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VILLAGER Issue 43 - October 2015 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS The VILLAGER Issue 43 - October 2015 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win Tickets to the Festive Gift Fair Cremona The City of Music Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Alconbury, Grafham, Kimbolton, Riseley, The Stukeleys and all surrounding areas every month Your FREEcopy 2 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts e VILLAGER Issue 43 - October 2015 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win Tickets to the Festive Gift Fair Cremona The City of Music Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Alconbury, Grafham, Kimbolton, Riseley, The Stukeleys and all surrounding areas every month Your Contents FREEcopy Animal Know-How ................................................29 Huntingdonshire Fencing Club ..............................30 St. Neots Camera Club ...........................................32 Fun Quiz ................................................................33 What Your Brain Can Gain From a Music Hobby .....34 Puzzle Page ...........................................................36 What’s On ..............................................................38 Last Month’s Puzzle Solutions ...............................41 Prize Crossword .....................................................42 Win Tickets to The Famil Travel Show .....................45 Kimbolton Castle 4 Book Review .........................................................47 Kimbolton Castle .....................................................4 Employing a Tradesman and not a Cowboy .............8 St Neots Camera Club 32 Win Tickets to the Festive Gift Fair .........................10 Rotary Club of Kimbolton Castle ............................13 Cremona - The City of Music ..................................16 Keeping your Divorce Stress-Free and Simple ........18 CADAR ...................................................................21 When to Fly (Invest) ..............................................22 Christmas Too Soon?..............................................23 Leaf Litter ..............................................................27 11,000 copies delivered free of charge in the following areas: Abbots Ripton, Alconbury, Brington, Buckworth, Bythorn, Catworth, Covington, Dillington, Grafham, Great Staughton, Hail Weston, Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton, Leighton Bromswold, Little Staughton, Lower Dean, Molesworth, Old Weston, Perry, Pertenhall, Ramsey, Riseley, Sawtry, Shelton, Stonley, Stow Longa, Swineshead, The Stukeleys, Tillbrook, Upper Dean and Warboys (We also have over 150 distribution points, including pubs, garages, most shops, post offices, Supermarket Chains in all of the above as well as in Huntingdon, Lt Staughton, Grafham Water Visitor Centre’s and Kimbolton) Editorial - Jonathan Vernon-Smith, Publishers Anna Bradley-Dorman, Solange Hando, John Cranston, Villager Publications Ltd Abby Smith, Tony Larkins, Hannah Byatt, Pippa Greenwood, 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP RSPCA and Kate McLelland Tel: 01767 261122 [email protected] Advertising Sales/Local Editorial www.villagermag.com Scott - 01767 261122 [email protected] Disclaimer - All adverts and editorial are printed in good faith, Photography - Denys Prokofyev and however, Villager Publications Ltd can not take any responsibility for the Darren Harbar Photography content of the adverts, the services provided by the advertisers or any statements given in the editorial. No part of this publication may be Design and Artwork - Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 reproduced or stored without the express permission of the publisher. To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 3 History Kimbolton Castle Every year visitors from all over the world come to rebuilt it as a Tudor manor house, remains of which Kimbolton Castle, a remarkable local building which are still visible. It was in this house that Katherine of over the centuries has played a part in some of the Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife, spent the last twenty key events in this country’s history. Henry VIII and months of her life, effectively under house arrest, his wives, the Gunpowder Plot, the English Civil dying on 7th January 1536 in what is now the War, William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution Headmaster’s study and World War II all have their place in the story of For a brief period around 1600 another Kimbolton Castle, which since 1950 has been the distinguished resident at the Castle was Sir John home of Kimbolton School. Popham, later to become Lord Chief Justice and The first castle at Kimbolton, a wooden motte and judge at the trials of Guy Fawkes and Sir Walter bailey structure on the valley slopes near Kimbolton Raleigh. His portrait still hangs in the Queen’s Room, cricket ground, was soon replaced in about 1200 by and the gruesome legend of his baby daughter is a stone castle on the present site. During the Middle recounted by present-day Kimbolton School pupils. Ages, successive owners added to its defences, A major turning-point in the Castle’s history came creating a building which was described as ‘double fifteen years later, when it was bought by Sir Henry dyked [moated] and metely strong’. In the 1520s, Montagu, a Northamptonshire lawyer, whose family Sir Richard Wingfield, one of Henry VIII’s courtiers, owned the Castle for nearly 350 years. Sir Henry further modernised the building and later became 1st Earl of Manchester; his eldest son, Edward, 2nd Earl, commander of Parliament’s Eastern Army, was Cromwell’s superior officer in the early stages of the Civil War. Between 1690 and 1720 the Castle was transformed into the elegant country house it is today. Initially, the inner courtyard was refaced in red brick, with a remarkable set of drainpipes, said to be ‘among the finest in all England’. Then, in 1707, after the partial collapse of the south front, Sir John Vanbrugh and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor carried out major rebuilding, designing a new range of state rooms and refacing the rest of the exterior. At the same 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 5 time the 4th Earl (later 1st Duke) of Manchester) 1876. By the late 1940s, the School was in urgent brought back from Venice the artist Giovanni need of larger buildings, and the purchase of the Antonio Pellegrini to paint the walls and ceilings of Castle in 1950 for £12,500 provided the solution. his new apartments. A spectacular set of murals on When the contents of the Castle were sold by the main staircase celebrate the triumphs of William auction, the School Governors showed great of Orange, whom the 4th Earl had supported. foresight in acquiring many of the Montagu family Half a century later, another great architect, Robert portraits, which still adorn the walls of the state Adam, completed the Castle’s transformation with rooms, helping the Castle to retain the feel of the the addition of a fine gatehouse screen, which still great country house it once was. dominates the eastern end of the High Street. Adam Since then, Kimbolton School has continued to also designed the celebrated Kimbolton Cabinet, grow and flourish. With the erection of new school now one of the treasures of the V&A in London; buildings, sensitively designed to minimise any a modern replica made by staff and pupils of detrimental impact on the setting of the grade 1 Kimbolton School is a recent addition to the Castle’s listed Castle, the main state rooms are no longer state rooms. used as teaching rooms and have been restored to In the late 1860s, the 7th Duke and Duchess of something of their former glory. Pupils regularly Manchester, who entertained the Prince and attend services in the chapel where Katherine of Princess of Wales at lavish weekend house parties, Aragon once prayed; young musicians perform commissioned the Scottish architect William Burn in Vanbrugh’s saloon under the gaze of Lely’s fine to build an elaborate new stable block and further portrait of the 2nd Earl; and staff drink their mid- embellish the ceilings of two of the State Rooms. morning coffee beneath the elaborate Victorian Around the same time the family also planted dining room ceiling. the impressive avenue of Wellingtonias (Giant Kimbolton Castle may no longer be a ducal Redwoods), which still frame views of the Castle residence, but, under the careful guardianship of portico from the East. Kimbolton School, it remains one of England’s great From 1890 onwards the fortunes and reputation of country houses, loved, cared for and a source of the Montagu family declined steadily, and with the pleasure and inspiration to those who study or teach outbreak of World War II in 1939 they left the Castle, there and to its many appreciative visitors. never to return. Six years of occupation by the Royal Nora Butler Army Medical Corps did little to improve the state of Kimbolton Castle is open to the public on the first the building, and in 1949 the 10th Duke decided to Sundays in March and November and to groups by sell the Castle and its contents. arrangement at other times. Next opening: Sunday Kimbolton School, originally founded as a Tudor 1st November, 1-4 pm. For full details please see grammar school in the Churchyard, had moved to www.kimbolton.cambs.sch.uk. new buildings at the western end
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