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December 2019 email: [email protected] Issue 174

One Hundred Years Young Martyn’s Lights – an be in the Crown and Falcon on Wednesday 8 January at 8pm to update. celebrate the turning off of the lights and Many of you who live or commute to share a New Year drink with anyone through Puckeridge High Street will, I who feels they can perhaps help us. am sure, be delighted to see the return of Martyn’s Lights from Sunday 1 December to Sunday 5 January. MayDay 2020 and the 75th For those of you who are new to the Anniversary of VE Day Village, the lights were bought MayDay 2020 will be held on Bank What connects a pensioner enjoying a following the sudden and premature Holiday Friday 8 May to fall on the 75th two-course lunch with friends, to a death of Martyn Dawkins who ran the Anniversary of VE Day. We would like Brownie earning a badge for first aid or Village Shop (now Something Lovely to give MayDay a ‘Vintage’ feel - any baking? Or a room full of yoga students Tea Room). It had always been his wish ideas please contact us. to a stage full of Sadleir performers that the Village do something to We intend to have all the usual taking a bow after a successful play? celebrate Christmas – in a very low key attractions but if any local organisations The answer of course is Standon Village but effective way, as befitted the man like Cadets, Scouts, Brownies wish to do Hall where all of these activities, have himself. Upon his death, there was an anything 'extra special' to mark this taken place, for the last 100 Years. outpouring of kindness from Village occasion at May Day, please email us residents – all of whom wanted to and we will include it. On Tuesday 3 December our Hall will remember Martyn - and we do it by celebrate its Centenary, the day in 1919 stringing up some colourful bulbs along Could you help? that Herbert and Gertrude Le Blanc the High Street for the Christmas Period. As always, we desperately need Smith, of the Lordship, presented the volunteers to help plan and run the Hall to the Village in memory of their We are very grateful to local residents event. We have around 5000 visitors and son Ralph and the other brave men of who let us attach the lights to their the current committee consists of a mere Standon who did not return home at the properties and especially the “power SIX people!!! end of the First World War. houses” who let us use their electricity. All the Bulbs are LED and a string of Any ideas for car parking? Since then our hall, which is one of the 100 bulbs uses approximately 100watts To all the local farmers and businesses nicest and most reasonably priced Halls – so it is like turning on an old fashioned who have any ground around Standon in East Herts, has been a major hub of 100watt light bulb for an evening. and Puckeridge please consider allowing village life, with an average of 200 local us to use it for the day for car parking; residents, from 4 -85 years of age using We often get asked why the strings don’t we can make a payment for use and deal this lovely facility each week. Activities run the entire length of the High Street with signage, marshalling, security or take place every day, including Fitness and this is where we need your help. The any other issues. Many thanks. sessions, Knitting, Quilt making, Dance initial donations raised enough for the strings and bulbs to be bought. But [email protected] lessons, Band rehearsals, a club for Sue Spalding, Standon MayDay people suffering from Alzheimer’s, exposure to the elements for a month a Church functions, May Day/Open year (we are now in our eighth year) Garden refreshments, Tea-Time Talks causes damage and we have to maintain Carols Round the Tree, and quarterly Senior Citizen lunches. and replace bulbs and fittings. We also have to have the lights professionally Standon High Street We also host two highly regarded Drama installed (albeit at a charity rate) so the productions each year (since 1944), plus installation is insured and can be signed Monday 16 December @ 6.30pm numerous one-off events such as parties off electrically. Donations keep coming Refreshments in the Church and the local Polling Station. in, but not enough to buy more strings of afterwards. lights or pay for more days of If you are interested in hiring the hall installation. please look at our website Do you have difficulty www.standonvillagehall.org or phone The current team need some support and Denis Olliver on 01279 842625 for more more volunteers to keep this initiative reading PS News? information. going; maybe help with the installation If so try the online edition at (to bring costs down) and hopefully Here’s to the next one hundred years. www.psnews.org.uk/latest.pdf and raise some more money. The current increase the size of the print on team (Rachel, Derek and Richard) will Denis Olliver (Chairman) your tablet, computer, etc. Page 2 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

Christmas Services at St Braughing Women’s Village Lunches Mary’s Church Standon Institute. Next lunch: Tuesday 3 December, On Sunday 22 December, come and join Braughing WI have had a busy year. Standon Village Hall us at the new time of 6.30pm (NB There has been a good variety of In what seems like long ago, when the change of time) for the traditional and speakers with topics including a weather was warm, we had another great beautiful candlelit Service of Nine Journey From Vancouver to Niagara, lunch in the Village Hall - everyone Lessons and Carols. There will be carols Contemporary Art, An evening of enjoyed moussaka followed by fruit for all as well as some sung by our attempting various Crafts and an crumble, with the fruit commendably benefice choir and the readings from the amusing talk entitled Day of Dolly Blue free of "air miles" as it came from the gardens of our lovely cooks and helpers. Bible tell the story of the loving and Izal. purposes of God, from the time of Adam We were entertained by the very jolly and Eve through to the birth of Jesus. The Summer Strawberry Tea was music of a local ukulele band playing enjoyed by all and the Annual soup On Christmas Eve at the new time of songs many of us remembered - and lunch well attended. Braughing sent apparently our tuneful singing along 5pm, is the very popular Christingle representatives at both The Annual service. Christingles are made from an could be heard in the Star! Our thanks to Council Meeting at St Albans and the the band - you were fabulous. orange decorated with red tape, sweets Autumn Council Meeting at Oaklands. and a candle. Each piece of the The raffle in aid of the local Riding for Christingle holds special symbolism to The WI. now look forward to another the Disabled was a great success and it help children understand the importance successful year. was good to learn how the families of of Jesus and the Gospel, and its Programme some of our guests had benefited over relevance at Christmas time. There will January 16 A journey through the years from their work. be carols for all and Christingles will be Uzbekistan from Khiva to Satharhend made and lit during the service. At the next lunch, the Christmas lunch, to the modern day. we'll be having traditional food and Later on Christmas Eve, at 11.30pm, Christmas music and we've sent a letter come and celebrate the first Communion February 20 A Craft evening with Anne Styles. to Lapland and are hopeful Father of Christmas at our Midnight Christmas will be free to call by and see Communion Service. This will also be March 19 Bagels and Bacon us. candlelit. April 16 The history of Hatfield House. New guests are welcome but booking is On Christmas Day itself, at 10.45am, required. If you live in the Parish and come and celebrate Jesus’ birthday at May 21 Resolutions. would like to come, call Helena on our 10.45am Christmas Family Worship All meetings held in The Church Hall at 822177 or Brenda 822293. service. 7.30 p.m. Details from Michael Smith 01920 New Members always welcome. 821281 Contact Kate 01920822397. [email protected]

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Friends of the River Rib all the appropriate parish councils and Entertainment starts at 3pm, followed by The Friends of the River Rib met for riparian landowners to seek their tea and cakes. All welcome agreement and permission for the their fourth meeting this year at surveys, which will be conducted by Members: £ 3, Guests £ 5 Buntingford Bowls Club in September with 24 people attending including local HMWT. Early Development of Saxon Towns parish and town council representatives, In parallel we will continue to raise in Herts (with a look at Braughing) Sarah Perry, Living Rivers Officer for awareness of the importance of the Rib Thursday, 27 February, 2pm at St. HMWT and Friends and residents from and Quin both to people and wildlife, Mary's Church Hall, Braughing up and down the Rib and Quin valleys. through public meetings and events and The speaker is David Short The meeting began with an introduction seek to engage with the appropriate from Mark Wilkinson highlighting the politicians, departments, agencies and Tea and coffee served. All welcome. plight of the county's chalk streams, the water companies on the underlying Members £ 2, Guests £ 3 recent attention to the issues on social issues and seek funding for projects that media and a debate in parliament, also we identify and the meeting agreed that Could you answering questions on the purpose and the officers should meet independently mission of the group. to formulate plans, next steps and future be our A proposed structure for the group with events. Lollipop an outline of officer roles was then It was agreed that the next public Person? presented by Andrew Huggins and meeting will be held on Monday 13 We are looking agreed by the meeting, with Sir Oliver January, venue to be agreed. for someone who Heald nominated as President (who has Full minutes of the meetings and other would be accepted) and nominations of Mark interested in Wilkinson as Chair and David Edwards updates are circulated to members of the Friends of the Rib email list. If you becoming the as Secretary agreed and accepted. With Crossing patrol the move to a more formal structure, the would like to receive newsletter updates, or if anyone has any old photos of the for Roger de meeting discussed the importance of Clare First School good governance and the correct Rib, policies be in place, particularly please email friendsoftheriverrib@gmail Tuesdays/Thursdays .com or visit our website contact important where seeking funding and The pay is £9 per hour (excluding potential charitable status in the future. page https:// friendsoftherib.wordpress.com/contact/. enhancements) Updates were given on recent riverfly If you are interested or would like monitoring and Daubenton's Bat Braughing Local History further information please contact Janet Surveys on the river and plans were Fairhead on 01992 556816. discussed to expand the number of Society monitoring sites. An upcoming event Songs & Teas Hertfordshire County Council, Active & looking for river invertebrates with 1st Entertainment from the Chiltern Safer Travel Team, Braughing Cubs on the Quin was also West Gallery Quire County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford, SG13 highlighted. Sunday, 26 January, 2:45 - 5pm at St. 8DN. It was agreed that underpinning all Mary's Church Hall, Braughing Tel: 01992 556816 future efforts is the need to map the The West Gallery Period: music in Can we please remind you that it is rivers and their status and conduct river country church quires - psalms, anthems parental responsibility to get your child surveys along their entire length. To and dance tunes heard in and around to and from school safely. achieve this we will look to engage with Braughing 1720 - 1850

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Tea Time Talks Update where you could buy anything from the railway from St Margarets to shoes to sofas. There was also an Ice Buntingford by David Dent Reminiscences Cream Parlour near New Street Farm. In October 40 people came to a You didn’t need to go out of the villages We look forward to seeing you there. Reminiscences Afternoon in Standon in those days! Village Hall. Mike Jackson showed The Tea time Talks Team. some of his collection of old Standon Phone Box For more information contact Trish photographs of Standon, Puckeridge and Over the summer we received 01920 821069 or Helena 01920 822177 Colliers End and members of the compliments on the planted up phone audience were invited to join in and box in Standon High Street, and we were share their memories of past times. grateful to the volunteers on the The Community Cafe watering rota who helped to keep the at the Standon & Puckeridge Interesting facts and stories emerged. We display going. The planting has changed Community Centre will be held on learned that there used to be a local for the winter and change again in the following Wednesdays, 8.45- Colliers End Football Team as well as a spring. We are still experimenting with 11.30am Plashes Wanderers Team, but no-one which plants suit the conditions best. knew where they played! In 1944 an  4 December unexploded bomb fell near the Windmill Tea Time Talks 2020  8 January pub and residents had to be evacuated to The next season of Talks, Tea and  5 February - Charity Cafe supporting the Regal Cinema. One member of the homemade cakes will be as follows: World Cancer Day - Cancer Research audience remembered putting on her UK with stalls and raffle special children’s Mickey Mouse gas Saturday 25 January:  4 March mask for the evacuation. Several people Where the Wild Things Are remembered attending the Standon A look at the work of the Hertfordshire All ages welcome from pre-schoolers to School in the 1950’s with the forward and Middlesex Wildlife Trust with pensioners. There are toys to entertain thinking headmaster who used to take Wendy Hartnell the toddlers. them on school trips, which was unusual Saturday 22 February: Parents and carers, why not drop your at the time. Less fond memories were Hertfordshire Gardens in the Tudor young ones at school/nursery and pop in those of the boys collecting grass snakes and Stuart Period, Including for a cuppa!! in the churchyard at break time and Standon Lordship by Anne Rowe slipping them into the girls’ desks! For more information contact Alison on Saturday 21 March 10920 822872 Many people recollected the huge number of shops in Puckeridge – at one The Buntingford time nearly 40 – including Fordhams, Line - A history of Country Pub & Casual Dining

