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BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN Past and Present The Sun WW2 CIVILIANS REMEMBERED BY RAF Rises on 2019

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EDITORIAL Bridges have carried our populations for centuries – and historians Mary Hardy, Margaret Bird – and Coltishall resident Send contributions for consideration for John Pitchers – talk of them here. But not only is it about bridge Publication to appropriate Content Editor history. We are reporting a view on our area’s future by our below or [email protected] District Councillor Jo Copplestone who also believes Letters and forthcoming events: mounting traffic over a bridge is key! Turn to Pages 10. Gemma Kent | 01603 736976 [email protected] We also thank other contributors, all those who send us content. And advertisers. We are always looking for more about you, local Historical and heritage: Derek Allday people, organisations and event organisers. 01603 738032 | [email protected]

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Sat 2nd 5.30pm Sung Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Mon 4th 2.00pm Badersfield Community Church - Ring 738634 for info Tues 5th 10.00-12.00 Pop Up Café - Tithe Barn, Horstead Weds 6th 10.30-11am Bounce and Rhyme at Library Weds 6th 2-4pm Time Travellers at Wroxham Library Weds 6th Tiddlers baby and toddler group at The Tithe Barn, Horstead. Weds 6th 9.30 am Morning Prayer and Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Thurs 7th 2-4pm Knit and Natter at Wroxham Library Thurs 7th IT with Friends at The River Rooms. Ring Daniel on 07540 168639 to book a slot Sat 9th 10.30am-1.15pm - Code-a-Pillar at Wroxham Library Sat 9th 5.30pm Sung Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Mon 11th 2.00-5.00 p.m Create & Share - Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Coltishall Weds 13th 10.30-11am Bounce and Rhyme at Wroxham Library Weds 13th 7.30pm Wroxham Flower Club - The Church Hall, Road, Wroxham Weds 13th 9.30 am Morning Prayer and Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Weds 13th 4-6pm Bible themed crafts, activities + meal. Badersfield Community Church Thurs 14th 2-4.30pm Crib Club at Wroxham Library Sat 16th Bure Valley Railway - Teddy Bear Express, running until 24th Sat 16th 11am-4pm Horstead House Gardens Snowdrops Sat 16th 10.30am Book Sale at Wroxham Library Sat 16th 5.30pm Sung Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Weds 20th 2.30 p.m WI, Talk on Escaping Hitler - Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Coltishall Weds 20th 2-3pm Reading Group at Wroxham Library Weds 20th 9.30 am Morning Prayer and Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Weds 20th 12.15pm Lunch with Us - Community Lunch £5 - Badersfield Community Church Thurs 21st 2-4pm Knit and Natter at Wroxham Library Fri 22nd 7.30pm Film Club - “King of Thieves” Sat 23rd 5.30pm Sung Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Mon 25th 12:30pm Volunteer’s Meeting - Badersfield Community Church Weds 27th 10.30-11am Bounce and Rhyme at Wroxham Library Weds 27th 9.30 am Morning Prayer + Mass - St Helen’s Catholic Church, Hoveton Thurs 28th 2-4.30pm Scrabble Club at Wroxham Library SEND YOUR Thurs 28th 1-2.30pm Baby Clinic in Hall - Badersfield Community Church MARCH LISTINGS TO

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On behalf of the Royal of the Royal On behalf for The final total This is a truly amazing British Branch Legion and to like I would Members, verypass on my grateful thanks to everyone in the their supportarea for of Appeal. 2018 Poppy House to House, Wreaths and Premises, and donations in Buxton £ 5,160.33. Coltishall is: our village amount for and is communities

2018 generously to this event. generously STAR LET TER Teresa - Shades Hairfashions - Shades Teresa In conjunction with the Salvation Army In conjunction with the Salvation Teresa from SHADES HAIRFASHIONS Teresa Would like to thank everyone who gave so to thank everyone like who gave Would & Radio ’s Christmas Toys & Tins Appeal Appeal Tins & Toys Christmas & Radio Norfolk’s We hope to be able to share the photos and special to share the photos and special hope to be able We Them. will Remember We I would like to take this opportunity to take like I would grateful to express my Mike Baker, Peter John Harding, Mr and Mrs Jennings, I am particularly grateful and John Harding Keith Lown to (Standard Bearer) represented David Myself and husband , This was an honour and great privilege. Ypres visited Somme Battlefields and paraded through We Julie Gribben - Poppy Appeal Organiser. - Poppy Gribben Julie Menin Gate. memories of this trip early in 2019. achieved through the continued commitment and dedication commitment and dedication through the continued achieved of both collectors and local businesses. collectorsthanks to the committed house to house who a special effortmake it all work. to make on year year Mr and Mrs Sparrow, Benjy Jordan,Wendy Warren, Mrs Evans. Thompson, assisting with the distributionfor and collection of the boxes and support their guidance and Bob and Sylvia Jennings for every year. The Great Pilgrimage 90 and Branchour local community at August 2018. in Ypres in This culminated in a 1,000 British Legion Standards. with over commemorative service at the and wreath laying 5 elcome to our new new to our elcome Letters page! Readers’

We welcome all contributions from our readers, so please get so please all contributions from our readers, welcome We letters posting your by email or one into either by in touch, one at Farm to Fork collection boxes; of our three designated pharmacy and the one in Coltishall’s in Horstead, and Fish, a There’s post office. in Coltishall’s third behind the counter our star letter. contributes whoever for £10 gift voucher

I am just writing to say thank you for the Roys of Wroxham Wroxham of the Roys for I am just writing thank you to say none the less. welcomed unexpected but It was voucher Wells I said Ralph in the letter when I made a small mistake of those he was the youngest but brother, was the youngest was the only The youngest War. World to the Firstwho went I’ll deal with the last two maybe one born century, in the 20th in another letter. storythe for looking keep I priestamorous the of Coltishall? of his before ChristopherReverend not the Engelsen, No it’s say. time I would in and all the best to you the voucher thanks for Again many 2019. sincerely, Yours Jarvis Mr Terence Star Letter winner - last issue’s was Terence note: Editor’s perhaps you’ll be next? W 6

FEBRUARY BOOK REVIEW Book Review Tombland by C.J. Sansom Corner It’s 1549 and lawyer Matthew Shardlake has TAKING been commissioned by the THROUGH THE AGES Lady Elizabeth, sister of Timecruiser by Chris Crowther King Edward VI and future Queen, to investigate the It is rare that I review a murder of Edith Boleyn, children’s book, but this a distant relation of her one is so nice and written mother. Edith’s husband by Chris Crowther from John Boleyn is being held Hoveton, that I took pleasure in Norwich Castle awaiting in doing so this time. Living trial and Shardlake is sent to Norwich to determine here on The Broads, we whether he is really guilty and ensure that he gets a fair have a tendency to take the trial. beauty and history of this In the course of the investigation Shardlake finds himself area a bit for granted. People in Wymondham on the day a group of commoners led from all over the world, save by Robert Kett start to tear down illegal enclosures of their funds all year long just to spend a quick week here in common land and then march on Norwich. Shardlake our midst. is taken prisoner and forced to march with Kett’s men. TimeCruiser is targeted for children in junior school Writing in the first person as Shardlake, Sansom then though would be appropriate for younger children that are relates the entire story of Kett’s rebellion, building a interested in history. It is based on a family that comes to wonderful picture of the camp on Mousehold Heath and The Broads for a boat holiday. Mr and Mrs Watson, their the battles in and around the streets of Norwich. twins Max and Jenny, and the children’s friend, Faru all pull The original murder mystery plot is a little thin and up to a run-down boat yard where their holiday boat is becomes totally subsumed by the story of the rebellion. not quite ready. The children argue among themselves in The familiar locations around Norwich are brought a manner that reminded me of The Goonies. The parents vividly to life. Shardlake stays at the Maid’s Head, tells of decide to take the delay as an advantage to buy groceries the exhausting climb up the hill to the castle and of visits and supplies for their trip on the boat. The children, being to the market, cathedral and houses around Tombland. around 12 years old, are left to their own device until they Whilst the character of Shardlake is fictional, the book return. appears to be based on detailed historical research The children come across a strange boat that when they with the gaps filled in (as the author admits) by how he meet its owner are invited aboard. The owner is called imagined life would have been in the camp at the time. away and the children start to touch levers, buttons, etc. Tombland is an easy book to read, a real page turner, and Next thing they know, they are ten years in the future. is most enjoyable. There’s a large push for ecology and I enjoyed how the Sansom acknowledges as one of his key sources for the author saw this area in a decade’s time. There is a subplot military side of the rebellion a new book Kett-1549: to the book, and it involves the woman who owns the Rewriting the Rebellion by Leo R. Jary, published by boatyard in the future. This all comes together at the end Poppyland. Jary focuses on the events leading up to of the book. the final battle between the Earl of Warwick’s forces Trying to get back to their own time period, the children and Kett’s rebel army. With the aid of copious detailed end up way back in time in 1004. Crowther takes us drawings and maps he shows us how and where Kett through history right here in East Anglia and brings up placed his men, and relates those positions to modern interesting facts and intrigues us to go on with the fantasy. Norwich. Jary sets out the case for the true location TimeCruiser would be a brilliant book for any family of the final battle. Apparently not in the area we now holidaying here in East Anglia, especially on The Broads. It know as Dussindale, but somewhere in the vicinity of also would be a nice introduction to the history of our Magdelen Road and Silver Street. This is a fascinating area to our younger people. I could see using this book explanation, which is easy to read and understand. as a ‘jumping off point’ for weekend visits to the sites Priced at £9.95, Kett-1549 makes a good companion mentioned in the book. I would encourage parents or to Tombland for the reader who is interested in more teachers to be actively involved with the reading of this of the background and military history of the rebellion book as it is a golden opportunity for sharing and learning and the drawings make it easier to follow the action in together. Sansom’s book. Sue Bunn Steve Haines -Bittern Books, Coltishall Post Office.

