Barsham • Walsingham • Houghton April – May 2020
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NEWS & VIEWS BARSHAM • WALSINGHAM • HOUGHTON APRIL – MAY 2020 A MAGAZINE FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY For the love of local food Look for the best of Norfolk and find it at Walsingham Farms Shop Find us at The Big Sausage Bash Fun sausage festival returns to Aylsham Butchers, chefs, live music, local producers Sunday 10th May 10am-4pm Find us on Norwich market Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm Hot pie, mash & more, mini farm shop & deli Britain’s best outdoor market! SUMMER TIME OPENING HOURS from 29 March MONDAY-SATURDAY 9am-5.30pm SUNDAY & MAY BANK HOLIDAYS 10am-4pm Guild Street, Walsingham NR22 6BU 01328 821877 Norwich Market, Row F Stalls 124/125 01603 621966 Editor’s comments Contents Welcome to our April edition. Diary outline for April and May 3 We have a Chaucerian selection of tales for you featuring RAF North Creake Memorial Project update 5 travel of all types. Commonwealth War Graves Commission launches #Remembered Here 6 On Friday 8 May there will be a special Bank Holiday to Walsingham CE VA School enjoys challenges 7 commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe. BBC’s Antiques Road Trip 9 We are invited to enjoy a cinema afternoon with a pre-talk being there by The Control Tower’s Nigel Morter. Our parish boundary Celebrating 50 years of 10 includes the site of RAF North Creake from which pilots flew Spring cleaning, spring tides and being on Cloud Nine into a very uncertain outcome. Those service personnel will 13 be officially remembered in August when a new installation Fakenham-Olivet Twinning Club 14 on the B115-Edgar Road junction is unveiled. (Readers will St Seraphim’s gardening group 16 recall the biography of D-Day and VE-Day paratrooper Holy Week and Easter 2020 16 Philip Burkinshaw OBE in our October 2019 edition.) Open Gardens Event 2020 17 Christian Aid Week 17 This year also celebrates 50 years of the Little Sisters of 12–18 May 2020 17 Jesus being present in the village. Their gentle charism; to be Literary classics 19 there, to live alongside non-pilgrims has fostered trust and Yew uprooted at National Shrine 21 friendship. And we remember Sister Alma SSM’s vocation Sister Alma Mary 23 bringing her from Trinidad to live a joyful convent life. Your church needs you now 25 Have a very happy Easter! Walsingham History Society 25 Walsingham Picture Palace April-May 26 Zoe Wenzel Cover photo by Angela Adams. Fiona Harrison, costume artiste We welcome contributions for our June–July 2020 and soprano at The Control Tower, www.fionaharrison.biz issue by 30 April 2020. Please email News & Views Dec 2019 cover photo by 249209 J Carter, Pexels Oct 2019 cover photo by Tadeusz-Lakota-1 133795, Unsplash secretary [email protected] Diary outline for April and May APRIL Langham Dome MAY PAP activity group for over 8s Thurs, Sun and bank holidays The Pilgrim Federation Schools Village Hall, 10.30 -4pm Annual Founding Day Service every Thurs 4.30 – 6pm, Friday 1 May, 10.00am term time Walsingham CE VA School Hindringham Church followed by picnic Easter school holidays lunch on Hindringham School field. Easter Holiday Activity day Thurs 2 April – Fri 17 April inclusive All welcome! Village hall, Tues 7 April, 10 – 4pm Easter Sunday, 12 April Wighton Scarecrow Festival Pages 16 & 17 for Holy Week, Sat 9 and Sun 10 May Star Party Spring 2020 Triduum and Easter services Kelling Heath Holiday Park, North Norfolk Open Studios 2020 NR25 7HW Sat 23 May –Sun 7 June Mon 20 April – Mon 27 April Summer half-term Activity day Village Hall, Fri 29 May, 10 – 4pm *All events subject to Public Health England/NHS guidance April – May 2020 3 RAF North Creake Heritage Project update August 2020 marks the completion of our memorial project. We are delighted with the overwhelming support from so many local people who have helped with donations, attending events and providing us with more information about the airfield. With your help we raised over £40K. The main event, the Dedication Day, is on Saturday 1 August 2020 at the memorial site, 12 noon to 4pm. The ceremony will be from 12 noon–1pm followed by a celebratory street party with food, music, bar, displays and stalls. Everyone welcome! James Woodhouse, Scilla Landale, Elizabeth Meath Baker, Nigel Morter, Clovis Meath Baker and John Downing (members of Walsingham Parish Council administering the funds) plant new oak trees on the memorial site, B1105 – Edgar Road junction. Photo by C. Nugent. We began this project to commemorate those The memorial will be sited on Walsingham Estate land who served here and particularly those who were next to the ‘dry road’ on the corner of the B1105 and lost while the airfield was in operation. We have Edgar Road. It