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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR INSIDE YOUR September brings Heritage Open Days - England’s largest MAGAZINE... festival of history and culture when attractions across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, HALESWORTH HERITAGE 5 OPEN DAYS - Tastings, Talks, community and history - a chance to see hidden places and guided Walks and much more try out new experiences and there are many varied options in the Halesworth area with tastings, talks, short films, TWO RIVERS BOOK 7 performances, a flower festival, musical interludes, guided FESTIVAL 2021 – Featuring Louise walks and more. Something for everyone and all free of Hauntings, Crime Fiction, the Climate Crisis & War Gissing charge! Do take a look at page 5 to find out more.

A SLICE OF HALESWORTH LIFE 9 As always please feel free to send me anything you feel may be of interest to our The historic ‘Lincolne Letters’ readers and let me know if you wish to boost your business or event by advertising in any of our six titles. My email is [email protected]. I would love to hear from you. ILLUSTRATED TALES 14 OF SUFFOLK - A collection of See more news in our ‘Online Extra’ – www.tidecollection.com strange Tales and local Legends from the County QUOTE OF THE MONTH FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S 17 A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. CHURCH, HALESWORTH An update and Annual Flower Festival Oscar Wilde

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The course will explore the lives, ideas and The course runs for 7 weeks on Monday afternoons legacies of some important thinkers from classical from 2 – 4 pm and starts on Monday September 20th. There is a half term break on Monday 25th times to the present. Diverse contributions from the October and the course ends on Monday November fields of science, religion, politics and culture will 8th. The fee for the course is £55.30 (free to those be connected by placement within a philosophical on state benefits). framework of understanding. Enquiries about this and other courses/ Major figures from the Classical world will include day schools we are offering to Mary Rowan Socrates, Plato, Confucius, and Buddha; from Robinson on 01502 725223. the Renaissance - Aquinas, Galileo, Luther and Shakespeare; from the Enlightenment - Locke, The course will be held at the registered COVID- Newton, Hume and Voltaire; and from more safe Southwold Arts Centre, St Edmunds Hall, modern times, Marx, Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Cumberland Road, Southwold IP18 6JP Wittgenstein. Jane Kirk

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HALESWORTH HERITAGE HAPPENING

Halesworth Heritage Open Over the weekend 18 and 19 September The Cut will be Halesworth Days Heritage happening’s HQ and will host events throughout the two days. The main auditorium will have a continuous stream of short 11/12 & 18/19 September 2021 films and performances. With a play reading of The Lover by Open Space Theatre, David Wollweber with a talk on The Lincolne Letters Celebrate Halesworth’s heritage with trails, talks, open days, (following on from the book launch at Two Rivers Book Festival the displays, drama... and more. previous weekend), Jenny Hall will be covering Food and Shakespeare: Comedy, Disgust & Delight. Poet Dean Parkin introduces Halesworth Halesworth Heritage happening celebrates the town’s heritage and Whispers, and you can see Living Art from Beth Keys-Holloway and this year it’s expanded to Walpole and Holton in order to include hear Halesworth Community Choir. some fascinating public buildings holding events and talks. In previous years, the celebration has been of our built environment St Mary’s Church is hosting a wonderful range of events on Saturday with the opening of buildings not usually seen by the public. This year 17 and Sunday 18 Celebrating Mediaeval Heritage with Flowers the theme is Edible England and lots of the events are outdoors with and Music. With an all-day flower Festival, a family friendly heritage a programme of guided and self-guided walks. trail and quiz, and musical interludes from an organ recital with Jason Busby, to Auroriens with Vetta Wise, and 17/18th century music The opening weekend, 11 and 12 September sees Puritan Food from France, Germany, and England on period instruments with The at Walpole Old Chapel where you can read the recipes and taste Rococos. Sunday 19 sees a special Harvest Festival Service. There’s a the food that put the fire in the belly of the religious independents self-guided tour The Argentine Trail and more. who worshipped there. The fiercely ‘independent’ congregation in Cookley and Walpole first ‘gathered’ in 1649 and the chapel was This year we’re including Halesworth Airfield Museum where Richie constructed in c1690, by converting an existing Suffolk farmhouse. It Pymer will be giving a talk at 11am on 18 & 19 September and has been very little altered since then. Holton Post Mill will be open for tours on Sunday 19 September. You can also visit Kaliwoods, a five-acre woodland in Holton and see an Famously, Oliver Cromwell is said to have banned mince pies and extant men’s urinals from when the site was part of the RAF hospital. Eccles cakes. But did he really? What were the Puritans’ attitudes to food? Were they any different to anybody else’s? Are there any Halesworth Museum is always worth a visit and during the Festival Puritan recipes? What better place to find out the answers to these you can catch No Ordinary Joe, No Ordinary Kennedy an award- questions, and to taste ‘Cromwell’s cake’, than Walpole Old chapel! winning radio play from INK on both days. On Saturday at 11.00, author will be discussing Event Times Annie Garthwaite her newly published historical novel Cecily and signing copies at Saturday 11 September: 9am till 4:30pm Halesworth Bookshop, and there are more events on all weekend at Sunday 12 September: 9am till 4pm this wonderful independent bookshop.

