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LEZANT PARISH MAGAZINE ISSUE 124 November 2020 Trekenner Mill Blue Iris by Neil Burden EDITORS: JO 01579 371073; JILL 01579 370835 AND ROB 01579 370151 EMAIL: [email protected] ADVERTISING and ACCOUNTS: Pam West TEL 01579 371167 EMAIL: [email protected] DISTRIBUTION: Jill Price TEL 01579 370835 EMAIL:[email protected] We are now on Facebook, search Lezant Parish Magazine 36 Welcome to November! LIST OF ADVERTISERS Page November is traditionally a month of remembrance and thanksgiving; we ACORN EQUINE RUG WASH 33 remember our departed loved ones and those who have died in battle. A J DESIGN (Andy Paton) Chartered Architectural Technician 22 Reading the Roll of Honour is a poignant reminder of the young men who A N JEWELL Painter and Decorator 23 once walked our villages and hamlets, worked our farms and built our BEN’S BOILERS 28 homes. While some of the larger remembrance events might not be able to CBL STOVE & CHIMNEY SPECIALISTS 25 happen this year we are able to have two acts of remembrance in the par- ish, details on page 14. C L BUILDING SERVICES 13 ESG BOILERCARE 12 Can I just remind you about the new(ish) Parish website GLEBE VETERINARY SURGERY 26 www.lezantparish.org.uk—where you can find all Parish Council meeting GROUP TRAVEL Coach Hire and Excursions 28 Agendas and Minutes. If you use social media follow the Lezant Magazine JOHN CLARK Carpentry/Painting/Decorating 22 Facebook page for up-to-date information about what is going on. With KDS Cornwall Painting and Decorating 17 ever changing guidelines please check opening times etc with the organiser LAUNCESTON COMPUTERS (Sales, Repairs & Training) 13 before travelling to an event. MOBILE FOOT CARE Foot Care in your own home 24 MOORLAND FUELS (Local Fuel Supplier) 16 There are small rays of hope within these pages. It is great to see things PENDRAGON COUNTRY HOUSE Restaurant and Function Room 26 reopening and resuming after a long period of closure, new initiatives, a PHIL AND MARK KNIGHT Garden & Building Services 16 new playgroup at the school, plans for rewilding an area in Trekenner with R MEARS & SONS Chimney Sweeps 29 wild flowers, quiz nights at the club and regular advertisers branching out with new ideas. Please do send any articles or news for the next issue— R J HOSKING Tree Surgeon 12 December/January will be a joint issue so anything for as far ahead as Feb- ROOT AND BRANCH Tree Service 29 ruary can go in it! As we all try to live our lives as normally as possible with- SHUBBERY JUBBERY Garden services 36 in the realms of changing guidelines any talk of 2021 seems completely ap- SOMETHING NICE CATERING (Judith Scott) Catering Service 19 pealing! As always, I’m grateful for all contributions. Thank you. SOUTH WEST HEATING Electric heater installation 33 THE LAW HUT 10 THE SPRINGER SPANIEL Pub and Restaurant 36 Stay safe, Jo TOM JEFFERIES Electrical installation and testing 25 TRACEY MOBILE HAIR AND BARBERING 23 TREBURLEY GARAGE (R Rowe/R Thomas) Vehicle Repairs 27 TREBURLEY PHYSIO Physiotherapy/Acupuncture 24 RAINFALL FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER from Trekenner Farm TRE POL & PEN Farm Shop and Kitchen 10 September 2019 134mm VICTORIA WILLIAMS UPHOLSTERY 27 September 2020 47mm W HALE Plumber 17 DEADLINE FOR ITEMS FOR NEXT ISSUE: 10TH November 2 35 ADVERTISEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS Trekenner Mill Blue Iris Many I am sure when at Treburley Garage and seeing the restored Ford 1931 Model A Truck, will have been told that it was the pride and joy of the late Peggy We always try to keep some space for your announcements and adverts. Whale who lived at Trekenner Mill with her parents, probably the last household in Business, For Sale and Wanted advertisements can be placed in this Lezant Parish maintaining a living from a small market garden by pure graft. Rich- magazine ard Rowe and dad Roy lovingly saved and restored this 1931 Ford truck that Peggy For sale and wanted adverts for December/January can be sent to the drove to the weekly market. editor via email to [email protected] or post them in to:- Jo Burt, Trehane, Trekenner, PL15 9PH with your name and contact details inside Such smallholdings had the obligatory house cow and its offspring, a cob horse, a and we will try and include them in the newsletter. Cost £1 per ‘For Sale’ few hens, the occasional pig fed on the scraps. Then when slaughtered the pork advertisement, maximum 25 words plus contact telephone number. No salted in after sharing some with neighbours, and their cash crop grown in a small charge for “Free