Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 109 70 pence where sold
Inside this Issue: • Welcome From the Chair • RikkIAbout • Pitstone & Ivinghoe Summer Festival The Quarterly Magazine The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS hope by the time you read this we Thelp of the volunteer band of will be enjoying some warm weather distributors. Iand making the most of the lighter Many thanks to them all; Gloria Welcome from the Chair 3 evenings. Snowdon, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, By now the Anglian Water roadworks Karen Groom, Neighbourhood News Rob and Ann Cattle, Wendy Farrington, 6-25 will have fi nished, and we will be getting Chair, Ivinghoe Keith Haynes – it couldn’t be done used to the temporary 18 tonne weight Parish Council Ecumenical Enlightenment 26-33 without you! limit for HGVs on the Brownlow Bridge If you have any skills that will help Cultivation Clippings 38-40 following the strength assessments by us to keep the magazine going or you the Canal and Rivers Trust who own would like to submit an article, please Beyond the Boundary 46 the bridge. let us know as we are always looking for new and varied talents! Sporting Scoop 38 Play areas Some exciting news! Ivinghoe Parish Councillor Communication 56-67 Council have been awarded Lottery funding from Awards for All for £10,000 which will be used to install a new cable BEACON COPY AND zip wire on Ivinghoe Lawn for teenagers ADVERT DEADLINES and adults to use. We will take advice from Wicksteed with regarding to the
We aim to get the magazine distributed position, but this is expected to be around the beginning of every February, May, installed in June. We have also applied August and November. To ensure your article for grant funding from AVDC New how the village has changed over Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like Homes Bonus for a new accessible the years. Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: roundabout for Ivinghoe Lawn and Email: [email protected] Ivinghoe Aston play areas, we should Bucks best kept Village Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight hear from AVDC in September. We have again entered the Bucks Best Tel: 07960 605393 You may have noticed the new picnic Kept Village Competition, please make table located near the table tennis table every effort to keep the village tidy and Email: [email protected] August 2019 Edition – 4 July 2019 on Ivinghoe Lawn for everyone to use. litter free, especially if your property is November 2019 – 4 October 2019 Design and Artwork: Laila Palfrey on the High Street. Judging takes place February 2020 Edition – 4 January 2020 Tel: 01525 222214 in June – July time. May 2020 Edition – 4 April 2020 Ivinghoe aerial photograph Email: [email protected] taken 1950 We have recently discovered an aerial There are a few dates BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: photograph of Ivinghoe taken in 1950 for you… which we are having restored. We plan Annual Parish Meeting and Annual 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. to display the restored photograph in Meeting of the Parish Council – 1/3 page £65 per year Ivinghoe Town Hall for everyone to see. 7th May 7.30pm Ivinghoe Old School 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied I’m sure you will fi nd it interesting to see Village Hub u Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le.
2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 The Annual Meeting of Ivinghoe Parish take the time to visit and appreciate Council will be held on 7th May at their beauty and tranquillity. 7.30pm in Ivinghoe Old School Village Hub.Everyone is welcome to attend this Ivinghoe Flower Show – relaxed evening and enjoy refreshments 14th September, Ivinghoe Town Hall and an opportunity to talk to your and Ivinghoe Old School Councillors. Further details inside, entry forms will be available nearer the time. 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Beavers (5 3/4 -8 year olds) Ivinghoe Village Fete – 8th June 2019 Monday 6-7pm with Tom as Watermill Coloney leader
COUNCILLORS NEWS Tuesday 6-7pm with Jakki as Windmill Coloney leader We look forward to the village fete on Ivinghoe Town Hall Chairman
the 8th June, this year the theme is Thank you to Andy Beezer for being 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Cubs (8-10 year olds) ‘Save The Environment’. The offi cial Chairman of Ivinghoe Town Hall Wednesday 7-8:30pm (Dan) Akela as Windmill Pack leader opening time is 2pm. Committee and good luck with your Thursday 6:30-8pm (Rob) Shere Khan as Watermill Pack leader move away. Ivinghoe Allotments Open Day – 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Scouts (10 1/2 -14 1/2 year olds) 17th August 1.30 – 4pm Friday 7:30-9pm Andrew as Troop Leader The allotments will be open to visitors Website on the 17th August. We are particularly Please check the website for regular For any enquiries or to join the waiting list please contact us proud of the Ivinghoe Allotments please updates: www.ivinghoepc.org.uk on [email protected] Or our Group Scout Leader, Keith Steers on [email protected] or 07899 696722
We are also raising money to rebuild the village a purpose built scout hut and are selling bricks to supporters for £10 each. Please email the above address for details.
