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October 2020 The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Colerne A member of the Lidbrook Group of Churches Priest-in-Charge Revd Dr Janet Anderson-MacKenzie The Vicarage, Church Lane, Box, Wilts SN13 8NR Tel. 01225 744458 Email: [email protected] Ministry Team Revd Clair Southgate Mrs Margaret Edmonds Churchwardens Rob Featherstone, 47 Round Barrow Close, SN14 8EF Tel: 01225 743044 Email: [email protected] Karen Brzezicki, The Stable, Trimnells, Colerne, SN14 8EP Tel: 744499 Email: [email protected] For enquiries to hire the Parish Church for a community event, contact the Churchwardens To arrange a Baptism, contact Rodney Priest, [email protected] or 01225 742042 To arrange a Marriage, contact Celia Batterham, [email protected] or 01225 744809 To arrange a Funeral or make an application for a churchyard memorial, contact Ray Barker, [email protected] or 01225 743402 or 07768 500684 Website: www.colerneparishchurch.org.uk
info on events find us on Facebook!for more Magazine Committee website Editorial Team Phil Chamberlain (07793 018283) Email: [email protected] coming Kathryn Houldcroft (744006) Email: [email protected] soon! Lavinia Wilson (742417) Email: [email protected] Design and prodution It has nearly been a year Liz House (740098) Email: [email protected] To celebrate we will be offering Advertising ‘happy hour’ Celia Batterham (744809) Email: [email protected] Tuesday & Wednesday Throughout October 6pm-7pm Distribution: Rosemary Sadler (742531) butcombe original £3.20 House G&T £4 Facebook page: @ColerneParishMagazine lager £4 250ml wine £5.50 cider £3.50 750ml Prosecco £12 Guinness £4 Social distancing enforced CHURCH FLOODLIGHTING Anyone wishing to arrange for the Church Floodlighting to be turned on should contact Derek or Julie Burgess on 743999 or 07470 031062 or at [email protected]
Front cover by: Amy Middleton (KS1), Colerne Church of England Primary School. Amy was the winner of the ‘Harvest Festival Cover Competition’ held in school. We love this bright bold picture that sums up harvest time so well. See page 21 for more harvest pictures and school news.
2 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 3 SERVICES FOR OCTOBER During October we have planned a simple service of holy communion at St John the Baptist Parish Church at: 9.30am each Sunday and 9.45am each Thursday Please bring and wear a face covering unless you are officially exempt. Access to the church and services are subject to guidance from the Government and National Church. Please keep an eye on the notice boards near the church for further and more up to date information on services and openings for private prayer.
FROM THE REGISTERS FUNERAL: 19th August – Iris Evelyn ALFORD
KEEPING SAFE FROM COVID-19 Are you shielding or having to self isolate? Colerne Covid-19 volunteers are here to help with practical problems such as shopping or prescription collection, or if you just want a chat. Give us a call on 07729774273, or email: [email protected]
COLERNE VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION Thanks to Natalie Pike who drew the 300 Club Annual Prize Draw at the Village Hall on Thursday 3rd September whilst observing social distancing rules. The winners are as follows: £252, No: 146, Mrs N Gay; £101, No: 171, Mrs S Betts; four prizes of £45.50, No: 189, Joyce Hall, No: 52, Mrs G Gooding, No: 100, Mrs J Venton, No: 153, Mrs M Bunton; four prizes of £30.50, No: 85, Mrs D Armitage, No: 107, Miss A Nicholas, No: 101, Mrs H Barton, No: 20, Mr E Gardiner; four prizes of £25.50, No: 33, Mrs P Sames, No: 164, Mrs M Price, No: 42, Mrs G Brierley, No: 241, Mrs F J Brookes.
