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CN_30.qxd 04/06/2007 11:27 Page 1 FREE !! Summer 2007 ISSUE No.30 CORNARD PEOPLE - FRED BLOYS Fred Bloys was born into a Cornard family when the village really was a village and everyone was familiar with the people that lived around them. Fred’s family has long connections in the area. His great grandfather opened a mineral water business in Friars Street in Sudbury - the bottles from that business turn up very occasionally when the river is being s dredged, and another relative was a lock keeper on the river Stour. Fred grew up in a house in Bures Road on the corner of Radiator Road - his father bought the land and had the house built. He remembers a happy secure childhood wandering the lanes and byways in Cornard. There were many little shops in the vicinity including a ‘cobblers’ in one of the cottages on Bures Road that face Head Lane. It probably did very well as people w walked everywhere. Fred would collect the milk for the family on his bike from Layzell Farm on Bures Road. He recalls on one trip, during the war, seeing a German plane Photo - Cornard News flying low overhead with a German gunner, complete with a machine gun, clearly visible. However, luckily, the gunner did not consider Fred a threat. The nearest bomb to drop in Cornard was at the Water Tower and e although it left a deep crater nobody was hurt. Fred’s father was in the home guard and had a bell in his bedroom that was connected to the house of the Company’s Commanding Officer (CO) who lived only a few doors away. If in the night, news reached that a German invasion was imminent the CO would ring the bell and then Fred’s father had to inform the rest of the squad. The home guard also had a platform in an oak tree at the top of Sheepshead Hill that was used as a lookout. They placed big logs, held in place by stakes, along the slopes of the road - in the event of an N invasion the stakes would be pulled out leaving the logs to roll into the road so stopping the German progress - as Fred added at least along Sheepshead Hill. N Fred attended what is now Wells Hall Old School and then onto the Grammar School in Sudbury. From there Fred went to London and did a five year apprenticeship on diesel and electrical engineering after which he had two years compulsory National Service most of which was spent in Egypt. When Fred eventually came back to Cornard he went to work at his family’s garage in Gainsborough Street, which stood opposite the Drill Hall. The garage had been in the family since around 1820 when it built and repaired horse-drawn d carriages. When mechanical transport took the place of the horse and carriage Fred’s great uncle changed the premises into a garage, servicing cars and lorries as well as selling petrol. When Bakers Mill was smaller Bloys garage looked after all of their vehicles. r Fred married Olive in 1960 and they have two sons and two grandsons who bring them a lot of happiness. One of the places that Fred and Olive used to visit was the local cinema - The County -which used to be where Winch & Blatch Homeware Store now stands. The cinema was very grand and had a restaurant and a uniformed doorman. a Olive was a district nurse for 20 years working in Cornard and surrounding villages. It was hard work but very fulfilling. Fred and his brothers decided to sell their garage in 1986 as none of their sons were interested in carrying on the business. Fred, who couldn’t be idle, became house manager at Weavers Court Retirement Home in Sudbury. He was on 24-hour call and did everything in the home from maintenance to n administration. Olive and Fred are now retired after both having busy and fulfilling occupations giving service to others and now as Fred says they are enjoying the peace and quiet. However they still keep busy and each has their r own hobbies. May they both have a long and happy retirement. JOAN HERBERT – CORNARD NEWS In this issue: Win a Bottle of Wine Clearview Cleaning o High Flying Bears Mathematical Snake Contract, Window, Office and Domestic Cleaners Next issue - End August 2007 Tel: 01787 242019 / Mob: 07984 578152 Copy date - Mid July 2007 C Contact details - Page 10 36 Davidson Close, Great Cornard. CO10 0YU CN_30.qxd 04/06/2007 11:27 Page 2 GREAT CORNARD PARISH COUNCIL COMMUNITY WARDEN At the Full Council meeting on 12 February 2007, the I’ve had a lot of residents complain to me about the dog fouling Chairman reported that the Youth Shelter had been erected on around the Stevenson Centre, on areas where young children are the Recreation Ground