Adventures around the Market Place
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The winner of the 2024 Deeping Dog Show (the tenth on Jubilee Park DSJ) was two-year-old German Shepherd, Moose with his owner Dan. Moose had been born without any eyes and his breeder had wanted to have him put down –the vet refused and rehomed him to Dan who is one of those extraordinarily kind people who prefers to rehome dogs with special needs. What a worthy winner of the first Best in Show trophy provided by James Davies, Emily and Iona in honour of their late mum, Nikki (who had been key to the Show for many years). On a windy, cold autumn day the sun came out for the presentation. Judy Stevens
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The lucky winner of the September I’d rather be in Deeping competition for a bumper bird feeder starter kit from Kennedy Wild Bird Food was Lorraine Goulding.
Dave Holmes and his grounds team at Deeping Rangers FC won the 2024 Lincolnshire FA Grounds Team of the Year Award.
The Bull is the new venue for the Armed Forces Breakfast Club (now an international movement). Meet second Saturday of the month, 9-11.00am at The Bulll (no membership fee just pay for your own breakfast). Register on Facebook Market Deeping Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast Club.
Following Maxey & Deepings recent Art Show winner of the public vote was Judy Howard for Low Tide and Jo Leonard won the Members’ Vote for two of her paintings.
Among the Macmillan Coffee mornings held in the area was one at the Sports & Social Club and another at Langtoft Village Hall.
A group of friends and family joined The Great Eastern Run together to raise funds and awareness of Andy’s Man’s Club who run meetings at the community centre next to The Dragon in Werrington on Monday evenings. This was in memory of Dan Canty who was sadly lost in March this year.
Jo Leonard Judy Howard
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As part of a move to unite all sections of Deeping Rangers and to highlight the activity of the Club locally, a Supporters Club has been set up. The Club will work with Rangers Committee to advertise fixtures and garner support. There is no subscription fee although small donations may be requested occasionally to support players etc. See our What’s On pages.
In spite of unusual weather over the spring and summer contestants in the annual Glinton Horticultural Society Show produced outstanding fruit, vegetables and flowers. Next year the event will be held on 20th September - schedule out March. www.glintonhorticulturalsociety.org.uk
Two Deeping friends, Helen Griffiths and Lindsay Taylor (pictured left) under their pen names Helen Beau and Lindsay Brom have collaborated on a book which has rapidly become an Amazon best seller Flatmates and Bad Dates. A funny and relatable novel about the trials of flat sharing and modern dating in the capital, but not forgetting the village in which they grew up.
It was a golden start to the Deepings Swimming Club’s season while hosting their annual Rob Welbourn Open Meet at Grantham Meres. In a competiton where the Deepings swimmers set 255 personal best times, Oliver Clarke (11/12boys) smashed records in the 50m Breast Stroke putting him second in UK rankings and 200m Breast Stroke putting him 7th in the UK ratings. His medal haul included one bronze, five silver and four gold medals.
The much anticipated 2024 Deepings Business Community Award winners were:
Top Takeaway - Linfords Fish & Chips
Best Young Business - Wildflower Craft & Cafe
Giving Back Award - Deep In Kindness
Arts & Crafts - Riverside Beads
Top Trades - Manna Flowers Florist
Outstanding Customer Service -
The Little Sewing Shop
Retailer of the Year - Grasmere Farm
Charity of The Year - Dont Lose Hope
Best Cafe - Lilli’s Tearoom & Cakery
Beauty & Wellbeing - The Beauty Retreat
Pub of the Year - The Deeping Stage
Best Professional Services - Your Co-op Travel
Best Home Based Business - Binders Bakes
The Furry Friends Award - PET STOP
Best Restaurant - Maharanis
The Chairman’s Award - Inspire Dance Deeping
Deepings Business of the Year - Grasmere Farm
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Tony Plunkett, Chair of The Deeping Lions presented £2000, raised at the Deeping Duck Race, for the Charity, Pancreatic Cancer UK to Jackie Felton wife of Lion Tom Felton who had suffered from the disease. A further £2000 was also presented to Facial Palsy UK with funds from the Duck Race.
l-r Mike Drinkall, Peter Robinson (Men-in-Sheds), Peter Southwood, Dave Coombs, Micky Cluff, Esther Graham ), Daniel Felton, Jackie Felton, Brenda Johnson (Lincs Community Response), Tony Plunkett, Tony Johnson (Lincs Community Response), Christopher Brown (Hegarty Solicitors), Cllr Kate Shinkins-Hoppe DSJ Parish Council) and Dave Turner.
Moor Farm Shop and Cafe were the winners in the 2024 Peterborough Small Buisness Awards in the food and drink category.
The Greenwood Quire based in Aslackby, a thriving West Gallery choir with 30 plus singers and a band of 8 instrumentalists are seeking a new Conductor and Musical Director. The Choir meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month between 9.30 am and 12.00 noon at St James’ Church, Aslackby, NG34 0HZ.
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Over the last six months, Dave Shaw, David Henderson and Andy Fawkes have been training to cycle the 311 miles through France, Belgium and Holland and onto Amsterdam. With Dave’s eldest son Mike on support duties they arrived at teatime on their third day.
Grasmere Farm supply some of the finest eateries in the region with their award winning sauasges. But they were very surprised and delighted to find they were supplying sausages to the world famous RRS Sir David Attenborough Vessel for its next six month expedition to the Antarctic.
