Events Diary for August 2014 Fri 1 7.30pm Carnival Canter followed by Live Music at 9pm The White Horse Inn, Clun

Sat 2 6pm onwards Barbecue Village Hall

Sat 2 All day Clun Carnival & Show Clun The

Parish Post 51 Number 2014 August Sun 3 11am Clun Carnival Praise Clun Showground for Beambridge Clunbury Clunton Coston Cwm Kempton Little Brampton Obley Purslow The Llan & Twitchen Sun 3 7pm Songs of Praise in four-part harmony. Tel 661171 for info Kempton Village Hall Sun 3 11.15am Morning Prayer St. Swithin’s, Clunbury Grantastic! 4th-8th 2-5pm Holiday Club for all of school age St. Cuthbert’s, hat an intrepid, determined and Mon 4 7-7.30pm WW1 100th Anniversary Vigil St. Mary’s, Clunton W courageous lady we have living th Tues 5 Mobile Library: Clunbury Bridge 10.10-10.30am, Clunton 10.40-11.00am, Obley 12.45-12.55pm within our parish! A lady, who on her 89 birthday, jumped out of a plane at Sun 10 6.30pm Joint Evening Prayer St. Mary’s, Clunton 13,000ft to raise money for charity. Mon 11 7-9pm Free help with using computers at AoC Broadplace Kangaroo Inn, Aston on Clun Jean Seckington, from Twitchen, Thur 14 10-11.30am Clunbury Café Clunbury Village Hall explained how it all came about. “A very Sat 16 Bishop’s Castle New Challenge Walk (see overleaf) Bishop’s Castle good friend of mine from Leintwardine, Sun 17 6.30pm Evening Prayer St. Swithin’s, Clunbury had given me a lot of help with my field, Tues 19 Mobile Library: Clunbury Bridge 10.10-10.30am, Clunton 10.40-11.00am, Obley 12.45-12.55pm and was telling me about her daughter, Wed 20 9.15pm Live Acoustic Folk Music The Crown Inn, Clunton living out in Mozambique, where local Thu 21 12.30pm A Summer Lunch Clunbury Village Hall communities have to drink from dirty ponds. Her daughter is involved with the Fri 22 2-5pm Clunbury Craft Group Clunbury Village Hall Mahaque Well Project which provides Sat 23 7.30pm Film: 12 Years a Slave - Bookings: 640254 Clun Memorial Hall clean drinking water to the villages and Sat 23 Purslow Show - Social Evening Purslow, in the marquee each well costs £2,900. I decided I Sun 24 11.15am Joint CW Holy Communion St. Swithin’s, Clunbury would like to do something to raise some Mon 25 afternoon Purslow Show Show field, Purslow money for them but it was a question of Wed 27 10am Workshop: Playing with Words (with Sally Tonge) Age: 6+ BC’s Library, 638215 what.” Thur 28 10-11.30am Clunbury Café Clunbury Village Hall Jean had read about an RAF widow, in Sat 30 2-4.30pm SWS Gardening Club Garden & Produce Show Lydbury North Village Hall her 70s, who had done a tandem parachute jump and she wrote to her, Sat 30 9pm “Soul City 7” Hundred House Inn enclosing a donation and asking her how Events Diary for early September 2014 she had gone about it; but time went by enough and she had to undergo a Wed 3 7pm Royal Shakespeare Company ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ SpArC and eventually her letter was returned medical. The doctor had never met Jean Thur 4 7pm NT Live ‘Medea’ Aston on Clun Village Hall & SpArC unopened. However, by then, Jean had before and remarked that her blood Sun 7 From 3pm Clunton Barbecue Clunton Village Hall decided this was what she wanted to do. pressure was a little high. “Yes,” said Sun 7 M & J Travel Mystery Tour She was turned down by two Jean, “because I’m worried you might not Clunbury 100 Club Winners CONTACTS aerodromes due to her age, but Jean pass me!” was discussing it with Baz Capsey, a Fortunately, she did pass, and so, with JUNE: £20 Jane Rose, £15 Sandra Morgan, Email: [email protected] £10 Mary Price, £5 Marianne Hints, £3 Valerie fellow volunteer at the Lydbury North only 2 months left to plan it, Jean Website: www.theparishpost.org Redgrave. JULY: £20 Ann Wadsworth, £15 village shop, and discovered Baz’s son, decided it would be wonderful to do the Catherine Lishman, £10 Annie Sutton, £5 Tim Phone: Sue Hill 660355 Paul, is a professional skydiver and jump near to her birthday. Saturday, 28 Record, £3 Julia Brereton or Lin Brown 660578 photographer, and photographs the Red June was the allotted day and friends, or Gisèle Wall 660561 Devils - the British Parachute Regiment’s Terry Cousins and Baz from the Lydbury Holiday Club Reminder If you (or family or friends living outside the freefall display team at Netheravon, near North shop, drove her down to Wiltshire. parish) would