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Standon Parish Council people to talk to about any issues you is frequently made is that the Parish feel need resolution. Council takes too long to get things News done. One of the reasons is that all Standon Parish Council Web Site: Please The Parish Council is a statutory information surrounding an issue has to do look on our web site for up to date consultee on all planning applications – be gathered, and a decision taken as to information on what is happening in the unfortunately it doesn’t mean that the whether the Parish Council can legally parish. It is regularly updated with news District Council has to abide with any take action on it. There are strict criteria items by Parish Councillors and objection the Parish Council may have! which govern the actions of the Council information and links to services The Neighbourhood Plan has been and its Councillors. Please do take a look provided by the Parish, District and achieved with the help of like-minded at the Parish Council web site which has County Councils. volunteers who are an invaluable source Standing Orders, Financial Regulations of information and action. The Parish and the Code of Conduct which are the Meeting Dates: Council has been in liaison with major guiding documents the Council Please see the website for all meeting developers and achieved some gains for uses to assess its powers and duties. dates and associated documents. local residents – this is always difficult because many promises may be made Please do consider being a Councillor. Parish Council Elections: which may not result in any actual We particularly need younger members There is still a Councillor vacancy for changes. of the community as most of us are at or Puckeridge Ward. If you want to make a over retiring age and we need young difference to your community please do The foremost issues which are always blood!! The Parish Council is non- apply. coming onto the agenda are: political, and holds a strong Equal Being a Parish Councillor:  Pot holes Opportunities policy. Being a Parish Councillor is rewarding  Dog fouling and littering Burrs Meadow: especially when an issue which affects a  Fly tipping The Parish Council has been advised by resident’s life is resolved. Most of the the owner of Burrs Meadow, time it means being vigilant for pot holes Every Parish Council has pretty much the same issues to contend with. Hertfordshire County Council, that it and other road defects and reporting must close all access gates onto the them on the HCC web site, checking that As a Councillor, you would be expected Meadow. Failure to comply is likely to planning issues are resolved, being to attend the monthly meeting, and take result in the termination of the lease. involved generally in the community and on an area which you are either Hertfordshire County Council has bringing things which the Parish Council interested in or have expertise in. If there already submitted the meadow under the can influence to its attention. are two or more Councillors interested in Call for Sites to EHDC for housing The Parish Council is a corporate body, the same thing, you which means that no Councillor can take can form a working a decision on their own. This also means group. that there are a group of concerned One complaint that Standon Convenience (formerly Westwoods), Standon High Street Newspapers Hermes Parcel Collection ATM Service Lottery/Scratchcards Tobacconist Hand-made Cuban Cigars Paypoint Confectionery P Drinks Family Run, Personal Service 01920 822689 Mon-Fri 6am-9pm, Sat/Sun 7am - 9pm The Crown & Falcon Inn 33 HIGH STREET, PUCKERIDGE 01920 821561/821949 e-mail: [email protected] 15 CENTURY FREE HOUSE CASK ALES. SKY SPORTS. PUB GARDEN REGULAR GUEST ALES Page 6 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019 development. The Parish Council has development will not take place, but it undertaking an activity. It is easy to get written to properties which have does provide guidance on what may be into conversation with friends and installed a gated access, and will write acceptable. Residents are also able to family and forget that people live around again, requesting the accesses be quote the Neighbourhood Plan if and both buildings and what is happy stopped up. This is to ensure that Burrs when they wish to write about a conversation to one person, is noise Meadow remains the green open space planning application. pollution to another! Please do consider much beloved of the village. the neighbours. Planning: Standon PC Highways Liaison sub- All planning applications can be seen on Also, can children please be reminded to committee: the EHDC website https:// take care of community owned assets Volunteers needed!! This innovative publicaccess.eastherts.gov.uk/online- which includes using the play equipment group needs volunteers to assist Cllrs applications/ in an appropriate way. Again, it is easy Wren and Crook to work on issues for children to get excited when they are This weblink takes you straight through which are of high importance to the playing with friends and behaviour may to the page where you can simply put in communities. A Highways professional not always be the best it can be. All an address or if you have it, the planning has already volunteered to provide children like to use the play area, and the application number. The next page expert advice so we just need to have Parish Council wants to keep it safe, shows the application. There is a tab volunteers to progress initiatives which clean and tidy. We really appreciate your which says ‘documents’ and if you click will benefit the community. help with this. on this, you will be able to see plans etc. Neighbourhood Plan: Dog Fouling: Whilst the Parish Council is a statutory You are strongly urged to pick up after The Neighbourhood Plan has been consultee on planning applications, formally adopted by EHDC. your dog in all public places, which EHDC takes the final decision. The includes the playing field, Burrs A vote of thanks goes to all the members Parish Council has no opportunity to Meadow, and all footpaths and verges in of the Standon Parish Neighbourhood appeal against an EHDC decision. the Parish. There are many dog bins Development Plan group who were the Use of Parish Council owned available for use. It is against the law to drivers pushing this project forward. allow a dog to foul any public place or Thank you all!! buildings and assets: Standon Parish Council owns the highway, and any green space. This means that the document must now Community Centre and the Village Hall. Allotments: be consulted when any planning Can you please be considerate to If you would like to take on an application is being considered by neighbours when accessing the allotment, please contact me or the EHDC. It does not mean that buildings, and also when you are

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Who wants to be a Millionaire ? Last summer 26 Ralph Sadleir School Year 5 and Year 6 pupils became millionaires, Renaissance Learning Word Millionaires that is. Here is our roll of honour: Thomas B Georgie H Charlotte K Joseph G Thomas F William S Amelia W Isla C Ophelia W Connie D Daniel V Jenna D Jacob H Elodie G Ruby B Hannah D Lily S Benjamin G Next year we plan to continue Myles K Gemma T Thundridge and High Cross celebrating our Word Millionaires in Jack H Ben W style. Word Millionaires will still Society Kesiah M Adam S receive certificates, be added to our roll Are you interested in Tomas W-B Ella B of honour and attend the Millionaires  Talks, • Local History, So how do we recognise this brilliant Tea Party. However, this time a non-  Outings, • Walks, achievement? Firstly, our millionaires uniform day will be added to the  Local Planning, receive a certificate and a place on our rewards for all our Word Millionaires.  Lunch Club, • Nature and roll of honour. Our Head of English, So what are you waiting for? Start  Regular Newsletters? Mrs McIver, hosts a Millionaires Tea Party to celebrate our Word Millionaires Reading Then come and join us for a minimal and the pupil who reads the most words yearly subscription. For more details receives a trophy and a book so that please contact Ann Davey on 01920 they continue to be a Word Millionaire. 462992

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Standon and Puckeridge club competitions have resulted in three League plus a number of friendly different winners (with one final to play competitions with other clubs. Bowls Club at the beginning of next season) Winter Update In addition, our Club Tournaments are Overall, a fantastic year of participation always a highlight of the season and our sport, played in a really friendly Finals Day is a great end to a very busy atmosphere! season. If you walk past the club at the moment, Lawn Bowls is a sport which is open to you will wonder what has happened to everyone and it is one of the only sports the green – the brown material currently where age is no barrier and anyone covering surface is a top dressing which (male or female) can contribute to the will work over the next few months to success of the team. Our club house and continually improve the playing surface. ground set in the Station Road Playing Fields, close to the Community Centre is We are always looking for new members a great place to play with 4 rinks that see – so if you fancy learning more, check a lot of healthy competition over the out what we have been doing – sign up summer months. to our Facebook page Standon & Puckeridge Bowls Club or visit our We are always looking for new members website at https:// and would encourage ANYONE (young standonpuckeridgebowlsclub.wordpress. or old) who enjoys competitive sport to com/ is fully up-to date and full of think about trying Bowls. Like golf it is pictures of us winning (and losing) a game where hand and eye co- matches!! ordination play a vital part in ensuring that you can get the bowl close to the Don’t worry if you haven’t got any jack, and it’s just as addictive as golf!! equipment or don’t know what to do – As the sun sets on our 2019 season, we we will show you the ropes and lend you If you are interested in playing bowls, can both look back on a hard-fought equipment until you know if you like the we would love to hear from you – and match programme and a fiercely game or not we can always set up a taster session – contested set of club competitions that just contact us through our website Our 2020 Open Day will be held on 25 https:// have meant that we can mark the season April – more of this in the next report as a success standonpuckeridgebowlsclub.wordpress. All about us: com/ Facebook Page - Standon & The men’s East Herts Bowls league We are a small and friendly club that Puckeridge Bowls Club or email team staged a revival in the second half encourages all ages and abilities to get standonandpuckeridgebowlsclub@gmail of the season to rise up the league to 5th involved in the sport of Lawn Bowls .com or why not write to us at Standon place (within 1 point of third) and Puckeridge Bowls Club, The Our competitive side is focussed around The friendly season ended with 50/50 Playing Field, Station Road, Standon participation in the East Herts Bowls win to losses ratio and our hard-fought SG11 1TF

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Standon & Puckeridge are always looking for new players. Christmas where they take part in our Contact Diana Foster 07778 031430. Christmas Nativity play. We will finish Tennis Club the term with a Christmas party and a There is still time to find your tennis NEW MEMBERS WELCOME, special visit from Father Christmas! racket and come down to the rates for parent/child/family Community Center for a game of tennis. membership, for details contact Sally SPINS Pre-School is open term time We have 3 excellent all weather courts Bradshaw 01920 821152. only, Monday – Friday from 9.15 am – with floodlighting for those darker 12.15 pm, an extended session is evenings. available which runs until 2.15 pm. SPINS Pre-School Children can enjoy lunch (provided by PAY TO PLAY is available to all, if you SPINS Pre-School have had a busy start you) with their peers and explore other just want to use the courts, £5 ph or to the new school year. We have fun-packed activities, which often £2.50 for juniors. If you need the welcomed lots of new Children starting means venturing outdoors to explore floodlights they are £4 ph. Contact their introduction to early years their ever changing environment. Keith Bradshaw on 01920 821152. learning. All our new Children have settled well and are enjoying a variety of SPINS Toddler Group runs every COACHING we have a new Head play based activities. Monday term time only from 9.30 am – Coach, Cliff Devonshire, who is an LTA 11.00 am. We offer a very warm and level 4 performance coach. Cliff has This term the children have been friendly welcome to all parents and introduced new coaching programs for exploring outdoor sounds and carers and their little ones. SPINS all types of player from juniors to environmental changes. The children Toddler Group allows you to meet new experienced Club members. enjoyed collecting natural resources (i.e. friends over a coffee whilst giving your sticks, leaves, conkers and acorns) child the first experience of personal, For more information regarding which encouraged them to design an social and emotional development. This coaching please contact Cliff on 07709 indoor Autumn Trail and number group is aimed at encouraging your 355655 activities with the conkers. child to make a smooth transition into ADULT TENNIS for all, Wednesday We also enjoyed getting messy carving SPINS Pre-School, however everyone is morning from 10am and Friday pumpkins, Halloween craft and the welcome. SPINS Toddler Group will be afternoon from 2pm. Contact Keith children enjoyed dressing up in holding their annual Christmas party on Bradshaw 01920 821152. Halloween costumes. Monday 9 December (tickets available in advance only). CLUB NIGHT Tuesday 6.30, we have We also learnt the importance of Ladies, Ladies 50+, Ladies 60+, Mens Firework safety and created lovely We still have a few spaces for the and Mixed teams in local leagues and firework pictures. coming school year if you are interested in our nursery please feel free to phone Still to come this or email us for more information to join term are many our waiting list. Visits are welcome by Christmas activities appointment only. Tel: 07881 533339. and the children will Email: [email protected] learn about the meaning of

