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September 2017 The Parish Newsletter of St Mary’s, Weston Colville and St Andrew’s, West Wratting The views expressed herein are those of the contributors. Printed by E & E Plumridge Ltd, Linton (Cambridge 891407) Saturday Morning Café, West Wratting Pop-up Pub in the Reading Room We enjoyed another wonderful gathering at On Friday 1st September from the café on 5th August. The café will run next on 7 pm in the Reading Room, we're Saturday 2nd September between 10.30 am launching Weston Colville's first and noon in the village hall. Pop-up Pub. All welcome, The café works by different volunteers offering to including children. Full range of serve and donate cakes every month. There is always drinks (soft and alcoholic) and a play corner set up for kids and a bookstall with snacks available. Fish and chips second hand books. (or chicken and chips, or veg burger and chips) are also available at a price of £6, Please come and join us for a catch up over tea / served at about 8 pm, to be paid for on the night, but coffee and delicious cake! must be ordered in advance (by midday on Sherry (290070) and Catherine (291307) 31stAugust) via email to [email protected]. Alternatively, orders can be lodged with Christine at Tea and Cakes, Weston Colville the village post office (again by midday on 31stAugust, please). The school summer holidays mean Jeremy Newton that Tea and Cakes is a bit quieter. It’s lovely how each gathering is different. As always, thank you so much all of you who help out. We get together next on Friday 1st September,from 3.30 until 5 pm, in the Reading Room. Please come along for a chat over a cuppa and a piece of cake. Ploughmans Melanie and the Tea and Cakes Team (291319) Raffle Produce auction West Wratting Over 60s Bar The next club meeting, including lunch, will be held West Wratting Village Hall at The Chestnut Tree at 12.30 pm, on Wednesday Adults £10 6th September. children £5 30th September At last month's meeting (at Janet’s) we were treated to 7 pm till midnight refreshments and given quizzes to test our memory of past memorable events. All in all, a most enjoyable afternoon. The following meeting will be held on 4th October at Tickets available from The Chestnut Tree. Karen: 291229 Wendy Halls !1 September 2017 GARDEN MAINTENANCE We service and repair all garden machinery. We offer a professional and reliable service We also have a fully stocked showroom with from lawn mowing to new planting projects. new and secondhand machines ranging from Other services include tree surgery and strimmers through to ride-on tractors. hedge cutting. Please telephone Zara or Francis at Free collection and delivery. Napier Garden Planning Gog Magog Mower Services Tel : 01638 508847 Unit 1, Copley Hill Business Park, Babraham Westley Waterless, Newmarket 01223 832894 [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.gogmagogmowers.co.uk West Wratting Harvest Supper start this meeting at 7.30 pm and we are delighted that the author will then join us at approximately 8.30 pm This year’s event will take place on Saturday to discuss his book and answer questions. Please do th 30 September, starting at 7 pm and finishing at try to read this book and join us for what should prove midnight. to be an interesting evening. All welcome. The format will be the same as previous years: we Linda Gorman will be serving a simple supper of cheese and ham ploughman’s, followed by apple pies/crumbles. West Wratting Recreation Ground Car Park There will be a raffle, produce auction and bar. You may have noticed a chain blocking the entrance Tickets: Adults £10, Children £5. to the car park. The parish council were led to believe As this is a community event I am looking for people that a group of travellers who were evicted from to help with running the supper (before, during and Cherry Hinton were seeking a new site. As an after), as well as donations for the raffle, produce emergency measure, the parish council, with the auction and apple crumbles/pies. If you will be free cooperation of the football club, decided to take this and can help with the supper, please email or leave a precautionary action to prevent any unwanted message. Thank you. occupation of the site. This will be reviewed at the Karen (291229, [email protected]) next parish council meeting. Please contact me for any further information. West Wratting Book Club Mira Nichols ([email protected]) Vice Chair, West Wratting Parish Council There is still time to read ‘Colonel Belchamps’s Battefield Tour’ by local author, Adrian Crisp, in time for our next book club