Have you ever thought about ‘growing your own’? Growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very a satisfying experience and in Ivinghoe we are very lucky to have some beautiful allotments just off Church Road, overlooking St Mary’s Church. Rainbows: Monday 4.30 – 5.30pm Pitstone Memorial Hall If you are an Ivinghoe resident and would like some Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 more information about availability of plots – we have them in a range of sizes – please contact the Parish Brownies: Monday 5.45 – 7.15pm Pitstone Memorial Hall Clerk at [email protected] Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 Girl Guides: Tuesday 7.00 – 8.30pm Millennium Room, NB: there may not always be an available plot but we do keep a Pitstone Memorial Hall Guider: Yvonne Ashton 01296 660044 waiting list! To join us, please visit our website at Girlguiding.org.uk
4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 0.2 mile gap RikkIAbout 40 MPH sign Excuse me… Ivinghoe Aston Farm For 35 years I’ve organised a free often cursed people with such addresses, Orchard Farm and cottages Christmas card delivery service for the especially when there is no big sign up Rocklane Riding Centre Rookery Nook Cottage elderly of Harpenden. On a single Sunday outside the house. Now I find myself Rocklane Bungalow morning, the Cubs deliver around 4,000 living at such an address, and I feel a tad 14 & 13 Orchard Farm Cottages, Touchwood Barn cards, having sorted them into rounds the guilty. Often, when I’m in the front garden, 12 Orchard Farm Cottages previous day. On the Sunday afternoon I a vehicle pulls up and the driver says 11 Orchard Farm Cottages deliver the cards that the Cubs and their “Excuse me, do you know where it is?”. CHAPEL LANE (1-5) Old Chapel Rookery Nook parents failed to find a home for. Many of Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t”. Tag End NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS these have just a road name and a house At last I have got around to making a list, FLAG POLE name, rather than a number, and I’ve and I thought it might be useful to share it. 2 Swan Close Lilac Farm Damson Tree Cottage SWAN CLOSE (3-11) 1 Swan Close NORTH WEST END The Old Post Office End of speed limit sign Glendower POST BOX PLAYGROUND 0.1 mile gap Little Orchard THE VILLAGE SWAN Grove Farm House, Barns, Businesses 2 High Street ALLOTMENTS (***see below) 0.1 mile gap 4 High Street 1 High Street HARTOP CLOSE 6 High Street 3 High Street Oak Cottage 8 High Street 5 High Street Cherry Cottage 10 High Street (Ty Cyngor) Maple Cottage 12 High Street 7 High Street Willow Farm 9 High Street 1 Brook Cottages Six Acres 11 High Street 2 Brook Cottages (Overstream) Riffhams 3 Brook Cottages 6 Ashby Villas 3a Brook Cottages 5 Ashby Villas 4 Brook Cottages The Hawthorns 4 Ashby Villas Hope Brook Cottage Ridge View 3 Ashby Villas Brambles 2 Ashby Villas 0.1 mile gap Beacon Cottage 1 Ashby Villas (Hill View) Laurel Cottage Well Cottage VILLAGE HALL Fir Tree Cottage School Meadow Diblocks Orchard Beacon Farm House Kirbister 0.1 mile gap Hilderstone Diblocks Cottage Vine Farm Brampton Hideaway Cottage The Old School House Moses Cottage Old School
6 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 7 IVINGHOE ASTON and 30 MPH signs Crabtree Farmhouse 0.5 mile gap The Briars
0.15 mile gap SOUTH EAST END (B489)
***For a mere £20 a year, one of the 4m x 10m allotment plots could be your source of healthy vegetables and healthy exercise. Contact Neil Ashby at Ivinghoe Aston Farm.
NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Rikki Harrington Between The Old School House and Hilderstone 01525 220625 [email protected]
PITSTONE VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE YARDLEY AVENUE, PITSTONE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDS, LU7 9BE Enjoy Home cooked food at the 01525 223211 Waterside Café www.pitstonesurgery.co.uk Pitstone Wharf, Cheddington Road, Pitstone, DR J R BELL, DR HEATHER WHITE, DR STEPHANIE JOHNSTON, DR KIRSTEN RIEMER, Bucks LU7 9AD DR CHARLOTTE FISHER, DR LEE MITCHELL, & DR SHIV KORIA Breakfasts, Lunches, Soup, Sandwiches, Toasties Homemade Cakes, Cream Teas plus a selection of We welcome patients from Marsworth & Cheddington as well as the ‘Ivinghoes’ and Pitstone Hot & Cold Drinks including Castlemead estate. OPENING TIMES We also offer a medication dispensing service to our patients who live in Cheddington and 10am to 3pm FRIDAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY -10am to 2.30pm. surrounding villages. 10am to 3pm BANK HOLIDAYS 10am to 3pm We are a dispensing practice offering a full range of health services at our surgery including Family On request for group bookings we can offer seating for 36people. planning, Midwifery, In-house blood tests, Travel and Minor surgery, Weekly visiting hearing aid Email: café@pitstonewharf.co.uk www.pitstonewharf.co.uk service and ear wax microsuction.
