The Dun Valley News 2017

November The Dun Valley News 2017

:: East Grimstead :: Farley :: Pitton :: West Dean :: This month inside:

Team letter Moving on after 17 years

Grimstead Parish Council October report

Nordic walking Set up a group for social and fitness

Pitton Schools Pre-school, Primary, Brownies and Guides update

The Grimsteads Petanque court

Platinum Anniversary Ordination Candidates Increases The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh celebrate The number of people entering training to become priests in the Church of England is at the highest level for a decade with women making up more than half the total, according to new figures released today. A total of 544 men and women began training for ordained ministry this autumn (known as ordinands), an increase of 14% on last year and the highest figure for 10 years, according to statistics from the Ministry Division of the Church of England. The figures, covering the period from 2008 to 2017, are published alongside Ministry Statistics for 2016 showing the number of women serving in ordained ministry in the Church of England rose by 7% from 5,310 in 2013, to a record high of 5,690 last year.

The Dun Valley Churches are members of The Clarendon Team

THE CLARENDON TEAM MINISTRY OF CHURCHES TEAM RECTOR Revd Nils Bersweden, The Rectory, The Plantation, Winterslow, Salisbury SP5 1RE Tel 01980 862231. Mobile 07960 321355 [email protected] (with responsibility for Farley, Pitton and Winterslow) TEAM PRIESTS Revd Beth Hutton Tel: 01722 238504, [email protected] (with responsibility for Alderbury, West Dean, East and West Grimstead) Revd Jane Dunlop Tel: 01794 884793, [email protected] (with responsibility for Whiteparish) Revd Cynthia Buttimer Tel: 01980 862017, [email protected] OTHER CLERGY V Revd Alec Knight, Revd Canon Jeremy Davies, Revd Canon Roger Sharpe, Revd Anthea Cochrane CLARENDON TEAM OFFICE Team Administrator 01980 863635 [email protected] TEAM LAY LICENSED MINISTERS Mr Bill Thompson, Mrs Debbie McIsaac, Mr Michael Barratt CLARENDON TEAM WEBSITE – www.clarendonteam.org an informative website which gives details of how to book baptisms and weddings, as well as Team Worship Services, news and activities around the Clarendon Team For the Team Worship Rota go to www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.htm, or to download in Excel www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.xls

WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD CHURCHWARDENS Mr Bob Trott, Oakley, East Grimstead (Holy Trinity) 01722 712685 Mr Mike Marx, The Old Vicarage, West Dean (St. Mary’s) 01794 340271

FARLEY WITH PITTON CHURCHWARDENS Mrs Sara Bossom, Stockbottom House, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Jane Bawden-Jeanes, The Barn, Farley 01722 712854

WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD FARLEY WITH PITTON

LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Mrs Jenny Cotter, East Grimstead, 01722 712316 Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133

TREASURER TREASURER Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536 Ms Mandy Kerley, 07971 679466

SECRETARY ORGANISTS Bob Trott, 01722 712685 Ms Janice Brown

MAGAZINE EDITOR Ged Mirski-Fitton, Bells Cottage, Church Road, Farley, SP5 1AD Tel 01722 712520 E-Mail: [email protected] ADVERTS EDITOR Tim Hawkes, Lodge Farm House, Elm Close, Pitton, SP5 1EU Tel 01722 712577 E-Mail: [email protected] 2

Pitton Methodist Society The Pitton Methodists worship together with the Anglicans at St. Peter's Church and have a Methodist led service there once a month (currently the 3rd Sunday). Minister - Rev. Bryan Coates [email protected] 02380 252960 Superintendent - David Hookins 01722 320858 Steward - Mrs. Sarah Sankey 01722 712581 3

