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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR INSIDE YOUR Welcome to our first editions of 2021! I’m sure we’re all glad to see the back of 2020 and MAGAZINE... hopefully the Covid-19 vaccine will ensure we get back to a normal way of life sooner rather than LESLIE DOWNING 5 later. A very happy New Year to all! Saxmundham volunteer receives a prestigious award from the Royal Inevitably the virus and the subsequent restrictions Yachting Association has an impact on news, events and advertising so we have a few less pages this month but please SHARE YOUR MEMORIES OF 5 Louise take the time to view our online Tide Collection LOCKDOWN 2020 Gissing Extra which features all sorts of news and Saxmundham Museum invite your information not in the printed editions. Visit: Tide Collection Online Magazine to share your experience of 2020 to Archive | Leiston Press for local news on our Environment, the Arts, East create an archive Council, Local Charities, with award winning local businesses, Entertainment & Leisure, and help and support for our communities. FROM LEISTON TO 7 LANCASTERS I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to our loyal A new book about the life of son of advertisers, especially as this has been such a difficult year, and also the many Leiston, Harry Rouse contributors to the Tide Collection in 2020. PASTORAL CARE AT SET 8 I have a feeling the coming year will be full of events and activities for us all to SAXMUNDHAM SCHOOL enjoy, and we will probably appreciate them so much more now, here’s to 2021! Providing guidance, knowledge and skills and support to pupils QUOTE OF THE MONTH Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

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The first few months of the year are generally cold, wet and a bit miserable, with a higher chance of ice and snow on the ground and on pavements.

It is precisely these kinds of weather conditions that tend to give rise at this time of year to more people slipping, tripping or falling when out and about, often in a public place or even in the workplace.

These types of accident also, unfortunately, often result in people sustaining more serious injuries, such as broken bones and spinal and head injuries, that, in the worst cases, can prove fatal.

However, bringing a claim for personal injury as a result of a slip, trip or fall can be tricky. Pinpointing the correct person to bring a claim against can be difficult, if, for example, there are a number of poten tial owners of the accident site. Gathering the evidence needed to prove such a claim against whoever is responsible can then some times seem to be a mammoth task.

Depending upon where you fall - on publicly or privately owned land - also makes a difference to the chances of successfully bringing a claim for compensation for personal injury and loss because the courts apply different tests to determine whether responsibility can be attached.

For example, while you may not be able to claim compensation if you tripped or slipped on a public highway or pavement, if the same accident occurred on privately owned land, you may be more suc cessful.

So, what should you do, if you have an accident as a result of a slip, warning signs), if possible, get pictures of them and record the trip or fall either out and about or at work? dates on which the remedial steps were taken. • If available, get witness evidence from anyone who saw the • Seek medical attention / get help. accident or who can provide information as to how long the • Report the accident to whoever is responsible for the site of the defect that caused you to fall was present before the incident accident, whether that is the local council or a privately owned took place. individual or company – ensure that the accident is logged in • Keep records of your injuries and details of any out of pocket the accident book. expenses you may have incurred as a result of your injuries, • If the incident takes place at work, notify your workplace health such as loss of earnings, medications, travel expenses and de and safety representative. tails of any care that you may have received. • Take photographs of the scene of the accident on the day - or as near to the day of the accident as possible. Bringing these types of claim for compensation for personal injury • Take details of exactly where you fell, what caused you to fall can be a minefield. So, if you require assistance or advice on whether and what your direction of travel was. you can claim following an accident where you have slipped, tripped • If you are aware that remedial action is taken after the accident or fallen, please contact Louise Plant on 01473 298293 or by email has occurred to rectify any defect that caused you to slip, trip at [email protected]. or fall, or any steps are taken after the event (such as putting up