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WI News... Ivinghoe & Pitstone
Branch
y name is Sue Eyre and I as someone remarked, it was so lovely took over from Sue Jones to see a man with an iron in his hand. Mas President of Ivinghoe and We’ve got a full programme planned Pitstone WI in January of this year. for the rest of the year and as well as NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS I moved into Ivinghoe just over three monthly meetings, we also have a dining years ago after a lifetime in north club, a walking group, a bookclub and a Derbyshire; our parents had passed away craft club. So there’s lots going on! Why and our remaining family lived in New don’t you give us a try? Give me a call and Zealand, Australia and Berkhamsted. And I’ll give you the details. we’re loving it! We’ve also got an Open Meeting It was on our fi fth day here that I met a on 13th June where we welcome all member of the WI whilst out walking my members of the community, not just the baby granddaughter. We had a little chat ladies; the theme for that one is ‘From and by the same afternoon the President plot to pot’. was on my doorstep to welcome me into the fold – she even picked me up for the Sue Eyre, President fi rst meeting and I only live in Wellcroft! 01296 709281 / 07742138955 I was made so very welcome and three years later, here I am as President! Our fi rst three meetings have been Also coming up…. lively affairs! Sunday 16th June, Prosecco, Cream We shook off the January cobwebs Teas on the Cricket Green at Pitstone, in with a mini Ceilidh with live music by support of the music event organised by Ivinghoe’s own Puddingstone Lane and it the Beacon Choir. was great! February saw us learning about the life of a custom’s offi cer with a talk from Geoff Travis; he told us about the characters he’d met and the loot he had uncovered which defi nitely should have been declared! In March we welcomed Phil Madley from Wilstone who is an encaustic painter – no we didn’t know what one of those was either, but we do now! He creates original pictures using wax and an iron –
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fter several years of acting as Also, have a look at the regular weekly ‘Chairman’ of the Ivinghoe Town events held at the Ivinghoe Town Hall. AHall Management Committee we sadly had to say goodbye to Andy Beezer Ivinghoe Town Hall regular events: recently as he and Sally have emigrated up to Sheffi eld to be closer to their Monday: 4pm – 8pm – Ballet children and awaiting their arrival of their Lisa Sabitini (07834 281434) fi rst grandchild.Thank you Andy for all NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS your support. Monday: 8pm – 9pm – Boxercise As a 17th Century Grade II listed Josh Thompson (07456 574405) building the Town Hall requires substantial maintenance. Bucks CC have inspected Tuesday: 9.45am – 12pm – Beacon Art the condition of the property and it Marion Jackson (01296 668429) appears that a lot of remedial work is required, pending BCC fi nancial approval. Tuesday: 7pm – 8pm – Zumba In the 2nd half of this year whilst Carolyn Syme (07941 092673) staying open for Bookings and it’s regular Classes you may notice the Town Hall Tuesday: 8.15pm – 10.15pm – Morris being covered back & front in Scaffolding! ‘New Moon’ Dancers Martin Lindridge Remedial works are required to the: Roof, (07803-149490) FORD END WATERMILL Gothic Window’s, Gutters, Rendering and IVINGHOE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE removing Ivy and treating some damp Wednesday: 9.15am – 10.15am The only working watermill to survive intact in the county. The mill, etc. BCC have already replaced the old Natural Pilates Andrea (07855 138005) recorded in 1616 but probably much older, was in use until 1963. 1936 iron Fire Escape with a new ‘shiny’ Now restored by volunteers and run by Ford End Watermill Society, aluminium one which will be painted Wednesday: 7pm – 8:30pm Yoga it retains all the atmosphere of a small farm mill of the late 1800s. Black in due course. Sally Craig (07753-985155) Visitors can work the sack hoist and mill wheat on a rotary hand quern. Help required! We have a very Stoneground wholemeal flour for sale on milling days. small team (Accountant, Secretary, Thursday: 7.00pm – 10.00pm W.I. OPENING TIMES 2019 Booking Clerk and a DIY genius) so 2nd Thursday of each month Open between 2pm and 5pm on the following dates with LOCATION if you would like to contribute someway Sue Jones (01296 660436) milling demonstrations between 2-30pm and 4-30pm approx Water level permitting Station Rd, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EA to the upkeep and the running of 600 metres from the church along Last Admission 4-30pm. Admission: Adults: £3 children (5–15) £1 Station Road. the Town Hall, from Chair person to To Hire Ivinghoe Town Hall: 31st March - Sunday • 22nd April - Easter Monday • 6th May - BH Monday The B488 to Leighton Buzzard. Caretaking etc., please give Stephen Stephen Swinbank (The Booking 12th May - National Mills Sunday • 27th May - BH Monday a call on 01296 660680. Secretary) on 01296 660680. 16th June - Sunday • 14th July - Sunday • 29th July - Sunday The 2019 AGM to which all are invited Or emai: [email protected] 11th August - Sunday • 26th August - BH Monday • 8th September - Sunday will be held in the Town Hall at 8pm on Also, please try the web site at 13th October - Sunday as part of Tring's Own Apple Fayre. Thursday 30th May. www.ivinghoetownhall.org.uk where Ample car parking – no toilet facilities. Restricted disability access The Town hall is an ideal location for you can see regular activities and search School and other parties welcome by arrangement. Contact: Mill Manager - Chris Tugby, [email protected] family parties or weddings so don’t for Hall availability dates, and make a or Telephone: . www.fordendwatermill.co.uk forget to book early. Booking enquiry online. 01442 825421
12 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 13 Hub News... Our Hub run by this ur Ivinghoe Hub is an increasingly fully booked successful Community OProject and this has come about by community for all reflecting what you ask for. your diaries because we are attempting Facebook users will have seen our something more this year! recent ‘Call-Out for Hub Volunteers’ to So – firstly to give you warning to set HOW TO BOOK HUB SPACE: Booking space within the form an outer skin of generous community- aside Saturday September 14th to aim at Hub is easy but needs to follow through by the Hirer who: member support, whose active help we for growing and creating your entries, and NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS would WELCOME with open arms to add we promise a full schedule of Flowers, 1. Approaches café team who man the Hub Diary 7 to what we ageing volunteer Trustees can Veg, Fruit, Craft, Cooking and Children’s days a week at café counter or the Hirer approaches
