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Breckles A magazine of local news for the Wayland Group of Parishes Gt. Hockham May 2020
WAYLAND GROUP DIRECTORY COUNTY COUNCILLORS Caston/Griston—Clare Bowes 07789 796937 Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Fabian Eagle 07450 679838
DISTRICT COUNCILLOR Caston/Griston/Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Phil Cowen 488393
PARISH COUNCILLORS Caston—Chairman: Jaki Porter 483899; Clerk: Jo Blackman 01842 829821 Gt Hockham—Chairman: David Childerhouse 498079; Clerk: David Childerhouse 498079 Griston—Chairman: Marie McGuinness 01953 884354; Clerk: Jean Williams 884082 Merton—Chairman: Martin Parker 883492 Clerk: Vicky Turner 07961 806849 Stow Bedon and Breckles—Chairman: Jonathon White 498515; Clerk: Julian Gibson 499980 —Chair: Jean Kaye 488254; Clerk: Kim Austin 07811 287071 Thompson WAYLAND GROUP MINISTER AND CHURCHWARDENS Interim Parish Minister: Adrian Bell Breckles—St. Margaret: Karen Allen 498408 Caston—Holy Cross: Bridget Hall 483751; Lois Gill 488157 Gt Hockham—Holy Trinity: Jamie Plummer Griston—St. Peter & St. Paul: Sylvia Wright 883608; Keith Mace 880153 Merton—St. Peter: Carole Haggett 483526 Stow Bedon—St. Botolph: Beryl Warren 483375 Thompson—St. Martin: Katharine Wolstenholme 483318 VILLAGE CORRESPONDENTS Breckles: Bella Sandcraft 798983 [email protected] Caston: Annabel Valentine 483440 [email protected] Gt Hockham: Christine Rogers 498492 [email protected] Griston: Jacqueline Bailey 889922 [email protected] Merton: Helen Riley 884555 [email protected] Stow Bedon: Gillian Machorton 483446 [email protected] Thompson: Bronwen Tyler 483741 [email protected]
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2 In the Church of England Diocese of Norwich Breckles, Caston, Great Hockham, Griston, Merton, Stow Bedon and Thompson www.wgp.church WORSHIP IN MAY 2020
Unfortunately our church buildings remain locked on advice from the Diocese and we have been asked to display the following notice: COVID-19 The Church continues to be alive and active but our buildings must close We are seeing a huge increase in the number of people falling sick with COVID-19. We must distance ourselves from one another and prevent the spread of infection in order to save lives. Therefore, as well as public worship being suspended, this and all church buildings in the Church of England are now closed. Our worship of God and our care for each other continue but cannot be done in this building. The following contain details of how to join others online for prayer, worship, study & community life. www.dioceseofnorwich.org www.facebook.com/waylandchurches https://www.waylandermagazine.org/wayland-benefice-church-page The vicar, the Red. Adrian Bell can be contacted in an emergency as follows: Revd. Adrian Bell (parish priest) 01760.627.039 [email protected] Contact details for the churchwardens for each parish are on the front cover of the Waylander.
