The Parish of Sixpenny Handley with Pentridge, Including Woodyates, Deanland and Minchington
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The Parish of Sixpenny Handley with Pentridge, including Woodyates, Deanland and Minchington Delivered by Sixpenny Handley Homewatch June 2016 awdphotography.co.uk Views expressed in this magazine are those of our correspondents and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions held by the Editor or Members of Sixpenny Handley with Pentridge Parish Council. This publication does not endorse the products or services advertised within. Directory Parish Councillors Sixpenny Handley Sixpenny Handley Allotment Holders Association Chairman Cllr C Taylor 553148 Chairman John Curtis 552397 Cllr D Adams 552284 Secretary Steve Barrett 552121 Cllr R Adams 553032 Schools Cllr B Boyland 552805 First School Handley First School 552356 Cllr P Chalmers 516316 Middle School Cranborne Middle School 517348 Cllr S McLean 552910 Upper School Queen Elizabeth’s School Vice-Chair Cllr J Reed 516390 Wimborne 01202 885233 Cllr G O’Brien 552467 Little Pennies Pre-School 552997 Cllr A Turner 552735 Chairperson Margaret Durrant 552608 Pentridge Cllr Ms J Henry 553036 Secretary Lou Billington Clerk Lisa Goodwin 01258 840935 Happy Nappy Club Assistant Clerk Ciona Nicholson Jenny Chapman 07830 188 589 Parish Office 552211 Karen Adams 552391 District Councillor Cllr S Tong 01258 840061 1st Woodcutts Scout Group County Councillor Cllr Steve Butler 01725 517412 Group Scout Leader John Curtis 552397 Email: [email protected] Explorer Leader Anthony Brown 552814 Member Parliament Simon Hoare 02072 192787 Scout Leader Rob Easton 552038 Rights of Way Liaison Officers Cub Leader Andy Young 01258 830861 Sixpenny Handley J Reed 516390 Beaver Leader Jane Scott 01725 516294 Pentridge Mrs M Jones 552358 Scout Hut Bookings Toby Cullen The Downsman Team [email protected] Editor [email protected] Sixpenny Handley W.I. (Formed in 1922) Treasurer & Distribution Tony Gibb 552704 President Mrs Bobbie Carter 552042 Advertising David Salmons 552721 Secretary Mrs Margaret Jones 552358 Churches Sixpenny Handley Mothers’ Union Church of England St. Mary’s, Sixpenny Handley Leader St. Rumbold’s, Pentridge Secretary Mary Macleod 552041 St. Andrews, Gussage St.Andrew Chase Community Friends Vicar Rev Mel Durrant, The Vicarage Chairman Vic Hatton 01258 841321 60 High Street, Sixpenny Handley 552608 Secretary Penny Adams 01725 552218 Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes & Sixpenny Handley CLT St. Cecilia, Blandford Forum Chairman Simon Parker Priest Rev. Father Dylan James Secretary Jenny Chapman 07830 188 589 The Presbytery, 55 Salisbury Street, Shaftesbury Sixpenny Handley Sports Association 01747 852125 Sport Pavilion Bookings 552211 Doctors Drs. Nodder, Morgan & Taubman Sixpenny Handley Bowls Club Dean Lane Surgery 552500 President Paul Chalmers 516316 Sixpenny Handley Village Hall Secretary Colin Chambers 552796 Chairman Carole Wyatt 552572 Treasurer Paul Chalmers 516316 Vice Chairman Paul Styles 552544 Handley Sports Club Treasurer Paul Skinner 552785 Chairman & Treasurer Mark Young 552741 Bookings Ros Adams 553032 Secretary & Team Div 3 Manager - Adam Day 01258 452481 Sixpenny Handley Homewatch Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club Overall Co-ordinator & Police Focal Point Chairman Elizabeth Nodder [email protected] John Curtis 552397 Membership/Treasurer Stephanie Chick 552557 Co-ordinators Sixpenny Handley Cricket Club Area 1 - Dean Lane Don Penrose 552022 Evening Captain David Cross 552640 2 - Lower Handley David Chick 552557 Secretary Frances Churchill 552868 3 - Upper Handley John Clarke 552674 Citizen’s Advice Bureau 4 - Deanland & N.E. Charles Nodder 552292 Wimborne Branch 01202 884738 5 - West & South Simon Meaden 552715 Ferndown Branch 01202 893838 Other Areas (These are separate Homewatch Schemes) Out of Hours Service 08444 772022 Pentridge Roy Elford 552911 Woodyates Mrs A Adams 552675 Police Nicholas Lee, Verwood Police Stn 07825 521761 01202 222222 Police non-emergency number 101 Dementia Friend Champion Hazel Kileen 552980 2 The Downsman - April 2016 Editorial Next edition Fabulous Festival The next edition will be published on Thank you so much to everyone who came, helped and supported the Waistcoat Festival this year. We had an 1st August 2016 amazing day of history, singing, making handley hare rolls, music and merrymaking - the weather couldn’t dampen Copy deadline for the the firebird either! next edition Needless to say this week creating a Downsman and 15th July helping with the festival has been a little busy, but as these things do, they get done, and with a little help from a lot of friends we seem to have Please make every effort to meet the got there! deadline so that we have time for printing, production and distribution. I hope you like the colourful