contribute, to keep making interesting challenges via websites, social media Trustee team via phone or email things happen in and around our lovely Hub and physically present hard copy fliers in 01296-661666 building, saved by us for your use. venues and on notice boards. [email protected] We boldly suggest that the first Secondly – do set this day aside and yes volunteering moment could be a ‘CLEAN make it an all-day experience – because we Half space £9/£7 per hour or whole hall £12/£10 per UP IVINGHOE’ session after lunch on very much hope to engage everyone in an hour. (or an element of the IT Room after negotiation) Sunday May 19th, to leave the roads, Autumn Fayre that celebrates Harvest paths and gardens of our village looking and end of summer abundance on that 2. The process is explained by obtaining from either source sparkly just in time for the Best Kept Village day around the Hub also. a vital Booking Form which includes the extra special Competition in June! We plan to use the Our Hub stalls would hope to reflect Hub with its Café as the central meeting up that same theme and be active during the options bookable, the insurance cover and awareness of the space to share tools, lav’s and refreshments morning after you have dropped off your hirers cleaning up obligations – to be filled in and returned to suit us all – as we turn up and pitch in entries into the Halls and we are hoping within 7 days and the fee paid – if not then – no later than throughout this fun and ‘actively-enhancing’ to arrange Morris dancing in the outside time from Noon onwards to 4.30/5pm! spaces also. The Flower and Veg Show 3 days before the date booked. Look-out for detailed fliers following on! will open to competitors and visitors Old Scholars of Ivinghoe Old School alike at 2pm after the late morning 3. By this returned form and fee, the booking is made formal will know there is an open invitation to judging, and stay open till the Auction and then penned into diary which means it cannot join in the annual Reunion for a catch up of Produce has finished around 4pm. be over-ridden or double booked – This booking then and entertaining quizzes before and after a There is even talk of a Ceilidh in the tasty lunch together. Tickets from Sylvia evening, or torch lit Apple Blessing? translates to our ‘digital diary’ graphically – charted monthly Simmonds. Here is a link to let us know your interest in by Bob to ensure visual awareness of all bookings- posted Somewhere else in this magazine you our volunteering Clean-Up; our Autumn Fayre on Facebook Page, web-site and email data-base, hard will spot our cheery advert for this year’s Market Stall spaces; or/and any of the rest of Ivinghoe Flower And Veg Show which these suggestions for your enjoyment. copy on Notice Board for Public viewing. is back by popular demand, and this time Email: ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ the Show will be held in both the Hub btconnect.com; Join in with your DIY skills please! You are all so Hall and Town Hall combined to allow for Facebook: Ivinghoe Old School Hub; welcome to join in! even more elbow room! We very much Website: ivinghoeoldschool.com want you to set aside the whole day in Thanks, Carol T at the Hub.
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Reserve Your Seat for Star-Studded BeaconLit With a few names still to be confi rmed, the programme for Beaconlit 2019 – Ivinghoe’s very own literary festival – promises another star-studded lineup NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS with something for everyone interested in books and writing. The festival is in its seventh year, and its uniqe blend of quality event and small village atmosphere is loved by participants and audience alike, placing Leigh Russell it fi rmly on the literary festivals map. Festival 2019 takes place on 13 July in Jane Wenham-Jones Quentin Bates Brookmead School, and featured authors include: author, journalist, presenter, interviewer and creative writing tutor Leigh Russell has sold over a million novel featuring Quentin’s protagonist, goodie bags for all-day attendees Jane Wenham-Jones; best selling crime books in her Geraldine Steel crime Sergeant Gunnhildur and the series of and giveaway draws. novelist Leigh Russell; and author, series which has been translated into novels she features in have their origins Full day passes went on sale on translator and founder of the Icelandic several languages, including Chinese. in a deep affection for Iceland and its 31 March at the early bird price of just Noir festival Quentin Bates. Leigh has been shortlisted for two people, and an intimate knowledge £21, which is available until 30 April. Jane Wenham-Jones is the author of CWA Dagger Awards, and has twice of Icelandic society and its language, From 1 May, the price rises to £26.50 six novels, two non-fi ction writing guides been a Finalist for The People’s Book customs and quirks. and half-day passes will also go on sale. and a humorous diet book, 100 Ways Prize. She serves on the board of the Other participants include: exciting You can reserve your places online to Fight the Flab and Still Have Wine Crime Writers Association, and chairs new talents West Camel, Noelle at www.beaconlit.co.uk or at Beacon and Chocolate. She has written for The the CWA Debut Dagger judges. She is Holton and Fina Vigo Marshall; author, Villages Community Library. Guardian, The Bookseller, Booktime, a Royal Literary Fellow. freelance editor, writing tutor columnist BeaconLit promotes books and writing Sunday Express, Daily Express, The Quentin Bates is the co-founder of and blogger Morgen Bailey; BBC TV in the Beacon Villages and also raises Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and the crime writing festival Iceland Noir correspondent and presenter Adina funds for our local library. numerous women’s magazines, and is a with Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Ragnar Campbell; and crime writers Alison To see the full programme and buy regular contributor to Woman’s Weekly Jonasson and is one of the very few Bruce, A B Morgan and Dave Sivers. tickets, go to the festival website is and has a monthly advice column in British authors who is writing Scandi The results of the BeaconFlash fl ash www.beaconlit.co.uk. Writing Magazine. She has presented for Noir set in Iceland and who has a deep fi ction competition will be announced. the BBC on both TV and radio, has been understanding of the place. He has been As well as a great programme of a celebrity speaker for P&O, and has married to an Icelandic woman for 30 author panels, live interviews and Dave Sivers hosted the Romantic Novel Awards for years and has spent nearly a decade workshops, BeaconLit also offers the past eight years. living there. Cold Breath is the sixth pre-bookable packed lunches,
