Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News Winter 2010

USEFUL CONTACTS Athelington, Horham HORHAM & ATHELINGTON PARISH COUNCIL: Angela Wilkins (clerk) Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD PARISH MEETING (www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk): Janet Norman-Philips (chair) Tel: 01379 678835 Email: [email protected] MID SUFFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL (www.midsuffolk.gov.uk): & Redlingfield Tel: 01449 724500 Email: [email protected] (0845 606 6067 & [email protected]) NEWS SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL (www.suffolk.gov.uk): Tel: 0845 606 6067 Email: [email protected] DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Elizabeth Gibson-Harries Tel: 01379 384680 Email: [email protected] COUNTY COUNCILLOR: Guy McGregor Tel: 01379 668434 Email: [email protected] MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (www.centralsuffolk.co.uk): Dan Poulter Tel: 01728 685148 Email: [email protected] House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA POLICE: (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SaferSuffolk/MidSuffolkNorth/): Our Community Police Officer is PC Amy Yeldham & our Police Community Support Officer is Steven Long. Tel: 01284 774100 (Eye Police Station). Email: [email protected] Non emergency calls: Tel: 01473 613500 Crimestoppers Tel: 0800 555 111 In an emergency dial 999. You should dial 999 when life is threatened or people are injured, or if there is a crime in progress or an immediate police response is necessary. It is better to be safe than sorry. OTHER EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS: GAS EMERGENCY: 0800 111 999 ELECTRICITY EMERGENCY: 08007 838 838 ANGLIAN WATER EMERGENCY: 0800 145 145 REPORTING A PROBLEM: You can report problems relating to: abandoned vehicles; damage to street signs & litter bins; dogs; drainage; fly tipping; litter; noise; odour; rat or mice infestations; refuse collection; and smoke, fumes & dust; online using the onesuffolk website (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/reportaproblem). This is a partnership involving the police and councils. HORHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Hav Wilkins Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Chris Gibbons Tel: 01379 678169 NHS DIRECT: A 24-hour confidential telephone service. You can ring for nurse advice if you are feeling ill and unsure about what to do or for health information on particular conditions. Call 0845 4647 or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk DOCTORS: Fressingfield Medical Centre, New Street, Fressingfield, IP21 5PJ – 01379 586227 and Stradbroke Medical Centre, Wilby Road, Stradbroke, IP21 5JN – 01379 384220 (www.fressingfield-medical-practice.co.uk/). The Health Centre, Castleton Way, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7DD – 01379 870689 (eyehealthcentre.co.uk/) Suffolk County Council’s HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE at Brome: Opening times - 1 November to 31 January, 8am to 4pm; 1 February to 31 March, 8am to 5pm; 1 April to 30 September, 8am to 6pm; 1 October to 31 October, 8am to 5pm. OTHER IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS WINTER 2010-2011 SUFFOLK TRADING STANDARDS: 01473 264859 CONSUMER DIRECT: 08454 040506 ISSUE NO. 12 SUFFOLK ‘N’ GOOD

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Alan provided our piece on with so many events clashing Horham station, he features in our article they’ve been roaring successes Redlingfield on Christmas 1943 and, although he’s not thanks to your support and hard Wayside Cottage mentioned in the story, he was among work organising them all – from STALL AT GATE those talking to Fram schoolkids about the harvest suppers to quizzes and Horham, Eye 95th Bomb Group when they visited the from fireworks displays to air base museums. The 95th itself not only traditional pub games’ nights. Suﬀolk, IP21 5DX features in the above stories but there seem ■ A READER IN DENHAM HAS to be loads of other bits about it. So, asked for our help in tracking welcome to our accidentally themed issue. down the origin of the following saying used by his father. When tel: 01379 384504 IN SEPTEMBER, A LITLE GIZMO they were about to go somewhere mob: 07519 253975 recorded the speed and number of muddy he’d say that’s “where Will For larger orders please vehicles using Mill Road in Redlingfield Stock went”. If you can cast any email: [email protected] call 01379 678318 and, unsurprisingly, it found there was light on this I’d appreciate it. a problem with speeding. Although the ■ CONGRATULATIONS TO average speed of the 700 or so vehicles Katie and Drew Abbott and Eye using the road every day was just over Church Shop and Fairtrade Advertising rates for four 34mph, when you think many were superwoman Sue Watson on the issues distributed to more than slowing down to pull into their drives or birth of their baby boys. 250 homes in Athelington, had only just pulled out it means that ■ MANY THANKS TO ALL Horham, Redlingfield and some are just going way too fast. So those who stopped to help round surrounds are:- slow down, the speed guns are coming. up a couple of runaway porkers FROM OUR FIRST ISSUE OF 2011 1/8 page £6.25 (42.5mm Janet and I almost ran into on the All Requirements & Budgets we’ll be pulling all the listings of clubs, B1117 a while back. deep, 60mm across) ■ Catered For - organisations etc into a once-a-year A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 1/6 page £8.50 (60mm directory – so if you could check your Happy New Year from all at your Parties deep, 60mm across) groups’ details and let me know of any village magazine. Weddings - Special Events 1/3 page £16.50 (60mm changes by the end of January it will help ■ IF YOU LIKE TO PLAN Corporate Hospitality deep, 125mm across) us make it as up-to-date as possible. The ahead the Horham Bygones Rally Wholesale Prepared Foods 1/4 page £12.50 (90mm directory should be distributed with the will be on June 11th and 95th deep, 60mm across) first mag of the New Year. Mike Ager Grand Open Day on May 15th. We Use Only Premium Quality Produce 1/2 page £25 (90mm deep, The next issue - Spring 2011 - is due to be published at the end of March. – Local & Organic Where Available 125mm across) To Discuss Your Requirements Call The final deadline for all submissions is February 14. A whole page £50 Marie Printed & published by Evelyn Adey & Mike Ager for Athelington, Horham, Worlingworth Suffolk IP13 7HX You can supply the artwork Redlingfield and surrounds. The editors reserve the right to edit or refuse Tel; 07789684434 or we can design the submissions. The views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of www.thyme4food.co.uk adverts for you. the editors. 36 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 1 FEATURES & NEWS owhams Servicing & Repairs Car for all makes When the railway ruled CC& New & Old Tales of the ‘Middy’ from Horham station master Albert Borrott Commercial HE MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT and a permanent way inspector at Railway ‘Middy’ was built in Haughley. There were also five gangs VOSA MOT Testing Station petrol, diesel class 4 & 7. T1902 – financed by of 15 men in the permanent way staff. shareholders and collections from The service was as follows: the up CAR & VAN SALES businessmen from the villages through service to Haughley departed Laxfield vehicles sourced if we don’t have them in stock which the railway was laid. at: 7.25am (it was a passenger train); It was a single-line track running 9am (goods); 11.05am (mixed); and Insurance Repairs, 24hr Recovery, Car Valeting. from Laxfield to Haughley, a distance 3.25pm (mixed); the down service to 1/ of about 20 2 miles. It was in two Laxfield departed Haughley at: Brakes, Exhausts, Clutches, Tyres & Batteries. sections: Laxfield to Kenton; and 9.10am (mixed); 10.40am (goods); Kenton to Haughley. It was of a 1pm (mixed); and 4.25pm (passenger). Air Conditioning standard gauge, with 10 stations and On Tuesday mornings a train left Service & Repair The Garage Fressingfield sidings. The stations were: Laxfield; Laxfield at 3.40am to pick up wagons Tel: 01379 388 999 Wilby; Stradbroke; Horham; of cattle from each station and convey Accident & Body Worlingworth; Kenton; Aspall; them to Ipswich for the cattle market. Repair Centre. www.cowhams.co.uk Brockford; Mendlesham; and Up to 1924 it was a well patronised Haughley, where it connected with the railway. There were millers and grain main line from Norwich to London and coal merchants at Laxfield; two and Cambridge. grain and coal merchants at The rolling stock consisted of three Stradbroke, E.G. Clarke and Son and engines, two first class and eight third S. Skinner and Co; and at Horham class coaches, with two goods-guard there were millers, grain, coal and brake vans. The staff consisted of: five coke merchants. station-masters; 11 porters; two engine The passenger and mixed trains drivers; two firemen (engine cleaners); conveyed passengers, dogs, small a yard man for unloading coal etc.; parcels, milk, bicycles and passengers’ four guards (two for each train); a luggage. Every morning there were: traffic inspector stationed at Laxfield; two churns of milk picked up at

Laxfield; two at Wilby; installed a power mill on three at Stradbroke; eight land near Horham Station at Horham; four at Aspall; yard. The firm consisted and four at Mendlesham. of F. B. Roe, the father, About 16 scholars and three sons. travelled to and from The private telephone Stowmarket secondary was not provided for the school every day. There railway until 1919. were cheap day tickets About 1921 road issued on Tuesday for transport came into being Ipswich and on Thursday – passenger coaches, to Stowmarket. buses, lorries, cattle I entered the railway trucks, and people getting service on October 16th their own cars – so that 1916, and served at each traffic began to leave the of the stations during the railways and went onto two years to November 1918. the roads. It was about 1917-18 when I was posted to Horham Station on this little branch was taken over by the November 11th 1918. It was not long Great Eastern Railway. The railways before I got to know most people in were losing money and so instead of the village. I had complete charge of running each section as they were the station, being station master, clerk, doing, it was decided to make the shunter, porter and signalman. The whole of the railway system into four smallest parcel ever recorded as being regions, namely: The Great Western; received was a queen bee. The London, Midlands and Scottish; ordinary return fare to Ipswich was 4s London and North Western; and 3d to Liverpool Street was 19s 7d. London North Eastern, the latter to In the year 1919-1920 Messrs Roe which we were attached. & Sons, erected a grain store and continued on page 4

34 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 3 FEATURES & NEWS Albert Borrott on Horham Post & Rail - Stock - Rabbit - Electric Fencing continued from page 3 station. Horse Netting - High Tensile

This little railway was nearly GG doomed on several occasions until Entrance - Field Gates Installed 1939 when the Second World War was declared. In 1940-41 an air base Domestic Fencing NN was built at Horham and the railway known as the Mid-Suffolk Branch Tree Work - Hedge Cutting & Reducing Line was one of the busiest in the II Clearing Prior To Fence Erection region, what with building materials, stores, tools, personnel and luggage, Mechanical Post Knocking Service Available! bombs etc., coal and coke. Besides ankle broken; the train was derailed CC inward traffic there was traffic loaded 1912 on Laxfield Flower Show Day, Top Quality Work - Can Supply Material out: straw; hay; vegetables; sugar-beet; no bad casualties. Or Happy To Use Your Own and truck loads of air force stores; and All the area served by the Mid- NN personal belongings of airmen who had Suffolk Light Railway was severely For A Competitive, Friendly And Tidy Service been killed or wounded. We used to hit by its closure, and the old engine

