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Wednesdays Martley WI: 2nd Wednesday in the month 7.30pm Heaton House Wichenford Local Heritage Group: 3rd Wednesday, September to April Wichenford Memorial Hall. 1st Wednesday of the month (except January) Palaeography classes, members only Thursdays Volume 30, number 5, October 2020 Wichenford Wine Club 3rd Thursday in the month For all advertising in The Villager: Martley & District Horticultural Society Pat Finch (01886) 888476 last Thursday in the month 7.30pm Martley Editor: Gail Dawson 01886 889180 or email Memorial Hall [email protected] Saturdays (Do not email the Editor with Advertising Martley Memorial Village Hall queries, please contact Pat Finch in the first Coffee Mornings instance) Are held on the last Saturday in the month in aid Editorial Team: Gail Dawson (07725 644 322) of local and national charities. 10.30am until 12 Wichenford : Carol Garret: (01886) 888603 noon. Open to everyone. Distribution: Martley; June Lawrence (01886) 821064 See Church Words and Services on page 27 for Wichenford ; Carma Wetherall details of events/services [email protected]; (01886) 888611 Editorials for The Villager: See articles for details of special events AND Leave articles at Central Stores, call Carol or changes of time/date/venue of regular events Gail or email ; [email protected] See the Diary page on www.martley.org.uk for a complete listing of all forthcoming events (that Regular events in Martley and the Editor is aware of) Wichenford Sundays See page 28 for all contact details of organisations 2nd Sunday in the month Articles to go in The Villager must be submitted Teme Valley Farmers Market for local produce by the 1st of the previous month 11am The Talbot, Knightwick
2nd Tuesday in the month: Path-or-Nones meet 9am The Crown car park. Records of the Parish Council meetings in Help us to maintain the local footpaths around the two Parishes are not intended to be full our Villages. and complete minutes. Mondays Martley Parish Council: 1st Monday in the Minutes of meetings can be seen by month 7.30pm contacting the respective Parish Clerks to Tuesdays the Councils. Short Mat Bowling: 2.00pm Martley Memorial Hall Martley Toddler Group: Every Tuesdays (term time) 9.00am 11am Martley Memorial Hall
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OUT AND ABOUT IN MARTLEY Visit our website—www.martley.org.uk
of them and my Grandad William over Autumn and 1960s Harvest the wage rate they would be paid for Church Services cribbing. Occasionally, the village Constable had to be called. During most Hop-picking at Horsham ceased in the hop seasons a gypsy baby would be late 1960s, in favour of growing wheat. born at the farm, with little fanfare or Many other farms in the ceremony. To help with provisioning, Worcestershire/Herefordshire border my Grandmother Annie used to run a country, where the soil and climate seasonal were conducive for hop growing, shop in the followed suit, some then turning to farmhouse apple production. Although my brother back and I were too young to witness the kitchen for hand-picking of hops at cribs out in the all the hop- hopyards, as had been the tradition in the 1940s and earlier when horses pickers. pulled the drays, we grew up on many During September we picked some of stories of hop-picking then. Each year in the eating apples that grew at Horsham; that pre-mechanised era about 20 I especially liked the Blenheim variety. caravans of gypsy families arrived from That was also the month that from the the Black Country for their September kitchen window overlooking the ‘holidays’ to undertake much of the foldyard we watched large groups of work. Some chose to sleep in the swallows gather on the electric wires farmyard cowsheds and in the tin that brought power to the house, as barracks in the hopyards, all those they prepared for their long flights to places having been disinfected and Africa to spend winter in warmer whitewashed and straw laid down for climes. Occasionally, we would be them. Their horse-drawn painted looking at the very moment hundreds of wagons were cramped but apparently them took noisily to the air and flew were spotlessly clean and adorned with away, knowing they would return the well-polished brasses. My Dad recalled following spring. The traditional harvest some of the gypsies being volatile and festival church services at Martley and remembered arguments between some in the neighbouring parishes which took
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place at the end of September or and lastly the Rector. Promptly at 7.30pm beginning of October - effectively marked Canon Joseph Leatherbarrow - speaking the start of autumn. Those services in the from the porch door in his 1960s were always well attended, with characteristically expressive and emphatic the churches richly decorated with voice - welcomed everyone to the festival seasonal produce and flowers (including service and announced the first hymn dried hop bines, sheaves of wheat, loaves (‘Come, ye thankful people, come’) which of bread, vegetables, apples and other was sung as the choir processed up the fruit). At Martley the main harvest service nave. If there was a guest preacher, he was held on a Thursday night, with the walked beside the Rector. With Martley following Sunday service having a harvest Church crammed full of worshippers (our theme too. On the Saturday night a family liked to arrive early to get our harvest supper was usually held in a customary pew opposite the south door farmer’s barn or in the village hall. and just in front of the Church warden, My parents, brother and I always George