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18 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 19 Streetlight update... Creative Art y the time you are reading this Course the project to replace all the Bstreetlights in the parish will be @ Whipsnade well advanced. Village Hall To date the Parish Council has had a full structural and electrical survey (adults only) completed, the results of which did not make good reading and the consequence FREE art class tasters NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS is that every single streetlight will need all term. an overhaul. At the same time faults with the main electricity supply to parts New term starts of Ivinghoe were identifi ed which have Wed 1st May and then needed to be repaired urgently Fri 3rd May by the electricity supply company 9.30am – 12.30pm UK Power Networks. Moving forward, we have identifi ed to IPC. There are others along Church Catch up sessions a replacement LED lamp, see picture. Road, High Street and beside the school available. This lamp is very discreet, no bigger that belong to Bucks CC, these are than the size of an A5 sheet of paper. subject to a separate upgrade by BCC, Course fees include all It is planned to install shrouds on the so on completion there will still be a few art materials and artist lamps to prevent light straying into orange sodium lamps left awaiting BCC. property and to have them dimming In addition, IPC are also considering workshops/outdoor between midnight and 6a.m. The choice the provision of some new lights, if sketching. of lamp has been determined to match budgets prevail. Current thinking is one in with ones that Bucks CC will be using, by the church in Ivinghoe and one in To book a FREE taster thereby giving a uniformed approach to Ivinghoe Aston by Hartop Close. Both call Lorna on the whole parish. sites have been chosen because of 078 9661 9660 Some of the lampposts will need to be parishioner representation also safety replaced and in every case the brackets concerns prevail at both sites. If anyone email: on walls and poles will also require thinks that any further lights are required drmooresartcourse@ changing. The lampposts unfortunately around the parish, please let the Parish gmail.com have suffered from dogs (doing their Council know quickly and again, if thing), collision damage and concrete budget prevails, we may be able to do Facebook: Dr Lorna cancer. The brackets in most cases are something about it. If not, it may have Moore’s Creative corroding and need to be made safe. to wait till the next fi nancial year. Art Course The current plan is to replace all the streetlights in the parish that belong Ivinghoe Parish Council
20 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 21 Pitstone and Ivinghoe Entertainments presents… Summer Festival 2019
Friday 14th June – Housemouse will be bringing Ibiza everyone, this is the best way to while in and around The Big Top, Pitstone Mamma Mia Party Night to those who haven’t been before, or away a sunny afternoon with family and Recreation Ground, LU7 9EY Watch the movie on a huge LED Screen for a while; or who have been loads but friends. Cream teas will be provided by in super hi definition. wished they’d not come back so soon! the WI, and a licensed bar will be available Pitstone and Ivinghoe Entertainments – NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Sing along with all your favourite songs, Hear anthems that defined an era, that all afternoon. So, whether you are into Entertainment By The Community For with on-screen lyrics. you can all sing and jump along to and jazz, pop or anything in-between, open a The Community 70’s Disco after the movie until late. new cuts that you will be hearing for the bottle of fizz, tuck into a cream tea, and Some seating provided. Bar open all night first time and be desperate to hear again chill in the summer sunshine. For further information find us on and again. Facebook @PandIEEvents Doors open 7pm – Mamma Mia 2 As ever it will be an upbeat, funky, Tickets: £5 (children free) – available on Here We Go Again Singalong 8pm bassy, bouncy night, leave your inhibitions the gate The festival is made possible with the at the bar, put on your dancing shoes and kind sponsorship of Colbree – Precision 70’s Disco 10pm until late prepare to #releaseYOUR inneribiza. Come and enjoy a great night (or two!) Engineering since 1985 and Project Group See you on the dance floor! out in your village. All events are held – Print, Signs and Display. £8.00 per person £25.00 for a family ticket (2+2) 7pm–1am Main Bar and Shots Bar (children over 12 only) open all night
With thanks to Pitstone Film Club Tickets £20.00 (Strictly 18+ only)
Tickets for both events can only be Saturday 15th June – purchased from events-pi.com Housemouse Housemouse is back to bring the vibe Dress code for both nights – anything of the Balearic dance music scene to goes! Pitstone and party like you would on the famous ‘White Isle’ of Ibiza. They create the best club atmosphere in the most Sunday 16th June from 1pm unlikely of places, playing glorious House, Music on the Green Tech-house and Techno classics, fresh Come and join the Beacon Community remixes and dreamy Trance breakdowns Choir and friends with a mini-music from an awesome Funktion-One sound festival on Pitstone Green. Bring your system, all fused with beautiful visual picnic baskets, gazebos and friends, and arts, incredible lighting and a good splash relax while the choir and featured local of dry ice!! artists entertain you. With something for
