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HISTORICAL MYSTERY ● DAMES ON FURLOUGH ● SCHOOL’S FARM VISIT The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Colerne A member of the Lidbrook Group of Churches Priest-in-Charge Revd Dr Janet Anderson-MacKenzie The Vicarage, Church Lane, Box, Wilts SN13 8NR Tel. 01225 744458 Email: [email protected] Ministry Team Revd Clair Southgate Mrs Margaret Edmonds Churchwardens Rob Featherstone, 47 Round Barrow Close, SN14 8EF Tel: 01225 743044 Email: [email protected] Karen Brzezicki, The Stables, 11 Trimnells, Colerne, SN14 8EP Tel: 744499 Email: [email protected] For enquiries to hire the Parish Church for a community event, contact the Churchwardens To arrange a Baptism, please contact the Vicar or the Churchwardens To arrange a Marriage, contact Celia Batterham, [email protected] or 01225 744809 To arrange a Funeral or make an application for a churchyard memorial, contact Ray Barker, [email protected] or 01225 743402 or 07768 500684 Website: www.colerneparishchurch.org.uk Magazine Committee Editorial Team Phil Chamberlain (07793 018283) Email: [email protected] Kathryn Houldcroft (744006) Email: [email protected] Lavinia Wilson (742417) Email: [email protected] Design and prodution Liz House (740098) Email: [email protected] Advertising Celia Batterham (744809) Email: [email protected] Distribution: Rosemary Sadler (742531) Facebook page: @ColerneParishMagazine

CHURCH FLOODLIGHTING Anyone wishing to arrange for the Church Floodlighting to be turned on should contact Derek or Julie Burgess on 743999 or 07470 031062 or at [email protected]

Front cover: By Jody Gaisford, Colerne Photographic Company, of Rachel Lowe from The Fresh Flower Company, Colerne. See p.19 for more on Rachel and other local craftspeople.

2 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 3 SERVICES FOR DECEMBER Home & Business Karen Sayers Limited During December we have planned a simple service of

Chartered Accountants Computing holy communion at St John the Baptist Parish Church at: Support, help and advice 9.30am each Sunday and 9.45am each Thursday Specialising in small businesses call for a local and friendly service: and the self employed We also have a number of ZOOM services in the Lidbrook Group of Churches, please contact Rob Featherstone, see p.3 for contact details. l Purchasing + set up advice Self assessment tax returns l Broadband, Internet + email Limited Company statutory accounts l Cloud computing Sole trader accounts l Share Files, photos etc CHRISTMAS SERVICES VAT returns l Payroll and bookkeeping Defence against the dark arts A Village Christmas - 4.00pm Sunday 20th l Backup valuable information Our on-line Christmas Service, to be streamed via Zoom at 4pm on 20th December Tel: 01225 744355 l PC, Mac and phones and available to watch afterwards on youtube. Email: [email protected] Please see Community or Church Facebook pages and Church website nearer the 29 Silver Street, Colerne Call Ian on 07711 513722 to time, for details of how to join. All welcome and completely Covid safe. talk about what you want and how http://colerneparishchurch.org.uk I can help, or see our web site Christingle service 3.00pm Thursday 24th for more information: This will be an outside service in the Primary School grounds. www.butterworthconsulting.eu Please see Facebook pages or Church website for details of how to request your make-at-home Christingle kit. Family Communion service 10.00am Friday 25th Please see our website and gate notice nearer the day for information; Our lawyers specialise in all this service is planned to be in church but there may be limited attendance. ★ ★ ★ aspects of family law including When attending a service in the church please bring and wear a face covering unless you are officially exempt. Access to the church and services are subject to guidance from the Government and National Church. Please keep an eye on the notice boards near the church for • Wills further and more up to date information on services and openings for private prayer. • Probate • Powers of Attorney • Divorces, including KEEPING COLERNE SAFE FROM COVID-19 International aspects Although rising, Covid-19 infection levels in remain relatively low - let’s • Financial settlements keep it that way. Colerne Covid-19 Community volunteers are here to help you keep • Children Act matters safe, and to protect our village from Covid-19 • Pre/Post nuptial agreements 01249 783607 If you are shielding, have been asked to self-isolate or your usual family/neighbour • Cohabitation agreements [email protected] support is unavailable, give us a call. We can help with shopping, prescription collection, posting letters, and dog walking. www.taylorlawfirm.co.uk Contact us for an initial Are you feeling isolated and a bit low? We can help you connect with others - you won’t be the only one. consultation with one of our 20 High Street specialist family lawyers. Colerne SN14 8DD To be put in touch with your nearest volunteer contact Dorothy Robertson on 01225 742767, email [email protected] or use the Link number 07970 617617

4 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 5 A COLERNE Award Winning, Family Run, VILLAGE CHRISTMAS Farm Shop On Sunday 20th December, as we get ready for Christmas, the Parish Established for over 30 years Church is taking the annual carol service online this year so that we can all still sing our hearts out... We’re going to be doing lots of filming in Selling Quality Local Produce Colerne, North Colerne and Thickwood over the next few weeks to prepare. Open 7 days a week As part of the service, we’d like to do a review of the village year. Obviously so many events had to be cancelled but this didn’t stop us from having smaller moments of achievement and celebrations. We’re putting out a call for any photographs/films HOME & LOCALLY REARED of birthdays, anniversaries, garden parties, graduations, promotions, successes, Colerne FRESH MEAT, POULTRY & GAME painted rocks, Remembrance Sunday, the yard sale, VE Day and anything fantastic that HOMEMADE SAUSAGES, BURGERS & FAGGOTS has happened in the village this year. Send them to us at: Home Reared Christmas Turkeys – Orders Now Being Taken [email protected] (let us know what month and what is happening in the pictures/films). It’s been a tough year, but we can still celebrate all the wonderful things which have happened, however small! Katie Marsden

FOODBANK COLLECTIONS IN OUR LOCAL SHOPS Your donations to the Foodbank can now be put into collection boxes in the Colerne newspaper shop on the High Street with thanks to Julie and in the Premier Stores on Market Square with thanks to Mandeep. LOCAL CHEESES & HOME COOKED MEATS There is no longer a collection box in the Church porch. The Little Larder is still LOCALLY GROWN VEGETABLES, FRUIT & SALADS accessible 24/7 in the south porch of the Church for anyone who needs supplies of toiletries, tinned or dried food urgently. Shirley Willcox HOMEMADE CAKES & PIES LOCALLY MADE CHOCOLATE & FUDGE WHAT DOES THE WI MEAN TO ME? FINE WINE, LOCAL ALE & CIDER y husband and I moved to Colerne in Having settled in, I wondered how I PRESERVES & CHUTNEYS October 2010. We lived in a village would get to know people and found the Mnear Dover, a very different village from WI. I enjoyed the interesting meetings and GIFT HAMPERS Colerne. Even though we had lived there the friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Most for more than 20 years I only knew a small members have known each other for many Premium Christmas Trees Now Available group of people. The village hall was years but happily embraced me. Thank you rarely used and was falling into disrepair. members of Colerne WI for extending your www.allingtonfarmshop.co.uk TEL: 01249 658112 Our two daughters had suggested that friendship and enriching my life. we should move to be nearer to them, Thank you all for making my five years Allington Bar Farm, Chippenham, SN14 6LJ Ffion in Colerne and Sian in Northleach, as your president a complete joy, and an . The suggestion was put added thank you to the faithful committee. Working hard to keep our staff & customers safe to us that we should move “before you get Following your recent vote we now During the busy Christmas Shopping period we will be: too old”. I am so glad that we took their welcome Caroline Moore as our new ● Creating extra space in store & outside advice. Colerne was our president. ● Continuing to offer contactless shopping collections first choice because our The committee would like to wish you ● two grandchildren lived on all a Happy Christmas. Offering extended opening hours & taking bookings for evening shopping slots the High Street. Wendy James

