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CORVEDALE NEWS May 2020

Corvedale News

After much discussion and debate, it has been decided to both for this purpose and for the continued receipt of local produce an electronic only version of the Corvedale News information in the future? for May and possibly future months until such time as we To join, all you need do is to send an email to Geoff Neden can restart normal deliveries of hard copies. at [email protected] and your details will be added The electronic version will be sent out via the Diddlebury to the Group. All Group members are, of course, able to Parish Google Group and will also be made available on the unsubscribe at any time. Rest assured that no inappropriate Diddlebury Parish website www.diddleburyparish.co.uk or commercial material will ever be circulated on the This means that our normal number of subscribers which is Group. Nor will members be bombarded with frequent, around 450 households will be much reduced as the Google unwanted messages. Group presently has only about 90 members. The electronic Corvedale News will be issued at the usual In order to increase the distribution of this version as far time around the last week of each month. as possible, if you, or you are aware, of any friends or The Corvedale News Team is very grateful to all its neighbours who have internet access but who are not yet contributors, volunteers and distributors without whom the members of the Google Group, could you inform them of magazine could not be published. this change and perhaps suggest that they join the Group The Corvedale News Team

Apple Blossom Woodpecker by Joanne Preece

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Corvedale Lambs Corvedale 1 CORVEDALE NEWS May 2020 Copy for June 2020 Magazine

To make sure your contribution is included in the June 2020 magazine, please send by email to [email protected] by SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2020 at the latest. ADVERTISEMENTS. If you would like to advertise in the Corvedale News or amend an existing advertisement, please contact our Advertising Manager by SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2020 at the latest for inclusion in the next issue: [email protected]. All adverts must be in electronic format and sent in either jpg or Word format. PICTURES. We are always very pleased to receive high quality pictures of scenes or events around the Corvedale to add to our library for use on the front cover. Email to [email protected]. EDITOR’S NOTE. If anyone knows of other events taking place within their immediate area in the next few months, could they please let the Editor know so these may be included in the Dates for Your Diary.

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SOUTH CITIZENS ADVICE PHILIP DUNNE You can access information and advice at our South Member of Parliament Shropshire Bureau by calling into the Youth for the Ludlow Constituency Centre, Lower Galdeford, Ludlow: 54 Broad Street, Ludlow SY8 1GP 10am - 3pm Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday tel: 01584 872187 or by ringing the Countrywide Telephone Advice Line: fax: 01584 876345 03444 991100 email: [email protected] 54 Broad Street, Ludlow, SY8 1GP 10am - 3pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday and Tuesday 10am - 6pm or www.adviceguide.org.uk DIDDLEBURY PARISH COUNCIL Patients of Road Doctors’ Surgery in Craven Arms are able to book appointments directly with the existing CA ENVIRONMENTAL MAINTENANCE outreach by contacting the surgery. OFFICER Diddlebury Parish Council has a contract with a local resident, Mr Gary Trim. He is our EMO (Environmental SHROPSHIRE UNITARY COUNCILLOR Maintenance Officer) and carries out minor maintenance FOR THE CORVEDALE work around the parish, excluding along the B4368. Cllr. Cecilia Motley If you are aware of any ditches which need clearing, Councillor, Corvedale Division vegetation which needs to be cut back, road signs, bus shelters, noticeboards or bridge railings which Portfolio Holder, Rural Services need cleaning, repainting or repairing, please let either & Local Communities the Chairman or the Clerk know, so that instructions can be passed on to the EMO. 01588 672192 Chairman - 01584 841068 Clerk - 01568 770741

CORVEDALE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP The Corvedale Community Environmental Group usually meets monthly at The Swan Pub at 7.00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Anyone interested in discussing environmental issues in a friendly atmosphere is welcome to come along.

Church Contacts

Church of Catholic Church Methodist Chapel Rev’d John S Beesley Canon Christopher Walsh Craven Arms: For service St Michael’s Rectory St Peter’s RC Church times and ministers, please Munslow Henley Road, Ludlow contact the Shropshire SY7 9EU SY8 1QZ and Marches Circuit Office tel: (01584) 841488 tel: (01584) 872906 tel: (01743) 874923 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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on YouTube for ‘The Corvedale Churches’), as are all the services for Holy Week and Easter. There will also be links from the Corvedale Parishes Facebook page – you do not have to be a Facebook member to see this. Some of the services will be streamed ‘live’ using Zoom – if you would like to be sent the link so that you can join us, please drop me an email to let me know. These services will be on YouTube too later on, so you can access them when you like. I am emailing service details to people whose contact details I have; again if you’d like to be included in this please drop me an email. We have found that one of the enjoyable features of Zoom is that we have the sense of being a worshipping community gathering together, even if we’re not in the same place – if this would be helpful you’re welcome to join us! If you don’t have internet access I can post some materials to you that may be helpful – again, please let me know. Services this month will be: Sunday May 3rd - 9:45am Common Worship Morning Prayer (on YouTube & Zoom) Sunday May 10th - 9:45am Holy Communion (on YouTube and by Zoom) Sunday May 17th - 6.00pm Evensong (on YouTube) Thursday May 21st - 7:30pm Church Services Holy Communion for Ascension Day (YouTube & Zoom) Having written last month about the arrangements for Sunday May 24th - 9:45am church services during the current situation, almost Holy Communion (on YouTube and by Zoom) everything I had written was out of date within days because Sunday May 31st - 9:45am the lockdown was announced, which had inevitable effects Holy Communion (on YouTube and by Zoom) on what we can do. As a result, the church buildings are now closed to everyone, for services, for private prayer and Many of you will know that on Wednesdays in Advent and reflection and for visiting. We are unable to have weddings Lent we have a service of Compline in one of the churches or baptisms. We are able to have funerals in the churchyard in the group. We have decided that for the duration of or at the crematorium, but there are strict limits in place as to the current situation we will continue these services the form of the service and who can attend. I am, of course, on Wednesday evenings – they will be uploaded to the happy to talk to anyone about weddings and baptisms even YouTube Channel each Wednesday and will remain there if we cannot at this point set a definite date for the service for you to access whenever you might like. to take place. When the restrictions come to an end we will These online services are open to everyone – you don’t be able to have Memorial Services, if requested, for those have to be a regular churchgoer to join us or to access the people whose funerals have been affected by the current YouTube services. The wonders of the internet mean you limitations on who can attend. don’t have to be local either – I know the services have Although the church buildings are closed, the church is not. been watched by people locally, but also people across the The church is not just the building but also the community country and even as far away as Australia. We may not be of people who gather to worship – and as a community gathering to worship together but the church is still here for we are very much open, even if we cannot meet together the whole of our communities, as it always is. Please feel in the same place. There will be a service every Sunday, free to get in touch if I, or the church community, can help recorded and ‘broadcast’ from the Rectory. For those who in any way. have internet access it will be available on YouTube (look Rev’d John Beesley

