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LUXURY RESIDENTIAL HOME FOR THE ACTIVE ELDERLY Victorian family house set in twenty acres of beautifully maintained grounds. Private rooms with en-suite bathroom and independent central heating, television and telephone. Luxury living with independence and dignity. Wallingford 26 (01491) 836685 www.sotwellhillhouse.co.uk t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d E D I T O R I A L NE of the unsung special events that takes place in Wallingford every summer starts again this month O– a band concert in the Castle Gardens organised by the Town Council. Each year, from June to September there is a brass band playing on one Sunday afternoon each month. The Castle Gardens are a fantastic setting for excellent music, and there is almost always a tea stall with hot and cold drinks and home-made cakes so that you can have tea while you listen, and help raise money for a local good cause too. It is all wonderfully English, and a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. If you have the energy, you can have a wander round the gardens too, and even go up to the top of the Castle Mound and enjoy the view across the rooftops of the town centre. If, like me, you are in perpetual need of a good rest, then you can do that too and just sit and soak it all up. The Castle Gardens are open all year round. They are not just a place for band concerts, but provide a peaceful haven where lovely grounds and peace and quiet can be enjoyed by anyone, but many local residents don’t seem to know much about them. If you haven’t been before, why not go and see for yourself?

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WALLINGFORD TOWN COUNCIL NOTES

MAY 2013 Wallingford Blues and Beer Festival 7 – 8 June 2013 County and District Councillor’s Report Blues, Beer and BBQ... First of all congratulations to County Councillor Lynda Atkins on being voted back … three things to make you smile in 2013.., oh in for another term . hang on, make that four things - we’ve dropped our ticket prices this year too! I’m sure we’re all fed This has been a quiet month so far owing up with both the economic and weather climates mainly to the run down before the elections. so this ‘Blues Buster’ is our way of helping you to The number of potholes have been a forget it all and enjoy yourselves. p roblem and County Councillor Atkins has been been re p o rting them. She also inform s As usual we have a fantastic musical line-up, us that there is a very user friendly County including two winners at the ‘2012 British Blues Council website enabling members of the Awards’, Mike Sanchez and King King. This is why public to inform the County Council of the we’re one of the best blues festivals around as well pothole whereabouts. She has continued to as the longest running local music event in South pursue the disappearing railings on the . This year should be a fitting tribute to Norma Whelan, one of our founding organisers, K i n e c roft and the Town Council has now who sadly passed away in January. a rranged to replace them.

As a volunteer-run charity event all proceeds go to M a y o r ’s Communications benefit local fundraising. This year the The new Mayor for 2013/14 will be organisations we are supporting are; Footsteps Councillor Bern a rd Stone who will off i c i a l l y Foundation, Riding for the Disabled and Young take over from Councillor Ros Lester at a Carers, so dig deep if you can, but most of all have c e remony in the Town Hall Monday 13th May fun and ‘Listen, drink & be merry’… 2013 followed by the Mayor’s Parade on Sunday 19th May 2013. For more information on the festival, see www.bluesandbeer.co.uk. Tickets available at the Town Information Centre, Bloomers, the The Wigod Project is still ongoing as is the Coachmakers Arms and the Coach and Horses. See Gravel Extraction. There ’s no news at the you there! moment but I will keep you inform e d .

Emma Anderson Cllr Mike Kidley

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Violin and Piano Recital for the Comedy comes to the Nasio Trust Corn Exchange HIS y e a r, the Wa l l i n g f o rd-based violinist Sharon Warnes and pianist Jeremy Boughton N Sunday June 2nd at Twill be giving their Annual Recital in 7.45 you can see Josh Dorchester Abbey, to raise funds for two very OWiddicombe Star of worthwhile causes. The Recital, on Sunday June Channel 4's The Last Leg, Live at 30th, will include Beethoven’s Sonata in E Flat, the Apollo, 8 out of 10 Cats, Opus 12 No. 3, Corelli’s Sonata No. 5 in G minor, Mock the Week and Foster's and Dvorak’s Four Romantic Pieces, Opus 75, Comedy Award Best Newcomer amongst others. The performance will start at the nominee Josh Widdicombe warms up ahead of slightly earlier time of 7pm. Entrance is free, and a Edinburgh with an all-new show. There’s also Ivo retiring collection will be taken at the end, the Graham with 'Binoculars' the punchline of a joke proceeds of which will be equally split between the my brother made at my expense at Christmas. Friends of Dorchester Abbey, and the Nasio Trust. Please come and laugh my pain away. Debut show from So You Think You're Funny? winner, Last year, our generous audience donated nearly Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee £800, the profits of which were equally distributed and Chortle Best Newcomer nominee. between the Friends of Dorchester Abbey and the Sue Ryder Hospice at Nettlebed. Jeremy and On Wednesday June 19th also at 7.45 there’s S h a ron are grateful to all those who have Paddy Lennox with "Sucker Punch" An Edinburgh supported our previous concerts at Dorchester P re v i e w. Paddy takes us on an hour of Abbey. Sharon is a violinist and violin teacher who mischievous story telling as we enter his world of also works as a music therapist for Guideposts Trust jokes and observations. He’s followed by Joe Music Therapy Service for people living with Lycett: Work in Progress. Join award-winning dementia, and at Headway Thames Valley with sparky stand up Joe Lycett as he workshops b r a i n - i n j u red adults. Jeremy is a pianist and material for his second hour show. Expect it to be t e a c h e r, & the organist and choir-master at rough round the edges, interactive, potentially Dorchester Abbey, where The Friends exist to slightly awkward, but most of all bloody good fun. provide support and funding for the upkeep and Last year's show got nominated for Edinburgh restoration of the Abbey. The Nasio Trust supports Comedy Award Best Newcomer so it can't be all the HIV Orphans and Vulnerable Children of bad. Kenya. It helps them by providing day care support Paddy Lennox including, education, food, medical treatment and clothing. We hope that you will come and support      this event, and look forward to seeing you there.