Walford) and with the windows, attended the Martley harvest services, polished pews, screen, Altar and stone sometimes accompanied by visiting floors all decorated abundantly with relatives. On harvest Thursday the full set colourful harvest produce and foliage, the of 17th Thursday harvest service was always a century joyous, rousing and enriching occasion. It tower bells was one of the big Church events of the were rung country year. The enthusiastic singing of for at least four or five familiar harvest hymns 45 minutes contributed much to the overall ahead of the atmosphere. They included ‘We plough service and produced a glorious loud peel the fields and scatter’ and ‘The sower that could be heard all over the village. went forth sowing’. About ten minutes before the service Most years in the 1960s our family also commenced the bell ringers left the belfry joined local relatives for the harvest (Len Parry was one who stayed for the services at Knightwick and Suckley. service) and the bells gave way to some However, there was a time at Suckley equally good organ music inside the when a few unfortunate mishaps amused Church. For the Thursday evening there us boys and other congregation was always a choir of about twelve to members. One year when the fifteen adults and children. Some years I Archdeacon came to preach, the Suckley joined it and was invited to carry the tall Rector accidentally kicked over one of the silver Cross. Robed in black and white, the flower decorations on the chancel steps choir members walked in the dark from just before the start of the service and his the vestry around the outside of the wife came with a bucket and mop to church, past the large east window to the clean up the spillage - an embarrassing south porch door where we lined up - the spectacle in full view of the congregation. Cross bearer first, then in pairs the boys Another year, Reverend Mahon also and girls followed by the men and women caught his foot in a bunch of apples
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placed on the floor and kicked several with cleaning materials and a special mop across the chancel steps. Yet another so all surfaces can be cleaned after each year, a creative but strangely arranged class by those running the classes. Each harvest decoration made of long class has undergone a risk assessment protruding carrots was placed visibly on and has contact details for clients for the side of the pulpit and seemingly track and trace responsibilities. amused many in the congregation! Social distancing needs to be observed. IF After attending one harvest service in ONLY taking these precautions could Knightwick Church our family went to the guarantee everyone’s safety!! However, harvest supper which was hosted by the considering the fitness and well being of Walker family in the upper room of the folk, we and other village/memorial halls big barn at Ankerdine Farm. We all took are continuing to be open according to our own cutlery but plates were provided. the rules. It was a hearty meal and a happy event, Keep safe and your spirits high. but I recall thinking then how strange it This waiting for it to end must be like it felt to see farmers, villagers and was in the wars; and they came to an worshippers - whom I always saw in end !!!! different contexts - sitting down to eat 100 Club Winners together. I am reminded of that evening July Jacqui Wenman whenever I see the harvest supper scene August Lynne Wroe in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. September Jenny and John Taylor Roger M Nellist October Tony George
Dog Poo in Churchyard District Nurses This is a gentle reminder for those dog The District nurses have now moved from owners who walk their dog/s through the the Library .They were lovely and we send churchyard, please keep them on a lead our thanks to them for the work they do. and clear up any dog poo. Our Although the Library is now free the churchyard gardener recently Library services have still not organised a had an unpleasant experience date for re-starting Martley (and other when mowing which we do not small libraries); as soon as we are aware wish to repeat. of the dates, we will let you know in this Thank you for your consideration. magazine. St. Peter’s PCC Pat O Martley Memorial Hall Pudford Lane What difficult times but we soldier on! I’m writing this in the middle of We've had Pilates, Yoga, Children’s dance, September, today has been such a table tennis and ballroom dancing. beautiful hot day and this evening we Zumba and Toddlers are re-joining and went for a walk down by the river, then will be starting again soon. on to Martley, the air was so warm it was There are sanitisers on the wall, boxes like being in France. Coming back through the churchyard and looking at some of
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the very old gravestones it made me spinner, all doing a good job, not at the wonder where they had lived in the speed of the big modern machinery, but village and what the village looked like in still getting the field planted. With a bit of their lifetime. One thing is for sure, there luck, when John Richards reads this, he would have been many more farms and might offer to send his grandson Max smallholdings all keeping cattle, sheep, with his modern machinery to do the job pigs and poultry, not forgetting the for me next year. working carthorses. There would have It’s nice to have some green grass for the been no tractors in their day, I’m not sure sheep again after four months of virtually what they would think if they could come no growth. We’ve bought some new back now. There would certainly have