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Who doesn’t like cake?! On Saturday 4 June two young residents of Chiltern Road, Grace and Mabel, celebrated 70 years of ERII by hosting a Jubilee Cake Sale with all proceeds going to Lindengate. Despite wind and rain, family, friends and neighbours came out and bought over 200 cakes and biscuits. The final More news about Wendover Community total from the event was an amazing £300!!!! Library funding & projects on page 14.
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Tue-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-5pm, HP20 2QP Enjoy a great day of discovering, exploring and experimenting at our Feel the Force Summer Science Festival full of interactive science exhibits from 25 July-3 September. Don’t miss the Festival of Archaeology on 23 July. Information on the website at www.discoverbucksmuseum.org.
Gospel, Ragtime – and put their own twist on it. This concert, part of the Rotary Rocks series, is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Aylesbury Hundreds in support of Queens Park Arts Centre. Tickets: £12.00 from Queens Park Arts Centre. https://queensparkarts.com/
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Sun 3, 2-4.30pm, Stewart Hall HP17 0XN Summer Show Fri 1-Sat 2, Pendley Manor, Tring Tue 5, 8pm, Stewart Hall HP17 0XN The Proclaimers, Toploader, ABC, Maxi Priest, Fragrant Plants with George Lockwood. Details Tony Hadley and Toyah all head to Hertfordshire www.e-voice.org.uk/kehs/ for a weekend of live music this July. Tickets can be purchased from: https://chilfest.co.uk/ 11 The Paddocks open for NGS Sun 3 July, 11am-4pm chilfest-buy-tickets Small peaceful garden with a tremendous variety of colour in a small area. The White Garden with WhizzFizzFest a peaceful and shady arbour, and The Magic of Sat 2, Aylesbury Aylesbury’s annual children’s arts festival is back Moonlight created for the BBC. Adult entry £4, for 2022 and includes guests Lauren Child (Clarice children by donation. ngs.org.uk Bean, Charlie and Lola) and Chris Smith (Kid A Clinton, Buckland & D Beauchamp Normal). www.whizzfizzfest.org.uk
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Sat 2, 6.30pm, St Peter & St Paul, Gt Missenden The Firth Singers are a Chiltern-based auditioned choir singing a wide range of classic and contemporary choral music. This concert features some traditional favourites. Advance tickets are £12.50, email thefirthsingers@gmail.com to book your place.
Sun 3, 1-5pm, D Beauchamp Open Gardens Entry is £5 per person and includes entry to all 10 gardens. Thu 7, all day, outing to RHS Hyde Hall Contact info@astonclintonhorticulturalsociety. co.uk for details. Wed 20, 8pm, Anthony Hall Aston Clinton Social evening.
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Wed 6 & 20, 10am-12noon, Wendover Christian Centre Craft Group provides space in congenial company to work on craft projects. Please bring your own materials or just come to see what others are doing. All welcome. Coffee served at about 11am.
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Tring Carnival
7-10 July, Pound Meadow, Tring 4 days of fun and entertainment! Thursday is Tring Together’s Quiz Night. Friday is the Rennie Grove Beer & Band Festival. Saturday is Carnival day and the High Street Parade. Sunday afternoon in the Tring Brewery Marquee you will find Tring Blues Bar. www.tringtogether.org.uk
No2 Summer on the Manor
Sat 9, 10am-5pm, Manor Waste FREE Artisan Market showcasing craft, food and beverage. Situated in the Manor Waste (market square) with live music & street food! See advert page 4.
Summer Fete & Flower Festival
Sat 9 (fete) Sat 9-Sun 10 (festival), 11am-5pm, St Michael's Aston Clinton The fete has stalls, prize draw, dog show, refreshments, plant & produce stall and children’s activities. Come see the beautiful flower festival, too!
Rotary Big Bake
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Tickets from Just or www.wendover-music.org. OnScreen See advert page 4. Fri 15, 7.30pm, Wendover Library Room Drop into the Library to learn about July's film and Wendover Society Jazz Picnic pick up your tickets! Free entry; donations welcome! Sun 10, 12.30-4.30pm, Picket Piece HP22 6NQ Live music from The Melody Room Jazz Band and Aston Wine Club the whole family is invited! £10 adults, children Fri 15, 8pm, Buckland Village Hall under 14 FREE. Parking available. Spaces limited - "British Winemakers Abroad" with speaker Laura book soon! Tickets tinyurl.com/TicketWS. Clay. www.astonwineclub.co.uk
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Tue 12, 10am-12noon, Wendover Christian Ctre Toddlers and carers welcome to this informal allage group. Stay, chat, play and enjoy refreshments and company.
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Sat 16, 10.30-11.30am, Wen Christian Centre If you love reading, come and enjoy discussion about books of all kinds. No set books, just friendly conversation about what we have been reading recently. We start with coffee and often cake.
