Hilltop News
August & September 2012 Jubilations…
The beacon on the Common provided a fitting finale to our villages’ celebrations of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. elebrations began with the annual St Leonards Parish Fete on Saturday 2 CJune, which adopted a Jubilee tone for the occasion. On Monday the History Group put on a splendid exhibition of villagers’ Royal memories and memorabilia at Cholesbury Village Hall. Buckland Common held its own ‘Street’ party and the MAUREEN NEWALL Cricket Club organised an afternoon of fun t is with great and games. sadness that we Hundreds then went on to encircle and Ireport the sudden watch in awe the blazing beacon. A full passing of Maureen moon on a clear night and fireworks at Newall, a long-time the Full Moon completed the spectacle. A resident, adored summary and photos of all these events are wife, mother and included in this issue. grandmother and much-loved friend Also in this issue… and supporter of the • Maisie Butcher and Maisie Saunders Hilltop Villages. The remembered huge numbers attending her Service of • Neil Rees uncovers the story of the former Thanksgiving at St Leonards Church on Hawridge Baptist Chapel 9 July showed how she touched so many people’s lives. • Carol Walton remembers her very early A true villager, Maureen was a valued years in Buckland Common member, at one time or another, of • Encouraging news for Broadband users most village groups, including the WI, • Orienteering on the commons History Group, Horticultural Society and Plus our regular features… Parish Council. She was also a regular organiser and helper at village shows • Chris Brown looks at Nature’s response to and fetes. She even started the first the unseasonal wet summer parish magazine and newsletter – the • Jim Hetherington delves into the social forerunner of Hilltop News. world of the common wasp At the Service, Caroline Coates • Curvaceous Cook prepares for a festive delivered a fitting tribute to Maureen tipple on behalf of the Hilltop Villagers. Our feature on Maureen draws from this Inside front cover tribute. Diamond Jubilee memories from the Hilltop Villages...
Hilltop News 3 THE PARISH COUNCIL Kersting, Acting Chair of Bucks Healthcare THE COUNTY COUNCIL I met several local residents at the three- Trust, gave an extremely informative and county Diamond Jubilee Garden Party, New Parish Councillor accomplished talk about the forthcoming hilst the attended by The Queen and Prince Phillip I am delighted to announce that a new changes to healthcare at Wycombe and Olympic at Greenlands, Henley Business School’s member has joined the Parish Council to Stoke Mandeville Hospitals. We also received WTorch wound mansion, with its gardens down to the River replace John Horn, who retired in May. annual reports from local organisations as its way through Thames. The Queen arrived on a 130 year Already familiar to many of you as a co- well as reports from Tricia Birchley at Bucks Buckinghamshire on 9 old steam launch named Alaska followed owner of Chiltern Motors in Buckland County Council and Nick Rose at Chiltern July, the Games have by a river pageant involving 27 boats with Common, John Minting was co-opted to the District Council. Minutes from this meeting, brought London and the links to the Thames. Winners of invitations Council on 25 June and he has already started as for all Parish Council meetings, are Olympic venues much through the public ballot met the royal to get involved. We welcome him to the available on www.cholesbury.com. Brenda’s publicity. London held visitors and, despite the crowds, it was Council and hope that he will enjoy working PowerPoint presentation is available from centre stage during the Diamond Jubilee possible to see them at close quarters. with his fellow councillors and representing me if you would like it and e-mailed or paper celebrations and 2012 will be a year to The Council is developing a new vision the electors of Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards. copies of all minutes are, of course, also remember, tempered by the wettest June for the County by supporting a growth His contact number is below with the other available upon request. for a century. strategy for local jobs and improving our councillors’ details. If in doubt about who Diamond Jubilee events The challenge of Community Forums transport infrastructure. The protection of to call with a parish council matter, please The Parish enjoyed some extremely successful in holding HS2 to account has seen many our unique environment and regeneration always contact me first and I can direct your Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a great local residents providing their expertise to of our town centres will be important, enquiry to the right person. variety of events on offer over the long protect the Chilterns ANOB and to brief but I know your absolute priority will be the community of their proposals for a to ensure the future tranquillity of the Roads update bank holiday weekend. H G Matthews very tunnel past Wendover. The Week on 30 Chilterns ANOB. You may have noticed that some of the kindly sponsored, designed and made a June talked about the widening of the I look forward to meeting you at our parish’s potholes have been filled recently commemorative Diamond Jubilee brick which North-South divide and whilst politicians summer events and taking up your concerns and I am pleased to report that we have the Parish Council gave to over 100 children pointed to HS2 to resolve the infrastructure at County Hall. a new Local Area Technician at Bucks CC’s under the age of 12 living in this parish. Bricks gap, in the North the preference is for highways department, Jon Dickens. Jon were also available for sale and an incredible Tricia Birchley 01296 621138 more routine infrastructure. The County and I have been working hard since his 138 were purchased during and after the Council declined HS2 access to the highway appointment in April to put together an weekend, which enabled the Council to network following a demand during the achievable schedule of works for the parish add some extra money to the on-going St Jubilee week. and I have high hopes that the most pressing Leonards playground equipment fund. Meanwhile the County Council is jobs will be completed this summer. There are just a few Jubilee bricks left- available from me at £4 each. proposing to follow the private sector in a Many of you will be glad to know that a move to contribution based pay. In effect Susie Bell, Clerk to the Council more permanent solution to the seemingly it would link pay rises to achievement and continual flooding on Oak Lane (at the 758408 [email protected] performance, rather than length of service. Jenkins Lane end) is top of the list and may A taxable one-off payment of £750 would even have been done by the time you read be offered to staff in December if they this. Road patching is expected on Little agree to change their terms and conditions Twye Road, Taylors Lane and Arrewig Lane Your councillors can be reached on: and the unions have reacted in horror to this summer, courtesy of a new ‘Jetpatcher’ John Allen, Chairman: 758095 this change in culture. machine. Unfortunately, the wet weather this Nigel Blomfield, 758314 On 3 July it was accolades all round for summer has already delayed a lot of work County Council apprentices with Christine Chris Brown, 758890 around the county, so delays to work in our James voted Apprentice of the Year for her area may be inevitable. Philip Matthews, 758205 outstanding contribution to the Council. Annual Parish Meeting John Minting, 758206 Helping young people to gain employment Our Annual Parish Meeting was held on Francis Sanger, 758767 experience is a real priority and Christine 28 May. Attendance at St Leonards Parish was responsible for the County’s 2012 team Liz van Hullen, 758800 Hall was good, and our key speaker, Brenda exceeding its target of 60 registered Jubilee beacons!
4 Hilltop News Hilltop News 5 interest in depth. To see the engagement of so many pupils in such things as making paper helicopters and testing hypotheses about how they fly with different weights attached or variations in rotor shape was a joy to behold. In the hall there was a large space dome set up and each class was taken on a trip to outer space to learn about the planets, the stars and the vast scale of the galaxy. The session ended with a re-run of the pictures from the first landing on the moon. I know at least one governor had goose bumps watching it. As the end of the school year approaches, there is a chance to reflect on how much has been achieved over the last twelve months. The new building has been completed; there is new leadership in place; inspections have been completed and pupil progress throughout has been encouraging. There is much more to do but staff and governors share a sense of the school moving in the right direction. Year 4 looking for butterflies with David Dennis on the common as part of Science Week. HAWRIDGE & CHOLESBURY to achieve their best. It is a place where Local History Group Christian values make a difference and C of E SCHOOL where there is a real sense of belonging.” our Committee and I know my committee It is very encouraging that this has been I would like to start by expressing on colleagues and I will all miss her insightful As was reported in the last Hilltop News, recognised by an external inspector in a behalf of all members of the Local History contributions to the running of the Group. shortly after the OFSTED inspection in year of such major change for the school. Group our great On behalf of Local History Group members March the school was subject to a SIAS Well done to all staff, pupils and governors I would like to express our heartfelt inspection in May (Statutory Inspection of involved in this process. sadness on learning of Anglican Schools). This inspection centres condolences to her family. Despite what has been a very wet the sudden passing of In 2011 the Local History Group visited on the Christian values that underpin our summer term there have been plenty Maureen Newall. Apsley Paper Mill and, following up on this school in all aspects of the education of the of outdoor activities going on at the outing, the first talk of the 2012-13 season children and the culture that they enjoy school. We were represented at the aureen was will be on Guttenberg and the Story of during their time in school. Chesham Carnival; there have been trips not only a long time member of Print. It will take place on Friday 5 October. e were delighted to be judged to the Science Museum; outdoor sports at Mthe Group but was ever ready Important to note is the change of venue as a ‘Good School’ following the Chesham Grammar and a residential trip to lend a hand; working on the archive, for our first meeting, which will be at St Winspection which was a reflection to Green Park; and of course the whole or with the preparation and running of Leonards Parish Hall. More information of the work done by the Head and her staff school joined in the Jubilee parties at the our events. Only in early June Maureen about this and subsequent meetings will be in creating a Christian community and ethos beginning of June. was there before, during and afterwards in the next edition of Hilltop News. in the school. To quote from one section A real highlight in June was Science as part of the team helping to ensure our We are approaching the 50th of the SIAS report: “This is a welcoming Week, when children in all years were Diamond Jubilee Exhibition was a success. Anniversary of the founding of the Local community where everyone is encouraged encouraged to explore subjects of scientific Last year Maureen became a member of History Group. One constant over all these
6 Hilltop News Hilltop News 7 years has been inviting knowledgeable speakers to entertain us about interesting subjects, be they history local to this area, our national heritage or historic figures and events. Important to the success has been the friendly and welcoming atmosphere of our meetings in the Hilltop Villages. You don’t have to be a history buff to enjoy the talks, so if you are new to the area or have just not got around to attending before now, why not come along to a meeting: just £3 on the night. Membership is great value at just £8 for adults and free for those 16 years and under. Eight evening meetings - normally on the first Friday of the month - plus a newsletter, other member events and facilities, guarantee to offer something of interest for everyone. Chris Brown 758890 or e-mail on [email protected] Buckland Common’s ‘Street’ Party
n the Jubilee Monday afternoon, well over 100 revellers gathered Oon Buckland Common for an intimate celebration of The Queen’s 60 glorious years. The common was decked in Blooming bunting and villagers dressed accordingly. Sheila England led a rousing chorus of the National Anthem and other patriotic songs. meadow Home-made food and favourite tipples were in plentiful supply. While children n April, seeds were sown to create played games, Rosemary Pearce occupied a wildflower plot on Buckland the grown-ups with a picture quiz, dating ICommon, as part of Britain in Bloom memorable events from the past 60 years. 2012. As we all know, the summer barely arrived so it was no surprise that our lovely new meadow was slow to get going. But now the wild flowers – chamomile, cornflower, poppy, marigold, comfrey and cranesbill - are doing their best to show. Pop along to see: before the summer’s over! And do have a look at Michelle Storm’s updated blog – https://plantameadow.wordpress.com – for more information. Jubilee memories were revived at a special exhibition at Cholesbury Village Hall on 4 June, for which locals provided recollections and loaned Royal memorabilia from the past 60 years.