like to receive The Parish Salisbury. Jean says she is indebted to them both For all of school age Post by email please contact us at Paul needed some convincing by his for all the help and support they gave Mon 4 - Fri 8 August, 2–5pm [email protected] The editorial team does not accept responsibility for any opinions father that Jean really was fit and well her. St.Cuthbert's Clungunford expressed by contributors and reserves the right to edit contributions if deemed appropriate. Please send your contributions by the 20th of each month All day Saturday, along with her family, I asked Jean if she had done other Council will be arranged to they waited for the weather, but the intrepid things in her life? “No, not see how best to deal with the lack of cloud cover was too low. really, unless you count delivering visibility; an extra speed limit repeater However, early Sunday morning, babies in the black-out in London. sign would be welcome. th on Jean’s 89 birthday, conditions You know the TV series - ‘Call the Clunbury Hill: Surface dressing will take were perfect and the attempt was Midwife’? Well, that was us - it place 5 August. on. was exactly like that. We used Little Brampton crossroads: work will “I was strapped to Corp Mike to ask the husbands to stand begin 29 September. French and the 12 of us sat outside the house with a Clunton: Shropshire Council conducted a on the floor of the plane, torch, so we could find speed survey at 'Coppice View' where hitching ourselves forward where we were going!” access is dangerous. Traffic speeds to the door, when it was our The final word though must were below those at which the police will turn. We edged out and then go to Jean’s GP. She saw the somersaulted to fall clear of the write up in the ‘Shropshire consider enforcement action. The survey plane, at 13,000ft, above the Journal’ and sent Jean a cheque was conducted at the time of the Clun clouds, and were in freefall for for £100 and a card which read, road closure, when the traffic was 6,500ft. It only took about 45 “I’m rather glad I didn’t know considerably reduced, however Glyn seconds as we were travelling at over beforehand what you were doing!” Shaw thinks that the results would 100 mph. I thought it would be Lin Brown probably not be very different at any terrifying to fall but it wasn’t at all - just other time. An interactive speed sign this amazing feeling of freedom; like could be put up, but this would have to flying!” wait until funding was available. It was Corp French was wearing an altimeter decided that a site visit should be on his wrist and deployed the chute. “I arranged with Glyn Shaw. New Challenge Walk to Raise was expecting a bit of a jerk but it wasn’t Cllr S Jones reported a problem caused Funds for Bishop’s Castle too bad - nothing to frighten you. I by the South Shropshire Cycling expect my family watching below, were Town Hall Challenge in which there were hundreds new challenge walk on Saturday 16 relieved though!” of participants who used the small lanes. A August 2014 is being organised to It took another 8-10 mins for the She felt this was unsafe and disruptive to remainder of the descent, the whole thing help raise funds to support Bishop’s local traffic. It was suggested that the PC Castle Town Hall, which has recently captured in some amazing photos taken should make contact with the Police been refurbished with Heritage Lottery by Paul Capsey. “The ground came up and the organisers regarding future such very fast in the last 10 seconds, but I funding. The 24, 13 or 11 mile route events. pulled my legs up as instructed, so Corp options take you through the stunning French touched down first. I was so Finance: Community A/c: £2,780.13; landscape of the Shropshire Hills and worried I’d be sick, but I only felt a little Business Saver: £6,889.60; Expenditure Welsh Border Countryside. Entrance fee - 24 miles: £15 adults, £5 for 14-16 year queasy when we were swirling in the to be settled: Clerk's salary: £304.16; olds; 13 or 11 miles: £12 adults, £5 for freefall. Clerk's expenses: £165.70; Hire of “What was so lovely was that my family, Clunton Hall: £7.25; Hire of Clunbury 11-16 year olds. Children under 16 must including my 22 year old granddaughters, Hall: £10.00. be accompanied by an adult and it is not were there to see me and they were so AOB : A member of the public