I'd Rather Be In Deeping April 2024

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Newton Fallowell are proud to offer for sale this fantastic four bedroom executive home in the desirable Village of Baston. The ground floor comprises of a spacious entrance hall, a lounge, separate dining room, open plan kitchen / breakfast room, study, play room, a utility room & WC. To the first floor the master bedrooms benefits from an en-suite and built in wardrobes and there are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom. Externally there is a block paved driveway providing parking in front of the single garage. The private rear garden backs onto open fields and is mainly laid to lawn with mature trees and borders. There is a quality timber cabin with power and light which offers a variety of uses and there are two further timber sheds providing garden storage. Early viewing of this property is highly recommended.

Hadrian Drive, Baston £565,000

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Books! They are Deepings’ favourite subject! That is why so many children and their teachers enter into the spirit of World Book Day with such enthusiasm and why the Deepings Community Library is one of the most successful in the county! It is why the Summer Reading Challenge is so well subscribed (this year it starts on ? July) and why the fourth Deepings Literary Festival is about to unfold. Again with an impressive line up – starting with the Brand Development Director at Simon & Schuster, Sara-Jade Virtue, who will give a whistle-stop tour of how to get published and closing with investigative journalist, Tessa Boase who shines a light on the eco-feminists who fought against the Victorians’ love affair with plumage –and won! Tickets are available on www. deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk Watch out as well for a return of Storyfest – free for families over the weekend of 15th-16th June. In the words of Alice Hoffman in Magic Lessons “Books may well be the only true magic.”

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Market Deeping Community Primary School

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Raising awareness of the benefits of organ donation and welcome funds, £3,800, for the Royal Papworth Hospital, former Watch Manager at Lincs Fire & Rescue, Mickey Culff cycled from Papworth to Harrogate with two other transplant receipients and a number of doctors. Mickey who recieved new lungs in 2022 says, “I feel so grateful that I have been given a second chance of living and truly appreciate the miracle that transplantation and donating offer’.

Rosie and Judith Jacobs recently attended a reception for food and farming champions at No.10 Downing Street; giving them the opportunity to meet Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Mark Spencer, Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries. They promoted British Agriculture on behalf of the region and the industry as a whole! Working in Moor Farm Shop daily gives them a great insight into what customers actually want and they adapt their home produced products or pass this information on to their suppliers.

Celebrating her 100th birthday, Val Pithey was given a bouquet and handcrafted card by the Revd. Georgina Holding at a Lent Lunch held at The Green School, Market Deeping. Val and her husband both hailed from the Peterborough area. her husband serving in the Fleet Air Arm in WW2. Grandson Chris now runs Linfords Fish & Chips in the Market Place.

Having been the runners up on several occasions since the Clash of the Clubs started in 2012, the WI were victorious in 2024!

Designer of Idrbid magazine, Gary Curtis was quoted in the Sunday Times ‘Best Places to Live’ saying that ‘Stamford is a bustling, happening place.’ Gary takes photographs of the streetscapes that are admired by 39,900 followers from all over the world on instagram @theoldbuilding.

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In previous years the Deepings Literary Festival has benefitted from a sizeable grant from SKDC bolstered by local busineses. For the 4th Festival happening 1-5 May, SKDC have provided reduced funding through the Community Fund. The Festival is also grateful for funding from the Market Deeping and DSJ Town and Parish Council, DSJ United Charities, Lions and Rotary Clubs, Liberty Partnership, Oakwood, Oddfellows and Hegartys. Ashley Sutherland, partner at Hegarty’s Deeping office said, “To mark our 50th anniversary, Hegarty is supporting 50 community initiatives to champion a variety of causes, in the Deeping, Oakham, Stamford and Peterborough areas. The bi-annual Deepings Literary Festival always offers a fantastic mix of entertaining and inspiring sessions from talented authors. We are delighted to see it firmly established in the community’s calendar. It’s events like this that truly bring a community together and we are incredibly proud to be supporting the team and the popular event this year’.

This year the Brains of Deeping competition was won by ‘After Hours’ l-r Joe Wray, Pete Benson, Tony and Kay Plunkett.

The first meeting of DSJ Parish Council, Market Deeping Town Council, members of Rotary, Lions, Round Table and Inner Wheel to discuss Sunday Funday on July 7th John Eve Field.

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The clocks have changed, the blossom is on the trees, and the tortoises have come out of hibernation - so it is definitely spring! Although many of us have challenges ahead there is much to be grateful for and we have a number of exciting events to look

Wildlife Talk and Display by John Parsonage on Thursday 11th April at 7pm in the Library. Tickets £5 available at the library

The Mayor’s Ball Civic Dinner on Saturday 20th April at the Deeping Sports and Social Club. Tickets available at the Town Hall - reserve your places with Julie asstclerk@marketdeeping-tc. gov.uk

Have your Say on The draft South Kesteven Local Plan Review 2021-2041. The Review is an important consultation activity that gives local residents the opportunity to learn about proposed development across the region. It is also the process by which we all have the chance to ‘have a say’ by giving our considered responses to the many proposals. Please read the documents first and do use the designated response methods. NB: Comments posted on Facebook will not be taken into consideration.