Gail and Alan of the Black Horse at Baston presented a cheque of £1650 to the Burghley Park & Peterborough Ladies for Cancer Research UK who meet for lunch at the pubthis was the amount raised in lieu of wedding presents after their wedding earlier this summer. (l - r Anthea Rampling, Gail Demaine, Alan Spratley, Ann Hanson and Jo Keogh MBE).
In the Parish Church of Deeping St Nicholas is this stained glass window depicting the deceased officer, Major Walter Lenney Hawksley giving a drink to a wounded soldier. The background shows the field of operations and hovering above is God waiting to place a crown upon his head. The dedication reads In Loving Memory of Major Walter Lenney Hawksley M.B.
R.A.M.C.: 2nd West Lancs. Field ambulance and late assistant medical officer of health for Liverpool, who gave his life for his country, April 3rd 1916. Buried at Amiens. The window is dedicated by his wife, sisters and brother.
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Corwen, Wales. The Thirsty Giraffe on tour
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Adventures around the Market Place! Maggie
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Katherine Garton was the fifth of eleven children of a tenant farmer in Saltby, Leicestershire. All but two survived into adulthood. Perhaps it was the country air, and farming diet, that kept them healthy, or it may have been down to genetics, for the father of the family lived to be 94 – and spent his last few years living with a married daughter in Blackpool.
At any rate, Katherine (born in 1883) moved, after finishing school, into Grantham, to find work. She was taken on by Richard Garrett’s retail store and becoming a senior sales assistant; however, in about 1912-13 she was struck down by serious illness when the shop was undergoing renovation, and the staff were working in cold and draughty conditions. Katherine contracted pneumonia; she survived (it was 30 years before antibiotics were discovered) but her lungs were damaged. Her employers recognised that her illness was linked with working conditions at the shop and they offered her the position of manageress in their Market Deeping store for, it was claimed, the air of the Deepings was better for those suffering from lung diseases. Whether the air of Market Deeping was/is better for the lungs than that of Grantham I do not know. I have to admit that to me the claim seems somewhat counter-intuitive since The Deepings are down low on the fens while Grantham is surely on somewhat higher ground; and, in the nineteenth century, TB sufferers, who could afford it, were recommended to go to mountainous, cold and ’dry’ air places for a possible cure, rather than to anywhere marshy! Anyway conveniently Garrett had bought this store on the corner of the Market Place and Stamford Road in 1910 from the Girlings and this is where Katherine made her home.
This was the ‘accident’ that brought Katherine Garton, and soon afterwards her fiancé, Arthur Newton, to Market Deeping, where they were to spend the rest of their lives, living, as it turned out, in several houses in succession on the Market
Katherine Garton
Place. Katherine fell in love with Market Deeping and within two years she had persuaded Arthur, an engine fitter at Hornsby’s of Grantham, to join her. She also persuaded him to take the plunge and start a business of their own – Katherine had a dream of running her own tea-cum-sweet shop! They married in Market Deeping in 1915-16 and took over the lease on a shop, with house attached, on the Market Place (now Sharman Quinney’s). Their wedding photo shows the party posed in the archway beside the shop.
In her time managing Garrett’s, Katherine had noticed that while there were a lot of pubs in the town, very much male-only territory, there was nowhere where the female population could get-non alcoholic refreshment such as a cup of tea, and perhaps a piece of cake! Taking over the little shop next to the archway (where horses and carriages still passed through to the stables behind) Kate and Arthur transformed it into a sweet shop-cum-tearoom. Arthur made little wooden fold down tables where two ladies could sit and share a pot of tea.
In March 1918 a daughter, Kathleen Joyce, was born to the Newtons. Before she was two years old the family had moved across the Market Place to rent a much bigger property (now P-Kai). The success of their first little ‘minitearoom’ showed that they needed more space for their catering. The new premises also had higher ceilings, more room for shelves to display confectionery. They named the new tearoom ‘The Imperial Café’.
Arthur’s mother, whose struggles after being widowed and left with a young family I have related in fictional form elsewhere, was now old and infirm. Arthur brought her from Grantham to live with them in Market Deeping and, almost at the same time, Arthur’s ten-year older brother, Jack, also joined their household. Jack returned from Canada, whence he had emigrated as a young man. With a mechanical/ engineering
The Imperial Café prospered. It was the only tearoom in the town and Kate took pride in the quality of the sweets and chocolates that they sold. (In the 1960s, decades after both café and shop had vanished, there were people who still recalled the aroma of good chocolate that met you when you entered the shop.)
Arthur’s mother, the years of hardship now behind her, was finally able to settle happily with her youngest son’s family. My mother, Joyce, just five years old when her grandmother died, remembered her as an old lady dressed all in black, with a white lace cap on her head, sitting quietly in a chair beside the fire in the living room next to the shop.
Not long after his mother’s death the Newtons made what was to be their last move. The opportunity came about when they heard that the chemist, George Linnell (issue 107) who lived in Fron House on the north side of the Market Place, was retiring and selling the house, with a long garden. It was 1924 the Deepings (Market and St. James), were gaining a reputation with the midland industrial towns, Nottingham especially, as a pleasant ‘fishing holiday’ destination. However, there was a shortage of local accommodation for holidaymakers. Fron House, including the old part at the back, onto which the front stone house had been built, contained eight bedrooms. Could it not be run as a café, sweet shop and small hotel?