Colerne Liberal Club is Reopening We look forward to welcoming you back on October 9th (Subject to latest Govt. guidelines) The Club is now Covid-safe because we have reorganised ✪ the ventilation ✪ the cleaning and hygiene schedules ✪ seating and distancing arrangements and sign-posting. For full details keep an eye on the Club website at 22 High Street http://www.libclubcolerne.co.uk
4 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 5 Colerne After NEW! TUESDAY BREAKFASTS AT POPPY APPEAL PLANS FOR 2020 School Club Ltd The In light of changing national guidelines, the Royal British Legion has announced revised plans for this year’s Remembrance Sunday event. Ofsted Registered URN: EY494696 Fox & Hounds And one resident will be walking a marathon to help fundraise for a Fully Qualified Staff with years of special commemoration. experience in child care Branch chairman Paul Jobbins said: “We are very keen that the whole Collection from Colerne Primary School village can be part of the act of remembrance, but we are very limited Variety of activities for all age groups To coincide with Anstee’s Pop Up Bakery (in in terms of the number of people who can gather at the war memorial. Very competitive prices the Car Park of the pub every Tuesday see “The plan is for a small number of representatives from the village organisations to be We are open Monday to Friday: ad on this page), we are delighted to now be present for the two minutes silence and to lay their wreaths. Details will be provided 7.30–8.30am offering our very own Pop Up Breakfast Café nearer the time, but we would ask that if you are not a wreath layer please do not gather at for Breakfast Club inside the pub. Come and join us! the memorial as we cannot have any more than six “The Covid restrictions have people present according to current guidelines.” After School Club hours are: We will be using Anstee’s fresh bread and also affected this year’s Monday to Thursday: 3.25–6.00pm serving small or large Full English breakfasts, The guidelines also mean there will be no and Fridays: 1.30–4.30pm Poppy Appeal. It means the parade. However, the Colerne Royal British toast, filled rolls (bacon, sausage, egg etc), branch will not be doing its Legion will be live streaming the event via its Please contact: tea and coffee etc. to eat in or take away. Jemma on 07446 447541 or door-to-door collections” Facebook page so people can still be part of the Bev on 07881 367022 From 8.30am every Tuesday. occasion as far as possible. or email [email protected] Tel:01225 744847 see our Facebook page: Annie Miller, Poppy Appeal Coordinator, said: “The Covid restrictions have also Colerne After School Club Ltd affected this year’s Poppy Appeal. It means the branch will not be doing its door-to- door collections. In addition, our local shops will not be offering Poppy Appeal items or have collection boxes. However all items can still be bought online through the RBL Poppy Appeal Shop which can be found at www.poppyshop.org.uk. The plan is for a large national campaign to encourage online donations.” Locally the Colerne RBL is planning a Heroes Trail to remember those commemorated on the war memorial. It will be fundraising separately by different means. As part of this Kay Hall, from Thickwood, will be walking a local marathon through the village in place of her London Marathon run she was due to do this year. Kay will be walking on 4th October and you can donate via the Branch Facebook page. All proceeds will go to the Poppy Appeal. Information is changing frequently so any updates will be on the Colerne RBL Facebook page and the Colerne Community page.
COLERNE WI We had hoped that we would have been able to hold a WI meeting in the Con Club this month, but the new restrictions on meeting in no more than six in a group has put paid to that plan.We can still meet as small groups for coffee or tea while the weather is kind to us. I hope you are all keeping well. I really do miss our WI meetings. Lets keep cheerful and be ever hopeful that the present situation does not last for too long. Wendy James
6 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 7 Come and play Grounds for Optimism – Chapter XXXIX MINI RUGBY! Apostles of Jesus Seminary and School, Buchinda, Uganda, 19th January 2018, early. Background I was half-way through a third annual fortnight in East Africa giving seminars on “Science through Coffee” to secondary teachers in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Today’s private hire taxi travel would be easy but tomorrow’s by long distance bus would be much tougher. Continuation Fred drove from Kabale through mist over fierce speed humps clumped in fives. The seminary’s Head of Chemistry, Mpamizo We welcome boys and girls Gonzaga, had recruited 13 delegates on a Saturday. aged 5+ to join our teams We were to meet in the more intimate (British) Institute of Physics sixth form model lab, rather 10.00 - 11.30 a.m. than the excellent but cavernous (British) Royal Society of Chemistry-funded labs which I had visited the year before. On the wall, poster-boy Einstein’s hair replaced recruiter Kitchener’s EVERY moustache and finger persuading youth that “Your UNIVERSE needs YOU to study PHYSICS” SUNDAY Three exhibits in a display aroused particular interest among the delegates. My “World Atlas AT COLERNE RFC of Coffee” Hoffmann, Firefly 2017, a gift from American nephews, showing the beverage’s complexity and ubiquity. There was also a photo of spray dryer as big as a wingless jet for For more info email: making top quality instant coffee. And finally my suitcase / lab store / wardrobe / mobile office [email protected] which Mpamizo gently, yet accurately, described as “useful confusion”. We were finished by teatime and the Fathers welcomed me to their abode. One was furloughed from a tough posting in South Sudan. Juba’s streets are deserted from 3pm with AK47-toting child soldiers terrorizing the town. Sunday was another day and I was going to another country, but mass came first. Bearded Rector Emmanuel celebrated in black cassock. He only needed a stove-pipe hat to be a Greek look-alike. Among the many little year seven postulants were half a dozen from today’s destination, Bukoba. At The Vintage Hamper Company we take pride in creating unique and beautiful hampers. After breakfast Mpamizo gave up Sunday family time to drive me to a stop on the Kabale - Kampala route. Clutching a Masaka ticket bought at the roadside booth, I boarded a “Bismarkian”, Every product is handpicked by us and