I'd rather be in Deeping July 16

Deeping ISSUE 015 / JULY 2016

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Without the people pictured here and many other members of the Friends of Deeping Library, the Library would have closed last June and been replaced with a mobile library. The fate of the glorious old building opposite the Boundary that has graced the heart of the Deepings for centuries would by no means be secure. Instead this is now back as it should be, the thriving heart beat behind our community with 250 new members since it reopened at the end of January.

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The Government allocate the number of new houses that have to be built in the area. At the moment Officers WHAT ARE THE THREE at South Kesteven District Council MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS are putting together a THAT CONCERN YOU plan known as the Local Plan which FROM THE ATTACHE will show the allocation D LIST: (Please circle) of these houses and where they will be sited. The Governm ent has made provision for residents to have an input into this a. Access to unspoilt in what is called a Neighbo i. Good public transport urhood Plan. A group of Councillors countryside from Market Deeping and Deeping St James (Ashley Baxter, David Shelton, j. Availability of housing Adam Brookes, Pauline Redshaw, b. Good education/ Judy Stevens, Mike Ward, for all kinds of or Geoff Donley, with Educatio n schools and Planning input from Lisa Goodchild, David “groups of” people Grant and Gordon Smith and Clerk Pearl O’Brien) are looking c. Facilities for leisure for the views of the local commun and k. Local employment ity to form the Neighbo urhood sport Plan which you will then be able to vote on. opportunities

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Should this Neighbourhood Plan then be adopted it will form a legitimate considera tion when individual planning

applications are being considered by SKDC. In order to further influence policy we will also be looking for your views as to what is currently good and what improvem ents are needed in the Deeping s. This will form the basis of more in -depth fact finding in the next few months.

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Feature: The Boundary

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Profile: Paula-Joanne Bloodworth

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Mrs Dorothy Douglas: Intrepid Traveller

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Local Cambridge Weight Plan Consultants, pictured l-r, Martin Schoenbeck, Kelli Taylor, Paula Meeks and Tanya Setterfield, staged the first Cambridge Weight Plan Slimmer’s Ball and were thrilled by the support they had, working out that the weight loss achievements of the guests at the ball was a staggering 137 stones! Over £600 was also raised on the night for the East Anglian Air Ambulance charity.

Deep ‘n’ friends celebrate the Queens 90th birthday with a party at the Priory Church Hall.

Local novellist, Ros Rendle signs copies of her books at the Deeping Library fresh from her success as a finalist in The Romantic Novelists Association’s prestigious Joan Hessayon Award.

Emma Canham of belifehappy supported by Jo Oldfield of Peterborough and Fenland Mind organised a Tea and Talk Party to get the conversation going about mental health and raised a cool £150 in two hours!

Enyas Childcare in Crowland is recognised as the only childcare provision in the area that follows the ‘Reggio Emilia’ approach, a world renowned tailored way of teaching where the learning environment and the outdoors is respected as the ‘third teacher’. Leader and co-founder, Enya Mooney has many years experience in education and childcare and traveled the globe to seek out new ways of teaching. It was during her time in Dubai that she came across this fresh child-led approach. Now in the beautifully refurbished Salvation Army Hall in Crowland, Enya’s Childcare accommodates Preschool, Before & after School Care and Holiday Club. www.enyas.co.uk

Deeping Library supported Wig Wednesday in aid of children who have lost their hair through cancer. Louisa donned a variety of fetching wigs through the day and at Pre-School Story Time there was Piggy-Wigging and Curl Crafting for the little ones 7

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Marks & Spencer, Park Air, Tesco, Morrison’s, Anglia Co-op, Vivacity, Peterborough United FC, John Lewis, Bauer Media, solicitors, architects, vets and local primary and nursery schools were just some of the 200+ organisations to help Year 10 students from The Deepings School develop their employ ability skills and experience a taste of what it is really like to go out to work!

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The Boundary

– a lifetime of fish and chips

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FEATURE

Built in 1890, this property on the boundary of Market Deeping and Deeping St James was originally a butchery and slaughter house for the Andrews family who were farmers and butchers from Spalding. As well as owning farms in Spalding and Deeping St Nicholas, Thomas Andrews was also recorded as farming at Five Houses in Deeping St James in 1921.

Then, under the ownership of the Day Brothers, Horace and Walter, the building was converted into two residences. Walter Day was a paraffin dealer and he regularly travelled the village with a horse-drawn paraffin tanker, selling oil and lamp mantles to the many householders who relied on paraffin for cooking and lighting their homes. In 1922, when alterations were completed, Walter moved his business from Towngate into the house on the right. The front room was a shop selling paraffin lamps and accessories such as lamp glasses, shades, mantles and wicks. Walter and his brother Horace both played in the Deeping Brass Band and often performed outside the house on a Sunday. They moved in 1935 when they sold the building to Reg Wyman the butcher. Walter died just a couple of years later.

Hailing from Duddington where his father had been a butcher and smallholder, Geoff Ellis and his wife May started their fish and chip business in 1938 by renting the shop on the right for £1 a week. When they eventually bought the premises, alterations took place again: the shop was on the ground floor and living accommodation above.

Mr Bill Landan remembers working there as a lad in 1943, operating the chip cutting machine and fetching coke from the nearby gas works to fuel the cooking pans. The coke wasn’t weighed but shovelled into a sack for which the charge was 9 pence. Fish, packed in ice in boxes, was sent by train from Grimsby and brought to the shop by the station lorry. Wet fish was sold from the shop in the daytime; coley cost one shilling a pound, and haddock was more expensive at one and six pence. As the Second World War progressed fish and chips were in great demand as they were not rationed, though they were in very limited supply. The shop opened on Tuesday and Wednesday from 4-10 pm and on Friday and Saturday until 11pm.