reported a suitable for children under 11. A light excited. They gave me a card with tree with overhanging branch too close to lunch and refreshments are included in the price. The Town Hall will, amongst Grantastic on it!” an electricity box. The electricity board other things, house a manned Jean has been overwhelmed by Social Evening in the Marquee has been in touch with Cllr Croxton, who information centre which will be a real people’s generosity and has so far raised Saturday 23 August will check that this particular tree is part boost to the town and surrounding area. £2,754.54. Donations can still be sent to Light refreshments, bar, raffle of their lopping programme. Sunnyside, Twitchen, , SY7 Pay at the door For more information visit their website Next meeting: 18 September, 8pm, www.bcchallengewalk.co.uk 0HN or left at the Lydbury North shop. Details from J Huffer 660539 Kempton Village Hall. Gisèle & Tom Wall Steven Levers

Parish Council Meeting of 17/7 Review of Standing Orders and Remembering World War 1 News from South West 7 councillors present, the clerk and 5 Financial Regulations: the clerk will he exhibition at Clunbury Shropshire Gardening Club members of the public. Apologies: send a draft of the proposed standing T remembering World War 1 centred on ur outing to Westonbury Mill Water Sandra Morgan, David Hill and Nigel orders and of the financial regulations the lives of the men who are named on O Gardens in June was perfect, in my Hartin. document to all councillors. our war memorials at Purslow and humble opinion! We were met by the Rural Broadband: Ben Walker, from Outing to the Black Hill: the councillors Clunbury. They had been researched in owner Richard Pim who was exactly as I 'Connecting Shropshire', explained the have been thinking of going to the parish great detail by Valerie Redgrave who had imagined him, wearing wellies and aims of the programme developed by land at the Black Hill, to establish the lie deserves our heartfelt thanks for revealing looking as if he spent every minute Shropshire Council, in tandem with BT of the land. A date around mid-August, to us so much about the family contentedly working in the magical Openreach to provide fibre broadband to early evening, was suggested but not background and circumstances of the men garden he has created. His sense of local homes and businesses, where confirmed. The clerk will circulate maps. who did not return, showing us where they humour and open-minded approach lived, where they were killed and where other providers fail to deliver. This is a Clunton pub business rates: The clerk became apparent as he explained that commemorated. It is particularly poignant particularly tall order in rural areas such has been in touch with Shropshire he knew nothing about gardening initially, Council regarding waste collection at the to note the families who lost more than as this, as the funds are limited. In most one son in the fighting. and simply ordered one of every plant in cases the most cost-effective solution, pub. She was informed that the Council the catalogue to see what would survive! collect from private premises, but not An enthusiastic crowd came to the which they have started to implement, is opening on Sunday 13 July, several with His quirky creations, including a giant to install fibre optic cables from the local from commercial premises, as there cuckoo clock and a sparkling grotto would be too much refuse. Cllr Croxton mementoes of their families including exchange to the four existing telephone medals and letters, even a tiny bible that made of wine had spoken to the owner of the Hundred 'cabinets' in the Little Brampton area; was posted to the front, and more than 60 bottles, are great from there on, the existing copper House regarding this issue, and thought people attended the service of readings fun but there is network is used to relay signals to that theirs was collected, but could not and hymns which followed. also exquisite private homes. All but the Purslow recall; he will talk to the owner again. An enormous thank you to the very planting Ashbeds right of way: Any objections cabinet are operational; here many people who contributed in so many providing negotiations are in hand with the land have to be lodged by 8 August. If there ways to the exhibition, including children stunning colour owner and, subject