Key areas of policy change include:

H1 – the allocation of land for new housing*

E2 – the allocation of land for employment use

H5/H6 – the allocation of sites for gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople

DE1 – promoting good quality design across the district

OS1 – changes to Open Space allocations

Chapter 5 - a new chapter on Climate Change and Energy that has five related new Policies

Deepings 10k and Fun Run on Sunday 19th May following a route around the neighbourhood. To register go to www.deepingsrun.com

Funday Sunday with Classic Vehicles

Rally on Sunday 7th July on the John Eve playing field. Free entry for everyone - reserve your vehicle with Emily deputyclerk@marketdeeping-tc.gov.uk

*For the Deepings, the draft Plan promotes proposals for three additional allocations of land for housing (three other sites were assessed and rejected):

SKPR-14 land west of Millfield Road MD

SKPR-26 Priory Farm Land, DSJ

SKPR-55 land east of Peterborough Road MD, a change from employment use to housing

The Consultation Period runs from 29th February to 25th April and all the relevant information and background documents can be found on the South Kesteven website / SKDC Local Plan Review / Draft Local Plan Consultation. This includes a survey portal where you can give your responses, or you can email planningpolicy@southkesteven.gov.uk

There is also an SKDC online presentation event on Thursday 11th April 7.30-9.30 that you can register to access.

forward to that are being planned by various groups. If you are a community focused person and wish to get involved in the planning of local activities please make contact or come along and volunteer to help with these events that include:

Deepings Raft Race is being held on Sunday 4th August along the river from DSJ to Market Deeping. For further details and booking go to www.deepings.co.uk/raftrace/

Sandbags may still be needed for a little longer in case of an unexpected deluge. When all risk of flooding has passed, please could you let your town or parish clerk know whether your bags have been in contact with flood water as they will be regarded as contaminated and therefore not suitable for reuse. Contaminated bags will be collected and safely disposed of by officers from Lincolnshire County Council. Other bags can be kept and stored for future use.

Deepings Leisure Centre

update –a final decision on the transfer of the building has been unexpectedly deferred and there is no outcome yet whilst other proposal options are being considered.

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Interested parties gather at the crash site of the B 17 ‘Devil’s Ball’ on Langtoft Fen. The plane crashed eighty years ago on September 8th taking the lives of 8 American airmen, only one survived. It is hoped that a memorial can be erected in time for the anniversary.

After a full OFSTED inspection Market Deeping Community Primary School have been judged GOOD in all areas - that is GOOD for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and for its Early Years provision. Inspectors stated that: ‘Pupils are flourishing at Market Deeping Community Primary School. The curriculum … is a real strength. It is rich and ambitious. Pupils get the right support at the right time.

Staff at Moor Farm Shop Newborough entering into the Red Nose Day spirit!

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Chairman of the Church Ladies Fellowship, Margaret Flegg presented cheques to the value of £1300 to a number of beneficiaries, Philip Dilks for Age Concern, Mark (vicar) for Lighting the Spire and Jan Fisk for the Church Hall along with Air Ambulance, St. Barnabas and the Parkinson’s Association. Pictured l-r Revd Mark Williams, Margaret Flegg, Phil Dilks and Jan Fisk.

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for thorough examinations. Comprehensive checks for various vision defects and ocular diseases including markers for systemic conditions, for example diabetes. Preventative care, such as screening for Glaucoma - an eye disease more common amongst the elderly, assessment for macular degeneration and treatment for dry eyes are also on offer. Exciting new frame collections too!

Bina Chandarana (centre), previous winner of The Optometrist of the Year Award, brings 20 years of

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Jayne Tattershall (left) of Pets Pantry and Sarah McCann of Lillis will distribute £47 and £54 respectively to the Deepings Mens Group and a local charity for Autism after the Deeping Bargain Hunt.

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Mary Buck out of the shadows

‘Sheltons – Stationers to the Deepings’ was the feature story carried by this magazine in the December issue – we chronicled the life of Jabez and Mary Shelton and their children with just a mention of one of their employees, Mary Buck.

Step forward Mary Buck, as her great grandson, Ian Slater, immediately identified her and let us know that Mary had her own story to tell! Mary’s great-great grandparents were John and Mary (née Gann) married in the Priory Church on 27th July 1781, and her parents, William and Susannah (née Vellam) married in the same church a century later on 18th May 1870. Susannah had been a domestic at Burghley House before her marriage.

The Buck family were an intrinsic part of village life as they had been lighter (barge) boatmen picking up cargo from the coast and bringing it up the Welland. Of necessity hardy, tough men, they would be out in all weathers, sometimes with a number of lighters chained together carrying coal and corn and other goods. Bringing goods from the coast to Spalding and into Stamford via the Fosdyke and Boston, the lightermen would tow the lighters with two sturdy shire horses along the towpaths. On to Crowland, said to be the loneliest part of the journey, and then to Peakirk where the horses would be changed. Then Waldrum Hall on the Peakirk/Deeping border with a visit to the Ship Inn (which had at one time belonged to the Buck family) and then on towards Low Locks and the Lock Pen, up to the Boat House near the Cross with its slipway to allow boats to go under the building, and to offload goods for Deeping villagers. Then on to the first look-out post, a tall house standing on the Deeping Gate side of the river near to Black Gate, then on to the Laburnum Arms, the last house on the riverside before reaching the bridge at Deeping St James. They would pass the look-out post with the oriel window at 30 Bridge Street and on to High Locks, still in use until the 1930s. While the lock was filling up with water there was time for a swift half at the Crown and Anchor, then it was on to Market Deeping, where the wharves were at the side of the New Inn (now The Stage), and forward to Stamford.