People often began queuing from 3.00 pm to be sure of a tasty tea and to relieve the monotony of wartime fare. The chips tasted differently then; they were cooked in dripping and wrapped in newspaper until white paper was used to wrap them, first with the newspaper then for insulation. Malt vinegar and salt was left on the counter.

To begin with Geoff ’s wife May ran the Robin Hood Café in the Market Place, where the bridal shop is today. Geoff worked in the fish and chip shop and employed a Polish refugee, Alfred Munzer. Alf helped on the mobile fish and chip continued >

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FEATURE van and lived in a thatched cottage given to him by Geoff where the Iron Horse is now. He later set up his own shop in Church Street, Deeping St James. The mobile fish and chip van was an ex-army Albion ambulance running at five miles to the gallon and would pull up at the petrol pumps at the Riverside Garage where Joe Edwards would put in 20 gallons before the van went out round the villages: Easton on the Hill, Collyweston, Kings Cliffe, Barrowden, Luffenham and Uppingham.

The cost made the whole operation uneconomical, and the van was replaced by a special coach built Bedford mobile shop in the early 1950s which used a lot less petrol. The cooking pans in the van were fuelled by a coal fire and great care had to be taken to prevent accidents. Geoff was helped on the van by Charles Shinkins, and by Bill and occasionally Doug, after school. Eventually May gave up the café to help with the frying in the shop.

Doug Ellis was born in 1941, brother Graham in 1943 and a sister, Pam in 1937. One of Doug’s earliest memories was taking pictures of the floods of 1947 on his box Brownie camera when the premises were under 2 feet of water for three weeks and a boat took him to Terry Wright’s corner as he made his way to the Cross School in Deeping St James. Eventually the boys were evacuated to their grandmother’s house in Stamford.

After the war fish and chips was still the only takeaway food available and still the nation’s favourite. The price increased to sixpence for fish and tuppence for chips. Long queues would form at busy times outside the shop and often coaches from Midland towns returning from daytrips to the seaside found the Boundary a handy stop for refreshments with the Three Tuns across the road. Flower parade weekend in Spalding was another busy time in early May; so many coaches passed through Deeping that it was best to avoid the road if possible. Many of the tourists, fresh from seeing the floats decorated with thousands of tulip heads, made a stop at the Boundary for their supper. For local lads it was a rendezvous after leaving the pub or cinema before walking or cycling home.

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In February 1953 one of the café assistants, Mrs C Weldon took the top from the fish frying range and it burst into flames. Geoff Ellis was visiting his father in Stamford Hospital when he heard the fire engines, not realising that they were for the café until he was called home. Mr Mitchell from a nearby shop ran to help and when they arrived the firemen extinguished the flames with foam. Fortunately there were no injuries but the top of the range had to be replaced at a cost of £60.

An entrepreneur by nature, Geoff bought Maxey House at an auction in 1949 for £4,000 selling it for £5,000 the next day to Mr Gandy, a local landowner who had been otherwise engaged in the pub and had missed the auction. Geoff also bought Second World War RAF 2 and 8 man fighter and bomber sea rescue yellow inflatable dinghies and sold them in the front yard. The couple moved in 1959 to a house in Church St in Market Deeping, then in 1961 they had a house built next to the Laurels which had originally been built at the Ideal Home Exhibition of that year and then dismantled. The business was sold to Mr and Mrs Redding with Mrs Painter the hairdresser in one of the shops. Geoff was still busy, buying the Wesleyan Chapel in Market Deeping where he went into partnership with a mechanic and running it as a garage and car body repair shop. Later he bought the Empire cinema; when it closed in 1963 the cashier, manager, usherette and projectionist outnumbered the audience. It was altered to become a car showroom.

Greek Joseph Ruminiski and his wife were the next owners of the Boundary until 1987 when it was bought by John and Betty Massie who ran the business with help from their daughter, Avril and son-inlaw, Paul Williams. They extended it to what is now the ‘Eat-in’ area and staff room. The Boundary changed hands in 2003 and in 2008 Bill Shaw had the bungalow built by the Massie’s transformed into the River Restaurant as it is today.

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PROFILE FEATURE

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The inspiration of Paula-Joanne Bloodworth Ozzie the black Labrador barks protectively around his owner, diminutive and pretty, Paula Joanne Bloodworth, age 42. So far so normal. But that’s where normal ends for this acute oncology nurse specialist, who also looks after patients where their primary cancer is unknown.

Ozzie is set to become one of the carers for Paula-Joanne when alone in the house, because her combined condition of the disease that attacks the auto-immune system, Addison’s disease, of which there are only 8,000 sufferers in the UK and Graves’ Disease which effects the thyroid, can render her comatose at any time and without warning.

2005 was graduation year for Paula-Joanne (also known as PJ), already a nurse she had studied

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to be a teacher and as a young mum to Nathan and Josh in her home town of Oldham, she was awarded a PGCE. A day of celebration, the news that her beloved Dad had been diagnosed with prostrate cancer on that day was kept from her. Little did she know then that the next years would become a rollercaster in which she would divorce, meet her new husband Paul and move to Deeping with her Mum, Pauline who is part of her support network, ‘the buttons that keep everything together’ and lives just down the road.