8 So now you have safely booked your (genuine) WROXHAM FLOWER CLUB accommodation, the next problem may be your flight. The club meets at The Church Hall, Norwich Road, Scammers are well known for obtaining genuine air Wroxham on the second Wednesday of the month tickets by fraudulent means (usually a stolen credit card) at 7.30 pm. In February Crystal Dyball will be the and then selling them on to unsuspecting customers. visiting demonstrator creating flower arrangements Once the airline knows it has been defrauded it will entitled, ‘Up the Garden Path’ and a flower cancel the ticket, but you won’t be aware of that until arranging workshop will be held in March. you have parted with your money and turned up at the The arrangements are raffled so there is the airport to find your booking doesn’t exist. Always play opportunity of taking something beautiful home. safe by booking through an agent who is a member of So why not come along and be inspired and ABTA. You can check by going online to www.abta.com entertained by the experienced demonstrators. where you will also find some useful advice. Visitors and new members are very welcome. IF you are going abroad, check in plenty of time what For further information please contact Lynn Hands documentation you need and beware of buying visas, on 01603 722582 or Pamela Poulton on 01603 EHIC Cards, etc., online. Many of the online sites are 782063 or just come along on the night. fake, charging over the odds, and/or supplying documents that are not worth the paper they are printed on. EHIC cards are free anyway. You can obtain one from the Post Office. The best way to find out about visas is from the Foreign Office website (www.gov.uk/foreign-travel- advice) or your local ABTA travel agent. Remember, though, obtaining your visa remains your responsibility. Now you have booked your holiday and obtained all your documentation, dodging the scammers, you can relax, can’t you? Not quite, but more about that next month. Scambuster

STARTED PLANNING YOUR SUMMER HOLIDAY? HERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW The turkey and Xmas pud are but a distant memory, the New Year’s Resolutions are wearing thin and no doubt your thoughts are turning towards your Summer Holiday. Home or abroad? Wherever you decide to roam, be sure the scammers will be not far behind. When booking your holiday, beware the promise of cheap accommodation: the golden rule: if it seems too good to be true, then it probably is. According to ‘Which?’ consumer magazine, fraudsters post fake accommodation listings on major websites and sucker people into handing over thousands of pounds. One family even lost £30,000. Scammers copy photos of genuine accommodation for hire and place them on their own, fake, listings at vastly reduced rates. If you see the same cottage or chalet on several websites, beware. Sometimes the holiday property doesn’t even exist: a search of the address on Google Maps and Street View is a good way to check it out. If you have been reading my Scambuster articles in the Marlpit, you will know that you should never pay for anything online by bank transfer or debit card unless you know and trust the payee: always use a credit card. One common trick is for scammers to claim a credit card payment has not gone through and then ask for a bank transfer instead. If you comply, the scammers will disappear with your money and the banks can do nothing about it.

9 ould a Bypass ease risks of perils, chaos W and loss of our natural beauty?

NEWS FROM BROADLAND DISTRICT 30% more traffic has been recorded on the Norwich COUNCIL BY CLLR JO COPPLESTONE Road at Horstead. Because the B1150 is the main aerial route to North Walsham, traffic calming measures are Since I became your district not permitted by the Highways Authority, as this could councillor in June 2017 there has impede emergency vehicles. been a repeating theme which has District Council has been reported to been echoed by local residents, and be considering building high volumes of new homes, on now I am reflecting on the last 18 the west side of North Walsham in their emerging local months as your district councillor plan. This is in addition to 200 homes in the Norwich - and commenting on the medium to long term Road area of North Walsham, which have already been future of the area. built, without any additional infrastructure support from In my experience the primary concern of local people the homebuilders Hopkins and Persimmon. is the increasing volume and speed of traffic on the To the north of Coltishall, HMP Bure remains a major B1150, North Walsham to Norwich Road. I often hear employer to the region with over 400 staff, and with of traffic becoming ‘stuck’ on the ancient narrow bridge the continuing expansion of small and medium sized in the centre of the village, with queues of traffic ‘backing businesses at the Scottow Enterprise Park, increased up’ and the ensuing chaos this brings. levels of traffic are inevitable. Residents in both parishes have problems crossing With the Greater Norwich Area predicted to be this road, for the children of ‘Ling Way’ in Coltishall, the fastest growing area in the country, over the next walking to school is a perilous one, as their route 25 years in terms of economic and housing growth, crosses the main road only 100 metres into the 30mph Broadland and councils are collaborating, limit, speeding traffic entering the village hasn’t always and are due to form a specialist ‘Growth Delivery Team’ sufficiently ‘slowed down,’ even though new ‘flashing to manage this change and to support key infrastructure beacons’ are in place to alert motorists of possible projects. The Norwich Western Link Road, dual carriage danger. way improvements to parts of the A47 and the Long In Horstead crossing the road near the roundabout Stratton bypass, are the key infrastructure projects at the ‘Recruiting Sergeant,’ to the bus stop outside in the short to medium term, with work expected ‘Randells’ is similarly difficult, as there is often a constant to commence on the western link road in the next stream of traffic in both directions, and people’s patience two years, which will be mainly paid for by pooled, ‘wears thin’ whilst waiting to get across. ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ receipts from new Traffic is such a concern locally, the parish councils homes. purchased a flashing SAM2 speed indicator over a year In my view, the main B1150 roadway in the village, ago which records traffic data, since the ‘Broadland will not have the resilience to safely carry constantly Northway’ or NDR was opened in early 2018, around increasing levels of traffic into the future, and any efforts

BROADLAND (INCLUDES OUR AREA) 2018 HEADLINES:

Total number of visitors – 2,741,900 (6% increase from 2016)

Total nights stayed – 918,000 (7% increase from 2016)

Total visitor spend - £142,782,750 (3% increase from 2016)

Total tourism value - £173,084,750 (3% increase from 2016)

10 to improve and upgrade the current road would be limited, and could spoil the historic integrity of the village high street. The aged Horstead-Coltishall bridge, and possibly the railway bridge may be at risk. In conclusion, my suggestion is to build a Western Coltishall and Horstead Bypass which would pick up any traffic from the Buxton, Lamas and Scottow areas, heading to and from Norwich and the Broadland Northway. This would obviously not be a quick fix and would take a great deal of support locally over a prolonged period to obtain, but I think it would be achievable in the medium to long term, and this could greatly improve the lives of local people. As well as a bypass, new ‘Green Infrastructure’ is on my wish list, to enhance existing local green spaces, and provide a network of ‘green corridors’ and foot paths for recreation and biodiversity. I have always admired the River Bure at Coltishall Common and Horstead Mill, which is known as the ‘gateway to the Norfolk Broads’ and is an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is essential to protect these sites and mitigate the impact of future growth of the area on the natural environment. I expect the marked growth in Tourism within the Broadland area to continue. With the recent fall in the value of sterling, and an increase in visitors from Europe, USA and Australia as well as domestic tourists, a far higher volume of visitors are now staying overnight in our region. During the summer I attended the Broads Tourism forum, where ‘English Heritage’ highlighted the need for more visitor ‘experiences,’ such as craft activities, ‘getting back to nature’, ‘being outdoors’, boating, fishing, cycling trails and walking, which are all the antithesis to our high- tech lives. The expanding visitor economy is of huge importance to our region, and will help sustain our historic towns, villages and rural economy to ensure sustainability in the coming decades.

Jo Copplestone

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Then AND Now

below: Our very busy Coltishall/Horstead bridge today. Should it be by-passed asks Jo Copplestone.

left: Coltishall Bridge with two small hatched wherries c.1830, by Francis Stone & Son [engraving by D. Hodg- son 1831] provided by John Pitcher

ALSO: Read John Pitcher’s article in next month’s issue on another historical local bridge.