William Buck was still a lighterman as recorded on his eldest daughter Fanny’s birth certificate in 1871, although the coming of the railway line meant a decrease in trade along the Welland. Reluctant at first, because of the number of rail accidents, traders gradually used this new form of transport and William and Sarah eventually left their Deeping St James home and moved to Glinton, though Fanny (1871-1948) Mary (1873-1929), Henry (1874-1880) and Thomas (1878-1952) were all born in the village and baptised at the Parish Church. Parker was born after they moved to Glinton just after the 1881 Census.

William Ward & Edith Dolby Wedding 1925

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William Buck was to die in tragic circumstances in 1912 while in the course of doing his job as a flagman carrying a red flag before a steam engine drawing threshing tackle on the Lincoln Road near Northborough. His wife Susannah died in 1926 just three years before her daughter Mary.

Fanny, Mary’s elder sister, became a domestic servant for the Vicar of Maxey, Walter Sweeting and his wife, Maria, at the time of the 1891 Census. Six years later she married fisherman George Tuttle (1871-1930) at St Peter and St John’s Church in Kirkley, Suffolk. The couple had six children, one, Henry, dying as an infant and Walter meeting a tragic death when, as a 14-yearold, he was run over on the railway track while working at Peterborough Great Eastern Railway Station.

Fanny and George returned to Peterborough, George working as a porter at the station while the family settled in Stanground.

Gladys married Herbert Nightingale in 1922, settling in Whittlesey where Herbert was a horse keeper. Thomas worked at the brickworks and lived with his mother in Old Fletton after the death of his father. Horace worked as a counter hand at the aerodrome near East Raveley, Huntingdonshire, and was married to Rosetta Garner for a few years before their divorce, returning to what had been the family home at 10 Brookdale Cottages, Stanground.

Mary was the second daughter working for Jabez Shelton and in 1898 married Helpston-born John Dolby, a railway worker for the Great Northern Railway at Glinton Parish Church. The couple set up home in Walton near the Great Northern Railway depot and had two children: Arthur (1900-1957) and Edith (1901-2006). Upwardly mobile, the family moved to Crown Cottages, Garton End, where John was employed as a railway drayman. Their next home was at 107 Gladstone Street in the city centre with John, a carman (a driver), employed at the GNR goods depot. Having served in the 1914-18 War with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey, their son Arthur became a motor driver at Elms Garage, Lincoln Road, and Edith was a milliner working for Webster’s Millinery Department Store in Broadway.

Mary died aged just 56 in 1929 and John went on to marry again after seven years, when he wed Ada Burnett. John was registered as disabled in 1939, the couple living at 16 Abbey Road, Walton. He died in 1943 at Braceborough Hospital.

Mary’s son Arthur had married Thurza Haney (1898) in Peterborough in 1922, the couple

John George and Mary Elizabeth Dolby

Mary Elizabeth Buck - on her 21st birthday

Susannah Buck

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setting up home at 29 Clifton Avenue. Arthur was a wellknown taxi proprietor in the city; he was President of the Peterborough Taxi Proprietors and an active member of the Catholic Men’s Club. He died at home after a short illness in 1957, leaving his business to his only son Mr A.G. Dolby. As a widow, Thurza married William White in 1974 and died a decade later.

Mary’s daughter, Edith, had married William Ward (1902-1991) in 1925, also employed on the railways as a coppersmith. The couple made their home at 49 Paston Lane. Walton. William died at the age of 89 but Edith lived to the grand old age of 105, only moving to a care home in the last year of her life due to failing eyesight. They had a son and a daughter and four grandsons, Ian Slater being their eldest.

Mary’s brothers, Thomas and Parker, moved to Nottingham seeking work better paid than land work. Thomas had had a taste of this, having started his working life as a bird scarer, walking the fields throwing small stones at the birds to protect the crops. In Nottingham, Thomas became a cycle hand turner and Parker an ironmonger’s van man.

Thomas married Edith Robinson in Nottingham in 1902, having two children; Edith (1903) and Elsie (1905). At the time of the 1911 Census, Edith’s father, Charles Robinson, was living with the family. Thomas was highly ambitious and by 1921 he owned his own hardware business with his wife, a housewife, daughter Edith, a wig maker for The Midland Hair Manufacturing Co., and Elsie a box hand for John Player & Son Tobacco manufacturers. His mother, Mary, was visiting at the time of the Census. Thomas was a lay preacher for 40 years, Secretary of the Baptist Preachers’ Association for 21 years and a President of the Christian Endeavour Movement. When he died in Lenton in 1952 he left £563 to his two unmarried daughters (pictured above)

In 1906, Parker (1881-1962) married Elizabeth Pinkney (1877-1952) from Derby, going on to have four children: Alfred (1906-1987), John (1907-2000), Mary (1909-2001) and Frances (1915-2004). Parker served in the 1914-18 War in the East Midlands 606 Army Company. His service number was M2 264544 and he was discharged in 1919. He remained a motor driver for all of his working life, and by 1939 he was retired, his wife a housewife, and Frances a cigar maker living at home. Alfred became a shop owner in Melton Mowbray.

The family name has continued. Most recently until her death at the age of ninety nine in 1960 Frances Buck (nee King) lived with her husband Henry on Church Street, Deeping St James. Henry was the first cousin of Mary Buck’s father William.

For more on the Buck Family in the Deepings see issue 41 www. idratherbeindeeping.com

Susannah,Elsie and Edie Buck (seated) with Thomas and Edith (standing) 1918

Susannah Buck in Bamber Street

Thomas Buck

Research: Ian Slater, Joy Baxter

Words: Judy Stevens

From Kharkiv with love

Fortunately, Aliona Chelebi has a philosophical approach to life. She is on a journey to learn from the many lessons that life has put in her way to take her to a place of greater understanding and compassion.

