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Sa wirst osf all, tto anyonoe who is nTribu te to ASnn Redcshaw ene 2 reading Sawston Scene for Production team and deadlines 4 Fthe first time, welcome! Readers’ letters 4 We are your award-winning village magazine, produced and Granta Medical Practices 5 n this issue, amid much else, we say farewell to our delivered by volunteers for the Sawston COVID -19 Mutual Aid Group 5 utterly fantastic Pictures Editor, Ann Redshaw. I last fifty years – coincidentally, Corona virus : official advice 7 More than anyone else, she has transformed the way this is our anniversary issue. Corona virus: your questions answered 8 Sawston Scene looks. To our regular readers, thank She’s taken beautiful photos for our covers and Addenbrooke’s hospital 9 you for your support; we’ll sort taught other people how to take them too. She’s Corona virus: myth-busting 10 out those subs forms another time. persuaded many, many Sawston children to pose JHC 11 To those who delivered issues, a massive thank you. beautifully and got permission from their carers for We took advice about how to do it safely from two Age UK 11 them to feature on our pages. She’s been a regular at local scientists, Dr Catherine J. Merrick and Dr Ben Fifty years of SYD 12 village events trying to work out how to make a field Grimshaw, and I am hugely grateful to them for sharing Cambridgeshire Child and Family Centres 14 full of people look interesting. their expertise so generously at a time when everything Sawston Nursery 14 Behind the scenes, she’s converted thousands of was going crazy this week. colour photos into black and white, and learned the Pippins Preschool 15 Editing the magazine has been an upsetting task as black arts of photo editing, right from our first issue Village College 16 report after report listed cancelled events that I knew where she moved a hook out of someone’s head. It was fifty years ago today… 17 had often meant months of preparation. Underneath it She’s also been a wonderful investigative journalist, all I could feel the tremors of everything shifting: Bellbird School 18 delving into village issues and finding out facts from people losing their jobs, businesses losing their Wellcome Genome Campus 18 the people who actually know them – in this, we hope customers, the village in upheaval. I cried, often. Church Institute 19 (once she’s had a break) she will continue. Sawston Scene will do absolutely everything it can to Can flycatchers be spotted? 19 We are hugely grateful to her for all she has done. help this village get back on its feet. But I know that Scouts 20 you, reader, will be doing what you can too. We may be A breath of life 21 thinking that it’s too soon and for now we need to look Nature Notes 22 after ourselves. But… back in January I had a phone call from a reader. “I’ve got a story I want to tell you,” a SERVICES 23 lady said. She told me her name but said she didn’t CORONAVIRUS CHANGES 24 want it printed. “It was my ninetieth birthday so I’d DIRECTORY 26 dyed my hair the brightest pink you ever saw in your Challis Trust 27 life. I’ve never had so much fun or so many kisses! Fun Run 29 “Anyway, I went to buy a lottery ticket at the Spar Village History Society 29 and as I was searching in my bag for some change they Timebank 32 said ‘Don’t worry, it’s paid for.’ There was a man behind me and unbeknownst to me he had paid. I flew out of Royal British Legion 32 the door, but there was nobody in sight. It was one of Libraries 34 the nicest things that’s ever happened to me!” Sawston WI 34 And it’s one of the best phone calls I’ve ever had. Pampisford WI 34 The man who bought that lottery ticket spent just £2, Fond Memories of a Diary Editor 36 and made that lady so happy she wanted to tell the The Diary Editor Goes Digital 36 village. So. No act of kindness is too small. In fact, the District Council report 38 small acts get us into practice for the bigger acts. What will get us through these next months is kindness. Churches 40 Please, please, let’s all try to be kind. Sports Centre 42 Beck Laxton Andy’s Allotment 44 EDITOR Fifty years old 46

April –May 2020 3 cancer ward at collect and Addenbrooke’s where deliver in a safe , Max was treated for a way. Our contact Sawston Scene brain tumour. They are number is 07799 EDITOR Reader s also collecting in 063122. Rachel Beck Laxton anything for the Mckenzie 95 High Street, Sawston, amazing doctors and nurses at Cambridgeshire, CB22 3HJ 01 223 5628 71 Addenbrooke’s that work do hard THREE CHEERS who use [email protected] letters especially at this time! We will A welcome sight for those residents Princess Drive! Irene Gruby SS ADVERTISING John Godwood couldn’t cope for more than a year [email protected] SCENE MEMORIES GRANTA MEDICAL PRACTICES I became involved with Sawston with a young family and career to COPY Scene years ago doing collating by attend to as well. So well done to Dr James Morrow, Managing Partner, 16th March 2020: population the Covid-19 virus is a mild illness which can Yasmin Emerson hand going round andround the you for enduring the last ten years! be safely managed at home with rest, paracetamol and [email protected] table in the room we used at the However, we have stayed as worker CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) UPDATE fluids just like a normal flu-like illness. However, for Free Church. bees for the rest of the first fifty years Unfortunately the number of people affected by the those with significant other medical problems and for PICTURES Chris Glasbey Jean Osborne got me involved. It of the magazine, acting as local coronavirus causing Covid-19 is increasing rapidly and the elderly it can be more serious. 01 223 833700 was a nice group of volunteers and distributors around where we live. this new virus is taking a foothold within our community. With this in mind we have postponed all face-to-face [email protected] we all got on very well. We certainly We have watched the Scene At Granta Medical Practices we have a dedicated GP appointments and some routine nurse appointments. FEATURES got a lot of exercise but it was fun. blossom and grow under a number of Covid emergency team who are meeting daily to discuss This is for both our patients’ safety and the safety of our Marc Kerr I also did some delivering of the editors, notably Jean Osborne (still how we can continue to provide the best possible care staff. Instead we are offering an enhanced telephone [email protected] magazine at one time. I think I only active on the committee – well for our patients. As a practice we are fortunate in having service from clinicians. If you would like to receive a stopped after moving to Stapleford. done, Jean) and yourself (and both multiple sites and a large team of people, including phone call please ring 0300 234 5555 (8am to 6pm, SPORTS Alan Chamley I still enjoy Sawston Scene and Yasmin) over the last decade. those with experience of managing this sort of situation. Monday to Friday) or contact us with non-urgent queries 01 223 836890 I look forward to my copy coming The Sawston Scene is a well This gives us options for delivery of care that are not by email on [email protected]. We will still [email protected] through the door. Long may it established (and award-winning) open to many practices during any epidemic. see patients where it is clinically essential, after we have continue – I know a lot of hard work contributor and resource for the done a remote assessment. We are working hard to make SUBSCRIPTIONS Cheryl Ellis goes into it. Muriel Orchard local community and we are proud UP TO DATE INFORMATION: sure that those who are housebound will continue to 01 223 834853 to be part of its history and delighted At a national level the Public Health England website: receive their medications. [email protected] THE JOY OF COLLATING with its ongoing success. Well done www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england As a community we can help each other – both by My wife, Jeannette, and I, have been and many congratulations to all and NHS UK website: following the advice given and by helping look after those SALES Jean Osborne involved with the Sawston Scene involved. David and Jeannette Warner www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19 / who may need help within our communities. If you are 01 223 832472 since the very early days but were provide up-to-date information about the national able to volunteer to help out in your immediate area, [email protected] not quite founder members! FORMER EDITOR situation and plans, and health advice. please email your details to [email protected] We were both on the committee It is difficult to comprehend that At Granta we will be keeping our website ACCOUNTS Mike Tapson involved in collating and, in my fifty years have passed since the first www.grantamedicalpractices.co.uk updated regularly to PRACTICAL ADVICE 01 223 500700 case, using Letraset (rub-down dry issue in April 1970. reflect the local situation and our actions at Granta, First and foremost is the need to wash your hands on a [email protected] transfer letters) onto the typed All the aims and hopes of that along with our social media accounts. We may also use regular basis – warm water and soap for at least twenty masters to provide headings and add first issue, and much more, have SMS messaging to mobile phones to communicate any seconds. This alone will help slow down the spread of DIARY Enter your events at character to the magazine. been achieved. This is due to the urgent messages. Please let us know if you have changed the virus and help protect you, your family and our www.sawstonscene.org/diary An anecdote from the very early many dedicated, talented, and your mobile number or have one you haven’t told us. community. SS years relates to a young lady on the imaginative people who have bins Designed and typeset by , and note that green committee (who I shall call Karen) worked so hard through the years to Bag your used tissues Beck Laxton PRIORITISATION age 38 >> who went touting for people to help keep the magazine going. They The current evidence is that for the vast majority of the are cancelled. See p Printed by with collating. Our neighbour at the have developed it into the E & E Plumridge Ltd, Linton time (who I shall call John) told me professional and interesting Sawston Scene is not responsible for the opinions SAWSTON COVID-19 MUTUAL AID can to support you through these challenges. expressed by contributors or the content of advertisements, of his excitement on being asked if magazine it is today, in 2020. e are a group of people in Sawston You may see a flier through your doors in the and is not associated with Sawston Parish Council, he was interested in what he had A very big thank you to everyone except that members of the production team may also be Wwho want to help during this coming days or have had one already, probably with parish councillors. heard as ‘copulating’ having never – and very best wishes for the future. difficult time: perhaps doing and picking up #ViralKindness at bottom right. Copyright is retained by the writers, heard the term collating. He was June Thomas, Editor 1970 to 1971 shopping and prescriptions or supporting Please contact the person named on the leaflet artists and photographers. If you would like to soon made to understand! reproduce any content, please contact the editor. with a friendly voice over the phone to and we will contact our group of local neighbours I was editor for just one year EGGS FOR those experiencing difficulties through self-isolation. to help provide what you need. Deadline for June –July 2020: Sunday 17th May which I enjoyed but soon discovered ADDENBROOKE’S We are not a replacement for any medical advice or Stay safe and stay well. that when the rest of the editorial My son Max Mckenzie and his any healthcare needs but a friendly group of people Contact the number you have or 01223 562 871 if To find out how to send in an article, put an event in the diary, or advertise, go to committee went home it was down brother Harley are collecting Easter who care about our neighbours. 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England to expand the virus testing programme. mammal and then into humans, but such problems are Engineers are working on accessible, open-source designs not unique to China. They can happen anywhere when Coronavirus: for manufacturing respirators. Logistics experts are trying people encounter animals. The Ebola virus emerged in to organise all the offers of help into workable teams. central Africa – possibly from a bat, but no one is certain And of course, those who can work directly on studying – while the MERS virus emerged in the Middle East, your questions answered coronavirus – developing candidate vaccines or drug where it circulates in camels. For all we know, the next treatments – are still at work: these are the only emerging virus could appear in a British farm, but it ll the information below is gathered from from patients who have recovered from an infection, or laboratories in Cambridge that have not shut down. would probably be unhelpful to name it ‘British flu’! reputable sources such as the World Health even to synthesise new antibodies in the lab, to see if The outbreak of COVID -19 has drawn together AOrganisation ( WHO ) and other scientific groups they are able to fight off the infection in patients whose scientists and companies in a way we haven’t seen before. Can my pets catch the virus, and can they spread it? around the world. More data are being generated every own bodies cannot do so effectively. Where normally companies might compete to be the first There has been one instance of a dog being infected in day, so the numbers and information below are the to discover a new treatment, all the leading scientists Hong Kong, but to date there is no evidence that a dog, current best estimates, and may change over time. Please How soon can we hope to have a coronavirus vaccine? have been working together on COVID -19 to tackle the cat or any pet can transmit the virus that causes COVID - refer to the WHO for the latest information. With previous disease outbreaks, it has taken a long time outbreak. The BioIndustry Association ( BIA ) in the UK 19. It is mainly spread through droplets produced when Dr Catherine J. Merrick, Senior lecturer at Cambridge to start developing new vaccines. First, scientists must is one example where scientists from across the country an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks – so to University, Department of Pathology gather enough information about a disease, and sequence have been brought together, driving efforts to develop protect yourself, clean your hands frequently and Dr Ben Grimshaw, Research Scientist at Kymab Ltd the genome from any new virus. For COVID -19, the vaccines, antibodies and other treatments. New testing thoroughly. However, the WHO continues to monitor virus was identified and sequenced extremely quickly, so methods now being developed will be faster and more the latest research on this and will update us as new What are we doing to develop new drugs against vaccine design and testing has already begun. A reliable, to give a more accurate picture of how the virus findings are available. coronavirus, and how quickly? company in the USA (Moderna Therapeutics) created a is spreading through the population. Other barriers, such It does seem likely that this virus came originally from Developing a brand new drug to combat any human possible vaccine just forty-two days after the COVID -19 as the ability to make large amounts of a drug/vaccine in animals, but these are unlikely to be domesticated pets. disease is a long and expensive process. It needs many genome was published, with the aim to start testing this a short space of time, are also being investigated. The genome sequence information that we have from the rounds of safety and efficacy testing called ‘clinical trials’. in humans in April. There are more than thirty COVID -19 virus allows us to trace back where the virus These are crucial because unsafe drugs can have companies and academic institutions around the world Is this really ‘the Chinese virus’, as President Trump may have originated, and current information is that devastating consequences – just remember thalidomide investigating possible vaccines, and a lot of collaboration has been calling it? sometime in the 1970s to 80s, the virus was transmitted in the 1950s and 60s. However, we might not have time between companies. Viruses have no race or nationality, so this designation is from bats to another (as yet unknown) non-human for this whole process when facing COVID -19. So The aim is to make a vaccine as soon as possible. Sir basically meaningless. In fact, the World Health species. It was then passed on to humans sometime instead, scientists are mainly concentrating on trying out Patrick Vallance (the government’s chief science adviser) Organisation advises against naming any new diseases between October and December 2019 (the first case was existing drugs that might work in this new via geography or nationality, to avoid stigmatising one reported by the WHO on 8th December 2019). context. We already know that they are safe and “Those studying coronavirus are group of people. (An example would be the obsolete effective against other infections, so we have a ‘Spanish flu’ of 1918: that virus probably didn’t actually Permission from WHO is not required for the use of WHO head-start on the testing – but can they help us the only laboratories in Cambridge originate in Spain but instead in the USA . The Spanish materials issued under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- with COVID -19? Clinical trials are still required, were not to blame for the pandemic. Yet the name Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Intergovernmental Organization giving these drugs to a large number of infected that have not shut down.” stuck.) This new coronavirus did apparently originate in (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO ) licence: see www.who.int/ patients to see if they can reduce disease China, probably jumping from a bat into another about/who-we-are/publishing-policies/copyright SS symptoms, and whether there are any bad side effects. has said that a timeframe of twelve to eighteen months is Two main candidates at present are a group of ‘anti- “not unreasonable to assume”, but some companies have virals’ developed for infections like HIV , and a drug ambitious aims to have a vaccine even sooner than that. called chloroquine that was once widely used against Nevertheless, it is vital to test any new vaccine for its ADDENBROOKE’S HOSPITAL malaria. Clinical trials on both of these, and others too, safety and possible side-effects, usually in animals before are underway right now – for example, the UK -based humans, and this process cannot safely be truncated. All non-essential face-to-face outpatient Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group said: company Synairgen have just announced that they If a vaccine is found, one major obstacle facing the appointments and planned procedures and operations “As part of our preparations for an increase in coronavirus intend to start a Phase II clinical trial imminently, using world will be the ability to make enough of it to will be postponed. cases, we need to ensure that we have as many beds a drug that was previously tested in asthma patients with vaccinate enough people to provide general protection This is effective from this Friday 20th March 2020, available as possible across Cambridgeshire and viral respiratory infections. We should have results from against the virus. So, when we get to the point of having and will last for a period of at least three months. Peterborough to care for patients with severe respiratory all these trials within a few months. Nobody is expecting an effective vaccine, it is likely that governments will We appreciate that this is unwelcome news. We would problems when the number of infections peaks. a miracle cure, but we do believe that some of the drugs choose to vaccinate vulnerable people and key workers like to reassure you that you will remain in your current “Therefore, in line with well-established plans might reduce the symptoms. first, before the general population, since demand will pathway for your appointment, and that you will not be for situations like this, we are now suspending all non- A word of warning, though – if you have these drugs initially be higher than supply. asked to go back to your GP to get re-referred once urgent elective operations and outpatient treatment from at home, or are trying to buy them online against a normal service resumes. 20 March for at least three months, with some other possible COVID -19 infection, this would be ‘off-label What are local and national scientists doing to help? We will update you when we can to let you know procedures likely to be rescheduled before then so we can self-prescribing’: it is a potentially dangerous risk to take The Cambridge area has a large population of scientists when your appointment can be rescheduled. train our staff and adapt certain areas. any drug until there is solid medical evidence that it associated with Cambridge University and with local If you have not heard anything from the hospital “Urgent and emergency cases and cancer treatments really works against this disease! science and technology firms. Many of us are now regarding your appointment you should still come in. will be carrying on as normal, but we know many Finally, it might possible to develop sophisticated new confined to our homes because our workplaces are Urgent and emergency cases and cancer treatments people waiting for treatment will be disappointed or drugs called ‘antibody therapeutics’ against COVID -19. closed, but we are far from idle! Biologists with suitable will be carrying on as normal. worried, and we will be contacting everyone affected as Biotechnology companies are working to test antibodies training are offering their services to Public Health A spokesperson for the Cambridgeshire and soon as possible.” SS