Sharon Warnes Wallingford Friendship Group      Footsteps Tea & Sponsorship A N Y of you will know of Footsteps Wallingford Country Market Foundation, the Dorchester based charity Mwhich helps children with neuro m o t o r ALLINGFORD Country Market is open d i s o rders by giving them intensive specialist each Friday between 8.30 – 11.15 am in physiotherapy. Wthe Regal Centre, Wallingford. If you have yet to visit us, why not come and see us On Sunday 30th June from 3pm to 5pm the soon? You may be surprised what you find! Friendship Group (which meets fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons in the Methodist Church) is Everything is Home-baked, Home-grown or Home- organising a tea to raise funds for Footsteps. A crafted. Plants galore for bedding, borders and warm invitation is extended to everyone to come baskets, competitively priced, available during to the Methodist Church Hall in St Leonard ' s early summer (and throughout the year, a variety Square. of herbaceous and flowering house plants, cut flowers etc.) In addition, those who (on behalf of Footsteps) arrange by themselves informal sponsorship (eg a Our annual outside market will be held on walk) please come to the tea at the Methodist Hall Saturday, 8th June between 8.30 am – 12 noon in on 30th June in order to contribute the the Market Place, Wallingford. This will replace our sponsorship money to the overall funds for usual Friday Market in the Regal Centre on Friday, Footsteps. Please call 835074 if you have any 7th June. All enquiries to the Secretary on queries. 202419. Ann Watts Gwen Strong 2 PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d

Waitrose Wallingford Community Welcome to Our New Town Clerk Matters am delighted to extend a warm welcome to our N the 25th April we presented ‘Grow and new Town Clerk, Jamie Baskeyfield. Jamie is Sell seed packs’ to four local Primary Itaking over from Andrew Rogers on his schools, through a new initiative fro m retirement at the end of June after fourteen years O service to the town. Waitrose. The aim is to encourage 7 to 11 year olds to grow their own produce and then sell it to our customers to raise funds for their schools. The Jamie and his wife, Nicola, moved to Cholsey in initiative, in association with Waitrose Farm on the 2006 and, having had a period living and working Leckford Estate in Hampshire, aims to inspire more in the ‘Big City’, really appreciate and value than 100,000 children across the UK. Wallingford and its riverside setting. They feel very much at home here and they say there could be The kit has been specially designed to get school nowhere better to live and bring up their five year vegetables patches up and running, and includes old son, Oliver. seeds, equipment and step-by-step gro w i n g instructions. Jamie’s many years in theatre management in both London and the provinces had the glamorous side Other schools will be able to receive ‘Grow and of meeting many of the big stars of the day but it Sell kits’ through our in- store Community Matters did involve a difficult life style with relentless anti- Scheme, where customers can support their local social working hours. schools, and other good causes, by dropping a green token into the Community Matters box. Still only in his early forties, Jamie is young enough to forge a new career and the position of Town If you would any more information regarding our Clerk in Wallingford offers that opportunity and at Community Matters Scheme, please contact me on the same time this can be achieved with a changed 832030. lifestyle more conducive to family life. Julia Biddell Community Matters Champion Theatre management might sound far removed from the role of Town Clerk but, in essence, the skills and demands are almost identical: financial management, looking after buildings, working      with people and satisfying the public. Jamie’s background and experience, together with his evident passion for Wallingford, bodes well for the future of the Town.

I, and the members of the Town Council and the staff, give a big welcome to Jamie and look forward to many happy years working together in the interests of Wallingford and its residents.

Cllr Bernard Stone Mayor of Wallingford Can you help us?

ALLINGFORD Museum is looking for      people to help with the running of this Wpopular attraction and we would love to hear from you if you have half a day or more to spare once a month. The Friends of St Mary's and St Our band of volunteer custodians are critical to Leonard's Churches the museum's success and we need people to Thank you to all the people who bought tickets for greet visitors and be in attendance for a morning the annual duck race and for the hardy ones who or afternoon once a month between March and turned out on a chilly day to cheer their ducks on November. their way. The lucky winners were: 1st prize - No previous experience necessary, other than a Shelagh Gurvey: 2nd prize - Ray Johnson: 3rd prize desire to meet people! - Ann Manfield. Please contact Gerard Latham on 832224 or email We look forward to seeing you all next year...... please him at [email protected]. do not desert us for Millets with thousands of ducks! Steve Capel-Davies Belinda Lee-Jones

PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 3 t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d Wallingford Carnival 15th June NCLOSED in your Window for Wallingford is are available on the website – charity stalls are free this year’s Carnival program. There are some but a deposit of £10 is required to secure a plot. Eimportant changes to note: This year’s theme is ‘The World of Dance’, and we a) The event will be opened by the Mayor at look forward to a colourful, energetic procession. 11am at the Kinecroft Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any b) All stalls will be in the Kinecroft and not the questions, and we look forward to seeing you all at Market place as was usual this very special annual event. c) The Local Producers Market will be in the Market Place throughout the morning although it Theresa Jordan 836240 will not be closed to traffic Rose Sutton 839093 d) The procession will leave Wallingford School      at 1pm and not at Hithercroft e) All procession entries must be ready for Wallingford School at the Corn judging at 12noon at Wallingford School Exchange f) The Market Place will be closed at 12noon for the Wa l l i n g f o rd School BIGG Band who will H E Wa l l i n g f o rd School Expressive Art s entertain us as usual at the Town Hall undercroft. department are holding an exciting event to The Market Place will re-open for traffic at 3pm Tshowcase the very best talents of their g) The procession will start at Wa l l i n g f o rd students to the wider community and they would School, and proceed down St Georges Road, Croft like to invite you to join them on June 1st at 7.45 Road, St John’s Road, St Mary’s Street, Market Place, at the Corn Exchange. The evening will consist of High Street and into the Kinecroft. a variety of Dance, Drama and Musical performances. This year’s organizers of the procession are the Style Acre Charity so please give generously into Tickets are available from The Corn Exchange box the buckets. Entry application forms are available office, in person, on 825000 or through their f rom the Town Information Office, Hedges website: www.cornexchange.org.uk. Tickets cost Solicitors, Library, Town Council Offices plus the £5 for adults and £3 for students/concessions. Style Acre Shop in the High Street – or you can They expect the event to sell out so please book download from the Carnival website (contact early to avoid disappointment. Philippa Stannard 07909 226179). For application forms for stalls on the Kinecroft please contact Mark Doorley Head of Expressive Arts Rose Sutton (839093) but again application forms Wallingford School

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Wallingford District Talking THE WALLINGFORD BOOKSHOP Newspaper 10C ST. MARTIN’S STREET WALLINGFORD, OXFORDSHIRE OX10 0AL HE Wallingford District Talking Newspaper’s Telephone / Fax: 01491 834383 (WDTN) street collection in Wallingford on 13 Email: [email protected] TApril raised £516. WDTN would like to thank everyone who contributed for their generosity We offer friendly informed assistance and an excellent once again. The street collection is a very important range of books, audios and fine art stationery. fundraiser for us each year and the support of local people is greatly appreciated. Many titles not stocked can be obtained within 24 hours In case anyone is unsure what WDTN does and what the money is spent on, we produce a weekly “talking” edition of the Wallingford Herald. This is sent out to people in the area who, because of ADAM McCONNELL poor sight or other problems, are unable to read Gas Services for Installation Servicing & Repairs the paper themselves. WDTN also sends out a Boiler Replacement/Upgrades - Central Heating - monthly digest of local village and parish Gas Fires - Cookers magazines and a full edition of the Benson Bulletin. Gas Boiler Service £60 • Fire Service £55 Each listener is given a special player, designed for Cooker Service £40 use by people with poor sight and is shown how to use it by one of our volunteers. Our funds are Free Quotations, No Obligations used to purchase the re c o rding and listening Ex British Gas Engineer Gas Safe, ACS Certified equipment as the service we provide is completely TEL: 01491 839662 or 07974 245033 free of charge to the recipients.

