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The newsletter for the community of Orford and Gedgrave ISSUE NO. 270 SEPTEMBER 2014 Edited by: Roger Hipwell Published by: Orford and Gedgrave Parish Council and New Orford Town Trust Printed by: Press Ltd. Although published and funded by Orford and Gedgrave Parish Council and New Orford Town Trust, Village Voice is totally unbiased in its reporting. The council therefore holds no responsibility for its content except that submitted by and on behalf of the council or the trust. ALL COPY MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE 24TH OF THE MONTH FOR INCLUSION IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH’S ISSUE, PREFERABLY BY EMAIL TO: [email protected] or [email protected] OR PUT THROUGH THE TOWN HALL LETTERBOX PRIORITY FOR INCLUSION IS GIVEN TO ARTICLES THAT ARE ABOUT OR DIRECTLY AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF ORFORD AND GEDGRAVE AND INCLUSION IS SUBJECT TO EDITING AND AVAILABILITY OF SPACE September Dates for Your Diary LOST Friday 12th September: World War I Exhibition - Orford Town Hall 10.30am to 5.00pm Saturday 13th September: World War I Exhibition - Orford Town Hall 10.30am to 5.00pm GOLD BRACELET Saturday 13th September: Historic Churches Bike Ride th OF GREAT SENTIMENTAL VALUE Sunday 14 September: World War I Exhibition - Orford Town Hall 10.30am to 5.00pm Tuesday 16th September: Gardening Club - High House Farm 2.00pm WITH Friday 19th September: A Farewell to Arms - Town Hall Cinema 7.00pm 4 INSCRIBED MEDALLIONS Saturday 20th September: Run For Fun - Jubilee Park 10.00am nd NO IDEA HOW OR WHERE! Monday 22 September: MacMillan Coffee Morning - Bart’s Hall 10.00am to 12noon Monday 22nd September: WEA course begins - Orford Town Hall 2.00pm CHRISTINE BROMLEY-MARTIN Saturday 27th September: Janet Seidel - St Bartholomew’s Church Doors open 6.30pm 450772 Saturday 27th September: Harvest Festival - Church th NEW ORFORD TOWN TRUST Sunday 28 September: FOP Friends Fundraiser - Sports and Social Club 10.00am - 3.30pm th NOTT Boat Storage Sunday 28 September: Harvest Festival - Chillesford Church Laurence Hebson has now vacated both plots comprising the Orford ORFORD MUSEUM WORLD WAR I EXHIBITION Boatyard. The yard behind the sea wall will be operated by the New NOW WE CAN REMEMBER THEM Orford Town Trust for boat storage, and will be suitable for boats Everyone who attends the annual Remembrance Sunday service will on trailers, and those capable of being moved by their owners. The have been moved to hear the roll call of names of the men who died st th cost for storage will be £250 per annum (1 October - 30 for their country, read out village by village, followed by the words September) or £25 per week. Applications forms are available from 'We will remember them'. the Quay Warden or Town Hall office. This year, 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, Orford Village Fund Museum will display the results of the hard work by volunteer The New Orford Town Trust has already made grants to local researcher Brian Boulton who has done his very best to discover as organisations from its Village Fund. The next applications will be much as possible about every one of the 90 men who died in that considered in October 2014, and should be submitted to the Town war - soldiers, sailors and airmen - from Orford, , Hall office by the end of September. Please contact the Clerk for Chillesford, , Boyton, Butley, and . more information and an application form. Kara Reed, Clerk. Tel The World War I commemorative exhibition, to be held in Orford 459172, [email protected] Town Hall on Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September Mike Pearce - CHAIRMAN NOTT will display at least one page devoted to each man. JANET SEIDEL RETURNS TO ORFORD CHURCH Appeals for information, published in The Link parish magazine, did In March 2012, the First Lady of Australian Jazz, Janet produce a few responses and, best of all, some photographs and Seidel, captivated a packed audience in Orford Church with medals, but even when facts have been hard to come by, there will her programme of songs from the greats of jazz including be something about each man's family and a picture of his grave or Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. memorial. Do please come along to the Town Hall, which will be open from 10.30am to 5.00pm on each of the three days of the We are delighted to announce that Janet and her trio are exhibition, especially if you have a family member named on the War back in the UK this year and, after beginning