8 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 9 eliminate viruses that may • DO talk to others using technology available Should I wear a mask to protect be on your hands and (WhatsApp/Zoom/Skype/phones/FaceTime etc) myself? Coronavirus: avoid infection that could • DO offer help if you're able to (Sawston Mutual Only wear a mask if you are ill occur by then touching Aid group) with COVID -19 symptoms your eyes, mouth, and • DO ask for help if you need it (especially coughing) or looking nose. These viruses are • DO get fresh air, even if it's just going out into after someone who may have myth-busting highly sensitive to the garden. COVID -19. Disposable face masks detergents, such as those can only be used once. If you are in soap and in the powder/detergent used for washing not ill or looking after someone who is ill then you are or the benefit of reaaders without internet Can eating garlic help prevent infection? machines, so washing your hands with soap, and washing wasting a mask. There is a world-wide shortage of masks, access, here is advice from the World Heath Garlic is a healthy food that may have some your clothes/bedding with your usual detergent and so WHO urges people to use masks wisely. WHO advises FOrganization website at www.who.int antimicrobial properties. However, there is no evidence settings (no need to increase the temperature) is the most rational use of medical masks to avoid unnecessary from the current outbreak that eating garlic has effective way to protect yourself and those around you. wastage of precious resources and mis-use of masks. SS Does the new coronavirus affect older people, or are protected people from the new coronavirus. younger people also susceptible? People of all ages can be infected by the new coronavirus Can spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body HC is taking measures to ensure the perishable foods and household items with (2019-nCoV or CoV-2). Older people, and people with kill the new coronavirus? J wellbeing of its staff and visiting clients some urgency. If you’re able to add a couple pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, No. Spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body will and stakeholders during the current health more items to your regular shop to help diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to not kill viruses that have already entered your body. emergency, and we are monitoring these ensure JHC has enough stock to maintain becoming severely ill with the virus. WHO advises Spraying such substances can be harmful to clothes or daily. At the time of going to press the this important service for local people in real people of all ages to take steps to protect themselves mucous membranes (i.e. eyes, mouth). Be aware that charity is operating a normal service but need we’d be very grateful. from the virus, for example by following good hand both alcohol and chlorine can be useful to disinfect please check our website regularly for We can also accept donations of hygiene and good respiratory hygiene. surfaces, but they need to be used under appropriate updates. Telephone appointments money to help those locally in this John Huntingdon’s Charity recommendations. will be made available in future, if difficult time. Cheques can be made www.johnhuntingdon.org.uk Are there any specific medicines to prevent or treat required. payable to John Huntingdon’s 01223 492 492 the new coronavirus? Can regularly rinsing your nose with saline help Charity, and we can accept bank [email protected] To date, there is no specific medicine recommended to prevent infection with the new coronavirus? VISITING JHC IN PERSON transfers: please contact us for prevent or treat the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV). No. There is no evidence that regularly rinsing the nose If you need to speak to one of our details. We will distribute funds to However, those infected with the virus should receive with saline has protected people from infection with the advisers or wish to visit the JHC offices for any other local people who come to us facing hardship. appropriate care to relieve and treat symptoms, and those new coronavirus. There is some limited evidence that reason but feel unwell, especially if you have been to an Donations of food or cash can be delivered to the JHC with severe illness should receive optimized supportive regularly rinsing nose with saline can help people infected area or have been in contact with someone who offices at 189 High Street, Sawston CB22 3HJ during our care. Some specific treatments are under investigation recover more quickly from the common cold. However, has, you should stay at home and telephone us on normal opening hours, and there are drop-off points at and will be tested through clinical trials. WHO is helping regularly rinsing the nose has not been shown to prevent 492492 instead. Footprints Café in Sawston Free Church, St. Mary’s to accelerate research and development efforts with a respiratory infections. It is very important to check www.nhs.uk and Church and in the Sawston Co-op. However, this is range of partners. www.gov.uk regularly for the latest medical guidance. being reviewed on a daily basis so best to telephone or Are hand dryers effective in killing the new coronavirus? check the website first. The distribution of food bags to Do vaccines against pneumonia protect you against the No. Hand dryers are not effective in killing the 2019- FOOD AND CASH DONATIONS those in need is at JHC . If you know of someone who new coronavirus? nCoV. To protect yourself against the new coronavirus, We are anticipating increased demand locally for help needs a food bag, please get in touch. No. Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal you should frequently clean your hands with an alcohol- from our foodbank and welcome your donations of non- Jill Hayden, Charity Manager SS vaccine and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Once vaccine, do not provide protection against the new your hands are cleaned, you should dry them thoroughly coronavirus. The virus is so new and different that it by using paper towels or a warm air dryer. lease be respiratory diseases and diabetes. needs its own vaccine. Researchers are trying to develop Passured that We must also prioritise those who do not have a vaccine against 2019-nCoV, and WHO is supporting Can an ultraviolet disinfection lamp kill the new we are monitoring any external support (such as family, friends or their efforts. 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10 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 11 young members start to truly discover themselves and grow in confidence. Having launched SYD Juniors in 2005 and more recently (since 2016) Fifty years of directed SYD Seniors, I am absolutely delighted to be returning to SYD Juniors this year to support our newest leadership team in continuing to make the jewel shine bright!

SYD 7S AGE 11-12 SCHOOL YEAR 7 Jackie Green, SYD 7s founder and director 2009 – present SYD 7s is now going in to its twelfth year and is now an established part of the SYD family and we work with today and have since 1970. Sawston Youth the SYD calendar. As a group, SYD 7s has probably Drama is not just a musical theatre group. SYD Seniors is undergone more changes than the other groups as it has not just the flagship of youth entertainment. This is something special, and we will keep that flag flying for the next fifty years too. short history of Sawston Youth Drama… SYD what matters the most – the enjoyment of the young started life as Sawston Youth Centre Drama people we work with. For half a century SYD Seniors SYD JUNIORS AGE 12 –14, (YEARS 8 AND 9) AGroup in 1968, with students from the local have entertained the people of Sawston and surrounding Adam Bonner, SYD Juniors founder and director 2005–15, village college joining together for improvised drama villages, fostered talents and developed skills, built SYD Seniors Director 2016–19, SYD Juniors Director 2020 sessions. In 1970 the first major musical – Oklahoma! – friendships and given those who are now professional SYD Juniors is a testament to the popularity of musical was performed. For the next twenty-eight years the performers their first taste of the spotlight. We look back theatre among young people and the safe, creative, group worked hard to produce shows and give the young and reflect on the successes of years gone by and aspire to supportive and nurturing environment that has been people of the community something rewarding and take the group even further. developed at SYD through the hard work and exciting to do. dedication of so many people. As a former member and In 1998 the group became Sawston Youth Drama performer in SYD Seniors, I witnessed first-hand the with the input of a youth committee and a new rapid transformation that the group went through due production team. SYD blossomed and along the way to the increased popularity and accessibility of musical grown and developed over the years. Our very we formed new groups to cope with the increasing theatre. It was becoming more and more difficult to first production was a semi-devised piece called Ocean demand. SYD Juniors were born in 2004, putting on select shows and give opportunities to all of our members World and was performed in the Henry Morris Hall – a their first show – The Young Ones – in 2005, while and so SYD Juniors was born! steep learning curve for all involved and a great way to SYD 7s were launched in 2009 and performed Ocean Launching SYD Juniors with my friend and fellow SYD kick things off. We then discovered our beloved ‘Disney World the same year. To cater to adults we launched member Sam Billing, supported by Mark Long, was such Junior’ range of musicals that seemed a perfect fit for our Sawston Theatre Company, then called SYD Seniors, a thrill and meant that we were able to work with and group and we have performed many of the well-known with a concert in 2009. In 2011 we renamed the main impact more young people, tailor our directing to better Junior versions of the shows including Alice in SYD group SYD Seniors to avoid any confusion suit their experience, push the boundaries on show Wonderland, Mulan, Lion King and Aladdin . between one group and the whole company. selection and raise the bar in nearly every area of SYD , Over the years, we have developed a series of musical Now in our fiftieth anniversary year we are working from set design to sound, costumes to lighting, directing theatre introductory workshops that take place over the with around a hundred and forty young people and and of course performance quality. first term, focusing on all aspects of musical theatre from have built a team of around thirty leaders who give up SYD Juniors is the jewel in the crown, where as a leader singing and dancing to acting and improvisation to their time voluntarily. Since those founding days SYD Now in the fiftieth Anniversary year it is a privilege you have the pleasure of watching our has seen over a thousand young people through our and an honour to take the helm of this great legacy on, doors and onto the stage. For some, SYD is about directing Seniors for the first time. Having founded SYD performing. For others, a place to be with friends. For all 7s in 2009 with Jackie Green and James Camp, then of us, though, SYD is something very special. taking over SYD Juniors from Adam Bonner in 2016, I Here is what our current directors have to say about have worked hard to develop SYD as a group and always their individual groups and about their time at SYD . been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and professionalism of the cast and production teams alike. SYD SENIORS AGE 14 –18 (YEARS 10+) This year we perform The Young Ones, a fitting Gareth Furbank ( SYD 7s founder and director 2009–15, SYD production for this special year – a story of plucky Juniors director 2016–19, SYD Seniors director 2020) writes… youngsters who meet at a youth club with a passion for For the last forty-nine years, SYD Seniors has been ‘the performance and music, taking on society through the flagship of youth entertainment’ as we used to say. From power of musical theatre. The passion of the characters in Oklahoma! in 1970 to Annie in 2019, the group has the show and their love for their youth club is indeed grown and evolved in myriad ways but never lost sight of appropriate as it echoes the heart of all the young people

