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The Letcombe Register The Letcombe Register Issue 176 April 2020 Welcome to the New Look Letcombe Register IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY The clubs have been contacted to produce content ON THE VILLAGE EMAIL LIST regarding their interests and some have been reproduced here. AND WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE Currently delivery of the hard copy version of the NOT JUST THE REGISTER, BUT Letcombe Register has been suspended. ALSO UPDATES ON LOCAL Now, as the village list expands, it will be used to distribute the Register as a PDF and the aim would ISSUES, DELIVERED DIRECT TO View from Segsbury Camp be to continue even when things return to normal. YOUR INBOX, PLEASE Whilst adhering to the Government safe distancing Today we start a new chapter in the Letcombe guidelines, Please share access with neighbours CONTACT THE PARISH CLERK Register. A chance to explore a different way to who you know do not have an online capability, and keep us all in touch. if you can, make a note of their addresses so in [email protected] time, we know exactly who still requires the hard Here we are free from the constraints of print media. copy when it returns. This is very much a work in progress so I would TELL YOUR FRIENDS! welcome constructive comments and more To offer content for future issues please contact: importantly articles to keep everyone entertained during the current situation and hopefully beyond. [email protected] Message from the Parish Council Inside this issue: THE LIONS OF LETCOMBE 2 BRAINTEASERS The Parish Council is focussing its efforts on Picking up on the useful Gardening Tips which GARDENS OPEN 3 supporting the community through this is already a regular feature we are hoping that LITTERPICK extraordinary crisis and those signed up to the others will also contribute to provide quizzes, NATURE RESERVE Village Email will have received regular photographic submissions, recipes, good book updates. Please encourage all those who have recommendations etc and the like to help keep ST ANDREWS NEWS not signed up to send their email details to the morale strong. Please feed in your ideas to the SAINT OF THE MONTH 4 Parish Clerk – [email protected]. We can Parish Clerk [email protected] or direct to WARBOROUGH FARM currently reach around 80 percent of our The Register [email protected], community but want to reach everyone. where Francesca will be waiting to weave her LADDDERADS ETC 5 magic in pulling everything together. TOPICAL TIPS A small group of us Loretta Light, Michelle Our group of Volunteers are well spread 200 CLUB ACCOUNTS Benton and myself are coordinating our efforts RECYCLING CENTRES 6 and we are also supported by Paul Batchelor throughout the village and we will be advising you through the Weekly Bulletin who they are who is working with Pete Bellis to update FILM CLUB in your area. They will hopefully be known to 7 national advice on the new CORONAVIRUS VILLAGE HALL REPORT section of our Parish Website, and we are you already, which is important as there are some unscrupulous individuals already trying linked into the Village Facebook. BOOK BUFFS & QUIZ 8 to Scam people. CONSERVATION GROUP We are extremely grateful to the 44 volunteers The Parish Council usual business will who have stepped forward to help, and through SIGNPOST 9 continue, but on a reduced basis, as we focus the dedicated on keeping as many of you safe and supported Tennis Club email: as possible. The government advice not to Wise Words meet in groups means we have cancelled our 10 [email protected] Waste calendar Annual Parish Meeting scheduled for May and and will be communicating our annual financial Poo Plea telephone contact: 772900 statement and report through the Register. As A TIMELY POEM 11 which are monitored daily, we are offering help ever your first line of contact for village matters CURIOUS MINDS and guidance. We are already receiving a is the Parish Clerk. FOOTBALL CLUB trickle of requests for help but we anticipate 12 PLEASE STAY SAFE, ADHERE TO THE CONTACTS more as the weeks of isolation increase. GOVERNMENT RULES AND CONTINUE This edition of the Register marks the move to TO LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER. an electronic version, a decision taken to Jeanne Lapsley remove risk to our army of deliverers and it will Chairman continue in this form for the foreseeable future. Letcombe Regis Parish Council Issue 176 The Letcombe Lions Brook Alder was largely Wantage” its ancient No. Hot a new name for responsible for ensuring