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LESLIE DOWNING

RYA shines spotlight on boating’s sailor, organiser and general volunteer as with disabled persons. I feel we are like a unsung heroes well as being an ‘invaluable mentor and big family - the sailors, their carers and all friend to everyone at the club’. the volunteers, and it is so good to share A volunteer from Saxmundham has my huge interest with all these people been awarded one of the Royal Yachting Everyone who has worked with Leslie and see the sailors’ happiness in getting Association’s (RYA) most prestigious knows of her infectious enthusiasm for, out on the water and developing their awards in recognition of her commitment and commitment to, the work she does skills. We all miss this enormously with to the Project. Leslie with the Woolverstone Project. Her the Covid restrictions, but just have to be Downing is one of some 44 volunteers enthusiasm for standing up to her neck patient. A big thank you to all who have who are being celebrated across the in freezing cold water launching boats or contributed to my gaining this award.” UK for their exceptional dedication in acting as the ‘capsize victim’ for safety boating. boat training courses remains completely undimmed even after over 15 years of Leslie Downing was nominated for the volunteering. To say she will be a tough Francis Elkin Award and selected as a act to follow when she chooses to ‘retire’ winner by the RYA Honours and Awards is one of life’s great understatements. Panel. Luckily for the Woolverstone Project, there is no sign of this happening yet. Each year, the Award is presented in recognition of a significant contribution Leslie said of the Award: “I felt of in time, effort and personal endeavour course very honoured to be awarded to enable people with disabilities to the Francis Elkin Award although rather become involved in sailing. Leslie has embarrassed - this I feel I share with all made a remarkable contribution to the the Woolverstone Project Volunteers, Woolverstone Project for over 15 years many of whom deserve it more than and is described as the ‘lynchpin holding myself. I have always had a passion for everything together’. In this time she sailing from a young age and always look has had many roles including Senior forward to sailing with the Project, as we Instructor, Trustee, DBS Officer, buddy all do. My other big interest is working

SHARE YOUR MEMORIES OF LOCKDOWN 2020

Saxmundham Museum is asking everyone lockdown was really like in Saxmundham help from the local volunteer service in the town to share their memories of the and the surrounding villages. This will IP17GNS? You could send anything you coronavirus lockdown so that we can build become an invaluable archive for future would like to be included to Saxmundham a true archive of this extraordinary year generations.” Museum at 49, High Street, Saxmundham which can become a record and resource IP17 1AJ. for future generations. Please share your memories of this year and how the pandemic has affected you, Alternatively you can e-mail info@ “This is one of the most extraordinary your family, neighbours and friends. Write saxmundhammuseum.org.uk For years any of us will ever know,” says your lockdown memories on paper or more information, please visit www. Richard Crisp, one of the Museum’s email. Send photos that you may have saxmundhammuseum.org.uk founders. taken during lockdown, perhaps you had a lockdown birthday or shared food or Belinda Moore “It’s important to make a record of what support with neighbours? Did you get

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FROM LEISTON TO LANCASTERS aircrew was one of the first to convert to gained his professional status and ended the new Lancasters which were coming his career as a senior executive in a well- into service as the bombing campaign known East Anglian firm. intensified. Harold was not one to make much of his wartime record, and he never forgot his humble origins. In his eighties, he was persuaded to commit to tape his memories of that eventful earlier half of his long life, from the 1920s through to the 1950s, and that is the story in this book. It is his personal account of being caught up in important world events, set against the constant influence of his loving family and his original home town. Harold third in a line of fellow crew- The book costs £7.50 and is obtainable members in front of a Manchester locally in Aldeburgh Bookshop and other bomber, January 1942. Front of line outlets, and by mail order. is David Maltby, later to become a Harold aged 19, showing off his new Dambusters hero. Harold died in 2014 and lies alongside his uniform in the garden of 53 Central wife Dorothy, in Aldeburgh churchyard. Road, Leiston, while his brother and He went on to fly on 28 combat missions There are still some family members living proud mother look, July 1940. that year, including long-distance trips locally. to bomb the Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord A new book tells the story of son of and four operations across the Alps to ISBN 978-1-83853-648-0 Paperback, 138 Leiston, Harry Rouse, born in April 1921, northern Italy. He also survived a crash pages, 72 illustrations. Price £7.50. In who went on to fly 28 missions in early landing with a full bomb-load on board. local bookshops or available mail-order Lancaster bombers during World War from www.smartcycletraining.co.uk/ Two. Remarkably, he survived. Towards pages/books.html the end of a long life, he shared the The morning after: the crew inspect intimate story of his upbringing and his the wreckage of their brand-new involvement in world events, set against crashed-landed Lancaster in a field in the constant influence of his loving family Lincolnshire, May 1942. and his home town. Harold married in 1943, gained his officer In December 1939, just three months promotion, and for the remainder of after war broke out, Harry went to put his the war was employed in the specialist name down for the RAF. By the time he training of other aircrews. His last flying was called up in mid-1940, Harold was duty was a trip into a devastated Berlin still barely 19, and he left his close family in December 1945, and what he saw and his Aldeburgh girlfriend to start his left a strong impression on him. He was training far from home. demobbed the following year, choosing to leave the RAF and build a civilian career In time, he became qualified as a as a cost accountant, despite originally wireless operator and gunner for Bomber having finished school at 14 with no Command, and was then posted to 97 qualifications. With his new family, he Squadron at Coningsby in Lincolnshire. moved to Norwich, a city the couple had That squadron was equipped with Avro come to love. Through hard work and Manchester aircraft, and early in 1942, his determined study in the evenings, he

