FREE COMMUNITY MAGAZINE APRIL 2020

COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FOR COLTISHALL, HORSTEAD, STANNINGHALL, GREAT HAUTBOIS, SCOTTOW,BADERSFIELD, BELAUGH, HOVETON & WROXHAM

The

MARLPITMARLPIT NEWS IMPLICATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS

WHAT’S INSIDE

• Coronavirus Help

• Roys125th Anniversary

• Easter egg hunt

• Sports reports

enjoy yourselves Sunrise offers

• Tree Planting

• What’s on in April

• Council Reports

Roys Coltishall Grocery above Roys Coltishall Bakery below

FIND US ONFACEBOOK AND AT www.themarlpit.co.uk MARLPIT NEWS – IMPLICATIONS OF CORONAVIRUS We are pleased to say the April issue is being delivered, as On safety and care for all, please do as you are instructed possible and as usual, though with care. We thank those – STAYAT HOME, etc. This is vital for our futures – and deliverers very much indeed for their dedication and care particularly to help the NHS whose teams are doing a in the task. wonderful job under very difficult circumstances.

After the April issue went to press (mid March) we received We wish you safety, care and a healthy future – life will cancellations of numerous events, of course – but return to normal but not for some time. Stay at home, self- regrettably could not include these in the magazine. isolate if so instructed, be patient, positive, caring for yourselves and others, wash hands, stay at two metres We will welcome all your future news as possible, subject distance should you meet anyone while having your one to government restrictions – ie, pubs shut, events walk a day – or essential shopping only. cancelled, etc. Good luck from us all to you. We are exploring future issues – printed and/or online. Paul Thomas Should you not receive your printed copy of The Marlpit, Chairman - and editors of The Marlpit team. you can view the current issue online – go to: www.themarlpit.co.uk where you will find April, past issues facebook.com/themarlpit – and hopefully future issues as usual. www.themarlpit.com

[ 2 ] [ 3 ] The THE MARLPIT VOLUNTEER TEAM Chairman: Paul Thomas 01603 738582 [email protected] Secretary: Philippa Weightman 01603 737962 MARLPIT 1 Stanninghall Cottages, Horstead NR12 7LY [email protected] Treasurer: Sue Dye 01603 738003 enjoy yourselves 9 Chapel Lane, Coltishall NR12 7DR [email protected] Compilation editors: David Pye and Katie Barry Sponsored by [email protected] Distribution: Bernard Mann 01603 738892 Coronavirus… we must be [email protected] caring, sensible, and see P4 Proof readers: Wendy Grodentz and Gareth Headland forURGENTHELPFORYOU Honorary Accountant: Alan Mallett The impact of Coronavirus, even on Norfolk, our parishes and CONTRIBUTORS INFORMATION: Thank people, is very bad, sad news – and we must all adhere sensibly to you for contributing to Marlpit editorial. government recommendations. PLEASE READ P4 IF YOU NEED Please check you have the correct content URGENT HELP. editor and address below as they have changed. As early in the month as possible, Uncertain, unsettling times – but we must help and care, deadline 11th of the month preceding community spirit. We have to win – so onwards, with The Marlpit! publication. Here is some good news. EDITORIAL: First congratulations to Roys of Wroxham, once of Coltishall where News, Councils, events, letters, etc. it all started – 125 years ago, even before all of us and The Marlpit. [email protected] We look at their history and unique qualification – the world’s largest village store! Doubtless most of our readers are in Roys Historical and heritage: Philippa Weightman 01603 737962 frequently – even I, who rarely shop, stray in there quite frequently! [email protected] Plus some of you work there – thanks for always looking after us! Ed Roy, Managing Director, told us: We are proud of our heritage Sports and clubs: David Pye [email protected] and vast history that we have at Roys and we are extremely thankful to the local community particularly around our flagship Local churches and faiths: store in Hoveton. Without the custom and hardworking staff from Katie Barry [email protected] local villages such as Coltishall, Wroxham, Horstead and many more over the past 125 years we would not have been able to Features: Paul Thomas expand and succeed to be the company we are today. [email protected] Its also thanks to Sunrise Holidays for their ongoing ENJOY offers. Schools, pupils, young people’s Regretably, because of Coronavirus, their bookings and holidays sports and other interests groups: have dropped hugely – and major economies including Katie Barry [email protected] redundancies, vital in the short-term, but months. Therefore their FACEBOOK/MARLPIT ONLINE: spread this issue is the last for the time being. Including Facebook and website: As we go to press, I’m also delighted to confirm the lower Dan Barry [email protected] common, as picturesque as ever, has seen the arrival of the Marlpit Including late news, website, past TMP issues seat, donated to mark our past editor Charlie Smith, who did so www.themarlpit.com & www.facebook.com/ much for the magazine years ago. Some of our today editors and themarlpit the commons trust members have met and sat! Read all about it in the May issue. And do sit on our, and the other seats and enjoy ADVERTISING the views and holiday boats here again soon. Sales, contact to advertise: Chris Poole, 07918 088844 We also need HELP. Now with Advertising admin! Do volunteer if [email protected] you think you can help us. Call me or Chris Poole. Also organisations - send us your local news – and remember how lucky Admin, copy, production: Dan Barry we all are here in Norfolk and our parishes! Now – read on…. [email protected] PLEASE VOLUNTEER: If you could help Paul Thomas, Chairman and The Marlpit team. with any Marlpit volunteer activity, contact Paul Thomas, see Chairman above. If you could deliver the magazine, contact Bernard facebook.com/themarlpit Mann, see Distribution above. www.themarlpit.com

Disclaimer: All information and content contained in The Marlpit publication and its online site is provided solely for general information and reference purposes. The Marlpit makes no statement, representation, warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of the information and content. Neither does The Marlpit accept any responsibility or liability for any direct or indirect loss or damage arising due to any inaccuracy, omission, misrepresentation or error in respect of any information and content. The contents are copyright protected. Except with the prior written permission of The Marlpit or specific named content contributors, no person may download, duplicate, reproduce, edit, publish, Marlpit content. [ 5 ] URGENT – HELP FOR YOU

In response to the Coronavirus outbreak some local businesses and volunteers are offering delivery services to those isolated – or elderly who cannot get out. If you need supplies please contact local businesses below. Mace Coltishall will be running daily delivery rounds so even if you just need a pint of milk, don't hesitate to call. And the Red Lion are offering to deliver draft beer!

The Good Neighbours scheme will also be providing assistance wherever possible. If you are fit and well and able to help with deliveries, please contact Good Neighbours. 07799 277455 Check on any elderly neighbours.

Mace Coltishall/Post Office 01603 [email protected] ; Hewitt & Grant Butchers 01603 737239; Londis 01603 738978; Farm to Fork and Fish 01603 266129; Red Lion 01603 736644

Some of the events in april Thu 26th Approx Distribu�on of April Marlpit Fri 27th Start 7:30pm Fre�enham Film, "Knives Out" Fre�enham VH CANCELLED DUE CORONAVIRUS Sat 28th 10am - 3pm Norfolk Broads Yacht Club "Boat Jumble" 3pm NWRFC Vikings v Southend, North Walsham Rugby Club, Nth Walsham Rd, Sco�ow Sun 29th 4pm Broadgrace Family Easter Supper at the River Rooms 1-AM Clocks forward 1 hour Tue 31st 10am - 5pm RAF Air Defence Museum opens for the Summer Season [Tu, We, Th, Sa & BH Mo] Day Date Time Events April 2020 Wed 1st 9:45am "Tiddlers" The Tithe Barn, Rectory Road, Horstead 10am 4:30pm …to Sun 19th - Themed Easter Trail, Museum of the Broads, Stalham Fri 3rd 7pm “Poetry Evening ” - Preston Rooms, Ashmanhaugh Sat 4th 7:30pm "Pleased to meet you" Fun Evening, Wroxham Social Club, Norwich Rd, Wroxham 3pm NWRFC Vikings v Ruislip, North Walsham Rugby Club, Nth Walsham Rd, Sco�ow Tue 7th 10:am - noon “Pop up Café” - Tithe Barn, Horstead CANCELLED DUE CORONAVIRUS 6:30pm Col�shallParishCouncilMee�ng-ChurchRoomsCol�shall Wed 8th 6:00pm Horstead with Stanninghall Parish Council Mee�ng - Tithe Barn Horstead 7:30pm Wroxham Flower Club "From me to you" with Anne Bell, The Church Hall, Wroxham Fri 10th Good Friday "Easter Bunny Trail" Thurne Windmill, Repps with Bastwick NR29 5JU Sat 11th 9am - Noon "Churchyard gi� day" Col�shall St John's Church Sun 12th Easter Sunday New Farm Avia�on Heritage Group, 1st open day, 10 Buxton Road, Fre�enham Late pm Deadline for Copy for May Marlpit Mon 13th Easter Monday Tue 14th 6:30pm Annual Parish Mee�ng & Col�shall Parish Council Mee�ng - Church Rooms Col�shall Wed 15th 10.30am Coffee Morning Bring and Buy Sale Hoveton St John Church, Horning Road Hoveton 2:30 - 4:30pm WI - "June Porter - Murder & Mystery Hour, Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Col�shall Sat 18th All Day Col�shall PF Bowls Club - "Work Day" TFI Mike 738332 3pm NWRFC Vikings v Ruislip, North Walsham Rugby Club, Nth Walsham Rd, Sco�ow Sun 19th 3-5pm "HowdidweDo?" HorsteadNeighbourhoodPlan,TheTitheBarn,Horstead Thu 23rd St Georges Day Fri 24th 7:30pm Hoveton Wrox Dis Garden "4 seasons in the Garden with Helen Worvil " Hoveton VH Start 7:30pm Fre�enham Film, "Judy" Fre�enham VH Sat 25th 7:30pm "St Georges Night Buffet & Quiz" Wroxham Social Club, Norwich Rd, Wroxham Sun 26th 2pm Col�shall PF Bowls Club - "Opens" with club tournament. Thu 30th Approx Distribu�on of May Marlpit Day Date Time Events early May 2020 Sat 2nd …Sun 3rd -"Norfolk Big Rugby Weekend" NWRFC, Nth Walsham Rd, Sco�ow TBA Norfolk Broads Yacht Club "Open Day" 10:00am Horning Boat Show, Recrea�on Ground, Horning Sun 3rd 4pm Broadgrace 10th BirthdayCelebra�ons-TheRiverRooms,Col�shall

TBA = To be advised and TFI = Telephone for information NB- The calendar of events is a snapshot with more details to be found in the magazine [The editors will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions in this, the summary or the printed article. Everything is processed in good faith by volunteers and as The Telegraph, mistakes may occur] • Details of church services can be found with church reports as there are too many to list here • A full programme for the month of Library events is also featured in side. • Sporting events are subject to short notice changes - please check with the clubs before travelling

The Marlpit are pleased to include events for your club, charity, team or what ever but we do not have a crystal ball and unless we are asked by letter or email to include them we are sorry to say we may miss some. Send your lists [email protected]. Please do not include weekly events to save space, most meetings are monthly and of course special events during the year

[ 6 ] [ 7 ] Winter is almost over,and Coltishall bowls club are looking forward to some warm weather for their forthcoming season.

"An awfully Wearehavingaworkdayonthe18th Aprilwhen we shall be getting the club house spring cleaned big inside and out, and clearing leaves etc from the ditches surrounding the green, and tidy up the adventure..." garden area. Ourgreenopensonthe26th April at 2.00.p.m. Peter Pan is to be our inspiration for this year's Coltifest theme! when we shall have a club knockout tournament We've booked Saturday July 11th - a sunny Saturday near the and buffet. end of the school year to host another extravaganza.

