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The Syresham Times May 2020 Edition MAY DAYS PAST! The May Queen’s Procession Stay Home Protect the NHS Save Lives 50p (where sold) MAY 2020 GOODBYE BUFFERING HELLO seamless streaming with unrivalled speed Our ultrafast full fi bre broadband lets you stream in Ultra HD, game online and use multiple devices at the same time without interruption - you name it, you can do it, watch it, play it. Choose your perfect broadband package at gigaclear.com/streamnow Call 0370 224 8918 PF18508 Gigaclear - CirencesterEarthtrust 148x210_AW.indd Scene Magazine 148x210_AW.indd 1 1 11/02/202011/03/2020 11:15 What’s in this issue? 3 From the Editor Contents Page The Kings Head Inn 4 – 7 Parish Council News and Advice St James Church Lock Down poem From the Editor’s Desk 8 As I began to put this edition together, 9 An evacuee remembers Corona Virus and Covid-19 were little known and very distant infections in 10 An Evacuee remembers China. It has been quite scary how an 11-13 Ultimate Sacrifice Sudoku solutions invisible enemy has spread so rapidly The TYS Pantomime remembered across the globe, wreaking havoc 14-15 among so many families. 16 Thanks for support Sylvie Essame Dance So much activity in our community has 17 Syresham’s Hero Gardening Club been curtailed and the streets are deserted, with only occasional visitors Post Office & Shop Children and Lock- to the shop which thankfully remains 18 down open, albeit with restrictions. Maintaining social distance of 2 metres 19 Syresham Chapel Village news—RIP on walks even with relatives and family News from Silverstone Circuit Talks are going ahead to consider ways is not easy. 20 TYS Talent Show Silverstone Circuit For as long as possible, news on this of running “behind closed doors” And across the nation, calls to heed the events. 21 Keith Friday’s Sudoku Puzzles year’s F1GP at Silverstone has been strong advice by the experts and the held back, but now it has been Silverstone Circuit has indicated that, politicians, seemingly went unnoticed, confirmed that normal racing in front many FREE tickets will be available for until it became very obvious that the ADVERTISING of the usual crowds is not going to be law had to be tightened. NHS and other Key workers, as a thank Russell Woolley possible in July. you for all that they have done in the Now 6 weeks into the epidemic, the [email protected] Formula current situation. village still has an eerie silence about it, 07772-028422 1 Racing, and people are very nervous of going Please send articles and pictures to From Stuart Pringle, MD Silverstone Ian Draper at 9 Bell Lane, SYRESHAM out. All of that is understandable. BRDC [email protected] and In the absence for the first time in Tel: 01280-850388 OR 07966-196033 Silverstone Circuits have all confirmed 2020 SCARECROW memory of a School May Day fete and Photographs in this edition are provided by Ilse Berry, that the health, safety and wellbeing the crowning of the May Queen and her Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Eames Family, or all those involved is paramount and FESTIVAL Escort, I have delved into archive Find a Grave.com, Archives, Keith Friday, Leonard Hawkins, History Society, Keith Watts so the racing cannot proceed as usual. photographs from the early 20th Cover Photographs:- All those who have purchased tickets century of the traditional May Day Maypole Dancing at the School—History Society Archives are being advised that tickets can be DETAILS TO BE celebrations in Syresham. COPY DEADLINE FOR THE carried over to next year, or a full ANNOUNCED WHEN A Thank you to all our contributors who refund will be made. have raided their memory banks with NEXT ISSUE:- DATE CAN BE DECIDED fond memories of village life. THURSDAY JULY 30TH 2020 Ian Draper, May 2020 20 3 Parish Council This seems to be working well. It would be good to hear what you leaders, the World Health However, if anyone reading this still have done. Organization, national governments, The Parish Council needs any assistance or information, Luca Berry and local leaders too – heads of would first of all like please contact our Clerk on schools, hospitals and institutions. to thank all residents STAY HOME PROTECT THE NHS [email protected] There is Since you have positioned these people for adhering to the government SAVE LIVES also a list of helpful contacts published in public service for this hour, we ask guidelines during the Covid-19 crisis - by the Clerk in this magazine for you to you to grant them wisdom beyond helping to keep us all safe. We also refer to. Please do not hesitate to use SYRESHAM