Not to be beaten by the disease that would take his life aged 60, Brian Rooney was still working on his laptop as a CNC programmer for a Droylsden engineering company two days before his death at Dr Kershaw’s Hospice, Royton. A man of great dignity, it was his wish that his daughter, PJ would lay him out and his daughter of great loyalty would do no less. PJ had been an aspiring gymnast as a kid but over enthusiastically doing too many back flips in the hall, she had put her left leg through a glass door and nearly lost it - she has no knee cap in the leg as a result. Wanting to do something for Dr Kershaw’s hospice in Royton, Oldham. PJ proudly showed her new husband, Paul, the trusty Raleigh bike in the garage and pronounced that she would like him to do the off road Coast to Coast with her. As is now so often his role in supportively curbing her ardour,

Paul took her shopping and she was now the owner of a shiny new mountain bike, the first of three new bikes. She and Paul embraced this new hobby with a passion and they would go cycling in their beloved French Alps and soon PJ became a member of Stamford Triathalon Club.

Engaging with extreme sports with the vigour that typifies her personality, PJ was not at first worried by the fatigue that she felt but the alopecia, sheer pain and collapses led her to take medical advice and she was diagnosed with Addison’s disease in 2012. The specific deficiency of cortisol caused by the disease needed by the body to cope with stress and activity has a particular impact on sportsmen.

In 2013 an occurrence of Trochanteric Bursitis left her with having to have pins inserted in her hip. PJ, whose stubborn streak can be traced back to her father and not wishing to become an invalid, she has not only maintained her full on position at Peterborough City Hospital but has also continued to participate in the sporting challenges which have come to define her.

She took part in the Prudential Ride London 100, the London Moon Walk, the energetic Cafe Ventoux cycle route and the couple took Ozzie on his first Marathon on the Tissington Trail which they rode and Ozzie ran averaging 18 miles an hour! A member of the Deeping joggers, PJ has another Paul in her life, personal trainer Paul Brewster who partners her in the most extreme of her events.

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A regular at the Spin Room, PJ completed the Deeping to Brighton Cycle ride last year and is preparing for London to Paris this year. She competed in the London Cancer 10k ‘Winter’ run this January when 5 and a half miles in she developed a very high pulse rate and suffering severe chest pain she saw the ‘Finish’ sign and determindly sprinted to the end. Next April she intends to complete the Manchester Marathon which she had to defer this year as a result of her health. She has participated in this years Iceland Moon Walk and in September is planning on running solo the 24 hour endurance run, Enquinox’ at Belvoir Castle where her strategy is to run the flats and walk the hills. She also plans to re visit the Coast to Coast, this time on road in October 2016.

And what of the day job? Last year she won an ‘outstanding achievement’ award at PCH as a result, partly, of a letter that a couple one of whom, a patient, wrote ‘you were our rock and we don’t know what we would have done without the warmth, empathy and love of Paula- Joanne’.

Paula-Joanne regularly trains around Deeping with her best friend Mandy Younger, so give her a shout out for encouragement. She is also raising funds for prostate cancer if you would like to give please visit http://www.justgiving. com/PaulaJoanneBloodworth14

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MRS DOUGLAS

Mrs Dorothy Douglas: Intrepid Traveller Many people will remember Dr Douglas, who for many years occupied and practised from Fairfax House, Deeping Gate, but not so many speak of his wife who had a colourful life of her own.

She came from Helensburgh in Scotland where she numbered among her neighbours the actor Jack Buchanan and, more famously, the inventor of the TV, John Logie Baird.

She remembered on numerous occasions the air being rent with an almighty bang and her mother’s cool response: ‘That’ll be the Bairds’ wash house roof again!’ That was where the young John conducted all his early experiments. ‘They all thought he was a bit mad,’ Dorothy recalled, ‘the fate of all those who are a bit ahead of their time.’

Dorothy studied English at Glasgow University where she met her husband and had it been a less precarious existence would have enjoyed a career in writing. She did quite a bit of freelance work at this time and had some short stories published in Argosy magazine. While at university Dorothy met Duncan McCrea, an actor with a craggy visage who was a familiar Scottish character in many TV plays and a regular of the ’White Heather Club’.

explorations abroad, breaking away from camping holidays in France with her husband a self-confessed sun-worshipper.

Her initial foray into the unknown was a trip which took in Venice, Rhodes, Athens and then on to Haifa and Israel. To her surprise, Israel conquered her completely. She fell in love with the people and their dignity and sense of purpose as they displayed tremendous energy in turning an ancient and poor country into a modern state. While there she visited a kibbutz, communities where she found people from an infinite variety of backgrounds working together with one aim: to make the wilderness bloom like the rose, and she was quite taken with the real happiness there. She commented, ‘Nobody pesters you for alms in Israel, they are too conscious of their own nation’s dignity.’

Marriage followed her short career, teaching in a very tough part of Glasgow, and after six years in Grimsby the family moved to Deeping in 1939. During World War II, Dorothy responded to the appeal to grow more food and turned two acres over to growing vegetables. This led her into the Later when the family moved to Glasgow method of cultivation on sand and gravel they again had interesting neighbours. The under glass, eventually leading to a successful In Israel one of the most momentous mother of flying ace Jim Mollison lived mail order business for carnation cuttings. pleasures of her travels was to come around nearby and he would literally make flying visits, landing his plane in the field behind It was the success of the carnation business a mountainside and to see the lake of Galilee which allowed Dorothy to finance her first spread before her, emerald green, deeply the house. continued >

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MRS DOUGLAS

“She fell in love with the people and their dignity and sense of purpose as they displayed tremendous energy in turning an ancient and poor country into a modern state”

peaceful and unchanged since the birth of Christ. The lake was warm as well, for leaning over a shade too eagerly she fell in. The region is so hot that she had drip-dried by the time the boat had made the 30-minute trip back to Capernaum.

