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Welcome to the Spring issue of the magazine . . .
There are plenty of things going on over the next couple of months in our villages as you will see when you read on further. It is great to see the Village Lunch resurrected – if you are interested – please sign up early as it is limited to 60 places!
If you live in Tidmarsh – please consider giving a helping hand with the Church Yard Xidy-up at St Laurence on the 27th May (10am to 12noon). It is just a couple of hours and it makes such a diUference – many hands make light work and please bring your own tools if you have them.
I am informed by the Parish Council that they have considered all the ideas put forward in the quesXionnaires regarding the Ikea monies. A working group have highlighted the top three issues which they believe should be carried out now. I am advised that although no further steps have been made to implement these three iniXiaXives, they will be beginning soon. They are: 1. Tidy up the area between the layby in Sulham and the Nunhide footpath and put a footpath in 2. Tidy up the footpath connecXing Mill Lane to Sulham Lane 3. Tidy up the footpath between Tidmarsh and Pangbourne across the fields and by the river. In addiXion, if funds allow, they also want to Xidy up the village and add planXing.
In the meanXime, Gigaclear conXinue to make slow progress with their cabling and we have been advised that Mill Lane and Sulham Hill will be closed between 3rd and 25th April. Access will be available for residents from either end dependant on the progress of the works. Diversion will be via Mill Lane, the A340 to Pangbourne and the A329 Reading Road. Enquires should be addressed to Gigaclear on 01865 591131. Details can be viewed on roadworks.org under the following link Sulham Lane
Jennifer Nutt has been working Xirelessly on finding volunteers to run stalls at the Village Fete – with much success I might add! We sXill need more help and of course donaXions (bottles, cakes, plants, bric a brac, raUWle prices etc). If you would like to be involved, please call Jennifer on 0118 984 2370.
Jenny Cope Editor [email protected]
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DATE EVENT TIME
06-Apr Village Walk – Meet at Village Hall 9.30am 06-Apr CoUfee Morning – Village Hall 11.00am 07-Apr Spring Flower Show – Purley Memorial Hall 2.30pm – 4pm 23-Apr Book Club MeeXing, Walnut Tree Cottage, Sulham 8pm
04-May Village Walk – Meet at Village Hall 9.30am 04-May CoUfee Morning – Village Hall 11.00am 12-May Plant Sale – Purley Memorial Hall Car Park 9.30am – 11.30am 12-May Quiz Night – Village Hall (see page 10) 7.30pm 18-May Talk – Climbing Kilimanjaro – St Laurence Church 7.30pm 27-May Church Yard Tidy Up – St Laurence 10am – 12 noon 27-May Berkshire Country Fayre, Englefield Estate (see page 14) 9am – 5pm
01-Jun Village Walk – Meet at Village Hall 9.30am 01-Jun CoUfee Morning – Village Hall 11.00am
01-Jul Sulham & Tidmarsh Village Lunch, Sulham Farm (see page 15) 1.00pm 06-Jul Village Walk – Meet at Village Hall 9.30am 06-Jul CoUfee Morning – Village Hall 11.00am
04-Aug Village Fete (see page 18) 2pm
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There will be an Annual General MeeXing at 8pm, April 26th at the Village Hall.
All are invited to attend.
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100 Club Bonus winners 2017
1st £20 187 Wilfred Helm Tidmarsh
2nd £20 45 Richard Thomas Sulham
3rd £20 62 Sally White Tidmarsh
4th £20 154 Joan Bungay Tidmarsh
5th £20 17 Pauline Taylor Tidmarsh
6th £20 83 Valerie Worseley Tidmarsh
7th £20 169 Carol Williams Tidmarsh
8th £20 106 Gerry Williams Tidmarsh
9th £20 87 Jo Kenyon Tidmarsh
10th £20 52 Gill Davidson Tidmarsh
11th £20 28 Joanne Baker Sulham
12th £7.50 105 Cathy Tucker Tidmarsh
Above are the winners for the Bonus winners of the latest 100 Club draw. CongratulaXions to the winners and thanks to all who bought Xickets. Make sure you don’t miss out in the 2018 draw when Xickets are sold late summer.