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Environmental Drought to be implemented next year. We will work with the water companies to do The following are extracts from an everything we can to plan and protect the article entitled ‘Environmental Drought environment should we not receive the in Hertfordshire and North London’ level of rain we hope for this winter’. published by the Environment. ‘We are taking action to encourage water I don’t wish to detract from David companies to promote the importance of Edwards articles about Friends of the saving water to their customers and have River Rib but to rather reinforce what he recently joined forces with over 40 is reporting. The news from the partners to launch the Love Water Environment Agency is important and I campaign. This is aimed at encouraging hope you will all read and take on board people to use less water and look after their advice. The Environment Agency recharge is where our chalk aquifers are the water we have by taking steps to stop words are in inverted commas. topped up with water. This is the resource that feeds our chalk streams and causing pollution. We need the campaign ‘The combination of a drier than average also the source of much of the water to grow so that everyone knows that 3 years, high water consumption and which we all use in our homes.’ water is precious and wants to take climate change means that our action to protect it.’ environment is suffering. As a result, the ‘We are out and about monitoring You can read the full article at https:// Environment Agency’s Hertfordshire habitats, collecting evidence to inform environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2019/10 and North London area is suffering from decisions on drought and abstraction. By /01/environmental-drought-in- an Environmental Drought’. having this evidence we can support and enforce better planning to help conserve hertfordshire-and-north-london/. ‘There is significant stress on our rivers water for the environment.’ To protect our environment and the and the life they support across a number River Rib, residents need to take action of counties, including Norfolk, Suffolk, ‘Over the last 3 years we have been now to reduce their water consumption. Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, working with water companies, farmers We are so used to turning on the tap that Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire’. and businesses to balance the needs of water users. We have also worked with we don’t take a minute to think where ‘The South East has the highest water Affinity Water to reduce abstraction by that water is coming from. consumption in the country. Much of the 42 million litres per day since 2015, but Our river and wildlife are suffering now; water we use and take for granted is we know this isn’t enough. We have how long will it be I wonder until we are taken from rivers and groundwater secured further reductions totalling of 33 faced with domestic water rationing? A reservoirs (chalk aquifers). There’s lots million litres per day by 2025, a frightening thought but a very real of work going on to reduce current combined reduction of 12% of total possibility unless we reduce our usage demand.’ groundwater abstraction in their central now. ‘The South East has in fact received region. Going forward we will continue As an extension of this you could say lower than average rainfall over the last to work towards further changes to that the state of the River Rib is our fault 3 years. Recent dry winters mean that we improve chalk streams.’ for using too much water ourselves. have only received around 50% of the ‘Water companies are starting to ramp up winter recharge since 2016/17. Winter their drought Think about it and heed the warning planning to conserve before it’s too late. BTI PLUMBING water supplies for Brian Lemay next spring. Another AND HEATING dry winter will very likely require ● FULL BATHROOM RE-FURBISHMENTS Temporary Use Bans ● CENTRAL HEATING INSTALLATION ● BOILER SWAPS AND SERVICING JP Oil Boilers ● POWER FLUSHING Oil Boilers & AGA’s - Servicing & Breakdowns Tel: 01920 822 460 Mob: 07984 002 706 01920 438483 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.btiplumbingandheating.co.uk 559962 Visit: www.jpoilboilers.co.uk

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The Story of Stanley stepfather of her children. Nicholson, a 1st World War In 1914 the eldest of the three sons, William, decided to emigrate to Soldier Australia to seek his fortune, followed All of the men on the Standon War the next year by Stanley aged 17 and Memorial have an interesting back story, Leslie, just 14, leaving behind their but the story of Stanley Nicholson is mother and sister Linda. perhaps more interesting than some, partly due to the fact that, having tracked In 1916 William joined the war effort. down his family, they have kindly let me Stanley, who had been working as a have access to personal letters that has boundary rider, followed William, but he mostly been impossible to find for most had to wait for his mother’s permission of the other men. before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force. Linda The Nicholson family came to Wellpond Green from the Manchester area via a Both William and Stanley were wounded England, presumably following surgery, short spell in London sometime in 1908. in France, William suffered a gunshot but his condition then turned to A short time before that, Stanley’s father wound in his thigh in October 1917 and nephritis, a kidney disease, likely had disappeared from the scene, leaving returned to England for recovery before exacerbated by the appendix problem. Stanley and his siblings, two brothers being sent back to war. Stanley was also He was visited on at least two occasions and one sister, and their mother, Minnie, wounded, in an arm in August 1918, in hospital in Birchington, Kent by his who before very long, married a ‘farmer’ recovered and went back into the fray. mother and sister, and it is his sister’s Frederick Wilson Davis. I suspect their Having survived the war with a letter to brother William that follows, property at Wellpond Green was more of relatively minor injury, Stanley became dated just one day before Stanley died. a smallholding than a farm. In 1913 ill and was hospitalised on at least two Stanley is buried in the churchyard at Minnie lost her second husband, the occasions, and the impression, from his Standon, with a Commonwealth War hospital records, is Graves headstone. He was given a full that he was not military funeral, with firing party from diagnosed correctly the Australian Army, the service attended Vicki Matthews until his third by a large number of parishioners. I give all kinds of home items a new lease of life. admittance. The There is reference in the following letter, If you like something unique and a little different, record dated 19th to Linda’s arm, and her aching legs. This maybe some Shabby Chic then have a browse around November 1918 could be reference to the result of a fall my online shop. Or, perhaps you have an item of shows he had from a horse, which sadly led to furniture that you would like revamped? appendicitis, which paralysis, the cause of her death shortly was unrecognised after Stanley was buried. Linda was and untreated for too buried just six weeks after Stanley. In long. He was the burial register, just one other name shipped back to separates the brother and sister.

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Copied as written: before six o’clock in the morning and explain why Mr Burr, who ran the post that was twelve at night then we looked office and bakery, had volunteered to Oaklands, Standon Herts for a shelter & the only one we could feed the animals at the smallholding. 15th January 1919 find was a church open all night for Postscript 2: Minnie was the Dear Willie, soldiers or anybody & we sat there for five hours & were glad to get away to granddaughter of a certain William The Sydney Mail which have come, I Victoria Station & after all that worry by Roberts, a wealthy man who owned the will save for you, there are about half a (my) legs kind of ache & I feel I can’t Crown Brewery in Greenheys, dozen, but now they have stopped walk far, & Mr Burr that night send Manchester. He paid for the construction coming. somebody to Carlings ? to look after the of Christ Church, Didsbury, on the animals & they did not explain it proviso that it would be built near his Mother and I have been over to see house so he could see the church. There Stanley for the week and it was just over properly but however he did his best. & then he did not know of some pullets is a stained glass window in the church a hundred miles from here. We had to go in memory of their benefactor. has the matron sent two telegrams shut up & they went without food & saying he was dangerously ill, but I water from Friday to Monday night & think when we left him on Monday he when we got home, Mother lit the fire & was a lot better & he hopes to be home prepared tea while I went with a lantern soon. We have not had any snow I am and fed them pleased to say. I should think you hand Your affectionate must be painful, it does not hurt me to Stanley, write has it is my left arm. Mother’s Linda left and Birthday is Feb 2nd I must try to get her Minnie, Postscript 1: Stanley’s mother Minnie, below something, She is feeling a bit remarried in 1920 to Henry Glidewell, miserable, what with my arm & ----, and and it was perhaps under this name that she would be so pleased to have all of she was known when she ran a small you home for a while. shop at Wellpond Green, which was the Mother has send you £10 on last subject of a comment by Frank HisIop in Wednesday so perhaps you have the book of local reminiscences ‘The received it by now. Way It Was’. She died in 1949. Mother and I feel dreadfully tired after “There were two very basic shops in our journey because it happened on Wellpond Green which sold groceries Friday just has we got back from etc., Mrs Case and her daughter ran one, Standon station from the hospital, we they were rather ‘sweet’ and we used the found the telegram at Mr Burr’s and facility quite often. Mrs Glidewell ran then we rushed of again to London by the other; her oil lamps were not well the next train not having time to come maintained, the shop reeked of paraffin home even and there we were in London and the ceiling was black.” Frank Hislop finding out the way to get to also mentioned that bread was delivered Birchington, but we could not start daily from Burr’s Bakery - which would UK CITY ROOFING A10 TIMBER CO TEL: 01920 822775 One of the largest Timber and Martin 07970 940290 Mark 07973 835449 Board Stockists in the area ROOFING SPECIALIST Graded and treated softwood at competitive [email protected] prices, Plywood, Hardboard, OSB, Three Layer High Performance Plasterboard, MDF, Planed Softwood, Timber/ Built-up Felt MDF Mouldings, High Performance Torch-on Felting Roofing Felt & Battens, Claddings, Fencing, Mastic Asphalting ● Slating & Tiling Q Deck & Accessories, Barn Paint, Insulation, Range of Flooring, Mini Wood Briquettes for Roof Repairs ● Guttering Log Burners, Cutting & Delivery Service UPVC Fascias & Soffits BARWICK FORD, WARE, SG11 1AL ALL WORK GUARANTEED Tel: 01279 842016 FREE ESTIMATES ● FREE ADVICE www.a10timber.co.uk NO OBLIGATION Email: [email protected] Page 20 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

The Hundred Parishes Each bell is rung by a separate person, Labour Party pulling gently but firmly on a bell rope East Herts Rural Branch Society from below. A practised team of bell The local party is now concentrating on www.hundredparishes.org.uk ringers can create a wonderful sound as the General Election. We had selected the bells are swung in a predetermined our candidate only shortly before the sequence. The simplest sequence is to election was called. Selection was made ring the lightest bell first and so on at an all-member meeting, where every through to the heaviest, producing a member present had a vote. We had a round of descending notes. strong shortlist of two men and one The round may be repeated many times woman, and each of them made a or, on the conductor’s instruction, the presentation and answered questions sequence may be changed by swapping from the audience. two bells. There are many possible The result was that Kelley Green was sequences for ringing a given number of selected. She was born in Welwyn bells: for eight bells the number of Garden City and has spent most of her different sequences is 40,320. An life in Hertfordshire, but moved to experienced team will sometimes Cambridgeshire where she now helps to attempt to ring a continuous set of run the family farm. By training she is a As Christmas approaches, we are more changing sequences. Long ago it was landscape architect and has worked for likely to hear the distinctive sound of decided that anything over 5,000 many years as a town planner in local church bells. Most of our church towers changes of sequence would be termed a government, specialising in were erected with the specific purpose “peal”. regeneration. of housing bells high above the rooftops A peal typically takes around 3 hours so so their sound could be heard over a Last year, she was elected to Cambridge requires organisation and great wide area, calling people to worship or, City Council, where she is vice-chair of concentration and stamina. Peals are sometimes, to celebrate a special the Planning and Transport Scrutiny rarely attempted, but when successfully occasion. Committee and has been particularly achieved they may be recorded in the concerned with environmental issues Church bells come in many different church on a “peal board” giving the bell and with the provision of affordable sizes, the larger giving a deeper tone. Of -ringers’ names and the title of the housing. Hundred Parishes churches, Saffron change sequence or method that was Walden has most bells with 12, the used. David Bell largest weighing over a ton. Some bells are extremely old: Great Waltham, Little Ken McDonald, Secretary Hallingbury, Little Hormead, Strethall and Westmill each have one dating from the 14th century.

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Events at Hertford Museum: Its Free! Donations welcome! Winter Health The Hertfordshire Regiment during Knit and Natter, Second Thursday of Just because it’s cold and damp outside the Second World War - Until 14 the month: 12 December (1.30 pm – isn’t reason to slip into hibernation January 3.30 pm) mode. The expression ‘use it or lose it ‘ The Hertfordshire Regiment, a Volunteer Whether you’re a seasoned knitter or just is even more important in winter as we regiment made up of ordinary civilians, a beginner, bring your projects along to tend to make all manner of excuses not saw action in Italy and Palestine and Hertford Museum. This is a chance to to be active. Try to use any opportunity took part in the Normandy landings. share ideas and patterns in a comfortable you can for a very brisk 30 minute walk Discover how this plucky Regiment setting over a cup of tea or coffee. outside. fought the war and the stories of £1 per person Time outside has been scientifically ordinary men in extraordinary times! proven to lift peoples moods and Illustrated by amazing objects from our Teeny, Tiny, Toddler Christmas, positivity. Regiment collections! Tuesday 17 December 10.15 – 11.30 am Maybe offer to walk other people’s Time’s Keepers: Discover Hertford's dogs? Clock and Their Makers - Until 22 Join us for Christmas crafts, singing and February 2020 storytelling in our magical Christmas  Start taking Vit. D tablets October to Explore what makes Hertford tick with grotto. March this new exhibition, as we explore £4 per child, includes festive  Still use sunscreen, all year round. UV clocks, watches, hourglasses and more. refreshments for children and parents/ rays can still damage your skin even Find out about the gifted craftsmen who carer. when cloudy. worked in the town and discover the  Try hard to avoid carbs. Big thick beauty and innovation behind their Booking Essential. Please book your chunky veg. soup will really fill that work. place at the museum on 01992 582686 need. or at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ Its Free! Donations welcome! whats-on/18-bull-plain/hertford-  Add the layers rather than turn up the heating. Better for the environment. Open Tues – Sat 10am-5pm museum/teeny-tiny-toddler- christmas/2019-12-17/10:15/t-ngqoxg  Try to arrange friends to visit on wet Stay & Play, Saturday 7 December weekends for Board Games and 10am – 4.30pm Free spaces available * Charades. Drop in and play with some traditional  If carbs are a bit of a digestive toys and get hands on with a family craft problem, charcoal tablets are a game activity. changer.