Team Letter Revd Nils Bersweden

responsibility for the pastoral care of

just one congregation, albeit a large one. I shall no longer have to worry about some of the managerial and administrative tasks of leadership, which I can, and will, happily leave to It’s difficult to believe, but after 17 others far more capable and willing years of living in Winterslow, (and 109 than I am. magazine articles!) Judith and I will be I have learned so much from being the leaving the Rectory after this Team Rector of our churches, and have Christmas. also at times felt stretched with the I have been appointed Associate Vicar particular breadth of the work which of St Mary’s Wimbledon in the Diocese has often been very tiring. Now I am of Southwark. That’s the church you going to immerse myself in far less see as the cameras pan out from breadth but in more focused depth - Centre Court at the end of the which is where my heart and passions television coverage of the daily lie. Wimbledon Tennis fortnight in June It is going to be very hard to leave and each year. to say goodbye to so many friends, but This is going to be a huge change for we will take with us the many us as we go from the beautiful and memories we have shared, and the nurturing countryside of Winterslow love that we have experienced here; and the surrounding villages, to the and perhaps some of the 17 years’ of hustle and bustle of London. And you accumulated belongings in the may be tempted to think us mad to Rectory. make such a move. We have been here But we’re not saying farewell just yet: for a long time - even longer than my this has been my 110th magazine predecessor who clocked up 15 years article and I will be writing for the (as did the Rector before him)! But our 111th and last time for the January children have grown up and have magazine! finally finished their schooling and are now looking further afield. It’s time for Our last service will be a Team us to move on as well. Eucharist at All Saints’ Church Winterslow on Sunday 7th January at We have been very happy here, and we 10am. We hope to see some of you want to thank you immensely for there! providing such a wonderful, caring and supportive community across all the villages of the Clarendon Team. We will cherish the memories of our time here. For me this move has deep significance. In terms of my vocation I shall no longer be in charge, but working alongside another Team Rector. I shall have the particular 4

From the registers

Funerals Richard George CHANDLER at Alderbury on Baptism 22nd September 2017

Samantha Denise PEACOCK and Mollie Tinsley WILSON Oliver George PEACOCK at at Winterslow Whiteparish on on 26th September 2017 8th October 2017

Barbara Joyce CLARKE Florence Ellen OSBORN at at Farley Pitton on on 14th October 2017 24th September 2017

Kathleen Beatrice SHUTLER at Marriage Whiteparish Robert David HOUGHTON on and 17th October 2017 Elizabeth Sarah DUNKERLEY at Farley Burial of Ashes on Stella POWELL 7th October 2017 and David Peter BUNCE at Winterslow on 17th October 2017

Grants to help an older person Friends of the Elderly

Every winter we read that many elderly Applications are made by referring people have to choose between heating organisations working in local their homes or buying food to eat. And communities, and a quick call on 0330 for some, it can be a struggle to make 332 1110 confirmed that churches could ends meet throughout the year. The apply. The monies are to go towards charity, Friends of the Elderly, makes utility bills, household repairs and grants to older people as part of its adaptations, mobility aids and essential mission to support them, especially those items that support daily living, and the in need due to isolation or poverty. cost of equipment such as tablets and broadband to help people stay Who is eligible? connected. You can apply for a grant with FotE if you More details at http://www.fote.org.uk/ meet the following criteria: • You are of state retirement age. • You live in England or Wales. • You are managing on a low income with savings of less than £4,000. • You are not living in a residential care home.