6 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 7 COLERNE VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION The Village Hall is now Covid-19 secure and we are working with our regular user groups to see if any of them wish to return from 4th January 2021, providing R. J. Hill & Son Ltd government guidelines allow. Colerne Cinema will hopefully return in the spring. (Est. 1955) We are completely dependent on government guidance and when we return users Traditional Family Butchers will need to adapt to a completely new way of using the Hall. It will be set up to meet the current guidance so please help us by following all of the Covid-19 Payment Cards procedures in place when using the Village Hall. now accepted Unfortunately we are still unable to take bookings for parties/events at present. Beef, Lamb, Pork etc Contact details: www.colvhall.co.uk Bacon & Cooked Meats email: [email protected] or call 744544. Home-made Sausages & Burgers Personal Service, Parking facilities Suppliers to Colerne May Fair and Colerne Bonfire Night

LOCAL DELIVERIES MADE THANK YOU Market Place, Box Huge thanks and best wishes to Margaret and Jim Chalmers from Pinewood who have Tel: 01225 742312 delivered the magazine for many years there. They are moving to near Trowbridge to be closer to their daughter after 27 years in the parish.

TAKING CHRISTMAS www.colerne-pc.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan Oaks Farm Meat Box Delivery ORDERS NOW Email: [email protected] Weekly delivery of locally reared beef, lamb Chair –Jane Mellett, 01225 742163, [email protected] and sausages. Our livestock is born and bred at Oaks Farm and grazes the hillsides and FORMAL CONSULTATION ON THE DRAFT PLAN valleys next to Colerne village. Thanks to all of you who have responded to the Draft plan with your comments. All of Joints, mince, steaks, homemade burgers and sausages, stewing steak these will be considered in full by the Steering Group and responded to formally. If we and more… choose your own selection to make up a box. are unable to incorporate your suggestions we shall explain why. Some issues may be £25 minimum spend, free delivery in Colerne and surrounding area. raised by more than one person and the comments will then be grouped together. Call or email for our information sheet, price list or any queries. There is still time left for you to respond if you wish to via the website link above. M: 07843 413139 Email: [email protected] Closing date is midnight on Saturday 12th December 2020. Facebook: @oaksfarmcolerne The last webinar will be held on Tuesday 1st December between 2-3pm. Please register The Gooding Family, Oaks Farm, Rode Hill, Colerne SN14 8AR online to receive a link for this. The Steering group now have several weeks of work ahead to compile the responses in preparation for passing the draft on to for their consultation process. You may be recontacted by them to ask if you are happy with the response we have made to your comments. Following that process, an independent Planning Inspector will examine all the documents before they can be approved for Referendum by Wiltshire Council. All being well, we shall all be voting on it in May next year! Jane Mellett, Colerne Neighbourhood Plan Steering group

8 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 9 LOVING THE FARM LIFE Teacher Vickie Thomas explains how a farm visit has helped Colerne Church of Primary School pupils s the Year 6 teacher at Colerne C of Jamie’s Farm is an amazing place. With E Primary School, I am exceptionally a focus on emotional well-being, it gives proud of the children in my class. children time and space to reflect. The team AIt is fair to say that the past few at Jamie’s Farm have created an months have been challenging environment where the children for us all. For the children in feel respected. They are given my class, their responses to opportunities to display their these confusing and stressful talents and show responsibility times have been unique and – from mucking out pigs, varied. However, their sense of grooming horses, herding sheep togetherness and positivity has to chopping logs and cooking been truly inspiring. delicious dinners. So, a trip to This was highlighted when Year 6 spent a Jamie’s Farm was much needed – especially week on Jamie’s Farm in Ditteridge. Despite as the second lockdown loomed. the current challenges, the children’s kind, As you read the children’s experiences, I enthusiastic, brilliant personalities blossomed hope you hear the passion and optimism in and I became the proudest teacher in Colerne! their voices.

Jamie’s Farm is brilliant, exciting and fun. It has changed us in lots of ways. Some of 17(17) Hyundai i10 1.0 SE us feel happier, some of us have done new 5Dr, in Blue, Bluetooth, Cruise, DAB, EW, A/C, CL etc ….£6,795 things like stroking a pig or feeding sheep and some of us have eaten food we have 14(14) Hyundai i20 1.2 Active, never tried before. Because of being on the farm I am a lot happier and I know my 5dr, in Blue, Bluetooth, A/C, EW, CL, Alloys, CD etc ...... £4,995 mum is proud of me. Ryan-James

10(10) Seat Leon 1.4 TSI SE, It’s hard to stay clean on a farm and you always have 5Dr, in Black, Climate, Cruise, Alloys, CD, EW etc …...... £3,995 to be ready for something new! I learnt that when you try your best, you can succeed even when you have to catch a pig and it keeps running away. I had an amazing Isabella time on the farm. It is the best thing that It was amazing on the farm. It taught me how to be has ever happened more confident and to push myself out of my comfort to me and now I zone. I smiled every minute I was there. Louis know that I can be resilient. Tess Jamie’s Farm helped me My favourite part was looking after the pigs – they are so realise that you don’t have to funny. It is satisfying when you’ve worked hard cleaning be perfect. I will remember them out and feeding them. The staff were the kindest, the farm forever. most helpful people you could meet. Josh Alice

Thank you Jamie’s Farm for teaching us how nature can bring us together in these trying times.