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e approach a project to repair of history and continuity. Its cruciform Bicentenary Celebration the the stone work around the shape speaks of the Christian faith in Wwindows of St Mary’s church which we worship God within it. ueen Victoria’s 200th birthday The Ensemble (Judith Sheridan, voice, in Ivinghoe and you will hear more about When I have visited the stone circles falls on May 24th this year, and Margaret Richards, cello, Daniel King this over the coming months. at Stonehenge, Avebury and Castlerigg, QPrince Albert’s on August 26th. Smith, piano, and William Winfi eld, A large stone was placed in front of the near Keswick, I am left with questions As part of their festival to celebrate reader,) performs regularly for music cave where Jesus’ body was laid after his about who moved the stones. There is this double bicentenary the Ridgeway clubs, churches and other organisations death but this was found to have been no consensus about how and why the Ensemble present ‘Victoria and Albert throughout the country and abroad. removed by some women who came to circles were built. They were assembled – a musical romance’ at 7.30pm in Join us as we celebrate the tastes and visit his grave. These disciples were the at great effort by large numbers of Ivinghoe Church on the queen’s birthday. musical achievements of Victoria and fi rst witnesses to the resurrection and people many thousands of years ago The programme brings to life the Albert, opening a window onto the the message of his resurrection spread over an extended period. There must musical world of the royal couple, musical life of Victorian England. ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT throughout the world. have been a reason and they must have through readings from their letters ‘Who Moved the Stone?’ is the name held a signifi cant place in the lives of the and diaries, contemporary accounts Church of St Mary the Virgin, of a famous book by Albert Ross who Neolithic people of our land. and music by composers such as Ivinghoe, LU7 9EW wrote under the name Frank Morrison. But sadly, stones don’t speak. Is it Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Bellini, He sought to piece together the story possible to imagine a day when the Elgar and Sullivan. At the heart of the Friday May 24th at 7.30pm of what happened to Jesus at the fi rst signifi cance of our church has been programme are three songs by Prince Easter. He tried to look at the apparent lost in the mists of time? They may be Albert himself for voice, cello and piano, Admission £8 on the door discrepancies in the various accounts in more permanent but stones don’t speak; which have remained unpublished and the Bible in order to dismiss the records people speak. It was not a rolled stone unperformed until now. www.ridgewayensemble.co.uk as unreliable and untrustworthy. He but a couple of women who told their actually came to the reverse conclusion. friends of the resurrection of Christ. This A church building speaks to us in message continues today on human lips. different ways. It is a centre for our Whatever our beliefs, in any context, community to gather to celebrate life the knowledge, ideas and stories that Pitstone Church at baptisms, weddings and funerals. matter to us need to be told or they too It reminds us of our history and the will, in due course, be forgotten and lost. itstone Church Committee Wind in the Willows Thursday names of those who have passed away (Friends) have devised a varied 22nd August Matinee performance. and those we lost in war. It is a symbol Adrian Pprogramme for this year. Christmas Memory Tree Late May Bank Holiday 39th Festival Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December. of Art, Craft and Flowers We look forward to seeing you at Saturday 25th May 11am – 6pm these events. Sunday 26th May 11am – 5pm The Church will be open every Evensong at 6pm Sunday and Bank Holidays from May to Monday 27th May 11am – 5pm September from 2.30 – 5.30pm. Drop in and enjoy our peaceful atmosphere. Icknield Sixteen Concert Saturday 13th July at 7.30pm. Gillian Arney
26 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 27 VICTORIA & ALBERT – A MUSICAL ROMANCE ueen Victoria and Prince Albert’s mutual passion for music was at the heart of their A & A Qrelationship from the very beginning. An accomplished composer, Albert shared his creative I L process in letters to the young queen and, as their married life progressed, it was punctuated by R B concerts, private performances and audiences with the musical elite of Europe. O The Ridgeway Ensemble brings to life the musical world of the royal couple, through readings E from their letters and diaries, and contemporary accounts of meetings with composers such as T Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Liszt, Grieg and Sullivan. At the heart of the programme are R songs composed by Prince Albert for voice, cello and piano, which have remained unpublished C and unperformed until now. I T The programme reflects the tastes and musical achievements of Victoria and Albert, including music by Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Bellini, Elgar and Sullivan, opening a window onto the musical life of Victorian England. V ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT THE RIDGEWAY ENSEMBLE was formed in 2008 to bring both popular and V V less widely performed music to churches and communities within Bucks, Beds and Herts. They can be heard performing regularly at National Trust A property Claydon House, and recent engagements have included concerts for the Aylesbury Festival, Buckingham University, Hampstead Music Club
E and a tour of southern France. M Judith Sheridan (voice) studied at the RNCM and Lancaster University before C completing her studies at the opera school in Hamburg. After working as a U soloist in theatres and concert halls on the continent, she returned to the N UK to continue her career as a soloist and conductor. Judith regularly sings with ensembles in the UK and the USA, combining this with a busy schedule as a choral conductor, and is MD to the S A Berkhamsted Youth Theatre and guest conductor and vocal consultant to the Amade Players. I Margaret Richards (cello) is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. For six years she played in the orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, before returning to London to pursue her interest C M in baroque music in particular. As both cellist and viola da gamba player she has performed internationally with many A O ensembles, including the Hanover Band, London Festival Orchestra, New London Consort and Florilegium. She plays L R regularly with the Holborne Players, and with the Apollo Consort she has recorded works by the 17th-century composer John Jenkins.