12 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 13 costumes and make-up. The second and third terms are shows and concerts over the next five years. t seems difficult to think a after children turn three spent auditioning, rehearsing and performing our chosen Unfortunately due to commitments by many of the long way ahead now writes years old – every child is show and year by year the production values have gone leaders, the group has not performed for a couple of IMANDY TODD , but like entitled to this. Younger up and up. We started off back in 2009 with no set or years. However, we are thrilled to now be able to put on preschools around the country, children may be eligible costumes – we now have a dedicated technical team, a concert of songs from past SYD shows to kick off the we at Pippins were about to for funding from age two. stage crew and costume and make-up department that celebrations for SYD ’s fiftieth anniversary year. start offering sessions for Many are also eligible for produce the most wonderful sets, lighting and costumes. My own involvement with SYD started when I children who are eligible to more than fifteen hours of All this makes for a truly professional experience for our performed in Fiddler on the Roof in 1976 and I went on to start in September 2020. If funding – visit youngest performers, giving them a great foundation for perform in many productions, coming back to be in your child is about two years www.childcarechoices.gov.uk for more information then going on to perform with SYD Juniors and Seniors. Follies in 1996. When STC was formed it seemed like old, now is a good time to start coming home to be able to perform again on the Marven thinking about their preschool. on childcare costs, and we can chat about how many SAWSTON THEATRE COMPANY (STC) 18+ Centre stage. I’m not sure why it has such a pull over me hours are available. If you need to pay for sessions, then Dawn Furbank, SYD member 1976–96, STC member 2010 or many other leaders who have performed elsewhere as WHY PRESCHOOL? we currently charge £16.50 per three-hour session. – present well – it certainly can’t be the smell of the building we What does ‘going to Pippins’ mean for children? At The idea of an adult group for SYD leaders, past members all know and love! Our rehearsals can be hard work but Pippins, we accept children aged two years and six CHOOSING A PRESCHOOL and other interested people was discussed off and on for a are filled with laughter and there is a tremendous months up to just before they go to primary school (if Does your child have to go to the primary school next to while before eventually STC was formed in 2009. The camaraderie between the members. The opportunity for you need childcare for younger children, you need a their preschool? No, it’s entirely up to you which primary primary aim of STC was to have a sustainable group that all of us to perform as an extension of SYD is a real nursery or childminder). At this age, most children are schools you put on the application form. Like most gave opportunities to adults in the area, while supporting privilege and knowing that we can help the group by ready to play away from home for a few hours – and they preschools locally, we have a team of parents and SYD and raising some much-needed funds for the group. raising extra funds hopefully means the group will be learn such a lot through play. Communicating, sharing, grandparents who form the committee which oversees We put on our first full production in 2011 and further here for many years to come. SS counting, colours, reading, role play, running, dancing, Pippins, much like the governing body at a primary school. singing, eating new food, gardening... it’s all go! Pippins staff make sure that parents are part of life here at Staff help children to develop their understanding of Pippins – we know that you are your child’s first teachers! the world around them, and work towards a successful One parent told us: “As a former childcare ina Spencer, Tina created a booklet start at primary school. At Pippins, we try to offer as professional, I am very picky about who looks after my THead of explaining the SEND broad an experience as possible for our children – this child. The Pippins staff are outstanding! From before my nursery, recently process to share with staff, year, we’ve introduced outdoor Forest School sessions. son even started attending Pippins, I felt like all of the celebrated being parents and carers, as often The joy the children have got from playing in the trees is staff were so interested in getting to know him as an one of the first people are not astonishing – and they’re so much more confident at individual, and working with me to make sure he felt people in the knowledgeable about the using their bodies to move around. We have weekly confident and happy from his first day. Now, I can’t get ollowing the most recent county to achieve the new Level 3 support available and the process sports and Musical Bumps sessions too – last week, a him to leave at the end of the day!” Another parent said, qualification for those working involved. The staff have been FGovernment announcements we child listened to a CD and recognised correctly that a “My son is more confident, more physically able and have taken the difficult decision to with children with Special trained to create clear Individual violin was playing! much more social and vocal since his time at Pippins. cancel all of our groups from centres Educational Needs and Disability Child Plans with short and long It’s amazing how happy children are to try new food You’ve been so kind and encouraging to him. We are all (SEND ). Tina was already the term targets all of which are and outreach venues. We have when they see their friends having some. At Pippins, so grateful to all of you at Pippins and thank you from designated Special Educational shared with parents and carers. taken this step to protect you and children bring in fruit and veg to share in the morning. the bottom of our hearts.” Needs Coordinator and took the Having a child’s additional needs your families, and our staff teams Last week, one child pointed at a pineapple and said qualification to develop her role already identified helps to ensure a and to prevent the spread of “What’s that?” When we explained it was pineapple, he within the nursery. smooth transition from nursery to WHEN ARE YOU OPEN? WHEN CAN I VISIT? infection. For now, our doors will said he wasn’t sure about pineapple but agreed to have a Like most preschools, we’re usually open for 38 weeks a Through undertaking the school. And doing the course will remain open for pre-arranged course, Tina was pleased to also be help us help ensure the children little try. “Okay, I’ll take just the one piece so that there’s year during school term-time only. Children can attend appointments and individual callers. able to enhance the team’s achieve the best possible outcomes some left for my friends.” from 9am to noon, or noon to 3pm, or 9am to 3pm. We recognise how important it is understanding and awareness of in their learning and development. that families and community working with SEND children. It Vivien Rowell WHEN SHOULD I APPLY? CORONAVIRUS UPDATE members can continue to access was important to ensure Most preschools keep a waiting list – so you can sign Like all educational settings, we are awaiting further information and vital social support we were all working your child up from a few months old, if you’d like. It’s instruction from the local authority as to what form during this time. Our teams are still together for the best best to enquire about signing up before they turn two, as Pippins will be operating in the foreseeable future. As available to support in a variety of interest of the child and otherwise you may find that there aren’t any spaces. But advised by the Government, we will do all we can to stay ways; we will use social media to families involved. it’s worth enquiring at any age – often a preschool will be open, in some form, for the children of key workers, provide information updates and “I now understand how able to find a space for older children, as we all want to others in the frontline services and children with certain welcome you to contact us on: early identification of help make sure children are ready for primary school needs. We will keep you updated by email and will also 01954 284672 needs, together with when that times come. put any information on our website and Facebook as soon For families receiving one to one appropriate support, can as we know more. To clarify, this means that from Friday support our staff will be in touch to help children who have HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? 20th March, Pippins will be closed until further notice. discuss the help you may need. Special Educational Needs It might not cost you anything at all! At Pippins, we Once everything has settled back to normal, you’d be Please do not hesitate to contact or disabilities to achieve accept various forms of early years funding; Funded 2s, very welcome to bring your child in for a visit – at us if you need our support. and thrive leading to good extended entitlement, childcare vouchers... The Pippins, every day is an open day! Thank you for all your Sally Stephenson transitions in life,” she says. government pay for fifteen hours per week from the term support in this very challenging time for us all. SS

14 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 15 he school is now closed for While we were busy We managed to pose the normal business until coding we were also best selfie out of all the Tfurther notice. From tasked to create a project teams, experimenting Monday 23rd March, as outlined that might help the world with posters and in the government's guidance, the in the future. For our experimenting with school will only open for innovation project we poses. Not only did we vulnerable children and those chose to create a better leave with two medals, children of key workers where it is way for storing bikes. we also left with a box absolutely necessary to send them However, we discovered of chocolates, which we into school. No other pupils Japan was already happily consumed. should attend school and should instead stay at home working on a similar We gained a lot of completing work online as set on ShowMyHomework prototype design, and so useful knowledge and each day (from Tuesday 24th March; work on Monday we had to make ours experience from doing will be generic tasks). then delighted to win a plaque for the Prep Room door, totally unique. To achieve this we took a look at what this project that will not only help us to do better next It is important that as few pupils as possible are in one of only five winners recognised in this way. the Japanese hadn't done and worked around that. In the year but will also help us generally. For example, we school to protect the safety of staff and pupils while the Technician Mrs Kerr said, “It is lovely to be recognised end, we created a fully sustainable and awesome project, learnt about how to function in a competition school remains open. All pupils attending must be agreed in this way and to feel valued as part of the team. We all including our own working model/prototype. During the environment. It was a challenge, and next year in this in advance with the school. It is also essential that no love being part of the Science department.” competition we made a presentation, which was pretty and in any other competitions we compete in we will other pupils visit the school or are seen near the school – successful, and I am proud to say we all contributed. be able to perform better. waiting outside the school gates on New Road, at any HAIRDRESSING COMPETITION Although we did not win an award for the best Leah Benjafield, Toby Cockerill, Isaac Dean, Stuart point during the extended school day, 8am to 6pm. Well done to the Year 11 Hairdressing pupils, who presentation, we did win two medals for our contribution Holland, Oscar Horton, Finlay Rae, and Matthew Children should be at home. recently took part in a competition between themselves and we also won the selfie contest! How phenomenal! Ranasinghe, Years 7–10 SS Parents have been informed of these details via email to create an image of beauty as part of their course work. (in-touch messages). They set themselves very high standards, and all Please do not come on to the produced outstanding work, focusing n these truly extraordinary and due respect to the national vital that we minimise the risk to school site unless it is essential. on diverse themes, such as Carnival, circumstances, we are emergency- shows the remarkable staff and pupils who do attend and Flowers, and Grease. A lot of effort Ienormously proud of the potential of our pupils and your therefore we sincerely request all ARTS AGREEMENT SIGNED went into all their creations, from tremendous efforts of our staff to children. We could not be more parents and carers to do the right We further confirmed our preparation, mood boards to their remain open over the last few proud of their core values, their thing and to keep children at home. commitment to the arts recently overall design. They should all be weeks at Sawston Village College. sense of community and their We will also be hosting Icknield when Arts Council England and very proud of their achievements. It has been necessary to respond compassion for others. Each day we Primary School on our site; at times Anglian Learning signed a formal Mrs Arnold, Cover Supervisor to ever-evolving government have been reminded of why we do like these, it is so important that we agreement, and we are now the announcements and a rapidly our jobs: to encourage, to motivate, work together as a community. only trust in the country to have FIRST LEGO LEAGUE changing situation. However, at to inspire, to excite, to prepare and From all the staff at Sawston such a partnership. COMPETITION every turn, staff members have to serve the citizens of tomorrow. Village College, we send our very At the launch event, pupils We went to the Cambridge provided pupils with as near as For now, we move into the next best wishes to every person and from across the trust were able to showcase their artistic University Department of Engineering to take part in normal routines as possible. We phase of school provision. For the family in the community. As the talent before the formal signing of the Memorandum of the first Lego League competition. When we arrived have done all that we can to keep foreseeable future, we are open only great writer Maya Angelou said: Understanding undertaken by Darren Henley, Chief at the department we saw how many people we were our pupils reassured in a calm and to the children of emergency key “You may not control all the events Executive of Arts Council England, and Jonathan up against, and it was a bit terrifying as there were lots safe environment with an workers and the most vulnerable that happen to you, but you can Culpin, Anglian Learning’s CEO , who said: “This of people there with t-shirts, hats and costumes to unstinting focus on learning. children. Even for these pupils, we decide not to be reduced by them”. demonstrates our commitment to working with arts and support their teams. We could see immediately that That our pupils have risen to the remain open only for those for Jonathan Russell, Principal, heritage partners in designing a culture-rich curriculum we definitely had a long way to go if we wanted to win challenge -with maturity, sensitivity whom there is no alternative. It is Sawston Village College SS that enables all pupils to advance their creative skills and the competition. literacy regardless of their background or starting point.” The robot we designed went on a mission, a mission to Sawston Village College, like all trust schools, get as many points as possible to help us win. We started recognises that arts and culture play a significant role in the day in a small base where we prepared our robot and the lives of children, supporting their personal got team Benny ready for the run. Our first round was It was fifty years development and progression into adulthood. This okay and the second round was good. After the second partnership will help us to promote the arts and create round we had quite a while to wait so we had some further opportunities for all pupils. lunch. After our lunch we had our third round, which ago today… was okay. After the third round we had our Innovation TECHOGNITION WEEK Project which was where we did very well after he four women who started As part of Techognition Week, the discovering that the Box Mission took very little time TSawston Scene with the science technicians submitted a poster and got a huge number of points for a task that was easy April –May 1970 issue. From left to made by some science classes recognising if done correctly. We got over 90 points. After that we right: Jean Osborne, June Thomas, the excellent work they do, and were had to present our Innovation Project. June Hoar and Cathy Odell.

16 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 17 Ethan Collins writes about a trip to Colchester Zoo… In the morning, when I woke up, I felt really excited members to because I knew me and my class Doves were going on a Sawston Church Institute remove all the school trip to Colchester Zoo. I quickly ran out of the old framework house in my school clothes and ran to school. When we snooker and billiards club and tiles. One got to school we had to wait for the coach to arrive. We full skip later, lease enjoy reading about recent trips and workshops went on the first day back after half term. We went to est. 1887 from our Year 2 and 3 children at the Bellbird… Colchester Zoo to learn more about the rainforest. It PDo you know about the Great Fire of London? took us an hour and thirty minutes or more to get there riginating from 1887, the institute Read on to find out how year 2 children became history but me and Kailon were playing the I-spy game on the (in Sawston high street, on the experts with Master Tailor who taught us the Great Fire two layer coach. My mum’s group was Chloe, Miley, me Ocorner of Shingay Lane) was the of London story and where it all started. and Kailon. We sat on the top and it was really fun. first of its kind in England, and has been When we arrived at Colchester Zoo I noticed a shiny, maintained and refurbished over the years Nancy Bayliss (Year 2, Goldfinches Class): silver sculptured giraffe. Then we got out of the coach mainly by club members. On Monday 24th February, Master Tailor from History of and walked under a canopy thing, then we met a woman In January of this year the old smoke- the Page, came in to help year 2 understand how people called Britt. She took us to a room then our class Doves laden main room ceiling framework and put out fires in 1666. sat on some bee and ladybird pillows. When we came in tiles were replaced, which has considerably First, I went to the perfume shop where I smelt and the room there was a fake monkey hand, real skins of improved the appearance and warmth of chose some herbs. I crushed them and then put them on different cats and a skin of an anaconda. I learnt toucans the club. In 2019 member Mike Finch a silky piece of fabric. I poured the crushed herbs into eat fruit and macaws or parrots eat nuts. I also learnt obtained a quote from a former work the silky fabric, made it into a little bag and I smelt it. It that anteater’s saliva is sticky like glue. I enjoyed the contact Harvey and Son of £4,200 total, to smelt so tantalising! I thought it smelt like hot cross talk because I knew most of the questions and it was replace the ceiling. buns because I had put cinnamon in it. super interesting. On the way to lunch we saw some The club then Next I was given a card that said I had a pretend sore piranhas, a scary king vulture, an orange tiger that approached Sawston and the ceiling was ready, cups of tea throat. I went to the pretend doctors where she gave me walked right up to me, a long greenish black Burmese Parish Council, deserved by all! Contractors Harvey and some thyme to crush and to put into a silky bag. It was python and a light green iguana camouflaged to plants. Huntingdon Charity, Son came in and renewed the ceiling with great fun and the perfume smelt very strong. Also we saw beady owls. and South a new framework and insulated tiles, Later on, we went to the ink making stall which was At lunch outside we saw stripy zebras, adorable Cambridgeshire which have improved the look and really fun. We used charcoal and gum to make ink and elephants and some dark grey rhinos. We were eating near Community Chest warmth of the main room. we mixed it with a quill feather. I dipped the quill smelly giraffes and colourful birds, also we saw slow turtles. requesting donations Representatives of the three sponsors feather in the ink and wrote on parchment paper. After lunch, we walked to something like a cave and towards the cost, but were invited to view the results of their Next we went to the pretend doctors again with a we saw a golden headed tamarin lion monkey and a great were delighted to donations. The club have four full-size headache and this time I was given lavender. sun bear. I measured him to me and he was taller than receive the total tables and compete in the Cambridgeshire Smoke then secretly blew out from under a chair but it me. I and my class walked into a bit where we saw a tank amount after several leagues with three snooker and two was just a smoke machine. Master Tailor pretended it was of sea lions in an oval thing over our heads. My mum’s communications between the sponsors and the club. billiard teams during the winter season September to fire and we used pretend leather buckets to put it out. group and the other groups calmly walked to the Sawston Church Institute then made out a plan of April. Membership is available at £20 a year, and table Next I went and wrote my name on leather and orangutan cage but Mr Orangutan had his back facing work and requirements, and set a date in January for club time costs £3 an hour. See the DIRECTORY ! SS traced over it by bashing nails with a hammer. At the us so we only saw his back. Before we saw the orangutan end I had traced over my name with dots so I hammered we saw some Dory fishes swimming in a colourful dots with a nail. rainforest plants. Our class went outside when we were Can flycatchers be spotted? After that we went outside our classroom and Master walking by we also spotted some penguins diving into Tailor started his story and then it was playtime. the cold water. Finally we walked by a café and near the potted Flycatchers – have you got this Only a few hundred pairs remain After playtime I went to make a candle by putting café you could just about see a greyish wolf relaxed Sincreasingly rare bird breeding in your breeding in Cambridgeshire, but most string on a hook and dipping the string in hot wax until I behind a tree. garden? Let us know! villages still have a pair or two; they was happy with it. The trip was exciting and I wish I can go to In recent years many Cambridgeshire rarely breed out in the wider After lunch Master Tailor finished his story and we Colchester Zoo again one day. The best thing was community and parish newsletters, magazines countryside. We are continuing our told our own story. History off the Page were AMAZING ! everything because I love animals so, so much! SS and websites have helped with a county-wide work to find and monitor nesting survey of Spotted Flycatchers. These are pairs. It’s almost certain that there are attractive little migrant birds which are summer many additional pairs out there of n response to the rapidly events linked to that – will visitors to village gardens and churchyards. which we are not aware. changing COVID -19 no longer be taking place. I Although they breed with us, they spend up to Do you have flycatchers in your pandemic, the Wellcome Since the Hinxton Hall nine months of the year travelling as much as garden? Will you see one this year, or Genome Campus has closed Memories meeting in all but essential functions. Hinxton Village Hall on 16,000 miles a year between here and their have you in recent years? The few Public events both on and off campus have been Wednesday 25th March has been cancelled, we would wintering grounds in Southern Africa – Angola and that remain are here from mid-May to September. And suspended, which unfortunately means that both the love people to contact us with their memories instead Namibia. This is an increasingly dangerous journey for there’s lots more to read about our project and Spotted Campus Open Saturdays and the Hinxton Hall – connectingscience@ wellcomegenomecampus.org or them, and sadly they are in deep decline. Widespread Flycatchers in general at bit.ly/SpotFly Memories project – and the upcoming face-to-face 01223 494896. losses amounted to a 50% decline during 1995 to 2010, Please email [email protected] with any continuing an 90% decline since 1970. sightings. SS

