Sheviock Parish Newsletter

SHEVIOCK PARISH NEWSLETTER

Issue 96 March 2016

1 SPN 96 March 16 From the Editor e have lots to pack in to this issue. And it’s been a busy season hasn’t Wit? An endless list of social events - well done to the Sheviock Hall Committee for such a great New Years Dance. Looking forward to more of the same next year. A fantastic effort from all involved in the Scarecrow event, and thanks for all the hard work from the Friends Of Crafthole Park Committee, and well done the worthy winners Warren and Andrea. Still awaiting some seasonal weather, if only to stop the grass growing. If you have any contributions you’d like to see printed in the newsletter, do please get in touch. Any items submitted should be original, or with the owner’s permission. A special welcome to our new neighbours, we appear to have quite a few this last couple of months. Steve Medway Cover photo:. Floods, grey skies and grey seas. Sums up the winter, really. ADVERTISE WITH US 1/6 Page - £10.00 - Greyscale, £14.00 - Colour

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Editor Steve Medway 01503 230661 [email protected] Editorial Team: Joy Kentisbeer 230316, Diane Stevenson 230859, Distribution Team: Lynn Vickery 230048. Grateful thanks the hard working distribution team: Jenny Cooke Tredrossel Kate Taylor & Chris Horsfield Portwrinkle David Dunn Main Road & West Lane Judy Scott Sheviock Gillian Kennedy Burns View & Dawney Terrace Bridget Sykes Tredis Celia Lister Cross Park & Sheviock Lane Peter Hunt Trethill Lynn Vickery Kimberly Foster Close Janet Lockett Carew Close Many thanks also to Rosalie Dunn for proof reading the articles. Also to Chris and Gill Kennedy for help with overall distribution.

Please take note of the copy date for issue 97 – Friday May 13th. 2016 Steve Medway 01503 230661 [email protected] 11 Burns View Crafthole, Torpoint PL11 3BW

Distribution date around June 1st will require material to be received by copy date. I hope all our contributors are happy with this issue. If you have any points to make regarding this issue, please let me know.

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4 SPN 96 March 16 You can report anti-social behaviour online at www.safercornwall.co.uk You can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via www.crimestoppers-uk.org

I DON’T believe it! By Grumpy old Git

Members of the public questioned on CNN by Julian Morrow in response to the statement that Americans know little about the world their country runs!

Name a country beginning with the letter U. Yugoslavia; Answers: Utah; Utopia. Who won the Vietnam war? We did; Were we in the Vietnam war? My psychiatrist told me I was crazy What is the currency used in the UK? What’s the UK? I said I wanted a second opinion American money; Queen Elizabeth money? He said, OK, you’re ugly, too. How many World Wars have there been? Three? What are Nagasaki and Hiroshima famous for? Sumo wrestling?

5 SPN 96 March 16 Sheviock Memorial Hall, Crafthole February 2016 Standard rate Rate for local, not Rate for youth, not for for profit, profit, organisation* organisation Main Hall/hr £10.40 £8.30 £7.20 (£4.15 if associated with regular meetings Sports Hall/hr £8.00 £6.50 £5.50 Lounge/hr £5.15 £5.15 £3.10 Half day functions excluding use of Snooker £56.00 £48.50 £37.00 (£26.00 if associated Room and Sports Hall by Sheviock Parish with regular meetings) based organisations up to 8 hr hire Half day functions excluding use of Snooker £85.00 £71.00 £55.60 (£45.90 if associated Room by Sheviock Parish based organisations with regular meetings) up to 8 hr hire All day functions, excluding use of Snooker £175.50 £175.50 £150.00 Room and Sports Hall 08.00 to 23.30 hrs All day functions, excluding Snooker Room £125.00 £93.00 £80.00 (£45.90 if associated 08.00 to 23.30 hrs, for Sheviock Parish based with regular meetings) Organisations Hall Grounds with access to toilets in Hall/hr £6.00 £5.00 £3.00 Plus access to kitchen/hr £12.00 £10.00 £6.00

*Includes children’s parties organised by residents of the Parish. Notes. Registered clubs: 1. Charges will be reviewed annually charges for up to three-hour session Main Hall OR Sports Hall - £13.40 (School Children sessions £4.15 following the AGM in February and per hr) apply from April Lounge - £7.75 2. Registered clubs are required to Pre-school excluding Sports Hall - £12.40 make monthly payments of charges to Mothers and Toddlers excluding Sports Hall - £9.30 the booking secretary charge for less than one-and-a-half-hour session 3. Casual hirers are asked to pay when Main Hall OR Sports Hall - £7.20 booking the event/room Registered clubs are those with a formal constitution, who sign-up 4. The booking secretary is Mrs for regular meetings throughout a whole year, provide a Thelma Wells, (Telephone Number representative on the Management Committee and whose 01503 230524). members agree to support Memorial Hall fund raising events. 5. The hirer agrees to replace Charges other specified Organisations: breakages and any damage to the Parish Council, use of Bill Warren Room - £62.00 per month Snooker/ Billiards Room – Use by Members of Snooker Club ONLY at property other than that resulting £16.00 per year membership plus 20p per 20 minutes use of from fair wear and tear. electricity through honesty box. 6. The Hall’s standard ‘Terms and Youth organisation, e.g. Brownies/Rainbows, overnight Conditions of Hire’ apply to all users accommodation in Main Hall and Sports Hall - £5.15 per child and . £8.30 per adult both per night. J.M.Snowling, Chairman. ALL PRICES INCLUDE THE USE OF THE KITCHEN (EXCEPT USE OF GROUNDS) February 2016