ewes and two new rams. The rams been more wildlife around then, although seemed a bit wild, so we put two of Fi’s we did see a kingfisher by the river which Greyface Dartmoor ram lambs with them was a real treat. to calm them down which seems to be We’ve been busy ploughing up a field to working well and they all come to the re-seed it. The field is known as ‘down by trough for food now. Bryn is always Charlie Wall’s’! Charlie Wall lived in the pleased to have more sheep to work with, bungalow opposite the field at the although with our training, as I’ve said bottom of Pudford Lane, he was Dorothy before, I think work may not be quite the Fennel’s father. The family were well right word! He is brilliant at holding the known on Martley Hillside. I think sheep back so I can get through a Dorothy could have had four brothers, gateway with the tractor, but he seems to but I’m sure Tim Davis will tell me if I’m think he should be in front of the sheep wrong as he is married to Dorothy’s all the time which makes it difficult when daughter, Wendy. I can remember Charlie you want him to be behind to drive them having a lorry and I think he did local forward! His favourite route when we haulage, I know he did livestock haulage take him for a walk is when we come for the local farms. through Hollins Lane. He dives straight up I quite enjoy doing a bit of arable work for Barbara and Garth Thomas’ drive, a change, when we re-seed a field is the through the front door if it’s open and only time I get to do some. I’m not sure into their sitting room. Garth always gives what my neighbours, Rich and Matt him the best biscuits in the tin! thought of me taking all weekend to do We’re still in uncertain times, so I hope five acres when they have probably you are still keeping well. worked and planted two hundred acres in the same time! Kevin Wickens did the Martley WI ploughing as I don’t have a plough. My Since July, Martley WI's committee have machines aren’t quite as modern and Ian, discussed ways of keeping in touch with our neighbour from further down the members and we have lane, brought his fifty-five year old embraced technology with the Massey Ferguson to do the rolling. I was use of Zoom. Virtual coffee spinning the seed on with my fifty-five mornings have been held with year old Ford 4000 and fifty year old those members who have access to the
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internet and wish to participate. We carrying out other minor management generally have a chat and catch up and a works on several of the other trees that short quiz. Members have also received need some attention. On a more 'goody bags' prepared and distributed by concerning front, however, we have the Committee which were well received. experienced an effluent problem near the Many members like to sew, and on 2nd eastern edge of the site. Severn Trent and September we had an extra meeting in the Environment Agency have been which Pat showed members how to clean investigating the source but it has meant and set up their sewing machines. On that contaminated water has been September 9th, our normal meeting, Pat flowing into the Laugherne Brook water demonstrated how to make a felt poppy catchment area. I hasten to add that the and we enjoyed a short quiz again. Earlier effluent does not originate from the in the year, we were all given some Green, but from a pipe that skirts the sunflower seeds to grow and the winner meadow. If local land and property of the tallest flower, at an impressive owners could, therefore, check their eight and a half feet, was Jean Hyslop. waste pipes and systems, that would be Our Virtual Annual Meeting will be held great. Thanks. on 9th October at 7.30pm via Zoom. Andy Palmer, Trustee Many thanks to Gail who has guided us through the virtual world of Zooming. Martley WI Team Martley Coffee Mornings for Charity The Millennium Green We tried hard to organise a coffee The Trust are extremely pleased to morning for Macmillan on 25th announce that we have been accepted on September on the Memorial Hall playing the EU funded programme, Natural field. All our charities are important to us, Networks. The programme, supported by of course, but Macmillan holds a special the European Regional Development place in our hearts and we so wanted to Fund, offers free biodiversity surveys support them at this difficult time. We carried out by the Worcestershire Wildlife met and made many arrangements to Trust and, in partnership with keep it ‘Covid Secure’ and were excited Worcestershire County Council, the for the event. However, once the Rule of possibility of a grant to implement any Six came in and Coronavirus cases were recommended actions. This is excellent rising rapidly we, reluctantly, took the news for us and allows us to have a decision to cancel. This made us very sad proper, professional wildlife survey but we are very mindful of not giving this carried out - something we have wanted virus any chances to take further hold in for a long time. I’ll let you know about the our area. We really hope you will results in due course. understand and forgive us for raising We have also been busy on the Green hopes. It would appear that any chance of removing the fallen willow tree on the resuming during the winter is very slim round pond and, during this winter, will now, although we will keep trying to find be coppicing some of our hazel trees and
