July 2013 Don’t Forget! No. 133 The Nailsworth News Team are a bunch Nailsworth of dedicated volunteers who take pleasure in bringing you the local news each month. The Team take a break after this News issue for a month, so there will be no A free monthly community paper August paper, as is usual. We hope you for the parish of Nailsworth, look forward to your own summer respite, available in colour on our website and we will be back through your letter www.nailsworthnews.org.uk box at the beginning of September.

Queen’s Birthday Honours in Nailsworth! t is not said a few words of grateful thanks and appreciation of just Margaret and her great efforts and presented a bouquet of Isport flowers. Also, Angela Endacott, also received a bouquet in where appreciation of her support and help towards Margaret. Nailsworth The British Empire Medal should be awarded here in has some Nailsworth by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire fame, but sometime in the autumn. also in other (Ed. - Our apologies if we have missed anyone out from important the recent Queen’s Honours - please let us know and will roles as rectify things!) well. At the recent Queen’s Birthday Honours, the following have been honoured for their services - David Carter - (Knight Batchelor) Exec. Principal, Cabot Learning Federation. “Services to Education.” Photo above left. Margaret Marshall - (British Empire Medal) “Services to the communities in Forest Green and Nailsworth.” Steve Webb - (Order of the British Empire) Hon. Vice President of the Nat. Assc. of Clubs of Young People. “Services to Young People.” It is especially pleasing that Margaret has gained her Award for all her works being for the the residents of Forest Green and Nailsworth. Whether working for Christchurch or for Forest Green, it is probably her persistence in getting the Arkle Centre built which will be her legacy. Fifteen years ago when the secondary school closed, Margaret said, “We now need a community centre - how do we get one?” As they say - the rest is history. Recently a special tea party was held in the Arkle Centre in honour of Margaret post her BEM announcement, and the main hall was packed with friends from the community, her knitting circle, Christchurch and members of the Council who dealt with all the ‘political’ matters over the building of the Centre. Mayor Myles Robinson (pictured right with Margaret)

Jacaranda Changing Hands See page 17 for news of ee inside for your new florist. ventures on SCheer leading at FGR, some smashing • SALES • LETTINGS Sports news, What’s On covering two months activities, 20 Questions answered by our new Mayor, art work from Nailsworth Primary School, • LAND & NEW HOMES Centre Spread giving interesting facts about architecture in our wonderful town and a report 7 Fountain Street, Nailsworth, and photos of the recently devised Market Street Glos. GL6 0BL Market. Keep the news rolling in to the email www.perrybishop.co.uk addresses on page 2. We love to hear from you! Tel: 01453 836736 Have a wonderful summer. Ed Email: [email protected] 1 Local News Be Wary of Council Tax Refund Offers Free monthly newspaper Following on from our article in the May edition of the NN, Stroud District Council is warning its residents to be wary of companies offering to arrange for Nailsworth parish council tax refunds on their behalf. Published by the Nailsworth News team Photographer: Martin Stone Local residents have reported concerns about letters offering to help them Production: Leopard Press reduce their council tax. The letters appear to be part of a wider mailshot as it Editor: Gail Jones 07758 882528, quotes an address for council tax reduction which does not appear to be a local [email protected] address. or c/o And Clothes, Market Street June Cordwell, chair of Stroud District Council’s community services Asst. & Sports Editor: Martin Stone 833132, committee, said, [email protected] Business Editor: Bill Affleck 832619, “Over the past week we have been made aware of a company which is [email protected] writing to residents in the district, quoting incorrect information on property Advertising: Tracey Clements 872299, bands and implying that neighbours have already benefited from a change in [email protected] their council tax band and a large refund.” Treasurer: David Cox 836119, The letter states that the firm believes the household is in the wrong band [email protected] and could reduce its council tax bill by £325 a year. The company will claim Centre Spread Editor: Carole de Lacroix, a fee of 30% + vat based on the refund and this would apply to the full refund [email protected] Youth Editor: Eilidh Houghton amount and not just the saving on a year’s council tax. [email protected] You are being encouraged to ignore these letters. Residents with queries Hard copy and payment: c/o Shiny Goodness, regarding their council tax banding should contact the Valuation Office, the Fountain St. agency which sets the council tax bands, directly and free of charge. Distribution: Don Luke 832812, The letter does not explain that a reassessment of the council tax value could [email protected] result in a potential increase and also refers to terms and conditions which are What’s On: Jemma Kilyon, only available by contacting the company. [email protected] IT: Jonathan Duckworth Trading Standards also advises that consumers should not give personal Editorial Support: Joyce Affleck details in response to unsolicited letters or phone call unless they are confident Postal subscriptions at £7 per year: of the legitimacy of the company and should be wary of signing any forms Veronica Luke 832812 unless they have full details of the obligations in the contract. Advertising rates: £5 + £13 per unit of 60 x 30 These latest concerns follow numerous calls to the council in April when mm (w x h): residents were cold called by phone or visited on their doorstep by companies • Larger than 3 units only if space permits • £1 discount per unit for three insertions if offering a similar service. Taking up these offers is likely to leave residents booked and paid in advance unnecessarily out of pocket. • £5 surcharge for a specific page If any householder thinks that their property is in the wrong band you can Space is limited and Nailsworth advertisers take contact the Valuation Office and any refund will be paid in full to them. More priority. Payment in advance please: cheques to information can be found on the Valuation Office’s website at Nailsworth News. www.voa.gov.uk or telephone 03000 501501. Advertisements are accepted at these rates on the basis that they can be incorporated into the finished paper without modification. This implies District Council News a typographic quality standard. If your advert We are now in the transition from the cabinet to the committee system and all doesn’t meet this standard you’ll be asked to the committees met towards the end of June. resubmit an ‘improved’ version. Alternatively the Nailsworth News team can provide design Of the four committees your councillors sit on three, Emma on Housing, assistance in which case a surcharge will be Rowland on Community Services and Paul on Strategy & Resources. The fourth applied to the cost of the advertisement. Which committee being Environment. ever course you choose the advert must be Two of the committees, Environment and Strategy & Resources reviewed the available to the editor by the copy deadline. final version of the Local Plan before it is ratified by full council at the meeting Deadline for advertising, copy and payment: at the end of July. After this it has to be vetted and approved by a government 10th of the month (there is no paper in January or inspector before it becomes our definitive plan. August). This is all about how many houses need to be built and where the building Deadline for articles to the Editor: 15th of the should be. Until this plan is in place there is a risk that developers may win month. appeals against refusals where the council do not consider the developments to Copyright notice: photographs in this paper are either submitted by residents / businesses, archive be suitable. material, or taken by Martin Stone or other team If you have any issues that we can help you with please contact one of your members. The person who took the photograph district councillors: retains all rights in it. If you would like a copy of one, please contact the Editor who will put you Rowland Blackwell 01453 833043 [email protected] in touch with the appropriate person; it is their Paul Carter 01453 832961 [email protected] decision whether (and how much) to charge. Emma Sims 01453 835105 [email protected]