Tidmarsh Village Hall is becoming busier as more groups use it. The Facebook page is receiving lots of attenXion. Feel free to visit our Facebook Page and like us.
The Village Hall AGM is on 26 April at 8pm if you have any quesXions. If you can spare some Xime or ideas about running the hall and organising village community events we would greatly appreciate your attendance.
Also on 12 May is the Spring Quiz at 7.30 for 8pm. Please see advert.
If you need to book or enquire about the Village Hall please contact our Booking Secretary by phoning 0118 984 2561 or emailing [email protected].
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The Hall is available for bookings for meeXings, parXies or new classes. For further informaXion please contact Bookings secretary Hilary Innes on 0118 984 2561 or email [email protected]
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The Husbands Secret by Liane Moriarty This book is a narraXive of three women, set in Australia – Cecilia, Rachel and Tess. It deals with lies, betrayal, misconcepXions, bereavement and revenge. There are a lot of characters and the sub plots introduced in the first chapters made it diUficult to remember who was who and where they were, but as their lives converged an understanding of the connecXion between them developed. Book club members enjoyed the book and the challenge of trying to predict the ending.
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller A very original story; the characters were expertly portrayed, although book club members agreed it was hard to warm to any of them. The story focuses on a nine-year old girl, who’s father isolates her from her former life and family, and subjects her to a spartan existence in a German forest in pursuit of his Survivalist beliefs. There are graphic descripXions of nature and the hardships endured and it is clear that the author thoroughly researched the background detail of the story. The plot is not all that it seems, and discussion about what was truth or imaginaXion made the group reWlect for some Xime aVter finishing the book. Most book club members enjoyed this read.
Future read: The Submission by Amy Waldman.
12 VillagE rouNd-uP timarsh and sulham walking group The walking group meets on the first Friday of every month at 9.30am outside Tidmarsh Village Hall. The group varies in size from month to month, but however many walkers there are, an enjoyable, social Xime is had by all. The walk (easy pace) usually lasts for one and a half hours and ends with coUfee and biscuits; joining village residents at The Village hall CoUfee Morning at 11 am.
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SULHAM AND TIDMARSH Summer Lunch For residents of the villages Sunday July 1st 2018 at Sulham Farm (by kind permission of Henry Scutt) £15 per head for a four-course lunch To reserve your place please contact [email protected] or [email protected] Tel: 9842 729
Sulham and Tidmarsh Summer Lunch This year we are going to bring back the Sulham and Tidmarsh summer lunch that Richard and Rosemary Thomas brought to our villages several years ago aVter they had experienced a ‘Fete des Voisins’ (Neighbourhood party) in France.
The idea is for neighbourhoods to hold a sit-down meal to get to know one another. Everyone brings their own cutlery, plates glasses and drinks, a simple but delicious lunch is then shared by neighbours sitXing together at long tables.
If you would like to attend please see the advert for contact details and reserve soon as places are strictly limited to 60.
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What a variaXion in weather we have had. If there is a late cold spell delay acXiviXies unXil frost threat gone. gardening Jobs in april Divide Hostas before they come into leaf and Primroses aVter they have finished Wlowering. Prune Forsythia as soon as they have finished Wlowering. Protect fruit blossom from late frosts by covering with Wleece on cold nights. Apply a slow-release ferXiliser around the base of raspberry canes, fruit bushes and fruit trees to encourage good crops. Water well and mulch. Covering your strawberries with a cloche will encourage earlier fruiXing. Start to sow tomato seeds indoors, ready to plant out aVter all risk of frost has passed. Sow lawn seed now on well prepared soil and keep the soil moist whilst the seed is germinaXing. Aerate compacted areas of lawn by spiking it with a garden fork. Mower blades can be lowered towards the end of the month. gardening Jobs in may Don’t cut or Xie up daUfodils and snowdrops leaves yet – allow maximum exposure of leaves to sun and feed with Tomorite or similar high potash ferXiliser for next year Wlowering. Harden oUf semi hardy plants such as begonias, bizzy lizzies and canna lilies by leaving outside during the day and take inside overnight over 7-10 days. Divide hardy perennials to increase your stock and promote growth. Take cutXings of pelargoniums (geraniums), fuchsia and hardy perennials: pot up in warm, sheltered posiXion. Prune spring Wlowering shrubs such as forsythia and viburnum. Cut back Wlowering shoots of Choisya to provide a second Wlowering. Clip evergreen hedges. Make supports for your runner beans and plant runner beans by sowing directly in the ground. Thin out directly sown seeds and harden oUf indoor grown veg. Surround strawberries with straw to protect fruit. Keep gooseberry bushes centre clear and regularly check for green gooseberry sawWly caterpillars. Pick oUf or spray.
