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Friendly village with a charming past
Down on the Farm Local farm history at Fenton
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e read with interest the letter [in issue 153] received from the Highways Department at Lincolnshire County Council about a request for a pedestrian crossing and the speed limit. Fenton Parish Council asked for a pedestrian crossing years ago but it was refused. And we have raised the issue of the speed of vehicles through Fenton village on a number of occasions. Indeed the speed survey referred to in the letter received from the Highways Department was carried out at our request. However, we have been successful in extending the 40 mph speed limit to beyond the end of Maltkiln Road, and we have also asked the police to conduct speed checks in the village, which were carried out early this year. Tracy Flinders Fenton Parish Council
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o all the team at Trentside Links: the latest issue was such a good read I did not put it down until I came to the end. The article on Kettlethorpe was my favourite, well done to you all. Geoff Lloyd & family The Old Stackyard, Fenton
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have just read the online copy of issue 155. Absolutely wonderful. I grew up in Fenton and have often read my parents’ (Mick and Chris East) copy of Trentside Links but it was lovely to be able to read it at my leisure online. Great job, look forward to the next issue. Samantha Newton (née East) Goxhill, Barrow-upon-Humber
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started the debate on speeding through Fenton in issue 150. I questioned why Laughterton has a 30 mph limit but not Fenton and why police are always in Laughterton with their speed guns. At the time Fenton had experienced five accidents, all within a month and caused by excessive speed, but nothing has changed since then. Fenton has accidents regularly on the bends within and near to the current 40 mph limit, while I can’t recall a single accident at Laughterton. Perhaps Laughterton is a cash-cow for the police, I don’t know, but if Fenton wants a lower speed limit the answer may well lie with the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership (LRSP). They will supply a flashing MPH sign, day-glo protective clothing and relevant Health & Safety training. All Fenton has to do is to provide two volunteers who will be given all the necessary instructions to help record the speeds of vehicles through the village. Can two volunteers please step forward? I have the name and phone number for the relevant contact at LRSP. Contact me on 01522 694235. Frank Harris Fenton
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Jamie and the trees Ingleby Arms to make Popular young Fentonian, Jamie Pilfold, who distributes the magazine to folk in Kettlethorpe and Park Farm, has just started a one-year level 2 diploma in Arboriculture at Riseholme College, University of Lincoln. Jamie is well known to Fenton locals because he’s helped many with their gardening but now he is embarked on a City & Guilds Diploma, to be followed by another 2 years at level 3 doing a National Diploma, where he will learn the principles of plant and soil science, tree care, pests and diseases and other aspects of tree management and cultivation. Jamie Pilfold of Fenton, now training to be an arboriculturist. Below: Jamie 25 ft up a lime tree at Riseholme College — and no nosebleed!
a meal of its anniversary Marton village pub & restaurant the Ingleby Arms is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Neil & Lissa MacFarlane becoming landlords on 15 January 2001. The couple have seen many changes since then. ‘Ten years ago we had strict 11 pm closing times and you didn’t have all the pub closures happening as you do now,' said Neil, and Lissa added ‘The past 10 years have not been a piece of cake, we have had changes in legislation, including the smoking ban, and increasing prices.’ Commenting on their milestone Neil said ‘Ten years in one pub is quite a commitment but we love everything about running this pub and in particular our customers, they're a great crowd.’ Lissa, who is head chef, was keen to develop the business and 6 years ago put in a kitchen producing homemade food. The menu
now includes haggis, Thai green curry, Cannelloni with ricotta, spinach and their premier dish of lamb and mint pie. To celebrate the Ingleby Arms will be inviting patrons old and new to join them for a special party night on Saturday 15 January 2011. There will be live music from the band The Torn, from 8.30 pm till late, and guests can enjoy a special free buffet and raffle, with prizes donated by pub regulars. If you like healthy eating then bring the family or meet up with friends and try their attractive deals on the Healthy Option Menu.
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'It's about keeping in touch' The website brings a number of extra features to the Trentside Links offering. One is the facility to download full copies of the magazine and another is the Forum, which allows people to communicate, quickly and simply. This is useful if you happened to grow up in the Trentside area but have since moved away, maybe overseas, but want to keep in touch with what’s going on in the community or are trying to trace people or information from the past.
Before his arboricultural studies Jamie had completed 2 years earning a BTech in Engineering. It was while doing the latter course that he assisted a local tree surgeon and that’s when his interest in arboriculture began. Thank goodness there are such people as Jamie. We all know the importance of trees to the environment and to our own personal well-being (imagine life without trees, ugh!) and so I’m sure we all wish him well. ‘What have you in mind following your studies?’ I asked. ‘Set up my own business.’ was the reply. All power to you then, Jamie.
Recently, siblings Brian Williamson and Gillian Emerton, who now live in Spain and Australia respectively, contacted us because they’d come across the website and wished to convey some of their recollections about their early years in Newton on Trent and Park Farm. Brian was married in Kettlethorpe Church to Nora, a Saxilby girl, and has lived in Fenton for 3 years and Park Farm (where his father was farm foreman until 1960) for 10 years. Following some travels about Europe and America he has since 2004 lived in Totana, a small town near Murcia in Spain. I estimate from his comments that Brian is now about 68 years old and sister Gillian about 62.
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In the forum Brian tells the story fondly of his youth on the farm and playing around Newton and Kettlethorpe. He had no idea about the wartime plane crash at Park Farm until he read about it in Trentside Links (September issue, no 155). Gillian is one of two sisters who both now live in Australia. She writes charmingly and at length about her school days in Newton on Trent and of life on the farm at Park Farm, Kettlethorpe. Brian's and Gillian’s stories can be found in full on the Newton on Trent and Kettlethorpe sections of the Forum page on the TL website:
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owards the end of the Second World War the Royal Air Force set up a practice bombing range on land owned by the Gourley family of Kettlethorpe.
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It was in 1943 that the Air Ministry commandeered 11.5 acres of land for the range, in the lowland area of the Trentside marshes running down to the River Trent between Fenton and Laughterton. The range target was a large concrete triangle with a lighting gantry mounted on top that illuminated the target during night-time bombing practice.
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RAF personnel controlled the range from two observation (Nissen) huts. The huts were located at the end of two farm tracks for easy access, accessible from the A1133 road between Torksey Lock and Laughterton. One of the observation huts would be designated the master and the other as slave. The master would have the primary sighting equipment and a generator to supply electricity for the target and hut lighting. A field telephone system linked it to the slave hut, which was some distance away on the edge of what is now the Millfield Golf complex. The range was not manned all the time but when it was red flags would be hoisted to show that the range was live and in use. During a practice-bombing run the aircraft would be allotted a time window to practice on the range and communication with the aircraft would be by either an Aldis signal lamp or Very signal pistol, the sort of things that often feature in old war movies. The aircraft would fly over the target at a prearranged height and release an 8 or 11.5 lb practice bomb towards the target. As the bomb landed it would emit a large plume of smoke and the two observation huts would take bearings to calculate the exact location and thus accuracy of the bomb drop. The bombing range closed shortly after the war and the land was released back for agricultural use. The concrete or stone target was broken up and the resulting rubble used to provide bridges for crossing the dykes. The only remaining part of
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The author stood on the dilapidated concrete base on which was mounted the master observation hut.
Andrew Panton, curator of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre East Kirkby, with an 11.5 lb inert practice bomb as used on the Fenton range.
A wartime Nissen hut, with semicylindrical corrugated iron exterior. Not exactly built for comfort but cheap, portable and light on use of materials.
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the range that is obvious today is the base of the master observation hut which now regularly supports a straw stack. David Willey Saxilby My thanks to Ian Gourley, the late Geoff Lidgett, Susan & Keris Eyton-Williams and Colin Watson for information and access to their land that assisted me in writing this article.
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John Mannion and his famous ancestors John o’ Gaunt
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ohn Mannion, co-owner of Little London Park, the retirement park at Torksey Lock, can trace his ancestry back to the union of John o’ Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford, Lady of Kettlethorpe.