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Church News (continued)

Letter from the Rectory From the As I write this, it is a few days after Easter. It is gloriously Dear friends sunny outside and looking out of the window across the I am writing this just after the Archbishop Corvedale it would be difficult to know that there is anything of Canterbury has told us about the suspension of public wrong in the world except that it is unusually quiet, even worship and other measures to limit the possible spread of for here. Nevertheless, as the news reminds us, as often as Covid-19. It seems as if April and May 2020 will be the we can bring ourselves to follow it, all is not well. We are strangest and most difficult months most of us have ever deeply aware of the effects of the pandemic. Even if we known. Many passages of Scripture may speak to you: I am are not directly affected by the illness itself many of us, reminded of the opening of Ezekiel 34, where the people of perhaps most of us, will have family or friends who are. Israel are described as ‘sheep scattered on the mountains’. We are, all of us, affected by the restrictions on life that it We have been told that, for our own good and even more has brought. Approaches to this vary: some of us revel in for that of those vulnerable to illness, we must be scattered the opportunity to tackle various jobs we’ve been going to and into our own separate places. do ‘when I have some time’, or the freedom to sit about in And it is this which suggests the best thing we can all do in the garden reading a book without feeling that we should response. We may not be able to meet in person, but we can be doing something else. Others find it more challenging, connect in other ways, and these are especially important whether it is the isolation, the lack of structure in the day for those who may find it hard to bear the isolation and or worrying about people who are unwell and whom we uncertainty. We can message and email one another. If we cannot visit. telephone (especially on Skype/FaceTime or similar) we Being in the week after Easter, the Bible readings set for shall have more of the human interaction we all need, both each day are currently about the events of that first Easter to receive and to give. The Archbishops have suggested Day, when Jesus rose from the dead. Today’s reading was that we should place a lit candle in our windows at 7.00pm the story of the disciples walking on the road to Emmaus each day as a sign that we are praying for our neighbours. (Luke 24, 13-35). In it, we hear how Christ walked alongside Above all, we can connect with God in prayer. Of course, two of his disciples as they went to Emmaus, although they that has always been true, but in the long waits we may didn’t recognise him until late in the story. Some of you now be enduring, there will be real and unexpected space may remember that it is the reading that was used at the to pray and listen to the Spirit, and pour out our fears and service in Diddlebury when I was licenced to these parishes concerns. If you continue in Ezekiel 34, you will read God’s in the autumn of 2012. It is my firm belief that Christ walks recognition of the limits of worldly leaders, and promises; alongside us in all that life brings, even if we aren’t always ‘I myself will seek out my sheep.’ In Jesus Christ he did able to recognise him in this current challenging situation seek and find us, and in him is our hope as in so many past as in everything else. It is perhaps appropriate that we ages of doubt and danger. should remember some of the ‘Comfortable Words’ from Rev’d Neil Patterson the Book of Common Prayer service of Holy Communion: Jesus said ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy From the Registers laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall Funerals find rest unto your souls.’ 26th March Beryl Alwynne Shore Morgan Shipton Rev’d John Beesley 4th April Jillian Didlick Culmington

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Corvedale Church of England Primary School