And one of those lessons was when war broke out in her home country of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, in what became the largest attack on a European country since WW2. Aliona was not in her home city of Kharkiv but with her four-year-old son Damian in Ankara, Turkey. Her mother, Viktoriya, was in Bologna buying clothes for her three boutiques in Kharkiv. It quickly became apparent that they would not be able to return to their handsome apartment block and Aliona’s sleek white Mazda 3 which she remembers fondly: ‘It only had 25,000 miles on the clock.’ Concerned for the welfare of her family, several members fled to Turkey where seven of them shared a small apartment with two bedrooms, only eventually to return to the war-torn country when the exigencies of relocating became too much for them.

In truth, the war had started back in 2014 when Russia occupied the Donbas and Crimea and increasingly alarming calls from friends had alerted Aliona to the potential horrors that could unfold. So returning was not on the cards for Aliona who scoured the internet for options, and through a quirk of fate was put in touch with Adriana and her husband Clive in Market Deeping. Adriana an employee at the local children’s centre and with a place for Damian at William Hildyard Community Primary, Deeping proved to be just the sanctuary that the family was looking for. They were greeted at Stansted by Adriana with their mountain of luggage. ‘At home in Kharkiv we would dress for city life and had wardrobes full of clothes – while we didn’t bring them all with us, of

course, our bulging suitcases were an embarrassment as we tried to fit them all into the car!’

In those first few months the family strived to acclimatise themselves to a new way of life. It was Clive, a chef at Stamford College, and the delicious meals that he would prepare for them that provided a much appreciated rhythm to their new life. The Deeping Ukrainians banded together for mutual support in the early days and Aliona, Viktoriya and Damian were one of the families who were to come on a Rotary funded trip to a sun-kissed Hunstanton in that first summer; ‘Damian still looks back on that day and the trip to the zoo, which I remind him was an aquarium,’ laughs Aliona.

Independent and impatient, this is one of the qualities that Aliona is looking to refine! The family found their own house to rent and Aliona a job at the Boundary Fish and Chip Restaurant, with Viktoriya a care assistant at Maxey House. Damian has settled at school, is fluent in English, which he now teaches his Grandmother, and he excels at Maths and at swimming. He is a popular boy, the apple of his mother’s eye and remarkably unscathed by his experience.

But when the conversation turns to her home city, tears well up as Aliona talks about the parks, the swans, the Children’s Rooms with the very latest play equipment, restaurants where chefs strived to produce different menus every day, cosy cafes, Freedom Square, boasting

the largest Christmas tree in Europe, art nouveau, and neo-classical architecture, half of which now lies in ruins. And that’s not all, as Aliona has lost friends and family as well. Recently, her father, initially reluctant to leave, was persuaded to flee, having spent terror-ridden nights in the basement of a building rocked by missiles and shelling. He is now safely close by in Spalding where the local council have found him accommodation.

Kharkiv is just 19 miles from the Russian border. Think Gosberton. After attacks, looting takes place across the border. Worse than that, some close friends have been indoctrinated by the Russian regime to deny their Ukrainian roots. War is not just armed conflict; it’s in the propaganda and fake news which makes it impossible to differentiate between truth and lies. Pupils attend school and shops open, but with the thought that every day could be their last. Perhaps most harrowing of all, when pressed to talk of the future, a return would not be an easy ride for those who fled for their survival when facing those who did not.

So looking to the future, Aliona, a university graduate, is planning a trip to Düsseldorf to see her best friend from her student days who has now settled in Germany. She has put her teaching days behind her, to which she owes her near perfect English, and is considering a university course. In the meanwhile she is off to buy some turkey legs which she will serve with smashed potatoes and a salad of tomatoes and cucumber – from a Polish store where the flavour is exquisite! Aliona’s quest to recreate the flavours and aromas of the restaurants of Kharkiv is real!

Wilson’s Pet Stop

Walks

After a short drive I can hardly contain my wagging tail. Out of the window I can just see green and lots of space. Where are we Mum?

Coming out of Deeping on the Spalding Road (A16) once you arrive at to the Tulip Queen roundabout, turn right and then follow the road round through Cowbit (locally pronounced Cubbit,) until you reach the car park on the bend.

Cowbit Wash was a flood plain for the River Welland, separated from the village by an earth bank. In the past the Welland would overflow regularly with the water freezing in wintertime. A relief channel (Coronation Channel) was constructed at Spalding, and since the 1950’s Cowbit Wash had not been used. During the 1800s speed skating championships were held on the frozen plain.

Fen Way

Start: Cowbit Wash (PE12)

Time to Travel: Approx 20 mins

Length: Approx 6 miles

Time of walk: Approx 1.5 hours

And now it’s a wonderful open space for my paws to explore! Let’s go Mum! Mum leads the way. There are lots of different routes to choose. We walked straight ahead to the Wash and then turned left.

You can see for miles around here so it’s really easy to spot any other dogs. Mum took off my lead and I was ready to sniff out this walk. Oh the freedom and no interruptions, just me and Mum and no other paw friends. I can just concentrate on these new smells.

We followed the bank for miles, then came back on ourselves and turned to the right for an extra mile.

We saw lots of birds and a slight glimpse of an otter, but he was very quick and disappeared. I’m not going to take woof-fence!

The water current is strong in the Welland and it’s always important to be careful around the river when off the lead. A

good alternative is to use a long line lead for those little adventurers.