Katherine Swynford Lady of Kettlethorpe 1350-1403
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Above: John’s illustrious ancestors. There is a line of descent from the Beauforts to members of the Lynch and Mannion families in the Irish Republic to the present day.
John and Katherine are famous figures in England’s history, together founding the Beaufort line that leads to the Tudors, one of the most famous royal houses in English history. Though little is known about Katherine the person, ‘from her is descended every English monarch since 1461, and no fewer than five American presidents’ (Alison Weir, Katherine Swynford, 2007) so it’s difficult to overstate her importance in English history. John o’ Gaunt (1340-99) was one of the most powerful men in England, spanning the reigns of Edward III and Richard II. Katherine Swynford (1350-1403), Lady of Kettlethorpe Manor, was John’s third wife. They were married in 1396 and had four children who assumed the surname of Beaufort, after John’s lordship of Beaufort in France. They were married for three years until John’s death in 1399. As the diagram above right shows, Katherine had four children, the birth dates for which aren’t known exactly but all were born — scandalously — many years prior to John and Katherine’s marriage. In the year following their marriage, and more than 20 years after the birth of the first of their four children, both the Pope (in religious terms) and Richard II (in English legal terms) made the Beauforts legitimate, post facto. The Beauforts (John and Joan) were to produce issue leading to the royal houses of Tudor and York. That’s quite a pedigree. It was some 40 years ago that family member David Vickers, who was at the time a student at Manchester University, decided to research the lineage of his family, the Lynch family, who are of Irish descent, as are the Mannions. Without a personal computer and with no internet to help with searches the undertaking would have been daunting and substan-
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tial, involving much toil and persistent detective work but, as John relates, David was bright and industrious and he was able to map out the 18th century link between the Lynch and Mannion families and in addition trace back some 600 years a line of descent from the Beauforts and thus their famous parents, John o’ Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.
was buried there. ‘Did you know that one of the family is buried at the cathedral!’ said Pat to John. And thus the family was reacquainted with their long-neglected family tree.
David made copies of the family tree — which in the old-fashioned cut-andpaste manner spanned 3 pages sellotaped together! — and they were circulated throughout the family. At the time the name Swynford meant nothing in particular to the family and typically, copies were put in a drawer to be forgotten and ‘rediscovered’ some many years later. And so it was, until about 15 years ago John’s elder brother, Pat, made a visit to Lincoln Cathedral and happened to notice that a certain Katherine Swynford
John has maintained contact with Kettlethorpe Church over the years (Katherine would have been a regular visitor to the church, just a stroll away from her home at Kettlethorpe Hall) and was responsible for repair of a church wall damaged by a fallen tree. More recently, John and wife Jane’s daughter, Amanda, who now lives in Australia, was married there. And thus the family’s link with Kettlethorpe was refreshed some 600 years later. With grateful thanks to John and wife Jane for their help and forbearance in providing family information, on one occasion while also trying to snatch a working lunch.
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World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support
We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who attended, donated and contributed in any way to our coffee morning on Friday 24 September to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. We had a very successful event, and with your kind donations and the Gift Aid tax that can be recovered we raised the giant sum of £ 896.14 towards this very worthy cause. Over 70 people contributed and we are sorry that we cannot thank everyone personally but hope this public message will help to some extent. Thank you all so very much. And see you next year! Jean & Trevor Richmond Kettlethorpe
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Laughterton village A modest little village with a charming history ...
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ccording to the village description drawn up for the millennium, Laughterton was called Leugttrican in about 680, which was possibly a variant spelling of Leagttricoun. (Spelling was not standardised at this time so it is common to have variant spellings.) The old English name was Leahtri dun, meaning hill or homestead where lettuce grew! Laughterton lies 11 miles north-west of Lincoln (A57), bordered by the Fossdyke Navigation and the River Trent. This small hamlet has at its centre a small post office and shop and the Friendship Inn, a pub serving real ale, for which it has the Cask marque of approval. Neil Jupp is the new inn manager and in the year since his arrival the inn has been refurbished (the beer garden has been revamped and now has an enclosure with some furred and feathered animals) and has won an Outside trader of the year award . Laughterton has a three-course golf club called Millfield, the main course stretching to over 6,000 yds. Millfield caters for both experienced and beginner players and the latter can play the slightly easier 18 or 9-hole courses. There is a scout camp called the Jim Page which belongs to the Gainsborough District Scouts. The well-wooded campsite covers about 10 acres. There is also a nudist colony but little is known about it as it keeps a low public profile. Laughterton has no church. Its churchgoers attend St Peter and St Paul at Kettlethorpe, which is the parish church for Kettlethorpe, Fenton and Laughterton. There is easy access to the River Trent via Marsh Lane, which is popular with walkers as you can take a long walk up to the lock at Torksey or, if you prefer, go fishing in the river — with a permit, mind! Laughterton past and present What do the two snapshots of Laughterton's main street tell us about visible change over the past 70 years or so? Firstly, there has been significant growth in street furniture: telegraph lines, street lighting and so on. But notice the
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CALLING PEOPLE OF T h o r n e y v i l l a g e The next issue shall feature the village of Thorney. Do you have any stories, photos, documents, newspaper cuttings, anything that helps to tell the story of Thorney and its people, past and present? Then please get in touch — see inside the front cover for contact details.
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house and picket fence on the right, it seems little has changed there, though the small building behind has vanished and the post office has been covered in white paint. The roofline of the houses on the left looks the same, with no new introductions. So overall, the main street hasn’t changed that much. I wonder what will happen over the next 70 years?
ery was housed inside the upper section, reached by a long staircase. Such mills were supported by large struts and these, and the space around them, were often enclosed by a circular brick roundhouse which provided storage space. The circular earthen mound on which the mill stood was built to gain extra height to catch more wind.
Kettlethorpe School Laughterton once had its own school which was situated on land that is now occupied by two residential properties, called Bell Lodge and Studio cottage, the latter once the schoolmaster’s home. It was a public elementary school called Kettlethorpe rather than Laughterton School, since it was named after the Kettlethorpe estate on which it stood. The school was opened in 1854. By 1903 it was known as Kettlethorpe CE School and by the early 1950s the school was closed, thus having lasted for about 100 years. The period photo shows pupils and head teacher of the school, Mr Stevenson, in 1909. Mr Stevenson was previously head teacher just down the road at Newton on Trent school and transferred from there to Kettlethorpe School in 1906.
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The mill was built in 1787 and operated until 1950 although for its last twenty years without wind power. It was demolished in 1951, by which time two sails had fallen off and the wooden shell was dilapidated. Parts were taken to restore a tower mill at Heapham. The mound still exists, as does the adjacent house, a private residence in Marsh Lane.
There were two aircraft that crashed during the war — one at Park Farm in Kettlethorpe and one at Laughterton — and their stories have been told by David Willey in this magazine. David was a member of a team of local villagers, The Trentside Memorial Group, who established the aircraft propeller blade memorial in 1994 in memory of the aircrew members who died as a result of the two crashed aircraft.
The old windmill Laughterton once had a wooden post mill with a brick roundhouse at its base. A post mill pivots on a central post, hence 'post mill', and was turned into the wind by hand. Its weight was reduced because of its wooden construction. The machin-
We are grateful to a number of people who provided information in support of this article, among whom were Jean Bernhardt, Sean Brown, Ian Gourley, Chris Hewis of the Saxilby History Group, Jennie Simmonds, Colin Watson, and staff at the Lincoln Library. From Rosamund Addison’s scrapbook of the 1930s, a report from the local paper on a Hat Carnival Dance at Laughterton ... it's interesting to see how local people amused themselves prior to the digital age.
Aircraft propeller memorial The second period photo is of the football team in 1926, in my opinion one of the most charming that we have featured and showing the tree-high uncle of wellknown local farmer, Ian Gourley. Curiously, chalked on the board is 'Laughterton School' rather than Kettlethorpe School. This was evidently the favoured spot for school photos since the scene looks the same as in the 1909 photo. Could have even used the same bench!
