Newton Fallowell are proud to offer for sale this extended detached house in the desirable Village of Langtoft. To the first floor there are four double bedrooms with the master benefiting from an ensuite and there is a modern spacious family bathroom. On the ground floor there is a fantastic kitchen family room with access out to the garden. The ground floor provides three further reception rooms one of which could be used as a fifth bedroom serviced by the ground floor shower room. Externally there is off road parking, a double garage with electric roller door and a rear garden offering plenty of privacy. Early viewing is highly recommended.
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Riverside Beads and Crafts held their annual beading retreat at The Granary, West Deeping. With crafters from all over the UK the event is becoming well established in the Deepings Social Calendar! As we go to press on the Summer Solstice a pop-up yoga/pilates evening was held by Joni and Sally of JRFit in the magnificent grounds of the old water mill in support of Dementia South Lincs. Three cheers to the owners of this venue which is fast placing itself at the heart of our community and as relevant today as it was those hundreds of years ago.
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In a highly competitive challenge, four Deepings SC swimmers brought home medals from the final round of the Grantham Grand Prix. In the 11 Years Boys event, Oliver Clarke was 2nd overall and in the Girls event Annabel Shepherd was 5th overall and in the 9 Years Girls Aoife Hickey was 3rd and Annabelle Hatcher Brennan was 6th. In the Final Round there was a fantastic total of 39 Personal Bests and 7 new County Qualifying Times.
Printmaker of 50 years standing, John McGowan shared his prints for Cancer UK and has raised nearly £7,000. Visit www.johnmcgowanprintmaker.co.uk to see what is available. Email him your choice, agree a price, pay for the p&p and make a donation on just giving for the print.
DSJ Parish Council Chairman, Kate ShinkinsHoppe, President of the Royal British Legion, Phil Dilks and Mayor of Market Deeping, Pam Byrd pay their respects on D Day - 80 years.
Cllr Pam Byrd, now Town Mayor, at her Civic Service at St Guthlacs in June.
A coffee morning held at Deepings Bowling Club on the Spalding Road raised £370 for St Barnabas.
The British Trust for Ornithology, sponsored by Vine House Farm Bird Foods and named by Vine House Cafe customers, released Cuthburt the Cuckoo with a tracking device to better understand migration routes in an effort to reverse the population decline. See https://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/ charity.../cuckoo-tracking
Four Deeping lads waved off to the Euros in a camper van by the Mayor, Pam Byrd. l-r Adrian Thompson, Stuart Bowman, Pamela Byrd, Nigel Matthews and Andrew McHattie
The lucky winner of a Marvellous May half day spa experience for two at The Grange Spa in the competition in the May issue of the magazine was Samantha Williams. www.thegrangespa.co.uk
West Deeping villagers rally before the Breedon Planning Consulation which could potentially see gravel extraction on the south side of the A1175 close to residents homes and listed Molecey Mill.
Mayor of Market Deeping, Pam Byrd and previous Mayor Bob Broughton present Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall with £1,500 raised during Bob’s term of office.
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New Licensees at the Bull! Gail and Alan Spratley and a very full house. CJ Birds of Prey held
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dipping at Deeping Lakes Open Day, 4 yr old Edward Prissick, dad Matthew and reserve volunteer Ginny Matthew.
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‘Beer @thePriory took on a bigger and better look this year with support from Potbelly Brewery supplying cooling equipment ensuring all our pints were cool and lovely! A ‘wall of cider’ was created by the Thirsty Giraffe with over 24 traditional ciders. Pimms, Prosecco, wines and a whole host of goodies included popular hot dogs and burgers.
Music all weekend provided by many musicians who gave their time for free.
A special mention for our sponsors who made sure all our beer was paid for! The event raised around £7500 which will be split between the three charities’. Steve Williams, Thirsty Giraffe
The Deeping Apache Cub Scouts went litter picking as part of the Big Help Out Weekend for their Community Impact badge.
After her sister underwent life saving open heart surgery at Great Ormond Street at only eleven days old, Ruby Bannister (8) has raised just over £600 for the hospital and following her ascent of Snowdon plans to also climb Scafell and Ben Nevis. https://www.justgiving.com/page/ rubybannister
In true style, Nancy Titman celebrated her 106th birthday welcoming a steady stream of friends and family to her new home at Braeburtn Lodge.
the outcry of locals who deemed that they were being deprived of an important privilege, this event never took place in the village again.
William Tansley was the owner of the George and Dragon, Eastgate, previously a farm with two cottages owned by the Tansley family, who as well as being farmers were rope makers, leaving their ropes to dry out on the river bank. William extended the pub in 1845, running it himself for a couple of years until he appointed his sister Jane and her husband Thomas Buck as licensees. Thomas was used to life in a pub, his father William, originally a baker in Bridge Street, having run the Ship Inn farther down Eastgate.
Thomas was an enterprising character; after school he worked for Mr Laxton and then John Perkins of Welby House (issue 032) as a waterman, and by 1840 he owned his own barge, adding another in 1846 and employing his brothers. When the railway came to Deeping St James in 1848, he left the river and set up his own iron foundry at the rear of the George & Dragon.
Elizabeth (1849). During Thomas’s time many functions were held at the Inn, the most notable being the dinner held for the Ancient Order of Foresters who, looking very smart in their uniforms, marched through Market Deeping in time for dinner at the Inn at 2 o’clock, a custom which started in 1854. Pigeon shooting was another of the activities staged at the Inn as well as Ball and Card Assembly dancing. Jane died in 1857 and is buried in the Priory churchyard. Later that year, Thomas sold the iron foundry 60’x 20’ and all the tools advertising ‘a good business situated by the side of the Welland providing an unfailing supply of water’. Thomas had moved on and set up a coal business operating out of St James Deeping Railway Station with Thomas Lockwood from Tallington.
By the time of the 1861 census, Thomas’s mother Betsy had moved into the pub to help with the children, Susanna and Elizabeth. In November 1869, aged 19, Susanna married Richard Panton at the Priory and on the same day her father Thomas remarried, Mary Crowson, daughter of William and Mary (née Swift). The couple had two children John (1866) and Thomas (1870), and they employed John Buck as a general servant.