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Views expressed in this paper are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Nailsworth News team. We reserve the right to edit or omit any material submitted for publication. No liability is accepted for loss or damage arising from any omission of copy or advertising. Material submitted for publication will only be returned if accompanied by a SAE. Nailsworth News is published and distributed entirely by volunteers, with production costs defrayed by advertising. More volunteers are always welcome - if you would like to join the team, please get in touch with the Editor. 2 Local Affairs Myles Robinson, Mayor’s appropriate, used for documentary Report film making. Please contact me if you would be interested in viewing them. t was a great honour to be selected As you may be aware, the Council Iby my fellow town councillors to has recently carried out a Housing be the Mayor of Nailsworth. I have Needs Survey. The report, which also been touched by the number stresses the need for more social of messages of good wishes I have housing, has been passed to Stroud received. It has been said more than District Council, whilst your Town once that Steve Robinson will be a Council is encouraged to seek to hard act to follow. It will be. He was identify appropriate potential housing extremely hard working, considerate sites. and approachable. I hope I will be as For the past 10 years or so the Town visible in the town as he was. I will Clock, on the corner of Bridge Street aim to attend the monthly Farmers’ and George Street has been dutifully Market in the Mortimer Gardens maintained by Jim Eddyshaw. Our as well as being at as many town thanks go to Jim as he retires and the functions as possible and be available clock will in future be maintained by to meet and discuss issues of concern David Duvall. with residents. There is a date for your diary. On The new Town Information Centre health and well being, waste and 13th July, between 10.00 am and next to the library is currently recycling, ASB, cooking, wildlife, 12.00 noon, there will be a Drop In undergoing extensive renovation first aid and animal care. I was hugely Surgery at The Arkell Centre. This and will be open in August to give impressed by the work these young is an opportunity to meet councillors residents and visitors closer access people had completed. (See p11) representing you on the County, to the Town Council and your Movie films of life in Nailsworth District and Town Councils and raise councillors. taken by the late Lionel Bathe from any concerns you may have regarding My first official duty as Mayor the 1940’s onwards have been held the services provided. was to present awards to 16 young by our Archives in the Town Hall people who had completed the Junior for some years. The Town Council myles.robinson@nailsworthtowncouncil. Wardens Project held at Nailsworth have now arranged for these to be gov.uk Youth Club. For those in School Year transferred onto modern DVD discs so Phone 01453 836828 6, the project covered team building, they can more easily be viewed and, if People in the Stroud District gambling with their guts? Food Standards Agency poll exposes South West England’s risky food hygiene habits People in the South West are putting their health at risk its ‘use by’ date – the most frequent food safety gamble when cooking at home, a new survey has shown. 81% of admitted. those asked in the South West admitted to one or more While admitting these risky kitchen habits, more than habits that put them at risk of food poisoning, including 87% said they are confident they get things right with food 28% admitting they would eat food that has been dropped hygiene all or most of the time and 95% believe they’ve on the floor and 19% not washing their hands properly never given family or friends food poisoning. If they do before preparing food. fall ill themselves, only 5% of people in the South West These kitchen horrors have been exposed at the start of consider whether the cleanliness of their own kitchen is Food Safety Week, which ran from 10 - 16 June. During the cause. the week, Stroud District Council’s food safety team wants However, the survey also showed some encouraging to get people in the District thinking about food hygiene at examples – 93% said they wash chopping boards in home, by completing the new Kitchen Check. The Kitchen between preparing raw and ready-to-eat food and almost Check gets people to look at their own food preparation 76% stick to the recommended 48 hours for keeping practices and will give them a score and some tips based leftovers in the fridge. on their answers. Cllr Simon Pickering, Chair of Stroud District Council’s The survey also reveals that 42% people in the South Environment Committee said, “We want local people to West don’t check ‘use by’ dates, with 90% of them think about food hygiene practices in their own homes and wrongly using the ‘sniff test’ and 70% just checking the make knowledgeable decisions about how they should colour – even though this will not always reveal whether store and prepare food.” food is safe to eat. Unlike ‘best before’ dates, ‘use by’ For more information on safe eating in the home and to dates relate to safety and are based on scientific testing, yet take the Kitchen Check visit: food.gov.uk/kitchen-check 42% of those questioned said they would eat food after

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On the next day, a Saturday, I and between 1993 and 1997 was walked into the first estate agent in County Councillor for Nailsworth. the row, and asked to speak to the Married to Angela, he has three sons principal stating I would like a job. and five grandchildren. Clifford Cole, a blunt Yorkshireman silently looked me up and down and 1. Best and/or worst job you have ever then said, “You better start on Monday done? then, lad.” Five years later I was one of Since 1986, I have been running a his business partners. family property company, specializing in the building of small industrial 14. What has been your most workshops. I have enjoyed my rewarding experience? working career and the present Watching my three sons complete the period of handing the business onto 2007 London Marathon, all in very to the next generation is particularly good times. rewarding. 15. Four favourite dinner guests 2. How important was your (dead or alive). education? With my principle interests in politics, I was rather a late developer. I got athletics and opera, I would invite my degree in History through Open Shirley Williams, founder member University in 2006, aged 56! At school, A little more hair. of the Liberal Democrats, Haile Geography and History interested me, Gebreselassie, the great Ethiopian 8. When you were a child, what did distance runner and the Australian but I struggled at some of the other you want to be when you grew up? subjects. soprano Joan Sutherland. My fourth Left wing for Newcastle United. guest would be my father. He died 3. Did you have a Saturday job? (and Although I only spent the first five when I was eleven, and I only have what was it?) years of my life in Newcastle, my rather faint memories of him. I occasionally worked in a butchers’ mother convinced me during my shop plucking poultry. It was horrible! childhood that Newcastle was the 16. 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So solar panels without insisting that they andI we thought it would be good to hear there’ve been some teething problems do so? All the clever things such as solar how it had gone. as far as balancing the financial books panels, grey water recycling, rainwater Cotswold Plastics use quite a bit of are concerned, but the generation, by harvesting, like proper insulation and electrical energy – up to some 500kW the solar panels, looks good overall. good double glazing are so much easier peak load. The available roof area for Over the year about 54 MWh has been and cheaper to put in when the building the panel installation couldn’t match produced. This sounds impressive, but is under construction than to retrofit. this sort of power requirement but, there are a lot of hours in a year but the Are we, as a nation, really serious about 50kW capacity was installed. How averaged rate, based on daylight hours energy and resource conservation or these systems on commercial premises is still a respectable 10kW. Of course are we just solving the energy crisis by work is that all the electricity generated we all have memories of last year’s ‘it’s generating hot air? is fed back to the electricity supplier going to be a barbeque summer’, but We have our quota of listed buildings and the supplier pays at an agreed rate even so the installation should pay for in and around Nailsworth and if you for what is generated. The consumer, itself quite comfortably in ten years. want to test official enthusiasm for in this case Cotswold Plastics, buys On another occasion we’ll tell you energy conservation try putting double electricity from the supplier in the about how the solar panels on the glazing into a listed building…Shock, normal way, but when the quarterly Arkell Centre are doing and the very horror, cries of vandalism. bill is computed there is a credit for impressive array on the FGR stadium. If And while we’re on our high horse the electricity produced by the rooftop you’ve got solar experience you’d like we came across a new, to us, acronym. solar panels. That all looks pretty to share we’d like to hear from you. We’re all familiar with NIMBY straightforward, but… There’s only one Yes, solar works, even in our northern – Not In My Back Yard – but had latitudes. The technology has advanced you encountered BANANA – Build and the life expectation of the solar Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near picture installations is now far longer than the Anything? That really says it all, financial repayment time – which wasn’t whether it’s a waste incinerator or your framers always the case. So here’s the big neighbour’s proposed greenhouse. BA question: Why, when we hear so much Visit our shop - on’t you just love road signs? Some it hasn’t been for quite a few years, through the wrought iron gates Dof our favourites, in no particular but they are good durable signs, in Morrisons Car Park, or park order, are: good for at least another decade of outside the shop in the estate false information spreading. Choose from 500 mouldings, • Signs on the M5 telling you of • At what point does ‘new road 200 mount colours and road works 3 miles ahead. These layout ahead’ cease to have news many ready-made frames are posted well beyond the last value? Again, good durable signs Turn your favourite photo into a full point at which you could leave the which may well still be there when size canvas - stretched or framed! motorway and take an alternative the layout is next changed. We’ll be glad to help you find a great route. What are you supposed to • The dogleg on the A46 in solution for all your framing needs! do? What do you do – nothing. Inchbrook needs respect and 30 unit 42 nailsworth mills estate • As you approach the Recycle mph is a good maximum speed nailsworth, stroud, gl6 0bs Centre outside Horsley you’ll for negotiating it. Going north we spot signs saying ‘litter picking in have an electronic sign telling you 01453 836134 progress’; this is a lie; it isn’t and to slow down – but only if you’re already exceeding the 40 mph limit on the A46; going south you’re NAILSWORTH warned of the bends with a 30 mph maximum recommendation. VAC • ‘Queues possible ahead’ – big deal; COMPUTERS ‘Weather damaged road surface’ – Doctor YOUR LOCAL yes, we’d noticed! As well as our COMPUTER STOCKIST “Cleaner laid low...? repair service we LAPTOPS & PCS FROM £100 can supply NEW BRAND NEW FROM £350 machines, SPARES, VIRUS REMOVAL, COMPUTER We’ll soon have it up and CLEANER UPGRADES, DATA RECOVERY BAGS. COME AND TALK TO US FOR DETAILS and running.” Before you go NO COMPUTER JARGON elsewere give us a NO FIX NO FEE GUARANTEE call for prices and friendly advice. 01453 832151 FREE For a fast cure Call Tom Seed OPPOSITE MORRISONS SUPERMARKET Collection & Return www.nailsworthcomputers.com 01453 834700 or 07773397832 [email protected] 8 The Giant Awakes . . . Community n the form of the Market Street Market. Once, the main shopping area of town, it is now definitely on the up again. Previous Iattempts to remind people of this street have not always gone to plan; but, with the imagination and determination of the traders here, things are afoot! The recent market (road closed etc.) was a massive success. Yes, takings from all the traders was greatly up, but also many people had not really thought of popping down here to shop and browse. “I didn’t know this street had so much going for it ...” was just one comment among many. On the same day as the Farmers Market in the Mortimer Gardens, Market Street will be open as usual, but will also enable shoppers to ‘do the loop’ and test the glorious shops on offer. “There is an amazing array of shops selling wonderful things of all sorts. There will also be alfresco dining, coffees / teas / food, musicians, special offers and we hope a classic motorcar exhibition will bring back the shoppers and locals. The Street is run solely by local tradesman and we are determined to put it back on the map,” said Andy of Andy’s Attic. The Sub Rooms (opposite) will also have things going on for the kids, so there is Bob Court Engineering Services something for everyone! Buskers, singers and • Boiler servicing incl LPG musicians are strongly encouraged to appear - • Electrical work please get in contact! • Landlord’s certificates For more info - please call: Gas Safe registered, Andy (01453 299079) or qualified, reliable Emily (01453 834402) 0797 181 4017 or 01453 833291