Daniel King Smith (piano) performs internationally as both soloist and accompanist. A finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year, he went on to win the Harold Craxton and Max Pirani prizes as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, THE RIDGEWAY ENSEMBLE and prizes for both solo and accompaniment at the Haverhill Sinfonia competition. Formerly staff accompanist at both the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music Junior Departments and at the Purcell School, he has JUDITH SHERIDAN (VOICE) MARGARET RICHARDS (CELLO) performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall, and now works entirely as a freelance chamber musician. DANIEL KING SMITH (PIANO) WILLIAM WINFIELD (READER) Daniel has recorded a number of CDs, including releases with Anna Hashimoto on the Meridian label.
The Ridgeway Ensemble is joined by William Winfield, a modern languages graduate of Cambridge University. The former head of a London independent RIDGEWAY school, William combines his lifelong passions for chamber music and RIDGEWAY language as reader for many Ridgeway concerts.
28 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 29 St Mary’s Church PPIITTSSTTOONNEE The 39th ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT FESTIVAL of Dates for 2019 ART, CRAFT
17th March and FLOWERS
th 19 May LATE SPRING BANK HOLIDAY 21st July 25–27 MAY 15th September Saturday: 11–6 8th December Sunday: 11–5 and
Evensong at 6 Monday: 11–5 From 2.30-4pm at St. Mary’s ADMISSION FREE Ivinghoe Refreshments available Come and join us! For more details contact Sandra THE CHURCHES on: 01296 668648 CONSERVATION TRUST
30 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 31 IVINGHOE HAND-BELLS We have a beginners group meeting fortnightly in the church ringing the beautiful hand-bells that belong to St. Mary’s Church Ivinghoe. If you missed the taster evening, and would like to have a go, or see and hear what happens it is not too late so please get in touch or come along to a Monday evening meeting. Ivinghoe & Pitstone We have fun, a break for refreshments and experience the very special sound of our 139 year old bells. Chapel Fellowship ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT Alex Wynne 01296 668336 We are a small and friendly group of local Christians who meet to worship God in a fairly informal way, in song, in prayer, and with messages brought by a variety of local preachers.We meet on Sunday mornings at 10.30am in the Millennium Room at Pitstone Memorial Hall for services that last about an hour, followed by social chat over a cup of tea or coffee.
ALL ARE WELCOME Why not come and join us?
FIRST THURSDAY FRIENDS Come and enjoy a family film on the first CAKES NEEDED! Thursday of each month. For the Pitstone Church Festival, May bank holiday Time 2pm (approx) 4.15pm in the millennium room weekend 25th-27th of May. Please can anyone help by baking or bringing a INTERESTED? cake to the church to donate for sale with the teas? If you would like more information please call: With thanks [email protected] 01296 668005
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34 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 35 The King’s Head, Ivinghoe 01296 668388 M. D. SPRING AUTOS
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36 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 37 Ivinghoe Allotments Ivinghoe Golf Club Tales from the Plot
do hope you all had a good Easter You do not need a plot to grow your break?. By the time that you get own vegetables. A small greenhouse Ithis edition of The Beacon fi rst and say 6ft x 4ft can give you a fair amount second early potatoes will have been of produce at the end of the growing planted and maincrop potatoes planted season. Don’t forget that tomatoes,
CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION slightly later – the end of April. Broad peppers, cucumbers and potatoes can beans, peas (I start them off in the cold also be grown in pots. If you really want greenhouse about February time), leeks, to get ahead with growing from seed onions and shallots can also be sown. choose a heated propagator – the larger During April beetroot, broccoli, brussell the better. sprouts, lettuce, spinach can all planted. If you are interested in joining the I start all but the carrots and sprouts in waiting list for an allotment, please Looking to Learn to Play or Improve your Golf? the greenhouse and propagators – but be contact the Ivinghoe Parish Clerk. aware of the possibility of frost. National Allotment Week is 12th until Book 6 lessons with our Pro Mark Flitney for May is always a busy time in the 18th August 2019. The theme this year veggie garden or allotment. This is is ‘Shared Harvest’, celebrating the fact £85.00, and if you decide to join we will refund the time for either sowing or planting that plot-holders share their crops with the cost of your lessons. French beans, runner beans, marrows, family, friends, colleagues and worthy courgette and butternut squash. Again, causes, including food banks. Each plot these will have been started in the in the UK can benefi t up to 8 people! greenhouse and hardened off outside This year the IPC the allotment site • Various Adult Membership schemes available starTng from less than before fi nally planting them in the will be open to the public from 1.30pm £8.00 per week. allotment (or garden). until 4pm on Saturday 17th August. Plot • Junior Membership £99.00 or only £20.00 with a Parent holding While the weather has been holders will be there on hand to answer changeable, the greenhouse and any questions you may have – we may 7 day Membership. propagator have been in full swing with even have the answers! Please do come • Turn up and play Green Fees from £10.00 for 9 holes. many of the already mentioned produce and give us a visit. but also celery and tomatoes. Hopefully, Discount Golf Shop with the largest Looking for a they will all thrive once planted out at Mind how you go… the plot. Ernie Ivinghoe Allotmenteer selecTon of equipment in the area local Venue for a Party? For further details contact: Pro Shop: Tel: 01296 668696 Our Clubhouse is available for Clubhouse: Tel: 01296 668696 E‐mail: [email protected] private hire for birthdays and www.ivinghoegolfclub.co.uk celebraTons.