10 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 11 Colerne Liberal Club Grounds for Optimism – Chapter XLI Ihungo Boys’ Senior, Bukoba, Kagera District, NW Tanzania; Tues. 23rd January 2018 Background Jan was flying into Kigali in eight days. I still had four workshops planned in Tanzania, using the “Science through Coffee” approach to chemistry teaching, before our The Club is Covid-safe holiday. But first to fill a 50-year knowledge gap. We are still hoping to reopen Continuation In 1968 I visited Bukoba’s instant coffee spray dryer. Nescafé had the before Christmas managing contract for government owners. Lancastrian manager, Brian Clark was seconded (Subject to latest Govt. guidelines) from Nestlé’s Swiss world-leading food technology labs. We were English expatriates on short contracts filling skills gaps in this recently independent country. We’d play tennis To monitor developments, keep at the lake shore club and he checked resources I’d an eye on the Club website at Coffee curing is vital written for sixth formers. Spray drying illustrated “A”- ✪ http://www.libclubcolerne.co.uk level concepts like solubility, volatility and fragility of between harvesting and flavour molecules. Brian described the varied quality and on Facebook at using. It preserves the of incoming “green” beans for roasting, grinding, percolating and drying to a soluble powder. Inter-related ✪ Colerne Community Pages product and ensures every part of the harvest control settings – temperature, pressure, flow rates etc Many thanks for your messages of – needed adjusting; maintaining product quality was a can find a market. nightmare. At coffee break, he served a delicious cup of support and suggestions via email what I thought must be “roast and ground” not ”instant” ✪ [email protected] but was made in his factory with more expensive higher quality beans than consumer expectation demanded. Instant was for drinkers in a rush who just needed a caffeine kick; local sundried robusta beans supplied that aplenty, better in fact than classy arabicas. Fifty years later, I filled that gap. Coffee curing is vital between harvesting and using. It preserves the product and ensures every part of the harvest can find a market. My log takes LINK up the story. M/bike taxi arrives, destination port area. Opposite Tanica Instant is huge suite of old buildings part warehouse, part factory, This is Bukop, subsidiary of growers’ COUNTRYWIDE Box, Colerne co-operative providing coffee cleaning / curing service to growers, giving them back their product free of hulls, sand, metal, chaff, other contaminants, ready for PRIVATE HIRE & Rudloe sale, storage or roasting. Joas, senior manager, explains no activity visible ‘cos picking season 3 months away. Called away, so grizzled Mashusha (Ihungo “old boy”!), takes over. Gravity separators (vibrating tilted ridged tables) leave denser Licensed to carry 4 passengers Our Good Neighbours’ cherries up top; hulling rollers remove sundried cherries’ husks (think “monkey” Airports nuts) and cyclones (cone shaped winnowers) blow away chaff, let denser beans Organisation fall, before driers bring 16% moisture content down to ideal 12%. Equipment once Seaports for anyone in need of help British manufacture, now Brazilian, better, less bean cracking and Brazilians grow coffee so know how to clean it up. Lastly sieves sort by size. Lowest grade is Long/Short Distances Just ring and ask “Triage”- many fragments, misshapes, discoloured but good for street vendors’ clacking handleless cups. Tel: 07970 617617 07788 430380 Monday – Friday 9.00am–5.00pm Back in town the midday sun broiled. I bought one of the tiny cups full, “espresso” volume, 75 ml for 50 Tz shillings. Exchange rate was £1 = 3000 Tz shgs. Refreshed, stimulated, I [email protected] www.boxlink.org.uk drank a second cup. Payment for both = 3p in sterling. What is the cost of espresso in a UK high street chain? Rodney Priest

12 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 13 Old School, Vicarage Lane. Clerk: Sharon Whelon: 01225 742207 e: [email protected] Village website: www.colerne-pc.gov.uk COLERNE PARISH COUNCIL NEWS CENSUS 2021 Planning application received: The census is taking place in March 2021. No. 20/08960/FUL. 1 Charter Square, Silver Street, Colerne, SN14 8DX. Proposal: It’s a survey that happens every 10 years Erection of a single storey timber garden room/summerhouse, detached from the main and gives the government a picture of all house. CPC - No objections. the people and households in England and Wales. It helps plan and fund public Notification Wiltshire Council decisions of planning consent determined: services, like transport, education and 20/05632/FUL. Ladymeade 5 Bath Road Colerne, SN14 8AU. Proposal: Rebuilding of healthcare. existing garage. Wiltshire Council Decision: Approve with conditions. Telephone kiosk - High Street A number of residents have expressed interest in using the BT phone box on the High Street as a book and puzzle exchange. By taking part and encouraging others to This has been done in a number of places around the do the same, you’ll help make sure our country including more locally Ashley, Ditteridge, community get the services we need. North Wraxall and Thickwood village. Nearer the time, you’ll receive more The Ditteridge phone box handset is still useable information. There’ll be plenty of help to and we assume the High Street phone box will be take part for people who need it. also, as BT has confirmed that it has now been added to the 2021 painting programme. Painting normally takes places between April and September. The K6 red telephone kiosk was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and has been a welcome and Gigaclear’s broadband installation familiar sight for over 80 years throughout the in Colerne - information country. A company called Gigaclear Ltd will shortly be installing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband in Colerne. This project will offer Gigaclear customers ultra-fast broadband. Gigaclear Ltd is principally owned by Infracapital, a European infrastructure investor. The Parish Council has produced some information on the impact of its We plan to have Christmas lights in the Market Place, but there will be no public switch- installation: www.colerne-pc.gov.uk on because of COVID-19.

14 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 15 A DAME IN THE LIFE Colerne’s pantomime dames Widow Twanky and Nona Belladonna get frank with Phil Chamberlain on furlough and festivities. Q: Although not on sees a droop, he wraps this year, how do you Sellotape around it until it usually prepare for the hardens up. pantomime? Nona: I tried some Nona: Well, being Italian, fishing but I find it tricky I start by stuffing myself to get a good grip on a with Penne Rigatoni and wobbly rod. a stiff Nebbiolo. Twanky: I tend to just Q: Lots of us have turn up, get a bit of slap been exploring the in the dressing room, countryside - have you girdle up and then wait been to new places? for a warm hand on my Nona: We like going for entrance. a local walk. We go with a few companions. Q: With no panto this year, what do you Twanky: On our last walk Mr Thomas and get up to on typical furlough day? I were walking together. It was hard, we Nona: On Tuesdays a trip to Anstees kept forgetting to social distance and you Bakery, to get an iced finger. had painful legs. Twanky: Or on Friday, to the cafe as I Nona: Yes, I had to keep them apart all day. like Natalie’s fresh baps with a sausage in Twanky: Last week, we all went walking the middle. with Mr Horne and his dog, Curly. Nona Nona: We help out our neighbour Jack. held his lead. Mr Thomas shortened He’s a frontline worker, so we look after Fanny’s lead and he was pleased to see his little Fanny late on a Thursday. Yes, Nona shorten Curly’s. that cheeky mutt. Scampers around Nona all morning and Jack’s off all afternoon. Q: Will it be a traditional Christmas Nona: We’ve been keeping the garden in with the Queen’s speech and stuffing order. We cut back the box hedge. There is a turkey? nothing like a well-trimmed bush. Twanky: It will be a team effort. On the Twanky: We definitely keep on top of list is; hand jobs out in the kitchen, basting the chores. There was some debris around the turkey, getting a rise on my Yorkshires. our back passage. So we cleared that up Nona: Twanky has bought Curly a canine and now we have easy access through the coat for Christmas – she hopes that Mr rear entrance. Horne will like her doggy style.

Q: Some tried to learn new skills Q: Finally; what is your Christmas while on furlough - have you learned message for Colerne? anything new? Twanky: Keep your end up! Twanky: I’ve been gardening. I grew some Nona: And we look forward to seeing you nice antirrhinums, but some were drooping. at the next panto! Our neighbour Mr Thomas gave us some advice that readers may want to try. If he With thanks to Tristan and Justin.