Drip-dry was the answer to travelling light in the sixties for Dorothy – taking only a small case for a three-week trip. She had two pairs of shoes, espadrilles from France, and one pair that were high heeled and elegant for evenings. One pure silk dress was for the evening too, plus a top coat of tropical suiting and a black mantilla bought in Madeira for head covering. Day wear including threequarter sleeve nylon or terylene shirt blouses in blue prints worn with navy or royal helenca stretch skirts.

It hadn’t been quite the same on her trip to Egypt to see the temples of Abu Simbel before the Nile was flooded and they were moved. Their little ship had been moored for about 24 hours at the mouth of the Ancient Temples.

The fashion couturier Hardy Amies was a fellow passenger on board but modesty made Dorothy reluctant to ask him for a preview of next year’s fashions. Instead in the sweltering temperatures she thought that she might take a quick dip until a steward with a laconic shake of his head motioned her

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to the starboard side to show her a family of crocodiles swimming around looking for breakfast!

Apart from the temples the most impressive thing about Nile trip from Aswan to Abu Simbel had been the dozens of silent abandoned Nubian villages along the banks.

It was eerie, ‘like sailing through the valley of death’, she remembered.

While in Egypt, Dorothy reached a travel high point in handling the Book of Esther, a religious manuscript as old as the Dead Sea scrolls, then still in daily use in the Synagogue in Cairo.

Another sea trip to the Azores in the autumn of 1963 saw them berthed alongside a superior looking vessel, the Lakonika during a call at Madeira. While here they visited a pineapple nursery and without having a word of common language she managed a highly informative tour from propagation house to packing shed saying ‘growers are growers all over the world’.

Dorothy’s travelogue memories are legion, ranging from the majestic Norwegian fjords, watching the Tarantella danced on the island of Rhodes, the fair-skinned Lapps who on trek measure distance by the consumption of coffee, seeing Pope John addressing the crowds at his summer residence, marvelling at neat, litter-free Switzerland and admiring the skill of the pilots on Amsterdam’s canals.

In the autumn of 1964, when Dorothy was interviewed, she was looking forward to rekindling her love affair with the Holy Land and a visit to ‘the rose-red city, half as old as time’ itself, Petra.

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ANTIQUES

An Enid Blyton Summer!

Visit Market Deeping Antiques & Craft Centre to find all the ingredients you need for a traditional English Summer!

With her prodigious output of 700 books it is not surprising that Enid Blyton has become enmeshed in the English culture with stories of children and their adventures in the English countryside in the mid twentieth century. Re-create the atmosphere yourself with a visit to the Antiques Centre!

Everyone knows that food tastes better outside and accompanied by this handsome hamper and check table cloth - well it’s all Swallows and Amazons! Hamper £25 Modern versions available at the Centre £14.99

Inspiration for a day out? A selection of local books bursting with ideas and guide books to the countryside to help you identify birds and flowers as you go! From £1.99 Equipped with all the paraphanelia found on a desk in the golden age of travel including reproduction railway posters from £9.99 21

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PICNICS

7 great parks for a picnic

Nothing says summer quite like a picnic in the park. Pack up the cooler bag, grab the kids and head out to one of these great spots for a fun day out.

Garden of Surprises, Burghley Park, Stamford

Ayscoughfee Gardens, Spalding If you’re having a day out in Spalding, Ayscoughfee Gardens are the perfect place for a picnic. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Ayscoughfee Hall, the gardens feature a yew tree walk and ornamental lake. There is a children’s playground as well as tennis courts (a fee applies to play tennis). Entrance to the gardens and adjacent Ayscoughfee Hall Museum is free. Car parking is available in local pay and display car parks.

See www.sholland.gov.uk for more information and opening times.

Barnwell Country Park, near Oundle Head out to Barnwell and find a beautiful nature reserve in 15 hectares of lakes, riverbank and meadows. There are lots of places for a picnic, as well as a barbeque area with permanent BBQs. The kids will love the adventure playground, complete with giant sandpit and an area for little ones. There are also orienteering packs available for the kids at the visitor centre.

Entrance is free, car parking charge applies.

See www.northamptonshire.gov.uk for further information.

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Now, this is what summer is all about! Long afternoons with friends, having a picnic and then spending the rest of the day splashing around in the water. Looking at the Garden of Surprises you wouldn’t think it would work for children – all concrete and stone, lovely sharp edges, gravel paths and not a piece of bright plastic anywhere. But they love it. See www.burghley.co.uk for more information. continued >

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Ferry Meadows, Peterborough There’s always so much to see and do at Ferry Meadows and lots of space for a picnic and ball games. Ferry Meadows has three play areas: one near the Lakeside centre, the Otter Playground for younger children next to the Visitor Centre and the new Badger Playground

by Overton Lake. There is a lot on over the summer holidays including pond dipping, tree climbing, den building and bug hunts. . Entrance is free, car parking charge applies. For more information see www.neneparktrust.org.uk/ ferry-meadows.

Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourne

Grimsthorpe is a great place for families over summer. Go on a bike ride through the park, have a picnic in the gardens or let the kids run wild in the adventure playground. Look out for special family events over the summer holidays on the website. Entrance fee applies. See www.grimsthorpe. co.uk for more information and opening times.

