ORGANISATIONS & MEETINGS USEFUL CONTACTS Meets at When Accident and Emergency Hospital: Child Health Clinic Church Hall 3rd Thursday Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich 01473 712233 Welcome to 2:00–3:00pm Felixstowe Community Hosp. Minor Injuries (01394) 458820 Parent & Toddler Church Hall Thursdays Doctors and dentists can be contacted in Felixstowe (listed in 1:00–3:00pmThompson’s Directory and Yellow Pages) Walton Surgery (01394) 278844 Kirton & Bell ringing Falkenham Church (6 bells) Central Surgery (01394) 283197 Contact:: Loraine Beer 448490 Howard House (01394) 282706 Blokes Club Meets at White Horse, outings Haven Health (01394) 670107 Falkenham Contact: Ted Payne 448582 Police: Suffolk Constabulary Force HQ 01473 613500 Bowls Club Village policeman Short Mat Village Hall Tuesdays Minicom 01473 611160 7:30pm Website www.suffolk.police.uk Outdoor behind Village Hall Summer only Parish Council Clerk: Colin Shaw 01394 448783 Deben Flower Club Church Hall 2nd Tuesday [email protected] 7:30pmTransport: Football Kestrels Recreation Ground Bus services run from Kirton (and some from Falkenham) to Training: boys & girls 6–16 Felixstowe, Woodbridge and Ipswich. Timetables are displayed on Mon to Thurs evenings Kirton Green and in Falkenham. Matches: Saturday a.m. Felixstowe Area Community Transport Service (FACTS) runs a Friends of Kirton Church various events bus into Felixstowe for the disabled. Contact: (01394) 270339 Contact: Graham Walker 448227 Train services go from Felixstowe via Trimley to Ipswich for Gardeners Club Village Hall 2nd Thursday connections to London and elsewhere. 7:30pmSchools: Trimley St Martin County Primary School KAFPA (drama) Contact: Jack Cade 448718 Headteacher: (01394) 448313 Ladies Keep Fit Church Hall Tuesdays Felixstowe Academy (01394) 288228 2:00–3:30pm Student absence line: (01394) 288122 Exercise Class Village Hall Wednesdays Post Office: Trimley St Martin & Walton 9:30amCitizen’s Advice Bureau: Cowling Dance Academy Church Hall 2-6 Orwell Road, Felixstowe IP11 7HD (01394) 275958 Various classes See Village Diary Library: Suffolk County Library van calls in the villages on Mothers’ Union Church Hall 1st Wednesday alternate Tuesday afternoons. See Village Diary. 2:00pmRecreation Ground, Alley Road, has a play area for children, Open Circle 18 Burnt House Lane 2nd Friday basketball hoop and football pitches : Phil Barker (01394) 448493 10amPavilion bookings: John Beer (01394) 448490 Tea Shop Church Hall 2nd & 4th Wed Church Hall bookings: Michael Sharpley (01394) 448238 2:30 – 4:00 pmVillage Hall bookings : Vic Wilkinson 07961 594360 3 Village Woodlands Group Allotments are available for rent. Contact Mrs S Harvey, 29 Falkenham Road, Kirton. (01394) 448780 Whist Drives Village Hall most Mondays This information has been prepared by the Church of 7:30pmKirton & Falkenham Review - the villages’ magazine Editor: Nick Claydon (01394) 448812 St Mary & St Martin, Kirton, and the Church of St Womens’ Institute Village Hall 2nd Thursday ! [email protected] Ethelbert, Falkenham. We hope you find it useful and 2pm that you will be able to join in the many activities our Woodland Pals Preschool Village Hall Mon–Fri 09:15–12:15 community provides. Tues/Wed/Fri 12:15–2:45 www.kirton-suffolk.info for the Village Diary, local Baby unit 0-2yrs news, hall booking, events, Parish Council notes, history Details change, so check our website Pre-school 2–5 yrs and local pictures. Yoga Rec. Pavilion Wednesdays Subscribe to The K&F Review for the latest local www.kirton-suffolk.info for the latest & Diary. 9:30aminformation – only 50p/month or £6/year Please inform us of any errors or changes. Call 01394 448213 or email [email protected] Zumba Rec Pavilion Tuesdays 7:30pm email: [email protected]