Tue 12, 7.30pm, St Anne's Hall Aylesbury Vale Stitchers From Bush to Cup, a talk by ‘Two Spoons’ about Sat 16, 2.30-4.30pm, Memorial Hall the sustainable production of tea. Visitors always OPEN DAY - all welcome. For details contact welcome. Please contact Sheila on 07743133963 aylesburyvalestitchers@gmail.com. for more information.
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from midnight Sat 16, start/end Aylesbury College Fri 15, 12.30-5pm, Ashbrook/Castle Park 5 mile or 10 mile circular routes. For information £5 per wristband. Food, sports, inflatables, henna and to sign up, please visit www.fnhospice.org. & glitter bar, crafts, music and more! See page 19. uk/midnightwalk or call 01296 429975.
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WENDOVER MUSIC 2022 Season of Concerts
We are hope you are enjoying our 2022 season of concerts and look forward to seeing you soon at St Mary’s Church. All concerts start at 7.30pm
9th July - Samuele Telari (accordion) and Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano) 8th October - Alyn Shipton’s Jazz Quartet
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Season tickets are £75 per person and include all four concerts (October is not included) and the AGM Concert tickets £20 (students £5). AGM tickets £10 Mini Mozart £7.50 per child (adults free) with a £2 discount for more than 1 ticket
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Thu 28-Sun 31 The theme for Open Weekend 2022 is ‘trees and green’; activities take place throughout Buckinghamshire. More information from https://buckinghamshireculture.wordpress.com/ projects/open-weekend/ and event hosts.
Mon 18-Mon 25, Ashbrook/Castle Park The Fun Fair makes its annual visit to Wendover. Aston Clinton Beer Festival Fri 29-Sun 31, Aston Clinton School Opening times tbc once the Fair has arrived. Raising funds for Aston Clinton School and local charities. Food, drinks, entertainment - all ages Wendover Horticultural Society welcome. For more information and ticket sales go Thu 21, 9am-5.45pm, outing to www.astonclintonbeerfestival.com, see page 6. No meeting this month; for outing details contact Diane on 07966 155775. See page 13. Rosa's Cantina
Sat 30, 10.30am-3.30pm, Wen Christian Ctre Supporting KEELS, which assists students with Thu 21, 7.30pm, Bel & the Dragon at the Red Lion limited means to afford university education. This unique production by Rogue Opera weaves a modern story, with new original dialogue, Coming Soon - Save the Date! through opera’s big tunes; the tear-jerkers, the • Astonbury Music Festival - 13 August crowd-pleasers and, of course, the drinking • Scannappeal Hospital Hike - 10-11 September songs (all performed in their original languages). • Wendover Scarecrow Trail - 19 September-3 Encompassing friendship, betrayal, intrigue, love, October laughter and mischief, it’s a great evening of • Rennie Grove Quiz - 7 October entertainment. See advert page 5 • No2 Oktoberfest - 7-9 October, see page 7
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Aston Clinton Beer Festival Reaches 10th Anniversary This year sees the staging of the 10th Aston Clinton Beer Festival (ACBF); one of Buckinghamshire’s largest independent celebrations of our local brewing and music scene. All the proceeds from ACBF are either donated to local charities or used to fund future events. Charities that have benefitted from donations in the past have included Chilterns MS, WheelPower, Carers Bucks, Bucks Mind, Rennie Grove Hospice and PACE. The Aston Clinton Charitable Foundation (the organisation behind ACBF), also donate money to the village school, which hosts the event, and a number of children’s and grass roots sports teams.
Animal Antiks, storytelling and poetry. There will also be some awesome inflatables for the young ones to work off any excess energy. For more information and ticket sales go to www. astonclintonbeerfestival.com. If you run a business and would like to be part of the festival by becoming a sponsor, please email leah@astonclintonbeerfestival.com. Twitchell Lane Aston Clinton Aylesbury HP22 5JJ
ACBF10 will be held over the weekend of 29 to 31 July at Aston Clinton School. Expect the best quality cask ales obtained directly from local brewers and the best of out of region beers, which are sourced via local supplier, Dayla. Craft keg beer is also prominent, with the ever popular “Beer Wall” taking centre stage behind the bar. Cider, Perry, Wine and Gin are also available, alongside the ever popular Pimm’s No1, which due to demand, is served on draught! There will be plenty of entertainment on offer to keep the kids happy as well, including our friends
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Oktoberfest Wendover started during the 2020 lockdown, when No2 created booths of tables on the Manor Waste, carefully distanced to comply with COVID restrictions. James, the owner of No2, was inspired to raise funds for Macmillan having had first-hand experience of the brilliance that Macmillan Cancer Support gave him and his family. Since then, No2 has raised thousands for this essential charity that lost so much during the pandemic. Profit from Oktoberfest will be given to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Thanks to immense sponsorship from Masons Coach Hire, based in Long Marston, there will be a shuttle service to and from local towns and stations. Profits raised through the shuttle service will also be given to Macmillan Cancer Support. Running alongside, separate from Oktoberfest, will be No2’s Artisan Pavilion. The Pavilion will house some exceptional handpicked artisan food, drink, and crafters. Additionally, set around the Artisan Pavilion will be a series of street food vendors and bars including a covered area to sit and enjoy your food and drink whilst listening to live music. To attend the Artisan Pavilion tickets are just £5, and all profits from ticket sales will go to Macmillan Cancer Support. Guests who are attending Oktoberfest will have free entry to No2’s Artisan Pavilion. The Artisan Pavilion is open Friday 7th from 5 – 9pm, Saturday 8th from 10am – 9pm and Sunday 9th from 10am – 4pm.