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BRIGHT’S VILLAGE STORE and POST OFFICE Meet 27a high St, Colerne Tel: 01225 742 858 At The Vintage Hamper Company we take pride in creating unique and beautiful hampers. MAKERS FRESH ARTISAN BREAD Every product is handpicked by us and is chosen Colerne is home to an amazing range of artistic talent. MONDAY - SATURDAY for their quality and style. We can supply:  Meet the woodturners, artists, photographers ● Local honey & eggs Delightful vintage English fine bone china beautifully boxed as gifts ● and potters among the many parish craftspeople. Fresh self-serve milk in glass bottles  Bespoke picnic hampers to buy, each ● Marshfield Butchers Pies,Mon & Thurs one individual and made truly special CATHY BIGGS, Limelight Ltd ● by our beautiful bone china Handmade gifts, cards and E:[email protected]  A lovely selection of gifts for the home Bright’s Village products by local artists and garden limelightlimited.com Tel: 01225 812571 Store, Fresh Flower ● Papers & magazines  If you are looking for the perfect wedding/ athy started making candles in her kitchen in Colerne. Company and Colerne ● Post Office counter services birthday/graduation/retirement/anniversary A lawyer by training she took the plunge and turned her Café stock some of gift do visit our website - or our new C the products featured little showroom in Colerne hobby into a business which is now based in Corsham’s Leafield Industrial Estate. Limelight hand make candles and reed diffusers here. See also Colerne www.thevintagehampercompany.uk with sustainable ingredients and using local suppliers where Community Pages on or contact Catherine Hughes by possible. More recently they have branched into bath and body Facebook and Open 8am - 4pm Monday to Friday Calling: 01225 582825,or products using Soil Association/ COSMOS certified organic bases. browse our own Emailing: advertising 8am - 12pm Saturday & Sunday What piece of work are you most proud of? [email protected] pages. “That is such a difficult question….. I love the collaboration with Rupert Blamire and designing a range of kitchen scents….now stocked by National Trust Scotland. We are excited to manufacture for a luxury brand now stocked by John Lewis, Fortnums and Selfridges. Closer to home, I The IRON lady am so honoured to be involved since inception with UBIETY, an aromatherapy brand that puts Your Local Salon every penny of its profits back to support end of life care at Dorothy House.” Can you please provide us with one craft tip for readers. 01225 743736 “Don’t be afraid to try new things, stick at it, keep going, there’s no such thing as failure!” 38 High Street

v RUPERT BLAMIRE CERAMICS Open on rupertblamire.com Tuesday 8.30am-2.00pm For regular orders or one-off fter graduating from the Royal College of Art with a Masters Thursday 8.30am-4.00pm backlog clearance. A Degree, Rupert set up business in Bristol where he has run his Friday 8.30am-5.00pm Professional and flexible service in a workshop for the past 25 years. He makes ceramics for cooks and Saturday 8.30am-1.00pm smoke and odour-free environment. kitchens including olive oil decanters, salad dressing jugs and a range of brightly glazed pieces associated with food. Extended hours by appointment only Please call Gilly for prices What piece of work are you most proud of? and further details. “Our latest pieces have seen a collaboration with the Harris We cover the whole Free collection and delivery Distillery. We have produced a ceramic ‘Ceilidh’ bottle to mirror their family’s hairdressing needs within Colerne. existing glass bottle. The Ceilidh bottle has proved to be a best seller from perming, cutting and and have caused quite a stir throughout the gin community.” barbering to hair extensions Mobile: 07810 248408 Can you please provide us with one craft tip for readers. “My one tip for a craftsperson is to keep practising and always and colouring Home: 01225 744611 try to stay ahead of any competition.” Continued over the page w

