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Tintagel Road, Boscastle BOSCASTLE BLOWHOLE No 48 Winter 2004 £1 photo courtesy David Flower, Tintagel POSTIES NOMINATED FOR AWARD see page 19 for more details Contents: National Trust p10 Church and Chapel p12 Parish Council News p18 Postie’s Corner p21 Useful Information p25 Fanfare p30 Crossword p34 WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSCASTLE? Well, everyone knows all about get worse. In villages like ours distribution of information the Boscastle Regeneration news travels quickly and it seems leaflets to each household. Steering Group and the work it is the more confidential it is the Village news could be collated doing. Everyone knows that quicker it travels. However, it by our Parish Council and there is Japanese Knotweed in the often becomes distorted on the incorporated in monthly bulletins village and everyone knows what way and may fail to reach issued by North Cornwall is going on behind Marine everyone. District Council. Terrace. or do they? What can be done? There is no The National Trust and the Communication can be a problem simple method which will Environment Agency may wish - even between two people guarantee to reach the entire to time their publications so that speaking the same language. community, but there are ways in they coincide with those of the Both can hear what the other is which communication can be District Council. What is more, saying but do they always improved. Several were listed in the bulletins could also provide understand what is said? As the the recent NCDC questionnaire. an opportunity for you to air number of people increases and They all have their own merits your views about what's going word is passed from one to but the method most likely to on in Boscastle. another the problem is likely to reach the majority is the Boscastle Blowhole Editorial Team The editorial team reserves the right to edit, accept, or reject any material submitted for publication in the Blowhole. The views expressed within the magazine are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial team. The next Blowhole will be published in mid March. The deadline for copy is 18th February. Please ensure that your copy reaches us by then or we may be unable to include it. Thanks. The team are: Arthur Bannister, Chris Rodda, Mary Dummett, Philippa Arthan, Daphne Rogers, Joan Cork, Hilary Allen and Noel Ward. To advertise in the Boscastle Blowhole, please contact Daphne Rogers on 01840 250244 Copies of the Blowhole are available by post at a cost of £1.75 per issue. Contact Philippa Arthan on 01840 250483 Contributions to the Blowhole can be sent c/o Boscastle Post Office or by email to [email protected] The Blowhole is published 4 times a year and printed by Swiftprint, Unit104, Carclaze Industrial Estate, Treverbyn Road, St Austell Tel: 01726 70700 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2004 Page 2 money raised will go towards the Here and There Flood Appeal and the regeneration of Boscastle. Coffee Mornings Lynn Biddick has held two Flood Relief Coffee Mornings, raising £373 and £500. She has also held a Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Relief, raising £500. This total raised includes money raised by the Sunday school children. The children have been sponsored for growing sunflowers: Lauren Edwards raised £66.50, Jerica and Nakita (Sandy Darlison’s granddaughters) raised £26 each.. Their chosen charity was the Nick Leeds’ watercolour painting of the Pixie House Macmillan Cancer Relief. Hanging in the loo at Willapark All proceeds are going to the Flood Thank you everyone for supporting was a little water colour painting of Appeal Fund. the coffee mornings and thank you Lynn for all your hard work. the Pixie House,(the Harbour Nick would like to thank Jane Light) which Nick Leeds painted Moffett for her assistance with the Insurance Questionnaire over 30 years ago and gave to Liz. printing. An insurance questionnaire was Since the flood, many of the delivered to households in the regular guests at Willapark, some Boscastle Calendar 2005 village along with the Autumn of whom were visitors to Tolcarne A second fundraising calendar is edition of the Blowhole. Many in the 70's, wanted to buy it as a now on sale at various outlets in thanks to those who have memento of a well loved Boscastle the village. completed and returned them. landmark. Liz did not want to sell The calendar features colour Some households felt that they it, but agreed, providing that Nick pictures of Boscastle taken prior to were unable to fill their forms in as painted her another one. the flood, together with smaller, it was too soon since they were still Because of the interest shown by greyscale pictures of the in negotiations with their insurers. their guests, they decided to turn devastation wreaked by the floods It is not too late to do