6 SPN 96 March 16 SHEVIOCK MEMORIAL HALL SUPPORTERS CLUB £5 a YEAR gives chance to win £10 EVERY week. WINNERS 17th November 2015 to 9th February 2016

DATE WINNER No DATE WINNER No 17/11/15 The Liscawn 79 05/01/16 Janet Lockett 275 24/11/15 Paul Ingall 303 12/01/16 Mike Luker 128 01/12/15 Beth Worth 136 19/01/16 Charlie Brickle 36 08/12/15 Bryan Pullinger 2 26/01/16 Judy Scott 93 15/12/15 Liz Doyle 44 02/02/16 David Smith 152 22/12/15 Fiona Harvey 18 09/02/16 Karen Baker 272 29/12/15 NO DRAW -–

Firstly I just want to say how sad it was to hear about Dot. Amongst many things she did, Dot was a great collector for the 200 club. We shall all miss her. All of the people she used to collect from have been reallocated to other collectors. As always, my thanks go out to all the collectors and they will be starting to come round to collect your fiver. The 200 club is just one of many ways in which you can support your Village Hall and thanks again for your continuing support. If you would like to join the supporter’s club, please give me a call and I will happily allocate a number and arrange for a collector to call for your subscription. If you would like to be a collector and meet lots of villagers then please talk to me. If you only take part in one flutter this year it has to be the Sheviock Memorial Hall Supporters Club. A guaranteed £10 winner every week, except Christmas week, and it supports the Hall. James Carter. Tel: 230757. Address - 17 Kimberley Foster Close.

Tip of the Quarter Tip offs this time, to make you aware of some of the latest ideas to deprive you of your hard earned cash. Contactless Scanners are yet another way of making it easier to spend our money. Why we need the 4.6 seconds saved by swiping a card instead of typing in four digits, goodness only knows. For every benefit derived by technology, there is an equal and opposite dis-benefit (Grumpy Old Git’s Law) Portable scanners are freely available on the internet. The perpetrator simply enters a sum below £30, passes it close to the wallet shaped lump in your back pocket, and, assuming you have a contactless card there-in, you have credited them with that sum. ATM Card Keeper. This is a device hidden inside the card slot on the ATM. Once the victim has inserted the card, made a cash request and is about to withdraw it, the card will not return. The victim then goes off to report the fault, the scammer comes along, removes the card, and then the cash. Be careful!

7 SPN 96 March 16 Crafthole and District Open Flower CRAFTHOLE COMMUNITY SHOP and Vegetable Show Saturday 13th August, 2016 Crafthole Community Shop continues to be a real asset to the locality – serving it in a variety of Memorial Hall, Crafthole ways, including being a focus for social interac- The Committee are already beavering away tion. We like to think of the shop as a busy hub in on preparing this year’s schedule – look out Sheviock Parish, and even for some, a lifeline. It’s useful too, if you find yourself in need of a bag of for it in the June newsletter so you can plan sugar, a loaf or some milk – saving you a long your entries well in advance (or if you have journey to the supermarket. any ideas for classes, just get in touch with Over the past 12 months, we have seen any of the team). The theme this year is increasing numbers of people coming in the shop “Celebrating Colours”, so think all things – we thank you for your custom. We assure you bright and beautiful! that we are constantly assessing our prices; where possible keeping them below or on a par The Committee has been really wowed and with those in local supermarkets. Also, within the delighted by the level of support and limits due to lack of storage and shelf space, our participation in recent years, so thank you ambition is to widen the scope of our stock. to everyone who comes, and we hope you As with all community groups in the Parish, our are all looking forward to another splendid continuing presence is dependent on your show. support both as customers and volunteer help. So I take this opportunity to appeal to you. Could Annual Fundraising Event – you spare just 2 hours a week regularly, to work Saturday 30th April, 2016 in your village shop? In this busy hub, it’s fun to Memorial Hall, Crafthole, 10 till Noon meet the locals, some passers by and even some tourists from around the UK and abroad. Please This year we’re moving to the Memorial consider offering your services as a volunteer to Hall for our fundraising event - but don’t keep our community and visitors smiling. Phone worry, the format will remain the same and our manager, Ellen, on 01503 230225 and offer there will be even more room for tea, your services now – it’s as simple as that. coffee and homemade cake with friends, Needless to say, full training is given for operating the till and other duties. plus of course an opportunity to stock up on plants and garden bits. Put the date in your So, we look forward with you in the coming months as we traverse from winter into summer diary! and to see you in the shop as a customer and, Garden Competition hopefully, as a volunteer. This year the Garden Competition will be Post Script. held during the summer – look out for Before the next Sheviock Parish Newsletter, posters in the coming months. At the time Crafthole Community Shop C.I.C. will be arrang- ing our AGM at the Village Hall – some time in of writing it seems like the winds will never May. Do look out for notices in the Press and end, but hopefully it won’t be too long posters in and around the shop. You will be very before we can all be out working in the welcome. garden again! Bryan Pullinger Gill Kennedy Director, Crafthole Community Shop C.I.C. (Company Regn. ([email protected]) No. 07833286) 14 February 2016