to this, the cabinet are objections, there will be another from Clunbury school who made doves of and textures. It is not every day you have will go live. In order to benefit from the enquiry. peace to decorate the screen, and to the the opportunity to walk through a grove new provision, households will need to Clunton Burial Ground: The Land Rev Robert Payne for taking the service. of Gunnera and feel like a character from order an upgrade from their service Registry documentation shows access to Donations from the exhibition will be “The Borrowers”! Our meal at The Boot provider (and may incur an additional the Burial Ground; however, it was donated to Help for Heroes. in Orleton was delicious and the evening charge). Cllr Hoskins of Kempton suggested that some more effort be The exhibition continues until 4 August at was concluded by relaxing in the warm queried the broadband speed delivered made to get sight of the deeds, to try and Clunbury and thereafter at Clunton. sunshine to finish our drinks. Gardening to some households. Ben Walker determine the original right of way. The is not all hard work! clerk will look into this. GARDEN AND PRODUCE SHOW (see explained that, unfortunately, any home Great War Exhibition details on penultimate page) further than a mile from the cabinet is Local Joint Committee: still exists, but a change of name is proposed: South he Exhibition to commemorate the There are three easy ways to enter: unlikely to benefit fully. Should you want men from Clunbury Parish who died 1. Complete the entry form in the him to investigate your particular West Shropshire Joint Committee. It has T no county funding and the members are in the First World War will be in Clunton middle of the schedule and send to problem, he will do so, but solutions are church from Monday 4 August. Sandy with a cheque, before 28 likely to be costly and would have to be trying to set up a local fund, by sending a th letter to organisations (such as the As 4 August is the 100 anniversary of August (address is on the back of the borne by the relevant households. For the outbreak of the war, there will be a form). more information, go to Parish Councils), businesses, etc, asking for donations, with a view to vigil in St Mary’s, Clunton from 7.00 to 2. Email entries to Sandy: www.connectingshropshire.co.uk, or [email protected]. redistributing this money to worthwhile 7.30pm. You may like to come and light a email [email protected] 3. Bring a cheque or cash to the show. causes. candle of remembrance. Parish Council Meeting All are welcome. The church will be Enter on the day, before 10am (costs Review of Parish Plan: Further good Planning: An extension to Mrs Jones's property in Clunton was examined by open daily for you to look at all the 50p each instead of 30p) feedback from the open session at For further details please contact our Cllr Davies; no objection. photographs, medals and other wonderful Kempton. The questionnaire is being Show Organiser, Sandy Burton 680454 Roads: Twitchen - Junction at Three exhibits and read about the many local prepared and should be ready by early men who sacrificed their lives. or email [email protected]. Ashes: a site visit, with Glyn Shaw of autumn. Pat Harding Angie Salmon Clunbury School Roundup – A Word from Miss Evans The Agony and the (very Gianfranco Zola. Other stars Sheila has Summer Term hat a year! I have thoroughly occasional) Ecstasy seen at the Meadow (old and new) Kempton Pupils Past & Present! W enjoyed the challenge of my first pare a thought on include Wayne Rooney, Didier lunbury School has been around a year as Acting Head and relished the S Saturday 9 August for Drogba, Teddy Sheringham, Ole C long time, but it isn’t often that opportunity to play my part in the the stalwart band of Gunnar Solskjær and the current current pupils have the chance to meet a education of all the children. This term Town Football goalie, Joe Hart, formerly fellow student from a bygone era. Mrs has been particularly busy, kicking off Club supporters. They a Town player. Lilian Clee is 103 years old and now lives with KSII SATs in May. We were very travel to Wimbledon for Looking for some agony leavened in Hendra House, . Gemma proud of how our year 6s performed the opening match of the by very occasional ecstasy? Then Fletcher, a Clunbury parent and Teaching during SATs week. They