EE Please Contact - Andrew Muttock The Postman receive daily 40 wagons in for the air whistle is still missed by all who took base and an average of 10 out, interest in the railway. Fencing Services Mobile: 07876355579

including parachutes. Practically all the However, the cost of maintaining it FF Email: [email protected] airmen's clothing, boots etc., came to was far beyond the receipts, so there Horham. was no other sensible thing to do but There were three accidents involving close. Some of the younger men were persons: a woman run over between found jobs in the railway. The older Mendlesham and Haughley about ones left and found other work. 1930; a soldier on leave was run over Many thanks to Alan Johnson for between Horham and Stradbroke, not a contributing this article and pictures local man, he was not killed but had his and Eddie Coe for the EADT cutting. ● Albert Borrott was a sergeant in the Home Guard and on one occasion when his men were parading by the school in Horham one of them accidentally shot the church tower. Albert was also landlord of the Denham Green Man. The station itself was strafed by German aircraft during WW2. The bullets narrowly missed children who had just got off the school bus. ■ SPONSORED BIKE RIDE: The churches bike ride on September 11th brought in £1,017.90 to be divided between the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust and Horham Church Fabric Fund. Horham’s cyclists were Brian Gue, Abbie & Jakie Hawes, Ian Heath, Natasha and Joe Lewer-Davidson, Daphne & Ruth Harvey, Elizabeth & Andy Smith, Daniel Streeter, Nicola & Laurie Walpole, Lawrence Weaver and Michael & David Whatling. Redlingfield’s cyclists, Stuart & Jeanette Brierley, Gail & Eddie Hawes, Madeleine Ellis and Lesley Rose, raised £370. Many thanks to the stewards in the churches, the cyclists and their generous sponsors. ■ STRADBROKE CINEMA: January 20th; February 17th; March 31st; and April 21st will be the cinema nights at Stradbroke Community Centre in early 2011. 4 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 33 FEATURES & NEWS Farewell to Happy Circle HE HAPPY TCircle Club started in May 1982 with more than 20 members. Lately, at some meetings, we have been down to four members in attendance. Therefore, after much deliberation and sadness, it was decided to call it a day. Fund raising for the Happy times at the Happy Circle Club’s 25th birthday in 2007. club began by the tug-o-war team Museum, which has a restored putting on some discos. We then building from Horham Station; the carried on by holding dances, car Mississippi River Boat Tour on the boots etc. One dance was with Radio Norfolk Broads; and many others. A Norfolk’s Don Shepherd. Local variety of hostelries were tried and entertainers included Barry tested on the way home after each trip! Humphries and Peter Last who also We’ve had birthday and Christmas PEST CONTROL SERVICES played for a carol sing-a-long at one parties each year. of the Christmas parties. We also Our thanks to all who gave generous shared coffee mornings with donations and support over the years. Control, eradication of and advice on Athelington church. At the closing of the accounts we had Moles, Rats, Mice and Rabbits As a group we have shared lots of £195.73 and have donated it to also happy times; in the early days we Horham & Athelington Community Wasps, Hornets, Ants, went on coach trips to: Wisbech Centre with our special thanks for their all crawling, flying and jumping insects Strawberry and Rose Fair; The Good support and use of the hall for the past Old Days at the Spa Pavilion, 28 years. For a friendly, professional and prompt service Felixstowe; Mangapps Farm Railway Violet Allum & Jenny Chapman call ● There was only a limited response to the questionnaire in the last magazine for all those in Horham and Athelington asking about replacing the Happy Mark Cotton Circle Club. However, the Coffee Caravan will now call at Horham & Athelington Community Centre on Tuesday December 21st from 10am to noon Mobile: 07806 875985 Home: 01379 852950 and for those seeking exercise clubs the following are available at Worlingworth Village Hall: Thursday mornings, 10am to noon, low impact keep fit and coffee Out of hours service available - Fully Insured (for details contact Val Swallow on 01728 628068) and Thursday evenings, 8pm to 9pm, aerobics – hi-lo impact (for details contact Sarah Foster on 07884 186849). Evelyn Adey 32 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 5 FEATURES & NEWS

• Funerals arranged by trained experienced staff in our friendly Office & Chapel of Rest located at office environment or in the The Old Stables, Chestnut Farm comfort of your own home Langton Green, Eye • Free transport for visits to Suffolk, IP23 7HL registrars, our Chapel and other Independent of Any Large related appointments Christmas Pictures show youngsters and other locals at Corporation and Truly Owned • Bereavement support group And Run by The Whymark Family Later they were having a meal and the Horham airbase where there was even Open to all in need boys said, “What's for dessert” Milton an American Santa Claus. Pictures replied “Wait and see”. When the from the 95th BGHA archives. 24 Hour Telephone Number 01379 871168 dessert duly came, it was a www.susanwhymark.co.uk magnificent Christmas pudding. Ever email [email protected] after they called Christmas puddings ‘wait and sees’. This brief account of some of her father's memories was contributed to the old Horham village magazine by Kitt Lumley from Georgia USA (Hal Powers’ daughter). Kitt and her husband Jimmy visited Horham in December 1999. Mike Ager

CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Mother Christmas says that Father Christmas will be delivering again on Christmas morning in Horham and Athelington. To book a delivery please ring Mother Christmas on Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News cannot be held responsible for the 01379 384231. A donation is quality of goods or services advertised in the magazine. This disclaimer is requested for the East inserted purely for legal/technical reasons and can in no way be construed as Anglian Children's Hospice implying criticism of any supplier of goods or services. for this service. No age If you would like to receive a large print version of this magazine please restrictions, young old or contact Mike Ager on 01379 678835 or [email protected] anything in between! 30 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 7 FEATURES & NEWS

• Have you a problem with - • Rats, Mice, Moles, Wasps or Rabbits? • All typical Pests controlled. Ray Howlett guides Framlingham school children round the scale model of the air base. • For ALL your Domestic / Commercial Pest Control. • No obligation – free survey/quotes. Young get taste of 95th • Please call, HILDREN FROM ROBERT AT THE 95th BOMB GROUP’S • 01379 788865 / 07809 226109 / 07518 731106 Hitcham’s CEVA Primary recent annual reunion in Washington, CSchool in Framlingham DC James got to meet up with www.safeandsoundhygieneandpestcontrol.co.uk recently spent two days at the 95th relatives of the co-pilot of the B-17 Bomb Group Heritage Association and remembered in the new memorial in 95th Bomb Group Hospital Museum Redlingfield. He met Marcia A Moyer, getting a true World War Two who has provided Redlingfield and the experience, 95th BGHA with a wealth of material R COLE Two-hundred youngsters, aged 7 to about 2nd Lt Warren Mansfield Strawn 11 (Key Stage 2), visited the museums and the crew of B17G-1-BO, 42- over two days in November and tried 31123. Sadly since the reunion PLUMBING • on clothing, got to feel the weight of a Marcia’s father – who managed to General tree felling machine gun, learnt about missions, make the trip to Washington – has • and the daily life of the air and ground died. Our sympathies go to Marcia and SERVICES Non-specialist crews that served at the Horham family. On Friday November 19th, the branch removal airbase. anniversary of the crash, villagers and • Cutting up The 95th Bomb Group Heritage members of the 95th BGHA gathered Association’s (BGHA) chairman to commemorate the ten US airmen fallen trees/branches BEDINGFIELD James Mutton said: “Everyone worked who died when the B-17 crashed on • Also: Hedge cutting really hard and the children went away that date in 1943. At 8.30am – the time TEL: 01728 627108 buzzing about the experience. Our of the crash – James laid a wreath and and strimming teams’ knowledge and enthusiasm a made short moving speech. MOB: 07961 271644 really rubbed off on the children. Not Large and Small Jobs Welcome No VAT Charged - Fully Insured only was it great for the kids but we all AT THE ANNUAL REUNION General plumbing had a great time telling them about the James also reunited one veteran with Please contact ANDREW men of the 95th and World War Two.” his kit bag, after more than 65 years. Free local estimates 01379 783335 8 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 29 FEATURES & NEWS The late Russell Coe, who lived in close friend of Russell & Joan, who MINI DIGGER Redlingfield with his wife Joan, donated many to the 95th BGHA. collected many items from US airmen Many are now on display in the Red when, as a schoolboy, he did laundry Feather Club Museum and among & DUMPER HIRE runs for his mother – one of the many them was a kit bag with the name Carl locals to do washing for the US Voss printed on it. James took the kit Two tonne & four tonne diggers airmen. These items were unearthed bag to Washington DC where it was after his death by Velda Lummis, a reunited with Carl who kindly gave available & many attachments permission for it to return to Suffolk Diggers £50 per day or £200 per week and the museum, Carl plans to visit Horham with his family soon. Dumpers £25 per day or £100 per week ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER Plus transport & VAT 17th the Red Feather Club hosted a record crowd of 110-plus for a film Call Tony on 07949608243 or 01379 870514 night, even running out of chairs. Based in Denham THE RED FEATHER CLUB Museum is being revamped and the new look displays will be unveiled at Carl Voss, centre, with his kit bag and the Grand Open Day next year on daughter Carol Schulz and James Mutton. Sunday May 15th. Mike Ager ■ ACTIVE AT 60 PROJECT: The Active At 60 smart card trial project is testing SPURLING & REMBLANCE smart card technology in rural communities with the aim of increasing participation by older residents. It is using existing bus passes/Mid Suffolk Key Cards to collect MOTOR ENGINEERS information about the use of shops, banks, post offices, surgeries, libraries, leisure centres and social clubs. This will help plan services etc. There is a meeting at Hartismere House, Noyes Avenue, Laxfield, IP13 8ED on Friday December 3rd, from MOT TEST CENTRE 10.30am to 1.30pm, with lunch provided, to get feedback about benefits, difficulties and possible new uses. All bus pass/Key Card holders are welcome. Phone 0845 *Service and repairs to all cars, light commercial and 4x4's* 299 6009 if you want to attend or if you need information. *Specialists in vehicle diagnostics* ■ STRADBROKE & DISTRICT BRANCH RBL: It has been a busy time for the branch with the annual Poppy Appeal, subscriptions to get in, the grand concert and agm. *Free local collection and delivery * Courtesy car available* The concert by South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band at Stradbroke Community *Prompt attention assured * Competitive rates* Centre was well supported as was the annual general meeting at Laxfield King’s Head (The Low House), branch membership of 86 is maintained and all officers re- (01379)384689 elected for another year. Our annual Christmas carols and lunch is at Laxfield Village Hall on Thursday December 9th. Tickets are £17.50 with names to branch secretary Open 8:00 am -5:30pm Mon-Fri, 8:00am -12 noon Saturdays Jeremy Higgins (01379 384300) by December 3rd. Barley Hall, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke. IP21 5NQ Christmas greetings and a happy New Year from Michael Burton, branch chairman Located on the B111 7 - 1¾mile outside Stradbroke, towards Laxfield ■ REDLINGFIELD THEFT: Scrap metal and a dishwasher were stolen from a house on the Knoll in Redlingfield on Thursday November 18th. 28 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 9 FEATURES & NEWS MOBILE BEAUTY THERAPY Big changes at council By Georgina