William Tansley sold the pub in 1850 and Thomas’s old employer, John Perkins, bought it and Thomas and Jane continued behind the bar. The building was described as stone with a slate roof, with a large club room. Here the couple had their family; Henry (1843) James (1844-1915), Susanna (1847-1913) and
The Buck family had owned a farm down Station Road since at least 1750 and Thomas had Stone House Farm built in 1856, it was said for his mother, hence the inscription B.B. He left the pub to live in the house and run the farm, as he did everything he turned his hand to, wholeheartedly. He became a member of the Lincs Agricultural Society, winning prizes in 1874 with his sheep. He advertised his potatoes in the Stamford Mercury in 1881 which he was able to put on the railway at Deeping St James. Thomas died in 1883 aged 69 and his well-attended funeral at the Priory Church was a testimony to the affection which villagers had for him ‘well known to the young and old for his largeness of heart’.
Susanna and Richard had taken over at the George and Dragon where they had six children; William (1870-1954). Walter (1871- 1880), Emma (1872-1907), Jane (1874-1952), Lizzie (1875-1937) and Edith (1885-1970).
Thomas’s property, farming stock, land and three railway carriages were to be sold to provide for Mary and their third child, Annie, who was just seven years old when her father died. Mary also divested herself of an allotment of land in Customs Road which was bought by William Smith of Home Farm, Bridge Street. William also rented the farm and moved into the farmhouse, Mary moving up into the village to Church Street. It had been Thomas’s intention that after her death the remaining property and money should be shared between all
his children. Mary had other ideas and on her death in 1901 she left instructions that the farm be auctioned by J.G. Metcalf and the money to go exclusively to her children.
According to newspaper reports, when the farm was put up for auction there was complete silence until a man from London started the bidding, then Thomas’s son James made a bid and the Londoner, intimidated by the stern look of the locals, stopped bidding and the hammer was brought down at £960 and so James had the family farmhouse and eleven acres. William Smith continued as the tenant; James was a builder with a large firm in London.
After the death of John Perkins in 1879, the George and Dragon was sold to Soames & Co. Brewery of Spalding. Richard continued the traditions at the George & Dragon with the Ancient Foresters meeting there for their annual dinners. There were Inquests, Whist drives, committee meetings of various organisations and in 1881 catering for one hundred members and friends of the Ancient Foresters Club, which now had 126 members. After their annual meeting they processed to the free Methodist Church headed up by the Peterborough Rifle Band for a service and sermon preached by Rev. George Haig and then paraded around the town in the regalia of the order.
the Stamford Institution and prior to that had had an interesting career with the police force after he joined up in 1869. He was on special duty in Nottingham when King Edward and Queen Alexandra, then Prince and Princess of Wales, had opened the art museum and again when they opened the new docks at Grimsby. When King George V and the Duke of Clarence opened the pleasure gardens and promenade at Cleethorpes he was on special duty again. He had retired from the force on the grounds of ill health but it was of no surprise that he kept a very orderly house and doubled down on the community activities that the George and Dragon offered.
In 1885 Richard and Susanna called time for the last time and moved to Church Street, young Edith being the only child left at home. In 1895 Richard was appointed Surveyor for Deeping St James for Bourne Rural Council at a salary of £52. He died in 1906 aged 64, and Susanna at 65, in 1913.
There were two licensees of the old pub in quick succession: Arthur Merillion Ely and Susan his wife from Essex in 1885 and then Charles and Martha Rawding from Nottingham in 1899. In 1901 Thomas Patman, originally from Gosberton, answered the advertisement and moved in with his wife Elizabeth and daughters Edith (22), Florence (21) Ethel (19) and son, Harold (15). He had been a curator for
Thomas was president of the Cross Pig Club, The Three Tuns Sick and Dividing Club and enjoyed arranging activities for the Tennis Club, the Water Sports Committee, the popular whist drives and, sadly, the pub continued to be a venue for Inquests, one of which, in 1902, called for an improvement to the dangerous condition of the stone weir, after six-year-old Tom Cook had drowned at Low Locks. Thomas was on the Parish Council for 35 years, ten of which as Chairman.
A few sad years followed for the publican. Cutting his hand badly on a soda bottle in 1912 paled into insignificance when his wife died in 1916, and then his son Harold in 1917 in the First World War, leaving a widow Alice and two children; Thomas and Gwendoline. Edith had gone to the capital to work as a ladies maid, Florence to Stamford as a housekeeper so Ethel was left at home and two boarders were taken in; Charles and Betsy Sculthorpe.
Thomas Patman
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Although small and dainty and not necessarily what you would expect of a landlady, Ethel proved an asset to the pub. She was praised by Mr Feneley for her kindnesses to the Tennis Club and again in 1932 when she assisted in a tea and social evening for the local Brownies. Over 50 sat down to tea at tables decorated with flowers and crackers. Miss F. Oldam (Brown Owl), Miss Sharpe (Tawny Owl) and Mrs J. Oldham and Ivy Oldham all had a special mention for their role in the organisation. In May 1931 Nancy Titman, then Swift, can still remember her part in the concert held in the pub garden with E. Ford, M. Freemen and P. Rate which raised 15 shillings for the Peterborough Memorial Hospital.
Thomas kept going, ably assisted by Ethel, until a grand old age. In 1934 at the age of 87 he proposed a toast to his great niece, Ivy Oldham, when she married Joseph Parker at a reception held in the Vicarage School room, now the Priory Church Hall. Not such a happy occasion when a labourer, William Brown, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and abusing Thomas with obscene language, having broken a window. Remembered by local resident centenarian, Nancy Titman, ‘Mr Patman was a tall, upright, rather stern man with white hair.’ He passed away in 1937 aged 92 and Ethel moved to the cottage next door to the pub with her sister, Florence, and her niece Elizabeth Ford. Eventually she moved to 63 Millfield Road and devoted her time to her family and the Brownies and Guides where she was a Leader. An excellent flower arranger, Ethel would often be asked to help to decorate the church at Harvest time.