There will be a new adventure trail between the Church, A Piece New members are always welcome, tuition would of Cake, Capital Culture Gallery & the Red Lion Pub. be available if required. We have club nights every This year we are delighted to announce there will be a sports Wednesday from 6.00.p.m. Young or old morning at the Recreation Ground, rectory road with the help of everybody welcome. the Bure Valley Youth FC & Coltishall Jaguars running club.

It promises to be a really fun day so please put the date in your diary & bit by bit as the plan comes together we will reveal more Gloria Hurrell details in future editions of the Marlpit.

WROXHAM FLOWER Coronavirus CLUB Have you ever wanted to be the owner of a beautiful Pop up Café flower arrangement? If so, come along to Wroxham Flower Club when an experienced flower arranger will As we do not know how things will change as the virus demonstrate at least six arrangements using unusual spreads weareunableto say what theeffect will beon flowers and materials our Pop Up Café in the long term which are raffled at For now we plan to NOT open in APRIL or May the end of the evening. We will always follow the best health prac�ces as we do already. We will follow all advice given by Na�onal Health England and any restric�ons brought in by the The next meeting is government. on 8th April, 7.30 pm at our usual If future government advice for social gatherings venue: The Church changes we will review the situa�on again Room, Norwich Road, Wroxham. Anne Bell from We ask for your co-opera�on during this outbreak and Dunmow will be demonstrating arrangements which she ask you will keep up with any advice so you are also is calling, ‘From Me to You”. aware of the current situa�on

Wishing you all the very best and good health. Visitors are very welcome at a charge of £5.50 which includes refreshments following the demonstration. From the Pop up team. For further information please contact Sue Lusted on 07926 059005. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86444014 [ 8 ] [ 9 ] COLTISHALL COMMONS HEGGATT HALL MANAGEMENT TRUST GARDEN OPEN DAY Registered Charity Number 279903 SUNDAY JUNE 14TH Excerpt from the Minutes of the Meeting on 13th February 2020 11AM - 4PM Trustees were saddened to note the death of our long- Walled garden, herbaceous borders, time Trustee Nigel Noble. His dedication, friendship vegetable garden and ancient chestnut trees and wisdom will be greatly missed. Teas [tea/coffee and cakes] Lower Common : We are still awaiting plans from the Plenty of parking VE Day Committee for the commemoration events. Sorry no dogs Hopefully information will be forthcoming soon so that the necessary permissions and authorisations can be Entrance £5 - children free arranged in good time. Some Himalayan Balsam had been noted in the autumn, and will be closely monitored and appropriate action taken to remove it when it re-appears. An ash tree is dead by the pumping station; it will be removed but is not urgent. Pot holes near the entrance and a large shallow one at the back of the area will be scarified when it is dry. Works by the Rising Sun have been completed without any significant inconvenience to the public

Upper Common: Following the recent Risk Assessment it was decided that the fence and gate will be replaced before the cattle are brought onto the Common. The missing disclaimer notice will be In aid of Horstead All Saints replaced.

Ling Common : A blackthorn tree was brought down by the high winds, and a birch tree which is leaning POP UP CAFÉ has been checked to ensure that it is secure. Work has been done to an ash tree, and the debris cleared Will not open in by the contractor. The blackthorn and birch will be monitored, and the path is in good order. Brambles will be cut back when the weather improves, but April or May generally the common looks good. The bank is eroding and may be built up later in the year to prevent access over it. Sorry to disappoint - Barbara Elvy, Clerk stay Safe

Marley is Still Here

[ 10 ] [ 11 ] Notes from Horstead with Summary of Coltishall for 2020/21 of £500 for the next phase of Annual Parish Meeting improvements to the village hall. We Stanninghall Parish On 13th May the Annual Parish Council Parish Council’s March should hear the outcome of the Tarmac www.coltishallpc.info Council MARCH Meeting will be held at 5.30 and will be Meeting Minutes Speedwatch. grant application at the end of May. Ms followed by the Annual Parish Meeting. Mr Jones reported there are now three Snelling advised she will also explore Introduction The evening will end with coffees etc in New Clerk teams in place. 3 members in two teams funding opportunities via Local Giving in If you wish to speak to us we can be active every week. PC Lucas Ward has the Hayloft. We would love to see you My name is Rebecca Furr and I would like and 4 members in the other team. respect of the Village Hall. The Parish contacted via the Parish Council website, contacted our Speed Watch teams and there. If you have something you would to introduce myself as the new clerk for Ideally there would be four teams of 4 Council continue to thank the parishioner email us at [email protected] or asked them to provide a demonstration like to share with the rest of the Parish Coltishall Parish Council. I would like to volunteers. The speedwatch teams are who is fixing the village hall boiler free of telephone: 07476 952824. If you do leave for the Aylsham Speed Watch team which please contact the clerk. take this opportunity to thank the active every week. PC Lucas Ward has charge. a message, please remember to leave is currently being set up. previous clerk Suzanne Hall for her contacted our speedwatch teams and your name and contact number so we can Anyone interested in being involved in the GNLP consultation support and Coltishall Parish Council for asked them to provide a demonstration Correspondence get back to you. Horstead and Coltishall Speed Watch Horstead Parish Council will be submitting appointing me as I begin my exciting for the Aylsham speedwatch team which Mr Matthews reported his plans to should contact Mr Jones - a response re-iterating the concerns they journey with you. is currently being set up. Please get in process the Parish Council’s archive and Neighbourhood Plan [email protected] / 07826 274097 or submitted to the last consultation. Further touch with Campbell Jones, explore the agreements made between The document is now almost ready to go the Parish Clerk. house building in Coltishall will impact GNLP [email protected] / 07826 274097 or the Parish Council with CAST and the out to consultation. There is a copy on Horstead residents by increasing the Coltishall Parish Council have provided a the Parish Clerk if you are interested in Allotment Associations to promote the Parish Council Website and there is a SAM2 traffic through the village as well as full meeting response to GNLP objecting volunteering. working relationships. hard copy at Wroxham Library. The putting extra pressure on the services the proposed residential development Meetings are underway to organise a Neighbourhood Plan team would love you The SAM2 will remain in Horstead until 5th many of our residents rely on, such as the plan POLICY GNLP2019, Land at Rectory Planning special event in celebration for VE day. to have a read and provide them with May monitoring traffic on Rectory Road School and Surgery. Questionnaires Road and south of the Bure Valley The following applications were Among other activities, a band has been feedback. There will also be a pop in and Norwich Road. If you would like to returned in response to the Railway, Coltishall. This will be submitted considered at the parish meeting booked and the school will be involved in session at the Tithe Barn on Sunday 19th know more about the SAM 2, what it does Neighbourhood Plan have shown that by Friday 20th March 2020. Councillors 20200323 – 6 Westbourne House – activities before and on the day. April from 3pm until 5pm where you can and what happens to the data then parishioners would like to see small scale have been working hard to share proposed single storey extension NO Both CAST and the Parish Council are find out more and make your comments please contact Mr Jones. developments to fit in with local needs information and encourage parishioners OBJECTION seeking guidance in respect of the in person. and the Parish Council support this view. and local organisations to have their say 20200189 – Point House, 5 High Street - Coronavirus regarding the Village Hall and VE day Celebrations on 8 May The proposed developments in Coltishall about the proposal. Change of use of the building to financial maintaining duties should an outbreak Playground Horstead and Coltishall Parish Councils do not fit this criteria. and professional services office and one occur locally. Mr Jones is back to the summer schedule are working together to provide a Public Participation residential unit, remodelling the roof of of carrying out weekly inspections. He has program of events for the afternoon and Councillor Vacancies Our volunteer playground inspector the rear wing and associated alterations. New Parish Councillors been on refresher playground training as evening of Friday 8th May to celebrate We currently have two vacancies for responded to concerns raised by a There were objections to this application One Parishioner has expressed an interest this training has to be renewed every the 75th Anniversary of VE Day. These Councillors. If you are interested or would parishioner about a loose bolt on the based on 1. Concerns of potential over in becoming a Parish Councillor. There three years. The mole will be reported to will be a celebration to honour those of like to know more about what is involved children’s playground equipment. This is spill and cars using common opposite to are currently three vacancies. If you are the mole man and will hopefully be dealt our 2 communities who have served our please contact the clerk or Mr Jones – being repaired. park. 2. Concerns about safety getting in interested in finding out more about what with prior to the first grass cut in Spring. country and who are currently serving. details are at the back of the Marlpit and and out of car park due to volume of is involved please do not hesitate to The new surface under the witches hat The event will culminate in the lighting of on the Parish Council website. Police Report traffic through High Street. 3. Concerns contact the clerk. should be completed in the next month. the Beacon located on the bank of the In January 2020 there were 4 reported about the view of street scape Mr Jones has reported that the matting Bure opposite the Rising Sun. See Date and time of the next meeting: crimes in Coltishall. This includes one for BA/2020/0064/HOUSEH – 6 Anchor Street The Annual Parish Meeting will be on under the large swing may also need to separate information in this edition of the Violence & Sexual Offence, one for Public – New vehicle access and front garden Tuesday 14th April in the Church be replaced and that the shackles on the Order, one for Drugs and finally one for Rooms, Rectory Road at 6.30pm Marlpit. Wednesday 8 April at 6pmin the Tithe wall. Remove hedge and tree. There followed by the Parish Meeting. Sky Rider are beginning to show signs of Barn. Other Crime. were objections to this application based Refreshments and biscuits will be wear. Both are currently considered to be Highways issues on the tree and hedges being removed provided and we hope as many of low risk. If you see anything else amiss Highways have agreed to fix the Tithe SAM2 and the impact this will have on parishioners, associations, charities please let us know. Barn puddle and repaint the road marking , Parish Clerk Mr Haschak and Mrs Thackham have Coltishall’s historic landscape. and organisations involved with Suzanne Hall Coltishall and Gt Hautbois are able been working with Mr Jones so that they at the Recruiting Sergeant roundabout. to attend and take part in our Speedwatch Graffiti on the post box will be removed can run SAM2 data on behalf of Coltishall Coltishall Village Hall and Recreation meeting. Mr Jones reported there are now three by the Post Office. The poor state for the enabling them to download, process and Ground (CAST) teams in place. 3 members in two teams road surface on Rectory Road leading up disseminate information to the Parish Mrs Thackham has sent off an application and 4 members in the other team. Ideally to the roundabout will be reported. Council, Police and any other agencies to Tarmac for a grant and will also be Rebecca Furr there would be four teams of 4 necessary. liaising with Cllr Jo Copplestone BDC [email protected] 07446 542 156 volunteers. The Speed Watch teams are regarding a Member Grant Scheme fund

Reminder about Glass Recycling COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD W.I. Please try to take your empty glass bottles and We would love to see you at our event onApril 15th when we have June Porter doing a Murder Mystery Hour! jars to one of the community recycling sites at We also have a competition each month for members. This month it is “Design a Murder Mystery Book Cover”. The top three winners receive points and at the end of the year the person with the most TheTitheBarn, RedLionorLowerCommonCar points wins a prize. Parks. The proceeds from the recycling If this takes your fancy please bring your book cover design along and if not just come for an enjoyable collection service is paid back directly to the talk, drink and chat. Your first visit is free. We meet from 2.30 to 4.30 at the Church Rooms, Rectory Road, Coltishall on the community. 3rd Wednesday of the month. We will be very happy to see you there. Please contact me, Sue Dye, on 01603 738003 if you need more information. Sue Dye [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The increasing volumes of hang a wireless set from an Oak ABOVE dances and the Fancy Chapeaux Roys Coltishall holiday traffic in the late 1920’s tree to attract customers. On bakery delivery competitions. This then and 30’s earned Wroxham its title 14th December 1924 people vans and horse progressed even further into Roys Today “Capital of the Broads” flocked to hear music drawn carts promenade concerts, regularly and helped Roys to “The and the chimes of Big attracting 1000 people. All those win its accolade in World’s Ben. It was a big event visiting of course visited the a widely publicised and Arnold made the World’s Largest Village Store! oys is still a thriving, family products from more than 100 local The stores sizes and ranges vary on competition as “The Largest most of it with the run business that employs suppliers. location however each store offers World’s Largest Village Village proud announcement As Arnold rose to fame with 800 staff over its stores, the best customer service and store”. Store” “Big Ben heard in copious newspaper articles, Rwarehouse and office. Two The company now has Roys stores product ranges that are most suited Wroxham!” After the his own radio programme and brothers, grandsons of Alfred Roy run in 8 different locations throughout for the local communities. Stores Arnold Roy became somewhat excitement of this event Arnold BELOW annual correspondence with the companytoday. Norfolk and Suffolk along with can be found in North Walsham, of an innovator and a celebrity arranged dances with people Inside the Winston Churchill. Highway Garden and Leisure and Norwich, Bowthorpe, Thetford, Coltishall with grand ideas of ‘bringing travelling from the local villages, bakery, It is proud to have a bakery at its Wroxham petrol station. The petrol Sudbury, Dereham, Beccles along Harrods to Wroxham’. He would these included Graceful Pyjama 1920’s/30’s Wroxham store that uses skilled station was purchased in 2018 and with Hoveton. Highway Garden and bakers to bake items from scratch became the first Roys store in the Leisure is based at Framingham daily, a nod to the days ofthe past. village of Wroxham fulfilling the Roys Pigot, just outside Norwich. of Wroxham name. With the acquisition of Highway BELOW Garden and Leisure it is able to offer Highway garden&Leisure home grown plants to all Roys stores, not only great value but also the best quality at the right time.