What a strange time we are living through! School Governors’ end of term message The school remains ‘open’ during weekdays for children of As we enter these troubled times let us assure you that, in ‘Key Workers’, there have been about 6 - 8 children here line with the Governments’ advice, we as the Governing each day. We are following the Government’s guidance on body will support Mr. Brough and his staff in all aspects the safest ways to facilitate this. The support and adherence of their plans to support both those families who need to from parents to the national ‘stay at home’ guidance continue to access school and those whose children need to throughout this time has been phenomenal. remain at home. We realise that this will be hard for both Teachers have had to adapt to provide opportunities for parents and children especially for the Year 6 children who ‘home-learning’. We have signposted children and parents are moving on to secondary education soon. I’m sure that, to many online resources which has, hopefully, made it not at some point, if school does not resume before the summer too stressful for mums and dads. We that are left at school holidays the headteacher will look at what can be done to have been enjoying the Joe Wicks daily keep fit workout. bid them a farewell to Corvedale Primary School. I’m sorry to say that the Coronavirus has put paid to our We would ask you to support the staff as they also cope with planned residential this year. The YHA has informed me both the demands placed on them and their own personal that they have cancelled all bookings before 1st July so we health and wellbeing as well as that of their own families. shall not be able to go to Manorbier. Difficult and unusual times lie ahead, but if we all work together in a mutually supporting role, noting and abiding End of term was a very strange experience without the by Government advice, we will come through this with the usual celebrations such as the Easter Service and Awards minimum of heartache. Assembly. The school remains in a good place educationally, I’m very pleased to announce that one of our teachers, financially and socially with positive endorsements from Jenny Ebrey, has had her baby - a little girl, Abigail. Our you about all aspects of the school and once things return to congratulations to Jenny and Tim and big brother Joey. some semblance of normality we can move forward again. I would like to thank the staff here at school who have Lastly, I would like to record our deep admiration for the demonstrated great dedication to ensure those in the most staff who have answered the Government’s plea to keep need have received excellent care. Like you, I don’t know the school open despite the risk posed to their own and how long the period of ‘lockdown’ will continue for. At the their families’ health and I’m sure that this is echoed by all time of writing I very much doubt that we will be able to parents. start the summer term on time. For however long it is, stay David Hedgley. safe and well. Chair of Governors on behalf of the Governing Body Jonathan Brough, Headteacher Corvedale C of E Primary School

6 CORVEDALE NEWS May 2020 The Corvedale Kitchen

Perfect Potato Gratin For a rich and delicious potato dish to make a change from mash or chips. Serves 6/8 • Preparation time: 10 mins • Cooking time: 45 minutes

Ingredients 5 medium potatoes (peeled) 300ml cream 300ml milk 2 garlic cloves (chopped) 80g cheddar cheese (grated) Method 1. Carefully slice peeled potatoes into very thin slices 2. Combine milk and cream in a saucepan and gently bring to the boil 3. Add chopped garlic 4. Once boiling, add potatoes and allow to simmer for 15 minutes until partially cooked 5. Pour into shallow gratin dish and sprinkle cheese on top 6. Cover with foil and cook for 30 minutes until golden brown 7. Serve piping hot for a beautiful accompaniment to any of your favourite main dishes Hannah O’Boyle

Don’t forget If you have any favourite recipes you would like to share, do email them to [email protected]. Please don’t include anything that’s tricky to make, has too many ingredients, or contains anything we can’t spell, pronounce, or buy locally!

Corvedale Choir and the Corvedale Folk Club Blue Hills Choir at The Sun Inn, Corfton Singer’s Night 3rd Friday each month PLEASE NOTE PLEASE NOTE 8:15pm All rehearsals of the Corvedale All rehearsals of the Corvedale PLEASEFree entry NOTE Choir and the Blue Hills Choir Weall meetingslook forward of tothe another group good are are cancelled until it is safe suspended untilnight furtheron notice. to meet again. 17th April All welcome!! Contact Ian on 01584 841331 for any Ros Crouch, [email protected] 01584 841053 further information.

Corvedale Footpath Maintenance Group Working parties are usually on the 4th Wednesday of the month and the following Friday and Sunday, beginning at 9.30am. Please ring Jenny Vine on 01584 841596 to confirm work location. Also, if any local walkers in the Corvedale notice stiles or steps in poor condition, please report back to Jenny. April Wednesday 22nd Friday 24th Sunday 26th ALL FUTUREMay WORKING WednesdayPARTIES 20th SUSPENDED Friday 22nd UNTIL Sunday FURTHER 24th NOTICE.

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Corvedale Book Group

The Complaints by Ian Rankin drinker, whose partner Vince has handy fists. Jude never Well, a great deal has happened since we met on 12 March! talks about it and Malcolm doesn’t ask, despite black eyes, However, undaunted on 9th April we held the Corvedale broken bones and frequent visits to A and E for walking into Book group meeting by ‘Zoom’ in two 40 - minute sessions. cupboard doors and accidentally falling downstairs. When Ten people had developed new IT skills so we were all able Vince is murdered the two cases coincide, Fox refuses to to coach each other and meet face to face to chat about the leave the murder investigation to colleagues and becomes book and the other books that we have had an unforeseen over-involved. Breck is the principal investigator, which opportunity to read. makes things complicated. The pending financial crash Ian Rankin’s The Complaints was published in 2009. and slow-down in the housing boom have left developers Here, he creates the character of Malcolm Fox (as a with serious cash flow problems. One of them disappears, break from his well-known Inspector Rebus). Set in but the murder trail has led in his direction. Edinburgh, Malcolm Fox and two colleagues, Tony Kay Breck gets cross with Fox turning up in all parts of his and Joe Naysmith, work in Lothian and Borders Police investigation. Fox begins to quite like Breck and wonder if HQ in the Professional Standards Unit of the ‘Complaints he was set up. They develop a cautious and guarded working and Conduct’ department. Their role is to investigate relationship and unlikely friendship as they uncover a can irregularities in colleagues’ behaviour, so they are not the of worms and track down who really murdered Vince. most popular characters in the Force as they have access to The group found the book an easy read, well written and everyone’s personal files. They have just finished a lengthy reasonably descriptive. It was a good page turner, even inquiry into CID Inspector Glen Heaton who spent most for those of us who don’t usually read crime fiction. The of his 15 years leaking key information to the media and macho police culture and Scottish setting set the context criminals. for the, sometimes disturbing, layers of police corruption Their next case is to investigate a ‘dirty cop’ called Jamie and gang culture which supported big business. Breck. The implication is that he has indecent images on his We have agreed that we will continue to read the books on computer, so Fox has to check with Gilchrist and Inglis in the library list, even though they cannot be delivered and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Scheme. This will meet by Zoom to discuss them. Our next meeting is proves to be a more multi-layered task than anticipated. on Thursday 14 May at 7.30pm when we will discuss On a personal level, Fox lives alone and after a history Jeanette Winterson’s Why be happy when you could be of heavy drinking, which accelerated his divorce, is now normal? teetotal. He regularly visits his father Mitch who is in Cath Burley a care home and tries to support his sister Jude, another