Ashbrook Park, Aylesbury Road, also known as Castle Park, is the new home of No2’s Oktoberfest, kicking off on Friday 7 October at 6pm, concluding on Sunday 9 with a raffle given by BBC journalist and presenter Nigel Barden. There will be the classic lines of tables seating 400 people in a huge Oktoberfest Marquee. Tickets include a lavish Bavarian meal inspired by celebrity chefs including Cyrus Todiwala, Richard Corrigan & Phil Vickery amongst others. There will also be live No2 thank the following for their generous music on the stage as well as entertainment to support: DSM Fabrication Ltd, Masons Coach Hire, and Love Food Events Ltd, for their amazing keep all the family amused. help with the contacts, paperwork and hardware. There are four timings available: two evening sittings, Fri 7 and Sat 8 from 6-10pm and two Tickets are now available through No2 Pound family times, Sat 8 and Sun 9 from 12 – 4pm. Street - www.2poundstreet.com/events/.
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Some works progressing
During June there have been some visible signs of progress by EKFB, notably the creation of a new path between Ellesborough Road and Wellwick Farm as a diversion for the Right of Way that crossed the field behind Wendover Station.
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around the works area and the creation of but this should now be resolved with the warmer settlement ponds to allow clean water to flow weather and removal of some roofing tiles. into the existing brooks. While the Environment Agency is understood to be withholding approval for any works that will affect the Aquifer in the Green Tunnel section, considerable excavation has been undertaken in the Small Dean section in preparation for the Viaduct. There is now a massive spoil dump at Small Dean Lane, which is estimated to grow to 150,000 tons of material before being moved north to form the embankment beside the Bypass and cover the Green Tunnel.
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There was a recent spate of HS2 related HGV lorries carrying tarmacadam going through Wendover trying to find the works compound beside the bypass. This should not be happening, as the formal route explicitly avoids the village centre. You can report issues like this (or make any other complaints) to the HS2 Helpdesk which is available 24 hours a day on 08081 434 434.
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Two significant works that are later than expected The circuitous path follows the edge of the land include the installation of the conveyor bridge allocated for use by HS2, and will be part of the over the A413 at Small Dean, which was scheduled eventual design once the Green Tunnel has been with overnight road closures between 14 and 16 June as we went to press. This was delayed from built. May to resolve some road safety considerations. Less obvious developments include the creation of miles of field drains to handle surface water Also the long awaited demolition of the cottages Field drains in Ellesborough Road took place between 13 and 15 June with daytime road closures. This was delayed from last year due to bats roosting,
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Club Corner Aylesbury Dolls House Club
Aylesbury Dolls House Club meet regularly on the first Wednesday of each month in Halton Village Hall at 7.30pm. We are a friendly and enthusiastic bunch of miniaturists, who make a wide variety of projects at our meetings, in different scales, and we would love to hear from anyone who might be interested in coming along to see what we do. We are currently working on projects that will feature in an exhibition and sale we are holding in October, including a miniature BakeOff, and a zoo! In July we will be making a 1/48th scale bedroom, so if you think you might enjoy miniaturing, give us a call! Ring Diane Haylor 07899090399 or email arcadia96@btinternet.com. Diane Haylor
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There is a real buzz at our club at the moment. Our membership is the highest it has ever been, we have a new tennis coach, Chris Stringer, a new singles box league and a newly established social events team. The social team are working on a quiz night for our resident squash superstar Katie Malliff, a BYO Wimbledon event, a tennis finals day event in September and already plans are afoot for a Christmas do.
Before these new developments we already had a long-established squash coach with, and a schedule of, weekly squash and racketball events and men's, women's, and junior teams in the Bucks squash league to play against other clubs. We also have a squash and racketball league for club members with 6 divisions so all standards can join in.