The local community and charities are very important to Roys, this is why they help many good causes. In 2019 Roys helped 392 charities and good causes, £35,000 was raised and donated to the stores charity of the year and other local charities such as East Anglian Air Ambulance, SERV- Norfolk blood bikes, East Ruston Village Hall and so many more.

It is also extremely proud of its relationship with local and regional suppliers, stocking over a thousand

[ 16 ] [ 17 ] Hoveton, Wroxham and WHB TWINNING ASSOCIATION District Gardening Club

The Quiz and Supper evening on 14th March went ahead with just one table down because of the current situation but still the usual fun, good food and banter.

In the future, there isour annual flotilla to look forward to, planned for27 th June, a week later than originally advertised, a social and pre-visit buffet eveningat the beginning of August On 13th March Mr Simon White of Peter Beales Roses gave us and, of course, the main event, the visit of our French twinned a splendid talk on Beautiful Bulbs, lovely images of the villages of La Pommeraye and Montjean-sur-Loirewith varieties within the genus with informative information. excursions including the Neatishead Radar Museum, Stalham Broads Museum with boat trip and the St George’s Distillery. Congratulations to monthly competition winners Mr Mike Clements and Mr Michael Ottaway. If you would like to join our monthly meetings, we haveFrench OnFriday 24th April at Hoveton Village Hall 7.30p.m. Ms Conversationon the first Wednesday of the month, at Sheila’s in Helen Worvil will give an illustrated talk on the Four Seasons Wroxham in March and at Maggie’s in Belaugh in April. Jane in the Garden. Raffle, Refreshments etc. Don’t forget the will supply more information on 01603 782496 or Monthly Bloom and the monthly comp. which is 3 Tulips, any [email protected] We may be suspending this, as fewer people variety/varieties vases provided. are able to attend, but Jane does do French Conversation in Bouchon/Bijou bottles on a Thursday afternoon for anyone who £15.00 annual subscription with a 10% discount on plants only at Salhouse Garden Centre or £2.00 visitor on the evening. would like to continue to practise their French. Tickets now available for outside meeting to two gardens on Friday 3rd July, one in Castle Acre and also Rougham. Depart Book Club meets on the third Wednesday and H.V.H. at 9.00a.m. Returning at Approx 5.30p.m. 33 seater we were at Joyce’s in Wroxham in March for only. £25.00 inclusive (including refreshments at both “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follet. Pat venues.) can supply more information for now on Obviously with the current problem we don’t know what will 01603 782375 or happen but hopefully we can enjoy another lovely day out. [email protected] More details? HowdoIdoit? This is entirely up to you. You could describe it in writing, draw a pictureby hand or digitally, create an animation or a model or any For any more information please contact us, viaPeter ,on on 01603782041 combination of these methods. The winning idea will be used to 01603 782733 [email protected] Pam inspire the professional designer chosen to create the memorial so your idea must convey enough detail about shape, size, and content for them to work from. Your Local Community Gym Once you have your idea ready submit it either by post,taking care to The Preston Rooms provide your full contact details and date of birth, to: The Village Hall The Submariner Memorial Appeal, Ingleborough, Horning Road NEW VICTORY HALL West, Hoveton, NR12 8QH By the time you read this we will have NEATISHEAD hopefully had our AGM and be set up and Anything else I should know? running for 2020/2021. We have produced Memorials can take the form of built memorials, works of art or natural landscape features. There are no hard and fast rules for the a Calendar of Events for 2020 which is design or materials but there is an expectation that all memorials will displayed on the noticeboards around the be of high quality, creativity and longevity. The approved method of Friendly, relaxed, affordable, local gym village and in the hall. providing interpretation is to include it in the actual design of the open to all (12+), but especially catering memorial. Unless there are exceptional circumstances all engraving for older age groups and those who are Although it is still a relatively ‘quiet’ time of year we have been A memorial to remember all who should be the normal combination of upper and lower case. In order very busy at the village hall. We are in the process of installing to control the amount of hard landscape benches would not be uncomfortable in a commercial gym. died in service and their families. approved. a brand new kitchen. This has meant internal work to the walls which will hopefully make the kitchen warmer and drier, as well Our Aim Excellent support from experienced instructor. We are running a competition to design a fitting monument which When must my entry be in? as the difficult job of removing the old kitchen, choosing a new commemorates the sacrifice of all those who have died whilst in the The closing date for the competition is 31 May 2020 If you want to improve your fitness or kitchen, new flooring, decorating, etc. We have been lucky submarine service and their families. It will be a place to visit for mobility, at whatever level, give us a try! enough to receive a grant from the Big Society to replace the private and collective acts of remembrance and reflection, and we What can I win? Therewillbethreeagegroups,under12,12-18andover18–the kitchen fire door and we are currently waiting for it to be need your help to design it. OpenMondays, Wednesdays and winner of each will win £100, the runner up in each group will win £50. installed. Hopefully by the end of March/early April we will be The overall winner will be chosen from among the winner of each Sundays 8.30 to 12.30at New Victory The NMA finished and very pleased with our new kitchen. The memorial will be at the National Memorial Arboretum which is the group and will win an additional £900 making a grand prize of £1000. Hall, Neatishead. UK’s year-round centre of Remembrance; a spiritually uplifting place Don’t forget the first event of the year is the Poetry Evening, which honours the fallen, recognises service, suffering and sacrifice, Find out More Pop in when we’re open, ring or text Gary being held onFriday 3rd April at 7pm. Come along for an and fosters pride in our country. https://www.submarinermemorial.uk/competition/ on our FREE TRIAL HOTLINE of 07387 There are 300 memorials spread around 150 acres of landscaped evening of poetry. Entry is £3 including refreshments with all https:// www.facebook.com/The-Submariner-Memorial- 876216, or email [email protected] proceeds going to the Preston Rooms. If you would like further woodland, a chapel and full range of visitor facilities. other enquiries. Appea l-104097557847878/ information telephone Aileen on 01603 781451. What haveIgottodo? YouhavetocomeupwithanideaforanewmemorialattheNational https://twitter.com/submarinememor1 Memorial Arboretum. The memorial will be to all submariners who Sue WattsSecretary have given their lives in service and to their families.

[ 18 ] [ 19 ] THE Air Rifle Horror JUBILEE Our case this month is Lucy, a beautiful domestic long-haired PLAYERS cat of only 5 years of age. Sadly her reason for being Horstead brought to us is very disturbing and something we never wish to see. Lucy’s owner had noticed blood coming from Lucy’s shoulder and found a single small wound. One of the owner’s other cats was treated last year having been shot with an air rifle and she was suspicious that the same thing had happened to Lucy. Lucy was quite distressed and very painful and her radiographs showed an air rifle pellet lodged adjacent to her vertebrae. Although she probably didn’t feel so, Lucy had been very fortunate as it appears she had been shot head on with the pellet narrowly missing her head and eye, which would likely have been fatal. Instead, it had entered at the level of her shoulder and travelled around 4 inches through her body before hitting her vertebrae and lodging just above her spine. Subsequent radiographs demonstrated the pellet had not entered her spine and as she was not showing any signs of spinal damage we elected to try and find the pellet surgically. This was tricky surgery due to its position and the amount of musculature that had to be dissected in order to reach this very deeply positioned part of the spine. When the pellet was found it was removed along with the large clump of fur, (seen in the photo), Neil Phillips playing “Sir William Rollander” which had been dragged through her body from the skin of her shoulder. Lucy continues to make a remarkable recovery and we sincerely hope that the police are successful in their investigations and that a melodrama – besides which, there’s no mystery about the we do not see any further such cases. VERDICT- ararelyperformedplayby murder, as it takes place right in front of the audience!” Agatha Christie We are also delighted that Ray has brought in some new faces Toby Morrell th nd to join the cast for this production, working alongside actors Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 May 2020 familiar to our regular audiences. Come and join us in the MRCVS atmospheric surroundings of The Tithe Barn for an evening of Westover Vets Rare Agatha Christie show gets outing in Norfolk The Jubilee suspenseful entertainment. Players are proud to present their latest production - Verdict - a seldom-seen play by the queen of crime fiction herself, Agatha Christie. The production is one th of the few original plays written by Christie, not based 75 Anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE 75) on one of her books or short stories. More of a psychological thriller than a murder mystery, the story follows Professor Karl Hendryk, whose life is turned Join us on the Bank Holiday on Friday May the 8th 2020 upside down when he takes on a new pupil. As you’d expect, there is murder and twists aplenty. special programme of events marking VE 75 will Lower Common and are hoping that if their Atake place over theEarly May Bank Holiday 2020 helicopter isn’t on a call that it will make a flying visit. This is the first show directed for The Jubilee Players Nationally and has been designed to be of particular by one of our regular actors, Ray Tempesta and he fyouwanttoshareanypersonalorpastfamily explained his choice, saying: “I was desperate to interest to all from the Second World War generation harness the enduring passion for Agatha Christie, but who served at home and overseas across the Imemories, there will be plenty of space in St Johns many of her plays have been performed time and time European theatre. for you to use. again. Verdict struck me as being the ideal choice, as it’s unmistakably an Agatha Christie work, but more of any commemorations are expected to be fewofthethingswewouldliketoputonare Mreflected in communities across the nation and Agoing to need funding, the Parish Councils are we in Horstead & Coltishall are planning on putting not allowed to draw on their precepts and although Hannah Cunningham playing “Lisa Koletzky” together a series of events across both we have received some limited funding and support communities that will involve as many businesses, from Tarmac CRH, Jewsons of Wroxham, The Verdict willbeperformedatthe charities, organisations and residents as possible Pharmacy, Recruiting Cars and we have a had a Tithe Barn, Rectory Road, Horstead starting in the early afternoon and culminating in the couple other small promises we are still looking for NR12 7EP lighting of the Beacon at 10pm. We have several more! (about 10 minutes North of Norwich) things already lined up, including ‘Special’ Pop-Up- th leasesupportthisevent,itwillmeanalottoa from Wednesday 20 – Friday 22nd Café, the Guides Association are putting on an Pgreat many residents. May 2020 at 7.30pm. exhibition in St John Baptist Church, the Broads Authority have said they hope to lay on short river f you wish to know more then please contact Ticketsarejust£7andcanbe trips from Lower Common up to Coltishall Lock and IRichard Germany or Nicola Chaney on Coltishall purchased by calling backandiftheweatherstaysfinethereisagood Parish council or myself, Campbell Jones, or Alan chance that there may be some aerial activities! Browne and Bob Jennings on Horstead with 01603 736676 (daytime) or 01603 Stanninghall Parish Council. All our details are in the 738764 (evenings) ur chosen charity is the East Anglian Air Marlpitatthebackofthiseditionandontheeach OAmbulance,theywillbesettingupastallonthe respective Parish Council web site. or from Sandra’s Salon, 18, Wroxham Liam Pudwell playing student “Lester” with Ray Tempesta playing”Professor Karl Hendryk” Road Coltishall, NR12 7EA. www.horsteadparishcouncil.org.uk [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Surrey Chapel, a church that meets on the was a great place to meet, but most of our edge of Anglia Square in Norwich, had a Bible members, friendships and opportuni�es to study group that met in Horstead. The serve (such as Tiddlers, our baby and toddler members of this group were praying that the group) were in Col�shall and Horstead. We Broadgrace Lord would establish a new church in their began to pray about moving our Sunday th village. A couple, John and Flick Hindley, were mee�ngs there. What we did not know was 10 Birthday involved in plan�ng a new church in that for a few years a member of the RAF had Manchester. At the same �me, they were prayed daily that the Lord would again The Marlpit, April 2020 o�en thinking of Norfolk. Visi�ng family near establish a church in the old Salva�on Army Aylsham for most of their holidays, they loved building in Col�shall. As the service bus took In May 2010 a small group of men and the county, both the people and the land and him past the Upper Common on his way to women, boys and girls were commissioned to seascapes. As they prayed for the area the work, he prayed, and again on the way home. form a new church to serve Col�shall and Lord increasingly put it on their hearts to We only discovered this a�er we had bought Horstead, Hoveton and Wroxham and the move and serve him here. the building, now The River Rooms, from the smaller villages around. We thought you might Salva�on Army. like a li�le history of our church. So it was that in December 2008 they were drinking coffee with Tom Chapman, pastor of The Lord s�ll sends his good news to the ends Our tale begins in Jerusalem, the storied city Surrey Chapel, as he made a generous of the earth. We hope to bring that good news of Zion. It was there, six hundred years before sugges�on. It was that if they would move so to our neighbours in these villages. We would God was born in a stable, that he said through that John could lead this new church, the also like to invite you to celebrate our tenth his prophet Isaiah, ‘I will make you as a light elders of Surrey Chapel would encourage the birthday with us. Our church is small and s�ll for the na�ons, that my salva�on may reach members of that Bible study group to join young, but we hope, alongside the other to the ends of the earth’ (Isaiah 29v6). During them. This was the seed from which the Lord churches, to serve our communi�es well and his life�me Jesus welcomed among his friends has grown Broadgrace. to give everyone the chance to come to know people from all sorts of backgrounds and God, who comes to us full of kindness and countries. A�er he died, rose from death and Our church is a happy family, and has grown light. returned to heaven, he sent out his followers, from those small roots, in love for one his disciples, his church to carry on this work. another and our villages and somewhat in size Broadgrace tenth birthday too. We enjoy having a span of ages from It was not long un�l traders, soldiers and inquisi�ve toddlers to wise elders. We cover a celebration slaves brought the good news of Jesus to range of backgrounds and like to make new these distant shores. Ever since, Jesus has faces welcome quickly. We are grateful to God • Sunday 3rd May 2020, 4pm. been con�nuing that work. Broadgrace Church for pu�ng us in such beau�ful and friendly • The River Rooms, Church Street, was birthed from his desire to tell the people places and like to serve others where we can. of our villages that he loves us, came for us Col�shall. and would meet with us. He wants to show us We were not always in Col�shall, though! God • All Welcome once again that our lives are bound up in his had one more set of prayers to answer. At first and that our hearts shall ever be restless un�l Broadgrace Church met in Hoveton, at the John Hindley,March 2020 they find their rest in him. hospitable Broadland Community Centre. This