Rutland Water There’s plenty of fun for everyone at Rutland Water over summer – where to start? Have a picnic along the water’s edge; don’t forget the cricket set or Frisbee! Bike around the reservoir, bring your own bikes or hire from the cycle shops. Watch the kids tackle the high ropes course or climbing wall, maybe have a go yourself. And if the weather is warm enough, maybe had a dip at the beach at Rutland Water (check website for opening times). Car parking charges apply.

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Stanwick Lakes, near Tharpston, Northamptonshire Stanwick Lakes is a bit of a trek from Deeping, but it is well worth the trip.

The big adventure playground incorporates water, so be sure to take swim suits, as the kids are bound to get wet. For older children (and adults) there is an assault course. And if you’ve still got energy, have walk or bike ride along one of the many paths that wind their way through the park. Entrance is free, car parking charge applies. See www.stanwicklakes.org.uk for more information and opening times.

For more suggestions of things to do and places to visit with children, visit littlemissadventures.net – a blog by Michelle Board, a Deeping St James local and mum of one.

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Swaddywell Pit Nature Reserve Richard Astle explores

Swaddywell Pit Nature Reserve is easy enough to find – off the main road between Marholm and Ufford, just past the Willowbrook farm shop if you’re coming from Peterborough and turn right into the Stamford Stone entrance, with the visitor car park immediately on your right through a wooden gate.

The incredible story of this piece of land is not so obvious.

A meadow stretches out ahead of you, full of orchids and alive with butterflies in summer and then dips down into an old quarry, with bare rock faces, ponds and grassland – red kites whistle overhead, reed and sedge warblers chunter in the reeds and dragonflies buzz energetically over the water.

Lovely, but nothing remarkable?

And yet this oasis of calm in an intensively managed arable landscape is perhaps one of the most remarkable pieces of land in our area! It has several claims to fame. It provided stone for Roman villas. It helped build Peterborough cathedral. For centuries it provided the means for local people to gather herbs and tend animals. It was the hero of two of the country’s greatest and most evocative landscape poems. It made it into the list of the top wildlife sites in the country before World War One and became one of the very first nature reserves in the UK. It was a bomb site, stone quarry, landfill site and then a VW race track attracting 28

10,000 people on a bank holiday in 1997. And it has had its own radio programme on the BBC! Swaddywell’s is indeed the story of a troubled place. For centuries it was a piece of common land and a limestone quarry, providing stone for many key buildings and local homes. John Clare wrote two poems about it, one a passionate description of its vivid beauty I’ve loved thee Swordy Well and love thee still Long was I with thee tending sheep and cow In boyhood ramping up each steepy hill To play at ‘roly poly’ down – and now A man I trifle o’er thee cares to kill The other poem is a terrible cry of despair, written as if the land was speaking in the first person of its spoliation and effective ‘privatisation’ during the enclosure period.

I’m Swordy Well a piece of land That’s fell upon the town Who worked me till I couldn’t stand And crush me now I’m down This poem was the subject of an episode of BBC Radio Four’s Poetry Please, tracing the history of the site and Clare’s poems. continued >

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SWADDYWELL In 1912 Charles Rothschild founded the ‘Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves’ (SPNR).

Its initial aim was to create a list of Britain’s finest wildlife sites for potential purchase as nature reserves. Three years of information gathering followed - the first ever national survey of wildlife sites - in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Rothschild and his colleagues were looking for the ‘breeding-places of scarce creatures’, the ‘localities of scarce plants’ and areas of ‘geological interest’. By 1915 they had compiled a list of 284 sites ‘worthy of preservation’ - the Rothschild Reserves and Swaddywell was one of them alongside Snowden, Dungeness, the Thames Estuary and Wicken Fen! Rothschild negotiated the lease of the land himself in 1915 to create a nature reserve, one of the very first in the country, anxious to protect is butterflies and plants in particular.

Sadly on Rothschild’s death the lease was given up and the land reverted to agriculture and eventually disappeared entirely as a result of years of quarrying and eventually in the 1970s and 1980s it was filled in as a landfill site. John Clare had rightly prophesised this, writing;

Of all the fields I am the last That my own face can tell Yet what with stone pits’ delving holes And strife to buy and sell My name will quickly be the whole That’s left of Swordy Well And finally the site was sold to a Canadian rock star who turned it into a VW Race track, attracting thousands to festivals and races there in 1997.

But in 2005 Swaddywell suddenly ‘looked up again’ with its purchase by the Langdyke Countryside Trust, a local conservation organisation dedicated to enhancing the local natural environment. Through the hard work of volunteers from the neighbouring villages the site was cleared of the accumulated rubbish of years of neglect and turned into a community nature reserve.

And as a result of that hard work and a lot of nibbling by the Trust’s flock of Hebridean sheep, it is not just any old nature reserve. Swaddywell boasts some of the finest displays of pyramidal and bee orchids in the region and is also home to some seriously rare insects, including the beautiful grizzled skipper. Recent surveys found 919 species of invertebrate on site, including 30 species of spider, 292 beetles and 183 flies – along with nearly 300 recorded species of flower that really is a lot of nature!

It is also a significant geological site - the rock faces on the reserve follow the line of the Tinwell to Marholm geological fault. They are the only rock faces with public access in the entire Peterborough area.

But perhaps above all Swaddywell is just a wonderful place to enjoy nature; a summer’s day in the bottom of the pit is alive with the buzz of bees, the smell of wild marjoram and the warmth of the sun on the stone.