Laxfield Road, Stradbroke IP21 5JT Fest to remember Laura Telephone 01379 388 947 UNDREDS FLOCKED to Redlingfield on www.barleygreengarage.com H Saturday August 21st for a day-long music festival to Servicing . Repairs . Tyres . Exhausts . Batteries . Air-Con . MOT Testing celebrate the life of Laura Baxter. The bands played for free at the “Looeyfest” at Rookery Farm in memory of Laura “Looey” Baxter We now sell coal ! who died suddenly in August 2009 aged just 27. Laura died of a Coming soon: massive blood clot (pulmonary LPG Auto-gas filling station & embolism) and the event raised £3,000 for Lifeblood: The LPG installed with finance package* Thrombosis Charity, which aims *Subject to status terms and conditions apply to increase awareness of thrombosis and raise research funds. The Dying Breeds at Looeyfest in Redlingfield. Laura really loved music so Laura’s evening with an emotional “A brother Jon decided a music day – Message To You Looey”. Many came “Looeyfest” – would be a fitting from London for the weekend, tribute and celebration of her life as camping at Rookery farm and as well UNDER ONE ROOF well as a way to raise money for an as music there was a bouncy castle, often overlooked charity. hog roast, fish ‘n’ chip van, burger bar, In an emotional event, Laura’s coffees and a Lifeblood stall. friends, family and locals, both young Many thanks to all involved Specialist in all types of paving and hard landscaping and old, joined together to listen to especially Herbert and Pauline Abbott every kind of music from the acoustic for the use of their farm, and Katie and Driveways, patios, ornamental garden walls, water singer songwriters Carly and Rosie to Andrew Abbott for helping Jon to features, drainage and fencing the hard rock of Stratosfire and punk organise the event – also Jimmy band The Dying Breeds. Tucker (Laura’s uncle) and Richard Family run business with more than 20 years of Tribute bands ZZ Topless and High Simonds (Laura’s cousin) for on-the-job experience Voltage provided some metal, while providing all the electric on the day. Gwyn Thomas offered a taste of folk, Also, a huge thanks to Simon the DJ, Fast friendly professional UB42 brought the reggae of UB40 to Mark the sound man, and Janet Suffolk and Skelvis provided some Norman-Philips for her help leading Fully insured and all work guaranteed Elvis with a touch of Ska. The event up to the event. Call for Mark for friendly visit with a free quotation was topped off by Ska’d For Life’s Peggy, Fred & Jon Baxter & family energetic ska and they ended the (Laura’s Mum, Dad & Brother) 01379677027 or mobile 07768636618 ■ REMEMBER THAT PUBLIC HOLIDAYS MEAN RUBBISH COLLECTIONS WILL BE A DAY LATER THAN USUAL ■ 26 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 11 FEATURES & NEWS CHURCHES & NEWS

CHURCH OF ENGLAND: ALL SAINTS, Stradbroke, Church St; ST ANDREW, REDLINGFIELD, Church Traditional Road; ST PETER, ATHELINGTON; ST MARY, HORHAM, The Street. Rev David Streeter, The methods on Rectory, Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, IP21 5HU, Tel: 01379 384869. Email: display at [email protected]. Website: info on church services is available at Redlingfield www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/Church/ Wood. SERVICES (Holy Communion unless stated. Check times on church/village notice board): November 28: Athelington Advent Carol Service 4.30pm. December 5: Horham Benefice HC 11.15am. 12: Horham 9am, Stradbroke Family Gift Service 10am, Athelington 10am. 9: Horham Carol Service 4.30pm. 20: Redlingfield Carol Service 7pm. 24: Stradbroke Christmas Tree 6pm, Communion 11.30pm. Tree wardens meet up 25: Horham 9am, Redlingfield 10am. REE WARDENS FROM THE 1990 and looked forward to the issues 26: Stradbroke, 9am. south-east celebrated 20 years and challenges of the next 20 years. January 2: Stradbroke 10am, Horham Epiphany Gift Service 11.15am. of the scheme with a forum in Demonstrations on the day at 9: Redlingfield Benefice Communion 10am. T 16: Horham 9am, Athelington 10am. Horham. The event was part of an Redlingfield Wood included tree 23: Redlingfield Morning Prayer 10am, Horham Morning Prayer 11.15am. ongoing partnership between David felling and extraction by horse, a 30: Horham 9am, Stradbroke Parish Communion 10am. Mitchell, who owns Redlingfield woodworking demonstration and a February 6: Stradbroke Benefice Communion 10am. Wood, New Reeding Woods Group guided walk around the wood. 13: Horham 9am, Athelington 10am. and the Red Feather Club. David Mitchell, who is tree & Horham 9am, Redlingfield 10am. Redlingfield Wood normally has no landscape officer at Mid Suffolk 27: Redlingfield Morning Prayer 10am, Horham Morning Prayer 11.15am. public access but for events such as District Council, said: “With the onset MOST HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH, High Road, Diss. Parish Priest - Father Simon this Mr Mitchell hosts tours and of climate change, altered social Blakesley, Diocesan Tribunal Office, 21 Upgate, Poringland, Norwich, NR14 7SH. 07946 390060, [email protected] Web: http://holytrinitydiss.tripod.com (no www.). demonstrations. There were also talks priorities and the retreat from fossil SUNDAY MASS: 9.30am (sung); 10.30am at Quidenham (sung); 11.30am; 6pm. Holy Days: on East Anglia’s heritage of orchards fuels, local woodland and the 8am at Quidenham; 10am; 8pm. WEEKDAY MASS: Mon 10am; Tues 8am; Wed 10am; Fri and the value of countryside hedges. products it can deliver – is poised to 10am; Sat 10am. Morning Prayer 20 minutes before Mass on weekdays. SATURDAYS: The forum marked the work of tree re-enter the cultural mainstream after Rosary prayed 9.40am. Confessions 10.30am -10.45am or at call. wardens since the scheme was centuries of neglect ... just ask the EYE CHURCH SHOP: usually open Monday & Wednesday 11am-1pm and Fridays 11am-3pm. introduced by the Tree Council in wood-burner manufacturers!” YOU STILL REMEMBER ME POETRY CORNER ■ NEW REEDING WOODS GROUP: National Tree Planting Week runs until You still remember me 92 & 65 years after two wars that cost the world dear, December 5th and there will be a tree planting event at Pound Lane Wood. This time I am still remembered to some, a name that some may know and others wonder, the tree planters will be the pupils from St Edmund’s Primary School and they will be I once was young with dreams & passions and a life I'd like to share, planting trees donated by Sainsbury’s Active Kids Resources. These include many A much loved son, brother, uncle, cousin and friend, husband, lover, parent that will, as they mature, add spring colour to the woodland and provide winter fruit I was all of these – someone for whom the party was never dull, the life & soul, and berries for wildlife. The woodland at Pound Lane continues to flourish as the A strong shoulder to lean on – the friend who never let you down, oaks are finally showing their crowns above the long grasses. They are, at the To some I'm an old faded photograph and smile on a child who I shall never know, moment, dwarfed by the self-set ash some of which are now more than six feet tall. Someone else will say “do you remember old so & so who did this” & ponder what However the most impressive display comes from the dog roses and dogwoods, could have been, which are covered with red hips and berries. Is this a sign of a hard winter to come A life to change the world or touched so many – a life that may have been, or a good spring past, only time will tell! Take a walk in this community woodland Now I am a name in stone that's never grey or dirty, carved with pride & dignity, along the Redlingfield Road in Horham and if you would like to be involved in its Some days I am remembered with honour and pride, maintenance or become a “Friend” then contact Mike Reeves on 01379 668179. A life I should have lived but yet you still remember me. Manday Miller 12 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 25 FARMERS MARKETS, ADVICE, INFORMATION & CHURCHES FEATURES & NEWS