11 oltishall and Horstead: If we’re maltings, granary, cinder ovens, great barn and wherry much busier now – how was it dyke. Coal supplied the breweries springing up from the C centuries ago? late seventeenth century. Malthouses relied on coked coal, known then as cinders, either brought up from downstream or coked on the spot. Coal would taint the malt and give a foul taste to beer, so the malt-kilns were fuelled by coke. By 1780 Coltishall had eleven malthouses, mostly beside or close to the river. Coal, coke, malt and beer built up Coltishall’s economic muscle and made it a distribution hub. The river became the highway for trade. As with all inland ports the village developed a series of staithes, public and private, along its banks. On these stood lockable warehouses, as seen in Stone’s view of Coltishall Bridge. Mary Hardy in her diary, written at Coltishall 1773–81, shows us that the King’s Head Staithe (where the Rising Sun now stands) was the focal point of the village. THE DAMAGING EFFECT OF THE NAVIGATION Much of this changed suddenly in 1779. , Buxton and Lamas now challenged Coltishall’s status. A malthouse was built on the Horstead bank beside the navigation just upstream of Coltishall Bridge as early as 1776, the year “We were a thriving communications hub in the late 18th century”, reports historian Margaret Bird, editor after the lock was opened; the long building still stands of the ‘Diary of Mary Hardy’ there today. Now sturdy carts streamed from the quays of Aylsham’s canal basin to the coal-starved inner regions of All around us are signs of the role in transport the county like Reepham and Cawston. Aylsham usurped communications played by Coltishall and Horstead much of Coltishall’s trade and its role as a distribution roughly two centuries and more ago. The villages played a centre. pivotal role in the local infrastructure on land and water. In the short period 1786–1800 the three wholesale They punched above their weight. They were fairly breweries of Coltishall, with their strings of tied houses small in population terms: 601 at Coltishall in 1801, across a 20-mile radius, merged into one to try to 370 at Horstead with Stanninghall. Great Hautbois, the withstand the pressures of the time. The number of downstream area of which is often seen as forming part malthouses dropped, as we learn from the church of Coltishall, numbered only 68. There were few public ratebook. Tellingly, the excise service started to pull out houses: only the King’s Head and White Lion at Coltishall, the number of its officers previously kept busy in the area. the Recruiting Sergeant at Horstead, and the White Coltishall had been promoted to an excise district in 1758, Horse at Great Hautbois (now Bridge House). Apart reflecting its glory days as a generator of national wealth. from the tiny White Lion, tucked away on the approach It still held that position in 1789, but was soon afterwards to Coltishall’s mediaeval heartland of St James’s, the pubs demoted to a division. In 1808 just two riding officers were stood on major strategic points along road and river based there. highways. Cornmilling too suffered. Buxton and Aylsham watermills AN INLAND PORT greatly expanded production in the years after the opening Coltishall, rather more than Horstead, had long been of the navigation; Horstead Mill struggled to compete. a thriving inland port. Until 1779, when the navigation It is sign of loss of impetus when a population stays still or opened fully to Aylsham, it was also the head of declines. In the ten years to 1811 Coltishall’s rose by only navigation supplying a huge swathe of the hinterland. Its two to 603. Horstead’s actually fell by three, to 367. There importance to the local economy had been strengthened was a special reason for this. In 1806 a large incorporated from about 1550 by the arrival of Tyneside coal, workhouse opened at Horsham St Faith, and the poor and transhipped at . From that moment the infirm of the neighbouring parishes were shipped off there. village turned its face to the water and inland areas They were no longer the parish’s responsibility. In the forty became sidelined. The prosperous merchant houses years 1780–1820 a long succession of bankruptcies and familiar to us today, many with shaped gables, all date financial failures marked a fall in trade in the Coltishall area from after the coming of coal. Most look to the river. The THE ARRIVAL OF TURNPIKE ROADS Old House, a brewer’s house, is one of the few locked Meanwhile what was happening on the roads? Horstead, inland. as today, stood at the junction of the Norwich-to-North The manor house moved from mediaeval Hackford Walsham road and the Aylsham-to-Great Yarmouth road. Hall, close to today’s Old Hall. Postills (Postle’s) The arched bridge at Coltishall, which survived until the became the manor, right against the river, with its own 1912 floods, carried this busy trade. 12 Two public houses principally benefiting from this traffic, the Recruiting Sergeant and the White Horse, got a boost in 1797 with the turnpiking of the road to North Walsham. The 15-mile journey now became much faster. Horstead and Coltishall lay at the halfway point, an ideal location for travellers to get out, have something to eat and drink and rest their horses. But the Norwich–Aylsham road had been turnpiked in 1794, again contributing to Aylsham’s pre-eminence at the expense of Coltishall. THE EARLIEST VIEW OF COLTISHALL? The view by James Stark of Lower Common, then known as Newgate Common, may be the earliest representation of the appearance of the village. But it is a highly misleading one. The artist is looking downstream from the King’s Head Staithe towards the little pleasure-boating island still there today. He shows us a pastoral idyll. However he was standing among granaries, maltings, coal yards and timber yards. These have been airbrushed from our view. He has considerably narrowed the river to bring the cattle into the below: Mary Hardy aged 51: desired position; the common too is on a pronounced slope, to create the right effect. by James Gabriel Huqui- The legacy of the Norwich School of Artists, of which Stark was a leading member, has er, 1785 [Cozens-Hardy been to depict the Broads as the haunt of vessels drifting gently along in light airs. In Collection] fact we know from the passage times recorded by a clock-conscious Mary Hardy for the family’s wherry William and Mary, built at Wright’s Yard just upstream of the King’s Head in 1776, that keels and wherries sailed fast and made the most of every bit of wind and tide. Vessels used by the Hardys sailed even on moonless midwinter nights. Obviously no painting of night-time sailing was made by the Norwich artists; nor on the whole do they depict the foaming bow wave and wake produced by these powerful traders. Instead the painters have cast a restful, dreamy overlay across the high-pressure lives of the people of the Broads two centuries ago. Manufacturing has now largely ceased; distribution has adopted new forms. But when visitors enjoy a MORE HISTORY IN NEXT local pint, or when holidaymakers bring a boat up MONTH’S MARLPIT: from Wroxham and Horning, they are taking part in Just one of RAF Coltishall’s a long tradition of the servicing of passing trade. amazing World War 2 It is one very much to be celebrated in these stories. welcoming villages. Margaret Bird www.maryhardysdiary.co.uk | www.maryhardysworld.co.uk

13 NOTES FROM HORSTEAD WITH amount of precept collected, but the Parish Councils STANNINGHALL PARISH COUNCIL – outgoings have increased as others are putting up their JANUARY charges. GNLP Introduction The Parish Council sent in an objection to the new If you wish to speak to us we can be contacted via the proposed sites in Coltishall. Concerns centred on Parish Council website, email us at increased traffic volumes coming through Horstead, and [email protected] or telephone: 07476 952824. the ability of Horstead residents to access the surgery If you do leave a message, please remember to leave and school if they become over-subscribed. The Parish your name and contact number so we can get back to Council will also be raising concerns about the online you. process which many of our parishioners were unable to No Cold Calling Zone access as they haven’t got internet access. Voting Packs, with a four week deadline, were hand Tree Warden delivered to residents on Frettenham Road and St Horstead is currently without a tree warden. If you Margarets Close in mid-December. 75% of residents would be interested in taking on this role, or would like needed to advise Trading Standards they are in favour to know what it involves, please contact us. for the no cold calling zone to be set up. We are waiting Heating oil, diesel and gas cylinder thefts to hear if this target was met. While the Parish Council are not aware of any issues Horstead Mill in the immediate area, the police have advised that Following the survey this summer, work has started thefts of heating oil, diesel and gas cylinders are on the at the Mill. Ivy is currently being cleared from the increase in the Broadland and North Norfolk areas. brickwork. As ivy is an ongoing issue the Parish Council The police recommend the following precautionary is applying to the Environment Agency for a herbicide measures: use control switches to turn off the flow licence so future growth can be prevented or slowed when the tank isn’t in use; Invest in good padlocks – down. Any herbicides used will be suitable for use near close shackle ones offer the most resistance to thieves; a water course. Quotes for other work detailed in the check oil levels regularly so the time of any incident survey are being obtained. can be narrowed down; Target security lights on the Road Safety tank; Perimeter security – keep gates closed, make sure Mr Jones is now looking after the SAM2 equipment perimeter fence is in good condition and not easy to for both Horstead and Coltishall. New monitoring climb. Any incidents should be reported to the police by sites on the Great Hautbois Road and North Walsham dialling 101. Road have been approved. Data is regularly shared with Highways, the Police and Parish Councillors. Data Date and time of next meeting: Wednesday 13th February at 6pm in the Tithe Barn. has also been shared with Jo Copplestone - see her separate report in this Marlpit. Mr Jones is looking to compile a reader friendly summary report for inclusion Suzanne Hall, Parish Clerk in a future Marlpit. The Speedwatch sessions have recommenced in January following a Christmas break. David Pye is now co- ordinating the sessions. If you could spare an hour or two a month and wold like to help please contact us. The Pond You may have noticed Horstead Pond and the area around it is looking much clearer and tidier. This is thanks to Mr Parkerson. A separate report will be published in the Marlpit. Playground Between now and March, the playground inspections will take place fortnightly. If you have any concerns between these inspections please let us know so action can be taken. Budget and Precept for 2019 At the December meeting the budget for 2019 was agreed. It was also decided that the precept would increase from £22,000 to £23,000 per annum. This is an increase of 17 pence per property each month. Over the last five years there has been no increase in the

14 BURE NAVIGATION CONSERVATION TRUST The Bure Navigation Conservation Trust (BNCT) has erected six information boards along the River Bure between Coltishall Lock and Aylsham Staithe. The boards are sited beside Coltishall Lock, in the small carpark beside Mayton Bridge, in the field in front of Buxton Mill, beside Oxnead Bridge, between the two bridges at the rear of St Mary’s Church Burgh next Aylsham and beside the bridge at Dunkirk, Aylsham. The Aylsham Navigation opened in 1779 and greatly increased the wealth of Aylsham and the villages above Coltishall over the next century. With channels and six locks the River Bure was made accessible to wherries from above Horstead Mill to the staithe at Aylsham, carrying many goods in both directions. It declined after the railways arrived and was damaged beyond repair by the great flood of August 1912. The boards bring to life this largely forgotten history with pictures and text relating to local places of interest and an extract of an OS map to show local footpaths and features, with an indication of how they integrate with the riverside footpaths. In addition to highlighting places of historical interest there are also pictures of animals and plants to be seen. This is a beautiful stretch of Norfolk countryside that always rewards a visit. This project was generously funded by the Rural Development Programme for (2014–2020) LEADER Programme, with a grant of £4,580 and a further grant of £1,100 from Love the Broads, the balance of the cost coming from Trust funds. The boards were designed by Bruce Rushin and a small subcommittee of members. The Trust is very grateful to the land owners who permitted the boards to be displayed and for the support of the parish councils and town council along the route. We also thank the officers at Broadland District Council for their support and advice.

About the BNCT: The BNCT is a charity, founded in 2012, dedicated to conservation and preservation of the history, flora and fauna on what was the navigable River Bure between Coltishall and Aylsham. The Trust is also committed to campaign for better access to this part of the River Bure including a continuous footpath along its entire length. If you would like to find out more about this project or BNCT please contact Peter Baker, email; [email protected] R OYS DONATE £15,053 TO EACH NOOK APPEAL money is going to a very worthwhile cause and we wish EACH all the best in finding the remaining £1.5million to complete the hospice”, Ed Roy commented. Sophie said: “We rely on voluntary donations for the majority of our income, so support from businesses across Norfolk is really important. We’d like to say a massive thankyou to Roys for choosing us as their charity for the last year. It’s been a brilliant year working with the whole of the Roys team.” Roys will continue to support EACH with its sister company Highway Garden and Leisure having chosen them as its charity of the year. The nook is being Ed Roy, managing director of Roys (Wroxham) Ltd was constructed very close to the store and the staff are all delighted to present Sophie Mayes, Norfolk corporate keen to support the charity when and where they can. fundraiser for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices with a This year each Roys store has chosen a charity of cheque for £15,053 raised from the sale of 5p carrier the year, this means that more charities will benefit bags throughout 2018. from the 5p carrier bag sales rather than just one. This £15,053 brings the grand total raised for the Along with EACH these charities are as follows, BEAT nook appeal, Roys’ chosen charity of the year, to (eating disorders), SERV (Norfolk blood bikes), ASD £27,377.87. This money will be used to help continue Helping Hands, Muscular Dystrophy UK, East Anglian the construction of the nook, a new children’s hospice Air Ambulance, SESAW (Suffolk and Essex small animal for Norfolk situated in at a five-acre woodland site in welfare), Big C, Leukaemia UK and Nelson’s Journey. Framingham Earl, five miles south of Norwich. The nook will transform children’s palliative care for Norfolk, helping Photo: Ed Roy – Managing Director Roys (Wroxham) Ltd, EACH meet the increased demand for their services. Sophie Mayes- Corporate Fundraiser for E.A.C.H. “It has been truly wonderful to be able to donate such Contact: Roys - Joanne Symonds (Marketing Coordinator) a large amount of money to the nook appeal, it is all 01603 777043 [email protected] thanks to our customers that have supported events and purchased 5p carrier bags throughout 2018. We know the 15 COLTISHALL PARISH COUNCIL hour a month and would like to be involved in WWW.COLTISHALLPC.INFO Speedwatch please contact us.