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The Hundred Parishes across the country to help soak up Glière: Horn Concerto carbon. Current tree cover in the Society Hundred Parishes is about 6% and any Soloist: Ben Goldscheider www.hundredparishes.org.uk new trees will bring significant visual Brahms: Symphony No.1 changes to its landscape. Trees produce This year our farmers celebrated the timber, habitats for wildlife and reduce Tickets: £18 adults, £15 concessions, £1 season of mellow fruitfulness with good flooding risk. Groups of trees can children/students* crops of wheat while the hedgerows modify the local climate by providing have been well-stocked with crab apples, Sunday 17 May 7pm, Hertford shade, cooling the air and making urban Theatre sloes, rose hips and hawthorn berries. areas more attractive. Folklore hints that masses of fruits ‘Nordic Fantasies’ foretell a harsh winter to come; in reality To ensure that this project is successful, Sibelius En Saga the favourable conditions last spring consideration must be given to the enabled the flower buds formed the location of plantings and the most Grieg Songs with orchestra previous summer to blossom. appropriate species, with maintenance Mezzo Soprano: Emma Stannard plans so that these new trees thrive. Each year has its own unique pattern of Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 weather with records of notable events. Tricia Moxey, Trustee The spire of Finchingfield Church blew Tickets: £18 adults, £15 concessions, £1 down during the great storm of February children/students* 1661. The inhabitants of Finchingfield Hertford Symphony suffered again as 16 barns were Orchestra Concerts Saturday 27 June 7.45, Hertford destroyed in the great storm of Sunday 2 February 2.30 and 4.15, Theatre November 1703. The freezing conditions Hertford Theatre Summer Concert of the very cold winter of 1895 allowed ‘Musical Tales’ Wagner: Tannhauser overture the people of Saffron Walden to enjoy tobogganing by moonlight while folk in Robert Kiln Concerts for Children Dvorak: The Water Goblin Dunmow held an ice carnival. There are An enchanting concert of storytelling Beethoven: Symphony No.5 many accounts of hot summers when and music celebrating the involvement wells ran dry or hail ruined crops. of the Robert Kiln family in the musical Guest conductor: Peter Selwyn Those who study long-term trends are life of Hertford over many years. Dress Tickets: £18 adults, £15 concessions, £1 concerned about the warming of the up as your favourite story character. children/students* atmosphere, hotter summers and an Audience participation guaranteed! Hertford Theatre increase in the frequency of storms Tickets: £8 adults, £5 children* which can cause serious flooding, Visit www.hertfordtheatre.com (*All damage to trees and property and loss of Saturday 14 March 7.45, Hertford tickets prices include £1 theatre booking power. Theatre fee) Box Office 01992 531500 Spring Concert In May the UK Government declared a Drill Hall buy online at Climate Emergency with ambitious Strauss: Serenade for Thirteen Wind www.wegottickets.com plans to plant 50 million trees per year Instruments Hertford Tourist Information: 01992 R A Daniels 584322 Mobile: 07966 477645 Or for ticket reservations call 01279 466653

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Puckeridge WI Colliers End Village Hall Recent Spike in Telephone Unfortunately Puckeridge WI will be Committee. Scams suspended and hold it's last meeting in In response to the article featured in the We are have been experiencing a “spike” December after 7 years running in the September issue of the PS News, in the number of reports of scam village. Only half of our membership regarding “ Development in Colliers telephone calls where the caller is came from Standon and Puckeridge, End”, The Planning Mole. claiming to be a police officer. with the other half coming from In the recent series, the caller claims that Buntingford, Cheshunt, Hertford, As a group of concerned villagers of the money in your account is Bengeo, Thundridge and the surrounding Colliers End we would like it noted that counterfeit. areas, all wanting our less traditional we were very appreciative of the approach to the Women's Institute. With information shared by the planning mole They ask you to assist the ‘police two members of the committee stepping regarding the development at the north investigation’ by withdrawing money down, we couldn't fill the roles that we end of our village. from your bank account and handing it needed to. to someone who come and collect it. In our busy lives, sometimes we are not It has been a pleasure to be part of a all able to be fully aware of exactly what You may be told not to trust the bank fantastic group of women, and we are all is happening all around us and those staff and to use a cover story if you are planning on staying in touch for monthly willing & able to take the trouble to help questioned about why you are making meet ups, without the banner of the WI. in ANY area of village life should be the withdrawal. appreciated for their commitment to our community. Some fraudsters ask you to dial another Parking Meter Scam number to speak to someone to You are approached by someone who As villagers we were not fully aware of corroborate their story. In reality, the pleads with you to help them with a the size of the proposed development, phone line is held open and you simply parking meter that won’t accept their certainly not at to the South if the speak to the fraudster’s accomplice. foreign card. village. While many people recognise scam They ask you to use your card to make In previous cases where development calls, some people - particularly those their car park payment, and they will has been proposed we were invited to who are elderly or vulnerable - have give you the cash. view plans & meet with developers in fallen prey to these highly persuasive our Village Hall in a very neighbourly fraudsters and have lost money. Once you have entered your card and manner, an act that was very much PIN number, your card will not come out appreciated. It is therefore vital that these people in of the machine. They ring who they say particular are aware of the scam, so we is the meter company who tells you they A construction of this size in the village are asking you to share this advice with will send an engineer to fix the machine may have lead to a healthy debate. anyone who may be vulnerable to this and will contact you later to return your We watch with interest as our new crime. card. visitors make us of their new premises. Colliers End Village Hall Committee. We would like to stress that the police or Once you have left, they retrieve your your bank would never ask you to card and use it. withdraw large sums of cash and hand it PLASTERING SERVICES BROOKSIDE GROUNDWORKS Free Estimates—Insurance Work Undertaken Patio’s, Paths, Slab or Block Paving, Kerbing + Driveways, Covering Artex a Speciality - Ceilings - All Aspects of Plastering House Footings + Over-sites, Concrete bases + Drainage EST 1980 - STEPHEN HOPE For Free Estimate TEL: 01920 823340 MOB: 07778 118614 Tel: 01279 777 624 Mobile : 0774 368 9413 Mini Digger and Peter B Priddis Builder & Decorator, Household Repairs Operator For Hire Interior & Exterior Decorating, Swimming Pools, General Repairs, Phone Steve Wren on: Plumbing, Roofing, Patios, Driveways, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Tiling Tel/Fax: 01438 869500 Mobile: 07841 142971 07816 861286 Established since 1975

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One criminal stands by the targeted car, If you are suspicious of a call you Although residents of different age while the other one stands close enough receive, please hang up and report it to groups have been targeted, we have to the house to enable the device to pick police, on our Police Non-Emergency received most reports where the victims up the signal from the key fob. number 101 or online have been senior residents. www.herts.police.uk/contact This signal is transferred to the second If you are concerned about the money in Protect Your Money box, which is placed alongside the car or your account, you should contact your Please be alert to this crime type and in the hands of the criminal, effectively bank by visiting your local branch or by share this alert with neighbours and fooling the car into ‘thinking’ the key is contacting them on their published relatives. present. number. When loading shopping into your With the doors unlocked, the criminals vehicle, be conscious about where your can start the car at the press of a button, Supermarket Car Parks - handbag or other valuables are. Place leaving them free to drive away. them out of reach of passers-by and In order to secure your car, one of the Thefts from Customers don’t leave them unattended, even for a most simple crime prevention measures Two thefts in supermarket car parks in moment. different parts of the county were is to place you key in a metal box such reported recently. This is part of an Should a stranger approach you with a as a biscuit or cake tin, one may also ongoing trend of thefts of handbags and question, finish loading your shopping purchase a key pocket. Basically any wallets taking place in local supermarket and lock your valuables into your Faraday cage will do the trick. car parks throughout the county. vehicle before speaking with them. Circumstances vary, but always involve Please use your hand as a shield while Police or Banking Official a customer being approached in the car entering your PIN number when Scam park by a stranger, who distracts them by shopping or at cash points. asking a question or asking them to look Action Fraud are alerting people across at something. the UK to an ongoing fraud problem Keyless cars where residents are receiving phone calls A typical scenario is where a customer is I know that we have brought this to your from people claiming to be a police putting their shopping into their vehicle. attention before but due to thefts of two officer or banking official. A stranger approaches and distracts them cars, both BMW's from the Walkern and by pointing out a concern in relation to There have been numerous reports of Aston areas, I am keen to send another this fraud type in Hertfordshire recently. their car. While they are distracted by reminder. looking at the potential car problem, an The caller will say either: accomplice grabs their unattended If you have the type of car where you handbag. may just jump in with the key in your 1) There has been fraudulent activity at pocket, push a button to start and away the victims’ bank and bank staff are A similar scenario is where a stranger you go, then please be aware that given involved. The victim is then asked to approaches the customer and asks for the right circumstance a criminal withdraw money to either keep it safe or directions. Again, while the customer is equipped with the correct tools may assist the police with their investigation. focusing on giving directions, their pinch the vehicle in seconds. property is stolen. 2) A business such as a jewellers or This is how it is done; currency exchange is fraudulent and they In most cases, the victim’s cash is stolen need the victims’ assistance to help and their cards are used quickly at a A ‘relay attack’ is worryingly simple, secure evidence by purchasing jewellery nearby location. In some cases, the thief making it all the more alarming for or exchange a large amount of currency owners of cars with a keyless entry to hand over to the police. system. Once a car Logs cut to size has been targeted, 3) The victims’ card has been two criminals work compromised and used to purchase and delivered to your home together using goods by a suspect, the victim is Mr J Moule electronic signal requested to withdraw their money to 01763 272516 07813 249778 relay devices to steal keep it safe or hand their bank card to the vehicle, the police. 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The caller may tell the victim to lie Looking at your mobile phone means accumulation of other symbols but about the reason for the withdrawal or you are not looking at the road. Our always there. When a council tried to purchase if challenged by staff, claiming advice is put your mobile in the glove- rebrand Christmas as “Winterval” the that the staff members are involved in box as soon as you get into your vehicle. outcry was too great for it to survive. the fraud. More than 1,500 people were caught Christ is still (at least for now) an Occasionally the victim will be told to using their mobile phone across essential symbol of Christmas. Yet it is dial a police number to receive Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and a sanitised Jesus, surrounded with confirmation of the story. Hertfordshire last year: gentle animals, a bright star and exotic • 371 in Bedfordshire kings. The full Christmas story is rarely A courier attends the victim’s home • 483 in Cambridgeshire told; it is not suitable for children! Look address to collect the goods the same • 717 in Hertfordshire at the slaughter of the innocents in day. Often the victim is given a code Matthew 2 and you will see what I word for the courier as a way of Of these, two thirds were under the age mean. authentication. of 40. Anyone caught using a mobile phone while driving will be fined £200 The hope we have in Jesus at Remember, your bank or police and will receive six penalty points. Any Christmastime goes far beyond symbol. would never: driver caught using a mobile phone It is historic, relevant and radical. Jesus  Phone and ask you for your PIN or full within two years of passing their test, is sign of hope for unmarried mothers, banking password will have their licence revoked. for families under stress, for the  Ask you to withdraw money to hand religiously marginalised, for the over to them for safe-keeping The Symbol of Christmas homeless, for the politically oppressed,  Ask you to transfer money out of your for the refugee, for those without hope. The symbols of Christmas are account The Christmas story shows that God everywhere: on cards, in shop windows, will give justice to all of these  Send someone to your home to collect on television. Red-breasted robins, cash, PINs, cards to cheque books marginalised, whilst those who repress snowmen, Christmas trees, Father using the power of politics and religion Christmas, choirs outside churches, are seen for what they are: opposed to Using your phone while Victorian coaches driving through thick God and ultimately judged by him. driving could cost you snow. Some of these symbols are seasonal; some are nostalgic; some are The Christian belief is that the birth of £200 and six points on semi-pagan; and some have Christian Jesus was the most important event the roots that are now pretty-well forgotten. world had ever known, and his life was your license! the turning point for all humankind. The Police are clamping down on motorists These symbols have great power. They Christian belief is that he was actually who use mobile devices and reminding bring back memories of our childhood. God himself, come to earth, limited by them to keep their eyes on the road, not They have importance for children human physicality but displaying all the on their phone. today. They give a vision of better times attributes of God within that limitation. Drivers using a mobile phone while when life was simple. Even the snow This is why the birth of Jesus is still a driving are four times more likely to be speaks of purity and fresh hope. Of involved in a collision, according to a course, we all know that this is only great hope for us today. This is why the recent Parliamentary report. A moment’s half the truth (if it is truthful at all) but marginalised can have hope and the distraction is all it takes to crash, still the symbols give us hope. If powerful should be concerned. This is resulting in potentially devastating, life- anyone doubts the power of symbol, why Christians worship him, because long consequences for not only the just think of Christmas. he is not only the ultimate symbol of driver, but their passengers, other road Christmas but also hope for today and Into this comes the symbol of Jesus, eternal life for the future. You are very users and pedestrians too. sometimes buried beneath the

