Wickham Bishops Parish Magazine June 2018

Produced by St Bartholomew’s Church www.churchinwickhambishops.org.uk

Church Services for June

At St Bartholomew’s and St Nicholas

SUNDAY 3 Trinity 1 8.00 am Holy Communion 10.30 am Parish Communion 4.00 pm Messy Church 6.30 pm Choral Evensong

WEDNESDAY 6 10.00 am Holy Communion

SUNDAY 10 Trinity 2 8.00 am Holy Communion 10.30 am No Service - Open Gardens

WEDNESDAY 13 10.00 am Holy Communion

SUNDAY 17 Trinity 3 9.00 am Eucharist at St Nicholas, Lt Braxted 10.30 am All Age Morning Praise in Hall

WEDNESDAY 20 10.00 am Holy Communion at Braxted Place Chapel

SUNDAY 24 Trinity 4 8.00 am Holy Communion (1662) 10.30 am Parish Communion

WEDNESDAY 27 10.00 am Holy Communion

Parish Register

Baptisms Harper Priest May 20th

Marriages None

Funerals Peter Chapman May 9th Frances Wilkinson May 17th

Parish Contacts

Revd Hilary The Rectory, 1 Church Road, 01621 892867 Le Sève Wickham Bishops CM8 3LA Hilary’s day off Priest in Charge [email protected] is Friday.

Revd Derek Clark The Leas Farm 01245 380619 Wickham Bishops Road Priest / Curate Hatfield Peverel 01245 380627 CM3 2JL (with answer phone)

Barry Cousins 3 Harvey Road 01621 891355 Great Totham CM9 8QA Churchwarden [email protected] Graham Wingrove 8 Arbour Lane 07398 025442 Wickham Bishops Churchwarden CM8 3NS

Peter Bates 10 Church Green 01621-893173 Wickham Bishops Magazine Editor [email protected] Kath Adkins [email protected] 01621-891143

Church Hall Bookings

Letter from Reverend Hilary

‘Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors and see all the people’

Are you a keen gardener? Curious to see behind the clematis covered walls and manicured hedges? Wickham Bishops Open Gardens 2018 gives you a glimpse into quintessential England. In opening their gates and inviting the public to view - a selection of eleven beautiful private gardens are generously helping to raise funds for the historic local landmark, the church of St Bartholomew’s. And what a landmark! The 40m. shingled steeple is visible from the A12 and from the River Blackwater. Designed by Ewan Christian and built in 1850 it is an architectural attempt to reach skyward ‘towards heaven and the divine’. Not too far away in the village, at the ancient (now closed) church of St Peter’s, a new stained glass window picks up this heavenly theme showing angels ascending and descending whilst Jacob dreams*. The Bible story concludes with an amazing blessing from God for Jacob and his descendants. On waking he exclaims ‘Surely the Lord is in this place … How awesome is this place!’ and turns his stone pillow into an altar before setting off. As I write, Dave the stonemason is painstakingly repointing and resetting stones that make up St. Bartholomew’s steeple tower. Ice and heat cause the stones to split and flake and over time pieces fall off. Generations in this village have provided the funds to maintain the building here as an open space for seekers, questioning sceptics, people of committed faith and none. In coming to the Open Gardens (and the ‘Anything Goes’ concert) you are taking a part in this living heritage and keep the church open for public use. May we all have a lot of fun on what promises to be a great day and keep the use for which these stones have been laid alive!

*(Genesis 28:10-17)

A photograph of the stained glass window is on the inside back cover.

Women’s Christian Fellowship ... At our April meeting the advertised speaker had to cancel due to serious illness but we were very fortunate to rebook at very short notice, Brian and Carole Willis who gave a very interesting and thought provoking talk on WaterAid. This talk had previously been planned for February but that had been postponed due to the snow that had arrived that week. Water Aid is a wonderful organisation that began in 1981 which helps to provide clean, accessible water to remote areas in thirty seven countries mainly in Africa. We were told that 60 children die every hour through a lack of fresh drinking water. The women in their villages spent most of the day collecting dirty sewage contaminated water on their heads in containers weighing 20 kilos. What a choice for families who had no other water supply. Brian and Carole showed a short film entitled ' Imagine a world without Water' which was very moving, and, indeed very hard to imagine! Money raised by Water Aid is given directly to the communities where they are taught how to manage and maintain the pump and equipment and the women can now earn some money to support their families instead of the daily task of water carrying. In June we will be having an outing to lunch at the Rivenhall Hotel, if any member wishes to go but has not booked their place please contact Dorothy Kerr 892102 or any committee member.