Grimstead Parish Council Nordic Walking Report - October 2017 Group fitness and social activity A further application will be submitted in You could be excused for thinking that due course in respect of the John the point of walking with two sticks is to Barleycorn drive siting. In future, Parish have extra support. But the two sticks Councils will be notified and asked to used in Nordic walking instead enable comment on Prior Notice of Change of people to work the upper body at the Use (PNCOU) of redundant farm same time as the legs. buildings. A further quote is still awaited for the It’s said to burn 46% more calories than new safety surfacing at the Playing Field. ordinary walking, and to exercise 90% of It has been suggested that a path be your muscles, increasing strength in your constructed along the road side of the legs, arms, shoulders, chest and back. It field and in the meantime a path has can also increase your heart rate by up to been cut around the play equipment. A 13%, meaning you receive greater Petanque terrain has been suggested. benefit through less effort. It was agreed to put all notices on the websites, the parish magazines and also “Nextdoor” so that everybody can be made aware of what is happening in the parish. A number of hedges in the parish require cutting back; the clerk will write to the landowners. The hedge bordering the footpath to Whaddon has been cut back. Many thanks to Marcus Light of Alderbury. We hope to create a circular path around the parish; a group would be formed to Nordic walking was invented in the 1930s lead this. The Southern Area Board is in Finland, when super fit cross-country happy to lend equipment to do the skiers began using poles in their off- cutting back, etc. season training when there was no snow Approximately nine years ago the Parish on the ground, and found that it gave Council tried, but without success, to them a competitive edge. have a No Right Turn sign erected on the A36 to prevent vehicles turning down Nordic Walking enthusiasts also find that Windwhistle Lane. The Council has been because it is such a sociable activity, the asked again. Wiltshire Councillor Britton sport can help combat isolation. As one and Alderbury Parish Council have been pointed out: ‘The benefits of spending asked to assist. It was also suggested time with others exercising outdoors are that a sign similar to that on the huge.’ Alderbury bypass showing The Would anybody be interested in finding Grimsteads and Alderbury be erected out more, with a view to starting a group before the slip road to the Three Crowns here? More details at: on the A36. In the near future, the little pond in East https://britishnordicwalking.org.uk/ Grimstead (opposite the Reading Room) will be cleared. Our next meeting is at East Grimstead Reading Room on Monday, 6th November, 2017 7

Pitton Schools Nicki McCarney Pitton Primary School Pitton Pre-School We are expecting a full house for our We have really enjoyed our first term Open Day on 1st November and our Year back at pre-school! We have been 5/6 pupils cannot wait to show everyone making pictures using natural objects, around their wonderful school. If you programming our bee-bots, learning have not yet booked, then please contact about textures, going on walks around the school on 01722 712322 or e-mail Pitton and local footpaths and finding [email protected] and we will try out all about our community, as well as and squeeze you in. our usual Rugby Tots and yoga sessions! Over the last few weeks: Our new children have settled in really quickly, whilst our older children are busy We have voted for our new House looking around local schools in Captains – well done to Alice, Beanie, Josephine, Josh, Coco, Freya, Caitie and preparation for moving on next Lily as you take up this very important September. role. Owls class have visited Mottisfont to create wonderful patterns from nature. Brownies & Guides Robins class have visited Roche Court What an amazing few weeks we have sculpture park to learn all about had! The Guides had a fantastic time at sculptures, before designing their own sculptures at school. Wembley Arena for the Big Gig – they loved Louisa Johnson and Pixie Lott and Sarum class have visited the Sea City were pretty impressed with 5 After Museum in Southampton to find out all Midnight! The difficult decision now is about the Titanic and the people who whether to go to the Big Gig again next sailed on her. year, or to watch Wicked at the Clarendon class spent 3 days at Braeside Mayflower instead! Our group also had Education Centre on their residential trip, an amazing time on their trip to Paris. enjoying high ropes courses, problem Four girls made their promise at the Eiffel solving, canoeing, zip wire, climbing and Tower and we all enjoyed spotting the walking. sights from the boat trip! The day at Disneyland was the highlight for most, The whole school completed a with girls enjoying every ride available, sponsored walk to raise money for the th school and Action for Children. loving the 25 birthday parade and wowing over the closing fireworks. Many We held our annual Harvest Festival at St have gone home to try and persuade Peter’s Church. their families to go again next year! Finally, huge congratulations to our pupils who passed their 11+ this September – well done all.

