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magazine Inside this Issue: x Selling your wife in 1839 by Adrian AbboƩ x Durley Driveway Sales results & photos x CulƟvaƟon in the Ɵme of Covid by Trevor Richardson Plus all the news and views from your village £1 1 friendly family run ClubClub Not enough exercise & too much Ipad? Come and experience the fun, excitement & challenge of our Karate club. We have taken traditional Wado-Ryu Karate and adapted it to today’s society. Typical lessons include: - Line Work - Kata - Bag Work - Sparring - Fitness First Lesson Free! - Self Defence - Games & much more 6 Instructors TUESDAYS THURSDAYS DURLEY MEMORIAL HALL WOODLAND COMMUNITY DURLEY CENTRE SO32 2AR SAVERNAKE WAY AGES 5-10 (6-7PM) FAIR OAK AGES 11+ (7-8PM) SO50 7FL ADULTS (8PM ONWARDS) AGES 5-10 (6-7PM) AGES 11+ (7-8PM) Contact Ken Skene on 07711 317 834 www.wska.co.ukuk [email protected]@g m Durley Welcome Parish Magazine This month… October 2020 Reflections: Lyn Gosden 5 Durley Primary School News 6 The deadline for the Durley Voices 7 November issue is History Society Adrian Abbott 11 18th October Ramblers -Waltham Group 12 The Caravan in the Woods Peter Mucci 13 EDITOR Helen Childs, Durley Driveway Sales 14 Thatchers, Sciviers Lane, Cultivation in the time of Covid Trevor Richardson 16 SO32 2AG T: 01489 860347 BWPhotographic Society 19 E: [email protected] Durley Parish Council Monthly Report 21 ADVERTISING Carolyn Campbell As I write Autumn has well and truly arrived. The rain is T: 01489 860852 bucketing down and I’ve got a jumper on!! The children are all back E: [email protected] at school, (see page 6) the big kids have gone off to Uni and Boris has announced more distancing measures to try and stop Covid from dam- DISTRIBUTION & SUBSCRIPTIONS Jo Birbeck aging the NHS, the economy and our vulnerable members of society. T: 01489 860469 Nevertheless, people are still getting out and about this time and E: [email protected] we’ve got the pictures of our highly successful driveway sales to prove it (see centre pages.) PARISH OFFICE Peter Mucci takes us back to an earlier time when Durley still had a All Saints Church, High Street, Botley carnival (page 13) and Adrian Abbott tells an extraordinary tales of T: 01489 782445 wife-selling! (page 11) I hear that divorce is on the rise after lock- E: [email protected] Opening times: down but hat’s just ridiculous! Monday– Friday With the threat of a winter lockdown upon us the news that Durley 9.30-12.30 To book Weddings, Baptisms & Banns: now has a Jigsaw library may be of interest to some who like to fill Please contact the office. their time this way -there’ even a delivery service if you need it. Imagine, a different jigsaw on your doorstep every week! (See page 7) THE BOTLEY BRIDGE T: 01489 786164 And last, but certainly not least, hear how the Richardsons garden E: [email protected] has burgeoned beyond their wildest dreams this year! (p16) Helen CURDRIDGE PARISH NEWS Editor: Justine Greenfield If you, or someone you know, lives in Durley and T: 07748 827763 needs a little helping hand please get in touch. E: [email protected] Durley Good Neighbours is a voluntary group offering lifts to the doctors, help with shopping or simply a chat and cuppa. We can help elderly residents, single parents, carers or anyone feeling a little lonely. 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Any queries or comments should be addressed to the person whose name appears with the article, report or advert or to the Chairperson or Secretary of the bodies concerned. 3 Cover photo: Driveway Stas by Lucy Childs CHURCH of the HOLY CROSS, DURLEY With St Peter’s, Curdridge and All Saints’, Botley in the Deanery of Bishop’s Waltham and Diocese of Portsmouth Clergy Rector Revd Gregg Mensingh, The Rectory, 46 High St., Botley Southampton 01489 780994 Assistant Priest Revd Richard Wharton c/o Parish Office, All Saints Church, Botley 01489 782445 Licensed Lay Janet Clarke, 29 Freegrounds Road, Hedge End. 07792 721864 Minister Church Officials Parish Admin. All Saints’ Church, High Street, Botley. 01489 782445 and office Email: offi[email protected] Jamie Balfour, Wintershill Hall, Sciviers Lane, Durley 01489 Church wardens Katrine Brydges, Maurienne, Dumpers Drove, Horton Heath 02380 600443 Secretary Viv Jury 01489 894983 Deputy Church Vivienne Taylor, Longbeech, Durley Brook Road, Durley. 