l r va be ti m es ce F Cotton ’s Taxis e s n D a io & Mini Coach Service d tm it Tel: 3r is d Est over 45 Yrs t hr l E a C ia S h c s pe lta S Sa Established 24 years 84 84 84 November 2016 - Issue 296 Licensed P.C.V. & Hackney Carriage Operators Memorial to Lost Boys is Raised Again wenty-five boys who lost their lives hereabouts when aged between eleven and fifteen were remembered at St. Stephens church with the re- dedication of a fallen and forgotten memorial. The stone dedicated to the ‘homeless and destitute ‘ boys who died serving on the industrial Ttraining ship ‘Mount Edgecumbe’ while anchored in the Tamar off Saltash was found by Saltash Heritage’s Vice Chair Bruce Hunt to have collapsed. He reported this to Saltash Town Council who organised a skilled team of monumental masons to raise it and make it safe. A short ceremony was conducted by the Reverend of the boys buried thereabouts 1920. The boys received on board and played a part in October in St. Stephens’s Bob Munro, in the presence of before Mayor Hilary Frank there had been found to be ‘in the Saltash scene, their band churchyard. flag bearers from the Royal laid a wreath to them. need of care and protection’, in particular playing at local See more on TS Mount British Legion, as the boys The Mount Edgcumbe, a being found begging, festivities and their rowers Edgcumbe on page 12 Memorial as found were remembered and the wooden three-master, became truanting or just ‘found competing in regattas. Many memorial rededicated. Bruce a training ship in 1877 and wandering’. They received a went on to lead distinguished Hunt spoke of the background remained off Saltash until sound and disciplined training naval careers while one, %&"& ! ! Adam Smith, became a  trawler man and led the Brixham fishing fleet to   participate in the evacuation %$ &% of Dunkirk in 1940. (*$. -5$+".,$6.32.).(-2'$, Sadly, often as a result of %.0&0$ 2%..# -#".-&$-( +".,/ -6 an unhealthy upbringing, some were to die of such $$ &!,($(&,$)& illnesses as pneumonia and +   !"'.("$.%,$ 21 tuberculosis, and it was they Memorial being levelled (2' -(, &(- 2(4$ 00 6.%1$ 1.- +%0$1'4$&$2 !+$1 who were remembered this $1+$6811/$"( +'.,$, #$ .0*1'(0$3##(-&1 )!('.  !&#,&')#&. It’s No Go for Tesco -).6 3-# 63-"'5(2'% ,(+6 -#%0($-#1 fter several years of doubt over the plans for a Tesco  superstore at Carkeel, the supermarket giant has !$)$, '* !!'#)$& Awithdrawn proposals to serve Saltash. ) - (' & (, *#(' Controversy surrounded $$(*$. -%.0%302'$0#$2 (+1 plans for the garage site Whether this is good or "!*%&"( $ adjoining the South-East bad news may depend upon side of Carkeel roundabout point of view.     before planning permission It means a loss of "!&&"$  Photos by kind permission Bruce Hunt was granted in 2012. There promised new jobs, though !&((0!$)$,1 followed lengthy many of these would have negotiations between Tesco been low wage and part $$ ,$)& & '("'&( '&!, and Council time. It also means that a concerning changing the substantial sum of ‘Section & *()#( $#&$$"'* !! road layout to accommodate 106’ money which Tesco ..*-.5%.06.30.%%("$% ,(+6 02($1 increased traffic to the store. would have had to pay $##(-&1'0(12$-(-&13-$0 +1 TheThe saltash.net production of… Since then falling profits Saltash and which could 0.3/10& -(1 2(.-15$+".,$%.00$&3+ 0.0 forced Tesco to shelve plans have been used to improve -$.%%$4$-21 for around fifty new stores the town centre will not be   across the country. The forthcoming. It does company however assured however remove what many (1'&/ Saltash that the town was considered as threat to the $"%&#' *#)+ (% !' $& unaffected and that the town town centre shops. !$)$, *$)& (' would still have its Tesco Peter Ryland, Chairman -20.#3"(-& between its Waitrose and its of Saltash and District Lidl’s. Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce and $5$+("(.31 -#--.4 2(4$3(1(-$%.0 ++2'$% ,(+6 garage site fell into decay Industry told the Observer, $$'&$"$)&+& #) and weeds grew. ‘This offers an opportunity 0.,2 02$012. (-12.(-"7 Now a final decision has for the community of &% $ %+&$!#&"!% been taken that the Saltash to consider what  $!,%%&%+ % %%& &% supermarket will not be alternatives could be .1$$,.0$2.2062'$-$5,$-37 built and the site is to be available’.  ++(-.02$+$/'.-$2., *$ !..*(-& sold. This means that over Tesco has promised to +32$-0$$$&$2 0( -1$+$"2(.- 4 (+ !+$ two hundred jobs, which clear the site and demolish '(+#0$-81$-35(2''$ +2'6 +2$0- 2(4$1 were promised, will not the former garage, hopefully materialise. by the New Year. "%&%%! &"%'& '&! $ &$*!%# %%)!"$$! $$* !!/   )##)* !!&$" -..-  /,.-0(  *# #!' * !!&$"/    .-'301 /,  /,0( /,  /, ©2014 Billy London Ltd. "$%0,%"/1.% "0%$!(+$,3/5,,./  230# 61%0., -..-  /, Tuesday 29th November – Friday 2nd December, 7.00 pm ,.#'%/5,+/%.2"0,.(%/)"//%-)"#%*%+0 3-# 61%0., -..- /, (0#'%+"0'.,,*)"$$(+& +3!10& -(1 2(.-1. "'$1$+".,$ Tickets available at School Reception: +$ 1$!..*2. 4.(##(1 //.(-2,$-2 1)0(,),1.%$40%.+"))"$$(+&         Tickets £6.00/£4.00 Concession. %")"+0/.(*/"+$)%/ &   " #  Recommended age of 8 years +         ")1%     ! .(#%/  # ! '"$    !"" This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. ,+.( "* -*"0 "*+,,+ On behalf of Music Theatre International of New York. (+&/*())$"*".2(%3+$/0")0"/' !$! Saltash and District Observer - November 2016 - Page 2 Your Ideas Welcome! CORNWALL Protect the COUNCIL Chamber Chairman Peter These are sketches for the ideas we have so far for one of Long Stone these to go on top of the Carkeel roundabout. The thinking & our PL12 Community Ryland keeping us Updated… behind this is that this For: November 2016 Observer rotection for the long ctober saw the A.G.M. of the Chamber and, for my sins, roundabout is the first From: Councillor Bob Austin, stone after which I was once again elected Chairman. I was enthused by roundabout visitors will see West Ward, Saltash PLongstone Park is Othe support from the members present for my daughter- as they emerge from the Email: [email protected] named should be a priority tunnel, their first taste of in-law, Rosie, to be Secretary as Danielle Frith, the owner of The “Core” end of the year – watch this should planning permission Truly Scrumptious is taking on a role as Communications and Cornwall! Therefore it is Thank you, Derek H, for your space! be agreed to demolish the P.R. Officer for the Chamber. It is acknowledged that the essential that we get this comments on the “Core” garage into which it is built Chamber has to communicate more with its members and right. So I am looking to all of Youth Centre at St Stephens in Thinking of becoming a and to create a new encourage new members to join an organisation which is the Saltash residents to come up the last Observer. I have been driveway. voice of businesses in Saltash. with any other ideas that they Cornwall councillor? A planning application to on the Management The fourth of May 2017 We had two new members heard. If you have any ideas may like to see on the create a new eco-house at Committee for as long as I can (Election Time) is looming and join at the A.G.M., Speedy please let me know through the roundabout. We have to bear the rear of a property in remember and I must say a big Cornwall Council is already Prints and Logic Accounts Chamber website/Facebook or in mind the safety issues that Callington Road, adjacent thank you to Charlotte preparing the way for the who have sponsored the tell your councillor. are required by Highways to the Park, has given Carpenter who has taken all newly elected councillors. I Pumpkin Carving event. The During the last month, I had England. concern to Saltash Heritage the challenges that have been know there are a lot of people Chamber is proposing to the pleasure of meeting the since it could affect one of thrown at her on board, from in Saltash who would make arrange other events delegation from Urayasu in the two surviving boundary Trailer for Sale the time when CC decided to brilliant councillors, who just throughout the year to help the Japan who visited Saltash on a stones from the old borough devolve all youth services, need to take that step forward businesses of Saltash and if fact finding mission re. the up or Rent of Saltash. One stone is in a building and all, in 2012. and put themselves up for anybody has any ideas then do and coming Olympics in stream just above Combe Saltash has a town trailer, During the time I have been election. If you have been not hesitate to let Danielle, at Japan. I met the President of Creek. The other is the one purchased from the former involved I have not seen such a thinking that you can make a Truly Scrumptious, know their Chamber of Commerce built into the Callington Caradon District Council and fast-growing club as now, difference in Saltash and have them. who explained that their Road garage. Heritage has intended to promote the town. increasing club activities and a the time (believe me you will Talking about ideas, with chamber had 800 members, if already applied to English It has been used at such events wonderful restaurant which is need it!) to become a the news that Tesco is no only I could achieve the same Heritage for both to be as the Mayfair, Regatta and open daily, to which members councillor, then please contact longer going to build a store at membership in Saltash. In listed, with priority to the Christmas Festival. of the public are most myself or any of my colleagues their site at Carkeel speaking to some of the Longstone Park one, and It was also intended to hire welcome. There is a very close for more information, no Roundabout, what would the younger members of the Cornwall Council is it out to other local authorities relationship with the college matter what your political people of Saltash like to see Saltash Chamber there was a supporting this. in South East Cornwall and to that seems to be working very beliefs are. We are all after one there instead. Obviously any suggestion of twinning with Other concerns over the such organisations as Rotary well. A Halloween film night thing which is to improve our other use would need to be them but I suspect that such proposed new home came and Lions. Since 2013 it has is being arranged, and a new living space and the area of with the owners approval and was only because we could from a neighbour who brought in £500 income from young people management Saltash – so come on, you would need planning consent then justify a fact finding queried the proposed hiring charges but has not committee has evolved and is know you can do it! but I think it is the time for the mission!