to good home” adverts. market garden, a sheltered field west of the Mill by the Leat. In the 1950’s I re- Don’t forget our “Congratulations” feature is available for local major person- member going to Trekenner Mill with my parents to collect a bunch of flowers to al events – 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays, Golden and Diamond Weddings take to Freedom Fields Hospital. The memory of the visit stuck with me ever since, I and other major awards e.g. honours from the Queen. remember both the late Peggy and Mr and Mrs Whale, short in stature, gentle, hospitable and extremely well spoken. We entered a door close to the road into a Other contributions are a part of our magazine and we will do our best to very dark room called the cellar. Like any such room on any farm, full of many include them provided you meet the copy deadline of 10th of the month: tools, boxes, things hanging off beams, also many tubs that resembled half cut beer with the next issue being December/January 2020/21 that means the 10th casks, full of freshly cut Blue Iris. I distinctly remember the room was very dark, the only light came through the open door, these beautiful Blue Irises were all freshly November. picked for market. They also grew strawberries and daffodils for sale and their Advertisements for your business or service are always welcome and truck would transport this produce to a local market each week. may be sent to Pam—details on the front page. The advertising rates for bookings are as follow: That very memory came flooding back when in 2002 June time we had a summer walk and ended up with a BBQ at East Penrest, the home of James and Jo Rider Half page: 5 issues £37.50 10 issues £75 (£7.50 per issue) who reclaimed the derelict former market garden. We walked along the path by Whole Page: 5 issues £60 10 issues £120 (£12 per issue) the old Leat, crossing over to the former market garden now a pasture field. In the For new advertisers buy 5 or 10 and get one free so 6 for 5 or 11 for 10. field near a tree was a solitary blue Iris, the very same species that I saw 45 years If fewer than 5 booked then £8 for half page and £14 for whole page per before. The good book says ‘thou shalt not covet’ but I did, as I wanted to save the issue. lonely flower for posterity. The others had all gone, disappeared, how much longer would this lonely Iris survive? I grabbed a stick and placed it in the ground beside Rewilding Trekenner the Iris, paced from the tree, then that autumn returned and everything was as I left it. I dug, and there was the Iris bulb and 2 other small bulbs. Mission accom- With the support of the Parish Council, Trekenner Green (the area of grass with the plished, I gave one bulb to the parish clerk Audrey Parsons, another to Mrs Jo Rider sign and the horse chestnut tree) will be rewilded next Spring with the hope that in the new owner of this field and kept one for myself. the Summer it will be a glorious wild flower area. Helen Nash has collected donations of native seeds and bulbs to begin I now understand that when Peggy left Trekenner Mill to retire at Pempwell she the project. The first year will act as a bit of an experiment to had those very same thoughts, she also took as few Iris bulbs with her. This species is a plant that does multiply but hates any disturbance, and it then fails to flower see what takes and thrives in the area. If anyone would like the following year. After a few years success, as the picture on the front cover illus- to donate native seeds or bulbs to the project please contact trates, there is now a goodly sized undisturbed clump in our rose bed at Trecarrell. Helen or email [email protected] Neil Burden 2020 34 3 In Remembrance William Osborne 1897-1918 Compiled and copyright © Paula & Dave Kennington 2008 William was born in Lawhitton in 1897. His parents were Thomas and Emma Osborne. His father was a Carpenter. On leaving school, William went to work for Mr John Wills of Trelinnoe Farm, South Petherwin as a Farmworker. He enlisted with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as a Pri- vate (Regimental No. 240696) serving with the 1st/5th Battalion. William was killed in action during the German spring offensive at the Somme on March 21st, 1918 aged 21. At the time of his death, his parents were residing at Penscombe Cross, Lezant. His body was never identified but his name is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial, France. He is also commemorated on the Lezant War Memorial. William is one of twelve men from WW1 who are commemorated on the Lezant War Memorial at Landue.