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Vale Magazine 5 inside information... COVER IMAGE 10 BLOSSOMING: Rob Hemming recalls the sunny times when the Vale was plum central for 14 This clever deliciousness. Woodpecker isn’t just a 14 KNIGHTS IN BRIGHT SATIN: Reg Slade was our pretty face. high street style guru for 54 years. We put him On See p22. the Spot. Photo by Mark Hamblin 22 RAT-A-TAT-RAT: Harry Green MBE welcomes the remarkable Great-spotted Woodpecker, whose knocking has a spectacular chain reaction. REGULARS 26 A SAD FAREWELL: We are always eager to publish another beautiful picture from long-time creative Vale Weather ...... 9 contributor Michael J Barnard. Sadly, this month’s Hemming’s Way...... 11 turned into a loving tribute. RIP dear friend. Sudoku...... 13 Vale Magazine Quiz ...... 19 32 APRIL AMBLE: It is well worth hanging on to this Soccermouth ...... 20 lovely walk for when you can get out and about again, Bird of Month...... 22 because it is perfect for a fine day. 10 Food & Eating Out ...... 28 Vale Walk ...... 32 45 SMILE TIME: It seemed a good time to ask you to describe the happiest Win a Music Voucher ...... 38 day of your life, so far... Runic Ron...... 38 Vale Leisuretime ...... 38 48 KEEPING WATCH: A rolling brief for virus-hit businesses and an offer of a Thinkers’ Corner ...... 40 friendly ear from the Chair of VECTA. It’s all in Biz Buzz. Vale Vox Pop ...... 45 52 LOT OF BOTTLE: Andy Pedrick’s green fingers spread even wider with Business & Professional ...... 47 some handy recycling tips. Vale Gardening ...... 51 Vale Motoring...... 56 56 SMASHING: Barrie Baldelli is bowled over by the powerful Tesla Model S. Directory ...... 60

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Vale Magazine 9 PlumHEMMING’S crazy WAY MANY countries have long associations In fact all these varieties have a similar with certain traditional crops, their climate beguiling effect, even the dry dull flesh of a and soil permitting perfect growing Yellow Egg or tart flavour of a damson. conditions. Mediterranean lands have olives, Until the motor car clogged our noses with grapes and citrous fruits, India has mangoes fumes, it is said that at blossom time the and tea, the Caribbean bananas, Brazil centre of Asum smelt of scent from the coffee, Canada wheat etc. myriad plum (and, of course apple) These crops are orchards in the Vale. There was economically vital, often a even then a ‘blossom route’ source of national pride signposted for Sunday and their harvest is drivers to relish the vistas of seen as an event. Our beautiful white and pink country was once no bloom. basket suspended from your belt. Once full different and for many For decades plums kept of fruit, you would decant it into chip decades, the Vale of several local fruit factories baskets. Evesham, Britain’s going. Endless trucks stacked If the previous few months had been ideal OTHER garden of high with bushel boxes arrived growing weather and brought forth a heavy England was ‘Plum central’. at Frank Idiens and Beeches to crop, plum picking was a pleasant and By around 1870 plum be processed for everything, from profitable little job. With boughs groaning orchards had proliferated in the Vale and tinned plums to pie filling under the weight of thereafter enjoyed a century as a major local and baby food. I worked “You had to remember fruit, nimble fingers economic component. at Idiens for several could fill a basket in Many successful varieties were developed summers as a student and the golden rule: minutes. such as Tsars, Prolifics, Yellow Eggs, Purple still recall the astringent I fondly remember Eggs, Swans, Damsons and Margery fruity atmosphere. never let go of the ladder” cold mornings, hinting Seedlings. But the queen of plums was the If a plum pulping plant of approaching autumn, mighty Victoria. wasn’t your idea of summer fun there was gathering plums coated in bloom and dew The taste of a perfect Vic rivals any foreign plenty of scope to simply harvest them in and seeing my neat stack of chips growing. exotic fruit. Big, sweet and juicy. I still look the fresh air. Whole families would descend Temptation to sample juicy specimens was forward to sampling my first one of the upon the orchards to earn a living. The only ever present and you lost count of the season and being transported back 60 years. equipment you required was a wicker number you had troughed. So we all