came in with a 2014/15 campaign in the join the coach which travels to Assistant, met her there and arranged fantastic attitude and all tried their best. knowledge that last year their team won home games from Ludlow, calling at the visit. We had great results this year which just nine of their 46 League One games, Craven Arms (details from Sheila on Lilian Evans, as she was then, came to reflects how hard they all worked. finished joint bottom of the league and 660626). Fancy an away game? Sheila Clunbury School together with her sister It has not all been hard work this term were relegated. Sheila Downes of can advise on that too, though fresh in when her family moved into the area to though. We have had trips including KSII Kempton sat through every game, home her memory is a trip to Carlisle this live in Kempton. The children looked for Summer Camp, Crucial Crew about and away – well, except when rising to spring when the coach got caught in a her name in the handwritten school logs keeping safe in the modern world, Class her feet to berate her team, wave her traffic jam; they were still there at the and discovered she started in 1920 – Act Violin Concert, children’s author blue and amber scarf and give expert final whistle! Tom Wall Cathy Cassidy at Theatre, advice to the ref. The Parish Post is always keen to hear from its nearly a century ago, and soon after readers. Are you too a suffering Shrew? WW1. Lilian was able to share some of The Lion King at Liverpool’s Empire What sparked Sheila’s devotion? (How her memories and was delighted to show Theatre, The Sea Life Centre for KSI and else to describe a passion so rarely Come and Join us for her school photo to the children and Reception, Shropshire Sings and several requited?) Her son Tim bears the receive a lovely bouquet. It’s hard to say sporting fixtures. We have also had in responsibility. On a family holiday in A Summer Lunch who enjoyed the visit most! school events including the Penny Marsh Yorkshire, in August 1992, he persuaded Memorial Day, Unity Community Picnic, Sheila to take him to see Shrewsbury the Summer Fair, Arts workshops and a play away at York. Although, of course, WW1 theatre Production. Our children they lost, Sheila resolved to attend the have contributed to the WW1 exhibition return fixture in February. Then she in St Swithin’s church and the Purslow found she’d caught the bug (badly) and show. It is important to us to offer pupils couldn’t wait that long. She started to a wide range of activities in addition to attend all of the Town’s home games Clunbury Village Hall their classroom experience and we are and, by the 1993/94 season, she was Thursday 21 August grateful to the Friends of Clunbury attending away games too. Husband 12.30pm School for financing many of these Nick joins her for home fixtures, as does £4 extras. Tim whenever he can. For more information contact Goodbye my Friends But amongst the disappointments there his was the title of the KS2 have been some very special moments, Eirlys Ellams 660625 T Performance and great fun was had not least beating Aldershot on penalties by all, both in the preparation and the in the play-offs in 2004 to return to the Broadband News presentation of this comic masterpiece! prestigious Football League from the o check if fibre has arrived at one of Its various scenes centred round the lowly Conference, to which the club had T the green roadside cabinets near you, look out for the vinyl ‘fibre memories of those leaving primary sunk the previous season. Yet this had broadband is here’ stickers that will be school and was particularly apt for the 9 been the season in which, in an FA Cup appearing on fibre-enabled cabinets, Year 6s moving on to their various new game at the old Gay Meadow, the Lilian is pictured here with the current signifying that the work is done, and fibre schools in the autumn. They have had a Shrews had famously beaten Kempton contingent – Charlie, Tengri, is ready and waiting to be ordered from great last term, and we wish them all the Premiership team Everton. Chelsea beat Acina, and Jessica, whose mother Julie, your chosen ISP. very best for the future. Shrewsbury in the next round but the a school governor, is on the left, and Look in the Parish Council Report for Penny Valentine match was lit up by the skills of Acting Head Michelle Evans. more details.