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There is video footage of the 1994 memorial ceremony on the Trentside Links website at www.trentsidelinks.org, which also features recollections from some of the surviving aircrew of the Lancaster bomber.
The HAT CARNIVAL dance, which took place on Wednesday night, under the auspices of the Women’s Institute, was a great success. A large proportion of the guests came in fancy dress and the ballot for the best costume was hotly contested. Miss Pearce as ‘Harlequin’ and Miss Aisthorpe as ‘All in a garden fair’ were selected for the first and second, and Mr T Page, as ‘Pierotte’ and Mr S Addison as ‘Ali Baba’ from the gentlemen. There were many ingenious, clever costumes, such as newspaper, Christmas tree, Chinaman, King of Hearts, Quakeress, Spanish lady, etc. The dancing was kept up with great spirit till 2 am, Mr Turner of Saxilby being the musician. After the fancy dress parade and balloting, about seven tables or more dancers (sic) were organised for a small whist drive. The refreshments were all given and after all expenses are paid it is hoped that about £4 will be added to the Building Fund for the improvement of Kettlethorpe School. On the following day about 25 parishioners of 70 years of age and over were entertained in the Laughterton school to tea. Songs and recitations were given in the evening by the younger members and a very enjoyable time was spent.
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ick went about securing sponsors and planned a cycle ride that would take us from Lincoln in a 40 mile north-to-east arc that swept through such places as Burton, Nettleham, Hackthorn, Snarford, Reepham, Greetwell and back to Lincoln, going from church to church gathering signatures, like bees collecting pollen. At most venues there were people, almost exclusively women, who welcomed us warmly and offered much-needed refreshments. Some churches had events on, one commemorating the Battle of Britain, another with parents and infants bopping to disco music.
In case you haven’t done it yourself (what, surely!) cycling church to church is an excellent way of seeing the widest range of churches than you could otherwise visit and, secondly, a marvellous way of discovering the Lincolnshire countryside and its fine people. The Ride and stride is an annual national event, covering 34 counties extending from Northumberland to Cornwall, that raises money to help maintain Britain’s historic churches. More than 13,000 people cycled or walked from church to church last year and raised over £1.5 million. This year some 10,000 churches were expected to open for the event, which fell on Saturday 11 September. Lincoln has a staggering number of churches — the C of E website declares there are 650 churches in the diocese of Lincoln, the biggest in England (http://www.achurchnearyou.com). The churches differ widely in character and style, which is a wondrous thing if you’re spending the whole day visiting them. One visit that stuck in the memory was St Giles, Lincoln. It is an imposing church that was originally built in 1724 by Lincoln Council for its civic services and was located near the Guildhall or Stonebow. But, to make way for urban development, it was moved uphill to
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St Giles in the early 1900s, along with its fine organ, early 18th century bells and furnishings. You can’t make up stories like this, they have to be real. We had one of our most hospitable welcomes at All Saints Church, Nettleham, which itself is a picturesque and well designed village. On entering the church there was pleasant music — appropriately coming from above — and a host of ladies busy at their chores and organising cups of tea and other refreshments for passing visitors like us. The church itself is a little Saxon beauty, with finely fashioned gothic arches and alcoves and the faded remains of some fine medieval painting on the north wall interior. The church of St Lawrence in the ancient village of Snarford was a surprise; for a moment I thought I’d walked into Westminster Abbey. There are a couple of painted effigies laid on their side (see photo), as though they’re taking a short break on the divan. They are so well animated it can give you a jolt when you suddenly come upon them. To the carver who fashioned them I’d say: well done indeed, sir. And there is other fine work in this small but splendid church. Lincolnshire is full of surprises when it comes to churches. At Saxby there is what looks like a Doric temple but no, it’s St Helen’s church, originally built in 1775 as a parish church and mausoleum chapel for the Saunderson family and since 1966 a Grade I listed building. Remarkably, the church was shaken by an earthquake in February 2008 and the interior was ‘badly affected’. Fortunately, the church was redecorated in April 2009 and is now fully restored and, to my eye, still looking like something left behind by a forgetful timelord. Sadly, there was more than one story of lead being stolen from church roofs. ‘Thieves aren’t as honourable as they once were’, said one forlorn voice. In one case a church replaced its lead but was robbed again some months later, and because the
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lead has to be specially made up the bill for replacement is now twice what it was before. It’s a grim reminder of the darker side of human nature. To finish on a positive note, Dick managed to raise over £500, half of which will go to the Trust and half to support his local church, St Peter & St Paul at Kettlethorpe. There were no injuries or mishaps and we both got back safe, sound and ready for a good drink. Till next year, then. John Redgrove & Dick Wright Fenton & Kettlethorpe
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Ann Lister arrived in Laughterton with husband Guy and two infant daughters, Claire and Helen, in 1979. She had married Guy in 1972 and for the next few years lived in Cardiff and then Llantwit Major, a small coastal town in the Vale of Glamorgan, during which time she had her two daughters (son Nick being born in Lincoln). But Ann originally hails from Crewe, the famous railway town in Cheshire.
Once the children began school Ann was again unable to be a bystander and became a governor of Newton on Trent School and, once the children had moved on, governor and Chair of the Curriculum Committee at Yarborough School, Lincoln, a post she still holds some 22 years later. ‘I’ve seen four headmasters come and go!’ declares Ann. Oh, and did I not mention that Ann was also Chair of the PTA at Yarborough for about 5 years?
Laughterton was Ann’s first experience of rural life but almost immediately she found the locals friendly, nice people and that is thankfully still the case and largely why she is still happy to be in Laughterton after 31 years. It was within the first month of arrival that Ann began her active contribution to the life and community of Laughterton. A neighbour encouraged her to join the local Women’s Institute and she’s never looked back, having been member, Secretary and now serving the third term of office as President of the Kettlethorpe & District WI. Having young children Ann soon met other mothers and began to get involved with organisation of the local playgroup, first as voluntary helper and later as Chair of the Kettlethorpe Playgroup, meeting in Kettlethorpe Village Hall.
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The church has always been an important part of Ann’s life — ‘I’ve always been involved with Kettlethorpe Church’ says Ann. Last year she became church warden (husband Guy has held the same post for some 14 years) but for at least 25 years Ann has been Secretary of the Parochial Church Committee, having taken over from Mrs Daly-Lewis, wife of Circuit Judge Edward Daly-Lewis, who then owned Kettlethorpe Hall. Ann is a very effective fundraiser and has been a member of the Church Fundraising Committee for about 15 years, organiser of the Church Fête, innumerable raffles, Christmas carol and Mothering Sunday services and was Secretary of Kettlethorpe Village Hall Committee for some 10 years.
Still on the educational theme, Ann is a part-time supply teacher for 11-18 year olds, and has been teaching various subjects, principally Food Technology but also maths, to years 7 to 9 at Middlefield School, Gainsborough. Ann has now been supply teaching for about 11 years, mainly at Sir William Robertson High School, Welbourn, Lincoln, and this year is doing 2 days per week there teaching Food Technology and Mathematics.
It’s hard to believe that Ann has found time for leisure pursuits but she assures me she is a keen gardener, enjoys cooking, reading, sewing and the different cultures experienced in foreign travel ‘... but never the same place twice!’, says Ann, and does aquarobics up to twice per week at the local gym. Ann has been an unstinting and selfless contributor to the community for an extended period and one can only stand back in admiration for what she has achieved for the benefit of others.
What's in the children's activities programme for Autumn
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The programme can change month to month so it’s wise to check with the Centre before you go.