Please note that the 2019 Parish Council meetings will GREATER NORWICH LOCAL PLAN: The be held on the second Tuesday of the month, starting Parish Council submitted their objections to the at 6.00pm in the Church Rooms. There will be no newly proposed sites. meeting in August. The Annual Parish Meeting will be on Tuesday 9th April at 7.00pm in the Church Rooms. A complaint has also been raised concerning the consultation process – especially the failure to make the consultation process accessible to Summary of Coltishall Parish Council’s December certain groups within our society, namely those and January Meeting Minutes. without online access or the requisite skills to use it. Coltishall Parish Council was provided with posters DISTRICT COUNCILLOR REPORT: to advertise this consultation in the community. The During 2018 the major concern of Parishioners was only means of response offered on those posters traffic volumes and speeds throughout the village. was by going online at gnlp.org.uk. We contacted With more housing planned in the North Walsham the GNLP team to complain about this and were area volumes can only be expected to increase. Jo told that a telephone number was available for Copplestone would like to investigate the possibility consultation responses – on the GNLP website of a bypass and is interested to hear your views. FAQ page. The sale of the Bure Valley Railway to the Bure Valley Railway Company is currently on hold while BUDGET FOR 2019: At the December the possibility of a joint venture between Broadland meeting the budget for 2019 was approved. It was District Council and Norfolk County Council is agreed that the precept will be increased from being looked into. £33,000 to £34,000, this represents an increase of 11 pence for each house each month. POLICE REPORT: Seven crimes were reported in October: 4 violence and 3 other REPORT FROM CAST (Coltishall Village Three crimes were reported in November: 1 public Hall And Recreation Ground ): At the start of order and 2 theft/dishonesty 2019 most of our regular hirers have continued The police are also investigating a serious assault on to support us. We are in the process of applying Rectory Road just before Christmas,; if you have any for a grant from Broadland District Council for information that may help the police, please contact renovation to the hall and kitchen and plans are PC Tom Gibbs, Hoveton Police Station, 01692 being drawn up. The work to renew the toilets 401153, [email protected] in the hall (paid for by a grant from the National Lottery) is ongoing. The electrical repairs have been SPEEDWATCH/SAM2: Two new sites have done and the outside light over the disabled parking been approved for the SAM2, This means that, when replaced making it more secure. the SAM2 returns to Coltishall in February, traffic At the December Parish Council meeting speeds and volumes will be recorded and passed agreements were approved for the ‘Criteria of to Highways and the Police from: Wroxham Road Capital Investment decisions’ and ‘Principles agreed by Anchor Street, the High Street, Great Hautbois between CAST trustees and Coltishall Parish Road and the North Walsham Road. Council’. These documents can be found at the end Speedwatch sessions will recommence in January of the December Parish Council minutes on the following a Christmas break. We are pleased to Parish Council website. welcome a new volunteer. If you can spare an

16 HORSTEAD PARISH POND Over the past few years the pond area has become rather overgrown. In 2018, the Parish Council asked the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT) to survey the pond and write an action plan of things that could be done over the next few years to enhance the area. If you are not sure where the pond is, it on the corner of the Frettenham Road as you turn off the main Norwich Road. The NWT found the pond has a lot of strengths includ- ing good water quality and abundance of diversity of aquatic flora. Its weaknesses were that the water has become silted up with leaf litter, too many small saplings were taking over and some trees had become too large creating heavy shading. After the NWT issued their report I volunteered to co- ordinate putting their plan into action. No major works are required, just clearing and general maintenance. Over the past few months my two boys, Louis and George, and I have spent time at the pond clearing the overgrown areas and trimming the trees where needed. The cuttings have been left in a pile to create a good place for mammals, reptiles and amphibians to hiberate. Many thanks to Randells Garden Machinery for the loan of a brush cutter to cut the overgrown grassy areas. We have also put up some bird boxes and a bat box to increase the nesting and roosting opportunites on the site. Louis will be keeping a list of the birds seen around the site. Future ideas in the NWT plan include selectively cop- picing some of the trees on the site and to remove leaf litter from the pond to increase the depth. If you are passing the pond, please stop to have a look. It is lovely place to sit on the bench overlooking the pond, there are often some ducks on the water and lots of birds in the trees and bushes. Thanks Clive, Louis and George Parkerson

17 bittern, but this week we had a slightly larger patient! It came in the form of a juvenille swan that was brought to the surgery on the suspicion of having swallowed a fishing hook. Due to the volume of tourists and fishermen that the Norfolk Broads attract this is unfortunately an all too common occurrence. Once admitted to the practice the swan was anaesthetised and x-rayed, which clearly showed the treble hook lodged in its oesophagus. The hook was then safely removed and the swan returned to the hospital for recovery. Apart from being very large and little grumpy, swans are also very messy in patients so it was great news when the bird recovered quickly and was able to continue its recovery at the wildlife sanctuary before being returned to the broads! This incident happened only a few weeks after we had removed a single large fishing hook from the stomach of one of our canine patients. Fortunately, that patient also made a full recovery, but it is a lesson to all the fishermen ESTOVER VETERINARY CENTRE out there the importance of taking care with fish hooks Aside from the usual suspect of dogs, as the consequences to wildlife and pets can be very cats and rabbits we also see quite a large serious. number of wildlife emergencies as well. As Until next time, Happy New Year from everyone at the Wa practice we work closely with a couple of local wildlife vets! charities who do a great deal of excellent work in the area. Over the course of the winter we have been involved in To b y Mo r r e l l treating barn owls, tawny owls, kestrels, guls and even a - MRCVS WESTOVER VETS

WHB TWINNING ASSOCIATION We started the New Year with our post-Christmas dinner on 11th January at Wroxham Barns, over 30 members enjoying a delicious meal, La Pommeraye - France catching up with the news and, generally, enjoying themselves. We are all looking forward to our Twinning trip to our friends in La Pommeraye and Montjean-sur-Loire, 7-13th August this year and preparations are well underway, coach booked, also our hotel near the Chateau of Versailles for our visit there en route, tickets purchased in France for the magnificent evening spectacular at Puy de Fou and other excursions being planned. French Conversation will resume on Wednesday 6th February at Maggie’s in , having had a short break in January to recover from the festive season. We did have an excellent Christmas, bring-a-plate, buffet lunch at Ann’s in Ashmanaugh in December, thoroughly enjoyed by all. Contact Jane for more information on 01603 782496 or [email protected] Book Club was on Wednesday 16th January at Hilary’s in Hoveton for a discussion on “Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine” by Gail Honeyman at 14.30, as usual in these winter months. We will be at Joyce’s in Wroxham in February on the third Wednesday and for more information here, contact Sue on 01603 738555 or [email protected] For any more information, still a bit of room on our coach this year, if anyone wants to join us, please contact Peter on 01603 782733 or [email protected] 18 NEWS FROM WROXHAM LIBRARY Knit and Natter – not just for knitters! Bring your embroidery, textile, or crochet project along to our Volunteer informal gathering. Thursday 7th and 21st February, Opportunities at 2-4pm Wroxham Library Bounce and Rhyme Time FREE every Wednesday We are looking 10.30 – 11.00am. Please contact the library or check our for a ‘Just a Cuppa’ Facebook page for updates. Songs and rhymes for babies, volunteer to host a toddlers, parents and carers. Currently term time only. weekly coffee morning, a ‘Mini Movers’ RVS Home delivery: Once a month the RVS provide a volunteer to lead a home delivery service of library books in the Wroxham movement class for pre-schoolers, and a ‘Computer Buddy’ area to those physically unable to visit the library. We to offer IT support. If you are looking for some experience would like to hear about anyone in the Wroxham and for work or college, or would like to put something back Hoveton area who might benefit. Please contact the into the community, email [email protected]. library for further information. Family History – Use our free access to Find My Past SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS AT THE any time the library is open. Drop-in on Wednesday and LIBRARY Friday evenings between 4.30pm and 6.30pm to get advice from Diane, our family and local history expert. Book Sale: Saturday 16th Feb 10.30am. Children’s fiction Please contact library first to confirm the sessions are and non-fiction, also adult fiction and non-fiction. running. Code-a-pillar – a story-time with a difference Time Travellers – Wednesday 6th February 2–4pm Saturday 9th February, 10:30 – 1:15 Meet code-a-pillar Come and travel back to days gone by and reminisce and learn some early coding skills. Perfect for young digital with our friendly local history group. The group normally explorers aged 4 – 6. Free, though spaces are limited, so meets the first Wednesday of every. book now. Crib Club (Cribbage card game) – new players Wroxham Reading Group: The Wroxham Reading Group welcome -Thursday 14th February 2.00-4:30pm. Please meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month between bring your own board and cards if you have them. 2-3pm. New members are always welcome and our Scrabble Club meets on the last Thursday of each discussions are friendly without being too serious. Ask at month from 2.00-4.30pm. (28th February) All welcome the library which book we are currently reading so you can come along and take part at our next meeting on 20th Contact us by phone on 01603 782560, Look for up to February. date information regarding all our events and activities on our Facebook page. Email us at [email protected]