Access James Hewett of the Halesworth to Southwold Narrow Gauge Railway Society will lead guided walks around part of the Halesworth Visitors should be aware that this is an old building with uneven Millennium Green (the largest such Green in the country), highlighting surfaces underfoot. the industrial archaeology of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries: the 1761 Blyth Navigation and the 1879 narrow gauge Halesworth to Additional Information Southwold Railway on both days at 12pm. At 5:00pm on 12th September, immediately following the Halesworth Library will be mounting a display of local history and ‘Puritan Food’ event, the chapel will be hosting a period music records and Black Dog Antiques in the Market Place, a former concert: https://www.lokimusic.co.uk/calendar/item/45199340 - Why merchant’s house, will be showing a display of documents, not stay on and combine the two events? photographs, and artefacts, some recovered during recent restoration work. Contact for the day: Simon Weeks - 01986 784348 www.walpoleoldchapel.org There are many more tours and talks covering the Ancient House Bistro carvings on Sunday morning with coffee and cake, Buildings Walpole Old Chapel, Halesworth Road, Walpole, Halesworth, and Gardens – stories of Halesworth, Heritage Trees in Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 9AZ The Hooker and Malt Trail, and a tour of Halesworth’s hives with a Website: www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/puritan-food- Bee Trail. at-walpole-old-chapel All festival events are free which has been made possible with the generous support of Halesworth Town Council and our sponsors, Halesworth Print Finishers, Huus, and Micropress Printers.

Donations for events during Heritage Open Days in Halesworth are gratefully received, so please look out for our donation boxes.

Pre-booking is not available, and places will be allocated on a ‘first come’ basis. Some events will be weather dependent, so fingers crossed for good weather!

You can search for events here www.heritageopendays.org.uk and keep an eye on Facebook - @halesworthheritageopendays

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HAPPY RETIREMENT MRS ROGERS!

Sadly for Edgar Sewter Primary School, the end of term saw the retirement of Mrs Grace Rogers. She has been connected to the school for over 35 years, starting with her children attending and then her volunteering, hearing readers before becoming a Midday Supervisor. Since then Grace has worked across the school as a Learning Support Assistant before spending the last few years in the Office.

Many parents enjoy saying hello as she stands at the gate come rain or shine, morning and afternoon. We will miss her knowledge of our school community in September, her organisation of the stock cupboard and lunchtimes! Of course there are countless other ways we will miss her in school too and we thank her for all that she has given Edgar Sewter over the years. We wish her a long, relaxing and happy retirement! Miss Katherine Milk, Headteacher, Mrs Lisa Wood, Deputy Head and Mrs Grace Rogers

TWO RIVERS BOOK FESTIVAL 2021

Great Yarmouth, while in Lowestoft a our cultural links with nature, on www. panel including ex-publisher and Booker waveneyandblytharts.com prize judge Liz Calder and First Light festival organiser Genevieve Christie will Waveney & Blyth Arts promotes the talk about their shared history. distinct cultural identity of this beautiful area of north Suffolk and south Norfolk Back in the west, Wortham church near through exciting arts projects and events. Diss will host a celebration of the life of We support the work of local creative blue stocking author Doreen Wallace. people and arts organisations, and help Her marriage to a local farmer brought to build connections between people her into the headlines in 1934 over and places. The core of our programme the resistance to church tithes. Oswald is about celebrating ‘place’. Our annual Mosley’s fascists from London decided to programme offers a lens to view and support the farmers in their confrontation experience the landscape, market towns with the bailiffs. Authors of books about and coastal areas in our region. September’s Two Rivers Book Festival the so-called Tithe war will be joined by features topics as diverse as hauntings actors in a reading from the 2001 Eastern We work across the towns and surround- and crime fiction, and as important as Angles play. ing areas of Diss, Harleston, Bungay, the climate crisis and the legacy of war. Beccles, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth The third annual festival from Waveney & The Halesworth action kicks off in the along the river Waveney, and also the Blyth Arts appears in venues from Diss to evening on Friday 10 September and areas around Halesworth and Southwold Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, with a full carries on all day Saturday. It features in the Blyth valley. day of events in Halesworth. local authors on Auschwitz survival, Sec- ond World War veterans’ stories and spy The Two Rivers Book Festival aims to The week-long festival starts on Satur- fiction. There are also local librarians who raise the profile of those who promote, day 4 September with an online panel write dramatised readings for children, protect, create and distribute books of authors including Jessie Greengrass, and a double dose of local hauntings – a in our area and to remind us all of the whose new novel, The High House, talk from local author John West and a uniqueness of books. Every year we have features a family stranded on a flooded haunted heritage walk as the night draws a variety of talks, workshops and walks East Anglian coast. Still in the east, UEA in. hosted by guest speakers, bookshop creative writing professor Henry Sutton owners, librarians and volunteers. will talk about his other life as Harry All this and more – including news of Brett, the author of crime novels set in Waveney & Blyth Arts’ podcast about Website: www.waveneyandblytharts.com

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FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS