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3 VICAR’S LETTER
Spring There is no doubt that my favourite season is Spring and whatever is happening in the world I think that it is important to thank God for this time of year. Along with so many people in our communities my wife and I have been in isolation, but it has not stopped our contact with the outside world. Having meetings on Zoom and contacts on our mobiles, endless telephone calls and lots of letters being sent out, has kept us very busy. Many people are saying that they are using this time for reflection and to be thankful. All our prayers are with those working in the NHS and also carers whether in Thorp House or in the community. Having two doctors in my family and one who is the consultant for St. Christopher Hospice in south London dealing with so many virus cases at the moment, the weekly clapping outside of our house has meant a lot. This spring will be a time to stay safe, look to the future, make plans and keep busy. The Bishop of Lynn has asked me to stay as Priest-in-Charge until the coronavirus has run its course and I have agreed to do that. Also I would like to have a service of thanksgiving for the Group of Parishes when this virus is over. Also if sadly you have had a funeral service during this time of closed churches I will arrange for a service of thanksgiving, with no fees payable, just to make up for the time when churches were closed. In the meantime if you wish to be part of our weekly service you may go on line and following the readings and short sermon and take part in the prayers:- www.waylandermagazine.org/wayland-benefice- church-page
May God bless you and keep you safe. Adrian Bell
4 BRECKLES NEWS AND VIEWS Breckles, both the Wayland Benefice and St. Margaret’s Church, Breckles are pages you May 2020 might like to follow, although we do still try As you will know, all events and activities to make sure as much information as are on hold at the moment due to the possible still goes into our Waylander print Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. As version too. Breckles is perhaps one of the quieter As part of the Good Friday recordings villages in terms of activities and events our Churchwarden Karen Harries Allen with a lower population than most in the sang Were You There (When They group, we are quite used to the odd month Crucified My Lord), and this deservedly where things are a little quiet! However, received many comments about how there are two key changes to that now. . . moving it was. As I found it particularly Firstly, as the Waylander is online in beautiful I thought I’d take a look at its addition to the print format, we now have origins to find out more. our own Breckles page on the Waylander Were You There was most likely to have website at waylandermagazine.org where been composed by enslaved African- we hope to add some general interest and Americans in the 19th Century, and was first historical pieces in due course. We have published in an 1899 book of Old Plantation already added some images of St. Hymns. It dwells on the details of the Margaret’s there but if you have any more crucifixion and in 1940 was one of the first content you’d like to submit for the site spirituals to be included in any major please send it to me at American hymnal. Thought to be one of [email protected] as it will all be Mahatma Gandhi’s favourites, it has also most welcome. In particular we would love been recorded by artists such as Paul to add to our image gallery there so that’s a Robeson, Marion Williams, Sam Cooke, challenge for all budding photographers Johnny Cash, Harry Belafonte and Chris who may have their cameras to hand in the Rice. lockdown! Somehow the version recorded for Good Also, as part of the group of parishes in Friday seemed particularly poignant and the Wayland Benefice we are, of course, more moving than ever as it appeared within a wider church community, and this towards the end of the day, and the has been very active behind the scenes recordings overall perhaps prompted those during April. The Benefice has its own page who watched them to really stop and think on the Waylander Magazine web site so about Easter very differently and on a much much of this activity can be viewed there, deeper level. With daily updates during and we were thrilled with the news that Holy Week from Adrian, the new recordings Revd. Adrian Bell has agreed to stay with and services online, combined with a bit us as Priest in Charge. We were also pleased more time than usual for us to absorb the to be one of the parishes involved in the content and pause and reflect on the Good Friday recordings, which formed the meaning and story of Easter, the power of first virtual tour uploaded to the Wayland working together as a group of parishes Benefice You Tube channel and Facebook became more evident than ever. page – yes the Wayland Benefice one of Bella Sandcraft those too! So if you’re on Facebook and in Breckles Correspondent
5 CASTON COMMENT
Hello everyone in Caston. Did you know we had our very own Banksy living in our village? At Easter a beautiful picture of Holy Cross Church painted on a tile was left on the church wall by the gate. I suspect it was part of the Norfolk Rocks Group. Occasionally you will see these painted stones around our village and they are often removed and re-hidden. It is a bit like finding treasure. Well in our case at Holy Cross – it is. We are going to put it in the church for safe-keeping and at a later date will auction it for the NHS. We will keep you posted – meanwhile enjoy the picture. Some good news for Holy Cross. We have received two grants for our toilet project – thanks to Graham Penfold for steering this project.