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Please book now for walks at Bacombe Hill with the warden at 2pm on 2 July, and Aston Clinton Ragpits at 10am on 23 July. In addition, College Lake (closed Mondays) has various sessions for Nature Tots on 19 and 21 July, an Opticron For tennis we have 3 men's, women's and mixed Binoculars trial day from 10am on 10 July and a teams. These play across the Aylesbury and self-guided summer trail opening from 10am on District League and the Bucks League against 1 August. Richard Birch, BBOWT Chilterns Group other clubs. We have a weekly schedule with 6 1st Wendover Scouts regular sessions. Are you looking for your next Volunteering role? We have 2 Squash courts and 4 Tennis courts at We are looking for people to get involved with our friendly club. You can be a squash member, helping the young people of Wendover get the a tennis member or both. Check out our website most out of Scouting. To enable us to do that we wendovertennisandsquash.co.uk for details. require adults with many different skills. Nicola Cliffe Type of skills our adults need - you may be BBOWT Summer Activities someone who enjoys Craft, Sailing, Canoeing, All our reserves are open with details of access Mountain Biking, Archery or anything else really. on the website at www.bbowt.org.uk/reserves. Whatever the skills, we have openings. Please park carefully. Guided walks on reserves are a good introduction to how the Wildlife Trust Time Committed - We already have an amazing works to preserve local habitats for wildlife and all team of adults delivering weekly meetings and of us. Full details and booking are at www.bbowt. whilst more are always welcome, these roles
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with everyone enjoying the occasion and the company. And what a weekend it was. Surely, no matter what your views about royalty are, you Next month, on 25 August, there is a car trip to could not help feeling the joy of the event. It was just Qualifications & Training - Scouting not only helps Aston Sandford Manor, near Haddenham, (lifts what we needed after the last two years of gloom. train young people but adults as well. So moving provided), for tea and a view of the garden. Now we can enjoy the season even more with our forward with a bit of commitment from you we Neville Morton Parrot House fit for the most royal of parrots. can also offer support with qualifications such as Dinghy Instructor, Kayak Coach and so on. We can Wendover Bowls Club So now it is back to the routine of matches against support your development if you can support us! Life has a habit of tripping you up. Last month I rival clubs and internal games between members mentioned that there was no progress on the for our Club trophies. To Qualify to help - Be over 18 years of age; Parrot House lean-to, then overnight we found Complete a DBS Check; Be enthusiastic ourselves owners of a splendid gleaming new Don't forget that, even though our open evenings are over, we still welcome new members. Just get Scouting is truly an amazing organisation which structure. It is far too grand to be called a lean-to in contact with anyone from the club and they will not only do the young people get lots out of but but I am sure it will still be called the Parrot House. head you in the right direction. Don Knight the adults do as well. Our open evenings in May were well attended and If you are interested in getting involved please email have resulted in several new members. Welcome World Scout Jamboree Fundraising Andrew Inkley - GSL@1stwendoverscouts.co.uk. to them and I hope they will flourish and enjoy Rory is 13 years old and the only Scout from Wendover that has been selected to go to the the Club. Wendover Horticultural Society World Scout Jamboree in Korea during 2023. For We have no monthly meeting in July as there Like so many, we celebrated the Jubilee with a fundraising, he has a weekly tuck shop at the U13s are outings either side of it. On 21 July there is party. Members provided a veritable feast, but and 14s cricket training and is selling walking sticks a coach trip, leaving 9 am and returning about before they could indulge they had to play a match made by his grandpa. A Little Bird Told Me Gallery 5.45 pm. First stop is Stevington Manor, for coffee with a strict dress code of red white and blue. It and The Flower Gallery have kindly agreed to be and garden trip by Jackie Brown, then on to was lovely to see and hear the clubhouse packed locations for people to view and purchase these.
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Thank you to Rob Toplis for this photo of the now-completed In terms of hydrogeology, settling ponds are cycleway access at being constructed which were not in the original Coombe Avenue. plan so we will monitor this. EKFB are looking to attenuate aquifer and surface water to the You Give - We Give south near Grove Farm, before it is piped north Budgens sends £100,000 in aid to Ukraine. and downstream via existing waterways towards The ‘You Give, We Give’ campaign launched in Stoke Mandeville village - the Environmental May in Sweeney’s Budgens. Agency has apparently refused derogation of the Water Framework Directive for HS2’s Schedule 33 Customers were asked to purchase any blue and application, which could be good news as this is yellow symbolic cans with a price mark £1, £3 & the first time, to our knowledge, that there has £5 and Sweeney’s Budgens would match these donations. All donation money would be spent on been this type of action from the EA. essential food and medical supplies and delivered The next Schedule 17 planning permissions for straight to Ukraine by selected aid partners. Wendover will be submitted in July and August. WPC HS2 working group Nine other independent Budgens retailers joined the campaign. Dary Sweeney, owner of Sweeney’s Thank you Budgens explained how the campaign started. I would like to thank all the people who came “Alex, one of our store supervisors, advocated to my assistance on Saturday 14 May when I we should help a local group to raise money to collapsed outside Tesco Express. help the victims of the war in Ukraine. We did this but felt we should do more. I spoke to a couple of I don’t know you, I heard voices and saw hands as you other Budgens retailers, they wanted to help, so supported my head and covered me to keep warm. we came up with the You Give We Give campaign.