8 Hilltop News Hilltop News 9 Don’t forget to get ready for our Annual Horticultural, Cookery, Handicraft and Flower show on Saturday 1st September which this year will be at Hawridge and Cholesbury School from 2.30pm. Please try and get your entries in early to Roseanne Vince. I can’t sign off from Hilltop News without mentioning Maureen Newall. It is with great sadness that we will all miss our lovely friend and extremely long standing committee member from the Horticultural Society. On a personal basis, Maureen knew me from riding as a child, knew my family well and helped make and alter costumes for the Church Nativity. I will sorely miss our regular Horticultural Society meetings in her house, her lovely orchids, our chats while washing up and setting up for events in the halls and her advice on A sunny afternoon at Highcroft House May with a very knowledgeable Philip arranging photographs and craft items in Smith showing us around. I am sure many the Horticultural Show. She was as usual CHOLESBURY cum of us hadn’t realised it was there and helping with the teas at Highcroft House will definitely be going back to get some and provided me with plants for the fete. ST LEONARDS more perennials. There is a 10% discount We will all miss her. HORTICULTURAL on production of a current Horticultural With best wishes – hope to see you over Society card. the summer and at the Horticultural show. SOCIETY The Open Garden and teas at Highcroft Barbara Baddon Since talking about saving water in my last House in aid of Chiltern Air Ambulance was well attended and very successful, article we seem to have had a constant especially considering that a number of deluge of rain! Perhaps if I start talking other gardens were open that weekend. about the rain the sun will now shine. My We were extremely lucky as the sun shone that afternoon and we were treated to a vegetables are nowhere near as advanced lovely afternoon looking around Sarah and as normal and the mice got some of Stephen Tricks wonderful garden, which the beans and peas before they grew. they created from scratch from many hours However, it’s not all gloom and doom as of hard labour. Normally the plants would have been further advanced but the poor at least I’m not worrying about watering weather has made everyone’s flowers late everything and what we have is growing in blooming. The statuesque ram standing fast now. under the large oak tree proved quite a hit with comments such as ‘Is it real?’ There hank you to everyone who supported were many wonderful cottage plants and our Jubilee plant stall at the fete: we lovely views, especially from a couple of had lots of plants for sale this year. T well placed seated areas. We sent Chiltern We had an extremely pleasant after Air Ambulance a cheque for £500, so thank hours visit to Sunnyside Nursery in late you for attending.
10 Hilltop News Hilltop News 11 Common. Pudding-stones are local to this HAWRIDGE AND area. Geologists believe that they were laid Little Bears go hunting CHOLESBURY down some 50 million years ago. The rocks COMMONS are extremely hard, a conglomerate of flint pebbles and fine sand, bound together Children from Little Bears Pre-School have creatures. I found a little baby newt, a PRESERVATION naturally by silica. The stones will eventually be moved been getting in touch with nature with a wiggly worm, a ladybird, a slug. Mummy SOCIETY didn’t like the slug, I did!” Other children into a more intimate relationship and a recent visit to College Lake Environmental found beetles, woodlice, ants, spiders, Jubilee butterfly walk commemorative plaque will be added, Education Centre, near Tring. centipedes and millipedes. A little girl As part of the Jubilee celebrations, David with an official ‘unveiling’ of the final grouping later in the year. The Committee ogether with their parents and added: “I found an ant, orange millipede Dennis had organised a butterfly walk feel that the stones will make a unique grandparents, the youngsters spent which was very fast and a spider, crawling.” on the common but, unfortunately, the commemoration of the Queen’s Diamond several hours learning about the The mini beasts were carefully scooped, weather was so wet that this had to be T cancelled. We decided that in future, if we Jubilee. It is hoped that they will also make world around them. Much fun was had with a spoon, into a pot for viewing, and a distinctive contribution to the character digging in the ground or looking under returned safely to the wild afterwards. consulted the forecast, we could arrange of the area by drawing on something that logs for mini beasts. The children also Perhaps, not surprisingly, the creatures another walk at short notice and let people is truly local. explored a wildlife meadow and herb thrilled the children more than their know through the Grapevine. Look out In spite of earlier downpours, the fire garden, and made collages from flowers parents and grandparents. for a message and let anyone know who readily took hold of the pile of pallets which they picked. The Little Bears enjoyed The trip was organised by deputy play- is not on Grapevine. David always leads which had been expertly built up the day creating wildlife sculptures from clay while leader Julie Vaughan, who has spent many very informative and interesting walks, and before by Philip Matthews and John Caple. sitting at tables in an open hut, overlooking weekends at the nature centre with her gives tips on how to recognise the different Flames reaching high into the night sky the vast lake, rich with wild birds as well as family. She said, “I wanted our Little Bears species by their flight habits. The excessive were a magnificent sight, and fireworks goats, grazing on the banks. to experience, at first hand, the wonderful amounts of rain and blustery winds from the Full Moon brought the day of One little boy happily recalled his nature at College Lake. The staff at the throughout May, June and now July have celebrations to an end, at least for most experience the following day back at St centre were wonderful and made the trip a made it a very poor year for butterflies, so of us. John stayed on until the early hours Leonards Parish Hall. “We had to find some day to remember.” we hope that the jet-stream will move and allow for some warmer weather. of Sunday morning, guarding the dying Jubilee beacon and pudding-stones embers of the fire and making sure that Amid concerns that the June rain would late revellers came to no harm. We would spoil the lighting of the Jubilee Beacon, like to thank John for all his help with the skies brightened towards the evening the beacon. By 9.30 on Tuesday morning, of 4 June and we were able to enjoy the Philip and helpers had cleared away all the spectacle. At some point during the day, charred debris and taken it away in a lorry. three pudding-stones appeared, placed He also passed a magnet over the area to in a wide triangle around the site of the remove all the nails from the pallets. We beacon. One of these stones was kindly donated by Trafford Matthews from H. G. Matthews, the brick-makers, who recently dug it out of one of their clay-pits. The other two stones are the ones that have been next to the Cricket Pavilion for many years. There is a theory that they once marked the entrance to the Iron Age Fort, where the gateway to Cholesbury Church is now. The Committee felt that these stones deserved a more prominent position on the
12 Hilltop News Hilltop News 13 are extremely grateful to him for all his ‘Get Out There’ Project Pallett’s Pond protected sections which Christine will be help and for his thoroughness in clearing Once again, a team from Hammersmith Mark Hobbs has been attending a pond recording annually. the site. came out to the Commons, led by Anna management course, which confirms that Autumn/Winter works Jubilee moth trap Guzzo. To enable the heather to get the best way forward is to undertake The main coppicing and thinning work on While the beacon was being lit, David properly established, they spent the day gradual management on an annual basis in the woodland areas will be supervised and Dennis and moth experts, Peter Bygate and clearing small seedlings of birch and gorse the autumn. marked up by the Forestry Commission. It Alan Bernard were setting up two moth from the heather regeneration area to The plan with the HHCV is to clear will start this Autumn and be spread over traps on Cholesbury Common. Although the east of Horseblock. After their visit, further areas of extensive growth towards the next 3-5 years to minimise the effect on the weather was dry by this time, it was we received an email containing several the rear of the pond and lay a further wildlife and also increase the age range of clear and cold. Moths prefer warm, cloudy moving testimonies from participants in section of black plastic in this area, to shrubs and trees on the Commons. If you nights and the resulting ‘catch’ was small. the scheme. Many of them have had very suppress regrowth and any remaining, know of any special habitat trees which we It had been hoped to see an Elephant challenging situations in their lives and they or previously undiscovered New Zealand need to avoid, please let Christine know; Hawkmoth, a most beautiful lime-green write about how the work that they do in Pygmy Weed (NZPW). We’ll also clear for example, we know where buzzards nest and vivid pink moth which should be flying various nature reserves, gardens, and city overhanging branches etc. as usual and a every year and will avoid work on that tree. in June, but this was not the night! Three farms has helped them to turn their lives tree that has fallen in the pond. Steve Clarke has agreed that Christine moths found their way to the light box. around. We are very pleased that we have We intend to take up the section of can have a slot on the Cholesbury website. They were: Angle Shades, Treble Lines and been able to contribute to their recovery in black plastic originally put down in the She will let you know when the detailed Green Carpet, all lovely moths. We are very however small a way, and wish them well in front left hand corner of the pond to see Woodland Management plans and the grateful for the enthusiasm and generosity their future plans. what effect this has had on the NZPW. The veteran tree plan are available for people that David, Peter and Alan always show The Hemel Hempstead Conservation plastic has now been down for much longer to see. In addition, there will be a drop- in setting up the light boxes. We will have Volunteers (HHCV) also came in June and than the