18 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 19 Next, we hiked back to the arcade! With our leftover the roof. After making a huge effort trying to save the money (£2), we wasted it on some arcade games. One of frisbee, we knew it was a goner. I ran towards the my friends went on an 18+ gambling machine and won playing field, where everyone was playing cricket. Sawston hundreds of tickets – however, he had to wear the After, we played games like extreme frisbee, rounders, Pineapple Hat. I found a game where you had to throw rugby passing skills, table football in real life and… the Scouts rapidly re-appearing rings onto bowling pins. I swapped egg games. This was where you had to throw the egg to my several tickets for tokens and, just before we had to the opposite person and then take a step back! The go, my friends and I put our money together. In the end silhouetted egg flew gracefully through the air; getting n the 28th February 2020, though, I didn’t get anything, while my friends bought a larger, and larger. It smacked onto my right glasses Sawston Scouts went on a light-up shark and unicorn! frame which knocked into my eye and then it cracked, Owinter trip to Ipswic, reports When we got back, we played several indoor games leaving a distinct trail down my shoulder. Soon after, BLAKE WOLLSTON . Even though the and ate tea. We played random games for hours when the when we where rugby passing the egg in a circle, my weather was very bad on some days, that adults were chatting before we got into our patrols and friend hit me hard with another egg in exactly the same didn’t stop us from having a brilliant signed off. Since we were so tired from the jam-packed place as before. time! We did activities such as night day, we went to sleep almost instantly, forgetting about After lunch, we climbed into the minibus and drove hikes, indoor games, skimming stones, a the sweet banquet. to the leisure centre. After messing around with the beach hike, crazy golf, wasting our money In the morning, we got up, went into the breakfast vending machines, we got changed and went into the at the arcade, extreme frisbee, cricket, hall and had a lovely English breakfast. Sanjay cooked pool. Every twenty minutes, there was a wave simulator. football and swimming! I thought the me an interesting bacon alternative that I had never We played man-hunt and every now and then went into place that we stayed was great and the food that the “We all had pretend mythical tried before. The leaders noticed that outside, it was a the massive hot tub. Before we knew it, it was time to go, leaders cooked had tasty vegetarian alternatives. brilliant day for games. Therefore we quickly went into so we collected our stuff and went back into the minibus. On Friday, everyone arrived at St Mary’s Hall and got names: I was called Barry .” the main hall, saluted the flag and Sanjay updated us Since we had already packed, we only needed to bring into the minibus. We had already dropped off our with the scores of each patrol. Next, we ran outside our swimming kits on the way back to Sawston. belongings the night before so that they went in a separate In the morning, we got up and had breakfast. I had with our trainers on. When I tried to through a frisbee Overall, I really enjoyed the winter camp. It was jam- vehicle. We chatted and listened to the countless requests rice-crispies that barely filled me up so I had a bowl of to my friend, I managed to spectacularly curve it onto packed and non-stop full of exciting things! SS from random people for certain songs on Radio 2. cornflakes. After everyone was in the hall we had baked Once we got there, we opened the two glass doors and beans and sausages… Quickly, we got dressed, put on our were shown to the boys’ room. We moved out the chairs shoes and ran through the battering rain into the and tables and brought in the green, scratched minibus. The weather was so horrendous, we had a brisk the top of the arms, even up the neck and to the chin. mattresses. Next, we walked into the main hall and stop off at the beach and I found a nice shell. Imagine that you are a balloon gently self-inflating. formed a horseshoe. Skip divided us up into three groups: We stopped outside the arcade, near a massive A breath of life… You might become aware that there is a lot more Prats (my group), Cretins and Rubbish. We formed our fountain, and had a look at the useless games. We space in your lungs than you have been using generally. new patrols and were told that we could earn points (and walked further in and saw there was a magical crazy golf reathing is an unseen aspect of Tai Chi. We can live Think about it. lose points!) to win prizes at the end of the camp. Also, track! I found a good, yellow golf club and a neon Bfor days without food and water but not more than a This is a long – slow – gentle -breath. we were introduced to a highly fashionable item: the purple ball. I was in a group with George, Magnus, and few minutes without air. Now we have to think about breathing out. Pineapple Hat! If you were naughty, you had to wear it Harry. We all had pretend mythical names: I was called A mindful breath brings attention into the deepest, YES … we still have to think about it. until somebody else deserved it. Although it looked Barry (very magical). After waiting for the group in most intimate places within ourselves. It also brings good As your inbreath comes to an end, you may realise majestic, it was uncomfortable and it always slipped off! front, we started the tracks and Harry did the scoring. I air and vibrant chi IN and sends bad air and bad chi that although you have breathed in without tension, you After the flag was finally pulled down, we played some started off in the lead, but near the end trailed behind OUT . The breath helps integrate the body with the may now feel there is some tension, as if the air wants to indoor games. At about eight o’clock, we had tea, then all of the others massively; ending up being the second- mind, and with the key Tai Chi concept of relaxing. get out. DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH. put our hiking shoes on, to get ready for our night hike. worst in the patrol! Tai Chi breathing is usually done in a good standing We generally spend a longer time breathing out than After forty-five minutes of trudging through the thick By the time we had got out, the clouds had made way posture. It can also be performed seated. The main focus breathing in but there is no need to count. Just allow mud, passing endless freight trains and walking over a for the sun, its beam glistening in the fountain. We on posture is to keep the back straight and push the your natural body rhythm to settle into a cycle which long bridge, we came to the pub. Skip asked if we wanted walked along to the beach. Me and my friends skimmed bottom of the spine gently down. The masters ask you to will be individual to you. lemonade or diet coke. Since it was eleven o’clock by stones and the girls went into the sea. I tried to make a imagine that you are being dangled from heaven by a Gently release the tension and allow the air to come now, I stupidly asked for diet coke before quickly realising boundary from the tide by digging up rocks, but in the string of pearls coming from the crown of your head. up through the centre of your body and out through the that I wouldn’t be able to get to sleep! After chatting to process, got my shoes soaking! We walked along by the Breathe slowly and gently in through the tip of your tip of your nose or through slightly parted lips. Harry and Charlie about random philosophical things, we tide towards the fish and chip restaurant. We entered and nose; take the flow of breath down the back of your Allow all the air that wants to come out – to come hiked back to the minibus and drove home. sat down upstairs. A man with a strong Turkish accent throat and down the front of the spine past the kidneys out, without trying to cram more in at the same time as When it was almost midnight, we ended the day by asked for our orders. I quickly glanced at the cheapest and all the way down to the bottom of your trunk. breathing out. Breathing is a natural cycle, so let one forming our new patrols and saluting the flag. We quickly option on the menu and asked for some lemonade with it. Gently allow the new air to push out the belly, keeping it event come to an end before the next one starts. brushed our teeth and went to bed. We waited for what He brought up our drinks and then disappeared before relaxed – the top of the chest usually sinks slightly Continue the mindful breathing at your pleasure. felt like hours, then we finally turned our torches on and anyone could say thank you! After chatting for a while, during this action. Keep on filling up the bottom of the Most people get benefit from a five to ten minute session got out our secret stash of sweets. There were chocolate he delivered our food and we said thanks. I had a bowl of trunk. As more air gently arrives, it fills up the trunk two or three times a day. buttons, Moams, Wagon Wheels, Haribos, Tanfastics and macaroni cheese, mushy peas and garlic bread. After we climbing higher. As it reaches the top of the trunk the Dan Downey is an Advanced Instructor with the Tai Chi more. We were careful to not eat all of them, otherwise all finished paying for our meal one by one at the counter, upper chest lifts a little higher. Imagine you are Union of Great Britain, and a Level One instructor with the there would be none left for tomorrow night! we ran into the main square and played some games. breathing into the shoulder muscles and the muscles at Deyin Taijiquan Institute (GB) SS