We are very keen to attract new listeners, so please contact us if you know somebody who might like to become a listener – or would just like to find out a bit more about it. The people to contact are Betty on 835781 or Keith on 838689 email: [email protected].

Keith Tibbs      Wallingford Gardening Club Summer visits

A L L I N G F O R D G a rdening Club are looking forward to an exciting summer Wprogramme of evening garden visits. Visitors are very welcome to join us. Phone 836867 for full details.

• 6th June at 6.30 pm, visit to "Eveleghs ", at Long Wittenham • 20th June at 6pm, visit to Wear's Nursery, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell. • 8th August 6.30pm, visit to " The Filberts ", High Street North Moreton. • 5th September 6pm, visit to Chalkhouse Green Farm Talks in Wallingford Town Hall will resume on 10th October. Isabelle Darby

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UR season continues with two concerts in June. On Saturday 1st June we have a Oprogramme of powerful Russian music, played by a Russian bro t h e r-and-sister duo. Shostakovich wrote his cello sonata in 1934, shortly after he was officially criticised for the “decadence” of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, and it combines youthful wit and energy with m o re savage emotions. Rachmaninov’s sonata came shortly after his popular 2nd Piano Concerto – but also after the public rejection of his 1st Symphony. Is your Garage/Shed/Loft full of Rubbish?

On Saturday 22nd June Elinor Carter (mezzo- soprano) and Charlotte Brennand (piano) present an Evening of English Song including Walton, Britten, Madeline Dring and Roger Quilter. Wa l l i n g f o rd ’s own star mezzo-soprano is no stranger to St Peter’s. In this concert she presents a p rogramme that displays the wide range of English song, from wit and parody to passion and One phone call gets the job done grief, and she continues our tribute to Benjamin Britten in his centenary.

Tickets are £11 paid in advance and £13 at the door, free admission for 8-25 year olds and “First E. R. GERRING Timers”. Programme and further information from 824792. Concerts start at 8pm. KITCHENS • BATHROOMS SHOWERS Patsy Perrin TILING • PLUMBING      PHONE/FAX 01491 833635 Cholsey & Wallingford Railway – MOBILE: 07831 407337 June Operating Days [email protected]

HIS month, we’ll have trains running on 8th and 9th June for the Blues and Beer TWeekend. Catch the train on Saturday to the Wallingford Blues and Beer Festival.

On 16th June – Fathers Day - Fathers go half price accompanied by fare paying children. A very good value treat!

Then on 22nd and 23rd June it’s Senior Citizen week-end One person aged over 65, not just bus pass holders, will travel free with each full fare paying adult. Proof of age may be required. Wine and locally produced Ale will be available in the Brake Coach Bar on both days.

Trains depart from Wallingford starting at 11.05 and hourly until 16.05, trains depart Cholsey starting at 11.35 am and then hourly until 16.35 pm. Find out more at www.cholsey-wallingford- railway.com or contact us on [email protected] or 835067

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6 PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d Cruse Bereavement Care Coffee Morning and Table Top Sale St Leonard’s Square H E Wa l l i n g f o rd Cru s e www.wallingfordmethodistchurch.org.uk Friendship Group is holding Tthis event on to raise much needed funds for the Oxfordshire branch of Cruse Bere a v e m e n t Care. It will be held on Saturday Thursdays 10-30-12.00 Call in for coffee and a chat 6th July between 10 and 12 in St For details of other activities, including mid-week prayer & house groups, please contact our minister, Rev. Dr. David Rankin Mary’s Church. Coffee will be Telephone: 01235 813242 served and there will be cake, soft toys and white elephant stalls. DO YOU OWN A 4 WHEEL DRIVE? Oxfordshire Cruse offers free counselling to all in the county who are struggling to cope with SPECIALISE IN THE SERVICE & REPAIR bereavement. All our counsellors and telephone OF ALL MAKES OF 4WD helpers are volunteers and we see clients in our A PROFESSIONAL & PERSONALISED central office or visit them in their homes. We see SERVICE between 300 and 400 clients a year for as long as AT A “VALUE FOR MONEY” PRICE is needed and we believe our help is invaluable. CALL/EMAIL FOR NO OBLIGATION HELP & INFORMATION The Wallingford Friendship group meets for lunch in St Mary’s on the first Thursday of each month T: 01235 832100 and there are other friendship groups in E: [email protected] and Abingdon. If you are bereaved and feel that talking to someone could help or if you would like to join one of our friendship groups please ring 01865 245398 between 10 and 12 on weekday mornings and speak to one of our telephone helpers.

Please come along on the 6th of July to support our Coffee Morning and help our charity to go on providing an essential service. Margaret Pritchard Bereavement Support Worker      Wallingford U3A HE June Talk, on 5th June, will be given by Colin Oakes who will speak about “London TBetween the Wars”. This was a very interesting period of contrasts and change and Colin is always a challenging speaker. On July 3rd Martin Sirot-Smith will speak on Washington at Sulgrave Manor.

We will be visiting Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire on June 11th. Berkeley Castle is possibly the most outstanding Medieval domestic building in Britain. In July we are going to Brightwell Vineyard in Shillingford for tea, cakes, a tour and wine tasting.

Our monthly meetings are held in Crowmarsh Village Hall at 2pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Visitors are made welcome. For information about Wallingford U3A: phone H e r mione on 01865 858024 or visit googlesites/wallingfordu3a.co.uk Deirdre Wilson PLEASE MENTION WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 7 t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d

Coins of the Tudor and Stuart Periods HIS month's talk to The Wallingford Historical and Archaeological Society (TWHAS) will be Tby Rowland Hogg. He will present ' Coins of the Tudor and Stuart Periods'. Reasons to be Proud of This illustrated talk is about the fascinating English Wallingford coinage of the Tudor and Stuart periods. Rowland will cover briefly the production of hand-made Congratulations to Toby Ramshaw and the ( h a m m e red) coins, experimentation with Crowmarsh Youth U11 Sunday League side who mechanisation, portraits of the monarc h s , won the Cup Final on 28th April defeating debasement by Henry VIII, ecclesiastical mints Kidlington Youth 4-1. As you can see from the (including Archbishop Cranmer and Card i n a l photograph, they were very pleased with this really Wolsey) and the implications of the English Civil excellent result. War. Many examples of gold and silver coins will Mo Fillmore be covered in photographs and will be available to Secretary CYFC see during the evening.

This talk will be held on Friday 21st June, 7.45 for 8.00pm at Wallingford Town Hall. (Please note that this June meeting is, unusually, on the third Friday in the month!)

