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front page wroxham fc

page 3 editorial wroxham fc bv wildcats unite

marlpit ve75 report communications hub by margaret bird

good neighbours notice wroxham lions report

re. charlie smith in may the month of may by dp

hard time ...by margaret bird railway roundabout by ian hall

afternoon tea kings head weekday takeaway menu

horstead poors land trust kings head sunday takeaway menu

brian thirtle 1934-2020 rev chris engelsen

tithe barn report the isolated prophet by john hindley

coltishall parish council notes broadgrace church

domestic abuse & violence notice sponsored floodlighting & urc notices

whb twinning report marpit voulenteer team

victims of abuse notice our mp’s and councillors

wi & bure valley rotary report clubs and associations

north walsham rfc Links to our advertisers Just Financial Kings Head Rob Holmes Guitar Tui�on 1st Class Aerials Clear View Financial G Row & Co Accountants Red Lion Westover Veterinary Centre Tina Thacker Farm to Fork & Fish Horstead Garage Ltd Bright Start Pla�en Pest Control Shades Hair Fashions Qualified Gardener Buffer Stop Books Ma�hew Webb Julian Hudson Pendefords Property Specialist Edward Boardman Michael Taylor Stobart & Hurrell Skyblue Decora�ng Ben Jefferies Property Ladder Myne� Electrical The Mower Doctor Slimming World Chris Ryan Decorator Col�shall and Horstead Preschool Clapham & Collinge Solicitors Chris Beardsmore Smith & Pinching Hewi� and Grant Steve White Colchester Inns Recrui�ng Cars

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Pleasevisit andcomment p2 Find us on FACEBOOK and at www.themarlpit.co.uk COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FOR COLTISHALL, HORSTEAD, STANNINGHALL, GREAT HAUTBOIS, SCOTTOW,BADERSFIELD, BELAUGH, HOVETON & WROXHAM JUNE 2020 BACK TO CONTENTS MARLPITThe PAGE 3 EDITORIAL Page three Worrying times: Be good, stay safe, await return to ‘the normal’ How times are changing. A year ago we would never have believed such a pandemic could happen. Because of it, this Marlpit issue, again, is online only, on our website www.themarlpit.comand Facebook. We hope the July issue may be in print again – many readers are requesting that, shops and businesses too, more of which should be open for business by then. So please, editorial contributors and advertisers – hopefully all is going to improve, so please support us – contribute!

Now to our P1 pictures and Coltishall common. The usual popular holiday hire boats have been absent for the past couple of months. Now the Broads Authority has confirmed private boats may return, but only for day visits. Will we see hire boats soon, even this season? Very bad financial news for local boatyards if not.

The common has taken on a different role now. Numerous couples are visiting it, many from away, Norwich, even further field. Bank Holiday Monday had too many groups, not all respecting two metres. Other days of the week too they picnic, lie out in the sun – in some cases abusing the instructions to not be within two metres of others. We hear Horstead Mill has been over-populated too at times, police there checking.

The Anchor Street end of the common is seeing numerous cars, some badly parked on grass, when its busy. The ice cream van has returned, welcome and popular, but they must take care to service customers queuing two metres apart.

How long will this last? Is it indeed easing, as many seem to think? The pubs are doing a good job with bookable take-away food, even drinks. Very helpful for we locals. Hopefully they may be able to open again soon, albeit with restrictions.

It is up to us all to observe, respect and only go by the rules. While they change… please, local readers, do observe them. Some visitors are abusing, including cyclists some of whom are riding on the footpath, forcing walkers to step into the road, risking speeding cars. That is also bad news – so many cars speed over the common, always have done. Worse still the drivers look at the river and common, taking their eyes off where they are driving increasing risks!

Please, you, our readership and population, join us in trying to get through this so difficult time safely. We see many local people who ARE being good… lets keep it up. Stay alert, enjoy but respect our great villages and county, hopefully life will soon return to ‘normal’ - whatever that may be!

Paul Thomas, Chairman and The Marlpit team.

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During WW2 RAF Coltishall flew firstHawker HurricaneswithDouglas Bader,leaderofNo. 242 Squadron. They had suffered significant losses during theBattle of France,andduringthesummerof1941Bader,whohad had both legs amputated after a crash in 1931, made 12 kills. His heroism did much to restore recognition of the squadron’s achievements for Britain. His ultimate 23 victories made him the fifth highest ace in the RAF. However,on 9th August 1941, he suffered a mid-air collision, parachuted to the ground but both his artificial legs were badly damaged. Coltishall later became home tonight fighters.AsNo. 124 Squadron,atthat time a fighter-bomber squadron flyingSupermarine Spitfires they crucially bombed GermanV2 launch sites in the Netherlands. Subsequently Bader,a Londoner,was knighted in 1976 and died in 1982. He is also renowned for saying "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" – significant because he had disobeyed the rules over his artificial legs..

Paul Thomas, Chairman and The Marlpit team.

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COLTISHALLANDHORSTEADGOODNEIGHBOURS

The Coltishall and Horstead Good Neighbours have been busy with requests for collection of prescriptions, delivery of groceries and general calls for information during this difficult time. As volunteers we are keeping in touch by telephoning our residents once or twice a week making sure they are alright and to see if they need any assistance, just a telephone call is very much appreciated. If you require any assistance (any age resident can contact us) please telephone07799 277455 and we will be able to assist with your request. Thank you to all our volunteers for helping. Hopefully we will be able to get back to having our lovely afternoon tea parties soon and we look forward to seeing everyone soon.