20 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 21 the yellow-flowered rock rose and blue milkwort, as well as several different sedges instead of grass. And as these Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wst flowers are rich in nectar, the chalk SERVICES slopes are full of butterflies. As a gardener I’ve found the dry chalky soils challenging, but rewarding too. It’s been Police emergencies 999, crimes 10 1, community 07740 734976 EAT fun working out what thrives here. Granta Medical Practices www.grantamedicalpractices.co.uk / Mon AND Fortunately, a lot of the drought-loving 8am to 8pm, Tu e & Wed 8am to 6pm, Thu 8am to 8pm, Fri 6.30am DRINK plants are also the nectar-rich species BIN to 6pm at Sawston Medical Centre, London Road, Sawston, CB22 that insects prefer; rosemary, marjoram, collections 3HU / 01 223 727555 Out of hours: NHS 111 Bala ban Nature alliums, cistus, sedum. Monday 6th April Citizens Advice Bureau Fri 9.30am to 12.30pm at JHC , 189 High Kebab Van Words and pictures by Our garden helps to support at least Blue bin Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ / 01223 492492 07798 eight species of bee (probably more, as I’m CATHERINE GRAY Wednesday 15th April Sawston Library www.sawstonlibrary.org.uk / Mon 2pm to 6pm, Tue 717444 still learning to identify them). We’ve had Black bin 3pm to 7pm, Wed & Fri 10am to 1pm, 2pm to 5pm, Thu closed, Sat Notes blackbirds nesting in the hedge almost Brickhouse Tuesday 21st April 10am to 1pm at New Road, Sawston / 0345 045 5225. s some of you already know, we are leaving every year, and they’ve become very tame thanks to the Blue bin Cafe Sawston and moving to Scotland in a few weeks’ apple cores we put out for them. The blackbirds almost Mobile Library C8 second Mon of month: Chapelfield Way 2.25pm 07909 Monday 27th April to 2.50pm; Uffen Way 3pm to 3.30pm. C17 third Wed of month: Atime. We are excited about this new chapter in hop up to meet me now as I bring their favourite snack. 617613 Black bin our lives, although it will be hard saying goodbye to some Sadly our wonderful wildlife is in steep decline, threatened Pampisford Recreation Ground, Brewery Road 10.30am to 11am. Monday 4th May Challis Trust www.challistrust.org.uk Garden Tue, Thu, Sat 9.30am Chequers very dear friends here. We moved to Sawston almost by climate change and habitat loss as we try to house and Blue bin exactly eleven years ago, and were made so welcome. We feed an ever-growing population. People need homes, and to 12.30pm; Sun 1pm to 3pm winter , 2pm to 4pm summer. Museum pub Tuesday 12th May have lived in two different houses here, and have been like many places, Sawston is expanding. and archive Tue and Sat 10am to noon. Pampisford Black bin blessed with two lots of amazing neighbours, as well as As natural habitats disappear, our gardens become 833220 Monday 18th May SHOPS friends from church, baby groups, preschools, school, even more of an oasis for wildlife. We can only hope that Blue bin Co-op Mon to Sat 7a m to 10pm, Sun 10am to 4pm Fish’n’ various workplaces and just living here. new housing developments will include room for nature, Monday 25th May Londis Falkner Road: Mon to Sat 6a m to 9pm, Sun 7am to 8pm chick’n I’ve been writing for Sawston Scene for almost as long. not only to protect the wildlife, but also to make it Black bin Post Office Mon to Fri 9am to 6pm, last collection 4.45pm; Sat 9am This is my ten-year anniversary writing Nature Notes, so accessible to the people who live there. There is growing 832230 Green bins: collection suspended to 2pm, last collection 11.30am it seems like a good time to let someone else fill some evidence that people who have more contact with from Monday 23rd March Spar High Street: Mon to Sun, 6am to 10pm Greyhound pages. Give it a go! Write anything, whatever you find nature will make better choices to live more sustainably Steve’s Seadish (fish van) by Jade Fountain: Thu 8am to 3pm pub interesting. Someone else will find it interesting too. – not to mention the benefits for their physical and Take large items to Thriplow Recycling 971384 Beck and Yasmin are brilliant editors and it’s been great mental health. It’s a win-win scenario in the long-term, Centre, Gravel Pit Hill, Thriplow, SG8 7HZ · COUNCILS to be a part of this magazine. but with space at a premium, nature often doesn’t feature 01223 839001 Mon to Sun inc bank holidays Sawston Parish Council www.sawston.org.uk / Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri Jade I’ve loved writing Nature Notes for two main reasons. in development plans. 8am to 5pm Apr to Sept, 4pm Oct to Mar 8.30am to 1pm at Link Road, Sawston, CB22 3GB / 832470 / Chinese The first is the lovely comments I’ve had from people From a wildlife perspective, I am excited about [email protected] Clerk Jo Keeler. Assistant Clerk Clare Speed. 836100 telling me that they’ve enjoyed reading my articles and moving to the west of Scotland. We’ll have mountain Councillors David Bard, Kieran Cooper, Kevin Cuffley (Chair), Stephen Drew, Tony Fell, Colin Groves, Beck Laxton (Vice Chair), Kaz’s seeing the wildlife. Thank you, it means a lot to me! views, and be close to the sea. There are otters nearby, CHILD & FAMILY ZONE Mike Mallows, Ray Matthews, Jayne Merrick, Brian Milnes, Tony Indian & The second is that it makes me get out and discover and eagles. We’ll walk past woodland and a river on our Bellbird School 01954 284672 something new, or to do some research to find out more way to school. I’ll let you know how we get on! Mon to Thu 9.30am to 12.30pm Orgee, Rajni Padia, Anand Pillai, Neil Reid. Bangladeshi about something that I’ve observed. I’ve seen species What wildlife will we miss? My younger son will miss www.facebook.com/ South Cambridgeshire District Council www.scambs.gov.uk / 837025 totally unknown to me – I haven’t lived this far south the woodpigeons. They are his favourite birds, and have SouthCambsChildandFamilyCentre 0345 045 0500. For Sawston Clare Delderfield: 837742 / before, so I’ve seen a lot of new things. Solitary bees that been part of our everyday lives since he was very young. [email protected]; Brian Milnes: 07971 886113 / Lotus live in bee hotels or make burrows in the ground. A Before he could talk, his sound for “bird” – any bird – was PRESCHOOLS [email protected] House Jigsaw Preschool 07842 537473 Chinese leafcutter bee actually cutting a leaf! Bush crickets, those the “Oo hoooo hoo – hoo hoo” of pigeons. I think I will Cambridgeshire County Council www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk / www.jigsaw-preschool.org.uk 835165 brilliant green creatures with wonderfully long antennae. miss the opulence of spring here. The over-the-top 0345 045 5200 For Sawston Kevin Cuffley: 07940 859660 / 566736 / Hornets, whether you like them or not, are colourful and greenness of woods and hedgerows, the frothy white of Pippins Preschool 833248 [email protected]; Roger Hickford: 07985 Mayflower interesting. A memorable experience was watching great cow parsley and hawthorn. And I love the warmth of www.pippinspreschool.org 770082 / [email protected] Chinese diving beetles at night in the Challis Garden pond. These summer with the hum of bees in the garden. We will get a Sawston Nursery 472018 Parliament www.gov.uk / For South Cambridgeshire Anthony occasionally surface in the daytime, but by torchlight the lot more rain where we’re going, and part of me will miss www.sawstonnursery.org 833400 Browne (Conservative): www.anthonybrowne.org / 01954 211 444 / pond was teeming with these impressively large beetles. the dry and the heat – although perhaps not the intense SCHOOLS [email protected] Sawston I’ve enjoyed the plants in the area too, especially heat of last July. So, time to say goodbye! Thank you for Bellbird 833216 Pizza chalk grassland which was an unknown habitat for me. reading, and keep enjoying your wonderful wildlife. 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24 We went to press on Sunday 22nd March so please be aware that things may have changed before you read this We went to press on Sunday 22nd March so please be aware that things may have changed before you read this 25 formal opening in May 2009 (August –September Challis Trust 2009). Today, it is unrecognisable from earlier Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wston Scene Sa wst The Mary Challis House and Garden photos. A special mention must be made of the DIRECTORY immense contribution of Sue or this special and Ray Reeve, who were 2G3S : [email protected] or cricket.com / [email protected] 843438. fiftieth instrumental in getting that Cubs (boys and girls 7½ to 10½) Sharon Sawston Rugby Club Fanniversary early group of volunteers Sawston Adult Education at SVC Richards: [email protected] www.pitchero.com/clubs/sawston / 07835 www.sawstonadulted.org 71 2424 / issue, it has been fascinating to look together to begin work on the Duxford Saturday Workshop (all ages) 302407 / [email protected] [email protected] back at articles about the Challis garden. They are sorely missed www.duxfordsaturdayworkshop.org.uk Army Cadet Force, Sawston platoon Arwen Gilbert: 07 91 8 165450 / The Sawston email Beck Laxton: Trust going way back to its inception. and fondly remembered by all (boys and girls 12½ to 18): [email protected] [email protected] Sawston Scene has always been very who worked with them. [email protected] www.sawstonscene.org/the-sawston-email Cambridge Flower Club . Val Davey: supportive of the trust, providing a The trust depends almost Link Badminton Club [email protected] or 512701. St Mary’s Church Hall 837298 / platform for reporting progress in the entirely on the rental income [email protected] Sawston Girls Football Club [email protected] house and garden, and publicising our from its three properties on Racketeers Badminton Club www.pitchero.com/clubs/sawstongirlsfootballclub events and exhibitions. Regular visitors the High Street and welcome St Mary’s Church Office 837298 / http://cloudbuchanan.wixsite.com/racketeers Graham Pearl: 07813 690153 / will know much of the background but donations from visitors. This [email protected] [email protected] Barn Art Society Geoff Morgan: it is well worth relating it again. money has been used to [email protected] / 501430 Sawston Rovers Football Club Saturday Morning Cycle Ride www.clubwebsite.co.uk/sawstonroversfc A brief history of the Challis family in renovate the Challis House, Beavers (boys and girls 6 to 8) Gita Mistry: 7 am from Free Church car park. Sawston appeared in the February –March an undertaking that 83527 6 / [email protected] Sawston United Football Club Find us on Facebook. www.sawstonunitedfc.teamexpert.co.uk 2014 issue: continued for nearly a St Mary’s Society of Bell Ringers Samantha Scouts (boys and girls 10½ –14) “The first Challis to settle in Sawston decade! In the early years, Friends of Sawston Library ( FOSL ) Gorman: 01638 572077 / Neil Reid: [email protected] / www.sawstonlibrary.org.uk Yasmin Emerson: was Thomas Challis (1754 –1816). He there were serious concerns [email protected] 07721619187 www.1stsawston.org.uk [email protected] / 360934 was a farmer, co-founder of the about the financial position of Sawston Book Group Kieran Cooper: Sawston Scrabble Club Janet Lewis: Congregational Church, and the father the trust, to the extent that 5628 71 / [email protected] Friends of St Mary’s Beck Laxton: [email protected] / 562871 [email protected] / 834283 of ten children. One of his sons, consideration was given to Sawston Bowls Club Chris Glasbey: 833700 Johnathon, married a daughter of James Everard of leasing the property to a / [email protected] Fun Run and Walk www.sawstonfunrun.co.uk Sawston Sports Centre Gerry Holloway: 07769 502903 / Pampisford and received a property in Sawston known as developer, to convert the upper two floors to flats ( Scene Brigades www.sawstonsports.com 712555 / 1st Sawston (girls and boys year 2 [email protected] Monk’s Orchard from his father-in-law. It was his son, June –July 2009). Fortunately, this did not happen and to year 10+) Lucy McGregor: 9773 71 / [email protected] Whittlesford Garden Club Terry Hopkins: Arthur James, who developed the orchard, now the Mary the trust retained full control of the house, which has 1stSawstonBrigades@sawstonfreechurch. Stapleford Choral Society org.uk www. 1stsawstonbrigades.org.uk [email protected] / 840596 Challis Garden, and built the family house at 68 High now been restored to a high standard and includes a www.staplefordchoral.org.uk 07804 308042 Brownies (girls 7 to 10) Clare George: Greener Sawston Street in about 1850. He was Mary Challis’s grandfather Museum of Sawston as Mary Challis wished. Several [email protected] / 835646 Yasmin Emerson: [email protected] Cambridge Stroke Group and he and his son Alfred were auctioneers and clerks to exhibitions have been held, including the current one 07707 887913 / Cambridge PPF (Past, Present and Guides (girls 10 to 14) and Senior Section the Parish Council. ‘Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice…’ focusing on co- Future) www.cambridgeppf.org Guides (girls 1 4 to 26): Jane Woodstock: [email protected] Mary was the fifth generation of her branch of the operative societies and shopping in Sawston over the [email protected] / 243830 [email protected] / 565674 www.cambridgestrokegroup.co.uk Challis family to live in Sawston. She lived here all her years, and more are lined up for the future, although due Cam Sight www.camsight.org.uk Cambridgeshire Hearing Help Whittlesford Tennis Club Janet Martin: life except for the short time she spent at Studley to the coronavirus the museum is currently closed. Sally Nott: 420033 / [email protected] www.cambridgeshirehearinghelp.org.uk 41614 1 or 835028 / [email protected] College for Women, in Warwickshire, where she took a It is planned to hold an exhibition of old toys and [email protected] Challis Trust Challis House, Challis Garden U3A (University of the Third Age) BSc in Horticulture. She never games (up to the 1960s) later in the year. www.challistrust.org.uk Rosie Phillips: 560816 / John Huntingdon’s Charity www.u3a.org.uk Valerie Pletts: 570627 married and, when she died in If you have anything of interest to lend [email protected] www.johnhuntingdon.org.uk Jill Hayden: 830599 / [email protected] Sawston United Youth Football Club 2006, she had no close relatives or donate for this – Victorian dolls Children’s Centre 01954 284672 or and chose to leave her house house furniture, metal animals, puzzles, ChildAndFamilyCentre.South@ Sawston LetsRunGirls Sue Lester: [email protected] groups.runtogether.co.uk , Jane: 07813 169996 / and garden in trust ‘for the games, Meccano and suchlike – please cambridgeshire.gov.uk Sawston Village History Society [email protected] benefit of the inhabitants of get in touch. Stapleford Choral Society Mothers Union Mary Richmond: Liz Dockerill: [email protected] / www.staplefordchoral.org.uk Adam Pounds: Sawston and the We had planned an exhibition about [email protected] / 832841 835127 843468 / [email protected] neighbourhood.’ For this, we are Sawston Scene in April –May to Pampisford Society Aureole Wragg: Pampisford Women’s Institute Christ Church South Cambs Events profoundly grateful.” commemorate their fiftieth anniversary. [email protected] / 830 81 1 Flo Menzies: 07932 626547 / Jean Osborne: 832472 / The A M Challis Trust was The current plan is that some of the [email protected] Sawston Photography Group Ronnie [email protected] established in 2007, following a articles from the archive that Booth: [email protected] / 07789 223464 Sawston Church Institute Colin Denny: Sawston Women’s Institute Anne Nunn: preliminary meeting of would have been displayed will 832800 / [email protected] RAF Air Cadets, 24 61 (Sawston) [email protected] / 832913 volunteers early that year (reported in instead be printed in the Squadron (boys and girls 12 to 17) Sawston Cinema www.sawstoncinema.org.uk www.aircadets.org Commanding Officer: Sawston Youth Drama ( SYD ) (girls and Sawston Scene April –May 2007) and June –July 2020 issue. There have Lesley Morgan: 71 2825 / 24 [email protected] / 834585 boys 11 to 18) www.sawstonyouthdrama.com they began the daunting task of been regular reports on the trust [email protected] Rainbows (girls 5 to 7) Clare George: Gareth Furbank: restoration. The very overgrown in nearly every issue of Sawston The Company of Musicians Beck Laxton: [email protected] garden was gradually cleaned up, trees Scene since 2009, written by 5628 71 / [email protected] [email protected] / 835646 Rotary Club of Cambridge Sawston Sawston Youth Group (girls and boys 6 to felled, fences repaired, new beds laid either Sheila Blackwell or Sawston & Babraham Cricket Club Ian out and old buildings removed – a Marilyn Maunder up to 2015, Reeves: [email protected] / www.sawstonrotaryclub.org.uk 18) www.syg.org.uk Paul Whitmell: 077 21 07799 657263 sawstonbabraham.play- Royal British Legion Kevin Swann: 565178 30 01 94 / [email protected] SS huge achievement – leading up to the then by myself from 2016. 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26 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 27 reports give an excellent account of developments Daffodils are looking good now, and should last into SAWSTON CINEMA accompanied by numerous photos of the garden and our April, followed by tulips and early summer herbaceous screenings are cancelled. For updates see sawstoncinema.org or contact us at: [email protected] or 712825. Steve Williams events. We were especially pleased that the front cover plants. It’s a good time to visit. We shall soon be of the first colour edition in April –May 2012 featured an committed to regular grass-cutting and setting up for image of the garden. garden events. The trustees congratulate Sawston Scene on achieving Neither our popular Easter Saturday Children’s Event eager to provide an opportunity for community fifty years of regular publications for the village and for nor our Anniversary Fete scheduled for Sunday 17th fellowship, especially after a period of loneliness the many awards it has won over the years for the quality May will be held this year due to the coronavirus for many, and to raise funds for those expecting of its content and editorial standards. Well done! We pandemic. We deeply regret having to take this action to receive help. hope to continue our positive relationship with the but it is for the benefit of all our visitors and volunteers. “We are hoping to hold the event in October; magazine for many years to come. Sunday opening times will revert to 2pm to 4pm from the exact date will be announced as soon as Spring is rapidly approaching, with spring-flowering Sunday 29th March when the clocks change to British ollowing Government advice and discussions with agreement has been reached with the local authorities shrubs and bulbs coming into bloom early in the garden. Summer Time. Mike Redshaw SS FJonathan Russell, the Principal of Sawston Village and others. We believe it will give everyone the College, the local Rotary club has decided to postpone opportunity to come together and show resilience after a the 2020 Sawston Fun Run scheduled for Sunday 3rd period of sadness and isolation. We will announce the May and has issued this statement: new date when more is known about public events, the “While this will be a disappointment to the beneficiaries responses from our partners and stakeholders. We hope and many others associated with this community event, everyone will continue to support us in all we do by re- this decision will be of no surprise. However, we are organising the event.” Tony Collett