Visitors (£3) are most welcome. Stu Darby      National Carers’ Week ATIONAL Carers’ Week will run from June 10th -16th this year, with the theme N'Prepared To Care'. We are busy planning events and activities to raise awareness of carers issues. Much of the focus this year is on the early identification of carers to ensure that carers’ can access the information, advice and support that is available to help them in their caring role. We are putting together a 'Prepared to Care' booklet for carers to launch in carers’ week. The booklet will bring together the many and varied development and training opportunities in the county which carers can access. www.carers’oxfordshire.org.uk has lots of really useful information about every aspect of care and includes links to fact sheets, other websites, helpful downloads, information about grants and breaks, details of over 100 carer/peer support groups and training programmes for all adult carers’ caring for another adult in Oxfordshire and much, much m o re. Altern a t i v e l y, carers’ can ring Care r s ’ Oxfordshire on 0845 050 7666 for help and advice. Catherine Blaxhall

8 PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d Wallingford Town Information Centre T’S June already and we are half way through Ithe year, what a thought! Some of the activities for this month are, on the 6th June the Earth Trust will be bringing Wallingford’s history to life with a guided walk round Castle Meadows. On the 7-8th June it’s the Blues and Beer Festival, the 15th is Carnival Day in the Town Centre and Kinecroft and on the 21-22nd June is the Rugfest. At the Information Centre we have a selection of i n t e resting and varied books for sale on Wallingford and we also have pure cotton bags, great for carrying the shopping or the picnic and then folding away when finished, large £1 and small 50p. Salter’s Steamers are underway again, a great and relaxing way to travel along the Thames and we now have timetables in the Centre. Please Note: Bus route X39/X40 will have changed times in May (all other routes will remain as they are) and we will hopefully have new timetables in the Information Centre.

Lynne, Suzanne, Penny and Wendy 826972 Contract and Domestic Flooring Specialists [email protected] 52 St. Martin’s Street      Wallingford Oxon. OX10 0AJ Thameside (Wallingford) U3A Tel. 01491 833701 Free estimates AST month Mark Philips stepped down as Chairman of the Thameside (Wallingford) U3A masterfloorswallingford.co.uk Lafter several years of outstanding service. We would like to record our appreciation for all Mark Best Quality Teas has done to advance the aims of the U3A in Direct from Tea Estates Wallingford. Nearly 100 members attend our and Freshly Roasted monthly speaker meetings, over 35 individual interest groups meet regularly to develop subject High Grown Coffees knowledge and skills, and the events and outings all Ethically sourced. explore scenes and settings both modern and historical. New members are always welcome, Wallingford Tea & Coffee and you can find out more by contacting Milli Company Limited Eaton on 835689, or via our website 6a St. Martin’s Street http://www.wallingford-thamesideu3a.org.uk Wallingford, Oxon. OX10 0AL Telephone: 01491 836263 7th June: Coffee morning in Centre 70 at 10.30

19th June: Speaker Fran Sandham will be at the Baptist Church at 2pm to talk about his walk from Namibia's Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar, a solo trek of 3,000-miles taking nearly a year, with no backup.

21st June: Visit to Compton Verney to learn more about the Naples Collection. Discover the story of The Aeneid, and visit the new exhibit of a working and interactive Camera Obscura. Jan Menzies PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 9 t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d

ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

ADLY, our only Standard Bearer, Philip King, has had to retire due to ill health. Philip has Sbeen Standard Bearer for 20 years and will be missed. We would like to thank him for his excellent service at all times.

We have one member who is undertaking training and hopefully by the time you read this, you will have seen him in action at Mayor’s Sunday. Another Standard Bearer is needed as we have a Union Flag as well as the Branch Standard . Training will be given, locally. There are only three events in the Branch calendar, when this duty is re q u i red; Mayor’s Sunday in May; the Remembrance Service in September for John Wilding and John Andrew; Remembrance Sunday in November. Please contact either of the numbers below if you are able to help us.

Jonathan Smith has several walking frames if you know of anyone who needs one. He can be reached on 836664.

The Town Council have an Armed Forces Day planned for Wednesday 26th June in the Kine Croft. It will be a spectacular event. Come and see us at our gazebo, where we will have collections for the Poppy Appeal, plus information on what the money collected is used for.

The speaker for the June meeting has yet to be decided.

We are, as usual, always available to give help when needed, please do contact us.

Linda Shoebridge 598479 Frank Hames 01865 858393 ‘NOW’ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MONDAY – FRIDAY      Fresh Coffee/Tea and Homemade Cakes Wallingford Photographic Club Available 8.30am – 4.00pm Exhibition Freshly made Baguettes/Sandwiches & Rolls As is traditional on Wa l l i n g f o rd Carnival Day, Delicious Hot Dishes Saturday 15th June, the Wallingford Photographic Available Lunch Time Only Club will be staging an exhibition in The Town Hall between 10 am and 7 pm. Ample Parking/Free ATM Machine The work on display will be mainly images submitted for club competition throughout the Come and try our Café Restaurant, located c u rrent season plus some examples of books in the Manor House of Howbery Park produced by club members. Please do come along overlooking our beautiful lawns and and enjoy an eclectic mix of images of all genres. new patio area

Bernard Novell Secretary For any queries, please contact www.wallingford-photographic-club.org.uk 01491 822305 www.howberypark.com

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Who cares if you are ill? THE CORN EXCHANGE June OES your husband/wife, mother/father or ––––– CINEMA ––––– any other member of the family depend on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th June: Dyou caring for them due to their ongoing The Look of Love (18) illness or disability? Most people think of it as ‘the Wednesday 5th – Friday 7th June: Mud (12A) thing you naturally do for the one you love’ Sunday 16th-Tuesday 18th June: The Eye of the Storm without realising they are an official carer. If you (15) were unable to care for them, would this create a Thursday 20th (7pm start) and Sunday 23 (2.30pm start) crisis? If the answer is yes, think of yourself as a June: National Theatre Live - carer. The Audience with Helen Mirren; tickets £12.50 Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd to Friday You are one of the hundreds of thousands of unpaid 28th June: The Great Gatsby (12A) people doing invaluable caring in the home. Care r s O x f o rd s h i re offers a whole wealth of inform a t i o n , ––––– LIVE ––––– including grants, and support to help people such as Saturday 1st June: Wallingford School Bigg Band you. See www. c a re r s o x f o rd s h i re @ o x f o rd s h i re . g o v. u k 7.45pm. Tickets Adults £5, Under 18s £3 or phone 0845 050 7666. Sunday 2nd June: Edinburgh Preview Comedy night In the PiP Patient Satisfaction Survey earlier this 8pm. Tickets £10 Monday 10th June to Saturday 15th June: The Corn year, it was evident that there are in excess of 1000 Exchange Drama Festival 7.30pm. patients who are carers but so far many of them Tickets £5 per night or £12 for omnibus have not been identified by Wallingford Medical Wednesday 19th June: Practice. The Practice would like to place this Edinburgh Preview Comedy Night 8pm. Tickets £10 information on your records, so that your doctor Saturday 29th June Cholsey Silver Band 100th can take this into consideration when treating you, Anniversary Concert 7.45pm. if you are taken ill. Please let the receptionists Tickets Adults £10, Under 18s £6. know. –––––––––––– The Corn Exchange is Wallingford's independent cinema Realising how important it is to look after carers, and theatre. Lots of free parking in the evenings. PiP (Patients in Partnership) is launching a Carers’ Never been inside? Come and see! Support Group. Any carer who is a registered All evening cinema performances commence at 7.30pm. Bookings can be made online at www.cornexchange.org.uk as well as in person at the Box patient with Wallingford Medical Practice is invited Office (open 10am-2pm every Friday and Saturday and 7pm-8pm every to join members of PiP for a cup of tea on 11th evening) and by phone (01491 825000) and post. June between 2 and 3.30 pm in the Tea Shop in St www.cornexchange.org.uk Mary’s Church in Wallingford Market Place. We plan to meet every second Tuesday in the month - no need to book in advance; just come along and meet other carers for a chat. If you are a PiP member but not a carer and would like to come along, you are welcome too. To contact Pip: phone 836820 or email [email protected]. There will be advisors and people with caring experience available to talk to you and plenty of helpful literature too. The launch of this group is taking place during Carers Awareness Week which runs from 10-16th June, so look out for articles in the press that may be of interest to you and other events.