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6 If anyone needs any help during these if the second phase of the hall exterior difficult times – don’t hesitate to contact refurbishment can proceed in June as myself on 488157 or Bridget on 483751. planned. With the shutdown there is Lois Gill difficulty obtaining supplies as priority is understandably being given to NHS Caston Church Lottery establishments and some of the required The April lottery was drawn on 3 April sub-contractor services, such as staging, are 2020 by Jane Allen, Greenlawns, due to not currently available. coronavirus situation. With our treasurer Frank Brown’s Congratulations to the winners as retirement at the end of April we are very follows:- pleased to announce that David Leach has 1st Prize £30 Sue and Tony Ash kindly agreed to take on the important duties 2nd Prize £20 Kay Farmbrough of treasurer for the village hall trust. The 3rd Prize £10 Jason Drake (second month village hall trust has been very grateful to in a row!) Frank Brown for the professional service he The lottery will be collected when all the has given to the financial affairs of the trust isolation issues have been lifted, so do not and his guidance on Charitable Trust worry. matters. Thank you Frank for your excellent If you wish to join Caston Church Lottery service. please call me on 01953 483640. David Blincow Lynne Wellbelove Chairman Caston Village Hall Charitable Trust Caston Church Cleaning Telephone: 01953 488495 As the Church is shut you can all practise Mobile: 07747 007747 your cleaning at home, Caston will have the tidiest gardens and cleanest houses! Caston W.I. All look after yourselves and hopefully First of all I would like to publish a message we’ll be able to meet again soon. from our President Wendy Edwards. Many thanks. “I hope everyone is coping during these Lynne worrying times and thank them all for the Caston Village Hall support that has been going on. I am very The village hall remains fully closed and all proud to be President of such a wonderful events cancelled. Many folk are missing the group of ladies. Please all keep safe and usual activities but it is likely to be can’t wait to meet up again when this is sometime before we can safely reopen and over.” certainly quite some time before the Friday I am not going to state the obvious about “Drop In” can sensibly resume. no activity but focus on the positive about The hall management have taken this time what we have been doing due to the to have the hall ceiling and lighting replaced imagination of members. which was completed in April. It has We have had telephone and internet freshened up the hall and the new LED light contact, quizzes, and our monthly bloom of panels will certainly reduce the lighting the month competition has taken place with running costs. the winner being Helga with a Fritillaria At the time of writing there is uncertainty Crown Imperial. Thanks to Marge and
7 challenge set by Jaki Porter we have had a this strange time we are living through. hilarious Easter Bonnet parade on line and Surely none of us could have imagined this even an entry from Elsa who is stuck in scenario six months ago. Difficulties bring New Zealand – well done ladies. Thank out both the best and the worst in people, goodness for modern technology. and thankfully in our lovely village we see We also had a virtual grand national nothing but the best, with everyone looking sweepstake with the proceeds going to the out for their neighbours and those on their NHS – well done Lynne for organising it – own, helping in all sorts of ways all of it was great fun. Winner was Louise, who which make a difference. gets a certificate. Conversations with other walkers We are also going to do e-cards this reinforce the feeling that things can never month for our birthday girls – Wendy, Olga be the same again in the months and years and Jackie J. to come and maybe, as the pause button has I personally thank goodness for having been pressed in our lives, now is a lots of gardening to do and tending to the wonderful opportunity to re-evaluate our village hall troughs where the tulips are now priorities and appreciate things of lasting blooming – although unusually at this time value. Families, friends, the beauty of God’s of year they have needed some watering in creation and the freedoms we enjoy in our the last week or so. I have been busy nation are the first that spring to mind, ordering the plants for the summer display followed by many other things that we can and this will keep us busy potting them on so easily take for granted. We can’t begin to ready to plant out at the end of May. imagine what it must be like for people in At this time in our lives I think that our tower blocks with young children, those W.I. prayer sums it up – a snippet of which whose homes and businesses have been I have included here:- flooded recently, refugees in camps and the “Let us make time for all things; make us millions in Indian slums. grow calm, serene and gentle. Grant that we One of the many inspiring things I’ve may realise that it is the little things that been sent during this time is a short clip of create differences; that in the big things of a beautiful Christian lady living in a life we are one. And may we strive to touch township in South Africa. She showed us and know the great woman’s heart common round her immaculate one-room house with to us all; and O Lord God, let us not forget great delight. Into this is neatly fitted all that to be kind.” is needed for her and her three daughters We may have missed all sorts of outings, and grandson, including a plastic bath to meetings, meals and social occasions but we stand in and wash with water brought from know we have all this to go back to, so let’s outside and heated in a kettle. They all try to make the most of our isolation and completely trust in God for provision of all most importantly keep well. their needs and have never gone without Sue Ash food. What a reminder of how much we have to Thoughts from your village be thankful for, and how we need to hold on correspondent to the one thing that never changes – the Surreal, unprecedented, challenging … love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, many similar words are heard describing Saviour of the world.