local people, please contact me from planning, environmental health directly. or licensing to support local communi�es and businesses. Both Broadland and South Norfolk Councils have recently launched a The scheme is open to anyone aged 16 career placement scheme called or over, and will offer two to six week News from Broadland District Council ‘Future Paths,’ which gives an placements during the school summer Broadland District Council launched opportunity for young people to gain holidays, as well as careers advice, C.V. the ‘Member Grant Scheme’ last year, invaluable experience working in our wri�ng and other personal which provides £500 for each district teams. We recognise that not every development opportuni�es. councillor to invest in their ward. My young person is suited to the school Applica�ons must be submi�ed online grant money for 2019/20 year was and exam environment, but this at www.broadland.gov.uk/futurepaths equally divided between the ‘Good doesn’t mean they can’t thrive in the before 30th April 2020 and successful Neighbour Project’ and the ‘1st workplace, and this will be a unique applicants will be invited to a Col�shall Guide Pack’ and I am very chance to prove they have the work recruitment day during May half term pleased that is will benefit such great ethic, skills and enthusiasm to pursue holiday. local causes. The 2020/21 Grant of a career path. st £500 is available again from the 1 They will be helping plan the towns of Jo Copplestone April, so if you are a member of a the future, improve the environment community group in the Col�shall/ Tel: 01603 860840 or Email: or fight homelessness, working as part [email protected] Horstead area which needs financial of Broadland and South Norfolk’s assistance and will go towards helping council team in a wide range of areas, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Please tell our Advertisers you saw them in the Marlpit New study sheds light on Coltishall and Horstead’s past Why have Coltishall’s commons survived when others were lost? Volume 2: Barley, beer and the working year The workforce; Farming in Coltishall and Horstead; Malting, What is the story behind the area’s maltings, breweries and public brewing and milling; Delivering the beer and running the outlets, houses? with a gazetteer of 101 public houses in north-east and north Norfolk supplied by the Hardys from Coltishall and their later What was a working day like for the local skilled workforce and home at Letheringsett. day-labourers of the 18th century? How reliant on the river were Broads villages for their trade? Volume 3: Spiritual and social forces The parish clergy and Nonconformist preachers; An early Sunday Who lived in the handsome houses we know and admire in school shared by Horstead and Coltishall; ’ attitudes to church- Coltishall and Horstead? Were the local churches well attended? going; Local society and the fluid class structure; Crime and Who was the Coltishall-born architect of the mediaeval chapel at unrest; Lawyers and medical practitioners. King’s College, Cambridge? Volume 4: Under sail and under arms How came one-fifth of male civilians to be under arms during the The state of the roads; Building the Bure navigation (also known French wars, while remaining at work on their home patch? as the Aylsham navigation) and its consequences; Keels, wherries and seagoing ships; Politics and the civilian response to the threat Our local diarist Mary Hardy of invasion from France; Coltishall’s merrymaking at the nation’s These questions, and many more, are answered in Margaret deliverance from the menace of Napoleon. Bird’s new study of the Norfolk diarist Mary Hardy (1733–1809), who lived south of Coltishall Church at what is now Holly Lodge. The diarist was the wife of a farmer and brewer. Further material on the website You can discover much more about the story of Mary Hardy and Margaret’s four volumesMary Hardy and her World 1773–1809, what she has to tell us on the publishers’ well-illustrated website: the fruit of 32 years’work, will be published on 23 April 2020. www.burnham-press.co.uk

Each book is more than 800 pages long and each has hundreds of The books will be available from bookshops, Amazon and the illustrations in colour and black and white. There are maps, publishers’ website after 23 April. Bookshop prices are £40.00 enjoy yourselves family trees and detailed indexes. for a single volume, or £135.00 for the set of four. The set has more than 3250 pages. Margaret has consulted a very wide variety of sources. She has relied heavily on the National Archives at Kew and the wonderful A talk in September at Horstead Coffee & Cake records at King’s College, Cambridge which document Coltishall There will be a chance to browse through the four volumes at a and Horstead’s history in vivid detail. talk Margaret is giving to the Bure Navigation Conservation Trust (BNCT) onTuesday 15 September at 7.30 pm. by the river..... Colchester Inns The Rising Sun An outline of the contents Entitled “Hard times: how the Bure Navigation killed Horstead As we enter the month of April – which hopefully brings some fine spring weather – The Rising The Rising Sun, Wroxham Road, and Coltishall's trade” it will be held in the Horstead Tithe Barn, Coltishall, Norwich NR12 7EA Volume 1: A working family Sun will be reviving our popular Coffee and Cake Rectory Road, Horstead NR12 7EP. deal from last year. Tel: 01603 737440 Coltishall as an industrialised inland port; Family life, marriage [email protected] and nurturing children; Local schooling, including Coltishall’s All are welcome, and the books will be on sale at special prices. From 11am weekdays and 10am at the www.risingsuncoltishall.co.uk Free School opposite the church; Running a home, maidservant A small entry fee will be charged for non-BNCT members. weekend you can enjoy a hot beverage problems and gardens. and slice of cake, while overlooking the Details will appear nearer the time in The Marlpit. beautiful Bure and Common, for just £4.50*. We look forward to seeing you! *Subject to availability – once it’s gone, it’s gone! Here at The Rising Sun, we are thrilled to have our four tastefully renovated, dog-friendly rooms up and running, welcoming guests for bed and breakfast. If you have friends or family visiting the area and you don’t have the space at home, we would be more than happy to accommodate them. Booking is easy via our website, or if you’d prefer to speak to someone please just give us a call.

We are still awaiting news about the “Festival on the Common” planned for next month. Please ask for updates as at the time of writing no one is sure what will or not be permitted..

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We hope everyone has been enjoying the Probus Club of Broadlands colourful display of purple crocuses around the village The Probus Club of Broadlands met on the 26th signs in Wroxham, Hoveton February for the monthly meeting. and Horning. We have been planting these for the last few The meeting was well attended and as usual a tasty meal Autumns to remind everyone was consumed. The speaker was Richard Polley from the of the International Rotary Norfolk and Norwich Association of the Blind (currently in the campaign to eradicate polio process of changing its name to Vision Norfolk). world-wide, and the blooms this year have been particularly good. Richard explained the way in It has been a busy few weeks for Wroxham Bure Valley Rotary which the Association assists Club. We have presented four figure cheques to two great local people with sight issues from charities Fresh Start, New Beginnings and Nelson’s Journey. those who suffer partial sight loss to those with who have We have also just held another very successful schools lost their sight completely. The Technology Tournament with the help of Broadland Academy in association helps with Hoveton, where teams of youngsters from local schools compete accommodation as well as to design and build a solution to a set technological problem, providing various equipment to with different levels of complexity for different age groups. The enhance the quality of life for children work in teams and as ever it is a delight to see the creativity, teamwork and enjoyment that the event brings out. persons with sight This year Aylsham just beat Broadland to take the Foundation enjoy yourselves deterioration and loss. How level task, while Cromer Academy won both the Intermediate many reading this know what and Advanced level tasks. the meaning of a short white IfyouareluckyyoumaystillseethisfamilyofEgyptian geeseshownhereonthefar stick with red bands around it denotes. The answer is in the Going forward, future activities are going to be dependent on bank of the River Bure opposite the Lower Common underneath the Jubilee beacon , th Sponsored by highway code but to make life easier for those, like me, who Corona virus restrictions, but our next planned appearance at The picturewastaken 14 March were unaware of the meaning itRichard is partially Polley sighted and deaf the time of writing is the Horning Boat Show on 2nd May person. So, beware next time you see someone holding such a stick waiting to cross the road. If you fancy finding out a bit more about us and what we get up to, we meet every Monday evening at Wroxham Barns. Please The Association has offices in Norwich and the four contact our secretary Mick Eady in advance on 01692 670616 to check the meeting details and so we can ensure we have food corners of the County. It provides various equipment to ease for you. Visit our web-site on www.wroxhamrotary.org.uk for the life of partially sighted or blind individuals. Such things more information (please note we are in the process of which are provided free are white walking sticks provided at rebuilding the web site to make it even better but that currently the correct length for the person involved, short white sticks some items may be slightly out of date), or our Facebook page and the banded variety. Provided at a cost are cups equipped on www.facebook.com/wroxhamburevalleyrotaryclub with a reader which bleeps when the water level is appropriate or contact our president, Simon Gorton on 01692 for a hot drink. Add milk then it bleeps quicker to confirm the 538582. correct amount has been added. Pen Friend which identifies colours enabling a blind person to, for instance, choose their matching clothing for the day. Richard went on to show us special glasses to filter ultra violet light, talking watches and magnifying equipment. The presentation was very enlightening Whirlwind Response and members commented on how interesting the subject was Tobrighten up articles your not too clever editor made through a truly professional presentation. researchesforan imagefrom ourlibrariesortheinternet. Last month the Probus report concerning our good friend Our thanks go to the Norfolk and Norwich Association for Bob Jennings and his helicopter exploits a lovely photo of the the blind which receives no government funding for its wrong search and rescue helicopter was shown This is the excellent work. Any donations can be made direct to the beasthe puthisfaithin most.SorryBob...Ed dp Association.