Diddlebury Parish Flood Action Group (FAG)

Update on storm Dennis April 2020 Although I was unable to go to the Steering Committee buildings flooded during the storm – one of Topher Morgan’s last month, I did take part in the phone conference call and farm buildings and the Corvedale C of E Primary School. was able to put forward the problems which Diddlebury Storm Dennis was estimated to be a 1 in 100 year event experienced. It was encouraging to hear the progress Cardiff whereas the previous storm in October 2019 was thought to University is making with their field and laboratory work be a 1 in 40 year event. We are trying to match the resulting with a view to formally quantifying the effects of leaky flooding with the rainfalls and compare these with known dams on flood flows. flood levels in earlier, pre leaky dam, events so as to get an At the request of the National Flood Forum, I submitted informal idea of what difference the leaky dams might have some notes for the DEFRA Select Committee on Flooding made. on the way in which the authorities dealt with storm Dennis We would normally be arranging the first work party of the and made some suggestions for improvements. These year to keep vegetation in the Diddle Brook under control notes are available on the Diddlebury Parish web site at: in the next few weeks. This of course cannot happen under www.diddleburyparish.co.uk/flood-action-group present regulations but perhaps alternative arrangements Since writing my last report, I have learnt that two other can be thought of and I will keep you posted. Geoff Neden Chair, Diddlebury Parish Flood Action Group

8 CORVEDALE NEWS December 2019 CORVEDALE NEWS May 2020 Diddlebury Village Hall www.diddleburyvillagehall.orgDiddlebury Village Hall www.diddleburyvillagehall.org

CLASSES & ACTIVITIES IN DECEMBER MONDAY 7.30pm Corvedale Choir (Contact: Ros on 01584 841053) TUESDAY 10.00am Blue Hills Choir (Contact: Ros on 01584 841053) 12.30pm Pilates (Contact: Sarah on 07967 482510) 6.30pm to Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates DIDDLEBURY VILLAGE HALL IS CLOSED 7.30pm (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) 7.45pm to Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates from 17th March 2020 until further notice in order to comply 8.45pm (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) GREEN BOOK (2018) WEDNESDAY Thursdaywith Government 19th December guidance on measures to contain the 8.00pm Ballroom and Latin Dancing Bar opens 7.15 • Film starts 7.45 • Tickets £5 (This class may change to a different day/ Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali Covid-19 Linda Cardellini virus epidemic. time on the 4th Wednesday of each month) [email protected] / 01584 841265 THURSDAY Cert: 12a Peter Farrelly Length: 130min 9.30am Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates** In 1662, “Tony Lip” Vallelonga, a tough bouncer, looking for work becomes the driver for African-American classical pianist Don Shirley (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) on his concert tour into the Deep South States. They begin their trek 10.30am Tai Chi Chuan** armed with The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for safe travel (Contact: Enid on 07903 014498) through America’s racial segregation. Together, the snobbishly erudite pianist and the crudely practical bouncer barely getNOTICE along. the disparate OF AGM 7.30pm Corvedale Book Group pair witness and endure appalling injustices on the road and nurture a Second Thursday of each month. friendshipDiddlebury and understanding Village that changes Hall bothCommittee their lives. hereby gives public notice of the Annual General Meeting Contact: Cath on [email protected] to be held on Monday 27th April 2020 at 7.30 pm at Diddlebury Village Hall To be discussed on 12th December: POSTPONEDGENERAL TO ELECTION A DATE THAT COMPLIES WITH GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Thursday 12th December 2019To transact the following business: Welcome CLASSES & ACTIVITIES IN JANUARY Polling will take place in the small room of the hall, while classes will continue in the main hall as usual. Apologies MONDAY Approval of Minutes of 2019 AGM 7.30pm Corvedale Choir (Contact: Ros on 01584 841053) ** PLEASE NOTE that Tai Chi will start 10 minutes later than usual and Physio-PilatesCommittee Report TUESDAY 10 minutes earlier on thisTreasurer’s day. Report and adoption of accounts 10.00am Blue Hills Choir (Contact: Ros on 01584 841053) Confirmation of committee members appointed by local bodies 12.30pm Pilates (Contact: Sarah on 07967 482510) 6.30pm to Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates YOGA FOR BEGINNERSElection of committee members** 7.30pm (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) A new yoga class will be starting in January, suitable for all,AOB 7.45pm to Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates no experience needed. The class will run on a WednesdayDate of next meeting 8.45pm (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) evening from 6-7pm. Close WEDNESDAY If you are interested perhaps you would like to come to my 6.00pm to Gentle Yoga (Contact: Sue on Christmas free taster yoga workshop on SaturdayJayne 14th Kirk, Secretary 7.00pm [email protected] or 07432 349933). December from 4-6pm. Here youBlacksmith’s will have Cottage,a chance Corfton, to SY7 9LD 01584 861241 Classes commence on 15th January meet me and decide if yoga is for you! I will talk a little 8.00pm Ballroom and Latin Dancing about yoga, we**Three will then committee have a memberschair-based are gentle elected class from those living in Diddlebury parish, aged 18 or over. (This class may change to a different day/ Anyone wishingfollowed to by stand some for relaxation. election to the committee should contact the Secretary or any of the other committee members as soon as possible and no later than 26th April. time on the 4th Wednesday of each month) Please contact me for further information: Please note that voting is restricted to inhabitants of the Diddlebury parish aged 18 or over. THURSDAY [email protected] / 07432 349 933 9.30am Physiotherapist-Led Modified Pilates (Contact: Beverley on 07967 814412) 10.30am Tai Chi Chuan LADIES Could we please remind you that our policy (Contact: Enid on 07903 014498) (whatever the occasion) is that stiletto-heeled 7.30pm Corvedale Book Group shoes are not allowed in the hall as they cause Second Thursday of each month. unrepairable damage to our oak floors. A single SAVE THE DATE! Contact: Cath on [email protected] pair of spiky heels can make dozens of small holes or dents Diddlebury Village Hall Harvest Supper To be discussed on 9th January: in a hardwood floor in a very short period of time. Please be The Bees by Laline Paull aware and help us to keep our beautiful floors beautiful! 10th October 2020