Come along and enjoy bacon butties for you, toast and fruit for your children. Meet other dads while your children play and have fun. Last Saturday every month, 9.30-11.30 am
Support and friendship for families. Free refreshments, fun activities, toys, meet other parents. Monday, 10.45-11.45 am. Book by phone
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Children’s Centre Sturton by Stow Primary School School Lane, Sturton by Stow Lincoln LN1 2BY
Age 1-2 yrs. Songs, rhymes and other musical activities to enhance children's communication and language learning. Fridays, 10.30-11.15 am. Book by phone
Age 18 mths - 4 yrs. Music, movement, dance. Wednesday, 9.30-11.30 am Friday 1.00-3.00 pm (Term Time only)
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Parents & Carers chat, play & find out how to help children learn and achieve in a relaxed and informal way. Last Friday of each month, 10.00-11.00 am
Phone numbers Children’s Centre: Rebecca 01427 788971 Toy Library: Rachel or Michelle 01427 617767
Parents and carers can come and play with their children. Lots of toys, activities and equipment available. Thursday, 9.30-11.30 am
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The above is a sample. Please contact the Centre for the full programme.
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Reports from the Kettlethorpe and District Women’s Institute September 2010 report We had an interesting speaker for September. Sean Johnson is a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnotists. He gave us an insight into his work, which is quite different to the clichés of watchswinging or causing a patient to act daft. Sean asked some volunteers to close their eyes and told them they were holding a heavy book in their left hand, with a slight pull from above on their right, then added another book left and a stronger pull right. As this continued left hands dropped and right hands rose. The comic poses struck by members of the audience varied considerably and this could be due to physiological differences, said Sean. Clinically, hypnosis is used for many problems, eg to stop smoking, nail-biting, or stress reduction. Anyway, a good talk, enjoyed by all.
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As we approach Christmas I am reminded of the stresses and strains it can bring for mums. Going on holiday is great. But sometimes it can be a little stressful to be with your nearest and dearest 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Closely thrown together on holiday, we are more intensely with our families on holiday than we are for the rest of the year. So we get to see them warts and all, and that isn’t always easy. Take my summer holiday with my wife Steph, for example. Now some of you may know I have a passing interest in trains. I heard that a steam train was due to go by my old stamping ground of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire. This was about an hour’s drive from where we were staying, so that meant driving for two hours to see a train dash through the station for about 30 seconds. Not a bad trade-off, I thought. And it wouldn’t have been but for two things. On the platform of the station when we arrived was a man with a camcorder and an anorak. With a common interest
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The monthly meeting opened to an array of small tables, so members knew they were going to participate in something. First we were reminded of the gifts to bring next month for the Lincoln mental health Christmas presents, and our shoe boxes for Romania — this year they are for the children. On Saturday 11 December there will be a flower arranging course in the morning in the village hall.
This was a double-event month. Our annual dinner was held in the village hall and the cooks and waitresses were members of the committee. They made a superb meal, and you should have seen the desserts! Afterwards, there was our surprise entertainment and no-one seeing a group of young people come in could have guessed at the fine quality of the performance they were about to give. Generally G&S gave us a lovely programme from several Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and I for one was amazed at how skilled they were. The bass had a real depth, the baritone a distinct turn of comedy and the girls could have coped with anything. A good evening was had by all forty-four of us.
Jane Alford, specialising in crafts, design and embroidery, then took over and each table supplied with the necessities to make gift boxes. Most were pleasantly surprised by their handiwork, after some help from the expert and her assistant.
in trains I fell in talking with him while Steph wandered along the platform. In a perfect world this would have lasted 10 minutes and we could have all gone home. This isn’t a perfect world. The train was late. And seriously late, an hour or more, not just a couple of minutes. I chatted on with my new found friend, and he showed me videos of trains he had taken earlier.
gone by. I could tell from the way Steph was that this probably wasn’t a good idea, and she refused the third showing. As we climbed the stairs away from the platform there was a brooding silence about her, till she said through gritted teeth, ‘That man was even more boring than you', which summed it all up really. A little example of how trying the nearest and dearest can be. Yet, somehow, usually we can forgive them, and life gets back to its old familiar pattern.
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Steph wandered around the station, looked at the river, the cows in the field, went up on the bridge, anything to pass the time away. Immersed in happy conversation as I was, I noticed none of this. Eventually the train came, whooshed past in a flurry of smoke and steam and, leaving a trail of dust, was gone in 30 seconds. We’d been standing on the station for about an hour and a half. Steph came up, saying it’s getting dark, shouldn’t we be off. My new friend insisted on showing her the video of the train that had just
The competition for decorated cards was won by Dorothy Yardley, second Pat Starker and third Linda Mullally. Raffle prizes were taken home by Sylvia Johnson, Wendy Bamard, Elise Hawker, Linda Mullally, Janet Willcock and Audrey Payne. Elise Hawker Lea
This story about the stresses and strains of family life has relevance at this time of year as we prepare to celebrate Christmas. At Christmas, Christians believe, God himself in Jesus came and shared the life of a human family with us. Life with a human family with all its joys, but with all its stresses and strains as well. And, like my story on the station, it’s the woman who bears the weight of those stresses and strains most. In the case of the Jesus story it’s his mother Mary who takes the brunt of this, as a couple of examples from the Bible stories show. On a family trip to Jerusalem, the teenage Jesus goes missing. Worried sick, Mary and Joseph hunt for him and find him in Continued on next page ...
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the temple, where they are told by Jesus, ‘Surely you would have known I’d be here, about my Father’s business.' Then on another occasion, Mary suffers the pain of rejection. Jesus is preaching outside, when he is told his mother is indoors, to which he replies, ‘Who is my mother, my brother, my sister ... the one who does the word of God — they are my mother, my sister’. Finally, Mary has the ultimate pain of watching her son apparently throw his life away as he dies on the cross. As Jesus enters the world at Christmas, he joins an ordinary human family, with all the stresses and strains that means. Like many men he is lucky, in that it’s the woman of the family who bears the weight of those tensions. So as we celebrate at Christmas, let’s say a special thank you for mums, as we remember Mary, and all the travails she endured when she brought Jesus into our world. Rhys Prosser 01522 702427 Please contact Rhys to arrange Baptisms (Christenings) and weddings, or if you need to have the banns of marriage called in a church but are getting married in another Anglican church.
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Crash means Smash at Laughterton Residents of Laughterton may recall in 1996/7 the lorry that crashed into the wall of a house, shedding its full load of potatoes. Lynn Peters, then member of the Parish Council, recalls the aftermath of the accident: 'It was chaos, with potatoes strewn everywhere and the road blocked for hours, although luckily no-one was hurt and the driver walked away with only minor injuries.' Coincidentally, the lorry firm name was Burnett, which was also the name of the home owners. I guess it was mashed potatoes all round for the residents of Laughterton that week ...
With thanks to Lynn & Mark Peters for the photos & information.
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n excerpt from rare film of farming in Fenton in the 1950s can be found on your newly launched community website, www.trentsidelinks.org. The shots of farming activity of the period, including threshing machines and horse-drawn seed drilling, were taken by the late Geoff Lidgett of Poplar Farm, Fenton, and are featured in the Bygone Lincoln DVD2 (second of a series of three). Geoff grew up in a farming family in Fenton in the 1920s and '30s and bought Poplar Farm in 1948, the year of his marriage to Sarah. He saw the traditional practices of his industry give way to rapid mechanisation. From the late 1940s until the mid-50s he took a number of films, both 9.5 mm and 16 mm. They featured the farming practices of the day, old and new, and included many shots of the farm workers. In 2002, Andrew Blow, of Blow by Blow Productions and former Yorkshire TV staffer, heard about Geoff ’s films and approached him for access to the material. Andrew and his associates transferred both film formats to video tape to enable Geoff and his family to see the material on VHS and DVD.
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One man guides the horse while men at the rear direct the seed drilling. No fast-action noisy machinery, just the sweat and toil of man and beast.
Making a brief appearance in the DVD is Geoff's Lidgett's father, Ellis — also a farmer, of course.
to try and modify his own equipment to reflect the latest gear, rather than spend thousands of pounds on new equipment.
A heap of sugar beet needs loading into the truck and the video shows how it's done. Men with shovels scoop and heave it all up to above head height until the beet can be piled no higher. That's what is meant by 'putting your back into it.'