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PASTORAL CARE AT SET SAXMUNDHAM SCHOOL At SET Saxmundham School we pride comes to their future career journeys. business background, with involvement ourselves on the pastoral care we give in the development of businesses in to each and every one of our students, The Careers Education Team aims to partnership other then latterly her own developing and supporting them from enable students to receive accurate small enterprise. She also volunteered when they join us in Year 7, whatever their and impartial information, advice and with Young Enterprise, chaired business needs; so they can develop in to well- guidance about all the options which are networks and, before lockdown, enjoyed rounded young adults prepared for the open to them and the routes to which creating and running major community future by the time they leave us. those options lead. events. Her passion is to now share all her connections and experience with In addition to the Careers Education We provide for this in a number of ways, young people so they can find as much Team in the School, Jenny Stockman one of which is our continued careers enjoyment on their career journey as she joined Seckford Education Trust (SET) at guidance which aims to provide students did… and still does. with the knowledge, information and skills the start of the Autumn term. Her role they require to make informed choices is as independent careers advisor and Lizzie Girling, Head of School about suitable courses at School, College Jenny is now available to chat through and University and the opportunities the wealth of Post-16 options that are To find out more about SET Saxmundham available with regard to jobs in the future. open to students. From apprenticeships School please call 01728 633910, email To achieve these aims, students undertake to Sixth form or planning for longer term [email protected] a variety of Careers and Work Related pathways through university or further or visit www.saxmundhamschool.org.uk Learning activities throughout every year education, she will of their education at SET Saxmundham help them explore the School. direction that will suit them best and navigate On Thursday 3 December, all year groups their way through the participated in our annual Careers Day. rapidly changing labour This included an off timetable Personal, market and further Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education options. event, with year group targeted activities Jenny joined Seckford that included Virtual Guest Speakers, Foundation in 2018 to Improving your Learning Skills, Building head up their mentoring on your Media Literacy and Online Skills, programme which Widening your Financial Literacy, Careers quickly evolved from a Research and Understanding Employment well-being service into and the workplace. This programme holistic support looking planned is a key element of the School’s at careers, skills, health focus on encouraging and preparing all and wellbeing. Prior to SET Saxmundham School students benefitted from the students to explore and aspire when it this Jenny came from a virtual Careers Day. Photo: Seckford Education Trust)

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continue to exercise, learn and enjoy as many U3A is aimed at older people who want to fulfilling activities as they could. get as much as possible out of life, even in difficult circumstances. There are no entry Face to face may have been difficult, but qualifications, no barriers to joining and lots discussions and learning opportunities over of activities to get involved in. New members Zoom proved an answer in many cases. are welcome. Screen sharing became common amongst groups. Outdoor activities continued, with If you are interested, then please visit 2020 will be remembered as an exceptionally walking groups in smaller numbers, gathering the website and make contact with the difficult year. We can all but hope for better as and when guidance allowed. appropriate group leader to find out how U3A things from 2021. membership can help you keep in touch with U3A’s committee, group leaders others, find new interests and friends and Like many other groups and organisations, and members, to the benefit of all members, learn fresh skills. East Suffolk U3A initially struggled to see a have shown an admirable determination and way forward for its members. Group leaders resilience. Speaker meetings however have Details of membership are available on: www. and members alike showed a determination been cancelled for the time being, and will be a3aeastsuffolk.org.uk or call the membership to keep up connections with others and to reinstated as soon as common sense allows. secretary on 0300 123 3913.