The previous week is the National Association for Patient Participation (NAPP) Awareness Week 3- 8th June. PiP is a member of NAPP with two delegates attending the national conference in June. Our latest PiP newsletter (Issue 10) has an article telling you why we have a patient group which works closely with the medical practice; this can be accessed on our website www.pipwallingford.org.

Val Wolsey

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Warden’s Spring Diary from the Earth Trust

ELL spring looks like it is just about strengthen the riverbank, preventing further s t a rti ng to make an appearance, erosion from occurring. Wfinally! What a long cold winter! The plants and trees are trying to make up for lost At Mowbray Fields in , we have time and everything is frantically growing and completed our annual scrub clearance and buds are bursting everywhere. coppicing programme and are awaiting the hundreds of common spotted and southern At Castle Meadows the snowdrops and marsh orchids that come through in June. We daffodils are almost over and our small patch of had record numbers last year and are hoping snakes-head fritillary has bloomed, but in much for the same this year. We also had a number of fewer numbers and much later than last year. common lizards transferred onto the site from a There is plenty of frogspawn in the pond at the local housing development and will be keeping moment although I would usually expect to see an eye out for them now the temperatures are it at the end of February/early March. I’m w a rming up. Results from the invert e b r a t e eagerly awaiting the bluebells and Loddon lily surveys last year were fantastic; 320 species popping up around the ponds and ditches. were recorded and of these 14 were rare or The ponds and ditches are also a favourite scarce species such as the Silver Colonel Soldier feeding ground for bats which hunt insects Fly and the Black-headed Mason Wasp. over the water. Come along to our guided bat walk on the 16th May to find out all about bats Thrupp Lake, our wetland site in Radley near and hear them using our bat detectors. More Abingdon, has seen a lot of overwintering birds i n f o r mation is available on our website. as expected. There were visits from gadwall, www.earthtrust.org.uk s h o v e l e r, teal and tufted duck as well as sightings of our resident goldcrests. The There should be some interesting wildflowers overwintering birds are now leaving making coming through soon in the patches that were room for summer migrants. Why not come re-seeded after the archaeologists finished their along on Saturday 18th May to a guided bird digs around Castle Meadows two years ago. walk to learn all about the birds around Thrupp The best bits should be the former trench in Lake? See our website for further details. Queens’s Arbour and the former trench on top www.earthtrust.org.uk of the highest point of the ramparts. The seed mix included knapweed, lady’s bedstraw, oxeye Our volunteers have been hard at work at daisy and birdsfoot trefoil, so why not have a Thrupp Lake too. St David’s Meadow received look and see what you can spot this summer? its first cut of the year, to try and suppress the vigorous grass and weed growth, and allow Most of the sites have been underwater for so some of the existing wildflowers to come much of the time this year that our work plans through. We hope to supplement these flowers for the winter had to be curtailed quite a bit. with some pot grown plug plants later in the Unfortunately the grassland restoration project year. We have also been working on the circular at Riverside Meadows in Crowmarsh Gifford path around the lake, spreading woodchips was never completed due to the extent and created from works on site in the muddy areas duration of the flooding. We hope to complete and using logs to define the pathways. This is this work this autumn, so don’t expect to be especially important along the western side of seeing much in the way of wildflowers until the the lake where rare white helleborine orchids summer of 2015 at the earliest. grow right next to the path and could easily be trampled. H o w e v e r, the river has been low enough recently for us to get in there and carry on with If you would like more information about the the project to prevent erosion of the riverbank sites and events or are interested in getting in two areas. A group of corporate volunteers m o re involved with one of our volunteer from the Environment Agency came along and groups or as a volunteer warden please contact helped us repair the willow hurdles along the me on 01865 409410 or 07982 218493, or bank, add another layer of willow bundles and email [email protected] plant some willow to bind the whole structure together. Silt deposited by the river over time Lorretta Waters will collect in these bundles and raise and

12 PLEASE MENTION WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d Ed Vaizey MP Parish News May 2013 FREQUENTLY receive information from public indeed to see these results, which are part of a bodies that may be useful for constituents, and pattern of reducing crime levels over a number Ithere have been several things recently that of years. readers may like to know about. The Heritage Lottery Fund has contacted me F i r s t l y, the General Medical Council has with information about Heritage Enterprise, a published a new guide to what patients can new £125million grant programme specifically expect from their doctor. You can see the guide designed to stimulate local economic growth, at http://dmtrk.net/t/CUG-1FJKJ-4GCWXV- generate new commercial income along with KJ25D-1/c.aspx. You can also call 0161 923 new jobs and skills by unlocking the latent 6602 if you don’t have access to the internet. commercial potential of unused historic buildings Patients deserve the highest standards of care and sites across the UK. There are grants and the GMC is committed to ensuring that they available from £100,000 to £5m. You can find understand what these are. They have therefore out more about how your community could p roduced this guide ,which underlines the benefit from Heritage Enterprise by visiting their i m p o r tance of dignity, mutual respect and website; HLF is also offering start-up grants partnership between patients and their doctor. It between £3,000 and £10,000. These grants will also sets out the duties of the doctor and that all enable groups to create the org a n i s a t i o n a l doctors need to be honest and open if things go structures needed to deliver projects and to help wrong, and to make the care of patients their with the associated costs, such as obtaining first concern. professional and legal advice.