She died in 1971 leaving two sisters, Jessie Patman and Mary Ford. Her niece, Elizabeth Ford, a shorthand typist, married articled clerk, Walter Wilkinson at the Priory Church in 1945
The last licensee of the George and Dragon was George Bennett, son of Thomas, a horseman for W. Packlington & Son who lived in Station Road. Having lost his first
wife, Annie Nicholson, in 1933 George employed Annie Fowler, an ex WRAF who he eventually married in 1949. She was the daughter of Felix and Julia (née Swift) and had been educated at the Cross School. One of Annie’s duties was to care for George’s daughter, Wendy, who was just five when her mum died. Wendy called her Aunt Nan, and she was known as Nan by everybody ever afterwards. A great hit with kids, she would let them watch children’s TV in the Club Room, telling everyone that her husband George was the George in the name of the pub and she was the dragon!
The couple were held in high esteem by their regulars, and in 1954 George was presented with an inscribed cigarette lighter by Alf Prentice, Chairman of the darts league. Two years later Nan was given a teaset by the darts team. In January 1956 70 members of the Measures family assembled to celebrate the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Measures and presented a gold watch and a gold locket to the happy couple.
In 1963, Wendy married John Cary, a Perkins employee from Crowland, at the Priory Church. It was a beautiful winter wedding; her wedding dress was trimmed with fur and the bridesmaids carried white fur muffs. The bride’s headdress was decorated with rhinestones and held a bouffant veil. The reception for 150 was held at The Georgians.
Soames & Co had ceded the pub to Stewart & Paterson in 1949, taken over by Watney Mann in 1963. George called time at the pub for the very last time in 1969 and the couple moved to Churchgate where they remained active locally, Nan a member of the Over Sixties, the Forget-Me -Knot Club, Treble Twenty Club and the British Legion. She died at 84 in 1997 and George in 2002 at the age of 93.
Ethel, Florrie and Alice Patman
Thomas Patman
The brewery applied for planning permission to build two bungalows on the site in 1971, now 40 and 42 Eastgate. The pub has, though, left an indelible memory on those who knew it. Nancy Titman recalls, ‘It had the distinctive smell of beer and tobacco, typical of all pubs. The taproom was on the right and it was spartan, but there was always a good fire burning in the grate. There were two deal tables and chairs and a collection of wooden chairs, two of them armchairs near the fire reserved for regular customers. The beer was kept in the cellar in wooden barrels from which pints and half pints would be drawn as required. No female ever drank in the pub but beer, stout or minerals could be bought at the door. A bottle of sherry or port wine, a must for Christmas cheer, was also bought at the pub but any wine would be of the homemade variety, such as elderberry, cowslip, parsnip or orange.’
Elizabeth Wilkinson, granddaughter of Thomas Patman, described the pub in her memoirs in 2003. Her memories of the pub date from the interwar years. ‘The frontage on the street was built of grey stone, double fronted with sash windows on either side of the front door. Adjoining the house was a large clubroom reached by an enclosed flight of stairs from the garden. Beneath this was a big open area known as skittle alley entered from the street through double doors, presumably to admit horse-drawn vehicles as there was a stable in the garden behind. The whole of the building was covered by a grey slate roof, adjoining the stable was a wash house and in front of this a pump which supplied excellent drinking water. Beyond the large garden was an orchard/chicken run, then a willow holt and then the river.
The flooring downstairs was of red and black square tiles, although the private sitting room on the left of the hall had a wooden floor. On the right hand wall stood a wooden piano, out of tune and never played but held on top were various ornaments and photographs. In the centre of the room was a square table covered with a golden brown chenille cloth and over it an elaborate hanging oil lamp. In one corner was
a typical Victorian ‘what not’ with pieces of Goss china and around the room were other chairs. The cellar was also on the left off a long passage on the right of which was a room with a sturdy table with bowls for the washing of glasses as there was no water in the house.’ Elizabeth describes the ‘sash windows overlooking the street and the deep window-sill which held several pots of flowering cactus and a flourishing fern hung above the window. Instead of curtains there was a dark blind, I believe a relic of the 1914-18 war. The small room behind had a kitchen range and surround with a mantelpiece, over which was a mirror and a cupboard at either side, also a rag rug in front of the fender. There was a large table usually covered with a red cloth and behind it a long settle as in the bar. There were several wooden chairs at the table and beside the fireplace, a button back armchair. Under the window was a small table and then an oak bureau on which stood a brass oil lamp. Above the bureau was an unusual picture given to my Auntie many years before of a scene painted on glass. The window was hung with pretty flowered curtains with a very steep sill because of the thick plants including a number of fruit seeds and stones Auntie was always growing.’
The George and Dragon may be gone but it is certainly not forgotten.
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Margaret Flegg
It is hard to remember a village event in Deeping St James that Margaret Flegg (née Goodliffe) has not catered for, so it is of no surprise that a chat about her 80 years takes place over a freshly brewed coffee and a plump cheese scone. But it isn’t the case that Margaret has spent the majority of her 80 years satisfying the culinary needs of the locals. True, she was born on 6th July 1944 in one of the small cottages next to The Walnut Tree and educated at the Infants School, now in the building known as the Scout Hut, and at the Cross School. Taught by Miss Crowson (issue 072) and Miss Patman, with Mrs Berridge as the Head teacher and then by Miss Swift at the Cross School, she was one of the first intake into the Deepings Secondary Modern School. Her first job was working in the kitchens for the Haines family at the Georgians (issue 065) and it was while she was there that her teacher, Edna Harper, identifying her cooking ability, drove her to Deyne Court in the grounds of Harrow School for an interview; it was here that she learnt the skills that were later to help her feed generations of villagers.