Julie Douglass

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Pleasevisit andcomment p5 Find us on FACEBOOK and at www.themarlpit.co.uk COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FOR COLTISHALL, HORSTEAD, STANNINGHALL, GREAT HAUTBOIS, SCOTTOW,BADERSFIELD, BELAUGH, HOVETON & WROXHAM JUNE 2020 The BACK TO CONTENTS MARLPIT RE. CHARLIE SMITH IN MAY Charlie Smith CHARLIESMITHColtishall man gave lifetime of community service The articles in the May issue of The Marlpit set me thinking about the upheaval concerning schools in the 1970s and early 1980s when my children were attending Coltishall Infant and Junior Schools. In October 1975, Coltishall Junior School Headmaster, Charlie Smith, approached the County Education Officer requesting additional staff and a mobile classroom due to a rise in projected pupil numbers following the development of housing at Kings Road and College Close. The supply of a mobile classroom was turned down for financial reasons but Charlie Smith vigorously pursued the matter with the County Education Officer, the Chairman of the Education Committee and another Councillor. Despite these efforts and letters of support from parents, the provision of a mobile classroom was finally rejected in May 1976. In the mid-1970s, comprehensive schools were being established and moves were in hand to change Infant and Junior Schools to First and Middle Schools; the Middle Schools being for the 8 to 12 years age range. A proposal became known in October 1975 of the intention to enlarge Hoveton St. John County Primary School as a step towards the creation of Hoveton Secondary Modern School as Broadland High School (a comprehensive for all abilities) thereby ending the selection of children for Grammar Schools. It was clarified though, that the Hoveton St. John School enlargement was unlikely to be included in a building programme before 1978 / 1979. The County Education Officer wrote to parents in October 1978 to inform them of the enlargement of Broadland Secondary School, Hoveton for it to become an all-ability High Lowestoft Fishdock early 1960’s School serving the 11 – 16 age range and ultimately the 12 – 16 age range once Hoveton St. John’s Junior School became a Middle School. With this announcement, Charlie Smith quickly informed parents that the project for building a Middle School in Coltishall had been abandoned and children would be transferred to the Middle School at Hoveton. Coltishall Junior School would be closed and the Infant School converted to a First School. An Action Committee was formed at a packed meeting in the Church Room in early November 1978, chaired by Chairman of the Managers, Billy Stibbons. The Committee comprised Were you there? Managers, Staff and Parents and evidence was carefully gathered to fight the scheme. It was realised that the implications extended beyond Coltishall to other villages in the catchment area where schools would be lost and a considerable transport operation would be needed at great expense. The Action Committee organised a Public Meeting at Hoveton Secondary Modern School in March 1979 that was attended by some 150 people and we presented our case to a leading member of the County Education Committee who said that she thought we would get what we want. The meeting backed the objectives being the maintenance of the Broadland High School at Hoveton on a permanent 11 to 16 years basis, rather than a switch to 12 to 16; abandonment of a large middle school project at Hoveton and the retention of primary schools in the area for children up to 11 years old. An answer was expected within three months but in July 1979, the Norfolk Schools Sub-Committee decided to defer the making of a final decision for two years thus provoking more representations to the Chairman of the County Education Committee who eventually admitted “ It looks as if we may have got our sums wrong and will have to look at it again.” Presumably they did just that because the scheme was dropped. How correct a decision this was. Imagine Coltishall being without its Primary School today. Charlie Smith always worked hard to improve conditions for the children at the Junior School and over time achieved the conversion of the outside earth toilets to flushing W.Cs, the installation of central heating and hot water at the wash basins, tarmac surfacing to the old stony playground and equipment to improve teaching methods and standards to make learning more interesting.

David Francis

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by Margaret Bird

What happened to the villages which lost out when the Aylsham navigation opened in 1779? They had previously been head of navigation on a 32-mile river. Now this role was taken from them.

Margaret Bird, author of the Mary Hardy volumes, uses hitherto unresearched archives at King’s College, Cambridge to explore this question in a talk arranged by the Bure Navigation Conservation Trust (BNCT) at Horstead on 15 September 2020.

Entitled “Hard times: how the Bure Navigation killed Horstead and Coltishall’s trade” it is open to all.

Head of navigation: a key role To be head of navigation gave a massive strategic advantage. Up to 1779 Horstead and Coltishall had served as the hub of a wide distribution network across north central Norfolk. Now coal, timber and bricks were instead brought by water to Aylsham. Businesses operating from the new canal basin sent out carts and wagons delivering to Reepham, Cawston and other coal-starved areas.

Buxton, Lamas and Aylsham all benefited from the newly navigable waterway linking them directly with Great Yarmouth and thus with London, Newcastle, the Low Countries and the Baltic. But within a few months Coltishall’s 50-year-old staithe-owner and innkeeper of the King’s Head had died in desperate straits. His trade at the large King’s Head Staithe, now occupied by the Rising Sun, had been badly damaged.

Trouble at the mill

The wherry Widgeon at Horstead Watermill [courtesy the Norfolk Wherry Trust]

The photograph shows Widgeon in the mill pool at Horstead Mill in the early 20th century. The hatches are stacked to reveal the large open hold. The furled sail is lashed clear of the working area. The main force of the Bure is flowing along the lock stream, allowing the wherry to be loaded or unloaded in comparative safety.

The eighteenth-century miller found some of his trade taken by newly enlarged watermills upstream at Buxton, Burgh and Aylsham. Adding to his troubles as lock-keeper, he battled with skippers who resisted all attempts at regulating traffic through Coltishall Lock including a ban on night sailing. Used to unrestricted passage on tidal waterways, the men damaged the lock gates to get through.

The BNCT event on Tuesday 15 September Letters and reports held at King’s College, as lords of the manor, reveal the sorry state of Horstead and Coltishall’s commercial life in the late eighteenth century. Tax records in the National Archives confirm the story of decline. Margaret Bird will draw these threads together for her talk.

The meeting is in Horstead Tithe Barn, beside the church, 7.30 to 9 pm. There will be a charge of £3.00 for non-BNCT members.

At the time of writing (1 May 2020) it is not known if the talk will take place on this date owing to Covid-19 restrictions. Please consult The Marlpit’s September 2020 issue; also the BNCT website:

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AFTERNOON TEA

We are delighted to offer our renowned afternoon tea experience for you to enjoy safely during lockdown!

Bring a little bit of the Norfolk Mead into your home and experience a well-deserved treat to keep you and your close family and friends smiling!

We will be producing takeaway Afternoon Teas on Saturdays and Sundays throughout June All orders must be received by Friday at 11pm. Collection will be available from 1pm to 2pm, Saturday and Sunday. Deliveries will take place between 1pm and 3pm, Saturday and Sunday.

Order online at: https://www.norfolkmead.co.uk/order-afternoon-tea

£15 per head + £3 delivery per order (within 15 miles of Coltishall, subject to demand)

We are pleased to offer house white/red/rose wine for £10.00 per bottle and house prosecco for £15.00 per bottle.

Free delivery for orders over £50.

Payment in advance only for deliveries via Paypal (link sent to you via return email). Payment in cash on collection also available.