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Vale Magazine 11 the need for anything more than a step- Little Pink ladder for pickers of modest height. Where was the fun in that? As late as the mid-sixties, numerous daily Cleaning goods trains loaded with chip baskets of services plums departed Evesham’s two stations destined for markets in , Birmingham and Glasgow. Evesham’s own Smithfield market buzzed all summer as growers toured the stacks of fruit to see how much each had made. But, like all icons of this rural golden era, the plum industry became marginalised. The profitability of canning factories declined and Very competitive rates! large supermarket chains put strictures on Reliable, Friendly and growers, demanding every plum be quality Trustworthy Service controlled perfection. Even the lovely old Covering Broadway, Evesham chip baskets were replaced with cardboard and surrounding areas. boxes. For a FREE quote please call By the 1990s many of the older trees were Auctioneer Dick Mills selling plums being grubbed up without significant at Smithfield market. Photo courtesy of the 07593 457 325 replacement, their fertile soil lost forever Vale of Evesham Historical Society under housing estates. Since their pomp in staples, I shudder at the thought of it Open: Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm the mid 20th century 80% of Vale plum becoming unobtainable. Lesser varieties Witney orchards have vanished. Glamorous exotics such as Yellow Egg are practically extinct as like nectarines inveigled their way into shops orchard residents and only grow in Sewing & and foreign varieties of plum arrived all year hedgerows as spindly wild specimens. round. It is so sad to see a big old plum tree Knitting Pershore, affectionately known as ‘plum standing alone, all gnarled and splintered or CENTRE town’ (there was even a steam engine Call in for a fabulous range of:- perhaps sharing an abandoned orchard with • Fabrics & Wools named Pershore Plum) still holds an annual a few broken down comrades. • Haberdashery plum festival and yet you would be hard They may still sprout the occasional scabby • Patterns and pressed to find a single tree for miles, let plum, like the odd hair on a bald man, but • Sewing Machines alone the beautiful scented vistas of are now only home for woodpeckers and a . . SALES SERVICE REPAIRS yesteryear. And as plum jam, particularly gym for squirrels. 52 High Street, Witney. 0X28 6HQ t: 01993 702772 www.witneysewingandknittingcentre.co.uk Damson, has long been one of my dietary ROB HEMMING Get the designer bathroom look... for a price you’ll love! SUPPLIED & FITTED Visit our showroom to view our latest collection of Bathroom Suites NOW ON DISPLAY

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Vale Magazine 13 ON THE SPOT “I’d cancel HS2 and use the A Knight in money on the NHS and flood stylish armour defences” There was a collective sharp intake of breath when the news broke that Evesham high street’s oldest retail business was closing its doors. But we’ve persuaded its popular manager to open up again... for our challenging On the Spot Q&A feature. Knights Menswear was a stylish town centre stalwart for 117 years, moving from the market place in 1907. There were just two managers in all that time, and Reg Slade, who originally joined rival Lloyds as a bright-eyed 15-year-old, notched up 43 years in the top spot. He bucked his family’s trend by swerving from working on the land to move into retail. “There was no way I wanted to follow my dad. He used to work very hard, for little money. And I liked clothes,” smiles Reg, who was born in to join He turned his emporium into one of the busiest shops dad, Norris, mum Ursula and sister Sue. in town - Betty, with their firstborn in a carry cot, Reg and new wife Betty, who worked at the town helped to serve. At Reg’s side too was Mike Pace who, department store Hamilton and Bell, moved to Badsey like his boss, joined straight from school. 42 years ago. Ironically, their three sons all chose to Reg enjoyed the buzz of the business and the loyalty of work on the land: Mark as a herb grower, Adam as a their customers, many of whom became friends too. builder and Luke as an agricultural contractor. But he wasn’t sad to leave the high street. Life, fashion, and Evesham high street, always go full At 70, Reg decided it was time to move on, although circle, says Reg sagely. “The street was once basically he was immediately offered another job in a gents just town houses. It’ll eventually go back to how it was.” outfitters, near Solihull. Renowned as a style guru to countless gents, he lived “I was flattered, but not tempted,” he says. what he preached - only ever buying his own clothes “I think 54 years is plenty long enough.” from Knights.