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a way! We arranged another delivery of are settling back into their school work as cakes to our regulars instead which we they normally would. It seems the hope everyone enjoyed. We are not able children have missed school as much as to make this a monthly event but there we have missed them. Moving forward, may be surprises from time to time. We the restrictions and guidance in place will gratefully receive any donations for does mean that school is a little different. the Macmillan Appeal and these can be We are limiting visitors as much as dropped off at Jan’s or Mandy’s houses, possible and are currently not able to preferably in a sealed envelope. We were hold collective worships or parental delighted to be able to send St Richard’s gatherings. Hopefully this will change and Hospice a cheque for £170 after our last we will be able to once again invite delivery and received a nice letter of parents in to share more fully in school thanks from them. Martley is such a life. generous village and we are very thankful And now we thought it would be a good to everyone who donates for the opportunity to let the children have a charities. We are thinking of you all. Stay voice. Pupils in Rowan Class have been safe. writing their own riddles and were keen Jan and Mandy to share them with a wider audience. We hope you enjoy trying to guess what they Martley C of E Primary are about! School I keep a precious photo inside, September has seen the return of all of I am silver, shiny and delicate, the children and staff to school and it has I remind you of people, pets and loved ones, been great to see all of their smiling faces I am a forever memory, and to hear their voices. The children I am always with you if you wear me, have all adapted to the changes in a Your ancestors are still here in me. positive way - handwashing and sanitising What am I? now seem to be an integral part of the By Olivia curriculum! School has introduced a ‘soft start’ where children arrive over a 20- As quick as the wind, minute period and go straight to their As light as a feather, classrooms and classes leave school at Gliding high in the sky, staggered times to try and minimise the Set me up then let me go, amount of people outside school. Parents I’m made from paper, have been very supportive in leaving Going up high, promptly and maintaining social Swooping down low, distancing as much as possible. The It all matters on the wind. different classes are also have staggered What am I? break times and lunches are eaten in the By Jack classroom so that we minimise any potential ‘contamination’. Despite all of I fall from the sky far away from home, I bring joy to children’s faces when they are this, the pupils are coping very well and
The Villager October 2020 15 bored all alone, Martley Parish Council I am white, crispy and very wet, Minutes of the Virtual Meeting of the You are merry for a different reason when I Parish Council, held on Monday 7th come, I dance and sing around you all, I can be a September 2020 at 7.30pm man if you want me to. PRESENT: Councillors M. Nott (Chairman), What am I? S. Cumella (Vice Chairman), P. Weddell- By Rose Hall, S. Watt, M. Gardner, M. Rushgrove, (answers: a locket, a paper aeroplane, J. Dale, R. Bray and G. Wroe. snow) Also present: District Cllr B. Williams, M. Andy Hackley and Lucy Cox Alexander (Clerk). There were no members of the Public present. Apologies: County Cllr P. Grove and L. Nash (Project Officer). Declarations of Interests: None. Democratic Period/ Public Time: No matters for consideration had been received by the Clerk. Minutes of a virtual meeting held rd 3 August 2020: The minutes were agreed as a true record. Proposed Cllr Weddell- Hall, seconded Cllr Dale. All agreed. County & District Councillor Reports: Reports will be uploaded to the website. Updates: Parish Websites The Parish Council approved the final draft of the development website. It was noted that some additional professional photography may be required which the Clerk will follow up as required. L. Nash and the
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GREAT WITLEY SURGERY FLU CLINICS 2020 Our September clinic was a success and we would like to thank everyone who attended for following the guidance with regard to wearing face masks, adhering to appointment times and social distancing. Our second Saturday clinic will be held on the 10th October and we are also holding other weekday flu clinics. All clinics are pre-bookable and you will be able to book these via Patient Access or the NHS App, alternatively you can call the surgery and speak to one of our receptionists to see if you are eligible for a vaccination. To enable us to keep both our patients and staff safe we would ask that you adhere to the following guidance:- Please make sure you arrive on time for your appointment. On arrival, you will be asked to queue outside the building and will be called in when it is your turn. This is to ensure we maintain social distancing at all times. Please remove your outer clothing and have your arm ready so that the vaccinator can administer the injection, this will help to reduce the amount of face to face con- tact. We will be operating a one way system through the building and you will be shown where to exit following your appointment. We appreciate that this is a different way of holding our clinics and may bring some challenges however we will endeavour to run the clinics as smoothly as possible. We are awaiting further guidance in relation to the additional group of patients to be vaccinated this year, as recently announced by the government. We would like to thank you for your continued support and understanding during these difficult times. PLEASE REMEMBER ; YOU SHOULD NOT COME TO THE SURGERY IF YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS SUGGESTIVE OF COVID-19.
