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VILLAGER Issue 50 - May 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS The VILLAGER Issue 50 - May 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win tickets to the Garden Theatre The Old Village Lock-Up Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Alconbury, Grafham, Kimbolton, Riseley, The Stukeleys and all surrounding areas every month Your FREEcopy 2 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts e VILLAGER Issue 50 - May 2016 and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win tickets to the Garden Theatre The Old Village Lock-Up Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People in Alconbury, Grafham, Kimbolton, Riseley, The Stukeleys and all surrounding areas every month Your Contents FREEcopy 30 Days Wild..........................................................28 May Day Animal Stories .......................................................31 R.A.T.S. ..................................................................33 8 Raspberry Pavlova Roulade ...................................34 Puzzle Page ...........................................................36 What’s On ..............................................................38 Prize Crossword .....................................................42 How to Choose the Right Pre-School .....................45 Fun Quiz ................................................................45 Book Review .........................................................47 The Old Village Lock-Up ...........................................4 Classifieds .............................................................47 May Day ..................................................................8 Bedfordshire Young Farmers Show and Rally ........10 Choosing the Right Pre-School Win Thickets to The Garden Theatre .......................12 Spring Clean Time - StainStop ...............................15 45 Wines - Let’s Go Sparkling .....................................16 Employment Matters ............................................19 Award Winning Trainee .........................................20 Cilla Black and Alpacas ..........................................21 A Parent is still a Parent after Divorce ....................22 The Grass Can Be Greener ......................................26 11,000 copies delivered free of charge in the following areas: Abbots Ripton, Alconbury, Brington, Buckworth, Bythorn, Catworth, Covington, Dillington, Grafham, Great Staughton, Hail Weston, Keyston, Kimbolton, Kings Ripton, Leighton Bromswold, Little Staughton, Lower Dean, Molesworth, Old Weston, Perry, Pertenhall, Ramsey, Riseley, Sawtry, Shelton, Stonley, Stow Longa, Swineshead, The Stukeleys, Tillbrook, Upper Dean and Warboys (We also have over 150 distribution points, including pubs, garages, most shops, post offices, Supermarket Chains in all of the above as well as in Huntingdon, Lt Staughton, Grafham Water Visitor Centre’s and Kimbolton) Editorial - Catherine Rose, Debbie Singh-Bhatti, Publishers Trevor Langley, Carol H Scott, Tony Larkins, Abby Smith, Villager Publications Ltd Pippa Greenwood, RSPCA, Nick Coffer and Willow Coby 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP Tel: 01767 261122 Advertising Sales/Local Editorial [email protected] Scott - 01767 261122 [email protected] www.villagermag.com Photography - Cathy Yeulet and Disclaimer - All adverts and editorial are printed in good faith, Darren Harbar Photography however, Villager Publications Ltd can not take any responsibility for the content of the adverts, the services provided by the advertisers or any Design and Artwork - Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 statements given in the editorial. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored without the express permission of the publisher. To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 3 History By Catherine Rose The Old Village Lock-Up It is still possible to see the unique single-storey historian Mr A.W. Watkin’s recollections: gaols in villages across England that were once “Many years ago there was an old gravel pit on used to hold local miscreants and drunks for a the site of where Victoria Court now stands. In short time, usually overnight. Typified by their one corner were the remains of a building known small, often round or polygonal structure with as The Cage. My father told me that this was a a single door and a narrow slit or grille to let in building once used as a lock-up where drunks light, the majority of these buildings also had a and lawbreakers were temporarily housed. The pointed or domed roof. The latter is believed to building was earthed over on top and had a heavy have inspired the shape of the original policeman’s barrelled door.” helmet. When the County Police Act was introduced The village lock-up was used mainly in the 18th in 1839 that required every town to have its and first half of the 19th centuries to enable rural own police station with a paid police force, the communities to have their own law enforcement. buildings gradually started to become redundant It was useful for detaining poachers, drunks and as the act required that local police stations be petty criminals before they were brought in front built with their own secure purpose-built cells of the local town magistrate. They were also used making the village lock-up less necessary. to house straying animals which were released on During the Second World War, some lock-ups payment of a fine by the owner. Many well-known were used by the Home Guard as sentry posts or authors of this period have referred to the use of storage for arms but many more were demolished. lock-ups in their novels including Charles Dickens Of those that are left today, a number have been and Charles Kingsley. restored and are now listed buildings while some There was a wonderful array of nicknames for have been converted into private homes. these quirky buildings that either stood alone or In Bedfordshire, there are still lock-ups at Barton le were attached to other buildings. They included Clay, Clophill, Harrold and Silsoe. Others, such as round house, jug, bone house, watch tower, the one in Northill near The Crown public house, kitty, lobby, bridewell and the cage, that latter only partially remain. of which was a nickname that was used in both Built of red brick with a slate roof, the lock-up at Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Clophill adjoins the ‘village cage’ to the south of Small towns had their own lock-ups too. A report the green and measures what was probably a fairly in The Biggleswade Chronicle refers to local typical floor span of 22 square feet. 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts ReservingNow Alconbury Weald, Cambs, PE28 4WX Marketing Suite Now Open Hopkins Homes are delighted to introduce you to Alconbury Weald, a stylish collection of premier new homes within this flagship new community boasting excellent transport links for the A14 & A1 and, for those living and working here, a range of community facilities, amenities and public open spaces have formed an integral part of the overall design to provide a truly living environment. Properties range from two to five bedrooms across a variety of styles; each designed to complement the natural surroundings and are sympathetic to traditional features and character of the region. Award-winning Hopkins Homes is East Anglia’s largest independent home builder, renowned for crafting properties of the highest specification by fusing traditional building methods and the latest technology to create superior new homes with all the practicality, comfort and energy efficiency desired today. For further information call: 07435 961663 Marketing Suite open Thursday - Monday, 10am - 5pm Call: 01394 446860 Email: [email protected] hopkinshomes.co.uk Artist illustration of Alconbury Weald. 01733 209948 To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 5 In 1936, J. Steele Elliot, writing for the Bedfordshire untypically, was used well into the 20th century by Historic Record Society, described an incident from which time it had been formally handed over to the 1814 Quarter Sessions records where a ‘breach the parish council. of the Peace in the said Parish of Clophill’ took In Hertfordshire, there are lock-ups at Anstey, place. It was reported (perhaps rather comically Ashwell, Barley, Buntingford and Shenley. for us reading it today) that ‘James Odell did, with A small square building with a pyramid-shaped Force and Violence, break open the pound there, roof made of slate, the Ashwell lock-up was built where his ass was impounded for Trespass’. Odell’s in 1800 out of stone obtained from the demolition sentence was ‘10 days in gaol’ and he was fined a of a north-east chapel in the chancel of St Mary’s shilling. Church. The lock-up retains its original studded By the early 20th century, Clophill’s lock-up was plank door in an oak frame, and a barred iron grille being used to store lime and as an advertising above but fell out of use in the early 20th century hoarding. In January 1985, it was grade II listed by after which it was used to keep the village fire cart English Heritage for its ‘socio-historical interest’. in until 1939. The octagonal building in Church Road, Harrold Despite their sturdy construction, it was not is one of the older surviving lock-ups. It was built unknown for people to escape the lock-up. After of ironstone in 1796 and has a pointed
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