so, and the picture into a limited edition in August. further copies of the questionnaire print of 250 copies, to sell to raise The project was organised and can be obtained from Chris Rodda, money for the Flood Appeal. financed by John Gibson, Jane tel 250012. A summary of the The prints are available from the Moffett and Klair Hilland with the conclusions of the survey will be Post Office, Pubs, Newsagent or typesetting and design by Jane made. However, a reasonable Willapark, £50 framed or £35 Moffett and Octagon Design and number of completed forms are mounted (and ready to send as a Marketing Ltd of Worksop. needed for the results to be Christmas present !!!?). The calendar costs £6 and all the meaningful. DAVID WASHER Building Contractor ‘Penlea’, Tintagel Road, Boscastle Tel:01840 250635 Mobile 07967 507457 Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2004 Page 3 Castle Goff Jumble Sale The sum of £185 was raised at the Ten years ago in the Blowhole recent Jumble Sale in the Community Winter 1994 . plus ça change . ? Centre for Castle Goff Cat Rescue. Many thanks to everyone who helped At a meeting of Forrabury and and supported us. Vivien Hircock South West Water constructed the Minster Parish Council: reservoir and roadway to the top of Boscastle Chamber of "Flood Alleviation Scheme. A Gibbs Lane thus overcoming most Trade and Commerce letter from the National Rivers of the surface water drainage problems formerly so worrying to Following the devastation caused by Authority requested information the residents of Boscastle. I have the august flooding, a group of local with regard to areas liable to been intrigued, however, to business people decided to join flooding. The Council instructed observe that numbers of the together and form a local Chamber of the Clerk to write giving all known recently built houses stand on sites Trade and Commerce. Their prime information about 'historical where I can recall springs in spate. motivation was that it was necessary flooding areas' in Boscastle. This Caveat Emptor." to have such a body in order to have information will be used as part of a voice on the committee of the the NRA Flood Alleviation Scheme." (Dreckly?) Forrabury Church Tower Steering and Regeneration Group set up by NCDC. "The latest news from the church is All businesses, large and small can As a postscript to an article by that the inside of the tower has Norman Hicks: been stripped of the rotting wood join the Chamber - hotels, pubs, restaurants, guest houses, B & B’s, "Reverting to Mr Gable's mention and plaster, and is now drying out. shops, builders, painters, electricians, of the Jordan stream; in April We are waiting for the workmen to craftspeople, etc. 1963, three months of very hard come and make good the original The Chamber have now agreed a frost was ended by so rapid a thaw revealed stonework." constitution and have elected a that neither branch of the Jordan could contain the floods that swept Lottery Winner committee. They are meeting on a regular basis. See their advert on through, filling every conduit with Madam Butterfly reported a win of page 34 for further details about rubble and cascading down every ten pounds on the first lottery and their meetings and activities. stairway, to flood every cellar of assured readers that it would not the Wellington and every house on change her life. Open Gardens 2004 the way. The same flood The proceeds from the Open Days completely eroded the farm track at Trefoil Farm and Tubbs Ground giving access to Tubbs Ground footnote, perhaps it did change her were in aid of Children's Hospice fields above Paradise, providing us life. She hasn’t been sending her with opportunity to landscape its highly individual contributions to the South West: not Church funds as Blowhole for quite some time . reported in the autumn edition of gardens afresh. Subsequently the Blowhole. Ron and Sharon welcome you to CLAIRVOYANT ANNE OLORENSHAW The Napoleon Inn Help, Guidance, Advice ♦ Excellent Bar Food, Lunch and Evening ♦ ♦ Fresh Cornish Produce Always ♦ PRIVATE ♦ Real Ales from the Barrel ♦ READINGS 4 course Christmas menu £13.95 book early to avoid disappointment LIVE ENTERTAINMENT NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT with special drinks promotions How about Dinner at Boney’s Bistro 01840 230505 Open, evenings, waitress service. Best Book Boscastle Blowhole Winter 2004 Page 4 Bottreaux Restaurant Air Ambulance Charity Items for sale are still being left on gains AA Rosette Shop, Delabole the doorstep causing an obstruction; these should be Following a successful inspection If the weather forecasts are correct brought into the shop during on the 21st October, the Bottreaux we are in for a cold snap and opening hours as posted on the restaurant has been awarded a possibly a white winter so do look door.
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