I stayed out of the water today, so just a quick paw dry with one of Mum’s drying mitts and we headed back home. After that adventure I’m ready for a nice warm snooze in my cosy bed. Thanks Mum.

Dog friendly: Tulip Queen (outside seating with dogs.)

Off Lead: Plenty of chances for off lead exercise

In Wilson’s Bag: Water Bottle, Treats, Poop Bags, Drying Towel

Poop Bins: On route

Wildlife: Birds (and you might see an otter.)

Paw Rating: 4 out of 5

Sniff Rating: 4 out of 5

Overall Woof Rating: 5 out of 5

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DEEPING MARKET

Market Deeping Market has been on the car park in the centre of the Deepings since the 1970s, but it has been taking place in this town since a Charter was granted in 1220 by Henry III to William Briewer to hold a weekly market in Market Deeping. William promised to give Henry one palfrey (docile) horse for the privilege (although this debt was later waived). In 1304 the charter for the market along with the rights to two fairs, passed to Joan Wake, heiress of the powerful Wake family, who held lands across the country including in this area. In 1361 she married Edward, the Black Prince, but she continued to hold rights to the market.

And why, you may ask, have markets proved to be such an enduring part of our lives? The fresh produce, the

individuality, the camaraderie? In the case of the Deepings also the adjacent cafe and awardwinning tearooms, the deli brimful of local delicacies, the traditional butcher, dry cleaner, sewing shop and friendly pet shop. There’s a newsagent, a top-class carpet shop, a couple of popular hairdressers, a gift and card shop and a charity shop – all no more than a hop, a skip and a jump away!

Make it part of your routine to visit – after all it’s a tradition for a reason!

Happy 100th birthday to Inner Wheel!

The Deepings Inner Wheel Club was formed in 1975 and will be celebrating its half century next year. But the Deepings’ Club is just a small cog in a much bigger wheel. The organisation celebrates its 100th birthday in May this year.

Inner Wheel is closely linked to Rotary, which was originally founded in the early 20th century in Chicago by Paul Harris, for professionals to exchange ideas and form friendships. Their vision soon extended to also include humanitarian service and alleviating the suffering of others.

In 1923, with the devastating effects of war still in evidence and obvious inequalities across classes, the wives of some Manchester Rotarians met with the purpose of setting up a ladies’ club to run along Rotary principles. They had three main objectives:

- To promote true friendships

- To encourage the ideals of personal service

- To foster international understanding.

The ladies’ club, Inner Wheel, was officially formed in 1924, and from small beginnings and just 27 members has grown to be one of the largest women’s voluntary organisations in the world. Inner Wheel now has over 100,000 members, in 3,895 clubs, in more than 103 countries. Conventions are held around the world; the next is in May in Manchester.

Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland also come together annually for a conference

at which the International President gives an address; there are also presentations on a variety of topics, talks from well-known speakers and evening entertainment. It’s a great opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones.

The Deepings’ Inner Wheel Club also started with 27 members, led by President Patricia Beck. Anne Beeken, one of the founder members, remains an active member of the club. The Club was formed with the support of the Peterborough club, its ‘Mother Club’, which was well established, having been founded in 1940.

Founder President of Inner Wheel, Margarette Golding

Meetings are held once a month, for enjoyment, and

to discuss helping those who need support in the local community and overseas. As part of District 7, which covers a wide area spanning a 40 mile radius of Rutland Water, the Deepings meet with more than 20 other clubs in the district at three district meetings and two rallies per year. This is an opportunity to discuss Inner Wheel procedures and regional projects for the coming year.

In recent years Inner Wheel has extended its membership to ladies without Rotary connections, so everyone can get involved. It’s a wonderful organisation and if you are interested in knowing more, please get in touch.

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Tsundoku:

Japanese for people who have piles of literature they haven’t got round to reading yet.

Graham at Molecey Mill has bibliomania - it’s self confessed. ‘I do like books on water mills, initially this was to understand the building here more, what the names are for parts of the machinery. How the mill works and what the water is doing. But I also like books from the 18th century with nice leather bindings, on any subject. I have one from 1773, the date of the stone on the Granary and it’s a Georgian review of the year. Glenn’s parents recently left London and we now have a whole series of National Geographic and I love the bright yellow spines. I also enjoy a book with glamour, a coffee table book mostly on homes and architecture. I am not too fussy about shelves I quite enjoy piles and what I call carpet books. These are rows of books on the floor.’

The late Ann Boothroyd in a summer house of books on the river in Deeping St James - 1992

Apples for a teacher are included on this bookcase which includes treasured photos!

BOOKSHELVES

Light floods in to light this library.

Crafted from mahogany architraves and window sills given new life in a Helpston book case.

Studio pottery, wood turning and books in West Deeping!

Up and over and down both sides!

Tai Chi History - A Story of Determination

Usually, when I hear Tai Chi coaches talk about the history of Tai Chi – I get out of the way! Many Tai Chi coaches claim to have a lineage that goes back in history, making their Tai Chi somehow better or more traditional. What really matters, though, is the skill of the coach in passing on the knowledge of Tai Chi – not whether somebody’s granddad learned with somebody else’s granddad for a while!

The history of Tai Chi is massive! You would expect this from an art form that goes back hundreds of years. It is full of legends, exotic names and stories of heroics.

One of the more exotic stories is that the founder of Tai Chi was an immortal called Zhang San Feng, who watched an eagle trying to eat a snake. Apparently, the snake’s supple and lithe movements allowed it to escape and inspired Zhang San Feng to create Tai Chi. Whilst there is undoubtedly some artistic interpretation going on here, the image of the lithe, supple snake is a good one for Tai Chi.