8 This is a prayer that you may like to use GRISTON GOSSIP God of hope be with me, calm my anxious mind, take away fear and keep me safe until March roared in like a lion and went out like the threat passes. Surround me with love a lamb. And as we were asked to go into and deliver me from evil. lockdown it seemed that mother nature herself was mocking us as the sun shone Protect my family; preserve us O God, brightly in the bluest of blue skies, the provide for our needs and keep us healthy. primroses, daffodils and violets crowned the May our communities, despite enforced verges and ornamental fruit trees and isolation, be united through acts of loving magnolias came into their own in our kindness. Surround us with love and gardens. Our communities themselves have deliver us from evil. blossomed with offers of help to vulnerable and isolating people which has proved to be We ask you to help those in the NHS as they as equally uplifting as anything Mother care for the sick, and give them and all those Nature could offer. We are so lucky to live in the front line services your strength and in our rural communities and to some extent protection. Enable businesses to manage the still enjoy are wide open spaces whilst economic challenges, and those facing observing social distancing rules. Stay Safe unemployment to cope imaginatively and be and Keep Well. provided for. Surround them with love and deliver them from evil. Coronavirus Support Group Scott Currie (landlord at The Waggon) Grant wisdom to our government and wise and James Gulliver have set up a helpline counsel to the Prime Minister. Guide their for those in the community who are in decisions in accordance with your will and need of help during the current crisis. If you purposes. Surround them with love and need help with anything you can contact deliver them from evil. them through the Griston Coronavirus Support Group via Facebook or ring 01953 Enable those working to stop the pandemic 528128 and someone will endeavour to help globally to make the breakthroughs they you. need to eradicate the virus and reduce its impact on the nations of the world. Mobile Library Service Surround them with love and deliver Coronavirus update them from evil. Considering the current advice from the We thank you for your unfailing love and Government, we have taken the decision to ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ, suspend the mobile service for the our Lord and Saviour. Amen foreseeable future. We will continue to offer e-mobile services and we will also be arranging an online weekly bounce and rhyme (videoed without an audience present), plus a daily story time will be available online for our younger customers. If you are a mobile library customer with books on loan we will automatically renew
9 them until further notice. Mobile library involved in the Bookworm sales. We hope customers can also use local libraries. you are well and staying safe. Understandably, given the current Church News circumstances, the sale scheduled for 6th Griston Church Lottery June has had to be postponed. We very The lucky Griston Church lottery winners much hope to be able to re-book for July or for May are: August, depending of course on government 1st prize Mr Andrew Garner No. 96 advice. We take the safety of all our 2nd prize Mr Mark Dorrington No. 65 customers and supporters seriously, and will 3rd prize Griston Church No. 18 not wish to put anyone at risk. The 2019–2020 Griston Church Lottery is We are also unable at present to accept shortly coming to the end of its year so we donations of any sort, and hope you will would like to say a big thank you to all who bear with us. took part in it and hope you will join once Thank you all for your continuing support again for the coming year. of our fundraising efforts; we cannot The lottery runs from June to May and succeed without you. Bless you, Keith, costs £1 per month, per number, and is Caroline and the steering group. collected on an annual basis. The first prize is £25, second prize £15 and third This is England prize £10, as long as we have sufficient The lilac lifts her purple flowers against a participants cloudless sky; The money goes towards paying the the cherry shakes a shower of petals as the Church Insurance and the Parish Share. breeze goes by… If you would still like to take part again, The hawthorn is afire in all its crimson or would like to join, please get in touch loveliness; with Sylvia Wright 01953883608, June The bright laburnum burns and shimmers in Sayer 07743283032 or Brenda Southgate her golden dress. 01953483201 who will come and collect The yellow gorse upon the common flares your money during the month of May, if against the green – we’re allowed to socialise again. Of the leafing birches with their rain- Once again Thank You for taking part, washed silver sheen… Good Luck and Stay Safe for the coming The peach upon the wall uncurls its buds – year and future. And at our feet – Sylvia Wright Says: the earth is clothed with beauty; At this time of lockdown I hope you are all every meadow is a sheet – keeping well, no doubt, like me finding lots of living colour – of jobs to do when before you never had the buttercups and daisies – time. Looking forward to when we will be thick and bright blowing glowing – able to be together again. Stay safe all a-dazzle in the sun’s clear light. everyone. This is England… Sylvia and despite the changes of our day – She is gay and fresh and lovely in the month Grand Second Hand Book Sales of May. Greetings and best wishes from everyone Even where we’ve marred and scarred her