Please do let us know of any dietary requirements although at this time it may be difficult for us to make changes or provide alternatives we will inform you of what is available at the time of ordering. Your afternoon tea will be packed into a box. For collections, please help by observing social distancing of 2m we will bring boxes directly to your car. We will approach your car and ask for your name when you arrive. For deliveries, we will leave your order on your doorstep, knock and walk away and wait until we see you have received it. We will continue to offer this every weekend during lockdown, subject to continued demand.

https://www.norfolkmead.co.uk/article/the-norfolk-mead-extends-hugely-popular-weekend-takeaway- afternoon-tea-until-the-end-of-june

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On Tuesday 12th May at 10am family and friends gathered at Coltishall church to lay Brian Thirtle to rest. Although due to these somewhat difficult times we are living in at the moment we were not able to give dad the usual send off with a full service, with the sun shining at the graveside Rev Engelsen done us proud still giving a lovely ceremony. The family would like to thank Broadland Funeral Services, Rev Engelsen and those few close friends and family members who were able to attend. We would also particularly like to thank those people who showed their respect to dad as the hearse drove through the village of Coltishall. Over the years dad spent many a day walking through the village talking to people and helping out in their gardens, so it was really touching to see people come out to say their last goodbyes.

Brian Aubrey Thirtle -1934 – 2020

HORSTEAD POORS LAND TRUST Horstead Poors Land Trust In 1898 some local landowners agreed to set up the Horstead Poors Land Trust. The purpose of the Trust was to help, where possible, relieve hardship being experienced by parishioners and to use funds to benefit the village. In the intervening years The Trust has continued where it can to help individuals and organisations in Horstead including attending to some elderly residents lawns and hedges , helping families with problems, supporting local organisations and even providing an annual outing for pensioners. There have been many hard times since 1898 but 2020 may go down in history as one of them. The Trust is still here to help where we can, so if you or a family member, currently resident in Horstead, is finding it hard to manage maybe the Trust will be able to help in some small way. To get further details please contact Barbara Gidney on 01603 737900 or Tony Nicholls on 01603 737728.

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Apart from noting the Tithe Barn is closed for the Lockdown there’s nothing much to report other than “The management committee believe the Tithe Barn will continue to provide an important social hub, no matter what theNew Normal looks like. Action for Communities in Rural England, the national body supporting village halls, issues guidance from time to time. At present their main concerns are about the safety precautions required before Pre-Schools return in June. Opening schools is “Stage 2” of a phased government programme for coming out of Lockdown, Stage 3 will not come into effect until some date after Julyth 4 , when public buildings will be allowed to re-open. Even then strict social distancing will be required. ACRE say, “it is unlikely crowded events e.g. theatrical productions, wedding receptions will be permitted until later.” When we have a date and have government recommendations for Stage 3, the management committee will give thought to how, if and when we can open the Tithe Barn, and for what activities. In our decision making, the safety of users, paid employees and volunteers will be paramount. Looking to the future, our small, hands-on, management committee is always looking for new volunteers to help us keep the Tithe Barn in tip top condition. If you care and want tomake a difference, we’d welcome you with open arms – Oh blast! No! I didn’t mean that! We’re meant to be socially distancing! You know what we mean! To take things forward let Sue know by phoning 01603-737495. www. horsteadtithebarn.wordpress.com Keep Well! Stay Positive! We look forward to welcoming you to the Tithe Barn soon.

Richard Woodham

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Pleasevisit andcomment p10 Find us on FACEBOOK and at www.themarlpit.co.uk COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FOR COLTISHALL, HORSTEAD, STANNINGHALL, GREAT HAUTBOIS, SCOTTOW,BADERSFIELD, BELAUGH, HOVETON & WROXHAM JUNE 2020 BACK TO CONTENTS MARLPITThe Mess at the RAF Base in Col�shall. There have been reports of the Asylum Seekers gathering together in large numbers both on and off site and not maintaining the social distancing rules as directed by HM Government. The council have expressed their concerns to both MPs Jerome Introduc�on Mayhew and Duncan Baker to ensure that The Home Office and Serco – employed on site are Col�shall Parish Council held their first virtual increasing their efforts to ensure social distancing parish council mee�ng on Tuesday 5th May using rules are being applied. Zoom Video Conferencing. Five councillors were present by video and one by audio. Councillor Jo Crocus Homes Development on Rectory Road Copplestone from Broadland District Council also a�ended and a report received from Councillor Col�shall Parish Council are an�cipa�ng Crocus will Fran Whymark. There were no members of the submit their planning applica�on to Broadland public present but all parishioners are welcome. District Council this month. The council are Our next mee�ng using Zoom is on Tuesday 9th arranging a virtual mee�ng with the Head of June at 6.30pm. Please email the clerk at Planning at Broadland District Council to discuss [email protected] if you wish to a�end and/or their concerns about the development. Crocus speak during the public par�cipa�on sec�on of the have responded to the le�er the Council submi�ed mee�ng. An invita�on will then be sent to you by regarding the online consulta�on. Crocus state email. they have evolved the site plan based on the feedback they have already received from the Col�shall and Horstead Community Coronavirus / council and public. Covid 19 Support Group Support for Vic�ms of Child Abuse and Domes�c The support group led by Rev Engelson and the Violence Good Neighbours con�nue to successfully respond to requests for prac�cal and emo�onal support Cllr Fran Whymark reported that Norfolk County including food and prescrip�on deliveries for Council recently started a campaign ‘See anyone self-isola�ng or vulnerable. The group are Something, Hear Something, Say Something’. now extending their support offering free packages Everyone should be safe in their own home but of food and essen�al items to any families in this isn’t always the case. Call 0344 800 8020 to Col�shall and Horstead who are financially raise a concern about abuse or 999 in an struggling. For example, if families are wai�ng for emergency. The Na�onal Domes�c Violence benefits, unemployed or self employed with no Helpline is available 24/7 on 0808 2000 247. income at the moment. Remember you are not alone. Support for Local Businesses The parish council have agreed the support group can access the £1000 grant they received from the Cllr Fran Whymark reported that Broadland District Norfolk Community Founda�on Covid 19 Council con�nue to support local businesses with Community Response Fund to supply these Business Support Grants. 1915 businesses have packages. been paid grants up to £25,000. This is 87% of all businesses in Broadland. There are s�ll 291 If you feel you or your family could benefit from businesses who have not accessed support. Call receiving a food package, please contact Julie on (01603) 430449 to discuss your situa�on with one 07909 980768. All requests are en�rely of the team or complete the online form at confiden�al and personal details will be kept www.broadland.gov.uk/coronavirus. private. Packages can be delivered or arrangements made for collec�on and will include Councillor Vacancies a selec�on fresh and long-life items. Household and toiletry essen�als can also be requested. We have three vacancies for Parish Councillors. If you would like to find out more about what is Col�shall Parish Council are extremely thankful to involved please contact the clerk on 07446 the volunteers and support group who con�nue to 542156 or email [email protected] work very hard to help the people in our community. Finally, I wish you all to stay safe and well. Home Office Temporary Accommoda�on at Badersfield for Asylum Seekers Rebecca Furr Cllr Jo Copplestone reported there are currently 77 Parish Clerk asylum seekers accommodated at the old Officers