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RELAXATION

Mind Travel and Relaxation

“The benefits of relaxation allow your mind and body to have chance to get back in the same timing”

with Emma Lanningan

A glimpse of summer has already been shared across the Deepings in early June. The warmth of the summer sunshine, the tuneful birds singing, the busy bumble bees and the roar of the passing aircraft through our skies. You’ve probably seen the ice-cream van parked by John Eve park? What memories does that bring to you? Maybe younger days or a trip out with your family to the park or to the coast?

BBQs; and with lighter days more jobs can get done outside. It’s easy to understand why we forget how to relax.

My ice-cream memory is back when my Grandpa would buy my sister and I a 99 with a flake. He would always make a mini 99 saving the end of his cone, still with some of the soft ice-cream and a small piece of the chocolate flake. To me it looked so magical and I can still hear myself giggle when I think back!

The benefits of relaxation allow your mind and body to have chance to get back in the same timing. Your physical body allows your nervous system a chance to rest too so you feel better with more energy. When we rely on the annual holiday to get us back into sync and then come home and go straight back to what we were doing, we often hear ourselves saying; “It doesn’t even feel like I’ve had a holiday!”

Most days are routine; school, work; making sure the milk is in; dinner is prepared and the kids got to their club on time; Oh and you had time to do those other million and one things in your head?

When we start approaching our annual summer holiday either at home or going abroad, those million and one rise up to two million! There’s the planning, packing, activities, and the added anxiety about being away from home, work or business and the stress just builds up.

Over the last UK May Bank Holiday in a Met Office survey 54% of Brits wanted it to rain so they could stay indoors, on the sofa and just relax. Summertime gets busy; we’re more sociable, there are more parties and

Everyone has their own experiences of relaxation.

Learning to empty your mind when it is busy most of the time can cause more anxiety, so learn to relax at your own pace. Just know the long term practice will have wonderful benefits to your world.

Just as you give yourself permission to relax on holiday, start giving yourself permission to relax at home, either inside or in the garden or taking a walk in any of our many local places. When you find a seat, stop and sit down. Give yourself permission to stop your world and notice life. How you are breathing? Are the birds singing?

Can you hear the bumble bees or the ice-cream van?

Where will you allow your mind to travel to and recall happy times? As you feel the warmth of the summer air notice how your mind and body relax.

Happy holidays :-)

Article written by local based author, life coach, holistic therapist and reiki master Emma Lannigan - belifehappy.

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TRAVEL

What are Aires of France?

Roy and Sue Stephenson, our intrepid travellers, lay some of the myths.

The word aire simply means ‘space’. It is used in the French Aire de Service Camping Car, their name for official motorhome stopovers usually with facilities. What they are not is so called ‘wild camping’ where vehicles pull up on private land or grass verges.

Travelling in France, towing a caravan, Sue, our children and I regularly stopped overnight on motorway aires. Unlike some people, we didn’t have any problems and welcomed the free to travellers’ facilities offered at service points.

These ‘service points’ simply refers to a bourne or unit that provides fresh water, safe toilet emptying and grey water disposal for visiting motorhomes.

Having bought a motorhome, we now spend many nights on French aires in small towns and villages.

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service by spending in the local shops, restaurants or garages.

Let me introduce you to such an aire. After a day driving along the foothills of the Pyrenees in pouring rain on our way back from Spain in April, Sue found a small town called Valence de Agen in our Aires of France book, just off the Toulouse to Bordeaux road that claimed an aire next to a canal within two minutes of the town centre.

Crossing over the canal, we were surprised to find ourselves on a parking area outside the old abattoir.

There were about ten spaces and we were lucky to squeeze in. We settled in and admired the buildings that were newly painted but a little grim, given their original purpose!

Walking into the town, we passed the mediaeval lavoir or communal laundry washing space, one of the best we had seen in France.

The town was a delight so we determined to return next day for fresh baked bread and a snack for lunch.

After a quiet night we opened our blinds to find the abattoir doors open with fellow travellers entering the buildings. We decided to follow. It was a surprise to

find that they had been turned into a centre open to picnickers, schools, visitors using the long distance cycle path next to the canal, and motorhome users.

We had never come across an aire before not only with the usual services but also toilets, hot showers, barbecue grills, inside hobs for cooking, a microwave oven and kitchen sinks. There was even fresh hay for your horse (!) in the outhouses. All was clean, hygienic, beautifully presented and free!

People we spoke with were friendly and welcoming which is our habitual experience at aires everywhere in France. Some folk worry about safety when staying on them. We understand that but always follow the golden rules: never stay anywhere that doesn’t feel ‘right’, avoid places that aren’t lit at night and/or cannot be seen by others, try to stay where other motorhomers are parked or be very close to a residential area as you can get attention and help by hitting the vehicle’s horn continuously, in an unlikely emergency.

Towns offering aires are proud and want to show off their history and facilities. They don’t care whether you spend or not.

They do care that you take the time to visit, admire and enjoy the place where they live. So next time you are in France in your motorhome or converted van, why not give aires a try? You will be pleasantly surprised!

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He started as pot wash at the Queen’s Head, in what was to become a successful career which has taken him to The Bell at Stilton, The Olive Branch at Clipsham, Toscanini at Eye and to the Lake District, Norfolk and, he remembers fondly, the South of France. Now back close to his roots Dan is at the Bluebell working in the kitchen where centuries earlier, the poet John Clare worked as a pot wash. The kitchen overlooks the courtyard where the village blacksmith once stood, now turned into rooms in which to stay.