cover, we splashed out on it this year as it is one of those questions I get asked a lot, “why don’t we go for colour?” It costs more is the simple If possible please email your articles to answer and I like the fact that extra money we raise through advertising goes back into the [email protected]. community to help groups like Tennis Club, Football Club, Scouts, The Little Pennies pre- school and more... but to share our Community day and fabulous Sport Relief photos we thought this issue we would go for it! Advertising Pentridge seems to be the place to go in June - Molly’s Marvellous Mini Nature Reserve, Our advertising offers great value. The Tess is coming to Pentridge Green. They have their amazing looking Royal Fete with so Downsman is currently delivered to over much going on I had to give them a whole page! 700 households within the parish. Email David: downsmanadverts@ There are also a great many other events - so do get your calendars out and visit the sixpennyhandley.org for more details. Noticeboard or What’s on (inside the back cover today!). There is also more information on Martin Lloyd’s Dorset Artweeks exhibition in Chettle page 19. Advertisement Costs Whatever you get up to make the most of summer when it happens as it doesn’t seem Size Single Yearly to last very long... the posts on Facebook when the weather broke last week were very edition rate amusing - “Well that was summer, nice while it lasted“ and RIP Summer 2016” I’m sure it Small Text Ad £2.50 - will be back though at least for a day or two, I’m getting my sandals out ready! Small Square £5 £25 Rectangle £10 £50 Large Square £25 £125 Half Page £35 £175 Whole Page £50 £250 Advertisement Sizes Naomi Booth [email protected] Size Image area* Small Text Ad 30 words c/o The Parish Office, Unit 6, Town Farm Workshops, Sixpenny Handley, SP5 5PA Small Square 59mm Rectangle V 59mm x 122mm H 122mm x 59mm Directory 2 Seeker 21 Large Square 122mm Noticeboard 4&5 Health & Beauty 28 Half Page 186mm x 122mm Parish News 6 Gardening 37 Whole Page 186mm x 248mm Clerks Corner 6 Woodsman 26 Village Hall 11 Gone Sailing 41 *without frame which will be added by WI Report 14 Rob’s Column 39 us. Mobile Library 12 What’s On 43 If you need us to set your advert please Totally Local 19 add a one-off £5 fee. CLT 18 Sorry - we are unable to include flyers 3 The Downsman - April 2016 To the Editor Deanland Doggerel Noticeboard Coming down the lane to Deanland, Molly’s Up the path and by the stile, Open Farm Down the track and in the gateway Marvellous Mini Nature Reserve Mind your step – there’s something vile! Come on Saturday 25th and Sunday Gone, the days we’d look around us Sunday 26th of June, in Pentridge As we walked, to see the view, at 12:00 till 3:00. Follow the 5th June Now our gaze is strictly downwards directions from the top of the lane To make sure we miss the poo. or from the church after the service. Deanland’s dogs are over thirty; Many more come passing through. Dogs welcome on leads. Fine! But I don’t want their dirty £1 per adult and under 18s free. Excrement smeared on my shoe. Family ticket £1.50 If this rhyme has made you shudder Cakes and drinks available and At the thought that you’re to blame, picnics welcome. at Maybe you’ll decide you’d better In aid of Pentridge village church. Myncen Farm, “Pick it up and take it home”. Minchington Anon. Do You Have Any Old Photos Of Pentridge? As part of Pentridge Village Fete on 11th June, there will be a small exhibition in the village hall highlighting the short history of the village school. This will include extracts from the original school log books showing an amazing insight into life in a Victorian village “Dorset Art Weeks” are running YOU ARE INVITED TO A school. It will also include copies of articles from 28th May until 12th June, and discovered amongst the archives of the GARDEN PARTY Sixpenny Handley resident Martin CELEBRATING THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY ON Shaftesbury Estate. Lloyd, and fellow artist Rosemary THE VICARAGE LAWN However up until now I have been unable SIXPENNY HANDLEY Westlake from Shaftesbury, are to locate any photos of the school and its SUNDAY 12TH JUNE 3-5.30pm holding their own exhibition right Tea and cakes on proper china – come as retro as you like! pupils and I hope that there is someone Proceeds will be divided equally between the Little Pennies Pre- on our doorstep in Chettle Village School environment project and St Mary’s Church heating fund out there who can help. Surnames of some Hall This will be followed by of the children who attended the school See page 19 A ROYAL SONGS OF PRAISE AT 6pm between 1877 and 1930 are listed below: SARJEANT, HERRINGTON, THICK, WICK, NOKE, COOK, SELLWOOD, DIBBEN, FRAMPTON, ISAAC, COLEMAN, BLAKE, Sixpenny YOUNG, NEWMAN, WILLIAMS, BENNETT, Farnham TROWBRIGE, BLANDFORD, SILVERTHORNE, Handley DAY.