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Sent on behalf of: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Board (DASVB) Chair Dr Gavin Thompson,Director of Policy and Commissioning, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk and Deputy Chair T/D/Superintendent Andrew Coller, Safeguarding and Investigations Command, Norfolk Constabulary We would like to draw your attention to two new free live chat facilities which are now available to those seeking assistance and support from online resources. Domestic Abuse ThePandora Project, which offers advice, support and information to adults and children affected by domestic abuse, working across West and North Norfolk, have launched a new on line live chat service to support victims of domestic abuse. The service is currently available Monday to Friday, 1-3pm with 3 operators working simultaneously to offer advice and support around domestic abuse issues. All Victims of Crime Victim Support launched its newLive Chat serviceon the 24th April 20. This 24/7 online support service will be available to all victims of crime in England and Wales. This will meet the support needs for all victims of crime such as those impacted byHate Crime, Scams & Fraud andDomestic Abuse. Visitwww.victimsupport.org.uk/live-chat for more information. We would encourage all partners show support by sharing this information with their associated partners and communities as the services offersindividuals the chance to talk to trained supporters online and in confidence. Many thanks Dr Gavin Thompson Temporary Detective Supt Andrew Coller With kind regards John W Pennell John W Pennell – Chairman: Norfolk ALC Well-being Task & Finish Group

WHB TWINNING ASSOCIATION

We have now postponed, in consultation with our French Book Club members have had two successful Zoom friends, the visit of our French twinned villages of La meetings now to discuss, in April, “Step by Step” by Simon Pommeraye and Montjean-sur-Loire in August this year Reeve, which most members enjoyed and, in May, “The until next year, the same weekend, which will be 12-17th Sentence is Death” by Anthony Horowitz, which most of us August 2021.All members have been informed and asked to did not like very much: you win some, you lose some! June is note these dates and keep them free. The committee are now Sue’s choice, “The Library of Lost and Found” by Phaedre busy reorganising all the visits and venues and, so far, Patrick so we’ll see what that brings. We everyone has been very accommodating and rebooking us for will try and keep going and probably next year. Many thanks to them and the committee. have to rely on Kindle books, Ebay etc. till our library reopens. Pat can supply Social eventsare, of course, cancelled for now, although a more information for now on 01603 get-together in August/September somewhere, with social 782375 or distancing if necessary, has been suggested and we will try to [email protected] do that, if possible. For any more information please French Conversation is suspended for now and we shall contact us, via Peter, on 01603 782733 review it later in the year, whenever we can get together [email protected] again: the format does need changing so we’ll see what we can do.

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COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD W.I.

With a few green shoots showing from the Government updates at least a little progress is being made. It looks like it still be a while yet before we can enjoy our WI meeting again. I hope you are all managing to keep well and as busy as you want to be. One of my interests at the moment is baking so when we do get together again you might be seeing a bit more of me than there was before!!

We will look forward to seeing members old and new in what I hope will be the not too distance future. Take care and keep safe.

Your first visit is free. We meet from 2.30 to 4.30 at the Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Coltishall on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. We will be very happy to see you there. Please contact me, Sue Dye, on 01603 738003 if you need more information.

Sue

Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary Club

We hope everyone is managing to stay well and stay safe during these unique times. Of course, our regular Monday meetings are still not happening, but we are trying to stay in touch with each other through electronic means. We have a club zoom meeting planned for June 1st. We start a new Rotary year with a new team in place from July, normally following a social and handover meeting. The new team will present their plans for 2020/21 during our zoom meeting, but the handover social obviously won’t be happening, and it remains to be seen how quickly we can start to implement the new programme. Unfortunately our fund raising activities are being severely curtailed just at the time many local and international charities are desperate for extra help.

Going forward, the end of the lock down and return to “normal” is obviously still some way off so meantime we wish everyone a safe passage through these difficult times and in the true Rotary spirit of “Service above Self” we have members ready and willing to help out in the local community wherever the need arises. If you have something you think we can help with, in the first instance please contact our president, Simon Gorton, on 01692 538582.

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North Walsham reformed their Girls side in 2018 after 10 years. Seven joined initially but numbers are now over 30, 17 joining last season. “The Valkyries” have three teams, under 13/ 15 / 18 (up to 11 both sexes play together), with over 50% in the middle age group. Eight Schools are represented, Joint Coach Richard Polley crediting the recent growth to the Club’s Schools Programme, “absolutely vital, two thirds came to us that way, without it many wouldn’t have handled a rugby ball or known we existed.” Matt Hodgson

Talking with three 15-year-old players, sociability and fun shine through. “I love the team’s family feel, everyone gets on irrespective of background,” says Ali Doe from Stalham High. “We are always positive and have loads of fun.” All mentioned the life skills they’ve acquired. Tansy Petch (Broadland Academy) explained, “rugby has taught me patience and that no matter your background everyone has an important role.” “Leadership, decision making, teamwork,” said Beth Cass Rugby may be on hold but the grass still grows at Scottow Park, (Cromer Academy). Respect - team mates, opponents, referees, the pitches still need re-seeding and there are still countless coaches – is another. other essential tasks for Groundsperson Mark Webster at the seven- hectare site. Volunteers like Mark rarely get recognition Matches and training are on Sunday mornings. In addition to so the Club was thrilled when he won the Eastern Counties local “friendlies”, there is a monthly Festival somewhere in Rugby Groundsperson of the Year Award. Eastern Counties where the Valkyries partner West Norfolk to field full teams. The under 15s competed in the National Cup “Richly deserved,” said Facilities Director Rob Stimpson. “The defeating Kettering before losing at Peterborough. time Mark devotes is incredible and he has prepared outstanding playing surfaces for the whole club, Minis to Vikings. As The Girls have two experienced Coaches. Richard has been importantly he’s made Directors, Coaches & Players aware of coaching for 25 years whilst Sophie Bambridge established the importance of pitch maintenance and the need for Havant's successful Girls' section before returning to Norfolk. investment. He has transformed things in his two years in the "There is a place for everyone in a rugby team," commented role and instilled a real sense of pride and ambition in our Sophie. "We've seen so many come along and absolutely love it. grounds.” It's great to see their rugby skills develop but I also love to see how the team develops.” As well as the pitches – four full size plus smaller ones for the Youth, Girls & Minis – Scottow Park includes a Play Area and Representative team jerseys adorn the Clubhouse walls. Just Woodlands. It is an onerous responsibility with over 400 one is from a Ladies team, England Colleges - Vicky Harris youngsters sometimes there on a Sunday morning. He created 2007. “Love to add to that, ideally England,” said Sophie and “technical areas” meaning heavy impact training can take place Richard. away from the pitches, and stressed to Coaches not to keep using the same areas. Paths have been introduced in the Woodlands; bulbs planted. As motivated by the community’s needs as he is by preparing the perfect pitch, he welcomes the Paul Morse site’s use by Schools, joggers and cross-country runners. 090520

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improved immensely although with such a dry spell there has been the need for a lot of watering, without the assistance of irrigation systems like those used by the Premier League Clubs and our local farmers!