I’ve also received information from Thames Valley This month’s mailbox has been largely dominated Police about how they have been performing by issues relating to animal welfare. People are locally: it’s good news. Across concerned over the exports of living animals, and the Vale of the White Horse, violent crime and sentencing for those who commit acts of has reduced by 15.6%. Detection rates are cruelty. Other issues that I have seen in my going up: for dwelling burglary by 27.5%, for mailbox include support for Amnesty serious sexual offences by 30.3% and for International’s campaign to improve women’s violence against the person with injury by rights in Afghanistan, which is still an essential 47.4%, and overall crime is at its lowest level for part of the UK's foreign policy priorities, and the 15 years. G o v e rn m e n t ’s re f o rms to teachers’ pay and pensions. We are lucky to live in a part of the country with relatively low crime rates (the Vale of the White As ever please feel free to contact me at the Horse was recently reported as one of the 20 House of Commons, SW1A 0AA, 020 7219 6350 most peaceful areas in the UK) but every crime or [email protected]. Surgery details can committed has a huge impact on its victims, be found at www.vaizey.com. while every crime solved reassures us all about the efforts of our police force. I am very pleased Ed Vaizey MP

Wallingford WI Wallingford Day Centre UR speaker this month on 5th June at 7.30 N the 15th June as part of carers week, we is Helen King who will talk to us about her will be holding a ' Prepare to Care' event. Oexperiences as a Street Pastor in OThe event is open to any one who may Wallingford. Helen went along to the training become a carer in the future or who already cares sessions out of interest but never expected to for someone. The event will be at the day centre become one herself. at Westgate House between 10am and 2pm.

She will share her enthusiasm for the work of street There will be a number of stands from various pastors, talk about what it is really like to be one, agencies including, Talking Newspaper, Care r s and give us a sense of what happens in Oxfordshire, Blue Badge, Dial a Ride. Plus many Wallingford after we have settled down for a good others. night's sleep! For further information please call Kerry or carol on Maureen Hughes 836467 or email Kerry. c o l e m a n @ o x f o rd s h i re . g o v.uk or email caro l . h a r r i s o n @ o x f o rd s h i re . g o v. u k . Carol Harrison PLEASE MENTION WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 13 t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d

Two Monks called 'John of Wallingford' A L L I N G F O R D Museum's latest exhibition 'A Monk's Tale' tells the story Wof the life of Wallingford Priory as far as it is known from documents and archaeology.

Along with many previously unknown secrets, the exhibition also includes an insight into two monks Winterbrook called John. Nursing The first 'John of Wa l l i n g f o rd' was Prior of Wallingford in the early 1190's and moved on to Home be Abbot of St. Albans from 1195 until he died in 1214. His 'Chronicle' was a record of events in 18 Wi n te r b rook, Wa l l i n gfo rd Saxon times. He is perhaps best remembered for Tel. 01491 833922/0118 9668845 his comments about the cleanliness of the Danes Fax. 01491 836166/0118 9351862 who attacked England in the 10th century:- WHERE CARE COMES FIRST 'The Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to Lofty Ladders undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their Loft ladders supplied and installed. Retractable aluminium mistresses'. and wooden ladders complete with new loft door. Loft floor boarding if required He is also credited for being the first to predict the Contact Peter Whittington Member of Guild of high water mark of the River Thames in his Master Craftsmen document 'Flod at London Brigge'. The second Tel. 01235 848681 'John of Wallingford' was ...... Mob. 07780 600818 Do visit Wallingford Museum to find out more! www.loftyladders.co.uk Full details at: www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk

Stu Darby      Cholsey WI HOLSEY WI has now been established for the last five years. We are a very friendly Cgroup of ladies from Cholsey and several Installation & Repair • Free estimates from Wallingford who meet on the last Wednesday Over 25 years of quality workmanship of each month. Our venue has been the Laurence Phone/Fax 01491 837939 Hall in Cholsey but from June we shall be meeting Mobile 07740981597 in the new Pavilion building in Station Road. Email [email protected] We have many interesting speakers, go on outings and take part in events in locally. AIRPAL TAXIS Our speaker for June will be Lynda Warren who is AIR CONDITIONED 24HR SERVICE the location scout for the TV programmes and she AIRPORTS-LONDON-ANYWHERE will be telling us what takes place behind the scenes of popular programmes. The June meeting BUSINESS or PLEASURE will be on Wednesday 26th June starting at 7.30 pm. Please do come along for a visit - you will be 07862 721698 made very welcome. 01491 260784 Lynne Jeffreys [email protected]

14 PLEASE MENTION WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d Winterbrook and Cholsey’s East Future Wallingford – What do we End want? N a week long project some 60 children from HIS is the title of my local history book due to year 5 at Fir Tree School worked with award- be published on 1 June by Pie Powder Press. Iwinning local architect Opinder Liddar to give TThe title seeks to describe the area covered their views on what sort of housing is needed for i.e. the area of Cholsey that lies between The Forty Wallingford's 550 new homes on the Slade End and Wallingford. The area’s historical importance is site. They were asked what did they think our town perhaps best illustrated by the fact that over 450 should look like in the future, and what they years ago some 60% of Cholsey’s population lived thought people living here would want in their there. The book has been made possible thanks to new homes. Year 2 at St Nicholas School were also the generous contributions, in the form of involved. recollections plus old documents and photographs, by about 150 residents past and present. As Opinder explained at a crowded public meeting hosted by Sustainable Wallingford on 27th April The vast majority of the 250 photographs and their ideas, arrived at spontaneously, closely illustrations have never been published before, and matched the principles of good housing design. parts of the magnificent Cholsey Estate Map of They were concerned with using local materials, 1695 are shown in colour for the first time. Hard rainwater harvesting, good insulation and glazing, choices had to be made over my selection of solar panels on houses oriented to have south photographs, but many of those that failed to facing roofs, big enough bedrooms (very firm make the shortlist will be included in an exhibition views here!), plenty of open space insulated from to be held during the weekend of June 1st & 2nd. t r a f fic. History too and local character were The exhibition, timed to coincide with the book important. launch, will be held in the new Cholsey Pavilion from 10 to 4 on both days. Opinder gave some further ideas on what we might look for at Slade End. We needed to avoid Three pubs, a surprising range of former local the mediocrity and sameness which characterised businesses, rare photographs of locally so many developments elsewhere. There were m a n u f a c t u red horse-drawn vehicles, various many exciting possibilities, much to be learnt from sports, early public transport, key family and old best practice elsewhere. But we as local citizens house histories, and old farming scenes are all needed to get involved, to engage with the, included. There are also little-known links to developers, SODC and Town Council, to say what celebrities (every bit as famous as our own Agatha we want. In conjunction with them we might aim Christie) and much more. All now saved and to set targets we wanted to be met in such areas preserved for posterity. as bio-diversity, distinctiveness, net power generation and waste reduction. If anyone has any old, and hitherto undisclosed, photographs of scenes/relatives/friends who may Sustainable Wallingford are pursuing these ideas have lived in the area of the book, please contact with the Town Council and SODC. Should you me on 651609 and hopefully I may still be able to wish to get involved please contact me include them in the exhibition. ([email protected]). For a fuller report on the meeting please see our website It should be emphasised that the book is a www.sustainablewallingford.org community project, supported by Cholsey 1000 Plus to whom all sales income will go. Copies of John Gordon the book can be purchased by contacting me or Sustainable Wallingford Cholsey 1000 Plus, or (I hope) from local bookshops.      Tony Rayner      Band Concerts - Castle Gardens Carnival Day Lunches at the H I S y e a r, Wa l l i n g f o rd Town Council is Methodist Church sponsoring four concerts in the Castle Gardens. The first will be on Sunday 9th Once again we will be serving two course light T June from 3 to 5pm when Roke and Benson Brass lunches between 12 noon and 2 pm. All our food Band will play. Entrance is free, and light is freshly prepared and cooked on the premises. refreshments may be available. Morning coffee is between 10.30 and 12 noon. Plant and bric a brac stalls. Julie Sharp Anne Baudry