Forever in Blue Jeans has an exciting out the show, which ends with a grand new production for 2021, celebrating finale of the great Neil Diamond hit over two decades on the road and is Forever in Blue Jeans. The energetic coming to the Leiston Film Theatre on company is led by TV and radio record- Sunday 26th September. ing artiste Carole Gordon who toured with both Tammy Wynette & Boxcar A perfect feast of live entertainment with Willie, who was also invited to represent superb singers, dancers and musicians Great Britain in Nashville, Tennessee. playing the best in Country Music and Rock ‘n’ Roll. This big-hearted show The show also stars two terrific vocalists recording sessions as one of the UK’s top features songs from Patsy Cline, Garth and dancers - Rachel Cantrell, a real session singers. Brooks, Elvis Presley, Billy Ray Cyrus, The favourite with the Blue Jeans audience. Mavericks, Tammy Wynette, The Carpen- Rachel featured in the children’s hit West Forever in Blue Jeans appears live at ters & Carol King to hits from the great End musical Casper plus a variety of Leiston Film Theatre on Sunday 26th Western Musicals such as Oklahoma and pantomime productions ranging from September at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced Paint Your Wagon plus many, many more. Cinderella to Dick Whittington. Gary £17.50, are now available from the Thatcher who is returning to the show Leiston Film Theatre box office on 01728 The terrific Red Hot Blue Jeans Band after a stint in the national touring pro- 830549 and at: www.leistonfilmtheatre. perform stunning instrumentals through- duction of Grease is in demand for many co.uk

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A SLICE OF HALESWORTH LIFE FROM THE AGE OF THE PENNY POST It’s a classic fairytale story: old box lying the URC in Quay Street, but they were extended the vote, the abolition of slavery gathering dust in a corner, opened after also keen observers of the life of the town and the Coronation of Queen Victoria, being neglected for decades to reveal a and district, gleefully passing on word of celebrated in Halesworth with a dinner for forgotten treasure trove. In this case it was a local elopement to Gretna Green or the 1200 poor people of the town, on tables a 1st World War ammunition box and the disgrace of Lord Huntingfield’s abandoning running the length of the Thoroughfare. treasure inside consisted of over 200 letters, Heveningham Hall to travel on the Continent some of them over 250 years old. But that ‘to recover himself if possible from the ‘The Lincolne Letters’, published by was just the start. As Helen Wolvey read difficulties into which vice and extravagance Halesworth & District Museum, will be painstakingly through the often cramped and have plunged him’. We learn about school launched as part of the Two Rivers Book difficult handwriting she realised that what life in Halesworth, the opening of the new Festival in September. Local drama group, emerged was a picture more colourful and Chapel in Quay Street, births, deaths and Circle 67, will be giving two performances detailed than any we had seen before of life friendships – among them Priscilla Johnston of a short play based on the family and their in Halesworth in the 19th century. (nee Buxton) the ardent anti-slavery letters, with introductions by Helen Wolvey campaigner who lived in Bank House. and Dave Wollweber. These will be in the Now, with the help of Halesworth Museum United Reformed Church, Quay Street (a Trustee, David Wollweber, Helen, a There are moments of happiness and of building so well known to the Lincolnes) on descendant of the letter-writers, has tragedy, in particular the lingering death of Saturday 11 September at 11.30am and published extracts from some of the most Mary at the age of 19 and the unrequited again at 7.30pm. Tickets will be available on telling items. ‘The Lincolne Letters: Life, love affair between the eldest son, William the door at £6 (for Friends of the Halesworth Love and Loss in a Market Town’ reveals and a local schoolmistress. But there are also Museum £3). Dave Wollweber will also be the lives of the Lincolne family who moved moments of pure family joy, as in the lively giving a free talk on the letters at The Cut to Halesworth in 1816 to take over a descriptions of family Christmases. as part of the Heritage Open Days event grocery and drapery business in the Market on Sat. 18 September at 10. Copies of the Place (the grand premises in which Boots And beyond all this, we also – and this is very book (price £13.50) will be available on is now housed). They were prosperous, unusual in such collections of letters from a both occasions and also at the Halesworth well-educated, respectable, God-fearing small-town middle-class family - get glimpses Bookshop. pillars of the Congregational Church, now of what the great events of the times meant to ordinary people: the 1832 Reform Bill that

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Have the time of your life, sing-a-long with a live band, to hit after hit from classic SOUTHWOLD ARTS CENTRE movies including back to the future (The Hayley & Ben The Classical Duo - Friday when dark secrets begin to emerge. Ticket Power of Love), Pretty Woman (It Must 10 September, 7.30pm price £10.00* Have Been Love) And Dirty Dancing (The Time of My Life) as well as Rocky (Eye Of Popular classical pieces, musical theatre Reginald D Hunter - Saturday 18 Septem- The Tiger). Grab the popcorn and relive the showstoppers and powerful ballads (as ber, 8pm greatest decades of movie music. Ticket seen on TV) will delight audiences with price £15.00* their captivating performance. The pair are Reginald D Hunter, MC Jason Stampe and now appearing at events throughout the also starring Rory O’Hanion. A comedy Otters Pocket Band - Friday 24 Septem- country and overseas. https://youtu.be/ night not to be missed! Reginald D Hunter ber, 7.30pm OGVftuJ_00I. Ticket price £15.00 whose searingly honest observations both onstage and on TV and Radio have Halesworth based, six-piece, Soul and garnered him a cross-generational fan Blues combine new and old music from Hit base. His TV appearances have included the Road Jack to No Surprises, from Valerie Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Have I to I thank You, All About the Bass, I Feel Got News for You? “A cerebral comedian Good, Proud Mary, Car Wash, Treat Her with every performative grace in his back Right, Do I Love You, You Can Leave Your pocket” Hat On, Wagon Wheel and Hallelujah. An evening with the Otters always provides Little Red Riding Hood And the 3 Funky lots of fun, dancing and interaction, come Pigs - Sunday 19 September, 11am, 3pm and join us for a drink, a dance and a walk & 5pm down memory lane. Ticket price £12.00*

