Warbler SUMMER 2014
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Contents page Editorial 5 Letters 6 MP backs Fundraising for New Hall 9 Great Wilbraham Primary School 11 Great Wilbraham Parish Council 14 Little Wilbraham Parish Council 16 Six Mile Bottom Sports and Social Club 19 Vegetable, Flower and Produce Show 19 Fibre Optic for Wilbraham 21 St Nicholas Trust 22 Bottisham & Burwell Photographic Club 23 Wilbrahams’ Memorial Hall Social Club 25 Youth Group & Sport in the Wilbrahams 26 Weenie Warblers 29 Village Signs 30 Untold Stories 31 Calendar 36/37 New Trees in Great Wilbraham 39 Litter Pick 39 Retreating Forward 40 More Weather Vanes 41 Wilbrahams’ WI 43 Burwell Print 45 Our Perfect Playground 46 Mary Layton Cottages 49 Country Music at the Memorial Hall 50 Over the Farm Gate 52 Are We a Christian Country 53 Rail tracking in India 54 Bells Meeting 55 A View from the Garden 57 Tower Project at St Nicholas Church 58 Cycling 60 Cambridge Open Studios 61 Gardening Club 64 News from Bottisham Patients’ Group 64 Wilbrahams and Six Mile Bottom over 60s Club 67 Advertisers 68 Community Group Contact Details 69 Bus Timetable 70 Public Service Contact Details Police Emergency Police, Fire or Ambulance 999 Community Support Officer PCSO John Coppard 101ext.7113441 Doctors The Surgery, Bottisham Enquiries/Appointments : 810030 Mon-Fri: 08:30 am to 6.00 pm Fulbourn Health Centre Enquiries/Appointments : 880216 Mon-Fri: 08:30 am to 6.00 pm Out-of-hours / Urgent Care NHS Direct 111 Cambridgeshire Faith Anglican Church Rev Alice Goodman 880337 Lay Minister: Steve Mashford, 882163 Baptist Church Peter Wells, 812388, www.re-new.me.uk [email protected] [email protected] Rev Keith Morrison, 813055 Great Wilbraham Parish Council www.gt-wilbraham-pc.org.uk Chairman John Beadsmoore 880889 [email protected] Clerk Natalie Mulvey 07887813702 [email protected] Little Wilbraham Parish Council Chairman Chris Tebbit 811009 Clerk Diane Bramwell 812426 [email protected] Councillors County Councillor John Williams [email protected] District Councillor Robert Turner 813437 [email protected] Photos by Ian Cumming, Martin Gienke, John Bramwell Printed by Burwell Community Print Centre 4 Editorial These are exciting times for us. Some of you may have been aware that the web site went down between the last issue and this one. Well I am happy to report that it is back up and running. Our plan for the web site is to add several more pages and try to keep you more up to date with what is going on in the villages of Great and Little Wilbraham and Six Mile Bottom. So we will be introducing a calendar like the one we have in the magazine with all the important dates. We will also be using the web site for larger articles and pictures that we cannot fit into articles. There will also be an archive of older editions of the Warbler. We are open to any ideas you may have for the website. So if you have any ideas please let us know at warbler.gtwilbraham.net. The other thing is, did you know that we have a Facebook page? Well we have. That got me to thinking, if we wanted to contact people at short notice what would be the best way? We could drop a note into everyone’s home, Email everyone we had email addresses for, or we could put it on the web site. But one of the easiest ways would be to put it on Facebook and as long as people ‘like’ the Wilbrahams Warbler Facebook page you would get messages sent to your phones or computers. We would also welcome any articles from new authors young or old. If you’re young for instance, you could be leaving Great Wilbraham School and going to Bottisham or into Cambridge for your secondary education. Let us know how you feel about changing schools, your hopes and fears. For someone else it could be, how you think things have changed in the time you have lived in the village. These are just ideas. Any interesting photos are also very welcome for inclusion in The Warbler. Time Why hasn’t anyone got time anymore? Time to have a chat with the person next door Young generation with press button gadgets are all in a hurry You meet them, mobiles attached to ear, they wave a greeting and off in a flurry How us older ones long for a cheery natter, if only for a while It need only be to enquire how they are and a little smile I find time goes by so fast these days Perhaps it’s me getting slower and stuck in my ways Try not to be in such a rush and always on the run Slow down a bit, take time out and have some fun. Greta Rees 5 Letters Dear Editors I was born in 1932 in a thatched cottage where the nursery day centre is in Great Wilbraham and came to 26 High Street, Little Wilbraham in 1935. When the Wilbrahams knew each other, but not so today. I believe I am the oldest man living in Little Wilbraham, who has lived in the Wilbrahams all his life. When I asked my family in Ireland to come over and look after me because I was alone, they had to build an extension, like the rest of the block of houses. The so called Parish council held a special meeting in the church to stop the extension and came around me like a swarm of bees as if I shouldn’t be there, which was disgraceful and I didn’t get a proper apology. I didn’t have no option but to leave the church, which showed that they had no feeling for the elderly in the village. Then somebody put an article in the Warbler (last edition) concerning the parking outside 26 High Street, Little Wilbraham and didn’t give their name which shows they are not a real village person and wouldn’t face the old man and saying Little Wilbraham was a lovely village until my family came. What a difference from years ago when they looked after each other. Where has the love gone? We parked the cars on the other side of the road instead of the driveway only to have the tyres let down. I was so pleased the council in Cambridge over ruled the Parish Council so I can live in the village I like and let me live in peace with my family. S P Wilson The councillors question the accuracy of some of the facts stated in the letter. The Little Wilbraham Parish Council will respond directly to Mr Wilson, and the letter will be sent for inclusion in the next edition. Some councillors will offer to meet with Mr Wilson to discuss the matter. Chairman LWPC Dear Editor I have read with interest the various letters in regards to the Church Bells being muffled, I cannot understand why someone would be so selfish and arrogant as to move into a quintessential English village and assume they can just dictate to the community. The sounds of the church bells have been a part of village life since the church was built. There is a memorial in the Memorial Hall to all those who gave their lives in two world wars so that we can all enjoy the freedom to enjoy the village 6 life that we have. Those who died lived and worked the estate and fields around this village and would have heard the church bells wherever they were working. Those who came back from those wars and wars since would have found that feeling of joy on returning from active service to hear the sound of the church bells, taking comfort from the sound of village life continuing as normal. I have served in the Army and know how that feels. In 2018 the whole country will be honouring the fallen of the Great War by the ringing of the church bells in all the towns and villages of the country but Great Wilbraham will not be able to join in and honour the fallen as our church bells have been muffled? What would be next, muffle the church organ or ask the congregation to sing less loudly? I would appeal to whom ever forced the church congregation to have the bells muffled to approach the Reverend Alice Goodman quietly and ask for the bells to be reinstated to full working condition as we are all human and make mistakes. Regards Andy Martin, 8 Station Road Great Wilbraham Dear Editors Following the discussions about cycling, during the Great Wilbraham Parish meeting I feel that there is a need to get your collective wishes for cycling routes down in policy terms. I am in the process of working up the section of the Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire that relates to your area. For information a copy can be found here http://tinyurl.com/kcutscv - it's labelled draft but it's not. This will take about 5 minutes to download in Gt Wilbraham I fear, until you get your fibre optic cable! It is a working document, and so I'd be happy to hear from folk with sensible suggestions for village links or links to the Bottisham VC. These can then be incorporated into a policy document which would inform future spend as money becomes available in future. If you wanted to put this suggestion in your parish magazine together with my e- mail [email protected] I'd be happy to consider suggestions for inclusion.