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The Villager December/January 2018 Sherbornes and Pamber 1 04412_Villager_July2012:19191_Villager_Oct07 2/7/12 17:08 Page 40 2 Communications to the Editor: the Villager CONTACTS Editor: Julie Crawley Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year 01256 851003 to all our Villager readers [email protected] • The next issue of the Villager will be in February 2018. If you have any photos, pieces that you think will be of interest to Villager readers please do send them to Advertisements: me before the 12th January. The email address is: [email protected] Emma Foreman • If you know of anyone who would like to receive a monthly copy of the Villager 01256 889215/07747 015494 magazine via email – free of charge – please ask them to get in touch with me at [email protected] [email protected]. • We are still looking for some more people to distribute the Villager – particularly Distribution: down part of Vyne Road in Sherborne St John from January/February 2018 George Rust onwards – could that be you? Please contact either myself or George Rust. 01256 850413 [email protected] Loddon Valley Lions Father Christmas Float Tuesday 12th December 5.45pm Queens College Arms, Future Events: Monk Sherborne, Pamber End, College Arms Lindsay Berry Wednesday 13th December 5.45pm Swan Pub, 01256 850495 Sherborne St John, West End [email protected] Pamber Correspondent: Update on the Vyne Roof Ann Ellis My thanks to Chris Pound for his photos below. [email protected] I am told that the scaffolding should be coming down at the end of January/ February so if you are interested in seeing the work being done - get up there soon! The rooftop walkway is included in the admission price (NT members are free) and is accessible between 11am and 3pm. Last entry is at 2:30pm. The walkway is wheelchair and buggy accessible. Children and adults of all ages are welcome to take a look. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-vyne/features/untold-stories-revealed-at-the-vyne Contents Future Events 4 Rev. John Hamilton 6 Church Services 7, 9 Parish Council Reports 10, 11, 13 Whilst we are happy to publish items and opinions in this magazine it should be Our Schools 5, 18 noted that the views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily endorsed by the Editorial team. Readers should also make their own enquiries about, and assessment of, claims and services made by advertisers in this magazine. Local Events & issues 19, 21, 26, 28, 29 Contact us at [email protected] Bert’s Blog 27 Cover: Winter sunset Legal Issues 31 3 Future Events December 2017 2 Dads and Tots, Sherborne St John Village Hall, £2 per family, Tel. Scott 416272 8.00 – 9.30am 2 Tadley Singers Annual Christmas Concert in aid of Loddon Valley Day Care Centre based at 7.30pm the Ambrose Allen Centre who meet every Thursday and look after the people with dementia, thus giving their carers a break. As usual, entry free with a retiring collection, Pamber Heath Memorial Hall. 3 “Welcome to the Christmas Season “ with Carols, Vocals and seasonal readings followed by the 4.00pm lighting of the Village Christmas Tree and mince pies, shortbread and mulled wine. St Stephen’s Hall, Little London 4 Pelican Film Society, Hidden Figures, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 5 SSJ Women’s Fellowship Christmas Lunch Details to be advised 7 BHMVC Christmas Carol Concert, St Michael’s Church, B/S. Free. Aiding B/S Hosp. Medical Fund 7.30pm 8 SSJ Primary School Christmas Fayre 5 – 7m 9 Mayor's Annual Christmas Concert. Mulled wine and mince pies. Free with retiring collection. 7.00pm St Michaels Church B/S. 11 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 14 Thursday Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm 16-17 Nativity Festival Weekend at Tadley Common Methodist Church, Newchurch Road, Tadley. January 2018 2 SSJ Women’s Fellowship, “Postcards of Basingstoke”, SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 8 Pelican Film Society, The Viceroy’s House, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 12 Quiz with wine & cheese, Monk Sherborne Village Hall £10 per ticket from [email protected] 7.30pm February 2018 5 Pelican Film Society, Going In Style, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 6 SSJ Women’s Fellowship AGM SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm Christmas Concert Christmas Concert – Sun 10 Dec 17 – Wed 20 Dec 17 Start your Christmas celebrations in style with the Come and join the Basingstoke Concert Band as they Basingstoke