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except of course the "Queen", who was Valerie Evans. Each lady brought a plate of party food and there was plenty of prosecco flowing throughout the afternoon. A good time was had by all and the WI Ladies thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were very appreciative of the effort made by the Committee. (Photo: President Sheila Hemmings We are now looking forward to next year’s No 2 with the "Queen", Valerie Evans.) Summer concert as well as singing carols on the Manor Waste at Christmas (more info on this soon). Local Planning Buckinghamshire Council has agreed to proceed Thanks also to our church shop JUST for selling with preparing an outline planning application tickets as well as all the Wendover Singers members to redevelop land at the site of the former and friends, who contributed to a great evening. Buckinghamshire County Council Sports & Social As you know, we had to pause the fun of admitting Club at Stoke Mandeville. Full article https://bit. new members till after the concert. But the ly/3zxAZog. Wendover Singers, (Wendover’s new Community Choir), would like to thank everyone who attended their first concert (No 1 Summer Concert), in June at St Mary’s Church Wendover and for helping to make it such a success.
good news now is that we can welcome 20 new members so if you would like to join the Wendover Singers or be added to the waiting list, please contact us soon, on info@wendoversingers.com and take a look at our newly revamped website www.wendoversingers.com. We rehearse on Monday evenings at the John Colet School during term times.
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Penguin Random House UK has launched a new charitable partnership with Calibre Audio, Being a not-for-profit organisation fees are kept ensuring the publisher’s entire audio back very low, and we offer a free ‘taster’ session on catalogue – around 6,000 titles – and future your first visit. We are fortunate to benefit from the releases are freely available to Calibre’s members. energy and musical skills of Jill Neenan as Musical Director, Rebecca Izard as accompanist, and local Calibre Audio (headquartered in Weston Turville) music teacher Pippa Beckford who can and does is the only national charity in the UK to provide a completely free for life audiobook service to provide musical cover at a moment’s notice. anyone who has a print disability. Their 16,000 If we didn’t meet you at the concert, we hope to members have a range of print disabilities that see you in September! make reading and understanding text difficult Sue and Carol, Wendover Singers’ Joint-Leads including visual impairments, learning disabilities, cognitive impairments, and physical dexterity Jubilee Party at the Evening WI conditions. Wendover Evening WI Inspire Bucks gives Sensory Toys celebrated the Queen's Children with additional needs who visit Platinum Jubilee at Buckinghamshire Council’s Family Time Service a garden party in a centres in Wycombe and Aylesbury, now have member's garden. Over 50 special interactive multi-sensory toys to play with ladies came to the event thanks to a £250 gift from the local charity Inspire and everyone was dressed Bucks. Full article https://bit.ly/3xoYQnB. in red, white and blue
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Tribute: John Currell John was born in High Wycombe on 24 February 1942 to Charles and Ethel. His sister, Ann, came three years later.
John and Margaret enjoyed walking and would visit the Lake District annually. John attended the Royal Wycombe Grammar They also enjoyed School and went on to read Civil Engineering at many trekking Kings College, London. After practical experience holidays in distant parts of the world. on-site and in a design office he qualified to become a Chartered Member of the Institution John loved all sports. He was a successful of Civil Engineering. competitive athlete until 1970. He then played hockey for Aylesbury 2nd team until he was 62. His career progressed and in 1969 John was John didn’t lose contact with Aylesbury Hockey offered a job at Bucks County Council (BCC) in the Club. He qualified to umpire hockey, which he Forward Planning Group, having responsibilities did most Saturdays in the earlier years of his for the new city of Milton Keynes. retirement. At BCC John gained several promotions until he reached the pinnacle by being appointed to the post of Head of Transportation. He retired in 2002, having worked for 33 years in Local Government. John met his future wife, Margaret, whilst on holiday in Yugoslavia. They were married for 54 ½ years. John was very proud of his sons, James and Mark, and he loved and enjoyed the company of his daughters-in-law and his 5 grandchildren.
his car to take people to health appointments. When BCC threatened to close Wendover’s library, without hesitation he joined the committee whose aims were to form a volunteerrun library. John also was part of the team producing the Wendover Neighbourhood Plan. He was awarded Freedom of the Parish of Wendover in recognition for his work in helping to formulate the Neighbourhood Plan.
Other pastimes included cycling, going to the gym, Pilates and the allotment. He enjoyed growing vegetables, some in great abundance! On retirement John took up golf at Chiltern Forest He held the post of Secretary with the Ashbrook Golf Club. Allotment Association until he died suddenly on 10 May 2022. He became a member of the U3A and ran a discussion group for many years. At John’s funeral his sons said they "remembered their dad as a kind, warm and empathetic person; John was very public spirited and he spent time concerned for the happiness of others: there to doing voluntary work on the Ridgeway and lend a hand of support when needed." Thames Path and for the Chiltern Society. He will be sadly missed by Margaret and his He was a Friend of Wendover Health Centre, using family and friends.