10 and the green has gone – super moons this year they were in March In her city gardens flowers still bloom – and April. A Super moon is when a new or And life goes on. full moon is less than 223,694 miles from Taken from "Silver Linings", by Patience the Earth. When it is closest to the Earth it Strong, published 1939. is called a lunar perigee when it is furthest away from the Moon it is called a micro Rory’s Nature Corner moon or a lunar apogee. During a super It has been really weird being in lockdown moon the Moon can look like it is up to 14% and not being able to go out anywhere bigger and up to 30% brighter than normal. Eleanor has been doing yoga with her This is due to an optical illusion. During friends on group chat in the garden. It was moonrise, the Moon looks bigger than it is quite funny to see her fighting off chickens because our brain doesn’t understand that and cats while she was supposed to be doing the sky is a dome. It falsely projects things yoga. I don’t think it was a wave she gave near the horizon to appear larger than they me when she saw me laughing at her from actually are. The best time to see Super an upstairs window. Dad has created an moons are at sunrise and sunset. Each office in the dining room which Mum is not month has a different name for its moon and happy about. This is the main room of the several cultures from around the world house and can get quite noisy. The other day adopt different names, including the we were being silly and didn’t realise Dad Algonquin Native Americans who live in was on the phone, meanwhile Midnight was Canada and the North East United States. being sick in the passage way because she Here are the names of the traditional moon had eaten too much and mum was trying to names from Northern Europe and shoo her out of the house, unsuccessfully. Algonquin. Dad put the phone down came through and N European Algonquin said “I am on the phone to Japan, do you Jan 10th Moon After The Wolf think you can act sensibly” We just got the Yule Moon giggles and now whenever we need Feb 9th The Wolf The Snow someone to be quiet we say “ I am on the Moon Moon phone to Japan” Mar 9th The Lenten The Worm Eleanor spends ages throwing sticks for Moon Moon her cat Midnight. To be fair Midnight does Apr 8th The Egg The Pink run after the sticks but is yet to master Moon Moon returning them. At least it keeps them happy. May 7th The Milk The Flower If you run out of toilet roll in the coming Moon Moon months Harry has a suggestion. During the June 5th The Flower The war they were used to making do and Moon Strawberry mending and they often recycled things. A Moon farmer who lived in Thompson during the July 5th The Hay The Buck war would use newspapers as toilet roll but Moon Moon his wife would use the wrappers from Aug 3rd The Grain The Sturgeon oranges because she had more delicate skin. Moon Moon Just an idea!! 2020 is the year of two super Sep 2nd The Fruit The Full Corn moons and one Blue Moon. There were two Moon Moon
11 Oct 1st The Harvest The Hunter’s Hockham were quick to get together to try Moon Moon and ensure that everyone in need knows **Oct 31st/ The Hunters’ The Beaver there is local help at hand. They set up the Nov Moon Moon Hockham Good Neighbour Scheme Nov30th/ The Moon The Frost exclusively for Hockham Parish with a team Dec Before Yule Moon of healthy helpers organised and ready to try Many of the names kind of explain and help those that are vulnerable or forced themselves and you can work out from the to self-isolate while the disease is with us. months they correspond with what they are This is particularly helpful for those who named after. Some of the Algonquin names live alone. They have created a specific are a bit weirder. I like the Worm Moon. The email address, a daytime telephone number Native Americans named this after the and web page on the village website for worm trails they would find in the newly people who have problems they cannot deal thawed ground in March. The Milk Moon is with, such as shopping, getting prescriptions called this because it is the time of year delivered, etc. The information was also when the cows would be allowed to graze prominent in the In-Touch village newsletter on the meadows meaning their milk would in April. A number of people have offered be much richer than at other times of the to be Helpers for the Scheme and the Eagle year. You