is chosen named after the German leader whose straight lines mark the 1885 “Scramble for Africa” map. for their quality and style. We can supply: Delightful vintage English fine bone By 2pm, after hours of open cattle country, my route turned South and I was dropped off to china beautifully boxed as gifts fight my way 5km through Masaka to the stand for buses to the border. Minibuses are “dala Bespoke picnic hampers to buy, each dala” in Uganda, “matatu” in Kenya and full to bursting everywhere. Fares, to be affordable, one individual and made truly special by our beautiful bone china must be kept so low that the bus only leaves when full. Two motorbike ‘taxi’ trips (“boda A lovely selection of gifts for the home boda”) bridged the gap to this stand, my suitcase wedged behind handlebars. One ran out of and garden fuel, so there was no pay. Eventually we were barrelling along a good tarmac road in a jolly If you are looking for the perfect wedding/ sardine can through low-lying Rakai province, leafy bananas trees everywhere. birthday/graduation/retirement/anniversary gift do visit our website - or our new Mutukula’s shared immigration office is palatial and vainglorious for current traffic levels. I little showroom in Colerne switched to a Tanzanian minibus and everything – clothes, footwear, speed – was poorer. We passed the Martyrs’ Memorial, dedicated to Nyerere’s 1979 troops’ stout defence of this sugar www.thevintagehampercompany.uk cane country. Here Idi Amin’s drug-soaked rabble, backed by Libya, had been driven out of the or contact Catherine Hughes by fertile lens-shaped Kagera Salient, foiling the last King of Scotland. Calling: 01225 582825,or Emailing: Our bus ground on to Bukoba and sleep. I flopped at the budget New Banana Lodge Inn, one [email protected] notch from a flop house. Rodney Priest
8 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 9 HALL OF FAME Tributes have been paid to a record-breaking Bath Rugby player from Colerne Phil Hall made 580 appearances for Bath in a 16-year-career with the club which began in 1960. It is unlikely that any Bath player will Reliable builder with 40 years of ever surpass his caps record. Bath described experience their former skipper, who also captained England schools and played for Gloucester Brick and Stone Work County, as “well-loved and a true legend”. LEFT: Colerne resident Phil Hall who died in Roofing August. RIGHT: The Bath skipper in action Hall, who lived on Cherry Road, Colerne, and Carpentry delivered papers for Colerne News, was born in 1942. His daughters released a tribute: Woodworm and Damp Proofing treatment “Phil Hall of Tormarton died peacefully with his girls, Ceri, and his beloved dalmatians by his side on 16th August 2020. Phil was a dairy farmer, rugby player and avid golfer. Plastering (including Lime Finish) As a life-long lover of horses and dalmatians animals were a significant part of his life. Phil passed his fiercely competitive nature on to his girls who happily excelled competing their horses with Dad’s coaching and watchful eye. He was incredibly proud of all his Contact Chris for a free quote on grandchildrens’ sporting achievements, be it with horses or rugby and enjoyed taking 07974 826173 an active role in all that they did. His dalmations were his closest companions and went 01225 681532 everywhere with him! [email protected] All of the family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to all of Phil’s friends for their support, kindness and generous wishes over the last few months. They would also like to thank everyone who helped them to make it possible for Phil to stay at home as he wanted.” Friends, family and fans lined the crossroads Colerne and along the roadside at Haycombe Cemetery in Bath to pay their respects at his funeral. Phil’s family have asked that anyone wishing to honour his memory can make a donation to the Dalmatians Rescue Society.
PETER WILSON – A PERSONAL NOTE I shall remember Peter as a friend whose immense influence in our community was discreetly veiled by a genuine modesty. In his energetic fundraising, especially for the fabric of the church, he and Lavinia were ever generous in opening Vale Court and garden as a venue; and he was always the perfect host. On these occasions, Peter never sought the limelight, but always remained in the background ensuring that people were enjoying themselves and the company of everyone else present. We shall never forget the conviviality and laughter. It will possibly be the longer term that will fully reveal how much we owe him a debt of gratitude for ensuring that Colerne church is maintained as a place to gather. In addition to these public events, there have been times when friends marking special occasions in their lives have been generously invited into their home, where again Peter would be busy behind the scenes with Lavinia, ensuring others felt it was their special event. He had a genuine gift for facilitating others to feel their worth. I shall miss him greatly. May his memory be blessed, and be a blessing. Rev Geoffrey Woods
10 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 11 AS I WALKED OUT ONE with David Mortimore who had kindly agreed to join me on my first day. We stopped at Rudloe and looked MIDSUMMER MORNING back. I thought I could just see Colerne. I walked to Devizes along the towpath, to Newbury, Each year, Greg Corr steps out of his Eastrip home and walks as far as he then south, then east to Chertsey, camping every can in around a week. First it was East to London. Since then he has gone night. A friend’s son, Harry Heap, who was training South to Swanage, North to Ludlow and West to Pembrokeshire. How do for his Duke of Edinburgh, joined me for a day. My son you decide to do that? Why do you decide to do that? Greg explains. George camped with me for a night and shared a day on the road. I was greeted as a friend by strangers who asked me where I was going with that big pack. When I told a village shopkeeper he straightened himself up and said warmly: “May I be the first to welcome you to Hampshire sir!” I saw birds and flowers, bugs and “I was tremendously full trains that burst out of the trees of joyous energy. Big and whizzed by. I walked through a little tunnel under Ben chimed 6pm as we the M25 with six lanes of marched into into the he idea crystalized in that crucible of creative traffic booming overhead. square. I had made it.” thinking - the village pub. I would walk out of The sun shone. Eventually I my front door and go to London on foot. I’d made it to Hampton Court and there was a friend from Colerne Twalked the dog around the village and other people waiting to walk the final day with me. Together we found the did walking so it was probably doable. I’d say to side gate that led us to the footpath through the grounds of the my wife: “I’m going for a walk”. “Where Tudor mansion. Then it was on to Richmond Park, the deer, the to?”