02380 692311 Warden & Verger The Wider Church Zoe Page, Hurstdale, Botley Road, Horton Heath. SO50 7DN 02380 600074 Deanery Synod Jane Chamberlain, Miord, Heathen Street, Durley 01489 860846 Messy Church Ellie Mensingh 01489 780994 Safeguarding Katrine Brydges 02380 600443 officer Roman Catholic Church Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Martin Street, Bishop’s Waltham Assistant Priest Canon Alan Griffiths. Mass: Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9.30am 01489 890947 Methodist and UFC Circuit Revd David Moss 01329 833518 October Flower & Cleaning Rotas The Flower & Cleaning Rotas have been suspended unl Church Services are resumed. Please note, if you are unable to clean at any time or need to change your week, could you please contact me on 02380 600 443 so cover can be arranged. Katrine 4 Reflections: Lynn Gosden on The Children’s Society Lyn Gosden is the second of the years guest writers in the long-term care. The Society has moved with the times, Reflections slot. Lyn is an active member of All Saints, becoming more simply The Children’s Society but it has Botley and is the Botley Parish Secretary for the Children’s never lost its aim of reducing child poverty. Search its Society . website today and you will find “We fight child poverty and neglect and help all children have a better chance in life” as No-one will have been left unchanged by our time of lock- their stated aim. In a rapidly changing society charities such down, but while some have endured minor inconveniences, as this have to provide an ever wider range of services to others suffered untold hardship, tragedy, loss and anguish support vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Work by The and the pain continues, even as we begin to emerge slowly Children’s Society in our own area and across the country into a more normal life. includes supporting families in need, combating sexual There can be no doubt that it is the most disadvantaged in exploitation and abuse of children, providing drug and our society who have suffered most and who will continue to alcohol addiction services for young people, counselling, need long-term support in the coming months and probably drop-in centres and much more. years. So, as we tentatively return to a more normal life, I come I have always been proud of the fact that, as a nation, we back to my thoughts on how we can ensure our continued have long had a tradition of charitable giving and this has support for the Children’s Society, who wrote to me in a undoubtedly been the case this year. We may have given to recent mailing;……………………………………………….. our local Food Banks, responded to “Major Tom’s” magnifi- “In July, we published a report that found that the pandem- cent appeal for the NHS charities, made one- off donations ic and lockdown have had a significant impact on children’s in response to appeals or increased our usual donations to well-being, with many more children reporting that they are our favourite causes. When we felt so helpless during those unhappy with their lives. The Children’s Society takes these months of lockdown this was one way in which we could findings very seriously and we will be considering how we help.. can act to reverse this trend, through dedicated support Things are opening up slowly and cautiously but I am services and campaigning for change.” aware that for our charities, both small and large, it is going Do have a look at “The Good Childhood Report “on their to be difficult to maintain the level of support that they have web-site: childrenssociety.org.uk had from the general population in what has become an The Children’s Society is a 19th century Society with a increasingly cash-less society. How quickly we older 21st century vision for improving the lives of disadvantaged generations have learned to join our young people in paying children and my hope is that we can embrace some 21st by card everywhere, once we understood it would minimise century ways to continue supporting their work but for now, the risk of spreading the virus. It is unlikely that we will I still have collecting boxes in which you could put all the easily return to having pockets or purses full of change and loose change you haven’t been able to use! so will not be able to pop a few coins in a collecting box as we pass. I conclude with a prayer written for the Society recently by Bobbi-Jo, aged 16, which reflects so poignantly our own Across our three villages of Botley, Curdridge and Durley, prayers at this time.