OLDEN STONES hidden gem’ is quite often used for various venues and areas of GARDENING ‘ANailsworth and surely Market Street must qualify for this title as well! • extra sockets & lights • Solar PV Garden Maintenance Names are given to streets and areas Installations • security lighting and Landscaping to describe what they were / are used for • fuse board changes • Electric Vehicle and as such, seeing the Saturday market • fault finding & rectification Charging Station Trees, Hedges, Patios, Paving, • test & inspection Installation reborn in Market Street is a great thing. Decking, Turfing & Fencing There were a few attempts to revive All work insured & guaranteed. this area some years ago with a monthly NICEIC Domestic Installer For a free estimate contact open market - it never quite took off, For a FREE QUOTE, call Simon Chris Blackwell but the two recent monthly events here on 01453 834323 / 0777 3333061 on 07939 101520 or 01453 835032 have restored the faith, quite possibly email: [email protected] because it happens on the same day as the www.goldenstonesgardening.co.uk Farmers’ Market and allows a ‘shopping experience’ in the loop! Sash Window Painters Ltd It would be great to keep this monthly We can paint your sash windows from the inside out event going throughout the year and not avoiding the need for sca old. Through our sister just in the summer. In time, people will get used to it - maybe, even make it a company we can also arrange any necessary repairs. weekly affair as well - who knows? It For details call: 01453 861025 or 07950 888234 is certainly popular with the traders and with shoppers, seeing the street alive with music, buskers, outside stalls etc. Rather A great place to work ... like an original street would have been! It is a shame, however, that a town Shops, offices, factory units sometimes available councillor felt it was his right to make a point and gain access with his car to this Give us a call on 01453 832754 Nailsworth ‘closed road’ on a recent Market Saturday email: [email protected] www.eachamberlain.co.uk Mills Estate - claiming that the road was illegally shut. Apparently, the road was not illegally closed - all the proper ‘paperwork’ had Mark Kelly City & Guilds trained been signed off by the relevant authorities and if it was an ‘illegal’ closure, surely the Local references available best thing to do would be to have a quiet Plumbing word and sort out responsibly. & Bathrooms 01453 836096 or 07834 318459 9 Community here is a nation Nailsworth on Film! Twide project to David James and his wife encourage churches and local authorities to manage Angharad are probably better churchyards, cemeteries and burial grounds in a way known to us for opening which encourages wild-life and nature conservation. ‘Enchanted Childhood’, that In both urban and rural settings ‘God’s Acre’ has amazing toyshop, just before been undisturbed except for burials, sometimes for Christmas. centuries. Depending on their location and geology, We may not know that the soil in them will be acid neutral or alkaline. This David is in fact a former in turn governs the species of wild flowers which BBC camera man and film naturally seed and flourish. editor before settling down in For example, in the Forest of Dean, Devon and Nailsworth last year. Dorset the roadside verges are full of foxgloves; To attract more people to on our unimproved limestone grassland we have Nailsworth and as a trial run, cowslips, orchids and many others including those David made a film about in the previous article. shopping in Nailsworth, Motorway banks are carefully seeded with introducing many shops and indigenous species like moon daises etc. If areas of businesses to the idea of high- grass in any churchyard are left longer after having quality online films. Such was been close mown regularly, many wild flowers the positive reaction, that he set up Cotswold Productions for local will appear and set seed. These in turn will create a businesses at recession beating prices. habitat where food for bees and other insects, birds, “Nailsworth is a fantastic shopping destination and we get many bats and invertebrates will add to their bio-diversity. people from Cheltenham and Gloucester and surrounds in the Even the lichens and mosses on the walls and toyshop and, as we know, the town in general,” said David. “But it’s tombstones have a value in this eco-system. a bit of a well-kept secret and if we want our high street to survive Mowing can be managed so that wide paths are and thrive we’ve got to get more people off the internet and back cut to access graves, with other parts cut in spring into the shops. I could see there were many business owners who and autumn to allow the grasses and flowers to could see the value of online and social media marketing, but just seed and feed the wildlife. All this needs careful didn’t have the time or skills to make the best of it. 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troud District Council’s Community Development OfficerCharlotte Nailsworth Dramatic Society Galling has worked in partnership with Nailsworth Youth Worker Young People are needed for Auditions & Tracy Young to deliver the Junior Warden project at Nailsworth Youth Workshop for a November Production. S Club. Junior Wardens invites 14 selected young people to take part in this Nailsworth Dramatic Society (NDS) is 9 week programme keen to open its doors to new members which delivers who may be wishing to become actors or interactive and to be part of the backstage and technical educational topics team. NSD welcomes members of all ages to the young people and particularly young people, 10 years to give them a better upwards. With this in mind, the Society, understanding and under the directorship of Lisle Purchase, sense of respect and is holding auditions for young people and ownership of their adults for the November production of local community. SMIKE, a pop musical freely based on Across the 9 week Charles Dickens’ ‘Nicholas Nickleby’. period the young Auditions for read/sing through are at people received Nailsworth Town Hall on: delivery sessions in First Aid, antisocial behaviour, cooking on a budget, Tuesday 9th July 7-9pm attributes of a neighbourhood warden, animal welfare, wildlife and much Thursday 11th July 7.30-9.30pm more. The project has been a huge success with support from Community Plus - SMIKE based Drama Workshop for Safety, Environmental Health and Gloucestershire Police and will soon be Young People at Nailsworth Town Hall: returning to deliver the project to a new group of young people in the local Tuesday 23rd July 1-5pm area. A big thanks to Tracy Young and Nailsworth Youth Club for being so For more information and to book a place supportive. on the Workshop, please contact: Lisle Purchase 01453 835744 or 07828079842 NDS look forward to welcoming you to its One stop shop for all your Society! motoring needs Cotswold Way Sponsored Walk for Servicing on all makes and models Nailsworth Youth Club from £79 riends and Staff of Nailsworth Youth Club will be walking 102 miles along Body repairs Fthe length of the Cotswold Way to raise funds for activities for young people. Vehicle Diagnostics The walk will take 5 days starting at Chipping Campden on Thursday July 25th 4 wheel laser alignment and ending in Bath on Monday 29th July. If you would like to sponsor any of our Tyres, Exhausts & More walkers then please drop into the youth club where Tracy, who is also doing the walk, has sponsorship forms or contact the youth club FREE on Courtesyplus Car 01453 833212 or email £25 OFF [email protected] on presentation Steve Robinson and Norman Kay will of this advertisement also be joining us for a day so they are also looking for sponsors. The money raised will Inchbrook Trading Estate go towards arts and sports equipment for the (A46) Bath Road, Nailsworth GL5 5EY young people. Auto Tracy Young - Youth & Community Worker Bodytech Nailsworth Youth Club 11 Schools e come to Wthe end of a celebratory year, including our successful Ofsted report, growing pupil numbers with seven classes again (one for each year group) and our 20th anniversary on top of the hill! (We will have lots to share on our celebration event next month). Our vision of love of learning, love of life and love of each other has served us well over the past four years as we have continued to improve the way children learn, engage in opportunities and work together. We feel it is time to review e were pleased that summer arrived in time for our Cluster what we have accomplished and what we wish to Wsports. This year we hosted the Year 2 sports and the children create for the future. We would love to hear what enjoyed a day packed with activities and races led by our Year 6 Nailsworth Town wants from its primary school pupils. At this time of the year it is encouraging to see that our Year and what the Town wishes for it in the future. 6 pupils have developed into such capable young people who are Over the Autumn term, I with representatives well prepared for the next stage of their learning journey – our only from the pupils, would like to visit different problem is that we wonder how we will manage without them! Of groups, organisations or create some public course, I am aware that our Yr 5 pupils will soon ‘step up’ to the meetings to hear how you perceive the school mark and provide those all important role models. and what it is you would wish for the school. The You may remember from my last report that our Wildlife Quiz information, ideas and feedback received will be got through to the area final. Unfortunately they did not win, but combined with the pupils, parents and staff views they did very well indeed and we are very proud of them. to create a vision for the next journey for the Before the end of the term we will be fitting in some trips out school. to Slimbridge and Goodrich Castle and we will be welcoming If you or your group/organisation are interested ‘Animal Antics’ into school to show a range of animals. Class in talking to us, please contact me, Vince 4 will be producing their version of Oliver and soon we will be Southcott, at school on 01453 832382 to arrange a meeting our new reception children as they begin their induction suitable time and venue. days later this term. We look forward to sharing our new vision I would like to thank all the wonderful people in the community and how you can help make it happen prior to who supported the duck race on Festival Saturday; it was a lovely Christmas. occasion. Hopefully, I will see many of you at the school /parish Enjoy the reports written by Year 4 children on fete on July 13th. the following page and some examples of school If not I will be in contact again in September. I hope everyone artwork. has a lovely summer! Vince Southcott - Head Teacher Margaret Smith, Nailsworth C of E Primary School 832382 Head Teacher St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School, 832682

