the meeting but will not be used as a residential because the University was not present to campus. respond! Now that is local democracy not working The Neo-Georgian Capital House for you. building, completed at the outbreak Reg Barritt of World War Two, was the Western 99 Hartington Street Command Headquarters of the Army Handbridge controlling its forces from Hadrian’s 26 To advertise call 350398 www.overleighroundabout.co.uk

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On a very cold day, Queen’s Park High School Rowing Club students competed in snow, sleet, rain and finally some sun at Trafford Rowing Club. The J14 quad of Cameron Neill, Aiden Farrelly, Henry Dougherty, Charlie Birchall Jones and cox Harrison Kendall Smith came 1st in their category, also Gwilym Harris racing in a single boat at J13 also acheived a gold medal. The clubs WJj13 quad of Zara Gaultier Price, Louise Coleman, Kiera Burke, Charlotte Carswell and cox Emily Cox achieved 2nd place, While Charlie Birchall Jones who competed in his first race in a J14 single boat missed 1st place by three seconds. The club entered over 13 boats, with all the year 8+9 boys competing in singles for the first time. The rowing club’s WJ15 quad of Eve Finlay, Felicity Weir, Eve Lawlor, Rona Fishburn and Amy Williamson travelled with their coaches 200 miles south to compete at one of the most prestigious events of the junior rowing competitions held at Hampton School on the River Thames, which was attended by over 500 crews across all school ages. Competing against all the top private schools and rowing clubs from around the South East over a 3000m course, the girls came 14th out of a total of 30 crews. The girls were supported by fellow rowers Emily Cox and Zoe Theil who cheered them on over the length of the course.

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Did you know that Dodleston once had a castle?

ucked away behind trees in the private grounds of the Old Rectory in Dodleston are earthworks that at first glance seem insignificant. They can be seen from the churchyard side of the boundary wall at the rear of St Mary’s Church. These earthworks are the site of Dodleston Castle, a Motte and Bailey construction that was built in c.1090 by Hugh Lupus as part of a line of defences that stretched from Shotwick to Treuman’s Hill (near Hawarden), Dodleston, Pulford, Alford and Shocklach. The purpose of these ‘minor castles’ was to control the Welsh tribes and to prevent the theft of livestock.

A motte and bailey castle was made up of two structures, a motte, a type of mound - often artificial - topped with a wooden or stone structure known as a keep; and at least one bailey, a fortified enclosure built next to the motte. The term “motte and bailey” is a relatively modern one, and is not medieval in origin. The word “motte” is the French version of the Latin mota, and in France the word motte was initially an early word for a turf; it then became used to refer to a turf bank, and by the 12th century was used to refer to the castle design itself. The word “bailey” comes from the Norman-French baille, or basse-cour, referring to a low yard.

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Mottes were made out of earth and flattened on top, and it can be very hard to determine whether a mound is artificial or natural without excavation. Some were also built over older artificial structures, such as Bronze Age barrows. A motte was protected by a ditch or moat around it, which would typically have also been a source of the earth and soil for constructing the mound itself.

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A keep and a protective wall would usually be built on top of the motte. Some walls would be large enough to have a wall-walk around them and the outer walls of the motte and the wallwalk could be strengthened by filling in the gap between the wooden walls with earth and stones, allowing it to carry more weight - this was called a garillum.

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Smaller mottes could only support simple towers with room for a few soldiers, whilst larger mottes could be equipped with a much grander building. Many wooden keeps were designed with a bretasche, a square building that overhung from the upper floors of the building, enabling better defences and a more sturdy structural design.

Wooden structures on mottes could be protected by skins and hides to prevent them being easily set alight during a siege. The Motte and Bailey of Pulford Castle can be seen close to the church of St Mary the Virgin.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting that churches were built close to the sites of castles and the Pulford Motte and Bailey is right by Pulford Brook, the established border between England and Wales.

Whether these castles ever saw military action is not clear but in 1401 King Henry IV called upon the governors of the Marcher Parishes, which included Dodleston, to ensure the castles were maintained to repel the revolts of Owen Glyndwr. Sadly, through the centuries these monuments of history have virtually disappeared off the scene but at least we have mounds of earth left as reminders of their importance in more turbulent times.

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS WESTMINSTER PARK Westminster Park Residents Association David Pilling e-mail chair@wp-ra.org.uk www.wp-ra.org.uk Westminster Park Community Centre Five Ashes Road, Westminster Park 671243 (during bar hours) Friends of Westminster ParK Norman Trott, 683540 www.westminsterpark.org.uk Clubs & organisations Belgrave Badminton Club Keith, 671077

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The club meets on Monday evenings from 8 - 10 p.m. in the Queens Park High School, from Sept to spring. New members, improvers and advanced are very welcome to join. Contact Sarah Edwards 520895. www.badmintoninchester.co.uk Website www.handbridge.weebly.com Scouts See Westminster Park listings

HOUGH GREEN Hough Green Residents’ Association. Contact Norman Trott on 683540

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