Sawston Village History Society

he David Parr House at186 Gwydir 1912 he inscribed “If you do Street, Cambridge was the subject anything, do it well” in his house, Tof an excellent talk by Tamsin and his patterned hand painted walls Wimhurst at our January meeting, reports are a testament to that maxim and JIM BUTCHART . the Arts and Crafts movement in David Parr’s home was preserved by his general. What is unique is to find granddaughter, Elsie Palmer, who moved such skill and artistry in such a there in 1927 at the age of twelve to live humble location. with her grandmother when her The house was bought in 2013 and grandfather died. She continued to live a charity was set up the following there for over eighty-five years, during year. The first urgent job was to mend which time she married and raised two the roof as it leaked every time it children, who still live near Cambridge. rained, and this was made possible by David Parr bought the house in 1886. a private donation. In 2016 a grant He was a working-class decorative artist from the Heritage Lottery Fund who worked for the Cambridge firm of enabled a two-and-a-half year ‘artwork men’, F R Leach & Sons. He conservation project to begin. The learned his trade there, painting houses exterior brickwork had been re- and churches with designs by such pointed with cement, which had renowned names as William Morris. to be replaced with lime mortar. Leach specialised in all aspects of church Where internal plaster had decoration from wall painting to altar crumbled away due to the damp, it hangings and stained glass. His work can had to be replaced using original be seen in Jesus and Queen’s Colleges, in materials. The next job was conservation and restoration St Botolph’s and All Saints’ churches in Cambridge, St of the decoration. The Hamilton Kerr Institute were James’s Palace in London, and all over the country. called in to take pin-prick samples of paint used inside Over a period of forty years, David Parr decorated his and outside of the house to analyse the paint and colours own home in the style he used during his working day, which David Parr used. hand painting by candlelight. He kept a record of the Some five thousand objects in the house had to be work as it was done. In 1892 he installed an indoor conserved before being put back in the house exactly toilet, which must have been a novelty at that time. In where they had been. The garden had been overrun with

28 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 29 L ground ivy which had to be killed by covering with black ‘programming’ the holes in the punch cards, you could o The British Computer Society award Ada Lovelace parents, with women sentenced, on average, to a year’s v e l plastic after removing all surviving original plants. When produce woven cloth in a specified pattern. [Yasmin a medals and have initiated an annual competition for hard labour for having children out of wedlock, c e the soil was clean it was replanted as near as possible to Emerson: There is a fascinating Jacquard loom, complete – women students in her name. compared with only three months for men. a what David Parr had done. with punch cards, in the Museum of Norwich. Once the d n February we heard about the Georgian Child What the archives show is that there was a very early a g u

This extraordinary house is now open to the public by crisis is over, it’s worth a visit – there are hourly direct trains e ISupport Agency from Dr Samantha Williams, says Jim version of the Child Support Agency in place in all r r e

arrangement for small groups of up to six. When Number from Whittlesford to Norwich, and you can stroll through the o Butchart. Using London’s few surviving ‘bastardy books’, towns and villages. Bastardy books must have existed in t y

184 came up for sale, a private donation enabled it to be cathedral grounds on the way to the museum.] p Dr Williams showed us how the parishes of Lambeth, many parishes, but very few now survive. Of all first e

b bought and a visitor centre created, with a flat above to At 18, Ada had an affair with one of her young male y Southwark and Chelsea pursued the fathers of births, half were to pregnant brides and a quarter were

A produce additional income. tutors. Ada had apparently inherited her father’s passion n illegitimate babies. But London’s parishes were illegitimate. t o i More information can be found at for sexual encounters, and this was the first of many n inefficient at extracting payment from the fathers of The Poor Law of 1576 formed the basis of English e

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www.davidparrhouse.org ; as we went to press, the sexual liaisons and later extra-marital affairs. Her other l bastard children compared with other areas of the bastardy laws. Its purpose was to punish a bastard child’s a u

Cambridge Design and Construction Awards announced passion in life was gambling, and she ran up huge debts. d United Kingdom. Only 20 % of unmarried fathers paid parents, and to relieve the parish of the cost of e t ,

the David Parr House as the winner in the Conservation, In 1835, she married aristocrat William King. He was a 1 for their illegitimate children in London, compared with supporting the child. The poor sometimes ended up in 8 4

Alteration and Extension – Small category. baron, so she became Lady King at nineteen. In 1838, 3 80% in the West Riding of Yorkshire. prison for having children out of wedlock, with babies

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Queen Victoria raised William to the peerage so Ada However, even where fathers did not pay, ending up in houses of correction with their mothers to 1 8

he speaker at our January meeting was Alan became Countess of Lovelace. Ada had three children by 5 metropolitan parishes continued to support illegitimate avoid the parish having to pay for a wet or dry nurse. 0 TOsborne, telling us about Ada Lovelace, the world’s the age of twenty-four, but opted out of mothering and so children until they were twelve years old, at the charge Children born outside of marriage were around twice as first computer programmer, writes TONY MOSS . her husband and various nannies raised them. of ratepayers. There was deep gender inequality in the likely to die as those born to married parents – a trend Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron on 10th Babbage had written an article on a mechanical severity of punishments handed out to unmarried that continued until at least the early twentieth century. December 1815, the only legitimate daughter of the calculating machine he had invented, which he called The records show that although famous poet, writer, peer and politician Lord Byron. Her the “Difference Engine”. He managed to get money from parish constables were actually mother was born Annabella Milbank, from a wealthy the government to build a demonstration piece at one- quite skilled at finding fathers in aristocratic family in County Durham. Ada was born seventh scale. It mainly added and subtracted. In 1833, “My s pellin g is w obbly. I t’s goo d s pellin g the first place, they were pretty bad within a year of the wedding, but by then her mother Ada and her mother were invited to view the prototype but it w obbles, and the lett er s get in at getting the money out of them. Belle was fed up with Byron’s constant philandering and just two weeks after their first meeting. Ada understood Men could disappear easily, even in the w ron g places. ” demanded an early divorce. Byron signed the divorce immediately how the Difference Engine worked and SKY BLUE one case where one man fathered papers when Ada was only five weeks old. Unusually, made many visits to Babbage. In 1840, Babbage gave a EDUC ATION A.A. M ilne , Winne the P ooh five illegitimate children, then left Byron allowed his wife custody of Ada. Byron left seminar at the University of Turin about a new improved Supp or tiv e, pr of essional tut or ing and home -t eaching them and disappeared off to England for Greece and his eventual death, when Ada version of his machine, which could do more America. Lots of men defaulted on was only four months old. complicated things, and he called it an “Analytical English/M aths KS1, KS2 & KS3 ( Y1-9) payments and ran away, but for Belle was worried that Ada would inherit Byron’s Engine”. Ada spent nine months in 1842 –3 translating GCSE , B TEC & A L evel Business those who remained, arrest “moral deviations” and insisted she be brought up to the notes taken in French from the meeting. However, En terprise & Humanities home -scho ol pr ojec ts warrants were issued and many study maths and science, rather than literature. In 1828, she added notes of her own which were three times Re vision & study sk ills were sent to prison to see if they  Ada was so intrigued by flight she wanted to fly herself. longer than the original article. She realised the concept Personal sta temen t, C V & lett er writing guidanc e could be squeezed. Many were She studied bird flight and even constructed wings. She behind the machine made it capable of much more than Elizab eth B aile y B A M A MS c (E con) literally put on the treadmill, most Member of the Char ter ed C ollege of Teaching & Tut ors ’ A ssocia tion wrote and published a book at the age of thirteen called handling data, but also “processing the data”. In her day, Quali ed , e xper ienc ed t eacher / Enhanc ed DBS c er ti ca te infamously at Brixton’s House of Flyology. Ada was very sickly as a child and spent two this was revolutionary and visionary. She envisaged that Correction. years in bed from 1829 to 1831: she used this time to by feeding in Jacquard type punch cards, you could skybluesa wst on@gmail .c om Telephone: 07792 922 623 Attitudes towards the inherent study. In 1833, Ada at seventeen was presented at court “programme” the machine to perform extremely shame of bearing illegitimate and introduced to the great and good of London society complicated functions. She explained in great detail that children waxed and waned over – Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Charles she understood how the new Analytical Engine differed • Personal training time, with post-Restoration Wheatstone and Michael Faraday. She from the Difference Engine. These notes contained (one to one/two to one/small group) attitudes softening as Britain also met Mary Somerville, a Scottish the first algorithm or programme intended for a • Sports massage underwent something of a sexual science writer and polymath, who machine rather than a human. Her work then • Bootcamps revolution in the late 1600s and became her tutor for a while. Mary lay dormant for over a hundred years. Ada died • Boxercise early 1700s (the Foundling Hospital Somerville and Caroline of uterine cancer on 27th November 1852 at opening its doors in 1739). Herschel became the first two the age of thirty-six, after a long painful However, societal response to female members of the Royal illness from 1851. illegitimacy began to harden once Astronomical Society. It was There are now several replicas of the more in the early nineteenth Mary who introduced Ada to Difference Engine (including one in the century. Charles Babbage (aged forty- London Science Museum). Work is now Icknield School 7.15pm The pursuit of errant fathers as a two). being done on a replica of the vastly more Monday & Wednesday means of deflating local taxes was In 1834, Ada visited a textile complex Analytical Engine. We know that Instructor: Jenny in place for centuries and until Contact Lee at 07872 986762 factory and saw the mechanical Alan Turing, of Bletchley Park fame, read her First two classes £5 1834, a father of illegitimate loom invented by Joseph Marie notes during the war, and they were re-published or [email protected] children was still responsible for Jacquard. It used lengths of punched in 1953. In 1979, the USA Department of Defence Website: www.360-fitness.co.uk Text Maxine 07963 161246 paying for upkeep even if the cards with holes in them. By named a new software language ‘Ada’ in her honour. Facebook: threesixtypt mother married another man. SS Instagram: threesixtypt www.jazzercise.co.uk 

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It over the bags. 01223 570173 07708 137550 01223 83 2 928 inf [email protected] o.uk www .adellar.c o.uk could be looking We also had a seed swap and hope to do a plant swap www.Rothwe lls.biz after someone’s cat, washing a car, litter picking, nearer the summer – look out for information in the next teaching someone to bake, hemming someone’s trousers, edition. helping with some basic DIY or just providing Both Orchard House Care Home and Bircham House New yoga classes Neil’s companionship. We welcome everyone no matter age, Retirement Living are signed up as organisational Gents Hair Stylist ability, finances, mobility or if you only have a little members and we are hoping to do some joint projects . in Duxford time. We always need more people to be involved! In the coming weeks, Sawston Timebank will be Two yoga classes, suitable for all of Stapleford We are sorry to inform you that all Timebank events helping with supporting the local community efforts in abilities, at the new Duxford Is offering are on hold during this time. We will let people know Sawston to assist those in our community in self- Community Centre: professional gents’ when we are running groups and events again. isolation. Possible ways people can help are by doing hairstyling at Monday coffee mornings had been going strong and some shopping for someone, collecting a prescription, Sundays: 5:30 to 6:30 pm competitive prices we had some great events. In February we had a talk walking a dog, putting bins out or having a friendly Tuesdays: 6:30 to 7:30 pm about scams. We looked at the different types of scams chat over the phone. Please get in touch if you need 30 years’ Friendly, non-competitive classes and how to spot and avoid them. Everyone took away any help or are willing to offer any assistance. experience helping you to stretch, strengthen, some new information and will now be less likely to be Stay well and in the spirit of Timebanking, let's do and mobilise. Free easy parking fooled by scammers. In March we had a great board what we can (safely) to help each other out. games evening. Thank you to East Roast Coffee and Find out more about Sawston Timebank from Emma Starting soon via Zoom – everyone who attended: we had a good turn out on such Fordham at [email protected] or 07585 132213 why not come and join us? 4a Bar Lane, Stapleford a miserable evening. or find us on Facebook. SS Call 012234 844411 Details at www.yoga2.co.uk for an apppointment e are all in uncertain times and about life in Sawston and the people past and Sawston & Pampisford branch Wthe need to pull together has present that have made the tapestry of life in never been more important. Sawston and this great village so interesting. We are grateful for · Amtico, Karndean and The C oun tr y S tor e Pampisford RBL has many senior members and some wonderful cover photos associated with Moduleo showroom aware of similar non-members in the wider the Legion too. · Carpets, vinyls, woods, www.thec oun tr yst or e.c o.uk community. The need for contact during the period of Branch Standard Bearers May Fowler, who laminates, sisal ‘self isolation’ particularly for those on their own, by also carries the Cambridgeshire County · Free estimates and measuring Animal f eeds phone, is something we have put in place for our Standard, triumphed in the Regional · Domestic and commercial work members. This is something we all have to be involved Competition for East Anglia and Essex and will · Large showroom with free Bedding parking with. Please contact: go forward to the national finals. Wild Bir d F ood and • Chair Mark Chennells on 01223 891817 Some veterans may not be members of the Legion but sawstoncarpet Feeders • Secretary Kevin Swann on 01223 565178 are still recognised for the commitment they made to the andflooringltd. • May Fowler on 01223 834392. Armed and Associated Military Service. If you would Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Shooting Supplies In this special edition of Sawston Scene we would like like to discuss having a Legion Standard present at a Saturday 9am to 4pm Coun tr y clothing to acknowledge the hard work, dedication and funeral service, contact May on 01223 834392. commitment shown by Beck, Yasmin and the whole The whole branch would like to pass on its sympathy 34 EASTERN COUNTIES LEATHER SITE (opposite Camrider) Unit 12a, S awst on Trade team of this award-winning publication. 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32 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 33 – from Monday online –increasing the amount of online resources for 23rd March all people to borrow and enjoy and with more digital Libraries library buildings alternatives to group sessions including online Looki ng f or rec om mended will be closed. The service is working to create an activities e.g. storytimes for families to take part in. trade speop le a nd hom e s ervices alternative offer including: We will also use the Library Service infrastructure to in a nd a ro und C ambridg e? • appointments to use IT for those who most need it support the new countywide co-ordination hub, with • a drop off / collection service for item reservations on • library delivery vans and mobile vehicles available to an appointment basis, with items quarantined for 72 provide transport infrastructure for the distribution of hours between loans – details to follow essential goods and services to communities, care Save t ime a nd f ind th em w ith sc use me. • an increased Library@Home Service – using more staff homes and individual housebound as required – We’ve d one a ll t he h ard and volunteers to drop off and collect books and other mobiles already distribute batteries and are in work f ind ing a nd pe rsonally resources/services while maintaining social distancing discussion with food banks about deliveries vetting l oc al t radespe ople. (a doorstep service) • library staff to be redeployed through the Hub in • an expanded assisted digital offer over the phone and support of the interim service outlined above. SS