19 MARLPIT SPORTS WROXHAM CLUBS - FEB & HOVETON + LIONS CLUB

Hello and welcome to you all from Wroxham and Hoveton Lions The last of our Hi Visibility jackets have been delivered to the various, Schools, Scout Groups, Brownies, and Rainbows. Already we have received several reports of them being used. A presentation was held at the Wherry School on 28th An outstanding season so far for the Vikings with 13 January for the opening of their special outdoor Dining wins from 15. Before playing lowly Ruislip on 12 January Pod facility, which the Club has financed in the sum of they were third in London One North on 64 points, £7,000. We hope to have a picture with next months with the two teams to have defeated them - Rochford report. (75) and Colchester (67) - above them. The winner is Santa and his Sleigh had a busy Christmas visiting promoted to South East Premier alongside London One various villages, Supermarkets, and Hall School. South’s champions, the runners up from each playing A grand sum of £3,378.42 was raised and this has off for a third promotion place, so the Vikings game at been placed in our Charity fund for the benefit of local Colchester on the 19th was a key fixture. charities and deserving causes. The Club would like Supporters have enjoyed some thrilling rugby, an to thank everyone who very kindly donated for their improving team playing a fast paced passing game. generosity. Confidence is high: “we approach every game expecting Our Charity Shop is being closed for a much needed to win,” says captain Will Hodgson. Whilst try scoring refurbishment for two weeks, from Monday 4th of grabs the headlines their game is based on solid defence: February but will still be able to take in any donations at Rochford 80% of the first half was in their twenty during this time. The new look shop will reopen Monday two, yet only five points were conceded. “We’re good at 18th February and we hope you will like the changes we absorbing pressure,” commented Head of Rugby Johnny have made. Marsters. The two defeats aside, all other teams with top The winners of our Christmas raffle have been notified. three ambitions have been well beaten, away form is as The winners of our monthly draw were: November: good as home. Chrissie Barber from Hoveton, - her nominated charity The Club have been working hard to increase was Wroxham and Hoveton First Responders. participation. At senior level the 3rd team, “The December: A Nickerson from Horning, the Charity was Warriors”, has been reformed - contact scott_blyth39@ The British Lung Foundation. Both Charities have /will be hotmail.com - whilst over 850 youngsters have sampled receiving a donation of £100 from us. rugby in its Schools Programme. The Youth and Minis We are now getting ready for our summer season. See section ([email protected]) now includes Girls our Facebook page and your magazines for updates. teams (pictured), four members of which have been Our shop always welcomes donations of good, clean included in Eastern Counties training squads. clothing, toys, bric-a-brac and books in good condition. Collections can be arranged for those of you that are The Vikings are home twice in February: Diss (Norfolk Cup) unable to get to our shop. Please give Lion Terry Vout a on the 2nd, Luton a week later. call on 07850 091570 to make arrangements. If you are interested in learning more about the Lions and what we do, or are thinking of joining us, we would love to hear from you. Please give me a call on 07753 382410. Our club holds meetings monthly on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday and social gatherings for games and small talk on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. All our meetings are held at the Broadland Youth & Community Centre at 20.00. We hope to see you during the coming year, at our tombola stall, shop, fetes, and at our various other events.

Ron Hill - President, Wroxham & Hoveton Lions

20 The U18’s will not return to action until February and Wroxham FC Report face a tough task in retaining their East League title after losing to Norwich Utd & Kirkley in December. They Playing fortunes for the 1st team need to win all five games left including return games dipped during Dec with defeats against both those rival sides. at Haverhill, Newmarket and at Just into the New Year we had a costly exercise in home to local rivals Norwich replacing two floodlight lamps and a broken glass. Our Utd on Boxing Day. Since then lights are now only just meeting the required standard to a couple of wins away to FC play floodlit games which is the reason we are currently Clacton and against Framlingham applying for grants to upgrade with new LED lighting. at Trafford Park, lifted spirits again We have applied to the Football Stadia Improvement with the team in 7th place just 4 points off top place; fund, the Mick George Community Fund and BEE Anglia . although we have played more games than most.. Before The latter provide business energy efficiency grants from these notes are published we are due to play the two European Regional Development Funding which not leading clubs in the league namely Godmanchester and surprisingly closes at the end of March, so let’s hope we Histon both at home and they will set a benchmark for are successful! the remaining dozen games left to play. The Histon game Thanks to everyone who bought tickets (sponsored in particular is an evening kick off at 7-45pm on Tues By Iconic Estate Agents) in the Festive Raffle, which was 30th January which should mean a decent crowd as the a great success. Also to Cynthia Feltham for helping to Cambridgeshire club are still fighting for a Wembley final raise an amazing £1,538 for club funds, and everyone in the FA Vase. Win those and we could have an exciting who donated prizes. run in with 7 home games and only 5 away remaining. Home games in February are FC Clacton on the 2nd Ahoy The Yachtsmen: Trafford Park, Skinners Lane, and Haverhill on the 16th. Come and support the lads! Wroxham NR12 8SJ Twitter @The_Yachtsmen There have been the usual player movements at this time of year. Unfortunately our skipper Adam Plumstead was lured away to help in their relegation THURLOW NUNN LEAGUE - battle in the Bostik League North while local lad Marcus 1ST TEAM FIXTURES - FEB Wilkinson has joined . We have signed striker Ryan Fuller from Gorleston who in turn took Isaac 30 Jan - 7-45pm - Histon (H) Burrage back to Emerald Park. 09 Feb - 3pm - Walsham Le Willows (H) The reserves completed a short winter break returning 16 Feb - 3pm - TNL - Haverhill Rovers (H) to action with a draw against despite two 23 Feb - 3pm - TNL - Framlingham Town (A) players being sent to the sin bin. This is a new feature in the Anglian Combination Premier Division this season. Please check before you travel as weather We are currently unbeaten in four games and and will sometimes affects fixtures be looking to ensure we pick up enough points to steer clear of trouble.