The Probus Club of Broadlands meets once a month at the Wroxham Hotel for further details contact the Secretary Clive Lockyer on 01603 737431 or email [email protected] will be an opportunity to meet members at a prospective member Coffee morning at the Wroxham Hotel on 18th March between 1030 and 1200. No booking necessary we look forward to seeing you. http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/west_wessex.php [ 28 ] [ 29 ] position is much better with many more aimed at 5 to 11 year old girls. It's completely free and is great the meantime they train hard and have Most of our teams are approaching close and competitive games. Most of fun on a Saturday morning. The perfect way to introduce new in house matches to gain good the girls in this squad are based in the players to the game. various storms experience of game situations. the end of their seasons, Cromer area. have resulted in a few games postponed but on the whole the That's all for now, see you next month.. weather has been pretty kind to us over the winter months.. The u10 Kittens are involved in their Mini kickerz continues on Sunday league Cup competition at the moment. mornings for 3 to 6 year olds. The The u7 Cubs continue to play plenty of matches both home and The top 2 teams from their group will Cheers weather hasn't been kind lately but a away. They always have a great time at matches regardless of go through to the semi finals, they've good group turn up for fun and games. the result. been playing very well lately so fingers Ted New members are always welcomed. crossed that continues. Chairman We have a rapidly growing group of u9 girls. They will be playing Bure Valley YFC New players are always welcome to league football at the start of the new season in September, in Our two u11 Girls teams The Leopards come and give the club a go. It's a and Panthers are also involved in Cup family based club with competitions. Both teams have shown the emphasis on fun and enjoyment huge improvement since the start of from start to finish. the season. We are always looking for The u12 Wildcats Girls play volunteers to assist with the their league games in running of the club. Division A, this gives them Coaching opportunities are some very tough games normally available if you'd against some top clubs, like to give that a go or they are more than holding even coffee shop assistants their own and did extremely to grounds persons. Don't well to make it to the Cup be shy in getting in touch.. semi finals. As we approach the summer The u13 Wildcats Girls are we start to look forward to also in Division A. loads of 5 aside Opposition teams in this tournaments across Norfolk, league are of a very high the kids love them. We'll standard. Our girls have also be getting involved in battled away every week so Coltifest in July, look out for huge credit to them for news of that in next month's sticking at it.. article. Our u14 Wildcats girls have Our Wildcats Centre will also improved hugely from last be returning in May, this is season. There league U11 Leopards U11 Panthers

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[ 30 ] [ 31 ] Discover YOUR local area in 2020!

The Museum of the Broads opens again on Wed 25 March at 10am. As always, it is family and dog friendly with activities for all ages and many special events days too.

Celebrate Easter, and give the kids something to do in the holidays, by enjoying our themed Easter Trail. There are prizes too! It’s on from Wed 1st April to Sun 19th April.

New exhibits at the Museum include ‘Policing on the Broads’, and a postcards, find a surprising link to the hovercraft, and in the year display on the Broads during the Second World War, to commemorate that celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Museum’s own VE Day. And this year’s special exhibition is ‘Wish You Were Here – waterside buildings, see the changes to staithes over the years. Holidays on the Broads’. Explore early water attractions, discover the There’s a chance to record your own holiday memories and take impact of the railway, enjoy early holiday photos, adverts and photos with our very own holiday ‘peep’ board.

The Museum offers river trips daily on either our steam boat, Falcon, or our electric and wheelchair accessible boat, Marsh Harrier. Please see website or phone to book seats.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Museum in 2020. We’re open Sun to Fri 1000 to 1630. Volunteers are always welcome, particularly on Reception and operating the steam Easter Bunny Trail launch. 2020 could be the year you do something new! Annual tickets: Adults: £6, Children (5 – 18): £2. between the Wind

The Poor’s Staithe, Stalham, NR12 9DA 01692 581681 Energy Museum and www.museumofthebroads.org.uk , Twitter or Facebook @MuseumBroads. Thurne Windmill Our first big event this year is the Easter Bunny Trail on Friday 10th April, 11am til 4pm Bastwick, NR29 5JU) or at Thurne Windmill (NR29 3BU) it’s your choice.You canThis start is such at the a well-attended Wind Energy event Museum and (Repps-with- is now in its fourth year. Herbert Woods lend us a cruiser so people can walk the trail (just over 2 mile with a style in the middle) one way and have a boat trip back (seats are limited and tickets must be purchased in advance).

At the museum (plenty of free parking) there will be a mini trail for the little ones, refreshments, children’s activities and of course the Easter Bunny who resides in the Easter Bunny Hutch.… this is where the children collect their egg from!

We are hoping to get a small marquee up at Thurne with a few refreshments and bunny face painting (you can also hop along to the local pub, at the end of the staithe).

It is a fun packed day and we would love to see you there - bring the children, grandchildren or just pop along for a cuppa. Cost: £5 per child and adults FOC. Seat on the boat one way: £2 each. Looking forward to an egg-citing time!

Also take a look at our websitewww.thurnewindmill.co.uk Debra Nicholson, 07796 407864 [email protected]

[ 33 ] – 4pm. Please bring you own board if you have one. Chess Club Wroxham Social Club Films at Frettenham Village is in un-staffed hours so all participants will need full active library membership and to be registered for Open Library. Speak to PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH AHEAD Hall library staff during staffed hours for details. April 4th Pleased to Meet You! Fun evening to find th out more about your fellow members. 7.30 Friday 24 April 2020 Computer Buddy Friday 10:30 – 12:30.Book a half an hour or an hour session for 1 – 1 internet and digital support, for help April 11th Bingo Please Note New Start time 7.30 with your tablet, smartphone, email and much more. Booking April 18th C.L.A.G. RAF Card Game. (CLOUDS 'Judy'- Legendary essential. FREE LOW AIRCRAFT GROUNDED) performer Judy Wroxham Library Just a Cuppa, every Tuesday 10.30 – 12pm.If you’re at a April 25th St Georges Night. Buffet, Quiz, Music Garland arrivesin etc. Please wear Red & White if possible. 7.30 loose end or want to get out of the house for a bit, come along for Londoninthe Volunteer Opportunities at Wroxham a friendly chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit. May 2nd Bar Quiz With Takeaway Indian or Pizza 7 Library for 7.30 Start (in time to order food) winterof1968to Just a Cuppa with a Copper, every 1st Tuesday of the perform a series of May 9th V.E. Celebrations, Music, etc and food If you have a skill you would like to share with the local Month, 10:30 -12pm Vicky Bailey, engagement officer with the (Oh No! not Spam Sandwiches) sold out concerts, community and would like to lead an activity or event at Wroxham Norfolk Police will be joining us for our coffee morning for a cuppa Library, we would be delighted to hear from you. Currently we are and a chat. You may talk to her privately if you prefer. May 16th Jumble Sale Please save your unwanted starring Award goods for us. (No Underwear or electricals) 11am specifically looking for somebody who could lead ‘Mini Mover’s’, a winning Renee movement to music session for pre-schoolers. We are also looking Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind advice rd May 23 Bingo 7.30 Zellwegger,Jessie for somebody to help facilitate our monthly Time Travellers Group afternoon Thursday 19th April, 2.00-4.00pm. Drop in alongside our current volunteer. If you enjoy working with people May 30th Quiz & Chips 7. For 7.30. Booking essential. Buckley and Finn Wittrock session offering advice to the blind and partially sighted and and are interested in local history and reminiscence this would be anyone else seeking information. Come along and enjoy the fun. We also have Snooker and the perfect opportunity for you. Table Tennis. There is an Art Group too. Drinks at our Bar are Wroxham Reading Group The Wroxham Reading Group very reasonably priced too. We would love to have some new members. You can try before you buy. For Children meets on the3rd Wednesday of the month between 2-3pm. Filmsstartat7.30pmBar&RaffleEntry£4 New members are always welcome and our discussions are Thank you everyone for your support and to the committee for Contact Alison Brown 01603 737504 Story Explorers 23rd and 30th April 7th and 14th May, friendly without being too serious. Ask at the library which book all the work and effort you put in. including behind the scenes 10:30am A session delivered by action for children for parents of we are currently reading so you can come along and take part at Clearing leaves, Cleaning etc. children under 5 to develop language and communication. our next meeting on 15th April. Contacts: Rosemary Chair 419811 Linda Secretary 435284 Jean Treasurer 720810 Margaret & Ken. Membership After School Lego Club, New Time, Thursday 3.30 – Knit and Natter – not just for knitters! Bring your embroidery, Secretary and Auditor 781204 Wroxham FC 4.30For children age 7 -12 (children under 8 must be textile, or crochet project along to our informal gathering. Trafford Park accompanied by an adult). With a new theme each week. Whilst Thursday 2nd and 16th April 2.00- 4.00pm Skinners Lane having lots of fun, children will develop creativity, communication Wroxham NR12 8SJ skills and begin to learn about engineering. Free, drop in event. RVS Home deliveryOnce a month the RVS provide a home COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD THE YACHTSMEN Term time only. delivery service of library books in the Wroxham area to those physically unable to visit the library. To supply the right type of COMMUNITY LUNCH CLUB What a difference a month makes, 4 weeks ago Wroxham Stay and Play, New time and day! From week beginning 30th books we take details of the readers’ favourite authors or subjects Football Club was enjoying the best spell in their recent history. March, Stay and Play will be on a Friday, at 10.30-11.30 Bring of interest. Items can be supplied in large print, normal print, or Wednesdays at the Church Rooms, Rectory Road Coltishall They dared to dream but as fate would have it the bubble burst your toddler along to play with our new toys and meet other [12:15 for 12:30] NO LUNCH CLUB IN AUGUST spoken word audio cds. We would like to hear about anyone in and its back to reality. The club wishes their opponents Bitton parents and guardians. This is a self-facilitated group. Term time the Wroxham and Hoveton area who might benefit. Please contact Members should confirm their attendance by Tuesday evening United who travelled all the way from Bristol good fortune in the only. the library for further information. Contact Joan Milligan 737270 Semi Final of the FA Vase to hopefully enjoy the experience of playing at Wembley 10 years on from when we were in their As the spring arrives we are pleased to say the lunch club is shoes. Bounce and Rhyme Time is every Wednesday 10.30 – Family History– Use our free access to Find My Past any time thriving, the fun and fellowship is infectious and we hope it is the 11.00am. Please contact the library or check our Facebook page the library is open. Drop-in on Wednesday and Friday only thing that is in this time of uncertainty. Subsequently all senior teams in the club have stuttered with for updates. Songs and rhymes for babies, toddlers, parents and evenings between 4.30pm and 6.30pm to get advice from carers. FREE At the time of going to print the lunch club is business as usual not the best rubs of the coin and now along with the health Diane, our family and local history expert. Please contact library but we are aware we may have to change plans if it considered scares even at our level the remainder of the 2019 -2020 first to confirm the sessions are running. necessary, as always Joan will keep all informed season is in doubt. Progressing in cup tournaments has a Stay and Chat – every Wednesday, 11.am.No need to run serious downside, worsening as runs lengthen in that league off after Bounce and Rhyme – stay and chat! Bring your own Time Travellers Wednesday 1st April 2 – 4pm Come and Only two birthdays in late Feb early March, Rosemary and David fixtures stack up. Coupled with horrendous wet weather travel mug and we will make you a cup of tea or coffee. travel back to days gone by and reminisce with our friendly local rendering the pitch unplayable the 1st team are saddled with history group. The group meets the first Wednesday of every weeks of Tuesday Saturday outings to catch up, At time of month. If you think it might be somewhere you writing not helped with players reporting in sick with another Social Activities and events at the fixture postponed. Library would like to visit, get in touch and come Crib Club (Cribbage card game) – new players welcome - Lights on the horizon burn bright however for the Eastern Junior Thursday 9th April 2.00-4:30pm. Please bring your own board along one day soon Alliance [EJA] u16 and u14 squads both reaching their league New Leaf Talk –given by Paul Rice, from Broads Watch Tickets and cards if you have them. Finals. £2.50, (including refreshment), available from the library. Paul and Dave the Horning Ferryman will be talking about their work on the Scrabble Club We normally meet on the last Thursday of each Statement on Covid 19 (Coronavirus)Club officials have Broads. Friday 3rd April 4.30 – 5.30pm.Tickets £2.50, month from 2.00-4.30pm. Thursday 30th April. All welcome been following progress with regard to the Covid19(Coronavirus) (including refreshment), available from the library. New Leaf Talks and have a responsibility to do the best they can at all times for are programmed sometime within the first week of every other players, supporters, club volunteers and the wider football month. Contact us by phone on 01603 782560, Look family. for up to date information regarding all our Introduction to Drawing Friday 24th April, 1st, 15th and events and activities on our Facebook page. As fixtures are uncertain please keep up with club news on the 22nd May, 1.30 – 3.30, FREEGet your creative juices flowing Email us [email protected] websitehttps://www.wroxhamfc.club/news or on twitter at with this fantastic course with Adult learning.