All in November Years ago 150 years ago: on 7th Nov 1867 that 50 years ago: on 27th Nov 1967 that Marie Curie, the Polish-born French French President Charles de Gaulle ve- physicist and chemist, was born. She was toed Britain’s application to join the joint winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Common Market. (de Gaulle resigned Physics, and winner of the 1911 Nobel from office in 1969 and Britain reapplied Prize for Chemistry for her work on radi- and was accepted. It joined the EEC – oactivity. now the EU – in 1973.) 100 years ago: on 2nd Nov 1917, that the 40 years ago: 14th Nov to 12th Jan ’78, British government issued the Balfour that British firefighters went on strike for Declaration which confirmed its support the first time, demanding a 30% pay in- for the establishment of a national home crease. Their duties were taken over by in Palestine for the Jewish people. the British Army, using Green Goddess fire-engines. Also 100 years ago: 5th to 7th Nov 1917 that the October Revolution took place 30 years ago: on 8th Nov 1987 that the in Estonia. Bolshevik revolutionaries Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskil- overthrew the provisional government len, Northern Ireland, took place. 11 peo- and seized power. ple were killed and 63 injured when an IRA bomb exploded during a Remem- 70 years ago: on 20th Nov 1947 that brance Day service. Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) married Philip Mountbatten at West- Also 30 years ago: on 18th Nov 1987 that minster Abbey in London. (Philip had King’s Cross underground station fire in been given the title Duke of Edinburgh London took place. 31 people were killed by King George VI the previous day.) and more than 60 injured when a fire broke out in an escalator shaft and Also 70 years ago: on 29th Nov 1947 that spread to the ticket hall. the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into separate 25 years ago: on 11th Nov 1992 that the Jewish and Arab states. (Israel became an General Synod of the Church of England independent Jewish state in May 1948. voted to allow women to become priests. Arab leaders rejected the partition, lead- (The first women were ordained as ing to civil war.) priests in March 1994.) 65 years ago: on 1st Nov 1952 that the 20 years ago: on 12th Nov 1997 that USA carried out the first successful deto- Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected Britain’s nation of a hydrogen bomb, in a test on request to extradite ‘Great Train Robber’ the Pacific island of Elugelab, Marshall Ronnie Biggs. (He returned to Britain Islands. The island was completely de- voluntarily in 2001 and was immediately stroyed and no longer exists. arrested. He was released from prison in 2009 due to his declining health and Also 65 years ago: on 25th Nov 1952 that died in Dec 2013.) the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie, opened 15 years ago: on 25th Nov 2002 that the in London. (It is still running.) Department of Homeland Security was established in the USA. 50 years ago: on 18th Nov 1967 that during the massive foot-and-mouth dis- ease outbreak, the movement of all farm animals was banned in England and Wales. 9

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The Grimsteads: Petanque Platinum Anniversary David Morriss Tim Lenton We are suggesting that a Petanque/ Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Boules court is built on the Grimstead Edinburgh have reached their Platinum Playing Field as a community amenity for Anniversary. They married at East and West Grimstead. Boules is a Westminster Abbey, on 20th November popular game for all ages, easy to learn 1947. and play. Families or friends could meet The couple met in 1939, when the future and play on an ad hoc basis for a short Queen was only 13 and Philip 18. The game and others could be encouraged match was promoted by Philip’s uncle, to join in, or people could meet for a Earl Mountbatten, whose name Philip planned evening‘s entertainment. The took before the marriage. Philip also idea could see more use of the Playing converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Field by villagers of all ages and could Anglicanism and was given British encourage closer links and friendly rivalry citizenship. between our villages. The wedding took place in front of 2,000 There is already support for the idea on invited guests and was broadcast on the Parish Council and in both villages. A radio to 200 million listeners worldwide. contribution from the Parish Council and More than 2,500 wedding presents and a grant from Southern Area Board could 10,000 telegrams of congratulations were pay for the materials needed to build the received. Most of the honeymoon was court. We would do the labouring spent at Birkhall on the Balmoral Estate. ourselves with volunteers from our two Elizabeth and Philip had got engaged villages to keep down the cost and to secretly in 1946, but their engagement develop a stronger spirit of community was not announced officially until July by working together. 9th, 1947.