LET’S RUN GIRLS have cancelled all running sessions for the next couple of months. However, .c o.uk

we’re proud that we’ve built up an amazing running community, which is still going strong. Even if Dawn Gi esler , F ounder

you have never run with us, you are welcome to join in our Facebook group, where you’ll get peace o f m in d • free a nd e asy t o u se • supp or ti ng l ocal b usines s advice and support for safely staying active. www.facebook.com/groups/SawstonLetsRunGirls If you don’t have Facebook access and want to learn more about the group, please contact Jane on 07813 169996. We look forward to running with you soon! Paul J Neaves Electrical Contractor T White

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n January Colin Kirkland came to with the Rocking Chair Band, was sold out Ishow us beautiful pictures he had yet again. Unfortunately this has been taken on various bird-watching trips to cancelled because of the virus situation – Israel. He travelled to mountainous Pampisford we are in the process of refunding ticket areas, deserts and fertile river plains. He WI money. Our thanks to the ticket holders stayed in a kibbutz which he found have kindly donating their money to the Heating Plumbing welcoming and comfortable as the areas Arthur Rank Hospice. I will give the A friendly, reliable, local were mostly off the beaten track. He mainly spent amount raised in the next issue. However, we are plumber who would love to springtime leading guided tours to areas teeming with planning to hold a charity coffee morning in Chapelfield help you out! wild flowers and birds over wintering in Israel. He also Community Room in September virus permitting. All Domestic & Commercial No job is too small visited several archaeological sites, as well as cities All our meetings are cancelled until further notice. works undertaken Renewables Bathrooms including Jerusalem. All Federation events are cancelled as is the National All those jobs you thought weren’t February meeting was our AGM where the existing AGM in London. Our group meeting planned by the worth getting someone out for, committee were re-elected with Sarah remaining Shelfords WI for April is not taking place. TM he would love to do for you. president for the next year. After refreshments with cake If any members need help please contact me (see the 534746 Great rates and biscuits we spent the rest of the evening as social DIRECTORY ). www.shelfordheating.co.uk Call 07803 922 51 7 time with a few games. All at Pampisford WI wish the Sawston Scene a Happy or click Our April charity fund raising event, the Jazz Evening 50th Birthday and long may it continue. Jean Osborne SS T: 01223 833426 E: [email protected] www.stevetheplumbersawston.co.uk

34 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 35 WALLPAPER & PAINTING ROOM Fond Memories of a Diary Editor The complete decorating company SAWST ON uring my committee member days on Sawston Scene Once I had collated all the Dfrom 2001 until 2010, I spent three years as Diary information I had gathered, I Editor. My husband and I had introduced our family to would type it onto a Kitchens supplied and fitted free design service · professional community events from an early age which helped as I spreadsheet and forward it to installation · appliances supplied started my research. Roy Warnes, the magazine’s Floor and wall tiling To begin with, I collected as many leaflets as possible typesetter for many years. He Laminated and advertising local events, made visits to Tourist was a great support and Interior and exterior solid wood flooring Information Centres, and, in fact, kept my eye open for would reduce the font size Domestic and commercial painting Internal and external doors 01223 570289 anything going on in the area (not only Sawston) that slightly if necessary to keep and wallpapering Painting and decorating www. sjcbuildingser vices.co.uk might be of interest to our readers. I also contacted the diary within the allocated pages. (I always seemed to No job too small Fencing societies, clubs and organisations, either in person or by have more entries than space available!) So as entries Fully professional service Carpentr y an d Jo inery Patios a nd email, to enquire if they would like their events included increased, Roy and I put our heads together to come up Full house refurbishments Over 25 years’ experience Drive way Living S paces Extensions in our diary. I gradually built up a database of interested with a revised layout, which apart from making things Call Mark Dunn for a free estimate: Loft Conve rsions Remodelling Work parties who I would contact for information as I prepared look clearer, enabled the diary to be kept to three pages. Call Shane Galloway: 01223 574626 ·07905 Fitted Kitchens F looring Bathro om for each issue. Busy people need a nudge now and then! Yes, it was hard work, and frustrating at times when 07938 210812 150916 Installation Garage Conve rsion My diary pages not only included social activities but my enthusiasm would result in more pages being needed useful reminders of community dates: bin collections, than available, but oh so rewarding! And with the bonus blood donor sessions, housing advice, benefits surgeries of meeting and dealing with so many interesting people! and so on and, to begin with, school entries which were Irene Gruby, Sawston Scene Diary Editor from June –July later detailed in the schools’ page. 2007 to April –May 2010 SS The Diary Editor Goes Digital e often say that those two pages in the centre entries: removing duplicates, of Sawston Scene cost more effort than any checking information, trimming Wother two pages and end up looking as though entries to be as short as possible they took no time at all! depending on how many entries When Irene stepped down from doing the diary pages, there are. I then send off the edited diary to Beck. She Denise Adams did it for a while, often adding local drops it onto her virtual page, and does exactly the same quilting events. Then it was Brian Watson: he was such a thing – checks information, looks out for duplicates, supportive member of the team that it was hard to think trims entries even more so they’ll fit the page. We need about finding a replacement when he died. Over the those two pairs of eyes on it to get it all right – with a years that Denise and Brian ran the Diary, they gradually diary, even one wrong numeral can ruin someone’s event persuaded contributors to email us details of events. So, bookings. The diary is almost the last thing to be typeset faced with no Diary Editor and no will to find a new one, before we finish the Contents page, do our final checks, the obvious thing was to find a technical solution. Beck and and send the whole thing off to our printer.   and I spent a morning thrashing out how it would work, The system isn’t perfect, and there’s a list of things Noel Hart    and then asked Chris Emerson, my husband, to build it – that Chris and I need to change when we can find the an online system to take the yawn-inducing slog out of time. But even if it’s not quite perfect yet, it’s doing the assembling the dates. job brilliantly for now. And because the computer saves Glass & Glazing Now, instead of cutting and pasting information from us so much time by getting entries into our house style REMOVALS AND STORAGE YOUR LOCAL GLASS & GLAZING SERVICE emails, we ask diary contributors to register on our and putting everything into the right order, we’ve been New uPVC windows and doors website; they get a password and can then enter all the able to push the diary deadline to the last possible supplied and fitted Misted sealed units replaced information about their events into pre-defined boxes. A minute – which gives more time for contributors to add 0800 211 8030 All uPVC window and door repairs Broken hinges and handles repaired little drop-down calendar means that they stand more of their events. (locks, handles, hinges, Cat flaps fitted SERVING CAMBRIDGESHIRE SINCE 1952 mechanisms) a chance of getting the right day and date; and the time We do recognise that some organisations are rather Doors and windows adjusted All glass and glazing repairs Composite doors installed box accepts descriptions in text, so that contributors can better at entering events than others - our system works Remo vals S tor age uPVC cladding and guttering explain details of their event timing. I set a deadline, and well (possibly rather too well) for big charities who Shr edding Shipping supplied and fitted Fast and friendly service Free no-obligation quotation then close down the site – after that, contributions can employ publicity officers. Some voluntary organisations Local company with over 20 years still be added but their details get emailed to me so that I just haven’t got the available people. Perhaps it would be call or email us to a rrange a free estimate of experience, FENSA registered No job too small can slot them in if there’s time before we go to press. good if we had someone on the team looking out for 01223 813140 07966 052240 mail@perryremo vals.com 07977 530306 01954 211177 Then I spend three to four hours going through the events just as Irene used to…? Yasmin Emerson www.perryremo vals.com [email protected] [email protected]

36 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 37 DISTRICT COUNCIL REPORT KJL MOTORS Compiled from www.scambs.gov.uk/your-council-and-democracy/coronavirus-information by Yasmin Emerson MOTs · Servicing · Repairs · ECU Remapping SCDC CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION • small business grant funding of £10,000 for all It is still business as usual at the council but we are businesses in receipt of small business rate relief or Contact us for all your mechanical needs: asking customers to avoid visiting the SCDC offices in rural rate relief person wherever this is possible. • the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme 01223 830022 Our services that are impacted: offering loans of up to £5 million for SME s through [email protected] 01223 832 832 the British Business Bank BINS • a new lending facility from the Bank of England to Tyres · Brakes · Exhausts · Clutches · Batteries · Cambelts · Shock 01223 834 858 • If you’re experiencing the main symptoms – a new, help support liquidity among larger firms, helping absorbers · Air-con servicing · Engine tuning and diagnostics · [email protected] continuous cough and/or a high temperature – please be them bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows Engine rebuilds · Head gaskets · Four-wheel laser alignment very careful when disposing of your personal waste through loans Free local collection and delivery LOCAL / AIRPORTS (including used tissues and disposable cleaning cloths or • the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme 24-HOUR SERVICE wipes) at home. The advice for disposal of this waste is: • a 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, www.kjlmotors.co.uk 1. It should be put in a plastic rubbish bag and tied when hospitality and leisure businesses in England Units S1 and S2 Eastern Counties Leather Industrial Estate, London Road, Pampisford, CB22 3EE (based in Newton) full • grant funding of £25,000 for retail, hospitality and 2. The plastic bag should then be placed in a second bin leisure businesses with property with a rateable value bag and tied between £15,000 and £51,000 3. It should be kept separate from other waste in suitable We are waiting for further information from the secure place on your property for 72 hours before government and will share this as quickly as possible at: being placed in the black bin as normal www.scambs.gov.uk/business/coronavirus-information-for- The principle behind this method is that after 72 businesses / hours outside the body, the virus is no longer viable. This approach will help keep bin collection crews as safe as GUIDANCE FOR RESIDENTS possible. We understand that you may have concerns about the Your friendly centrally located vehicle repair and MOT centre in Sawston Servicing and repairs Other household rubbish and recycling should be economic impact of the coronavirus. The Government to all makes and models treated as normal. has announced a funding packing for local authorities to Cars and light commercial body shop · air-con recharge · batteries · engine of vehicle • Green bin collections are temporarily suspended from help the most financially vulnerable residents through repairs, tuning and diagnostics · replace timing belts, chains and clutches · MOTs on cars and motorbikes Monday 23rd March. We hope them to continue from this period, and we are currently waiting on further supply and fit tyres · wheel alignment and tracking · break down and recovery Air-conditioning · Tyres · May but will keep you updated. Delivery of guidance. Free collection and delivery in Sawston Diagnostics replacement or additional green bins is also suspended. If your income has reduced, you may be able to claim • The bulky waste collection service has been suspended Universal Credit. You may also be able to claim for help Email [email protected] Unit 28, London Road until further notice. with your Council Tax. You can find more support and Industrial Estate Call 01223 839 666 Pampisford advice for Universal Credit and employees, employers CB22 3EE HOUSING and businesses on the gov.uk website. 01223 834803 • Home-Link: There may be fewer properties available to bid on than usual over the coming weeks, and it GUIDANCE FOR COMMUNITIES may also take longer for the relevant landlord to • Advice: We have created some interim advice for complete the shortlisting and letting process. communities wanting to support people who may need • Estate inspections planned in Sawston during April to be self-isolating, and distributed this to our parish CAT SITTER HOME VISITS have been cancelled. councils and district councillors. • Volunteering: If you are a local resident who would • 30-minute visits to your house. like to help support other residents or vulnerable • Affection, play, feeding, BUSINESSES (CORRECT ON 18 MARCH) care of the home. The Government has announced a series of financial people, there are community groups who will welcome • Run by Sarah with more than measures to support businesses through the economic your kindness. See our coronavirus volunteering page 30 years’ pet ownership and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus. This currently for full details of how you can help: more than 10 years’ healthcare includes: www.scambs.gov.uk/your-council-and- experience (human and • a Statutory Sick Pay relief package for SME s democracy/coronavirus-volunteering SS veterinary). • All feline fanatics, CRB -checked and insured. Sawston Parish Council: South Cambridgeshire District Council: Cambridgeshire County Council: For more information: www.sawston.org.uk www.scambs.gov.uk www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk Phone: 07900 213245 Email: [email protected] www.fulbournfelines.co.uk

38 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 39 ST MARY’S testing time. With every er £10 10% discount on takeaways ov In uncertain and troubled blessing from your parish return your take-away bag plus free papadams when you times, as the Covid-19 CHURCHES priest in Sawston – John a Acupuncture

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assure you that St Mary’s as your parish church alongside I i 01223 837025 / 01223 837026 our village’s other churches will do all that we can to ack in the summer of 2018 we told you about a Osteopathy