David Rosemary https://twitter.com/The_Yachtsmen New! Chess Club The second Monday of every month, 2pm

[ 34 ] [ 35 ] Wroxham & Hoveton Lions history & heritage Champions with four games left! In front of a big crowd at A Mosquito who was living at Largate look across the two trees and Scottow on 29 February the Vikings clinched promotion from With summer not far away we are now in full swing arranging Cottages and who was not only remember.I don’t think many London One North with a 33 -3 victory over Harpenden, their our Annual Summer Fete, which this year is being held on Crashes on the able to pinpoint the spot where knewaboutitatthattimeandwe season’s 21st win out of 22. With 20 points still available they have Sunday 2nd August. If anyone would like to have a Craft Stall, Horstead Hall the aircraft crashed, which was in were not supposed to talk 103 points, an unassailable 24-point lead over Colchester. Earlier Trade Stand or bring along a classic car, please contact Lion Mike Patches Plantation, and not Hall anyway…”3 in February they beat Colchester 34-3 at home and Sudbury 29 - Clipston, telephone number 07767810027 for further details. Estate. Farm, Largate, as had been 22 away. These three matches ended a punishing run of fixtures: This month’s story from World suggested, but was also able to Thatmighthavebeentheendof six of their last seven were against teams with a chance of We shall be holding our annual Charity Donation Night on War Two begins with a letter.It recall the incident clearly: this story, except for one rather finishing second and the opportunity of promotion via a one-off Tuesday 6th of Maywhere we shall be making donations to in was sent to my predecessor as interesting excess of 20 Charities and good causes, so if anyone would like match versus the runners up in London One South. Horstead Parish Clerk, Christine coincidence. Mr to come along and see just some of our beneficiaries that are Roe,andcamefromaMr Orchard helped each year and learn about what the Lions do, you will be most welcome, The event is being held at the Broadland Orchard who was anxious to mentioned that Champions know more about an aircraft, Halestrap’s father Community Centre Hoveton at 7-30pm. Next season the Vikings will play in London & South East Premier, piloted by his friend, which wasstillaliveand one of four fifth tier Leagues in the national structure, where they We had a successful craft fair March and the next one will be crashed on the Horstead Hall over 100 years old. last played ten years ago. “Promotion is a major achievement but held on Sunday 17th May. If anyone would like a stall at the Estateon04March1945.Atthe Johnwashisonly it will not be easy, we will have to build our capacity further to be fair please contact me on 07850091570. time, although much diminished, son.Alittlemore successful,” commented Chair Keith Jarvis. “We will be competing the Horstead Hall Estate still digging discovered against Clubs with way more resources than ourselves. Playing Ros Hawes of Hoveton, who donated goods covered quite a wide area and that Arthur across an area that extends to Sussex & Hampshire will mean to our shop and was the winner of this the aircraft in question had in Halestrap, MBE overnight stays and higher travel costs. Unlike most sides we month’s £100 charity draw, nominated fact come down in Hainford, wasoneofthelast won’t be paying players, but are looking at how we can improve Hoveton St Peters Church as the even though several sources, Mrs Baker Sketch Map of the Crash Site surviving facilities for them. We need to make some capital expenditure beneficiaries. including the RAF Coltishall ‘Tommies’ of the too, notably on the floodlights and car park.” We are always looking for good clothing, Bric a Brac and small Community Relations Officer, “I know the spot well…that First World War,having joined the electrical items in good working order for our shop. Please just described it as having crashed, crashed near my brother-in-law’s Royal Engineers Signals in 1916. The Club continues to invest in the Vikings of the future with “at Horstead Hall.”1 cottage…on the road between He was noted for both having record numbers in the Youth & Minis and a growing Schools drop them into the shop or ring me on 07850091570 and I will arrange collection. 2 here and Hainford. [Neither] my walked the decks of the Titanic Programme. Seven of the Valkyries (Girls) squad were called up Mick Jennings, usually the first brother-in-law nor neighbour and survived the Spanish ‘Flu! In to Eastern Counties teams. Broadland Ormiston Academy were port of call when researching New members are always welcome, so if anyone would like to knew nothing about the crash World War Two he was seconded one of seven Schools attending a Year 7 Girls Day, with Phoebe RAF Coltishall, describes the come along and learn about the Lions, please ring Lion Lydia on until morning light. I myself did see to the Special Operations Player (pictured) named their outstanding player. incident as having occurred 01603 783242 or myself (Lion Terry) on 07850091570. We meet thewheellyingnearthetreesand Executive (SOE) as chief signal when the Mosquito NT357 of 68 every 2nd and 4th Tuesday for business meetings and all other anotherfurtheronthefield. I master and continued to serve in Sqn was returning to Coltishall. Tuesdays for a social gathering. I’m certain you would be don’t remember seeing any signs Germanyaspartofthe Afteranenginehadfailedas pleasantly surprised to see what we do for your local community. offire,buttheremighthavebeen Diplomatic Wireless Service until theycameintolandandthe All evenings are held at the Community Centre Stalham Road, [onthe]othersideofthehedge. 1970whenheretired.Hewas Hoveton. undercarriage refused to lower, WheneverIcomehomethiswayI awarded the Legion d’Honneur in the pilot FO Arthur Aust (27) 1988. Lion President tried to make another circuit of Terry Vout. He appeared in many television the airfield, but failed, the result documentaries alongside the beingthatsadlybothheandhis “Last Tommy” Harry Patch, and in Navigator,FO John Halestrap 2003attheageof105he (20) were killed. Mr Orchard attended the Armistice Day suggested it was the result of Ceremony in Ypres where he enemyaction,butIcanfindno recited Laurence Binyon’s poem, confirmation of this, although “For the Fallen.”4 there was a great deal of activity The Vikings’ League season finishes with three home fixtures: goingonintheairatthetime. th th th Forhimitmusthavebeen Southend (28 March), Ruislip (4 April), Woodford (18 An appeal to ‘The Marlpit’ in nd rd particularly poignant. April). On 2 /3 May the Club hosts the “Norfolk Big Rugby 1998 on Mr Orchard’s behalf Weekend” when the Finals of the various Norfolk Cup resultedinaletterfromalady competitions will be played. Schedule yet to be announced: the FO Arthur Aust Philippa Weightman Raiders are already in the Junior Final but the Vikings don’t have 1 a date for their Senior Cup semi-final against Diss. Letter from EH Bulpett to Horstead Parish Clerk dated 27 November 1998. 2Jennings, M Royal Air Force Coltishall: A Station History. (2007) Spalding, Old Forge Publishing. Pp136-137 3 De Havilland Mosquito Letter from Elsie Baker to ‘The Marlpit.’ (Undated) Paul Morse 4 Information downloaded from Findagrave.com 10/09/2019 and:https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/ https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126945 last_tommy_gallery_04.shtml

[ 36 ] [ 37 ] A Very Wet and Windy Day to Save the Planet!

Plan�ng trees is our most powerful weapon in the fight stopped, the wind con�nued but was welcome, as it was against climate change. Col�shall Tree Warden, Peter blow drying some rather wet clothes! We were rather Croot describes how he and a group of local volunteers muddy, especially some of the children, who took great braved the elements early one Sunday morning, to delight in ge�ng even muddier (sorry mums and dads!). plant over sixty Oak trees in Col�shall. The project was kindly funded by Broadland District Council. There were a few more trees to plant but Col�shall Tree Wardens planted up the rest of the trees a few days On Sunday 23rdFebruary, a group of very enthusias�c later, bringing the total planted to sixty trees. We have volunteers gathered at the entrance of St. Michael's kept some trees back as replacement in case of any Lane, Col�shall (off the Tunstead Road, St. James), to ‘casual�es' due to a hot summer(!?). So we be plant thirty-five oak trees. Never heard of St Michael's monitoring our plan�ng over the next months. Lane? Neither had I - and I have lived here all my life! - So many thanks to… Broadland District Council for un�l some very kind soul researched into what I thought financing the project and to our Tree Warden was Green Lane, was in fact St. Michael's Lane (any ideas coordinator John Fleetwood, who did much spade work why it is called that?!). (pun intended!) To make sure that this project There were around twenty-five of us, the be�er happened. prepared with wet weather clothing, they, as it turned Thanks to the supplier of trees, stakes, tree shelters, etc. out, the more fortunate ones! It had been raining who, although very busy on the morning we arrived to heavily the night before and had appeared to have collect the above, managed to get all our stuff sorted stopped but the wind certainly hadn’t! I had been efficiently and quickly. Many thanks, especially to the looking at the weather report the night before and it brave volunteers and to the fellow tree wardens who looked as though the band of rain would be gone by our cheerfully carried out the plan�ng in some of the worst star�ng �me of 10 am - I wish the weather had watched condi�ons I have been in whilst tree plan�ng. Finally, the same TV program as I had! thank you to the landowners who generously permi�ed Just as we were demonstra�ng the way to plant a tree, us to use their land for this project. and fix the tree shelter, the rain returned and with the Several of the more senior planters will not be here in wind blowing, almost horizontally! Fortunately this fi�y years �me to see the progress of the trees but didn’t deter our band of tree planters, who bravely hopefully the younger planters will come here (possibly sloshed their way to the previously posi�oned marker with their children!) And proudly say “I did that!”. I canes and began plan�ng the trees. We had a wide age wonder what their world will be like in fi�y years �me?! range of tree planters, everyone all mucked in together to get the job done. Many hands made light work and a li�le a�er 11 am all the trees were planted, the rain had by , Col�shall Tree warden

The tree-plan�ng volunteers! [ 38 ] [ 39 ] The New Outdoor Learning Area… The start of Spring has seen the life in the newly redeveloped pond area really begin to re-establish. The children took part in the Big Schools Bird Watch during Forest School and outdoor learning sessions, and saw a variety of species from Magpies to THEThe TRANSFORMATIONtransformation OFof our OURwil WILDLIFEdl ife area AREA Greenfinches, from our new bird hide.