Hers was a rural upbringing with a sister and brother, the family moving farther down Horsegate to a farmhouse where her father, Jim, a lorry driver, also farmed. During the War when a newlywed, he had been commissioned by the Government to go to Cornwall to help to build airfields but, preferring his home territory, he had sold his lorry and returned, helping instead to build the Woolfox Airfield on the A1. He had met his future wife, Elizabeth (née Kenney) while delivering milk at Lolham Railway Cottages for Horace Thompson’s
mother who was based at Kingscote, Church Street. Margaret would walk to school over fields where houses now stand. Returning from College, she took a job at Nottingham University, catering for students, and it was while she was here that she met her future husband, a friend of her sisters, who was in the RAF. Their first home was in a caravan at RAF Langtoft, Margaret taking a job at RAF Wittering. Unable to settle, the couple moved their caravan to the back of the bungalow which their parents had had built in 1958, selling the farmhouse to plasterer Gordon Gaches (issue 073). The couple had their own bungalow built there in 1967.
Life took a turn and when her husband was commissioned to the Malaysian Airforce as part of the decolonisation of the territory.
Margaret and her young son, Andrew, found themselves on the side of a rubber plantation in the shade of palm trees, serenaded by bullfrogs and lulled to sleep with the whirr of overhead fans. True to form Margaret eschewed the opportunity to employ staff, instead doing her own jobs which included making mince pies for Christmas. Three years later the couple were back in Deeping, Margaret taking a catering role at weekends at Burghley Golf Club and later, when Andrew was at the Deepings Comprehensive, at Elliotts in Peterborough followed
by Digby Court in Bourne. The family moved to Locks Close in the hot summer of ’76 but a year later, her husband, having signed out of the RAF while at Coningsby, took a tour at RAF Wildenrath, Germany. Here Margaret took a crash course in German and cooked in the Visitors’ mess, catering for visiting officers.
The marriage didn’t last and Margaret met and married Bill Flegg in the early 80s. Also in the RAF and initially based in Finningley, an RAF training school where Bill worked on simulators, Margaret was to have two more children in quick succession, Claire in Stanmore, where the couple were happily based, enjoying caravan holidays at weekends, and then Susan when they had moved back to Deeping. By 1986 the family were back in Germany, this time at RAF Rheindalen, where Margaret volunteered at the thrift shop and Susan was able to access first-class ancillary care for her cerebral palsy. When the children were 8 and 5 the family moved back to Locks Close which Jonny Carpenter, one of the Priory Players, their tenant, had vacated.
It was the early 90s and the couple retired, the children were at DSJ Community Primary and the Deepings
Margaret and Bill Flegg
School and the country was in the grip of recession. It was at this moment that the couple employed their boundless energy, skill and commitment to the Priory Church, the church having been the centre of Margaret’s young village life. Bill became the Church Warden with Margaret’s help, cleaning the Church Hall where as a child she had eaten her school dinners. Whether it was presiding over entries to the Rose and Sweet Pea Show or donning evening wear for the popular Music on the Lawn events, the couple were ever present. It seemed natural that they would cut short a family holiday on the Isle of Wight to cater for the installation of the Revd. Mark Warrick. Sadly Bill passed away before lockdown, but with the satisfaction of knowing that both of his children were in rewarding careers, Claire a Sister on a Paediatric Oncology Ward at Leeds Hospital and Susan running her own business with her husband in the Midlands.
Margaret is a stalwart of DSJ WI with her childhood friend, Carole Mills, starting the lunchtime WI and supporting the Church Coffee Morning Group and the Church Ladies Fellowship, of which she is Chair. As we speak, there are two funerals in the diary for which she will help to cater. Several times on the winning team of the Clash of the Clubs, an ardent fund raiser, Margaret has been a linchpin of the Priory Church. But it is the memories of the holidays she had with Bill that continue to sustain her, whether in the caravan in the UK or on cruises to far-flung destinations. Hers was the first cruise ship into Odessa after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.
In short, a local life lived out on a world stage.
Wilson’s Pet Stop
Walks
It’s W.A.L.K.I.E.S time! I can just feel it! And I’m right, I usually am but these humans don’t seem to notice! We’re in the car so that means Mum must be taking me on another big adventure!
Driving out through the Deepings towards Stamford we took the right after King Street, West Deeping, on to Barholm Road, which leads you into the village.
A good place to park is at the local pub, e Five Horseshoes. Wrapped around the pub is a road which leads onto a track to the right of the farm.
From here there is a well-de ned path leading across the elds to the railway line. Over the railway line continue through the elds. is is a lovely part of the walk, being in the middle of nowhere. Eventually you arrive at a gravel roadway. We followed this all the way into the picturesque village of U ngton. And for refreshments or a bite to
Barholm to U ngton
Start: Barholm, Stamford PE9 4RA
Finish: Bertie Lane, U ngton, Stamford PE9 4SZ
Time to Travel: Approx 10 mins
Length: 4 miles or 8 miles
Time of walk: 1.5 hrs to 4 hrs
eat, the roadway brings you out to the Bertie Arms.
After a break you’re positioned to take your walk further into Stamford or retrace your steps back to Barholm (to walk o lunch!).
For this walk dogs need to be on leads because of the crops in elds. You can use a long line or extendable lead. Dogs must be on leads and be super careful around the railway line. ere is a kissing gate, followed by a small path up to a few steps to then across the line. Keep your dogs super close and cross as quickly as you can, safely to the other side.
ere are sections of this walk which are quite overgrown as they are not well-used footpaths. is makes this walk lovely and quiet. I’ve not seen another waggy tail and had all this to sni for myself! I’ve done a few zig zags through the overgrown sections. Mum is really pleased she’s got long trousers on to stop her legs getting caught on the weeds.
Back at the car I’ve had a drink and I jump in ready for home. Mum, you have done well today! is might be just one of my favourite walks so far.
Dog Friendly Cafe: e Five Horseshoes
Barholm (No food) Bertie Arms U ngton, Full Menu. Both dog friendly areas.