If you were in the Chinese military in the 17th and 18th centuries, then your life expectancy would not be high and you would come face to face with death in its most visceral form frequently. This would change your outlook on life.

For that reason, many of the warriors who were skilled and lucky enough to retire would retire to Taoist monasteries. The link between martial skill and spiritual practices was therefore made.

In the early days, Tai Chi didn’t even have a name. After a while, people with similar skills and outlooks on life started to group together. The philosophy of Tai Chi started to emerge and it gained its name. The main centre for Tai Chi grew around the Chen family who still practise and teach Tai Chi.

In the old days, if you wanted to learn Tai Chi, you would struggle unless you were connected to the Chen family or had enough money to buy your way in.

The next character in our story in a guy called Yang Lu Chan (1799 -1872). Yang Lu Chan’s family were farm labourers. Although he wanted to learn Tai Chi, he was not of the correct family and didn’t have the money. He did have martial arts’ experience from the Shaolin temples, a famous martial arts school, along with plenty of cunning and determination.

He got himself a job as the caretaker for the Chen family. Nobody took any notice of him as he was sweeping the floor in the Tai Chi lessons but he was watching and learning. After his caretaking labours, he practised Tai Chi. When relating this story, I always wonder if the cartoon character, ‘Hong Kong Phooey’ was inspired by this story as he was the ‘mild-mannered janitor’.

The lineage continues. Yang Cheng Fu had children who grew up to be Tai Chi masters. The most famous of these were Yang Zhen Duo and Yang Zhen Ji, both of who taught my teacher, the Tai Chi master, Chris Pei.

Like all determined people, eventually Yang Lu Chan became skilful and decided to challenge the Chen elders, saying that he could beat any of their fighters. At first he was laughed at but he persisted. They decided to put him against their best fighters. He managed to beat them all but without causing them any injury. So honour was not lost.

The Chen family therefore decided that he should be fully trained and he stayed on with them. When he left, he created his own style, which is the Yang style of Tai Chi. Outside China, this is the most common style in the world.

The Yang style that is practised now, though, is not the same as that of our caretaker friend. It was his grandson, Yang Cheng Fu (1883-1936) who created the style which is so popular now.

This is another reason why I get out of the way when people talk about their Tai Chi lineage. The lineage of the Tai Chi that we practise at Ki-Ways goes all the way back to the original masters! We don’t need to worry about such things.

There is much more to the history of Tai Chi than we can put into a small article. For instance, there are five main styles of traditional Tai Chi and I have only mentioned two, and very briefly at that. As well as the five main styles of Tai Chi there are literally thousands of styles that derive in some way or another from the main styles and they all have their own history and validity, which is another reason why I avoid too many discussions about the history of Tai Chi. It’s complicated!

If you would like to learn more about Tai Chi, holistic health meditation or any forms of stress reduction, please contact me via email ray@ki-ways.co.uk or give me a ring on 07413 620344 or look up the website www.ki-ways.com

EVACUEES From Hull to the Deepings

If you attended Paisley Street School in Kingston upon Hull during the Second World War there was a good chance that you would be evacuated to the Deepings. As part of the government initiative to keep children safe from the bombing of urban areas, children were moved to the countryside. It was one of the biggest movements of people caused by the War, when nearly 1.5 million people were moved. Every day, children would take their packed suitcases to school in case that would be the day that they were to leave until the day itself came. They arrived with gas masks, identity labels tied to their clothing and baggage with a supply of food for the journey. It was undeniably a traumatic experience for them to be taken away from their families and familiar surroundings for the first time.

Hull suffered 86 air raids during the War years; the first overnight June 1920th 1940 and the last on March 15th 1945; 84,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. Ladies of the WVS oversaw the allocation of children, with 83 to Deeping St James, 63 to Market Deeping, 35 to West Deeping and 50 to Langtoft. The first group of eleven evacuees arrived in 1939 followed a year later by 20 more, accompanied by two teaching assistants from the school – one of whom, Arthur Betts, was absorbed into the staff of the school, later becoming headmaster at Langtoft Village School. He lived at 17 Church St, Deeping St James, until his death at the age of 73 in 1963.

There were many happy stories of children settling in with their new families and only a very few where this was not the case. In October 1940 an inter-school athletic contest took place and the evacuees from the local area triumphed over local boys in the event held on the Abbey Lawns in Bourne.

In 1941 staff at the American airbases donated 2,500 items of clothing to be distributed via the WVS to evacuated children and in February 1942, South Kesteven Rural and District Council received 360 toys from the British Relief Society in the USA for distribution.

In 1942 it was reported that such was the prowess of city children in becoming acclimatised to gardening and farming that they were permitted to enter a competition organised by an agricultural journal. Nine-year-old Michael Bett won £10 in savings certificates for consistently good work over six months, developing a love of agriculture and a strong artistic sense so that his painting of a potato setting scene was published in Farmers Weekly.

Author Sue Hubbard has chosen just this moment in our history in which to tell the story of Freda, a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End sent to live with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. She meets Philip, an artist and conscientious objector living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash. Sue will be attending the Deepings Literary Festival on Friday 3rd May in the Priory Church Hall at 4.00 pm where, accompanied by Forties singer Rachel Bea. she will give an insight into how their story in her book Flatlands unfolds. www.deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk

Sue Hubbard

Spring

I notice the soft pink blossom hanging delicately from each branch, and every individual flower, pale and perfect, signals spring. It’s almost like a switch has been turned on overnight and the new season has arrived.