Many other items have been donated to expand our new farm aviation collection. We will except donations or loans of equipment heritage group for display with thanks. However all hasn’t been plain sailing after saving donations to purchase a new port-a-cabin to As another successful year draws to expand into. We had to repair the existing port-a-bins’ a close at New Farm Museum we roofs using about 2/3 of the money, plus redecoration of have much work to look back on. the effected rooms. If anyone knows of a half decent cabin Most outstanding are our exploits worthy of donation we are desperate to expand. 2 pallets on Airfield. Being the of carpet tiles have been donated and will be laid during our only legally licenced group to work winter break. the area has indeed paid dividends allowing us to develop The group also designed and presented a story board in the “Rackheath Room”. We have recovered a wide variety of memory of the two crews killed over Holt in the Canberra artefacts such as mechanics tools and various aircraft parts. and Victor collision, for display in Holt Country Park. The Personal items are always a nice find; these include a bottle event was attended by relatives from Canada & S. Africa. of Old Spice aftershave and a beer bottle from the USA. Looking to 2019, we are looking to another successful and The prize find must be the 0.50 Calibre machine gun and productive year. With the Rackheath sites and a recovery ammunition cases proudly secured to our wall. licence to recover JU88 wreckage from Sherringham a In 2019 with the co-operation of Broadland District Council daunting job. Fundraising will continue with our Easter Raffle. we hope to work on the residential site prior to development. Open days will continue be the second Sunday in the We now have Royal Navy representation with 2 pristine month from April. Cash donations always welcome. uniforms donated to us along with other items. We hope to see you in 2019. 21 We are very lucky as we have this beautiful banner to show NORFOLK WI off and are investigating when it was made for us. Also the Programme for 2019 was confirmed and is THE ANNUAL MEETING detailed below: of the WI was held in November, when our 16th January - Members Night President and Committee 20th February - Talk on Escaping Hitler were elected for 2019. 20th March - Talk - Trip along the Rivers Ant and Bure In November members 17th April - Fun, Fitness for All visited St George’s Whisky 15th May - WI Resolutions Meeting Distillery at Roudham, taking 19th June - Smocking Past and Present the tour of the Distillery 17th July - History of Soap and having a taster or two. On 14th December there is 21st August - Garden Party Christmas Lunch at The Old Rectory, and on 19th 18th September -Pets as Therapy December we are coming together for Christmas Supper 16th October - Poems, Gift of Laughter and entertainment. This has been an important year for the 20th November - Annual Meeting WI as we celebrated our 95th birthday but 2019 is a very 18th December – Dr. Vinyl important year for Norfolk WI Federation as it is celebrating For further information please feel free to contact either its Centenary. myself, or our President, Rosemary Pye (01603 738599). Special events will be held throughout the year which PLEASE NOTE that WI meetings will take place at 2.30 pm Norfolk WIs are invited to attend, including a Centenary in the afternoons, as from 16th January, instead of 7.30 pm Thanksgiving Service at the Cathedral on 12th April. WIs have in the evenings. However, the venue remains the same: The been invited to take part in displaying their banner in a Parade Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Coltishall. in the Cathedral. Rosie Howell, Secretary - 01603 737762 HORSTEAD & COLTISHALL Wroxham and District COMMUNITY LUNCH CLUB U3A Wednesdays at Church Rooms, Coltishall 12:15 for 12:30 [Members please confirm attendance by Tuesday evening] It was good to get back into our routine on the 9th January, lots of pleasantries exchanged along with sorrow at the passing of one of our members. Marjorie Chapman a member for several years passed away suddenly before our first lunch of 2019, she was to be 92 in March and we all send our condolences to her family. Our birthday parade once again includes a key team member, Liz joined Ruth and Patricia for posies, presented as always by Joan M. We are a group of like minded people over 55 and We would welcome new members to join us for fun and interested in many and varied things .We meet once a fellowship along with a hearty meal freshly prepared on the month in the comfortable surroundings of The Hub in premises. Wroxham with a speaker followed by a cup of tea or Give Joan a ring on 737270 for more details about a good coffee and Tuesday January 15th Mike Weatherstone talked wholesome cooked meal, good company, fun and fellowship at about History through Village signs. the Church Rooms, Coltishall. 12:15 for 12:30 Wednesdays. Our next two meetings are as follows. • Tuesday February 19th Peter Lawrence about Parish Records. • Tuesday March 19th Dr Ian Bedford on Garden bugs. All meetings begin at 2:30pm and last roughly 2 hours Members £1 visitors £2 Plenty of parking in the hall car park next door to the Hub, 114 Norwich Road, Wroxham, NR128SA. Please come and join us we would be delighted to see you a warm welcome awaits Contact: Jan Barrington 01603 712150 [email protected] | Website www.u3awroxham.co.uk 22 Wroxham WROXHAM SOCIAL Bure Valley CLUB FEB 2019 Rotary Club - May I take this opportunity to wish all members and readers a Happy and Healthy New Year Programme of events until Easter: Our concert with the Broadland Youth Choir at St Mary’s Church, Wroxham, back in December, was a huge success • February 2nd - Whist Drive - 7.30pm with a packed church. Over 70 glasses of mulled wine were • February 9th - Beetle Drive & Hoy – 7.30pm consumed, over £500 raised for rotary charities, and a • February 16th - Bingo – 8pm wonderful evening of entertainment enjoyed by all. A huge • February 23rd - Quiz & Chips – 7 for 7.30pm - To thank you to all concerned. book [Teams of 4] and order food please phone As I wrote this Santa was still working hard with our 419811 or 435284 Non members welcome. We can street and static collections, so final totals not yet available. usually make tables up to 4 if you don’t have enough in Now that the festive period is over it is time to look your team forward to what 2019 has to offer. We have a busy spring • March 2nd - Race Night – 7.30pm with some old favourites such as the schools Technology • March 9th - Bingo – 8pm tournament at Broadland Academy, and some new activities • March 16th - St Patrick’s Celebration Night, with including manning the entrance gates at Strumpshaw steam hopefully live music and Colcannon. fair, and a special Open Gardens event at Howe Hill. Full details will appear on each of these as they occur. It will soon be the Bowls season again, the Snooker league Meantime, if you fancy finding out a bit more about us ends in April. There is Table Tennis and Bar Social evenings. and what we get up to, we meet every Monday evening at Anyone coming along would be made Welcome. Wroxham Barns. Please contact our secretary Anne Kittle The Club is closed Wednesdays and Sundays. in advance on 07887523071 to check the meeting details We are always looking for new members to join the bowls, and so we can ensure we have food for you. snooker and darts teams. For more information Phone Rosemary (Chair) 01603 Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk for 419811. Jean or Peter for Bowls 01603 720810 or 435284 more information and details of our exciting programme or 781204 for 2019, or our Facebook page on www.facebook.com/ wroxhamburevalleyrotaryclub or contact our president, Philip Plant on 01692 630152. Come and learn to Fitness for all in ring in coltishall! We need you to help the bells of St. John’s Coltishall keep 2019! ringing! If you are interested in learning what bellringing is about, what it involves, its health benefits (a good way to get fit for ’19!) and whether you might like to ‘have a go’, please look at the days and times of the open sessions below and choose which one you’d like to attend. Then let us know at our email address or phone number below and we will look forward to seeing you at the church. Have you been told you need to exercise more? Would But if you cannot make any of the sessions but would still you like to improve your mobility? Would you prefer to stay like to know more just come along to any practice night local? on a Monday at 7.30pm and we’ll be glad to ‘show you the Try your local community fitness club, run by Neatishead ropes’! Community Gym! We can’t promise you honed hunks or You can also reach us at our special email address: leotard clad lovelies, but we can promise a warm, friendly [email protected] or call Mike welcome and expert advice. Our regular members are Gander on 01603 738788 (when prompted just say your people just like you, nervous about walking through our name and ‘bellringing’!) and we’ll take it from there! doors but now delighted they did. Come and try us out with a FREE TASTER SESSION. We are open Sundays, WEDNESDAY 20 FEB 2PM (14.00hrs) Mondays and Wednesdays 8.30 to 12.30. Ring Carol on TUESDAY 26 FEB 10.30AM (10.30hrs) + 2PM (14.00hrs) 01692 535342, or email [email protected] to book your SATURDAY 3 MARCH 10.30AM (10.30hrs) session now. THURSDAY 7 MARCH 6PM (18.00hrs) + 7.30PM (19.30hrs) Neatishead Community Gym | www.victoryhall.info 23 YOUNG MARLPIT | EMAIL [email protected] WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS cooling mat. Then eatthem. 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MEET THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS AT COLTISHALL PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY COLTISHALL AT SCIENTISTS YOUNG THE MEET - and usually busily a group of brilliant minds can be found young Thursday, After school on - conducting research and experimentsmessily! work as they completing their CREST towards Engineering, Technology, is a seriesThe CREST award of STEM (Science, superstar award. Association. the BritishMaths) challenges designed by Science to say: what some of our scientists and researchers have Here’s Thursday started we have a science club and "In after school club on a do excellent activities, We everyone I would recommend there! to go LOVE IT!!!!!!! So far we have filtered water to see what people in poorer water to see what people in poorer we have filtered IT!!!!!!! So far LOVE at what happens looked countries do to be able to have a drink, have to because I love science, animals and learning about them." science, because I love the animals; we got to see guinea pigs!" we got the animals; our next topic. I like science because you new things every day. One day I would like to be a marine biologist to be a marine biologist One day I would like things every science because you new day. I like our next topic. if it is not cloudy. We also have a scientist visiting us from the UEA to talk to us about volcanoes which is the UEA to talk to us about volcanoes which is also have a scientist visiting us from We if it is not cloudy.

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An extra thank you to our wonderful caretaker who helps with operation-clean-up caretaker An extra too! to our wonderful thank you "In STEM club on a Thursday we have done science experiments and research. We attempted to make invisible ink using invisible attempted to make We Thursday we have done science experiments and research. "In STEM club on a lemon juice. It is supposed to turn brown when heated as it oxidizes. We also learnt about the pH scale and measured the pH the pH also learnt about the pH scale and measured We when heated as it oxidizes. It is supposed to turn brown lemon juice. When you add an alkali smelly). really as an indicator (it was cabbage using red by of household products juice it turns red." cabbage and if you add an acid to the red juice it turns green cabbage to the red Extensive research has shown that outside learning research has shown through Extensive ways: following beneficial in the is hugely play sharing and listening • Communicating, solving • Creativity and problem • Confidence and independence • Gross and fine motor skills • Managing risk our world respect for whilst forming• Having life-long relationships with nature WHY FOREST SCHOOLS ARE IMPORTANT SCHOOLS WHY FOREST Any donations big or small will be gratefully received. A A small will be gratefully donations big or Any received. Post at Mace Coltishall charity can be found collection box Office. to the School your donations directly Office or take can bring we this project to life. Together Coltishall PrimaryColtishall the on members of School is calling completely help raise £5000 to to local community benefit the for area wildlife their pond and rejuvenate will enable the area Re-developing of the local children. School” to “Forest an exciting new the School to build local species and the biodiversity, help pupils learn about health whilst improving area, habitats of this wonderful and wellbeing. Appeal School Forest Primary’s Coltishall to marine birds when there is an oil spill by experimenting on feathers, making recycled paper to experimenting is an oil spill by on feathers, to marine when there birds of pollution and also some vets effect environmental at the important looked see how it is to recycle, when the vets come in My favourite activity was came in to talk to us about looking after animals. us and showed YOUNG MARLPIT | EMAIL [email protected] WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS

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DECEMBER NEWS FROM THE BELL TOWER THOUGHTS FROM We were pleased to be able to ring for two Services over BADERSFIELD Christmas, especially the Children’s Carol Service and hope CHURCH that those there were gladdened by the sound of our “Be not forgetful to Christmas bells. We had also hoped to be able to do the entertain strangers: other traditional thing; that of ringing in the New Year, first for thereby some have with half-muffled bells to represent the end of the old year entertained angels and then with joyfully open bells as we welcome in the unawares.” New, but, unfortunately, we just couldn’t get enough local As Dave and I took down our Christmas cards ringers to help. last weekend, inside some were memories about my dad. My lovely dad died on All Saints Day, BUT THAT IS WHERE THE MARLPIT’S November 1st.Hhe was at peace at the end, and READERS CAN HELP! HOW? my mum had the experience of spending his last week talking over their lives to him, remembering So, what’s it all about? We have a small band of dedicated experiences and people who had influenced their ringers but would like to recruit 2 or 3 new members now lives. Dad faded away, and knew little pain, for which (and each year to come!) to ensure we remain sustainable my mum, my and I were so thankful. And over that in the future. Once hooked on ringing people can continue sunny wintery weekend we were able to support to ring all their lives, joining new bands as their experiences mum and look at what dad had chosen for his take them to different parts of the country, perhaps to funeral service, and my brother and I chose to see university or because of employment or married life. his frail body so respectfully laid out by Stanley the Opportunities are equal regardless of gender or age, local Funeral Director. anyone can learn how to ring if they are older than 10 Dad was a humble and spiritual man, who was not years of age and there is no upper age limit. Although afraid to confess his faith in Jesus. He would talk very ringing takes place in a church (obviously!) there is no naturally about this relationship that meant so much pressure for you to join in the church’s activities (But that to him. Some found this a challenge. W hat I have doesn’t mean you can’t!) appreciated, since both the private family cremation Age and Gender Free, Transferrable Skills, Physical and and public Thanksgiving in the town where my Mental Benefits from a hobby? parents live, is so many people who commented on Absolutely! Bellringing is a great physical and mental the care, help, and encouragement he quietly gave exercise, in fact in the earliest days of change-ringing the to so many people. Very touching to find things out hobby was called ‘The Exercise’ so there’s a big clue there! about dad I didn’t know. During his working life in But it’s not just worthy things like healthy physical and agricultural education, he taught many students. He mental exercise, bellringing is a social activity and there is was firm and fair; exacting; he expected much and always laughter and enjoyment in learning in our tower gave much. He affirmed and praised good work. He and we’d love to welcome you to join us. But if you want didn’t seek status, but worked long hours diligently, other reasons for joining in how about: • Confidence- to the detriment of family life. I am sure there have building in a mixed-age group • Leadership • Memory and been, in your lifetime and mine, unsung heroes and Concentration • Punctuality and Organisation heroines who brought something unique and special ATTRACTED? WHAT KIND OF RINGER WILL YOU BE? to the world; people with their own struggles who work to the best of their ability for the greater good. Like ‘the salt of the earth’ which adds flavour to There is no one sort of ringer, some stick to called life. Many people are remembered long afterwards changes, others stay with the simple methods, and some for their little acts of kindness, thoughtfulness and decide to learn more complex methods, and perhaps also service. Please don’t get me wrong!. Dad was start to ring regularly with other groups in local towers as no saint! He enjoyed life, could laugh at himself, well as helping new learners at their home tower. made mistakes, was pedantic and irritating! As an For young people, at St John’s we like to start people at adult who came to faith in my early 30s, I began the age of 11 or 12, this gives them time to reach really to understand how his faith motivated his life and challenging methods before they leave perhaps to go to actions. People around him saw that his actions university at 18. Many universities have thriving Ringing spoke for themselves. Dad was of Celtic descent so Societies which can be a springboard to the highest levels this simple yet profound Irish proverb seems very of ringing achievement. With enthusiasm and commitment, fitting. The work praises the man. So, wherever we you might become: • A Conductor • A Composer • A are in our faith journey, and whatever motivates our Tower Captain • A District Officer • A Steeple Keeper lives, let us never underestimate the blessing we can Have a think about it and then come along to one of the be to each other. open sessions. Give us a call on 01603 738788 or mail us Love Rev Deb xx on [email protected] and we’ll do the rest to welcome you!

