ORGANISATIONS & MEETINGS USEFUL CONTACTS Meet at When Accident and Emergency Hospital: Child Health ClinicChurch Hall2nd Thursday Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich 01473 712233 Community Hosp. Minor Injuries (01394) 458820 3:00pm Welcome to Doctors and dentists can be contacted in Felixstowe (listed in Parent & ToddlerChurch HallThursdays Thompson’s Directory and Yellow Pages) 1:30pm Walton Surgery (01394) 278844 Kirton & Bell ringingFalkenham Church (6 bells) Central Surgery (01394) 283197 Contact:Loraine Beer448490 Howard House (01394) 282706 Bowls Club Haven Health (01394) 670107 Falkenham Police: Constabulary Force HQ 01473 613500 Short MatVillage HallTuesdays Village policeman 7:30pm Minicom 01473 611160 Outdoorbehind Village Hall Website www.suffolk.police.uk Summer only Parish Council Clerk: Colin Shaw 01394 448783 Deben Flower ClubChurch Hall2nd Tuesday [email protected] 7:45pmTransport: Football Bus services run from Kirton (and some from Falkenham) to Felix- stowe, Woodbridge and Ipswich. Timetables are displayed on Kir- KestrelsRecreation Ground ton Green, the Post Office, and in Falkenham. Training: (boys & girls) Felixstowe Area Community Transport Service (FACTS) runs a Tues & Thurs evenings bus into Felixstowe for the disabled. Contact: (01394) 270339 Matches:Saturday a.m. Emergency Car Lift Service for hospital visiting, etc. (01394) Kirton UnitedRecreation Ground 448315 Training:Thurs evenings Train services go from Felixstowe via Trimley to Ipswich for con- Matches:Sunday nections to London and elsewhere. Schools: Kirton White Horse TeamRecreation Ground County Primary School Friends of Kirton Churchvarious events Headteacher: Peter Lamb (01394) 448313 Contact: John Parish 448476 Orwell High School www.orwellhigh.com Gardeners Club Village Hall2nd Thursday Contact: (01394) 282628 7:30pmPost Office: Trimley St Martin KAFPA (drama)Contact Maddy Rhodes448549 Citizen’s Advice Bureau: 2-6 Orwell Road, Felixstowe IP11 7HD (01394) 275958 Ladies Keep FitChurch HallTuesdays Library: Suffolk County Library van calls in the villages on alter- 1:30pmnate Tuesday afternoons. See Village Diary. Exercise ClassVillage HallWednesdays Recreation Ground, Alley Road, has a play area for children, bas- 9:30amketball hoop and football pitches : Phil Barker (01394) 448493 Ballroom DancingChurch HallFridays Pavilion bookings: John Beer (01394) 448490 7:30pmChurch Hall bookings: Michael Sharpley (01394) 448238 Village Hall bookings : Vic Wilkinson 07961 594360 Mothersʼ UnionChurch Hall4th Tuesday Allotments are available for rent. This information has been prepared by the Church of 7:30pmContact Mrs S Harvey, 29 Falkenham Road, Kirton. (01394) 448780 St Mary & St Martin, Kirton, and the Church of St Open Circle18 Burnt House Lane Kirton & Falkenham Review - the villages’ magazine Ethelbert, Falkenham. We hope you find it useful and 2nd Tuesday Editor: Nick Claydon (01394) 448812 that you will be able to join in the many activities our 10am  [email protected] community provides. Parent & ToddlerChurch HallThursdays 1 – 3pmwww.kirton-suffolk.info for the Village Diary, local Details change, so check our website ClinicChurch hall2nd Thursday news, hall booking, events, Parish Council notes, history www.kirton-suffolk.info for the latest & Diary. 