CHAPEL their own wisdom to contain this virus, express our most sincere gratitude and any of these services if you need to. We were very faith beyond their own faith to fight appreciation to all our local key privileged a couple of During this crisis the business of the this fear, and strength beyond their workers who are working so hard - in weeks before lock Parish Council continues as usual – own strength to sustain virtual some cases putting their own lives at down to go to The almost! We are meeting remotely via institution through this time of turmoil. risk - to keep our community Dominion Theatre to Zoom. This is of course new to most of Dot functioning and help save lives. see The Prince of Egypt the story of us and is something of a step-up from We applaud you all. the life of Moses, a wonderful Sad News in the Village talking to our children and afternoon to look back on. It is with great regret that we report At the start of this grandchildren via WhatsApp and the recent passing of Syresham crisis, shortly before Facetime! We are getting used to it! Regretfully to comply with ‘lockdown’, the Parish Government regulations we closed people. You will all have seen the lovely new Council’s Emergency the Chapel but via a telephone link Aubrey Green passed away in March, play equipment provided by the Parish Planning Committee by splitting the congregation into two David Sheppard in April and Council in the Swingfield. Sadly we met to discuss the situation and decide sections we can still listen to our Rosemary Smith died in Manchester have had to close the play area in on a course of action to support our speaker every Sunday evening. We where she lived after moving from accordance with government community. First of all we endeavoured even had a Passover service and Syresham. guidelines. But hopefully it will not be to identify the members of the parish Communion in our own homes. too long before we are able to open it Rosemary was the widow of Canon who, for various reasons, might Thanks to Cathy and Beryl for again. And good news! We have Smith, and she was a former experience problems with things such organising this. managed to secure funding through Churchwarden and co-editor along as shopping, obtaining medication, the Section 106 fund from the new We extend our love and sympathy to with Dr Philip Pettit of the Syresham feeling isolated etc. They all received a development for some further new the family of Aubrey Green. Aubrey Times. She was 90, and had recently letter informing them that they should and exciting equipment for the had worshipped at our Church all his contracted the Corona Virus. contact the Parish Clerk if they needed toddlers of our village. Again, hopefully life and served in many positions. Leslie Windle of The Pound, has also help of any kind. it will not be too long before the Sadly the service to commemorate passed. At the same time the Clerk was installation of this can take place. his life as had to be put on hold but We will carry further tributes to them compiling a list of volunteers who could David has it all arranged to happen as There’s more good news too! The in the next edition. provide that help. The Church and soon as we are able. Parish Council has secured new Chapel were doing something similar, A different View funding for the renovation of the Before lockdown the Chapel was so we quickly liaised together in order Pocket Park. We are sure many people open for anyone to go in and pray Tory voters that we could make sure have been visiting this area during and a copy of a prayer for At the next election, that all members of our their period of ‘daily exercise’ and you deliverance from the corona virus Stay home community were will have noticed that there is work to was available. Here is an extract we Protect the NHS contacted and kept in be done on it! Hopefully the would love to share with you all: Save lives. touch with volunteers. renovation work can be carried out God of all Wisdom, we pray for our Willie Bennie 19 4 reported on in the last edition and the Lock Down for the before too long in order that you can have anyone who can assist you, second was a trip out to see the village children continue to enjoy this area after ‘lock- please contact the Syresham Parish beautiful snowdrops at Coton Manor Hi, I am Luca Berry. I am 11 down’. We will also be organising some Clerk, Samantha Hosking (01280 Gardens near Guilsborough, thoroughly years old in year 6 at ‘community events’ in the Pocket Park 851178, [email protected]). enjoyed by all who went on the visit.
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