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Village Diary based at Standon and Puckeridge Details Andrea Allen 07989 980038 Community Centre (term time email: [email protected] Club Secretaries: Please keep us up to only). Trained staff currently collect website: www.ribvalleytc.co.uk date with any changes to your regular children from Roger de Clare, Starlight Stars: meeting days and events. Ralph Sadleir, St Thomas of Standon & Puckeridge Community We will take details of events as far Canterbury and Jenyns Schools. For Centre ahead as you like to try to stop two further details please contact Nicola 3.45 Twinkling Stars 4-6yrs events clashing and spoiling the day. on 07904391133 or email on 4.45 Shooting Stars 7-10yrs NB Some activities will be seasonal or [email protected]. 5.45 Bright Stars 11-13yrs in term time only, please phone the 6.45 Drama Stars (Group acting) 10- 14yrs contact to check before turning up and Monday Call Alex 01763 287691 possibly being disappointed. 9.30- 11.00 SPINS Toddler Group at Puckeridge & Standon Community 6.35 Zumba Fitness at Standon Village Centre. Term time only. Details Hall. Details 07578 994221 Every Weekday 07881 533339 7 Braughing Bridge Club, Old Boy’s 7.45-8.30am WASPS Breakfast Club at 10.00am - 11.30am Iyengar Yoga at School, Braughing. Details Sue Standon and Puckeridge Standon Village Hall, Hadham 01920 823692 Community Centre (term time Road, Standon, SG11 1LE. Contact 7.15 4th Monday of the month: 7.15pm only).Trained staff currently take Sarah on 07427 596961 or visit Ware District Trefoil Guild, St children to Roger de Clare, Ralph www.TowardYoga.com for info. Mary's Church Hall, Ware. Guiding Sadleir and St Thomas of 10am – 4pm CAB North Entrance, for adults. Details Alex Chapman Canterbury Schools for registration. Manor House, 21 High Street, 01920 465726 For further details please contact Buntingford. Tel: 0844 848 9700. 7.30 Braughing Bridge Club in the Old Nicola on 07904391133 or email on 1.45 Kettleball Exercise Classes, Boys School, Braughing. Details [email protected]. Standon & Puckeridge Community Sue 01920 823692 9.30 - 12.15 or 2.15 (lunch club). Term Centre. Details Sue 07854 316628 7.30 Dance JAM Academy – Standon Time only SPINS Pre-School 2pm Second Monday of the month - Village Hall , Adult Tap (all levels) Standon & Puckeridge Community Buntingford & District U3A, 2pm at [email protected] Centre. Fun and friendly the Seth Ward Community Centre, Julie 07971 699615 atmosphere with qualified staff. Buntingford. Visits welcome. Details 07881 4.30-8.30 Rib Valley Gymnastics and 533339. Trampolining Buntingford. Monday 3.15-6.15pm WASPS After School Club Trampolining Freman College: PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 33

Tuesday Standon & Puckeridge Tennis Club Details Jackie Andrews 01763 5pm Mini Orange/Green (8-10 yrs) 247675 10am -Noon The Listening Place (a drop 6pm Junior Club night 6.30 Tennis Club evening (continues in centre for bereavement advice 7pm Senior Club night under floodlights throughout the and support). Tuesdays at Leaside winter). Details Diana Foster 07778 Church and Community Centre, Details Cliff Devonshire 07709 031430 High Street, Ware SG12 9BT. 355655. 7.30 Bell Ringing Practice, St Mary's Details Alison 01763 232673. Starlight Stars at Standon & Puckeridge Church Tower, Standon. Interested? 10am Nifty-Fifties Exercise Class for the Community Centre - Come along or: Details Trevor over 50’s. Standon Village Hall. 4pm Hip Hop 7-11 yrs Chapman 01920 821341. Details Denise Sallows 01920 4.30 Advance Street Dance(UDO) 7.30 Embroidery Group. Second 823072 12+yrs Tuesday in the month, Sargeant 10am – 1pm CAB North Entrance, Call Alex 01763 287691 Room, Standon Village Hall. Manor House, 21 High Street, 4.30 -7.45 Ballet at Braughing Church Details Barbara Norris 01920 Buntingford. Tel: 0844 848 9700. Hall: Karen Howarth - 01279 822104 Third Tuesday Colliers End Village 651535 8.30 Puckeridge Karate Club meets at Walks followed by refreshments. 5.30 Beavers (6-8yrs Scouts) Standon & Standon & Puckeridge Community Details Suzanne Anderson 07896 Puckeridge Community Centre, Centre. Details Clive Bowen 01763 699844 Term time only, Angie Adamson 231132 10.45 Nifty@fifty + exercise classes - 01763 849902 11.15am Chair-Aside exercise. 6pm Tap, Modern & Jazz at Braughing Puckeridge & Standon Community Community Centre: Kate Dutton - Wednesday Centre. Details Denise Sallows 07969 362224 8.30 Under 1’s Childrens’ Group, 01920 823072 6pm 2nd Buntingford Brownies. Term Standon Village Hall. Details Kelly 11.30 Punchline Boxing (adults) at time in Buntingford. Email for Brightman 01920 463949 Standon & Puckeridge Community details [email protected] 9.15 Service of Communion at St Mary's Centre. Details Adam Davidson 6.15 1st Standon & Puckeridge Standon, followed by 07903 657146 Brownies. Term time in Standon. refreshments (No service in 1.30-3pm Little Fishes Mother & Details Naomi Divall 01920 August) Toddler, & Little Fishes Church, 822169 9.30 Pilates at Standon & Puckeridge Braughing Church Hall. Term Time 6.30 Cubs - Puma Pack (8-10½ years, Community Centre. Details Clare only. Parish Administrator 01920 Scouts), term-time only. Standon & 07966 213880 823832 Puckeridge Community Centre. 9.30 (term time) Little Hadham Parents & Toddlers group. Held Little Page 34 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

Hadham Village Hall 3.30 Mini Movers Street Dance 4-6yrs Club, The Robin Hood & Little 10am Standon & Puckeridge Tennis 4pm and 4.45pm Street Stars 7-14yrs John, Tonwell/The Axe & Club Adult Tennis. Details Keith Call Alex 01763 287691 Compasses, Braughing. Book in Bradshaw 01920 821152 5.45-6.15pm Scout and Guide Band, with Peter Warren 01920 824099 10am – 1pm CAB North Entrance, Jenyn's School. Term time 8pm Kettleball Exercise Classes, Manor House, 21 High Street, only. Details Derek Goodall 07790 Standon & Puckeridge Community Buntingford. Tel: 0844 848 9700 875862 / Centre. Details Sue 07854 316628 11am Pilates Group Standon Village [email protected] 8pm Ware Photographic Society meets Hall. Details Judy Coward 01920 6.15 Punchline Boxing (juniors) at at Thundridge Village Hall, 822812 Standon & Puckeridge Community September to May. Details: Barbara 11.30 Kettleball Exercise Classes, Centre. Details Adam Davidson Norris 01920 822104 www.wareps. Standon & Puckeridge Community 07903 657146 org.uk Centre. Details Sue 07854 316628 6.30 Cubs - Cheetah Pack (8-10½ yrs, 8pm First Wednesday of the month, East 12.30 Bramble Hill Children’s Centre Scouts), term-time only. Braughing Herts Aviation Society meets at the young parents group. (Term time). Church Hall. Details Derek Goodall The Sword Inn Hand, Details 01763 273008 01763 273149. Westmill, Buntingford. Details 2pm Second Wednesday of the month 6:30 Scouts (10½ - 14½ years old), term Ray Hankin – Ware U3A, Wodson Park, (doors -time only. Braughing Old Boys ([email protected]) or Vic open 1.30pm). Pat Davidson, 01920 School. Details Simon Smith 07773 Flintham ([email protected]) 438309 016567 2.15 - 4.30pm Little Munden Cafe at All 6.30 Braughing Aviation Society Thursday Saints Church, Little Munden. April meetings. First Wednesday of the Starlight Stars: - October. month at the Axe and Compasses, Standon & Puckeridge Community 3pm Friendly club bowls game. New Braughing. Details Ray Hankin Centre members and interested people 01920 832191 5pm Sing Up! (Group Singin) 7-16yrs welcome. Standon & Puckeridge 7pm Braughing Tennis Club night. 5.30 Rising Stars (Musical Theatre) 14- Bowls Club, Station Road, Details Karen Gore 07860 484878 18yrs Puckeridge. Details John Simmons 7pm Zumba classes, Standon & Call Alex 01763 287691 821282 Puckeridge Community Centre. 4.45pm 1st Standon & Puckeridge Dance JAM Academy – Standon Village Details Diana 01920 822667 Rainbows. Term time in Standon. Hall 7pm Guides during term time in Details 4pm Baby Ballet (3+ Years) Braughing. Details Louise 07971 [email protected] 4.30pm Prep/Primary Ballet (5-8 800443 Puckeridge Karate Club years) 7.15 till 8.45pm Ranger Girl Guides Juniors: 7-8pm, Adults 8-9.30pm, 5pm Grade 1 Ballet (8+ years) (14+ years), Cottered Guide Centre, Standon & Puckeridge Community 5pm Prep/Primary Tap (5-8 years) SG9 9QP. Details Rosanne Kenealy Centre. Details 01763 231132 or at 6pm Prep/Primary Freestyle (5-8 01920 821304 TG’s Convenience Store. years) 7.30 Explorer Scouts (14-18 yrs) 7 Puckeridge Karate Club meets 7pm [email protected] Bowling Green Lane, Buntingford. at Standon & Puckeridge 4.15-6.15 Gymnastics Edwinstree Meets throughout the year Details Middle School. Details Andrea Christine Pestle Allen 07989 980038 email: 07711 506281 Domestic Assistants [email protected] 7.45 Third Salary in line with living wage

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Recruitment of St Thomas of Canterbury School temporary/permanent staff Specialist Recruitment Midday Supervisor Assistant Vacancy Qualified/Unqualified Social Workers Occupational Therapists, Housing Specialists Permanent or Temporary Cover Revenue & Council Tax Officers and Administrators Hours: 12:00 midday to 1:15 pm Approved Supplier to over 50 Nationwide Local Authority Rates of pay per hour: £7.88 Contracts, Including; Hertfordshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Enfield, London and many more. Please contact School Office (01920 821450) for an Application Form SW Locums Ltd T: 01920 823775 M: 07545 696819 We operate a Safer Recruitment process for all staff and volunteers www.swlocums.com Email: [email protected] PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 35