recommended six months, but in session at the Village Hall before the to try again when the weather is more did some gorse removal from the heathland we want to be as thorough as possible in Autumn programme begins when anyone conducive to night-flying moths. regeneration area. The area near the top eradicating this invasive species. can come and discuss the plans with of Horseblock is also now bursting with Work on the Commons Christine, HCCPS and an FC representative. heather which should start flowering this Those who subscribe to Grapevine will Meanwhile Christine will be happy to run year or next. have read Christine Stott’s account of the through the plans individually with those of Working parties work that is planned for the Commons, you who live on the Commons and address The season of working parties will begin which is under the guidance of the Forestry any concerns you may have. (Christine Stott in September (dtbc) when the HCCV will Commission. Below is a summary of what 758240). come to help with Pallett’s Pond. We would she wrote: Thank you all volunteers welcome others to join them. Anyone With help from John Morris of The This article has highlighted the invaluable interested in the pond and looking after it Chiltern Woodland Project, 40 ‘veteran’ contribution that many volunteers make to or joining a working party should contact trees have been identified. These have the maintenance of the Commons, ensuring Mark Hobbs (758505). been researched, measured and numbered that it is kept for walkers and riders to The working parties will continue on and will, if not already impressive, become enjoy all the year round. It isn’t only the the Common in October, running through our special trees of the future. The Society physical work that is undertaken, but all the until March or April and will mostly include is planning a veteran tree walk later in the hidden work that goes on as well, including clearing up fallen/felled trees and branches year, so that you can all see which ones keeping the website up to date, as done and keeping paths and rides open. Anyone have been chosen. by Graham Kersting. The Committee is interested is very welcome to come along Deer exclosures extremely grateful to everyone for all the for as many or as few sessions as they Christine has been asked to help the hard work and dedication and we hope would like. See the next issue of Hilltop Forestry Commission with their countrywide that we have not omitted anyone from our News for the programme. The first one will deer monitoring exercise. This requires thanks. be Sunday 7 October, and then fortnightly several 4m x 4m, temporary deer exclosures With thanks to Linden for help with this thereafter. to be erected on the Commons. The FC is article interested in the difference between the Paul Hembury (Chairman) deer-grazed flora and that in the small
14 Hilltop News Hilltop News 15 take place on Saturday 6 October. Tickets NEIGHBOURHOOD are available from Carol (758435): £8.00 to WATCH include a meal (bring your own wine). All are welcome to this event. Police have warned Ann Jones and Elizabeth Stacey had that tool thieves are been to Wendover WI’s 45th birthday party active in the Chiltern where they enjoyed both the birthday and South Bucks areas. cake and a film on red kites. Our own WI They strongly advise that birthday is celebrated in July and in August tools are visibly and permanently marked we have an informal get-together. We by engraving or etching with the owner’s return to regular meetings in September business name and postcode. with ‘The Secrets of a Store Detective’. Call The Ministry of Justice warns of a scam Carol to find out more. using its name. Do not pass on personal or Very sadly since our meeting we have financial details to any caller using this name. lost one of our longstanding members, Opening times: Maureen Newall. Maureen always contributed greatly to WI and was a very ld hotos estored Amersham Police Station, O P R King George V Road, HP6 5AL good and loyal friend to many. She is Professional retouching and restoration of old Monday – Friday, 10am – 2pm. going to be very much missed by us all. Our sympathies are sent to Wendy and Andy or damaged photographs including mounting Chesham Police Station, and all Maureen’s family. and framing. Broad Street, HP5 3EA 01494 758882 Tuesday – Thursday, 10am-2pm. Remember 101 to contact Thames Valley email: [email protected] Police, Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 to remain anonymous and 999 in an emergency. Shirley Blomfield (758314) CHOLESBURY-CUM-ST LEONARDS W.I. t the June meeting Carol Henry had to tell members of the death Aof Ray Lee, husband of Sylvia, our Secretary. Ray and Sylvia lived at The Boot and Slipper in Little Twye Road, Buckland Common before their move to Chesham and Ray had been ill for some time. Our thoughts and sympathies are with Sylvia and all her family. Carol was able to give the provisional results from the St Leonards Parish Hall Fete and read a letter from Dave Clarke, Chairman of the Management Committee, thanking the WI ladies for their help with the cake stall and the teas. She also announced that there will be an evening of Ferret Racing, to
16 Hilltop News Hilltop News 17 Gillian, Grannie, Pat Beamont, Garth, Phill McCall and Roland Beamont with young Carol: about to leave Buckland Common in 1947. Note the sketch above the cottage door
I remember the cottage door with its latch: the glass ‘Bristol Pigs’ on the window shelf and the smell of burning toast wafting upstairs, which was my grandfather’s way of getting Grannie to get up! Other memories stand out: the field through the hedge Postcard of Buckland Common in 1940s which seemed such a large meadow to the gate at the bottom: sitting on the doorstep their ashes buried in the churchyard. washing my doll’s clothes in a bucket: the Some years ago, when I visited Buckland advertising signs on the barn at the end of Common for the first time since I was four, Early memories of I was amazed to see how much I could still the lane (still there on the re-built barn!): the cobbled lane up to Mrs Brown’s house, recognize, although, sadly, the cottage is no where she gave me ginger biscuits: the longer there. I just remember being totally sketch in the cement above our cottage happy there and have some lovely photos Buckland Common of my early years. It was very special to door. One night I woke up and found the have met again Horace Butcher (who said cottage empty. I stood on (and broke) that my grandfather was a nice man, when Reading Hilltop News at my new home in King. He returned to Holland to command my three-legged stool to undo the latch sober!) and Elsie and Tom Creed, who all the Tempest Wing and three days later he Cardiff brought back memories of my early and went across the lane to find my remembered me when I was a little girl at was shot down over occupied France and Buckland Common. childhood spent with my grandparents grandparents, my uncle Garth and aunt was captured by the Germans. He spent Gillian having supper with Mac and Phill Carol Walton (nee Beamont) Bernard and Meri Adams (both buried in St the remainder of the War as a prisoner in McCall. There was a big fuss that I had Leonards Churchyard). Stalag Luft III. wandered across the lane in my nightie and During the three days he was in England in bare feet. was born in December 1943. My father he realized that my mother was ill and W/Cdr Roland (Bee) Beamont was a I also vaguely remember some older urged her to see the doctor. Within a week boys, one of whom was probably John IBattle of Britain pilot. He met my mother she was diagnosed with TB and admitted Horn, although I have no photo of them. Shirley Adams when she was a WAAF. He to Surrey County Sanatorium near Milford. had flown her in his single-seater aircraft to Eventually my father remarried and She died in May 1945 and was buried in St I have a photo of the day they came to a party at an air station in South Wales and Leonards. My grandparents came to look was subsequently Court Marshalled! collect me with (above) Grannie, Gillian and after me and took me back to their cottage Garth there to see me off. My grandparents In October 1944 my father came back in Cherry Tree Lane, which is where my to the UK to receive a medal from the are buried next to my mother and my aunt earliest memories are from. Gillian (Kurzke) and her husband Jan have
18 Hilltop News Hilltop News 19 daughter Wendy. In time, thanks to her skill only from the complete make-over she gave But I think there’s a phrase from the war at organisation, the event grew and moved recently to the nativity costumes for the which has caught the public imagination to St Leonards with a dog show and fete to children at St Leonards church, but also in that we can hear Maureen saying to us follow. The horse show is really her legacy to costumes she made for village hall shows because it sums her up: “Keep calm and the villages. She taught many local children and pantomimes. carry on” – and that is what we shall do, to ride, who might have been surprised at It was Maureen who masterminded the following her example. such a huge voice issuing from such a small stitching of the kneelers for the villages’ Caroline Coates person. If, unusually, Maureen was not at churches to commemorate The Queen’s a village function it was, as someone once Golden and Diamond Jubilees, as well as remarked, because she was “out somewhere ordering the kits from the suppliers for Thank you… terrorising the equestrian world”. anyone who wanted to sponsor a kneeler Early in her married life Maureen used to mark other events or loved ones. Her ndy, Wendy, Alistair and Dominic together with the whole family, her considerable business skills and her own skill was exemplary and her quiet would like to thank everyone old reproduction machines (Gestetners) to persuasion of ladies to stitch one was A again for their wonderful letters and produce not only show schedules for village irresistible. cards, and for the help and advice so and equestrian events but also the villages’ And it was to commemorate the recent freely given. The generosity of everyone first parish magazine and newsletter – the Diamond Jubilee that Maureen made what who came to our aid, in terms of both precursor to Hilltop News. was to be her last public appearances. She time and effort, has been overwhelming As her personal riding career reduced, so had joined the Local History Group a year but supportive, especially by all those Maureen became more and more engaged ago. The day before the Jubilee weekend