One girl. Three pigs. A very naughty wolf.... Death in Southwold – A Comedy - Thu Jazz Night with Mark Flanagan - Satur- and a Karate Granny! What could possibly 16th & Fri 17th September, 7.30pm day 25 September 2021 at 7.30pm go wrong? Great family fun. Mor and Ruth live in an upstairs apart- Mark Flanagan is probably best known as Ticket price £8.00 - £10.00* (Family Dis- ment near the Lighthouse in Southwold. guitarist for Jools Holland’s Rhythm and count) He’s made their marriage a tyranny, with Blues Orchestra, an association that began his drinking, his hypochondria, and his in 1988 and continues to this day. During Blockbusters from The Movies - Sunday unhealthy obsession with the Southwold that time Mark has made countless live, 19 September, 7:30pm Summer Theatre. The mix is already volatile TV, radio and recording appearances with many of the bigg

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friend Charles Galbraith, who were both among the first to BEFORE THE FEW be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) shortly after it was introduced in 1918. By Bryan Samain

Halesworth resident Bryan Samain has produced another The booklet is the fourth (and final) booklet, about Bryan’s booklet, following ‘A touch of the Funnies’ which I military family’s history, that he has written in recent featured previously. months, hence the overall title – ‘The Lockdown papers’

‘Before the Few’ features pioneer fliers on the Western If you would like to get in touch with Bryan or would like Front during WW1. Among these men were Archie copies of any of his booklets please email: bryansamain0@ Sprangle, (Bryan’s late step-father) and his fellow flyer and gmail.com

SUCCESS FOR ALICE

Alice Howell of Halesworth has been awarded a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours by the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London.

Before she transferred to Trinity Laban she studied at Chichester University. As a member of the University Chamber Choir she toured Prague (2017) and Germany (2018). Alice also sang with the choir in Chichester, Arundel, Winchester, Salisbury & Leeds Cathedrals. She has also appeared in the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Locally, she has been in performances in Southwold, Bungay, Langley and Ludham.

Two of the highlights of her career so far were her one-woman concerts at The Cut in Halesworth in 2017 & 2019. A music critic wrote that the concert was an outstanding performance by a young and talented soprano. In the latter ‘A Walk through the Classics’ Alice sung a selection from her classical repertoire including songs and arias in French, German, Italian and English.

Following on from these successes, Alice has released two singles for which she wrote the music and the lyrics. The first is called ‘Home’ – a sentimental and heart-warming song about love and distance. The latest ‘Slow Decline’ is a reflection of her own battle with the isolation and restrictions of Lockdown.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, in the last year Alice has performed as a soloist in Puzzle Piece Opera’s two opera galas and made her debut in opera as Barbarina in their production of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.

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ILLUSTRATED TALES OF SUFFOLK BY JOHN LING The beautiful county of Suffolk is one of the most visited of English counties. Here is a Many tales have been told of the ninth- collection of strange tales and local legends century King Edmund of East Anglia, who from the county. gave his name to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Another royal connection is the £15.99 ISBN: 9781398100992 casket said to contain Anne Boleyn’s heart Paperback; 96 pages; 100 illustrations that was found during the nineteenth century at Erwarton church. ALSO BY AMBERLEY 978-1-4456-6542-9 £14.99 978-1-4456-8792-6 £14.99 Other old tales include the Kessingland Sea Serpent – Suffolk’s answer to ‘Nessie’; The historical county of Suffolk has a host the Beccles Rat-catcher Pipers, a story of strange and mysterious tales ranging which has similarities with the Pied Piper from ancient legends and stories of the of Hamelin myth; the lost city of Dunwich, supernatural to more modern documented sometimes called ‘Britain’s Atlantis’; Suffolk cases. These strange and spooky stories witchcraft; and tales of hauntings and other include the Green Children of Woolpit, supernatural activity. where a boy and girl with green-tinged skin, neither of whom could speak English, were More recent stories include the 1980 discovered in a wolf pit in central Suffolk Rendlesham Forest UFO incident dubbed the local history of East Anglia. A long-time in the twelfth century, and the Wild Man of ‘Britain’s Roswell’. These strange and windmill enthusiast, he has spent several Orford who was a ‘merman’ captured off spooky stories are accompanied by the years researching the windmills of his home the Suffolk coast. The famous Black Dog of author’s photographs of places featured in county. His previous publications include Bungay was a giant supernatural hound said the text, both present-day and historical, in Illustrated Tales of Norfolk, Windmills and to have killed parishioners in Bungay church this hugely entertaining book. Watermills of Suffolk and Windmills of during a thunderstorm in the sixteenth Norfolk. century, before killing again at Blythburgh Author John Ling lives in Norwich and has church. spent several years extensively researching LIBRARIES ARE CATCHING UP!