their UK tour Memorials and may be able to give us more information about him. at Ronnie Scott’s, will be performing again in Orford Church on Saturday 27th September. Licensed bar open from After the exhibition, special folders will be compiled and presented to 6.30pm. Proceeds from this event will go to the Thomas each parish church, so that they can be displayed near the War Marshall Education Fund. Memorials, helping future generations to keep the memory of the men behind the names alive. Those who heard her sing in the church in 2012 will no doubt be rushing to repeat the experience and those who The exhibition will also look at many aspects of life in our villages didn’t should make sure they don’t miss out this year. A during the WWI. Find out about, amongst other things, airfields on most polished entertainer with perfect pitch who fills the Orford Ness and at Butley, schoolchildren given a day off to gather church with beautiful sound. conkers, wounded soldiers nursed in the Cottage Hospital and a Prisoner of War camp on Orford Ness hit by an influenza epidemic. Tickets and details from [email protected] or 01394 450093 We look forward to seeing you. Roger Hipwell Jane Allen MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING the work of the Mission and also preached on Psalm 8. A coffee morning in aid of the McMillan Fund for nurses will Afterwards several friends enjoyed refreshments at the Methodist be held on Monday 22nd September in Bart’s Hall, from Church. The Collection raised £405.00 for the Fishermen’s Mission. 10.00am until 12.00pm. There will be a bring and buy stall, Thanks were expressed to Andy, the Rev’s David Murdoch and a raffle, plus coffee and cake together with meeting friends. Martin Dawes for leading the service, The Suffolk Phoenix Brass for Do come and help swell the funds for this very worthy music (didn’t we sing Lord of The Dance at great speed??!!) and to cause. Adrian and co assisted by Ann and Laura for the movement of chairs and the marshalling of the Quay. Next year (August 2nd) Joan Marshall support will be for The Jubilee Sailing Trust - we hope that more TRIP TO NORWICH publicity will bring even more locals out to enjoy this time of praise! th On Thursday 13 November 2014 we have our trip to Congratulations: At the morning service on 24th August Rev. Martin Norwich – a lovely day for shopping and exploring. Visitors Dawes, our minister, kindly presented (Artserve) certificates and are most welcome (husbands also!). Depart Sudbourne gift tokens to Stephen Caley for 50years as Organist and Louise Village Hall (good parking) 8.45am, Fire Station 8.50am, Gibbs (Stephen & Pam’s daughter) for 25 years as Pianist at the Town Hall 8.55am, also Snape. Leave Norwich 4pm. Contact church. For the record, both started at a very young age. me on 01394 450035. On Sunday 3rd August part of the morning service was given to an Betty Sykes, Orford and Sudbourne WI Act of Remembrance in recognition of the Centenary of the start of ORFORD SPORTS AND RECREATION CLUB WW1 - Binyon's words 'They shall grow not old as we that are left Hi all. A few dates for your diary of events coming up at the grow old....' were recited and a time of silence was observed Sports & Recreation Club. Friday 12 th September Bingo. together with appropriate readings, prayers and hymns. Saturday 27th September Nick's Quiz Night. Sunday 28 th Stephen Caley September Millie's Fundraiser with Julie Thacker. Saturday SEPTEMBER AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S 4th October 70's & 80's disco (fancy dress optional). Sunday 7th September -– Trinity 12 Everybody welcome, members and non members. Hall hire 08.00am Holy Eucharist - Rev S Affleck £30. For bookings please contact Mark at the garage or on th 450434. New members always welcome. Sunday 14 September - Holy Cross Day 08.00am Holy Eucharist - Rev D Murdoch Sheila Osborne - SECRETARY 11.00am Family Service - Mr G Marshall FRIENDS OF ORFORD NESS LIGHTHOUSE Sunday 21st September - St Matthew Orfordness Lighthouse has been moved into a separate 08.00am Holy Eucharist - Rev D Murdoch charity, Orfordness Lighthouse Trust. Members of the public are now able to enjoy this iconic feature of our local 11.00am Holy Eucharist & Thanksgiving landscape for as long as possible. The outcome may be for Sarah Cater - Rev D Murdoch th finite but it may be possible to prevent further Sunday 28 September - Trinity 15 encroachment by the sea and the collapse of the lighthouse 08.00am Holy Eucharist - Rev D Murdoch for a while until its long term future can be determined. It 