Off the field communication has continued but in a different way. Not with meetings at the club but via virtual conferencing using www.wroxhamfc.club ZOOM. This has been put to good use with

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For example, Bure Valley FC coaches will become associate coaches to Wroxham FC and will be invited to club-led CPD sessions at Trafford park; members of the Women’s Senior Team will support youth sessions throughout the founda�on and development age groups; Bure Valley FC players will be offered free entry to every Women’s league fixture played at Trafford Park; both clubs will work together in philanthropic ac�vi�es such as fundraising for charity; and the newly constructed ‘Wroxham DNA’ will be integrated into the Bure Valley FC philosophy, specifically steered to Women’s & Girls’ development. YACHTSWOMEN & WILDCATS Chairman of Wroxham Football Club, Lee Robson said: “This is UNITE! hugely exci�ng for the development of Wroxham FC as a genuine community club for the whole of the Broadlands area Wroxham FC and Bure Valley FC announce an official and in par�cular for female football in Norfolk. From a poten�al partnership to further promote the female game in the Na�onal League women’s team through to Wildcats, we can Broadland and North Norfolk areas. now offer a clear pathway for girls and women to play football at whatever level suits them best, in complete parity with men It’s an exci�ng �me for Women’s & Girls’ Football in and around and boys. the Norfolk Broads, as one of the most well-known clubs in the county is joining forces with the largest girls’ football club in the “At Wroxham we walk the walk. In �me I’m hoping we can area. encourage more girls and young women to join our Open Academy programme as we con�nue to broaden our ambi�on Wroxham FC and Bure Valley FC both share an equal and scope. Bure Valley are perfect partners to work with to commitment and value to the promo�on of female football make this a reality.#ahoy ” within their surrounding areas, and the clubs exis�ng structures represented a great opportunity for collabora�on. Chairman of Bure Valley FC, Ted McCarter said: "This partnership is hugely exci�ng for both clubs. Girls as young as The objec�ve of both clubs is to provide a full female pathway five can now join us through the Wildcats scheme in the from youth to adult and to offer provision for all abili�es from knowledge that a clear pathway to women’s football is available beginner to elite. The partnership will aim to not only sustain to them. Our seven girls teams will now have access to new and further support the current infrastructure of female-only coaching techniques and experiences, plus have the football at Bure Valley FC; but will provide the club’s opportunity to support and learn from Wroxham Women at par�cipants with adult offers suited to their level and Trafford Park on a Sunday. aspira�ons. “Both clubs are commi�ed to adding new teams; the structure Working together, the clubs will be able to provide Wildcats is in place and coaches, facili�es, and pitches are all ready and sessions for girls as young as five, with the opportunity to play wai�ng. The opportunity is there for any female players to join football recrea�onally at every age group and into the adult us on the road to Trafford Park, and we'll con�nue to offer a game. The ul�mate progression will also be offered for players fantas�c experience to all that join our brilliant club. to aspire to play regional football with the Wroxham women’s Senior Team. “A fantas�c �me to get involved in the female game, we can't wait to get to work with our friends just down the road! With adult football provision being provided by Wroxham FC, this would not only provide an open-age exit route for Bure Senior Women’s Team Manager at Wroxham FC, Rebecca Valley FC players via a proposed Development Squad compe�ng Burton said: “Having worked on this partnership alongside the locally; it would provide a visible and accessible pathway to the development of the Wroxham DNA over the past couple of elite level in the form of the Women’s Senior team. months, it’s certainly a very exci�ng �me for Wroxham FC, and for Women’s & Girls’ football in the area. The vision we have for Offering a direct pathway to a regional Women’s team will be the future, as well as the plans we are pu�ng into place with effec�ve in suppor�ng the growth and sustainability of the the support and dedica�on from the fantas�c staff at Bure youth set up at Bure Valley FC, with a tangible ambi�on for Valley FC, will no doubt see female football thrive in and around newly recruited players to strive for. the Norfolk Broads in the very near future.” The longer-term vision of the partnership will also aim to ul�mately provide an annual flow of home-grown talent to the 30th May 2020 Women’s Senior team, increasing its sustainability and compe��veness in the county.