internal leather band still the first eleven. We that an inquisitive child intact. refer to two genuine lions didn't become the meal of who sojourned at War- the day! Then there were the out- borough Farm in the late ings to. Wantage Road twenties (or was it the ear- Whether as cubs they ever Station. It comes as no Photo of Mrs Silver with one of the lions supplied by Mrs and Mrs ly thirties?). Though long roamed the house, wheth- surprise to learn that Mrs. Les Cross dead, they live on in local er. like two oversized tab- Silver was fond of enter- memory. bies, they snored by the taining. She would meet Mr. Bill Alder. for exam- fire or snuggled with the her guests at the station, ple. of Letcombe Bassett. Silvers in their bed of a her two lions straining at recalls tales told by his night, stays unrecorded. their chains. Usually they A HISTORY TAKEN grandfather. Brook Alder. But once they became fully were held back by Brook, grown a cage was con- but on one occasion, when FROM THE SUMMER Brook - a 'character' de- serving of an article him- structed. he wasn't there a terrified 1988 ISSUE OF THE self - was (how shall we Bill Alder remembers it, porter was drafted into LETCOMBE say?) farm bailiff at War- still standing in the yard at service with a casual “just REGISTER borough during the inter Warborough, years after hang on to these will you war years. his grandfather had left on to these. will you?” the farm. Some twelve to How did they travel to (SUBSEQUENT ISSUES The farm itself was then in fifteen feet long by six and from the station? MENTION ERRORS IN the hinds of the Silvers - feet wide. the dimensions There is a photograph of THE STORY AND SADLY Squire Silver - no less, and of its bars were worthy of Mrs. Silver in an open THE AUTHOR IS his redoubtable wife. If its occupants. At one end a coupe with a lion(s) on the UNATTRIBUTED, BUT I Mrs. Silver lacked a local covered area comprised back seat. But Mr. Alder's THINK YOU WILL AGREE title to match her hus- the lions’· den. What be- mother. Brook's daughter- IT A DELIGHTFUL TALE.) band's. she more than came of it? Were those in-law, insists that Mr. compensated for the defi- bars, Bill wonders, seized Chambers. who used to ciency by her remarkable like so many others for the live in one of the row of not to say bizarre lifestyle. war effort. Was the lions cottages facing the A devotee of the safari. cage at last uncaged. Church in Letcombe Regis, she made several journeys Not that the lions were frequently conveyed his to Africa and it was after always imprisoned. Ap- incongruous party by po- one such journey that she parently Brook Alder had ny and trap! returned with two lion the job of walking them cubs. Photographs suggest out. (What would Barbara No-one seems certain of that they were still at Woodhouse have made of the lions' fate. We know Letcombe when fully that?}. It's hard to imagine that the Silvers separated grown. - but apparently the col- and the farm was sold. Mrs. Edna Tubb, of lars and chains that Brook Perhaps the lions went to Letcombe Regis remem- once held are still around, a zoo or circus. bers how, as a child. she Mr. Ernie Mason of Chil- peeped through the hedge drey, kindly provided us Or should our parting shot at Warborough Farm. with one of the collars: a be of Mrs. Silver once wonderingly and no doubt burnished metal ring some again on the high seas, a a little fearfully, yet de- three inches wide and sev- solitary figure on the up- termined to take in the en inches across, tooth- per deck - by her side Photo of Brook Alder with a her two companions. re- ‘Lion in Winter’ also sup- sight of an African lion edged and studded. ad- plied by Mr & Mrs Les Cross lazing on an English lawn. justable. and inscribed turning at last to their “W.Silver. Letcombe Regis, native land ? Page 2 Issue 176 Brainteasers (answers to the Film Titles next month) Litter Pick Six stations on the London Tube Guess the Film Title map have been (sort of!) Alison Phillips would like translated into French. Can you 1. Went away because of to say a HUGE thank you work out which they are? flatulence to all those who offered 2. My girlfriend works in an to help with the village 1. Chalet amusement park litter pick this year. It was 3. There is a twist to this tale so encouraging to have 2. Eau de Toilette 4. An Australian ‘magician’ the many willing pairs of 3. Jalousie 5. Take a vacation but not out hands which have 4. Kilometre 6. They call it ‘white house’ in combined to clear our Spanish village hedgerows of the 5. Poulet 7.
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