O Lead: On lead walk
In Wilson’s Bag: Water Bottle, Treats, Poop Bags
Poop Bins: Bag it and bin it
Wildlife: Birds and small animals
Paw Rating: 4 out of 5
Sni Rating: 5 out of 5
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Smoked Haddock, Leek and Gruyere Fishcake
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Con t of Duck Leg
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£16.95 (gf)
Beer Battered Haddock
With hand cut chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce
£15.95 (gfa)
Green Masala Butternut Squash Curry
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Steak, Ale & Mushroom Pie
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Sweetcorn Fritters
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Shredded Duck Salad
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Crispy Smoked Chicken Wings
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Chicken Schnitzel
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Cous-Cous Salad
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Warm Scotch Egg Ploughman’s
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8oz Sirloin Steak
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As We Were Then… by Margaret McKay
My starting point was the seeds of a story that I had, combined with the conviction that just this story had never been told, but that it deserved to be; and I was curious to see where it would lead, since I really did not know, at the beginning, how it would end or how exactly it would develop.
In addition to this, my motivation for writing was fuelled by a feeling of dissatisfaction with how 19th/ early 20th century Britain has been depicted, especially on television, in recent years. Fed on a diet of Downton Abbey, and its repeats, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britons of that period were divided into just one of two classes, namely, either the ‘upstairs’ or the ‘downstairs’ inhabitants of grand houses. But this was not so! Most people below the upper and professional classes had to struggle constantly to attain a decent life for themselves and their families. The spectre of poverty was always present and nothing could be taken for granted. In a world before the welfare state had been conceived, an unforeseeable accident could spell disaster for a whole family.
This line of thought brought to mind things that I knew about my own family’s past, just two generations ago, as well as about others’ experiences and about how very different British society was, in what, until WWI, was still largely a pre-scientific world – for most people.
Every person who has ever lived, for however many or few years, leaves a legacy – the story of that life. Most of those life stories are never told, at least in print. These stories give us our history, both common and individual; they confirm our identity – sometimes national, always human.
My story tells how one family, devastated by the premature death of the sole breadwinner, manages to overcome that catastrophe and win through. But life, as well as bringing love, with its promise of happiness, is always under threat, from either illness or war and death.
The story is set in middle England, perhaps not so far from here! The time – roughly between the 1890s and the early 1930s. It charts the fate of members of three families: the urban Ruskins, the rural Atkinsons and the entrepreneurial Edwardses. There is happiness, and loss, frustration and misjudgement, love found, and missed – in short the ingredients that make up the drama and the common fate of all humankind.
The best stories don’t just relate what happened at a certain moment in time, but also prompt reflection on the way we live now – or at any time. I hope my story will fall into this category. And there is laughter too!
Scootering into Ska Fest!
Surprisingly the Deepings have an active Scooter Scene with an estimated 30 classic scooters owned by local residents. These scooterists are aged anything from late 20s to one rider in his late 70s. The scooters pictured are all classics -Italian Vespas (nearly all) and Lambrettas, the earliest being a 1958 Lambretta LD and, more recent, a 1983 Vespa P150X.
As Ska Music is part of the scootering culture it seemed a good idea to organise a Scooter Get Together with a Show ‘n’ Shine and ride out on the same day as the first ever Ska Fest at the Waterton Arms on Sunday 13th July.
So why scooters? Well, the reasons these locals got into scootering are all different.
David of Deeping St. James used to ride his mum and dad’s scooters in the 1960s. Richard, also of Deeping St. James, first bought a Lambretta when he was 16 years old in the early 1970s to get from Maxey to work and also to the Bell pub in DSJ and the New Inn (now the Stage) where he would ride through the archway. Steve from Market Deeping first bought his 1965 Lambretta in 1990 and would use it to ride to scooter rallies as far as Fort William in Scotland. As family life became the priority for Steve the faithful Lambretta spent the majority of the next 20 years at the back of his shed until five years ago when he decided to complete a full nuts-andbolts restoration, including an upgraded engine. Neil, from Market Deeping, bought
his first scooter, a 1980 Vespa P200E, in 2003. He now also owns a 1958 Lambretta LD150 which has recently been fully restored to concourse condition.
Nick, of Deeping St. James, owns a 1961 Lambretta LI125 affectionately known as ‘Arkwright’ because of its stutter when Nick tries to start it. Nick bought his first scooter in 1986 and then got back into the scooter scene in 2019 and became an active member of the Peterborough-based Back to Basics Scooter Club. Mike, of Market Deeping, owns a 1961 Lambretta TV175 which was restored two years ago. Mike’s passion for scootering goes back to the early 80s when, as a teenager, a certain Carol Preecy at Deeping St. James Youth Club allowed Mike and friends to watch the film Quadrophenia. From that moment on, Mike was hooked. Unfortunately, Mike’s dad wasn’t so keen, so Mike didn’t actually get his first scooter until 2017.
David ‘Clem’ of Market Deeping owns a 1966 Vespa 150Super. Clem bought his first Vespa, a V100 Sport on his 17th birthday in August 1983. Clem’s scooter inspirations were firstly his uncle, a Stamford mod who had Lambrettas. He had a couple in his back garden on Godsey Crescent where he messed about on them as kids. He also used to love watching scooters come through Deeping on the way to the Skegness rallies in the 80s, and seeing them at other seaside resorts. Oh, and of course, Quadrophenia might have had a little to do with it too... But he’s adamant he’s never been a mod.
The scooter scene in the Deepings brings all types of people of all ages together. There are the Mods inspired by the 1960s and Mod-revival of the early 1980s, the Skinheads, and the enthusiasts who just love to look and polish. One thing they all have in common is their passion for scooters and scootering.
Aside from the looking, polishing and maintenance the Deeping scooterists enjoy an amazing social scene. Clem is the Number One of the Back to Basics Scooter Club and attends many weekend rallies and events all over the country. Carl of DSJ and Nick are also rally regulars. And there is also Harry
and co-rider/mechanic Paul of Market Deeping who race scooters at circuits all over the country for Team Hornet.
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Harry - 1970 Lambretta GP150, Nick - 1961 Lambretta LI125, Richard - 1970
Lambretta GP150, Jonno - 1960 Lambretta LI150, Mike - 1961 Lambretta TV175, Neil - 1958 Lambretta LD150, David - 1959 Lambretta LI150, Steve - 1965 Lambretta TV175, Clem - 1966 Vespa 150 Super, Harry - 1983 Vespa P150X, Paul1965 Vespa VBB, Carl - 1970 Lambretta GP200
This is a story about JFL 494, a Series 1 Lambretta LI150.