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Thanks to grandparents Partition of Palestine Anon Tim Lenton It seems that the Bank of Grandma and The United Nations General Assembly Grandad is the go-to one, these days. voted 70 years ago, on 29th November Recent research by the bank Santander 1947, to partition Palestine into separate found that 8% of first time house buyers Jewish and Arab states. are helped with their deposit by their grandparents. This decision, although supported by Western powers and the Soviet Union Separate research from insurer Legal & (Great Britain abstained), was not General found that around 22,000 accepted by the Arab countries, whose grandparents last year provided financial UN representatives walked out. Six support for first-time buyer months later, on 14th May 1948, Jewish grandchildren. leaders in the region formed the state of Israel. And more than half (63%) of older house -owners would accept a fall in prices over British troops left, thousands of the next two years if it would help young Palestinian Arabs also departed, and people buy a home, according to the Arab armies invaded Israel – but were National Housing Federation. defeated. According to a survey by Nottingham Building Society, 35% of would-be first- time buyers saw their property deals collapse in the past year because they didn’t have a big enough deposit.

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True charity towards children Britain and Europe David Winter Tim Lenton November not only sees ‘mists and Fifty years ago, on 27th November 1967, mellow fruitfulness’ but also ‘Children in French President Charles de Gaulle Need’. We take it for granted now – the vetoed Britain’s application to join the show-biz glamour, the clips of ingenious Common Market – for a second time. fund-raising enterprises, the cheering audience and, of course, the regular He warned France's five partners in the announcement to loud applause of the European Economic Community (EEC) growing total already donated to the that if they tried to impose British cause. membership on France, it would result in the break-up of the community. When the BBC first proposed it, there were some misgivings. Was this really an All five – Belgium, the Netherlands, appropriate use of entertainment? Would Luxembourg, Italy and Germany – had it deflect money from the established said they would support negotiations charities? Would it simply become a towards British membership. vehicle for celebrities to show off?

Well, it’s been around now for 37 years, General de Gaulle accused Britain of a and raised over £600 million pounds for ‘deep-seated hostility’ and a ‘lack of disabled and disadvantaged children interest’ in the Common Market. He said around the world. It has, of course, had the Common Market was incompatible its celebrities – who could forget Terry with Britain’s economy, which required a Wogan’s years as its mischievous chief ‘radical transformation’. presenter? But there has been no It is believed that de Gaulle's veto was evidence that it has diminished the role based on a fear that the UK, as a member of major charities. In fact, it has probably of the community, would be a vehicle for introduced millions of people to the American interests. He saw France as experience of giving to charity. leading the EEC, with Germany still I was at the BBC when it began and recall smarting from its defeat in World War all those misgivings. One year at a Two. management meeting someone asked De Gaulle’s wartime exile in the UK had why we didn’t have ‘Old People in Need’? admittedly not been pleasant. He was The answer was that the plight of kept away from briefings and had to children more readily touched people’s fight to be recognised as the military hearts, but that once they had leader of France. experienced the joy of giving all those other causes would benefit. And so it has After De Gaulle resigned in 1969, Britain proved. reapplied and was accepted. It joined the EEC – now the EU – in 1973.

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Children’s Society West Tytherley Primary School Dennis Barnes Open Day An opportunity to meet headteacher Mike Warren and receive a personal tour of the school and our lovely grounds and learning garden, guided by the children.

The time has come around again to hand in the boxes. Last year £750 was raised for the Society. Dennis will be at St John’s Church on 4th November and at All Saints, Winterslow on 11th November to receive the boxes. Alternatively, they can be taken to Kings Farm Cottage. Please put your name, address and telephone number on a slip of paper and We look forward to welcoming you! post this inside the box, before you hand it back. Wednesday 8th November Kay Putnam has kindly agreed to help 9.30-12.00 am & 1.30 - 3.00 pm count the money this year and it is hoped that the boxes will be ready to West Tytherley return to you by the beginning of Salisbury December. Thank you very much to Wiltshire everyone who has donated through the boxes this year. SP5 1JX

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