We hope you are all having a lovely reintroduced our newspapers and there Library has given me some of the most summer and enjoying some time spent is now no need to pre-book one of our rewarding times in my career. I have met with family during the school holidays. three computers. Our refurbished public some lovely people in the community, toilets are also open and we resumed our which is such a special place, and have We have been delighted to see more normal opening times in July. For your made some lasting friends. Some of you children in the library enjoying crafts information, as it’s been some time, here may remember I signed up to do a sky- and taking part in the Summer Reading are the library opening times. dive prior to lockdown and this will still be Challenge. Almost one hundred children going ahead on Sunday 26th September. have already signed up which, although Monday: 9:30 to 12:00 Please visit https://www.goldengiving. is less than we had before lockdown, is Tuesday & Wednesday: 9:30 to 5:30 com/f/julieskydive if you would like to still absolutely fantastic. We hope children Thursday: Closed contribute to raising funds for Suffolk taking part remotely are enjoying their Friday: 9:30 to 6:00 Libraries. Thank you to everyone in books too. Saturday: 9:30 to 5:00 Halesworth who makes the library such an Sunday: 10:00 to 3:00 amazing asset for all.” For those of you looking for online We continue to endeavour to keep all activities take a look at the Suffolk Library All the staff look forward to welcoming our library users and staff safe and would website for an up to date list on all the customers old and new over the coming ask visitors to continue wearing a face remote free learning opportunities and months activities you can access. mask. Hand gel is available for your use and visitor numbers will remain at The Halesworth Library Team The Friends of Halesworth Library are a comfortable level for the foreseeable Email: Halesworth.library@ busy putting together an exciting events future. suffolklibraries.co.uk programme for all age groups, so keep an Tel: 01986 875095 eye out for these in the library and on our On a final note, our current library Website: https://www.suffolklibraries. website and social media pages. manager, Julie Gulliver, left us at the end of August after two busy but rewarding co.uk/visit/locations-and-times/ Along with events getting back to years. Julie said, “Despite the challenges halesworth-library some sort of normality, we have also of lockdown, working at Halesworth

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HALESWORTH TO SOUTHWOLD NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY SOCIETY

Dedicated to re-creating the Blyth lance stand. The events were free, and Leiston this autumn - at the Long Shop Valley’s lost railway teas, coffees and cake were also provid- and the Leiston Works Railway - and at ed free of charge. Such events are very the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum in The Society was very lucky with the much in keeping with the Society’s remit Brockford. weather on both of the Open Days at to educate and entertain the public. The Blythburgh Station. The two trial events restoration of the station foundations to On Saturday September 18th, and Sun- – in July and in August - were planned floor level is continuing, using Aldeburgh day September 19th, James Hewett, to see if there was sufficient interest in bricks (which are entirely appropriate) Co-Chairman of the Society, will be lead- the railway to make organising regular laid on traditional lime mortar – and the ing Guided Walks on the Halesworth Mil- events useful: we can now say that - em- surrounding area is being landscaped. lennium Green, as part of the Heritage phatically - there is! Both days were well The Society is grateful to the owner of Open Days weekend. Each walk starts attended by local residents and visitors: Blythburgh Station, Sir Charles Blois, for in the Saxons Way Car Park behind the we saw many of our own Members, and allowing our railway activities to contin- White Hart at 12.00 midday, and will take were pleased that local Parish and Town ue. about an hour. Topics will include the Councillors, as well as members of other eighteenth-century Blyth Navigation, the local organisations, came to see us. At the workshop work continues on the nineteenth-century Southwold Railway railway, locomotives and stock. Engi- and the twentieth-century Millennium In the now-complete Goods Shed (fitted neers Peggs of Aldeburgh are currently Green: the walks will end at Halesworth with a solar-powered lighting system) welding wheelsets and the underframe Museum at the main station. All are there was a display of the best of the for our first coach. Plans are being drawn welcome, there’s no charge, and there’s artefacts that have been unearthed from up to convert our mines battery- electric no need to book. Many other events are the station building foundations, and pic- Greenbat into a passenger locomotive, taking place in and around Halesworth tures of our activities at Halesworth and including the provision of air brakes. The over the weekend: information can be Wenhaston. Outside, the archaeological junction point for the Folly loco shed in found at The Cut Arts Centre, in the HoD site was on view, and there was also a Halesworth is under construction from Brochure, or online. promotional stand with merchandise original components. and donated items for sale, and on the Ken Penrose and James Hewett, August day, also, the Suffolk Air Ambu- The Society will be attending events in Co-Chairmen

SAXMUNDHAM NEWS SOUTHWOLD ORGAN WOODBRIDGE TALK 15 Your NEW Community Radio station, is here and can be heard every weekend. We are broadcasting every Friday evening from 5.00pm, all day Saturday from 8.00am and on Sundays from 10.00am. If you’re a Leiston business or organisation and have a story or event you’d like ABC Radio to cover, please email us at: [email protected] Find us online at: www.abcradio.co.uk and via

News from Alde and Blyth Community Radio www.abcradio.co.uk, or ask Alexa to “open ABC Radio” … Now, talking of Alexa, did you know that Alexa can play Alde & Blythe Community Radio on various Amazon devices that support Alexa.