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At last our new Multi Play Structure and concrete for this project came to just asking for a small donation from anybody has been installed on the playground. over £200. who would like some cut logs for their This has taken much longer to install Wood Burner. The money will go towards than anticipated, in actual fact it took 5 Tuesday the 20th October saw the unit the maintenance of the playground. We weeks to complete (this was partly due being finished and it would have been have sold several bags of the wood but to poor weather conditions plus the nice to have had an official opening still have some ready cut to go. This struggle to obtain certain parts due to ceremony, but due to the Corona Virus year we have not been able to hold any the lock down). We took advantage of and the Government restrictions in fund raising events so at the moment the playground being closed to carry place, this could not happen. We are this is the only way we can raise our fund out some maintenance work, the Gyro extremely pleased with the new Multi levels. If you are interested please phone Spiral was taken out of action to have Play Structure, which seems to be very Pauline on 01728 602496. Thank you new bearings fitted and also a volunteer popular with local children. helper has replaced some of the steps on Saxmundham Adventure Playground We kept the wooden poles from the old the large embankment slide. The wood Committee Climbing Frame with the intention of

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FROM YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR…

Happy New Year! I don’t suppose many of lease has been granted to Saxmundham & and medical services and the Registrar will us will look back on 2020 with any great District Community Interest Company, and return. It should be a bustling site for which sentimentality. Covid ruined many hopes and multi-use space is being created including a Saxmundham can be proud. I am ensuring has caused hardship and worry to countless large room suitable for some public meetings that when the present Fromus Centre building people and the prospect of a New Year and other gatherings, serviced by a state-of- is vacated it will be promptly demolished. and a fresh start is welcome. Let’s hope the the art kitchen with serving hatch. There are interesting provisional plans for that vaccination programme goes well and that site, which I will say more about at a future ‘herd immunity’ can be achieved in the next All should be finished by Easter and I am date. month or two so that we can again resume sure SADCIC will be arranging for open days something akin to ordinary life. But for the to be held for us all to see and visit the new Saxmundham has lost a notable inhabitant, moment, do keep safe and do keep to the facility. It will enhance the range of services Rose Damiral-White, who died in November. Guidelines. Better times are around the corner which can be offered in Saxmundham, and When she and Stan, her husband, moved – he says with confidence… car parking spaces will be available at the rear here they quickly became involved in many for those using the site. The present ‘port- activities, with Rose becoming a Town I recently toured the building site that is the a-cabin’ being used by Suffolk Libraries will Councillor and helping to ensure that the County Buildings in Street Farm Road, of also be transferred to SADCIC to use as they Saxmundham Scout Troop thrived. This which our Library is part. Redevelopment and choose and it gives them land to use, possibly particular interest stemmed from the time modernisation is at last well underway. It has if they wish as a small garden, or for a future Rose had been P.A. to the Chief Scout. Her been delayed by those two great bug-bears, extension to their building if that becomes latter years were dominated by frail health, asbestos hidden away in the most unlikely necessary. but she still managed to perform more places, including buried under part of the car voluntary duties, and was until her death the park exposed for access work, and bats, bats I look forward to the volunteer Directors Honorary Treasurer of Saxmundham Branch of and more bats. These rare species seem to of SADCIC using the building to its full the Royal British Legion. Rose, may you rest occur surprisingly often and have statutory extent, and ensuring its finances are planned in peace after a life’s work dedicated to the protection. Agreeing a plan to deal with them prudently to ensure the project is successful community. caused a delay of nearly two months. into the future. If you want to a hire a room, be it for a small or medium meeting or even As usual, please feel free to contact me on However the new Library and offices are now to hold a full-blown reception, the New any matter within the responsibility of the being fitted out to a very high standard, and Fromus Centre should be your first choice! County Council. My contact details are below. the Library will be larger than it was before enabling its space to be used more flexibly. County Council staff presently housed in the Richard Smith Most exciting is the use of the eastern part of present Fromus Centre off Seaman Avenue 01728 602714 the building for community use. A long-term will transfer into the refurbished building [email protected] SAXMUNDHAM NEWS SOUTHWOLD ORGAN WOODBRIDGE TALK 11 SAXMUNDHAM NEWS