With a loan from brother Jack, the property was bought (the price in 1925 was £835) and the family moved. The café became a tea/dining room, and Arthur, having acquired culinary skills during his childhood – after the premature death of his father he lived in his uncle’s pub/hotel ‘The Blue
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Lion’ at Grantham – became chef and baker. Katherine took charge of the sweet shop and oversaw the accommodation of guests. There were five double bedrooms on two floors for guests. The three smaller bedrooms in the old, back part of the house were used by the Newtons and their live-in staff.
The Newtons soon found that many of their guests were returned annually for their holidays, and indeed, some of them became personal friends. Apart from the holidaying guests the other regulars were salesmen.
When working on his uncle’s vegetable garden, as a child in Grantham, Arthur had developed a love of gardening. The Imperial Café had a long garden behind it and Arthur had ideas for developing it. The little lawn outside the back door became a tea lawn, beyond which there was a low box-hedged series of flower beds. Beyond that the largest section of garden was given over to vegetables, soft fruit, a flower border and every kind of berry bush, red, black and white! There was a peach tree against a sunny wall and a greenhouse full of grapevines (later tomatoes).
The biggest innovation was in the next section of the garden, furthest from the house, beyond the redbrick stable building (now owned by The Bull), where an old walnut tree stood beside a big lawn. Here the Newtons marked out and established a tennis court. And over the following two decades, during the summer months, parties of friends would come to The Imperial Café, book the court for the afternoon, and have tea served to them beside the court.
1926 to 1947 were the glory years of The Imperial Café and hotel, but sadly a major tragedy occurred when, on 22nd December 1936, Kate died. She had been dogged by asthma and repeated bouts of bronchitis ever since the pneumonia of 1912 and finally her heart, weakened by asthmatic attacks, gave out. She was 52. This was a devastating blow for Arthur and daughter Joyce, just 18. She gave up her dream of training to become a nurse and instead took on as much of her mother’s role as she could. The shop became her particular responsibility.
The outbreak of WWII also brought about changes. Lincolnshire was replete with military airfields, the nearest to Market Deeping being Wittering. The RAF presence in the area increased, especially after a radar station was constructed in fields between Towngate and Langtoft. The Imperial Café was requisitioned for both accommodation and its catering facilities. Arthur and his staff had to prepare meals daily for upwards of 50 RAF and radar personnel; WAAFS (women from the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Service) came from the radar station; from Wittering all ranks, from pilots to Air Vice Marshals (Air Vice Marshal Dowding visited, as did the MP Steven Swingler). Every day an RAF vehicle brought the food that was to be prepared. This was the situation until the end of the war when ’normal service’ gradually resumed.
In 1947 Mr Newton closed the café and hotel, keeping on the sweet shop only, into the early 1960s. (In February 1960 he celebrated his 75th birthday!) The house became the family home for Arthur, daughter Joyce, husband Arthur Holmes, and daughter, Margaret.
Demobbed from the 79th Armored Division, Tank Corps, in 1946, son-in-law Arthur H., a bricklayer before the war, re-joined his family and set up his own building firm operating out of the Market Place property. The house and garden remained the home of the Holmes family until 1975. It was sold a year after the death of Mr Newton, marking the end of a 50-year era for The Imperial Café and 60 years of Newtons living on the Market Place of Market Deeping.
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When L .P. Hartley wrote in his book The Go-Between, with its famous opening line, ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’, he could have been referring to the childhood of Billy Burton, now 90, whose young life in Deeping St James was unrecognisable from one experienced by a child in today’s technological age.
For Billy going rabbiting across the fields to catch dinner for his family of ten – six brothers and two sisters – was part of his everyday life. Lazy days dangling his legs off the bridge that went over the dyke in front of the council houses on the Spalding Road with his brothers and their friends; the Foxes, Pearsons, Merrils, Lamberts – all big families. His mother, Gladys, calling them in for dinner: ‘Ray, Don, Tom come in’ rings as loud today as it did then – no reaction and then his Dad ‘Let’s have yer!’ and then they reluctantly dragged themselves away from their more interesting company and went in. The long back garden and in those War years even the front garden was given over to vegetable growing; potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, carrots supplemented
Billy Burton
by their allotments on what is now Millennium Wood. Mounds of potatoes were heaped up with straw to keep the family going in the winter months. At the bottom of everyone’s garden a pig was kept, fed on scraps, and when it was the right size it was slaughtered on a trestle table built specially for the job. Here it was cut into different joints by Butcher Billy from Gaskin & Buff then hung up by the shoulder under a white sack to keep the flies off. The boys would scrump apples and pears from the orchard that used to be on Bell Lane and over the fields near Frognall they would scrump for partridge and pheasant eggs.
Billy’s father, William, worked at Helpston Paper Mill and then after the War for Baker Perkins. It was serendipitous that when moving to Scargill, South Island in New Zealand, Billy’s elder brother worked on an oven that had been made by Baker Perkins! But Billy’s father was a man of many talents, hair cutting being one of them, and he would cut all the children’s hair and that of the neighbours as well. This task would be undertaken in the kitchen where water
would be heated up in a copper. Shoe mending was another speciality but this took place in his shed, where occasionally he could be heard above the household clamour shouting for a cup of tea. With such a large family washing would be a daily task; water heated up in the copper, a wooden dolly (a stool with legs and a central pole with two arms to allow for the agitating of the water) to properly clean the clothes and then scrubbed on a washing board. Then before hanging out on the line to dry, the clothes would be wound through a mangle (fingers out of the way everyone!), on colder days hung over the big guard around the fire. There were three bedrooms in the house, one for the girls, one for Billy’s parents and then three in a bed for the boys. Feeding the family of this size was no easy task and Billy can still taste the delicious fruit cake of massive proportions made by the Italian prisoners of war who worked at the Paper Mill with his father. The POWs also worked in Deeping St James where they wore white tunics with yellow on their backs to denote their status.