If you’re having problems (most common is that it plays LBC instead) you will need to enable the ABC Radio Skill.

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Click on the ABC Radio logo and you should see a page that Bond is back. Everyone’s favourite super spy returns to the BIG has a box on the right-hand side that says “Get this Skill”. Click screen in No Time to Die, showing at Leiston Film Theatre from Thursday 30th September and you could win V.I.P. seats to see enable and you’re done! 007, simply by listening in to Alde and Blyth Community Radio. To listen, just say We’re giving away two tickets every weekend throughout “Alexa, play ABC radio September on Wayne at the Weekend, which includes two skill” or “ Alexa open premier seats, two Vodka Martinis, shaken not stirred, and a box ABC radio skill”. The of chocolates to share. word “skill” seems to be vital in avoiding Simply tune into ABC Radio every Saturday and Sunday between Alexa coming up with 10.00am and 12.00pm for your very own secret mission! the wrong result! Tune into Alde and Blyth Community Radio every weekend at:

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Your NEW Community Radio station, is here and can be heard every weekend. We are broadcasting every Friday evening from 5.00pm, all day Saturday from 8.00am and on Sundays from 10.00am. If you’re an Aldeburgh business or organisation and have a story or event you’d like ABC Radio to cover, please email us at: [email protected] Find us online at: www.abcradio.co.uk and via VIEW OUR FULL COLLECTION AT TIDECOLLECTION.COM FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S Your NEW Community Radio station, is here and can be heard every weekend. CHURCH, HALESWORTH We are broadcasting every Friday evening Like everyone, The Friends have had their fingers on the pause button during the pandemic. And, like everyone, we are from 5.00pm, all day Saturday from 8.00am cautiously feeling our way back to some sort of normality. The and on Sundays from 10.00am. annual church flower festival is being held on the weekend of September 18th and 19th when local groups and organisations If you’re a Halesworth business or organisation have been invited to decorate the church with a flower display, and have a story or event you’d like ABC Radio to with the best, chosen by a people’s vote, to receive the beautiful glass trophy made by Lesley Pyke at 4.15pm on the Sunday. cover, please email us at: [email protected] During this weekend, also, there will be a series of ‘Happenings’ Find us online at: www.abcradio.co.uk and via at St Mary’s as Halesworth joins in the Heritage Open Days. In 1991 the Council of Europe and the European Commission set up European Heritage Days to raise appreciation of the rich and diverse cultural assets in Europe and their need for care and protection. The central principle is simple - to throw open historic monuments and buildings, in particular those normally closed to the public. In England they started in 1994 and are held annually in September in 50 signatory states to the European Cultural Convention; in Halesworth they have been plans is to install a toilet and a kitchen area. held biennially since 2017. The Friends continue their aim to enable: Despite the pandemic, work on the re-ordering of the church has continued. Following the removal of the pews, replaced a more comfortable place of worship and sanctuary accessible with comfortable, new, blue-upholstered chairs, it is worth to all; remembering that sitting in pews in church has only been the a flexible space, which can be used for a range of community practice for some 400 years, with the congregation prior to that activities; standing, kneeling and all moving up to the communion table. a church that visitors – schools, tourists, pilgrims – will enjoy; a building that will survive for future generations. Along with the electricity and lighting updated, carpet has been laid at the front and the floor has been levelled and painted. Ring the church office: 01986 874951 or see the Friends website The painting of the wooden floor is somewhat utilitarian, but will as to how you can help: www.friendsofstmaryshalesworth.org.uk. suffice until the long-term vision of a stone floor incorporating a Ring the church office: 01986 874951 maze can be realised. The next stage of St Mary’s regeneration

HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND

be showing the film ‘The Intern’ at The Cut on Wednesday 15th September. It Thanks as ever to Helen Hayes for doing will be at the new time of 2.00 so doors such a great job, and bringing so much fun will be opening at 1.45. Entrance is by £5 and enjoyment to these sessions. donation. Starring, among others, Robert Art Group De Niro and Anne Hathaway this is a lovely feel-good film, so we hope you can join us. Plans are moving forward, and these sessions, which will be led by Sophie Wood, Singing with Friends will begin in September. The plan is to run 12 sessions, with visiting artists each The last session on 3rd August was live at week. They will be at The Cut on Thursday Holton Village Hall and was a great success. afternoons, from 2.00 – 4.00 and the first With the easing of Covid restrictions the 20 of our carers and their loved ones met of these sessions will be on Thursday 23rd Halesworth Dementia Carers’ Fund are now for a socially-distanced music session, and September. The sessions are aimed at able to get back to working in the commu- it was wonderful to actually be able to people living with dementia and their fam- nity, and have various socially-distanced meet, make music, and enjoy a refreshment ily carers, and it would be helpful if those activities planned. break halfway through. wishing to attend would let Teresa Fyfe know, tel: 07739 643469. Film Show at The Cut Looking to the future, sessions will move to fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons from John Wood We are delighted to confirm that we shall 2.00 – 3.00.