-the town is next to drainage to the eco-friendly been the subject of planned becoming very popular. [email protected] people of Saltash to be pro- Disney Japan, perhaps an house planned for the rear marketing. Charlotte has visited all the active and let their voices be ulterior motive. of the existing home, and To make it more attractive schools to advise them what However, on a more Devolution – Capping especially how drainage at such events and promote activities are available. Please Town Councils. Mariposa Farm serious note, Christmas is Saltash as the Gateway to might affect a listed tree and join our Facebook page Cornwall Council is soon to be on us and for many Cornwall it was intended to the line of trees in the park. Pet Services https://www.facebook.com/Th committed to delivering businesses this a key trading decorate the white trailer with The town council after eCoreSaltash double devolution; which is - Fully Insured - period so I call upon the a ‘vehicle wrap’ to include some discussion agreed to transferring the powers from With current DBS certificate people of Saltash to shop photographs and graphics defer the application until Community Interest Co London to Cornwall and to local and put their pounds relating to Saltash, the town’s satisfactory information on Dog Walking - Pet Minding (CIC) - Hopper Bus local communities and into the local economy. Don’t services committee was the proposed drainage Derriford citizens. Saltash and forget if you park for 2 hours informed. system had been supplied. The CIC have now acquired a The Government is now in a surrounding areas or more in the town centre car The committee agreed that They added a requirement new bus via Cornwall Council consultation period to debate parks you can claim £1.60 the trailer remains a useful to provide a written For more information and is making steps to try and the capping of Town Council’s back from many of the resource for the town. It put statement confirming that Telephone: start a Derriford run on a precept, Saltash along with retailers in the town against forward the alternatives of there would be adequate regular basis from early many other TC’s have 07890706931 purchases. Support your local seeking to sell it if possible, to protection for the long December, alongside of the increased their precept to economy and save money. retain it for town events but stone. services it already supplies via adjust their budgets to cope spend no further funding on it, the CIC shop at the bottom of with the devolution of a variety to refurbish and decorate it as Fore Street. We have had of projects from CC. e.g. previously suggested, and to numerous requests from toilets, waterside & pontoon, actively market it for rental. Saltash residents to try and get Maurice Huggins room etc., so It was agreed to obtain a list this service up and running, so if this capping does get of potential councils and please support it if you can. inflicted on the TC then we organisations that might be This will be for staff at the must be very careful how we interested in hiring the hospitals, outpatients, visitors, devolve future projects. This vehicle, and meanwhile to also anyone who is working at will probably not happen till clean it ‘in house’. the science parks in the area. 2018. if at all. Details have not been finalised yet but the current intention is Carkeel Roundabout Rowan House to have the first bus arriving at Work is going to schedule and RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME Derriford at 7.45am then I hope this is not causing too having about seven services a much congestion. The day including weekends. This roundabout itself will not be is a big ask. To do this we will complete and ready for the top need more volunteer drivers, dressing until June next year, so so if you are interested then in that light I am in discussion please contact Mike Finch with Cornwall Highways to see 07905795256. what sort of design we can place there which will confirm Brexit & Cornwall to visitors that they are now in Now that we know the UK Cornwall! We are still open to will be leaving the EU, suggestions; our artist Chris Cornwall Council is taking Wells has come up with some urgent steps to ensure that the ideas and we must decide UK Government protects which one we are going for by Cornwall’s position in any the end of the year.  '" "$'$# " ' negotiations. We will be insisting that Cornwall Saltash Registry Office      receives investment equal to Most of you, by now, will have that provided by the EU      realised that the office has now programme which has moved into the Library, which        averaged £60m per year over again is part of the the last ten years. Devolvement activities from        CC. The good news is that an    Tesco agreement has been reached As you probably have heard, that the Surgery can now take  " "  "$ !   Tesco’s have pulled out of over the old registry office, &$$ $ " developing a store at Carkeel, giving the Doctors much more     much to the disappointment of space in the Health Centre many residents of Saltash. which will further improve the  " '  %#" $ $  They have stated that they quality of service they provide '''" '  %#" % intend to clear the site by the for Saltash residents. Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 3 n this month of Town Must Use or Lose Remembrance, it is Mayoral Matters… Iappropriate to emphasise !!&  that Saltash is proud of, and £180,000 by 2019 humbled by, its current and here is around £183,000 available for Saltash to use for ¤ ¤ past connections with the local regeneration. But this must be committed over the    Armed Forces. The poppies Tnext three years or it will be lost forever. This was the that flower in the town’s message to Saltash Town Council regarding the ‘Section 106’ Memorial Peace Garden are money that businesses have to make available to the community as poignant dots of red a result of being granted planning permission for major symbolising the sacrifices development. that have been made by Lidl’s agreed in 2008 to person be appointed on behalf Saltash families over the make £200,000 available for of local businesses to co- "  % # years defending the country. town centre regeneration and ordinate existing events in the The moving service that was other community and town and organise further such $     held at St. Stephen’s Church employment benefits to the events, it being proven that at the end of October to worked with the Town Council to refurbish the town. There remains £147,000 such events increase footfall bless the stone honouring 24 Council to restore the TS pontoon and take over of this which has to be and spending and create the MOVING ON REMOVALS boys who died serving on Mount Edgcumbe stone, or management of the area. The committed by 2018. impression of a lively and Training Ship Mount view the stone itself in St. Town Council will soon be Waitrose agreed on paying vibrant community Edgcumbe was another Stephen’s Churchyard. advertising for the role of £300,000 towards the encouraging businesses to PROFESSIONAL HOUSEHOLD reminder of our town’s One of the regular sights Waterfront Warden, a job of enhancement and regeneration invest. This project was REMOVAL SERVICES longstanding association for the boys on TS Mount 25 hours per week that will of Saltash town centre and the discussed and referred back to with the Armed Forces. TS Edgcumbe would have been start on 3rd January next remaining £36,000 must be the Saltash Town Improvement    Mount Edgcumbe was the ferry that linked Saltash year. committed by 2019. Group (STIG) anchored off Saltash with . In October it In another move that Among the projects on The third application     between 1870 and 1920 and was precisely 55 years since should help light up the area, which moneys have already discussed was £41,000 towards Saltash 249318 was licensed for 250 boys. the last ferry crossed the literally and figuratively, the been spent are the community revamping the Waterside. Of Mob: 07411 589 903 During the Great War her Tamar, but for the greater Town Council is working on shop ‘4 Fore Street’, hanging this £21,000 would cover the Captain Superintendent, part of her 700 years of extending the string of lights flower baskets, free