.“London!” “You what?!” “Ha ha.” What river and the city folk. After a long 20 miles we got to Buckingham would I eat? Where would I stay? These were Palace and The Mall. I felt proud to be a tramp in the midst of the squeaky trifles. It was about the journey. clean tourists as we strode towards Trafalgar Square; the official centre of London. I was tremendously full of joyous energy. Big Ben chimed I worked out my own expeditionary route, 6pm as we marched into into the square. I had made it. plotting a series of hops between campsites with sort-of-realistic distances between. I made We enjoyed a meal at a high-class restaurant where the lovely French DRUIDSTONE HOTEL LUDLOW staff didn’t bat an eyelid as I took my boots off under the table. When a list of all of the important things I’d 94 Miles North need. The book for those quiet evenings, Pembrokeshire we left, I forgot my trusty hat which had shared every step on the road. TRAFALGAR the little stove for cups of tea on the road. 154 miles West As we stood later in a crowded pub having a pre-train pint, one of the I bought half a dozen OS maps. SQUARE, London waitresses walked through the door with my hat. It was typical of the 107 miles East many kindnesses that I had experienced throughout that week. Come the day I was feeling very nervous and very excited. Word had Each year as I walk through new countryside and visit new villages got round. I was not expected to START I meet up with people living their lives and hear their stories. I return alive. At least I would endure hardship, rediscover comradeship, get fit, rest on haybales, Eastrip Lane, meet friendly farmers and roll old car tyres down hills when no- get far enough away from the Colerne village so that people would one’s looking. It irons out some of the wrinkles in my life. say that I had definitely I often think of the 70-year-old Californian I met who was set out towards Neston. I doing the three-week-long Thames Path walk. He said he picked up my very, very SWANAGE PIER loved going on walking expeditions and that he would do it for heavy new rucksack and 75 miles South a long time. The only difference was he would just take it a bit set off East, bent double, slower and stroll on when he felt like it.
12 October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 13 THE WAGES OF SIN CASE & TROTMAN LTD Karen Sayers Limited Phil Chamberlain charts local links to the slave trade Colerne Chartered Accountants The National Trust recently announced that it wanted to better reflect the role slavery GENERAL BUILDERS and colonialism played in the houses and collections in its care. Specialising in small businesses Most aspects of work undertaken and the self employed Nearby Dyrham Park is one place where it has already started this. The families who owned the mansion over generations were intimately connected with colonialism and l Extensions, Roofing the signs of that are sprinkled throughout the house. One of the first references is in the Self assessment tax returns l Loft Conversions church records. It records a Gylman Ivie, thought to be a black servant, being baptised Limited Company statutory accounts in 1575 at the age of 30. l Carpentry Sole trader accounts l Brick & Stonework VAT returns Gylman married a local woman and they had children and so it is possible their descendants are still living nearby. l Timber & Damp Proofing Payroll and bookkeeping l PVC Flat Roofing Systems We might think about the impact of slavery being on those big houses; but it was far Tel: 01225 744355 more widespread than that. Colerne’s entry in the Domesday Book records 10 slaves. FREE ESTIMATES Email: [email protected] University College London’s slave legacies map (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/ 29 Silver Street, Colerne Liability & Contract Insured britain) has information from various sources including the detailed list of compensation payments made to slave owners when Britain abolished the practice in 1834. Looking at Telephone: 01225 743271 the map you can see that the tentacles of the slave trade reached into every community. Mobile: 07971 553256 Bath has 59 entries for those who benefited directly from slavery. Three families are Email: [email protected] listed in Corsham and three more in Box. In Colerne it records Andreas Boode who bought Lucknam Park in 1827. Dutch-borne Boode could afford the house because of the fortune his family made in sugar plantations. He received £14,246 16s 6d in compensation for 271 slaves held in British Guyana. That is roughly equivalent to £1.9m in today’s money. The other person listed is Susanna Drewett from a well-established Colerne family. In 1806 she married Thomas Brown of London. Brown subsequently received LINK compensation for his Antigua slaves. Other examples of the impact of colonialism can be found in the pages of the local In need of Building Plans? Box, Colerne press. In February 1763, the Bath Chronicle carried an advert placed by John Stone of Chippenham. Stone was offering a reward for the return of 21-year-old “Negro servant & Rudloe named Gloucester” who could be identified by the long scar on his forehead. British newspapers regularly carried such “Hue and Cry” adverts as well as notices Our Good Neighbours’ of the sale of slaves in pubs and coffee houses. As historian David Olosuga writes Black and British Organisation in : “While there is no question that the full-blooded brutality of plantation slavery was a colonial phenomenon, unfreedom and the sale of black human for anyone in need of help beings was a feature of British life Contact Colerne based John Phillips between 1650s and the close of the Tel no. 07973 509928 Just ring and ask eighteenth century.” Email: [email protected] Tel: 07970 617617 Monday – Friday 9.00am–5.00pm Thanks to David Hitch for his advice www.buildplans.co.uk on this article. ● Events for October’s Black History Drawings / Plans www.boxlink.org.uk Month can be found here: ABOVE: Colerne’s entry in the Domesday Book records https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/ “13 villagers, 10 slaves and five other population.”