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What’s On in the Dale

GOOGLE GROUP You may be aware that for the past 7 years ago there has been a ‘Diddlebury Parish’ Google Group which runs alongside the Diddlebury Parish Website – www.diddleburyparish.co.uk. The coverage of the Group has expanded so that it now includes members from several neighbouring parishes and further afield. As the Corvedale News will be issued electronically via the Group for the duration of the pandemic, it seems a good time to reflect the expansion with a name change. Accordingly, the Group will be renamed the Corvedale Google Group.

The Google group is a fast and efficient way of getting information to alarge number of people. It is particularly useful in circulating information during times of crisis such as flooding or the current COVID-19 pandemic.

If you think you would find this Google Group useful or know of anyonewho you think might benefit from membership, please ask them to send an email to me and I will add them to the distribution list. My email address is: [email protected] You will not be bombarded with emails and can opt out at any time. Geoff Neden

PUBS AND RESTAURANTS

Did you know that a number of local pubs and restaurants are setting up take away services in their local areas?

This way you can still enjoy your favourite pub / restaurant meals in the comfort of your own home.

Using these take away services is also a good way of supporting local businesses during this difficult time for them.

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What’s On in the Dale

Ludlow Walk for Parkinson’s ABDON Come and join us at this family and dog friendly 5.5 mile and 1.5 mile charity walk starting at the Abdon Village Hall Ludlow Rugby Club on Saturday 27th June at 6.00pm. Coffee Morning You can make a difference to the lives of those with Parkinson’s in the UK. Last Saturday each month Sign up here: www.parkinsons.org.uk/events/walk-parkinsons-ludlow 10.30am until 12.30pm or email: [email protected] PLEASE NOTE or freephone 0800 138 6593 Drop in and enjoy a chat Advance registration costs: Thewith Village a cuppa Hall and is closed a cake! and £12 per adult and £5 per child under 16. On the day sign up is available at: We lookall coffee forward mornings to seeing are you... £15 and £7.50 respectively Moresuspended details until from further Margaret: notice We ask you to raise at least £50 please. You will receive a lovely T shirt to walk in 01746 712296 and a medal at the end! Hope to see you there!

Photographs Wanted The Corvedale Artists

We are a very friendly group that meets on Tuesday mornings, 10-1, in Beambridge Club We are always looking for good Room, Munslow, and in various other outdoor photographs of life in and around our venues during the summer. villages and right now we are particularly In the Club Room sessions we have a portrait keen to receive some more photographs modelPLEASE and a still life, or you NOTE can bring your own of the Corvedale in summertime. allwork. meetings Tuition is of given the as group required. are So, if you have some images that you If yoususpended have joined until us before further and we notice. have not would like us to consider for use as a got your contact details, please phone for a cover photograph of the Corvedale News, programme: please send them to: 01584 841460 (Ann) or [email protected] 01299 832603 (Juliet)

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Munslow Church Stained Glass

Munslow church has four windows of late medieval available on the web and possibly a touch screen in 16th century stained glass. We have commissioned a church. survey and report from Jim Budd, an ICON accredited • Video of the conservation work. conservator-restorer. The report summary states: • Workshops on stained glass – could include ‘design your • This extremely rare late medieval 16th century stained own’ using coloured plastic sheet glass is worthy of further research and appreciation. • Community-produced • The glass is under-recognised including the restorations display on conservation of the early 19th century, which are, in themselves, of activities related to the church considerable importance. building and specific heritage • The survey has revealed that the glass, or more items and the churchyard. particularly, its painted detail, is at significant risk of loss This is not a definitive list and due to environmental factors. many other possibilities can be • The report advocates a minimal intervention approach to pursued that show a community the cleaning and conservation of the glass. It recommends, involvement and interest in the where necessary, the installation of the windows in a church heritage. protective glazing system that will safeguard the stained I am hoping that there are some glass for future generations. local residents who would like to • The conservation programme will allow a wonderful get involved in developing some opportunity for further research and interpretation of this ideas and testing them in the important glass. community so that we could put The cost of carrying out the conservation programme is a grant-winning application to over £80,000, a considerable amount of money, which the Heritage Lottery Fund. can only realistically be raised through a grant from the If heritage is your thing and you Heritage Lottery Fund. The application process for the would like to help please contact grant requires proposals for involving the community in all Anson Crouch - 01584 841053; stages of the project including post-project dissemination [email protected]. of their importance. Some potential ideas include: Anson Crouch Munslow Nave • Digitized information on windows and their conservation South Wall