By Mike Shattock
It belonged to a lady from Peterborough called Alice. Alice would use her beloved Lambretta for everything, from running down to the local shops to family holidays in Wales.
This is a photo of Alice on JFL 494 in the mid-60’s.
JFL 494 spent most of the next 56 years in David’s loft and garage with some bits being sold or go missing. It was David and Jean’s brother Eric who planned to restore it but due to ill health was unable to and therefore sold it to me, Mike Shattock in September 2021. Sadly, Eric passed away in 2022. As it was his wish to restore his Mum’s Lambretta I thought I’d give it a go.
On family holidays Alice would ride with her daughter Jean on the back, while Alice’s husband would ride his Lambretta Series 2 LI150 carrying the luggage. JFL 494 was first registered in Peterborough on 1st July 1959 and sold by Harry Hutt Cars, Vans & Motorcycles of Star Road Peterborough. In 1966 Alice’s son David was heading home on the A1 when his Triumph motorbike ran into problems. He managed to limp home but needed transport to get to a party that night in Oundle, so his Mum kindly let him borrow JFL 494. Unfortunately, that was the last time JFL 494 would be ridden as on his way home David crashed it into a wall. The front end (forks, horncast and fender) was unrepairable.
The first part of the restoration was to straighten the frame as it was bent by nearly 6cm. This was straightened by Russ of Lincs Lambretta. Once the frame was straight and new horncast, forks and front mudguard sourced it all went to Shane Rybicki at Faircharm Restorations near Leicester for him to work his magic. Re-creating the rear light housing and dealership sticker was a vital part of the restoration. The original has been preserved and a new one created by Adam Wilson of Classic Transfers. The speedometer was restored by Jem Booth. The rear number plate was re-made and hand painted by Danny Clinton. Complete engine rebuild was undertaken by the lambretta Genius Paul Wallace. Original seats re-covered by John ‘Corky’ Corcora.
This is the photo! 22nd July 2023. Brother and sister David and Jean, back on their Mum’s scooter once again. 58 years since Jean sat as pillion and 57 years since David last rode it and hit a wall. Shortly after this photo was taken David rode it again…. and no wall was hit!
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The swans are back
The great Deepings Christmas Market
We recently advertised a councillor vacancy in Market Deeping and are really pleased to welcome Andrew Piper who was co-opted onto the Town Council following the June meeting. We are really fortunate to have a hard working group of councillors who give their time voluntarily to serve the local community and are ably supported by our clerks –Gail, Emily and Julie. As well as managing a busy agenda at the Full Council meetings the Council responsibilities include: allocation of support grants to local groups, responding to Planning and Highways issues, looking after our Amenities and Open Spaces, taking care of the Town Hall and Cemetery, planning the Christmas Market, and assisting with a number of other Events throughout the year.
Voting on Thursday 4th July is a right, a privilege and a duty that we are all asked to make time for under our democratic system. Please ensure you remember to take your required identification document/s with you when heading for the polling station.
Presiding Officers will have a very long and busy day at the polling stations on 4th July and you may have to wait for your turn to vote - please be patient and understanding when voting in person.
Our silver recycling bins hit the local and national news recently when the bin staff team were tasked with rejecting badly contaminated contents. Thankfully, most residents across the Deepings now know what sort of items to put in which bin and only a very few bins were not emptied. As a reminder for the silver bin – nothing with any food residue and no sticky stuff/paper/cardboard/ plastic bags/flimsy plastics/crisp packets, or similar items. If you are still unsure, there is plenty of helpful information on the SKDC website and ‘Right Thing, Right Bin’ leaflets are available in the Town Hall.
nesting on the riverbank alongside Stamford Road.
The Swan Awareness signs have been installed on this stretch by the river. Please take extra care when travelling in or out of Deeping as the swans sometimes walk or sit on the road.
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is being held on Sunday 1st December. Only five months to go! Planning is now well underway and if you have a talent for entertaining or you wish set up a trade stall - save the date and book your pitch or stage slot through Emily at the Town Hall: deputyclerk@marketdeeping-tc.gov.uk
the grass verge cutting has not gone as well as it should so far this year and both Market Deeping and Deeping St. James Councils are working with the new contractor to try to establish a better outcome. To clarify, there was not a ‘no mow May’- just a very wet and warm May that caused the grass on the verges to quickly grow tall and lush. This then presented practical mowing difficulties with the early June cut and therefore some areas are not looking as tidy as they ought to be. Hopefully, future cutting will soon bring the grass verges back under better control.
The local Housing Need Assessment survey will close soon and the information gathered will help to guide future development. If you plan to move house in the foreseeable future, this survey can be completed online by visiting www.deepingsplan.org and then pressing the link button in the middle of the Home page. There are also paper copies of the survey available at the library, Community Centre, and Town Hall. Additionally, the Neighbourhood Plan Group members are interviewing all local Estate Agents to gather more data and any other supplementary information. Please note that we are well aware that provision of services such as health, schools, leisure and play areas, will need to keep pace and we will continue to promote that message as strongly as possible.
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Peterborough Playgoers
Heidi Swain (centre)
Ajay Tegala
Steve Holt
Hebie Lamb Quartet
Anne Fletcher
Rachel Bea & Sue Hubbard
EC Bateman
Lev Paikian
Suk Pannu
Fiona Cummins
Simon Toyne Tessa Boase
Pennyless
Sara Jade Virtue
Julia Jarman
Jack Jordan
Priory Ladies
Clare Mackintosh
Carol Atherton
Rachel Bea
Valuation Day Etiquette!
Q&A with Jessica Wall, Auctioneer & Valuer at Stamford Auction Rooms
Why should I come to a valuation day?
Valuation days are a great opportunity for you to bring your items along for one of our experts to appraise your treasures, as well as finding out more information about buying and selling and the process involved.
What are estimates and reserves?