Denise Yelland

Fun, crafts, food, Experiments

DOES SCIENCE “ANIMALS” Sunday 3rd June 4 to 6 pm For All The Family - St Bartholomew’s Church

St Bartholomew’s, Wickham Bishops Presents:

St Bart’s Big Sing

Saturday July 21st at 5pm

Hymns and poems to calm, uplift and inspire

Tell us your favourite hymn, or poem and why you chose it There will be a box in the church from Sunday July 1st to Sunday July 15th for you to post your requests.

A collection will be taken to support Farleigh Hospice

Come and enjoy a good sing, we look forward to seeing you! Join us for refreshments afterwards

St. Bartholomew, Church Road Wickham Bishops, CM8 3LA

For further information contact: Sue Handscombe 01621 742057

Drop-in For Tea and Cake On the second and fourth Monday afternoons.

We meet from 2.30pm to 4pm ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH HALL Transport is available - please ask Sue We look forward to seeing you - Sue (892032)

Wickham Bishops “Over 60’s” Club ... Due to problems with transport, our numbers were somewhat depleted last month, however those members who were able to join us enjoyed the welcome return of Brian Carline. His talk was entitled "Days of Dolly Blue and Izal". Not only did the dolly blue bags make the washing white, it was a cure for getting rid of hornet stings as Brian and his mate found to their cost! Suffice to say for the next few days they had the whitest shirts on their street. Homemade remedies were always popular; it was expensive to see a doctor, so mustard vests were used for weak chests, and also came in handy to rub in to your ham or paste sandwich!!!! Duck fat was used for mumps, olive oil and cotton wool for ear-ache, boiled onion juice for colds and rhubarb juice to gargle with to soothe sore throats. One thing I'd never come across was the fact that so many children in the north of the country had to get their supply of vitamin D by standing in front of a sun lamp for ten minutes (back and front), although Brian made everything sound amusing, life was hard, but they all came through! He also spoke of things that don't happen anymore--- penny for the guy, bob-a-job week (for obvious reasons) to name but two. It was a thoroughly entertaining afternoon, it ended as always with refreshments and the raffle. Kaye

BEACON HILL SPORTS The Arts Society ASSOCIATION Blackwater

presents

JAZZ at Wickham Bishops Village Hall Thursday 7th June 2018 9th June 2018 The Age of Jazz! Art Deco – Fashion and Style Richard Leach’s Sally Hoban PhD Seven Stars of Jazz The AGM will precede this lecture Bring your own refreshments. at 10.00 a.m. Seating is at tables and reserved. Visitors welcome - all enquiries to Start time 7.30pm. Jennifer Allen 01621 891589 Contact Meetings are normally held at the Gordon 01621 891717 Wickham Bishops Village Hall at 11 am to book your seat Visit our website www.blackwaterdfas.org.uk

Wickham Bishops Men's Badminton Club WICKHAM BISHOPS ART GROUP

We are looking for new members to join us.

We are a social badminton club We meet on Wednesdays and play at Wickham Bishops from 2 pm - 4 pm at Village Hall on Tuesday evenings St. Bartholomew’s Church Hall and at 8pm and welcome new players are a friendly, of all standards. informal group with varying abilities.

Please contact First few weeks are free and yearly subs are £60. Jenny on 01621 891246 Just turn up on the night or or Rita on 01621 891130. email Bill on [email protected] for more information. We look forward to meeting you.

Wickham Bishops Flower Club ... Our yearly summer Open Evening is on Tuesday 26th June in Great Totham Village Hall when we welcome Lisa Morgan as our demonstrator for the evening with her theme 'Summer Time'. We will be preceding Lisa's demonstration with a quiche and salad supper and dessert accompanied with juice, wine or alternative drinks can, of course, be brought with you for the evening. Tickets are £13 for members and £15 for guests and are available from Mrs. Jenny Barclay on 01621 891164. We look forward to welcoming you to Great Totham Village Hall. 7pm for 7.30pm.