Christmas salary of a part time warden Captain H. Wesley service the Saltash ferry was that festoon part of the and weekend parking, Ann who would collect mooring Harkcom, claimed proudly the most important in the waterfront. At the other end Glanville ‘Talking Bench’ and and other fees once the town Senior Citizens Home that not very many ships in west of the country. Sadly, in of the town, meanwhile, the recent ‘blue plaque project’ council takes over Hairdressing the Royal Navy were recent years our waterfront Tesco has announced that it Three further applications management of the Waterside without one or more of his area has suffered from will not be building a new for Section 106 funding were later this year. It is hoped that old boys on board. Find out neglect, but this looks set to store by Carkeel Services discussed by the town council. after the first year his job would Ladies & Men have your hair done more about TS Mount change as the Town Council roundabout. The Town These included firstly the be self supporting. A further Edgcumbe at Saltash is now in the final stages of Council is extremely Community Interest £20,000 was sought towards in your Own Home by Heritage Museum, which negotiations with Cornwall disappointed with Tesco’s Company’s proposed bus refurbishment of the pontoon Mature Hairdresser decision, but don’t forget service to Derriford hospital. which is now barely usable. Patient & Understanding of your Needs that we still have an With the second bus due to Of the £55,000 needed to Shampoo & Set - Cut & Blow Dry excellent shopping offer arrive in September councillors repair it £35,000 has been Hopper Bus Trips in our town centre. Try the Perms & Colours agreed to recommend the found but unless the shortfall is Call Shelley on (/ & +  & + small bags of vegetables – award to the project of £5,000 provided this valuable facility chopped ready just for one to put the bus on the road and attracting visiting yachtsmen to Tel: 01752 844 599 M: 07443522714 -.+2-"(/ & + person – available at the set up the service, and a further the town could be lost and .+ +%$ + .,-( Community Market at the £5,000 which hopefully would would cost several thousand - +!- 2 bottom of Fore Street and not be needed, to underwrite pounds to replace. It could also help Grow Your     any losses during the pilot mean the end of gig racing and       Community! Not only period of running the service. Saltash Regatta. After   will spending locally help A town event’s co-ordinator discussion, during which it was   boost our local economy, .'2-"(/ & + was the second project for suggested that a pontoon could but by buying from a local which £60,000 was sought to be hired just for regatta, the    (+-"2'(- %(( +/ +2%.'" butcher, baker or include the first two year’s application was deferred to a    greengrocer, it is likely salary. It was proposed that a future meeting. Curtains Cushions that a decent percentage of ('2-"(/ & + the produce has had a Roman Blinds #!" -- %%#(' short field-to-fork Pelmets Fabrics  journey, meaning the food is likely to contain more Wallpaper Interior -.+2 -"(/ & + nutrients and have less Design & Much more (- " % 3 "+#,-&,+%' packaging. 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Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 4 Waterside a Winter Get Involved in Festive Fun Japanese Ties Strengthened s the Christmas festive event grows each year more As Ties Exchanged Wonderland volunteers are required to ensure its success. Being a Apart of this, one of the main and best-loved features of he festive fun with which the Saltash year, can be fun in itself as well as a worthwhile Saltash greets the Christmas contribution to the community. Ways in which one can help of the children but is proven to season this year will continue T include marshalling the Lantern be effective in reducing for the full weekend, with the focus Parade, or manning the reoffending. shifting on Sunday to the historic information stall. So those who could consider Waterside. In particular, volunteers are giving a few hours of their time The Saltash Town Council is this year always needed to rattle the on Saturday 3rd December are sponsoring a large Christmas tree to be collecting bucket around the invited to contact the Guildhall placed in the heart of Waterside on the town and to sell raffle tickets. in the knowledge that they will green outside the Union Inn and to be lit Any profits from the Festival be supporting two extremely and decorated in collaboration with the always go to the Mayor’s worthy local and national Saltash Waterside Residents Association Charities, which this year are causes. (SWRA). Girlguiding Saltash and On Sunday 4th December at 7pm, Storybook Dads. Registry Office following the festive events ‘Up The The fine work done by the guiding movement nationally Town’ on Saturday, it is hoped that the Sale and locally over the past Waterside community will come together century needs no introduction, The former Registry Office with those from throughout Saltash for the and we are delighted to report adjacent to the surgery in grand switching on of the that the movement remains as Plougastel Drive is being inks between Saltash and the Japanese city of Urayasu were Christmas lights. As well popular as ever in Saltash, sold subsequent to the strengthened by an exchange of gifts following a lunch at as the tree lights, this will adding to the lives of a new Registry Office having Saltash Rugby Club. include an extension of the generation of girls. moved into the nearly library L A delegation from the city, theirs to members of the festive lights erected Storybook Dads is a less building. including its Mayor and delegation. along the Waterside and well known charity but one that Several bids have been FIRE POWER Chairman of the Chamber of When Saltash Mayor formally inaugurated last also helps transforms lives. received, including one from Commerce had been Hilary Frank visited Japan summer. Our own young Saltash residents Sharon Berry the surgery which wishes to Your Specialists in welcomed to Saltash and shortly afterwards she met talent from Page2Stage and Rev Bob Munro have been expand into its rooms. Local entertained in the Guildhall again with Mayor Matsuzaki active in building this Councillors selecting the Fires & Fire Places will lead the community the previous day by our town who presented her with a host organisation through which successful bid, the Town carol singing around the Mayor, representatives from of ties for their Saltash Rugby parents undergoing prison Council was told, are not        tree in a service led by the the Chamber of Commerce Club hosts. There were sentences maintain contact with only noting the highest bid  Mayor’s Chaplain. and local organisations. special Disneyland Japan ties, their children through reading but must look beyond the And a very special The delegation was invited this major visitor attraction and recording stories for them. value at the wider value to visitor is promised. Father to lunch at the rugby club being situated in the city of      This not only lightens the lives the community of these bids. Christmas has agreed to prior to watching the Urayasu. attend in the Saltash afternoon’s game and Mayor ‘We were overwhelmed by Rotary Sleigh and to Matsuzaki determined to buy the strong community spirit of  distribute presents to all one of the club ties on sale. Saltash and of Saltash Rugby good children. Parents of However when the meal was Club’, Mayor Matsuzaki told  such deserving children are concluded they had been Mayor Frank. ‘We are  asked to contact ‘Just Be’ locked away. building our own rugby club wine and coffee lounge to     Sensing disappointment in the city, to cater for the  arrange for suitable gifts to   their host, Rugby Club growing popularity of this       be on Santa’s sleigh.      President Bill Ryan gave the sport in Japan, and we would     F F F Mayor his own tie and other hope to model it on that of           committee members gave Saltash.’ For Dates & Times visit our website:    www.velocityplay.co.uk       --- Like Us on Facebook ---         Walking the Blue Plaque Trail Follows Royal                 Restaurant - Bar - Hotel – Functions    Opening General Manager Martin & the Team ollowing its official opening by Her Royal Highness the    Duchess of Gloucester, a number of Saltash residents and Welcome you to call in for… o0o Fvisitors to the town took a guided walk along the new Coffee Lounge - A New Facility The Bar Breaded brie with a port and cranberry sauce Saltash Blue Plaque Trail. They were led by Martin Lister and Prawn and lemon arancini with tomato and chilli dip Peter Clements of Saltash Heritage who paused at each of the Coffee can be enjoyed inside or out A substantial area of the bar is reserved for Duck liver pate with kumquat marmalade and toasted olive bread seven plaques to outline a brief history of the seven local serving a variety of coffees & a variety of teas those who wish to call in to relax whilst with savoury & sweet snacks Curried parsnip soup with rustic croutons characters commemorated. enjoying a great selection of beers, lagers and o0o These include a Victorian Why not relax have a leisurely morning with ciders or a drink from the well-stocked wines Baked fillet of hake with wilted spinach and smoked salmon tartare Town Sergeant renowned for Remembrance friends on the sofas in our relaxing coffee bar and spirits selection Roast breast of Cornish turkey arresting mutineers and for his Service head butt, a Waterside or on the patio Function Suite with bacon wrapped chipolatas and cranberry and pork stuffing Sunday 13th Contre filet of beef publican who had won an Lunchtime: The Cardinals Hatt is available for early VC in colonial wars November 2016 Starters & Lite Bites Weddings – Christenings – Anniversaries with parsnip puree and a port wine reduction Pan fried chicken breast on mashed potatoes during a seafaring career, a Remembrance Service - Something more Substantial Family Occasions to Office Parties Mediterranean roasted vegetables and creamy basil pesto famous Victorian oarswoman 13th November 2016. The and Funerals Afternoon Tea Woodland mushroom risotto with parmesan and truffle oil who led Saltash ladies to Annual Remembrance Day Accommodation available Enjoy a break with our Selection of seasonal vegetables and roast potatoes victory on both sides of the Parade and Service will be English Channel, an artist who Afternoon Tea & Scones with o0o held on Sunday 13th portrayed the old waterside, a Opening Hours: Christmas pudding with brandy sauce November 2016 at Wesley Cornish Clotted Cream pioneer in early radio Coffee Lounge: Mon-Fri from Limon cello posset served with a short bread biscuit Church, Callington Road Selection of Cakes communication and an officer 10:00am – 5:00pm Dark chocolate and raspberry torte with a shot of double cream (use postcode PL12 6LA who won his VC in World War for directions) commencing Dinner at the Cardinals Hatt Cornish Cheese Platter Serving Lunches from: 1’s secret ‘Q’ ships. There is at 14:00. Dinner is predominantly served in the o0o also a plaque to a former After the Remembrance restaurant; however there are suitable Mon-Fri 12:00noon 3:00pm Coffee with mince pies £3.00 extra tables for dining in the bar if you mayor, who wrote plays Service, at approximately Dinner: Mon-Fri 6pm-8:45pm Three Courses (excluding coffee) £26.95 performed in the West End and prefer ‘Pub’ atmosphere. 15:00, the parade will form Saturday: 12:00noon 8:45pm Two Course (excluding coffee) £20.95 which were made into movies. up and march from the We offer an Imaginative & Exciting Sunday Lunch: 12:00noon – 3:00pm Price includes Crackers, table decorations etc. Now the trail can be Wesley Church down Fore menu changing monthly to suit all taste Sunday Evening 6:00pm – 7:45pm Please inform the staff if you suffer from allergies or have dietary enjoyed by one and all with Street to the War Memorial Come along with family & friends to celebrate requirements or you are vegan or vegetarian and we will endeavour to the aid of a free leaflet at St Nicholas and St Faith Birthdays - Parties - Anniversaries     accommodate you. available in the town museum Church. Once the wreath All your special occasions     and elsewhere. A small laying is completed the Take the strain out of your event let us organize it for you! compass is also available to Mayor, guests and Coun-    Don’t leave it too late! add to the fun for families cillors will reassemble  To discuss your event or make a booking please… navigating the trail while a full outside Specsavers, and    !!!     book on the trail gives fuller take the salute from the details on the personalities march past of the Armed                 involved as well as other Services, Veterans, Cadets                  points of interest along the and other organisations trail. Peter Sings to Help Save Lives at Children Lay Paper Cranes Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 5 ‘Love Saltash’ Festival for Peace Fresh Fears for Hospital’s Future ews that the National Health Service in Cornwall must drastically reduce overspending and modernise its Napproaches have given concern to Saltash Town Councillors and to Community Enterprise PL12. An anticipated Sustainability and focussed on the modern Transformation Plan (STP) hospital at Liskeard which is bound to affect service is currently underused. provision in Saltash, a They agreed to be proactive Community Enterprise in inviting the Kernow report anticipates. In Clinical Commissioning particular plans to transfer group to meet with treatment from hospitals to Councillors and other homes could be a threat to concerned parties. There’s a war on! Debbie and Andrew team our much loved St, Public engagement in the doing their bit for the war effort, serving olourful paper cranes created by the children of Bishop Barnabas Community plan has been promised and lunch during Saltash Arts Festival. Cornish school were carried through the town’s Peace Hospital. the Community Enterprise CGarden by children of year 6, aged around 11, where they Town Councillors PL12 will support hile serenading the eleven grandchildren joined found possible to use the read the moving story of Sadako, who had died aged 11 as a result commented that they fear all involvement by the Patient coffee drinkers and him and seven great equipment again, once more of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima. hospital treatment in South Participation Groups in the Wdiners and those grandchildren were it not for she was treated within a day The occasion was United Nations World Peace Day and Mayor East Cornwall may be town’s two surgeries. passing through The the equipment acquired at and has felt fit and healthy Hilary Frank and her Japanese born husband and consort Shojiro Courtyard during the ‘Love Derriford through the fund. since then. ‘I would not have had previously visited the children, who are studying World War II. Saltash’ arts festival local When Margaret was firstly survived long enough to They had explained to the children how a number of men women THE singer Peter Mancini was also diagnosed with a tumour in undergo the second op without and children equivalent to ten times the population of Saltash had eager to collect funds for a 2005 surgeon James Palmer Cavitron – and it would have died instantly when the bomb exploded, with many more dying BULLERS local good cause. And treated her with the been a slow and unpleasant from radiation sickness over the following years. amongst his audience were Stereotactic machine provided death’, the 73 year old great- One such victim was Sadako who was aged two when the bomb ARMS two who especially through Cavitron as a result of fell and suffered from leukaemia as a result of it. There is a Japanese LANDRAKE appreciated how good this which she was out of hospital tradition that if one folds a thousand paper cranes then one’s wish local life-saving cause can be. the same day. When the will come true. Sadako set out to do so and to wish for world peace. The Bullers Arms 16th Century Traditional Cornish Pub Mike Turner has been co- tumour returned in 2011 it was After she died her friends completed the thousand and each year on Located in the small village of Landrake ordinating the regional not considered possible to use the anniversary of the bombing Japanese children come to lay a Cavitron Fund for the neuro- the same machine a second thousand paper crane by her statue. This story was read out by four #/3'+%/#0&,,"# ) )#0 surgical treatment at Plymouth time and she underwent a of the Bishop Cornish pupils in the presence of the Mayor, Deputy ( & 3'3.# . 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Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 6 Saltash Shops Sparkle with Feast of Grand Parade Leads to Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 7 Gift Ideas Christmas Market Coming to Town Fun at Carolling for Christmas CottoCotton’n’ss TaxiTaxi altash will sparkle as ever with pre-Christmas cheer during hile the timing and the programme for the Saltash the town’s very special Christmas Festival this year to be held Festive Christmas Festivities has changed over the years, ServiceService Son Saturday 3rd December. As the short December day Wwhat is for many the main event of the evening has draws to a close the lights will shine over a Fore Street lined with Saturday 3rd December Event remained constant over the decades. Christmas would not be      our own Christmas Market, promised to be better than ever this year. Christmas in Saltash without the Grand Parade culminating in s the customary With the street closed to traffic but packed with seasonal fun and the official switching on of our wonderful Christmas lights,    Christmas crowds entertainment, what better time to explore our lovely local shops and he tradition of a Christmas Market, where children can enjoy and adults recapture the followed by communal open air singing of carols. Only rarely flock to enjoy the  discover what our hardworking and enterprising local shopkeepers A has the weather forced the carol service into the nearby Wesley excitement of the anticipatory atmosphere of the Festive Season, has spread from the feast of stalls lining Fore have been stocking up on for you this Christmas. Church. Street at our town’s Christmas shopping need not consist of traffic chaos, excessive continent to many of our major cities. Now here in Saltash we can share in the fun Christmas Festival there This year’s Parade will set will have been judged on the parking fees in packed car parks and forcing oneself through T          will also be a feast of off down Fore Street, leaving previous Thursday afternoon crammed superstores all selling similar stock. Nor need it be the during our town’s