18 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 19 Meet sKATE DAVIES, Red Shoes Illustration w BOB CHILD, Pear Tree Studios E: [email protected] E: [email protected] MAKERS IG: red_shoes_illustration Etsy - RedShoesKate peartreestudios.co.uk ate is Colerne’s resident artist who creates ollowing a graphics course at popular calendars, cards, jigsaws and (we Ware College, Hertfordshire, Kare pleased to say) Parish Magazine covers. FBob started working in Fleet Street Based on Bath Road, Kate mostly paints local in 1974, before moving to Bristol and scenes and inhabits them with anthropomorphic then Bath in 1976. He went freelance animals. “I like to infuse my work with a little in 1994. As a graphic designer he gentle humour,” she says. creates logos, brochures, packaging, She studied Graphic Design and Visual website design advertising and more. Communication at Bath Academy of Art He also creates and exhibits landscape watercolour paintings. (Corsham) and has illustrated children’s What piece of work are you most proud of? books for the past 25 years. “The ‘Walking in Colerne Parish Map’, which can be picked up in the high street shop” What piece of work are you most proud of? Can you please provide us with one craft tip for readers. “I have a strong affection for ‘The Bath “If possible use good quality materials.” Bunns visit Sally Lunns’ - but I’m fond of all WILL KNIGHT, Picture Framer my creations, and don’t have a favourite.” Tel: 01225 743336 Can you please provide us with one craft tip r HOPE BLAMIRE ARTIST ased off Silver Street, Will shop.hopeblamire.com for readers. “Lighter fuel is very good for getting rid began professionally framing FB: hopeblamireartist B of glue/sticky patches i.e. where a sticker in the early 1990s, following a ope is a Scottish artist based at Innox background in printing. doesn’t come off cleanly!” [Editor’s note: Studio on Market Place. She travels H is work is predominantly picture H please use this under adult supervision] around the west coast of Scotland and the framing and some restoration and Arctic for inspiration for her oil paintings cleaning of canvases. His skills also which she then paints in her studio. Hope include the repair and reproduction studied illustration at art school in Dundee of antique frames and mirrors, and has a postgraduate degree in education carved and gilded decoration, from Cardiff. She taught art overseas and in r KEITH DORSEY, Wood Turner French polishing, letter cutting in the UK for 18 years before becoming a full E: [email protected] wooden stone, signaturing and odd time artist four years ago. T: 07971 807515 FB: Dorseywood. bits of artwork. What piece of work are you most proud of? What piece of work are you most ased in Martins Croft, Keith is a self-taught “Probably my paintings of waves and proud of? woodturner who has been learning his craft for icebergs.” “Pride is best avoided (but) it’s nice Bmore than ten years. Can you please provide us with one craft when something you have replicated Using mainly locally sourced and reclaimed wood, each tip for readers. is mistaken for the original.” piece turns and behaves differently on the lathe, often “Don’t waste time watching TV when Can you please provide us with revealing wonderful and unexpected secrets in its grain you could be creating something.” one craft tip for readers. and texture. All are individual with no piece the same as “Have a place for everything and another. Keith says he sometimes feels a piece of wood everything in its place. No matter deciding what it wants to be as he holds it. how artistic/creative you are this Colerne has Keith is hosting a pop-up event with a range of his such a breadth of local is vital. Whatever apparent chaos wood-turned items for sale from 11-12th December at makers it’s impossible to feature you end up surrounded by in the 33 Martins Croft (by appointment only). He also offers everyone. If we haven’t been able course of a job-everything must half and one-day introductions to woodturning courses. to include your particular skill and be quickly returned to its place handmade items please drop us an email Can you please provide us with one craft tip for for a fresh start.” and we will add you to our Facebook readers. Continued on page 24 w “Always use sharp tools.” page: @ColerneParishMagazine 20 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 21 ❆ ❄ ❅ ❅ ❆ ❅ ❄ ❄ 9. ‘I could have been someone’. Colerne ❄ ❅ ❅ ‘Well so could anyone’ ...... 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Across Down 1 - Large orange-yellow fruits (8) 1 - Four-sided shape (13) 5 - Fifth largest country in Africa (4) 2 - Tragedy by Shakespeare (7) Take these pages with all the correct answers and your contact details to the Post Office by the 10th of SPONSORED BY 9 - Christina ___ : actress in Sleepy Hollow (5) 3 - Sex and the City actress (7,5) December10 - A person from to Tyneside enter (informal) the (7)draw to be named4 - Japanese the Decembercity that hosted the WINNER1998 Winter Olympics in (6)next month’s Magazine. BRIGHT’S VILLAGE STORE and POST OFFICE 11 - ___ Hewitt: Australian tennis star (7) 6 - Many-headed serpent (5) Fully stocked with local crafts, treats and gifts for the festive season. 12 - Greek Muse (5) 7 - Retired Argentinian footballer (5,8) 22 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 13 - Name:...... ColerneFlammable gas Parish and member Magazine, of the alkane series December8 - Spider-Man2020 actor (5,7) Contact number:...... 23 (6) We wish all our customers a very happy Christmas! 15 - Siren of the Rhine (7) 14 - ___ Staunton: Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter 16 - Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend (6) (6) 18 - Genus of flowering plants (5) 17 - Port and city in Japan (5) 19 - Country in North Africa (7) 20 - Greek wine (7) 21 - Inuit's home (5) 22 - Heavenly body often called The Red Planet (4) 23 - Tall plant of the parsley family (8) Meet v EMMA MARIE STRANGE wJODY GAISFORD, Colerne Photographic Company emmastrange.com T:07779361413 E:[email protected] T:07787 44532 jodyphotography.co.uk MAKERS E:[email protected] ody is Colerne Parish Magazine’s unofficial staff photographer and his much emmamariestrange.etsy.com loved images often featuring the village can be seen on social media. He is a mma specialises in hand-decorated fine Jwedding and portrait photographer, but also has a passion for landscape photography, bone china, including mugs, jugs, teapots especially when those landscapes are the Eand pet bowls. beautiful fields, woodlands and valleys around Each piece is hand decorated applying transfers Colerne. He has also produced a 2021 calendar made from her original watercolour and ink of village scenes. sketches of the many wildflowers around the What piece of work are you most proud of? parish, garden flowers and the rainbow animal “My photo of the hay stooks being collected collection which include dogs, cats and woodland by hand was used on BBC’s Countryfile and is wildlife. Emmas has been making her own work one of my most popular photos. The photo was since 2008 and went full-time in 2016 taken from about half a mile away, with a long What piece of work are you most proud of? lens and so offers a unique perspective.” “One of my favourite pieces was when I made Can you please provide us with one craft tip a large sculpture from my ceramic and wire for readers. flowers to create a wildflower garden.” “When taking photos, especially portraits, Can you please provide us with one craft tip for try and follow the rule of thirds: divide the camera screen into thirds, like a noughts readers. and crosses grid. When you position the most important elements of your photo on one “Don’t wait - if you are thinking of making of these imaginary lines or better still where two imaginary lines cross, you produce a something - do it! You won’t regret it.” much more natural image.”

RACHEL LOWE, The Fresh Flower Company JEN ALLAN PHOTOGRAPHY HELEN ASHTON, SCD with Love (Something thefreshflowercompany.com E: [email protected] Completely Different – made with love) E: [email protected] T:01225 744153 jenallanphotography.co.uk [email protected] T. 07734 731499 achel is Colerne’s resident florist (as seen on our cover) en Allan fell in love with photography when FB: SCDwithlove IG: scdwithlove R who has run the flower shop in the High Street The Shuttered Jshe bought her first digital camera in her elen specialises in painting unique pieces, for the past 15 years. She provides flowers for many Shed is a newly-launched twenties but she took the plunge to turn her H from wooden ducks to staircases. She says: different occasions and earlier this year appeared in website based in Colerne that passion into a career just over two years ago. “It is the most beautiful the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine. Her work showcases artisans, small producers She offers outdoor family photoshoot feeling creating beautiful tends to have a natural, relaxed style and follows and co-operatives in the UK and wider packages, capturing the unposed, natural things. I love intricate the seasons as much as possible. Her love of afield. The site is funded by Lisa and moments of a family interacting together. work and have found a great floristry began while still at school, working on Peter Foskett who live in the village and Jen also specialises in brand photography medium in my Wooden Duks!” Saturdays in a local flower shop. from their profits they will donate to a for businesses such as headshots, product What piece of work are you most What piece of work are you most proud of? Children’s Educational Charity in Nepal. photography or brand images for websites and proud of? www.theshutteredshed.co.uk “I am incredibly proud of the relationship I social media. “I am most proud of the staircase I e: [email protected] have had for many years with a special client in (Gift vouchers are currently available with painted at the Borough Pub in Lancaster. London and still feel amazed about a particular job I reduced prices if purchased by 13th December) They wanted a bookcase of local do annually for them. However, I’m proud of any job What piece of work are you most proud of? books leading to the bedrooms. One where the flowers have had a positive and meaningful “The photos I’m most proud of are ones of the books was Lovemarks by a impact on a person or important event.” which have captured a special moment Lancastrian ‘Kevin Roberts’ who Can you please provide us with one craft tip for readers. between family members and have become became the worldwide CEO of “A Christmas door wreath made from fresh, winter foliage priceless to us over time. There is one in Saatchi and Saatchi International. He and berries, is a lovely project to try at home. Gather evergreens and make little mixed particular of my eldest reading a book with visited the pub and sat on the step! posies then bind these one by one onto a wreath ring (made or bought) until fully covered. her Grandpa whom we were visiting in Amazing! I then went on to paint a Add pinecones and dried fruit, or leave it natural and simply use some luxurious velvet Canada. It’s so precious to us and I’m so brown horse on the steps of the Brown ribbon from which to hang it.” (Wreath making kits are available from her shop) glad I picked up my camera at that moment.” Horse at Winster.” Continued over the page w 24 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 25 Meet What piece of work are you most proud of? MAKERS “I’m really proud of my Beautiful Mama affirmation card set. I have shipped this product around the world and had some lovely PAULINE SYLVIA DESIGNS feedback letting me know how much these paulinesylviadesigns.com little cards have helped others.” E: [email protected] ased in Colerne village, Pauline has been EVE MILES, Dark & Bright designing and making hand crafted genuine E: [email protected] FB: darkandbrightuk Bgemstone jewellery for the past eight years. She ve makes handmade ceramic decorations says: “My little business allows me to indulge decorated with vintage illustrations. She both my passion for the beauty of these natural Ealso creates framed prints using vintage photos stones combined with the joy of creating and or illustrations and quotes or lyrics. She has handcrafting something special. The folklore a background in Fine Art and her love of all and legend which surround naturally created things vintage has inspired her work. and precious stones is fascinating.” What piece of work are you most proud of? What piece of work are you most proud of? “My bird decorations are probably my most “A Sterling Silver and Pearl cluster bracelet, it popular items but I also love the vintage circus was really tricky to make but looked so beautiful.” illustration pieces.”