Issue: 161107 Welcome! PLACES OF WORSHIP We wish you very warm welcome to the villages of Kirton Times of church services in Kirton & Falkenham are and Falkenham and hope that you will find this Welcome advertised inside and outside the respective churches, and in brochure useful. The Review. Kirton and Falkenham share the Parish Council, the school, the Village Hall, and Recreation Ground and, as Church of England you will see from the lists, most of the organisations. Kirton!!St Mary & St Martin There are two Church of England churches and the Contact: Mrs Barbara Payne Mrs Anne Clarke Methodist chapel. There is a considerable amount of ! (01394) 448582!(01394) 448202 shared worship. ! ! [email protected] Sunday Club meets 3rd Sunday morning in Kirton Church Hall This part of Suffolk is fairly isolated between the two rivers Deben and Orwell. We also seem to have a somewhat Falkenham! St Ethelbert individual climate with relatively low rainfall. The ports of Contacts: Lorraine Beer ! (01394) 448490 YOUNG PEOPLE’S Ipswich and Felixstowe have developed enormously in the Pauline French ! (01394) 448019 last decade as has the industrial estate on the historic ORGANISATIONS Priest-in-Charge airfield at Martlesham, mainly due to Adastral Park and to Revd. Canon Ian Wilson! ! 01473 659875 many other enterprises that have availed themselves of the Assistant Priest Meet at!When facilities offered by this area. Revd Harry Stalker ! (01394) 210826 KAFYouth Club Pavilion Pending This is an expanding area but is also very ancient in origin, and we are justly proud of our very early connection with Readers the Christian faith. Romans are believed to have settled in Stephen Harvey Janet Stalker and around Falkenham but it is the Anglo Saxon era that ! (01394) 448780" ! (01394) 210826 gives us the confirmed facts. ! [email protected] The name Kirton comes from the Anglo-Saxon name of Roy Tricker Ann Patton Kirkatuna, meaning “the place of the church”. Kirton is Explorers mentioned in the Domesday Book, not just as having a ! 01473 718267 ! (01394) 448749 (14-18 yrs) Scout Hut Tuesdays 7:15pm church, but also having a priest of its own. His name was Godric and to find such an entry is exceptional. We also Methodist!! Kirton Methodist Church Sea Scouts know that there has been a place of Christian worship, Trimley St Martin Methodist Church (10½-14½ yrs) Scout Hut Wednesdays 7:00pm probably on the site of the present church, since the 7th Revd Diane Smith Guides century. This does give us a great sense of continuity and Trinity Manse, Tower Road (10-14 yrs) Church Hall Thursdays 7:15pm we hope that you will join us in worship in our churches. FELIXSTOWE IP11 7PR Cub Scouts ! Felixstowe (01394) 282023 Falkenham also has an ancient history based on the (8-10½ yrs) Scout Hut Mondays 6:30pm ! [email protected] mining of coprolite, and the river was used for its transport. Brownies!meet in Felixstowe Local contact: Mrs Helen Robertson ! (01394) 448395 Earlier the part of the river Deben known as Kings Fleet Rainbows was where Edward III fitted out his fleet for his expedition Roman Catholic St Felix, Felixstowe (5–7 yrs) Trimley St Martin School to Flanders in 1338. Parts of Falkenham church probably Mondays 5pm date from this time, though it was extensively refurbished Free church Trimley St Mary Beavers in the late 19th century. (6-8 yrs) Scout Hut Tuesdays 6:00pm There are many beautiful walks in this area, mostly well Other denominations have churches in Felixstowe, Walton, marked by signposts. Woodbridge & Ipswich Contacts change so please turn up at a meeting if Welcome again to this community! May your stay be a long you would like more information or would like to and happy one. offer help. God bless you all.