Clerk will liaise regarding handover of the launch and gather local images will be website project going forward. Cllr arranged via both schools and may be an Cumella summarised PC decisions made opportunity for a half-term activity. Cllrs to date regarding the future management Dale and Gardner agreed to help the of the website and it was agreed that the Clerk arrange this. Clerk should manage and edit the site for Recreation Field – Cllr Wroe requested the next 3 months to be reviewed at that delegated authority for the Recreation point. It was agreed that promotion of Field Working Group to progress the user the new website is important and that a review meetings and associated actions. forward development plan will be All agreed to this authority. Meetings required. It was also agreed to write have been arranged with the Cricket Club formally to L. Nash and thank her for all and Football Club on 17th September to work undertaken on this project. Cllr Bray discuss requirements going forward, will forward details of Martley Cricket future fees and charges and terms & Club website promotion to the Clerk. A conditions of field use. Cllrs Wroe, Watt, competition to promote the website Gardner & Rushgrove will progress this
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with the Clerk. It was noted that Cllr Watt goals for the project. Some progress has will have no voting rights for decisions been made with cricket and football clubs due to his interest in the Cricket Club. both now using the Chantry facilities. Burial Ground – the Clerk reported that There has been no further progress with the first grave plaque has now been laid pavilion re-modelling as initial drawings in place. Cllr Dale reported that the family are needed now. Recreation field and of Desi Green would like to go ahead with village hall ideas are still being considered a memorial tree and there is also another and a meeting is to be arranged with family interested in the same. Details for Cookley Village Hall in the near future. both to be passed to the Clerk for Financial & Governance Matters: arrangements to be made asap. Payments were approved as circulated by Strategic Planning Matters: Cllr Cumella the Clerk, including an additional invoice updated the meeting regarding recent for tractor repairs undertaken. Proposed Government changes which the Council Cllr Weddell-Hall, seconded Cllr Wroe. All will need to consider going forward. Cllr agreed. Recreation Field reserves – it was Cumella will advise the Council in due noted that there is still £6k ear marked course. District Cllr Williams also updated reserves for the field ongoing the Council about local development maintenance and the Clerk was asked to numbers in MHDC area over the next keep an ongoing log of money spent several years. against this reserve, including the recent Planning Matters: Planning Matters for tractor repairs. consideration: 20/00733/LB – Scar Highways Matters: The Clerk is Cottage, Martley WR6 6PA – to regularise progressing play area works with the internal and external alterations to Lengthsman together with Weighbridge include window opening, rooflights, new notice board repairs. staircase and replacement flooring. Parish Matters: School Crossing Escort Submitted, no objection 30/08/2020. recruitment – no further update. Skate Notifications received park cctv – Cllr Watt gave an update on 20/00682/CLE – Gurnox Cottage, Berrow recent cctv matters and parking concerns. Green, Martley WR6 6PL – approval of The Rec. Field Working Group will certificate of lawfulness. progress cctv matters. On road parking is 20/00646/LB – Lower Bank Cottage, an ongoing concern but it was noted that Martley WR6 6PA – approval for County Cllr Grove would be best placed to conversion of a detached garage to support any request to Highways for provide a unit of holiday accommodation. double yellow lines along that stretch of 20/00645/CU – Lower Bank Cottage (as road. Village Hall / Rec Field car parking – above) concerns have once again been raised Correspondence received about on road parking in the area outside ENF/20/0023 land at Os 7538 6021 towards Kingswood which is dangerous Witley Rd, Martley – further information and needs to be managed properly. Cllr received by the Clerk was noted. Watt will forward images to the Clerk Capital Projects: Cllr Watt updated the which can then be sent to Cllr P. Grove, Council regarding short and long term District Cllr Williams and Highways to see
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if yellow lines can be placed along that April and her ashes were buried in stretch of road. Cllr Watt is already Martley churchyard on Tuesday 7th April. liaising with the Cricket Club and Football The funeral of David Wallace of Martley Club about on field parking options. A took place at Worcester Crematorium on suggestion to create a small car park by Monday 27th April. the skate park entrance was discussed The funeral of Leslie Gaskins of Martley and it was noted that Highways took place at Worcester Crematorium on permission would be required to create a Tuesday 5th May. permanent entrance for this. It was The funeral of Coralie Fidoe of Martley agreed that the Recreation Field Working took place at Worcester Crematorium on Group would progress the matter. The Monday 11th May. management of carparking at the Village The funeral and burial of Colin Bray took Hall was also discussed and the Clerk was place at St Peter, Martley on Tuesday 21st asked to liaise with the Committee about July painting white lines and the cost to do The burial of ashes of Dorothy Tomkins that. took place at St Peter, Martley on Councillor Reports & Items for Future Saturday 12th September. Agendas: Cllr Gardner informed the meeting about the planned MacMillan Shakespeare on Zoom Coffee Morning and it was noted that a ‘Oh, brave new world that has such risk assessment would be needed by the people in it.’ Clerk to use the pavilion. The Council The Tempest Act 5, Sc 1 agreed to allow the event to be held at Report on the Macbeth project the pavilion. Cllr Wroe updated the Last time I described our concerns about meeting about The Crown car park using the Zoom platform for meetings. closure. This is how it went – Date of next meeting: Mon 5th October We proceeded with the experiment, a 2020 at 19:30 via Zoom. bunch of OAPs taking on bang up to date Meeting closed at 20.40 techy stuff and thus far it has proved Michelle Alexander, Clerk successful. We are all very pleased with ourselves. But I must admit to this glitch! Marriages Macbeth’s Witches start to weave their Neville Jones and Barbara Williams were evil spells and speak in harmony ending married at St Peter’s, Martley on Saturday with a few choral lines. That particular 8th August. part of the reading wasn’t too good Kathrin Logan and Finbar Roche were because it was divided between three married at St Peter’s, Martley on Monday screens and when the Witches delivered 10th August. their words Zoom went haywire as it tried to focus on the most significant voice. The In Memoriam result was decidedly eerie said one group The funeral of Rita Gurney of took place member, but for the rest of us the at Worcester Crematorium on Friday 3rd problem was not being able make out what was being said. The words of the