In February 2019 Col�shall Primary School started a fundraising campaign to transform their almost derelict pond area into a outdoor Our resident Robin visits every day and learning zone for all pupils to enjoy and benefit from. A year on, Alice and Isla (Year 4 pupils) from Col�shall Primary Journalism Club some of the children have made bird boxes describe what has happened, and the staggering impact that the community and parents have achieved in bringing this project to to try and encourage Robin to a�ract a mate to nest life. in the wild area. We have also put up a bug hotel on our new bird hide shed and Year 2 children have Generous dona�ons from the local community have led to Our pond was overgrown with an invasive weed and made mini bug hotels which are placed around the a massive change to our wildlife area here at the school. surrounded by a ro�ng boardwalk, the outdoor learning boundary. area had few resources and was so small it could only Pupils now have a brand new pond, with wonderful, The pond itself is se�ling in, with new marginal plants cater for small groups. wooden decking and a bird hide. During our Outdoor taking root - and we’ve seen frogs in there too which Learning Sessions we have equipment like nets to allow From a small seed of an idea, we now have a flourishing is great news. We are hoping that they will lay some us to pond-dip so we can iden�fy bugs and plant life. outdoor learning area and established pond for the frog spawn soon. There are musical instruments, bean bags and books in children of Col�shall to learn and play in for many years The wild area and pond is a real benefit to the the new bird hide and even brooms to sweep the deck to come. like pirates! children; they really enjoy maintaining the space, This project would not have been possible without the caring for the environment, developing and designing As a school we would like to say a massive thank you to community of Col�shall working together. I was quite improvements, and spo�ng and iden�fying wildlife. everyone who took part in raising money for our wildlife humbled by the amount of support given by the local area. Jess King, Outdoor Learning lead community; the church held collec�ons, the post office We asked Rebecca, Cameron and Ava what they make of and Pharmacy had collec�on boxes; Roys of Wroxham the new wildlife area: Rebecca said: “the new pond area and Wroxham Lions made dona�ons and lastly the a�racts lots of wildlife, such as frogs and newts”. Friends of Col�shall, who throughout the year ran Camerons reply was: “I like it because we can go pond events to raise a large chunk of the funds. dipping”. Ava added: “I love the new rope swings and hammock”. I would also like to thank anyone else who supported or In the future, Mrs King said: “At some point I would like made a dona�on towards this project. to be able to fund raise for a treehouse pla�orm in the wildlifearea”. Dan Mckeown, Headteacher

By Alice and Isla

The outdoor area with over-grown pond and damaged boardwalk…

[ 40 ] [ 41 ] FROM THE REVEREND for their loved one’s graves. Our annual Churchyard Gi� Day for Col�shall Churchyard maintenance ( cu�ng the grass, Wroxham’s United CHRISTOPHER ENGELSEN work on trees etc) is an opportunity to give a dona�on, which will be received in the church by a church member. Reformed Church Dear friends Alterna�vely, dona�ons can be le� at the Rectory, 24 SPONSORED There are many ways to tell a story-word, Rectory Road, Col�shall. Services and Events in March: ac�ng, music, or by visual symbol. At FLOODLIGHTING AT (all at the Hub unless stated otherwise). Coffee is served Col�shall School the Easter Story was CORONAVIRUS a�er each service. Please do join us! told by the Open the Book team-with Let us have a common care for one another-not panic ST JOHN THE BAPTIST help from the students ac�ng out various buying or spreading anxiety- but by simply following the NHS CHURCH ● Sunday 5th April 11am - Holy Communion led by parts. The crea�ng and contempla�on of guidelines. In Church at Holy Communion for the dura�on Rev Bruno Boldrini a picture or visual crea�on says what words can’t always say. of the Coronavirus, only the bread will be given to the ● Sun 12th April 11am - Service led by Rev Carole This works well with our schools early learning groups in the congrega�on. Would you like to sponsor the Pearl parishes. In the Peace we are not -for the dura�on of the Corona ● Sun 12th April 10.45 -12.25-JAM in the Church virus-shaking hands. Please keep an eye on one another in floodligh�ng at Col�shall Church Hall the community, including those who may have to ‘self ● Sun 19th April 11am - All age worship led by TBA HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN EASTER GARDEN to remember a person, pet or Have you ever-or have young people in your family- made an isolate’. They will need our thoughts, phone calls and ● Sun 26th April 11am-Service led by Mr Andreas Easter Garden? I know at Hainford School last Easter the prayers. event? Moering students all made one, each of which were handed to me from each child during assembly. They were a splendid sight, ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETINGS Ourweekly Community Caféon a Thursday 10.30-12pm, is a and the school does this every other year-so I look forward ● Monday 4th May 7pm Horstead Church Please contact Linda on 01603 great opportunity to meet up with friends over a coffee and to next year’s offerings! But why not make your own Easter ● Thursday 14th May 7.30pm Col�shall Church slice of homemade cake. It’s free - all we ask for is a small 738629, or email dona�on towards the costs. All are welcome! Garden for your home? It need not be too large, and is fairly ● Sunday 17th May 9.30am Hainford Church ● Sunday 17th May 11am Fre�enham Church [email protected] easy to make: JAM (our Sunday Kids Club) is always open to new children for ● Wednesday 20th May 7.30pm Stra�on Strawless fun, cooking, games, cra�s and Bible stories. Please contact Fill an old tray with soil in which are small flowers on one Church We ask for £10 which will be Chris Billing at [email protected] or 01603 783992 for side. Place an old glass or cup on its side in the tray near the All are welcome to come and hear the Reports, and if on the more details. flowers and cover it with soil, to make a cave ( the tomb). Church Electoral Roll, nominate, vote and stand on the PCC. used for the upkeep of our Opposite the flowers and tomb, make a bigger mound of For more details please contact Revd Chris Engelsen. beau�ful Church Rev Bruno Boldrini | 94 Welsford Road NR4 6QH Tel: soil, and put three crosses on top. The central cross is Jesus’ 01603 453071 [email protected] Secretary: cross, and the two either side, the thieves who were ‘Escape to the Country’ Lynne Howard, 01603 738835 crucified with him. You can use palm crosses given out on Have you ever watched the BBC TV programme ‘Escape to lmhoward100@b�nternet.com Palm Sunday at Church, or make them from twigs and string. the Country’? Whether your answer is Yes or No the fact is Put stones over the hill of the crosses ( Calvary). Put a stone you are already part of this idyllic community of rural English half over the entrance to the tomb, and place a small folded villages. Here is a special treat for you. It’s one of those Hoveton’s St Helen’s Catholic cloth or �ssue inside- (the folded grave clothes ). Put moss summer�me events that our villages do so very well!: over any bare soil. Church A SUMMER CONCERT performed by THE NORFOLK CHORAL ● Mass every week at EASTER GARDEN PRAYER: FELLOWSHIP, conductor Elayne Green. With a ‘Wimbledon 5.30pm on Saturday. Father God, bless this Easter garden I/we have made. favourite’ served during the interval-chilled wine and fresh (First Mass of Sunday) For in your love you placed Adam and Eve in Eden to care for strawberries and cream! The venue is The Tithe Barn the earth. Horstead. The date is Saturday 6th June 2020. Time: 5pm . ● Every Wednesday at Help us to care for your good earth you have made. Doors open 4.30pm. This special concert has been co- 9.30am In your love you brought your Son to Gethsemane where he ordinated by Sue Blackburn who also co-ordinates the ever choose to die to show your love for us. popular yearly Christmas Concert in the Tithe Barn. Ticket The Fourth Wednesday Club meets monthly for all Help us to choose the way of love, and to watch and pray price is £6 per person with all proceeds donated to All over 60’s at 11.30am. The cost is £2.50 which with Jesus. Saints’ Church Horstead. It is essen�al to book early to avoid In your love Jesus cried ‘Father forgive’ as he was nailed to disappointment due to number restric�ons in the Tithe includes lunch, refreshments and entertainment the cross. Barn. To reserve your �cket(s) please e mail Help us to die to every bad and evil that gets between us [email protected] giving your name and telephone and Coffee morning drop- in (in conjunc�on with and you and one another, and so live to you-forgiven and you will receive an acknowledgement by 25th May. You can ‘Churches Together’) are the first Wednesday every forgiving. alterna�vely also phone Rev Chris Engelsen on 01603 month at 10.15. Come and have a chat and In your love, your Christ was laid in the stone sealed garden 737255 to book. refreshments for £1.50. All are welcome tomb. I wish you all a very blessed Easter in faith and hope and Help us to rest in you and wait for your grace and power. love. Rooms available for hire for up to 20 people. Call In your love you raised your Christ and set us all free. 01603 782758 for further details. Help us to live his risen life and bring your love to all. The Reverend Christopher Engelsen (Rector) 01603 737255 [email protected] | The Reverend Keith Dignum Through Jesus Christ our Risen Lord. Amen. Priest in charge: Fr. James Walsh Telephone: 01603 710397 (Associate Priest). Facebook Col�shall Group 01692 403258. Horning Road West, Hoveton, CHURCHYARD GIFT DAY SATURDAY 11th APRIL 9am- 12pm of Parishes | www.coltishallgroupofparishes.wordpress.com Col�shall Church is set in a garden that celebrates the Benefice Safeguarding Officer Sheena Macronald 01603 Norfolk, NR12 8QJ resurrec�on-the Churchyard. Thank you to all the families 890442-please phone for any worries regarding abuse or www.sacredheartnorthwalsham.com that help to keep it �dy and in good order through their care safety of children, young people, or vulnerable adults.