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Schools Youth Author Workshop at CWA
Students from Chiltern Way Academy's Wendover Campus were the first to participate in a workshop with budding author Ciaran Thapar. This literary workshop explored the themes in his new book, Cut Short. His book explores the harsh reality of young people and their exposure to knife crime as well as the life-long repercussions it comes with. Each student was able to work with the author in a collaborative 2-hour workshop where they received a signed copy of his new book to take home. The students were talking about the workshop long after it had finished and went on to submit their own pieces for a creative writing anthology. Each student piece will be read aloud over the radio by a professional author or publisher. They will also be given the chance to have their work published in the anthology, and receive two free copies.
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RAF Halton RAF Halton Granted the Freedom of Thame
On Sunday 15th May, the Queen’s Colour of Royal Air Force Halton and Escort Squadron paraded through the town of Thame. The town’s Mayor conducted a review of the parade alongside the Station Commander, Group Captain Startup, before granting RAF Halton the Freedom of Thame by marching through the town with swords drawn, bayonets fixed and the Queen’s Colour flying. The parade was led by the Parade Commander, Wing Commander Toothill, and was supported by the superb musical accompaniment of The Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment.
RAF Aviators prepare for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant Over 300 Royal Air Force aviators prepared for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at RAF Halton in advance of the Pageant at Buckingham Palace.
Aviators from around the UK and overseas territories were practicing their drill routines alongside members of the Queen’s Colour Squadron and RAF musicians at the RAF station in Buckinghamshire. Group Captain Dan Startup, Station Commander at RAF Halton said: “Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force is immensely proud to form a key part in the celebrations for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee. Royal Air Force Halton personnel have been refreshing Aviators from across the Service so that they could meet the highest standards of Parade readiness on Sunday. We are honoured to pay tribute to our Monarch, who has served the country and supported the Royal Air Force for the past 70 years.” The RAF Central Band also performed the new pageant composition, titled “For Queen & Country” as well as a rendition of “Sweet Caroline”, which has become an internet sensation surrounding the Jubilee. In addition to the traditional Trooping the Colour military display to celebrate The Queen’s Official Birthday, members of the UK Armed Forces were on parade throughout the Jubilee weekend to mark her 70 years as sovereign and head of the Armed Forces. The preparations at Halton followed the flypast rehearsal at RAF College Cranwell and were mirrored by similar work being done by the Royal Navy and British Army to prepare for the Platinum Jubilee. The marching detachment also held an early morning practice on Tuesday 31 May outside Buckingham Palace.
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The Head Students see themselves as coordinators for two different groupings within the school. As the sixth form continues to grow, the Head Students see themselves as its voice in discussions with staff. Just as important is the opportunity for sixth formers to help younger students with all their transitions, too. One of their main concerns is to provide more sporting opportunities for sixth formers. This will include use of the Fitness Suite on Tuesday afternoons and a special sporting challenge once every half term. This could include staff v student games and other similar fun activities, possibly with community input including food trucks offering nutritious options.
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The Monday Club Café celebrated the Platinum Jubilee on Monday 30th May. The Christian Centre was decorated with Union Jack bunting and red, white and blue balloons and flowers. Our visitors came all dressed up for the Jubilee and were served tea in china cups and saucers and home- made cakes with Union Jack icing. A popular feature was the life-sized cardboard cut-out of the Queen and everyone enjoyed singing the National Anthem and a whole range of patriotic and uplifting songs. Most of our visitors remember the coronation and enjoyed reminiscing over pictures of the Queen at various stages in her reign and thinking about their own lives. While our visitors often have difficulty with short term memory they are often able to recall incidents and memories from the past. We therefore encourage reminiscence at the Monday Club café as it can give people with dementia a sense of competence and confidence through using a skill they still
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Summer Swimming! Wendover Swimming Pool is a volunteer-run pool offering Lane Swimming and Family Splash sessions - and with the coming of summer, Family Splash Weekday Afternoons. Please check days & book online before you come to the Pool, as numbers are limited. The Wendover Swimming Pool is easy to get to - it’s in the middle of the schools campus on Wharf Road. Please check our Facebook page for information and updates before you come. Want to volunteer? Email trustees@wendoverswimming.org.
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What’s On in July 2022 To Advertise your event for August 2022 please contact us before Monday 16 July Calendar entry FREE, one line. These events and more on www.wendovernews.co.uk/events DAY/DATE
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Tue-Sat
10.00-16.00 Discover Bucks Museum open, Church St, Aylesbury HP20 2QP, see page 2. Open 10.00-17.00 Sat.
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Tue-Sun
10.00-17.00 College Lake Nature Reserve Tring HP23 5QG open - see website for details.
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10.00-17.00 Waddesdon Manor grounds and buildings open - please book online before visiting.
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Wed-Sun days vary Fri 01-Sat 02 Sat 02 Sat 02
times vary Volunteering opportunities & events at nature reserves with BBOWT - see page 12 for details.