Sunday to Thursday: help you and to help you help others. Bpartnership that our church community had formed 1-to-1 Pilates If you are alone and need support with a regular phone with a charity called Hope into Action (HiA). noon –2pm & 5.30pm –10.30pm R Saturday: Podiatry/Chiropody call, then you can contact the vicar on 01223 832248 or Essentially the charity links with church communities to E T Sally Bard on 01223 501165 and we will try to help. provide accommodation and support for vulnerable S noon –2pm & 5.30pm –11pm T N Nail Cutting – £27 From the Free Church please contact Maggie Jones on people. In particular HiA targets refugees, the homeless AU R A Friday: 5.30pm –11pm 01223 565637. and those leaving prison. All have a common need – Book a table online at You can also catch up with news of church services they lack networks of support and that is what the www.kazindianrestaurant.co.uk and their times on our website or Facebook page. I am church communities can offer. Bringing curry closer to home betterNOW! healthcare sorry that many of our popular shared meals and toddler HiA secures its houses by means of ‘benevolent 61a High Street, Sawston Asian restaurant groups are cancelled for the present, but this is purely to investments’ whereby individuals loan sums of money for The number one Cambridge CB22 3BG g to reviews on protect the vulnerable young and older folk who attend. at least five years with a 2% annual return. The in Cambs, accordin www.betternowhealthcare.co.uk As soon as we can, and the epidemic has passed, we will collective sums are used to buy a house with the TripAdvisor! 01223 832 808 April 2015 reopen both Refresh and Soup and Sandwiches. investors being proportional shareholders. The house is Cambridge News, Many church events will continue on line at rented to HiA and so, as tenants move in, the www.stmaryssawston.org.uk and the church is open is partnership with the local church community begins open every day from 8am until 5:30pm for private prayer (find out more about HiA at www.hopeintoaction.org.uk ). JAC KSON COX OPTICIANS and as a quiet space. Please respect that space and A dozen or so ‘befrienders’ have come forward from Training A. Saxe na MC Optom, Optome tris t especially space between others. We will try very hard to the church community to support the HiA tenants. H.R.MILLEN LT D NHS and Pri vate eye tests get our services online as soon as we can. Since the summer of 2017 when the project started the Facilitator Ca tara ct tests Work on our eco church development is going ahead befrienders and, in a variety of ways, the wider church Glauc om a and macul ar degene ra tion che cks with bird boxes in place in the old part of church yard community have supported eight men who were Co ntact lens spe cialists and with the help of the parish council wildflowers are previously homeless. Two are still being supported but, of Ki ds’ eye tests being sown and bug hotels built. Spring is coming, if you the others, five have moved into their own First Aid are awake early listen for the birdsong to begin the day. accommodation and three are in full time work. • CPR • P aediatric ….AND As I write it is the middle of Lent and our Lent course Certainly the headline outcomes are positive but the • Debrillation • Choking MANY is continuing on line to open our hearts and minds to the journey can best be described as a roller-coaster ride of • Control of bleeding • Head Injuries MORE!! needs of God’s world as well as its beauty and wonder, optimistic expectations, challenging situations and and that points us forward to the wonder and beauty and patient resilience. For more information call us now 30A Wool lard s Lane hope of Easter day and there we learn of God’s love Last year, buoyed by our modest successes, we began H.R.Millen L TD; Gre at She lford , CB 22 5LZ 01799 531100! The Old Stable; Unit 7, P ark Farm; 01223 84 0441 shown through his son. discussions with HiA to secure a second house in Park Road; Great Chesterford; Would y ou know what to do if Saffron W alden CB10 1RN Mond ay to Fri day 9am to 5. 30 pm Please be assured of my prayers in the months to Sawston. The benevolent investment model managed to Fax: 01799 531199 Saturd ay 8. 30a m to 4. 30pm someone stopped br eathing? Email: [email protected] come, and please phone up for a chat or for prayer if you raise £300,000 in a relatively short time and a second www.jackson -cox -op tician.com would like to. Alan Partridge house was bought early in 2019. HiA agreed that the focus of this house would be refugees and consequently OUR LADY OF LOURDES we entered into discussions with Cambridge City GORDON SHAW & ASSOCIATES DENTAL SURGERY Due to the new development of the cororavirus Council, one of the local authorities that had entered pandemic, all public masses in England and Wales will into contracts with the Home Office to accept and Principal dentist: Gordon Shaw stop from 20th March 2020 – until support refugees from Syria. Associate dentists: Emilie Eve & Abi Thillai further notice. At our church in In July 2019 a Syrian refugee Sawston, the 9.30am mass on Friday Christ Church South Cambs (Evangelical) family moved into the house. Their • Independent family practice www.christchurchsouthcambs.org Tim Chapman: 20th March 2020 will be our last 830169 or [email protected] story of suffering and survival • NHS treatment for children public mass until further notice. starkly personalises the bitter and Sawston Free Church (United Reformed – • Off-road parking However, the church will be still Methodist) www.sawstonfreechurch.org.uk ruthless conflict that has been open for private prayers as usual. I Rev Bruce Waldron: 07 81 4 92 01 87 or taking place in Syria for the past • Out-of-hours emergency service will continue to say mass in private [email protected] nine years. The family lived in for registered patients for the parish and for your Our Lady of Lourdes (Catholic church) Homs, Western Syria, and had to intentions. Please do not hesitate to www.ololsawston.com Canon Hoan Nguyen: flee when the civil war subjected NEW PATIENTS WELCOME! contact me by phone or email if you 832397 or cambourne[email protected] their city to intense bombing. NHS PLACES AVAILABLE FOR CHILDREN St Mary’s Church Office (Church of England) need necessary sacraments. They walked westwards for a 111 Brewery Road, Pampisford, Cambridge, CB22 3EW Please be assured of my continued www.stmaryssawston.org.uk Rev Alan Partridge: month until they reached the 832248 or [email protected] Tel: 01223 566595 / 835624 Fax: 01223 505597 prayers for all of you during this United Nations refugee camps in [email protected] www.gvshaw.com

40 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 41 Lebanon. There they lived for two years in squalid becoming available to us in the absence of ‘live’ worship, conditions and sub-zero winter temperatures until they and we will share more information on that with you were selected to be part of the UK ’s Refugee Re- very shortly. As ever, please call us or email if you need Settlement Programme. support or a chin wag or both. The family was overjoyed to arrive in Sawston, where We were expecting to have our usual events – Tea Fina nci al & I nvestment A dvisers they felt safe and supported. The family’s four children Dance, Collection outside the Co-op, and a Car Boot range in ages from two to thirteen years and the local Sale – during Christian Aid Week in May. However, all Ta i l o r m a d e t r i p s schools and nurseries could not have been more these have had to be cancelled. We hope to organise Financial Services supportive. So too John Huntingdon’s Charity that has them again when the coronavirus is no longer a problem. BEACH HOLIDAYS provided advice and educational grants. Maggie, Mary, Yvonne, Sue, Anne, Mike honeymoons focused on you . city breaks Sadly the conflict in Syria continues and the family’s As your Travel Counsellor, with extensive joy is tinged with guilt and deep fear as they worry about CHRIST CHURCH SOUTH CAMBS experience in the travel industry, I can tailor-make www.gibbsdenley.co.uk your perfect holiday. Available at a time to suit you, their relatives suffering under the onslaught in Idlib Christ Church held a ladies’ clothes exchange at the end including evenings and weekends, I will provide an province. Such is the connectedness of our modern of February and as well as having a great social evening 01954 233650 unrivalled level of personal service, taking care of world that the mother can sit with her Sawston support and coming home with a few fresh items for the all your travel needs down to the finest detail. [email protected] group in the Footprints Cafe and ‘Whats App’ her own wardrobe, the ladies heard about the great exchange in CHERYL HARRADINE mother in Idlib city. All wave, laugh, and blow kisses, the story Jesus told about a lost son. In exchange for his 01223 842670 Gibbs Denley Financial Services Ltd is an appointed [email protected] representative of GD Partnership, who are authorised www.travelcounsellors.co.uk/cheryl.harradine and then the Idlib grandmother pans her phone around pig-sty stained farm clothes he is given his fathers best and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to show the impoverished conditions and, on another cloak and gold ring. The sheer forgiving grace and Travel Counsellors ensures complete financial protection on every booking occasion, records the intense bombing of the city. exultant welcome home is the heart of the good news When one sees the news reports from North West that can be heard at Christchurch Sunday by Sunday at Syria showing the scale of human suffering and the the Village College lower school hall at 9.30am. All are John & Ann utterly callous nature of the conflict there is a danger welcome. TIM PHILLIPS ac commodation that the medium of television distances us from the Christ Church have been working through the book SAWST ON - C AMBRID GE horror. Our involvement with this one family has lifted of Deuteronomy on Sunday mornings and on the 8th and personalised our consciousness of the situation. March we heard Moses speaking to God’s people. He & Co. Self-c ontained , suit single pro fessional to Sawston could and should be proud of the fact that a commanded them, among other things, to look out for Accountants small f amily . Sta y 1 t o 28 nights . family fleeing from oppression and suffering feels so the weak and vulnerable. Deuteronomy 15: 10 Give airbnb.c om/h/sa wst on-anne xe welcomed and at ease within its embrace. These small generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; Independent, specialist service for: and often invisible acts of kindness are the unspoken ... 11 There will always be poor people in the land. Small Business • Self Assessment prayers that can be so uplifting. Kevin McMullen That is a timely word for all who remain healthy and Personal T axation able to help in the coming weeks of Coronavirus Your ad here FREE CHURCH restrictions when no doubt there will be an acute Fr ee initial consultation – no obligation for just £8 an issue It is with deep regret that the Elders of Sawston Free number of weak and vulnerable people needing help. EASY , FREE P ARKING Contact Ad Manager Church announce that we are suspending Sunday Tim Chapman SS John Godwood: morning services as of now for the foreseeable future. We Copley Hill Business Park, Cambridge Rd., Babraham have taken this very difficult decision in response to the Of f A1307 between W andlebury and Babraham [email protected] recent news on the development of the Coronavirus Tel: 01223 830044 . www.tpaccounts.co.uk crisis. We have a large number of members who are considered vulnerable and therefore need to distance themselves from others to protect their own health and so we need to suspend all services and meetings. Our r oots ar e in your community However, Sawston Free Church itself is not suspended – we plan to keep in touch with each other whether it’s Bush is one of by phone, skype, our website or Facebook. Resources are Cambridge’ s leading sales and letting agents and we oer line with the new health measures, We will keep you updated on plans expert advice and Thinking of selling or a full pr ofessional staff absences are at a level where we to reopen but we are sure you will le tting y our pr oper ty? service to pr operty cannot provide a safe environment. appreciate that at the moment it is owners in Sawston. Our Gr eat Shelf or d awston Sports Centre is closed We will rearrange any suspended unclear when this is likely to be. For Team can help! Suntil further notice. 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44 April –May 2020 April –May 2020 45 n the late 1960s there were no cafes in Sawston, The first public meeting was held in the remembers JEAN OSBORNE . The only place new village college walnut room. This was to get Imothers could meet was at the baby clinic where input from villagers on their ideas for future your babies were weighed and you could have a drink content. Also the accounts were published and buy things like NHS orange juice and virol (a and an election to the editorial board took malt extract). The friends you made met in each place. These meetings have taken place other’s houses. Most mothers did not work until their Fifty years old! every year since at various venues. The first children were at school. ones were in late autumn, then Four young mothers, who lived on the newly built In 1975 Jenny Sturtridge did the they moved to the spring – this Woodland Road estate and were new to the village, final typesetting. Various others took gave the treasurer time to get the realised that they did not know what was going on in over from her. As the magazine December accounts audited for the the village. Over coffee one morning they decided developed and we needed better copy meeting. A brief summary was that the village needed a village magazine. When they we paid Roy Warns to do the final printed in the magazine. We used told the Parish Council of their plans they typesetting. Improvements included to provide cheese and wine to received a donation towards the adding photos and later, occasionally, entice people to come and as a cost of arranging a meeting. They Roneo machine. Later issues colour. When Beck became editor she thank you to all helpers who were delivered a handbill (typed by were printed by lithography. also took on the typesetting. Now the invited to the AGM. Now the another member of their group) to This meant that the final draft final copy is sent in a PDF file direct to AGM takes place in the White every house in the village inviting of the magazine had to be typed the printer. Lion, still with free drinks and everyone to a meeting at the Junior on a IBM typewriter. For the In the early days the magazine was nibbles. Lately we have been School (later to be named John whole of the first year, printing collated and stapled together at the holding a garden party as well as a Paxton School after Icknield Primary came up in the minutes as Junior School; later it was at the editor’s thank you to volunteers. School was built). The head master various places for lithography house; then at the sports pavilion; at In 1971 a constitution was of the school, Mr John, agreed to were tried. Cramptons; and finally in the upstairs written and approved at the chair the meeting. The school hall Eventually in January 1971 room at the United Reformed Church. Annual Public Meeting. In 1995 was full of interested villagers and a Arthur Barwick In some venues we used collating boards it was changed, to alter the number of people volunteered to help offered to print the with shelves which took the pages and number of people on the start the magazine. magazine at his place an individual sat at each editorial committee from twelve The first meeting of the Editorial of work provided a board. At the URC the pages to a minimum of four and a Board was on 4th February 1970 where method of making were laid out on a table and maximum of ten. The magazine all the jobs were delegated. June Thomas suitable masters was collators walked round was to be informative; to promote was the first editor, with Cathy Odell, found. This was done collecting pages and then gave community spirit within Sawston; June Hoar, Jean Osborne, Brian Finch, at the Local Exam them to someone to staple. and to be non-political, non- John Jones and Dr Bill Town as the first Syndicate by Now the printer collates the sectarian and non-profit making. ‘editorial board’. Others involved were photographing the magazine. A diary was added to the first typists (including Irene Gruby, still final typed copy to Delivery was organised issue as a loose leaf. There has been involved today), collators and produce the master initially by Cathy Odell until one printed in the magazine ever distributors. Mrs Date drew the cover and Mr Burns sold from which Arthur she moved to Yorkshire for her since. The magazine has had many copies and collected subscriptions. The post office still could print. These two men agree to carry on indefinitely husband’s job. She used to treasurers starting with June Hoar collects subscriptions today thanks to Danny and Meena. which happened until Arthur retired. Various sources cycle round the village taking followed by a new one every couple The first issue was free to every house and sold at the were used to produce masters for Arthur to print. Then bundle to deliverers. Nowadays we get of years. Then from 1982 to 1991 Paul price of 9d (about four new pence). Subscription was two Gilbert Whiffen took over printing with Arthur boxes of magazines and tie them up in Whittle was in charge. Martin Doyle took old shillings (ten new pence). In 1971 decimal coins were producing the masters. Co-ordination of production was bundles with a list attached for each over until 1999, Jean Osborne in 2000, introduced and the price became five new pence (5p). overseen by Rev. Brian Sturtridge until he moved to deliverer, then take them to their Irene Gruby from 2001 to 2006, Richard In October 1970 the first annual public meeting was Cambridge in 1974. In the late 1970s Ken Bingham took homes. Originally lists were hand Maunder 2006 to 2013 and Mike Tapson held at the village college. After this meeting ten more over the printing at his place of work even when the written but now are computer lists from 2013 to now. SS people joined the board: Ivy Baston, Susan Squires, Ron company no longer did their own printing. Eventually with road names and house numbers. and Jeanette Newstead, Herbert Gray, Maureen Ball, the machines ceased to work and Ken gave up. Quite The deliverer is also told the expected Rev. Brian Sturtridge, and Rob Thomas. Subscriptions often when machines broke down the magazine ended delivery date for the remainder of the numbered 575 by the end of the year. The production up being duplicated. All this time we just bought the year. Various committee members cost of the first four issues was £124.19.1 (today’s paper and paid for the masters. Then Chavelly Press organised distribution, including equivalent would be £1,946). Now our yearly production (later became Acorn) took over but we had to pay! Now Jeannette Warner, Jean Osborne and costs are more than £13,000! the magazine is printed by E. & E. Plumridge of Linton. now Cheryl Ellis. Hand-written articles were sent to the typists who converted them into type on the correct size of paper. Top: Jeannette Warner, Martin Thurgood, Jean Osborne, Isabel Powell, From top: Collating at the Free Church; Gayle Webb, Richard Maunder, Helen Sharpe, Fred West and Marilyn Community Prize 1987; Beck and Yasmin collect the Cambridge The editor then arranged them into pages. I believe the Maunder. Centre: Jean Osborne, Bill Town, Rod Griggs and Eric Jacobs. Community Magazine Award for best front page in 2013; and for best first issue was typed on to stencils and then run off on a Bottom: Rod Griggs, Brian Sturtridge, Cathy Odell and Rob Thomas. low-frequency magazine in 2019.

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