6.00pm Harvest Thanksgiving - Rev D Murdoch is hoped to save it in some form which is acceptable to the Sunday 5th October - Trinity 16 local community and others from further afield. To do this 08.00am Holy Eucharist - Rev D Murdoch effectively will require considerable outlay which the Trust 11.00am Holy Eucharist - Canon N Davis is currently unable to meet by itself. In view of this it is Rev David Murdoch proposed to form Friends of Orfordness Lighthouse, on RNLI COLLECTION 2014 similar lines to Friends of Orford Museum, to support the work of the Orfordness Lighthouse Trust. The objective is Every year I am amazed at the generosity of the people in two-fold: to run fundraising events and to provide a Orford when it is time for the annual RNLI house-to-house significant pool of volunteers to assist with the visits to the collection. After a couple of years when the total has dipped Lighthouse and other projects as required. I am delighted to report that our figure this year was £766, not far short of our record in 2010. I am so grateful to We would like to hear from anyone who would be able to everyone who trudged round the streets and also to Bridget support this extremely worthwhile project. Please contact and Sue who helped on the Quay on Saturday 26 th July. John Fulford on 01394 450 119 or by email There are only two villages left outside that still [email protected] organise collections and we are the most successful one. Lydia Stephen Everyone around the RNLI stall at the Flower Show seemed SEPTEMBER AT ORFORD METHODIST CHURCH to be having a good time. The sun shone with only one Sunday 7th September 10.30am Stephen Caley brief shower this year. We sold lots of different things and Sunday 14th September 10.30am Rev Elizabeth Bellamy managed to raise £387 for the Aldeburgh branch, who 6.00pm Informal CAFÉ Service asked me to express their gratitude for our donation to this Sunday 21st September 10.30am Stephen Caley worthy cause. Thank you to everyone who supports us so Sunday 28th September 10.30am Rev Martin Dawes loyally every year. My granddaughter couldn’t get over the size of the largest pumpkin! Watching the children enjoying - Communion Punch and Judy, just as I did as a child makes me realise 5.00pm Informal Tea Table Service that the Flower Show must go on forever. Sunday 5th October HARVEST FESTIVAL Diana Paterson 10.30am Stephen Caley GARDENING CLUB - Lunch follows Our next meeting is on Tuesday September 16th at High House Monday TEA ROOM open 12noon - 4pm (approx) for Lunch and Farm, Sudbourne. We are to assemble in front of the Farm Shop at Afternoon Tea - also available: ART & CRAFTS, CARDS, PRESERVES 2.00pm. Suvi and Piers Pool will give a brief introduction to the AND BISCUITS from the Dresser and much more! running of the farm, followed by a walk round the orchards. There WEDNESDAY LUNCH is now serving at 12.30pm - join us for a 2 will be explanations of pruning, feeding, etc. Juices can be course meal COST: £6.00 (booking essential) - best value in town! sampled, tea is provided, and the farm shop visited. Please come in Make an note of HARVEST FESTIVAL Sunday 5th October Service at footwear suitable for rough grassland, and park either behind the 10.30 followed by refreshments and Lunch - You will be very barn or in front of the Farm Shop. As it would be helpful to Suvi welcome to join us at this and any of the services and events. and Piers to know the number to expect, please inform Roger ANNUAL QUAY SERVICE - another great event in the life of the Cooper (450934 or [email protected]) if you intend to come. Town. This year support for the Fishermen’s Mission was Lorna Davis recognised with Andy Malcolm from the Mission who updated us on RSPB SOUTH SUFFOLK COAST HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Garden, an exquisite miniature garden designed in a 'broken' Bronze Age to Battle of Britain: the Story of Sandlings Heath flower pot, also winning the Forbes Trophy and the Bracegirdle Cup Heathland site in Tunstall Forest, forest ride 24, Orford Road - for her efforts. Her younger sister Elsie won the Brady Challenge B1078 Cup for most points for under six year olds. Thursday 11th September; 3.00pm - 6.00pm Tight organisation ensured the smooth running of the Children's Right at the edge of this heathland sits a Bronze Age tumulus. We Races, with a number of races requiring heats to accommodate will use it as a starting point to tell of the changes in the landscape the large entries. A short delay in the Dog Races involving of the Suffolk Sandlings. technical problems with the “meat bone retraction unit”! was ably More on: www.heritageopendays.org.uk dealt with by Patrick Cooper, who together with Caroline and their Wild Heath Picnic family and friends run this most popular part of the show. At Snape Warren All the participants and helpers who make the show such a success Sunday 21st September; sunrise to sunset were warmly thanked by the Committee Chairman John Poulter. Join us and Touching the Tide for the first community picnic day on Michael Bellegarde - FLOWER SHOW COMMITTEE the Snape Warren heathland nature reserve with the big wild FOP FRIENDS FUNDRAISER th heathland picnic starting at noon. On Sunday 28 September at Orford Sports and Social Club from We are delighted to invite you to enjoy the beautiful views over the 10.00am - 3.30pm I am having a fundraising day for Millie Barker, Alde Estuary and experience the wildlife found on our special my friend’s daughter. heaths and estuaries on the Suffolk Coast. She has been diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossifficans progressiva Gather the whole family including your dog, fill your picnic baskets which causes bone to form in muscles, tendons, ligaments and and have a relaxing afternoon on this free event. other connective tissues. More on: www.rspb.org.uk/snape Come and have home-made cakes, tea, coffee, a huge tombola Monika Koch - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER - RSPB and children’s tombola. JOHN CRANE 12TH SEPTEMBER 1947 - 1ST MAY 2014 Many thanks As I think of John on his birthday, I want to thank everyone who Julie Thacker took the time to come to his cremation and his memorial service Golf clubs across Suffolk have put afterwards in Orford, and who generously donated to the British aside their 'members only' Heart Foundation and Bowel & Cancer research, the condition from reputation and are welcoming which John suffered for 35 years. anyone and everyone to get John knew most people in the village, as well as all the suppliers involved in golf to prove how fun, and tradesmen he worked with as a property developer for nearly social and beneficial the activity is. thirty years, not to mention all our friends in Southend. John Beginner coaching courses are available for £20 for four weeks to certainly left his mark on Orford, from his first project building build your confidence, whether you are a beginner or a returner to several bungalows in Potkins Lane in 1987, then seven houses in Golf. Chapelfield in Rectory Lane in the mid ’90s; the thatched houses Find out for yourself and Get into golf, with Golf clubs opening their near The Old Fire Station which he converted, Castle View next to doors across Suffolk it makes it easy! You can choose from, th th the Methodist Chapel and Chantry Barns opposite, the present Fynn Valley - 10 of September, - 7 of September, th th th Rectory, as well as our own White House in Sudbourne and our Bramford - 27 of September, Rookery Park - 24 and/or 27 of nd th new home in Broad Street. September, Woodbridge - 2 of September, Stonham Barns - 6 of 10th July would have been our 40th wedding anniversary and we September. were planning a trip to the Amalfi coast, because we had never Follow this link for further information... http://bit.ly/1zTEopX been to Italy. John started as an errand boy for Rossi’s ice cream in Ryan Street Southend and they gave him a taste for pasta and tomato sauce. A THOUSAND YEARS OF ENGLISH CHURCH BUILDING I have had so many lovely letters and cards which I shall read and C 900 - 1901 re-read and keep for the grandchildren. He had two sons, a A course given by Colin Canfield daughter and five grandchildren who miss him as much as I do. Here in Suffolk we have wonderful churches in our towns and John was never just a builder for his clients, but a friend, and all villages but we often accept their beauty without understanding the cards say, “What a lovely man John was.” their history. This course aims to turn all course members into Thank you to everyone who took the time to send such lovely architectural historians, capable of walking round parish churches letters and cards to show that John will be remembered as a and unravelling for themselves the constructional development of generous and caring man. the buildings! Sue Crane This WEA course will take place in Orford Town Hall on 22nd and FLOWER SHOW 2014 29th September, 13th and 20th October, 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th A bright summer's day greeted this year's Orford, Sudbourne and November, 1st and 8th December, starting at 2.00pm. Gedgrave Flower Show. All