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Vale Magazine 14 Knights of yore, before the shop alterations. What was your favourite fashion era? in Evesham back then. But I built up the The last three years... with smart three piece stock and brought in more fashionable lines. suits making a comeback, and fancy shirts. Year on year our turnover increased and the other shops closed one by one. And the worst? We had some great staff and some very loyal The early seventies, with loads of bright customers. When we closed, I’d sold colours, polyester garments, slim jackets everything apart from £1,800 worth, which I with large lapels, bell bottom trousers and gave to charities. platform shoes. As well as long-serving Mike Pace, Maureen But actually I enjoyed that era at the time. I Goddard-Key was with us for 22 years (her thought was the bee’s knees, as you do, and daughter in law, Grace Wheeler dressed our I liked being a lot taller, thanks to those windows) and Pam Moore for 14 years. Les platforms! Andrews came out of retirement to help me Looking back though, those bell bottoms for nine years and after Peter Birdseye, who and ‘loons’ looked ridiculous. It’s one fashion started Birdseye Sports, retired he’d help I don’t think will ever make a comeback. out too.

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Vale Magazine 17 And jump for joy? Our eight grandchildren, ranging in ages from 12 to two. Our youngest has got four boys and the eldest has got two lads. My middle son, who was a very good footballer, has two girls and I’ve recently been to watch Kelsie in a rugby match.

What’s your most treasured possession? The 007 James Bond Omega watch, which was given to me after 40 years at Knights.

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Vale Magazine 21 BIRD OF THE MONTH The carpenter and drummer bird

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I know the first of April is associated with a sweet and sour In 9th place... combination of both clever and stupid tomfoolery. But, all joking Switzerland gets a look in as the 1970s dinner party favourite aside, it’s seriously great to announce that Britain has managed to returns in the form of fondue. attain ranking not once, but twice in the top 10 most popular This ancient recipe was rewritten in Zurich in 1699, and today dishes in Europe, according to Holidu and Instagram. calls for heating a mixture of Gruyère and Vacherin cheese with Italy comes in with the most dishes on the list, whilst France white wine. Once the cheese has melted, you dip in your pieces attains pole position for the most popular dish. Quelle surprise! of bread to soak up the velvety delight. But where do our British favourites rank and what are they, I This dish attained an impressive 1,109,471 posts on Instagram, hear you cry. most of them coming from people that weren’t even born in the 70s - Instagram itself was not created until 2010 (October 6)! Well, in ascending order, securing 10th place is... Italy’s Gnocchi, a pasta dough made mainly from flour and In 8th place... potato. A simple food that has origins around the world. Italy’s back again, this time with pasta carbonara, originally a In 1570 a cookbook, written by Bartolomeo Scappi, shows a Roman speciality, prepared with egg yolk and cured pork meat. recipe for Gnocchi, made from flour and breadcrumbs mixed The name is derived from carbonaro (the Italian word for with water and pushed through the holes of a cheese grater! charcoal burner). Some believe the dish was first made as hearty Breadcrumbs were eventually replaced with potatoes and its fare for Italian charcoal workers who originally dressed the pasta shape evolved into small oblong dumplings. with melted lard. That was eventually dropped and replaced with cured bacon.

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MAKE your way to Kemerton from the direction of Beckford. You’ll reach Kemerton church on your right. Turn right here and park considerately on the roadside near the church. Walk up the road, passing Ashbury Farm on your left. Stay on this road as you gradually climb. You’ll pass Bells Castle on your left 1 and, just a little further along, the road ends. Walk past the gate and take the path straight on towards the trees. Follow the arrows to the right, through the trees and then go through a gate before heading straight on, passing an old disused quarry on your left. You’ll have a large open ditch and trees on your right. Continue to the top righthand corner of You’ll soon pass Sundial Farm 2 (the this field to reach a large opening. Don’t go sundial is up on the old stone barn). through this but turn left and follow the Continue just a short distance and follow the track, with the hedge on your right. You’ll yellow arrow to the right. have some stunning views over the Malvern Press on along this path, with the wall close Hills, Welsh Mountains, Gloucestershire and to your left. When you reach the trees up the Cotswolds on a clear day. ahead, climb over the stile and follow the