Slave tales and longbows at Beaudesert set their imaginations alight with thoughts of how a slave Historic events were revisited in the leafy grounds of might have felt trapped aboard a rather more basic slave Beaudesert Park School recently when the school received ship way back when the trade was at its zenith from the a workshop visit from historical entertainment company 16th to 19th centuries … The children were enthralled, The History Squad. Teachers at Beaudesert are always and left feeling as if, just for a day, they were there when keen to bring subjects to life, and invited the company some of the back after their popularity two years previously. world’s most In full costume, and full flow, brandishing replica weapons important from the Middle Ages, the team regaled children from episodes were Years 7 and 8 with memorable accounts of the gruelling playing out for Hundred Years’ War including Henry V and his victory at real. Agincourt. www. After that, children from Years 5 and 6 climbed aboard beaudesert. a slave ship (otherwise known as part of the hugely gloucs.sch.uk popular forest adventure playground at the school!), and LIFE’S LITTLE REWARDS With its picturesque setting overlooking the Mill Pond, Egypt Mill is the perfect meeting place for friends and family. Enjoy a choice of coffee or a pot of tea, with an irresistible sweet treat from the day’s selection of homemade cake, New York cheesecake, chocolate brownie or toasted teacake. Just £4.70 (coffee/tea & teacake £3.70). 10am-12noon & 3pm-6pm.

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Grace Tapp Stop destroying the rainforest I believe we should stop destroying Nathan Wingfield the rainforest. Currently, the rainforest is being destroyed in the Nina Shann most appalling ways, which is totally inhumane and ultimately needless. The killers of the sea Without a doubt, the biggest The Great White shark is only argument against this calamity is one of a kind and is the most there is still so much to discover within ferocious kind of shark. Their the rainforest, even a possible cure for name is found by their belly Robert Turowski cancer. Can you imagine how upset because it is white. you would be if some one in your The Great White shark has 200 teeth in its jaw. Their family cancer and didn’t get cured. tail is shaped like a sharp fork to help it propel itself Another reason is why should through the water. The Great White has nostrils for humans selfishly think they have smelling and they breathe through their gills. the right to chop down these big and The Great White possesses amazing senses. This fierce beautiful trees that have inhabited the beast can smell around one drop of blood in a hundred Earth longer than the human race? litres. Another sense is an awareness of movement. Further more if this senseless They have sensitive pits on the snout which can detect behaviour continues there is a serious electrical currents given by other fish up to ten miles chance fifty percent of the animals in away. the world could become extinct. They are by Spain, America, New Zealand, South Some people might say logging America, South Africa, Africa and Australia. They provides work because paper is very normally stay by the shore. popular all over the world, where it’s The GreatWhite is a carnivore; it eats other types Rhiannon Ward considered a necessity. Where else of shark, fish, seals, sea lions and penguins. It could we get our cheap paper from? occasionally eats us! The Pulse In conclusion, the chopping of the Their babies are called pups; they give birth to about ten rainforest should cease. to fifteen pups. They live for about thirty years. Summer Multi In conclusion you now know Great White sharks are the Sports Days’ Leo Jones killers of the sea. Year 4 - Nailsworth C of E Primary For Ages 7-12 it promises Ben Coyle Year 4 - Nailsworth C of E Primary again to be a great couple of days of sporting action. Each day there will be lots “Whether you have a specifi c health issue to of sports, games and competitions, ranging from kwik address or just want to ensure you remain as fi t as you can - the team at Personal Best will always do cricket to crazy croquet and bench ball to basketball. their utmost to help you achieve your goal” Are you able to join us for 2 fun, action packed days? Don’t forget to wear appropriate clothing and footwear and suncream and bring any required medication, lots of water and your lunch. The total cost is £5 per child. CHIROPODY & All the activities will be run by The Pulse Academy and Kick Off Stroud sports coaches and PODIATRY AT Churches together in Nailsworth ... and is at Nailsworth Primary School on 25th PERSONAL BEST and 26th July 10am-3pm. CLINIC To finish the fun there will be a huge family BBQ with some sports on Friday at 3pm. Please bring your family and Do you suffer from any of the following? come along and spend the afternoon with us! • Diffi culty cutting toe nails • Corns, callus, itchy, fl aky or Collect your Forms from the school and • Fungal infected, discoloured dry skin or yellow nails • Cracked heels return by 15 July to book your place! For • Painful or thick toe nails • Blisters more info call Ruth Graveling -Youth and • In-growing toe nails • Painful foot joints, arches, Sports Minister - 07881936978 Professional craftsmanship • Bunions shins or knees [email protected] • Verrucae www.psalms.uk.net Specialists in: barn conversions extensions commercial shops FIND OUT WHY 96% OF OUR CLIENTS HAVE RECOMMENDED listed buildings renovations OUR SERVICES TO THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY restaurants new builds www.burleighparkconstruction.co.uk Visit www.personalbeststudio.co.uk or Call now to discuss your project call 01453 873811 to book your place Enail [email protected] 13 Some of Nailsworth’s, perhaps lesser known, architectural gems Carved stone panel of a groom and horses by Burrows (1925) over the garage at Springhill Court. Weavers Cottage on Horsley Road was built in the 1630s by a Flemish weaver. The original part of the late C17th / early C18th Bannut Tree House at Tabram’s Pitch is said to have been the old priest’s house adjoining a C14th Chapel of Ease to Avening (an alternative venue so parishioners didn’t have to walk all the way to Avening every Sunday). The house contains features from many different periods: medieval, Elizabethan, C17th, heraldic, some foreign said to have come from Fonthill Abbey, Jacobean carving and a fireplace with a Chinoiserie frieze. Some window jambs are decorated with shells and ladybirds. At the end of the C19, the Tabram family lived there and had a small museum. Little has changed from the 1904 photo above, with the chapel on the right and the priest’s house behind.

Early C18th Springhill House has a large Early-mid C19th former police station, then stone shell hood over the front door and pi- lasters doctors’ surgery in Church Street. (on Below, the doorway (inscribed carved 18 PUBLIC 77) to the old lion court room, demolished in heads 1977 for road widening. which have alas now gone)

Photos - courtesy of Nailsworth Archives 14 The late classic villa-style Railway Hotel pre-dates the railway branch line of 1864-67 and featured on a mid C19th print of the town.