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see listing Chilfest, Pendley Manor, Tring. Fri 14.00-23.00, Sat 10.30-23.00, see page 2
https://chilfest.co.uk/chilfest-buy-tickets
10.30-12.30 Guided circular walk with Wendover Canal Trust, start/end Mead’s Farmhouse Kitchen, B489 Wilstone Village. all day WhizzFizzFest, Aylesbury, see page 2
www.wendovercanal.org.uk www.whizzfizzfest.org.uk
Sat 02
14.00 Bacombe Hill Walk with BBOWT, see page 12 - please book online
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Sat 02
18.30 A Right Royal Celebration with The Firth Singers, Tickets £12.50, St Peter & St Paul, Gt Missenden, see page 2
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Sat 02
20.00 The Jake Leg Jug Band - Rotary Rocks! - Limelight Theatre HP21 7RT, see page 2
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Sun 03
11.00-16.00 11 The Paddocks HP22 6HE open for NGS. Admission £4, children by donation. See page 2.
ngs.org.uk
Sun 03
13.00-17.00 Drayton Beauchamp Open Gardens, see page 2
www.astonclintonhorticulturalsociety.co.uk
Sun 03
14.00-16.30 Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society Summer Show, Stewart Hall HP17 0XN, see page 2
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Sun 3-Sat 23 Tue 05
daily The Tringe - Tring’s Comedy Festival, Court Theatre, Tring, see page 2 13.30 Knit and Natter, Wendover Community Library. Please ask at the Library for details.
www.tringefestival.co.uk 01296 382415
Tue 05 14.15 & 15.30 “Learn My Way” technology sessions at Wendover Community Library. Please book early!
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Tue 05
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19.00-21.00 Breast Friends Aylesbury - Breast Cancer Support Group, please contact for details. 20.00 Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society - Fragrant Plants. Stewart Hall HP17 0XN. See page 2
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10.00 Wendover U3A monthly meeting, St Mary’s Church, Wendover
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10.00-12.00 Craft Group, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 3 19.30 Aylesbury Dolls House Club, Halton Village Hall, see page 12 daily Tring Carnival, Pound Meadow, Tring, see page 3 all day AC, B & DB Horticultural Society, outing to RHS Hyde Hall. See page 2.
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Thu 07
12.00-14.00 FREE Wills & Estate Planning Sessions with Wanstall Consulting, Wendover Library. See advert page 9.
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Thu 07
19.00-20.00 Wendover Library Reading Group, Wendover Community Library
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Thu 07
19.00-21.00 ARTea PARTy - art with artist Fiona McMillan - introductory session, £15 - Chilterns MS Centre HP22 5LX
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09.00-12.30 Tring Farmers' Market, the Market Place in Brook Street, Tring
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Sat 09 & 23 Sat 09
10.00-12.00 Monthly Produce Stall, All Saints’ church in Buckland
Sat 09
10.00-17.00 No2 Pound St - Summer on the Manor, Manor Waste, see advert page 4
Sat 09
11.00-17.00 Summer Fete, St Michael’s Aston Clinton. See page 3.
Sat 09-Sun 10 Sat 09 Sat 09
11.00-17.00 Flower Festival, St Michael’s Aston Clinton. See page 3. all day Rotary Big Bake, Chandos Arms, Weston Turville. See advert page 4 19.30 Wendover Music Concert featuring Samuele Telare & Ema Nikolovska. St Mary’s Church. See advert page 4.
Sun 10
11.00-12.00 Messy Sunday, All Saints’, Buckland
Sun 10
12.30-16.30 The Wendover Society Jazz Picnic, Picket Piece HP22 6NQ, see page 4
Tue 12
10.00-12.00 Weekly Coffee Drop-in for all ages resumes, Wendover Christian Centre. See page 4.
Tue 12
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19.30 Wendover Evening WI, From Bush to Cup - sustainable tea production. St Anne's Hall. See page 4.
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Fri 15
12.30.17.00 School's Out! Fest with Wendover Youth Centre, Ashbrook/Castle Park, Aylesbury Road, see page 19
Fri 15
19.30 OnScreen - drop by the Library for more info. Details, tickets & shows Wendover Library. See page 4.
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Fri 15
20.00 Aston Wine Club - British Winemakers Abroad with Laura Clay, Buckland Village Hall. See page 4.
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Sat 16
10.00-14.00 Wendover Local Produce Market, Manor Waste
Sat 16
10.30-11.30 Book Club, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 4.
Sat 16
14.30-16.30 Aylesbury Vale Stitchers OPEN DAY, Wendover Memorial Hall. See page 4.
Sat 16 Sun 17-Mon 18 Mon 18-Mon 25 Wed 20
midnight Final Midnight Walk for Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity, Aylesbury College, see page 4 daily 3 Peaks Yorkshire Challenge for Pace, see page 5. tbc Philip Green Amusements Fun Fair, Ashbrook/Castle Park, Aylesbury Road. Opening days & times TBC. 20.00 AC, B & DB Horticultural Society, Social Evening at Anthony Hall, Aston Clinton. See page 2.