are welcome - try out the first lecture for only £4.80! The full Locals and many visitors enjoyed this highlight of the Orford Year enrolment fee is £48. with a first class display of flowers, fruit, vegetables and handicrafts For more details contact: 01394 450934 with some outstanding prize winners presented with their trophies Elisabeth Cooper by Diana Paterson. ORFORD TENNIS AUGUST 2014 The Tricker family went off with another well deserved haul of The Ladies Doubles Tournament was held this year on a perfect silverware, Philip Tricker winning the Silver Challenge Cup for the sunny morning on Monday 11th August. With some new players 'male exhibitor with most points in the show' and Patricia Tricker competing this year the winners were Susie Callaghan and Rebeca responding with the Norton Challenge Cup, the ladies equivalent, Choi. adding to her four first place trophies. Nine couples competed in the Mixed Doubles Tournament on Veteran gardener John Brown, was awarded the Best in Class Tuesday 12th August. Luckily again it was a fine day, and after Certificate for his superb dahlia, richly deserving the de Wynter quite a lot of Pimm’s and games of tennis, we finished the final at Rose Bowl for Best in Show. 8.10pm and Nick and Jeanette Pearce again triumphed for the third Neil Macro, the fisherman whose catch we enjoy at the Orford Sat- time. There was a rumour that Nick might not be able to play be- urday Market showed his versatility by winning the Macro Cup for cause of an injury, so we all had some expectation beforehand of the Heaviest Pumpkin weighing in at 245 lbs., believed to be a toppling them off their throne, but he seemed in very good order village record. on the day and they were worthy winners. The photographic section produced some excellent pictures among I have had a few new members this year which is very encourag- the 77 entries, with Lydia Stephen being awarded the Flint Cup for ing. It only costs £50 for a season ticket for the whole family so if her contribution under the 'Misty Weather' title. anyone else would like to have one contact me on 450771 or email Excellent talents were displayed in the childrens' section with Besse [email protected]. Woodruffe winning a first prize and Best in Junior Section for Mary's Diana Paterson

The Town Hall Cinema begins its autumn season with a screening of the original black and white version of “A Farewell To Arms” (PG) on Friday 19th September at 7.30pm. Chillesford Church The British Film Institute described the film, “Now beautifully Harvest Festival restored by Lobster Films, A Farewell to Arms is released to coincide Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th September with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. A forgotten masterpiece, Frank Borzage’s film of Ernest Morning Coffee, afternoon teas, raffle, Hemingway’s novel, published just two years earlier, is both a produce and cake stall persuasive picture of the nightmare that was World War One and a deeply affecting tribute to the transcendent power of love. Games for all the family Sexy and irreverent, Gary Cooper excels as Frederic Henry, an Harvest Festival Service at 6.30pm Sunday 28th American serving in the Italian ambulance brigade who meets, through his cynical, womanising doctor friend (Adolphe Menjou), ALL WELCOME Catherine (Helen Hayes), an English nurse whose fiancé died at the Somme. Frederic’s initial attempts to flirt fail to impress Catherine, but war can have an odd way of bringing people together… While the film successfully evokes the horrific carnage, cruel authoritarianism and despair-inducing dimensions of modern mechanised warfare, it centres on the flowering of a relationship so passionate and mutually regenerative that it overcomes even the constraints of time and place. Charles Lang’s fluid, painterly, Oscar-winning cinematography (combining expressionism and incandescence), several truly remarkable montage sequences and SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST BIKE RIDE the rapt performances all add up to a delirious Romanticism Does anyone feel inspired to take part in this year’s event? characteristic of Borzage at his best; the extraordinary Liebestod Please see Christine Murdoch at Orford Store or contact The that forms its climax is at once utterly exhilarating and strangely Rectory on 450336 for details, sponsor forms etc. modern.” Also required… Volunteers to steward in Orford Church on the day. Tickets will be £5.00 at the door (no cards). Doors will be open at Christine Murdoch 7.00pm for the 7.30pm start.

Frances Brennan