The Parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, Including Woodyates, Deanland and Minchington
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The Parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, including Woodyates, Deanland and Minchington Delivered by Sixpenny Handley Homewatch April 2021 As last year St Mary’s Church are encouraging people to decorate Easter Eggs to hang on the cherry tree in Handley Churchyard during Holy Week running up to Easter Sunday. egg photos from 2020 Views expressed in this magazine are those of our correspondents and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions held by the Editor or Members of Sixpenny Handley with Pentridge Parish Council. This publication does not endorse the products or services advertised within. Directory Parish Councillors Sixpenny Handley Police Chairman Cllr C Taylor 553148 Verwood Police Stn 01202 222222 Cllr D Adams 552284 Police non-emergency number 101 Cllr R Adams 553032 Cllr D Chick 552557 Dementia Friend Champion Hazel Kileen 552980 Cllr S Meaden 552715 Sixpenny Handley Allotment Holders Association Cllr S McLean 552910 Chairman John Curtis 552397 Cllr Mrs M New 552539 Secretary Steve Barrett 552121 Vice-Chair Cllr J Reed 516390 Schools Cllr A Turner 552735 First School Handley First School 552356 Pentridge Cllr Gino Salvia 553076 Middle School Cranborne Middle School 517348 Clerk Ciona Nicholson 552211 Upper School Queen Elizabeth’s School Parish Office 552211 Wimborne 01202 885233 Dorset Council Cllr Piers Brown 07511 146811 Little Pennies Pre-School 552997 Email: [email protected] Matt Reeks (Chairperson) 07825 054376 Member Parliament Simon Hoare 01258 452 585 Becky Wallworth (Business Manager) 552997 Rights of Way Liaison Officers Happy Nappy Club Sixpenny Handley J Reed 516390 Lucy Barr 07508 691323 Pentridge Mrs M Jones 552358 Milly Bones 07525 248890 The Downsman Team 1st Woodcutts Scout Group Editor Naomi Booth [email protected] Group Scout Leader John Curtis 552397 Treasurer , Distribution Explorers Anthony Brown 552814 & Advertising Tony Gibb 552704 Scout Leader Rob Easton 552038 [email protected] Cub Leader Andy Young 01258 830861 Churches Beaver Leader Annette Toop 07973 677815 Church of England St. Mary’s, Sixpenny Handley Scout Hut Bookings Pete Wilkinson St. Rumbold’s, Pentridge [email protected] St. Andrews, Gussage St.Andrew 6D4all Youthclub Vicar Revd Canon Richard Hancock, The Vicarage Liz 01425 654467 Vicky 01725 552549 Graham 01725 516973 60 High Street, Sixpenny Handley 552182 Sixpenny Handley W.I. (Formed in 1922) Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes & President Mrs Bobbie Carter 552042 St. Cecilia, Blandford Forum Secretary Mrs Margaret Jones 552358 Priest Monsignor Francis Jamieson 01258 452051 Sixpenny Handley Mothers’ Union Doctors Drs. Morgan, Taubman & Hawdon Contact: Sue Curtis 552397 Dean Lane Surgery 552500 Chase Community Friends Sixpenny Handley Village Hall Chairman Vic Hatton 01258 841321 Chairman Carole Wyatt 552572 Secretary Rosie New 01725 516982 Vice Chairman Paul Styles 552544 Sixpenny Handley CLT Treasurer Tracey Lownds 552414 Chairman Simon Parker Bookings Janice Bicker 07951 056069 Secretary Jenny Netherton 07830 188 589 Pentridge Village Hall Sixpenny Handley Sports Association Chairman Tarka King [email protected] Sports Pavilion Bookings 552211 Vice Chairman Richard Pollen [email protected] Sixpenny Handley Bowls Club Treasurer Colin Taylor 553148 President Ron Jermyn 552424 Bookings Graham Elford 07882 264160 Secretary Colin Chambers 552796 Email: [email protected] Treasurer Ann Adams 552284 Sixpenny Handley Homewatch Handley Sports Club Overall Co-ordinator & Police Focal Point Chairman & Treasurer Mark Young 552741 John Curtis 552397 Secretary & Team Div 3 Manager - Adam Day 01258 452481 Co-ordinators Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club Area 1 - Dean Lane Adam Ralph 552265 Chairman Alex Thomas 01725 516320 2 - Lower Handley David Chick 552557 Membership/Treasurer Stephanie Chick 552557 3 - Upper Handley John Clarke 552674 Sixpenny Handley Cricket Club 4 - Deanland & N.E. Pete Wilkinson 553150 Evening Captain David Cross 552640 5 - West & South Simon Meaden 552715 Citizens’ Advice Bureau Other Areas (These are separate Homewatch Schemes) Wimborne Branch 03442 4 1291 Pentridge Roy Elford 552911 Footpath Liaison Jessica/James Winby 01725 552259 Woodyates Sugery 552500 NHS non-emergency number 111 2 The Downsman - April 2021 Editorial Next edition Looking bright... The next edition will be published from 1st June 2021 The house is all quiet here again, so I’m looking forward to having the children home for Easter very soon! And talking of Easter as you can see from the cover, St Mary’s is looking Copy deadline for the forward to celebrating