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Corvedale Community Environmental Group (CCEG)

We would like to remind people that, due to the ongoing If you are interested in local birdlife, I have just read an social restrictions, our monthly meetings held at ‘The article by Martin George in the ‘Shropshire Wildlife Trust Swan’, Aston Munslow, on the second Tuesday of each Subscribers’ magazine. Martin gives a ringing endorsement month, are CANCELLED until further notice. of Leo’s latest publication ‘The Birds of Shropshire’ saying We will let you know via the Corvedale News when our that the ’vast amount of information it contains is disguised meetings will resume and when our visiting speakers by the quality of the writing, the beautiful illustrations can join us again. We look forward to catching up with and the clean, fresh layout of the pages. It is that rare Phil Holden (AONB) and Leo Smith (Red Kites in the publication: a reference book that invites you to read it.’ Corvedale) in the near future. Stay safe and well. Rebecca Bull ([email protected].) Corvedale Past and Present Consistory Courts for sure, and the church was used very much as an arm of Today, in ‘normal’ times I would have been going down the his government, just as important as the sword. So, you hill to St Milburga’s Church in Stoke St Milborough and to could find yourself in front of the court for all manner of Heath Chapel to put up some notices in the church, chapel, reasons, such as for defaming someone, or for matters of and on the churchyard notice boards. They would have had probate, or matrimonial issues, to say nothing of general to stay there for 28 days to tell anyone who is interested that morality or church discipline, and this applied to the whole a team of archaeologists is planning to dig to two 1-metre of the population. Amazingly, the courts survived through square ‘test pits’ in the chapel-yard at Heath and inviting the Reformation and all other shocks and perturbations, comments. In the circumstances, as they now exist, I am and only lost most of their functions in the 18th and 19th being asked to do this by other means, hence this article. century. There is at least one such court physically still in In church jargon, we are applying for a ‘faculty’ from the existence, in Chester Cathedral. Consistory Court of the Diocese of Hereford. Yes, court, and the whole process, I am finding, is a fascinating history Of course, we have no notion as to whether the archaeological lesson. investigations will go ahead at the end of July this year even if we get all the permissions: it doesn’t look at all hopeful I To appreciate the origins of the court we have to go back suppose! Nevertheless, here is a copy of the Public Notice, to the early years after the Norman Conquest, that is and it gives an address to write to should you object. comfortably over 900 years! The man William had a plan Peter Cornah

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Schools and Children’s Activities

Corvedale C of E Primary School “Love learning, Love life” explore. discover. inspire. Diddlebury SY7 9DH Tel: 01584 841630 Places available, email: [email protected] www.corvedaleprimary.co.uk visits welcome Serving the Corvedale by providing an education of the Brockton, , TF13 6JR highest quality rooted in Christian faith and practice, within a caring, stimulating and trusting environment. 01746 785 671 [email protected] Headteacher: Mr. J. Brough

HIGH QUALITY FULL TIME CHILDCARE FOR AGES 2-11 8AM-6PM 5 DAYS A WEEK Shipton Village Hall TF13 6JZ Full or part time, after school & holiday care and Exciting activities including cooking, Brockton C of E School TF13 6JR gardening, forest walks and creative play. Ofsted registered. ‘Stimulating indoor and outdoor play in a warm Come and visit our wonderful setting. and nurturing pre-school setting.’ PLAYGROUP & NURSERY For our prospectus or further information please contact: Kate Castle tel: 01746 785 018 / 01746 785 671 Tel: 01584 841 707 or 01584 841 630 email: [email protected] www.corvedalecentreforchildren.co.uk

Little Acorns of Rushbury Pre-School Corvedale Brownies have now joined Morning, afternoon and all day sessions Craven Arms Brownies and meet on available five days a week for children aged one Saturday a month at the 2 years to school entry. Discovery Centre, 10.30am until 1pm. Contact Elaine on (01694) 771677. Please contact Catherine Crowther for dates: www.littleacornsrushbury.org.uk. 01584 861276 We are very proud of our outstanding Ofsted [email protected] report and our high adult/child ratio.