An abiding childhood memory for Billy was the Carnival when, dressed up as a postman, he rode from the Cross through the streets of Deeping St James on the back of a cow. While the cow was relatively contented it wasn’t altogether happy in the role and played up so Billy walked back, giving someone else the pleasure of contending with the cow! At this time the Deeping Show was held on the field where the Deeping School now stands. It was a highlight for the
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Deeping Swifts 1921-2. Tom Fielding, Sid Fisher, Billy Crowson, J Jibb, ?
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Billy Burton
people of the Deepings with its array of Shire horses, sheep and cattle as well as tractors and other farm implements.
School days for Billy started at what later became the Scout Hut in Church Street, Deeping St James with Mrs Berridge at the helm, then to the primary school at the Cross School with Mr Burchnall, Mr Towning and Miss Swift, before going onto secondary school in Bourne and leaving at 15. Brother Don set up a greengrocery business, picking up goods in Peterborough and offering a door-to-door service around the villages. Billy, with his basket of cabbages, remembers sales doing very well.
Called up at the age of 18, Billy was first in the Territorial Army where he spent several months on manoeuvres in Thetford Forest with a number of lads from Deeping, notably Tom Cook. As part of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Billy was then sent to Egypt where for 21 months he slept under canvas with mosquito nets in the Moascar Garrison. When Billy bumped into lads from home; Gordon Richardson and George Charles, it certainly lightened life in the desert!
On his return home Billy took up an apprenticeship with Bernard Stokley Builders of Peterborough becoming part of a gang which would be collected from Deeping and taken on site to Perkins where he helped to build most of the factory. He bought the house on Bridge Street where he still lives today, the extension made from stone from the old Manor House that his brother Don fetched in a cart when Horace Thompson had it demolished. Billy took his driving test late in life, using the local bus service – which was much better then! He was proud of the Nissan van that he kept on his drive until late one winter’s night he heard it being backed out of the drive and saw it disappearing past the Crown & Anchor. Since then it has been a bike for Billy!
And at 92 and until recently still biking – it has been a good Deeping life!
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Autumn is here and this is a great time of year to turn our focus to our parks and green spaces. As well as the colours of the trees and shrubs as they make their seasonal change, nature offers us the transient art of beautiful landscapes, amazing skies and celestial wonders. This is certainly encouragement to get out and about - walking and cycling around our neighbourhood is an excellent way to stay healthy and reduce unnecessary car use for local journeys. Even for short outings, enjoying free exercise and fresh air has holistic benefits for our physical, social and mental health.
The Grass verge Please noteMillfield Road in Market Deeping will be temporarily closed due to essential culvert works. This closure will be in place for the whole of November (4th Nov to 6th Dec) so please avoid driving in the area as it is not easy to turn around and exit.
Remembrance Events will be taking place during early November
This is a difficult time of year for many people and is an opportunity for our community to come together to offer support to one another. You are invited to attend the formal Opening of the Remembrance Garden with wreath-laying at the Riverside Park 3pm on Sunday 3rd November. You are also welcome to attend the Closure of the Garden at 3pm on Sunday 17th November. Both events will be followed by refreshments in the Deepings Community Centre. Additionally, local churches will be holding their Remembrance Services across the neighbourhood.
The new SKDC kerbside battery collections are going really well. Just place your old batteries in a clear bag beside your bin on any normal collection day and they will be taken away for you.
The little Cherry Tree Park off Church Street in Market Deeping has also been receiving the attention of willing volunteers in recent weeks. This park is designated for families with younger children and discussions are taking place to also try and update the play equipment. Friends and neighbours of the park have undertaken maintenance, mowing and planting of flowers, shrubs, trees and bulbs. If you would like to get involved, please contact me by email below.
Public spaces for wildlife. We now have several wildflower projects developing across the Deepings to help to increase our local biodiversity and improve habitats for a wider range of local wildlife. Where we might see some areas as ‘full of weeds’, these can be excellent places for insects, birds and small mammals to thrive so it is important to read any related information boards to understand the significance of these more natural areas.
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The recent transfer of Jubilee Park in Deeping St. James from SKDC to community ownership is heralded by consultation on a major design plan to revamp the area. The project group is working hard to incorporate all the great suggestions and it is hoped that several improvements will be funded in the future.
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now has a new boiler. Several improvements have recently been made to the SKDCowned building with a focus on improving energy efficiency and ensuring reliability of the heating system to help keep running cost down. For the volunteers and all Community Centre users, this upgrading is a great news and will ensure the whole building remains in good condition for long-term future use.
*Our Deepings Christmas Market is on Sunday 1st December*.
The schedule is looking exciting - with live music all day, Santa and his Sleigh will be there, we’ll have the Mayor’s Tombola, the Grand Prize Draw, many crafts, gifts and charity stalls, a good really range of food and drink options, Taylor’s Fun Fair rides, plus lots of activities for everyone. This fun day will end with the switch on of the Christmas Tree lights at around 4pm. Make sure the date is in your diary, bring your family and friends - we look forward to seeing you there!