I heard about Geoff and his films in a most amazing way. I went into Burkitt’s electrical and radio shop in Steep Hill to get something technical for my filming work. A man in the shop recognised me purely because of my voice, which he’d heard on Bygone Lincoln. This turned out to be Dave Willey of Saxilby, who was Geoff ’s postman. Dave asked Geoff if I could approach him and that’s how the material became available today.’ Andrew has edited a portion of the farming material for online use by Trentside Links following a suggestion by Sue Eyton-Williams of Fenton, daughter of the late Geoff. Sue and husband Keris continue to run Poplar Farm and maintain the family farming tradition.
Andrew has the following recollections of Geoff: ‘Geoff had a lifelong interest in tractors and could immediately name the make and model of any that appeared in the old footage. I was privileged to record his comments when I played the material back to him for the first time and I am so Yet more hard labour as the barley is gathered in. Geoff comments with a sigh on just how arduous the work was.
pleased I did, for his instant recollections were so fresh and amusing that it was far better than writing a retrospective script. Geoff ’s memories on the soundtrack have been appreciated by many people. Andrew Blow, who in putting Geoff !"#$%&&'()*"+%),-.)/+)&01%2)30()3%-1%#) to preserve a valuable piece of local farming history.
Above: Fenton farmer the late Geoff Lidgett, whose heartfelt commentary helps to bring the video to life.
Andrew Blow shall write about his work in unearthing the film heritage of Lincoln and district for a future issue. Meanwhile, the Bygone Lincoln DVDs can be purchased at any Lincoln bookseller, from www.blowbyblow.co.uk or by phoning 01522 754901.
Another story I love about him was that he used to go to the Lincolnshire Show to see the latest farm implements and adaptations — and then go back to the farm
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Organised by the Marton & Knaith Garden Club and held at Marton Village Hall on Sunday 12 September. At the first show of its kind for some years residents came forward to display their varied talents, and they looked very professional. The newly-reformed Club, ably organised by Sandra Moody and Sara Barry, was ready for all by 2 pm and the refreshment helpers on hand with homemade goodies to delight the winners and console the non-winners. On display in various parts of the village were the scarecrows, hardly two alike. There was a wedding pair, cricketers, a child’s picnic, a pair of Calendar girls, nurse, grocer and many other comical figures. Whether in fact they were too well done to actually scare the crows is open to debate but the green-faced witch couched in a hedge on the A156 certainly scared me! The results of the various competitions are presented in the table. In addition a first prize for her collection of scarecrows at Gate Burton was awarded to Margaret Smith, with second prizes to Kay & Adrian Murphy for Arkwright - Open all hours, and Sandra Moody for two very sassy Calendar Girls.
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L to R: Tracy Flinders, John Redgrove, Emma Barratt and John Mannion. John & Emma are happy to receive the £200 cheque for Trentside Links.
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hilst on my post round on a sunny spring morning in 1993 I turned the corner on to the farm road leading to Poplar Farm, Fenton. Farmer Geoff Lidgett met me as he was coming out of the farm workshop and in his hand he had a large piece of twisted aluminium sheet that he had been removing from some farm machinery. He then told me ‘during the war a bomber had crashed and blew up in the Trentside Marshes next to my land sending shards of metal all over the fields and occasionally, while working the fields, we still pick up bits in the farm machinery.’ I have always been interested in local history and WW2 aviation so this story really interested me. So I decided to find out what the bomber was, what had caused it to crash and what had happened to the crew.
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Over the following weeks I searched for information relating to the crash and eventually I found in a book a reference to a Short Stirling bomber from RAF Blyton that crashed and blew up in fields near the River Trent but the details were very sparse. Could this be the aircraft? During the following weeks I spoke to as many local people as possible in Fenton and Laughterton about the crash. Lots of people remembered the loud explosion but not the details about the actual crash. Sarah Lidgett recalled that she had been at Poplar farm that evening with her boyfriend, Geoff Lidgett, and he had taken her home to Newton on Trent just before midnight. Sarah was then a member of the local fire watch and happened by chance to look out of the attic window before going to bed. The attic window was a very good vantage point for looking for fires and Sarah recalls ‘As I looked across the village I saw an aircraft
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completely engulfed in flames, falling from the sky. It disappeared behind the houses, then there was a blinding white flash followed by the sound of a massive explosion; it was awful.’ Ian Gourley also knew about the crash and the location of the field but it was my discussion with Fred Dixon of Fenton that gave me the best lead. Fred remembered that the aircraft had crashed in the week following the August Bank Holiday weekend but he could not remember which year. Fred recalled, ‘It was harvest time and there were Lancaster parts in the corn.’ In the following week Ian Gourley kindly agreed to take me to the field were the aircraft crashed — he suggested the following Tuesday after work. The day duly arrived and we set off for the crash site. On arrival we met up quite by coincidence with local farmer Andrew Arden, who happened to be farming land near to the crash site. Andrew said he was always finding small fragments of the aircraft while working the land. We did not have to look for long before we found some fragments, which looked like engine castings.
I collected some parts and took them to Ian Hickling, Chief Engineer at Lincolnshire Aviation Centre, East Kirkby. Ian has spent a lifetime working on Rolls Royce Merlin engines, so without hesitation he confirmed that the parts were from a cylinder head on a Merlin 20 series engine. This confirmed that the crashed bomber was not the recorded Short Stirling, as that was fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines; further reference numbers found on other fragments revealed conclusively that the aircraft was indeed an Avro Lancaster. My friend Keith and I later searched for hours through documentation covering the total production of over 7000 Lancaster bomber airframe serial numbers. Avro Lancaster LM292 looked like a good match. Further evidence that this was the right aircraft came a few weeks later from the accident crash card held by the Air Historic Branch at RAF Hendon. Avro Lancaster LM292 was built by Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd at Whitley, Coventry. It was dispatched after flight tests to 103 Squadron based at the Lincolnshire airfield of Elsham Wold
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on 30 July 1944 and was coded PM-K– ‘King’. It replaced the previous PM-K‘King’ ME799 aircraft which was lost on a mission to Stuttgart on 29 July 1944. The Lancaster LM292 was just 7 days old when it crashed. Just after midnight on Tuesday 8 August 1944, in the week following the Bank Holiday weekend, people in the Trent Valley area were woken by a loud explosion as the Lancaster exploded on impact in a field adjacent to the Fenton inland RAF practice bombing range near the River Trent (see earlier in this issue). LM292 was one of seventeen Lancasters despatched at 21.20 hours from RAF Elsham Wold to destroy a German stronghold at Fontenay-le-Mamion in France. The outbound flight went without incident but having reached the target area they were turned back by the master bomber, still with their 15,000 lb bomb load, due to poor visibility caused by smoke haze and low cloud. A short while later, while crossing the French coast on its way back to base, the aircraft was hit by flak, which started a serious fire in the starboard outer engine. The skipper of LM292 was F/O George
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Brown RCAF. He, ably assisted by flight engineer Sgt John Corless, tried desperately to extinguish the engine fire but they were unable to contain it and the engine started to misfire and lose power. Eventually Brown had to shut down the engine and feather the propeller. The Lancaster at this time was at 18,000 ft with a fire now raging in the starboard wing and with its full bomb load still on board. It started to lose height rapidly. At 14,000 ft the aircraft went into a sudden spiral dive with Brown and Corless fighting to regain control and level the aircraft. They managed to eventually get the Lancaster straight and level at about 9,000 ft for a short time, and, when about one mile west of Saxilby, Brown gave the order to abandon the aircraft. Out bailed Robinson, Sandberg, Porter, Hurley and Vickery from the rear door. They parachuted into fields around Hardwick. On landing F/O Robinson ended up hanging by his parachute harness from the roof of a barn at Highfield Farm, Hardwick, with a bull in the pen below him. Moments later the stricken Lancaster plummeted earthwards into the Trentside Marsh and on impact with the
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ground blew up, killing George Brown and John Corless. The large crater and the wreckage, strewn over several fields, caused many problems for the recovery teams in their search for bodies. It was days later when a farm worker found the body of F/O George Brown in a hedge some way from the point of impact. He was laid to rest in the war graves plot at the Stonefall Cemetery in Harrogate, Yorks. The body of Sgt John Corless was never found. His name is honoured on panel 215 at the Runnymede Memorial in Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey. (My thanks to Lady Helen Nall, George Vickery, Winnie Corless and LAHC at East Kirkby, who in various ways helped to make this article possible.) Editor's note: video footage commemorating the story told here can be found on the home page of the TL website.