ALISON BLAKE-REED, Young Dragon Designs REBECCA STICKLEY, Krazy Plant Pot Lady E: [email protected] FB Krazy plant pot lady FB: Young Dragon Designs IG:@krazyplantpotlady lison is a Colerne-based artist (and nurse) Etsy:krazyplantpotlady.Etsy.com Awho specialises in drawing cartoons and ockdown inspired Becca to develop her cartoon-style paintings to order. love for plants by decorating pots from Thickwood Logs She started cartooning nearly 40 years ago and Lher kitchen table in Pinewood. Here she hand has since illustrated books and had her work paints terracotta plant pots and uses decoupage published in magazines. Her current book ‘Hitting techniques to add a range of designs. The pots The Funny Bone’ is on sale at Bright’s Village are then sealed with waterproof gloss and are Store. She is also a Theatre Healthcare Assistant at hand finished to give them an extra special the RUH Bath and wrote about her time seconded unique touch. She also decorates tiles which to the Covid-19 ICU earlier this year. are turned into coasters. All our logs are What piece of work are you most proud of? “Cartoon-wise, I am probably most proud of EDEN ROSE AROMAS fully seasoned, ‘Orthopaedic Selfies’ which I thought of all IG@edenrosearomas FB: Eden Rose Aromas locally sourced by myself.” edenrosearomas.com at competitive prices. ased in Colerne, Eden Rose Aromas only ANNA ATTER, Needle & Fred Bbegan to create their wax melts this April. Etsy @needleandfreduk Their products are made from vegan wax We deliver to your door, E: [email protected] and all of the packaging and decorations are ollowing a Textile Design degree in 2014, biodegradable and recyclable. unload and stack. FAnna set up Needle & Fred from her What piece of work are you most proud of? garden studio in Colerne. She specialises in fun “Our ‘Turn your hearts blue’, NHS melts. We Tel: Tom & Kay Hall watercolour prints and bold geometric repeat made special blue mini heart melts and 50% of patterns for fabric, greetings cards, gift-wrap, the proceeds went to the NHS charities; we 01225 743351 gift tags, notebooks and wedding stationery. managed to raise £78.40.” ■

26 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 27 SHOPS & BUSINESSES OF COLERNE LEFT: Ernest Gaisford with John Gaisford (left) Eileen Gaisford (right) West End Stores and Paul Gaisford (front)

Miss Ruth Gaisford and Miss Knight c 1930 ABOVE: The flower shop run by Eileen Macey. Now a parking space. How times change!

est End Stores was built by Ernest George Gaisford and his brother Frank in 1911. In more recent times Malcolm Perks ran it as an electrical store and Andrew Macey WThey were both banker masons but work was not plentiful so Ernest decided to used it as a paint store for his painting and decorating business. use the shop to sell home grown produce and other groceries. In 1989 it had a revival as a flower shop run by Eileen Macey (granddaughter of Ernest) Eileen Macey, nee Gaisford, remembers tales of the construction which was underway and her husband, David. It opened in time for Valentine’s Day 1989 and closed for the during the coronation of George V. ‘The roof wasn’t on so they flew a large union jack last time in August 2002, when Eileen and David retired. flag pole tied to the roof trusses’ With thanks to the Gaisford, Knight and Macey families. “There was Miss The shop in the 1930s was run by Ruth Gaisford, Ernest’s Gaisford’s little store sister. It was obviously a thriving enterprise. where you could buy ‘There was Miss Gaisford’s little store where you could anything from a pin Fully qualified and insured. Brush and vacuum. Power sweeping of lined flues. buy anything from a pin to an elephant.’ to an elephant.” Birds nest removal, cowl supply and fit. Clean and efficient. ‘At Christmas time you went up to Miss Gaisford’s shop and she had all the Christmas things there, tinsel and sparkly stuff, it was lovely. You SERVICE WITH A SMILE THAT could have it put by then and you knew how much you had to pay on it if you went WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN early. It was like a Christmas Club. She would have so much down the bottom and as the shop was small she kept some stuff up at her house and she had like the two rooms T: 01225 743742 M: 07825 535095 downstairs. It was lovely to go into these rooms. I got as excited as the kiddies when I W: www.prchimneysweeps.co.uk saw this lovely stuff about.’ (From Life on the Hill)

28 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 29 PUSHING THE FUNDRAISING FOR THE LEGION CASE & TROTMAN LTD Thousands of pounds have been raised for the Colerne Royal British Legion thanks to the efforts of GENERAL BUILDERS people in Colerne. LCpl Tyler Bury, who has been based at 21 Most aspects of work undertaken Signal Regiment for just over a year, set l himself the challenge of doing 2,020 push ups. Extensions, Roofing He said: “I think the hardest part was getting to l Loft Conversions the main milestones such as 500 push ups and l Carpentry 1,000 push ups. My muscles were screaming l Brick & Stonework and I’d done so many but when I looked at the l bigger picture, the finish seemed so far away. But it was all a mental challenge. Just Timber & Damp Proofing keep chipping away at them 10 at a time is all I kept telling myself.” l PVC Flat Roofing Systems “It was a great day that saw me complete the 2,020 push ups in just over nine hours.” FREE ESTIMATES LCpl Bury raised just shy of £950 (including gift aid). Thickwood resident Kay Hall raised £5,175 (with gift aid) thanks to her 26 mile Liability & Contract Insured walk around the parish. Meanwhile Kat Barnes from Pinewood raised £297 for RBL Telephone: 01225 743271 Industries via online donations and paper donations from forms in the Post Office. Mobile: 07971 553256 And the poppy collections in the village separately raised £1,900 with more yet to come Email: [email protected] in. Anne Miller said it was down on previous years as they had not been able to go door to door but added: “It is still fantastic support from our village.”