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A World Record for Wallingford On 29th April Archie Coupar broke the world record for "The longest time balancing a Diabulo Stick Grind". The record he set was 1 minute 40.78 WFW ADVERTISING RATES seconds. Archie was presented with his confirmation certificate by Boys' Brigade Captain Nev Keating B/W £30 MONTHLY during the Wednesday parade night on 1st May. £130 6 MONTHS Nev Keating £220 1 YEAR      excluding VAT supply copy in any format jpeg/pdf What’s On at The Corn Exchange in June Contact 836282 for more info. E begin entertainment in this month with Wallingford School’s ‘Bigg Band’ THE PARISH OF WALLINGFORD Wpresenting an evening of performances The Churches of St. Mary-le-More and St. Leonard from their expressive Arts Department of Dance, SUNDAY SERVICES Drama and Music on Saturday 1st June at 7.45pm; 8 a.m. St. Leonard - Holy Communion Tickets Adults £5 and Under 18s £3. 10 a.m. St. Mary-le-More Parish Communion and Sunday School or All Age Worship On Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th June, The Look 6.30 p.m. St. Leonard - Evensong of Love (18) continues to show, then followed by For details of services and other activities Mud (12A) showing from Wednesday 5th to Friday see www.MaryLeMore.co.uk 7th June. The Corn Exchange host their Annual Team Rector: The Revd. David Rice Drama Festival showcasing up to three great plays Telephone: 01491 - 202188 each night, submitted by local amateur dramatic societies along with adjudication. This is a fantastic opportunity to see the regions talent, showing from Monday 10th June to Saturday 15th June 7.30pm. Tickets £5 per night or £12 for omnibus ticket. The Eye of the Storm (15) will be showing from Sunday 16th to Tuesday 18th June. On Thursday 20th (7pm start) and Sunday 23 (2.30pm start) June, the National Theatre Live (Encore) screening of The Audience with Helen Mirren, tickets £12.50. The final film of June is The Great Gatsby (12A) showing from Friday 21st to Friday 28th June and closing the month on Saturday 29th June at 7.45pm with the Cholsey Silver Band presenting at least their 100th Anniversary Concert; tickets Adults £10 and Under 18s £6. All evening performances commence at 7.30pm. Bookings can be made online at www.cornexchange.org.uk as well as in person at the Box Office (open 10am-2pm every Friday and Saturday and 7pm-8pm every evening) and by phone (825000) and post. Jane Foster

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REASONS TO BE PROUD OF WA L L I N G F O R D The Masonic Centre was the venue for an The Story-Telling Throne, lovingly carved from a enjoyable evening of song given by the Pelynt large piece of oak by artist Nick Garnett, sits Male Voice Choir from Cornwall on a recent visit to regally in the copse and the area, with carved Wallingford. The grand sum of £1,205.70 was ‘mushroom’ seating for story listening has been raised for the RNLI. Very many thanks to all who named ‘The Story Tree’ by the children. supported the event Children already love to run around in the paths Jean Calvin-Thomas they’ve made in the copse. Now the space is also President an outside classroom with a curved willow tunnel Wallingford and District Branch entrance for which thanks are due to the Watercress Centre at Ewelme.

The Wallingford Singers is pleased to report that it The refurbished 4m wide pond is beautifully clear raised £420 for Westgate House at their recent and heaving with plant and animal life this year. concert. We are having a lovely term singing This is the result of many parents’ hard work on some of our most popular numbers. If you have 3rd March last year and because of the care and ever wondered what the Singers are like why not skills of parent and Freshwater Ecologist Julie come along to our end of term jolly on Thursday Bywater. Parents Andy Roles and Lee Collyer did 27th June from 8 to 9.30 pm at St. John's School the lions’ share of the landscaping. Without these Hall (entering via the Wormald Road, Trenchard 3 people the pond would not have taken such Close entrance, not the front entrance). There is wonderful shape. no admission charge! Funding for the Path and Furniture came from the In addition it is rumoured you may catch us at Big Lottery Fund (£9,906) and from FONS, the Bunkfest, see you there! PTA for the school, from funds raised by parents.

Sue Ledger We had a lot of fun creating these new resources. It is definitely a reason to be proud that Wallingford has so many committed and talented Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Sinodun wish people within its reach. If you are one of them, to thank all who supported our "Cake Gamble" thank you! stall at the St George's Day Celebrations in the Market Place. We received many complements on Lorna Pannett and Helen Liddar the attractiveness of the stall and, of course, the Friends of St Nicholas School (FONS) mouthwatering cakes. The total raised was £137 and will be donated to the Down's Syndrome O x f o rd. If you did not win a cake, your A massive thanks to all who turned out to our contributions have gone to a very worthy cause. Tearfund/Rosebank Bring n’ Buy early in May, with friends of all ages coming from Wallingford, The lucky winners were Mrs Griffiths, Michelle, the villages and further afield, and to those who Claire Bird and Mrs Gowing brought us delicious cakes and beautifully cultivated plants to sell! We had a bumper harvest Mildred Sanders of supporters, discovering clothes, plants and objects which they just couldn’t do without, then rewarding themselves with cakes and coffee. In Thank you very much to the wonderful parents three hours we raised over £676 for the two and staff, crafts and tradesmen and women and charities, an unbelievable result. In addition, we to the Big Lottery ‘Awards for All’ Fund for the have had generous other donations and the completion of the Outdoor Project including the Tearfund half doubled by an anonymous donor! 60M multi-surface Path and the Story - t e l l i n g furniture at St Nicholas Church of England Infants Our next fund raising Bring n’ Buy is planned for School in Wallingford. Saturday 7th September, as part of the Moulsford Fete. Once again, on behalf of those who’ll With 8 different surface types, the figure of 8 path benefit from improved water and sanitation, has revolutionised the use of an empty grassy Rosebank School Mathare and Tearfund, thank space at the side of the school. The path was you. designed in consultation with the staff and Twinks Kerr and Julia Howard children, by Fiona Paramor, a talented parent and landscape architect.