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CHINESE BOXING

A topical play about China and the he does just that. West coming to Southwold There you hear On 1 October Norfolk actor and writer the story from the Mark Kitto is bringing his solo show, Chinese side. It is ‘Chinese Boxing’ to the Southwold Arts not straightforward, Centre. Despite being set a hundred and goes a long way years ago, the play tackles a very current to answering the – and urgent – question: how can China question posed by and the West get along with each other? the play, which has sold out for all of The year is 1912 and Sir Claude its performances in MacDonald, former minister to Peking, Norfolk so far. Former presents a lecture to the Southwold cabinet minister Royal Asiatic Society about his Baroness Gillian there, and regularly appears in the media experience commanding the ‘Defence of Shephard was in the audience for one as a China pundit. After the show he the Legations’, during the Boxer Uprising of them and said afterwards, “Everyone hosts a China Q & A, which can get quite of 1900, when several hundred foreign should watch this show”. lively. diplomats held off a rebel army for 55 Mark spent 18 years in China, where days. amongst other things he performed ‘Chinese Boxing’ is at the Southwold with the Shanghai People’s Arts Theatre, Arts Centre at 7.30pm on 1 Oct, and he has written two books about the (China’s National Day) and at the Sir Claude says he will ‘take you back to country. He was Prospect magazine’s Fisher Theatre in Bungay on 22 Nov. Peking in 1900’. With theatrical licence, longest-serving overseas columnist while

HALESWORTH AREA SUSTAINABILITY HUB

Time is running out BUT it’s not too exhibition at St Mary’s church for a week Finally ‘I’ is “What am I as an individual late to invite all residents and specialists to going to do about Food, Energy Trans- visit, have a look and discuss the issues port and Shopping?” A new group is being established to displayed. look at ways of ensuring that the town of Visitors to the exhibition will be asked Halesworth does as much as possible to We intend to separate the issues into to complete a questionnaire to ascertain co-ordinate the efforts of all the interest- three main categories - THEM..... WE.... how they see the four categories and ed groups who are eager to tackle issues and ....I what, if any, potential solutions they around climate change. propose to tackle the urgently needed The ‘THEM’ group will show what the changes if Halesworth is to conquer the The group will be contacting as many Government and those in power are effects the rising climate has upon the other groups as possible to join in the doing in four categories: Food, Energy, town and its residents. HUB on the principle that together we Transport and Shopping have more ideas, more energy and more Keep a look out for our posters, dates of active responses to the issues facing the ‘WE’ is what the community of events, and invitations to the exhibition. town. Halesworth is doing to facilitate the four categories of Food, Energy, Transport WE MUST FIND LOCALLY AGREED Our first action will be to put on an and shopping SOLUTIONS TO LOCAL ISSUES.

SOUTHWOLD SAUSAGE WALK

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WELLY WALK @ JIMMY’S FARM

Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity Jimmy Doherty, ambassador of The are inviting everyone to be part of the Children’s Appeal, said: “It’s our Welly Walk at Jimmy’s Farm & Wildlife absolute pleasure to host the Welly Walk Park specifically for The Children’s Appeal. As a family we love the outdoors and the On Sunday 26 September you can Welly Walk is the perfect way to bring stomp your way round an exclusive 5km your family together and get exploring walk around the farm in support of The whilst supporting a very worthwhile Children’s Appeal at Ipswich Hospital. project. Bring on the wellies!”

There will also be a shorter, buggy- The Children’s Appeal is a multi-million child-friendly surroundings for our young friendly 1km walk so children of all ages pound re-development to transform people and their families which is why we can enjoy the fun and mascots Puddles every centimetre of the Children’s are going to create a modern, light and and Rosie will also be there to cheer you Department at Ipswich Hospital. more homely environment. It really can’t on. Despite a huge increase in demand, the come soon enough.” department has hardly changed since the The picturesque route will take you to 1980s so an overhaul is long overdue. Planning permission has been granted parts of the farm not usually accessible to Every year almost 40,000 children and which is a giant leap forward, but the public and you’ll see a few surprise young people are cared for at Ipswich there is still £160,000 left to raise. animals along the way too. It’s going Hospital and around 10% are admitted Now is the time to dig out your wellies to be a day out to remember as every as inpatients. and sign up to the Welly Walk: www. participant will receive free access to the colchesteripswichcharity.org.uk/wellywalk wildlife park afterwards and 10% off all Kate Stockton, Children’s Matron Ipswich onsite catering outlets throughout your said: “I’m so proud of the team who Adults £10.00, child £7.50 (2-17 years), stay. All this for less than the standard do outstanding work every day, but family of four £30 (then £5 for each ticket prices! the facilities are tired and no longer fit additional child) and children under two for purpose. It’s so important to have go free!

