Chetnole

from March 2022 No. 343

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Village resident Gill Trickett sends the following message: “I would like to say thank you to all the very kind Chetnolians who sent cards, flowers and letters after John’s unexpected but very peaceful death and to those who came to his funeral.”

Lots of things to add to your calendar for the next few months which is really encouraging isn’t it, after literally years of nothing. The Friends of St. Peter’s launch a fundraising programme of musical events in the church with the first of their Raise the Roof Concerts, starting with Sherborne Girls School’s premier choir The Madrigal Society which will perform for you on the evening of Wednesday 9 March – sit in your ancient church and listen to beautiful music whilst raising money for vital restoration work. Two more concerts will follow this in May and July as well.

Saturday 19 March marks the return of the hugely popular Chetnole Village Hall Jazz Café, kicking off with swing band The Old Malthouse to lift your spirits. And a much-needed evening of laughs is supplied by award-winning comedian George Egg as part of the Artsreach spring programme at the village hall on Friday 25 March. Keep reading for details of tickets and times.

Photo: Liz Tebbatt

Dates for the diary:

3 March Response to Flooding drop in session, 2.00–6.00pm, Village Hall 9 March The Madrigal Society, 7.30pm, St. Peter’s 9 March PCC meeting, 7.30pm, Village Hall 17 March St. Patrick’s Day evening at Chetnole Inn with live Irish music provided by folk duo Mitchell and Vincent 19 March Jazz Cafe with The Old Malthouse, 7.30pm, Village Hall 25 March Artsreach production with comedian George Egg, 7.30pm, Village Hall 27 March British Summer Time (BST) begins so put your clocks one hour forward when you go to bed on Saturday 26 March!

1 May Raise the Roof concert: an evening of early music from There Be Dragons ensemble 6 May Bingo – back after two years’ absence, a fundraising event for Chetnole Flower Show, 7.00pm, Chetnole Village Hall 14–29 May Dorset Art Weeks at Chetnole Mill 3 July New curate Jenny Nelson’s first communion service at St. Peter’s followed by bring and share lunch in the hall 9 July Raise the Roof classical concert 8,9,10 July Chetnole Church Flower Festival, 11.00am-5.00pm each day 6 August 75th Annual Chetnole Flower Show

Artsreach programmes can be found in our village red phone box along with other publications.

Enjoy the lighter evenings to come!

Liz Tebbatt

St. Peter’s Church

We are so looking forward to the Friends of St. Peter’s event on Wednesday 9 March, with the wonderful Sherborne Girls Madrigal Society coming to entertain us in church. We hope to see you there. And we’d like to thank the Friends for paying for the recent servicing and maintenance of the church clock.

Please put the dates of our Flower Festival in your diaries now: 8, 9 and 10 July, open from 11.00am–5.00 pm each day.

Our church services will be posted on the church notice board near the gate each month. Anyone is welcome, and we have coffee and biscuits after the 10.00am services.

You may know that Jenny Nelson, our new curate, will be ordained at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday 2 July. Her first communion service is in Chetnole on Sunday 3 July. It will be a Benefice Communion followed by a bring-andshare lunch in the Village Hall.

Chetnole PCC

Sherborne Girls School Madrigal Society Concert

Wednesday 9 March 7.30pm

The Friends of St. Peter’s are delighted to welcome the Madrigal Society to the historic St. Peter’s Church on Wednesday 9 March at 7.30pm, for their first performance since March 2020. The Madrigal Society is the

premier choir of Sherborne Girls School and was founded some 40 years ago.

Averaging around 26 singers, the Madrigal Society has undertaken several overseas tours including Malta, Italy, Hungary and Austria. Since 2000 they have regularly featured in the Sherborne Abbey Festival and have performed twice for HRH The Prince of Wales.

It promises to be a magical evening and the Friends of St. Peter’s look forward to seeing you at the concert.

Tickets cost £10 and can be obtained from Gwen Adair (gwen.adair12@gmail. com or 07979 010332), Di Murphy (murphydi1950@gmail.com) and Bee Grant Peterkin (beegp@btinternet.com) .

Raise the Roof music concerts

During 2022, the Friends of St. Peter’s are hosting several music concerts in St. Peter’s, to raise funds for repairs to the roof, and here are some further dates for your diary.

Sunday 1 May

An evening of early music from There be Dragons ensemble

Saturday 9 July

Classical concert Further details will be available nearer to the events.

Gwen Adair

The Chetnole Village Hall Jazz Café …

… is pleased to present

Old Malthouse Jazz Band Saturday 19 March 2022, 7.30 pm

After a two year hiatus, Chetnole Village Hall’s Jazz Cafés are back!

Starting on Saturday 19 March, our first guests are The Old Malt House Jazz Band, a swing and jazz ensemble from Bristol who have a passion for the Trad Jazz of the 1920s to ’40s. The band is led by singer/guitarist Joseph Trudgeon and his regular collaborator, saxophonist Greg Sterland.

Tickets £10, from John Head 01935 872555 or Ian Lingwood 01935 872998.

Coming soon to Chetnole

How often have residents been asked by a visitor or delivery driver, “Can you direct me to XYZ Cottage?” If only there was a village map ...

When taking on the job of Home Watch coordinator many years ago, I was given a very basic line drawing (drawn by Stephen Neal?) showing the location of all properties in the village. A local artist (guess who) has kindly agreed to update this and create a new A2 sized map, in her own inimitable style, to be displayed in the Village Hall.

It will also be printed in A4 size, and copies put on sale to raise funds for the Village Hall and St. Peter’s Church. We hope every resident will buy a copy, as all proceeds will go to these two local hubs. Anyone who could help with the print run is invited to contact me.

Gordon Ratcliffe

Tel. 01935 872996

Chetnole Oil Group

If you would like to order some domestic heating oil as part of the Chetnole oil group, please email your orders to info@ pearce-energy.co.uk or call Gill and Val on 01935 816966.

Chetnole in the past

Another snippet of village history …

Mrs Leah Jeanes lived at The Old Cottage. She was born in 1837 and in 1860, aged 23, married William, the Parish Clerk. At 74, she was still listed as ‘shopkeeper’ in the 1911 Census.

She lived to be almost 84, dying on 10 February 1921. Her memorial card is shown, as well as her wedding photo and a midlife 1905 portrait

Gudrun Tweedy’s long front window was the entrance to her shop, depicted in a contemporary watercolour.

Linda Carroll REARRANGED

Multi-Agency Response to Flooding in Chetnole

Have you been impacted by the flooding events in October?

Please join us for a drop-in session at

Chetnole Village Hall, Leigh Road, Chetnole DT9 6NU

on Thursday, 3rd March 2022

from 2.00pm – 6.00 pm

Join us to learn more about what other measures are being implemented and explored to reduce the risk of flooding in the Wriggle Valley.

We will be complying with current Covid guidelines and managing numbers at the event, however if you would prefer to book a specific time slot with us you can do so by contacting Henry Quinney by either email: henry.quinney@environment-agency.gov.uk or by telephone: 07880 160921