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When driving through the centre of Market Deeping you might be forgiven for thinking that it is a sleepy little town, but that couldn’t be further from the truth when a couple of streets away on the Industrial Estate there is a hive of activity with many businesses supplying their goods and services all over the UK and beyond!
touch of weight and feel is one that cannot be offered online and players can travel miles to visit the company store.
One such company is Make it Yours, who occupy one of the sleek relatively new buildings on Hudson Square with their sister company SM Cricket in Market Deeping. A family of cricket lovers, father Ian Anderson founded the company 14 years ago when his career path took him to India. Soon he saw an opportunity to work with Indian manufacturers to supply equipment and clothing to the growing number of local cricket clubs throughout the country, a fortuitous move as cricket is now officially the second most played sport in the country. His wife Christine, who had recently sold her Deeping Balloons business, set up Make it Yours to provide the personalisation service which was increasingly a requirement.
For the last decade the company have proudly sponsored England’s Women Captain, Heather Knight. Says Jack Anderson, now responsible for the daily running of the business, ‘The women’s game has grown massively in recent years and with it the specific requirement for equipment, bats and protective gear as well as clothing.’ While a lot of their business, for both men and women, is now done online, there is a demand for cricketers to visit the premises in order to make a selection. as the personal
While the indoor season is set to begin in November with indoor nets and training, the season begins in earnest in April with teams placing their orders in March. It is then all hands on deck as orders start to stack up to leave the building and Cecily, ‘Cec’, now in control of the personalisation side of the business, has machines whirring embroidering clubs’ logos on polos, hats, gilets, and a whole range of every aspect of kit.
stocked for the sport. Recently the company have added the engraving of trophies and medals to their repertoire.
But the machines are not idle for the rest of the year, far from it. Cec, who has been with the company for the last seven years, has seen the personalisation side of the business grow with the number of local businesses choosing to have their work gear branded by the Make it Yours. Their clientele reads like a Deeping business directory and includes Baxter & King, Grasmere, Inspire Dance and Peterborough Junior Blues, to name a few. Understanding that customer service is all important, Cec ensures that the customer is totally happy with the fit and quality of the product, samples are given to be taken away and tried, and where possible on bulk orders discounts can be negotiated. Says Cec, ‘People buy people without a doubt and with personal recommendation being so key to the growth of our business it is absolutely our aim to make sure that our customers are happy with their orders.’
Over the last three years the company have gradually moved into supplying other sports and a deal has recently been signed to supply teamwear to a local hockey club. Equipment is also
Both Jack and his brother Tom, Chair of Market Deeping Cricket Club, now with an online marketing company of his own, Hummingbird in Peterborough, have come from an entrepreneurial family. Ian and Christine cut their teeth on setting up their own businesses with the hugely successful Hall Farm Hampers in the 90s. The bloodline looks set to continue; Isaac, Jack’s eldest son at 12 already helps his father when he runs pop-up shops at Clubs during the summer, and his daughter Daisy at three is showing an aptitude for sport. Cec’s brood of three; Maddie, Noah and Sienna, too are keen to help with packaging and keeping the shop spick and span.
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A selection of gourmet delights at Moor Farm Shop, Newborough.
An advent calendar for tea lovers in an ideal giftable box just £6.25 from Grasmere Deli. Market Gate, Market Place
Only available in West End Theatres and The Cigar Shop, Market Deeping this is the perfect present for the thespian in your life! Market Place, Market Deeping
Stall 10 at Market Deeping Antiques & Craft Centre has a colourful seasonal selection of items with a Scandinavian feel such as this IKEA Limited Edition 75th Anniversary Viinterfest horse, priced £35.
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Handpainted coffee set by Vicky Price from Market Deeping Antiques £29
Fabric baskets from Made by Beck - £12 each or two
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THE STAGE WINTER MENU
HAM HOCK TERRINE
piccalilli & ciabatta (gfa) £7.75
PRAWN & SMOKED SALMON SALAD
mixed leaves & seafood sauce (gfa) £9.25
HOME MADE SOUP OF THE DAY
baked ciabatta (gfa.vg.v)£6.95
MOROCCAN FALAFEL
STARTERS & SMALL PLATES
turmeric hummus, rocket & pomegranate seeds (gf.vg) £7.75
HALLOUMI FRIES
sweet chilli sauce (gf.vg) £7.95
KOREAN STICKY FRIED CHICKEN STRIPS
sesame seeds, chilli & spring onions £8.50
BEETROOT CURED SALMON
wasabi mayo & rocket (gf) £9.00
MAINS
SLOW COOKED BEEF BRISKET
mashed potato, bacon & parsnip crisp, roast carrot in red wine sauce (gf)
£19.00
PAN FRIED CHICKEN BREAST
wild mushroom sauce, truffle mash & seasonal vegetables (gf) £ 18.00
FISH & CHIPS
mushy peas, tartare sauce, lemon £17.00
HOMEMADE STEAK PIE
mashed potato & seasonal vegetables £17.50