8 SPN 96 March 16 The Friends of Crafthole Park

Scarecrow Event Thank you to everyone that supported the 1st Annual Sheviock Parish Scarecrow competition. Thank you to Erika and the Karen staff at The Finnygook for collecting the entry forms and fees and allowing us to hold the presentation evening in the pub. I am pleased to say that it raised £75. The winners of the three prize categories were as follows:- Most creative - Paula Brooks Crafthole Pre-School

Best named - Andy & Becki Greenwood for Sir Rame Headless Best Overall - Warren & Andrea The best overall winner will have their scarecrow photographed and displayed in the pub. Thank you to Warren for agreeing to donate a frame for his photograph. It was a fantastic effort by everyone and certainly brightened up the Parish in January and got people talking. We are all looking forward to the next one (dates have yet to be announced) and hope you are all feeling inspired. ` Karen Baker

The Friends of Crafthole Park

9 SPN 96 March 16 Sheviock Parish Revival of the neighbourhood watch Community Spring Clean and scheme. It is many years since the Neighbourhood Watch improvement. Scheme was introduced and the signs are looking The Parish Spring clean has been set for Saturday tired and in some cases the street coordinators 12th March starting at 10.30. The following jobs have left the area. have been identified and please come along and The Parish Council would like to facilitate a re- join in with all the family. Either simply turn up or launch of the scheme. To start the process if you else contact the coordinator shown for further are a street coordinator or know who your street information. coordinator is please call Chris Kennedy on 230 810 1. Pick litter in your street or generally or email him at [email protected] and give the street and person’s name. The Parish across the parish. Council will then organise a meeting of the Coordinator: Steve Medway 230 661. Coordinators and agree how to restart the scheme. 2. Clear kerbs and pavements of weeds The role of coordinator is not onerous and involves (no spraying just use of hoe or spade keeping residents aware of on-going scams, as the and removal of weeds by hand). police provide details, and keeping the signs in Coordinator: Peter McLaren 232 920. good order. It would also be helpful if one 3. Help with weeding of the flower beds coordinator would volunteer to manage the list of and the front of the toilet block at Port- coordinators so that if someone leaves a wrinkle. replacement is found. Coordinator: Jean Wilkinson 230 601. 4. Clean the bus shelter and area around Crafthole Park and Community Area the seat and telephone box at The lease for the enlarged area in Sheviock Sheviock. Lane has now been agreed and work on Coordinator: Judy Scott 230 076. stock proof fencing will be completed, 5. Clean the 2 bus shelters in Crafthole subject to the weather, by the end of the and road signs within the 30mph limits across the parish. first week in March. The order has been Coordinator: Chris Kennedy 230 810. placed for the first new equipment, a child 6. Tidy the flower bed at the cross by the friendly fence inside the stock fence and a bus stop in Crafthole. cycle rack. Everything is being done to Coordinator: Sue Wilks 230 971. have the expanded park open for Easter 7. Trim and clear the shrubs beyond the but given the wet conditions that may be wall on the promenades and at the slightly optimistic. However, the great pumping station, Portwrinkle. news is that by working together the Coordinator: Martyn Hardy 232 885. Friends of the Park and the Parish Council 8. Build a handrail for one of the steep ramps on the circular footpath. have achieved the first stage of a planned Coordinator: Julie Bate 230 339. expansion of the park and the 9. Return refuse bins and in particular re- development of a community area. cycling bags off the pavement following Further grant funding is being pursued to collection. achieve the next stage. Coordinators: Everyone, let’s just act in a neighbourly fashion if the owner is out or away. Chris Kennedy Chairman

10 SPN 96 March 16 Council News

Changes will be happening at the harbour. This will allow an increase in the number of dinghies that can be moored and for the first The Parish Council has been successful in time provide a secure store for the obtaining a Government grant from a Coastal increasing number of Kayak enthusiasts Revival Fund. The grant is £5,850. using the harbour.

The money will be used to provide a Kayak The income from the additional moorings rack and also a Dinghy Rack for the smaller resulting from the grant will be used to help craft as well as a new winch to help when sustain the harbour by creating a protected beaching dinghies. sum for long term minor-maintenance.

Sheviock Parish Council Councillors

Chris Kennedy: Chairman 01503 230810 [email protected] Steve Medway: Vice Chairman 01503 230661 [email protected] Dorothee Mathias 01503 230361 [email protected] Peter McLaren 01503 232920 [email protected] Jenny Bushrod 01503 230565 [email protected] Mike Snowling 01503 230326 [email protected] John Isaac 01752 829453 [email protected]

Surgeries 09:30 – 10:30 Sat 7th May Community Shop, Crafthole S. Medway and J. Isaac

In Memory of Dorothy Luker. Most people in the Parish will know that my mother Dorothy Luker passed away on January 13th this year. This was very sudden but mercifully quick. I do not believe that she suffered. She passed away peacefully in Derriford Hospital with myself and Caroline by her side. Dorothy was obviously a very popular and well known person judging by the turn out at St Mary’s Church for the Memorial Service on 27th January. Over 120 according to the attendance cards. The Church was full. I thought that the Memorial Service was wonderful, conducted gently by the Reverend Lyn Parker. The hymns were chosen by my Mother herself. The music was beautifully played by David Mashford and the flowers provided by Ruth Andrew were magnificent. Most people came to the Liscawn later for refreshments and reminiscences. There were certainly plenty of them. I don’t think Mother will be forgotten in a hurry. Thank you all for making it such a wonderful occasion. It was a celebration of her life. Her last wishes were that people should be joyful because she had had such a good fulfilled life. Mike Luker