Christmas Festival on Saturday 3rd December. This year, following recent            entertainment on the stage, Victoria Gardens at 5 p.m. led by teams of children from soulless clicking of a computer to buy unseen products from a far set at the foot of Fore Street, by the town band whose local primary schools who, off mega-retailer. changes to legislation, Saltash is again able to host a Christmas Market, with an unlimited and throughout the town. music will set one and all in we can assure all, take their In Saltash we are fortunate enough to be able to rediscover the number and variety of stalls lining its pedestrianised Fore Street. All charities and The full programme of full Christmas mood. The responsibility extremely traditional joy of Christmas shopping where we can park close to the continuous live Mayor with her Consort and seriously. wide array of friendly, locally-owned and managed stores. Or else businesses are welcome to book a stall space, but to boost local business it has been entertainment will include a other VIP guests will follow, This will be followed by save the environment and travel on our frequent local bus services wide variety of local talent joined of course by that most one and all being invited to to the heart of the town. decided that while outside businesses will be asked to pay £20, there will be no charge to from the youngsters of important guest Father give voice to familiar During our Christmas Festival, and throughout the run up to Unisex Hairdressers –Trelawney Rd, St Stephens, Saltash Youngstagers as well as the Christmas himself, waving to Christmas carols, led by Christmas, our local shopkeepers are proud to offer a wide and town centre retailers. The street will be closed to traffic in the early afternoon to allow more mature musical talents all from the Saltash Rotary Mayor’s Chaplain Rev.     varied range of seasonal food, drink and ideas for presents perhaps           stallholders to place their own table, gazebo and lighting outside on the street. of Brunel Harmony Chorus, Sleigh. Michele Parkman and that bit different from the standard stock in the megastores. Here        while Geraldine Lamb’s At the foot of Fore Street accompanied by the town you can buy direct from local       The only traffic then allowed on Fore Street will be hordes of Santas, who will ride up Fore Dance School will also be our Citizen and Young band. With newly acquired traders who know their wares,        performing for your delight. Citizen of the year, Marilyn loudspeakers in force it is Santas and are ever anxious to go that Street around 2pm on their way to deliver presents to children at Little Harbour, the hospice A White Christmas Grose and Jack Phelan will be hoped that the sound will ring    extra bit further to offer a cannot be promised but invited to push down on the out along our Fore Street.         on Bikes quality of friendly service near St. Austell. Some of their jolly helpers will return at 4pm, when the Christmas Market   snow on 3rd December is golden handle that will make unimaginable in a big city Will ride up Fore Street officially opens, to spread good cheer and collect money for Children’s Hospice Southwest. guaranteed! The snow Fore Street an array of lights. store. And by shopping locally Observer Telephone cannon proves popular each The President of the #&)#& "%!&$(%$ Sat 3rd Dec 2pm you are assisting the local Numbers      It is anticipated that there will be a wide variety of Christmas-orientated stalls selling year and this Christmas Chamber of Commerce will economy and keeping your On their way to the Festive evening there will be awarding the Saltash 07971484872 or 01579 money local – so everybody traditional and perhaps quirky gift ideas, as well as festive food and drink. The market will  !   Book your Festive Lunch Children’s Hospice be two, one at each end of Chamber of Commerce Cup 345699 wins. & Bring your own Bottle the street, thanks to funding for the Best Dressed Window. %*$(%' !%%! $$    So this Christmas, and remain open until after the fireworks conclude at around 7.30 p.m. Email your copy to: by the Saltash Chamber of Based this year on a generic   " throughout the New Year, [email protected]         Those who wish to set up a stall are asked to contact Diverse Events, who are taking on the Commerce. In addition, theme of ‘Christmas’, this support Saltash shops, and     there will be street ! "           shop locally. work of accepting bookings and managing the market. They should be contacted by entertainers among the !   Monday 21st November on [email protected], by phone on 0131 463 8368 or via the crowds showing off their  "# $ !# !# !# %!      stilt jumping and fire eating !      website www.diverse-events.com skills.     intrigue fashions And we must not of              #    ! course forget Father     NICHOLLS & Christmas himself! Saltash #'$%          SAINSBURY     Lantern Parade to Light the Night Rotarians are providing him !  !(# !#%%$ !# (      EEstablishedstablished 2268 yyearsears or many of our younger citizens the highlight of our Saltash Christmas Festival has to be the Lantern Parade. Through the streets, with their sleigh so that he ""!$%%&   or many of our younger citizens the highlight of our Saltash Christmas Festival has to be the Lantern Parade. Through the streets, may meet his many young     SOLICITORS AND iillllumiinatted by ourr speciiall sttrriings off ffesttiivall lliightts,, ourr youngstterrs,, and some off tthe ollderr generrattiion,, prroudlly bearr ttheiirr      FAMILY LAWYERS fans and discuss their             iillllumiinatted paperr llantterrns,, tthe rresulltt off much harrd worrk and skiillll..Once agaiin allll off ourr llocall prriimarry schoolls wiillll be parrttiiciipattiing Christmas wishes.    # The approachable practice F          iin tthe Parrade,, and tthe eagerr youngstterrs wiillll sett offff ffrrom tthe Guiilldhallll att 7 p..m.. as a ffiinalle tto tthe Chrriisttmas Festtiivall.. Att tthe ttop off Forre providing for your family’s     Street they will assemble as the town enjjoys a shorrtt         legal requirements in       house sales and purchase, firework display marking the end of the event – and tthe    Home Information Packs start of the Christmas festivities for 2016.         Re-Mortgages, Leases A lantern workshop is being organised iin tthe Guiilldhallll    //+!/41''*$&"-*,71*&.%2)1*23-"2 Wills and Probate Festive Fun on Fore Street for 10:30 on Saturday 26th November, at whiich allll wiillll be         "13*&2/6 Lasting Powers of Attorney, welcome, children to be accompanied by an adulltt pllease..      Matrimonial & Children Matters 2pm: Santas ride through on bikes A contribution of £3 per lantern is beiing asked off tthose      !"! "&#    4pm-7:30 Pedestrian Haven attending. Places must be booked iin advance by Special Occasions catered for /412&28  /412&2/.,78                          5pm: Civic Parade leaves from Victoria Gardens contacting the Guildhall.       Additionally, the team that organises the regionally Breakfast or Lunch with Father Christmas 131-135 Fore St, 5:15: Christmas lights are switched on Additionally, the team that organises the regionally    " " ! 5:20: Outdoor Carol Service at bottom of Fore Street renowned City of Light Parade in Truro has offfferred       2&15&%6*3) SALTASH Tel: 01752 849723    7pm Lantern Parade leaves from Guildhall Saltash the chance to purchase some of tthe speciiall      "$142371/,, Cornwall www.driftwood-gifts.co.uk 7:15 Fireworks lanterns that have lit their city’s event.. Pllease conttactt           9&15&%6*3)3/"232","%("1.*2) Tel (01752) 846116 5 Keast Mews Fore Street Saltash   Saltash Guildhall for more information on sponsoriing a    91&2)01"6.2*." 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Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 8 Teenagers Told Duchess how Foodbank’s Feeding of Local organisations Saltash Rotarians Seek to Livewire Changes Lives benefit - to the value During her visit to Livewire on the Saltash Waterside Her the Three Thousand of £750 Stop Dependence on Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester heard from two total of 2002 adults plus 1235 children who would Two Saltash Youth teenage members of the youth project just how much Livewire otherwise have gone hungry have been fed through the organisations have recently Swamp Water meant to them and how vital its continuance is to the young Aefforts of the volunteers at Saltash Foodbank with food benefitted from Saltash based people of Saltash. donated by local individuals and businesses. charity the Sue Hooper fter serving for two years as volunteers in an African Eighteen year old Mitch commemorate her visit and During the four years of Charitable Foundation. primary teachers’ training college, two Saltash had been a very confused the seventieth anniversary of the foodbank’s existence an Town Councillors warmly Livewire Youth Project and Rotarians are hoping that when they return to Uganda A eleven year old when he Livewire the Duchess was amazing total of 28 tons of applauded the presentation Youngstagers were delighted to they will be able to see the installation of a rainwater harvesting joined Livewire, over seven presented with a photograph food ‘more than enough to fill and showed their appreciation receive funding towards the system that will avoid trainee teachers and children depending years, he explained, he had of her