FARMERS’ MARKETS ETC: STOWMARKET, Marketplace, first Fri of the month, 9.30am-1pm. RICKINGHALL VILLAGE HALL, second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. STRADBROKE BUSINESS & Rural areas need a voice ENTERPRISE COLLEGE, first Sat of the month, term time only, 9am-1pm. DISS, Marketplace, second Sat of the month, 9am-1pm. THORNDON, first Sun of the month 10am-4pm, O SAVE MONEY AND COPE disadvantages and how it’s organised Thorndon Tea Rooms, Kerrison Conference Centre. EYE COUNTRY MARKET: The Town Hall with the Government’s so we can all have our say about the Wed, 10am-11am. Tswingeing cuts Mid Suffolk services we get and what happens in CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX: Web: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ and www.adviceguide.org.uk and Babergh District Councils are our neck of the woods. DISS, THETFORD & DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: merging their services under one set of Advantages: Officers and DISS: Shelfanger Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4EH Tel: 01379 651333 (Diss); 01842 764860 managers and chief executive, saving politicians will be aligned; it gets rid - welfare rights and money advice Thetford. Fax: 01379 640530 & 01842 750986. Email: around £1 million a year. of the Mid Suffolk Local [email protected] Open: 10am-3pm Mon (drop in & telephone advice); 10am-3pm Tues (telephone advice only); 10am-3pm Wed (drop in & telephone advice) & However, they are now proposing a Development Framework, which has 4pm-6pm (appointments & telephone advice); 10am-3pm Thurs & Fri (drop in & phone full merger so both councils would labelled most of the Mid Suffolk as advice). Other Services at Diss: Lunchtime Tues local solicitors - by appointment only. cease to exist and a new, larger “unsustainable open countryside” and By appointment Independent Financial Adviser. Council would be born, saving a is preventing job creation and low-cost HARLESTON: Information Centre, 8 Exchange Street. Open: 10am-noon Wed & Fri. further £356,000 each year. The housing developments people want. EYE: Customer Services Direct, Cross Street. Open: 10am-noon Thurs. existing 83 councillors would be Disadvantages: Councillors have MID-SUFFOLK CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU: STOWMARKET: 5 Milton Road South, Stowmarket, replaced by around 55 councillors. much bigger patches to look after; Suffolk, IP14 1EZ. Tel: 01449 676060 & 01449 676280. Fax: 01449 675634 - ring before Next May we will all be asked to services will still be split between the faxing. Open: 9.30am-3.30pm Mon; 9.30am-3.30pm Tues; 9.30am-3.30pm Wed for vote on whether we agree with these County Council and the District. telephone advice only; 9.30am-6.30pm Thurs; 9.30am-12.30pm Fri. changes and if the majority say ‘yes’ Having our say: There will be over INFORMATION CENTRES: EYE SERVICE CENTRE: 6 Cross Street, Eye, IP23 7AB. Open: Mon-Fri, then the new Council will be created. 200 parishes in the new Council. 9am-5pm. A partnership between Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Before that happens, we should start Options include: having clusters of Council. HARLESTON COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTRE: 8 Exchange Street, Harleston. Open: Mon-Fri, 9.30am-3.30pm; Sat, 10am-1pm. Offers information covering this area. thinking about the advantages, Parish Councils meeting together or OCCOLD BAPTIST CHURCH, The Street, Occold. Church Secretary: Paul Harvey (01379 having four forums based 678764) [email protected] Friends & Neighbours: Pauline Harvey (01379 around Eye, Stowmarket, 678764). Hadleigh and Sudbury, with SUNDAYS: Services are at 10.45am and 6pm. The evening service is followed by the power to make decisions refreshments and a chat. Every first Sun after the evening service at 7pm there is and determine matters such as supper and you are very welcome to join us. THURSDAYS: Bible study with opportunity for planning applications. In discussion at 7.30pm. On the last Thurs of each month Occold Baptists join with Diss theory no decision has been Baptist Church, Denmark Hill, Diss, at 7:30pm. Second Thurs at Rishangles Baptist taken yet, though Councillor Church at 7.30pm. WEDNESDAYS: Friends & Neighbours - for ladies, second Wed of each month at 7.30pm. A guest demonstrates a craft or speaks about their work or travels. Penny Otton’s piece on page HORHAM BAPTIST CHURCH, Chapel Lane. Secretary, John Ladbrook, Potash Farm, Fingal 10 seems to suggest this is Street, Worlingworth, IP13 7PD. Tel: 01728 628670. Web: www.horhambaptistchurch.org otherwise. MAIN MEETINGS: Sunday: 10.45am - morning worship and Sunday school, family service I can’t help but worry that second Sunday in month, communion quarterly. 2pm - afternoon worship, communion BIG DENHAM DAY: the Vintage Farm having just four town-based first Sunday in month. FOR UNDER 18S: crèche (0-3); Sunday school (3-15); Megamix (5- Machinery & Working Day at the 95th Bomb forums will mean that rural 11); Horhamania (11-16+); Brownies; Holiday Club (3-11); Familytime (all ages); youth Group Hospital Museum raised cash for the areas will ignored. Which house groups. LOCAL OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Horhamania (11-16+); Brownies; Help For Heroes charity. There were static when you consider that the Holiday Club (3-11); parents & toddlers; Female Focus; seniors’ meals. displays of vehicles and demonstrations of majority of people in our patch GROVE EVANGELICAL CHURCH: Occold Village Hall, [email protected] ploughing. Pictured is Robbie the horse and live in rural areas not in towns, SUNDAY SERVICES: 10:45am inc Sunday School & 3pm. MONDAYS: Ladies Evening -informal his owner David Hardiman from Bunwell who Bible study and activities 7.30pm. GROVE YOUTH CLUB: Alternate Fridays 9-11 years 7.30- doesn’t seem very fair. 9pm & 12 plus 9-10pm. were among the attractions. Pic by Don Moyes. Janet Norman-Philips 24 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 13 COLUMNS GROUPS, CLUBS, VOLUNTEERING YOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR AGE CONCERN - REDLINGFIELD REPRESENTATIVE: Jacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow, Redlingfield. 01379 678805, [email protected] Age Concern website IT HAS BEEN A BUSY FEW MONTHS THERE IS MUCH www.ageconcern.org.uk/ for me both locally, and in Parliament. talk of change in the SUFFOLK ANIMAL RESCUE: 5 Cherry Tree Lane, Debenham, Suffolk, IP14 6QT. Has rescued I was successful in my campaign to air. The Government cats, dogs, rabbits and other small animals seeking new homes. 01728 860937, reopen our much loved Hartismere wants us to do more [email protected] Website www.suffolkanimalrescue.org Hospital, which will shortly undergo a “locally” while the SUFFOLK FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY - STRADBROKE & EYE GROUP: Stradbroke Community Centre £1.5 million refurbishment, funded by the PCT. As District Councils are facing on 4th Tues of the month at 7.30pm (entry £2). 01728 860551, www.suffolkfhs.co.uk an NHS Doctor, I recognise the importance of severe cut backs in both THE VALLEY FENS GROUP OF THE SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST: Regular meetings on last Tuesday of Hartismere in providing crucial community Government funding and September, October, November, January, February, March & April at Redgrave & Lopham hospital services in rural Suffolk. But the general income. It is a very Fen Visitor centre at 7.30pm. Meetings usually take the form of an illustrated talk. There campaign for Hartismere Hospital does not end taxing time. is a charge of £2 which includes refreshments. In May, June & July there are guided here. We have been let down by the PCT in the Mid Suffolk is preparing for walks in various locations. .Website: www.suffolkwildlife.co.uk/ Suffolk Wildlife Trust. past, and we must ensure that this valuable the proposed merger with HOXON HUNDRED: Morris dancers and musicians practice on Wednesdays through autumn community facility is reopened with beds for local and winter at St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne at 7.30pm. Ron Ross, 01379 643563, Babergh with the result that we [email protected] Web: www.hoxonhundred.co.uk people. Ensuring that a fully functioning hospital will be saving money by sharing DENHAM VILLAGE HALL: Charges for hiring the hall range from £35 for all-day hires by non- is reopened at Eye is my top priority. officers and services to enable residents to £7 for residents’ children’s parties. Electricity, which includes most of the Recently, I paid a visit to Paddock House in Eye, us to deliver as many of the heating, is extra, paid by a 50p and £1 slot meter in the kitchen. Bookings can be made which also houses ten community care beds for services you have come to with Tina Chenery (01379 870797). Hall management committee chairman: Mr D. patients to rehabilitate after long stays in hospital. expect more efficiently. There Reynolds (01379 668797); secretary: Rose McMahon (01379 870346). Paddock House is an excellent facility with a are going to be losers I am FRAMLINGHAM BRIDGE CLUB: Meets at the Conservative Club Mon at 7 pm to play duplicate holistic approach to healthcare, looking after afraid, but I am working hard to bridge. All players welcome - single players get a game. Improvers Class on Wed 1-4 pm. vulnerable older patients with complex healthcare represent the very rural heart of OCCOLD PRESCHOOL: For children from 2½ to 5 years. Sessions Mon-Fri, including a lunch needs. At the moment, the County Council is the ward, where we need club. Linda Jay at Occold Pre School, Occold Village Hall, Occold, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7PL, considering its residential care strategy, and we transport, travelling medical 07790 605219, [email protected] must ensure that Paddock House remains open. services and most of all our post JUNGLE CUBS AND JUNGLE GIANTS: For children 1 to 11 years at The Gymnasium, Kerrison, In Parliament, I have been raising the issues offices and shops. There are Thorndon. Includes out of school and holiday clubs. Open Mon-Fri, 7.30am-6pm. that matter to our area: promoting vocational and inventive ways in which we can Whitney McMaster or Louise Austin 07834 483893. apprenticeship schemes in the agricultural sector, work together to bid for funding EYE YOUTH CLUB: For 13-18 year olds on Tues and Wed 7.30-9pm at the Eye Youth Centre improving provision of community midwifery where we identify a need. opposite the Church. Jonathan Pooley, 01379 870173 or 01379 870928. services in rural areas; and raising the issue of Horham and Athelington and FIRST EYE GUIDES: For girls aged 10 upwards. Eye Primary School on Tues 7-8.30pm. Wendy unacceptably high public sector managerial pay. Redlingfield already work well Spencer, 01379871125, or Sue White, 01379 870036. I am also very aware that many older people together as a community, we 1ST EYE SCOUT GROUP (INCORPORATING BEAVERS, CUBS & SCOUTS): All groups meet at the struggle with the costs of heating their homes over need to preserve the best we Scout Hut, Wellington Road, Eye. Group Scout Leader is Tim Passmore 07970 544362 or winter, and I would like to see Parliament take a have and create more chances contact Joan Norman, 01379 890432 or [email protected] BEAVERS: For 6 to 8 year olds - boys and girls. Wed 5.30-7pm. Karen Ruth, 01379 873544. more active role in regulating gas and other for every age group. energy suppliers who arbitrarily put up their CUBS: For 8 to 10½ year olds. Fri 6-7.30pm. Sue Wood, 01379 669233. With Christmas just round the SCOUTS: For 10½ to 14 year olds. Tues 7.30-9pm. Kate Broad, 01449 673472. prices. It is the old and vulnerable who are most corner I am hoping for a better VOLUNTEER CENTRE MID-SUFFOLK: There are usually up to 550 volunteering opportunities on affected and I find that unacceptable. winter than the last one. Please offer within 200 voluntary organisations in Mid Suffolk. These include driving community If anyone would like to talk to me about local let me know if there are people vehicles, visiting and befriending and getting involved in community projects. The Centre issues or has a problem they think I can help with, you know who are alone and at 5 Poplar Hill, Stowmarket, IP14 2AS, is open Mon to Fri 9am-2pm. Tel: 01449 612486. please contact my constituency office on 01728 would like a call. Happy Email: [email protected] Web www.do-it.org.uk or www.optua.org.uk 685148. In the meantime, although it seems a bit Christmas from Rose Cottage EYE & DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE: You can get practical help or volunteer at 20 Broad premature, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Elizabeth Gibson-Harries, Street, Eye, IP23 7AF. Open: Mon 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm; Wed 10.30am- New Year! Dr Dan Poulter, MP District Councillor – Hoxne Ward 12.30pm; Fri 10.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 01379 871200. 14 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 23 GROUPS & CLUBS ETC COLUMNS

