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Local Directory Emergency Services FIRE, or POLICE or medical emergency, only 999 POLICE Customer Services Centre (for suspicious incidents, crimes, etc.) 101 NHS Helpline (non-emergency care and out of hours service) 111 MINICOM (for deaf and hard of hearing) 01480 422493 RNID TypeTalk (for deaf, blind and speech impaired) 0800 515152 Police Anti-social behaviour co-ordinator Brian Tully 01353 656641 Electricity power cut 0800 7838838 Neighbourhood Watch East Cambs (Secretary) Kevin Evans 01353 614892 Park End Robin Sewell 01223 811632 Local Councils Cambridgeshire County Councillor East Cambridgeshire District Councillor Mr Allen Alderson 01638 741744 Parish Council contacts Parish Clerk Diane Bayliss 07562 669198 Chairman Sue Romero 01223 813635 Vice Chairman Mary Smith 01223 812025 Councillor Kay Ballard 01223 812249 Councillor Nicky Bates 01223 813592 Councillor Lynn Reed 01223 811777 Councillor Gordon Reid 01223 811245 Councillor Robin Sewell 01223 811632 Local Services St. Mary’s Church: Reverend Sue Giles ([email protected]) 01223 812726 Churchwardens: Christopher Welton 01223 811501 Peter Goldsmith 01223 812525 Swaffham Bulbeck Primary School (Head Teacher): Lisa Fish 01223 811595 Parent Staff Association (Chair): Toni Rogers 01223 813720 Bottisham Village College: Main Reception 01223 811250 Adult Education 01223 811372 Dentist at Bottisham 01223 811844 Doctors: Bottisham Surgery 01223 810030 Burwell Surgery 01638 741234 Sanctuary Housing Association Freephone 0800131 3348 Community Room Hire (Downing Court) 0800131 3348 Women’s Institute (President) Mrs P. Cook 01638 742224 Relief-in-Need Charity (Clerk) Mrs C. Ling 01223 813885 Public transport information line 08712 002233 Dial-a-Ride 01638 664304 Swaffhams Cricket Club James Aldridge 01223 811798 Mitchell Lodge Bowls Club (Secretary) Mr M. Beeton 01223 234123 Useful Websites Swaffham Bulbeck Village (Parish Council) website www.swaffhambulbeckpc.org. Bulbeck Beacon website (to access all previous editions) www.bulbeckbeacon.org Cover Picture: The late John Lewin at Burgh Hall. Photo by Martin Rushworth endlessly available in and close to the village. Avoid Editorial airports, railway stations, traffic jams and other awful places, walk, stay in the village and relax. Change is in the air. Never mind the Happy Holiday time…. Robin Sewell, Whitehall lot, here in SB we have lost our Editor. The Editor for August will be Sylvia Thomson Chairman of the Parish Council Ian Woodroffe, who did a good job for three years before resigning last month. Best wishes to Sue Contents Romero who has taken over as chairman. The Parish Council gets a lot of criticism from a small number of Anglesey Abbey 12 residents, no matter how hard it tries to keep things Botanical Gardens 12 going on an even keel. The Council is perennially short Bottisham Community Library 9 of councillors which means the current small team has a Bottisham & District Gardening Club 9 lot to do. Is there anyone out there who cares for the Bottisham Medical Practice 7 village, doesn’t want to cover it in concrete and new houses, doesn’t just use it as a dormitory site and can Bus Timetable 20 spare a few hours a month to deal with village matters? If Community Land Trust update 4 so, please offer to be co-opted to the Parish Council. Freecycle 20 Two more Councillors are urgently needed, now! Letters to the Editor 2 July starts off with the annual Street Market on Saturday Marathon update 3 1st July. This event has always been well organised, News from the School 5 interesting, varied, good value for both entertainment Nocturnal Animals 13 and as a market. Get another month’s supply of book Notices from 15 reading for pennies, enjoy a freshly baked cake and get Parish Council 2 new plants for your garden amongst other things, and take your wife, husband, partner, children or dog around Public Transport Matters 10 the many stalls that occupy the High Street from the RED2GREEN 7 Church to the Denny between 11am to 4pm. RE:NEW Church 11 There aren’t many organised events for the month but St Mary’s Church 11 school holidays begin on 21st July and you don’t have to Swaffham Bulbeck Phone Box 6 go all the way to the Mediterranean for your holiday. Swaffham Bulbeck Swift Project 4 Consider all the facilities on your doorstep. Have a BBQ The Swaffhams WI 8 on the Denny, using the brick built one for the purpose. Tributes to Minnie Potter 6 Take a walk in one of our two Woods, picnic on the Advertisements from 21 Denny, visit Anglesey Abbey and Wicken Fen, have a Local Directory inside front cover swim at Bottisham Pool, take in a film at Ely or Village Diary inside back cover Cambridge, enjoy a beer or two at the pub and get the kids ice creams at the shop. Simple pleasures