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT WROXHAM’S served after each service. Please do join us! UNITED REFORMED CHURCH JAM (our Sunday Kids Club) is always open to new children for fun, cooking, games, crafts and Bible stories. Please contact Chris Billing at [email protected] or phone 01603 783992 for more details.

Minister: Rev Bruno Boldrini. 94 Welsford Road NR4 6QH Tel: 01603 453071 [email protected] Secretary: Lynne Howard, 01603 738835 lmhoward100@ btinternet.com

COLTISHALL CHURCH ROOM Tuesday: Every Tuesday at 10am at the Hub there is a meeting of the Prayer Group. Anyone is welcome to come After three and a half years of steady rates for the to pray or be prayed for hire of Coltishall Church Room at Rectory Road, Thursday: Our weekly Community Café on a Thursday Coltishall, it has become necessary for Coltishall with 10.30-12.00, is a great opportunity to meet up with friends Great Hautbois Parochial Church Council to review over a coffee and slice of home-made cake. It’s free – all the hiring charges due to increased prices for gas, we ask for is a small donation towards the costs. All are electricity, water, etc., since April 2015. Consequently, welcome! it has been decided to make a modest increase in the Bible study (“back to basics”), every 2nd and 4th Thursday charges. The hire rates for Coltishall of the month (7 pm) - This is a house group so please Church Room from 1st April 2019 will be:- contact Rev Bruno if you would like to go along Sundays Regular users: Contact Mrs J Milligan for bookings 3rd Feb 11am - Service led by Rev David Adams • £6.50 per hour and enquiries Tel. 10th Feb 11am - Holy Communion Service led by Rev • £17.00 per 3 hour session 01603 737270 Bruno Boldrini 17th Feb 11am - All age worship led by Rev Carole Pearl Casual users (one off use): 24th Feb 11am - Led by Rev Malcolm Wright. Coffee is • £11.00 per hour

30 LENT: Begin Lent with a special service on Ash Wednesday 6th March –Holy Communion service at Church at 7.30pm.

LENT LUNCH GROUP: Come and enjoy a simple soup meal and share in discussion in ‘Another Tree to Climb’ as we hear a letter from God to us! Tuesdays in Lent at 12.30pm to 2.00pm, starting on 19th March. Just come along with your bible. We meet at the Rectory, 24 Rectory Road, Coltishall.

PILGRIM: This is our evening meeting that explores the Christian Faith. Again, all welcome. We meet at FROM THE REVEREND the Rectory, Coltishall on Wednesdays starting on Ash CHRISTOPHER ENGELSEN Wednesday 7.30 with Holy Communion ( or a blessing) Dear friends at Hainford Church. Please contact Revd Chris Engelsen January and February have a reputation for being rather for more details about PILGRIM or the Lent Lunch. depressing months. , you know how it is-suddenly all the festivity of Christmas and New Year is over, and now FISH N’ CHIP QUIZ: Saturday 23rd March at the Tithe its back to normal as we face the rest of the winter, Barn 7.30pm. Come and test your knowledge and enjoy and what ever the year will hold for us. As a nation we a delicious fish supper. Each table has six places –so bring face the uncertainties of where we are with the Brexit others with you! Bring your own drink. But book soon process, though by the time you read this, hopefully things for this popular event! may be a little clearer. Perhaps in our personal lives we may have made some new year resolutions –or at least Please contact Nora on 01603 737701 for more details. had some hopes for doing something new and good. As See next month’s Marlpit also for more details. a believer in God and as a Christian, the new year is full of hope. Contact Reverends Chris Engelsen or Keith Dignum for info re Church services, weddings, baptisms, and for a visit to All the joy of celebrating the birth of Jesus ( and we home or hospital. Reverend Christopher Engelsen 01603 had plenty of that with Coltishall Primary School’s Carol 737255 [email protected] Service at Horstead Church) – is there for us as we Reverend Keith Dignum 01603 710397 continue to celebrate the life of Jesus. On Sunday 2nd February, we celebrate ‘Candlemas’- a service of light and hope recalling the story of the child Jesus being presented and blessed as a light for all people. On this day we take one last look back at Christmas and look towards walking and growing with Christ as we head towards Easter via the forty days of Lent and Good Friday. So come with your hopes for yourself, those around you and for God’s world and follow Jesus the Light of the World. He will certainly brighten our days, and guide us in our decisions. Don’t forget to pray for our nation and the whole world! Please see list of services for details of worship in our group of parishes- which cater for all ages from Family Service to traditional Holy Communion or Morning Prayer. You will be very welcome.

SPONSORED FLOODLIGHTING - ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH From David and Judy Francis on Feb 17th in Memory of Dorothy Francis

For further details should you wish to nominate friends or family for sponsored floodlighting – please contact Sue Hill at [email protected]

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Sunday 17th February - The Third Sunday Before Lent Readings; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26 8.00am - Holy Communion at St John the Baptist, Coltishall 9.30am - Morning Prayer at All Saints’, Hainford 9.30am - Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead 11.00am - Holy Communion at St Margaret’s, Stratton Worship In The Benefice Strawless (NB: No Holy Communion at Frettenham this week).

FEBRUARY 2019 Sunday 24th February - The Second Sunday Before Lent Readings; Revelation 4; Luke 8:22-25 Sunday 3rd February: The Presentation Of Christ In The 09.30am - Holy Communion at All Saints’, Hainford Temple - CANDLEMAS 09.30am - Morning Prayer at All Saints’, Horstead Readings: Hebrews 2:14-end; Luke 2:22-40 11.00am - Holy Communion at St John the Baptist, Coltishall 8.00am - Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead 11.00am - Morning Prayer at St Swithin’s, Frettenham 9.30am - Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Hainford 4.00pm - Evensong at St Margaret’s, 10.00am - Family Service for Candlemas at St John the Baptist, Coltishall Sunday 3rd March - The Sunday next Before Lent 11.00am - Candlemas Holy Communion at St Swithin’s, Readings: 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-43a Frettenham 8.00am - Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead 9.30am - Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Hainford Wednesday 6th February 10.00am - Family Service at St John the Baptist, Coltishall Readings; Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15; Mark 6:1-6 11.00am - Holy Communion at St Swithin’s, Frettenham 10.00am - Holy Communion at St John the Baptist, Coltishall

A welcoming and friendly church

Broadgrace is a welcoming, friendly church for the people who live in the towns and villages of Broadlands and North Norfolk.

We try to keep things accessible and informal by sitting around tables, not in Sunday afternoons rows, by explaining everything that’s going from 4pm till around 6pm on and avoiding church jargon. The River Rooms, Church Street, There’s usually a talk on a section of the Coltishall NR12 7DL Bible, singing, prayer and a chance to think about the spiritual and significant issues of Whether you’re new to life in a relaxed atmosphere. There’s also church or looking for a new plenty of decent tea and coffee and a meal church, we’d love you to for the children at the end of our meeting. come along this Sunday.

www.broadgrace.org.uk | [email protected]

3232 The Marlpit needs you –please help!

Do you have a few hours a month spare to help write, produce, or deliver, The Marlpit?

We are all volunteers, unpaid, doing it for the community, and our “hearts” – appreciated by our local readership for what we do in ensuring The Marlpit continues as the magazine giving more NEWS and EVENTS and VITAL INFORMATION. Vital for all of us! We need:

An advertising sales person: to find new advertisers keen to join us – and benefit by the widespread magazine coverage in this region.

Content editors/administration: to receive editorial contributions, write and check content –do admin, eg: round up event dates into our calendar pages, etc.

Compilation: Got online design/production capability? Help for our compilation editor would be appreciated.

Deliverers: On time, to receive and deliver copies of the magazine by hand through postboxes of residents in Coltishall, Horstead, Stanninghall, Great Hautbois, Scottow, Badersfield. We are also seeking possible new circulation in Belaugh, Tunstead, Hoveton, Wroxham and North Walsham.