MONDAYS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 SCHEDULED BUS SERVICES (HORHAM): Ballroom dancing: St Edmund’s Hall, Redlingfield Coffee Morning: David and MONDAYS TO FRIDAYS: Bus Service 482 by Nightingale of Beccles (except Bank Holidays) Hoxne, 7.30pm-9.30pm (for adults). Jacqueline's Western Barn, 1 Abbotts Horham church 7.12 10.12 12.12 14.32 17.25 Sandra Hartley, 01728 723887. Meadow, 10am-noon. Free raffle, sherry & Diss Bus Station 7.47 10.47 12.47 15.07 18.00 TUESDAYS mince pies. The mobile information vehicle Diss Bus Station 9.10 11.10 13.30 16.25 18.05 Improver line dance class: Coronation known as 'Chai' will be in attendance. Horham church 9.45 11.45 14.05 17.00 18.40 Hall, Wilby. 9.30am-11.30am. Rose, Redlingfield & Occold WI: Christmas at FRIDAYS: Fareline Bus & Coach’s 475 Wingfield-Stradbroke-Hoxne-Diss service leaves 01379 870346. home Mary Ann Bartlett, 7.45pm, Occold Horham from opposite the church at 9.52am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.32am. Bingo: Thorndon Village Hall, 7.30pm Village Hall. The return bus leaves Diss Bus Station at 1pm arriving at Horham at 1.35pm. Full every other Tues (December 7 & 21). THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 timetable in bus shelter opposite church. Brenda Hunt, 01379 678178. An Evening with Tony Penrose: Wingfield HIGH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (REDLINGFIELD): There are once-a-week return minibus T-Plus: Coffee, cakes, stalls, 10am-noon, Barns, 6.30pm. The son of Lee Miller and services from Redlingfield to Diss and Stowmarket. All Saints, Thorndon. 01379 879759. Roland Penrose relates tales of childhood DISS-FRIDAYS: The Worlingworth-Bedfield-Redlingfield-Eye-Diss service picks up from The WEDNESDAYS encounters with artists including Pablo Knoll at 9.42am arriving at Diss Bus Station at 10.07am. It returns from Diss Bus Station Improver/intermediate line dance Picasso. £10 adults, £5 children. 01379 at 12.20pm arriving at Redlingfield at 12.45pm. class: Wortham Community Centre. 384505, [email protected], or STOWMARKET-T HURSDAYS: The Redlingfield-Worlingworth-Debenham-Stowmarket service 7.30pm–9.30pm. Rose, 01379 870346. www.wingfieldbarns.com/ leaves from The Knoll at 8.55am arriving at Stowmarket Market Place, Argos Store, at Hoxon Hundred: Summer dance-outs at FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 10am. It leaves Stowmarket at 1.10pm arriving in Redlingfield at 2.15pm. local pubs. Winter practises. Ron Ross, Redlingfield Ladies Christmas Lunch: BURY ST EDMUNDS: On the third Saturday of the month this service picks up from The Thorndon Black Horse, 12.30pm start. 01379 643563. Knoll at 9.20am. Little Treasure’s Baby & Toddler Group: Contact Linda (01379 678984) to book or NORWICH: On the fourth Wednesday of the month this service picks up from The Knoll at for transport. St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne, 10am-12pm, 8.45am. term time. 07910 8331949. Christmas Craft Fayre: Occold Primary FELIXSTOWE ETC: During Summer Fareline’s Diss-Eye-Framlingham-Woodbridge-Felixstowe THURSDAYS School, 6.30pm. service (route 170) calls at Redlingfield. Worlingworth Village Hall: Low impact SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 Keep Fit and coffee: 10am–noon (Val Christmas Bazaar: Hoxne Village Hall. PUBLIC TRANSPORT CONTACTS: Bus timetables: 01473 265097; download: Swallow 01728 628068); Choir: 6.30pm- Christmas Market: Debenham High School. www.suffolkonboard.com; order online: www.csduk.com/csd/forms. Home-to-school 7.30pm (Val Swallow 01728 628068); Christmas Workshop – Wreath Making: transport: 0845 6066067; timetables: www.suffolkonboard.com. Bus route & service Aerobics – Hi-Lo Impact: 8pm–9pm Redgrave & Lopham Fen. Make a wreath or enquiries: 0845 6066067. Traveline: 0871 2002233 & www.traveline.info. (Sarah Foster 07884 186849). table decoration in an hour. 10am-4pm in 1 DIAL-A-RIDE MINIBUS (ATHELINGTON, HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Borderhoppa, which has a FRIDAYS hour sessions. £10 with mince pie & coffee. capacity of one to 16 people and offers disabled access, is available Mon-Fri, Bingo: Stradbroke Community Centre, Booking essential 01379 688333 or 8.30am- 5pm. Bookings are taken Mon-Fri, 8.30am-3.30pm, 48 hours in advance. Tel: Wilby Road, 2nd Fri monthly. 7.30pm. [email protected] 01379 854800. Email: [email protected] Mary Ellis, 01379 384642. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 LIBRARIES: Suffolk residents may join both Suffolk and Norfolk public libraries. FRIDAYS/SUNDAYS Traditional Christmas Fayre: Redgrave & EYE: Buckshorn Lane, Eye, IP23 7AZ. Tel: 01379 870515. Open: Tues 9.30am-1pm; Wed Traditional music: Worlingworth Swan, Lopham Fen. Tree dressing, winter BBQ & 9.30pm-1pm & 2pm-5.30pm; Thurs 2pm-5.30pm; Fri 9.30am-1pm & 2pm-7pm; Sat 2nd Fri evening of month in summer. seasonal gifts, crafts & refreshments. 9.30am-1pm; Sun 10am-3pm. Sunday lunch in autumn & winter. 10am-4pm. Admission free. STRADBROKE: Court House, Queens Street, Stradbroke, IP21 5HG. Tel: 01379 384768. SATURDAYS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 12 & 19 & SATURDAY, 18 Open: Tues 2.30pm-5pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm; Thurs 10am-1pm & 2.30pm-5pm; Fri Artisan Craft and Produce Market: - Mid-Suffolk Light Railway ‘Santa Specials’: 2.30pm-5pm; Sat 10am-12.30pm; Sunday 10am-3pm. Hoxne Village Hall, 10am-2pm. Second Brockford Station, Wetheringsett. All-in DISS: Church Street, Diss, IP22 4DD. Tel: 01379 642609. Open: Mon 9am-5pm; Tues Saturday of the month. price includes (£8 per head) refreshments 9am-1pm; Wed 9am-7.30pm; Thurs 9am-5pm; Fri 9am-7.30pm; Sat 9am-1pm. SUNDAYS & children's entertainment, journey to the MOBILE LIBRARY (HORHAM & REDLINGFIELD): The Mobile Library visits on alternate Thursdays Open days: 95th Bomb Group Heritage North Pole Halt by steam train. Pre- - Dec 9 & 23; Jan 6 & 20; Feb 3 & 13. It stops at The Knoll, Redlingfield, 11.40am- Association (10am-4pm) & 95th BG booking essential at www.mslr.org.uk or 11.50am and Horham Church, noon-12.10pm. To contact the mobile library, phone 07736 Hospital Museum (10am-5pm) open on 01473 890622. Also a 'strictly for adults' 007604. Alternatively, you can telephone the office 9am-noon, Mon-Fri, on 07872 last Sunday of month May-October. version with on-board festive fair. 676698 or email [email protected] 16 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 21 FEATURES & NEWS WHAT’S ON

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 Chick Flick Night - Shirley Valentine: Party Night: Denham Village Hall, Seasonal celebrations Wingfield Barns, 7pm. All tickets £10 (4 7.30pm till late. Dancing plus a few ARGARET AND I ARE last year. This is the joy of Christmas, for £30). Ticket includes film, wine and surprises - with Kevin King. Raffle - BYO beginning our Christmas bringing together what is familiar and chocolates. 01379 384505, drink. Tickets £6, includes buffet, from M [email protected], or Pam (871590) or Rose (870346). celebrations before Advent reassuring with gifts and greetings that www.wingfieldbarns.com/ Admission by ticket only so book early to Sunday by going to Scotland. are up-to-date and well-selected, so FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 avoid disappointment. Last December my new carol had its that we celebrate both the birthday of a Thorndon Primary School Christmas SUNDAY, JANUARY 9 first performance; early this year, I child whose caring angels bring a new Fayre. Pantomime Time - Sleeping Beauty with added a fourth verse and entered a message for these anxious times, and SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 a difference: Wingfield Barns, 3.30pm. competition based in Edinburgh. My we follow the traditional ways of Cake Stall: from 8.30am in Church Tickets £6. A classic pantomime plus new words and tune did not reach the bringing light and warmth, colour and Street, Stradbroke. puzzles for the audience. 01379 384505, finals, but we are going north to hear happiness, and good cheer, into our TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 [email protected], or the finalists at a seasonal concert, and own homes and into those with whom Christmas Social with Quiz: Eye & www.wingfieldbarns.com/ Stradbroke Family History Group, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12 to bring back some new ideas for what we share the festival that celebrates Stradbroke Community Centre, 7.30pm Chick Flick Night: Wingfield Barns, 7pm. we should be singing. God sending his Son and his love to be (01728 860551). All tickets £10 (4 for £30) includes film, In this last month of the year, we are born in our world. Christmas Market: Hoxne Village Hall, wine and chocolates. 01379 384505, choosing our Christmas cards and With all good wishes for 10am-4pm. [email protected], or presents, planning that they will be Christmas & the New Year, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19 www.wingfieldbarns.com/ different from what we sent and gave David & Margaret Streeter Christmas Bike Ride: Thorndon Black FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 Horse, 11am (678191). An Evening with Phill Jupitus: Wingfield TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 Barns, 6.30pm. Tickets £10 (booking ■ FAIRTRADE NEWS: The Eye Church shop is now open four times a week, it has Coffee Caravan Horham: 10am-noon, essential). 01379 384505, added Thursday openings and this session offers a free cup of coffee. The four- community centre. [email protected], or times-a-week opening (Mon, Wed, Thurs & Fri, 11am–1pm) will continue until Festive Fun On The Fen: Redgrave & www.wingfieldbarns.com/ Christmas week, then it closes until the middle of January. There are also regular Lopham Fen. Activity day for 6-10 year THURSDAY TO SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 TO 29 olds. 10.30am-2.30pm. Admission: £6 Dr Jekyll & Miss Hyde Panto: by stalls – 1st Fri of the month St Marys Church Hall Diss, 9.30am-noon; 1st Sat of the per child (£10 for 2 children). Booking Debenham Players at Debenham month Gislingham Village Hall, 10am-noon; 1st Tues of the month Thorndon Church essential - 01379 688333 or Community Centre. Performances start 10am-noon; and 1st Wed of the month Wilby Church 2.30pm-4pm. Sue Watson [email protected] at 7.30pm, with a matinee at 2.30pm on ■ BATTLE OF BRITAIN DAY: Aircrew who flew in WW2 proved a big attraction at FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31 Saturday. Adults £6, concessions £4, Diss and District Royal Air Forces Association Battle of Britain Day at Flixton Aviation New Years Eve Party: Horham & family ticket £18. Tickets online at Museum in August. An estimated 6,000 people poured through the gates and many Athelington Community Centre, from www.debenham-players.org.uk stopped to chat to veterans. Air Cadets from Beccles, Diss and Lowestoft staged a 8pm. All welcome. Bring some snacks SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 march past in their honour. Among those who met the veterans were the chairman for communal table. Live music from the Burns Night: Thorndon Village Hall. ever-popular Paul ‘Hammy’ Hammilton. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 of Suffolk County Council Eddy Alcock and chairman of Norfolk County Council Tony Bar open. Free entry. Redlingfield Coffee Morning: Chris and Tomkinson. the next Diss RAFA Day at Flixton will be on August 14th. Brian Ager TUESDAYS, JANUARY 4, 25 & FEBRUARY, 15 Midge Gibbons’ Rush Meadow, 10am- ■ FIREWORKS: What a great night we had at Horham & Athelington Community Art Class: St Edmund's Village Hall, 3pm noon. 'Chai' in attendance. Centre on Saturday November 6th. Even the weather co-operated, it was dry but to 5.30pm. £21 for three sessions. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 cold. There was a huge bonfire, lots of fireworks, and hot dogs and chips were Doreen Weller 01379 668291. Chick Flick Night: Wingfield Barns, 7pm. washed down with sparkling ale. More than £540 was raised. Grateful thanks to all WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5 All tickets £10 (4 for £30) includes film, who made this possible especially the wonderful firework display. Angela Wilkins Redlingfield Coffee Morning: Jan and wine and chocolates. 01379 384505, ■ HARVEST SALE: The Stradbroke Harvest Sale, including goods from St Mary’s Neville Butcher’s Hill Cottage, 10am- [email protected], or Church in Horham, raised £100 for the charity Christian Aid. noon. Including 'book swap'. www.wingfieldbarns.com/ 20 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 17 FEATURES & NEWS Don’t muddle up those exotic mandarins OOKING BACK AFTER A WET the heat of the sun, and I would have to amalgamate fields in the Sixties. As Lharvest and autumn, it is ironic wipe a cloak of cobwebs off our black the summer fades away, it is difficult that we farmers in this neck of the labrador at the end of the field. to cultivate seed beds in those places woods spent nearly four months earlier in After a wet harvest, the poor weather where the sun don’t shine. the year praying for more rain. continued and made September into the Now that hedges are preserved and In June, the tramlines were as cracked wettest for twelve years or more, so that managed, and grass margins restored, and dry as a dried-up Aussie lake-bed and wheat drilling was delayed into mid- hopefully the right balance has been the fields were full of spiders and beetles. October. Making good seed beds became struck. Late drilling needs high seed The dogs loved these tractor wheelings a real challenge, and as we battled to rates, as in the old saying, “one seed when I was out crop inspecting. To them, work strong clay soils, you could see why for the rook, one for the crow, one to they were cool green tunnels away from farmers were happy to lose hedges and rot and one to grow.” They knew what Exotic mandarin ducks alongside the more familiar they were talking about. mallards - photo by Lucy Taylor, EADT . ■ ST JOHN’S REOPENS: St John’s Church in Denham is reopening on Sunday December NEIGHBOURING FARMER PETER 12th at 11.30am, this follows the closure of the building for six months of building works. AFTER THE EXCITEMENT OF Saunders rang to say he had a very The repairs have been funded by charity grants, donations and the fundraising efforts of writing last time about the otter sighting in unusual and colourful duck on his farm at the Friends of Denham Church. The Rt Reverend Nigel Stock, Bishop of St Edmundsbury Redlingfield, I was firmly put in my place Denham. A male mandarin had joined the and Ipswich will lead a service of celebration and carols. Mulled wine and mince pies will by Cousin Edwin, now of East Bergholt. many mallard which fly in to the farm at be served after the service giving an opportunity to inspect the repairs. From January the He remembers well my grandfather cattle feeding time, very exotic and monthly family service will change to the second Sunday in the month at 11.30am. organising an otter shoot here at Wash distinctive, a welcome addition to the ■ CAROLS IN THE CHURCHYARD: The Friends of All Saints, Stradbroke, carol singers Farm. The neighbours were summoned, duck-pond. Last week whilst shooting and young musicians ask you to join them and all our favourite carols in the churchyard by with guns, to exact retribution on the cause mallard at a friend’s shoot in Occold, we lamplight, on Friday December 17th, from 6pm. There will be mince pies, roasted of the disappearing ducklings. The offender learnt that he had successfully reared some chestnuts and mulled wine, a collection and a guest appearance by our local “reindeer”. was duly smoked out of a drain to the pond mandarins under a bantam and we were Wrap up warm and come along with the family – this is the evening to give those scarves and despatched. An indictable offence told under no circumstances were we to and mittens an outing! Margaret Streeter these days, Grandfather should be turning get the two muddled up. As they flew ■ SAINTS & SINNERS: A 10-week WEA course entitled ‘Church & Chapel, Saints & in his grave. overhead, picking the right bird from the Sinners, Priests & Parishioners’ starts on Wednesday January 19th at Stradbroke Sports & wrong one, which would have lead to a red Community Centre, Wilby Road, Stradbroke. The sessions are Wednesdays at 2.30pm. SHORTLY AFTER HARVEST, WHEN card from Charlie the host, was very Each session is 90 minutes with a short break. The course fee is £44. You can try the first the first fields had been ploughed, I saw my discombobulating. Hitherto, mandarins week without obligation. For further details contact 01728 724746. best ever view of a buzzard, very close have been of interest to the ornithologists, ■ POOL & DARTS NIGHT: Redlingfield were edged out in a traditional night of pool and with good views of the under-wing patterns this may well change as mandarin darts at Horham & Athelington Community Centre. The pool and darts night organised by like roundels. It was patrolling some bare numbers increase through local breeders. David Whatling was such a success a return leg is planned and David is looking for other land very close to the road at Fressingfield, Mostly the domain of the wildfowler, teams to beat. Many thanks for hosting the event and the excellent refreshments. searching for beetles and earthworms, all duck shooting is often associated with the ■ QUIZ NIGHT: Redlingfield Quiz Night at Horham Old School raised £210 for St Andrew’s very tiny snacks for such a large bird. A bit fading winter light, a subject much aired in Church. Thanks to the teams of quizzers who attended and the those who contributed like giving a donkey an oat, as the press this year in the debate about draw prizes and those who worked so hard organising the event – especially Hazel & grandfather’s old cowman used to say. His changing the clocks. As a beater on a Pauline Abbott, Peggy Kerry, Madeleine Ellis & Keith Hawes. Chris Stanford name was Slobs Archer. When I was shoot said one November day, “That don’t ■ PLANNING APPLICATION: Granted: Kiln Farm, Cranley Road, Redlingfield - proposal to young, I never thought to ask how he got half get late wholly early these days.” revise conversion of redundant barn to residential. his nickname and now I wouldn’t want to. Trevor Edwards’ Wash Farm Wildlife 18 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 19 FEATURES & NEWS WHAT’S ON

