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Sun Shines on Bosworth ISSUE 192 AUGUST 2012 SUN SHINES ON BOSWORTH... THE BUGLE TEAM nce again a Bosworth village event bagged one of the elusive days Editor: Oof fine weather! Where other events all around were cancelled, Melvyn Forman Bosworth Festival 2012 persevered and had a cracking day... Firs Fm, Welford Rd.Tel /Fax: 880281 Email: [email protected] As with the Jubilee Day celebrations at the beginning of June, the good weather made Treasurer: Bosworth Festival another memorable event, exceeding all expectations and raising over Ralph Horton £2,000 for local charities and good causes. 18 Highcroft Tel: 880526 The event saw the welcome return of a vast array of military vehicles, classic cars and Advertising: motorcycles, the Bernese mountain dogs, djembe drummers and hovercraft. Harborough Sylvia Price FM radio provided the musical background during the day with Barry Badger taking the 3 Highcroft Tel: 880902 reins in the evening for the picnic on the lawn. Email: [email protected] Thanks to the organising committee, especially John Clarke for his unstinting work drawing Contacts: together the field events. The character of the event has, over the years, been very much Mike Price defined by the venue and once again we thank Robert and Susan Constable-Maxwell for 3 Highcroft Tel: 880902 allowing the village to ‘invade’ their park and gardens for the day! Jo Horton Following on the heels of last year’s successful tour, a convoy of military vehicles again 18 Highcroft. Tel: 880526 took a group to the Second World War aircrash memorial sites in the Park to honour those Frances Smith who lost their lives in the two crashes. 10 Butt Lane Tel: 880225 Thanks to all the local groups that supported the event and to everyone who came along Penny Mattock and enjoyed the day. 9 Fernie Court Tel: 881140 STOP PRESS: Nineteen local groups benefited from the event, sharing almost £2,000. Heather O’Connor 6 Cherry Tree Close Tel: 880165 CLUED UP IN BOSWORTH Postal Subscription/distribution: ollowers of BBC Radio Leicester’s Sunday morning Clueless treasure hunt programme Lorrie Forman Tel: 880281 Fwill have pricked up their ears when the programme’s presenters, Tony Wadsworth and [email protected] Julie Mayer were directed to the village Millennium Wood community woodland recently. The programme centres on listeners working out a series of cryptic clues and calling into www.husbandsbosworth.info the radio station to direct the presenter to destinations around the county. The Millennium Wood clue was hidden on the dipping platform at the water’s edge and, despite a brief COPY DEADLINE foray looking for somewhere to ‘dip’ down Honeypot Lane the clue was eventually located 15th OF THE MONTH and the crew was subsequently directed by listeners onwards.... to Gumley. PRECEDING PUBLICATION LIFE SAVER ould you know what to do, and have Wthe confidence to help, if someone suffered a life-threatening emergency? @bosworthbugle In next month’s Bugle we will be offering a chance for villagers to join a FREE first aid @HusBosworth wrote: course, to be held in the village in Husbands Bosworth Doctors Surgery September. drop in Baby Clinic starts again on the th Look out for more details next month. July 12 at Welford Village Hall 2.00 - 3.30pm for a chat & weigh in @rutlandospreys wrote: THE SID EFFECT She’s done it! 9F has just made her first ith more than 12 month’s worth of flight and is now sitting on one of the the Wdata now gathered from the village’s perches in Manton Bay! Speed Indicator Device a picture of results is beginning to emerge. It is pleasing to note that the percentage of vehicles exceeding the speed limit at some Aimi Williams-Smith, of Hunters Close, running th sites has reduced markedly over the period. with the Olympic torch in Sheffield on June 25 . Aimi was nominated for her inspirational Welford Road in particular shows a 2% leadership and her tireless fundraising for decrease in speeders. leukaemia care. POSTBAG From John Sutherland, Market Harborough I have a pocket watch which originated here in Market Harborough. The maker’s name is marked both on the dial and on the rear of the movement “G.F Allen - Market Harborough” and it is dated 1898. With this information I hope to find evidence of its history and so I write to you with the hope that your readers may be able to shed some light on the watch’s history or that of the maker. From Peter Jones, Highcroft Have you ever wondered how many people are buried in All Saints churchyard? The population of Husbands Bosworth has, on average, been about 1000 souls over the past five hundred years, which translates roughly into three to four thousand deaths per century, plus a few more that died young. The church has been here since about 1300 and the churchyard was closed in 1856. That means that burials took place in the churchyard for around 550 years. Multiply the number of centuries that