Community Centre. Details Clive Saturday Communion Bowen 01763 231132 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Dance JAM Academy – Ralph Sadlier 7 Church Choir meets at St Mary’s Communion School Church, Standon. Details Michael 5th Sunday no service in Braughing 8.45am Grade 3 Tap Smith 01920 821281. - shared Holy Communion service 9.15am Grade 4 Freestyle 7 Punchline Boxing (adults) at 10.30am at St Mary’s Church, 10.00am Grade 2 Tap Standon & Puckeridge Community Stocking Pelham. 10.30am Grade 2 Freestyle Centre. Details Adam Davidson St. Mary’s Church Standon: Please see 11.00am Choreography 07903 657146 the church notice board or service 11.30am Musical Theatre 8 Hertfordshire Holly, Mixed Clog cards or the monthly church [email protected] Morris Dance Side. High Cross newsletter for up-to-date 9am - 1pm at Jenyns School Braughing: Village Hall. New dancers and information. Details: Michael Smith Ballet: Karen Howarth - 01279 musicians welcome. Details Mary (Churchwarden) 01920 821281 651535 & Tap, Modern & Jazz: Deeks 01920 822905 11.15 Mass at Old Hall Green Roman Kate Dutton - 07969 362224 8 Prayer and Life Group, A10 Catholic Church. Details 01763 9.30 First Saturday of the month - help Christian Mission. Details 01920 271471. with work in Standon Churchyard. 821684. 11am Main service at The Methodist 9.30 Vinyasa Flow with RedYoga at 8.30 Standon Morris practice nights, Church, Braughing. Details Revd Standon Village Hall. Details Saskia Standon Village Hall, Oct to Apr. David Mullins 01279 654475. 07590 964016 Meet in The Star from 8pm - new 2.45 -5pm Braughing Sunday Teas. 9.30 Pilates at Standon & Puckeridge male & female dancers & musicians Every Sunday May - 14 October Community Centre. Details Clare welcome (aged 12 and over) Tel: (excluding 3 June). Home-made 07966 213880 07808 969379 cakes and teas in the Church 12.30-2pm Contessa Vaulting Group Rooms, plus homemade jams. training sessions and competition 4.45-6pm St Mary’s at the School (with Friday practice. All welcome. Details Tina 2pm Standon & Puckeridge Tennis Club Messy Church), at Roger de Clare Layton 01920 821792 School during term time. 4th Adult Tennis. Details Keith 6pm Evening Mass at Puckeridge Sundays 10.45am at St Mary’s Bradshaw 01920 821152 Roman Catholic Church. Details Church. Details Marion Smith - 4.15-6.15pm Rib Valley Gymnastics @ 01763 271471. Edwinstree School, Buntingford. email: Contact Andrea Allen 07989980038 Sunday [email protected] email: [email protected] website: www.ubsms.org.uk 9.30 Vinyasa Flow with RedYoga at 7:30 Explorer Scouts (14 - 18 years old), Standon Village Hall. Details Saskia Christ Church, Ware. Meet December 07590 964016 throughout the year. Details Jim 1 Brent Pelham Christmas Fair 11- Braughing, St Mary the Virgin Services: Campbell 01920 461134. 3.30pm at the Village Hall. 1st Sunday: 11:15am All Age Holy 8 Ware Swimming Club Trials 1 Isabel Hospice Lights of Love, 3.30 Communion evening. All welcome. Training at Market Square, Bishop’s 2nd Sunday: 9.30am Morning evenings are Monday and Friday. Stortford. Details 01707 382500 Worship & 5:45 Refresh - informal Details Mr Vanner 01920 464439. 3 Puckeridge WI Christmas Meal service Details [email protected] 3rd Sunday: 11:15am Holy

NURSERY & RECEPTION APPLICATIONS OPEN at ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY!  an outstanding school  30 hours childcare offered (non-eligible pupils can pay an hourly rate  small, rural christian school with very large and attractive grounds  catholic and non catholic children welcome  and non catholic children welcome  forest school approach throughout the school  high expectations for academic excellence APPLICATIONS currently OPEN (deadline 15th January 2020) WWW.STCANTERBURY.HERTS.SCH.UK St Thomas of Canterbury Primary School, Puckeridge SG11 1RZ Tel: 01920 821450 [email protected] Page 36 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

4 Community Café at Standon & & Falcon celebrate turning off the Development of Saxon Towns in Puckeridge Community Centre, lights and share a New Year’s Herts (with a look at Braughing), 8.45-11.30am. Details Alison drink. All welcome. 8pm. talks for the Braughing Local 01920 822872. 13 Friends of the River Rib meeting, History Society, 2pm at St Mary’s 5 Isabel Hospice Lights of Love, 6pm details https:// Church Hall, Braughing. at Hatfield House, AL9 5NB. friendsoftherib.wordpress.com/ Details 01707 382500 16 A Journey through Uzbekistan, talk March 7 Stay & Play at Hertford Museum. 10 for Braughing WI. Church Hall, 4 Community Café at Standon & -4.30pm. Details 01992 582686. Braughing at 7.30pm. Details Kate Puckeridge Community Centre, 7 Isabel Hospice Lights of Love, 3.30 01920 822397. 8.45-11.30am. Details Alison at Halsey Masonic Hall, Walnut 21 Buntingford Railway and Local 01920 822872. Tree House, Turners Hill, Cheshunt History Society AGM. The Crown, 19 Bagels and Bacon, talk for EN8 8NJ.. Details 01707 382500 Buntingford, 8pm. Details Stephen Braughing WI. Church Hall, 8 Christmas Extravaganza, 3pm at Ruff 01763 289516. Braughing at 7.30pm. Details Kate Ware Drill Hall. Tickets from 25 Isabel Hospice Jumble Sale, 2pm at 01920 822397. Hertford Tourist Information Thundridge Village Hall SG12 21 The Buntingford Line, A Tea Time 01992 584322. 0TU. Details Ann Davey 01920 Talk at Standon Village Hall. 3pm 10 Teeny, Tiny, Toddler Christmas at 462992. Details Trish 01920 821069. Hertford Museum. Details 01992 25 Where the Wild Things Are, A Tea 28 Isabel Hospice Jumble Sale, 2pm at 582686. Time Talk at Standon Village Hall. Thundridge Village Hall SG12 12 Knit and Natter at Hertford 3pm Details Trish 01920 821069. 0TU. Details Ann Davey 01920 Museum, 1.30-3.30pm. Details 26 Braughing Local History Society 462992. 01992 582686. Songs and Teas with the Chiltern 17 Teeny, tiny, Toddler Christmas at West Gallery Quire, 2.45 - 5pm at April Hertford Museum, 10.15-11.30am. St Mary’s Church Hall, Braughing. 16 The History of Hatfield House, talk Details 01992 582686. for Braughing WI. Church Hall, 17 Carols in Haileybury College February Braughing at 7.30pm. Details Kate Chapel, 7.30pm. Tickets £20 per 2 Hertford Symphony Orchestra 01920 822397. person from 01707 382535. Concert ‘Musical Tales’ for 25 Standon & Puckeridge Bowls Club 20 Manchester Ship Canal talk for children. 2.30pm and 4.15pm Open Day. Details Buntingford Railway and Local Tickets Hertford Tourist standonandpuckeridgebowlsclub@ History Society. The Crown, Information 01992 584322. gmail.com Buntingford, 8pm. Details Stephen 5 Community Café at Standon & Ruff 01763 289516. Puckeridge Community Centre, May 22 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols Supporting World Cancer Day. 8 Mayday on a Sunday this year - at St Mary’s Church, Standon. 8.45-11.30am. Details Alison 75th Anniversary of VE Day. 6.30pm 01920 822872. 16 Resolutions with Braughing WI. 24 Christingle Service at St Mary’s 20 A Craft Eveining for Braughing Church Hall, Braughing at 7.30pm. Church, Standon. 5pm. WI. Church Hall, Braughing at Details Kate 01920 822397. 24 Midnight Communion Service at St 7.30pm. Details Mary’s Church, Standon. 11.30pm Kate 01920 25 Christmas Family Worship at St 822397. Thinking of Letting Mary’s, Standon 10.45am. 22 Herts Gardens Thinking of Renting 27 Chatter Table at Hertford Theatre, in the Tudor & Think of 11.30, all welcome. Stuart Period, A Tea Time Talk January 2020 at Standon 8 Community Café at Standon & Village Hall. Puckeridge Community Centre, 3pm Details 8.45-11.30am. Details Alison Trish 01920 01920 822872. 821069. 8 Martyn’s Lights team at the Crown 27 Early

Citizens Advice East Herts provides free, confidential, impartial NO REGRETS and independent advice. To contact us: Your local Fully Bonded • Phone – ring Adviceline on 03444 111 444 Professional Member of ARLA • Online – visit www.citizensadvice.org.uk Association of Residential Letting Agents • In person – drop-in to our offices in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertford, Sawbridgeworth, Ware and Buntingford. No For Free Valuation appointment needed. For opening hours please visit our website www.ehcas.org.uk Tel: 01920 469221 or ring Adviceline 76-78 High Street, Ware SG12 9AT PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 37

17 Hertford Symphony Orchestra Concert ‘Nordic Fantasies’. 7pm. Tickets Hertford Tourist Information 01992 584322.

June 2 Hertford Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert 7.45pm. Tickets Hertford Tourist Information 01992 584322.

Defibrillators in the PS News area Automated External Defibrillators are located at: 25 Furze Cottage, Barwick. Phone box opp The Axe & Compasses, Braughing The Golden Fleece, Green End, Braughing KB Tyres, and St Thomas of Canterbury School, Puckeridge, Standon Village Hall, Standon and Puckeridge Community Centre At the former telephone box at Colliers End The Ford, Little Hadham Phone box off the Village Green, Westmill

Braughing Tennis Club Membership Available

 Two all-weather courts with floodlights  Friendly club open all year  Adult club night every Wednesday throughout the year (7-9pm)  Junior and adult events  Coaching available  Mens, mixed and ladies teams playing in the Essex Small Club League  Social events and tournaments run throughout the year  Family, adult and junior memberships from £45 For more information go to www.braughingtennis.uk Or contact the secretary Karen Gore: t: 07860 484878 e: [email protected] Page 38 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019 PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 39

Services at St Mary’s St Mary’s Braughing 12th 10.00am All Age Morning Braughing Worship at St Mary’s Braughing December 12th 11.15am Holy Communion at 1st 9.30am BCP Holy Communion at Furneux Pelham St Mary’s Furneux Pelham 12th 5.45pm Refresh (informal) at St 1st 11.15am All age Holy Communion Mary’s Braughing at St Mary’s Braughing 15th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at 4th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at St Mary’s Braughing St Mary’s Braughing 19th 9.30am Café Church at St Mary’s 8th 10.00am All Age Morning Furneux Pelham Worship at St Mary’s Braughing 19th 11.15am Holy Communion at St 8th 11.15am Holy Communion at Mary’s Braughing Furneux Pelham 22nd 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at 8th 5.45pm Refresh (informal) at St St Mary’s Braughing Mary’s Braughing 26th 9.30am Holy Communion at St 11th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at Mary’s Braughing St Mary’s Braughing 26th 11.15am Morning Worship at St 15th 9.30am Café Church Christingle at Mary’s Furneux Pelham St Mary’s Furneux Pelham 29th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at 15th 11.15am Holy Communion at St St Mary’s Braughing Mary’s Braughing 18th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at February St Mary’s Braughing 2nd 9.30am BCP Holy Communion at 22nd 9.30am Holy Communion at St St Mary’s Furneux Pelham Mary’s Braughing 2nd 11.15am All age Holy Communion 22nd 11.15am Morning Worship at St at St Mary’s Braughing Mary’s Furneux Pelham 5th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at 22nd 4.00pm Carol Service at St Mary’s St Mary’s Braughing Stocking Pelham 9th 10.00am All Age Morning 22nd 6.00pm Carol Service at St Mary’s Worship at St Mary’s Braughing Braughing 9th 11.15am Holy Communion at 24th 3.00pm Nativity Service at St Furneux Pelham Mary’s Braughing 9th 5.45pm Refresh (informal service) 24th 6.00pm Carol Service at St Mary’s at St Mary’s Braughing Furneux Pelham 12th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at 24th 11.30pm Midnight Communion at St Mary’s Braughing St Mary’s Braughing 16th 9.30am Café Church at St Mary’s 25th 10.30am Christmas Day Furneux Pelham Celebration at St Mary’s Stocking Pelham 16th 11.15am Holy Communion with 29th 10.30am Benefice Holy prayers for healing at St Mary’s Braughing Communion at St Mary’s Stocking Pelham 19th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at St Mary’s Braughing January 23rd 9.30am Holy Communion at St 1st No Holy Communion at Braughing Mary’s Braughing 5th 9.30am BCP Holy Communion at 23rd 11.15am Morning Worship at St St Mary’s Furneux Pelham Mary’s Furneux Pelham 5th 11.15am All age Holy Communion 26th 9.30am Ash Wednesday Holy at St Mary’s Braughing Communion (said) at St Mary’s Braughing 5th 7.30pm Twelfth Night Carols 8th 9.30am Holy Communion (said) at Details of all services from Rev’d Julie Gawthrope 01920 823531

Continued to be judged ‘Good’ by Ofsted, Ralph Sadleir School gives your child the opportunity to be part of a middle school community that offers specialist teaching facilities similar to that of a secondary school, but with smaller year groups, personalised learning and a supportive environment.