When we value your items we will provide you with auction estimates which are exactly that – estimate values that our valuer feels the items are likely to achieve if sold via auction, but often things can far exceed an estimate with the right interest on the day of the auction.
A reserve is an amount agreed between you and the valuer that the auctioneer will not sell below.
What can I bring?
We welcome everything, from the mundane to the weird and wonderful! Our valuers always enjoy a challenge, so when something is brought to us that we have never seen before it can bring much excitement! Our specialist auctions cover all collecting fields including Militaria & Scientific, Toys & Collectables, Jewellery & Silver, Silver & Gold, Furniture & Paintings, Asian Art & Artefacts, Antiquities and much more!
How many items can I bring?
We welcome single items to cars that are bursting with your wares! Don’t be afraid to bring anything you wish us to look at, even if you don’t think it’s worth anything at all; you would be surprised by the number of people who bring things to us and who are shocked that their items are valuable.
Does it cost me?
We do not charge for valuations and there is no obligation to sell the items we appraise. You can either leave the items with us to enter into a future auction, or take them away and decide at a later date.
Valuations that require documentation such as Probate & Insurance valuations are charged on an hourly rate. Each piece will be given a single value rather than an auction estimate.
Do
I book an appointment?
Our in-house valuations are done on an appointment basis; however, when we are out at the roadshows no appointment is necessary.
So, what are you waiting for? Get searching those old jewellery boxes, dusty attics, damp cellars and forgotten cupboards to find what you could bring to one of our valuation days!
Market Deeping Antiques & Craft Centre
Valuation Day here Weds July 17th 11 - 2.00pm with Auctioneer, Jessica Wall
BIRDS
Birds that have gone a bit Cuckoo Words and Pictures by William Bowell
While July and August might be the height of summer for us, it marks the beginning of the Autumn migration in the bird world. Amongst the early migrants is the famous Cuckoo, already on its way south to Africa.
The Cuckoo arrives in Britain in late April and takes up territory quickly in suitable habitat. Around the Deepings, they like the local lakes where there are warblers building nests around their fringes and insects are plentiful, to feed on.
They are renowned, of course, for laying an egg in someone else’s nest, ousting an egg in the process. Once hatched, the parasitic youngster uses all its strength to push the remaining eggs out of the nest. The surrogate parent has no idea what’s going on and their instinct is so strong they continue to feed this monster, which will out-grow the nest and it’s adoptive parents.
As I write in mid-June, with no parental duties, many Cuckoos have already begun their journey to Africa, leaving the surrogate parents to care for their offspring. By July the distinctive Cuckoo call is absent, signalling their migration south.
It’s not just Cuckoos that see July as the start of the Autumn. Arctic breeding waders, such as Greenshanks, Wood and Green Sandpipers will start to be grace the muddy shores of our local lakes. At the beginning of the month, these will mostly be adult birds, which failed to breed in their moorland summer home. By August, juveniles will also appear, marking the short northern summer.
The female Red-necked Phalarope will be well on its way to Africa by July, for this unique arctic breeding wader is a little different to the rest. For most birds, the male is the bright and colourful bird, whilst the female is camouflaged when brooding eggs on the nest. For Phalaropes, the opposite is true and in fact once mated, the females depart the scene entirely leaving the males to brood the eggs and raise the young on their own.
By the end of July, you might visit Hunstanton or Heacham to enjoy a paddle on the beach but out in the Wash, there will already be gatherings of thousands and thousands of waders, such as Knot, which have left their Arctic breeding grounds for the ‘winter’. At this time of year, many will still be sporting their brick
As July turns into August and you are packing for your summer holidays, more and more birds will be thinking of packing their bags for the winter! The skies, filled with the screams of Swifts in the months prior, suddenly fall quiet as they depart south at speed. The next time this incredible bird will touch down will now be next spring, when they return to nest!
Warblers, which have been breeding further north will start to filter south, again returning to Africa for the winter. It’s amazing that these birds, that barely heavier than a fifty pence piece, will fly the length of Britain, crossing the Channel, going through France and Spain, crossing the Mediterranean to head to Africa.
red plumage. The synchronised flight of these flocks, often spooked by predators like Peregrines or Harriers, is a breath-taking display.
Willow Warbler
Wood Sandpiper
Migrant waders- Dunlin
The weather in July and August might seem settled and therefore the perfect time to make a move for these birds, but even August can see seem storms. Strong winds from the east, mixed with rain might see flocks of these warblers ‘grounded’ on the east coast, which in their concentration just how many birds are on the move at this time of year.
While we enjoy the long, hot, lazy days of summer, take time to stop and look out for signs of the miracle of migration. Perhaps, dear reader, if we all had to endure what our feathered friends will undertake in the coming months, we would all rather stay in Deeping...
Have a great summer!
Will works at Grasmere Farm in Deeping St James (with a butcher’s and deli in Market Gate, Market Deeping) but in his spare time enjoys wildlife watching locally and across the country. He is also a keen photographer. Many of his images can be found at http:// justwildimages.blogspot.co.uk/ and photo cards can be found for sale at Market Gate Deli in Market Deeping.
Summer... at Vine House Farm
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
8AM - 5PM SUNDAY 9AM- 4PM
We’re welcoming the return of the Storyteller & the Alpacas in July Join one of our farm tours, which include our sunflowers in August
Introducing our new ice-cream cart. We’ll be serving delicious artisan ice-cream, every day!