1:30 – 2:30pmand local pictures. Please inform us of any errors or changes. Call 01394 Whist DrivesVillage Hallmost Mondays Subscribe to The K&F Review for the latest local 448213 or email [email protected] 7:30pminformation – only 50p/month or £6/year Womensʼ InstituteVillage Hall2nd Thursday Call John Pardy on 448581 Issue: 120310 2pm Welcome! PLACES OF WORSHIP We wish you very warm welcome to the villages of Kirton Times of church services in Kirton & Falkenham are adver- and Falkenham and hope that you will find this Welcome tised inside and outside the respective churches, and in The brochure useful. Review. Kirton and Falkenham share the Parish Council, the school, the Village Hall, and Recreation Ground and, as Church of England you will see from the lists, most of the organisations. Kirton!!St Mary & St Martin There are two Church of England churches and the Meth- Contact:Mrs Barbara Payne odist chapel. There is a considerable amount of shared  (01394) 448582 worship.  [email protected] Sunday Club meets 3rd Sunday morning in Kirton Church Hall This part of Suffolk is fairly isolated between the two rivers Deben and Orwell. We also seem to have a somewhat Falkenham St Ethelbert individual climate with relatively low rainfall. The ports of YOUNG PEOPLEʼS Contacts:Lorraine Beer  (01394) 448490 Ipswich and Felixstowe have developed enormously in the  [email protected] ORGANISATIONS last decade as has the industrial estate on the historic air- field at , mainly due to Adastral Park and to Rector Priest Meet at!When many other enterprises that have availed themselves of the Revʼd. Canon Geoffrey GrantRevd Helen Davy KAFY ClubPavilionThursdays7pm facilities offered by this area.  01473 659232  (01394) 270703 This is an expanding area but is also very ancient in origin,  [email protected][email protected] and we are justly proud of our very early connection with The Rectory,9 Roman Way the Christian faith. Romans are believed to have settled in FELIXSTOWE and around Falkenham but it is the Anglo Saxon era that IPSWICH IP10 0HYIP11 9NJ gives us the confirmed facts. The name Kirton comes from the Anglo-Saxon name of Readers Kirkatuna, meaning “the place of the church”. Kirton is Stephen HarveyEdna Collins mentioned in the Domesday Book, not just as having a  (01394) 448780  (01394) 282718 Explorers  [email protected] church, but also having a priest of its own. His name was (14-18 yrs)Scout HutTuesdays7:15pm Godric and to find such an entry is exceptional. We also 29 Falkenham Road  [email protected] know that there has been a place of Christian worship, Kirton17 Tylers Green IPSWICH IP10 0NPTrimley St Mary Sea Scouts probably on the site of the present church, since the 7th (10½-14½ yrs)Scout HutWednesdays7:00pm century. This does give us a great sense of continuity and FELIXSTOWE IP11 0XF we hope that you will join us in worship in our churches. Methodist Kirton Methodist Church Guides Falkenham also has an ancient history based on the min- Trimley St Martin Methodist Church (10-14 yrs)Church HallThursdays7:15pm ing of coprolite, and the river was used for its transport. Revd David Kemble Earlier the part of the known as Kings Fleet Trinity Manse, Tower Road was where Edward III fitted out his fleet for his expedition Cub Scouts FELIXSTOWE IP11 7PR (8-10½ yrs)Scout HutMondays6:30pm to Flanders in 1338. Parts of Falkenham church probably  Felixstowe (01394) 282023 date from this time, though it was extensively refurbished  [email protected] in the late 19th century. Local contact: Mrs Helen Robertson  (01394) 448395 Brownies There are many beautiful walks in this area, mostly well (7-10 yrs)Church HallThursdays5:30pm marked by signposts. Roman Catholic St Felix, Felixstowe Welcome again to this community! May your stay be a Beavers long and happy one. Free churchTrimley St Mary (6-8 yrs)Scout HutTuesdays6:00pm Other denominations have churches in Felixstowe, Walton, God bless you all. Woodbridge & Ipswich Contacts change so please turn up at a meeting if you would like more information or would like to offer help.