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4  START/ FINISH KEMERTON N © OpenStreet Map contributors and Vale Magazine path to the left to walk through the trees. At the end of the wood, go through the WALK CHECKLIST gate and turn left, 3 with the trees now Length: 3 miles approx on your left and a fence on your right. Head Time: 1.5 hours approx Parking: Roadside near Kemerton church through another gate and continue straight Equipment: Boots, a waterproof coat and a drink on. Suitability: Medium with a gentle uphill climb In the bottom left hand corner of this field, CAUTION: We test all walks before publication, but go through the gate and follow the steep obviously readers undertake them at their own risk. stone path downhill just a short distance before going straight on and through a large gateway. Follow this well defined path for about a third of a mile. You’ll then turn left and through a gate before turning right. Head down this wide stoney path, past a barrier. Continue downhill where you’ll meet a narrow tarmac road. 4 Follow this road downhill and through the village of When you reach a junction, you’ll see a Just a few steps will take you to a junction Westmancote. letterbox in the wall on your right. Turn left where you need to go straight on again. here and follow the sign for Kemerton into a Head down this lovely lane and you’ll soon large field. Keep close to the hedge on your pass a 30mph road sign on your left. left and continue through the next field. Continue to the junction, turn right and When you reach the far lefthand corner, retrace your steps just a short distance back turn right and then immediately look for, and to the church and the end of the walk. head through, a gap in the hedge on your left. Words and photos by IAN TUSTIN Follow this narrow path between the fences and houses. When your reach the road head straight on.

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Vale Magazine 35 “I’d never run a business before but I felt Abbey Appliances is firmly established so proud on that first day – even if I did “Quick, efficient & good value.” within the industry, having won prestigious only take £65!” MRS R, EVESHAM national awards in both 2018 and 2019 in Very quickly, the business became a one- expanded or improved where we needed customer service and best independent stop shop for all things electrical and, over to. “We employ electricians and small retailer categories. The company is time, Lyn began to expand the store to engineers, which means we can complete currently short-listed for Best Independent sell more appliances and spare parts. all sorts of work, not just appliance related. Small Retailer in the 2020 Innovative We have always adapted to the needs of Electrical Retailing awards. “It was so good to find our customers and continue to do so.” The most recent development in the “Thank you for getting me out people that know what they're business was in 2019 when Abbey of what could have been talking about! We are thrilled Appliances started selling fitted kitchens. Lyn tells us: “The industry has changed. a very long and worrying with our new oven - thank you Most appliance sales now are less about situation. Your boys are so much to you all.” necessity and more about aesthetics. “Kitchens are now a focal point in the fantastic. They are a credit to MR H, EVESHAM home and consumers want to use them as entertaining spaces and so being able to your company.” She signed contracts with major brands sell a full kitchen with appliances was a MR S, EVESHAM like Bosch, Neff, Hotpoint, Liebherr, natural progression for us. Hoover and many others and took on The business is supported by all the more staff to help with demand. “I was reluctant to call in leading manufacturers, many of whom There are now nine team members in have a long-standing relationship with Lyn the business, most of whom have been tradesmen but Abbey and the team, who also do a great deal to working with Lyn for over a decade. They support charities and the local community. all bring a wealth of knowledge to the Appliances totally dispelled Looking to the future, Lyn says: “We're business, with each of them having my fears. Superb service.” just going to keep doing what we enjoy – experience in either electrics, engineering MRS O, CHILDSWICKHAM helping our customers. or sales. “Honestly, we want what’s best for our Head Electrician, Andrew Clarke, joined “We haven't forgotten our roots though, customers and try to offer the best service Lyn in 1997. Now a Director, he has seen we still sell parts, vac bags and lightbulbs we possibly can.” the business grow over the years and says: and stock all types of appliance to suit any Contact the team today. “We have moved with the times and budget.” HANNA KNIGHT