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text were shrouded in mystery echoes. Red is the colour of blood my child, Learning from our mistakes we reduced The blood our soldiers shed, the choral pieces to two participants sited The heart of the poppy is black mummy in the same room and all was well. It is Why does it have to be black? definitely a learning curve. Black my child is the symbol of grief, I am proud of the group for it was a brave For the men who never came back, effort– But why mummy are you crying so? ‘O well done! I commend your pains, Your tears are giving you pain, And every one shall share i’th’ gains. My tears are my fears for you my child, And now about the cauldron sing, For the world is FORGETTING AGAIN. Like elves and fairies in a ring, Due to covid 19 there will be no poppy Enchanting all that you put in.’ collections this year. Should you wish to Hecate, Act 4, Sc 1 make a donation please send a payment We finished our play reading of Macbeth to; in early September and begin our next Sue Ganderton at Springwood Claphill Zooming project in October which will be Lane Rushwick WR2 5TP a reading of Shakespeare’s naughty or narrative poem, Venus and Adonis. We Bacs/Online banking to will work to translate it and discover LLoyds Bank 30-11-75 Shakespeare’s acclaimed piece of Account number 01937121 Elizabethan porn. The publication of this Quote reference MDD16 poem which was something of a best Next year will be the Legions centenary seller in 1593 took place during a plague year so lets make 2021 better than Ever! outbreak when all theatres were closed. It Stay safe. seems a timely piece to work on. Ed & Sue, R.B.L Knightwick & District Tomorrow, tomorrow and, tomorrow, PS: Situations are being reviewed all the Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, time and we now understand that with To the last syllable of recorded time. the owners permission there will be some Janet Anderson Kaye (Group leader) static collections. I’m sure further updates 07903 356 131 will follow . The Inquisitive Mind Of a Anna Milner Child Anna Milner of St Peter's Drive Martley Why are they selling poppies mummy? sadly passed away 12th August 2020. Selling poppies in town today, Dearly loved by Nobby, sleep tight Anna, The poppies, child are flowers of love, until we meet again. Sarah For the men who marched away, But, why have they chosen a poppy mummy? In Memoriam Why not a beautiful rose? The funeral and burial of Denis Hiams took place at St Laurence, Wichenford on Because my child men fought and died, th In the fields where the poppies grow, Monday 10 August. But why are the poppies so red mummy? The funeral of Keith Webb took place at
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St Laurence, Wichenford on Thursday 13th The burial of ashes of John Hanson took August. place at St Mary Magdalene, Broadwas on The burial of ashes of Joyce Wadley took Friday 12th June. place at St Laurence, Wichenford on The burial of ashes of Arthur Ratcliffe Tuesday 8th September. took place at St Leonard, Cotheridge on The funeral and burial of Frederick Thursday 15th July. Baldwin took place on Saturday 28th The funeral and burial of John Humphrey March at St Leonard, Cotheridge took place at St Leonard, Cotheridge on The funeral of Audrey Hopkins of Thursday 30th July. Broadwas took place at Worcester Crematorium on Tuesday 14th April.
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Over the Garden Wall in Wichenford, Wichenford Needs Your News! Call Carol Garrett on 01886 888603 www.kenswick-wichenford-pc.org
Times Past! twentieth the price of the corn, and each egg for one twenty-fourth of the price of Here is a bit of fun for people who were a chicken. How much money did the brought up on the old pounds (£), farmer receive altogether? shillings (s) and pence (d) system – like me! This was discovered in a local book With thanks to Heather Rendell for her published by the WI, called “Worcester in discovery (and making our brains hurt!!) Living Memory”. The exam paper was aimed at children under 12 looking for a Wichenford 100 Club place in grammar or private school!!! Winners August 2020 I wonder how many of our readers will be No. 133 L Kent £50.00 able to get 5/5? [Answers in the No. 52 M Harris £15.00 November Villager]. No. 146 S Philips £10.00 An Arithmetic Examination Paper for Due to lockdown, the draw was once under twelves in 1921 again drawn by Heather Rendall 85 people were given a day’s outing, and Congratulations to the winners ! the cost per head was £1 19s. 11d. What was the total cost of the outing? Wichenford 100 Club; Subscriptions Divide (by factors) £19485 13s. 6d. by Due to the current situation with Covid- 132. If you had to share £19485 13s. 6d. 19. It may not be possible to come door- equally among 264 persons what sum to-door this year to pick up subscriptions would each receive? due at the end of September. Instead we In selling an article, the shopkeeper read are looking at other ways by which we the price as £9.175 instead of its real can continue to renew your subscriptions. price £9 17s. 5d. How much money did he The most obvious one is to contact all lose by his mistake? members with our bank details and beg Mount Everest is 29,002 feet high. What you to take the time to do a bank transfer is the height of the mountain in miles, (giving your number for the 100 Club as furlongs, yards and feet? the reference). We will also advertise/ A farmer took a horse, a cow, some corn, remind people via Whatsapp Wichenford two chickens and two dozen eggs to and Nextdoor Wichenford. market. He sold the corn for £5. The Please encourage friends and family to horse sold for four times as much as the join. It only costs £1 to join and then £1 a corn, and the price of the cow was twice month i.e. £12 a year to run the risk (!) of as much as the horse and the corn winning £50 or £15 or £10 EVERY month. together. Each chicken sold for one Please contact me on 01886 888239 if you wish to become a new member.