Christine Walker

Wickham Bishops Women’s Institute ... This month we had a delightful lady named Susan Burns who came to talk to us about "Knitting with wire" - absolutely fascinating. She told us that she was brought up in a family where craftwork was encouraged, sometimes through necessity and also for pleasure in designing and developing something to be proud of. She enjoyed knitting and found it very therapeutic. Sadly she became ill and lost all interest in her passion. One day she heard about knitting with wire and she thought this might be just what she needed; indeed she made a very wise choice and hasn't looked back since. Susan also creates pieces of jewellery and runs workshops giving talks and demonstrations. We are currently planning for our AGM to be held end of May 2018. Anyone interested in visiting our group would be better planning to come along in June when our speaker will be Kay Ball talking on "Skin Care" and of course we always welcome new members and visitors to join us. Our walking group meets every Monday opposite the village hall at 09:30 for a walk around the village and our craft group meet at the church hall on Friday afternoons 2 - 4pm tea and biscuits and a chat which is always a welcome thought. Don't forget we now meet on the last Thursday in the month 2pm - 4pm at St Bartholomew's Church Hall. There is plenty of parking. For further information please contact our secretary Sharon O’Connell on 01621 891631

Saturday 14 July to Saturday 1 September This year the Summer Reading Challenge is called Mischief Makers and has been created in partnership with The Beano, celebrating its 80th year in 2018. Children will be invited into the world of Dennis, Gnasher and all the other Beano Town residents. Children will explore new titles and discover facts, characters and stories across the best contemporary children’s writing. During their challenge children will be encouraged to read any six books of their choice. They will collect stickers for their Mischief Makers folder, solving puzzles as they go to find… well we can’t give too much away yet! There are other exciting rewards along the way and, when they complete, they will receive a medal and certificate. So let’s get ready for library jokes, pranks, whoopee cushions and silly moustaches. Mischief Makers is for children aged 3-12 with a special early year’s version for babies and toddlers. For those aged 10 or about to start secondary school there will be an arts based creative reading challenge called ImagiNation. The national Summer Reading Challenge is created by The Reading Agency and delivered by libraries.

Great Totham Cricket Club … Are looking for new members of all ages and abilities. Want to join a family friendly, dynamic club who play in idyllic surroundings ? Come along and join GTCC - All Are Welcome Junior Training (Ages 8+) - Sundays 8.30 am to 9.30 am Adult Training - Please contact us for further details Great Totham Village Fun Day - Sunday 24th June 2018

Chairman: Richard Dickenson - 07799 118829 - [email protected] Secretary: Kylie Marks - 07764 479746 - [email protected] Head Coach: Paul Marks - 07709 793958 - [email protected]

E C B Backed

www.greattothamcc.co.uk

Wickham Bishops Drama Club … The Drama Club were delighted to receive the NODA (region 8) best production award for last year's 'Allo 'Allo recently. Unfortunately, the planned Summer Production (Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling) on 13th and 14th July, has been cancelled. This information arrived too late to be included in the printed copy of this magazine. For more about the Club, please visit: www.wickhambishopsdrama.co.uk

Lest We Forget - Local Lives in the First World War Can You Help? As the centenary of the end of the First World War approaches I am preparing a publication to commemorate those who lost their lives from the Beacon Hill Parishes of Great and Little Braxted, Great Totham and Wickham Bishops. Most are named on the main memorials at Beacon Hill and Great Totham as well as on tablets in the Churches. If you have any information about them, perhaps passed down from family members or friends through papers, photographs, objects, memories or discussion please contact me if you are able to share them. If you know of any local casualty not on the list please also let me know. My contact details are below. Names of those who lost their lives in the First World War Beacon Hill War Memorial:

Little Braxted Oscar Charles Wilson

Great Braxted Oliver John Lazell Arthur Page Polley Joseph Pye Frank Edward L Pye