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Cotswoldvale & leisuretime magazine Thinking outside of the box WIN A CREATIVE Evesham Festival of Word folk positive with the time that suddenly may have just the thing for people who becomes available. We also thought that feel like they’re going stir crazy through people would appreciate the diversion MUSIC the Coronavirus crisis. and the opportunity to come together in The team has been busy postponing its verse,” says Festival Chair Sue Ablett. VOUCHER events, including the main festival The Festival is requesting an entry fee of weekend, in response to government £5 per poem (£10 for three entries) and CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE guidelines. But, determined to do entries should be emailed to the Festival at LYRICS OF THIS 1970S SONG? something special, the steering group has [email protected]. WE NEED TO KNOW THE swiftly added a poetry competition to the Further details will be added to the Festival TITLE & THE ARTIST. popular short story challenge. website www.eveshamfestivalofwords.org “Baby I've been so far away, With a theme of Thinking Outside the or you can contact Sue direct on 0787 Been so lonely every Box, readers are being challenged to craft 1285606 or via that email. night and day” poems of a maximum of 40 lines. The competition opens on April 13 and all Please send answers to: entries must be received by June 12, The Vale Magazine, Vale Park, Evesham 2020. WR11 1GS or email us at: “We wanted to keep the creative juices [email protected] flowing and doing something really LAST MONTH’S CORRECT ANSWER: Irene by The Photos CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER... Pam Rayner from Pershore Runic Ron’s Cotswoldvale & HILARIOUS TAKE ON THE STARS magazine Aquarius: This is no time to be convinced available for its completion”. So if you want that you are always right. Keep left or be left to keep working, make sure you never finish behind. Just remember that everyone is anything. Gun Sales ignorant on different subjects Leo: If harmony is sometimes lacking in the Pisces: In a month where you feel you are household, remember that in any conflict & Country Clothing maturing nicely, don’t get all cheesy the first step is getting people riled enough Game Shooter, Novice or Pro otherwise you could grate on those around to participate. -we have something for all! you. Virgo: You should consider the ladder to Aries: With the recent experience of the success a better alternative than the greasy great leap forward, look forward to summer pole of potential failure. Both offer vertical time. But be prepared to make sure that opportunities, but both are the route of the your body clock is in sync with reality and uppity. that the alarm clock has been reset. Libra: Be selective in choosing new friends Taurus: This might be a good month to and acquaintances. Some should not be consider that when everyone is talking too treated as objects - they aren’t that valuable. much, they are unable to hear what anyone Scorpio: If, at this time, you find that you is actually saying. have to choose between two evils, pick the Gemini: With warmer weather hopefully one you have never tried before. on the horizon consider your wardrobe Sagittarius: Be careful what you wish for. THE BROADWAY GUNROOM needs. Beware of ending up looking like Make sure it’s expensive. tel: 01386 852519 [email protected] candyfloss: pink and fluffy but no substance. Capricorn: This is not the time to make Kennel Lane • Broadway • WR12 7DJ Cancer: Time to remember Parkinson’s new enemies. Stick to the old ones who you www.broadwaygunroom.co.uk Law: “Work expands to so fill the time can at least hold in familiar contempt. • Full Gunsmithing Service •

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Vale Magazine 39 THINKERS’ CORNER It is not just is still underwater. Farmers say it could be a knowledge that is year before that land may produce food. In important, it has to be the meantime we could have more floods. Getting right and relevant. How are we going to guarantee food supply, Learning for most of us especially with increasing needs? is accidental, certainly What happens to those whose homes are informed at the start of our lives. repeatedly flooded, can’t get insured and As our sense of reality can’t afford to move? We are building homes We are often told by politicians that ‘it is grows, so we know better what we want. at the wrong price and design for an ever time for change’, as if they are about unveil a Naturally, what we want is also partly increasing population. secret formula. determined by other minds, good and bad. We need to become a more skilled The truth is we are changing as a society all Of course I have also left out one of the society, one that is innovative and the time, as we always have done. As Mao prime triggers that can profoundly impact imaginative. How do we reconcile, Zedong once said, in life you will always find on our behaviour and that is fear. The worst according to a recent report, 11,000 people ‘change, conflict and contradiction’. This trigger is fear based on leaving teaching. What statement certainly bears out some of the unsubstantiated fact. “We need a trained, a waste. There must disastrous policies he tried to implement. If people are not be something wrong To change society, society needs to be properly informed, or informed, proactive society somewhere. consulted and involved. Aye there’s the rub, simply do not know, how The long term effects as Hamlet would say. How reliable, how can we seek a balanced that works together of climate change are unbiased, how objective, how informed is judgement on anything? Bad choices based yet to be experienced. But we can be sure public opinion? Often people give very on poor data lead to greater risk. we need a trained, informed, proactive emotional responses, which can skew Take climate change - the government and society that works together. Where waste is potential truths. those in authority need to present us, when eliminated. As Hamlet also said: to be or not to be? these current Coronavirus challenges are Join the fight against the effects of climate We need to know in order to make choices cleared, with the facts and access to change by getting informed. for survival. We are not stupid so much as dialogue. For example, carbon footprints are ignorant. important. But, there are farms whose land TONY LANE

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