are ALL ITEMS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE ARE REQUIRED BY 16th OF EACH MONTH PLEASE SEND TO THE EDITOR at : [email protected] Contributions are preferred in electronic form but if this is not possible please deliver “hard copy” to the Editor for the next month whose name is at the bottom of the Editorial. Editors’ Telephone Numbers (all 01223) Robin Sewell (811632) · Sylvia Thomson (811770) · Christopher Welton (811501) Copy Designers: Penny Irwin · Mary Smith. Photographer: Martin Rushworth Please e-mail advertisements to: [email protected] after consultation with Business Manager: Christopher Welton. Providence Place, 93 High Street. Swaffham Bulbeck CB25 0LX (01223 811501) The cost of producing this magazine is reimbursed mainly by the advertisers, but in no small way from generous donations received from readers. All financial and advertising enquiries should be addressed to Christopher Welton. Bulbeck Beacon July 2017 1 The RSPCA suggested we contact the vet in Burwell. Letters to the Editor The vet helpfully found a volunteer who nurtures injured birds. By the time all that was set up the kingfisher was away Dear Editor, on the wing! Thank you so much for publishing the story about Alex. At least we know that a kingfisher is around albeit with a Swaffham Bulbeck has responded in the most generous headache! fashion. Kind donations have come in, and all have been most gratefully received. Here is a possible follow (See back cover for pictures.) up article. We will have 'before' and 'after' photos Ian & Mary Woodroffe for the next Beacon. But now we have this: Dear Editor Well, by the time that you read this, Alex's long hair will have been washed, plaited, cut, and sent to the charity Swaffham Bulbeck residents with family living in Burwell collecting hair for medical wigs for children. Two years' may be interested in a newly published book 'Memories of growth, gone in a few minutes. But instead of lying on Of Burwell' by Frank Czucha. Hurrell's Butcher, Lane's the barber's floor, to be swept away, it carefully has Bakery, Burwell Surgery and Day Centre and former been tended and is going to the best of causes. But in Village schools all feature in the book which contains addition to the hair, the Little Princess charity will also more than 300 photos and is on sale at Tina's shop in receive nearly 600 pounds in sponsorship, which North Street price £12.99. members of the skiing community, close family and Thank you, friends, and the community of Swaffham Bulbeck have Frank Czucha so generously given. Alex will miss his hair. He is very Dear Editor, attached to it, in more ways than one. We will miss it too. But for the child who benefits directly, and the Mrs Minnie Irene Potter (formally a resident of children who benefit from the donations, our loss is Swaffham Bulbeck for 95 years). very much their, deserving gain. We would like the attached (See page 6) placed in the the Bulbeck Beacon to express our thanks to all Best Wishes and Thanks Minnie`s family and friends that attended her funeral Tim Oates service on 24th May 2017. Dear Editor We would also like to express our thanks to Viv, Margaret and Eileen for their help on the day in On the 14th June Mary was alerted by a thump on the organising the hall and providing teas and coffees. window. Kind Regards There on the decking was a stunned kingfisher. Ann Holmes (Minnie`s daughter) Phone: 01480 469952. Swaffham Bulbeck Parish Council update The Parish Council normally meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7.30pm. Meetings are currently being held at Downing Court. Members of the public are invited to attend the meetings and 10 minutes is set aside each month for public question time. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 4th July at 7.30pm. Please note that the clerk to the council does not keep regular office hours. Replies to emails and phone calls will mainly be attended to on Mondays and Thursdays each week apart from during holiday periods. Full copies of the minutes are available on the Website; the Notice Board and from the Parish Clerk [email protected] Mrs Sue Romero has been elected as Chairman of vacancies which need to be filled. Interested parties the Parish Council for the year 2017/18. should contact the Clerk to the Council. Mrs Mary Smith has been elected Vice-Chairman of Financial Matters the Parish Council for the year 2017/18 The Annual Governance Statement and the Annual Return were approved by the Parish Council at the Mrs Nicky Bates has been co-opted onto the Parish meeting held on 6th June. Council however there are now a further two 2 Bulbeck Beacon July 2017 The period of electors’ rights has been advertised and 17/00403/LBC New window opening in south wall in the th will end on July 18 .