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Thank you. The funding will ‘top-up’ the Heather Rendall Government’s existing Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, to help Kenswick and Wichenford people in hard-to-reach Parish Council locations get a fast, reliable broadband service. The County Council’s Cabinet Community Network Member with responsibility for Economy Six months ago in March, a group of and Infrastructure, Councillor Ken volunteers was set up to help keep an Pollock, said: “Nearly 97% of eye on, and help out where necessary, Worcestershire can now access those who were confined to their homes superfast broadband with speeds of at in the Parish of Kenswick and least 24Mbps (Megabits per second). Wichenford during the Covid Lockdown. This is a fantastic achievement; however, This may have been because they were we are not stopping there. This is elderly, vulnerable, on their own, or just why we’re adding £1m from the in need of a bit of TLC. previously invested £8.5m towards the The volunteers were prepared to run Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme errands, shop, collect medicine etc for to target so-called “broadband not- those who were not able to do so. It spots” in the county. “This is a great now seems the right time to review the opportunity for Worcestershire, as we list of volunteers, and also those on the have already worked with over 100 ‘at risk’ list. communities and managed to secure If you would like to add your name to more than £2.2m worth of vouchers”. the list of volunteers, please let us know. In some cases, the voucher amount was Also, if you know anyone in the Parish not enough to pay for the infrastructure living on their own, elderly or vulnerable upgrade. This top-up funding means or ‘at risk’ who would like to be on the many more schemes can be funded, list or those needing help in any way, providing this future-proofed please contact: connectivity to thousands more homes Heather Rendall – 01886 888 239 in the most rural locations which are Carol and. Brian Garrett – 01886 888603 otherwise unlikely to get it for many Anita Ball – 01886 888 232 years. Digital Infrastructure Minister, Georgina Britten Long. Matt Warman, said: “This government Superfast Broadband believes access to fast and reliable broadband is essential to modern life County Council adds £1million to rural and should be available to all, which is broadband scheme why I’m delighted to see Worcestershire Worcestershire County Council County Council joining forces with us in is reinvesting up to £1m of funding our mission to deliver next-generation to step up its drive to get high- speeds to the most remote areas of the speed broadband out to the most rural country. parts of the county. “I hope this welcome boost to our
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programme will encourage even more www.superfastworcestershire.com/ people in Worcestershire to join the #faqs (FAQ28). digital fast lane.” The Superfast Worcestershire team. Having access to reliable, fast broadband Mail: is even more important in light of the [email protected] COVID-19 pandemic. Being digitally Facebook connected is key to staying in touch with www.facebook.com/broadbandworcs loved ones, working from home, and Twitter helping to stabilise local businesses. The @SuperfastWorcs top up scheme is a great opportunity to get high-speed broadband to areas Twilight Garden By currently without adequate service. Candlelight The funding for the vouchers in the Alistair & Pam Thompson of Pear Tree Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme with Cottage, Wichenford wish to thank their Worcestershire County Council’s Top Up friends and neighbours for their will be distributed on a first-come, first- overwhelmingly generous support and served basis until the end of March 2021, hard work. Despite viruses, they can when the scheme will close. report that their charity garden event was To qualify for the scheme, residents must a great success. Notwithstanding live in a rural area, be unable to get lockdown and all the restrictions and broadband speeds of 100Mbps or more, limitations; a little rural garden has not be in an existing government-funded managed to raise £1053.16 for nurses plan for a broadband upgrade, and apply and carers under the National Garden as a group of two or more premises. Scheme this year. The Government’s £200m Gigabit Pat & Brian Finch and Sandra Kelley Broadband Vouchers Scheme (GBVS) played a particularly huge and generous currently provides up to £3,500 funding part in its success. Thanks to them, tables, for eligible businesses and up to £1,500 chairs, cakes, savoury nibbles and pretty for eligible residential properties to install tablecloths appeared! Even a plant sale gigabit-capable connections. evolved! Together with more friends, The extra £1m made available will be they helped serve visitors, wash up and used to match the level of funding clear up. Other close neighbours helped available under the GBVS, so that eligible out by providing parking. businesses can now apply for up to a Despite a 7am start and the completion maximum of £7,000 and eligible of a last minute garden feature; at dusk, residential properties up to £3,000. Chris Pugh reappeared and together with Residents and businesses can visit the Ian Foster they transformed the garden Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme into a magical fairyland by illuminating website 100's of candles and tea lights around the www.gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk garden. Visitors were able to sit back, to find a list of suppliers in their local enjoy the garden and socially distance in area. A list of frequently asked questions style!! Even the bats cooperated and is also available
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were spotted flitting around as the odd things you can achieve with the owl hooted under a harvest moon support of friends!! hanging low in the sky. Some visitors Pam Thompson were discovered lingering in the garden after 10.30pm. A big *BIG* thank you to all involved. The
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Church Words The Rectory 01886 888664
Though the world is a very strange place at the moment we are reassured by the seasons of life carrying on regardless. As the Hymn, ‘Great is they faithfulness’, re- flects; Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. Not only that but the chorus also gives thanks to the fact that; Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—Great is thy faithfulness Lord unto me.