husband the Duke of this council chamber’, has of the work done by Mr. young people that they upon unhealthy swamp water when the taps fail. through the club and its Gloucester opening the been handed over, explained Hawker and his thirty represent, towards their Keith Halsey and Sally workers, developed as a extension to the club, then Mark Hawker of the Saltash volunteer helpers. A individual projects. and Keith were among Alexander are seeking to raise person and come to realise known as the Saltash Boys’ Foodbank during a certificate of appreciation was Livewire received £500 Rotarians attending the beer funds through fellow how dreams can become Club, thirty-six years ago. presentation to the full Town given by the Mayor to be towards music lessons for the festival at the ‘Union Inn’ and Rotarians, and other donees for possible realities. The Council. passed to volunteer helper club members who are inspired hoping that a share of the a clean water supply as well as ‘Jewel of Saltash’ as he Now a registered charity Rika Chanter for her by, and are learning music in all proceeds might be directed better toilets to ensure a healthy described it, continues he SALTASH U3A affiliated to the Trussell Trust, particular efforts in helping to disciplines. environment for Uganda’s towards their own pet project. Saltash Foodbank previously feed local hungry families. Youngstagers received £250 said ‘to help so many people At their October meeting trainee teachers. While they Ideally they are hoping that was based in the Wesley to provide professional theatre feel part of a real family’. members welcomed John were at the college, Sally when they return from Saltash church with food stored in a workshops for the children; He followed his talk with a Boon who had agreed to specialising in teaching art and to Uganda in December for warehouse on the industrial Community Shop which proved to be a wonderful ‘freestyle rap’ that he deliver a talk on The special needs, Keith woodwork another six months they will be estate. Since the opening of experience for them all. composed and which was Wildlife of Ford Park Caters for Those and metalwork they discovered able to see the project through. 18 Belle Vue Road to local The Sue Hooper Charitable warmly applauded. Cemetery. Whilst most that global warming caused a For further information they enterprises earlier this year Foundation founder and It was three years ago that people in the area know of Living Alone reduction in water supply from can be contacted via Foodbank has relocated to Chairman said today: “The her youth worker following a Ford Park Cemetery, few A special service for those who the mountains and that the [email protected] these premises where it can Foundation was founded 16 series of personal problems would realise that it live alone and wish to eat college’s 460 students and fifty offer a three day supply of years ago in aid and support of involving severe depression occupies 34 acres in the healthily is now offered by the staff were frequently forced to food on three occasions to the promotion of music, drama Press Secretaries and self harm introduced heart of the city. Town’s community shop. collect swamp water for those in need. The and the performing arts. Nicole, now 19, to Livewire. The land was purchased The volunteer helpers at the washing, cooking and even organisation works closely “Both Livewire and & Correspondents Since then she had been in the 1840’s to create a Community Interest drinking. with social agencies who Youngstagers fit perfectly into persuaded to take up the cemetery outside the City’s Company’s No 4 Fore Street They have been giving talks supply vouchers, our criteria for funding. Email your news to… guitar and sing on stage. ‘I walls. Plymouth had 2 who sell fresh fruit and to such organisations as Saltash exchangeable for food and it “The Trustees were have now been to Music council cemeteries and the vegetables were asked by one Sailing Club, as well as other [email protected] depends for this food totally unanimous in their agreement to College and am now off to inner city was overcrowded. elderly lady to cut up a swede local Rotary Clubs, explaining upon the generous Saltash fund two outstanding University – none of this It was planned that Ford for her as her hands were how massive roof mounted Tel: 01579 345699 community, including in organisations, benefitting young would have been possible Park Cemetery become a unable to perform this task. water harvesting tanks could particular Saltash Churches people who develop without Livewire’, she garden cemetery and it Having done so one volunteer, benefit the college community, Mob: 07971 484872 Together and local food educationally, artistically and concluded. She then sang to proved to be a profitable Averil Pinkney came up with at a total cost of £30,000. Sally stores. socially within the arts. the assembled throng business. It wasn’t until after the idea of preparing to order It also has two outreach “The Foundation has proudly accompanying herself on the World War II that small bags chopped and frozen centres, one at Saltash Baptist donated many thousands of guitar. cremations became popular. vegetables suitable for one Church and one recently pounds to worthy beneficiaries The Duchess of The Commonwealth War person, having realised that established at St. Germans over the past 16 years, and Gloucester listened Graves Commission those living alone create a where already 108 adults and many have advanced to musical attentively before circulating maintains their contract with demand for such a service 35 children have received careers at National and through the packed hall, Ford Park cemetery. which is not generally met food relief. international levels.” pausing to talk to youth In 2000 volunteers took elsewhere. There are many reasons for workers, and some of the over the care of the grounds those in and around Saltash to teenage members including which are now managed by find themselves unable to Mitch and Nicole. the Ford Park Cemetery   afford food for themselves      The Duchess had been Trust and, with community Scooters, Power Chairs, Rollators, I I and their families, Mr.       ‘handsomely entertained’, support, the site is being I I Hawker explained. The Wheelchairs, Rise & Recline Chairs       she pronounced before improved. principal reason is delays in departure, and congratulated John spoke about the         receiving benefit, followed by F  F   all of those at Livewire who diversity of flora and fauna low income and by changes in      do change lives. After to be found and he F benefit. Other causes include  unveiling a plaque to illustrated his talk with debt, homelessness and beautiful photographs of the sickness. There are many            plants, insects and birds that referral agencies, most can be seen. The Trust T: 01752 841879 coming via the Saltash Tamar View Ind Est PL12 6LD (Nr Waitrose) recognises the importance of Children’s Centre and others [email protected] this much loved urban referred on by local doctors.  wildlife refuge and manages Christmas can be it for the public benefit and especially hard for those  for the protection and unable to afford even basic propagation of its wildlife.      foods and Saltash Foodbank John’s photos highlighted is always pleased to brighten the changes that take place the season for known needy as the seasons change and  families by providing special the problems encountered    Christmas hampers. with invasive weeds. 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Carol Singing    '-   00,+/)3""'-%0.'   !    !""!$% !!" ## Everyone Welcome     02' 42''4 $-4$3*02/7$--  Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 9 Zero Energy Eco House Rotary President Seeks to Serve Lesser rare specimen of ‘Black Gold’ was put on view at Saltash Guildhall on Wednesday evening. After the torrential rain on Monday evening it was perhaps fortunate that the Saltash Community Flood Forum had arranged to hear a talk from local Known Local Causes Aresident, Dr Rebecca Pearce, who lives in the only zero energy eco house in the town, and researches extreme weather events at the University of Exeter. Around 30 members attended the meeting chaired by Town Councillor Sue Hooper MBE. elping with local good Rebecca gave a thought provoking talk on building flood resilience in Saltash and what the whole community can do to protect the causes, as well as area from exposure to flooding and the longer term consequences of climate change. Rebecca revealed that the rare exhibit was Hoverseas ones, and actually a jar of rotting leaves, which, if left on the land, act as a sponge, soaking up the rain and slowly rotting into the ground especially doing little things for capturing carbon and encouraging earthworms which aerate the soil, enabling penetration from the rain that would otherwise run a number of lesser known across the top, which is the likely outcome in places where poorly managed soils are compacted by the use of heavy machinery or organisations, is among the regular footfall. aims of Saltash Rotary Rebecca explained that there driving garden waste to the tip flood periodically to relieve consider their vulnerability. The President Brenda Samuels, whom we met over a drink is ample legislation designed to was adding carbon dioxide to pressure downstream. cost-benefit analysis done to outside the ‘Union’ at the protect the health and