14 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 15 Old School, Vicarage Lane. Clerk: Sharon Whelon: 01225 742207 e: [email protected] Village website: www.colerne-pc.gov.uk COLERNE PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Thank you to all those who have been involved in the voluntary group to support THANK residents since March, it has been tirelessly managed and organised, and we are Planning application received: fortunate in having such resourceful, helpful No. 20/05632/FUL. Ladymeade, 5 Bath Road, Colerne SN14 8AU. Plans were submitted YOU! and considerate members of our community. for rebuilding of existing garage. No objections. Colerne Covid-19 Local shops, pubs, etc worked together to No. 20/05937/FUL. Catley House, Washmeres, Colerne, SN14 8DQ. Plans were make our village more self-sufficient in submitted for an extension to dwelling. No objections. Community Support Scheme food supply and delivery. Planning application No. 20/05998/FUL, 34 Forrester Green, Colerne SN14 8EB. Plans were submitted for replacement and enlargement of side porch. No objections. Notification Wiltshire Council Decisions of planning consent determined: No: 20/00126/FUL. Oaks Farm, Rode Hill, Colerne SN14 8AR. Proposal: Detached garage with farm office above: Approve with conditions. No: 20/05294/FUL. 4 Mullins Close, Colerne SN14 8BY. Proposal: Single storey rear extension to replace existing conservatory. Approve with Conditions As part of the Walmesley Garden restoration, there is a new pinboard inside Wessex Water have a proposed scheme to replace the ageing the old bus shelter for anyone to place water mains within Forrester Green, Silver Street and Grocyn notices and events. Please feel free to Close, this is due to significant bursting in recent years, which advertise an event that is up and coming. has caused customer inconvenience as well as disruption on the It isn’t suitable for long term notices. public highway. The water main was laid in 1965, it’s starting to degrade and has become very brittle. This is causing the main to burst more frequently as time passes. These works are currently programmed to start The Cotswold Wardens would like to invite 21/09/2020 and will last for approximately 27 weeks. Walkers.... walkers to report any issue and problems with the Also Wessex Water have proposed a scheme to replace the ageing water main along Public Rights of Way in our parish. They regularly send out work parties to Doncombe Hill, Colerne. This is due to significant bursting in recent years and the existing do a variety of jobs: stile and kissing gate repair or replacement, position and water main running through the valley of Doncombe Hill, causing issues repairing the replace marker posts, cutting back vegetation, dry stone wall repair, remove main and customer water disruptions. fallen trees and branches and many other routine and maintenance works. This work is due to start on Monday 28 September and will last for approximately 14 Please contact Sharon who will pass on the information. weeks. Unfortunately, due to the narrow width of Doncombe Hill, road closures will be necessary, these will be submitted under three highway notices resulting in a road closure for phase one for approx. 8 weeks and phases 2 and 3 for approx. 7 weeks. This is a necessary precaution to maintain safety. Usually Wessex Water would hold an open evening for residents to discuss the project and address any issues or concerns. As this is not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions, they will be shortly sending out a Q&A leaflet to each household that hopefully answers any queries residents may have.