Concert Band as they perform a magnificent perform a Christmas treat of traditional music and carols concert of seasonal music and carols along with the very that the whole family will enjoy. The concert takes place at popular St Mary’s CE Junior School, Old Basing Senior Choir. Sherfield-on-Loddon Village Hall on Wed 20 Dec at 8.00- 9.30pm. The date is Sunday 10 December 2017, starting at 3.00 pm at St Michael’s Church, Basingstoke. Tickets cost £5 (which includes a glass of wine and mince pie) and can be purchased from the Band Secretary Janet Tickets cost £10 (which includes a glass of wine and mince Howard: 01256 781583, band mobile07503 881241 or at the pie) and can be purchased from the Band Secretary Janet Village Hall on the evening – there is no charge for children Howard: 01256 781583, band mobile: 07503 881241 or at the under 16. Church on the day – there is no charge for children under 16. The Band looks forward to seeing you there. Hope to see you there. 4 Priory School Over the year, all of our children used in World War 2. The blocks that There were also domed windows, take part in a range of visits to enrich they put on the table showed where which didn’t look like they were their curriculum learning. Here is our planes were at that time and were see-through but were. This was what Maya, from Year 6 to tell you about moved around by a long, wooden stick. Winston Churchill looked through, an exciting recent trip to the Battle of There were also arrows on there that whilst sitting in his room upstairs on Britain bunker. showed our enemy’s planes progress, his visit to the bunker. Battle of Britain Bunker every 5 minutes. The TV Room recount We also got shown the Tote board. The In the TV room, we watched a short Tote board is controlled by a mini Tote Recently, Year 6 went to the Battle of video of around 25 minutes. It talked Britain Bunker in Uxbridge. It was board. It showed if the planes from a bit about the Battle of Dunkirk and sensational and we all enjoyed it very different places were: ready for action; interviewed a few people who were in much. fighting or 30 minutes till ready for World War 2. My favourite part was action. This this was shown by coloured when a man told us how he took down a Into the Bunker lights that would come on. plane once he’d run out of ammunition Just before we entered the bunker we Just below the Tote board, was a clock. (he clipped off a bit of the German saw some life-size models of Spitfires It didn’t tell the time but it did tell them plane’s tail). and Hurricanes, which are English how up to date the information on Museum planes. The entrance to the Battle of the Tote board was. If the information Britain Bunker was a lot smaller than I was 15 minutes old they would have Finally, we went to the museum. We expected. I was a bit scared to go in at telephoned the airfields to ask for a saw the chair Winston Churchill sat in, first because there was a big, loud alarm squadron update. it was green and we all enjoyed sitting that might go off. where our past Prime Minister had sat. To the side under the Tote board, is Inside the bunker was well lit – which There were also lots of medals including the Balloon Scale. The Balloon Scale made me feel a bit more comfortable – the Burma Star and the Africa Star. showed how high the Barrage Balloons and we went down 76 stairs! Next to the There were lots of other interesting stairs, were thick, cylinder telephone were. Barrage Balloons were filled with things there such as a baby’s gas mask. cables that they used to telephone hydrogen and put in the air with thick The best bit of the museum though was people (it only worked when they were cables: securing them to an army truck. the evening dress made of parachute on the ground because the cables were The idea of a Barrage Balloons was that silk. To me that’s an amazing example of underground). when German planes got to them they ‘make do and mend’. didn’t want to waste their 12 seconds of Operations Room ammunition on shooting it down and In conclusion, it was a marvellous day out and it was definitely worth going. I Now that we had descended the whole they would get caught up in the wires would recommend everyone makes a 60 feet underground, we came to the if they went under. That means that visit there! Operations Room. The first thing we they had to fly over them, which would were shown was the Operations Table. get them to the height that the British If would like to visit our school, it would On it was a massive map that covered wanted so they could shoot them down.