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Footpath from Fenton to Torksey Lock The Parish Council has been asking for a footpath between Fenton and Torksey Lock for the past 14 years. We have had meetings and voluminous correspondence with the Highways Authority of Lincolnshire County Council and they have agreed the need for a footpath. Our understanding of the system is that the Highways Department has a list of possible projects in order of priority, which takes into account the costs and benefits, and because of budget constraints only the top few projects are undertaken. We have so far been successful in getting a section of footpath established between Fenton and the houses at Trenton Lodge Motel, lying just outside the village on the Lincoln Road towards Torksey, but there is still a significant shortfall if we are to link Fenton to Torksey Lock. This year we were informed by the Council that, due to budget constraints, the footpath would not be completed and is not likely to be in the near future. This is hard to take, especially as we see new sections of footpath being completed around us and a lot of money being spent in Gainsborough. The Parish Council wrote to our MP, Edward Leigh, to see if he could support us, and as a result he asked the Council for a review into the matter. The reply from the Council explained why the footpath has not yet been completed:
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The letter goes on to explain that a new stretch of footpath outside Saxilby in the direction of Lincoln was funded by the East Midlands Development Agency as part of their Waterways Tourism Initiative and as such is not representative of normal new footway provision within the County. Similarly, work in central Gainsborough benefited from extensive external funding. And the Knaith to Gainsborough footpath has been funded over a number of years from the County Council's own funds as part of its Rural Priority Initiative programme, which also funded the footpath already made between Fenton and Trenton Lodge. Sadly for us, the letter continues:
Lincolnshire County Council has for a number of years included the Parish Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request for the footpath on the A156 within its annual assessment process, which seeks to allocate the available funding across the many such requests received. This assessment process led to the funding of the section completed last year, linking the village to the business premises just outside the village boundary. However, the remaining significant length has not ranked sufficiently high to date, primarily due to its high costs in relation to the likely number of users.
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Regrettably, in light of the in-year budget reductions and the ongoing budget review [currently] being undertaken, the County Council has elected to end funding of its Rural Priority Initiative schemes. This means that at present no new footways or cycleway schemes will be implemented unless externally funded ... Of course, this will affect many across Lincolnshire, not just us. So we are now trying to extract from the Council the likely cost of completion of the footpath
so that we can determine whether it's feasible to get external funding for it.
Community Plan On 14 September the parish council held a public meeting to discuss a Community or Parish Plan for Fenton and Torksey Lock. It was led by Fiona White from Community Lincs, a rural development charity that helps Lincolnshire communities develop their parish plans. A community plan can cover all sorts of issues relevant to the area, such as improvements to public transport, road safety and a lack of facilities. This is something that everyone can get involved in and it is still not too late to participate as the process is only just under way. The next step will be to form a steering committee and we already have a number of villagers willing to serve on it. There have also been some interesting ideas put forward, including provision of a play area, and the footpath link between Fenton and Torksey Lock discussed above. If you would like to get involved please contact me, Tracy Flinders, on 01427 717009 or email: fentonparish@btinternet.com.
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Take a Break Education, education, education From Elizabeth Rose, entitled ‘Our future is safe in America’s hands’: What was Sir Walter Raleigh famous for? He invented cigarettes and started a craze for bicycles. What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common? Unusual names. Name one of the early Romans’ great achievements Learning to speak Latin. "#$%&'()&#*($#+'&,-#,&+(.%&'/%0(10#++2&(*& the Arctic. Two polar bears. Three four seals. Assess Fashion plc’s choice to locate its factory near Birmingham. Is it the right location for this type of business? No. People from Birmingham aren’t very fashionable. How does Romeo’s character develop throughout the play?
It doesn’t. It’s just me, me, me, all the way through. Name the wife of Orpheus, whom he tried to save from the underworld. Mrs Orpheus. Where was the American Declaration of Independence signed? At the bottom. What happens to a boy during puberty? He says goodbye to childhood and enters adultery. State three drawbacks of hedgerow removal All the cows will escape. The cars drive into the fields. There is nowhere to hide. Steve is driving his car. He is travelling at 60 ft/second and the speed limit is 40 mph. Is Steve speeding?
What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register? Mariah Carey. Explain the phrase ‘free press’.
He could find out by checking his speedometer.
When your mum irons trousers for you.
3-#,&('&#&145+#6 A little lie. How might living close to a mobile phone mast cause ill health? You might walk into it. What is the meaning of the word ‘varicose’? Close by. Give a reason why people would want to live near power lines. You get your electricity faster. What is a vibration? There are good vibrations and bad vibrations. Good vibrations were discovered in the 1960s. Where was Hadrian’s Wall built? Around Hadrian’s garden. "#$%&7*%&$%#'58%&9-(0-&0#*&4%&/5,&(*&/+#0%&,7&#.7(:&8(.%8&;77:ing in times of great rainfall (eg in Mississippi) Flooding in areas such as the Mississippi can be avoided by placing a number of big dames in the river. The race of people called Malays come from which country? Malaria. <7#**#&978='&(*&#*&7>10%?&@%8&07$/5,%8&('&#&',#*:A#+7*%&'2',%$?& What is a stand-alone system? It doesn’t come with a chair. Expand 2(x + y). 2(x+y) 2 ( x + y ) 2 ( x + y ) 2 ( x + y )
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Gainsborough Rural South Neighbourhood Policing Team First, an update: our PCSO, Daren Grace, has moved on to a position in Lincoln; thanks to him for the work done during his time with us. He has been replaced by, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a warm welcome to, PCSO Melanie Goodwill, who has been out amongst the community, getting to know some of you already. I have known Mel for several years in other roles within the service, and I know we can count on her to work hard for the benefit of the community. So say hello as she passes and make her welcome, introduce yourself, and tell her your concerns/problems in the area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she may be able to help. Please note that Sonia is still on Maternity Leave, so any calls to her will not be answered for a while though she assures us that she will return, perhaps when she has caught up on some sleep! There have been some burglaries in the area and we are working hard to deal with them. But please remember that prevention is better than the cure. If you have experienced the trauma of a burglary it is scant consolation if the police end up prosecuting an offender. So let me run through the basics of prevention: t -PDL EPPST BOE XJOEPXT JODMVEJOH the shed and garage) whenever you leave your property, no matter how short the time you plan to be away. And leave your valuables inside, not on the lawn or drive! t $POTJEFS Ä&#x2022;UUJOH BO BMBSN PS TFDVSJUZ system and make sure the alarm is serviced and re-sets after 20 minutes t 5SJN WJFX PCTDVSJOH USFFT BOE LFFQ the garden tidy, especially if you are away for a long time. Reward a neighbour for doing this with a pressie on your return! t .BSL ZPVS QSPQFSUZ Ä&#x2021;FSF BSF B OVNber of products for this and Smart Water is something Lincs Police recommend t #F DBSFGVM XJUI LFZT %PO U MFBWF UIFN visible just inside the door where someone can reach them, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave them under the old favourite garden plant pot just outside your door t $POTJEFS GPSNJOH PS KPJOJOH BO FYJTUing Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. We have several in the area, and PCSO Goodwill can advise you or start you off if you contact her on this matter
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t 3FNFNCFS UP IBWF BMM QBQFST NJML deliveries etc stopped whilst you are away t )BWF TPNFPOF MPPL BÄ&#x2122;FS UIF IPVTF while you are away. I hate to say it, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just mean walking past the outside, but actually going in, turning lights on and off, removing mail from behind the door, opening and closing curtains, and maybe even parking their car on your drive for a bit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; generally making the place looked lived in t 'JU MJHIU UJNFST BOE SBEJP UJNFST UP activate at suitable times. That automatically does what the neighbours canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do at certain times, but please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave them to come on during the day, or when the curtains and blinds are wide open in the dark and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious there is no-one in or it just lights up the home for the burglar! So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my top ten tips â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but wait, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an eleventh! We live in a village, and a lot can be done when people know each other and their police. So look out for each other, and tell the police if you see something suspicious. I know we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a police officer on every corner, but we will get an officer to attend every genuine call. I would urge all village residents to look out for one another, as the favour may be repaid to you at some time. And we would prefer to attend a suspicious incident and discover it is completely genuine, rather than not be told and later learn that a house had been burgled. As far as I am concerned, no-one going about their business legitimately will object to being spoken to by the police to confirm this. So please, call us!