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Apply weedkiller and feed lawn with a high nitrogen ferXiliser to encourage healthy growth. You can sXill seed bare patches in early May. Keep well watered. Weed and thin out plants in ponds; leave next to pond for a day to allow insects to return to water. gardening Jobs in June LiVt and divide clumps of snowdrops and bluebells and other bulbs as leaves yellow. Plant out summer bedding once risk of frost has gone. Keep newly planted trees and shrubs well watered. Stake tall or Wloppy perennial plants to prevent wind damage. Pinch out Xips of fuschias to encourage bushing out, keep picking sweet peas to encourage more blooms. Cut back hardy Geraniums and poppies that have Wlowered to encourage new foliage and Wlowers. Water containers and baskets well in hot weather. Feed with a balanced liquid ferXiliser every 2 to 4 weeks. Water the soil rather than the plants and make ‘ponds’ around individual plants so that the water can really soak in and will support plants for 14 days. Pinch out side shoots from tomato plants and feed once the first truss is setXing fruit. You can pot up the side-shoots to create new tomato plants. Harvest salad crops and re-sow every 2 weeks for a constant supply of tasty leaves. Harvest onions and garlic when leaves yellow and die back. Although fruit trees will naturally shed some fruit (called the 'June drop'), aim to thin out congested branches further for bigger and better fruits. Alan Maskell looks a)ter gardens in the RG8 area
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What do you do when, wading in the Sul brook, you come across what appears to be the top of someone's head, covered with a mop of red hair waving at you from under the surface of the water? Had I found the body of a drowned person: perhaps President Trump or our Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson? I had to tell myself not to be so silly: stay calm and invesXigate. IniXially it was quite a shock, thinking someone may have drowned. On invesXigaXion it turned out to be the bloated body of a dead fox. The mound of red hair waving in the water really did make me think of Trump and Johnson! Goodness knows how the body ended up in the stream at the end of our garden. It had been some Xime since I had last seen our local dog fox, the one with the limp, but it took no Xime at all for that fox to be replaced by a new one moving into the area.
What "fun" we have been having with the local roads in recent weeks! It was perhaps inevitable that we would have quite a bit of disturbance and inconvenience while Gigaclear bring us very much into the 21st century, laying opXic cables. Let us hope that Gigaclear do eventually live up to their promises. So far it has been nothing but "promises, promises." We have been told on many occasions that the cables were to be laid very shortly. One can only wonder when the works will be finished, enabling us to enjoy the promised superfast fruits. If nothing else it will be nice to be rid of those unsightly mauve barriers.
It was not just Sulham Lane that was badly aUfected by the snow we had in early March. At least it was lovely and peaceful without the traUfic, both in the snow and when the lane was closed to through traUfic for a couple of days while the local authority dealt with some of the many potholes. Unhappily it was equally pretty awful when all vehicles were directed along Sulham Lane. And it didn't do any good to the welfare of the roadside verges. So much for living in the peace and quiet of the countryside: it almost makes one wish we had snow more oVten!
Richard Thomas: March 2018
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The arXist Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932) moved into The Mill House, Tidmarsh, one hundred years ago, in November 1917, and stayed unXil 1924. Carrington, as she was known, will feature in a television programme which visits the scenes that inspired the painXings – in this case “Tidmarsh Mill”.