SOUTHWOLD WILDLIFE GROUP

The Blyth Valley and Southwold Wildlife Group of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust are pleased to announce that we are re-starting our talks programme.

On Thursday 9th September, Simon Hooton will be giving a talk titled ‘Puffins Galore’. Talk starts at 7:30pm and the venue will be Wenhaston Village Hall, Hall Road, Wenhaston, IP19 9EQ. Entry fee is £3 for adults and includes a cuppa and a biscuit. There is no entry charge for children. There will be a raffle and a second-hand book stall. All are welcome, you do not have to be a member of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust to join us. For the other talks in our winter season we will be returning to our usual venue of Southwold Arts Centre, Cumberland Road, South- wold, IP18 6JP.

Thursday 14 October: The River Blyth Project with Alice Wick- man. Thursday 11 November: Hares with Sue Alderman. Thursday 13 January 2022: Local Reserve Roundup with Jamie Smith. Sally Skinner (Secretary of the Blyth Valley and Southwold Wildlife Group) Email: [email protected]

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www.wea.org.uk or by telephoning 0300 303 3464 quoting reference no. C2228380. WEA – BACK ON THE ROAD The cost is £55.30. (For further details, contact [email protected] or AGAIN IN WENHASTON! 01502 478977) Having been rudely interrupted in March 300 years of change in the landscape 2020, the WEA is back with face-to- and settlements of the historic Counties And now a note from the WEA. Founded face learning in Wenhaston Village Hall. of Suffolk and Norfolk. Using the original in 1903, the Workers’ Educational Asso- And we are fortunate to again have the observations and recommendations of trav- ciation is a charity dedicated to bringing knowledgeable and entertaining Stephen ellers to this area in the past combined with high-quality, professional education into the Jeffery-Poulter, this time tutoring on the a wealth of period paintings, antiquarian heart of communities. With the support of subject of ‘An Historic Tour of East Anglia’. engravings, vintage postcards and modern nearly 2,000 volunteers, 2,000 tutors and In his own summary he says: photographs this will be a fascinating and over 5,200 members, it delivers friendly, unusual perspective on the history of East accessible and enjoyable courses for adults From gentlewoman Celia Fiennes’ accounts Anglia. from all walks of life. No previous knowl- of her excursions in the late 17th century, edge or qualifications are required to join via Daniel Defoe’s best-selling book ‘Tours The course comprises 7 x 2 hour sessions this course. Through the Whole Island of Great Britain’ starting at 10am on Friday, 1st October. A in the 1720s, to the enormously popular break for half term falls on Friday, 29th Oc- So why not get on-line or telephone and 20th century ‘King’s England Guides’ of tober and the last session will be on Friday, book your place now to join a friendly band Arthur Mee this course charts more than 19th November. You can book on-line at of students. Looking forward to seeing you there! GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY PROJECTS

£59,000 of grant support awarded Meanwhile in the Dedham Vale AONB, an and economic goals of the Fund, so that for community projects in Areas of area covering much of world renowned the unique landscape of the AONB is Outstanding Natural Beauty, and more Constable Country, projects to be awarded conserved, making it more enjoyable for grants are now open for applications in funds include National Trust Flatford’s all”. Essex and Suffolk! creation of a Valley Farm Kitchen Garden AONB Grants are available to a variety of Children’s Project – ‘Grow It Wild’, Communities in two of the country’s most community and conservation organisations forming a hub for local school children significant and cherished designated (or individuals) to support projects for and community workshops, in addition to landscapes are set to benefit thanks to the benefit of the Coast & Heaths AONB St Mary’s Church, East Bergholt for a Bell funding provided by DEFRA to the Suffolk and the Dedham Vale AONB & Stour Cage and Church History Education project Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale Areas of Valley. A further £16,000 is now open at the famous location. Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). for applications across two Areas of A quote from sustainable development Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The £59,000 of grant support has been awarded fund panel “Over the past 18 months, AONB is seeking applications from local through the Sustainable Development millions of people have discovered the community projects that are innovative, Funds, which aim to support projects that benefits of nature and how important socially inclusive, sustainable, that benefit will lead to the further conservation and our surroundings are for our physical and the public and involve partnership working. enhancement of the areas. Successful mental health – highlighting the need Whether you have a project that works in projects in the Suffolk Coast & Heaths to protect them for future generations. heritage, media, conservation, learning, AONB, which stretches from Kessingland The Sustainable Development Fund is health, accessibility, and diversity, to in the North to the southern shore of the one of several easily accessible grants give but a few examples, we welcome Stour Estuary in North Essex, include RSPB for a variety of projects to make a real your applications. Find out more about Havergate Island for a Spoonbill deep difference in local communities across the Sustainable Development Fund water feeding creation project, and historic Suffolk and Essex. This year we received and Stour Valley Environment Fund Dunwich Greyfriars Trust for ‘Chronicles a wide range of applications and consider at dedhamvalestourvalley.org or the of Greyfriars’ – a programme of summer the projects selected to most strongly Community and Conservation Fund at activities for children and adults. meet the sustainable environmental, social suffolkcoastandheaths.org.

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