Belton House
The backdrop for some of the drama ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ was provided by the House used for its Orangery, historic 17th-century interiors and grounds. In the 1995 BBC TV version – you remember the one with Colin Firth -of Pride and Prejudice, it was the good fortune of Jennifer Ehle’s Lizzie to dine in the splendour of Belton House, which played Lady Catherine De Burgh’s residence. But the day job of the house continues providing a wealth of interest, a magnificent outdoor adventure playground, indoor play cafe and miniature railway. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/belton-estate
Tattershall Castle
If you are keen to show your children what a ‘real’ castle looks like then Tattershall with its crenelations and huge fireplaces is the place to come. In 1231 Robert de Tateshale received a licence from King Henry III to build a manor house out of stone at Tattershall. The castle consisted of a great hall, kitchens, gatehouse and a chapel defended by a curtain wall surrounded by a single moat. When Ralph Cromwell inherited the Castle and became Lord Treasurer in 1434, he renovated the building and commissioned the Great Tower. He created lodgings for dignitaries and made room to house over 100 servants. The Tattershall archaeology walk takes in notable architectural and historical sites. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshirelincolnshire/tattershall-castle
Five NationalgreatTrust properties (near here)
One of the founders of the National Trust, was one of a significant number of Victorian women who changed our world. Octavia Hill was born in Wisbech, her birthplace is now open to visit https://octaviahill.org/visit/
Lyveden
An unfinished summer house in rolling Northamptonshire countryside is only half the story of Lyveden New Bield. This grand summer house was a paean to the faith of Sir Thomas Tresham whose Catholic faith was outlawed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Sadly it was incomplete at the time of his death and remains just as it was left, now. Graffiti dating back to the 17th century is prolific and includes ritual protection marks including the ‘daisy wheel’. In 2013 the National Trust acquired the adjacent Manor House which was completed by Tresham’s second son, Lewis, in 1615. The National Trust has installed a replica of the original oak staircase which was transported to the Edsel and Eleanor Ford building in Detroit. Features of the Elizabethan garden which Tresham had planned can still be seen. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/leicestershirenorthamptonshire/lyveden
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Woolsthorpe Manor
Perhaps the most significant thing about Woolsthorpe Manor is the apple tree in the garden which dendrochronologists claim to be over 400 years old having regrown from roots from a tree which blew down in 1820. It was an apple falling from this tree that led to Issac Newton’s work on his universal law of gravitation, as he mentioned to his friend, William Stukley. Issac had returned to his birthplace and childhood home in 1666 when fleeing the plague which had closed Cambridge University. Now visitors can see the 17th Century yeomans house as it was and also be introduced to the principles that he studied here in one of the converted farm buildings. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/ woolsthorpe-manor
Peckover House
Built in 1722 and first lived in by Albert Southwell, the house was bought by Jonathan Peckover in 1790 and the Quaker banking family remained in residence until 1948 when Alexandrina gave the house and its 48 acres to the National Trust. Coincidently, Octavia Hill who was one of the founders of the Trust was born at 7 South Brink, Wisbech almost opposite the House. Whether it is the Cabinet of Curiosities or the Library designed by Edward Boardman and redecorated with replicated hand blocked wallpaper by Cole & Son the house does not disappoint. But the gardens with their orangery, croquet lawn and orchard gardens are best visited in July when the roses are in full bloom, the endless varieties and beautiful display carrying into the early Autumn. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/peckover-house-and-garden
Drawing from Art History. An exhibition exploring modern life through painting, drawing and printmaking by Chris Wells 12-5.00pm Tues-Sun. Admission free
Deepings
The Deepford Artists
Summer Exhibition
6th & 7th July 104.00pm Bainton Reading Room PE9 3AU
Grimsthorpe Castle
Weds 31st July
Fireside chat with photographic artist Ripley whose client list includes HM Queen Elizabeth II, The Beckhams and Formula 1 led by Lt Col Giles Stibbe Director of the Household Calvary Foundation www.grimsthorpe.com
Mike Murphy
Bookmark, Spalding, Tues 6th August 7.00pm 18-20 The Crescent PE11 1AF
Tel: 01775 769231
Talks about his book which explores the curious customs and musical mysteries hidden in our county. Tickets £10 incl glass of wine or juice
Villagers art and crafts
Baston Church 13 & 14 July, 11 - 4 daily with refreshments, raffle
Sat 6th July 10.00-3.00pm
Register and see how many books your child can read this summer!
Raft Race
Free admission, donations invited. Contact bastonctf@gmail.com or 07471 198497 for info
The theme for this year’s Deepings Raft Race on Sunday 4 August, is KIDS TV SHOWS! Will you channel your inner Womble and make good use of the things that you find? Or take a leaf from Lady Penelope’s book and go high-tech? No matter what you Yabba Dabba Doo, we’ll be in for a Wacky Race! Enter now at deepingsraftrace.co.uk
Image: David Pearson
Bowlers Beer
A TalkDeepings
Community Library
July 11th 7.00pm
£5 to include samples and light refreshments
Fun Dog Show & Family Fun Day
Sat August 10th 10.00am Deeping St Nicholas Church
10 classes incl Puppy, Best Rescue, Best trick. Handmade rosettes for the final class from Shirley and Melissa Scadding. Games, teas, homemade cakes. Info and to register DSNDogShowCommittee@outlook. com tel 07922 209984.
John McGowan Printmaker
6 & 7 July 11.00- 4.30pm 13 & 14 July 11.00 - 4.30pm
39 Church Street, Northborough, PE6 9BN
Sales to Cancer Research UK. www.johnmcgowanprintmaker.co.uk/
Summer Quiz and Buffet
Oddfellows Hall, Sat 27th July 6.00pm 57 Church Street, Market Deeping. PE6 8AN
A traditional Pub quiz with a buffet supper. £5 each Book with Jenny on 07788 534290.
DEEPINGS
7th July - 12 - 5.00 p.m
John Eve Field (Opposite Tesco)
Wills
Why do I need a will?
Wills are important to ensure that your assets pass to those you would like. If you are not married, your partner will not automatically inherit your estate. If you have children, you can also use a will to nominate guardians to ensure they are looked after if the worst may happen.
Lasting Powers of Attorney
What are they?
Lasting Powers of Attorneys (LPAs) are documents that allow someone that you nominate as your attorney, to deal with your financial or health affairs on your behalf.
These are used when you lose mental capacity but must be created while you can still make decisions. If you do not create these in time, then unfortunately the solution is more costly and time consuming.
Probate
What is it?
When a person sadly passes away, some banks and institutes require a Grant of Probate to enable you to collect in their assets. If you are selling a house, a solicitor will require this to complete the sale. We are licensed to assist with the probate application on your behalf, as well as distribute the estate, making everything simpler at this difficult time.