I have been making jewellery for many years, since my husband bought me a magnetic bracelet to help me with a neck injury. I was so impressed with the effect the bracelet had on my neck pain that I decided to make my own bracelets and necklaces. I wanted a unique look and a chance to wear different pieces in fashionable colours and styles at affordable prices. The magnetic healing formula is an ancient method of healing; it helps with aches and pains including arthritis, headaches, rheumatism and many more. It helps keep energy levels higher and it helps you recover quicker from aches and pains as you get older. Anyone of any age can wear my jewellery, the only exception being if you are pregnant, suffer from epilepsy or wear a pacemaker. If you would like to view and order some of my jewellery please visit my website www.sandmagneticjewels.co.uk or phone NF PO * BMTP IBWF RVBMity handbags in any size or colour to suit every occasion. Come and visit me at Saxilbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indoor market at the village hall every 2nd 4BUVSEBZ PG UIF NPOUI BN noon. Come on ladies, treat yourself or someone special. Look forward to seeing you. Sandra
Please get in touch with us if you have any information regarding the above, or any other issues concerning you. And thanks for your support, as we cannot operate without you. 1$ .BSUJO %0)&35: PCSO 2270 Melanie Goodwill (BJOTCPSPVHI 3VSBM 4PVUI /15 William Street, Saxilby 5FM .PC www.lincs.police.uk
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Colin Watson recalls Fenton practice bombing range
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e spoke to Colin Watson in connection with David Willeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article Fenton practice bombing range, in this issue) because he had wartime memories of the practice bombing range. Colin is proprietor of the Millfield Golf Complex on part of which the range once stood. He moved from nearby Newton to -BVHIUFSUPO JO BOE SFNFNCFST QMBZJOH BT B ZFBS PME PVUTJEF UIF /JTsen hut that served as the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;slave hutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the practice bombing range. One amusing anecdote he recalled was that the PDDVQBOUT PG UIF IVU GPVS JO UIF NBTter and 2 in the slave) had their meals brought to them each day. However, although there was an order to deliver meals each day there clearly wasn't one for bringing back the used dinner plates and so they just piled up outside the hut. One day a horse came over and in helping itself to the left-overs crushed all the plates. Well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one way to deal with the washing-up! There was also the time when a Lancaster QMBOF DSBTIFE JO UIF OFBSCZ Ä&#x2022;FME B TUPSZ told by David Willey in this issue) and the blast of the crash blew out the windows at the rear of the observation hut. At nearby Headen there was a PoW camp and the German prisoners were employed in clearing hedges and dykes and such other farming and land maintenance work. They were good workers
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and following the war a number of them settled and married locally. One of the things they did was to build earthworks and dig trenches to deter enemy glider aircraft from landing. %VSJOH XIFO UIF MBOE XBT CFJOH developed for the golf course, an earth EJHHFS EVH PVU CSPLFO DSPDLFSZ XF know where that came from!), and an intact beer glass with King Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initials and the letters NAAFI etched into it, evidently all remains from the war. Colin also has the casing from a practice bomb, of which there have been many dug out of the soil over the years.
St Peter's Church gets a makeover
St Peter's Church now has a lantern above the entrance gate, as it probably did in Victorian times.
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Community Notices Christmas coffee afternoon Torksey
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES at Village Hall, Marton WEEKLY MONDAY Art Class (in committee room) Indoor Bowls Line Dancing
1.30 - 3.30 pm, Saturday 4 December at Verity (housename), Church Lane, Torksey. Tea, coffee and cakes.
2.00 – 4.00 pm 2.00 – 4.00 pm 7.45 – 10.00 pm
"#$%&'#()'*#+&',$'-#.)*/'0&1&++&.2/'-#3&' in aid of St Peters Church, Torksey
All are welcome.
WEDNESDAY Country Dancing (2nd & 4th weeks only) 7.30 pm
Saturday Market
THURSDAY Over 60s Club (in committee room)
at Sturton by Stow
Youth Club
2.15 – 4.00pm 6.45 – 8.00pm
FRIDAY Whist Drive
7.30 – 9.30 pm
1st Wednesday each month Village Hall Committee Meeting 3rd Wednesday each month Women’s Institute
7.00 pm
Marton Village Hall 7.30 pm
FOR HIRE
Holds up to 200. Cost: £10/hour or £7/hour for villagers.
7.30 pm
Country Market at Gainsborough Friends Meeting House, Market St
(opposite Marshall’s Yard shopping centre)
Co-operative selling home produce, cakes, crafts, etc. Refreshments, including bacon baps.
Every Tuesday 8.45 am - 11.30 am
WE CAN HELP Kettlethorpe United Charities has funds to help people in need who live in Fenton, Kettlethorpe or Laughterton. !""#$%&'%()'*+,'(,%-)%.,,%&/%$)0%12,%,#&3&4#,%4$%()'-1(-&'3% one of the Trustees: Mrs Rosalie Fowler 01427 718619 Mrs Anne Wingham 01427 717545 Revd Rhys Prosser 01522 702427
WE CAN HELP IF WE KNOW YOUR NEED
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10 am till noon Various stalls, fresh produce, tea & bacon butties.
MONTHLY 1st Tuesday each month Parish Council Meeting
Held in the village hall 1st Saturday of every month
Contact the Caretaker: Sandra Moody, tel 01427 718792.