involved in organising the funeral in activities such as the ‘Thursday Walkers’ she prepared labels and cards for the and the wonderful gathering back at and a Bridge circle. She was a loyal member Group’s exhibition. The next day she judged Fouracres afterwards. of the WI for 26 years. Every year she the ponies at St Leonards fete. On Sunday Mum will be greatly missed by so very MAUREEN NEWALL would man the plant and produce stall at she opened her house to friends to watch many people, and we wanted the church the Hawridge & Cholesbury fete. This was the Thames Pageant on her big TV and service to be uplifting and a celebration 1937 – 2012 perhaps a natural extension of her abiding on Monday she helped set up the History of everything she achieved and enjoyed. passion for plants and gardening, which led Group’s exhibition in the morning and She touched a great many people’s lives, From the time Maureen and Basil arrived her to be a key member of the Horticultural served teas in the afternoon. Right to the and we could not have managed such a beautiful and fitting send-off without 48 years ago at Fouracres, Maureen made Society, not least as the highly efficient end, despite her illness, she worked for the secretary. At the annual Hort Soc show good of the community she loved. everyone’s help. her mark, by burning the packing crates she strongly promoted the growing arts & So how can we remember this truly We feel that we have been well and in their field on Guy Fawkes’ Night 1964, crafts, photography and paintings division, beautiful lady? Soft and warm exterior truly “villaged” - thank you all from the bottom of our hearts! It really was a which caused a blaze to rival the Diamond for which she donated the Basil Newall but a core of strength and determination? most memorable service, and for all the Award for the winner of the most prize Humorous, gifted, a brilliant organiser Jubilee beacon at Cholesbury! right reasons. money in those classes. yet modest and self-effacing? Always Life does go on, and there is another hat field became central to so much Maureen’s natural care and happy to help others but never wanting little Newall on the way! Andy returned Maureen did for family and villagers consideration for others recognised how a fuss made over herself? Practical and to California the day after the funeral, alike. Over the years it was home to T some of the older generation might regret unsentimental, yet immensely caring, and we are just waiting to hear the news horses, calves, chickens, geese and, latterly, the changing character of their community, positive and encouraging? We have lost a from him soon that his second baby has sheep and lambs which gave her so much seeing their children move away, unable to true villager who we will all miss greatly, arrived safely (due on the 26th July). pleasure as she looked out across the afford the rocketing property prices. This but we can comfort ourselves with some of The church service collection came beautiful garden she created at the back of made her an ideal candidate for the Parish her favourite maxims: “If it’s worth doing to nearly £1,200 in aid of Iain Rennie the house. Council, on which she served for eight it’s worth doing well”, something she Hospice at Home, with more being But the field was really the start of the years. applied to everything she did. Or to Wendy donated online all the time. Mum would St Leonards Show, because it was Maureen Maureen championed the handicrafts as a child waiting for the school bus: “Don’t have been amazed and delighted - that’s who began to host in it a small informal and needlework section of the annual just stand there, do something useful and probably the equivalent of at least three horse show for local children. All the show, not least because she was a talented weed the gravel while you wait” – in other cream teas’ worth of fund-raising!! rosettes were hand made by Maureen and needlewoman herself. This was evident not words, make best use of your time.
20 Hilltop News Hilltop News 21 22 Hilltop News Hilltop News 23 School festival in Tring. After this date the church declined. The demise was probably MAISIE MAYHEW Hawridge Baptist Church hastened by the arrival of a rival church: SAUNDERS Hawridge Mission Hall which opened in 1879. Members may also have been 1916 – 2012 attracted by new Baptist chapels in nearby aisie was born and raised in Essex, villages: in 1882 Frederick Butcher bought Neil Rees is a faith heritage writer from a small Sunday School.” where she developed her passion the former British school at Lee Common In 1851 it was recorded that Hawridge for dancing. At the age of 16 Chesham who is researching churches and and gave it to the Strict Baptist church in M Baptist Chapel could seat 100 people, and she danced as one of the Tiller Girls at the chapels in the Hilltop Villages. Here he the village, and in 1904 Frederick Butcher had a congregation of 60. Until 1878 the Windmill Theatre in London. helped pay for a new Baptist chapel at traces the origin and history of the former church was run by the Wright family as a She married Don Saunders and had four Wigginton. Hawridge Baptist Church. branch of the General Baptist Church in children. In 1962 Maisie and Don moved to By 1907 the Hawridge Baptist chapel Chesham. Cholesbury with their youngest son Richard he first recorded Baptist in Hawridge is described as being “in ruins”. In 1916 to live, appropriately, at The Windmill in was John Hich, a former soldier who Hawridge Strict Baptist Church Frederick Butcher sold the plot to the Rays Hill. Don, with the help of his brother, settled in Hawridge and was reported In 1878, Botchmore Farm and Holly Cottage owners of the adjoining Holly Cottage, and T replaced the sails which had blown down in 1646 to preach in “the said Hawridge were put up for auction by the Wright the chapel was demolished. Today nothing during the war years. and places adjacent, and labours at family. The advertisement in the Bucks remains of it and most people are oblivious In 1983 they left The Windmill to move markets, fairs and private meetings (which Herald described “a freehold cottage and it ever existed. building adjoining, which has been used to Dartmouth, then back this way to he has almost every Lord’s day)”. If anyone knows anything more about the for many years as a Baptist Chapel, with Aldbury, then Buckland Wharf, where Don Hawridge General Baptist Church churches at Hawridge please contact Neil garden adjoining Hawridge Common, yard, died. Maisie moved to Holmer Green and The first record of a Baptist church at Rees on 01494 776457 or e-mail nwrees@ workshop, wood-house, small orchard, with then Amersham to live with her children. Hawridge is on the 16 July 1798 when gmail.com pond of water…” In 2009 she moved to a care home in Edward Sexton, the pastor of the General The farm, cottage and chapel sold Neil Rees Aylesbury, her final resting place. Maisie (now called Broadway) Baptist Church in separately. The chapel was bought by was cremated at Amersham. Chesham applied to register William Wright’s Frederick Butcher, banker and deacon of house on Hawridge Common as a Baptist Akeman Street Strict & Particular Baptist Meeting House. The Wright family owned Church in Tring. Hawridge church was then Botchmore (now called Bowmore) Farm. St Leonards Church run as a branch of Akeman Street Baptist About 1811 a building was erected presents the popular! Church in Tring. Frederick Butcher was a adjacent to what is now Holly Cottage, near wealthy man and used his money to help the farm. In 1823 this house was occupied the Baptists (especially Strict Baptists) with by William Garner, and these adjacent chapel projects in the Chilterns. premises were registered as a place of Jazz! In 1880, 60 children from Hawridge Baptist worship. The leaders of the church Baptist Church took part in a Sunday and Supper were George Sills, Robert Wright, William Garner and William Haws. The church had a Sat 3rd November service most Sundays and a Sunday School. at St Leonards Parish Hall In 1830 the pastor of the Chesham 7.30pm for 8pm General Baptist Church, Edward Sexton, listen or dance to wrote: “A House at Hawridge has been Lou’s Sextet Registered in the Archdeacons Court at BAR AND RAFFLE Aylesbury, as a place of Public Worship by some Protestant Dissenters of the General TICKETS £22 Baptist Denomination; in which they have from: DIANA 01494 758651 or divine Service most Sabbathdays - at which ANN 01494 758250 a small congregation attends - there is also
24 Hilltop News Hilltop News 25 Reflecting at Leisure
by the Reverend they reflect the nature and activity of David Burgess God. Remember the Genesis story, the account of creation? God allowed himself Writing on a cold, time and space to see that “it was very grey Sunday good” after six days of creative but hard work. afternoon in mid- • What God has undertaken himself, he June, the prospect expects us to follow. Work follows the of a leisurely Biblical idea of stewardship of the earth summer seems uncomfortably far away. and its resources: leisure follows the Biblical idea of stewardship of ourselves. There’s plenty of work to be done before August. But it will come soon, and I’m It follows from this that, in God’s plan for the world and for us, neither work really looking forward to it. nor leisure is an optional extra; we are f you’re also taking a break in July or to balance our essential working lives by August, in the summer season or school activity for its own sake which enhances our Isummer holidays, I’d like to wish you quality of life and brings glory to Him. well. I hope that yours is a time of real An American writer named Matt Perman relaxation and refreshment. I’d also like concludes his article ‘Enjoying God in Work briefly to take a step back and think about and Leisure’ by saying this: the purpose of holidays and other sorts “Not only does God command it of break from a Christian point of view: a (leisure), but we need it to be refreshed theology of leisure, if you will. Here are and to express the fullness of our humanity some thoughts around this idea: for the glory of God. And so when leisure • Work is what we do to meet our needs. suffers, we lose out on these benefits – Leisure is time devoted to freely chosen indeed, these essentials.” activities that are pleasurable. The one Now, I don’t imagine for a moment that complements the other. you’ll be tucking my article away alongside • Throughout our waking day, we are by your Stieg Larsson, Ian Rankin, Suzanne definition engaged in one or the other Collins, or whoever else floats your boat – even gnawing at a pen in the office during the summer. But do have a think constitutes work; even chilling out in about what I’ve said at some stage in your front of the television constitutes leisure. holiday; do take time to reflect on, and thereby make more of, whatever leisure • It is possible to place too much emphasis activity you may be enjoying at the time. on one to the detriment of the other, Have a great summer. or to think of one as purely serving the other. Neither approach is appropriate. • Work and leisure are both divine callings:
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CHURCH SERVICES - August to September 2012
St John the Baptist St Leonard’s St Laurence St Mary’s DATE DAY NOTES THE LEE ST LEONARDS CHOLESBURY HAWRIDGE
Shared Family 5 8.00 am Holy Communion Shared Matins Trinity 9 10.00 am 9.30 am Service at 9.30 am Shared Family Service Mid-week August 10.00 am Shared Matins at The Lee Holy Communion Hawridge 10.00am at The Lee
on First Wednesday Shared Parish 12 Shared Parish Shared Patronal Shared Patronal Trinity 10 11.00 am Communion 11.00 am 10.45 am 10.45 am August Communion Matins Matins at Cholesbury Holy Communion, at St. Leonard’s Matins & Evensong Shared Parish Shared Parish 19 Shared Parish Book of Trinity 11 10.00 am All Age Worship 11.00 am Communion 11.00 am Communion 11.00 am August Communion Common Prayer at Hawridge at Hawridge
26 Parish Parish/Family Trinity 12 10.00 pm 9.00 am Breakfast Service 9.00 am Quiet Service 6.00 pm Evensong August Communion Communion &
Morning Services
8.00 am Common Worship 2 Holy Communion Parish
10.00 am Matins Communion 2 Sept Trinity 13 11.00 am 9.00 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Family Service 4.00 pm Family Service with Sunday
and Tea School
Parish
9 Sept Trinity 14 10.00 am Communion with 6.00 pm Harvest Service 10.45 am Matins 9.30 am Holy Communion Sunday School
Parish Harvest Service at 16 Sept Trinity 15 10.00 am All Age Worship 11.00 am 9.30 am Harvest Service 9.30 am Communion Cholesbury
Parish 23 Sept Trinity 16 10.00 am 9.00 am Breakfast Service 9.00 am Quiet Service 10.45 Parish Communion Communion
Joint Parish Joint Parish Joint Parish Joint Parish 30 Sept Trinity 17 9.30 am Communion 9.30 am Communion 9.30 am 9.30 am Communion Communion at Cholesbury at Cholesbury at Cholesbury
The Revd. David Burgess 01494 837315 The Vicarage, The Lee, Great Missenden, Bucks, HP23 9LZ
[email protected] St Leonards Parish Secretary Gill Fleckney 01494 758895 Peggy Sear 01442 863589 [email protected] [email protected] The Lee Hawridge Janet Whittow 01296 624568 Joan Walton 01494 758332 [email protected] Elizabeth Tomlin 01494 758214 Judy Hart 01494 837328 [email protected] Cholesbury John Farmer 01494 758715 [email protected]
28 Hilltop News Hilltop News 29 roses of her bouquet. It was a very happy service with David matching so well the light mood of the young congregation while recognising with ST LEONARDS them the solemnity of the vows they took. Burial Angela, who is Australian, and Toby came 28 June 2012 Maisie Butcher down the aisle to Waltzing Mathilda…it was wonderful! Holy Matrimony We never fail to be amazed – and 19 May 2012 Helen Turner and Daniel Cholawo grateful – by the number of you who 30 June 2012 Angela Elizabeth Keen and Tobias David Thomas Hartley turn up, regularly or occasionally for the CHOLESBURY Breakfast Service. It’s a great opportunity for the young, the very young and the Holy Baptism not so young to meet together and share 13 May 2012 Ophelia Ember Hodgins-Dyer thoughts and ideas at our brief service. If you would enjoy taking an active part in this simple act of worship, please do let Michael Joseph know (758702): otherwise just come and enjoy the coffee and bacon butties. You are all most welcome! ST LEONARDS On Sunday 29 July there is to be a Joint very special thanksgiving (four-Parish) service at St Leonards at 11am. service for Our speaker is Mike Mackenzie, Chairman Athe life of Helen and Daniel Cholawo Maureen Newall If you would like a lift or think you know was held at St of anyone who might like to join us, please Leonards Church contact either Anne Lake (01296 620169) or on Monday 9 July. It was a Anne Butterworth (758700). day in which so many people from all over Helen Turner and Daniel Cholawo were the villages played their part. We offer our married on Saturday 19 May. Helen, who love and prayers to all her family. looked radiant in a traditional cream dress, The Diamond Jubilee kneeler of St Leonards One of the many wonderful things arrived in a magnificent white coach drawn Church 2012 instigated by Maureen over the years was by two gleaming black horses with white the stitching of church kneelers and, true a little of life in the old days – life which plumes. She carried a bouquet of roses and to form, she found three people to work was very different from that of today in the flowers in the church, which filled every the very beautiful Jubilee kneelers. Ann the Hilltop Villages. It was a very moving window, were in varying shades of pink. Horn has taken great pride in doing it service during which Maisie’s grandchildren, David spoke movingly on the subject of for St Leonards and it was dedicated on Natalie and Daryl, read a beautiful poem love: very appropriate for this young couple Jubilee Sunday. Paddy Thomas is stitching they had written themselves. who have worshipped so faithfully at St for Cholesbury and Madeline Finlay for Tea-parties in the Church Room – next Leonards. Hawridge. We are most grateful to you all on Wednesday 22 August and Wednesday The sun shone for the wedding of as they are not just beautiful but incredibly 26 September continue to bring much Angela Keen and Toby Hartley on Saturday detailed! pleasure to those who don’t get out and 30 June. The church was beautifully Maisie Butcher’s funeral was held on about as much as they might have done. decorated by Trish Swain. The bride looked Thursday 28 June when wonderful family The scones and cakes get better and better! stunning in a wonderful cream dress with tributes were paid to a truly great lady. Not You don’t have to be a regular visitor – it’s flowers twined down the back and in her often do we have the opportunity to learn lovely to see you whenever you can come. hair, echoing the delicate white and purple Angela and Toby Hartley
30 Hilltop News Hilltop News 31 of the Guttmann Trust at Stoke Mandeville year. The marriages were Adam Popple The Cream Teas were held during one Hospital. A victim of the Bosnian war and HAWRIDGE and Haley Burgess Biggerstaff and Kelvin of the duller weekends of this dismal in a wheelchair, his plans for the Guttmann pecial Jubilee Reay and Jennifer Batterham. The blessing summer. None of our guests sat outside but Centre, which reach far beyond the Service – We was Rupert Bullock and Judy Hyland. It was the Village Hall was crowded and full of Paralympic Games, and his own story are Swere pleased to lovely to have the church used for these conversation as delicious sandwiches and truly inspirational. welcome people to happy events and we give the couples our cakes were enjoyed. Thank you to Brigid, Our Harvest Festival and supper is to be this service. All our best wishes for the future. Rosie, Joan and Paddy and many helpers on Sunday 9 September we look forward to flower arrangers put Hawridge Church Walking Group – There who were serving and taking money. seeing you. If you would like to join us for a lot of effort into are no walks in August or September and Outside Sue Fletcher had a busy afternoon supper afterwards, please do contact Anne making the church we hope to start again in October. Details on the Plants stall and Roseann and Stewart Butterworth (758700). Families with young look very patriotic and we thank them so will be given in the October/November sold out their Tombola. Despite the weather children are especially welcome. much for their contribution. Hilltop News. the income was higher than last at £474 net. Historic Churches Ride and Stride – This Iain Ledingham Annual Concert – held Thank you to all who supported us. is to be held on Saturday 8 September. on 15 June at the School. Once again Iain The Pets’ Service is a regular late Please contact Anne Lake (01296 620169) provided us with an excellent concert. A CHOLESBURY June event when we expect to gather in for details. It’s a lovely way of seeing round mezzo-soprano and a baritone from the e welcomed the churchyard: but the weather forced many of our interesting local churches. Is Royal Academy of Music gave a relaxed and Ophelia us inside this year and neither ponies there anyone who would offer to ride for St first class performance which was greatly WHodgins- nor goats joined us! The four dogs in Leonards? enjoyed. Dyer into the church attendance deserve to be recorded Due to David and so many Clergy being The Annual Hawridge & Cholesbury when she was baptised individually as Fudge, Pepper, Poppy and away in August, we have to combine with Churches’ Fete – 27 August Bank Holiday on 13 May. Her name Treacle. David introduced his talk with a toy other Hilltop Churches more than usual. Monday – to be held this year at Hawridge is on the same page version of Alexander the Meerkat, much Please do keep an eye on the Rota in the & Cholesbury C of E School starting at in the Cholesbury register as her sister Eve. to the amusement of the congregation. centre of this issue. 1.30pm. If you are able to help in any way The church was full and it was good to Our thanks go to Sue Williams for leading There are a number of people in please contact the churchwardens, John see again the extended family and friends the prayers and to Andy Carruthers for the the Hilltop Villages who would greatly Farmer (758715), Joan Walton (758332) who evidently enjoyed meeting each other appreciate a short visit and a chat. This is or Elizabeth Tomlin (758214). Due to and contributed enthusiastically to the because they have either been in hospital Educational Regulations dogs are not service. Important promises were made on and are temporarily housebound or are permitted on school grounds. Ophelia’s behalf and the forget-me-nots quite simply a little lonely on occasions and The Parochial Church Council – In the last flowering along the church drive were a find getting about difficult. Do please let edition of Hilltop News we made an appeal simple reminder. Anne Butterworth (758700) know if you for four more members to join the PCC have half an hour to spare - it could make a so that we can have a better exchange of great difference to someone’s life. ideas to ensure the future of our church. So far there has not been any response to this appeal. There are four meetings a year and an Annual Parish meeting. If you would like to discuss in more detail what this position entails, please contact the churchwardens Joan (758332) or Elizabeth (758214). Family Service – Sunday 7 October at 9.30am – This will be a service with a difference as suggested by the Diocese of Oxford and we do hope you will make a note of the date and come along. Fuller details will be distributed nearer the time. St Mary’s Church has been delighted to Ophelia baptism celebrate two marriages and a blessing this
