Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 103 70 pence where sold Inside this Issue: • Welcome From the Chair • Remembering in Silence • Ivinghoe Parish Neighbourhood Development Plan The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS Thelp of the volunteer band of utumn has arrived and at the time distributors. of writing it’s been very mild and Many thanks to them all; Andy Welcome from the Chair 3 Athe parish is looking beautiful. Beezer, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, Geoff Neighbourhood News 6-24 Travis and Rob and Anne Cattle – Editor it couldn’t be done without you! Ecumenical Enlightenment 32 Thank you to Christabel Boersma who Karen Groom, If you have any skills that will help has edited The Ivinghoe Beacon for Chair, Ivinghoe Cultivation Clippings 36-37 us to keep the magazine going or you several years, we wish Christabel all the Parish Council would like to submit an article, please School Stuff 42-43 very best for the future. Bridget Knight, let us know as we are always looking Ivinghoe Parish Clerk is now the new for new and varied talents! Beyond the Boundary 44-46 Editor. Sporting Scoop 48 Ivinghoe Lawn Roads Unfortunately, there has been an Councillor Communication 52-59 The recent Bucks CC roadworks at increase in dog fouling on Ivinghoe Horton Road, Slapton have led to Lawn. Failure to pick up after your dog diversions and have been inconvenient can lead to a £1000 fi ne, as well as BEACON COPY AND for us, but we look forward to having making the various activities on the ADVERT DEADLINES improved road surfaces. Lawn particularly hazardous. The Parish Council continues to Ivinghoe Lawn is being tidied-up with We aim to get the magazine distributed work towards the traffi c calming BHB undergrowth being removed, there will around the beginning of every February, May, Scheme, which is being worked on with still be lots of areas for wildlife to enjoy. August and November. To ensure your article neighbouring Pitstone Parish Council and The Parish Council are investigating the Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like Bucks CC. options of repairing/replacing the ancient Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: metal railings around the Lawn which are Email: [email protected] Ivinghoe Show damaged, we will be looking for grants Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight In September we enjoyed the to fund this. Tel: 07960 605393 resurrected Ivinghoe Village and Produce Show which received many entries BT Phone Boxes Email: [email protected] February 2018 Edition – 4 January 2018 and showcased some of the talents BT will be removing the redundant May 2018 Edition – 4 April 2018 Design & Artwork: Laila Palfrey of the locals. A huge thank you to the phone boxes in our parish in the next August 2018 Edition – 4 July 2018 Tel: 01525 222214 organising committee who worked hard few months. November 2018 – 4 October 2018 Email: [email protected] to make this traditional show a great success. I hope that a new committee IA Broadband BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: comes together to continue this for In Ivinghoe Aston a group of residents next year. There is a list of winners and have formed a steering group to 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. photographs from the day in this edition, improve the broadband in Ivinghoe 1/3 page £65 per year the front-page insert is a photograph of Aston, which is potentially very exciting 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied Lucy Barker’s 30mph cake. for IA residents. u Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le. 2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2017: Issue 103 November 2017: Issue 103 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 War Memorial Fully Qualifi ed Parish Clerk I am pleased to report that the Ivinghoe Finally, some very good news for Ivinghoe War Memorial has been fully restored Parish Council. The Parish Clerk has Save the Date! and cleaned. This was thanks to a grant completed the (SLCC) Society of Local from The War Memorials Trust for Council Clerk’s Certifi cate in Local Council th 70% of the cost. Administration (CiLCA) qualifi cation in a Saturday 20 January 2018 year. This means that the Parish Council Brookmead School’s has at last got a fully qualifi ed Parish 50th Anniversary Clerk. So congratulations to Bridget. HOLIDAY SHOWCASE COUNCILLORS NEWS Brookmead School celebrated 50 years, May I take the opportunity to wish I was one of the fi rst pupils to attend the everyone a very Happy Christmas and new school. Prosperous 2018. Please check the website for updates and information www.ivinghoepc.org.uk or contact the Parish Clerk on 07960 605393. Have