Our Representatives Coltishall Parish Councillors www.coltishallpc.info [Member of Parliament] Keith Simpson T: 01603 865763 [Chairman] Bob Grindrod T: 01603 736259 The Stable, Church Farm, , NR9 5ST 4 Westbourne Road, Coltishall, NR12 7HT [Member of Parliament] Norman Lamb T: 01692 403752 [Vice Chairman] Bill Musson T: 01603 738620 Unit 4, The Garden Centre, Nursery Drive, Nth Walsham, NR28 0DR 16 College Close, Coltishall, NR12 7DT [Norfolk County Councillor] Thomas Garrod T: 07515 356821 [Clerk] Suzanne Hall T: 0744 6542156 6, The Maltings, Church Close, Coltishall NR12 7DZ 112 Norwich Road, Horstead, NR12 7EQ [Broadland District Councillor] Jo Copplestone T: 01603 860840 Doreen Snelling T: 01603 737955 Breck Farm, Swannington, Norwich, NR9 5TB Red House, Church Street, Coltishall, NR12 7DJ Michael Spinks T: 01603 737332 Alan’s View, 11 Frogge Lane, Great Hautbois, NR12 7JT ‘All correspondence and queries should be Mike Kirkham sent to the Parish Clerk’ , T: 01603 739157 | 20 College Close, Coltishall, NR12 7DT John Haschak T: 01603 611031 | 8 Hautbois Rd, Coltishall, NR12 7JW

Horstead with Stanninghall Parish Councillors [Chairman] Campbell Jones T: 01603 927592 Tom Cain T: 01603 736840 | 2 Patricia Avenue, Horstead NR12 7EW 34, Tungate Way, Horstead, NR12 7EN Diane Williams T: 01603 737719 [Vice Chair] Caroline Fleming T: 01603 737686 5 Robert Norgate Close, Horstead, NR12 7BT Horstead House, Mill Road, Horstead, NR12 7AU Robert Jennings T: 738335, 11 St Margarets Close, Horstead, NR12 7ER [Parish Clerk] Suzanne Hall T: 07476 952824 Liz Wishart T: 07849 070618 | 6 Havergate, Horstead, NR12 7EJ 112 Norwich Road, Horstead, NR12 7EQ Margaret Gurney T: 01603 737235 | Heggatt Hall, Horstead, NR12 7AY Michael Blackburn T: 01603 737495 Sunny Croft, 24 Rectory Road, Horstead, NR12 7EP Philippa Weightman T: 01603 737962 1 Stanninghall Cottages, Stanninghall Road, Horstead NR12 7LY Alan Browne T: 07789 967909 www.horsteadparishcouncil.org.uk [email protected] Holly Tree Cottage, Mill Lane, Tunstead NR12 8HN Directory of Clubs and Associations

1st Buxton Lamas Sea Scout Group: Vereen Marcer T: 01603 279457 1st Coltishall Brownies: Hayley Wild T: 07391762146 Horning Amateur Theatrical Society: 1st Coltishall Guides: Claire T: 07826 444 046 Pauline Gedge T: 01692 630554 1st Coltishall Rainbows: Joanna French T: 07808286293 Horning Bridge Club: [Chairman] Ron Hunt T: 01603 781416 1st Hoveton & Wroxham Sea Scout Group: T Hughes 01692 630688 Horstead Bowls Club: [Secretary] Peter Cobb T: 737600 Ashmanaugh & Barton Wanderers Cricket Club: Horstead Trust: [Chair/Clerk] Barbara Gidney T: 01603 737900 Bernie Everrett - [email protected] Horstead Tithe Barn Community Association: Aylsham Chess Club: David Owen T: 01263 731327 [Chairman] Luke Blackburn: 07817 061324 Badminton Club: Carl Tipple T: 01603 738399 Hoveton Wroxham & District Gardening Club: Broadland Chess Club: Paul Badger T: 01603 737572 Pam Culley T: 782041 Broadland Tots2Teens Club: Nicola Pye T: 01603 430525 Jubilee Players: Ros Chamberlin T: 736287 Bure Valley Youth Football Club: Ted McCarter T: 07760 424264. North Norfolk Speakers Club T: Stuart 07775 793999 Coltishall & Horstead Youth Forum: Mike Warren T: 01603 738332 Probus Club of Broadlands: Steve Robb 01603 736597 Coltishall & Horstead W.I.: [Secretary] Rosie Howell T: 01603 737762 Rotary Club of Broadlands: Richard Mayer T: 01603 715796 Coltishall Activities & Sports Trust [CAST]: Doreen Snelling T: 737955 Rotary Club of Wroxham & Bure Valley : Jonathan King T: 784482 Coltishall Allotments Assoc’: [Chair] Bill Dickson T: 07717 895574 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes [Llamas KC Lodge]: Coltishall Church Bellringers: Mike Gander T: 01603 738788 Bob Jennings T: 01603 738335 Coltishall Commons Management Trust: Barbara Elvy 01508 558761 Royal British Legion: Mr B Jordan 01603 738325 Coltishall Cricket Club: Kevin Fisher 07849 275688 Spirit of Coltishall Association: [Secretary] Jeff Ayling Coltishall Jags Running Club: Alan Groves T: 01603 737262 [email protected] Coltishall PF Bowls Club: Trevor Goddard T: 01603 736731 Wellington Dance [Ballroom Dancing]: Dave Cox T: 01603 737907 Coltishall Labour Party: Stephen McNair T: 01603 737830 Wroxham and District U3A: [Secretary] Jan Barrington Coltishall Tree Warden: Peter Croot T: 01603 737427 01603 712150 Community Lunch Club: Joan Milligan T: 01603 737270 Wroxham Flower Club: Pat Barnes T: 01603 720466 Coltishall Create & Share Craft: Sylvia Coward T: 01603 737915 Wroxham Folk Dance Club: Mick Wade 01692 404447 Friends of Coltishall & Surgeries: Wroxham & Hoveton Lions Club: David Barnett 782002 Maureen Neal T: 01603 897506 Wroxham, Hoveton & Belaugh Twinning Association: Films at Frettenham Village Hall: Mike & Alison Brown 01603 737504 Jane Monks T: 01603 782496 Friends of Coltishall Church: Henry Bradshaw T: 01603 738009 Wroxham United Reform Church: Rev Bruno Boldrini T: 458873 Hautbois Rangers: Emma Brown T: 01603 898983 [Secretary] Mrs Lynne Howard T: 01603 738835 38 Useful Telephone Numbers

Police [non-emergency]: 101 Coltishall Post Office: 01603 737277 Broadland High School: 01603 782715 Coltishall Surgery: 01603 737593 Crime stoppers: 0800 111 8555 Coltishall Community Centre: 01603 738435 Coltishall Primary School: 01603 737481 Priest in Charge, Coltishall Rector: 01603 737255 Citizens Advice Bureau [Norwich]: 03444 111444 Good Neighbour Scheme (Horstead & Coltishall): 07799 277455 Dial-A-Ride Community Transport: 01692 500840 Recruiting Sergeant (Defibrillator): 01603 737077 Coltishall Pharmacy: 01603 736784

Horstead Tithe Barn The Hayloft is available for hire: £12.60 / 3-hour session or £5.25 / hour for shorter periods. M Badminton: Carl Tipple T: 738399 [7pm-10pm] The Main Barn is available for hire: for full or part-day sessions on Saturday Tu [1st Tues] Pop-up Café: Sylvia Coward T: 737915 [10am-12pm] or Sunday @ full day rate of £200, 9am-12pm (15 hours). Part-day sessions: £12 / hour. Line Dancing: Glenda / Sheila T: 890708 / 279294 [7pm-9pm] Saturday evening session (6pm-12pm): £100 W Jubilee Players: Ros Chamberlin T: 736287 [7:30pm-10:30pm] Mornings or afternoons on weekdays @ £12 / hour with a minimum st rd [1 & 3 Weds] Tiddlers Baby & Toddler Group: booking of two hours. *Bar by Request. Michelle T: 736486 [10-11:30am] Charge to regular (weekly) hirers: F Short Mat Bowls: Jill Bunn T: 737516 [7:30pm-10:30pm] £19.50 / 3-hour session, £78.00 / month or £936.00 / year. For booking & enquiries: Sue Blackburn Tel: 01603 737495 S [2nd Sat] Craft Buddies: Karen Rhodes T: 861515 [10am-4pm] email: [email protected] www.horsteadtithebarn.wordpress.com

Coltishall Village Hall Coltishall Church Room

M [term time] Coltishall & Horstead Preschool [9am-3pm] M Girl Guides [6:30pm-8:30pm] [term time] Rainbows [4:45pm-5:45pm] [2nd Mon] Create and Share Craft [2pm-5pm] nd [term time] Brownies [6pm-7:30pm] TuT [2 Tues] Coltishall Parish Council Meeting [6:30pm- 7:30pm] Tu [term time] Coltishall & Horstead Preschool [9am-3pm] Forever Fit 60+ - Exercise for over 60s [10am-11am] Vibe Fitness [7pm-9pm] W Community Lunch Club [12:30pm-1:45pm] W [term time] Coltishall & Horstead Preschool [9am-3pm] [3rd Weds] Coltishall and Horstead WI [7:30pm-10pm] [Sept-March] Short Mat Bowls [7pm-9pm] ThT Yoga [10am-11:30am] Th [term time] Dance Zenergy [3:30pm-6:30pm] [term time] Coltishall & Horstead Preschool [9am-12:15pm] Bookings for the Church Room: Please note NEW hire rates for Coltishall Church Room from F [term time] Coltishall & Horstead Preschool [9am-12:15pm] 1st April 2019 will be:- S Zumba [9:15am-10:15am] Regular users: £6.50 per hour / £17.00 per 3 hour session Casual users (one off use): £11.00 per hour Coltishall Village Hall - Lounge Bookings and Enquiries: Joan Milligan T: 01603 737270

M Royal British Legion (as required) [7:30pm-8pm] Tu Good Neighbour Scheme (as required) [7:30pm-10:30pm] PLEASE INFORM Th Good Neighbour Scheme (as required) [7:30pm-10:30pm] [email protected] IF

Bookings for the Hall and Lounge: Regular hirers: £6 / hour ANY OF THE ABOVE IS INCORRECT, Casual hirers (one-offs): £12 / hour Saturday: £150 / day. Saturday OUT OF DATE, NO LONGER VALID OR evening 6pm-12pm: £75 Hall & Lounge booked together: FOR THE INCLUSION OF A NEW CLUB, £100. *Bar by request. For bookings & enquiries: Doreen SOCIETY OR ASSOCIATION. Snelling Tel: 01603 737955

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