meeting on Wednesday Churchyard Clear-up – West Wratting 13th September at The Chestnut Tree, as well as ‘A The autumn clear-up of St Andrew's churchyard will th Street Cat Named Bob’ by James Bowen. We plan to take place on Saturday 11 November, 10 am to 12 noon. Everyone welcome, and, as ever, doughnuts and coffee will be served. Colin McCall (290036) Change of Address Canon John Fellows’ new address is: 29 Upper Olland Street Bungay NR35 1BE Telephone: 01986 984414 (no change) Email: [email protected] (no change). !2 September 2017 shortly, and there is planning approval for conversion into a four bedroom house. There are a number of memorial stones in the chapel grounds and we have been advised by our (Methodist Church) legal department that memorial stones technically belong to the families of the people they mark to remember. We should try to ascertain whether any family members are still local to the area. If any are identified then they should be The Weston Colville Archive asked what should be This archive was collected by Professor Roger done with the Whitehead and myself between 2000 and 2016 and stones. If no includes several hundred photographs of Weston family Colville people, local scenes, and houses from the 19th century until modern times. It has now been deposited at the Cambridgeshire Collection, Lion members can Yard, Cambridge, as I no longer have the space to be identified store it and where it will be properly looked after and then they accessible to all. should remain on site and be However, I continue to keep my own bound copy of left for the the transcripts of the parish registers 1599 - 1950, the purchaser to church inscriptions and gravestones, a complete copy deal with, of the poems of James Reynolds Withers (the unless they th 19 century Weston Colville rural poet), and the are of historical interest to other parties. However it original copy of the Womens' Institute history of the is possible that anything left on site may be destroyed village compiled in 1951, all of which can be rather than preserved. produced at short notice. I would be grateful to know whether any relatives can If anyone has old photos, documents or papers be traced. I have also spoken to members of St relating to the history of Weston Colville please Mary's church who will enquire of their members. contact me so that I can at least see them, hopefully copy them, or accept them as an addition to the The individuals commemorated on the memorial archive in the Cambridgeshire Collection. stones outside the chapel are:- Tim Cockerill ([email protected]) JUDITH ELLAM wife of JOHN ELLAM (died 4th August 1863) and daughter JULANAH ELLAM (died 17th May 1852) Memorial Stones, Methodist Chapel JOSEPH FROST (died 8th July 1880) The Methodist chapel at Weston Colville has been JAMES LORD (died 29th August 1880). poorly attended for a number of years, and the congregation ceased to meet in 2011. After much I remember a Miss Gwen Lord and her sister who heart searching the trustees eventually decided to attended the chapel back in the 1970s/80s, although I close the church, and extensive discussions with am unsure whether they were related to James Lord. various people and bodies revealed that the village John Loader (01440 703947) had no further use for such a building. You will Haverhill Methodist Circuit Property Secretary probably be aware that the chapel is due to be sold !3 September 2017 Weston Colville Cinema Club Weston Colville We’re back for the season on Reading Room Wednesday 4th October, when our film will be a comedy, and on Wednesday 1st November for a biopic of a musician. For details, see posters at the Circular Walk Reading Room or look on the Reading Room website. We’re heading out on Saturday, 30th September, for a Alternatively, email as below to subscribe to our walk of approximately five miles. Meet at the mailing list. The evening will start at 7.30 pm with a Reading Room at 10.00 am, BYO lunch, and maybe pre-screening talk; refreshments available, all something to share. One of our newer regulars is welcome. bringing a chilli, with a veg option too. You can put food in the fridge before we set off, if you’d like, and Enquiries for all these events: refreshments will be available. [email protected] or 291475 Weston Colville Reading Room, Chapel Rd, Demonstration and Talk: John English – Weston Colville, Cambridge CB21 5NX Woodturner John, a member of the Essex Guild of Craftsmen and West Wratting Oil Syndicate the National Association of Woodturners, will come There will be a fill up this month, with the cutoff for and demonstrate how he works with wood.