the churchyard was used (5.5), by the number of deaths per century (say, 3000) and you will see that there must be at least 16,500 people buried there! Editor’s Note: Perhaps this explains why the church sits on such high ground.... From a Curious Villager A number of apparently abandoned bicycles have appeared around the village lately. All appear to be in reasonable condition and roadworthy but have been left for a long time in unusual places around the village. Does anyone have any ideas where they have come from? Or who they belong to? WATCH WORD POLICE FILE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH SCHEME WITHIN HUSBANDS BOSWORTH IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON ANY CRIME FILE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY CALL MARKET SID REPORT !Two moto-cross bikes and tools have been HARBOROUGH POLICE on 101 Readings from the Speed Indicator Device reported stolen from a locked store near Welford Road exit Gartree. th th Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator Period: June 20 to 27 !Two mature potted trees reported stolen Marion Lewis 0116 2483871 Vehicle movements: 7896 NW Community Scheme No. 2123 overnight from outside a roadside property Average speed: 36mph in Gaulby Highest recorded speed: 78mph Local Beat Team ! Spate of vehicle damage and petty High Street westerly Sgt. 920 Pete Jelbert vandalism crimes reported in the Fleckney, Period: June 27th to July 4th PC 500 Andy Smalley Houghton and Thurnby areas Vehicle movements: 13033 WPC 4713 Sarah Clarke !A number of fuel theft incidents reported Average speed: 28mph PCSO 6569 Peter Willson recently from HGV vehicles parked up Highest recorded speed: 50mph PCSO 6636 Ray Wells overnight at lay-by locations near PCSO 6573 Steve Adams High Street westerly Lutterworth Period: July 4th to 11th Voicemail Service 0116 2485675 Vehicle movements: 13097 Now that summer has eventually Average speed: 28mph Rural & Countryside Liaison Officer arrived don’t forget to lock your front Highest recorded speed: 54mph PC 1010 Chris Hill doors, and close windows and garage High Street easterly doors whilst you are busy with the Period: July 11th to 18th CRIMESTOPPERS barbecue in the back garden. Vehicle movements: 14135 FREEPHONE 0800 555111 DON’T MAKE IT EASY FOR THE Average speed: 28mph OPPORTUNIST THIEF Highest recorded speed: 60mph G BEGLEY Building & Roofing ‘JJ’s Kiddycare’ Complete roofing & repair service Tiles / slates cleaned * Full Day Care (0-4yrs) **moss removal** environmentally * Government funded Pre-school sessions for 3 & 4 year olds * Breakfast & After School clubs friendly - just spray & go - let nature * Holiday Clubs during all Northants & Leicestershire school do the rest! breaks Established 40 years Free estimates * Open 51 weeks per year All situated at a lovely rural farm location Husbands Bosworth Hemploe Road, Near Welford, Northants tel: 01858 880028 Tel no. 01858 575642 email. [email protected] 2 BOSWORTH IN FOCUS A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL NEWS WOOD CHIP... OPEN AGAIN GARDEN MUSEUM PIECE Many thanks to everyone who put their David and Ros Dunmore would like to say A recent study undertaken on behalf of green tokens in the Husbands Bosworth a big thank-you to everyone who came to Leicestershire Museums Service has Woodland Trust collection bin at Waitrose their charity Open Garden at 14, Mowsley concluded that Harborough Museum would in Lutterworth. A fantastic total of £505 was Road on behalf of the National Garden benefit from being run independently. The raised towards our Millennium Wood Scheme in June. museum is currently managed by a maintenance fund. It was a fine, dry day and visitors were able partnership of the county Museums Service, to sit outside and enjoy tea and cakes and Leicestershire County Council, Harborough LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF purchase plants for their own garden. The District Council and Market Harborough event raised £150 for care charities, Historical Society. Under the proposed new Shops on Market Harborough High including Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie scheme the museum, which houses the Street are being disrupted for the fifth time Curie Cancer Care, Help the Hospices and Symington corsetry collection and the in 8 years whilst LCC carry out the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Hallaton Hoard of Iron Age coins, would resurfacing work. The work to re-lay the An additional donation was made to Brook be run by a board of trustees as a not-for- block-paving setts, from the junction of House Residential Care Home to support profit venture. As an independent Bowden Lane to St. Mary’s Road, is visits into the community by the residents. organisation the group could apply for expected to take until the end of August ************** charity status and would be able to seek to complete.
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