18 PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d A Summer Serenade in Dorchester Wallingford Access Map Abbey E all know the historic lanes and FTER its acclaimed and powerful rendering pavements of Wa l l i n g f o rd, charm i n g of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in March with Wthough they are, can be a real challenge a record 120 singers, Benson Choral Society for the disabled and less able pedestrian. Parents A of young children can also face problems when might expect to take it easy in this summer term as people head off to the great outdoors or early negotiating footways with buggies. holidays. For this reason the MIGWAL committee has been But not this year! Nearly all the choir are back at St working on an Access Map of the town for the best Mary’s on a Tuesday night, bringing together a part of a year, essentially to show where there is a bouquet of shorter appealing pieces. pavement width likely to be suitable for those in a wheelchair or using a mobility scooter. Dropped Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music is one of his kerbs and major landmarks are also indicated. The most lyrical compositions, setting Shakespeare’s map, having been validated by our members, verses from the Merchant of Venice – ‘How sweet many of whom are themselves disabled, is now the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we ready and will be available at our AGM on 4th June sit, and let the sounds of music creep in our ears.’ - 10.30 at St Mary's Church - and thereafter from Schubert’s Mass in G is the most popular of the six the Town Information Centre, the Public Library he wrote. It’s a modest but very approachable and the Medical Practice. We hope this will be a work, with attractive solos punctuating brisk useful guide for both residents and visitors. choruses. Patricia Sutcliffe We’ve then made an imaginative pairing of Orlando Gibbons’ Cries of London with Bob      Chilcott’s contemporary setting of Songs and Cries of London Town which is inspired by the earlier work. For the middle movement ‘London Bells’ we Opportunities at Age UK are pleased to welcome Wallingford Children’s S the Community Development Worker for Chamber Choir directed by Emma Parr who will Wallingford and the surrounding villages, I also sing a few pieces on their own. We are joined always welcome to suggestions for new by talented young soloists from the Royal Academy A activities and groups for people aged 50+. I am also of Music and the Elgar Orchestra, all under the available to deliver talks to existing groups about experienced baton of Christopher Walker. the services that Age UK Oxfordshire provides. So do come and enjoy our ‘touches of sweet Please contact me on the details below if you harmony’ at Dorchester Abbey on Saturday 8th would like to find out more. Our current plans June at 7.30 pm. For tickets at £12, £10, £8, call include: Stephanie on 01865 407395 or contact [email protected]. • Free 6 week IT courses run termly at the SODC offices in Crowmarsh Gifford. Booking is Roger Morgan essential. Chairman, Benson Choral Society • Keep Dancing is our regular tea dance held on the last Friday of the month from 2 – 4pm      at Centre 70. The cost is £2.50 including tea Dorchester Amateur Dramatic and cake. • Tai Chi every Tuesday from 2 – 3pm at Centre Society “Rumours” 70, Kinecroft. Please give Brenda a call on 07827 235428. HE British version of this very funny play by • Camera Club – a 6 week course taking you the American writer Neil Simon was first through all the basics of using your camera, Tperformed at Chichester Festival Theatre in editing and displaying your photos. Please 1990. There will be four perf o r mances in give me a ring to find out more. Dorchester Village Hall 26-29 June. • Introduction to Family History – a free 3 week course on Family History at Wallingford The cast is Christine Jones, Lynne Kerry, Rosemary Library. The first course starts in June and is Mills, Carol-Anne Ti l l e y, Rachel Winslet, Mike currently booked up but if you would like to Davies, Michael Herbert, Mark Johnson, and Mark put your name down for the next one, please Williams directed by Geoff Russell. Tickets from: give me a call. [email protected], tel 01865 340792 or the Post Office, Dorchester and Aisha Stores, Warborough. Milly Macpherson – Bruty The play contains some strong language and is not 07827 235417 suitable for children. camillamacpherson- Michael Herbert [email protected] PLEASE MENTION THE WINDOW FOR WALLINGFORD IF YOU RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR ADVERTISEMENTS 19 t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d t h e w i n d o w f o r w a l l i n g f o r d

HAT’S ON June 2013

First Monday The Music Club for children with Second Sunday Wallingford Model Club meet at the disabilities and additional needs call Sophia Nicholls Fire Station 10 till 5. All welcome. Tel George Clark 07768 298 297 or Julie Hinton 01189 722322 200841 Every Monday Optimists over 50 Badminton, Regal 1st Wallingford School at the Corn Exchange Centre 2.15 – 4 1st Music at St Peter’s Russian Music Every Monday Table Tennis at the Regal Centre, 7.15 - 4th Friendship Group all day outing 835640 10.00pm 5th Wallingford U3A London between the Wars Every Tuesday Lunches at Methodist Church Centre 12.30 pm 5th Wallingford WI Street Pastors – 7.3 at Ridgeway Community Centre. Kate, 201273 for details E v e r y Tu e s d a y Wa l l i n g f o rd and District Art Club, Centre 70 at 7.30 6th Wallingford Gardening Club: Visit to Eveleghs at Long Wittenham Every Tuesday, 2 – 4 Age UK Games Afternoon at Millington House 7-8th Blues and Beers 2nd/4th Wednesdays Henley Philatelic Society Bix 8th Saturday Country Market in the Market Place Village Hall at 7.45 (not July/August) 9th Band Concert in the Castle Gardens Every Wednesday 6pm at The Methodist Church - 9th Deadline for copy for the Window for Boys' Brigade ages 5 to 18 Wallingford Every Thursday Coffee Morning, Methodist Church 11th PiP Meeting Centre 10.30 to 12 15thCarnival! Carnival Lunches at the Methodist Every Thursday Wallingford Photographic Club 7.45 Church Crowmarsh Pavilion (not July/August) 15th Photographic Club Exhibition Every Friday Wallingford Country Market 8.30 – 11.15 15th Prepare to Care at the Day Centre in Westgate in the Regal Centre. House E v e ry Friday and Saturd a y, C o ffee at the Corn 18th Farmers’ Market Exchange, 10 – 2 with soup from 11am 18th Friendship Group Summer Party, 835640 Every Friday and Saturday Coffee at St Mary’s Church 19th Thameside U3A: a walk through Africa 10 – 12 21st MP Surgery at Wallingford Town Hall, 5.30 – 7pm Every Friday - Charter Market in the Market Place 21st TWHAS talk at the Town Hall, 7.45. Coins of the Last Friday ‘Keep Dancing’ Centre 70, 2-4pm, £2.50 Tudor and Stuart Periods to include tea and cake 22nd Music at St Peter’s – Evening of English Song Every Friday No Strings Drop in for young people at 27th Collection and Distribution day for The the Methodist Hall, 8 – 10pm Window for Wallingford Every Saturday WAGS Store open at Centre 70, 10-12 27th RBL Branch Meeting 7pm, Masonic Centre Most Saturdays Local Producers’ Market, Regal Centre 29th Swap Shop at the Regal 10 – 1 29th Saturday Farmers’ Market in the Market Place Every Sunday Wallingford Runners meet for a run. Contact number is now 07720 204783 or 07919 30th Friendship Group Tea at the Methodist Hall 692532

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