11 SPN 96 March 16 Nature Notes by Sue Wilks I noted with interest an article in the Western Morning News about the proposed development of a hotel on Drake’s Island. Apparently there is concern from Natural England and the R.S.P.B. for the possible disturbance to a colony of resident Little Egrets. The Little Egrets that now profusely populate our local coast and estuaries don’t seem too upset by our presence. I saw a large Heron and a Little Egret fishing together in Portwrinkle rockpools recently. Early December brought a shoal of (Velella spirans) ‘By the Wind Sailor’ jelly-fish onto Finnygook beach. Collins Pocket Guide to the Seashore mentions them. They are a very unusual jelly-fish, a flat oval membrane, iridescent blue with tentacles beneath and an angled ‘sail‘ on top. A new one for me, probably blown upon our shores by the persistent S.W. gales. A very old sailing book by Allan Villiers states that ”a very extraordinary feature about them…In the Southern Hemisphere they always sailed on the port tack and in the Northern always on the starboard. In a deep sea sailing ship there is plenty of time to notice things. We worked out an ingenious theory that the jelly-fish had evolved that design to keep themselves on the seaward side of the currents they lived in, and their different tacks were because of the clockwise and anti- clockwise current circulations in the different hemispheres. No-one would suspect a jelly- fish of having much intelligence yet it is a fact that, by this strange ability they greatly reduced the chance of being blown out of their current and swept ashore”. Amazing . Great reading. On January 22ⁿd I saw my first Snowdrops out down Well Lane along with emerging shoots of Wild Garlic and Dog’s Mercury. My Echiums and Banana have not suffered yet and the camellias are flowering very early. It is the first time in my 16 years here that I have picked my scented Narcissci before Christmas. In the last week of January several of us have heard the first Skylarks singing on the Coast Path. Spring is coming. Order your seeds, chit your earlies, plan the garden and dream of the hot dry, windless days ahead.

12 SPN 96 March 16 REPORT OF SHEVIOCK PARISH GARDEN CLUB Dee Medway

A very successful fund raising event for the Sheviock Memorial Hall. Thank you to all those who helped with the preparation, donations and manning of the Garden Club stall at the Christmas Fair in December.

A lovely time was had by all at the Whitsand Bay Hotel, where the Garden Club held their New Year lunch. Many thanks to all at the hotel for making everything so enjoyable.

Proposed Program of Events 2016 March 10 - Orchids - Speaker Pauline Kemp April 15 - Visit -Trematon Castle Garden, Saltash May 20 - Visit - Penrose Water Gardens, Shortlanesend June 13 - Visit -Hidden Valley Gardens, Lostwithiel July 25 - Visit - Trelawney Garden Centre/Camel Valley Vineyards August 6 - Garden Safari & Cream Tea - Sheviock Parish Sept 1 - The Work of Plant Heritage - Speaker Caroline Stone Oct 6 - Stinkbombs, Samphire & Squills - Speaker Jenny Edrich Nov 3 - Planting a Garden for all Seasons - Speaker Kim Parish Dec 1 - Gardens of Kent - Speaker Diane Stevenson Jan 28 - New Year Lunch - The Liscawn Hotel Feb 2 - AGM - Sheviock Memorial Hall

13 SPN 96 March 16 Sheviock Memorial Hall, Crafthole February 2016 Pastor: I wonder what that first to try your hand at a game of whist, Christmas was like for Mary and Badminton, Short tennis, Short Mat Bowls, Joseph? Snooker/Billiard yet? Why not come along All:- Stressful. to the Hall and enjoy an activity and daily We had a lovely Christmas apart from a refreshing conversation. few stressful medical problems, like Man’s We are having a Charity Table top event in Flu, a serious cough and plantar fasciitis to March, where any recognised Charity can my left foot. Otherwise fine and I can, have a table for free. All refreshment having had three children, understand the takings go towards our charity, the hall. above Christmas topical joke. Life with Come along and have a good look at the children and families can be tiring. The hall pickings and get yourself a bargain on can also be stressful but surrounded by a Saturday March 5th at 10am-12noon. good working committee, it can be fun. This will be quickly followed by the Annual Why not try and join this Trustee Easter Bonnet Parade at the Liscawn Inn Management Committee. We are allowed on Easter Monday starting at noon. Come to co-opt anyone who could be useful to along and enjoy yourself with your the running of the hall and benefit of the decorated Bonnet or Hat , decorated eggs. community. Fancy a shot at being useful? Whilst there, you can indulge in a little Egg The Sheviock Memorial Hall is looking rolling. All proceeds go towards the Hall forward to a very active year with dates and trying to keep the rents down. now in stone for the many annual events. Of course we and I hope all the parish will If anyone has any other ideas about be enjoying celebrating the Queen’s 90th concerts etc, to make the year a really Birthday. Following all the rest of the great Parish event let someone on the country we are anticipating having the committee be aware of your idea and it beacon alight. No doubt you are all going could be discussed at the monthly to join in the road, close, etc. celebrations meeting. of this wonderful event. Following the AGM we have now formed a For all future events please keep an eye on new management Committee who will do the posters . their best to ensure the hall lives up to its Oh by the way, if you go onto the Sheviock expected standard. Parish Web site then to the “Memorial The New Year Dance was very well Hall” you can keep up to date with all the attended and enjoyed by a bigger crowd activities. Michael Snowling. than usual. Thanks to all who attended, Chairman. Sheviock Memorial Hall, Crafthole helped in any way. Have you been tempted Trustee Management Committee Diary Dates: - ● The Village Hall Management Committee monthly meeting is on the first Monday in each month starting at 7.00pm. The next meetings covered by this magazine are:- 7th March, 4th April and 2ⁿd May 2016. ● Look out for a quiz night to be arranged in the near future ● Carnival is on Saturday 9th July 2016 where the general theme will be “BEATRIX POTTER”.