We have spaces for 2017/18 in Year 5, 6 and 8.

www.ralphsadleir.herts.sch.uk Page 40 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019 RECYCLING INFORMATION Bulky Waste, Unwanted / Foreign Coins Stamps abandoned cars & Isabel Hospice collects foreign coins  Gwen Duckett collects used stamps for (and notes!) drop them in to their the Leprosy Mission. Drop them in to Flytipping Charity Shop in Buntingford or Ware 5 Vicarage Close, Standon. Contact East Herts Council on High Street.  Puller Memorial School in High Cross www.eastherts.gov.uk or phone 01279 collects used stamps to ‘Save the 655261. Ink & toner cartridges Albatross’. Drop them into school or Bulky waste details: One household item  Puller Memorial School - drop them in 32 Batchelors, Puckeridge. - £28 (£10.00 per item thereafter, to the School.  Standon Post Office collects stamps maximum 4). Check price before using.  Isabel Hospice collects toner for Cancer Research UK. cartridges, drop them in to their  Isabel Hospice collects used stamps, The Council will remove flytipping: use Charity Shop in Ware High Street. drop them in to their Charity Shop in the on-line form. Ware High Street or post them to the Computers Hospice at Great Barmingham Lane, Car batteries, engine oil, Only fully working PCs. Please Luton LU3 3NT. telephone first. www.computeraid.org Mobile phones Fridges and Freezers Tel: 020 7281 0091 All are recycled at:: Loads of charities recycle old mobile Another site worth checking is phones. Just search ‘donating mobile Bishops Stortford Household Waste Site, www.donateapc.org.uk phones’. Woodside Road (off Dunmow Road). Sunglasses & Spectacles Buntingford Household Waste Site, Postcards Aspenden Road. The large chains of opticians, e.g. Boots Please save your postcards and take the or Specsavers will recycle old glasses Ware Household Waste Site, Westmill to St Mary’s Church, Standon or All for the developing world. Drop them in Road. Saints Church, Little Munden. They are to any branch. collected for Church work in Sudan. Cameras & Photography Report a Water Leak Furniture www.affinitywater.co.uk/report-a- Books Furniture Recycling Scheme for leak.aspx The Disabled Photographers Society Hertfordshire http://www.fresch.org.uk/ always welcome good serviceable or 01707 395635. cameras to adapt for disabled persons Environment Agency use, also photography books. For reporting all environmental incidents relating to air, land and water: 0800 80 Disabled Photographers Society: Knitting wool 70 60. www.the-dps.co.uk/ Unused wool which will be turned into baby clothes etc., for children in Uganda Waste Disposal Domestic Batteries can be left in the collection box at the For further information, call Standon Post Office & supermarkets back of St Mary’s Church, Standon. WasteAware on 0300 1234 051 All Household Waste sites are closed on 25 & 26 Dec and 1 Jan. Aspenden Road, Buntingford.

SPINS PRE-SCHOOL St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School (Community Centre, Puckeridge, SG11 1TF) High Street, Puckeridge, Herts, SG11 1RZ SPINS is a safe and caring environment Tel: 01920 821450 www.stcanterbury.herts.sch.uk where your child can learn, grow and develop. Open Mon – Fri Term Time, 9.15am- 12.15pm (or 2.15pm lunch club) “We learn, love, respect and accept our responsibilities Visits Welcome. Tel: 07881 533339 through our faith in Jesus Christ”  “ An outstanding, caring school offering an excellent education Would You like the best possible and outstanding opportunities for pupils’ personal development” Ofsted 2007 education for your child?  Welcomes girls and boys from Nursery to Year 6 Village School - Excellent Nursery Facility Smaller Classes - High academic achievement  Achieved Herts Quality Standards Award for excellent Early Good results (SATS) Years practice A caring, friendly, stimulating environment - Good  Experienced and dedicated staff and governors parental support  Promotes strong values and discipline offering a secure and The ethos of a church school stimulating learning environment Puller Memorial C of E Primary School  Extensive fields and playground area High Cross, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG11 1AZ Visits warmly welcome – please contact the office on: Phone 01920 463178 for further information 01920 821450 and visit our website www.puller.herts.sch.uk PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 41

Open: Mon - Fri 5pm - 8pm, Sat & Sun 10am -1pm. Westmill Road, Ware CLOSED UNTIL MID 2020 Woodside Industrial Estate, (off Dunmow Road (A1250), Bishop’s Stortford CM23 5RG Open Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 8-4pm. Stop junk mail, phone calls and faxes Register and junk mail and phone calls will miraculously reduce! Mailing Preference Service 0207 291 3310 www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ Telephone Preference Service 0845 070 0707 www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/number_type.html These services are free (apart from the cost of the call). Do not respond to anyone asking for money for these services.

COLLIERS END CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING CLUB We shoot at Hunsdon, Nr Harlow & Hillside Nr Thurfield once on a fixed Sunday per month. We have a growing ladies section, more are welcome. Colts under 18 years free membership (conditions apply). Membership is £20 pa + £5 joining fee. We welcome new members with the appropriate Police licence. Chris Lynch 07836 711336

Private Tutor 11+, KS1/KS2 1:1 tuition for Key Stage 2 SATs, 11+ and/or extra help for One to One Tutor children aged 4 - 11 from a qualified Primary Teacher. (I come to you) Collette Olive 01920 823128 or 07709 431404 Email [email protected] Friendly, patient, very experienced and local. Help & support for Key Stage 1 to G.C.S.E. Much Hadham Pre-School Ages 6 to 16 We offer a fun, stimulating, supportive, safe and caring environment for every (SATS, 11+, 13+, Entrance Exams & GCSE, etc) child. We’re Ofsted registered. We have limited places available from April 2016 and there is funding available. References, Enhanced DBS It would be our pleasure to show you round. Please ring us on 01279 842614 between 8.45am and 12.15pm in term time and ask for Maria. Follow us on Facebook. Much Hadham Pre School, Oudle Lane, Much Hadham, SG10 6DQ 07835 193854

formerly Hormead Hares Offering a secure family-friendly environment for children Registered Charity no. from 2 to 5 years old. Open Monday to Friday during term time. 1122647 Tel: Sarah or Sandra 01763 273005 or 07934 195812 Email: [email protected]

Now permanently relocated to Ralph Sadleir & Roger de Clare Schools, Puckeridge & Braughing Playing Fields. ALBURY SEEDLINGS Providing football for boys & girls of all abilities. Within the beautiful small setting of Albury School we are now ACADEMY – for boys & girls age 3 to 6 years at Roger De able to offer “Albury Seedlings”, caring for children from the Clare School, every Thursday 4pm - 5.15pm starting on March 5th 2015, cost £3 per session. age of two, developing young minds through play. Appropriate clothing for the weather & shin pads must be We have flexible sessions, 9 am to 3 pm Monday to Friday. worn. Sessions will be run by an FA Level 2 qualified coach. We are registered for funding for children aged 2 to 4 years. Further information please contact Rob Cavill on 07816 215378. If you would like to come for a visit or to find out what places Mixed teams from U7–U13, Girls & Boys teams from U14– we have available, please call 01279 771253. U18 email [email protected] Page 42 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Isabel Hospice Shop Hospital Transport Scheme something just right for you. We would be pleased to hear from needs Volunteer Drivers For further information please contact anyone who would be interested in  Do you drive your own car? 01707 323 272 or e-mail: helping to run our shops. Half a day a [email protected]  Can you spare one morning/ week is the usual volunteers’ stint. afternoon a month? Please call the Shop Manager on the  Do you live in the area bounded by appropriate number: Buntingford High Cross, Dane End, Dassels and 01763 274904, Hertford 01992 Little Hadham? 504401, Bishop’s Stortford 01279 Then please consider being a volunteer 659551,Ware 01920 463959. driver for the local Hospital Transport Our van driver also needs help with Scheme. (You are paid a collections and deliveries 01707 mileage allowance) 395002. Details: Wendy Smith 07922 519174 Do you feel needed and Age UK Volunteers valued? Might you have some time to spare? needed Would you like to help other people Age UK Hertfordshire is Leaders required: enthusiastic maintain independence and dignity in always on the look out for and reliable volunteers needed their homes and communities, Volunteers to help support to keep the Standon and particularly in later life? its many projects. A variety of interesting roles are Puckeridge Brownie unit running If so, call Pauline on 01992 552069 to available so no matter how All training given, very rewarding. find out about volunteering for the much time you have Tuesdays 6.15 – 7.30 pm term WRVS Good neighbours scheme available or what your level locally." of skills and knowledge are, time then we probably have

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Do you want to play chess? Hertford Chess Club is a small friendly club with players of all strengths and ages. We meet in the Hertford Club, Lombard House, Organising a Party? Bull Plain, Hertford with oak beams and a private bar! Child's? (Up to 14 years), Anniversary? Xmas Contact Alan 01920 463698 or www.hertfordchessclub.com function? Retirement? Works get-together? Even a wedding? Westmill Village Hall Why not hire the lovely Available to rent for functions Standon Village Hall for the event? To enquire about costs and availability please Very reasonable rates! (Maximum 80 persons) contact: Ring Denis on 01279-842625 Mike McRae on 01763 272147 For further details! or email [email protected] Standon Village Hall, Hadham Road, Standon SG11 1LE www.standonvillagehall.org PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 43

Police Contacts: Herts Society for the Blind Bishop's Stortford Library: Number for NON 999 calls: 101 Monday 10.00 - 19.00 Sight Line - Crimestoppers: 0800 555111. Tuesday 10.00 18.00 The Sight Line telephone number is: Wednesday 10.00 - 18.00 01707 324680, Monday to Friday Please remember: ALWAYS DIAL 999 Thursday 10.00 - 18.00 between 9:00am and 4:00pm IN AN EMERGENCY. Friday 10.00 - 18.00 www,herts.police.uk Age UK Hertfordshire Saturday 10.00 - 17.00 - Hertfordshire Police Authority, Freepost Sunday 12.00 16.00 Information Line Buntingford Library: ANG 6281, Hertford SG13 8YS. Offers you information on a wide range Monday 10.00 - 17.30 Telephone: 01992 556600. of issues that are relevant to older Tuesday 10.00 - 17.30 people. Our trained Information Workers Wednesday: Closed provide information you can trust that Puckeridge Health Centre Thursday 10.00 - 17.30 will enable you to make the right choices Drs. Partington, Foster and Nicolson. Friday: 14.00 - 17.30 and decisions for you. We can also put The Surgery, Station Road, Puckeridge Saturday: 09.00-13.00 SG11 1TF you in touch with other organisations Ware Library: that can help you. Tel: 01920 823860 (inc out of hours). Monday: 10.00 - 17.30 Surgery is open: Information Line: 0300 345 3446 Tuesday: 10.00 - 17.30 Mon – Fri 8.30am – 6pm Trading Standards Wednesday: 14.00 - 17.30 Minor Injuries Unit 03454 040506, 9am - 5pm Monday to Thursday: Closed Friday. Friday: 10.00 - 17.30 Herts and Essex Hospital, Haymeads Saturday: 10.00 - 17.00 Lane, Bishop's Stortford CM23 5JH Staffed Mon - Fri, 9am - 4.30pm. Ring Post Office Times East Herts District Council Braughing 01279 655191 ext. 4298 to ensure that The Causeway, Bishop's Stortford or the unit can help. Wednesdays and Saturdays 9am-Noon Standon Wallfields, Pegs Lane, Hertford. Both are Monday - Friday 9.00 - 5.30 open 9.00am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday. NHS Non-emergency Saturday 9.00 - 1.00 Tel: 01279 655261. Number www.eastherts.gov.uk. If it is not a 999 emergency but you need Aircraft noise medical help fast, Call 111. Stansted Airport Noise Unit. Herts County Council 0800 243 788 email: Contact details: Domestic Violence/Abuse [email protected] Adult Care Services 0300 123 4042 Help Line Children, Schools & Families Power cut helpline 0300 123 4043 08 088 088 088 (Freephone) Text POWER and your postcode to Fire Safety 0300 123 4046 Confidential helpline open 9-9 Mon-Fri, 80876 Highways Fault Reporting 9-4 Sat & Sun. ukpowernetworks.co.uk/powercut 0300 123 4047 0800 31 63 105 www.hertsdirect.org/highwayfaults Traveline Trading Standards 0345 404 0506 0871 200 2233 0333 32 32 105 (if calling from a mobile) Waste Aware 0300 123 4051 www.traveline.co.uk General Enquiries 0300 123 4040 Victim support Local Library Times Textphone Users: 0300 123 4041 0300 303 0165 Home Library Service: If you can't reach your local library Animal Warden Abandoned Vehicles because you are housebound, have a To report incidents re: dog faeces, stray 01992 655261 disability or care for someone at home dogs and an identichipping service. this service will deliver books free of 01279 655261 charge. Details 0300 123 4049

GRANTS AVAILABLE Standon & Puckeridge Standon Charities can offer grants (typically £50-100 Community Centre for school trips, special equipment for a disabled is now available for hire. person, etc) to meet the needs of individuals or groups in the ancient parish of Standon Meetings/Parties/Regular Bookings. (which includes Colliers End and Wadesmill). Call Sally on 07854 916404 If you think that you, or someone you know, could be Email: [email protected] eligible for a grant, write to the Clerk (including a www.standonandpuckeridgecc.co.uk phone number) John Harris on 01920 822887 Page 44 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