HORHAM & ATHELINGTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL (opposite the church): Membership £10 for a YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR YOUR LOCAL POLICE family living at one address, (2 adults and children up to 16 years), £5 for a single adult, £3 for a junior 16/18 years (age must be proven). Membership fees run from Jan 1-Dec AS YOU READ THIS IT IS HELLO EVERYONE, MY NAME IS 31. Membership forms are available from the bar staff, or Angela Wilkins on 01379 likely the issue of Suffolk PC Amy Yeldham and as of 384625. Community Centre club nights and opening hours: Wed, Fri, and Sat, 8pm-11pm County Council’s Care Home September 22nd I joined the Mid (admission may be restricted when a private function is being held). Further information in Eye, Paddock House, will be Suffolk North Safer Neighbour- on membership or events from Angela Wilkins. Hall bookings via Karen Alderton on a matter of public discussion. hood Team (SNT) at Eye Police 01379 384754. Chairman - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors Lane, Stradbroke, Suffolk County Council owns about 14 Station. I have been in the Police Service for 01379 384363. Personal Licence Holder - Rod Tyrrell, 01379 388285. homes across Suffolk with just over 500 the past seven years and I will be working HORHAM OLD SCHOOL & SOCIAL CLUB (next to church): Membership £5 per year, and the Club residents for whom we provide good/ with PC Tim Green and PCSO Steven Long. is open from 8pm till late on Tues and Fri. Chairman - Keith Hawes, Meadow Farm, excellent care. Our employees carry out Those who use heating oil are probably Athelington, Eye, 01728 628608. Secretary - Margaret Streeter, The Rectory, Doctors their duties to a high professional prepared for winter with a full tank. Heating Lane, Stradbroke. Hall Bookings via Pip Florance, 01379 384370, Laburnum Cottage, standard with lashings of TLC. oil theft is still a concern in Mid Suffolk so The Street, Horham. Personal License Holder - Keith Hawes. So why is the future of Paddock House here is some crime prevention advice to help REDLINGFIELD & OCCOLD WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: Meetings in Occold on the first Wed of every being questioned? In the past if local you. You should: screen your tank with month except January when they are on the second Wed. President Caroline Miller, hedges and fences; close and secure gates if 01379 678871. Information on meetings on What’s On pages of this magazine and at authorities did not make provision for www.onesuffolk.co.uk/RedlingfieldPC/WomensInstitiute/ the elderly then there was no other you have them; conceal any external pipe institution that did. So places such as work; install dusk-to-dawn lighting; regularly NEW REEDING WOODS GROUP, POUND LANE WOOD, Redlingfield Road, Horham: Join a working party, or become a “Friend” by calling Mike Reeves on 01379 668179. This is community Paddock House were provided. But check fuel levels; consider installing a tank woodland, held in trust for all the villagers of Denham, Horham and Athelington. times have changed. Private firms now alarm/security device (consult your tank 95TH BOMB GROUP HERITAGE ASSOCIATION/RED FEATHER CLUB: Horham Airfield, IP21 5DG (see provide more than 90% of care home supplier); install lockable caps supported by what’s on for open days & events). Annual membership £8. Frank Sherman, 01379 places in Suffolk. In these homes are a closed shackle padlock (consult your tank 678471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.95thbg-horham.com some residents whose fees are in part supplier); join your Neighbourhood Watch 95TH BOMB GROUP HOSPITAL MUSEUM, Shingle Hill, Denham, IP21 5EU (see what’s on or in whole paid for by the county. With scheme, and keep an eye out and call the for open days & events). Tel: 01379 870514. Email: [email protected] the increased inspection of care homes Police should you see any suspicious Web: www.hexpek.co.uk/95thbghm/index.htm the standards are equal and, in some persons or vehicles (vehicle registrations and ROYAL BRITISH LEGION - STRADBROKE AND DISTRICT BRANCH: The branch meet at The King’s cases, better than SCC care homes. descriptions of the people are valuable to the Head, Laxfield (Low House), starting 11.30am on the first Thurs of the month for a On average for every £1,000 spent on Police.) meeting with speaker and lunch. Hon Sec Jeremy Higgins, 01379 384300. The branch Suffolk County Council provision the With the build-up to Christmas starting, are happy to welcome new members and to provide welfare support where appropriate. private sector will cost £700. In a unfortunately we see a crime trend at this EYE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION WOMEN’S SECTION: The branch meet at Tacon Close Community budget of £14 million you can time of year with thefts from outbuildings. So Room in Eye for social events, with guest speakers and to raise funds on the third appreciate how much money can be let’s get in quick and double check our Monday in Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct and Dec at 7.15pm. All women welcome. The saved and used to provide a service to security. Here is some advice to help Secretary, Mrs C Elliott, 01379 644981. enable the elderly to remain in their minimise becoming a target: install external ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION - DISS AND DISTRICT RAFA BRANCH (covers this area): Meetings own homes or provide a place in a lighting with dusk to dawn automatic second Monday of each month at Diss Town Football Club, Brewers Green Lane. Details private care home. Suffolk County sensors; fit a strong hasp and staple secured from Brian Ager secretary 01379 640337 (email [email protected]). Website: to the door and frame with coach bolts, www.onesuffolk.co.uk/DissandDistrictRAFA. Council is consulting on the future of its care homes. If you have any concerns or reinforced on the inside with washers, use a THE EYE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND: This trust fund provides grants to young people and educational organisations serving those under 25 who live in Eye, Athelington, Bedfield comments please send them in to good quality shackle padlock; fit internal and Horham. Special grants are available to cover expenses not met by the local Endeavour House, Russell Road, bars and/or net curtains can obscure the education authority. For application form write to: Mrs L Bernard, Clerk to the Eye Ipswich. We want to do the best for the view through windows; keep doors and Grammar School Fund, 2 Lowgate Street, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7AS, or 01379 870787. people of Suffolk and we will ensure the windows locked; and security mark valuable HOXON HUNDRED: Morris dancers and musicians practice on Wednesdays through autumn needs of the vulnerable are not items (ask the SNT about this). and winter at St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne at 7.30pm. Ron Ross, 01379 643563, overlooked. Guy McGregor, County PC 1330 Amy Yeldham, [email protected] Web: www.hoxonhundred.co.uk Councillor – Hoxne & Eye Division Mid Suffolk North SNT (01473 613 500) 22 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 15 COLUMNS GROUPS, CLUBS, VOLUNTEERING YOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR AGE CONCERN - REDLINGFIELD REPRESENTATIVE: Jacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow, Redlingfield. 01379 678805, [email protected] Age Concern website IT HAS BEEN A BUSY FEW MONTHS THERE IS MUCH www.ageconcern.org.uk/ for me both locally, and in Parliament. talk of change in the SUFFOLK ANIMAL RESCUE: 5 Cherry Tree Lane, Debenham, Suffolk, IP14 6QT. Has rescued I was successful in my campaign to air. The Government cats, dogs, rabbits and other small animals seeking new homes. 01728 860937, reopen our much loved Hartismere wants us to do more [email protected] Website www.suffolkanimalrescue.org Hospital, which will shortly undergo a “locally” while the SUFFOLK FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY - STRADBROKE & EYE GROUP: Stradbroke Community Centre £1.5 million refurbishment, funded by the PCT. As District Councils are facing on 4th Tues of the month at 7.30pm (entry £2). 01728 860551, www.suffolkfhs.co.uk an NHS Doctor, I recognise the importance of severe cut backs in both THE VALLEY FENS GROUP OF THE SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST: Regular meetings on last Tuesday of Hartismere in providing crucial community Government funding and September, October, November, January, February, March & April at Redgrave & Lopham hospital services in rural Suffolk. But the general income. It is a very Fen Visitor centre at 7.30pm. Meetings usually take the form of an illustrated talk. There campaign for Hartismere Hospital does not end taxing time. is a charge of £2 which includes refreshments. In May, June & July there are guided here. We have been let down by the PCT in the Mid Suffolk is preparing for walks in various locations. .Website: www.suffolkwildlife.co.uk/ Suffolk Wildlife Trust. past, and we must ensure that this valuable the proposed merger with HOXON HUNDRED: Morris dancers and musicians practice on Wednesdays through autumn community facility is reopened with beds for local and winter at St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne at 7.30pm. Ron Ross, 01379 643563, Babergh with the result that we [email protected] Web: www.hoxonhundred.co.uk people. Ensuring that a fully functioning hospital will be saving money by sharing DENHAM VILLAGE HALL: Charges for hiring the hall range from £35 for all-day hires by non- is reopened at Eye is my top priority. officers and services to enable residents to £7 for residents’ children’s parties. Electricity, which includes most of the Recently, I paid a visit to Paddock House in Eye, us to deliver as many of the heating, is extra, paid by a 50p and £1 slot meter in the kitchen. Bookings can be made which also houses ten community care beds for services you have come to with Tina Chenery (01379 870797). Hall management committee chairman: Mr D. patients to rehabilitate after long stays in hospital. expect more efficiently. There Reynolds (01379 668797); secretary: Rose McMahon (01379 870346). Paddock House is an excellent facility with a are going to be losers I am FRAMLINGHAM BRIDGE CLUB: Meets at the Conservative Club Mon at 7 pm to play duplicate holistic approach to healthcare, looking after afraid, but I am working hard to bridge. All players welcome - single players get a game. Improvers Class on Wed 1-4 pm. vulnerable older patients with complex healthcare represent the very rural heart of OCCOLD PRESCHOOL: For children from 2½ to 5 years. Sessions Mon-Fri, including a lunch needs. At the moment, the County Council is the ward, where we need club. Linda Jay at Occold Pre School, Occold Village Hall, Occold, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7PL, considering its residential care strategy, and we transport, travelling medical 07790 605219, [email protected] must ensure that Paddock House remains open. services and most of all our post JUNGLE CUBS AND JUNGLE GIANTS: For children 1 to 11 years at The Gymnasium, Kerrison, In Parliament, I have been raising the issues offices and shops. There are Thorndon. Includes out of school and holiday clubs. Open Mon-Fri, 7.30am-6pm. that matter to our area: promoting vocational and inventive ways in which we can Whitney McMaster or Louise Austin 07834 483893. apprenticeship schemes in the agricultural sector, work together to bid for funding EYE YOUTH CLUB: For 13-18 year olds on Tues and Wed 7.30-9pm at the Eye Youth Centre improving provision of community midwifery where we identify a need. opposite the Church. Jonathan Pooley, 01379 870173 or 01379 870928. services in rural areas; and raising the issue of Horham and Athelington and FIRST EYE GUIDES: For girls aged 10 upwards. Eye Primary School on Tues 7-8.30pm. Wendy unacceptably high public sector managerial pay. Redlingfield already work well Spencer, 01379871125, or Sue White, 01379 870036. I am also very aware that many older people together as a community, we 1ST EYE SCOUT GROUP (INCORPORATING BEAVERS, CUBS & SCOUTS): All groups meet at the struggle with the costs of heating their homes over need to preserve the best we Scout Hut, Wellington Road, Eye. Group Scout Leader is Tim Passmore 07970 544362 or winter, and I would like to see Parliament take a have and create more chances contact Joan Norman, 01379 890432 or [email protected] BEAVERS: For 6 to 8 year olds - boys and girls. Wed 5.30-7pm. Karen Ruth, 01379 873544. more active role in regulating gas and other for every age group. energy suppliers who arbitrarily put up their CUBS: For 8 to 10½ year olds. Fri 6-7.30pm. Sue Wood, 01379 669233. With Christmas just round the SCOUTS: For 10½ to 14 year olds. Tues 7.30-9pm. Kate Broad, 01449 673472. prices. It is the old and vulnerable who are most corner I am hoping for a better VOLUNTEER CENTRE MID-SUFFOLK: There are usually up to 550 volunteering opportunities on affected and I find that unacceptable. winter than the last one. Please offer within 200 voluntary organisations in Mid Suffolk. These include driving community If anyone would like to talk to me about local let me know if there are people vehicles, visiting and befriending and getting involved in community projects. The Centre issues or has a problem they think I can help with, you know who are alone and at 5 Poplar Hill, Stowmarket, IP14 2AS, is open Mon to Fri 9am-2pm. Tel: 01449 612486. please contact my constituency office on 01728 would like a call. Happy Email: [email protected] Web www.do-it.org.uk or www.optua.org.uk 685148. In the meantime, although it seems a bit Christmas from Rose Cottage EYE & DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE: You can get practical help or volunteer at 20 Broad premature, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Elizabeth Gibson-Harries, Street, Eye, IP23 7AF. Open: Mon 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm; Wed 10.30am- New Year! Dr Dan Poulter, MP District Councillor – Hoxne Ward 12.30pm; Fri 10.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 01379 871200. 14 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 23 FARMERS MARKETS, ADVICE, INFORMATION & CHURCHES FEATURES & NEWS