will have a large-scale Stirling airplane become rather obsessed with the secret history of sculpture as the centrepiece. This has already been the station since moving to The Control Tower in completed by Andy Knighton Sculptures and will be 2011. We found it remarkable so many people we erected shortly. A Roll of Honour detailing the 73 men spoke to about the station had no idea that it was who died whilst serving at RAF North Creake has also an airfield. been commissioned, along with information boards. April – May 2020 5 Commonwealth War This beautiful installation will ensure that in the future no one will pass through Egmere without knowing that Graves Commission this was an airfield. launches In February’s fundraising we held an extra special tour #Remembered Here weekend. Over 30 guests were guided around the The CWGC honours the 1.7 million men and women private areas of the former airfield sites. We cannot of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and thank Walsingham and Holkham Estates enough for Second World Wars. They are responsible for 306,000 their help planning the day, providing the transport and, commemorations across more than 12,000 sites on most of all, their permission to access all corners of the British soil, often just one or two war graves per location site. The tour goers were excited to see the old runways, in churchyards, burials grounds and private cemeteries. accommodation sites, leisure area, inside the East Hangar These graves are noted on entrance gates by an official and around the technical site. Everyone was fascinated green plaque (a 2017 initiative) and an official headstone. as the old derelict buildings and bits of concrete were With so many thousands of locations to account for they brought back to life with explanations and stories of have requested the help of communities with war graves their former use. The Carpenter’s Arms in Wighton did a to help photograph them and highlight local stories. splendid job warming us up and feeding all 35 of us in an hour. This followed from on from a special event on In a new social media campaign CWGC is asking for 11 November 2019. As part of the planning consent for the UK public’s help to imply take a photo or series the memorial site new oak trees had to be planted to of photos of a CWGC site near them and post replace the old ash trees. This was dutifully undertaken them on Twitter, tagging in @CWGC and Instagram, by members of the Walsingham Parish Council. tagging in @commonwealthwargraves with the hashtag #RememberedHere. To find memorials, enter Our final fundraiser will take place on the 75th your postcode on: www.cwgc.org/find/find-nearby- Anniversary of VE-Day, on 8 May 2020. The cemeteries. For example the CWBC website tells Walsingham Picture Palace will show the vintage film us there is one WW2 memorial in St Peter’s, Great Went the Day Well? This will be an introductory talk Walsingham: by Nigel Morter on ‘British Cinema and the Second World War: Propaganda & Society’. All proceeds will • Samuel Ballance, Leading Aircraftman (age 29), go to the Time to Remember project. served with 636996, 40 squadron Royal Air Force, died 23 August 1941 Claire Nugent & Nigel Morter, The Control Tower www.rafnorthcreake.co.uk And four WW1 memorials in St Mary’s, Little Walsingham: • Lance Corporal William Charles KNOWLES, died 30 March 1919 (age 34), Devonshire Regiment • Private Robert Thomas YAXLEY, died 6 August 1920 (age 36), Border Regiment • Sapper Samuel SHARPE, died 05 May 1919 (age 39), Royal Engineers • Private FJ SEAMAN, died 17 November 1919, Hampshire Regiment All eyes on the old cinema site; the projection house, Lest we forget. in the outline of the Nissan Hut auditorium, in the RAF ZW & GW North Creake airfield leisure area 6 News & Views: Barsham • Walsingham • Houghton Walsingham CE VA School enjoys challenges Warrior class learning to do CPR Hedgehog class making pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. Photos by L. Smith Wonderful, irresistible The infant Hedgehog children Excitement and joy at homework creations exploring with messy play sharing work It has been a busy time since the start of the new year is paid for by The Pilgrim Federation firework evening at the school. The junior class, Warriors, continue to held every year at Hindringham School. The children work with Hindringham junior children one afternoon from both classes enjoyed sharing their wonderful a week, taking part in the Challenger Award where they homework from over the half-term with their families learn all sorts of valuable life skills including giving First and friends. Their creative imaginations included all Aid. The whole school enjoyed a hands-on morning sorts of ways to develop their learning, including baking of learning with The Norfolk Wildlife Trust.