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All around us are signs of the role in transport communications played merged into one to try to withstand the pressures of the time. The by Coltishall and Horstead roughly two centuries and more ago. The number of malthouses dropped, as we learn from the church ratebook. villages played a pivotal role in the local infrastructure on land and Tellingly, the excise service started to pull out the number of its water. officers previously kept busy in the area. Coltishall had been promoted to an excise district in 1758, reflecting its glory days as a generator of They punched above their weight. They were fairly small in national wealth. It still held that position in 1789, but was soon population terms: 601 at Coltishall in 1801, 370 at Horstead with afterwards demoted to a division. In 1808 just two riding officers were Stanninghall. Great Hautbois, the downstream area of which is often based there. seen as forming part of Coltishall, numbered only 68. There were few public houses: only the King’s Head and White Lion at Coltishall, the Cornmilling too suffered. Buxton and Aylsham watermills greatly Recruiting Sergeant at Horstead, and the White Horse at Great expanded production in the years after the opening of the navigation; Hautbois (now Bridge House). Apart from the tiny White Lion, tucked Horstead Mill struggled to compete. away on the approach to Coltishall’s mediaeval heartland of St James’s, the pubs stood on major strategic points along road and river It is sign of loss of impetus when a population stays still or declines. highways. In the ten years to 1811 Coltishall’s rose by only two to 603. Horstead’s actually fell by three, to 367. There was a special reason An inland port Coltishall, rather more than Horstead, had long for this. In 1806 a large incorporated workhouse opened at Horsham been a thriving inland port. Until 1779, when the navigation opened St Faith, and the poor and infirm of the neighbouring parishes were fully to Aylsham, it was also the head of navigation supplying a huge shipped off there. They were no longer the parish’s responsibility. In swathe of the hinterland. Its importance to the local economy had been the forty years 1780–1820 a long succession of bankruptcies and strengthened from about 1550 by the arrival of Tyneside coal, financial failures marked a fall in trade in the Coltishall area. transhipped at Great Yarmouth. From that moment the village turned its face to the water and inland areas became sidelined. The The arrival of turnpike roads Meanwhile what was prosperous merchant houses familiar to us today, many with shaped happening on the roads? Horstead, as today, stood at the junction of gables, all date from after the coming of coal. Most look to the river. the Norwich-to-North Walsham road and the Aylsham-to-Great The Old House, a brewer’s house, is one of the few locked inland. Yarmouth road. The arched bridge at Coltishall, which survived until the 1912 floods, carried this busy trade. The manor house moved from mediaeval Hackford Hall, close to today’s Old Hall. Postills (Postle’s) became the manor, right against Two public houses principally benefiting from this traffic, the the river, with its own maltings, granary, cinder ovens, great barn and Recruiting Sergeant and the White Horse, got a boost in 1797 with the wherry dyke. Coal supplied the breweries springing up from the late turnpiking of the road to North Walsham. The 15-mile journey now seventeenth century. Malthouses relied on coked coal, known then as became much faster. Horstead and Coltishall lay at the halfway point, cinders, either brought up from downstream or coked on the spot. an ideal location for travellers to get out, have something to eat and Coal would taint the malt and give a foul taste to beer, so the malt- drink and rest their horses. But the Norwich–Aylsham road had been kilns were fuelled by coke. By 1780 Coltishall had eleven malthouses, turnpiked in 1794, again contributing to Aylsham’s pre-eminence at mostly beside or close to the river. the expense of Coltishall. Coal, coke, malt and beer built up Coltishall’s economic muscle and The view by James Stark made it a distribution hub. The river became the highway for trade. As The earliest view of Coltishall? of Lower Common, then known as Newgate Common, may be the with all inland ports the village developed a series of staithes, public earliest representation of the appearance of the village. But it is a and private, along its banks. On these stood lockable warehouses, as highly misleading one. The artist is looking downstream from the seen in Stone’s view of Coltishall Bridge. Mary Hardy in her diary, King’s Head Staithe towards the little pleasure-boating island still written at Coltishall 1773–81, shows us that the King’s Head Staithe there today. He shows us a pastoral idyll. However he was standing (where the Rising Sun now stands) was the focal point of the village. among granaries, maltings, coal yards and timber yards. These have been airbrushed from our view. He has considerably narrowed the The damaging effect of the navigation Much of this river to bring the cattle into the desired position; the common too is on changed suddenly in 1779. Aylsham, Buxton and Lamas now a pronounced slope, to create the right effect. challenged Coltishall’s status. A malthouse was built on the Horstead bank beside the navigation just upstream of Coltishall Bridge as early The legacy of the Norwich School ofArtists, of which Stark was a as 1776, the year after the lock was opened; the long building still leading member, has been to depict the Broads as the haunt of vessels stands there today. Now sturdy carts streamed from the quays of drifting gently along in light airs. In fact we know from the passage Aylsham’s canal basin to the coal-starved inner regions of the county times recorded by a clock-conscious Mary Hardy for the family’s like Reepham and Cawston. Aylsham usurped much of Coltishall’s wherryWilliam and Mary, built at Wright’s Yard just upstream of the trade and its role as a distribution centre. King’s Head in 1776, that keels and wherries sailed fast and made the most of every bit of wind and tide. Vessels used by the Hardys sailed In the short period 1786–1800 the three wholesale breweries of even on moonless midwinter nights. 18 Coltishall, with their strings of tied houses across a 20-mile radius, [Continued on page 19]

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Manufacturing has now largely ceased; distribution has adopted new forms. But when visitors enjoy a local pint, or when holidaymakers bring a boat up from Wroxham and Horning, they are taking part in a long tradition of the servicing of passing trade.

It is one very much to be celebrated in these welcoming villages.

Coltishall Bridge with two small hatched wherries c.1830, by Francis Stone & Son [engraving by D. Hodgson 1831]

‘The Island at Coltishall’ by James Stark c.1830 [engraving by W. Radclyffe 1833]

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At the moment the club is not meeting but doing implications. Obviously the safety of both the everything by Email and telephone. members, most of whom are in the "at risk" group and the general public at large is paramount and We have made a number of donations to good with this and other factors in mind, it is with much causes during this awful time with Covid 19. These regret that we have decided to cancel this year’s were to Age Concern, Norfolk Community Fete. This decision has not been taken lightly and Foundation, Air Ambulance and the Neo Natal Unit at we are sorry for any disappointment. However we Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, We also will be looking at planning the 2021 event, booked joined with other Lions Clubs in our District in for 1st August, as soon as we can. making a donation to the James Paget Hospital, towards the purchase of a piece of equipment which As we are coming to the end of our Lionistic year, will test to make sure there is no leakage on the face this will be my last report before I hand the reigns masks used by the Doctors and Nurses on the front over to Lion Mick Holden on July 1st. Here’s hoping line. he has a good year.

Our charity shop in the precinct at Hoveton is still In the meantime Stay Safe Stay Well. closed for the foreseeable future, but we will issue an update when we know further. Following the latest Government review of the Covid19 measures, Lion President Terry Vout the Club has carefully considered the ongoing

Set aside no more! Life moves on, a field set aside for 12 months in Horstead is returning to the fold with the second of several passes to get crops back into the ground. Sadly too late for the pairs of skylarks that had already taken up residence, their captivating song is no longer in earshot as they have moved on.

“When … merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks… Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost V, ii.”

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May is my favourite month, the month when Our latest introduction, an up turned Pinot Grigio everything has fully burst into leaf and many of our bottle suspended 12mm above a platform provides wild shrubs. blackthorn, hawthorn and at the end a steady supply of mixed corn for all and sundry. our dog roses and elder flower. The delicate shades of green in the beech and birch trees with the carpets of bluebells below leads us into yet another summer. Our hedges are screaming to be cut but to protect the still nesting birds the old adage “Cut in June and you cut too soon” springs to mind

Not just flora but the fauna with our wild birds either House sparrows in recycled frying pan caring for recently fledged families such as robins and blackbirds but the the tiny tits scurrying back