32 Hilltop News Hilltop News 33 Holiday Monday as usual which is August brother which meant time off school to 27th. The venue this year is the School be ‘little mother’. Then the war came and at Hawridge and we are grateful to the Maisie had to go into domestic service. She Head Teacher for her kind permission. The bore no resentment of these early events extra space of the playing field provides but it made her very determined not to car parking (weather permitting). We are have a large family and also to ensure planning to arrange the stalls in a confined her daughters had what she called ‘real space to create the right atmosphere for a careers’. local fete. We regret dogs are not allowed Fortunately for Maisie she met George on school grounds but hope this will not – they were soul mates in their love of deter visitors from supporting us. If you can country life and even though George was help with produce, cakes, toys, bric-a-brac twenty years older they had a long and or bottles, or help with a stall or setting loving marriage. To Maisie family was Cream teas with Linda Stacy, Roseann Vince up the site, please contact John Farmer everything. She worked tirelessly to provide and Sue Fletcher (758715) or Joan Walton (758332). the birthday presents and new clothes for The joint Hawridge & Cholesbury her daughters that she had never had. reading. The church was decorated with Harvest Festival is at Cholesbury this year. You might think that a wartime lovely country flowers which brought the Come and give thanks for the wonders of childhood was enough adversity for one outdoors inside. creation. life but Maisie faced great challenges to The Historic Churches Bike Ride will be There were a number of lovely tributes her health over the years. In 1962 she had held on Saturday 8 September. Cholesbury to Maureen Newall on Monday 9 July. major surgery and thanks to a new ‘wonder will have refreshments available in the Cholesbury church will remember Maureen drug’ her life was saved. Sadly the drug church for visiting cyclists and riders. The as the leader of the team of stitchers who had side effects - muscle paralysis and early contacts for further information are Steve made our kneelers. The kneelers make our onset of arthritis. Maisie refused to give in and Caroline Davey (757031). church a bright and cheerful place and are and taught herself to walk again using the The Churches Fete will be held on Bank an appropriate memorial to Maureen. back of a kitchen chair as a walking frame. MAISIE BUTCHER There were no physiotherapists in those days! 1926 - 2012 Such strength of character was tested again in 2001 when she underwent massive aisie was born into a loving family throat surgery. In hospital for four months, – the only girl among six brothers. Maisie could not eat or drink normally but You might think she would M her courage and an iron will allowed her to have been spoilt but as Maisie recounted, recover. Her consultant called her his ‘feisty without a hint of bitterness, her early lady’. Maisie laughed at this and said she years were ones of considerable hardship. was ‘just stubborn’ and wanted to see her The 1930’s were a time of social change grandchildren grow up. This she did and and even here in the Chiltern Villages, the her great love for them matched her pride brickyards where her father worked had in their achievements. to close. There was scant money to pay the In her later years, Maisie was happiest rent and only the Salvation Army benefit in her kitchen. She had spent a lifetime kept the family together. Maisie never looking after others and found it very forgot their help and when she could she hard to be the one who needed to be made donations to them. looked after. The final parting was quite Such a childhood shaped her character unexpected but perhaps a blessing for into the Maisie we knew – honest and Maisie as she didn’t have to fight so bravely true. Her schooling was repeatedly any longer. interrupted by the arrival of a new baby
34 Hilltop News Hilltop News 35 HILLTOP NEWS nature and food levels recovering this year, happily operate on a range between 20-60 populations should also recover. Many pond gallons a day. Whereas hardwood trees invertebrates can survive drought buried in take up next to no water during winter the substrate at the bottom of the pond. months, coniferous trees need a constant Water water everywhere… Meanwhile plants are adapted to survive as supply of water year round and can suffer seeds or rootstock. from winter drought. All trees can survive There are all sorts of ponds. At one for a period on half the normal uptake end of the spectrum is Pallett’s Pond but water deficit will, over time, result in This year, the unseasonably heavy rainfall only seek out birds or even frogs or toads, (Cholesbury Road) which is rich in a wide leaf and limb loss, and early seasonal leaf over the past three months or so is having the flies are not that selective and as we variety of flora and fauna and looks like a fall. Prolonged periods of drought can be know to our cost, will seek out the bare some interesting, albeit temporary effects pond all year round. Roadside ditch ponds, withstood but will shorten the life of trees. skin offered by us humans. such as the one almost hidden under trees Though surface water levels may have on our local wildlife. There’s just room for Unlike other insects that sting such as in Oak Lane, will provide a home to a range improved over recent weeks, providing a three of my thoughts on this… wasps, horse flies are able to pierce the skin of more resilient species that are able welcome respite to our stands of beech and find a blood vessel without inflicting t has been a bumper season for those to contend with pond levels which wax trees, unless all this water has a sustained immediate pain for the unfortunate host. pesky biting insects, Horse flies, that and wane over the seasons and light and and positive effect on the water levels They are able to make an incision without often plague us at the height of oxygen deficits which would be fatal to within the chalk aquifer, the decline in the I drawing attention to themselves by using summer. In Elizabethan times they, and some of those in Palletts. health of our beech plantations, which has their serrated scimitar-like and razor sharp their relatives, were collectively known At the other end of the spectrum become more noticeable in recent years, mouth parts. Saliva acts as an anticoagulant as Gad-flies and Shakespeare borrowed are the dew ponds, such as the one on will sadly continue. and they suck up their meal through a the name to refer to a satirical gentleman Cholesbury Common, with its ephemeral I hope you have enjoyed reading this ‘Rime straw-like proboscis. Though the bites whose words could sting another. The most invertebrates and plant species that thrive of the Ancient Naturalist!’ cause infections and can spread disease in common of the three species of horse fly on the margins where other plants dare not livestock; apart from an irritating itch and a Comments and questions to: that attack mammals, and often described go. Such ponds may not look pond-like for small scar they are, in this country at least, [email protected] Phone 758890 as the most obnoxious of all insects, also much of the time. Rather it appears as just nearly always harmless to humans. On the goes by the name of a ‘Clegg’! a slight depression in the ground holding upside, large numbers of such flies have The explosion in their numbers is a a small amount of water for a few winter been a boon for the likes of house martins, consequence of the large amount of months. This year everything is topsy- swallows and swifts, which can be seen standing water around: not just established turvy. Having been almost dry for a year, swooping low over meadows where such ponds but ditches or even waterlogged soil. including all last winter, it has almost filled large slow flying flies are easy prey. Horse flies lay their eggs on leaves or stones up this summer as the water table rises to close to water. On hatching, the larvae engulf its shallow bowl. Perhaps the most Other benefactors of the increased fall into the water. Their food are any important but admittedly not very exciting rainfall have been the animals and plants suitable invertebrates; from water fleas to species growing there is water purslane, which inhabit our ponds. The earlier earthworms, snails and slugs, on which they which is a rarity across the Chilterns and extended period of drought would have prey voraciously. The adult flies emerge in Bucks. had a significant if temporary impact on the early morning ready to start flying at For all ponds, including those in the ecology and productivity of these midday and need to feed immediately. gardens, it is important to keep the area ponds. However, by their very nature, Whilst male flies seek out pollen and leading away from the pond as natural as ponds go through periods when the species nectar the females need to find a source of possible to provide a habitat suitable for are put under major stresses, so the powers fresh blood to get sufficient protein quickly creatures to escape or hide nearby. of recovery are all the more impressive. in order to reproduce. One large meal will Amphibians such as the common frog and suffice. The flies rest up in shady places Water consumption by trees can be toad and the palmate newt can survive in close to where their prey passes. With awe inspiring. One mature Oak may take the muddy borders of ponds or can migrate large eyes they can identify movement of up over 15 gallons of water an hour in and return in better times. In dry years a suitable animal. Often this will be a cow, hot weather and over 300 gallons a day. few, if any, tadpoles or efts (newtpoles) horse or deer and, though some species On cooler days take-up can be less than will make it to adulthood, but with water 60 gallons a day. Meanwhile Beech trees