14 SPN 96 March 16 What’s on at the Sheviock Memorial Hall

The Recreation/Snooker Club The membership has lost two members. We now need to recruit new members , the costs for membership is £15.00 per person per year to join, plus 20p per 20 minutes lighting cost. Members have virtually unlimited usage throughout the day up to 10.30PM when it is expected the hall will be cleared. For details contact 01503 230326

Short Tennis. Every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evenings short tennis takes place in the Village Hall. This is played on the Badminton court and is a very good game for those out for some exercise without too much strain. Come along and try it out and swell the numbers enjoying themselves. For further information please contact Michael Claughton 230022 Short Mat Bowls A dream game. If you fancy a look at it or indeed trying your hand come along on Monday afternoon, 2.00 to 4.00 pm approx and/or Friday evening 7.00 to 9.00pm . It is a great game not aggressive but needs thought. We have plenty of spare bowls of various sizes for you to choose from. The league team is presently about half way up the table and enjoying a spurt of success, long may it be sustained. See the Cornish Times each week for an update. For further information contact Eileen Turner 232799 Keep Fit or Gentle Exercise whichever suits your ability in the village hall on Thursdays at 2.15pm for an hour. Anyone is welcome to join us and no previous experience is necessary! We laugh a lot as well as keeping our joints moving. Looking forward to seeing you there. Barbara 01503 230326

BADMINTON CLUB. is still very active and successful. It would be good to see some younger adults joining us. The children all come regularly and their play has greatly improved. New members at all ages and levels of play are welcome. Some of the older children now play with the adults which keeps us all on our toes. Thanks must go to all those who have come along to help with the junior club. Wednesday 5.30 - 6.30 pm 7 years and upwards 6.30 - 8.00 pm Senior School children Contact Barbara 230326

The Craft Fair will be early this year – Sat 8th & 9th October. If there are any new Crafters who wish to get in touch with a view to being added to Lynn Vickery’s contact list. [email protected] 01503 230048

Tuesdays 8-9pm Body beautiful Ballet toning with Susie. £4 per session. Call Susie on 07886335181

15 SPN 96 March 16 The Re -enactment of our History for the Royal Birthday. Peter McLaren

The Sheviock Memorial Hall are preparing to beacons, through the Celebrate the Queens 90th Birthday by joining the neernesse to the sea and the rest of the nation and lighting its beacon on the advantage of the hilly 21st of April. situations welneere every The celebrating of our Monarch’s 90th Birthday parish is charged with one will have a local heritage and historical thread to which are watched”, his it. statement showing the The Beacon at Beaconsfield, Sheviock which is importance of these coastal recorded as “Beacon Hill”, since the 13th beacons for which he was century, has played an responsible for at his time. Taken from( Nevilles Cusworths’ book, important role Sheviock, History of a Cornish Coastal in the Manor and Parish). defence of And so it will be a fitting event our to relight our historic beacon country. to honour our Monarch Shards of Elizabeth the second with the medieval thought that her *regnal pottery were Photo by Warren Derrington Evans, predecessor Elizabeth of recovered from England was instrumental in Beacon Hill, formerly known as Round Burrows, the defence of her realm. in Sheviock, when the Bronze Age burial mound God Save the Queen. at the top of the hill was excavated in 1982. Several instances of medieval orders to prepare beacons have survived. In September 1224, when there were fears of a French invasion, John of Bayeaux was made keeper of the coasts of Devon and Cornwall and was instructed to provide beacons in every parish on the coast. As Lord of Sheviock and Rame, the Abbot of Tavistock and his Knights had a special duty to protect the Tamar estuary from Channel pirates. This role was extended in the 1200’s by the establishment of the Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas in the Isles of Scilly, as daughter house of the abbey. There are well documented events when the Carew Poles, in the person of Sir Richard, a Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall in 1588, before the Armada, was recorded as saying, “Of