16 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 17 WORKING IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT Resident Alison Reed concludes her three part reflection FC Colerne Colts – Needs You! Welcome to our FA Chartered Standard Community It is now several months into the pandemic and we have developed our skills and routines into this new normal. The hospital is separated into Covid and definitely non- Youth Football Club Covid areas; the day theatre complex has been reconfigured back into theatres and is tackling the backlog of elective operations on people who are required to self-isolate Calling all players Age 6+ for a fortnight and have a negative test. Main theatres continue to cover emergency and trauma and as people start going out the COME AND JOIN THE TEAM! number of trauma cases rockets. We run three trauma theatres (usually just one) for ten Every Saturday from hours every day and can barely keep up with the broken bones. 9.30am to 11.00am A&E is full again. Numbers had dropped for several reasons. Those who would have come because they just wanted an aspirin stayed away. Unfortunately so too did those at the Recreation Ground with acute conditions who should have come in. Some finally presented too late for the doctors to be able to help. Others eventually came in when the pain got unbearable. The Volunteers needed to help with Coaching main ICU is filling up too; and the attempted suicides are back. U7/U8/U9 age groups, we will support your training and development to make this happen! “Agency personnel C19-ICU’s numbers are low but fluctuate with a noticeable rise after VE Day when people broke lockdown to party. Why not get involved and help support your community? fill the gaps, and The board where recovered patients are celebrated is we realise how very filling up. Most of our C19 patients are surviving, higher [email protected] FCColernecolts lucky we have been than the national average. Meanwhile I am back in Main in the South West” Theatres and we all pull together to get through as many patients as we can. This is not easy. There needs to be the correct skills mix for each operation. Scrub nurses and ‘dirty’ circulators need a FOR ALL YOUR decent break to recover from multiple hours in full PPE, and we are still short on staff HOME IMPROVEMENTS numbers. Agency personnel fill the gaps, and we realise how very lucky we have been 541 Outmarsh, Melksham, SN12 6NE in the South West. One agency nurse recalls a big city hospital where 19 people died in a day; another, with shuttered face, speaks of over 200 deaths in their hospital. 01225 703000 www.alanjoywindows.co.uk Our knowledge of C-19 is expanding, and new research is published almost daily. Rules about PPE constantly change. We are happy with this as it comes from an increased LOCALLY OWNED knowledge of this infection. We are not so happy with the latest respirator masks. Some have to wear huge gas masks that would not look out of place in a WWI trench. The 10 YEAR Government decides we must all wear a regular facemask at all times but the only ones GUARANTEE available are not so nice: they rub our ears and noses and cause sore spots on lips and ANNUAL cheeks. There is a brief panic one day when it is suspected that the latest consignment INSPECTIONS are not latex-free and we have to collect them all up. By the morning it is confirmed that Warm Roofs GGF MEMBERS Conservatories they are all right after all and so they are brought back out. TRADING STANDARDS ‘BUY WITH CONFIDENCE’ The treats have stopped coming now; and as lockdown is increasingly ignored, and then eased, we can talk of nothing but what will come next. We are afraid of a second, CHECKATRADE bigger spike; the usual rise in influenza admissions this winter; and read fearfully of a novel strain of swine flu. We feel that the general public is ‘bored’ with Covid now. But HOMEPRO INSURANCE SEE US ON FACEBOOK it IS still here and STILL vicious. We think of those who lived with the ever-present silent menace of polio or smallpox and realise that we are going to have to regard C19 HEAR US ON HEART FM in the same way. Doors FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO PVC Windows www.alanjoywindows.co.uk It is not going to go away, and life in the hospital will never be the same again.
18 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 19 PRIMARY SCHOOLHARVEST SPECIAL FESTIVAL A SIGH OF RELIEF… Follow ‘Fostering in Wiltshire’ Could you offer a stable Incredibly, we have been back to school for over a month now. The trepidation that and supportive home? staff, parents and children all felt has disappeared, and the buzz that accompanies We need foster carers who can provide a learning in our school is a joy to witness. Things have changed, but as far as possible loving, supportive home for children in we have tried to ensure that our children have the rich and varied curriculum they care. We will provide you with suitable deserve, while also making up for the lost months of lockdown. As a team, we really placements to match your circumstances. want to thank all our parents who fully engaged with You will be part of a professional team and be provided with your own support the home learning during those months and who sent “This love of produce worker, ongoing training and in pictures of work and activities. We really missed and tending the grounds a 24 hour helpline. In addition, our classes, but loved the connection with them all, is hugely appreciated by you will be paid a generous via our online system Seesaw. allowance. all that visit our school.” Interested? As Harvest approaches, we have reflected on the Call us today on 0800 1696321, wonderful produce that nature provides. We recognise the hard work that goes into email [email protected] or planting, caring for and harvesting our food. In our school garden, we have watched go to www.wiltshire.gov.uk/fostering the changes over the seasons and tasted the delicious fruit and vegetables nurtured by our gardening team. Many of you may even have tasted some yourselves from the Post Be the difference – become a foster carer with Wiltshire Council Office shelves. This love of produce and tending the grounds is hugely appreciated by all that visit our school, and we feel very fortunate to have members of our community that are able to give up so much of their time for free. Art gives our children time to take stock of what is going on around them, to release be the difference their imagination and create something unique and special to them. Therefore, as we cannot meet in St John the Baptist Church for our harvest celebration, it made it all the more important for us to still do something to show our village link and our appreciation for God’s wonderful Creation. So our children all entered a competition to design a front cover of this magazine, which we hope you will take pleasure in. Oaks Farm Meat Box Delivery Maura Chamberlain
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LEFT TO RIGHT: The runners-up Harvest Festival covers are by Ella Washbourne (FS) and Pippa Cottrill (KS2); congratulations! We had lots of wonderful and creative entries and we will be sharing a selection of our favourites on our Facebook page: @ColerneParishMagazine.