Tudor Former inn, the Shears, in Watledge dates from 1804. Gothic Inchbrook House (inscribed Hillside House 1861) with deeds going The wool drying house at back to Holcombe Mill has been 1665, occupied over the years as displays a home, shop and several stork different businesses. carvings by Joshua Wall of Stroud. The frontage to the Lawn, (also known confusingly as Springhill House) now Winslow House, This handsome fellow was built in 1800 by can be found at Nathanial Dyer (1750- Chavenage, which is not 1833), the architect Nailsworth I know, but who designed the he is quite a looker! pepperpot church (above) in 1794 (more on that another time). Mr Dyer was buried in the orchard, vertically in a specially built stone mausoleum so that his brother could not ‘dance upon his grave’ (!) 15 office window and thought to not become Christians. The Bible records Faith and Service myself, “So this is where I’ll that crowds were amazed at the teaching ollowing on from the amazing events be for the rest of my working life.” God of Jesus and then at the teaching of Peter of Easter and then the incredible had other plans and it was not that long at Pentecost after Jesus had ascended back Fcoming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost after that I became a Christian and soon to Heaven. When Jesus taught, the crowds that we have just celebrated when the I was leaving the law and training for the hung on his every word and were amazed at Christian Church grew like wildfire, we Ministry – to be a Vicar! the authority he had when speaking of the have now entered a phase in the church Some twenty years on I am now Kingdom of God. calendar that is called “Ordinary Time” contemplating retirement and looking You might go to church and not be which probably reflects the idea that forward to the next phase of my ministry, amazed at the preaching/teaching (we’re most people have of the church – boring, which may involve playing more golf and only human!?), but keep trying until you irrelevant and out of touch are common not necessarily ministering in a Church. I find a church where you feel at peace and comments (by people who don’t go to will be ministering in some way and am at “home”. I am sure that a longer summer church!). excited at this new phase we are entering. is coming; do enjoy it and come back All I can say is that doesn’t reflect my A book was written called, ‘The God of refreshed after holidays! experience. When I had a ‘proper job’ as surprises’ and we have done many things Reverend Stephen Earley a solicitor in Stroud I can remember when that would not have happened if we had St. George’s, 832181 I became a Partner and looked out of my

Nailsworth is Blooming! attractive to wildlife but not appropriate here! Friday and Saturday nights deserve medals. With the help of two strong men it was The biggest problem everywhere is litter. Jenny Bailey points out that there is still a cleared and dug over and is now a fitting great opportunity to ‘green up’ Nailsworth. What I, and thousands of other volunteers tribute to Jenny’s neighbours who have since countrywide do, is use our talents to improve Although not yet part of the national ‘Bloom passed away, had it planted with memorial Town’ competition, none the less, volunteers our environment and encourage others to use roses, bulbs and perennials for all year theirs for the benefit of the community.” are still making a difference to the ‘greening’ interest, and with a small plaque on the pub of the town by caring for small plots and wall. Jenny Bailey 01453 765705 maintaining planted containers in the centre. Jenny says, “This is why I took on the plot www.woodchesterpriory.org.uk Ruskin Mill students look after the area in Nailsworth on behalf of our church surrounding the Clock Tower, and the Flower and people passing by are so appreciative, Arranging Society care for the planters at the especially those who remember what it was bottom of Spring Hill. There are others in like before. Cossack Square, the stream at Mortimer Helped with the clearance by the then Gardens and more - take a wander and look! mayor, Steve Robinson, who took away These flower troughs and flower corners many bags of rubble, it soon took on the greet residents and visitors coming into appearance of Nailsworth, showing civic pride with flowers, a garden when dug over, shrubs planted and shrubs and well mulched. The soil is poor with many trees and also encourage pollinating insects. tree roots. Steve also provided money for Jenny has offered to take on the very bulbs, uninspiring plot bordering the car park the rest was donated. It is very low opposite Brutons below the boundary wall. maintenance, as are all the other plots, and Jenny used to maintain the borders at mine in Nailsworth doesn’t have the dreadful Mortimer Gardens but gave this up because anti-social problems we endure in the centre of the persistent vandalism and not being of Stroud. allowed composting facilities which then The teams from Veolia who clean up after were not too acceptable! After starting Stroud in Bloom in 1990 Churches Together Jenny began to acquire nine ‘adopt-a-plot’ in Nailsworth around Stroud. Then she and her neighbour approached their local pub about creating MAIN SUNDAY SERVICES a memorial garden on a sloping triangle of derelict land, full of rubbish, bindweed, PARTY YOURSELF INTO SHAPE 9.30 am St George, Church St buddleia and brambles, all having flowers Come and join me for the Latin-inspired, easy to follow, calorie-burning, dance fitness party, 10.00 am Christ Church, ALL fitness levels welcome: Newmarket Road PETER RUSHTON Monday: 6 - 7 pm 10.30 am Quakers’ Meeting House, LANDSCAPES LTD Nailsworth Primary School Chestnut Hill NAILSWORTH ALL CLASSES £5 PAY AS YOU GO 11.00 am Priory Church, Inchbrook for more information please call Ruth King on Everyone welcome. EST 1980 07734 886275. For all other class times and venues, Children’s activities Celebrating 30 years of trading please visit www.pts4u.org.uk included at all these services. DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPING & DESIGN SERVICE HORSFALL HOUSE * Modern & Traditional Water Features Windmill Road, Minchinhampton, Stroud, Glos GL6 9EY Registered Charity No: 287479 * Garden Lighting * Patios & retaining walls A Purpose-built Nursing Home, * Decking & Pergolas * Low Maintenance Gardens Day Resource Centre and Home Care Provider