Dinner in Italy is very much a theatrical family affair, sometimes taking hours to eat and with four to five courses, Potato Gnocchi would be one of the dishes served towards the start of the meal. In this case Dan chooses to serve the dish with red pesto, blackened leeks and parmesan.

1. Boil 500 gms of potatoes in their skins. Dan used a good all rounder, Maris Pipers. Drain, cool until you can handle them and then peel. Put through a potato ricer or mash, but do not use butter or cream so they keep quite dry.

The choice of dish owes more to Dan’s personal heritage, coming from Irish and Italian stock; Potato Gnocchi. This is a popular choice in the restaurant, and not just among vegetarians. Easily prepared from items you will have in the store cupboard at home, it is simple to make, keeps for three to four days, cooks well from frozen and is fun to make with children!

2. Add 1 egg, roast garlic (roast in tin foil with sea salt, thyme, a little brandy and olive oil, bake in the oven until soft, taking all the bitterness away), sea salt, black pepper and 100 gms of strong plain white flour. Mix with the potato, take out of the bowl and knead to make sure that all the ingredients are incorporated and the dough is smooth.

To ensure that it all sticks together when it is blanched, sprinkle some additional flour on the working surface.

3. Cut the dough into four and roll out each quarter into a long sausage, cut into diamond shapes with diagonal knife strokes or the traditional gnocchi square shapes. To make continued >

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RECIPE the stripes on the sides, press each piece of gnocchi against a spatula and mark with a fork and flick!

4. Drop in boiling salted water, it will rise to the top when it is done in about 3 minutes. Take out from the boiling water with a the same slotted spoon and place in iced water to stop the cooking process. Again with a slotted spoon place in a frying pan with a little butter.

5. To make the red pesto take 200 gms fresh basil, 250 gms sun dried tomatoes, 100 gms toasted pine nuts, a little parmesan, grated or shaved and a little salt and pepper; a little olive oil may be necessary or the tomato’s own oil.

Place in blender until it is thoroughly mixed.

6. Cut leeks into inch-sized slices and fry until they start to go black. Don’t cook the leeks all the way through, leave them a little crunchy to contrast with the soft texture of the gnocchi.

7. Fry the gnocchi until it goes a little bit brown, ideally toss or turn over gently with a spoon to keep their shape. Add a generous tablespoon of pesto to the gnocchi. Leave in the pan for 30 seconds to heat it up.

8. Spoon into a serving dish using a slotted spoon, arrange the leeks on the top. Garnish with shavings of parmesan and a little oil.

9. Recreate the taste of Italy (and Helpston) at home!

Acorn Joinery & Kitchens For top quality bespoke joinery Domestic and commerical clients catered for.

Kitchens, Staircases, Doors, Windows Free no obligation quote contact 01778 342517 e-mail: keith@ajkltd.com www.ajkltd.com

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Rose Lodge Care Home Family means a lot to all of us and we understand the importance of selecting the right care home. To find out more about Rose Lodge or arrange a visit, please call 01778 344454, email info@countrycourtcare.com, or visit our website on www.countrycourtcare.com.

Five ways to go to Italy

Fratellis

Rivergate, Peterborough Step over the threshold of Fratellis and you are stepping into Scilly, from the green and white check tablecloths to the salamis hanging up at the deli counter. Soak up the atmosphere, try one of their breakfasts served from 8.00 am daily, 9.30 on Sunday - for some families this is a ritual.

Lunch is served from midday through to close at 6.00 pm, 7.00pm on Thursdays and 4.30 on Sunday. On Friday you can buy Rocco’s freshly made pure pork sausages seasoned with salt and pepper - many say the authentic taste of Sicily. They can be made to order with fennel or chilli.

Sample the soft, smooth taste of Italian gelato served from outside the shop in the summer and the experience is complete.

without leaving the UK Sicily: culture and conquest The British Museum

The Pasta Shop Delicatessen 15 Queens Walk Woodston, Peterborough For 24 years the Pasta Shop has been the Italian delicatessen of choice for the people of Peterborough. Not only is there a stock of hundreds of different pastas but the deli counter is full of salamis, cheese including the popular provolone piccante, olives, cannoli, little biscuits filled with pistacho, vanilla and chocolate and on Friday for the weekend, special patisserie ones with cream. Lobster tails, swirls of filo pastry with lemon and chocolate filling, stuffed tomatoes, ham, the list is endless. There are Italian wines, olive oil including first press, biscotti,all flavours and delightfully packaged. People come because they love the taste, they love Italy and they love to experiment with different kinds of food.

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New insight into the vibrant past of this Italian island is provided in this exhibition which sheds light on the remarkable artistic and architectural achievements of the island through objects in the Museum’s own collection, alongside loans from Sicily and around the world, including many objects that are in the UK for the first time.

21 April - 14th August Room 35 British Museum Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG www.britishmuseum.org/sicily

Olive Grove Nurseries Polebrook, Nr Oundle

5 Market Place, Market Deeping

Go to the Olive Grove Nurseries and be transported to a Tuscan landscape with the added bonus of bringing a spectacular piece of Italian topiary home with you.

Not just Olive trees as it’s name suggests, this nursery also specialises in palm trees and hardy Mediterranean plants. Plenty of inspirational vistas, discover ‘the jungle’ replete with metal sculptures of the animals which give the area its name.

Interior space is not neglected with a stylish home area including furniture and accessories. With a gelataria, fine food delicatessen and coffee bar this is just the place to soak up a true Mediterranean experience. 01832 275660 www.olivegrovenurseries.co.uk

01778 347007 www.muranosilver.com molly@muranosilver.com

Giftwrapped free!

