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milltimber - bieldside - cults Issue 158 Feb - Mar - Apr 2013 In the complex world of law our aim is to make the complicated straightforward. Providing sound, practical advice Iain Smith Solicitors LLP on a partner led basis. 18 Queens Road, AB15 4ZT www.iainsmith.com 01224 645454/626250 Copy Deadline : 7 April 2013 Editorial Distribution in First of all, the whole team at MBC News wishes all our NB : the editorial content for this issue should be readers a happy and successful 2013. relevant for reading in mid May - June and July 2013 This issue looks forward to spring and the coming easter celebrations. In addition to the usual reports of local Send your copy as an email attachment and keep photos activities, fund raising efforts and sporting prowess we have separate to: [email protected] the last of our features on how MBC News is produced. Eleanor, our long standing ‘What’s on’ person, describes the OR POST to : job and makes a plea to be replaced. We cannot thank her enough for all she has done. MBC News, c/o 11 Inchgarth Road, Cults, Aberdeen AB15 9NJ Elsewhere, a reader questions Aberdeen’s credentials as a future ‘city of culture’. If this article gets you thinking about Contact Details for MBC News Team : the issue, please get in touch before 7th April. Personally, my experience on the Management Committee of the Lower 861957 Editor (Maureen) Deeside Community Centre (formerly Cults Community Centre) means I have no expectation of success. This 869502 Advertising (Tracey) Committee was formed to allow local people to run the 867571 Accounts (Phillip) community centre facilities in our area when the council 862262 What’s On Locally (Eleanor) decided it could no longer afford to do so. Like all such 318561 Layout (Sue) committees, there are people who give up a great deal 868524 Distribution (Peter) of their own time to try and secure facilities which should benefit everyone in our area. The Committee is extremely diligent and meets regularly. Do you know anything about ... Agendas are drafted, discussions take place, decisions are taken and minutes prepared and approved. So, you ask, T B Huxley Jones sculptor -Professsor of sculpture Grays what is the problem? In reality, we are getting nowhere art school 1934 because each time we take a decision, the Council just changes its mind, moves the goalposts or simply fails to I was wondering if you might be able to assist me, respond. Frankly it is all wearing very thin. Our committee The portrait of Mr James Mcdougall,the village grocer, Bielside, is treated with something approaching contempt, and we Aberdeenshire - we have no details on who he was - I was now have to ask very seriously if the Council have ever been wondering if you could put out a message asking if there are any genuine in trying to let local people run their own services. family members left in the area. My experience on this committee suggests that they have I originally come from Broomfield, where TB Huxley Jones lived never embraced this concept, which is entirely alien to their until his death in 1968. My Grandfather Jack Latham was a paternalistic culture and they will just continue to play the friend of Huxley Jones and a blacksmith and made some armetures long game until all the talented, industrious and committed for large sculptures. members give up in despair! Then the local community will have to forgo foreign language lessons, Badminton, Examples of work: upholstery and, importantly after school child care and just Aberdeen: 11-13 Rosemount square -Spirit of the winds/Spirit of the rain watch ‘Pointless’ (how appropriate!) on the telly instead. Sea Fantasy - Boys Brigade Plaque 1West Craibstone St,Bon accord Square Apart from all this, I do hope that the weather remains kind London: The 4 winds fountain - Hyde Park and that we all can look forward to spring and the year that Helios sun god fountain - BCc white city is to come. Bronze of David Livingstone - Royal Geographical society Kensington Maureen I am currently researching The life and work of TB Huxley Jones, who graduated from Wolverhampton art school and went on to win the ancient Prix De Rome prize for sculpture and to produce many The new GDFAS season offers a cornucopia of enthralling large public works in Chelmsford,London,Aberdeen and the USA. and varied lectures. We warmly welcome back all The intention is to produce a concise biography about him including existing members and would be delighted to see visitors his time at Grays school of art as head of sculpture and his who, having come once, won’t be able to resist coming relationship with Aberdeen. back for more. Please join us for a glass