[ 42 ] [ 43 ] Please tell our Advertisers you saw them in the Marlpit WORSHIP IN THE BENEFICE IN APRIL 2020 Wed 1st April, 10am Holy Communion at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall Sunday 12thApril EASTER SUNDAY Readings; Daniel 3:14-20, 24-25 & 28; John 8:31-42 Readings; Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 9.30am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Hainford Sunday 5thApril PALM SUNDAY 9.30am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead Readings: Philippians 2:5-11; Ma�hew 27:11-end 11.00amHoly Communion at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall 8.00am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead 11.00amHoly Communion at St Swithin’s, Fre�enham 9.30am Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Hainford 10.00am Family Service at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall Sunday 19thApril The Second Sunday of Easter 11.00amHoly Communion at St Swithin’s, Fre�enham Readings; Acts 2:14a & 22-32; John 20:19-end 4.00pm Evening Service for Palm Sunday at St Margaret’s, 8.00am Holy Communion at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall Stra�on Strawless 9.30am Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Hainford 9.30am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead Monday6th, Tuesday 7thand Wednesday 8thApril – “COM- 11.00amHoly Communion at St Swithin’s, Fre�enham PLINE” A quiet, short �me of prayer and a message for this Special Sunday 26thApril The Third Sunday of Easter Week as we prepare to follow Christ in His Passion. Readings; Acts 2:14a & 36-41; Luke 24:13-35 Monday 6thApril – 7.30pm at All Saint’s, Hainford 9.30am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Hainford Tuesday 7thApril – 7.30pm at All Saint’s, Horstead 9.30am Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Horstead Wednesday 8thApril – 7.30pm at St Margaret’s, Stra�on 11.00am Holy Communion at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall Strawless 11.00amHoly Communion at St Margaret, Stra�on Strawless

Thursday 9thApril MAUNDY THURSDAY Sunday 3rd May The Fourth Sunday of Easter Readings: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Readings: Acts 2:42-end; John 10:1-10 7.30pm Joint Benefice Maundy Thursday Service at St John 8.00am Holy Communion at All Saint’s, Horstead the Bap�st, Col�shall 9.30am Morning Prayer at All Saint’s, Hainford 10.00amFamily Service at St John the Bap�st, Col�shall Friday 10th April GOOD FRIDAY 11.00amHoly Communion at St Swithin’s, Fre�enham 10.00am The Sta�ons of the Cross at All Saint’s, Hainford (a 6.00pm Evensong at St Margaret’s, Stra�on Strawless. Joint Service for the Benefice). Broadgrace Church Dates For Your Diary

● 1stApril: Tiddlers (9.45am at The Tithe Barn)

● 10thApril: Broadgrace Good Friday Service (10am at North Farm, Burgh-next-Aylsham, NR11 6TW)

● 12thApril: Broadgrace Easter Service (10am at The River Rooms)

● 3rdMay: Broadgrace tenth birthday celebra�on (10am at The River Rooms) - All welcome

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[ 46 ] [ 47 ] DIRECTORY OF CLUBS AND USEFULTELEPHONENUMBERS Jerome Mayhew(Member of Parliament) ● Police [non-emergency]: 101 ● Coltishall Post Office: 737277 T 865763 The Stable, Church Farm, Attlebridge, NR9 5ST ASSOCIATIONS Duncan Baker(Member of Parliament) 1st Buxton Lamas Sea Scout Group: Vereen Marcer T 279457 ● Broadland High School: 782715 ● Coltishall Surgery: 737593 T 020 8895 6944 Tudor House, Grammar School Road, North Walsham 1st Coltishall Brownies:Hayley Wild T 07391762146 NR28 9JH 1st Coltishall Guides: Ellie Ashby - 07944 780421 and ● Crime stoppers: 0800 111 8555 ● Coltishall Community Centre: 738435 Suzie Bielby 07787 850198 Fran Whymark (Norfolk County Councillor) ● Coltishall Primary School: 737481 T 07907 163123 48 Vera Road, Rackheath, NR13 6QN 1st Coltishall Rainbows: Joanna French T 07808286293 ● Priest in Charge, Coltishall Rector: 737255 Jo Copplestone (Broadland District Councillor) 1st Hoveton &Wroxham Sea Scout Group:T Hughes 01692 ● Citizens Advice Bureau [Norwich]: 03444 111444 T 860840 Breck Farm, Swannington, Norwich,NR9 5TB 630688 ● Good Neighbour Scheme (Horstead & Coltishall): 07799 Ashmanaugh & Barton Wanderers Cricket Club: ● Dial-A-Ride Community Transport: 01692 500840 277455 Bernie Everrett –[email protected] COLTISHALL PARISH COUNCILLORS Aylsham Chess Club: David Owen T 01263 731327 ● Coltishall Pharmacy: 736784 ● Recruiting Sergeant (Defibrillator): 737077 www.coltishallpc.info email: [email protected] Badminton Club:Carl Tipple T 738399 Broadgrace Church: John Hindley 737974 James Matthews (Chairman) T 568443 Grebe Cottage, Church St, Broadland Chess Club:Paul Badger T 737572 NR12 7DL Broadland Tots2Teens Club: Nicola Pye T 430525 Monday to Friday 7 am - 6 pm Rebecca Furr (Clerk) T 0744 6542156 -2 Hall Cottages, The Windle Bure Valley Youth Football Club:Ted McCarter T 07760 424264 Opening times Saturday 8am-6pm Acle, NR133JT Coltishall & Horstead Youth Forum:Mike Waren T 7 738332 Sunday 8am-12noon Brian Getley:T 736644 - 73 Church St, Coltishall, NR12 7DW Coltishall & Horstead WI:[Secretary] Rosie Howell T 737762 John Haschak: T 611031 - 8 Hautbois Rd, Coltishall, NR12 7JW Coltishall Allotments Assoc: [Chair] Bill Dickson T 07717 895574 Doreen Snelling:T 737955 Red House, Church Street, NR12 7DJ Coltishall Church Bellringers:Mike Gander T 738788 Michael Spinks: T 737332 Alan's View, 11 Frogge Lane, NR12 7JT Coltishall Commons Management Trust: Barbara Elvy T 01508 HORSTEAD TITHE BARN COLTISHALL VILLAGE HALL Michelle Thackham T 07747 708400 - 7 Rectory Close, Coltishall, 558761 NR12 7HJ Coltishall Cricket Club:Kevin Fisher T 07849 275688 Mon - Badminton: Carl Tipple T: 738399 (7 pm - 10 pm) Mon - Term time Rainbows [5.00-6.00 pm] Nicola Chaney T 07789 677873 The Annex, Church Farm, 9 Gt Coltishall Jags Running Club: Alan Groves T 737262 Tue - Pop-up Café: Sylvia Coward T: 737917 (1st Tue 10 am -12 noon] Brownies [6.15-7.45 pm] Hautbois Road, Coltishall, NR12 7JW Coltishall PF Bowls Club: Mike Warren T 738332 Richard Germany T 07919 511622 Church Farm, 9 Gt Hautbois Road, Coltishall Labour Party: Stephen McNair T 737830 Wed - Jubilee Players: Ros Chamberlin : 736287(7.30 pm 10.30 pm) Tue - Vibe Fitness [6.00-8.00 pm] Coltishall, NR12 7JW Coltishall Tree Warden: Peter Croot T 737427 Tiddlers Baby & Toddler Group: John Hindley T: 737974 Coltishall VH & Recreation Ground [CAST]:Doreen Snelling T (1st & 3rd Wed- 10 am-11.30 am) 737955 Horstead Parish Council Meeting (2nd Wed 6 pm - 8 pm) Wed - Short Mat Bowls (September- March 7 - 9 pm] COLTISHALL PARISH COUNCIL MEET ON THE 2ND TUESDAY AT Community Lunch Club: Joan Milligan T 737270 6.30 PM IN THE CHURCH ROOM, RECTORY RD, COLTISHALL Thu - Lingolions Kate Miles-Bagshaw 07973 728458 Thu - Term timeDancezenery [2 -7 pm] Coltishall Create & Share Craft: Sylvia Coward T 737917 Children Age 0-3 (9.45 am - 10.15 am) Friends of Colt & Spixworth Surgeries:Maureen Neal T 897506 Children Age 4-7 (3.45 pm - 4.15 pm) Films at Frettenham V Hall:Mike & Alison Brown T 737504 Children Age 7-11 (4.30 pm - 5 pm) Bookings for Hall , HORSTEAD & STANNINGHALL Friends of Coltishall Church: Henry Bradshaw T 738009 All Thursdays Term Time. Hautbois Rangers: Emma Brown T: 898983 ● Regular hire £7.50 per hour, Casual one off hire £14, Horning Amateur Theatrical Society:Pauline Gedge T 01692 PARISH COUNCILLORS Fri - Short Mat Bowls: Jill Bunn T: 737516 (7.30 pm - 10.30 pm) www.horsteadparishcouncil.org.uk email: [email protected] 630554 Horning Bridge Club:[Chairman] Ron Hunt T 781416 Sat - Craft Buddies: Karen Rhodes T: 861515 (2nd Sat 10 am - 4pm) ● Saturday and Sunday 9 am - Midnight: £200, Campbell Jones (Chairman) T 927592 Horstead Bowls Club:(Secretary)Peter Cobb T 737600 34, Tungtate Way, Horstead, NR12 7EN Horstead Tithe Barn Com Ass:[Chairman) Luke Blackburn: T ● Evening 6 - Midnight: £100. The Hayloft is available for hire: Caroline Fleming(Vice chair) T 07771655637 07392 605735 Horstead House Mill Rd, Horstead, NR12 AU7 £12.60 per 3-hr session or £5.25 p/hr for shorter periods , Horstead Trust: (Chair/Clerk) Barbara Gidney T 737900 ● Bar by request. Suzanne Hall (Clerk) T 07476 952824 Hoveton Wroxham & District Gardening Club: Pam Culley T The Main Barn is available for hire: 112 Norwich Rd, Horstead,NR12 7EQ 782041 Full or part-day sessions on Sat/ Sun @ full day rate £200, For bookings and enquires : Doreen Snelling Tel 737955 Alan BrowneT 07789 967909 Jubilee Players:Ros Chamberlin T 736287 9 am - 12 pm (15 hrs). Holly Tree Cottage, Mill Lane, Tunstead NR12 8HN North Norfolk Speakers Club:T Stuart 07775 793999 Part-day sessions £12 p/hr. Tom CainT 736840 Probus Club of Broadlands:Steve Robb T 736597 *Saturday evening session (6 pm - 12 pm): £100 2 Patricia Avenue, Horstead NR12 7EW Rotary Club of Broadlands:Richard Mayer T 715796 Mornings or afternoons on weekdays @ £12 p/hr with COLTISHALL CHURCH ROOMS Diane Williams T 737719 Rotary Club of Wroxham & Bure Valley:Jonathan King T 784482 a minimum booking of two hours. *Bar by Request. Mon - GirlGuides[6 -30 pm - 8.30 pm] 5 Robert Norgate Close, Horstead, NR12 7BT Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes:(Llamas KC Lodge) Create and Share Craft [2nd Mon 2 pm - 5 pm] Bob Jennings T 738335 Robert Jennings T 738335 Royal British Legion:Mr B Jordan T 738325 Charge to regular (weekly) hirers: 11 St Margarets Close, Horstead, NR12 7ER £19.50 per 3-hr session, £78.00 p/mth or £936.00 p/yr. Tue - Forever Fit 60+ -[10 am - 11 am] Spirit of Coltishall Association:(secretary) Jeff Ayling Coltishall P Council Meeting [2nd Tue 6.30 pm- [email protected] Margaret GurneyT 737235 For booking & enquiries:Sue Blackburn Tel: 737495 8pm] 1 Heggatt Hall, Horstead, NR12 7AY Wellington Dance (Ballroom Dancing) Dave Cox T 737907 Wroxham and District U3A: (secretary) Jan Barrington T 712150 email: [email protected] www.horsteadtithebarn.wordpress.com Wed - Community Lunch Club [12.30 pm - 1.45 pm] Philippa WeightmanT 737962 Wroxham Flower Club:Pat Barnes T 720466 [Not August] 1 Stanninghall Cottages, Stanninghall Rd, Horstead Wroxham Folk Dance Club: Mick Wade T 01692 404447 Coltishall & Horstead WI [3rd Wed 2.30 pm 4.30 pm] NR12 7LY Wroxham & Hoveton Lions Club:Ron Hill T 07753 382410 Vacancies: Victoria BakerT [TBA], Wroxham, Hoveton & Belaugh Twinning Association: Thu - Yoga [9.30 am - 10.45 am] Jane Monks T 782496 The main barn is currently free for long term The Old Forge House, Crostwick, NR12 7BB Wroxham United Reform Church: Rev Bruno Boldrini T 458873 evening hire on Tuesdays & Thursdays [Secretary] Mrs Lynne Howard T 738835

HORSTEAD WITH STANNINGHALL PARISH COUNCIL MEET ON Bookings for the Church Room: THE 2ND WEDNESDAY AT 6PM IN THE TITHE BARN, RECTORY ALLRD,6 HORSTEADFIGURE TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE PREFIXED “01603” Pop up Cafe and Short Mat Bowls suspended on March 17th Coronavirus concerns ● Regular users:£6.50 p/hr £17.00 per 3-hr session ● Casual users (one off use): £11.00 p/hr Did you find 10 cream eggs Bookings and Enquiries: Joan Milligan T: 737270

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