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fter last year’s long hot summer However their plots have been taken Tree & Garden Services it is lovely to see the allotments on by our three new alotmenteers, Jo, in all their green splendour Sam, and Alistair and family. Alistair has A Tree Surgery & Felling once again. some quite innovative ideas for his plot • W Roff Agricultural Services The blossom this year seems to have and some exciting seeds from foreign • Stump Grinding been wonderful everywhere not just on climes. I for one am looking forward • Hedge Cutting the allotment. I do hope it will fulfi ll its to the results. More on this in the next Landscaping • Hay & straw for sale CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION promise and give lots of lovely fruit. The edition with Alistair’s permission. • pictures accompanying this article are Once again we had an attempted • Fencing of a small stand of old plums (not to be break in. Thankfully no harm done but • Paddock maintenance mistaken for Damsons). I am sure they everyone is being watchful. It is well are “Early Rivers” as the name says they know that nothing of value is kept in the • Fencing are very early usually July and are best sheds, all power tools are taken home. used for culinary purposes. I would think The sheds come into their own when we Contact Robert on the original trees were planted many have a sudden summer shower and we Tel: 07585 007109 ( 07909 680807 years ago. have to dive for cover, or for a break for Email: [email protected] www.rmltreeandgardenservices.co.uk ElsagE Farm, CHEddington It has been all change at the allotments tea and biscuits. this year, sadly we said goodbye to Sally With a good spring and early and Andy who have moved away, also summer the allotments should be in Ian and Jackie and Steve and Nadine full production by the time of the next who have given up their plots reluctantly Beacon Magazine. due to work or family commitments. Enjoy your summer, Gloria RGCAgricultural & Horticultural Engineers Mursley, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK17 0SA
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40 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 41 Better backs for gardeners
pring has fi nally sprung and the • Use kneeler seats or mats when sunshine has sent us into our planting and don’t overstretch by Sgardens in droves. Although working too far in front of you. gardening can be good for the mind, it • Mow a little at a time, keeping upright. can play havoc with your body. Follow • Avoid overstretching when pruning our tips for better backs and don’t let an by using long-handled shears and use injury spoil your fun. secateurs with a cut and hold action.
CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION • Before doing any physical exercise, • If using electric hedge trimmers don’t warm up fi rst with a walk and some hold them too far in front of you. gentle stretching. • Consider the planning of your garden • Take regular breaks and change – raised fl ower beds may save you position between jobs to avoid twinges in the long run. tiredness, overuse and injury. • Keep your back straight when lifting If you have any aches or pains consult and use your knees, thighs and arms a Chartered Physiotherapist for treatment to help. Don’t try to lift too much at and advice. Happy Gardening! one time – particularly those bags of compost! Tips by St Judes Clinic • When digging, avoid twisting and 26 Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard LU7 1RX straining and don’t forget to take Tel: 01525 377751 Let’s age well together regular breaks. www.stjudesclinic.com Keeping active is a fantastic way to make new friends and help keep our health in check. Active Bucks has a collection of fun, introductory physical activity sessions available to help us age well together. For hundreds of activities to keep fit and healthy visit:
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42 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2019: Issue 109 May 2019: Issue 109 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 43 Ivinghoe & Pitstone’s Windmill Pre S hool
Windmill Pre-School in Ivinghoe is one of the top pre-schools nationally and highest rated locally
“Children make excellent progress in all areas of their learning and development because staff plan an outstanding range of activities…“
“Children have fun and are purposefully engaged in all areas of this dynamic setting. They make excellent progress as staff recognise them as unique individuals…”
Source: Ofsted report June 2011 orning session m m A ternoon session m m (includes Lunch Club) L n h Cl m m (subject to availability)
We welcome all children between 2 and 5 years from Pitstone, Ivinghoe & surrounding areas to our purpose-built premises behind Brookmead School five full days per week
IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY TO REGISTER YOUR CHILD For further info and to arrange a visit for you and your child please contact us: [email protected] or 01296 661031 (during sessions)