of wine or a soft drink at The book will include input from Alexanandra Harley ARBS,Neal 6.45, prior to the lecture, which begins at 7.30. Visitors are requested to make a £5 donation. French FRBS who worked with him as a student in the 1960s at his studio and his home "HIGH HOUSE" in Broomfield Essex, and February 13: Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Form with Function March 13 : The Language of Clothes: Visual Codes and Messages is currently on the council of the royal society of portrait sculptures April 10: Celebration in Ancient Egyptian Art and Hilary Frew FRBS from the Royal Society of Portrait sculptures May 8: A Family Affair: Florence and the House of Medici that Huxley Jones was a founder member of. June 12: Life and Times of the Sundial – Perspective on Civilization’s The small book,is a heartfelt project and any profit will be used to Most Enduring Timekeeper The venue is Robert Gordon’s University, The Faculty of Health & Social help fund a small sculpture prize for students in his name. Care, Garthdee Road. (From the Bridge of Dee, take the second set of I would be grateful with any assistance you might be able to lights on the left after Sainsbury’s). provide. For more information please ring Alison on 01224 869639 or Kind Regards, Thyra on 01224 481278 Andrew Latham (Please put any info to MBC News) Page 2 MBC News Issue 158 - February - March - April 2013 www.cbmcommunity.org.uk/mbc-news A Poem: Some Village Some older people call it “The Village” Which it was…. two hundred years ago Some few dozen houses straggled along The road west from the city by the sea Some people, rich from fish or goods Built mansions back from the road The Return of the Some overlooking the fine River Dee A forest of firs on the northern edge Red Squirrel Some others emulated the wealthy Thanks to many MBC News readers, red squirrels are returning And built modest granites homes to parts of western Aberdeen where they have not been seen for Some near the railway to Braemar many years. Where a Queen had erected a castle After the Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels project’s article in MBC news last year telling of their work protecting Aberdeenshire’s Some merchants opened small shops wonderful red squirrels, householders throughout the MBC A tram-track was laid from Aberdeen area got in touch and many now have one of our traps in their Some official decided it wasn’t for Cults garden. Now a number of them have been seeing red squirrels - Hence trams stopped at the boundary some for the very first time in their gardens, as picked up by the P&J back in August last year! Some time later came schools, banks As Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels enters its second phase, Police, post office, cafes, hairdressers, our work in the northeast of Scotland will continue to focus on Some thousands of houses, hotels targeted and co-ordinated trapping of grey squirrels. Trapping Tesco, Costa coffee, Lloyds, … Some village! figures have been good this year, helped by the lack of natural food in the woods - the trees didn’t like the ‘summer’ either! by Nodwas of Cults With an increase in our trapping coverage we have seen some extremely encouraging results. At Hazlehead Park on the edge of the City, which used to be home to a huge grey squirrel population, we are seeing signs of the red squirrel population recovering. Park users are reporting seeing red squirrels there regularly and one of our Grey Squirrel Control Officers has even started catching red squirrels in our traps for the first time where last year it was entirely greys. The reds were all released MBC Festival 2013 unharmed. Additional evidence came from three new trail cameras which we Planning for the 2013 Festival will begin in tested in Hazlehead Park. These robust motion sensing cameras March and new ideas for the programme are are the type seen on wildlife documentaries and programmes always welcome. The proposed date for the like Springwatch. We leave them out in the woods pointing at a feeder box full of squirrel food. When we reviewed the images Art Exhibition, which is the opening event in the we were amazed to see a cheeky red squirrel found the food Festival programme, is the weekend of 24-25th within less than a day of the box and camera being put out! We August. Please telephone either John Page (01224 have since had some great still images and even some short video clips. 867988) or Joyce Wright (01224 867398) if you have any suggestions or would like information As we head towards spring squirrel activity reaches fever pitch. In January and February males chase females through the regarding the next planning meeting on 5th March.