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30 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 31 Wardens Working to HISTORICAL MYSTERY Keep the Wild at Bay otswold Voluntary Wardens have been busy clearing paths and ponds across the parish. CThe team worked on 500 metres of the footpath that runs from Lictum Spring to Abbotscombe Wood. The wardens worked with the Woodland Trust to clear brambles encroaching onto the Armistice THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE DROWNED RECTOR memorial site and the stone wall boundaries. Residents have also benefited Weavern Pond was the site of a death which Up to the present there is nothing to show how from the restoration of one stile and the caused much excitement locally at the end the deceased gentleman came in the pond. installation of two way marker posts in Sunset at Weavern Pond. of the 19th century. A brief summary of the order to improve navigation of the Public history of the site is provided by Giuliano On Wednesday 2nd February 1898 the Rights of Way. at the South Eastern section of the parish Carosi, a local author and historian. Newspaper: Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette and mark the boundary of Colerne, Box The Rev. J.A. Johnson, who was unmarried, reported the following: and Corsham. had been the Rector at Biddestone for 16 The task involved clearing years. Prior to that he had been a curate An inquest was held at Biddestone Vicarage on approximately 500 square metres The task involved clearing approximately 500 square metres of willow, hazel and at Hempsted in Gloucester. He was also a Thursday, by Mr. Coroner Browne, on the body of willow, hazel and bramble from bramble from the pond in order to restore Corsham member of the local district council. of the Rev. J.A. Johnson, late vicar of Biddestone the pond in order to restore the the site to its former glory. Further work One Monday evening the Rev Johnson went and Slaughterford, whose body was found in a for a walk. He was discovered the next day. pond on Tuesday morning last, Mr. J.C. Otway parties will be tasked with the larger job site to its former glory. Dead in the pond near his home. identified the body and said the deceased was of clearing the lower fish pond when The following was reported in the Bristol aged 61. He last saw him about two months The main effort for the warden was on the necessary permissions have been Mercury Wednesday 26 January 1898: ago, and he was then in fairly good health. the clearance of the smaller of the two approved by the Environment Agency and Annie Griffin, a domestic in the deceased’s Fish Ponds at Weavern Farm. These are the Forestry Commission. THE RECTOR OF BIDDESTONE employ, deposed that he left the house at about FOUND DROWNED 7.30 on Monday night. Alfred Tylee, a labourer Considerable excitement was caused in the on the Hartham estate, proved finding the body village of Biddestone and Slaughterford, near in the pond between 8 and 9 o’clock on Tuesday Chippenham (the Rev J.A. Johnstone), had been morning, and with assistance got the deceased found in the fishing pond, in Weavern Wood, out. Dr. Wood, of Corsham, who had known the over a mile from his residence. deceased for many years, said he last saw him It appears that the deceased gentlemen, who about three weeks ago; he was then cheerful is about 65 years of age, has been about 16 and bright. He had attended him professionally years at Biddestone, is a single man, and left the for attacks of suppressed gout. rectory about 7:30 the previous evening, and about eight o’clock was discovered by a man in The Coroner, in summing up, said the case Sir John Dickenson Poynder’s employ in what is was a very painful one, and there being no known as Weavern Pond. evidence to show that the deceased intended The body was in an upright position. An alarm to take his life, he suggested that the jury was raised, and the body was got out and taken return an open verdict of “Found Drowned” to the Rectory, where an inquest will be held. Verdict accordingly’.

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BOX Pharmacy he other day, my grandson Jack, who is now a member of my household, met the Reverend Roger Clifton, who visited the Pro Cook shop in Bath, where Jack BERNARD BAKER 10 High Street, works. Roger was the much-respected Rector of the parish church of St John the TBaptist, here in Colerne from 1983 to 1995, and will, together with his late first wife Box Carpentry and General Janet, be remembered with considerable affection by many in the village. Apropos the Building Maintenance article by Phil Chamberlain in November’s Parish Magazine, about the need to make Prescription Delivery Service the most of our footpaths, I remember that Roger, during his tenure of office in Colerne, All Internal and External Carpentry If you are disabled, housebound or unable to walked along the length of the Pilgrims’ Way to Canterbury Cathedral, home of the Floor and Ceramic Tiling collect your prescriptions, etc, arrangements shrine of the martyred Archbishop St Thomas Becket. Plastering can be made for your order to be delivered to you by our door-to-door delivery service. Roger chronicled his pilgrimage in the pages of the Colerne Parish Magazine. As far as I Kitchen Fitting remember he walked from Winchester to Canterbury, a distance of 136 and a half miles, Painting and Decorating Telephone 01225 742552 in about 15 stages and it probably took him about a fortnight. The route follows a chalk Garden Hardscaping and Decking for further details ridge and takes in many interesting towns and villages. Over 30 years’ experience I remember from my childhood in the 1930s being taken on walks by my parents, in the building trade. together with my sister, along parts of the Pilgrims’ Way, one of the most iconic All jobs considered, big or small. pathways in Britain, near our home in Kent. In 1939, the school I attended had an outing Please call for a free, which started with a visit to Canterbury Cathedral. We were able to see the actual spot no obligation, quote. where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, by knights reacting to the call Mobile Number: 07751 459191 of King Henry II, allegedly saying, ‘Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?’ Within days of his death, Becket’s tomb became a site of pilgrimage. He was canonised by Pope Alexander III in 1173; Henry II did penance in 1174 and was absolved. Becket’s tomb became one of the most famous pilgrimage sites in Christendom and remained so for some four centuries. Sadly, most of the pupils of my school, including me, seemed to be more intent upon the second part of the school outing – a visit to Dreamland in Margate. The Canterbury Tales is the most famous work of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400. It tells the stories of a group of pilgrims who made their way along the pathway from the Tabard inn in London to the shrine and their return. Later in 1939, I went to Canterbury again with my uncle, his brother, and my cousin. We s visited the cathedral, and I again saw the place where St Thomas was martyred. Because Skilled Pruning we were just a small party, I paid more attention. Felling/Dismantling We witnessed a daily ritual, where the smartest recruit on parade at the barracks in Canterbury Immaculate Cleaning Up of the East Kent Regiment, the Buffs, marched into the cathedral, turned over a page in the Free Quotations book that recorded the names of those members of the regiment who had been killed during Fully Insured the conflict which we knew in those days as the Great War (of 1914 – 1918). When I now remember this occasion, I wonder if the young soldier who carried out this 01225 571405 duty survived the Second World War which was just about to begin. I hope his name does not appear in another book detailing those who fell between 1939 and 1945. 07849 248980 Later that day we went to the St Lawrence cricket ground and saw a day’s play between Kent and Middlesex. My cousin and I had the pleasure of seeing in action many of the Joe Thomas players whose fortunes we followed so avidly, while my uncle and his brother examined Tech Cert (Arboricultural Association) RFS Cert in Arboriculture the properties of the Kentish ales on sale. This match was one of the last to be played Continued on page 39

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NOMINATE YOUR COVID HEROES It has been a year dominated by the Coronavirus. A year of fear and uncertainty for many. But also a year when hundreds of people across the parish stepped up to help. Whether as key workers stocking supermarket shelves, health workers in the In need of Building Plans? NHS, neighbours checking in on each other or staff keeping schools operational Reliable builder with 40 years of experience we all know someone we would like to thank. Supply their name and their job and we’ll print them all in our Colerne Parish  Brick and Stone Work Magazine New Year Honours special. Don’t be shy; we should be proud.  Roofing Email the details to [email protected] or find us on Facebook  Carpentry and send a message or text to 07793018283 BY 4th DECEMBER.  Woodworm and Damp Proofing treatment REFLECTIONS Continued  Plastering (including Lime Finish) Contact Colerne based John Phillips before the start of the Second World War. Kent’s captain, F.G.H. Chalk was killed when Tel no. 07973 509928 serving with the Royal Air Force. Email: [email protected] Contact Chris for a free quote on Don’t you think it would be a nice idea if a group of able-bodied parishioners from our village were to emulate Roger Clifton’s journey along the Pilgrims’ Way to Canterbury, www.buildplans.co.uk 07974 826173 01225 681532 when once again people are free to do so? Drawings / Plans [email protected] Finally, may I wish all readers of the Colerne Parish Magazine a very happy Christmas, a healthier and better 2021, and a prosperous future. John Crittenden CORSHAM PATIOS FENCING CALL NOW FOR YOUR FREE QUOTE - NO JOB TOO SMALL!