The air that was not so long ago cold and crisp now has a hint of warmth, the sunlight is just that bit brighter and new life is buzzing around me. There is a renewed energy to the world, an awakening. Flowers burst into life to welcome hungry insects and all want to make their mark. Blankets of rich bluebells carpet the woodland floors and swathes of snowdrops, having been the bravest to show themselves first, dance like white pearls of ice in the breeze. Patches of golden daffodil trumpets, each one majestic, stand proud at the field’s edge.

A rustling in the hedgerow signals a blackbird busily preparing her nest. Sharp twigs are softened and moulded into shape as she takes the utmost care in constructing the perfect spot for her eggs to rest. Her sole reason for being right now is to create life and welcome her young into this bright new world. I pause to watch her at work and admire her determination and focus. Her life is simple, but her task is all consuming.

The gentle stream I walked past just a few weeks before, which had been a little dull, now sparkles with life. I am all at once enthralled as each ripple of water catches the sunlight in an instant. I feel humbled to be the only person in the world right now, watching the reflection of the sun from different angles, all in an intimate split second of time.

I am not the only one entranced by the rippling stream. A dipping dragonfly silently skims the water, with transparent wings beating so fast it’s as if they are standing still. Its grace is effortless and its movements delicate, as it accompanies me on my walk through this new season.

As I continue along, the warmth around me is real. The rise in temperature brings colour to my cheeks, and the sense of a revived natural world embraces me.

I inhale. The earthy smell that the land produces is like a heady perfume, almost overpowering. Life in spring is joyously vibrant. Every inch is full of rich colours and sounds and feelings of new beginnings.

As my eyes catch sight of a crocus, its deep violet head slightly downward as dew lays heavy on its petals, I know without doubt it will soon turn to face the sun.

For everything is now awake and bursting into life, revived. I smile at the thought, as the dragonfly glides past me and I watch the blackbird make a final check on her nest.

Nicola Harris

Save the date

1st-5th May 2024

www.deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk

Sara-Jade Virtue

Carol Atherton

Anne Fletcher

Julia Jarman

Suk Pannu

Sue Hubbard

Steve Holt

E C Bateman

Jack Jordan

Fiona Cummins

Clare Mackintosh

Simon Toyne

Ajay Tegala

Lev Parikian

Tessa Boase

Heidi Swain

We’re specialists in high quality bird food, growing much of the bird seed we sell here on our farm. We also stock a wide range of bird feeders & accessories. We are always available to offer advice on how to feed your garden birds

What’s on this April?

It’s starting to feel very Spring like in the Farm Shop with some of our favourite fruit & vegetables making a welcome return. Pick up seasonal produce from the Farm Shop & enjoy a tasty lunch in our Café

Join us for Easter fun! We’ve a bunny hunt in the Wildlife Garden, tractor & trailer rides around the farm

Magic Molecey

What could be better? Sitting in convivial company jn the magnificent setting of Molecey Mill connecting with authors who bring their words off the page and into the room! Two days of books, authors, readers and art! Murder at Molecey on Saturday 4th May brings together Stamford-based novelist, Emily Bateman with bestselling author Jack Jordan, former Daily Mirror journalist, Fiona Cummins, police officer turned crime writer, Clare Mackintosh and former Deacons School student, Simon Toyne, now a bestselling author. When the words Easy Like Sunday morning were penned the writer must have had Molecey on their mind! And this Sunday leave the papers at home as Ajay Tegala and Lev Parikian will transport you into another dimension exploring their world of wildlife and landscape. After lunch the Herbie Lamb Quartet will ease you into a talk by social historian Tessa Boase, who has uncovered the campaign of the brave eco feminists in their quest to save the birds from the Victorian love affair of plumed millinery! All this with Gallery in the Garden a step away!

Friday at Oddfellows

A few yards from the Market Place, the Oddfellows Hall is the ideal setting to sit back and listen to authors Anne Fletcher, Julia Jarman and Suk Pannu and wow, what stories they have to tell! You may have heard of Scott of the Antarctic but I’ll wager you know nothing about the wives that the team left behind! In Widows of the Ice Anne explores what happened after a starving and freezing Captain Scott scrawled with the stub of a pencil his final words: ‘For God’s sake look after our people.’ Widows is also the theme of the new series of women’s fiction from Julia Jarman, well known by kids for her much-loved Big Red Bus she has now drawn on her own experience as a wife, widow, mum and grandma to pen The Widows’ Wine Club, Widows on the War Path and soon Widows Waive the Rules. And then screenwriter, Suk Pannu, known for Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No.42, will talk about his new cosy crime novel, Dead and Scone developing Mrs Sidhu from his original drama Mrs Sidhu Investigates.

Five Great Literary Festival Moments

Tickets: www.deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk

Authors with extras

With a reputation for offering a value-added experience, this Festival will also include the opportunity to enjoy the ambiance and flavour that the books offer. So at the Priory Church Hall on Friday evening, 3rd May at 4 pm, a Wartime tea, while being serenaded by Forties singer Rachel Hamby, will provide the backdrop for author Sue Hubbard to talk about her book Flatlands, set in Britain at War. Later at 7.30, author Steve Holt will talk about his book, Passing Down the Line which recalls the three football clubs, Lincoln City, Manchester United and Peterborough United that played a pivotal role in his life. This will follow dinner at the Sports and Social Club. On Saturday 4th May at 3.00pm and at 4.45, Lilli’s Tea Room and Cakery is the romantic setting for author Heidi Swain to talk about her award-winning romantic fiction.