The Ar/ist A student of the Slade School of Fine Art, Carrington was a contemporary of Stanley Spencer and other prominent arXists of the early 20th century. However, her style was out of line with the post-impressionist teachers of the day and perhaps she did not receive all the encouragement that her talents deserved. She oVten worked on decoraXive tasks such as murals, Xiles and dishes in order to earn an income, and was distracted from her painXing by domesXic tasks. Carrington oVten painted over her pictures, rarely exhibited them and never signed them. It is not surprising then that it was not unXil the 1970s that she was recognized as one of the foremost BriXish female arXists of the 20th Century.
Bloomsbury and Rela/ionships When the writer Lytton Strachey set up house with Dora Carrington at Tidmarsh he was already enjoying the success of his biographical collecXion “Eminent Victorians”. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a bunch of intellectuals who were controversial and unconvenXional in their views on society and in their interpersonal relaXionships. Triangular relaXionships were common, nowhere better illustrated than when in 1921 Carrington married Ralph Partridge and the three conXinued to live together at the Mill House. To say that Carrington’s love life was complicated would be an understatement. Carrington was associated with the Bloomsbury group through her closeness to Strachey. His friends sought somewhere to rent for him, where he could write away from the distracXions of Bloomsbury and the City, and they all came to visit Tidmarsh: including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster.
The Mill House It was Carringtons’s mother who first saw the details:
Old Fashioned House, grounds over 1 acre, small orchard, Hall, 3 recpt rooms, kitchen etc. Electric Light, 6 bedrooms, box room, Bath H&C, Rent £52, 3 Years lease. Nr Church and P.O. London 65mins.
Carrington came over from her parents home at Hurstbourne Tarrant for a viewing on October 20th 1917, and was shown around by “a charming Miller”. No doubt this was a member of the Stone family, whose ownership of the Mill had begun some 30 years earlier.
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It was at Tidmarsh that Carrington seemed to enjoy the happiest days of her life, and in the period of her stay, to July 1924, output included pictures of local people and scenes – and the sign for the Greyhound Inn. The best, or at least best known, of these is “Tidmarsh Mill”, painted in oils in 1918.
Televisual Art In 2017 the Sky Arts channel commissioned a series called “Tate Britain’s Great BriXish Walks”, a travelogue through BriXish Art, which crossed the landscapes of a selecXion of the naXion’s favourite painters. A second series is in producXion, and in January the presenter Gus Casely-Hayford and his crew visited the Mill House to record a short session for a piece on Carrington. They chose a fine day and we look forward to seeing the finished programme someXime in April or May.
End Notes Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge moved on from The Mill House to Ham Spray House, Hungerford. It was here that Lytton Strachey died in January 1932 . Carrington died of gunshot wounds a few weeks later and the verdict of the inquest was Accidental Death.
Milling stopped in Tidmarsh in 1937.
Most of the detail above has been taken by reference to an excellent new volume which I received as a Christmas present from my wife: Carrington’s Letters (Chatto and Windus, London, 2017) edited by Anne Chisholm.
The view of Tidmarsh Mill for Carrington’s oil pain(ing – but 100 years later
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Most of us have probably never heard of Parthia Close. Nor had we unXil deciding to go and have an ethnic meal at the Namaste Kitchen restaurant, situated within The Hook and Tackle. It is in the attracXive public house at the end of Katesgrove Lane, almost underneath the Wlyover at the bottom of Southampton Street: it is not easy to find, so use your satnav!
The Hook and Tackle is sXill a public house, but the integral restaurant is very diUferent, claiming to be a tradiXional Nepalese restaurant: not just Nepalese, but Newari, represenXing the community of Kathmandu. The first Xime we went there a large Nepalese party was in full swing, so it does seem that they do oUfer truly genuine Nepalese cuisine.