well- the atmosphere unnecessarily. inform decisions on which Rotary sponsored beer festival. being of communities and the There was an upside to the Sea Level Rise communities will benefit from She was also eager to environment through discussion because even the The issue of sea level rise of a flood alleviation schemes may welcome more members to sustainable management of laziest gardener can help by minimum of one metre was result in homes at risk being Saltash Rotary with an water. However, enforcement is leaving things to rot down discussed and it was agreed that considered a sacrifice worth assurance that each member is patchy due to the paring back of naturally, wildlife will benefit in the future, some homes may making to allow money to be now encouraged to do as much public services and the limited spent in larger, more affluent or as little as time and other workforce that the planning towns and cities. commitments allow. ‘We no authority and Environment longer expect that every Agency are able to field to Solutions member should attend every monitor housing development The Forum discussed the weekly meeting – that has all and alterations to existing possibility of speaking with changed’, she explains. ‘We buildings and infrastructure. insurers to try and agree accept that most of our elsewhere in your ‘Observer’. group is set up to help families members are busy people and potential solutions in advance of The next public event will be of children suffering type one we welcome those who make Flooding problems arising. A lot of a Quiz Night in Saltash diabetes, especially in the occasional meeting as much Guildhall on Saturday 29th defraying the often prohibitive Saltash is not only vulnerable to properties are listed as being in as those who are there each October starting at 7.30 to costs of such equipment as coastal flooding and flooding flood risk areas and their owners week’. which all are welcome. This blood testing cassettes. Brenda from the Latchbrook but also quite understandably are not Among the local projects in will be in aid of one of Brenda’s is also keen to continue Rotary surface water flooding caused keen to discuss this with their hand was the forthcoming lesser known local support for such vital local by changes in road levels, illegal insurers and so some presentation of a defibrillator for organisations’, Plymouth organisations as Saltash’s farm drainage, blocked drains, exploration in this area perhaps Saltash Fore Street as covered Sugar-Zappers! This small Livewire now, as we have and the sudden emergence of The plants on green roofs hold onto rainwater and allow through impartial intermediaries reported, celebrating seventy springs due to poor land between 60 and 80% to evaporate back up into the would be beneficial now while Local Cop is Top Tweeter years of service to youth in management. The remedy atmosphere rather than running down the drain. the problem of home Saltash. And all too soon ur popular local PCSO Kirsty Down is up for a national Rebecca suggested was for all and over time, the general need to be evacuated. Rebecca abandonment is not imminent. Rotary will be dusting down award as among the best in the country for utilising the Santa’s Sleigh and sending that residents to green their homes, greening of the town will make explained that when a social media of tweeting to communicate with the public. O cheery old man around the gardens, and garage and shed it a very pleasant and clean community pulls together in Repeated Failure The Town Council were pleased to send their congratulations streets of Saltash with his roofs, in line with the environment, rich in flora and such a situation, well-being Members raised their concerns and best wishes to her. message of seasonal goodwill. recommendations of the fauna. There was a twist in the increases but that people over the repeated failure of However the Town Council also criticised local police for Anyone interested in Committee on Climate Change tale however. At present, displaced for a long time or sewage pumping station failing to keep them updated with local crime figures, none having discovering more about local in their 2017 risk assessment blocked drains are a nuisance permanently eventually suffer if number one at Forder and the been received since July. They asked that this situation be Rotarians is invited to their new rectified. which highlighted the need for and sometimes dangerous but they are re-settled elsewhere. fact that people’s gardens and site www.saltashrotary.org or to Kirsty was put forward for a Police Twitter Award by voters an increase in green spaces, they do inadvertently provide Some of the pain of having to the river are regularly flooded attend one of their weekly participating through email and the social media – The overall trees, and planted roof surfaces, temporary holding areas for leave a much-loved property with effluent. The cost of meetings at the China Fleet winners will be chosen by a panel of experts including police to soak up rainfall and generate quite large quantities of water. and a community could be alterations and defences to Club on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. officers and the public. a cooling effect as background Whilst Rebecca urged people to alleviated if land was identified prevent this are unknown and for 6.30 p.m. temperatures rise. She also do their utmost to clear the town and set aside specifically for the the Forum appealed for garden owners to of litter which in the main is relocation of the communities looks forward be a little less tidy, as allowing blocking up drains and ditches, affected. This may not be to hearing plant material like leaves to and to take individuals found needed for a long time but it from a Moorland Auto compost down on site would littering to task, she also would be a worthwhile represen- help to create the thick layer of appealed for discussion within investment bringing some level tative of organic material on top of the the community to identify areas of certainty and comfort to those South West Solutions soil that is so badly needed and of land that could be allowed to who at present are afraid to Water on this.    Waterside Warden will Receive From Barrows to #,2    www.moorlandautosolutions.co.uk Crematoria Funeral Revenue from Boat Owners 8<5:7*(77,(+<-57&049,7 wo Waterside and Town Wardens, are to be appointed by the Rites Over the Ages Town Council, each to work twenty-five hours a week &,(7,5--,704.(65049&049,7 largely supervising the boats calling in the Saltash he churchyard is at the heart of T */,*1()852:9,2<! 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In the first talk of the new first year from ‘Section 106 monies’, given to the town by season to Saltash Old Cornwall Society developers as a condition of planning permission, it is anticipated  director of Pengelly Funeral Services Mr they will be self-sustaining from the revenue earned by better David Fowell outlined the history of burial management of the boat park and pontoon. &#$"!% rites from AD 752 when Archbishop One Councillor, John Brady, suggested by email that the part Cuthbert was recorded as marking out time positions were insufficient to properly police the Waterfront in boundary walls of a churchyard to keep out summer and that a full time presence 12 hours a day 7 days a week evil spirits, as well as describing the duties #!"!% was needed from April to October. of a present day funeral director. However the Councillors present agreed unanimously to recruit  #! Churchyards proved inadequate during for the two part time positions and to provide a hut on the waterside visitations of plagues and epidemics and in from where the new wardens could operate. The post commences  1832 the first cemetery site was acquired in in January 2017 and will initially operate on a year’s trial. Kensal Green London, with other to follow !"!% in major cities such as Plymouth’s Ford        Park. ! = ;(9         Around three quarters of deaths now result in cremation, first introduced privately in 1882 followed by the $"!% Cremation Society constructing a crematorium in Woking in 1885. ! $ #!"  In his vote of thanks Society Secretary SELLING ALL TYPES OF GARDEN MACHINERY. !"!%! =  ;(9 Martin Lister noted how the burial mounds SERVING DOMESTIC AND COMMERCIAL CLIENTS. and barrows of Bodmin Moor and FREE LOCAL COLLECTION & DELIVERY. Dartmoor record how over thousands of years our dead have been solemnly interred 6,404.5:785470 (3 63"(9 (3 63 with respect and dignity, a tradition which FORMERLY PLYMSTOCK GARDEN MACHINERY 04+:8(95572(4+8(4,"(29(8/  ' those such as Mr. Fowell are maintaining DUE TO EXPANSION YOU’LL NOW FIND US AT UNIT 16,          today. 62 VALLEY ROAD, PLYMPTON PL7 1AB Saltash & District Observer - November 2016 - Page 10 The Computer Man Sheryll       MurrAy                MP G    G      G   G          writeS… G        It was a real privilege to Macmillan Cancer Support Andrew Watts 07751154759 attend Party Conference in to listen to the fantastic work Birmingham this year and to they undertake. I met with or 01752 513462 Audience Absorbed by the Clues be in the main Chamber to Chris Theobald from the listen to Theresa May’s first Guide Dogs organisation. A packed Burraton Community Centre saw The Burraton Community Players in action on Saturday Conference Speech as the He was able to outline their     October 22nd. The occasion was their seventh “Murder Mystery” evening, entitled “MURDER IN THE Prime Minister where she campaign to get all new READERS CIRCLE”. A cast of twelve actors —- five of them making their debut on the Burraton stage outlined her hopes for the buses to be Talking Buses,        — presented the tale of the demise of Emily Christie, chair of the Trehan and District Ladies Reading country following Brexit. I with audio visual next stop Circle and the subsequent investigation carried out by Inspector Roger Roughly with the assistance of felt it was a really good announcements on board. I )$$ , (&*$& PC Dixon. 