As we celebrate Harvest this year it is going to be difficult to gather in large numbers in our churches and schools and village halls. However, we will be holding services of Harvest Thanksgiving across the team of churches which are open to all though we have to limit the numbers. We will also be offering a Harvest YouTube service so, if you cannot attend a service for whatever reason you can celebrate with us online. As I ponder this dilemma it reminds me of the importance of saying ‘thank you’. My mother always used to give me a look if I was given a treat to make sure I didn’t forget to say those magic words. Even though we may not be able to gather in our usual ways for Harvest services and suppers we can still say ‘thank you’, to those who have grown and farmed the food, those who distribute and sell it to us, and to a faithful God who oversees the creation which provided us with such goodness. As the famous harvest hymn says; All good gifts around us are sent from heav'n above; then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his love.
I do hope and pray you are all keeping safe and well. I, like you, look forward to a day when we can gather more easily in numbers to celebrate the seasons of life and much more. In the meantime, may I share this famous Celtic blessing with you; May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
God bless you all. Canon David
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Services for October - Harvest month!
October 4th 10.30 am Broadwas - Contemplative Service 10.30 am Clifton - Morning Prayer/Matins 3.30 pm Crown East - All age Harvest 4.00 pm Martley - Harvest Service 6.00 pm Alfrick - Harvest Evensong
October 11th Harvest YouTube Service 10.30 am Wichenford - Harvest Service 11.30 am - Baptism at Leigh 11.30 am - Baptism at Shelsley Beauchamp 4.00 pm Broadwas - Harvest Service 6.00 pm Leigh - Harvest Evensong
October 18th 9.00 pm Bransford - BCP Holy Communion 10.30 am Broadwas - Holy Communion 4.00 pm Clifton - Family Harvest Service 5.00 pm Shelsley B - Harvest Service
Wednesday 21st October 10.00 am Suckley Midweek Holy Communion
October 25th 9.00 am - Alfrick CW Holy Communion 10.30 am Crown East BCP Holy Communion 10.30 am Martley - Holy Communion 4.00 pm Harvest Zoom Service with 'social' breakout rooms
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Village Contacts
Editor of The Villager Gail Dawson. Email [email protected] or please leave any articles at the Central Stores in Martley Advertise in The Villager Pat Finch, 01886 888476 or email [email protected]—For all advertising queries Church Rector: Revd David Sherwin, 01886 888664 or email David at (Worcestershire West Rural Team) [email protected] Assistant Priest: Revd Jennifer Whittaker; 01886 833897 Martley Parish Council Chair: Cllr Mike Nott 01886 821746 Parish Clerk: Michelle Alexander [email protected] Martley WI Pat Crook 01886 888550; Marion Cumella 01886 888797; email [email protected] Martley Gardening Club Peter Wood 01886 888153
Royal British Legion Sue Ganderton 01905 422711 Martley Toddler Group 01886 888 406 / 0797881313 or [email protected]
Martley Young Farmers Amy Wickens 07975636122 Path-or-Nones John Nicklin 01886 888318 [email protected] Geology www.geo-village.eu Please contact John Nicklin on 01886 888318 for more information Martley Website [email protected] Martley Web Mesh Richard Jackman 01886 821237 [email protected] John Nicklin 01886 888318 [email protected]
Martley Pre-School Kath/Jo on 01886 889127 www.martleypreschool.co.uk
Martley Recreation Bookings: Gordon Griffiths 01886 888602 Association (playing fields) Email [email protected] Martley Memorial Village Pat Owen 01886 888406 [email protected] Hall Committee/Bookings Wichenford contacts for Carol Garrett (01886) 888603 The Villager Kenswick & Wichenford Parish Clerk Shirley Sanders 01886 888718 Parish Council Wichenford Wine Club Bill Mason, Chairman, 01905 756167 Wichenford Local Heritage Group Heather Rendall 01886 888 239
Martley Oil Syndicate Alan Colburn 01886 888575 [email protected]
Nora Parsons Day Centre Secretary; Pam Morgan, 01299 896656 [email protected]
To put organisation and its contact details on this list, or to change the details shown here, email [email protected] or leave a note FAO the Editor at Martley Central Stores.
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