The menu consists almost enXirely of generous helpings of appeXisers and snacks, ideal for sharing between family and friends. Just be careful when a dish is described as being spicy: that means it is hot: and I mean hot! Chilli peppers are dispensed very freely here.
Another word of warning: steer clear of the fried dried mutton oUfal: unless you are excited by the thought of eaXing the very hot and very chewy dried stomach of a sheep! It may be considered a delicacy in Kathmandu, but we may perhaps think it a little out of place, even in the exoXic parts of Reading.
Those running the Namaste make you very welcome and pretty well guarantee an amusing and interesXing evening at modest cost. Perhaps this is a place for a party of friends wanXing to share a new and entertaining experience.
Richard Thomas, March 2018
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The parish council held a planning meeXing recently to discuss the applicaXions for homes at The Rancher, on Manor Farm Lane. They heard from a number of residents, as well as the architect dealing with the applicaXion. They took everything into account and resolved to send no objecXion to the plans. They did, however, bring a number of points to the attenXion of West Berkshire Council, as well as the applicant. These were:
• Ensure that the applicant makes good the length of Manor Farm Lane
• The parish council would like West Berkshire Council to look at the sight line from Manor Farm Lane on to the A340, which the council believe is inadequate. This has been acknowledged in a previous applicaXion by West Berkshire Council.
• The parish council asks that a separate compound is established for construcXion traUfic for the enXire period of construcXion.
• The parish council would like to ask that the gate at the top is secured so it cannot become a rat run – the applicant’s architect has confirmed this has already been done.
• ConstrucXion traUfic must access the site from the A340.
The parish council also heard an interesXing talk from West Berkshire Council oUficers on Neighbourhood Planning. If you are interested in finding out more then please email the clerk on [email protected]
Please come along to the Annual Parish Assembly on Wednesday, May 16th at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.
27 28 Whereis this? Thanks to the West Berks Ramblers we now have a splendid gate in place of the former very diUficult sXile that had to be clambered over on the footpath leading from Sulham Lane across the water meadows to Pangbourne.
Unhappily, the roadside sign was knocked over by someone failing to take the steep corner when on the snow in early March: going too fast, no doubt!
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Ecclesiastical libraries The Church of England Parish of Pangbourne Pangbourne 0118 984 4117 with Tidmarsh and Sulham (PTS) Newbury 01635 519 900 Rector of Pangbourne with Tidmarsh and Sulham Reverend Heather Parbury medical The Rectory, St James Close, Pangbourne 0118 984 2928 The Boathouse Surgery [email protected] Whitchurch Rd, Pangbourne 0118 984 2234 NHS Direct 0845 46 47 Church Administrator Rachel Buckingham Berkshire West Primary Care Trust Church oUfice open Reading oUfice 0118 950 3094 Wednesday and Friday West Berkshire oUfice (Newbury) 01635 42400 12.00-3.00pm 0118 984 5066 [email protected] Parish Magazine Committee Jenny Cope (editor) 0118 984 4671 Church Wardens for St James, Pangbourne; Gillian Alderton 0118 984 2729 St Laurence, Tidmarsh; St Nicholas, Sulham John Butler (treasurer) 0118 984 2621 Jill Palfrey 0118 984 2698 Jennifer Nutt 0118 984 2370 Julia Sheppard 0118 956 1820
Parochial Church Council Emergencies 999 PCC Members in Tidmarsh All non-emergencies 101 Janice Proud; Wilma Grant Floodline 0345 988 1188 Sulham Representa/ives Gill Haggarty 0118 984 4122 Gillian Alderton 0118 984 2729 Judith Sumner government Friends of St Laurence MP for Reading West Jon Chishick, Chairman 0118 984 3666 Alok Sharma (ConservaXive) 0118 945 4881 John Butler, Secretary & Treasurer 0118 984 2621 Councillors for the Purley on Thames Ward Committee Chairs Tim Metcalfe (ConservaXive) 0118 942 8001 St Laurence: TBC Rick Jones (ConservaXive) 0118 962 3793 St Nicholas: Gill Haggarty 0118 984 4122
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