Great Tit leaving nest

Pigeon hits the bottle Blue tit feeding young

and forth to their nests in any cavity big and safe It was a slow starter but after a fortnight its presence enough for them. This year with a mandatory stay was no longer a threat and now with all the young at home a necessity it has been a pleasure to sparrows and pigeons to feed it needs filling every follow them in the many nest boxes placed around other day and about. Also the house sparrows nesting under the tiles [ no bird guards allowed on our roof] their Back to the task in hand looking forward to next young fanning their still drab coloured wings asking month when once again we hope to have The tobefed. Marlpit delivered to every door in the community. The restrictions of space squeezing all of the To encourage birds into the garden they must have subscribed articles along with the necessary the 4 basics provided, food, water, protective cover advertising to pay for it to be printed, along with the and places to nest. Some advocate only feeding copy and print deadlines to hit, presents a very garden birds in the winter months forcing them to different approach to our online editions. Multiples forage in summer but we provide peanuts, mixed of 4 or 8 pages a caveat required by the printing grain and niger seeds all year round. With plenty of process do not apply with this on line version, trees around and about the parent tits will feed their another page or two costs no more allowing me a young grubs and caterpillars, only topping up their chance to add a few words - thank you for hectic days with a trip to the nut feeders. supporting us and onward and upwards for The Goldfinches continue to make daily trips to the niger Marlpit to get back to normal soon.. seeds and make use of one of many bird baths topped up daily. Frustratingly so as families of David PyeCompilation Editor starlings and house sparrows are messy bathers. We have a pair of wood pigeons that have been with us for years and one of them sits on the bird bath rim

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FROM THE REVEREND CHRISTOPHER ENGELSEN- I worshipping and praying for all in our prayers. I have Col�shall Group of Parishes not as yet live streamed my services, as there is a great choice of streamed and recorded worship. But our Dear friends Facebook page, and website has become an essen�al form of contact. Visi�ng is done mainly by phone. I Gree�ngs! It is good to be wri�ng to am coming to terms with Zoom. My heart goes out you. I hope you are all keeping safe to all those who have had funeral services to a�end- and well. It seems another world either at the crematorium or outside in the away when I wrote for the April churchyard. Fortunately, we have had some good edi�on of the Marlpit (in early weather. March) and even since the last online edi�on in May we life goes The Church keeps Pentecost onSunday 31st May ( by on changing. But even though our Zoom, by Facebook, by e mail, by post…….) which is church buildings are closed s�ll, we about praying together and God coming to us as his remain ac�ve in prayer and support. Holy Spirit -to dwell in us, and to link us together so serve him and others. It is a �me of been filled with With you, I would love to know when we can open the love and with hope. There has been a lot of that-as churches again, and all we can say at �me of wri�ng Thursday nights at 8pm witness to, as we thank NHS this, is that from July 4th there will be some easing of and carers. restric�ons. However, this will be subject to limita�ons such as maximum numbers that can a�end, types of The story of the gi� of the Holy Spirit-promised service allowed (not sure when weddings and through Christ-involves gathering, praying and looking bap�sms can be held yet), whether we can sing or not, forward, overcoming communica�on problem by the and how sea�ng is arranged. As soon as weareable Spirit’s gi� of speaking in new languages, and invi�ng to know what the plan is (in line with diocesan people to a new life with God and each other-to instruc�ons) that will be published. Thank you for con�nue his healing and crea�ve work. (as told in the your pa�ence and understanding. second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament). In the mean�me, if you would like to join the list of those who receive a weekly message on e mail, please As we move through the next stage of lockdown and do contact me and I will send you it. -contact details towards a ‘new normal’ , God is bringing people below. together, he is invi�ng us to discover prayer and medita�on, he is leading us in new communica�on On behalf of us all, a huge thank you to all involved in with IT and in the way we value our face to face volunteering in our community-to the Col�shall and mee�ngs, and he is bringing us to a new way of living Horstead Coronavirus Support group especially: in community. Col�shall Post Office, Col�shall & Horstead Lunch Club, Good Neighbours, parish councils and clerks. We Take care, and I look forward to seeing you soon. have not been inundated as we feared at first, but good to know that a steady amount of people have been helped with shopping deliveries, prescrip�ons Christopher etc, emo�onal support, and ,more recently, through our Food Box scheme which provides confiden�al help with food for those in financial difficulty. CONTACTS Thank you to all who have offered help, even if the The Reverend Christopher Engelsen 01603 727255 scale of need has meant we have not had to call upon engelsen@b�nternet.com you. The greatest need is loneliness -especially for The Reverend Keith Dignum 01603 710397 senior members of the community living alone. Again, if you or someone you know, would like a Help with food box- Julie on 07909980768 phone, call- please let me know. Church Facebook Col�shall Group of Parishes, can be accessed vis our church website: What is life in lockdown like for me? Church is www.col�shallgroupofparishes.wordpress.com different now, and Sunday service is my wife Jenny and

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MARLPIT THE ISOLATED PROPHET BY JOHN HINDLEY We need to know how God responds to Elijah, because some of us are under that broom tree. Maybe you had high hopes and they have been dashed. A wedding cancelled, a holiday in doubt, a dear friend taken by the virus. Maybe work is gone, a business hanging by a thread.