N THE INTEREST OF would suggest at least 3 or 4 local area Affordable salon treatments in the comfort & privacy of your own home. fostering debate and because we committees based around the market Iare governed by a coalition I have towns of Stowmarket, Eye, Hadleigh ~ manicures ~ eyelash /brow tinting ~ pedicures ~ fake tanning ~ make-up ~ asked Penny Otton for her views on and Sudbury. These must have real ~ nail enhancement ~ waxing ~ ear piercing ~ massage ~ facials ~ current issues. Penny is leader of the power and devolved finances; deal Lib Dems on Mid Suffolk District with local planning, housing, Council and a county councillor. regeneration, traffic management, Asked about plans for delivery of community safety, set local priorities services she wrote: “So far there are and involve both the town/parish and no actual plans for outsourcing, but county councils. The area committees councillors have been through all the will encourage involvement by local services to decide on those they feel residents in key issues affecting their ~ pamper party’s for all ages and occasions ~ should be protected, which would be quality of life. those that directly effect the most Gift Vouchers Available “The public would be allowed to vulnerable, ie children, frail elderly, speak at committee meetings which Day and Evening appointments available people with learning and physical would be held at times that enable Tel: 07757739787 disabilities There will be redundancies more people to become councillors i.e. Google: www.georginasmobilebeauty.webs.com which will be seen as part of the those working, younger people, those savings package. Redundancies should with family responsibilities. start with natural wastage. Some “The committees would give services which could be more community leadership and influence efficiently dealt with by the private the activities of agencies that directly sector would be considered if that did or indirectly affect local people. not prejudice our most vulnerable. We Scrutiny committees would take place could offer to transfer open spaces and around the district, particularly if there or facilities, for example, to local was a specific local issue. groups and town and parish councils.” “Each committee could be allocated She goes on to discuss Mid Suffolk a sum of money to spend in their area District Council’s amalgamation with within guidelines set by the neighbouring Babergh, which is based council.The council would support or in Hadleigh: “A merger will result in a retain those services that directly large geographical area therefore we affect the most vulnerable in our area. It would continue to ■ SONGS OF PRAISE: Redlingfield Songs of Praise support those organisations on Sunday November 21st was a great success that assist the council in thanks to the benefice choir, all the villagers who achieving its aims and were at St Andrew’s Church and all the helpers. those that compliment ■ COFFEE SUCCESS: The coffee morning on August them, such as Citizens 28th raised £207.05 for Horham Church. Thanks go Advice Bureaux.” to all those who contributed to this successful event. Evelyn Adey 10 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 27 FEATURES & NEWS The late Russell Coe, who lived in close friend of Russell & Joan, who MINI DIGGER Redlingfield with his wife Joan, donated many to the 95th BGHA. collected many items from US airmen Many are now on display in the Red when, as a schoolboy, he did laundry Feather Club Museum and among & DUMPER HIRE runs for his mother – one of the many them was a kit bag with the name Carl locals to do washing for the US Voss printed on it. James took the kit Two tonne & four tonne diggers airmen. These items were unearthed bag to Washington DC where it was after his death by Velda Lummis, a reunited with Carl who kindly gave available & many attachments permission for it to return to Suffolk Diggers £50 per day or £200 per week and the museum, Carl plans to visit Horham with his family soon. Dumpers £25 per day or £100 per week ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER Plus transport & VAT 17th the Red Feather Club hosted a record crowd of 110-plus for a film Call Tony on 07949608243 or 01379 870514 night, even running out of chairs. Based in Denham THE RED FEATHER CLUB Museum is being revamped and the new look displays will be unveiled at Carl Voss, centre, with his kit bag and the Grand Open Day next year on daughter Carol Schulz and James Mutton. Sunday May 15th. Mike Ager ■ ACTIVE AT 60 PROJECT: The Active At 60 smart card trial project is testing SPURLING & REMBLANCE smart card technology in rural communities with the aim of increasing participation by older residents. It is using existing bus passes/Mid Suffolk Key Cards to collect MOTOR ENGINEERS information about the use of shops, banks, post offices, surgeries, libraries, leisure centres and social clubs. This will help plan services etc. There is a meeting at Hartismere House, Noyes Avenue, Laxfield, IP13 8ED on Friday December 3rd, from MOT TEST CENTRE 10.30am to 1.30pm, with lunch provided, to get feedback about benefits, difficulties and possible new uses. All bus pass/Key Card holders are welcome. Phone 0845 *Service and repairs to all cars, light commercial and 4x4's* 299 6009 if you want to attend or if you need information. *Specialists in vehicle diagnostics* ■ STRADBROKE & DISTRICT BRANCH RBL: It has been a busy time for the branch with the annual Poppy Appeal, subscriptions to get in, the grand concert and agm. *Free local collection and delivery * Courtesy car available* The concert by South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band at Stradbroke Community *Prompt attention assured * Competitive rates* Centre was well supported as was the annual general meeting at Laxfield King’s Head (The Low House), branch membership of 86 is maintained and all officers re- (01379)384689 elected for another year. Our annual Christmas carols and lunch is at Laxfield Village Hall on Thursday December 9th. Tickets are £17.50 with names to branch secretary Open 8:00 am -5:30pm Mon-Fri, 8:00am -12 noon Saturdays Jeremy Higgins (01379 384300) by December 3rd. Barley Hall, Laxfield Road, Stradbroke. IP21 5NQ Christmas greetings and a happy New Year from Michael Burton, branch chairman Located on the B111 7 - 1¾mile outside Stradbroke, towards Laxfield ■ REDLINGFIELD THEFT: Scrap metal and a dishwasher were stolen from a house on the Knoll in Redlingfield on Thursday November 18th. 28 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 9 FEATURES & NEWS