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For further information, please telephone: 01453 731227 or visit http://www.horsfallhouse.co.uk/ See our display boards at Patron: HRH The Princess Royal 16 Nailsworth & Highfield Garden Centres Minding our own business Cake and Sugarcraft Shop Inside Out & The Secret Studio Yvonne and Roy Tilling want to thank customers Some 10 years ago we produced an article on a past and present for the fairly new All Female Decorating Business called support given to their Cake Inside Out. Jane Norbury started the business and Sugarcraft Shop during a few years before that and she has now begun their four years trading in another business which she wanted to let us know Nailsworth. about. The circumstances are such as to make a We told you before about good story of triumph over adversity so here it is: the sad circumstances ‘I started Inside Out and a few years later took which forced the closure on a business partner, Fiona, to help run it as of the shop, but Yvonne it was growing. In November 2010 I had a bad is still very much in the business of cake making; call her on 07580 fall on icy concrete steps, knocked myself out 848455 and she’ll make and deliver to your requirements. The old and sustained a bad head injury. I was unable to shop e-mail, [email protected] will also get her. work at all for the next 2 years due to the damage my fall caused to my brain - it was not possible to drive more than a few miles, have long Jacaranda Flowers in Safe Hands with the conversations, I lost my balance, and could not wave of a Wand! multi task. With these problems and the constant Sue and Richard Clarke would like to say goodbye to all their need to sleep several times a day to recover from, customers! for example, a simple trip to a shop, I had to “After nine very happy and successful years owning leave Inside Out. Jacaranda Flowers, we have decided to give ourselves This was very sad for me as it was ‘my a very long holiday… baby’ and doing well, but I have a wonderfully When we took over the business in 2004 we could supportive husband – who, when he said ‘in never have imagined how exciting it would be owning a sickness and in health’, probably had not banked shop in Nailsworth. The customers here are on his new (I’d remarried in August 2010) busy fantastic and always order exciting things. wife suddenly not only unable to bring in an Our whole family have many lovely income, but only capable of a few basic domestic memories of our time here that we will duties; well the ones I could remember! With 5 take with us. children between us and my mother in law all We have sold the business to a young living with us, it was rather difficult all round! and energetic florist calledEmily ‘On the positive side I was very lucky as it Wand. She spent around two years could have been a lot worse, and 2 1/2 years with us as a trainee and then moved on to gain more experience. With later I am working quietly from home painting her enthusiasm and energy we can assure you that Jacaranda Flowers furniture and interior items to sell. I started doing is left in very safe hands. this with Ella Wells who also used to work for We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your Inside Out. She has an artistic background and business and loyalty to us over the years.” used to do art therapy. We began last year from her studio at her home in Petty France, doing up www.jacarandanailsworth.co.uk little bits of furniture and household items for 01453 836714 ourselves and family, just as therapy really, but soon we were being asked to ‘upcyle’ furniture for other people and it’s gone from there. It was great rehab for me as at first it was only a couple of mornings, then a couple of days a week, however much I could cope with, and I was frequently found asleep on the sofa after driving or concentrating for a little while! ‘We now have a great little business which we have just moved to between Minchinhampton and Chalford. We have an empty barn which is now perfect to display and sell our items and also a workshop area for our commissions. Leaded Windows t seems that Gordon’s ironmonger’s We have only been running from here for Specialist in the repair and restoration of Ishop is under a sprucing up at the a few weeks and already have had many stained and decorative glass and leaded light windows hands of Mick of M&N Building visitors and work coming our way. We In situ repairs to doors and windows in Services and will shortly be an are open Tuesday and Thursdays 10 - 4, the home upmarket antique shop. occasional Saturdays or by appointment [email protected] He was kind enough to show a 01453 860733 07929927381 nosey Editor the colour schemes and mob 07766 712066 the decorating plans. The floor has web site http://www.thesecretstudio. Pierre H. Schneider been sanded, a bit of plastering and a co.uk.’ Plumbing and Heating lot of Farrow & Ball paint. Well done Jane! Don’t forget Fiona and General maintenance, repair It will be gratifying to fill the empty Inside Out are still there; they are the shop which may be open before we nicest people to have doing things in your and new installations. go to print. Mick can be contacted on home. Tel: 07950526264 01453 861517 17 Charity & Business 20 Years for Emmaus in Nailsworth! The Emmaus shop at Nailsworth was started in 1993 by Rosemary Liles from Bussage who ran a Fairtrade shop in Nailsworth. She with Jonathan and Iain MacKechnie Jarvis started an Emmaus group who met at the Quakers house in Nailsworth. The shop has been a great success and attracts customers and visitors from far and wide to Nailsworth – from all backgrounds including the local Royals. It is unique – it is quirky, it is an Aladdin’s Cave. It is a place where people are made to feel welcome. It is more than a shop to the people of Charity Chatter Nailsworth who like to drop in to talk - all are welcome. opefully you will have noticed and liked It is more than a shop….as it is part of the Emmaus Hthe bright new façade of the RSCPCA Gloucestershire Community which provides a home and a job charity shop at the foot of Market Street. for 23 formerly homeless people ... working here at Nailsworth and at three Long overdue for a facelift, the works other shops in Gloucestershire. The initial funding for all this came from schedule was only slightly interrupted by a small error on the scaffolding front. Driving the work done at Nailsworth and over the years hundreds have been helped. to work on the day that the scaffolding was Emmaus companions, as they are known, have raised thousands of pounds due to go up, we turned into Market Street for other good causes in the County and internationally. to find our way blocked by a large lorry outside number 10, where Mother Goose – the fabulous local knitting emporium – was swathed in scaffolding from head to foot, or roof to pavement more accurately. A light bulb flickered in our mind, regarding the previous location of the RSPCA shop in the town. Wrongly choosing to disregard the flickering bulb, we proceeded on our way thinking ‘what a coincidence – maybe Mother Goose is sprucing up for Market Day’. Turning the corner, we arrived at a notably scaffolding-free RSPCA shop. The light bulb flickered some more, and then – FLASH – fully illuminated! We leave you to guess the rest of the story and in so doing, thank Steffi at Mother Goose for her cool head amidst all the surprise scaffolding. If you would like to donate your unwanted goods to the RSPCA shop at 2 Market Street please drop by Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm. To keep in touch with us online find us at: None of this would have been possible without the perseverance and www.facebook.com/rspcaretailnailsworth commitment of local Volunteers, some of whom have served for many of the atthew of Wild Garlic shares his 20 years. And it would not have been possible without the generosity and recipe for Tomato & Chilli Confit. support of local people who bring a high volume of donations and buy from A great condiment to have in the us. Emmaus says ‘Thank You’ to the people of Nailsworth, and in particular M fridge, perfect for BBQ’s, with grilled fish or to their volunteers. in sandwiches. Its very easy to make, not as And now to name the cows! Emmaus companions, staff and volunteers sweet as commercial versions and it’s a great raise money for others less fortunate than themselves. One such project is in way to use up overripe tomatoes. India where villagers needed cows to become self-sufficient in milk. 900g Overripe Vine Tomatoes (British) They have raised enough money for 4 cows – and they have been having a 2 Red Chilli’s (1 with seed, one little local competition to ‘name the cows’. It turns out that ‘Bernard’ was a without) winning choice! 40g Ginger (peeled and roughly chopped) Deputy Mayor, Jonathan Duckworth, is pictured with John Noble, Chair of Trustees 4 Cloves of peeled garlic of Emmaus Gloucestershire and a Trustee of Emmaus UK. 125g Sugar 75g Red Wine Vinegar 20g Fish Sauce 2 Star Anise Car Servicing Specialists 1 pinch Sea Salt NMC Put ginger, garlic & chilli’s in food processor for 1 minute. Take the core out of the top of Nailsworth MOT Centre the tomatoes and cut in half, then add into the food processor and blend for 1 minute. Pour it into a thick bottomed pan and add the rest of the ingredients. Bring to the boil TYRES . EXHAUSTS . BATTERIES . SERVICING . ALL MAKES then slow to a simmer until you reach a thick pulp consistency. This will take roughly 15 Tel: 01453 836816 minutes and it will need infrequent stirring. Unit 6, Inchbrook Trading Estate, Bath Road, Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5EY As it gets more reduced you will need to make sure that it does not catch on the bottom. Put into a sterile jar and when cool 18 keep in the fridge. Minding our own Business

Chocs and Sweets Galore . . . Monica Fowler and Julie Fream are the new owners of CoCo, our stunning sweet shop in Fountain Street and they are already firmly settled in their new roles. Their philosophy is simple - why change a winning formula? But, they are tweaking things here and there and evolving with the times - new sweets and chocolates are always appearing, but the main thrust is still the classic ‘old fashioned ones’. A popular new move is hiring their ‘Sweet Carts’ for weddings and children’s parties etc. It is well worth exploring this one .... filling a cart full of your favourite sweets for that special occasion! As normal, there are the traditional party bags, wedding favours, a new sweet tree and gift vouchers. A web site is almost ready for online shopping, but call in anyway and ask for details of how Monica and Julie can help you. And if for nothing else, just call in and look at all those jars of ‘I remember those ...!’ You won’t be able to resist the temptation! 01453 833002

Nigglesworth local reader has made the following observation from Aher most recent local shopping trip. Have you noticed how supermarkets have recently started making the cardboard centre of their loo rolls a lot narrower on diameter? If you have a slightly broad loo roll holder, or one with a fixed end and you’ve just bought a mega-pack of shop’s own loo rolls, you then find you can’t get the roll on to the loo roll holder and have to find somewhere else to prop it up, while the intended holder becomes a useless decoration. Very frustrating!

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Nailsworth Training Refreshments will be served and I am lucky enough to be taking part in admission is free with donations the event on Saturday 13th July, the day Band would like to invite you towards the Subscription Room before the pros take on the iconic stage. to join them for their End of funds gratefully received. This is going to be a huge challenge to Year concert at the Nailsworth The training band meets on a complete as it is 242km (150 miles) with Subscription Rooms on Sunday July Monday evening (term time) and a 22km climb at the end of the stage! It 7th. welcomes players of all abilities is estimated that to complete it will take As well as performances from and ages. It’s a perfect environment anywhere from 9 hours to 11 hours in the their two sections they will also be for parents and children to learn an saddle. This is a charity event and they saying good bye to their conductor instrument alongside each other. have chosen Leukaemia & Lymphoma Nathan King who has lead them Story Walk Contact - Research as the charity we are riding for. with great energy and fun for the Trainingband@ I am especially pleased they have last two years. The entertainment nailsworthsilverband.co.uk chosen this charity as I lost a friend from starts at 2:30. for more info. Leukaemia at the age of 15, who was very sporty and active so it will be good to help Woodchester Park this charity. If you can possibly help by lot is happening at sponsoring me, any amount you want, that AWoodchester Park will be fantastic. You will find the sponsors throughout the summer months! page at - The National Trust ranger www.justgiving.com/hiscox-mont- team is running a number of ventoux-challenge-team exciting events, including This will be the toughest challenge I two guided walks in July - have ever done so if you can support me ‘Restoration of Woodchester that will be great. Park’ on Sunday 7th and ‘Bats Thanks Rich, (Tigs)’ and Cow Pats’ on Thursday 25th. For families, they have organised three ‘bushcraft and survival’ days with expert instructor Simon Gentle Exercise Class Fowler, and an always popular den building day. Furthermore, there will The gentle exercises class organized by be a range of ‘Wild Woodchester’ days with activities around the award Nailsworth Health Partnership and held at winning ‘50 things before you’re 11 ¾’ campaign, with wild art, bug the Arkell Centre at 10 am on a Monday hunting, pond dipping and much more. Charges apply and booking is morning will not be meeting in August. essential for all events - 01452 814213. The last class will be on July 29th and will For more information visit start again on September 2nd www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woodchester-park/woodchester-park or contact Your Photocall Studio opens [email protected] ogue recommended professional In addition to that, on certain weekends and on a range of days during Vphotographer Jennifer Henry is the summer holidays they will open up our new info trailer situated close to opening up a new photographic studio in the car park. There, you can get information about the park, what is has to Nailsworth. A studio specialising in baby, offer and how to get involved. It will also be the first port of call for lots of children & family portraiture. fun things to do with the children, including self-led trails and tracker packs Jennifer is delighted to be setting up her (both to be launched soon), free copies of the ‘50 things to do before you’re new home in such a vibrant and lovely 11 ¾’ booklet, and craft activities. Cotswold town such as Nailsworth. You will also have the opportunity there to take out membership for Your Photocall Studios is based on the National Trust and to join their new countryside supporter scheme the Stroud Road, in the Old Trade Plas ‘Love My Outdoors’. The latter will provide a vital contribution to the building. It is an excellent studio space conservation work at Woodchester Park and will give you free National with a gallery area. Trust car parking throughout the South West, all for a donation of just £3 Jennifer welcomes you to the ‘try me’ per month. For more information about the scheme and opening days of the introductory offer. Available for a limited trailer, please contact [email protected] time. Call to book a photo shoot on They are looking forward to seeing you at the info trailer or one of their 07590 052344 www.jenniferhenryphotography.co.uk events! 21 Coming events Nailsworth Film Club bulletin 10th Season starts Friday 6th September he first film of their 2013-14 Season will beThe ‘ Angel’s Share’ – set in Scotland, this a gritty, but highly entertaining film about a daring and audacious whisky heist and will be a great opener for our 10th Season. It will Tbe shown on Friday 6th September – look out for the banner, which will be erected near the Clock Tower during the week before. As usual this first film of the season will be shown free-of-charge (over 18’s only please), but please do take the opportunity to join the club on the night or contact the Membership Secretary, Krissy Spencer on 01453 549661). Membership costs £25 per single adult or £45 for 2 adults living at the same address – great value for 11 films. There’s an extra one this year, to commemorate their 10th Season. The Film Club committee is working hard to finalise the full programme and this will be published by the end of July – programmes will be available from the Tourist Information Centre and details will also be on the website www.nailsworthfilmclub.co.uk Nailsworth Film Club is a not-for-profit organisation run by enthusiastic volunteers.