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May Crossword - by Artemonas

ACROSS DOWN 7) Just the bird to attract an alien? (6) 1) Authorise application to ramble (7) 8) Fix our severity (6) 2) Merciful lady set in concrete (7) 10) Stays to get what’s left (7) 3) It isn’t warm so take a little dip, Ethel, (5) 11) Stay vigilant now but you can change later (5) on the way back. 12) express feelings in seventy minutes (4) 4) Tactless remark about Irish animal (7) 13) Lots of foliage, like a book (5) 5) South African holding unknown dog (5) 17) Range of policeman in Kent perhaps (5) 6) Brother’s unfinished soup (5) 18) I let loose sometimes on the kitchen floor (4) 9) He’s cooking with potato for joint (9) manipulator 22) O dear! It’s a strange mountain nymph (5) 14) Top pilot took in publicity before (7) 23) Pictures returned before fellows are in (7) my school charge of cars. 15) danger makes mine drop (7) 24) An electrical force Changed Monday (6) 16) Happy with copper inside planet (7) 25) Sensory thing is quite touching (6) 19) Heartless Teddy consumes odd drink (5) 20) Planned on average time (5) 21) French composer in a tangle (5)

ANSWERS TO APRIL CROSSWORD: Across: 7) Shrill, 8) Anchor, 10) Auction, 11) steed, 12) lead, 13) nomad, 17) giant, 18) poor, 22) alert, 23) evident 24) league Down: 1) assault, 2) crucial, 3) plain, 4) unusual, 5) thief, 6) trade, 9) encounter, 14) riotous, 15) cowered, 16) protest, 19) fault, 20) regal, 21) miser

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Tour of Britain and Ireland Quiz

This quiz is free to all, therefore, there is no prize. But if you have enjoyed doing the quiz a donation to NHS Covid-19 appeal would be appreciated. You can donate online at: www.justgiving.com/campaign/NHScharities-COVID19URGENTAPPEAL Answers will be published in the next Corvedale News. All answers look or sound like places in Britain and Ireland. By kind permission of Mrs Jean Drakes 1 Slam alternative BANGOR 36 Little Edward in chartered town 2 Flushed dyke 37 Insipid for 500 meeting place 3 At this place cross water 38 Large cask crossing water sources 4 Back mat value 39 Choose a circle 5 Bottom of all frequently 40 Small bay with headless entry 6 Stroll spin on cue ball 41 Climbing plant and card game 7 Searching university teacher 42 Organ pond 8 Employment dunk 43 Rock place of refuge 9 Bark stopper 44 Counter swan with poor actor 10 Strip covering 45 Cowardly weapons 11 Swift club 46 Belgian battle and French city 12 Travel to and from opening 47 Pressure applied 13 Paddle cue support 48 Sterilizer has northeast in openers 14 Entrance plus monarch 49 Large rocky peak call weight 15 Cook properly 50 Rubbish container weight 16 Tree and hay stack 51 In short trade unionist Richard 17 Slackening hill 52 Add fuel to fire on river 18 Possess insect 53 Runless over top 19 Circle timber 54 Roar of stag abstain from food 20 Pay the bill 55 Beloved weight 21 Put on some sugar 56 Very steep headland 22 Colliery top 57 Lion church 23 Mute variety and mature 58 Summit pretence 24 The Spanish spirit 59 Transport ruin at that time 25 Place for rest with beer 60 About model old car 26 Cast skin 61 Possess a crossing compass point 27 Liquid for 500 62 Dull grey-brown home for horses 28 Achieves town 63 Childrens small wood 29 Herb put on 64 Prohibit very loudly 30 Pack offer for sale 65 Farm store strike lightly the French 31 Guards pull behind 66 Society former US President 32 Unit of pressure and trap 67 Liquefy on cut down cry 33 Counterfeit meadow 68 Angle protector 34 Date on groceries 69 Very dark char 35 Fail to pay kitty 70 Tin blow

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Parish Councils

MUNSLOW PARISH COUNCIL Full minutes are available on the website. Clive Leworthy, Clerk, Munslow PC • 07528 164345 • email [email protected]

CULMINGTON PARISH COUNCIL Full Minutes available upon request from Jayne Disley, Clerk/RFO - (01584) 861 387 Email: [email protected], or online at www.culmington.org.

ABDON AND HEATH PARISH COUNCIL Next meeting: 14 May 2020 at 7pm (AGM) ABDON & HEATH PARISH COUNCIL (www.abdon.org.uk) Including: Balaam’s Heath, Baucott, Brookhampton, Holdgate & Tugford Wendy Richards - Parish Clerk: [email protected] Tel: 07813 271 274