Not on Memorial Doller Boreham F S Fisher Harry Lander Stacy Taber

Wickham Bishops Stanley Bannister Harold Stanley Glynn James Bridgman William Hayward William Burman Kenneth Chester Herron Thomas Bushby Harold Courtland Peeling George Dickerson Ernest Pryor Albert Edward Doe William Sword Arthur Edwards John Williams Charles Ewers William Wood James Ewers

Not on Memorial Eric Wilson Buckler Ernest Alexander Knight Frank Cecil Gardiner George William Scott Charles Alfred Holgate Alfred Shepherd

Clive Potter, 19 Mill Road, Great Totham, Maldon, Essex. CM9 8DH Phone: 01621 891474 e-mail: [email protected]

News from Neighbourhood Watch ... I have had a message from Essex Police. Apparently there has been an increase in Rogue Traders recently. These are people who call at your door pretending to be qualified tradespeople and offering to do work on your home, including roof repairs, lawn repairs, driveways power washed, repaired or replaced, fence repairs, garden services, tree lopping, waste clearance etc. They may seem friendly and persuasive but too often they target vulnerable elderly people. The rogue traders may claim to know your neighbours and have done work for them but often the work they promise to complete didn't need doing in the first place. If you think you've been taken in by a rogue trader, please let the police know by calling 101, and contact Trading Standards - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/get-more-help/report- to-trading-standards/. A genuine trader won't: • Call without an appointment • Ask you to go to the bank to withdraw cash or make a money transfer • Offer to take you to the bank to withdraw cash for payment • Ask you to pay in full before the work is complete • Insist that you make a decision about the work they're offering to do on the spot • Bully or scare you into doing the work. If you do think you need some work doing: • Contact a Buy With Confidence accredited trader • Get a number of quotes • Get a written estimate detailing exactly what work will be carried out, how much it will cost and what the terms of payment are. • Take your time to make sure you’re happy with what you’re undertaking – ask a trusted friend/relative for advice or ring the Buy with Confidence number 08454 040506. Village news: A house in Station Road was broken into last month. The thieves entered through an upstairs window. Two planters were stolen from the front of a house in The Street, also last month. What you yourself should do if you see a crime being committed or are concerned about suspicious behaviour: If something needs immediate attention from the Police eg someone trying to break into a house or a car dial 999 If you are concerned about suspicious activity or other non-emergency crime eg a car slowing patrolling around with the occupants staring into gardens dial 101 or 01245 491491. Anyone deaf or with hearing or speech problems should phone 01245 452828 To report non- emergency crime online search for www.essex.police.uk/do-it- online/report-non-emergency-crime Sian (Village Coordinator 01621 891510 or email: [email protected])

News from Great Totham Primary School

www.greattotham.essex.sch.uk

Sports News

Year 5/6 - Tag Rugby – 24th April Our Tag Rugby team travelled to Southend Rugby Club to compete in the County Finals. There were 15 teams all competing for the coveted prize of winning this tournament. We played several games in the morning against others in our group and won every match which meant we went through to the Super 10’s (10 best teams) in the afternoon. The games got more difficult but we were there to give all we had and it showed – the children won game after game and then were through to the final! Our opponents were good, but we were better, and after a long 8 minutes we were triumphant! We were awarded medals and a glass trophy but most importantly we were named Tag Rugby Champions of Essex (bearing in mind there are over 450 Primary Schools in Essex – this is no mean feat!) Well done to every team member for their fabulous sportsmanship, and a special thanks to Stuart Pearson our Rugby coach and to the family supporters who came to watch; it was a truly wonderful day!

Year 3 /4 Football Fun

On Thursday 19th April we entered two teams in the Fun Football tournament organised at Plume School. The children played a number of games and enjoyed the experience.

Individual Cross Country Event – Friday 20th April Leo, Sam, Jess, Billy and Ethan competed in the Individual Cross Country Event held at Hadleigh Park, Benfleet. In the sweltering heat and with over 100 runners in each category the children all did themselves proud with Ethan coming in in 10th place.