PULLED BEEF LASAGNE
garlic bread, parmesan, rocket £16.75
GOAN FISH CURRY
cod, prawns, turmeric rice, naan bread £18.50
BBQ FRIED CHCIKEN BURGER
coated with bbq sauce, smoked bacon, cheese, chips & onion rings
£16.95
LAMB HOTPOT
seasonal vegetables
£18.50
POTATO FALAFEL & SPINACH CURRY
steamed rice, naan bread, lime & coriander (gfa.vg) £17.50
CHEFS BURGER
smoked bacon, cheese, pulled beef, chips, onion rings £16.95
100Z RUMP STEAK
roast mushroom, onion rings, chips, rocket & parmesan (gfa) £19.50
CRISPY COATED HALLOUMI BURGER
chips, onion rings (V) £16.50
SUPER SALAD - ROAST VEGETABLES PUMPKIN & POMEGRANATE SEEDS, QUINOA (gf.vg) £9.95
Add chicken £5.00 (gf) / Add rump steak (gf) £8.50
Add Halloumi (gf/vg.v) £5.00 / Add Smoked Salmon (gf) £5.75
POTATO GRATIN
ONION RINGS
£4.50 / CHIPS (gf)
£4.00
£4.00 / GARLIC BREAD
£4.50
TENDERSTEM BROCCOLI IN GARLIC BUTTER £4.50
STILTON SAUCE
£3.75 (gf) / PEPPERCORN SAUCE (gf) £3.75
GARLIC BREAD WITH MOZZARELLA
£6.00
DESSERTS £7.25
KIDS
BELGIAN CHOCOLATE BROWNIE vanilla ice cream, honeycomk
CHEFS BREAD & BUTTER PUDDING white chocolate & cranberry, vanilla custard
WARM TREACLE TART clotted cream ice cream (af, LEMON CHEESECAKE POT fruit compote, vanilla ice cream
APPLE & BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE custard (vegan ice cream available)
LUNCH 12-2.30 PM ONLY
MACARONI CHEESE & GARLIC BREAD
£7.50/ FISH & CHIPS, GARDEN PEAS £7,50 CHICKEN DIPPERS, CHIPS, BEANS £7.50 / SAUSAGE & MASH, GARDEN PEAS (vga) £7.50
CHEESEBURGER, CHIPS, BEANS £7.50 / 50Z RUMP STEAK, CHIPS, PEAS (gf) £8.50
CHOCOLATE BROWNIE SUNDAE
vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce £3.95
BANANA SPLIT
vanilla ice cream, toffee sauce, whipped cream (gf) £3.95
BELGIAN WAFFLE
vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce (vegan ice cream available) £3.95
CHICKEN FLATBREAD mint yoghurt and pomegranate £11.56
HONEY HALLOUMI FLATBREAD pomegranate, tahini yoghurt £10.95
FLATBREAD hummus, pomegranates £10.95
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An evening of plaster at Grimsthorpe Castle
The latest in a series of talks hosted by Grimsthorpe Castle brought the subject of historic plastering to life. Stuart Render who, with a surname like that, should know a bit about the topic, reports.
The welcoming fire in the chapel at Grimsthorpe Castle was appreciated by the 40 or so people who turned out on a bleak and very wet September evening to listen to master plasterer Philip Gaches talk about his passion. Founded in 1948 by Philip’s father Daniel, Gaches Traditional Plasterers has carried out plastering and plaster conservation projects in some of the UK’s finest buildings: royal palaces, country houses and government buildings, including the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street.
Philip has been teaching and lecturing on traditional plasterwork and its conservation for over 30 years, a career that has taken him to Myanmar, Afghanistan and the United States and across continental Europe to France, Italy and Romania. More recently, he has undertaken some plasterwork conservation around one of Grimsthorpe Castle’s ceiling paintings. That, along with being from Market Deeping in the first place, made his talk particularly special.
During the evening we learnt that the word ‘Gaches’ is Persian for ‘Plaster’, a complete coincidence. Plastering only really became a ‘thing’ in the 1500s by which time surnames based on crafts, such as Mason, Weaver, Fletcher and Smith, were already established. It’s why you don’t find people with the surname ‘Plaster’ or ‘Plasterer’. Until the 1500s, large houses had a
fireplace in the centre of a large room. The smoke would leave the building through a flue in the roof or ceiling. The advent of the domestic fireplace meant a plastered ceiling was now an option, albeit an expensive one. Philip told us that early ceilings were made from timber with timber board between the joists. Then someone thought about adding plaster (a lime, chalk and bovine hair combination). That work, in the early days, was carried out by Masons, clearly adding an income on top of their stoneworking activities. As someone said at the time, plaster gives ‘cheap magnificence’, the same overall effect but cheaper than joinery.
easier and cheaper. By the mid-1800s, fibrous plaster had taken over. Sections were often fabricated in one piece before being added or attached to ceilings.
Philip explained how early plasterwork was mostly simple in design, then becoming progressively more elaborate. But as time went on, the imperfections of the early work, examples of which can be found in historic houses and other buildings across the country, were replaced by a more regimented approach. Philip told the audience that the plasterer’s skill diminished as new methods, with a focus on moulds, made the process
Today, Philip and his team are kept busy with projects across the country, including work taking place at the moment to restore the Georgian ceiling at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.
This was a fascinating talk, which, like so many of the talks taking place at Grimsthorpe, offered a personal and well-presented look at a subject we probably don’t always give much thought to.
BIRDS
Bogey Birds: A Birdwatcher’s Nemesis
Words and Pictures by William
It seems apt, as I write this towards the end of October and we approach Halloween, to share with you, dear reader, tales of bogey birds. Despite what you might imagine, it has nothing to do with spooky goings on or anything that goes bump in the night.