20 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 21 TACKLING THE PRE-SEASON SPRUCE-UP Photographs by Jody Gaisford
A small band of dedicated volunteers helped make Colerne Rugby Club ready for the coming season. The external clubhouse walls were repainted while inside the necessary signage was put in place to operate the bar in a safe manner. Work to trim the hedges and improve the exit sightlines was carried out together with a sort-out of the equipment room. Rugby returned to Colerne on Sunday 13th September with the Panthers back in action. Dave Stirling, CRFC Chaiman said: “Many thanks to those who volunteered their time to get the club ready for the season. We’ve worked really hard to make it safe for Made to Measure everyone and are looking forward to the season to come.” Curtains, Blinds & Accessories
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22 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 23 CHANGE OF OWNERS AT HIGH STREET BUSINESS The newsagents and Post Office on the High Street is in the process of changing hands. Julie Bright and Chris Last from Southwood are taking on the business from Emma Hucklebridge. After three years spent building the business and taking on the Post Office when it moved from its last location, Emma is looking for a new adventure. “I would like to say a huge thank you to all of my customers over the last almost three years,” said Emma. “Coronavirus was especially tough for me and my delivery guys, who I also thank hugely. I would like to wish Julie and Chris the very best for the future and ask that every single customer continue to support them in the same way as you have supported me.” The formal process of handing over the business is still underway at the time of going to press and Julie and Chris have been learning the ropes. Julie already has big plans for new product lines at the shop including taking on the vegetable sales that had been at the Fox and Hounds during lockdown. “I am really excited about the opportunities we have here in the heart of the parish to be a service for so many people,” said the mother-of-two girls. “We are about far more than newspapers and stamps. If you haven’t popped in yet, then please do. There will be something new and surprising every time.” ● The Post Office is open 08.30-14.30 Monday to Friday. 16(66) Volvo V60 SE AWD Hybrid Estate, 5dr, in Blue, Diesel/Electric, High Spec, Our lawyers specialise in all Leather,Sat Nav etc ...... £15,995 aspects of family law including
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26 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 27 REFLECTIONS Continued COLERNE NEWS Hazelbury Perhaps the most important happening this year for most of us will occur in the autumn and POST OFFICE HealtH in the Presidential Election in the United States. The US electorate will have to choose, Your local village store between two rather elderly men, who will represent them as their leader and be the person regarded as the leader known by many millions as the ‘Leader of the Free World.’ 27a high St, Colerne, SN14 8DD Practice The United States is seen by most commentators as being a divided country, wracked We offer Homoeopathy and LOCAL DELIVERY AVAILABLE by racial tensions of historic origin and violent rioting and disorder in protests relating Kenshin Anma Shiatsu to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. An election carried out with this background has the potential to be extremely rancorous. The US has shown resilience in recovering ● Kenshin Anma Shiatsu is a wonderfully relaxing and Fresh self-serve milk in glass bottles energising form of massage therapy which is very from previous crises, such as the Civil War, the First World War, the Wall Street Crash, ● Local honey & eggs ancient, predating even Shiatsu, and works to rebalance Pearl Harbour and the Second World War, but will they have a President of a similar ● the entire system. Kenshin means ‘essence of health’, Free-From biscuits and Anma means ‘spreading peace with the hands’. It stature to Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D Roosevelt to guide them out of the current ● Handmade gifts, cards and is performed fully clothed and lasts 75 minutes. Anma situation? That is the question. products by local artists is non-diagnostic and is not recommended for pregnant John Crittenden women or cancer patients. ● Papers & magazines Laurent and Susan Lacroix hold diplomas in Anma from Anma France. Susan is also HELLO SAILOR a registered homoeopath and counsellor and offers Steve Drew’s article in the July magazine on the banana boats consultations and sessions. reminded Monica Tonge from Tutton Hill of own childhood. ● Post Office counter services Hazelbury Health Practice In 1946 I travelled with my mother from Liverpool to Southampton to stay on board Open 08.30-14.30 Monday to Friday Hazelbury Manor, Box, Wiltshire SN13 8HX the ship my Father was on. A crew member showed me a ‘cool’ room full of bananas (I 01225 742 858 tel: 01225 810644 had never seen one before). She was not a banana boat but I think a passenger ship with some freight, Steve was right, a banana was a rare treat in those days. Two years earlier I had stayed aboard a different ship off South Wales. As we arrived at the quay, mother said: “There’s your Father” as he stepped out of a doorway. However just BOX Pharmacy North Wraxall at that moment an able seaman in bellbottoms walked past and I ran towards him calling “Daddy”. He apparently said: “I’m not your daddy love, but I wish I was”. Who wouldn’t be Pre-School taken with a little blond three-year-old (well before she became a bolshie teenager)? 10 High Street, l A real countryside setting with fabulous The crew on that ship sat me astride the barrel of a gun on deck! Merchant Navy ships Box outdoor space l Less than 5 mins drive from Marshfield helped keep Britain fed during the war and often ran the gauntlet of U-boats and enemy l A small, friendly and happy ‘family’ pre-school aircraft dropping bombs. When my father came home for a short visit after that, I l Weekly ‘rising 5’ sessions for those thought I was introducing him to the rest of the family, not realising that they already Prescription Delivery Service starting school If you are disabled, housebound or unable to l On-site forest school sessions knew each other. I think many a child was in that situation during the war. l Open term time Monday to Friday 9-4pm collect your prescriptions, etc, arrangements North Wraxall Pre-School can be made for your order to be delivered The Community Hall, North Wraxall, to you by our door-to-door delivery service. Wiltshire, SN14 7AF Telephone 01225 742552 for further details
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28 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 29 There will be at least four webinars run via Zoom in order to allow the community to ask questions, clarify their understanding and discuss the draft plan with members of the Steering Group. For details please check on the Neighbourhood Plan Reg 14 consultation page of the Parish Council Website: http://www.colerne-pc.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan
This link will also take you to the Neighbourhood Plan Reg 14 consultation documents.