Perhaps for you the isola�on is becoming crushing. There were days when you enjoyed the solitude, and yet now you The isolated prophet feel so lonely. One of the complaints that Elijah was to make The Marlpit | May 2020 to God was that he was alone, ‘I, even I only, am le�.’ For some of us, that is our prayer. How does God respond to the How does God respond to lonely, isolated, anxious people? broken and the lonely? How does God meet us in our struggles and fears? Where is God when the darkness seems impenetrable? The answer is He gave Elijah food and water, and sleep. Then he met with that he is close… him. In a beau�ful passage of scripture, we read that the Lord said to Elijah: Scared and broken the prophet slunk under a broom tree in the wilderness. He had the strength and heart le� only to ‘“Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” whisper a prayer that he might die before his exhaus�on carried him to sleep. And behold, the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in The day before it had all looked so different for Elijah, the pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord prophet. He had stood on Mount Carmel and confronted the was not in the wind. And a�er the wind an prophets of Baal. This was the final act in a struggle for the earthquake, but the Lord was not in the soul of God’s people, Israel. For years they had been earthquake. And a�er the earthquake a fire, deser�ng the Lord their God, who had been faithful to them but the Lord was not in the fire. And a�er the for genera�ons. Led by King Ahab and his Queen, Jezebel, fire the sound of a low whisper.’ they had thrown in their lot with idols. It was then that Elijah stood before his God and listened. Elijah had stayed faithful to the Lord, the God of Israel. He When we are hur�ng and hopeless, when the darkness had called on the Lord to judge his people. The Lord heard his seems like it will engulf us, is when the Lord o�en meets us. prayer and there had been no rain in Israel for three and a He usually comes more quietly than we expect. That is how half years. As the na�on faced famine, Elijah called the he came to Elijah and that is how he came to the world, prophets of the Baals to come to Mount Carmel. More than a slipping into crea�on in a manger in Bethlehem. thousand prophets of the new gods gatherede alongside countless worshippers. Elijah stood alone. He lay down a That is how the Christ lived, no armies or governors, no fuss challenge. Each would prepare a sacrifice, and then call on or pomp. That is how he died, on a common cross between their God to answer from heaven with fire to light the wood two thieves. Jesus came to be with us, to know us, to forgive and burn up the animal given in offering. The prophets of us, to love us and to draw us to himself. The reality is that we Baal prayed and worshipped all day. A�er they gave up, Elijah are alone, our hearts yearning to be united once again with ordered his sacrifice to be soaked with water before praying a our maker and Father. Usually we run around so fast that we simple prayer. God sent fire from heaven and burnt up the do not no�ce. bull, the wood, the water and the stones of the altar themselves. So maybe this �me of isola�on, of broken hopes, is a door as well as a suffering. Maybe it is a door into the presence of Praying again, Elijah then saw the Lord send the first rain for God. Maybe Jesus is the one your heart both longs for and years. As the people of Israel rejoiced, Elijah saw the king runs from. Elijah did not know whether he was running to or driving his chariot home through the deluge. Surely now the from God. But God found him, and fed him and listened and King would turn back to God? Surely the people would give opened Elijah’s eyes to a kinder, more beau�ful, more up their idolatry? Elijah was like a ship before the wind, sails glorious God. For when we have eyes to see, a crown of filled and the future golden. Then he received the message thorns fits the brow of Jesus be�er than one of gold. He is from Queen Jezebel: ‘you will be dead before the day is out.’ the suffering servant, the God who came for us, the God who s�ll whispers in the night that he loves us, that he has us and The threat was fearful, but deeper was the bi�erness of that he will not let us go . disappointment. His hopes snatched away, Elijah realised that there would be no change. The King would not lead his If you would like to read this account of Elijah more fully, it is people back to joyful worship of God. Frightened by the in the Bible, in the book of 1 Kings, chapters 18-19. sword and with his hopes dashed, Elijah fled into the wilderness, running for a day before dropping beneath a tree. John Hindley

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During the coronavirus epidemic Broadgrace church will be mee�ng online usingZoom onSundays at 4pm. We all need peace and hope at the moment, and church aims to give us these as we see the goodness and glory of Jesus Christ. Details are on our website:

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The Marlpit has not received any notices for June, perhaps because of the current situation - however please support the floodlighting incentive as it is a welcoming patch of light in a village without street lighting.

If you wish to sponsor the floodlighting at Coltishall Church to remember a person, pet or event, please contact Linda on01603 738629, or email [email protected] We ask for £10 which will be used for the upkeep of our beautiful Church.

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Minister Rev Bruno Boldrini. 94 Welsford Road NR4 6QH Tel: 01603 453071 [email protected] Secretary: Lynne Howard, 01603 738835. lmhoward100@b�nternet.com

In common with other Bri�sh churches, we will be suspending services un�l further no�ce. The United Reformed Church is producing a Sunday service each week on line at 10am . Please go toh�p:// devo�ons.urc.org.uk to listen to this. More local services produced by the Norwich URC team can be found athtpps://ipswichroadurc.org.uk The community café is also cancelled and our JAM (children’s church) will not be held. Children can access Sunday school themed ac�vi�es via facebook. The foodbank has moved to a delivery-only service and s�ll needs your dona�ons. God bless you all at this difficult �me.

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Horstead House, Mill Rd, Horstead, NR12 AU7 Hoveton Wroxham & District Gardening Club: Pam Culley T Suzanne Hall (Clerk) T 07476 952824 112 Norwich Rd, Horstead,NR12 7EQ 782041 Alan BrowneT 07789 967909 Jubilee Players:Ros Chamberlin T 736287 Holly Tree Cottage, Mill Lane, Tunstead NR12 8HN North Norfolk Speakers Club:T Stuart 07775 793999 Tom CainT 736840 Probus Club of Broadlands:Steve Robb T 736597 2 Patricia Avenue, Horstead NR12 7EW Rotary Club of Broadlands:Richard Mayer T 715796 Diane Williams T 737719 Rotary Club of Wroxham & Bure Valley:Jonathan King T 784482 5 Robert Norgate Close, Horstead, NR12 7BT Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes:(Llamas KC Lodge) Bob Jennings T 738335 Robert Jennings T 738335 Royal British Legion:Mr B Jordan T 738325 11 St Margarets Close, Horstead, NR12 7ER Spirit of Coltishall Association:(secretary) Jeff Ayling [email protected] Margaret GurneyT 737235 Wellington Dance (Ballroom Dancing) Dave Cox T 737907 1 Heggatt Hall, Horstead, NR12 7AY Wroxham and District U3A: (secretary) Jan Barrington T 712150 Philippa WeightmanT 737962 Wroxham Flower Club:Pat Barnes T 720466 1 Stanninghall Cottages, Stanninghall Rd, Horstead Wroxham Folk Dance Club: Mick Wade T 01692 404447 NR12 7LY Wroxham & Hoveton Lions Club:Ron Hill T 07753 382410 Wroxham, Hoveton & Belaugh Twinning Association: Victoria BakerT [TBA], Jane Monks T The Old Forge House, Crostwick, NR12 7BB 782496 Wroxham United Reform Church: Rev Bruno Boldrini T 458873 [Secretary] Mrs Lynne Howard T 738835 HORSTEAD WITH STANNINGHALL PARISH COUNCIL MEET ON THE 2ND WEDNESDAY AT 6PM IN THE TITHE BARN, RECTORY

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Coffee & Cake by the river.....

As we enter the month of April – which hopefully brings some fine spring weather – The Rising Sun will be reviving our popular Coffee and Cake deal from last year. From 11am weekdays and 10am at the weekend you can enjoy a hot beverage Colchester Inns and slice of cake, while overlooking the The Rising Sun beautiful Bure and Common, for just The Rising Sun, Wroxham Road, £4.50*. We look forward to seeing you! Coltishall, Norwich NR12 7EA Tel: 01603 737440 *Subject to availability – once it’s gone, it’s [email protected] gone! www.risingsuncoltishall.co.uk Here at The Rising Sun, we are thrilled to have our four tastefully renovated, dog-friendly rooms up and running, welcoming guests for bed and breakfast. If you have friends or family visiting the area and you don’t have the space at home, we would be more than happy to accommodate them. Booking is easy via our website, or if you’d prefer to speak to someone please just give us a call.

We are still awaiting news about the “Festival on the Common” planned for next month. Please ask for updates as at the time of writing no one is sure what will or not be permitted..

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