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Thu 21
09.00-14.00 Legacy Fairs Antiques & Collectors Fair, Wendover Memorial Hall, see advert page 4
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Thu 21
09.00-17.45 Wendover Horticultural Society outing, see page 13
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Thu 21
19.30-22.00 Opera in the Garden, Bel & the Dragon at the Red Lion, 9 High St, Wendover. See advert page 5.
01296 622266
Thu 21
20.00 Aylesbury Centre of the National Trust, programme TBC, Broughton Junior School HP20 1NQ.
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Sat 23
10.00 Aston Clinton Ragpits Walk with BBOWT, see page 12 - please book online
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Thu 28-Sun 31 Fri 29-Sun 31 Sat 30
daily Bucks Open Weekend, see page 5 see listing Aston Clinton Beer Festival, Twitchell Lane HP22 5JJ, Fri evening, Sat all day, Sun 12noon-3pm, see page 6
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10.30-15.30 Rosa's Cantina - country & western themed event supporting KEELS, Wendover Christian Ctre, see page 5
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Wendover Parish Council Matters Arising View from the Chair
This View from the Chair is being written early as I hope to manage to fly off to sunny climes tomorrow with many others, as long as the flight goes ahead and we get through security. If the baggage doesn’t make it, never mind! So, we had a glorious day on the Witchell with our Picnic in the Park, the weather was just right, not too hot but pleasant and sunny. Rob Butler MP rushed back from the Trooping of the Colour to join us, and we met many residents on our tour of the cricket ground. It was fantastic to see so many people enjoying themselves and listening to the dulcet tones of the superb duo Ellis & Green.
Wendover Produce Market Saturday 16 July, 10am to 2pm Manor Waste 2022/23 Working Groups
At the June meeting, the Council agreed the new goals and objectives (Terms of Reference) of the four active working groups as follows: Open Spaces • Consider the current Open Spaces and Play Parks usage and equipment • Improve the facilities and equipment (contractor recommendations and costs) • Establish a replacement Skate Park (identifying My sincere thanks to Lynda, Stefan, Jo and location and recommending type of equipment) Stephen for their help and support during the 5 Year Plan event, Andy for the tidy up before and after and • Review the Parish Climate Action plan, update Wendover Cricket Club for the use of the ground! and execute for 2022/23 I would like to thank everyone who decorated • Ensure implementation of the new Community their property for the Jubilee, Wendover looked Engagement policy amazing! I also hope that the rest of your • Develop an Economic & Social Regeneration weekend went off well too. strategy and plan, execute for 2022/23: Over the recent weeks I have had the honour of representing Wendover and the Parish Council at a number of events, both happy and sad; the funerals of John Currell and of Tony Mogford MBE, who had been so pleased to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement award from WPC that he insisted it was on his coffin! I am so glad that we had managed to present him with it a few years ago in recognition of his unstinting work for Wendover. I also attended the mayor making for Aylesbury, which was an interesting event but did not include an official weigh-in to see if the outgoing Mayor had gained from his year in office! We congratulate Tim Dixon as the new mayor and wish him a successful and happy term of office. That’s all for now, enjoy the start of the summer months. Sheila Bulpett
Manor Road/Wharf Road • Facilitate the expanded use of electric vehicles in the Parish • Support BC on the county-wide review and parking needs in the Parish If there are members of the public who have specialist knowledge, expertise or enthusiasm in the work of the groups or because they represent sections of the local community that are relevant to the work, please contact the Clerk to register interest to join a working group.
Parish Council Meeting Tuesday 5 July, 7.30pm Chilterns MS Centre Oakwood Close HP22 5LX Information about upcoming meetings: www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/meetings
Save the Date – Play around the Parishes
Play around the Parishes is a scheme run by the Buckinghamshire Communities Team to provide ○ A new policy for the Manor Waste open access free-play sessions for children aged ○ A publicity campaign for Wendover 1 to 8 on weekdays during the summer school ○ A new ‘welcome to Wendover’ website holidays. We will be hosting a fun day on Monday 8 August at Ashbrook Open Space. More details HS2 Mitigation to follow next month! • Maintain pressure on HS2 ltd to ensure they meet their obligations/responsibilities under Jubilee Fun! the Hybrid Bill • Achieve the best possible mitigation result for Scenes from The Witchell event 2 June include entertainment duo Ellis & Green, VIPs at the WPC Wendover Parish Marquee and an afternoon tea. Transport (formerly speeding & noise) • Mitigate the noise nuisance and speed & air pollution of motor vehicles in the Parish • Mitigate the noise nuisance and speed of motor vehicles using the A413 Wendover Bypass • Follow-up with informal consultation to develop proposals for 20 mph speed limits • Develop solutions to the traffic concerns in
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