Halls for hire Local Churches:  Braughing Church Hall and Old Boys ▪ A10 Christian Mission: Contact Revs Braughing School, (up to 120 with kitchen Colin & Teresa Marks 01920 821684 facilities) – contact Phil Firmin 01920 ▪ Methodist Church, Braughing: 823120, email Minister Reverend Gill Hulme 01279 Bridge Club [email protected] 504157  Braughing Playing Field Association ▪ Old Hall Green & Puckeridge Roman Community Hall - Contact Sue Fox - Catholic Churches: Fr. John White [email protected] 01763 271471  Colliers End Village Hall (40 people ▪ Puckeridge Chapel, Century Hall, comfortably, with kitchen) - Contact Station Road. Pastor Bill Harrow

Sandra Chadwick 07976 254379 01920 821366 pastorbill@ puckeridgecc.co.uk  Dane End Memorial Hall www.puckeridgecc.co.uk/index.html David Hart 01920 438976 We are looking for new members, we [email protected]  St Mary's Church Standon: Rev John Chitham 01920 739483 / 07495 play on Monday evening in the Old  Standon & Puckeridge Community 504433 or email: Boys School at 7.30. Centre - Contact Sally Sperring 07854 [email protected] We are a friendly group of mixed ability 916404 [email protected] www.ubsms.org.uk/  Standon Village Hall, Hadham Road, players and would welcome any new ▪ St Mary’s Church, Braughing: Rev. players. Standon – Contact Denis or Beverly Julie Gawthrope 01920 823531 Olliver on 01279 842625 [email protected] If you would like more information  Westmill Village Hall. Contact Mike www.achurchnearyou.com/braughing- please contact Sue Dailly 01920 823692 McRae on 01763 272147 or email st-mary-the-virgin/ [email protected]

Braughing Sing Choir Braughing Sing welcomes new members, especially tenor and Shotokan Karate bass to a community choir for all ages and abilities covering a Come and give it a try. Self defence and physical range of musical styles! benefits for everyone from age 6 years upwards. Come along on Tuesday evenings during term time at the Jenyns School, Braughing. 7.30pm - 9.00pm. No audition 6.30 - 7.30pm every Monday Community Centre, Luynes Rise, Buntingford required! Contact: Elaine on 01763 289 738 or see our website – Information: Mr P Deacon 01462 642922 www.braughingsing.com or Facebook - “The Braughing Sing”. New Bellringers Welcome Hummingbird COME ALONG CANCER SUPPORT GROUP AND LEARN THIS SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY WITH ANCIENT TRADITION COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES We meet on alternate Mondays 10:30am—1:30pm in the café area With a very friendly group at the Rhodes Art Centre, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3JG.

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LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES Parish Council Meetings Lt Hadham MP Clerk: Sir Oliver Heald QC MP, House of Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please check Mr B M Evans 01279 842803 Commons, [email protected] London SW1A 0AA local notice boards to confirm details. Standon Phone 01462 486074 Braughing Clerk: E-mail: Meetings: The Old Boys' Schoolroom, Belinda Irons 01763 838732 [email protected] Braughing, 8pm, second Thursday of [email protected] www.oliverhealdmp.com the month (for planning applications, contact the Clerk). Chairman: County Councillors Little Hadham Chris Leage [email protected] Braughing, including Puckeridge Meetings: Lt. Hadham Village Hall, Web site: https:// and Standon up to the A120 8pm, first Monday every month except www.standonparishcouncil.gov.uk/ Jeff Jones 07836 232963 January & August. [email protected] Standon Westmill Bernadette King 01763 273356. Ware North (Standon from the Meetings: Standon & Puckeridge Email:- A120 into Ware)) Community Centre, fourth Thursday of [email protected] David Andrews 07818 580084 the month (except August & [email protected] December).Meetings start at 8pm. Chairman: District Councillors Parish Councils Mike McRae 01763 272147 Braughing Braughing [email protected] Cllr Ben Harris-Quinney 01920 821446 Clerk: [email protected] Belinda Irons, 14 Crawley End, Chrishall, Royston, SG8 8QL Tel: Little Hadham 01763-838732 email: Cllr Geoffrey Williamson 01279 [email protected] 771272 [email protected] Chairman: Kathryn Riley [email protected] Puckeridge Peter Boylan 01920 822026 Web site: www.braughing.org.uk [email protected] Standon

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WE NEED YOUR HELP!  More volunteers are needed to work with a friendly group helping young children with special needs to enjoy the pleasure of riding.  No experience with riding or horses is Your Scout Group needs You required.  Sessions held at Contessa Riding School, Braughing Scout group is looking for Colliers End, on Mondays, Tuesdays, more adult helpers in all sections. Wednesdays and Fridays during term time  Even if you can’t commit to every week we need a bank If you can help out please contact: of volunteers to call on when necessary. [email protected] or one of the  What we do is a great help to the children we support Scout, Cub or Beaver contacts on page 51 for and a very fulfilling experience. more details For more details contact Gill Roberts on 01279 844032 or [email protected] Charity Number 1074385 Page 46 email: [email protected] PS News December 2019

LOCAL DIRECTORY All phone No's are 01920 and clubs in Puckeridge or Standon unless shown otherwise

Albury Seedlings Preschool & Albury Budding Babes: Tracy 01920 824041 Golf Club (East Herts): Primary School: 01279 771253 Buntingford Bird Club: Tim Robinson, Secretary 821978 Allotments: 01763 243143 Guides: Register your interest at Braughing: Buntingford Choir: www.girlguiding.org.uk - general Ruth Fleetwood Mandy or Gareth 0781 491 2595 enquiries to Louise 07971 800443. [email protected] Buntingford Heritage Centre: Hares Football Club: Puckeridge: Brian Durrant 822331 Jenny Dingley 01763 273002 01763 848449 Aviation Society: Carols Round the Tree (Standon): Health Centre: 823860 Vic Flintham 01763 289636 Caroline Franks 822723 Hertford & Ware Railway Society: Baby-sitting Circle: Carpet Bowls: Stuart Moye 467132 Sylvia Pinnington 822216 Mike Bennett Hertfordshire Holly: Mixed Clog Bat Helpline 01992 581442 [email protected] Morris: Mary Deeks 822905 Beavers: 6-8 years old, Church Choir Braughing: Church office Herts & Essex Architectural Research Angie Adamson 01763 849902 823832 Society: Bell Ringing: Church Choir, Standon with the Kath Pollard 01708 473646 Braughing: Peter Glazebrook Mundens and Sacombe: Michael Horticulture Society (Braughing): 821554, Standon: Stephen Coley Smith 821281 Marion Saunders 821700 823886. Conservative Assn: Hospital Transport for the Elderly: Bishop's Stortford Railway Society: David Andrews 823836 Wendy Smith 07922 519174 Barry Bridges 438586 Cubs: Wednesday Cheetah pack Derek Jenyns First School & Nursery: 821461 Bowls Club: Andy Mansfield 07976 Goodall 01763 273149, Karate Club: Clive 01763 231132 237050 - Tuesday Puma Pack: Jackie Kettlebell Exercise Classes: Sue Prior standonandpuckeridgebowlsclub Andrews 01763 247675 07854 316628 @gmail.com Dance Classes - Rhythm & Poise School Labour Party: of Dance: Ballet: Karen Howarth - Braughing Cricket Club: Peter Hobson Frederick Perkins 822454 01279 651535 & Tap, Modern & 01920 438361 Liberal Democrats: Braughing Cricket Club Colts: 438361 Jazz: Kate Dutton - 07969 362224 David Albinson 822640 07774 961829 Dance JAM Academy: Braughing Local History Society: Julie McPartland Lipreading classes: Mary Cockburn 01920 822488 or 07971699615 Louise Reed 821401 [email protected] Dog Training: Jan Mann 823475 Little Hadham Primary School: 01279 Braughing Playing Field Association Dominoes: Axe & Compasses, 771285 Trust: Graham Frary 07855 834862 Braughing - Graham Frary 821715 Mayday Committee: [email protected] East Herts Aviation Society: Ray Hankin Sue Spalding 821624 or Braughing Society: ([email protected]) or Vic Rachel Law Sandra Lynch 823500 Flintham ([email protected]) [email protected] Mercury Correspondent: Braughing: Braughing WI: Kate Fish 822397 East Herts Geology Club: Diana Perkins Clive Marshall 822167 Bridge Clubs: 463755. Folk Music Club: Pantomime Group, Braughing: Peter Sue Dailly 823692 Walsingham 823265 Stortfolk 01279 656664 Brownies: Register your daughter’s Parish Paths Partnership: Braughing - Veterans Football Club (Braughing): interest at www.girlguiding.org.uk - Sue Dailly [email protected] Keith Mardell 822133, general enquiries to: (Roger de Standon - John Harris 822887 Clare lunch club): Louise 07971 Friends of Braughing Church: Pet Care: Mrs Harvey 822814 800443. (evening unit): Ned Dailly 01920 823692 or email:

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Low Cost, One Bedroomed, Centrally Heated Almshouses for Local People. Braughing Housing Association Almshouses become available from time to time for people with a The Braughing Housing Association was established in connection to the Parishes of Standon and Thundridge. Each 1965 for elderly Braughing residents finding themselves almshouse is a self contained one-bedroomed unit with it's own in need of a home. kitchen, bathroom and living room. There are six flatlets consisting of bed/sitting room, Write for details and an application form to: kitchen and bathroom, suitable for single tenancy. John Harris, Clerk to Standon Charities, 4 South Road, Puckeridge SG11 1TH. Enquiries can be made by emailing: www.standoncharities.org.uk [email protected] PS News December 2019 email: [email protected] Page 47

Petanque: Brown Bear, Braughing - Explorer Scouts: 14-18 year olds, Three Villages Eco Group: Steve Banfield landlord@ Wednesday Buntingford Unit Trish Street 01920 821069 brownbearbraughing.co.uk Christine Pestle 07711 506381, Trefoil Guild: Guiding for adults - Alex Pets TLC: 822705 Friday Ware Unit: Jim Campbell Chapman 01920 465 726 Photographic Society (Ware): Barbara 01920 461134 Twinning Assn (Buntingford): Norris 822104 Scout & Guide Band: Mary Deeks 822905 Railway & Local History Society Derek Goodall 07790 875862 University of the 3rd Age: [email protected] (Buntingford): Stephen Ruff 01763 Barbara Norris 822104 289516, (Bishop's Stortford) Barry Scout Troop: 10½-14 years old, Simon Bridges 438586, (Hertford & Ware) Smith 07773 016567 Veterans Football Club: Stuart Moye 467132 SPNDP (Standon and Puckeridge Paul Mayne 822615 Rainbows: Register your interest at Neighbourhood Development Plan) Craig Gardner 823805 www.girlguiding.org.uk - enquiries Belinda Irons 01763 838732 Ware and District 41 Club: to [email protected] S.P.I.N.S. Pre-School: 07881 533339 Peter Warren 01920 824099 Ramblers (Royston & Dist): St. Thomas of Canterbury Primary Ware Swimming Club: David Allard 01763 242677 School PTA: C/o School 821450 Chris Buck 07947 322808 Red Yoga: 07590 964016 Standon Morris: Catherine Ward 07808 Ware U3A: Royal British Legion: 969379 Chris Beeton, Membership Standon: Ron Edwards 464218 Standon & Puckeridge Health Centre: Secretary 07952 066748 Ralph Sadleir Assn: 823860 Wasps Out of School Club: [email protected] Standon & Puckeridge Community Nicola Re 07904 391133 Ranger Girl Guides (14+ years), Centre: Women's Institute: Wednesday, Rosanne Kenealy Sally Sperring 07854 916404 Braughing: Kate Fish 822397 01920 821304 Swimming Club (Buntingford ): David Yoga in Pregnancy, Baby massage and Rib Valley Trampoline Club: Andrea Carr 07966 508156 Baby yoga: Penny Constantinou Allen 07989 980038 Tai Chi: Mrs A Manwaring 822041 07944 416572 Roger de Clare School Association: Tennis Club: Young Countrysiders: Sarah Gillingwater 823129 or Sam Braughing: Karen Gore 07860 Linda Watts 821393 Risley 823477 484878, Standon: Keith Bradshaw Sadleir Drama Club: 01920 821152 Liz Pickup 01763 289446

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