DIDDLEBURY PARISH COUNCIL Summary of the draft Minutes of Diddlebury Parish Council’s meeting held by remote means in March 2020 The March meeting was to be held at the Sun Inn on 25th March agricultural building at Pinstones Farm, Corfton was considered 2020 and the Agenda had been circulated and published on the and support by the members. No public objections had been website. No public comments had been received. On the 24th received. 20/01208/TCA - an application for the felling of one March 2020 the Government invoked the Coronavirus lock-down Redwood and one Eucalyptus tree at The Tithe Barn, Diddlebury and the meeting had to be cancelled. Action needed to be taken was considered and supported. No public objections had been before the 31st March, the end of DPC’s financial year, for the made. 2019/2020 audit. Interim advice had been given by Shropshire Correspondence & Communications: Eight items were Council and the Association of Local Councils on the granting considered by the councillors. Cllrs Woodhouse and Worthington of delegated powers to the Clerk to enable parish councils to raised issues about assistance for vulnerable parishioners during continue to function administratively during this emergency. this pandemic. Such delegated powers had been included in the Agenda. The Chairman is seeking clarification from SC about DPC’s Working together, the Chairman and the Clerk devised a current CIL entitlement: a further £2,742.84 of CIL money has temporary method for the items on the Agenda to be dealt with. been granted for the Neighbourhood Fund. Each councillor was sent an Agenda incorporating a response Finance: The March Finance Report was considered. Cheques form: the completed forms were returned by email or post. The totalling £4,612.58 were approved after presentation of which Minutes arising from this arrangement are on DPC’s website. DPC holds funds of £9,543.58. The Chairman and Cllr O’Boyle The Government’s legislation, published on 7th April, is that signed the cheques on 27 March 2020 and the bank statement/ parish council meetings should either be suspended during cash book reconciliation was verified by Cllr O’Boyle. The the lockdown, or should be conducted via video conferencing. Finance Report is set out in full in the Minutes and can be viewed These options are currently being explored by Diddlebury Parish on the DPC website. Council. As part of the 2019/2020 audit process councillors reviewed and The Chairman, Cllrs O’Boyle, Watson, S Thomas. M Woodhouse approved the Assets Register. and Worthington responded to and engaged with the March The members approved a series of ten measures granting Agenda. delegated powers to the Clerk during the period when meetings No declarations of interest were made. are suspended: the resolutions passed will be reviewed in May The Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting of 26th February 2020. 2020 were, with minor amendments, approved and signed and The next meeting, which includes the Annual Parish matters arising dealt with. & Annual General meetings are, subject to the current Reports: The Chairman reported on a discussion with Mr. Wilkes lockdown being suspended, on Wednesday 27th May 2020 re development at The Moors. Cllr Worthington sought financial at 7:30pm at Diddlebury Village Hall. support from DPC for the Louisa Powell almshouses in Ludlow. If a normal meeting is not possible, alternatives will be considered. Planning Applications: 20/00815/FUL - an application for an

Agendas and full copies of the Minutes can be viewed by visiting the Diddlebury Parish Council website at: www.diddleburyparish.co.uk or obtained from the Clerk, Mrs J de Rusett, No. 1 Pipe Aston Barns, Pipe Aston, Ludlow SY8 2HG. Tel: 01568 770 741. email: [email protected]

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Contact Numbers for Local Services

(Phone numbers are on the 01584 exchange unless otherwise noted)

Contact Phone Email Local Services and Emergencies Electricity Problems/Power Cuts Western Power 0800 6783 105 Water Supply Problems Severn Trent Water 0800 783 4444 County Flood Management Shropshire Council 0345 678 9006 [email protected] Diddlebury Parish Flood Geoff Neden 841815 [email protected] Action Group Ludlow Minor Injuries Unit Community Hospital 874297 (out of hours 111) Shropdoc (out of hours service) Doctors Co-operative 111 Ludlow’s Doctors’ Surgeries Station Drive 872461 Portcullis 872939 Craven Arms Medical Practice 01588 672309 Police (non-emergency) 101 [email protected] Voluntary Car Scheme Craven Arms Good 01588 673732 (9.00am to 12 noon weekdays) Neighbours Clubs and Societies Abdon Wildlife Group Penny Unitt 01746 712530 [email protected] Blue Hills Choir Ros Crouch 841053 [email protected] Corvedale Artists Juliet Hole 01299 832603 Ann Hankinson 01584 841460 Corvedale Badminton Club Val Fotheringham 841331 Corvedale Book Group Cath Burley [email protected] Corvedale Choir Ros Crouch 841053 [email protected] Corvedale Community Rebecca Bull [email protected] Environmental Group Corvedale & District Autumn Show John Woodhouse 07980 207253 Corvedale Folk Club Ian Fotheringham 841331 Corvedale Garden Group Cath Burley [email protected] Corvedale Footpath Jenny Vine 841596 Maintenance Group Munslow Parish Community Rebecca Bull [email protected] Speed Watch Diddlebury Dancing Group Sally Woodhouse 841265/ [email protected] 07813 019010 Westhope Clover Club Mary Hall 873387 [email protected] Continued...

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Contact Numbers for Local Services

(Phone numbers are on the 01584 exchange unless otherwise noted) Contact Phone Email Parish Clerks and Websites Abdon & Heath Parish Wendy Richards 07813 271274 [email protected] Council Clerk

Culmington Parish Council Clerk Jayne Disley 861387 [email protected] Diddlebury Parish Council Clerk Mrs Jean de Rusett 01568 770741 [email protected] Munslow Parish Council Clerk Clive Leworthy 07528 164345 [email protected] Diddlebury Parish Website: www.diddleburyparish.co.uk Diddlebury Parish Google Group: This is a free service provided on behalf of the DPC and issues purely local information such as road closures, flood warnings and so on to its members on an occasional basis. It also alerts members to new items appearing on the DPC website. If you would like to join this service, send an email to: Geoff Neden [email protected] Village Hall/Club Room Bookings Abdon Village Hall Penny Unitt 01746 712530 [email protected] Beambridge Club Room Frances Sutton 841654 Culmington Village Hall Jeff Williams 07561 838271 [email protected] Diddlebury Village Hall Sally Woodhouse 07375 326381 [email protected] Diddlebury Village Hall website: www.diddleburyvillagehall.org Diddlebury Church Room Tonya Greene 841493 Westhope Village Hall Betty Manley 07860 447397/ [email protected] 861617 Children’s and Youth Organisations Corvedale Brownies Catherine Crowther 861276 Corvedale Primary School Jonathan Brough 841630 [email protected] Playgroup & Nursery Colin Jones 841707/841630 Women’s Institutes Diddlebury & Westhope WI Jane Cockburn 841483 [email protected] Munslow WI Jenny Rose 841251 [email protected]

If you represent a local Corvedale group and would like it to be considered for inclusion in this list, please contact the Editor.

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