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Fynn - Lark ews JUE 2017 CULPHO HALL Culpho, hardly a village, more of a hamlet, is certainly the Benefice’s most rural and sparsely populated parish with only nineteen houses and no community buildings apart from the church. Culpho Hall, along with Culpho Manor and Abbey Farm, is one of the significant centuries old farmsteads which dominate the landscape and which used to be the focus of local activity. It lies across the fields from Culpho Church and is visually related to it by its red-tiled roof pyramid which echoes the unusual pyramid added to the square tower of the church. It is not known which came first but it would be nice to think that both were constructed by the same workmen on the Blois estate, which held all the surrounding land. The house was originally a typical-timber framed Suffolk hall house and was dated to the early seventeenth century by an architectural surveyor listing historic Magazine for the Parishes of Great & Little Bealings, Playford and Culpho 1 2 buildings. (It is listed Grade 2). In the Blois Dowager Lady Cranworth after the records, there is a reference to a Culpho Johnsons retired. There had been New Hall in 1672 which supports this alterations to the property in the dating and implies that there was an eighteenth and nineteenth century but in earlier house on the site. 1960s the house ceased to be a working farmhouse; the dairy and working areas of Until the early 1960s, when A.B. Johnson, the house at the east end were converted the last tenant farmer retired, the house into living accommodation. Sadly, Lady had been at the hub of a working farm Cranworth did not enjoy her new home for with an extensive farmyard to the west of long and it was finally sold by the estate in the house. A.B. Johnson was well known 1975. in the local farming community; he wrote a farming column in the newspaper and he A sense of history and continuity is ran a flourishing dairy, delivering milk in a invested in an old house. We know that a horse and trap as far as Felixstowe. When Baptist minister who carried out baptisms we moved into the house in the seventies in the stream opposite the house once the cows’ name plates were still visible in lived here, but we don’t know how many the cowshed and an old milking overall generations of people have lived in this still hung on a nail. The farm buildings, house or their individual stories. What we including a large barn, still partially in use, do know is that living here, surrounded by remained standing for a couple of fields and within sight of the church, they decades but were finally demolished will have watched the crops grow and the when they became unsafe. seasons change and must have rejoiced in the spirit of the place as we do today. The house, which had always been part of the Blois and later the Gurdon estates, Edward and Jill Morgan was substantially renovated for the DIARY - WHAT’S ON JUNE Thur 1st 7.30 Playford Parish Hall AGM Playford Parish Hall Fri 9th 5.00 - 6.30 Open Evening with Suffolk Wildlife Trust Great Bealings Churchyard Fri 23rd 7.30 ‘Back to Madagascar’ Bealings Village Hall Talk and slide-show by Malcolm Watson Sat 24th 2.00 Playford Village Fete Playford Hall This ‘What’s On’ is published to avoid clashes of dates for events and fundraisers within the benefice resulting in reduced attendance. It also allows organisers to give advance notice of forthcoming events and help with planning. We will only insert larger adverts when the event is imminent, not two or three months in advance, thus allowing us to keep our escalating costs under control. 3 Tel: 01473 735575 Fax: 01473 738385 GRUNDISBURGH ROAD HASKETON NR WOODBRIDGE SUFFOLK Car Sales 01473 738975 M.O.T. 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Our costs per month are in Our Parish Councils provide important the order of £160 - £200. financial support for this Magazine, in We are still with the same printers, recognition of the fact that we carry having sought other estimates for the significant amounts of Parish Council sake of comparison – and have the News. As a consequence we provide an added benefit that the Magazines are annual report to the Councils, by way of now delivered to our distribution justifying their financial contribution to us. organiser in Little Bealings, rather than It is likely that we shall combine an end- collected from the other side of Ipswich. of-year meeting in late autumn with the A worthwhile negotiation. We now have a financial report, and setting of the budget significant number of colour pages, an for 2018. Interested parties will be invited initiative which has been broadly to this meeting. This year’s report follows: welcomed. The range of colour photographs contributed and published has been an attractive addition. Content was previously almost exclusively contributor-led. We are now more pro- active, and get out into the community seeking editorials from a range of sources, including two religiously weighted editorials at Christmas and Easter, as well as profiles of local people, items of local historical interest, nature FYNN-LARK NEWS REPORT 2016 notes, and reviews. We would welcome th more spontaneous offerings under these We have just published the 10 issue of headings. the Fynn-Lark News , a revamped version of the former Benefice We are less desperately dependent on Magazine . Following extended advertising than we were – which is a discussions in the first half of 2016 we relief, as it is a challenge not only to find are now a secular Magazine with church regular advertisers, but also to get some input, rather than a church-led magazine of them to pay up on time. Some are with secular input. A year ago we had thoroughly supportive, others a little more insufficient funds to see us through to the reluctant. We can still benefit from end of the publishing year. We were increased advertising, so any help is approaching crisis point. We now have welcomed. sufficient funds to see us through to the There are occasional hiccups, as material end of this year and beyond. We can also fails to find its cyberpathway through to occasionally publish additional pages editors, but in general – and we stand to beyond the standard 28 without fear of be corrected – the impression of the bankruptcy. We have an independent editorial and production team is that the account with the Yorkshire Building revamped Mag has been well received, Society, with a healthy balance of and that more people find it a more approximately £1500. This is due to the worthwhile read. Its appearance and lay- support coming from over 40 residents, out is very largely thanks to the wonderful who have supported us with donations or efforts of our designer, Tim Llewellyn, to beginning-of-the-year Standing Orders, whom we owe massive thanks. In a 5 heavy month he has reckoned that the prison when he was 12 and his mother designing takes up to five working days. was less than supportive of her son, Our team is small – compare our something for which Dickens never numbers to those of the large editorial forgave her – all very reminiscent of team that produces the (quarterly) David Copperfield. Charles’ schooling Grundisburgh News. We would greatly was similarly as difficult as that of his welcome help, as sub-editors, trainee eponymous “hero”. Until the age of 15 he designers etc. Maybe this is the inevitable was at a school where there was consequence of the increasing success of “haphazard, desultory teaching, poor the new Magazine. Not a bad problem to discipline punctuated by the headmaster's have, but one that needs addressing. We sadistic brutality, seedy ushers and must ensure that the healthy financial general run-down atmosphere.” Such was position is not something that is taken for Dickens’s message that he was for many granted, but something that we have to years the favourite English author of work for, year on year. communist Russia. His observations of We thank all those who support us in so the Victorian social scene came largely many ways, as financial contributors, from his work in a solicitor’s office (1824 - readers, contributors to content, editors, 31), and then as a journalist, reporting distributors, photographers and those from the Law Courts, work which took him who give us positive feed-back. Their around the country, mostly by stagecoach support is our motivation. and frequently in the company of drunken Norman Porter post boys. Co-ordinating Editor The two novels specifically linked with us May 2017 are The Pickwick Papers (1836/7) and David Copperfield (1849/50) , the opening REVIEW chapters of which are set in Yarmouth (“strangest place in the whole world”).

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