Year 1 - 3 Tees Cricket – 23rd April East Essex Cricket Club invited a team of KS1 children to play a new game called 3 Tees Cricket – it’s a game which is a variation on cricket and involves students batting a ball off the tees then running to score runs between stumps. It was such good fun and we will be bringing the game into our school. Dates for the Diary (please contact the school office for further details) 13th July Summer Fete

From the Parish Council … The Annual Meeting of the Council was held on the 1st May, when Mandy Mickelsen was re-elected as Chairman of the Council and Ian Wardrop as Vice-Chairman. This was followed by the Annual Parish Assembly. There was an extraordinary meeting of the Council on 18th May, to discuss our response to an appeal submitted by the applicant against refusal of planning permission for land on Handleys Lane. The minutes of these meetings can be read on the Parish Council website. By the time that you read this, most of the road resurfacing in the village will have been completed. Last month we gave a list of which roads would be closed when, but the contractors then changed their schedule after this magazine had been printed. The up to date list of road repairs can be viewed on a map at https://roadworks.org Councillors would like to express their grateful thanks to the many volunteers who helped with the Annual Litter Pick on April 20th. It is hoped that residents will continue to remove litter adjacent to their properties - it really makes for a more attractive village. A number of people have offered to help maintain our footpaths under the ‘Parish Paths Partnership’ - a County Council sponsored programme which provides the necessary equipment and training. Please also keep your hedges trimmed back if they obstruct the footpath - they can grow quickly at this time of year. You should have received a copy of the Parish Council Annual Report with this magazine. Additional copies may be obtained from the Clerk, or viewed on the website www.wickhambishopsparishcouncil.org A reminder that the Council holds a ‘Saturday Surgery’ in the Village Library, on the third Saturday in the month, from 10.30 to 11.30 am. Residents are invited to ‘drop-in’ to discuss any matter of concern, in confidence if necessary. No appointment is needed. The next General Meeting of the Council will be held in the Boardroom of the Village Hall at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 5th June and the Planning Committee will meet if required on Friday 22nd June. Residents are invited to attend and may speak during the ‘Public Forum’ section of the meetings. Councillors may be contacted individually, or via the Parish Clerk on 07542 190176, or by email [email protected] Please would residents refrain from parking alongside the bus stop in Kelvedon Road, as this is causing problems for bus users.

TOM STUART-SMITH AT BRAXTED PARK

Celebrated garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith will be talking exclusively at Braxted Park on Tuesday 5th June as part of National Garden Scheme (NGS) Open Garden Day. The talk is in support of Horatio’s Garden and will be on ‘Gardens and Culture’. As Tom says: “Making gardens in different parts of the world has made me realise that our approach to gardening in Britain is both unique and eccentric. I will look at gardens I have made in India, Morocco, the Caribbean and the US in contrast to some of the gardens I have made in the UK, so as to illustrate the different place that gardens occupy in different cultures”.

This event is part of the NGS Open Garden Day at Braxted Park. The garden does not open to the public, so this is a very special day. Braxted Park is a Grade II* park of exceptional significance and visitors will be able to meander around the parkland’s ponds, lakes and walled gardens, enjoying the long wisteria broad walk and admiring the Mulberry parasol trees, unique to Braxted. The Head Gardener will be available to answer questions. Braxted Park’s owner Duncan Clark said: “We are so happy that Tom Stuart- Smith is returning to Braxted Park to give this talk for the Horatio’s Garden NGS open day. It was he who wrote the original Parkland Restoration plan in the late 1980’s which has guided our stewardship of this landscape ever since so it is a place he knows well and we look forward to his talk immensely.”

Dr Olivia Chapple, Founder and Executive Trustee of Horatio’s Garden, commented “We are absolutely thrilled and so very grateful to Braxted Park for opening their garden in support of the charity and the NGS. We all know what an impact a beautiful garden space can have on our well-being and this is why Horatio’s Gardens are so important to patients with spinal injuries. Our thanks go to Braxted Park and the National Garden Scheme for their continued support of our fundraising and for sharing Horatio’s vision. Thanks to this support the third Horatio’s Garden will open this summer at Stoke Mandeville. The wonderful National Garden Scheme has supported this project with a large grant and we are so grateful to everyone who visits an NGS open garden for their contribution”

For further information or to support this project, please visit www.horatiosgarden.org.uk

‘Open Gardens’ is here ...