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Sustainable & ecological design, feasibility studies, planning applications and conservation 25 Sport Buffalo Lodge, and there is a strong the town, and some of its members hanks to Ray Westbury answering possibility that WG Grace, founding have served the Chairman of the Tour call for Summer sport info, he president of the E.B.A has played on Council, Mark Smith, and town has given us a little bit of local history this green. Nailsworth was one of Mayors George Mills, Bryan James about The Nailsworth Bowls Club. the handful of clubs that formed the and Stephen Robinson.’ ‘No one is certain of when the Bowls Gloucestershire Bowling Association, (As the NN mentioned recently. It is Club was formed, but the English and has supported that association a mixed club with a wide age range Bowling Association records that there ever since with both officers and of standards, and it has a fixture was a club in Nailsworth in 1900, and players. programme for men, ladies and mixed, it played on a green adjacent to the The club pottered along in a haphazard both competitive, and friendly. There George Hotel. fashion until the early 1920s, when is also a great clubhouse which is There are photographs of play on this for two successive years it went fully licensed. The club welcomes green which was on a bank, where the into debt, and a local businessman, new members at any time, and every ‘Old George’ car park now stands. It Edward Chamberlain, stepped in to Friday evening is club night if you was associated with the Roay York settle the accounts. Fortunately Mr. fancy trying your hand at the game. Chamberlain was a bowls enthusiast, You will be welcome. Why not give it and offered to build a new green on a try?!) his mill site, if the club would agree to move there. The members agreed with enthusiasm and in 1924 the new green was opened and the club thrived in its new location, and away from the bar of the George Hotel! The club is still playing on this site in Avening Road, and is fortunate in still having the support of the Chamberlain family. The club has a strong association with Opening Event May 1924 ichard Joyce who gives his services Rosie Fearnley - “I remember that the Rwithout charge to FGR at matches NN mentioned Rosie in issue 67 (Nov 2006) both home and away, appears on local when she won a place at Glos Ctr of Excellence radio and produces all the match reports for her football. Well, 7 years on she has won a for the FGR web site and match day soccer scholarship to St Andrew’s University, magazine has just produced his FIRST North Carolina in the big ol’ USofA for a 4 year book about FGR and its last season university course.” Ben Fearnley. (2012-13).It is called ‘A Season of Two (NN will be keeping tabs on this!) Halves’. It is a brilliant read and consists of 120 pages with 20+ photographs and FGR - It appears that great expense has gone into is produced in soft back at £5.00 a copy. changing the ‘Kop’ and putting the Home fans into It is well worth buying and full the (away) stand near the Players’ tunnel and create of info and statistics from start to more atmosphere for the FGR players before and finish of last season. Bancroft & Green during the matches. There are a few comments with Contact Richard for more info strategy/change - the game is of TWO halves and and / or copies at - rich.joyce@ Bathrooms one half of the match will still be at the ‘away’ end live.co.uk or pop into FGR (whichever end the Home fans are based!) and more Reception and order / buy your often than not, the away fans sing/shout/ support copy there! far louder than all the massed ‘choirs’ of the FGR Specialists in Natural support base put together. I remain to be convinced - but wish the new scheme well! Chairman Dale Vince said: “The main reason for the switch of ends is to put home Stone Tiling. fans where they should be and that’s at the ‘heart of the club’ near the changing rooms where players are preparing for the game. The players have told us it sometimes feels they are walking out at an away game because they emerge and hear the visiting fans first. This should improve the atmosphere and bring our fans closer to our players.” [Why?] Free Quotations Also putting away supporters in the North Stand will make it easier for visitors to negotiate The New Lawn. Coaches can drop off opposition fans next to the ticket office and park outside the North Stand, just feet Mob: 07973 820 708 away from where they are watching the game. For home fans it will be a shorter Mob: 07825 986 932 walk to and from the Green Man and we are hoping to eventually have a bar for our fans at the EESI stand as well.” [email protected] “And our fans will now have their backs to the wind and www.bancroftandgreen.co.uk the low winter sun out 26 of their eyes.” Credit Union, Wednesdays 2.30-4pm, Arkell Centre. Info: What’s On - July/August 298785 2013 Drop-in with Tracey Young, Community Development To include events, contact Jemma Worker, Fridays 10am-12 noon, Arkell Centre mail [email protected] IT for beginners, Fridays 1pm, Arkell Centre. Info: Deadline for September 2013, [email protected] 15th August 2013 Library club for older people, Wednesday 10th July and 14th August 11.00am-12.00 noon, transport can be provided. Info: 832747 Arts & Crafts Macular Society, Wednesday 17th July and 21st August, Creative textiles course, Mondays 1pm, 3.30pm & 6pm, Christ Church Hall. Info: Sandra 833614 Subscription Rooms, £50 for 5 week block. Info: Grace 07872 633956 or Patricia 07891 456095 ME Support Group, Monday 1st July and 5th August 11am, Scrumptious Cafe. Info: Richard 07814 223567 Tinkers Knitting Group, Thursdays 10am and Saturdays 2.30pm, Mother Goose. Info: 298725 Men’s Shed community workshop, Tuesdays 1.30pm, Subscription Rooms. Woolly Crafters, Tuesdays 8pm, Mother Goose. Info: 298725 Mobile Police Station, 9th & 28th July and 13th & 18th August 1.30-2.15pm, Police Station car park. Children & Family Neighbourhood Warden, Local Police & Dog Warden 1st Nailsworth Brownies (7-10 yrs) & drop-in, Wednesday 25th July 2-3pm, Arkell Centre 1st Nailsworth Guides (10-14 yrs) on Mondays. Rotary Club, every other Thursday 7pm, Egypt Mill. 1st Nailsworth Rainbows (5-7 yrs) & Info: Joan, 885373 1st Nailsworth Senior Section (14-25 yrs) on Tuesdays. www.girlguidingnailsworth.wordpress.com SDC tenants’ drop-in advice session, Tuesday 2nd July and 6th August 9.30-11.30am, Arkell Centre Arkell Toddlers (0-4 yrs), Fridays 9.15-11.15am, Arkell Centre, £2 (term time only). Info: Laura 07795 693821 Senior Citizens’ Club, Thursdays 2pm, Arkell Centre, £1.50. Info: Dave 833411 Baby Bounce & Rhyme, Mondays 11.30am, Library (term time only) Tea and Cake at Shortwood Football Club, 1st July and 5th August, 2-4pm. £2 entry, bingo, skittles and a raffle. Community workshops for home-educated children (7+ yrs), Fridays 9am & 11.30am, £10. Info: Pam 07971 Town Council meeting, Tuesday 16th July and 20th 737626 August 7pm, Town Hall Croc ‘n’ Roll (6 mths-4 yrs), Wednesdays and Thursdays Dance 9.45am, FGR, £3.75 (term time only). Info: Stephanie Dance classes, Wednesdays 7.45pm (intermediate 07957 235413 or [email protected]. collegiate shag) and 9pm (intermediate lindy hop), Family Drop-In, Tuesdays 10-11.30am, Arkell Centre. Comrades Club. Info: Nicky 07728 600056 Info: 755373 Jive classes, Thursdays at 7.30pm (beginners) and Little Angels Singing and Music for Parents & Toddlers, 8.30pm (intermediate), Comrades Club. Info: Nicky Fridays 9.30am, St. Georges Church 07728 600056 NCT Bumps & Babies, Wednesdays 10am-12 noon, Nia Dance, Wednesdays 1.45pm, Sawyer Hall and Tubby’s Cafe (Waterside). Info: 0844 2436286 Saturdays at 9.30am FGR Gym. Info: Yael 07545 372077 Phoenix Martial Arts for children, Wednesdays 3.30pm, Health & Wellbeing Arkell Centre. Info: 07921 298445 Awareness through Movement – Feldenkrais Method, Phoenix Playmates Mother & Toddler Group, Tuesdays Fridays 11am, Sawyer Hall. Info: Iraina 832027 9-11am, Primary School Gym (term time only), £1.50 per child. Info: 833511 Buddhist Meditation, Mondays and 1st & 3rd Wednesdays 7.30pm, suggested donation £3. Info: James Playcircle (0-3 yrs), Fridays 10.30-11.30am & 11am-12 07867 767605 noon, Christ Church Rooms, £4.50 (term time only). Info: 07930 136075. Health Walk (30-60mins), Tuesdays 2pm, meet at Library. Info: 832907 Church Mindfulness Course, Thursdays 7.30pm, Arkell Centre. Churches Together Service, Sunday 14th July and 11th Info: Dario 836597 August 6.30pm, Arkell Centre Taiji Wuxigong (Chi gong), Thursdays 9.30am, Christ Communion Service, Sundays 9.30am, St.George’s Church Hall. Community Music Alzheimer Cafe, Wednesday 31st July and 28th August Acoustic concert with Robin & Bina Williamson (harp, 2-4pm, Christ Church Rooms. Info: 834714 bowed psaltery and diverse instruments), Saturday 3rd Architect Surgery, Saturday 27th July 9.30am-12.30pm, August 8pm, Horsley Village Hall. Info: 836451 DSH Archetects, 5 Bridge St. Nailsworth Silver Band, Mondays (beginners 5.30pm, training band 6pm, band rehearsal 7.15pm), Band Room Archive Office open Mondays and Fridays 10am-12 Brewery Lane noon, Town Hall Nailsworth Silver Band Training Band Concert, Sunday Bingo, Saturdays 8pm, Shortwood FC 7th July, 2.30pm, Subscription Rooms. FREE entry, Citizen’s Advice Bureau drop-in, Tuesdays 1-3.30pm, donations welcome. Arkell Centre 27 Shopping X-biking, 7.30pm, FGR Gym. Info: 835680 Country Market, Fridays 8.45-11am, Mortimer Room. X-biking, Tuesdays 6pm, FGR Gym. Info: 832268 Farmers’ Market, Saturday 27th July and 24th August Ashtanga (Power) Yoga, Thursdays 1-2pm, Subscription 10am-1pm, Mortimer Gardens Rooms. £36 for 6 week block. Info: Stuart 07986 003602 or [email protected] Market Street Market, Saturday 27th July and 24th August – all the shops spill into the street with food, Iyengar Yoga, Wednesdays 7.30pm, Mortimer Room. music and entertainment. Info: Alison 752249 Vintage & Collectors’ Fayre, Fridays 5th July and 2nd Yoga, Tuesdays 10am, Wednesdays 7pm and Thursdays August June 10am-3pm, Town Hall. Free entry. Sellers’ 5.45pm & 7.30pm, Christ Church Hall. Info: Sally tables available. Info: 07800 951964 751937 Yoga, Tuesdays 6.30pm, Christ Church Hall. Info: Chris Sport & Exercise 834304 Aerobics & Body Conditioning, Mondays 9.30am & 7.15pm, Christ Church Hall. Info: Tina 753895 Zumba, Mondays 10.30am, Youth Club, £5. Info: Helen 07799 620117 Circuit Class, Tuesdays 7pm, FGR Gym, £5. Info: Liam 07815 187632 or email liam@ Zumba, Mondays 6pm, Recreation Centre, £5. Info: nailsworthstrengthandfitness.co.uk 07734 886275 or email [email protected] Cotswold Allrunners, Mondays and Wednesdays 6.30pm, Sports Fixtures King George V Playing Fields. Info: 07939 102102 Friday 12th July, FGR v Swindon (H) KO 7.45pm Gentle Exercise Class, Mondays 10am, Arkell Centre Monday 15th July, Shortwood v FGR (A) KO 7.30pm Kung Fu, Thursdays 7.30pm, Recreation Centre, £4.50. Saturday 20th July, FGR v Bristol City (H) KO 3.00pm Info: 07922 873934 or [email protected] Wednesday 24th July, FGR v Cardiff City (H) KO 7.45pm ‘Lightwaves’ Shintaido, Tuesdays 1.30pm, Christ Church Hall, first session free. Info: David & Nagako 750598 Monday 29 July FGR v Yeovil Town FC 7.45PM Nailsworth Mills Bowling Club taster sessions, Fridays Sunday 18th August, Commoners 8s (Cricket) KGV 6.30-9.00pm. Coaching given. Info: 836500 or email Nympsfield. FREE. 11am onwards. See article on Sports [email protected] page. NHP Longer Health Walk,Wednesday 3rd July - meet Visits & Talks outside Library 10am. Wednesday 7th August – meet bus Miles Morgan Travel with Fred Olsen are holding a station 9.55am Info: Ros 834485 presentation to launch the exciting new itineraries sailing NSoc Rambling Group, Thursday 25th July and from Bristol Avonmouth, Thursday 11th July 2pm, The Thursday 22nd August 9.30am. Info: Angela 832911 Bear of Rodborough. Call 836186 for FREE tickets. Pacerpole walking for posture (1-1½ hrs), Mondays NSoc Arts, Crafts & Music Group, Monday 1st July, 7pm, meet at Library, £4. Pacerpoles provided. Info: visit to Quenington open air sculpture exhibition. Car Pam 832907 travel, entrance £2.50. Email [email protected] or call 835554 for details/lift. All welcome. Pilates (beginners), Wednesdays 11am, Youth Club. Info: Helen 07799 620117 NSoc Gardening Group ‘Gardening at Ruskin Mill’ by the Head Gardener, Monday 19th August, 7pm. Info: Pilates, Thursdays 6.30pm & 8pm, Mortimer Room. Info: 834046 Bea 07717 472129 NSoc Local Studies Group Walking Tour of Painswick Pilates, Fridays 10am, Christ Church. Info: Jo 873229 – Local Guides, 7.30pm (car travel) Info: Dave 832034 Pilates on the Ball, Wednesdays 9.30am, Christ Church Talking Politics - Human Rights - David Drew in Hall. Info: Tina 753895 discussion with Professor Rod Morgan, Monday 8th July The Pulse Summer Multi Sports Days - Thurs 25 & Fri 7pm, Arkell Centre Info: Dick 873190 26 July at Nailsworth School. Forms from the school W.I. Craft evening Monday 8th July, 7.30pm. Please ring £5.00. Info Ruth 07881936978 833966 for details of the W.I. meeting on Monday 12th SDC Shorter Health Walk, Tuesdays 16th July and 20th August. August - meet outside Library 2pm. Info: Ros 834485 Woodchester Park Guided Walks – ‘Restoration of Table Tennis, Tuesdays and Thursdays 7pm, Subscription Woodchester Park’ on 7th July and ‘Bats and Cow Pats’ Rooms, first session free on 25th July. Info and booking: 814213 Table Tennis – Phoenix Table Tennis Club FREE taster day, Saturday 6th July 10am-4pm. all ages! Tae-Kwon-Do, Tuesdays and Thursdays 6.30pm, Primary School. Info: 07715 445729 Taiji & Qi Gong, Mondays 9.30am, 10.45am & 12 noon, Town Hall, £6. Info: Jeff 07970 303694

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