The documents consist of:- The Draft Neighbourhood Plan & The Draft Design Statement with supporting evidence documents.
The Draft Plan’s Policies over-arch all other documents. The Draft Design Statement focuses on each of the character areas within the parish and lays down guidelines for future developments for each area. It provides “Design Codes” to be used in assessing planning applications. Tel: 01225 742163. The Neighbourhood Plan has been created on behalf of the community of Colerne website www.colerne-pc.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan Parish. Your views are particularly sought on the Policies and the Design Statement. email:[email protected] There is a separate page on the website for “Responding to the Draft Plan”. Whilst we require some personal details to identify where comments have come from, this data will be anonymised in the published consultation report which we are required to produce. All personal data will remain bound by Data Protection legislation and used FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL only for purposes relating to the Neighbourhood Plan. Once this consultation period ends, the Steering group has to respond to every comment RESIDENTS & BUSINESSES WITHIN and make changes, or explain why they cannot. All responses are included in a formal “Consultation Statement”. Thereafter the documents are submitted to Wiltshire Council THE PARISH OF COLERNE! who prepare a further formal consultation of their own resulting in the “Submission The Colerne Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, on behalf of Colerne Plan”. The Council then submit the Plan to an Examiner, who is an independent Parish Council give notice of Regulation 14 Pre-submission Consultation planning inspector. The Examiner judges whether the Plan is fit to go to Referendum and Publicity on the in our Community. That judgement is influenced by the consultation responses. Draft COLERNE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN. For this reason, we encourage you to share your positive views of the Plan as well as criticism. In accordance with the Neighbourhood Plan(General) Regulations 2012, Colerne Parish Council is required to publicise the Draft Neighbourhood Next spring, you will be asked to vote in a Referendum to support or reject the Plan. Plan and invite comments. If passed, the Plan’s policies will then be integrated into the Local Authority Planning Process until 2036. The Draft Plan and supporting documents may be viewed on the Parish Council Website commencing - Even though this Government is planning to make changes to planning law, Neighbourhood Monday 12th October and ending at midnight on Monday 7th December 2020. Planning remains an important part of the proposals, and the Design Statement is ahead of the game in providing locally approved ‘Design Codes’ which are recommended for all future planning. Colerne is also fortunate to be within the Cotswold AONB which will Due to Covid restrictions it is not possible to have real public meetings or have hard remain a “Protected Zone” under the Government’s proposals. copy of the Plan on display. However, if any individual is without access to internet On behalf of your Steering group, I wish you an interesting time reading about your services by smartphone or computer then they can be provided with a single hard parish as it is now, and proposals for its future. copy of the Draft Plan (Phone Jane Mellett @01225 742163) Jane Mellett There is an outline of the Draft Plan’s main policies included as an inset in this magazine. Chair of Colerne Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group
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32 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 33 THE LONGEST DAY FC Colerne Colts manager Paul Carey reflects on the usual and unusual start to the season First days are always full of nervous energy and trepidation. For the Colts the question for September 5th was: “Would this year be any different?”. Having been consumed for weeks by reams of paper, advice and procedure to prepare us for a safe return, I was reminded that there was something special about the first day of the season. I was stopped by six-year-old Colt, Nathen, who shouted across the T: 01225 743742 street: “Paul, are we playing football next Saturday? I can’t wait!” This reminded me that the season had really already started. M: 07825 535095 W: www.prchimneysweeps.co.uk In fact, first days start weeks before. There is the anticipation of simply playing a game you love. There is the preparation of boots and kit. The visualising of yourself doing the things that only heroes do. The feeling of putting on your kit and the team colours, of Fully qualified and insured. Brush and stepping across the white line into a place where you could express yourself. First days vacuum. Power sweeping of lined flues. are the sound of the ball on the boot, the smell of polish or dubbin ( for those old enough!) Birds nest removal, cowl supply and fit. DOG WALKING and the feeling when the back of the goal explodes and makes that amazing noise. Clean and efficient. [email protected] This year’s first day threatened to be like no other for all the wrong reasons. Iam SERVICE WITH A SMILE THAT 07584 665530 pleased to say the players returned and played, the parents supported and the coaches WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN did their best to make things work in this new normal. Above all, there was the sight and sound of kids having fun. Finally the Colts had returned to the Rec.
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38 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, October 2020 39 The Brasserie by Lucknam Park
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