Literature at the Library

Never forgetting that ours was the Library that refused to lie down, it is the mainstay of the Festival, playing host on Thursday 2nd May at 2.00pm to Sara-Jade Virtue, one of the brand directors at Simon & Schuster, who will give advice on the route to publishing and beyond. At 7.00pm local author Carol Atherton invites us to re-look at the books we read at school and re-examine our relationship to literature in her book Reading Lessons. At 10.30am on Sunday 5th May, Peterborough Playgoers will read from books which use Lincolnshire as a setting in their compilation of Literary Lincolnshire.

Hosts

Interviewer Linda Hill is an award winning blogger at www.lindasbookbag.com and a reviewer for My Weekly and The People’s Friend magazines. Dubbed the Queen of Questions by author Ian Wilfred, Linda loves quizzing writers about their work and is thrilled to count many of them, like Deepings Literary Festival favourite Milly Johnson, as personal friends.

As a Lincolnshire County Councillor and Stamford Town Councillor Kelham Cooke is well placed to introduce Stamford cosy crime novelist and auctioneer, E.C. Bateman to kick start Murder at Molecey on Saturday 4th May.

Create and Craft TV presenter, Dan Bancroft is just the sort of heartthrob you want to introduce romantic novelist Heidi Swain in the equally romantic setting of Lillis Tea Room!

An English teacher of 40 years’ standing, Veronica White has directed the last three productions of the Peterborough Playgoers. So she is well placed to interview her former student from Deacons School, Simon Toyne, and to direct the Playgoers in their delivery of ‘Literary Lincolnshire’.

Veronica White Kelham Cooke

what’s on

Finding Newstead by Stamford Priory

An illustrated talk by Nick Sheehan

West Deeping Heritage Group

Tues 16th April 2 for 2.30pm

Village Hall, King St., West Deeping PE6 9HP

Founded as a hospital in the late 12th or early-13th century, this medieval priory was dissolved in 1536. A small but important priory which, in its heyday, was at the heart of the administration of the Augustinian order in Britain. Admission £3 on the door incl refreshments

Music Through the Decades

Sat 13th April 2-4.00pm

An afternoon of dancing and fun

Rose Lodge

Church St., Market Deeping 01778 344 454

Glebe Singers

Swing into Spring

Sat 27th April 7.30pm

St Michael and All Angels Church Langtoft

Tickets Adults £10 u16 £2

Call Debbie Howard 01778 349576 or on the door

John Parsonage talks about wildlife and the environment

Deepings Library

Thurs 11th April 7.00pm

Tickets £5 incl refreshments available from the Library M-F 10-5 (not Thurs) Sat 10-3

Coffee morning

with a raffle - card stall and bottle and box tombola!

Sat 6th April 10-11.30 am

Church Ladies Fellowship Priory Church Hall proceeds to local charities.

Horse & Carriage Riders

Grimsthorpe Castle

Sunday 28th April 11.00-2.00pm

Set yourself up on the lawn and watch this spectacle!

Info www.grimsthorpe.co.uk

Warhammer Talk

Sat 6th April 6.00pm Oddfellows Hall, 57 Church St Market Deeping PE6 8AN

One of two talks by John Thornthwaite about this popular strategic game

£3 (£2 members) includes light refreshments Contact Jenny to book on 07788 534290.

Star Wars Day

Deepings Library 10-3.00pm

Come and meet Stormtrooper, Jedi and Mandalorian friends. Dress up in your favourite character! (not obligatory!) May the 4th be with you!

Willoughby Trust

Memorial Gallery

Morleys Lane, Corby Glen, NG33 4NL Weds 17th April - Weds 18th May 12-5pm Tues-Sun Admission free

Painting for pleasure

watercolours- acrylics and pastels

An exhibition by Swayfield Art Group

Image: David Dykes

Hardy Plant Society

Fenland Group

Saturday April 20th 14.30

Swines Meadow Farm Nursery, 7 Towngate East, Market Deeping, PE6 8LQ.

Don Witton (National Euphorbia collection holder) with a new talk, Flower Power Non-members welcome, £5. Angie, janda. salix@gmail.com and

Plant Fair (with visiting nurseries)

Hardy Plant Society Fenland Group

Sun April 21st, 10.00 - 14.00. Swines Meadow Farm Nursery, 7 Towngate East, Market Deeping, PE6 8LQ.

Entrance free. Angie, janda.salix@gmail.com

The Golden Age of Mexican Painting - Frida Kahlo and Diego Riveria

The Arts Society, Peterborough

11th April. The Fleet, PE2 4 DL. Chloe Sayers surveys the work of both of these artists and chronicles their turbulent marriage and Mexico’s history after the 1910 revolution. Doors open at 10-15am for coffee and a chat, the talk starts at 10-45 and lasts an hour Visit: www.the-arts-society-peterborough.org.uk

Quiz Night

Rotary Club of the Deepings

The Community Centre Market Deeping Sat 27th April

7 for 7.30 start, Teams of up to Six / £5 per person To book call Mary Martin on 01778 343927

Memphis

Live singing acts from 60’s,70’s, 80’s

Northborough Village Hall. Sat 27th April 6-11.00pm

Bar, burgers, raffle. Tickets £12 from www. northboroughevents.co.uk or call Sharon 07523861289

Tom Stone

6th April 8 pm

The Boundary Club

Members £3 Non- members £2

Tickets in advance from the Club

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