Easter with services at home next edition over the whole weekend, prayer walks, opportunities to decorate eggs and Easter gardens to help decorate the 15th May church and churchyard. Take a look in the Seeker in the centre of the Downsman. Please make every effort to meet the I have to say I have been waiting for spring, those warm days at the end of February were deadline so that we have time for printing, very enticing and made the cold, wet days that followed seemed very dreary - but skylarks production and distribution. are now singing, all the daffodils and primroses have broken through and spring is now really here. Looking forward to other things opening up, Frogmore Barn is very excited If possible please email your articles to to re-open as is the library at the Parish Office, do take a look at the notice board, page [email protected]. 5. You will also notice on your browse through the magazine that larger events are in the planning, the village hall hopes to reopen and are looking for an Artsreach co-ordinator, Advertising page 5, and if coming out of lockdown goes as hoped there is a Bigish Session planned too Our advertising offers great value. The for 26th June -page 20! Downsman is currently delivered to over 700 households within the parish. During lockdown I, as many others, have taken more to walking our local footpaths and Email: [email protected] for bridleways and making use of my OS map more than ever before. This term, on Zoom, more details. Cubs have taken the opportunity to explore our local area mostly looking at the history which makes our landscape what it is today. We looked at many resources, online photos, Advertising deadline maps past and present and we rediscovered the book ‘Sixpenny Handley - The Story of our 10th May Parish’. I discovered Ros has plenty of copies left to sell, so thought it time to re-advertise Payment must be made before the to you in the hope you too can enjoy the stories within, page 9. The next stage with Cubs advertising deadline to be included. is to plan our walk to visit some of the local history sites we have seen on maps and Advertisement Costs photographs. Woodcutts Iron age and Romano-British settlement, which is part of the Time Travellers of Cranborne Chase AR (augmented reality) app and was excavated by Pitt- Size Single Yearly Rivers in 1884–1885 and exploring the 1892 great fire of Handley by comparing old photos edition rate with what is here now, we hope to walk part of Shirerack the county boundary too. So all Small Text Ad £2.50 - we need to hope for now is that restrictions are able to be lifted as planned and that the Small Square £5 £25 sun shines so we don’t get too wet! Rectangle £10 £50 Large Square £25 £125 I hope you enjoy spring, whatever it brings to you... Half Page £35 £175 Whole Page £50 £250 Naomi Booth Advertisement Sizes [email protected] Size Image area* Small Text Ad 30 words c/o The Parish Office, Unit 6, Town Farm Workshops, Sixpenny Handley, SP5 5PA Small Square 59mm Rectangle V 59mm x 122mm H 122mm x 59mm Directory 2 Health & Beauty 32 Large Square 122mm Noticeboard 5 Law & more 39 Half Page 186mm x 122mm Gone Sailing 35 Gardening 40 Whole Page 186mm x 248mm WI Report 17 Rob’s Column 43 *without frame which will be added by Seeker 21 us. If you need us to set your advert please add a one-off £5 fee. Sorry - we are unable to include flyers More about the parish can be found at www.sixpennyhandley.info 3 The Downsman - April 2021 To the Editor A Farewell Note from Caroline Catchpole a combined District and Practice Nurse, You patients are the very very tops, as are and then the last 7 years as just a Practice the Doctors and all the staff at Sixpenny Having just completed 51 years with the Nurse. Handley Surgery. Thank you all so much for NHS – 25 of which have been with Sixpenny letting me be a tiny bit of your lives. Handley Surgery, I felt I just must write to I have enjoyed every single minute of it and say Thank You! cannot begin to tell you how much I love Caroline Catchpole nursing. I shall miss you all so much, But I Thank you to all you wonderful, wonderful had to stop before I get into The Guinness Thank you for everything you have done patients who come to the surgery. You Book of Records for being the oldest Caroline, we hope you have the most are all so brave and stoical. I cannot tell serving nurse in the land! wonderful and restful time with you family! you what a privilege it has been for me to have been a nurse at the surgery all these No doubt I will enjoy time with Michael, years – firstly as a District Nurse, then as my children and my (8)! Grandchildren. Lacking inspiration? Can’t decide what to cook tonight? It sounds like you need some new recipe ideas!!! 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