16 SPN 96 March 16 *Regnal: of, or relating to a reign Hello everyone Pat, I decided to become a member of St Mary’s and take part in regular worship and reflection. It was about two years This year, the Bishop of later that Philippa was also baptised at St Mary’s and this Truro, Bishop Tim, has became more important to me later. The time came when I challenged all church wanted to take Confirmation lessons and I was confirmed at members to tell their own St Mary’s Church. I have always had a strong faith in a loving ‘faith story’ – the story of God, however when tragedy struck this was severely tested how they got to the place on more than one occasion. In time, family, faith and friends where they are today. So we helped me live through the difficult times, and the dark times thought we would begin by telling you ours: that still occur. Being a member of St Mary’s First, Fiona “I was born into a faith family and my mother and congregation/family is very important to me, it is better to be father were my first teachers. Through their word and part of the whole worshipping community, to love and praise example, I learned about Jesus and a pattern for Christian God together”. living. As a baby, I was baptised at St Mary’s and we went to All our experiences and needs are different, hopefully you church as a family – usually to Antony in the morning and may hear some more stories this year or perhaps you may often to Sheviock in the evening. I attended school at Antony like to tell us your own – we would love to hear it. – this was then, as now, a Church school and a place where I Lent is already here and Easter not far behind – so early this was able to continue to learn about Christian values. As my year. We hope that you have already seen the posters from siblings and I grew older, my parents felt that we needed to “Churches Together in Sheviock Parish” with details of worship in a church community where we could have more services and activities – in summary they are: interaction with people of our own age, so as a teenager, I Each Friday evening until 11th March: Lent Reflections 8pm at attended church and youth group at Liskeard and it was here 34 Whitsand Bay View, Portwrinkle that I made the decision to be confirmed. And so the Friday 4th March: Women’s World Day of Prayer 2pm Christian faith has always been at the core of my being. There Cornerstone, Torpoint have been periods in my life when my church attendance has Sunday 6th March: Mothering Sunday service: 9:30am wavered but my faith in the goodness of God and my desire St Mary’s, Sheviock to live my life by Christian values has remained firm. In later 25th March: Good Friday Service 10:30am: years, being a member of St Mary’s and taking part in regular The Zone, Downderry worship has become important to me. It is good to have that 25th March: Good Friday Service 2pm time to stand aside from the hurly burly of life, to respond to St Mary’s, Sheviock God’s love in prayer and praise, to face up to my Sunday 27th March: Easter Sunday Sunrise Service shortcomings and to receive a renewed sense of purpose. I The Beacon (meet at the Bungalow at 6:30am am reminded of that sign on the motorways “Tiredness can Sunday 27th March: Easter Sunday Service 9:30am kill, Take a break”- Sunday morning, 9:30 – that’s when I pull St Mary’s, Sheviock into the service station named St Mary’s, Sheviock for an Sunday 27th March: Easter Sunday Service 10:30 am hour!!” Crafthole Methodist Church And now, Steve “As Fiona I was also born into a family where We also have a new programme of events. During the next faith was important, I followed my father in attending St few months we are looking forward to our: Budeaux Foundation Junior School (C of E). The school had Spring Coffee Morning 9th April good links with the parish church and we attended and took Methodist Schoolroom part in services. We lived in Ernesettle and when I was about Maytime market 14th May ten I joined the Ernesettle parish church choir. Sadly this only Smugglers Cottage lasted about six months, at one service when incense was Our regular pattern of services at St Mary’s continues as being used I fainted and hit my head, this put me off being in follow the choir. When I was eleven we moved to West Park 1st Sunday Family Service Plymouth, and like most teenagers I lost touch with the 2ⁿd Sunday Holy Communion church. However after about a year I joined the Boys Brigade, 3rd Sunday Morning Worship I can’t remember if it was the uniform or the bugle that was 4th Sunday Holy Communion the attraction, that being said I enjoyed marching and taking All at 9.30am unless special arrangements are notified. part in church events and services. This time in the Boys 3rd Sunday 2:30 – 3:30pm Brigade came to an end when they finally realised I couldn’t Informal Service for Children and Families play the bugle to save my life! When Ann and I married in We would love to welcome you at any of our services or 1969 there was no doubt that it would be in a church, and it events. For the most up to date news of what is happening, was then when preparing for our wedding that I next took log onto our page on the website “A Church Near You”or part in church life. In 1979 we moved to Crafthole and at that keep an eye on the church notice boards (the church is open time I was content to feel close to God while walking on the each day from 9:30am – 4:00pm) beach or in the surrounding fields. This all changed after Jennifer was baptised in St Mary’s church, I started to think With best wishes to you all for a holy Lent and a joyous Easter more about a loving God and when Jennifer was old enough Fiona Harvey and Steve Harbour, Church wardens to ask questions and started to go to church with Fiona and St. Mary the Virgin, Sheviock

