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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR INSIDE YOUR What a great achievement by George Barham, MAGAZINE... from Bramfield, Josh Antcliff and many other UEA BEN NEVIS, SCARFELL PIKE AND 4 students (the largest team ever from a university) SNOWDON who completed the Three Peaks challenge to raise George Barham, from Bramfield, funds for Hope for Children – especially during Josh Antcliff and other UEA students complete Three Peaks Challenge for what must have been one of the toughest years in Hope for Children living memory for university students. Please see page 4 for more details and if you would like to SAVE THE HORSE! 5 Louise Westhall’s community-run Pub launch Gissing contribute to this great charity. Well done all! We Share Offer felt they earned a place on our cover! THE PEAR TREE CENTRE 9 As, at last, normality appears to be returning please keep me posted of Support for Carers and celebrating any events or activities you are planning. I would love to hear from you. dedicated Volunteers Email: [email protected] A REMARKABLE TRUE STORY 11 RETOLD ‘Rumour’ - The true story of William QUOTE OF THE MONTH: and Alma Smith of Wangford
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THE UEA THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE Up Ben Nevis, Scarfell Pike and June and after a long train journey from have succeeded in bringing a marvellous Snowdon for Hope for Children Norwich to Glasgow, they had an early group of young adults together to bus ride to Ben Nevis in Scotland on achieve great things in difficult times. UEA students George Barham, from Tuesday and started their ascent on the It shows that you can do anything if Bramfield, Josh Antcliff and their group tallest peak in the UK. you set your heart on it. George & Josh were due to complete the Three Peaks were awarded Ambassadors of the Year challenge last year, however it was “The team have just summited Ben by Hope for Children for their endless postponed due to Covid. Putting the Nevis. It was a tough ascension with support of other participants, their extra time to good use they decided snow at the top and light winds and rain. ability to keep their team spirits high, to recruit an even bigger group for this Nevertheless the team powered through a continuous positive attitude and for year and wanted to become Challenge it with full vigour and everyone made recruiting the biggest group ever. Leaders to help advise their team and it to the top.” said George Barham on their determination paid off - after a Tuesday. They have raised very nearly £25,000! If great campaign they created the biggest you would like to add some funds to help team UEA and Hope For Children have There followed a long minibus ride to this very worthy charity and acknowledge ever had from one university – a group Scarfell Pike in Yorkshire, where the team the great achievement of these young of 50 students, all doing the 3 Peaks will ascended the mountain in the dark, people please visit the Just Giving page Challenge! watching the sunrise from the summit, below. They will be most grateful. then another minibus ride to get to their Each and every one of the group had last, most notable peak – Snowdon in https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ to raise £650 to be able to go on the beautiful Wales. The team spent the UEA3Peaks2021 trip. The money goes to the Hope for night in Manchester before returning Children charity which helps children home by train. in different parts of the world living in extreme poverty, providing them with Massive Ben Nevis support through health and well-being, congratulations sustainable living and education. All the to the whole hardworking students from UEA had UEA Three Peaks to think of inventive ways to raise the Challenge team funds, made much more difficult due to for their immense lockdowns and restrictions relating to effort - following Covid. For George and Josh this meant through with a sponsored tea bath; a sponsored all the endless marathon movie watching of all the preparation, James Bond Films (26 in all, a total of dealing with the 52 hours of continuous TV watching!). difficulties of Local singer Christina Johnston sang raising funds while James Bond theme songs on You Tube studying through in support on the last evening as the last lockdowns, and movie ran, and to keep them awake that for raising such bit longer! They also had two months a phenomenal of daily walking, etc to build up the amount of money. miles. Others in the group did unusual Special thanks things too such as a sponsored baked go to George bean bath, sponsored swim in freezing Barham and Josh temperatures, sponsored graphic design Antcliff who with work, etc. their painstaking The challenge began on Monday 15th determination
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Westhall’s community-run pub, The has turned that around with everyone we’ll lose the pub, which would be heart- Racehorse, is making good progress with getting involved, whether to grow fruit breaking after all the effort and energy its campaign to ‘Save the horse!’, having and veg for the kitchen, selling plants everyone has put into it, so please launched its share offer last month to and bric-a-brac to raise funds, washing spread the word and help us to ‘save the raise funds to buy the pub and secure its the dishes, making the ever-popular horse’ by filling out a share application future. sausage rolls, serving behind the bar, form online at www.westhallpub.com/ cleaning the beer pipes, organizing share-offer, buy shares at the pub, or As a pub that’s been running since at events or just being on hand to chat email me at secreataryracehorse@gmail. least 1860, The Racehorse has made to anyone who needs a friendly ear. com.” some good friends over the years and It’s been great to see everyone pulling many have already put their hands into together and I feel passionately that their pockets with over £55,000 worth of we must succeed in buying the