Marton Village EVENTS
Christmas Fayre Saturday 27 November 2 pm in Village Hall, Marto n !"#$%&'(')"**'+(#",-.+()%/ 0%*"(111 Refreshments available
Musical Performance Wednesday 1 December 7.30 pm in St Margaret’s Chu rch Queen Elizabeth School Mu sic Dept are putting on a performa nce. For further details and tic kets please contact Pauline on 718803
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Community Notices PARISH COUNCIL CONTACTS Brampton Mrs M Whiting, Secretary The Plot, Brampton, LN1 2EG Tel: 01427 717024 Fenton & Torksey Lock Mrs Shirley Shaw, Clerk Daplaunli House, Lincoln Rd, Fenton, LN1 2EP Tel: 01427 718457 Kettlethorpe & Laughterton Mr R Gee, Clerk 2 Swynford Close, Laughterton Lincs, LN1 2LG Tel: 01427 717868 Knaith Susan Jubb, Clerk 87 Willingham Rd, Knaith Park, Lincs DN21 5ET Tel: 01427 612971
Marton and Gate Burton Mrs Gillian Martin, Clerk 6 Mount Pleasant Close, Marton, Gainsborough, Lincs, DN21 5AE Tel: 01427 718377 Newton on Trent Mr R Pilgrim, Clerk 2 Cedar Close, The Elms, Torksey, Lincs, LN1 2NH Tel: 01427 718388 Thorney Mrs Anna Dennison, Clerk Arden , Main Street, Thorney, Newark, Notts NG23 7BS Tel: 01522 702748 Torksey Mr R Pilgrim, Clerk 2 Cedar Close, The Elms, Torksey, Lincs, LN1 2NH Tel: 01427 718388
Kettlethorpe Village Hall FOR HIRE !"#$%#&%'()*+(#%%(,*-$#%(.#/0'+$1.,(2(3**4$1.( )#-$%$/$',5(6$,07#,0'+5(-+*-4'+8(9(-:/%'+8(2( ;'#/$1.()*+(<=(2(;/#.'(#"#$%#&%'(*1(+'>:',/(2( ?-*@%$.0/$1.(2(A#6$#/*+(0'#/$1. A licence to serve alcohol can be obtained if ,:)B-$'1/(1*/$-'($,(.$"'1(&')*+'(/0'('"'1/C Contact the booking secretary: Sharon Wilcox Beech House, Brampton, Torksey, Lincoln DEF(G?HC(I'%J(=FKGL(LF<MNL5(O*&J(=L<FN( PMKNFQ5(,0#+*1C7$%-*RS8#0**C-*C:4
HOUSEHOLD WASTE/RECYCLING sites Winter opening times (October to March) LINCOLN
97 Great Northern Terrace, Lincoln LN5 8LG
Open Monday to Sunday 8 am – 4 pm WHISBY Eagle Road, Whisby LN6 9BT
Open Monday to Friday 8 am – 4 pm Saturday 8 am - 12 noon GAINSBOROUGH
Summergangs Lane, Gainsborough DN21 1AH
Open Monday to Sunday 8 am to 4 pm
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All the above three sites are closed on Christmas Day & Boxing Day but open all other Bank Holidays as per weekday times listed above. Contact for further information: Waste Services, Lincolnshire County, Council, City Hall, Lincoln LN1 1DN Tel 01522 782070 Email Dev_HouseholdWaste@lincolnshire.gov.uk
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Church Notices CHRISTMAS AT KETTLETHORPE 2010
EXPLORING OUR FAITH
ALL IN THE CHURCH OF ST PETER & ST PAUL, KETTLETHORPE
Do you feel you’d like to know more about your faith? Exploring Our Faith is a course of six periods of six sessions in which you can look at Books in the Bible in The Old or New Testament in more depth, Our Church Today, looking at other denominations and much more. All this can be done to whatever depth suits you and there is NO exam at the end! Hopefully to start in January 2011.
CHRISTMAS MARKET 10.00 am – 2.00 pm, Saturday 20 November ul Come with friends to get into the Christmas spirit. Enjoy the beautif glass for stalls craft with church transformed into a Christmas Market decorations, sea-grass bird homes, cane craft, jewellery and pearls, handbags, special soaps, Christmas Craft Stall and more. There will be festive goodies to try before buying, an infamous Kettlethorpe Cake Stall and a Children's Creative Corner with a small present for all who take part.
For further information please contact Steph Prosser on (01522) 702427.
with Coffee & mulled wine, served throughout the day, or a light lunch music. glass of wine, all at reasonable prices, and relaxing background
PARISH CLERGY
Start your Christmas here – we look forward to welcoming you.
Rev Canon Rhys Prosser Tel: 01522 702427 rs.prosser@virgin.net
CAROL SERVICE with the Trentside Singers 3.00 pm, Sunday 12 December pies. Traditional lessons & carols followed by mulled wine and mince e. The Xmas Draw will follow after the Carol Service. All are welcom
MIDNIGHT COMMUNION
Rev Stephanie Prosser Tel: 01522 702427 mumsteph66@yahoo.co.uk Rev Allen Barton 1 Westcroft Drive, Saxilby, Lincs LN1 2PT
Rev Pam Rose Tel: 01427 787578
11.30 pm, Friday 24 December
Rev Phillip Wain Tel: 01427 613188
Register
CHURCH SERVICES
Thanksgiving for the gift of children at St Peter & St Paul, Kettlethorpe, 19 September:
Sunday 5 December 11.00 am Morning Prayer Sunday 12 December 8.30 am Eucharist Sunday 19 December 8.30 am Eucharist
Ayla Grace Barnes & Noah Barnes
St Helen’s, Gate Burton
CHURCH SERVICES St Margaret of Antioch, Marton
Sunday 28 November 11.00 am Morning Prayer Sunday 5 December 11.00 am Eucharist Sunday 12 December 9.30 am Morning Prayer Sunday 19 December 4.00 pm Christingle Sunday 26 December 11.00 am Eucharist
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To arrange for christenings & weddings please contact the appropriate vicar from the above list.
CHURCH SERVICES Kettlethorpe, Newton & Torksey Sunday 14 November Remembrance Sunday 9.30 am Morning Prayer Torksey 10.30 am Remembrance Service Kettlethorpe 10.30 am Remembrance Service Newton
Sunday 21 November 9.00 am Communion Newton 9.00 am Morning Prayer Kettlethorpe 9.30 am Communion Torksey
Sunday 28 November 9.00 am Communion Kettlethorpe 11.00 am Communion Torksey 6.00 pm Deanery Advent Carol Service at Newton
Sunday 5 December 9.00 am Communion Kettlethorpe 9.00 am Morning Prayer Newton
Sunday 12 December 9.30 am Morning Prayer Torksey 3.00 pm Christmas Carols at Kettlethorpe
Sunday 19 December 9.00 am Morning Prayer Kettlethorpe 9.30 am Communion Torksey 3.00 pm Christingle at Newton
Friday 24 December Christmas Eve 11.30 pm Christmas Midnight Communion at Kettlethorpe
Saturday 25 December Christmas Day 9.30 am Festival Communion at Newton 11.00 am Festival Communion at Torksey
Sunday 26 December 10.15 am Group Communion at Saxilby
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----0945 ----------------0955 0958 1001 1004 1007 ----1010 1013 1018 1025 1030 1032 1036 1040 1050 ----1105
----1145 ----------------1155 1158 1201 1204 1207 ----1210 1213 1218 1225 1230 1232 1236 1240 1250 ----1305
----1245 ----------------1255 1258 1301 1304 1307 ----1310 1313 1318 1325 1330 1332 1336 1340 1350 ----1405
106 SD
106 SSH
1540 1545 1555 1559 1603 1607 1609 1612 1615 1620 1623 1628 1630 1635 1642 1650 1705
1545 ----1555 1559 1603 1607 1609 1612 1615 1620 1623 1628 1630 1635 1642 1650 1705
Above bus times are valid from 6 September 2010. For possible changes see: www.stagecoachbus.co.uk
For additional journeys between Gainsborough and For additional journeys between Gainsborough and Lincoln Lincoln consult theConnect Interconnect 100 timetable at: please see separate 100 timetable http://www.visitlincolnshire.com/site/plan-your-visit/gettinghere/getting-around
FREE BUS TO TESCO, GAINSBOROUGH - EVERY THURSDAY Marton Church . . . . . . . . . . . 10.40 Marton (Tillbridge Lane) . . . . 10.42 Sturton (Cross Roads) . . . . . . 10.50 Sturton School . . . . . . . . . . . 10.51 Stow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.53 Willingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.56 Kexby Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.59 Upton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.01 Heapham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.04 Springthorpe . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.07 Corringham (Becket Arms) . . . 11.12 Arrives TESCO Gainsborough . . . . . . . . . . . 11.22
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Departs TESCO . . . . . . . . . . Gainsborough Corringham (Becket Arms) . . . Springthorpe . . . . . . . . . . . . Heapham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kexby Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . Willingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sturton (School) . . . . . . . . . . Sturton (Crossroads) . . . . . . . Marton (Tillbridge Lane) . . . . Marton Church . . . . . . . . . . .
13.00 13.10 13.15 13.18 13.21 13.23 13.26 13.29 14.01 14.02 14.10 14.12
FREE BUS TO TESCO, LINCOLN TO TESCO, CANWICK ROAD, LINCOLN EVERY WEDNESDAY - SERVICE T15 Departs from: The Elms . . . . . . . . . . . . . Torksey Caravan Site . . . . . . Fenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laughterton . . . . . . . . . . . Newton on Trent . . . . . . . . Arrives TESCO Lincoln . . . .
09.20 09.30 09.35 09.38 09.42 10.15
Departs TESCO Lincoln . . . . 11.55
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Some outstanding scarecrow entrants from the Marton Produce & Garden Show