17 SPN 96 March 16 From the Revd. Tom Osborne Telling Stories

I recently read the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s final question why I’m an ordained minister. ‘They Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown. Even aren’t “stories”’, they might say. ‘They’re the with the knowledge that there are a couple more truth.’ This, of course, presumes that stories of the Long Earth sci-fi series Pratchett wrote cannot tell the truth. Yet when the truth is not with Stephen Baxter yet to be published, about facts and figures but about emotion, and finishing this book was a very bittersweet relationships, and being human, and purpose, moment. I love getting to the end of a story and then stories are the way we have always seeing how things are resolved, or not, as the engaged with truth. So, is every little bit of the case may be. Yet knowing that this would be the Bible factual? No, and in fact it can’t be, since last time I would have a new story to read poetry has never been factual, and there’s a fair featuring some of my favourite literary amount of poetry in the Bible – like the whole characters, characters such as Granny Book of Psalms to start with. But just because I Weatherwax, Rincewind, Lu Tze, Sam Vimes, the think the Bible is a collection of stories, some of Librarian, and Death, left me feeling somehow which I most certainly hold to be factual, or lost. I have loved Pratchett’s work since I first based on facts, doesn’t mean I don’t think it read Mort on a French exchange more than 20 speaks the truth. years ago. In fact, my experience of life convinces me that it Yet Sir Terry’s greatest gift to me, and I think to does. It convinces me that there is deep truth in the world at large, wasn’t the stories he wrote, the story of a God who seeks relationship with but rather that he understood something of the the world through a particular group of rather nature of what stories are. What they contain, wandering and wondering people, and then and what they give to us. Anyone who read develops that relationship further by stepping Pratchett’s writings, especially his non-fiction into human life as one of us, born a baby, writing in the lead-up to his death from early- growing into a man, ministering amongst people, onset Alzheimer’s disease, would not be accepting death, and only through that death surprised to learn that he was a humanist, and offering the world an opportunity to truly live a indeed his funeral was a humanist ceremony. It full life in touch with the very deepest truths of might, though, come as a surprise to learn that life. while he was a humanist, Pratchett was not an There are those who would write off all stories atheist. He was agnostic. Often atheists write off as made-up nonsense for the purpose of pure faith and religion as “just stories”, yet Pratchett entertainment. I find that terribly sad. Telling knew there was no such thing. stories is part of our humanity, a creativeness at The idea that we make sense of the world simply the heart of our DNA. One way of translating the by analysing data using particular formulas and opening of John’s Gospel is “In the beginning was processes is a modern phenomenon. For most of the story…” I don’t think it’s a coincidence that human existence we have made sense of the one of the things we most frequently encounter world by telling stories. Stories have historically Jesus doing in the stories told about him is the not been told simply for the fun of making things telling of stories. It would seem to me inevitable up, but to explore the truth of why we are as we that if the truth at the heart of all things came are, how we might be, and the way we relate to among us it would be as a great storyteller. each other and the universe. In other words, Stories are important. Stories help us work out stories have not been seen as telling lies, but as the truth. Sir Terry Pratchett taught me that. I ways of telling the truth. hope it is something we as humans never forget! If I were to say that the Bible is a collection of stories, there are likely some who would Shallom, Tom

18 SPN 96 March 16 Our Mission Statement. We pray that Crafthole Methodist Church may always be God-Centred, providing a place where God’s family may worship, reach out in Christian love and service to the community and draw in all people of all ages and abilities, so that they can learn that God loves and values them.

All are welcome to our church services and Crafthole Methodist Church Coffee we especially welcome children to our Sunday Mornings School. Sunday School begins at 9.45 and is for “The socialising centre of the universe!” children 3 years to 11 years. They go into the Remember on the fourth Saturday of every church service for about 15 minutes before going month there is a Coffee Morning in the home at 10.45am. Methodist Chapel Sunday School room starting It is a fun time and a gentle introduction to the from 10.00 until 11:30 am, put these dates in Christian faith. All children have a sense of your diary:- wonder and our Sunday school helps them to Saturday March 26th April 23rd , May 28th. explore this. We are not brain washing the We would like to say a big thank you to all our children but helping them to access and use their loyal supporters who share our coffee mornings spirituality. with us. Church Services are held each Sunday morning Table Tennis in the Chapel. at 10.30 am We have been running a successful Table Tennis All are very welcome to this and other services club for many years where we play for fun and held in the Methodist Church. enjoyment. We play on Friday nights from 6pm Sunday Club This club was for senior school to 7pm for children from age 7, then adults and children and met at 6:30pm –8-00 on SUNDAY older youngsters join us until we decide to stop. EVENING in the schoolroom. All are welcome to There is no need for previous experience all are this Youth Club , which has begun again and we welcome. At the moment we have a dearth in are having a great time. our membership so if you fancy a game come along Bible Study. Bible study is held at 3.30pm on the first and third Thursday of every month at Churches together in the Sheviock Parish the home of Barbara Snowling, 10, Cross Park, Diary Dates showing the collective Activities when all ladies and gentlemen will be most June 5th Chapel Anniversary at 10:30am welcome. June 12th Sunday School Anniversary 10:30am Tuesday Club meets on the First Tuesday of each September 17th Harvest Festival at month in the Schoolroom. Come and join us at 10-30am followed by lunch. this partly devotional meeting and with This is a family service and all gifts are interesting discussions as well as entertaining distributed in the parish. games and quizzes. We also have visiting speakers. Everyone is welcome to join us for these activities Barbara Snowling 01503 230326.