pub, shares bought by residents of Westhall, which has so much potential to grow still Halesworth, Beccles and surrounding further. We’ve shown that we can make it villages and even as far afield as Texas! work, now we just need to raise the rest This new phase of the pub’s life – run by of the money to purchase the building!” the community for the community for the past 18 months – has brought a renewed Open Thursday - Sunday with a range of energy to both the pub and the village. events planned over the coming weeks, the organizing committee is pulling Liz Miller, a long-time resident says out all the stops to secure the target of “Westhall has always had a strong £160,000 by the close of the share offer sense of community, being named on 10th July. Chair of the committee Suffolk Village of the Year on a couple Brenda Smith says “Shares cost £25 with of occasions in 1993 and 1995. We very a maximum purchase of £20,000 and sadly lost our well-known village shop we want to encourage everyone to get and Post Office, Tony’s Stores, two years involved by buying as many shares as Artist Sally Bassett puts the finishing ago and I noticed the community spirit touches to the ‘Racetrack-O-meter’ for they can, to show their support for what tracking the share sales overseen by ebbing away, but running our own pub we’re doing. If we can’t raise the funds, Committee Chair Brenda Smith;
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SAXMUNDHAM NEWS SOUTHWOLD ORGAN WOODBRIDGE TALK 5 DURRANTS AD 66X95.indd 1 20/09/2012 10:33 HALESWORTH HOOT THEATRE ON THE COAST There is a real buzz in the arts sector The latest addition to the schedule is a September 4th including Cleo, Camping, at the moment as the return of live new show from Monkey Business Circus Emmanuelle and Dick by Terry Johnson, theatre looks imminent. Here, projects to be held in an open marquee on Hello Norma Jeane by Dylan Costello director Matthew Townshend of Matthew Southwold Common. starring Vicki Michelle MBE (‘Allo ‘Allo) Townshend Productions (MTP), explains and an MTP revival of Tomfoolery – a how this year’s Theatre on the Coast will This follows the exploits of arch villain musical revue with the songs and words bring a festival feel to Southwold with ‘The Joker’ who has committed the of Tom Lehrer. a host of events alongside a fabulous heinous crime of spreading bad jokes programme of performance. throughout the town. In a fight to bring Plus, Robert Powell will be returning in him to justice, various superheroes are his brand new one-man-show celebrating What have you missed most in the last called in to save the day, demonstrating the genius of Jane Austen and there are 15 months? Health, hugs and happiness? their superhuman powers with their plans on the horizon for a Treasure Island Friends, family and freedom? Pubs, circus skills. open air workshop and production with picnics and performance? All of the young performers. above and more? It’s little wonder We are also delighted to announce many of us are desperate for this that Perhaps Contraption, a band If that wasn’t enough, for those wanting summer to bring with it some serious The Guardian note as “high-energy to escape the Southwold sun, film fun – an excuse to get together and progressive brass”, will bring live screenings of the 2020 virtual shows All 4 enjoy a taste of what life was like music to the Common and permissions One and Attagirls! will be on offer at The before the pandemic. And that is why allowing, will also host a parade along Southwold Arts Centre. we have worked hard to put together Southwold High Street. a programme of entertainment for Book your tickets for any of these events Southwold that has something for Meanwhile, we have three fantastic visit www.totc.co.uk everyone. productions taking place from July 21st –
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HALESWORTH TO SOUTHWOLD NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY SOCIETY Dedicated to re-creating the Blyth The 1940s underframe for our first The Society will be participating in Valley’s lost railway coach – dismantled and partially rebuilt Halesworth’s Heritage Open Days (18th – has gone to Peggs of Aldeburgh to and 19th September), and also in an The last four weeks have seen much be welded into its new formation, with event at Lowestoft Station (10th July) activity at two of our sites, with volunteer the same firm altering two Royal Naval promoting the East Suffolk Line which numbers holding up well, despite very wheelsets to three-foot-gauge. serves Halesworth. There will also be a hot weather. presence at various events at the Mid- Construction of our second point – Suffolk Light Railway Museum, and at the At Blythburgh, excavation and metal for the Quarry Junction at The Folly, Long Shop in Leiston. It is hoped that detecting inside the station building Halesworth Millennium Green – is the Covid situation will allow a Members’ foundations has moved into the second ongoing, alongside the new railway. meeting in the autumn. half of the Clerk’s office, with a good The Society is in need of a pneumatic number of artefacts recovered. Co- specialist to help with the operation Ken Penrose and James Hewett, Co- Chairman James Hewett has been of the braking systems on the RFS Chairmen consulting with Halesworth museum locomotive – this is not too much about how best to treat this material - different from those on an HGV. once it’s recorded and, where possible, restored.
The ‘gardening team’ continues to restore the car park (which is on the top of the station) and to weed the hedging and grass. Adnams Brewery have very kindly donated a large traditional barrel which will form a part of the display of typical loads carried by the trains until 1929.
At the Wenhaston workshop, three chains and one rod of continuous track is now laid down, entirely by hand, and both locomotives (the Channel Tunnel diesel-hydraulic and the battery electric) are being tested on the track, with and without rolling stock.
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