Concert on Saturday 9th June Gardens open on Sunday 10th June See the back of this magazine for more details We hope that you will join in on the day. There will be eleven lovely gardens to visit, a quiz for children and a ’Village Trail’ around the village for all the family. Outside the church there will be stalls, a BBQ, beer tent and clog dancing. Coffees, lunch and afternoon teas will be available in the Church. All proceeds from the event go towards the upkeep of St Bartholomew’s Church and the Church Hall.

Our speaker at the April meeting was Zsursanna Serer who presented a talk about ‘Herbs’ - their uses and cultivation. She was so good that we invited her back to speak to us in May, the subject being ‘Tropical Plants in the UK’. Both meetings were well attended by over fifty of our eighty members. The next club event is a visit to the gardens and house at Audley End on June 4th, travelling in our own cars. Guests are welcome to join us but please email [email protected] in advance so that we know that you are coming. Admission will be around £15 per person (English Heritage members free) as we will benefit from a group discount. At the end of June, we hope for a dry day as we hold our Summer Social Evening. This is limited to members and their immediate families. The Horticultural Club have agreed to run the Plant Stall at the ‘Open Gardens’ event on Sunday 10th June. We would welcome donations of plants and/or garden accessories that we can sell, so please bear us in mind when you are planting seedlings or clearing out the shed. If you would like to know more about the Club and find out what it has to offer, please email [email protected] or telephone Stewart on 893360.

Great Totham Women’s Institute ... Great Totham recently hosted the Viking Group Spring Meeting, along with Eves Corner, Cold Norton, Maldon Wycke and Mundon WIs. Sheila Gunson kindly chaired the meeting and it all got off to a good start with a rousing rendition of Jerusalem accompanied by a recording of orchestral music. The speaker was Steve Scruton, a former BBC Radio Essex presenter, with technical assistance from Ian Wyatt. Steve had always wanted to be a Pirate Radio DJ, and accompanied by sound bites of 50s and 60s radio theme tunes, jingles and snippets of music, he told us about how he went from radio repairs to hospital radio, eventually presenting an afternoon show on BBC Radio Essex for 22 years. He was also involved with presenting from County Shows and had met Dwin Hendry and Barbara Ball. His boyhood ambition was finally realised in 2004 with the re-creation of Pirate Radio on a Lightship, and again in 2007, marking the 40th anniversaries of its start and finish. The highlight of his career was meeting the Queen as the representative of BBC Radio Essex. The evening did not stop there, as the tasty refreshments were accompanied by 60s music from a Jukebox kindly brought along by Kevin Stubbs, husband of a member from Eves' Corner.

Steve, Ian and Kevin at the jukebox ‘Pirate Treasure’ by Maldon Wycke

Kate Cole, our May meeting speaker, gave a very informative talk on the witches of Tudor and Stuart Essex, our county having more than any other! Often these witches were country women who practised herbalism. They were held in high esteem as white witches until a treatment resulted in misfortune for the recipient. Many were tried at the local assizes and could spend up to a year in Colchester Castle, the main prison of the time. The less fortunate were hanged; a public execution was a good day out for local people. We also voted unanimously for the Resolution to be put to the National Federation at their Annual Meeting, where the proposer wishes to see the WI working to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health by learning about the issue and discussing it openly in our local communities. In June we shall be learning about how to keep active in later life with Karen Lawrie. Visitors are welcome at our meetings, held on the second Thursday of the month at Great Totham Village Hall. Information is on the website www.greattothamwi.weebly.com or email [email protected]

Back Words … At the very end of April, my wife and I spent a day at Cressing Temple on a Garden Design course. As part of the process, the speaker asked participants to complete a short questionnaire about what is good and bad about their existing garden, and what they would like to include in a new design. If the ‘students’ were pairs, which most were, we then compared notes with our partners. It was a revealing exercise, and I was pleased to say that, for the most part, Jica and I agreed. One thing that I like to find in our garden is the unusual. A plant that you thought was lost years ago, or that should not thrive in our conditions. Recently, Jica found a rather large toad in one of the plant pots. Fascinating, though she was not so keen! I look forward to finding the unusual in other residents’ gardens at the event on June 10th. Most of my day will be given over to running the Plant Stall, but I intend to take a couple of hours out and have already made my list of ‘must see’ gardens. I hope to see many of you there too, but perhaps, no toads! Best Wishes

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