36 Hilltop News Hilltop News 37 38 Hilltop News Hilltop News 39 Superfast Broadband!
If your current broadband speed minutes and won’t cost a penny. You’re doesn’t meet your needs you can do simply helping Bucks CC and Bucks BF demonstrate to broadband providers that something about it by visiting www. there is a strong demand for superfast superfastforbucks.org and backing your connectivity here in the county. If you are local County Council’s campaign to bring unable to register online, call 0845 3708090 or 01296 395000. superfast broadband to Buckinghamshire. Register by 1 September 2012 and you hese days it’s not uncommon for will be entered into a free prize draw for households to have more than one a chance to win an iPad donated by Bucks Tway of accessing the internet – be it Business First. Orienteering on the Commons through a computer, tablet, smartphone More information, including answers to or games console. But standard broadband frequently asked questions, is available on cannot always cope with the requirements www.superfastforbucks.org. Details about On Saturday 16 June, around 80 people The organiser of the event, Mike Shires, placed on it by modern families, who like to which areas will benefit from government enjoyed an orienteering event held on said, “The event was very popular with use the internet to do a variety of things – funding and when improved broadband newcomers to the sport and attracted from watching catch-up TV, streaming films, Hawridge and Cholesbury Commons. The access will be rolled out in Buckinghamshire several local families. The courses were uploading photos, or online gaming. With will be published on the website as soon as event was organised by Thames Valley well received and even the weather superfast broadband, multiple devices can it is known, so check for updates. Orienteering Club (TVOC) and was part of held out, being largely fine all morning. be online at any one time and still enjoy its Saturday Series of events, located across The Commons are a great place for an high speed connectivity. orienteering event, with a nice mixture Unfortunately, from town to town and Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. of open areas, woodland and complex even street to street, internet connection There were several courses on offer, path detail, which certainly caught some speeds vary significantly across Bucks. ranging from short easier routes for people out while they were navigating. Bucks County Council and Bucks Business children and families of around 1.5km to We are very grateful to Christine Stott First have secured government funding 2.5km, up to a longer and more difficult for granting permission for the event to improve access in areas which currently course for experienced competitors of and the local members of the Commons have no broadband access or suffer very 4.7km. Winning times for the courses Preservation Society who helped so much slow speeds. ranged from 17 to 45 minutes and the full with publicity.” Registering your demand for superfast results are available on TVOC’s website at Thames Valley Orienteering Club hopes broadband will only take a couple of www.tvoc.org.uk. There is also a link to to return to the Commons for another the Route Gadget website, where you can event, either next year or in 2014, so keep see the orienteering map of the Commons an eye on their website and Hilltop News and the courses. If you took part, you can for details. There are also plenty of other even draw in your own route between the opportunities to participate in the sport, so controls. take a look at www.tvoc.org.uk for details Several local people took part in the of other forthcoming orienteering events event and as Amy and George Philips in the Chilterns or www.britishorienteering. found, living near the Commons does not org.uk for more about the sport and details always make an orienteering course seem of other events. The event locations for the easier! However, they did win the Yellow autumn are currently being finalised and course in a very respectable time of 27 further details will be available on TVOC’s minutes. website shortly.
40 Hilltop News Hilltop News 41 the second league game was the catalyst HAWRIDGE & to withdraw the team completely from CHOLESBURY CRICKET the league. He had been overwhelmed CLUB by difficulties trying to field a team. Over the last couple of years the number of Bumper Diamond club members interested in playing in Jubilee Fun Day this league has dwindled dramatically, Well over 100 resulting in the club being represented children, parents, most weeks by a very high percentage of relatives and friends guest players. This was not good for the enjoyed a fun- club’s morale, so change was needed to filled afternoon bring the competitive battle field closer to on Monday 4 June, home. Plans are already in place to seek celebrating the re-admittance to the more local Mid Bucks All the President’s men Queen’s Diamond League, where we would be pitted against Colts Jubilee in the grandest way possible by many of our neighbouring village teams, For the first time in a number of years joining in a variety of events, including including Ballinger, Ley Hill and The Lee. the club has fielded a team at the Under rounders, wellie-wanging, fiercely We participated very successfully in Mid 13 level, and the team has performed contested tug-of- war battles, plus a Bucks up until 2005, so we look forward to extremely well. Star performer has been variety of races, as dreamed up by starters securing this change for 2013. Andrew Taylor, who has still to be dismissed Digger Reading and Neil Jones. All the Friendly teams this season, having scored 30 retired in energy expended had to be fueled from The Saturday and Sunday cricket teams every innings. Other good contributions somewhere, so Ruth Matthews’ role in have had some exciting games, although with the bat have come from George Stay running the burger BBQ stand all afternoon bad weather has affected some. The Sunday and Sam Robinson. Bowling honours have was well appreciated. The photos from the Team regained the Cobra Cup in June, with gone to Chris Timmins, Harry Sargent and event tell their own story: so do visit the a close win over VCC, otherwise known Adnan Ali. club website. If you were there, you may be as the ‘Currymen’. After restricting the The U12 team is also in the hunt for a surprised to see yourself in action! visitors to 191 in their 40 overs, with good high league finish, currently equal top with Chiltern League withdrawal bowling performances from Sean Robinson a game to go. For this team Kaleem Butt After a huge struggle to keep the Saturday (3 for 20), Digger Reading (3 for 45) and has been a star with both bat and ball. First XI in the Chiltern League, the Will Mills (2 for 5), Hawridge responded The U11 team, short of playing resignation of captain Mike Hamblin after strongly with a fine 88 from Sean Robinson members, has struggled, often having to field younger players to make up numbers. Claiming the Cobra Cup Nonetheless, there have been some extremely close games. and 29 from Dave Anderson. The final runs The U10 team, managed by Andy were knocked off impressively by young Holdsworth, has won the Bucks U10 George Haggerty, with a beautifully struck Division 4 South league with an unbeaten 6 and then a pulled 4, with just a few balls record. Exceptional contributions have remaining. come from Max Collins, who only took up The annual President’s match took place wicket keeping last year, leading wicket on 1st July. The President’s XI, captained taker Archer Holdsworth and star batsman on behalf of Trafford Matthews by Steve Luke Barker, whose stubborn determination White, won the first 30 over game by 20 not to lose his wicket and to outscore runs, but Andy Holdsworth’s club team everyone has seen him rise to the top of the were able to turn the tables and win the 20 batting leader board. over game later in the day with an over to Even with these successes, the club is spare. Jubilee fun at the cricket club short of members at all age groups, junior
42 Hilltop News Hilltop News 43 St Leonards Jubilee Fete The successful Under 10s celebrate This was always going to be a difficult year New to the fete this year was the flying and senior. Given some fantastic playing competition organised by Malcolm and surfaces, this is a perfect opportunity for us as we were clashing with so many Sheila England. The idea was that your for interested juniors to come along to other events on Jubilee weekend. However, Spitfire or Messerschmitt had to avoid a Thursday evening practices at Cholesbury we made it very clear from an early stage series of obstacles before finally landing Common. It is still not too late to make a that the St Leonards fete would take place on the deck of an aircraft carrier. This start this season - an opportunity to try it all was vastly entertaining, as much for the out at low cost! It’s also a great outing for on its usual day – the first Saturday in June. onlookers as the pilots. Regrettably I didn’t parents, who can enjoy an evening in the he day dawned with a very bleak have a chance to fly so I hope they’ll be country air, weather permitting! outlook. At least it wasn’t raining back next year. Roof fund T(that came later). The horse show Caroline Coates produced her usual Coin As a result of our appeal for help in finding to be made to the changing rooms. With started early and I was very impressed that collage. This year the impressive design was funds to repair the roof, we were very the switch over the years from club kit bags the riders, even the very young ones, didn’t on a Jubilee theme – a lion and unicorn fortunate to secure funding from a few to personal kit bags, the space required for seem to mind the weather at all. flanking ‘EIIR’ – and, fittingly, took a record very kind people. These included Katharine changing has grown beyond that available. John Horn had organised the outside £81.18. The winner of the commemorative Dallas, Sheila and Malcolm England, Mr This change, combined with the growth workers and everyone worked with a will Jubilee mug for the nearest guess was & Mrs Swallow, Jim Matthews, John and in our Colts section, has made it necessary throughout the morning. I thought at one Rebecca Warwick, whose mother lives in Ann Hawkes, Cynthia and Jamie Fulks, Sally to find extra space: more on this at a later point we’d lost Michael and Sally Reynolds Buckland Common. Reynolds and Mervyn Wilkinson. Good date. who were battling to hold down their In these weather conditions we were news has been that, as a result of advice magnificent Jubilee hoop-la stall during a very grateful for the cakes and cups of tea Note for the Diary from John Popple, who helped with the howling gale. But by lunchtime the rain had provided by the WI. The burger bar also did The annual Barn Dance will take place original roof construction in 1985, the roof turned to drizzle and there were definite very well. on Saturday 29 September. Last year’s did not need replacement. Instead a large signs of improvement. All our wonderful In the end we had a great day with event was a “barnstormer”, with over 250 number of broken tiles, caused mainly by helpers had their stalls set out and we were a good crowd of visitors and a healthy adults and children enjoying a wonderful, cricket balls, were replaced, thus reducing ready to go. profit for hall funds. On behalf of the hall inexpensive evening of fun. the bill considerably. These developments Not surprisingly the dog show had committee I would like to heartily thank All news, photos and more can be allowed the repair to be undertaken only 65 entrants but they all had a great all those (visitors and helpers) who helped found on the club website, which is immediately. time and I was impressed by the standard. make this another successful year. A more adventurous development is hawridgeandcholesbury.hitscricket.com Thanks to the organisers and judges of Dave Clarke now planned, to extend the clubhouse by Brian Ralphs, Chairman, Hawridge & both dog and horse shows. And, would you a couple of meters, to allow improvements Cholesbury Cricket Club believe it, the sun put in an appearance!