Like any hobby, birdwatching has its own set of quirky terms used among fellow enthusiasts. For instance, we identify as birders rather than birdwatchers, and we go birding rather than birdwatching or bird-spotting. Birding implies an active hobby, rather than simply sitting and watching. Which after having just spent two days on the East Yorkshire Coast, walking around 30 miles, I can testify, it’s active!
So, what is a bogey bird? A bogey bird is one you’ve tried to see but consistently missed – oh, and here are some more birding terms! To twitch is to go out specifically to see a rare bird, and to dip is to miss the bird, often causing emotional, financial or even physical pain. The frustration you feel when this happens? That’s called being gripped off. And if others see it? Well, that’s just gripping, isn’t it?
Birds fly, and inevitably, you miss some. But bogey birds hurt the most – these are the ones you’ve made an effort to see on more than one occasion, and each dip stings just a little bit more.
Locally, the Hoopoe seems to be a particularly soughtafter bogey bird, with non-birders often reporting sightings in their back gardens. This exotic-looking European species, with its pinkish crest, curved bill, and striking black-and-white wings, is like nothing else on the British bird list. It’s no wonder it catches the eye of those who aren’t regular birders!
With tantalising photos and vague information about its whereabouts, it’s no surprise that many birders crave a sighting. I too long to see another, though it’s not a bogey bird for me – I saw one at Stibbington in the early 2000s. Still, another to fill up my camera memory card wouldn’t go amiss!
Bowell
For many years, the Siberian Stonechat was my biggest nemesis. I’d missed it on several occasions, despite it not being that rare. It even has an east-coast bias, so you’d think I’d have had more luck. But that’s how bogey birds get you.
Back in the 2000s, I used to travel to Cornwall every autumn with friends in search of rarities. On one such trip, a Siberian Stonechat was spotted, but despite hours of searching, we couldn’t find it. ‘Never mind,’ I thought, ‘there’ll be others.’
And there were. In East Yorkshire, one turned up at Spurn Point, but despite being in the same county, it took me two hours to get there, and with the light fading, I dipped once again.
Even in Norway, I was just metres away from my pal Kev, who photographed one but didn’t mention it until that evening, thinking they were more common there. They’re not. And it was gone the next day.
By then, I’d resigned myself to the fact that Siberian Stonechats just weren’t for me. But last autumn in Shetland, one was found a few miles down the road, and this time, I finally saw it. Was the bird worth the wait? The jury’s still out on that one…
Last month, I wrote about the Wilson’s Snipe, from America, which I’d travelled to the Isles of Scilly to see and missed. Strangely, it doesn’t feel like a true bogey bird. But the Blackpoll Warbler? Now, that’s a different story.
I’ve made several attempts to see this New World Warbler, either by travelling to Scilly or Shetland, yet I’ve never connected. It’s the most regular American warbler on the British list, recorded nearly every year, but it remains a glaring gap on my list. Am I bitter? Not at all…
I used to consider the Caspian Tern my biggest bogey bird. I’d missed them by days, hours and sometimes minutes, from Nottinghamshire to Norfolk. Eventually, I gave up chasing them. But then, one mid-summer day, I got a call from a friend who had found one just a few miles from my house!
Siberian Stonechat
I was working that day, but I dashed to Baston & Langtoft Pits at lunchtime, and there it was – the giant, orange-billed tern that had eluded me for so long. To this day, I’ve only seen one other Caspian Tern in Britain, and it was at the exact same spot, just last summer.
Perhaps there’s a lesson in this: good things come to those who wait… and maybe one should never be too eager to pick a bogey!
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 Just Wild Images, and photo cards are available at Market Gate Deli in Market Deeping or on Etsy under Just Wild Images.
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
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Orders are now being taken for Christmas veg boxes & you can order your Christmas meat from our Grasmere Farm butchery
Warm up in the Café with our seasonal specials or try a gingerbread hot chocolate with a slice of homemade cake
Siberian Stonechat
POTTERY
Out into the limelight of the Frost Fair comes an array of talented potters who bring their panache and creativity to the season of gifting! First time exhibitors, Fiona Swepson of Hopscotch Pottery and Stephanie Bowden-Hughes, both bring a selection of their covetable pottery, locally crafted and eminently giftable. Illustrator Ellie Sandall has applied her artistic talent to the creation of a range of ceramic dogs which she will be showing alongside her prints and original artwork from her popular books for children.
ART
CHRISTMAS!
But Frost Fair would not be complete without cakes to order and buy from Iced Rose Cakes, candles and reed diffusers from J&Co, Christmas from The White Country Co., Chimes of Deeping, Riverside Beads and Crafts and Coocumber – and the latest in Wills Walks, all to be found at Molecey this November!
It’s of no surprise, given the Molecey connection with Gladwell and Patterson and their new sumptuous Gallery in Stamford, that the Frost Fair attracts a number of the best local artists. This year showing with popular favourites Peter Scott, Emily Bowers and Eve Marshall are new-to-the-Fair artists Michael Gibbison, Jacqui Harris, Libby Stygall and Lindsey Preston with a range of hand painted Christmas cards. Where the Wildings Roam has captured the essence of Market Deeping in a new print, complementing the popular Stamford collection. Artist in wood Paul Desbruslais will be showing his latest lamp bases, pepper mills and chopping boards.