and, hopefully this would encourage playing and I have seen it myself. I know the majority of you are youngsters to congregate away from the shop and Children’s responsible because I hand out the dog bags. So please, those Play Area. people that don’t care whether a child falls into dog excrement and becomes ill, please think again. I would like to catch somebody. It’s The Council Manager presented a report on energy saving not the dog’s fault; it’s the irresponsible owners. proposals for the Council’s streetlights and Councillors made the following recommendations: It’s nice to see the new shelter on ‘The Rec’ (Recreation Ground) The Council ensures that any new columns installed will being used. I see it as a magnet for more litter and bottles. There is be the most cost effective & environmentally friendly type. a bin attached, please use it, and take extra care with bottles as there The Council would await further developments from is a football pitch next to it. I will empty the bin on my weekly round. Suffolk County Council’s appraisal of the Leafnut system, or other suitable energy saving solutions. Will Cornard School pupils please use the waste bins at lunchtime. [ See the ‘Leafnut’ Competition below) The Rec is a lovely place to sit and have your lunch especially during The County Council should be informed of our interest in the nice weather. Please be responsible and ‘help the planet’. We this system and be asked to keep the Parish Council have two full time Community Police Officers patrolling the area on a informed as to the project’s progress. shift basis, so hopefully we together can sort out some of the problems that I know we have here in Cornard. A member of the public brought to the Council’s attention the bad state of repair of the Cornard Cemetery gates and the I am going out weekly with Daniel Whymark from Babergh DC neglected surrounding area. The Burial Authority subsequently checking on the area. We are picking up on various litter hot spots, discussed this matter on 12 February 2007. Councillors agreed one being Abbas Walk. We need at least two more waste bins and that this whole area needed attention, were asked to visit the one more dog bin in that area. I have put this forward to the Great cemetery and note any improvements that could be made. It Cornard Parish Council to see whether we can budget for them as was agreed that the Community Warden could use the everything is all about money. Cemetery Office as a base and the Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) could also be offered the use of this building. I have managed to get the Co-op in The Drift to purchase a Waste Bin outside the store and they are now litter picking the front and side of The Recreation & Leisure Committee met on 26 February shop daily. They will also be removing the graffiti from the walls and I 2007, and the Chairman reported that a recent meeting shall monitor this. I caught the person who was putting bags of cat between councillors and representatives of Cornard Dynamos litter in the public waste bins and hopefully that has now stopped. Cat had been constructive and an agreement had been reached litter should be wrapped up and put in your black bins. regarding the lease of the Blackhouse Lane Pavilion. Councillors therefore recommended this draft agreement to the Please don’t put your vehicles for sale on the grass. It is an offence full Council. to sell your car on Babergh land and they will be removed within 24 hours. We have had problems at the Shawlands Retail Park with At the Council meeting on 12 March 2007, the Chairman ‘boy-racers’ and associated noises. The owners and Babergh DC are welcomed PCSO Hannah Bitten. She advised the Council that discussing the problem and hopefully will soon be able to tackle the she would be joined on the 27 April 2007 by a second PCSO, problem. Peter Thompson, who will also be assigned to Great Cornard. As part of the new ‘Safer Neighbourhood’ scheme, it is ANDY NUNNY - COMMUNITY WARDEN envisaged that each Great Cornard PCSO will be assigned a specific area of responsibility within the Parish. ******************** FUN HORSE-RACE NIGHT The Council accepted the recommendation of the The 95 Club, For Today’s Women, are a ladies club who meet twice Development & Planning Meeting to respond positively to a a month and also raise money for charity. The President for the last resident of Eldred Drive for a request for a footpath in Wells year of the 95 Club was Cynthia Hume and her charity was Hall Road at the school area and the matter to be referred to Crossroads.