‘Wait and sees’ again for Hal Powers’ memories of Christmas with Horham youngsters ... ECEMBER 1943: THE strict food rationing; when the children children in Horham [and other went to the base, they thought the Dsurrounding villages] were amount of food put on their plates often guests of the 95th. Many unbelievable. photographs show the children being They had turkey and dressing and entertained at the Christmas parties. discovered ice cream. David Johnson The GIs would give them sweets and remembers the mixture of food and make a fuss over them. The Christmas what he thought at the time was the parties at the base were special and mixing of dessert and the main course. exciting for the children. He confused cranberry sauce with The English were operating under jelly. A tree was decorated, someone dressed up as Santa Claus and Christmas carols were sung. Nearly every family in Your LOCAL Taxi Service Horham entertained Americans. Milton Fix 4 & 6 seat vehicles visited the Johnson household often. David and his Any length of journey brother Alan hung out near 336th plane area Best value for airports and let slip on one occasion that they couldn’t afford 01379 669370 Christmas pudding for dessert. Somehow this 07795 264233 got back to Milton. 6 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 31 FEATURES & NEWS Farewell to Happy Circle HE HAPPY TCircle Club started in May 1982 with more than 20 members. Lately, at some meetings, we have been down to four members in attendance. Therefore, after much deliberation and sadness, it was decided to call it a day. Fund raising for the Happy times at the Happy Circle Club’s 25th birthday in 2007. club began by the tug-o-war team Museum, which has a restored putting on some discos. We then building from Horham Station; the carried on by holding dances, car Mississippi River Boat Tour on the boots etc. One dance was with Radio Norfolk Broads; and many others. A Norfolk’s Don Shepherd. Local variety of hostelries were tried and entertainers included Barry tested on the way home after each trip! Humphries and Peter Last who also We’ve had birthday and Christmas PEST CONTROL SERVICES played for a carol sing-a-long at one parties each year. of the Christmas parties. We also Our thanks to all who gave generous shared coffee mornings with donations and support over the years. Control, eradication of and advice on Athelington church. At the closing of the accounts we had Moles, Rats, Mice and Rabbits As a group we have shared lots of £195.73 and have donated it to also happy times; in the early days we Horham & Athelington Community Wasps, Hornets, Ants, went on coach trips to: Wisbech Centre with our special thanks for their all crawling, flying and jumping insects Strawberry and Rose Fair; The Good support and use of the hall for the past Old Days at the Spa Pavilion, 28 years. For a friendly, professional and prompt service Felixstowe; Mangapps Farm Railway Violet Allum & Jenny Chapman call ● There was only a limited response to the questionnaire in the last magazine for all those in Horham and Athelington asking about replacing the Happy Mark Cotton Circle Club. However, the Coffee Caravan will now call at Horham & Athelington Community Centre on Tuesday December 21st from 10am to noon Mobile: 07806 875985 Home: 01379 852950 and for those seeking exercise clubs the following are available at Worlingworth Village Hall: Thursday mornings, 10am to noon, low impact keep fit and coffee Out of hours service available - Fully Insured (for details contact Val Swallow on 01728 628068) and Thursday evenings, 8pm to 9pm, aerobics – hi-lo impact (for details contact Sarah Foster on 07884 186849). Evelyn Adey 32 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 5 FEATURES & NEWS Albert Borrott on Horham Post & Rail - Stock - Rabbit - Electric Fencing continued from page 3 station. Horse Netting - High Tensile

34 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 3 FEATURES & NEWS owhams Servicing & Repairs Car for all makes When the railway ruled CC& New & Old Tales of the ‘Middy’ from Horham station master Albert Borrott Commercial HE MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT and a permanent way inspector at Railway ‘Middy’ was built in Haughley. There were also five gangs VOSA MOT Testing Station petrol, diesel class 4 & 7. T1902 – financed by of 15 men in the permanent way staff. shareholders and collections from The service was as follows: the up CAR & VAN SALES businessmen from the villages through service to Haughley departed Laxfield vehicles sourced if we don’t have them in stock which the railway was laid. at: 7.25am (it was a passenger train); It was a single-line track running 9am (goods); 11.05am (mixed); and Insurance Repairs, 24hr Recovery, Car Valeting. from Laxfield to Haughley, a distance 3.25pm (mixed); the down service to 1/ of about 20 2 miles. It was in two Laxfield departed Haughley at: Brakes, Exhausts, Clutches, Tyres & Batteries. sections: Laxfield to Kenton; and 9.10am (mixed); 10.40am (goods); Kenton to Haughley. It was of a 1pm (mixed); and 4.25pm (passenger). Air Conditioning standard gauge, with 10 stations and On Tuesday mornings a train left Service & Repair The Garage Fressingfield sidings. The stations were: Laxfield; Laxfield at 3.40am to pick up wagons Tel: 01379 388 999 Wilby; Stradbroke; Horham; of cattle from each station and convey Accident & Body Worlingworth; Kenton; Aspall; them to Ipswich for the cattle market. Repair Centre. www.cowhams.co.uk Brockford; Mendlesham; and Up to 1924 it was a well patronised Haughley, where it connected with the railway. There were millers and grain main line from Norwich to London and coal merchants at Laxfield; two and Cambridge. grain and coal merchants at The rolling stock consisted of three Stradbroke, E.G. Clarke and Son and engines, two first class and eight third S. Skinner and Co; and at Horham class coaches, with two goods-guard there were millers, grain, coal and brake vans. The staff consisted of: five coke merchants. station-masters; 11 porters; two engine The passenger and mixed trains drivers; two firemen (engine cleaners); conveyed passengers, dogs, small a yard man for unloading coal etc.; parcels, milk, bicycles and passengers’ four guards (two for each train); a luggage. Every morning there were: traffic inspector stationed at Laxfield; two churns of milk picked up at

● The station buildings from Horham and Laxfield are preserved at Mangapps 5adbadSfW >aY5ST[`:a^[VSke IWVV[`Ye Railway Museum, Southmister Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex (www.mangapps.co.uk/), and the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum at Wetheringsett, on the site of the Brockford and Wetheringsett railway station, IWSêaebWU[S^[eW[`:aYDaSefeXadgbfa#*"bWab^Waè[fWadfZWkUS`TWVW^[hWdWV (www.mslr.org.uk/), is a heritage railway and preservation museum run by a E_S^^WdXgÙf[a`daa_ShS[^ST^Wi[fZ][fUZW`XadfZWe_S^^WdXgÙf[a` dedicated band of volunteers celebrating the ‘Middy’. It operates from April to the end of September on Sundays and Bank Holidays, with Santa specials in December (see what’s on). Most of the open days have a special event to $WKHOLQJWRQ +DOO +RUKDP (\H 6XIIRON ,3 (- accompany the running of the steam locomotive. ZZZDWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXNSHWHU#DWKHOLQJWRQKDOOFRXN 2 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 35 EDITORIAL BRIAN DADE FRESH FREE T WASN’T UNTIL I SAT DOWN TO ■ THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH GENERAL BUILDER Iproofread this issue – in an attempt to going on in our villages over the RANGE EGGS minimise the not so deliberate mistakes – last few months that on a couple of for all your general building that I realised that it should be called the occasions I’ve found myself double Poplar Hall Farm Alan Johnson & 95th Bomb Group themed and even treble booked. But even and maintenance needs Occold Road special. Alan provided our piece on with so many events clashing Horham station, he features in our article they’ve been roaring successes Redlingfield on Christmas 1943 and, although he’s not thanks to your support and hard Wayside Cottage mentioned in the story, he was among work organising them all – from STALL AT GATE those talking to Fram schoolkids about the harvest suppers to quizzes and Horham, Eye 95th Bomb Group when they visited the from fireworks displays to air base museums. The 95th itself not only traditional pub games’ nights. Suffolk, IP21 5DX features in the above stories but there seem ■ A READER IN DENHAM HAS to be loads of other bits about it. So, asked for our help in tracking welcome to our accidentally themed issue. down the origin of the following saying used by his father. When tel: 01379 384504 IN SEPTEMBER, A LITLE GIZMO they were about to go somewhere mob: 07519 253975 recorded the speed and number of muddy he’d say that’s “where Will For larger orders please vehicles using Mill Road in Redlingfield Stock went”. If you can cast any email: [email protected] call 01379 678318 and, unsurprisingly, it found there was light on this I’d appreciate it. a problem with speeding. Although the ■ CONGRATULATIONS TO average speed of the 700 or so vehicles Katie and Drew Abbott and Eye using the road every day was just over Church Shop and Fairtrade Advertising rates for four 34mph, when you think many were superwoman Sue Watson on the issues distributed to more than slowing down to pull into their drives or birth of their baby boys. 250 homes in Athelington, had only just pulled out it means that ■ MANY THANKS TO ALL Horham, Redlingfield and some are just going way too fast. So those who stopped to help round surrounds are:- slow down, the speed guns are coming. up a couple of runaway porkers FROM OUR FIRST ISSUE OF 2011 1/8 page £6.25 (42.5mm Janet and I almost ran into on the All Requirements & Budgets we’ll be pulling all the listings of clubs, B1117 a while back. deep, 60mm across) ■ Catered For - organisations etc into a once-a-year A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 1/6 page £8.50 (60mm directory – so if you could check your Happy New Year from all at your Parties deep, 60mm across) groups’ details and let me know of any village magazine. Weddings - Special Events 1/3 page £16.50 (60mm changes by the end of January it will help ■ IF YOU LIKE TO PLAN Corporate Hospitality deep, 125mm across) us make it as up-to-date as possible. The ahead the Horham Bygones Rally Wholesale Prepared Foods 1/4 page £12.50 (90mm directory should be distributed with the will be on June 11th and 95th deep, 60mm across) first mag of the New Year. Mike Ager Grand Open Day on May 15th. We Use Only Premium Quality Produce 1/2 page £25 (90mm deep, The next issue - Spring 2011 - is due to be published at the end of March. – Local & Organic Where Available 125mm across) To Discuss Your Requirements Call The final deadline for all submissions is February 14. A whole page £50 Marie Printed & published by Evelyn Adey & Mike Ager for Athelington, Horham, Worlingworth Suffolk IP13 7HX You can supply the artwork Redlingfield and surrounds. The editors reserve the right to edit or refuse Tel; 07789684434 or we can design the submissions. The views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of www.thyme4food.co.uk adverts for you. the editors. 36 Winter 2010 Winter 2010 1 SUFFOLK ‘N’ GOOD

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