ST JOHN’S CHURCH, SAXMUNDHAM

WHOLENESS AND HEALING that we cannot bring our problem before in need in a quiet part of the church. In God. Sometimes we think our problems current times with social distancing, this We are living in difficult and uncertain are too small to bother God with. physical proximity is not possible (though times, none of us knows what the Sometimes we fear that God will not like our churches remain open for Sunday immediate future holds for us. As a what He hears. In the book of Psalms we worship each week). Now, we offer the church community in the Saxmundham see every emotion and thought being Wholeness and Healing by phone: God and Benefice we too are brought before God and this helps us doesn’t mind how we pray, He loves struggling with these uncertainties and understand how much God wants every it when we do pray. Wholeness and the emotional turmoil this can bring. one of us to be in a relationship with Healing ministry does not necessarily Him. mean that the physical, emotional or However as Christians there is one thing spiritual ailment is immediately fixed: we can be sure of: God’s love for us will As part of our church ministry we offer sometimes it is, but it does bring peace never leave us. In Matthew’s Gospel prayers for wholeness and healing. It’s and comfort to the person being prayed Jesus says “Come to me, all you who a simple ministry where we will pray for. are weary and burdened, and I will give with people who are in some kind of you rest.” God not only wants us to be discomfort or dis-ease. This might be Jill Stuchfield in a relationship with him but also to physical, emotional or spiritual. Any trust Him, to rely on Him when we go issue of this kind can make it difficult to Please feel free to join us in our Services. through difficult times. The bible is full live as God wants us to live; as whole, The best place for up-to-date service of examples of people crying out to in relationship with Him. We would times is the St John’s website (www. God in times of need. In particular the generally offer this ministry in church saxstjohns.org.uk) for information about book of Psalms is a good place to start as part of our services: two members online services and services in the to understand that God longs to hear of the Wholeness and Healing team churches. our cries for help. We sometimes think pray and lay their hands on someone

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Teenager brings church café’s Sunday the production in doing the transitions doing online services, Izzy has become services into people’s homes through from segment to segment throughout the producer and technical person Facebook Live the service and also going live into behind the camera, bringing the other people’s houses. It’s been a schedule of videos together and live A tech-savvy teenager has transformed learning process throughout, using trial editing on the day. We really couldn’t a Suffolk church’s online offering – and error, but on the whole it’s been do it without her. bringing Sunday services into people’s fun!” homes with the use of Facebook Live. “We set up Connections Church for Connections Church uploads all its people who are not familiar with Izzy Boswell, 15, has used her online previous episodes on its website so the ‘regular’ church, for people to meet up skills to produce a weekly live service church-goers and those who want to in a relaxed atmosphere and work out on the Connections Church Facebook view it won’t miss a moment. Izzy’s dad how faith works in their life today.” page, with scores of people tuning in Tom Boswell, who is the lay leader of every Sunday. the church, said the new way of doing To find out more about the church’s online church has been a real hit among online services see here: http://www. Connections Church in Saxmundham its followers on Facebook. connectionschurch.org.uk/ used to meet at the town’s primary school every Sunday for coffee, “They have been croissants, doughnuts and a new way very well received, of doing church including worship, with people joining teaching, discussion and community. us who did not But when the coronavirus pandemic normally attend the struck and the national lockdown was café church, and enforced, a new plan had to be devised also from wider to bring the church to its congregation afield as friends instead. Izzy came to the rescue of her and family have parents, who head up the church, using recommended to her technical skills to bring a real polish others they join us to the broadcast. online,” he said. Izzy said: “I was happy to help dad with “Since we’ve been (Left to right) Tom and Lou Boswell Photo: Izzy Boswell

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