FIVE GREAT ASPECTS OF THE FROST FAIR
MOLECEY MILL, WEST DEEPING PE6 9JD FRI 8TH 5 -8.00PM SAT & SUN 9TH & 10TH NOV 10-4.00PM
FREE ENTRY
PERSONAL GIFTS
Personal gifts of silver jewellery are available from the studios of the Tale of Two Sisters and Pure and Simple Jewellery with beautiful pens from Fen Pens and stylish bags, purses and pouches designed and made by Bex Gosling. Box of Frogs have increased their range of must-have mosaics to encompass a range of enamel and silver jewellery. New this year is an innovative stationery range from Boss Bird.
Hopscotch Pottery
Where the Wildings Roam
The Tale of Two Sisters
FAIRY DUST
No Christmas Fair is complete without a sprinkling of fairy dust, and that is provided aplenty this year with the delicate creations of Margaret Hunter and Helen Major, and with whimsical vignettes by Blue Crab Industries. Tiny felted decorations from the needles of Nikki and Debbie are perennially popular as are Pam’s bears and charmingly crafted animals. New this year are stained glass decorations from Rosemount Glass.
Choose from our stock designs or supply us with a photo, drawing or image and we will produce your unique Christmas cards. Your company, or personal, details will be printed inside.
Crouch
what’s on
Churches in the Landscape
The Reverend David Bond
West Deeping Heritage Group
Tues 19th Nov 2 for 2.30 p.m.
Why do churches occupy a particular site? £3 at the door incls light refreshments
Village Hall, King Street, West Deeping, PE6 9HP
Contact wdheritage@hotmail.co.uk
Celebrate Nature!
with Kathryn Parsons and Sarah Lambert
Festive Taste Test
Deepings Community Library 21st Nov 7-8.30pm
Your opportunity to give star ratings!
£5 Tickets from the Library (M-F 105.00pm closed Th, Sat 10-3.pm).
Call 01778 346528
DYG
Nearly New Table Top Sale
Sat 23rd Nov 12-3.00pm £10 per table
To Book email dyg2022@yahoo.com
The Rotary Club of the Deepings Quiz Night
Community Centre Market Deeping. Sat 23rd Nov
7 for 7.30 start, Teams of up to Six / £5 per person. To book: Mary Martin on 01778 343927
Christmas Magic at Peterborough Cathedral
Sat 14th Dec. 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Featuring performances from Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Peterborough Voices and Peterborough Community Chorus with Peterborough Festival Brass, Tickets at www.peterboroughsings. org.uk or by phone on 0333 666 3366 (fees apply).
Deeping Rangers November Fixtures
Ladies
3rd Nov v Manea Sirens 1400 kick off (KO)
17th Nov v Netherton Reserves 1400 KO
Men’s
9th Nov v Melton Town 1500 KO
16th. Nov v Shirebrooke Town 1500 KO
30th Nov v Hucknall Town 1500 KO
14th December v Heanor Town 1500 KO
26th December v Wisbech 1500 KO
The Haydon Whitham Stadium, Towngate East, Market Deeping PE6 8LQ.
Mens 1st team £7 Adult £5 Concessions and under 18 £3. Ladies and mens reserve games are free admission. A tea bar selling hot and cold snacks and beverages is open for all these games. Sat 9th & Sun 10th Nov
11a.m. - 4p.m.
Cabin at Torpel Manor Field Nature Reserve, Helpston, PE6 7DU (nr the junction of West St. and Langley Bush Rd). A selling exhibition of photography, artworks and treasures inspired by local wildlife, landscape and heritage. 10% of sales donated to Langdyke. Refreshments available.
Table Top Sale
Oddfellows Hall, 57 Church Street, Market Deeping. PE6 8AN. Sat 9th Nov 10am-12noon,
Grab an early Christmas present or just treat yourself (free entry to buyers).
Deepings U3A Open Day
Mon 11th Nov
10.00 - 12.00 pm
Sat 16th Nov 10am - 11.30
am, Priory Church Hall,DSJ. Church Ladies Fellowship Profits to local charities.
Deepings Community Centre Douglas Rd, Market Deeping PE6 8PA
With over 30 leisure activities come and see what interests you!. Refreshments. www.deepings.u3asite.uk
'Hanging
up the Hosepipe –creating a dry garden'
A talk by Sharron and Paul Cutler
Hardy Plant Society, Fenland Group
Sat Nov 16th at 2pm Swines Meadow
Farm Nursery, 47 Towngate East, Market Deeping, PE6 8LQ
Non-members welcome £4. Angie, janda.salix@gmail.com
Image: Sarah Lambert
Glinton Horticultural Society
Fri 22nd Nov 7.30pm. An illustrated talk with Geoff Lee ‘Wildlife of Lincolnshire’. Glinton Village Hall.
Refreshments £4.00 members, £5.00 visitors.
Carol Service
DSJ WI
Priory Church, DSJ
Mon 2nd Dec at 2pm
Winter Fair
Priory Church Hall Fri 29th Nov 5-8.00pm Sat 30th 10-4.00pm
Refreshments. Free admission
Christmas Wreath Workshop
Just £35.00 to include an assortment of freshly foraged greenery and seasonal foliage and some items from our wreath bar selection of pine cones, dried fruit and decorations. Bows are available to buy. Welcome drink,seasonal snack and complementary refreshments throughout the session. Also available for private group bookings. Contact us for more information
Announcing our next afternoon of entertainment... Sunday 17th November in the bar at the Waterton Arms Deeping St James. We welcome for the first time, the very talented JayRar from 3:30pm.
Come down early - he is not to be missed!
Great selection of beers available.
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