Burghley House Italian art including tapestries, statuary and furniture can be seen in abundance at our local stately home. Italy and France were extensively visited by the 5th Earl of Exeter, John and his wife Anne Cavendish and the State Rooms were decorated mainly in the seventeenth century under their guidance.

Their patronage included Antonio Verrio, born in Lecce, Italy, who decorated the ceilings of the south facing state rooms culminating in the magnificent Heaven Room and Hell Staircase.

Visit www.burghley.co.uk

Deborah and Richard warmly welcome you to The Waggon & Horses, Langtoft.

Come and rediscover this community spirited village pub, whether you want to pop in to enjoy a drink and chat or tuck into a delicious meal everybody is welcome.

Lunchtime offer: 2 Courses for £10 Served Wed to Sat Lunchtimes Wednesday Night is Steak Night: 2 meals for £20

Food service times

Lunchtimes: Wednesday – Saturday 12 till 2pm Evenings: Wed/Thurs – 6pm till 8.30pm Fri/Sat- 6pm till 9pm Sunday Lunch Served 12 till 3pm - 1 Course £8.95 2 Courses £12.95 - 3 Courses £15.95

1 Peterborough Road, Langtoft PE6 9LW • 01778 343200 • waggonand horses2015@hotmail.com

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what’s on

‘Why I love Deeping’ will be subject of an art competition to be held at the St Guthlac’s Garden fete on 16th July at 2pm on the Rectory Lawn. Age categories are under 10, under 15 and adult. Any medium will be accepted, paint, model, stitching or photo but must be no larger than A4 size. Please submit to the box at the back of church before Friday 8th July or contact Clare 07952867083.

Deeping Dog Show Sunday 10th July 1.00pm Jubilee Park twixt Crowson & Thackers Way Bring your pooch to the Deeping Bark on the Park! Dog Agility Display with First Class Dog Training, stalls, refreshments, bouncy castle. £1 entry per class; lookie likie, best rescue, Deeping’s most talented, cutest pup, prettiest girl, handsomest male, waggiest tail, best child handler.

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Deeping archivist and local historian Dorothea Price, will be launching her latest book, ‘A Deeping Digest’ on Saturday 9th July 10.00 am - noon at a Coffee Morning to be held at the Priory Church Hall, Deeping St James. Books are £9.99 and signed by the author.

Events calendar at www.deepings.co.uk

Barking Bixxie Personalised Pet Care

Deepings Carnival and Parade Sunday 3rd July John Eve Field, Market Deeping Parade commences at 11.00 am at the Leisure Centre, Horsegate, High St., Godsey Lane to John Eve Field where the carnival commences with the crowning of the carnival queen. Live music, afternoon tea, beer tent, children’s games including a bouncy castle and barrel train, stalls and exhibition in the marquee with art and children’s activities with Ellie Sandall and Craig Pattrick. Car Boot Sale on Glebe Field.

Comfort Visits, Dog Walking, Day Care, Boarding. Prices start at £5 SUNDAY 3RD JUL Y

Car Boo t on Gle be Field

DEEPINGS CAR NIVAL AND PARADE WITH MARCHING BAN D

PARADE STAR TS AT THE LEISU PARK AT 11.00 RE CENTRE CAR AND ENDS AT JOHN EVE FIELD MIDDAY WHER AT E THE FUN STAR TS!

Fly Past Inspire Dance, Harmony Majorettes, Agility Dog Show from First Class Dog Training and Deeping Karate Club in the Arena.

Live music

Call Lisa 07725 978 445

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Stands, Food stalls, Afternoon tea served by Inner Wheel, children’s rides including the popular barrel train

John Clare Festival, Helpston Friday 15th- Sunday 17th July Commencing with the Midsummer cushions ceremony at St Botolph’s Church Helpston 1.00pm Friday.

7.30 Folk concert at the Bluebell with Pete Shaw, free admission. Saturday 9.00am - 7.00pm Booksellers, talks, traditional dancing, stalls, lunches, teas, poetry reading and more.

6.00pm Concert with The Big Fiddle Band at St Botoloph’s Church, tickets £5.00 Sunday 10.45am Church Service followed by refreshments. Commemorative booklet (£2) and Programme (£2) from John Clare Cottage and Annakin Gallery.

Info call Anne Marshall 01400 282409 email johnclaresociety@mybtinternet.com

Lots of new shrubs and flowering plants in stock for the gardening season.

Plenty of friendly advice from expert plants people.

Tel 343340 Junction of Outgang and Linchfield Rd.

Methodist Church Church St. Deeping St James The final service from Rev Ann Bossingham will be held at 6.00pm on 17th July followed by light refreshments .

Holiday at home club Aug 4th/11th/18th for those who do not want to travel includes lunch each day and morning and afternoon snacks from 10am to 3.30pm Limited space booking advisable email g.thompson791@btinternet.com or there is a list in the Church.

Show jumping • Gymkhana • Showing • Working Hunter • Dressage • Dog Agility • Fairground Ride • Stalls • Refreshments • Vintage Machinery • Classic Cars

deepinghorseandponyshow For all Trade Stand Enquires, call Les: 07973 368611 Horse & Pony Entries, call Betsy: 07887 641333

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01778 218 269

Installation, repairs and maintenance of solid fuel stoves

58 High St., Market Deeping info@dtstoves.co.uk

www.dtstoves.co.uk

Tues - Fri 10.00 am - 17.00 pm Sat 10.00am - 16.00 pm