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40 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 41 DIRECTORY OF VILLAGE ORGANISATIONS

Badminton Club Jumping Jacks (Parent & Toddler Group) D Pearson – 858293 Nikki Jenner – 01225 571506 Bellringers & Handbells Labour Association Jacqui Bradburn, 8 Fosseway Close – 743041 Chris Phillips, 28 Round Barrow Close – 742755 Colerne After School Club Ltd Liberal Club REFLEXOLOGY IN COLERNE Bev Stickley – 07881 367022 22 High Street – 07799 558489 CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM NEAL’S YARD Colerne Air Training Corps Liberal Democrats You don’t have to leave Colerne to find lovely gifts for your Flt Sgt Clarke – 01225 743988 – [email protected] Dr Brian Mathew – 07771 607983 friends and family. I can help you find the perfect presents, Colerne Army Cadet Force Email – [email protected] and can even gift wrap them for you! There’s a Christmas SSI Alan Bell – 07812 744480 LINK (Community Service) catalogue with lots of ready made gifts, but if none suit then Colerne Classic Car Club Transport – 07970 617617 you have the option of making up a bespoke gift box instead. Russell Harding, 10 Fosseway Close – 742182 Luncheon Club REFLEXOLOGY GIFT VOUCHERS Colerne Crazy Quilters Polly Squire – 07517 136180 For Foot or Facial Reflexology and Zone Face Lift. Relaxing and Julie Burgess – 743999 Playgroup rejuvenating, reflexology can help support well-being and is a lovely gift. Colerne Evangelical Church (FIEC) Old School, Vicarage Lane – 744885 Revd Jonathan Sell – 744463 Parish Council ONLINE FACIAL EXPERIENCE Has the stress of lockdown, and now wearing face masks,affected your Colerne Gardening Club Sharon Whelon, Council Office, skin? Would you like to get together with your friends and family to catch Ann Matthews – 743534 Old School, Vicarage Lane – 742207 up? I will show you some Facial Reflexology points for well-being, and talk Colerne Golf Society Primary School you through a mini facial using Neal’s Yard products that I send to you. Hon Sec: Rob Gray – 01249 820171 Headteacher: Mr Mark Solomon – 742367 Email – [email protected] Primary School PTA - FRESCO If you would like more information please contact me. Corsham and Colerne Military Wives Choir Tessa Armstrong – [email protected] [email protected] Police Community Support T: 0751 665 8729 Colerne Musical Theatre To report incidents or crimes – tel. 101 E: [email protected] www.DeborahArmitage-HolisticTherapist.com Pete Green, 9 Bellott Drive, Corsham SN13 9UQ – Other matters, eg information, email: 01249 715657 [email protected] Colerne Panthers Mini Rugby Royal British Legion [email protected] General Matters – Paul Jobbins – 745839 Swim with Puddle Ducks Colerne Rugby Club Contact Centre helpline – 0808 802 8080 Hon Secretary: John Hutchinson – 742137 from 8.00am to 8.00pm, 7 days a week at Ashwicke Hall School, Marshfield Email – [email protected] Scout Groups Conservative Association Group Scout Leader: Jackie Bicknell – 743383 Dick Tonge, Bank House, Tutton Hill – 742631 Scout Leader: Rob Featherstone – 743044 Constitutional Club Cub Scout Leader: Katherine Manuel –744615 Gentle baby and High Street – 07768 341130 or 742197 Beaver Scout Leader: Jo Jackson – 01249 716647 Cotswold AONB Voluntary Warden Village Hall Association toddler classes on Dave Wright – 811574 Anne Nicholas – 744544 Friday mornings, Encore Musical Cabaret & Concert Group Email – [email protected] Peter Clare, 44 Valley Way, Thickwood – 743727 Village Hall Bookings from age 12 weeks FC Colerne Colts Sheila Nicholas – 744544 Paul Carey – 07786 745165 Email – [email protected] to 4 years Friends of Colerne Church Women’s Institute Ray Barker, 6 Fosseway Close – 743402 Norma Burgess, Summerhayes, Washmeres – Guide Groups 744612 Rainbows, Brownies and Guides: We also offer expert lessons for ages 4 - 10 years after school Helen Atter, Trunnells Barn, High Street – 742912 Useful Colerne Telephone numbers on Wednesdays Hawk & Owl Trust East Bath Area Group Mike Rogers – 744290 Premier Stores – 742147 Hairdresser – 743736 History Group Flower Shop – 744153 Colerne News Puddle Ducks Bristol and Bath Eileen Collins, 5 Chapel Path – 744266 Fox & Hounds – 744847 and Post Office – 742858 Six Bells – 742413 t: 0117 9717165 Hive Information Officer [email protected] www.puddleducks.com/bb Amy Tuck – 07973 723221

42 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 43 Lucknam at Home

THE ULTIMATE TEA PARTY AT HOME Indulge in the sophisticated British tradition in the comforts of your own home. The new Lucknam Park afternoon tea at home features a selection of delectable treats, classic sandwiches including ham and tomato, egg and cress, and smoked salmon with home-made scones, clotted cream and home-made preserves prepared by our pastry chef.. £29 per person. Orders must be placed by 12 noon on Friday and collection between 12noon and 2pm Saturday and Sunday

SUNDAY ROAST DINNER AT HOME The traditional British Sunday roast is the staple of autumn weekends and one of the nation’s very favourite foods. Indulge in the Great British tradition in the comfort of your own home. The new Lucknam Sunday Roast at home features roast sirloin of Wiltshire beef cooked pink served with Yorkshire pudding, homemade horseradish cream and red wine gravy with all the traditional trimmings. £25 per person for two courses. Orders must be placed by 12 noon on Friday and collection on Sunday between 11am – 1pm

WINTER WARMER - SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY When the temperature drops, comfort food reigns. Keep cosy this winter with our delicious warming dishes. Every Saturday we will be offering delicious winter warmers for you to enjoy in the comfort of your home. £22 per person for two courses. Orders must be placed by 12 noon on Friday and Saturday night collection between 4pm and 6pm

Full details and conditions are available on our website. [email protected] | 01225 742 777 | www.lucknampark.co.uk