you ever thought about ‘growing your own’? Growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very a satisfying experience and in Ivinghoe we are very lucky to have some beautiful allotments just off Church Road, overlooking St Mary’s Church. If you are an Ivinghoe resident and would like some more information about availability of plots – we have them in a range of sizes – please contact the Parish Clerk at [email protected] NB: there may not always be an available plot but we do keep a waiting list! Victoria Hall, Akeman Street, Tring HP23 6AA From 10am-3pm — FREE ENTRY! Ivinghoe Aston Travel Impressions invite you to come and along and have a face-to-face chat with some of our favourite holiday companies about your future plans. Village Hall Receive great advice, top tips and ideas of new destinations to be discovered. Come along and be inspired! Villagers are reminded that there is a hall at Ivinghoe Aston for hire at similar rates to 01442 890265 [email protected] Ivinghoe’s Village Centre and Town Hall. For details contact booking secretary Barbara A World of Experience www.travelimpressions.co.uk Rayment 01525 220959 or email [email protected] Suite 4, George House, 64 High Street, Tring, Herts. HP23 4AF 4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2017: Issue 103 November 2017: Issue 103 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 RikkIAbout Broadband: Getting the hump full speed ahead? Old Arthur owned a Grade II Listed house Make loos disabled-friendly, thus, with Stephen Lott, parish councillor, gave a beside a straight, other things I’ve missed, presentation in August on options for getting But rather narrow village street, along I fear that traffi c calming is a fair way down faster broadband in Ivinghoe Aston. A group which heavyweight, the list.” of volunteers, the Ivinghoe Aston Broadband Articulated lorries, vans and other Group, is looking into this. Group members vehicles roared. A red, expensive sports car was careering are David de Butts, Sheena Foy, Liam Hall, It had a thirty limit, which was generally through one day. Dee Harrington, Clive Ketteridge, Chris Pyne, ignored. A forty-four-tonne artic hurtled down the NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Huw Thomas and Mark Walker. You should other way. already have received a survey designed to In manifold attempts to make excessive A black cat came from nowhere, a give the background information needed when speeding cease, precursor of bad luck, approaching suppliers, organisations offering He badgered local councillors, his MP And Arthur was the victim of the grants etc. Many thanks if you have already and the Police. swerving, giant truck. responded. If you haven’t, please consider He leafl eted the residents, stuck posters doing so as you will be helping the whole on the walls, He catapulted heavenwards and, on his Nobody expects the village. If you would like further information Spoke out at public meetings and made inbound fl ight, IA inquisition – please contact Mark Walker (07772 105755; countless angry calls. Performed a dive Tom Daley would have African Adventure [email protected]). And talking struggled to get right. Sophia Razak has lived in IA for all her of speed… “The house shakes”, Arthur moaned, “as The horrifi ed eyewitnesses cried “what a 16 years. She went to Edlesborough School zooming traffi c thunders past, way to go!”, then Sir Henry Floyd Grammar, where she Gotcha And white vans, in particular,” he said As Arthur, with his fi nal breath, yelled has just entered the Sixth Form after stunning As noted in the 100th issue, traffi c speed in “go far too fast.” “there, I told you so!”. GCSE results. A linguist and musician, Sophia IA has been a recurring theme over the past “It isn’t safe for children and it isn’t safe is preparing for a new and exciting adventure, 25 years. So many thanks to those who have for me. Foreseeing this occurrence, he had left an heading off next summer on a World been on the speed camera course and then We need a crossing, camera, hump and, odd bequest. Challenge expedition to southern Africa. in action on the streets. Speeding is not only preferably, all three.” His lawyers told the Council. They were dangerous, but it is also intrusive. Vehicles somewhat unimpressed, Rikki: Which countries will you be visiting doing 30mph or less are suffi ciently silent, He photographed the culprits and, for But, with a guilty conscience, undeniably and what will you do? but our double glazing doesn’t shield us from evidential screed, too late, the whizz of the 40+ merchants (if you are Recorded registration number, colour, They hoped that by complying no-one Sophia: We are going to South Africa, a DG salesman btw, we’re not interested, make and speed.