19 SPN 96 March 16 CRAFTHOLE AND DISTRICT W.I. REPORT January 2016. Our January meeting was most A swift glance over our shoulders shows entertaining. that the past year has been memorable for Members had been many things. Firstly, of course, it was the asked to bring an one hundredth anniversary of the formation item to illustrate a of the WI, which saw the baton being story of something passed, by various means, to each and every which had a special memory for them. So WI. in England and Wales. Plus our own many memories were evoked that we ran offshore islands. Our turn came in February, well over time, but everyone went home when I received it from Downderry, and was smiling. driven, in one of Bob White’s vintage cars to We have lost several members along the Kingsand, and afterwards to Wilcove and way, Joyce Bridge, who has moved away, Torpoint, where we were received by the the late Margaret Shapland (although she Mayor, Mike Pearn, and celebrated with a had been living away from us for some little Cornish tea. time) and Dorothy Luker, loyal and long In June, Her Majesty (President of the time member of our WI, who passed away Sandringham WI), Princess Anne, and earlier this month. You are able to read Sophie, Countess of Wessex, attended our more about Dorothy elsewhere in this A.G.M. in the Albert Hall. The previous day Newsletter. had been the Royal Garden Party, at We meet on the third Wednesday of each Buckingham Palace, which Teresa Colrein month in the village hall at 2pm. Visitors and I were privileged to attend. The gale and new members are very welcome. force winds blew iced coffee over my posh Joy Kentisbeer frock and jacket. Fortunately they cleaned, President and came up smiling. No, we did not see much of the Royal party, just the appearance at the top of the terrace steps, and then some hats moving along the massed ranks of WI members. We did, however, meet some lovely ladies from Derbyshire. On rolled the year, with strawberry teas, Harvest tea, Village Fun Day, invitations to other WI’s Christmas ‘do’s’, Village Christmas Fair; most successful from our point of view for several years. Then, lastly, our own Christmas meal at the Whitsand Bay hotel.

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21 SPN 96 March 16 Vicar buys Pub to close it to spite thirsty bell ringers By Martin Lister]

IT begins as a metalled road but soon former inn and running down to the river, develops into a deep "green lane" running was the village's main link with the outside from beside the church, over the world and the river Lynher the main artery downland, past an iron age fort before for trade and industry. plunging through deep woodland to a Stone from local quarries, bricks from forgotten quay beside one of Cornwall's Sheviock brickworks and all local loveliest rivers. agricultural produce would find its way It is hard to recall that this peaceful down George's Lane to the barges which pathway, less than a mile long, was once plied the estuaries. In exchange, limestone an important means of communication to fertilise the fields, all coal and other and is a vital link with part of Cornish industrial products required by the history. agricultural community would find its way The lane, known as George's Quay on the back upstream and up the lane to the village. River Lynher - a forgotten highway which There was formerly a ford across to Erth once formed part of an important link Barton near Saltash, which can still be between Sheviock and Saltash, Crafthole defined at low tide and, probably, a ferry. and the sea. Certainly the Bond family, of 14th century Sheviock was then a typical Cornish Erth Barton, religiously rowed across to church-town, isolated from the newer and George's Quay each Sunday to attend busier settlement of Crafthole, which held church at Sheviock, where they had their a regular fair and was described as "...a own pew. poor village but a much frequented thoroughfare". SMUGGLING Crafthole was on one of the main routes A more interesting and illicit trade followed into Cornwall and the same writer, Carew, this route -smuggling! Contraband brandy recorded that it was customary for those landed around Portwrinkle could be hidden passing through to make fun of the village awhile in Sheviock Woods before being ladies for their somewhat notorious lack ferried across the Lynher to Erth and on to of morals. Saltash. The ladies of the village would retaliate There are various smuggling tales about with the use of buckets of "slops", kept Sheviock. One relates how eight men from for such a purpose and the wary traveller, St. Stephens-by- Saltash crossed the river having had his joke, had to "...plead his to collect their kegs from Sheviock Woods, heels the faster". when they were surprised by Shovel, the DODGY local exciseman, who demanded the kegs Since the opening of the Torpoint "...in the King's name". turnpike, around 1820, it has been One of the men, however, easily held down Sheviock that now stands on the main the exciseman while the others made off thoroughfare. The village tollhouse still with the booty. On seeing them escape, remains, though it is no longer necessary Shovel requested that he be shot with his for local farmers to drive their cattle own pistol, rather than return in disgrace. through fields to avoid paying the toll. The smugglers refused to do this, insisting The thirsty Sheviock villager must climb the that they had no personal quarrel with him steep lane to Crafthole to assuage his, (or and would each go his own way. Smugglers' her), thirst at the "Finnygook". For this he caves around, Shillingham and Elm Gate on has to thank - or curse - Mr. Glanville, a 19th the Saltash side still supposedly exist, one century vicar of Sheviock. being found by a cobbler who lived in the Before his time there was a flourishing inn cottage above one and noticed an echo in Sheviock; The Carew Arms, too when nailing the boots. flourishing indeed, for the vicar, who The smugglers have gone, the last major objected to the time his bellringers sat encounter being in 1831, when six drinking ale. He accordingly bought the pub coastguards armed with muskets surprised and closed it down. about 40 at Whitsands, only one of whom In former times George's Lane, starting was caught. close by the church, tollhouse and the continued

22 SPN 96 March 16 More legitimate traffic lingered into the twentieth century with the market boats, Water Aid Christmas Cribs motorised in later days, continuing to As well as the Scarecrows, we were collect fruit and vegetable produce, and treated to another example of the skills passengers, until the 1930's. in the neighbourhood with the Since then the road has borne all the traffic, George's Lane and Quay have Christmas Cribs in support of Water Aid. been allowed to overgrow and become Well done to every one involved in a peaceful and unspoilt backwater, home organising and participating. of the curlew and heron.

Thanks to Janet Lockett’s contribution courtesy of the Cornish Times

Anagram puzzle; there is an anagram of goings on at the Memorial hall within each phrase 1. Don’t put your shirts on ten to win this. 2. Tom in band makes a racket! 3. That was his cue, or so Ken thought! 4. Signs of owl with shrew here. 5. Should we exhibit car tariff? 6. Clung to his beard amongst these. Answers. On page somewhere.

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