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Athens particularly The Town Council’s aside for investigations on this    Tel: 01752 84 84 44 interests me as a politician and how I spend most of my time. working group obtained two to go ahead. teacher of Politics since it was Equally our modern independent valuations and Town Councillors agreed    the birthplace of democracy democracy is far from perfect. appointed an external unanimously to proceed in this Tel: 07961 658 750 where up to forty times as a It takes up a lot of time, not negotiator to deal with the way. 01752 84 84 00 year all of the free male everybody feels engaged in 90 St Stephens Rd property developer who owns citizens would gather in the the process, and we can hardly the building and who had Saltash PL12 4BL      public forum and debate and claim to get every decision confirmed that he was willing Portable Beacon vote on laws and proposals right. However, and despite in principle to sell. which would then be carved in several thousand years of However after six weeks of Will be Bought stone and displayed for trying, no one has yet negotiation the working group A portable gas beacon to be everyone to see. 6,000 citizens managed to invent a better has reported back to the Town used at civic events is to were needed in order to make system, and despite its Council that the maximum replace the millennium a vote valid which struck me weaknesses democracy is the sum they were prepared to beacon on Waterside. as it is, roughly speaking, only way we should think of offer, based on their own The new millennium was about the number who vote in doing business. Given that, acquired valuations, had been seen in at Saltash by a crowd - New & Used Car Sales - TTyryres & Tracking Saltash in the average and given that a lot of rejects as too low by the owner. of several thousand as the election. recorded, history is built on The Mayor stated, and current Mayor, Mrs Mona - MOT - Parts Department This system was naturally conquest, dictatorship and councillors agreed, that since Tomerzemska-Honeywill, lit far from perfect: women and general unpleasantness it’s public money was concerned up the beacon, the light of - Servicing ALL Makes - Accident Repair & Bodyshop slaves were both excluded, rather nice to visit the awe the offer should not be which reflected upon the and it didn’t prevent either inspiring Acropolis, gander at increased. The sum offered, Tamar. Since then it has - Diagnostic TTesest - Air-Conditioning Service some periods of dictatorship the incredible buildings, she added, would have remained unused and when - Cambelt Replacement - Free Courtesy Car or some rather dubious carvings and sculptures, and provided a substantial your Observer reporter asked decisions. Socrates for reflect on the fact that investment upon the sum that the Town Council whether it example was imprisoned in a democracy did this. Whilst the owner paid. could join the other beacons lit New Entrance & Forecourt Now Open cave (which I visited today) Saltash Town Council isn’t The Town Council therefore across the country to mark the and then executed, essentially planning to build a Parthenon agreed that Cornwall Council seventieth anniversary of VE for asking too many awkward on Fore Street, hopefully we should be asked to proceed Day it was ascertained that it T: 01752 - 845000 questions, encouraging young can get most of our decisions with ongoing enforcement was no longer fit for purpose. people to do the same, and right too, and leave a positive action requiring the owner to Accordingly the Town being a general pain in the legacy for the future. improve the property, widely Council has decided to spend Burraton Road, Saltash , PL12 6LU Opening Times: backside which, as a teacher regarded as a public eyesore at up to £500 on a portable gas Mon-Fri 08:30 ʹ 18:00 and politician, is pretty much Adam Killeya the rail gateway to Cornwall. beacon to be used at civic W: www.rsmotorssaltash.co.uk Sat 08:30 ʹ 16:00 In addition the Town events and to refurbish the Council is to proceed with fixed beacon sign up to the investigations as to the making maximum value of £300. of a Compulsory Purchase A quote had been sought to Order whereby the owner remove the existing beacon     &     would be compelled to sell it at but had not been received, it  )!!$ ,,#&- ).% a price held to be reasonable. 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The Industrial Schools Act, 1866 allowed any person to bring any child under the age of 14 years before a magistrate. If the child was found to be in need of care and protection, he could be committed to a certified industrial school for as long as was considered necessary, but not beyond the age of sixteen years. The child might be sent to any school on shore (or a training The greatest gift of all is to spend ship) which had space and agreed to take him. The training ships were probably Christmas with those you love. favoured for the more unruly cases as they were run on naval lines and the discipline was considered to be stricter than that at other schools. The register books give the But what if you couldn’t hear them? reasons for committal, which include; found in the ‘company of known thieves’, ‘begging and associating with thieves’, ‘truant’, ‘beyond control’, ‘non-attendance at school’. A frequent entry was simply ‘found wandering’. In such cases it might be expected that an adverse entry on the Smell of chestnuts roasting character of the parents would be recorded, yet terms such as ‘sober’ or ‘steady’ frequently appear. Although children under the age of 12 years charged with a prisonable offence could also be sent to Taste of peppermint candy canes an industrial school, children in such schools had not been convicted. The intake to Mount Edgcumbe was not restricted to boys belonging to the surrounding district, Touch of snowflakes on your fingertips many boys coming from other parts of the country particularly the London area, (in 1896 out of 68 boys admitted, 51 came from London). It is interesting to know that although those who lived at Saltash Passage accepted the boys, Sight of the decorated Christmas tree Saltash residents initially feared, suspected, and shunned them until the owner of the Saltash Gazette, Mr. Dingle, reassured them that the boys were well-behaved. They had to be; they were strictly Sound of the family over Christmas dinner disciplined. A boy sent to the Mount Edgcumbe would have found himself drawn into a way of life which was certainly a marked contrast to his previous existence. While his personal needs of food, clothing and shelter were provided, the very full daily routine occupied all his working hours from 5:50am to 8pm at night throughout the year. Of this time about one and a half hours would have been spent at meals, three hours each at ‘housekeeping’ duties, ‘school’ and seamanship, etc., and the remainder at recreation. There were numerous other duties which boys took turns at. In winter activities could be Sound is particularly important to experiencing the joy restricted by bad weather and there were times when the waters in Saltash Passage were too rough for any of the ship’s boats to be operated. Home leave seems to have been rarely granted, although a of Christmas so visit us for a free hearing assessment with few boys were allowed home at Christmas. There was however greater opportunity for shore leave ™ during the summer months, especially Sadie, your local bloom hearing specialist. for the ships band which was invited to play at local fêtes. Relief from the Call 01752 840835 to book your appointment. confines of the ship was also given by Please quote ref: XMAS 01 when calling the ample experience in small boats which was provided by the Mount Edgcumbe’s fleet of craft which included the 107ft brigantine Goshawk. Many of the boys joining the ship were in poor health, under nourished and 54 Fore Street, Saltash PL12 6JL underweight, some having to go straight email: [email protected] into hospital on arrival in Saltash until they were fit enough to join the ship. www.bloomhearing.co.uk Although life on board was tough it was fair with many of the boys remembering their days on the ship with affection. The causes of death of the 25 boys buried at St Stephens were mainly common illnesses that could be easily cured today. They included pneumonia, TB, infections from cut and flue. There was no heating for the boys, cloths were often damp. They were always barefoot, with cold and numb hands and feet, quite serious cuts and abrasions would not be felt. As all water had to be brought from ashore it was a precious commodity. Boys were allowed a bath once every two weeks, the bath water was changed every twentieth boy. STEAMED UP DOUBLE GLAZING? 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