44 Hilltop News Hilltop News 45 HILLTOP NEWS WILDLIFE production after these special larvae have to nature and mankind. Bee pollination been produced. This roughly coincides is said to account for about a third of the with the exhaustion of the sperm supply food we eat. On the other hand, the wasp she stored from the previous year. As in is a highly effective killer of a wide range A sting in the tail the case of bees, any unfertilised eggs of insects, many of which attack our farm develop into male drones. The emerging crops and garden plants. It receives little young queens and male drones fly off to recognition for this, although wasps are now mate – usually with drones and queens of a increasingly used in agricultural pest control. Having written at length about honeybees, sophisticated material. different colony – thus promoting genetic When the last batch of larvae has I thought it of interest to devote an article After about six weeks, this small batch variation. metamorphosed in late summer, the adult of eggs hatches into larvae which are fed to the common wasp (vespa vulgaris) Wasps do not reproduce like bees via wasps can no longer rely on the larvae’s by the queen. They metamorphose into mating flights. After successful sugary secretions for food: they which resembles the bee in size and sterile females workers who then take mating, the sperm cells need to find another appearance but differs markedly in its over the building of the nest (from the provided by the drone source of food and habits and behaviour and in its general top downwards) and the maintenance wasp are stored in a turn to rotting of the brood. The queen is thus left to influence on our lives. Its ‘aggressive’ black tightly packed ball fruit, windfalls, concentrate on serious egg production to inside the queen. meat - they and yellow markings have been widely fill up to 5,000 paper cells that are created These are kept in have to become copied in nature by other insects, such as by an ever-growing band of workers. These a dormant state scavengers to workers provide the food for emerging hoverflies and sawflies, in an attempt to until required survive. This is larvae by killing and masticating insects, the following the time when warn off potential predators; this is known such as aphids, flies, caterpillars and small spring – we are most as Batesian mimicry. bugs. This wonderful gruel is fed by the enough to conscious of workers to the larvae which, in return, he wasp life cycle is as fascinating as fertilise thousands their buzzing secrete a sugary substance of high amino that of the honeybee. Just like the of eggs which will presence at our acid content that provides the bulk of the honeybee the wasp lives in groups of create an entirely summer tables T workers’ diet. The larvae are completely queens, workers and drones but in much new colony in a new nest. The and the risk of being stung. As some have dependent on the infertile female workers smaller colonies of up to 5,000 as against queen may be promiscuous - several discovered painfully, the wasp’s stinger for their care and nutrition. 50,000 for bees. In early spring, the queen males may have contributed to that sperm does not have any barbs and can be used The queen, fed on nectar and juices wasp – the sole survivor of last year’s colony ball. repeatedly without harm to the wasp. The from rotting fruit, will continue laying eggs – comes out of hibernation in a sheltered Unlike honeybee queens, wasp queens poor bee dies after just one sting when its until late summer when a number of larger hiding place and searches for a suitable typically live for just one annual cycle. barbed stinger is torn from its body and left ‘royal’ cells are constructed to contain the location in which to start building a nest They do not enjoy the raised status and in the wound. larvae of future queens. The queens will that will house this year’s colony. This could hierarchical power of the queen bee in her According to Wasp Watch, an be double the size of workers – about two be a burrow, a hole in a tree, a rock crevice, hive. They are simply the initial builder of organisation advising pest controllers, wasp inches long. It is staggering to note that the garden shed or loft. the nest and effectively an egg producing populations this year will be significantly type and quantity of food provided by the For building material the queen, using machine responsible for creating a colony reduced because of the poor weather – workers for these late larvae determines her powerful jaws, will scrape wood from of up to 5,000 wasps. including the coldest April for 20 years. This whether they will become workers or weathered trees, decking, and garden The common wasp supplements its diet could be a mixed blessing – they will be less queens. It reminds us of the equally furniture and mix it with her saliva to form by drinking nectar from flowers but does of a nuisance at garden parties and fewer staggering honeybee cycle where queens cellulose. Using this, she constructs an initial not, like the bee, convert a nectar/pollen of us may be stung. But Hilltop gardeners are, likewise, reared in larger cells and fed nursery the size and shape of a walnut with mixture into honey. Nor does the wasp have and home owners are likely to encounter a rich royal jelly. The egg that created the about twenty hexagonal paper cells and pollen ‘baskets’ on its hind legs like the bee. more problems from aphids, caterpillars, queen is identical to the one that would she deposits an egg in each of these. The Because of this and its generally smooth flies and bugs and other insects that would have created a sterile worker; only the size cells are similar to those made of wax built body, the wasp is not a natural pollinator of otherwise have been controlled by a larger of the cell and the food provided make the by bees but wasps, lacking wax producing plants, though it does inevitably redistribute population of vespa vulgaris. difference. glands, are unable to produce the more some pollen. It cannot therefore match Jim Hetherington The exhausted wasp queen stops egg the great benefits provided by the bee
46 Hilltop News Hilltop News 47 Hawridge And Cholesbury Churches’ Fete Monday 27th August Bank Holiday Pub lunch club Official opening at 1.30pm
he Pub Lunch Club meets at Group or contact Chris Brown, email: Hawridge & Cholesbury School lunchtimes on the second Wednesday [email protected] or Phone Tof each month at the Rose and Crown 758890. in Hawridge. It is open to anyone living in Home-Made Teas, Ice Creams, Pimms Tent, Plants, Grand or near to our four Hilltop Villages, but in particular it aims to provide an opportunity CHOLESBURY Draw, Tombolas, Ellesborough Silver Band for those who might otherwise not find it easy to get out and about to local social WATERCOLOUR Fun For All Ages! events. If a lift is needed there and back this WORKSHOP Please note dogs are not allowed on school grounds can be arranged. On offer is a two-course he annual art exhibition will be meal for just £6, prepared and presented by held at Cholesbury Village Hall on hosts Marc and Kerry, landlords of the Rose 1st September between 10am and and Crown. The event is organised by the T 6pm. Entrance is free. A percentage Hilltop Villages Good Neighbours Group. from sales and all donations will go to The next few dates for your diary are: Iain Rennie Hospice. Wednesdays 8 August, 12 September, The workshop meets on Thursdays and 10 October. Booking must be made 7.15 to 9.15pm – please come along and in advance to Janet Hopkinson, via email: see what we do. Anyone, of any or no [email protected] or Phone ability, will be most welcome. Members 757059. paint in any medium. If you would like to know more about Please contact either Ron Evens on or become a volunteer with the Good 758446 or Rosemary Burch on 758246 for Neighbours Group see www.cholesbury.com more information. and follow the link to Good Neighbours
48 Hilltop News Hilltop News 49 50 Hilltop News Hilltop News 51 WALKS IN ASHRIDGE 100 Club winners shridge is a wonderful place to May 2012 go for a walk and there are two 1st Prize £15 Avolunteer-led organised options Mr W Thomas, Cholesbury to choose from. Brian and Siân Barton lead the gentle strolls, up-to-2 hour 2nd Prize £15 informal walks observing the wildlife Mr T Harris, St Leonards in different parts of the National Trust June 2012 Ashridge Estate. Dates for the remainder of the season are: 1st Prize £50 CURVACEOUS COOK Monday 20 August 2.30pm – Meet Mr T Hawkes, c/o Coppice Farm Park Damson Vodka Steps Hill grass car park off Beacon Road. 2nd Prize £25 Wednesday 19 September Last year there was a raft of Grapevine conversations around sloe gin and similar, so hopefully Mrs J Joseph, St Leonards 10.30am – Meet B4506 road end of some of you will enjoy giving this tried and tested recipe a go. I found it from Sarah Raven, Monument Drive. 3rd Prize £15 and it made the most delicious, delicately pale pink drink which I bottled for presents Tuesday 16 October 10.30am – Meet last Christmas. These were particularly well received by my children and their adult cousins, B4506 road end of Monument Drive. Mr D Hawkes, c/o Coppice Farm Park and requests have been put in for more this year, so it must be good! Stout waterproof footwear 4th Prize £15 recommended. All welcome - no booking Mrs P Angell, Buckland Common People with damson trees are often very happy to give some away as it tends to be feast required. £2 per person on the day. More or famine with them, but you can use sloes in the same quantities. information: 01442 823 727. Treasurer: Mr Fletcher Nicholson, Oaktree Kath Hardy will lead longer walks Cottage, Cholesbury, Tring, Herts, HP23 To 450g (1 lb) damsons, pricked with a fork and removed from their stems, add 750ml vodka on the Saturdays: 8th September, 13th 6NG Phone: 01494 758366 (or gin) and 250g (9 oz) caster sugar and put into a clean, sterilised jar. October. All start from the Visitor Centre The easiest way to do this is to put them through the dishwasher: the jars, not the damsons.... at 10am and are about 5-6 miles. There’s New members as always welcome a charge of £3 on the day, no need to Turn a few times, then store in the dark, ideally turning every few days book. National Trust staff also organise a until the sugar has dissolved. Leave for at least 2-3 months. full programme of walks, which you can find on the newly-revamped website: Sterilise your presentation bottles, and strain the liquid into them. For presents I get mine from nationaltrust.org.uk/ashridge. http://www.jamjarshop.com/ but really any bottle will do, though I suggest smaller is better! Ann Lang, Publicity, Friends of Ashridge We don’t like very sweet things, so if you find when ready to bottle that you would like it sweeter, just add up to another 100g sugar, and stir until dissolved. Label, date and store. If you don’t drink it, it will be fine for years, even when the colour changes. Sarah says that you can eat the damsons, soggy with their alcohol, with ice cream or yoghurt, but you get a lot of stone to fruit with damsons! Up to you. If you are doing a big batch, you can save some effort by freezing the fruit overnight as it breaks the skins, but I don’t think the colour is so pure. You should find the vodka is ready to drink just in time for Christmas! Lulu Stephen: [email protected]
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