could even make up your own, so pub is currently taking orders for midday Mum said March could be the Magnolia meals delivered daily to those who need Moon or January the Lambing Moon, that them. was lambing time on the farm when she was Sadly, the village VE Day Celebrations growing up. You could even use annual have been postponed, as has the Hockham sports events like the FA cup Moon or the Horn Fair this year. The church, of course, Wimbledon Moon. Mum said it wasn’t like all other churches, is closed for really the idea she had in mind. The full services, and we have missed our Holy Moon on the 31st October is also a Blue Week services of Compline and for Maundy Moon. This is when two full moon happen Thursday at Holy Trinity – always a very in one month or there are thirteen moons in special time for us. Hopefully by the time one calender year. It is not because the the Waylander Magazine is published we moon is blue or made of blue cheese!!!! might be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel of this dreadful pandemic. We would like to express our sincere thanks to Bella and the Waylander team for producing the HOCKHAM HAPPENINGS excellent Waylander Magazine online, a great achievement and in such a short time. At the time of writing this we are still in Now our relatives across the country and lockdown, and are all instructed by the across the world can also see and read about government to stay at home, protect the what goes on in our benefice. NHS and save lives. We are told that we have not yet reached the peak of infections of the coronavirus and many more lives will inevitably be lost in the near future. These are extraordinary times. The residents of
12 MERTON MIRROR such as food or medicine, or just a welfare check, please contact Breckland‘s Merton Parish Council Update Community Support Hub via Merton Parish Council will continue to https://www.breckland.gov.uk/coronavirus discharge its core responsibilities and in Individuals who want to help Breckland’s light of the recent Government legislation Community Support Hub can register their shared earlier this month, The Corona Virus interest at: Act 2020, up until 7th May 2021, Parish www.voluntarynorfolk.org.uk/home-2/ Council meetings will be held remotely volunteering-2/register-to-volunteer-2/ whilst the dangers of holding a physical meeting continues. Merton’s Standing Age UK also offer great support networks Orders are suspended with immediate effect throughout the region: and the Parish Council will adopt the Age UK Norfolk Information and Advice practice dictated by this statutory guidance. Helpline: Regular Parish Council Meetings will T 0300 500 1217 Open 10a.m.–4p.m. take place on dates to be announced shortly. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 10a.m. Please watch the parish website for – 1p.m. Tuesday and Thursday (this is information regarding dates as well as on currently a call back service) the Parish Council notice boards. Agen das E [email protected] will be published ahead of any meetings. Age UK Norfolk Telephone Befriending The public will be permitted to access these Service: meetings remotely and information T 01603 785 223 regarding how to do so will be circulated E [email protected] once a meeting is scheduled. Likewise, Merton Parish Councillors are Please note that the Annual Parish here to support the community and offer Meeting and the Annual Meeting of the help where villagers are having to self- Parish originally planned for 19th May 2020 isolate and need assistance. If you feel you has been CANCELLED. would like more help in accessing support, For further information please email the then please do contact Jayne Wesley-Smith Clerk at [email protected] on 01953 881919 or Louise Hyde on 01953 Merton Parish Council wishes you all 889419 who will be pleased to help you continued good health and looks forward to wherever possible. supporting you in any way it can. Vicky Turner, Parish Clerk
COVID-19 – Coronavirus Parish Council Update Advice on what do in the case of COVID- STOW BEDON NEWS AND VIEWS 19 (coronavirus). Our most vulnerable residents are being Well, what a strange Easter period that was! encouraged to get the help they need So sad not to have been able to celebrate this by calling Norfolk County Council on special time of Christ’s Resurrection with 0344 8008020 or visiting church services. A big thank you to Ann www.norfolk.gov.uk/coronavirus. who co-ordinated the outside readings, If you are in need of essential supplies music and singing at all 6 of our churches
13 in the Wayland Benefice. If you haven’t 07785790431. already seen them please google Well the weather has been so glorious that www.waylandermagazine.org. I haven’t done much reading lately. Another book by Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth CORONAVIRUS Tale is a must and I have re-read All the WE CAN HELP YOU Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and If you are self-isolating because of can definitely recommend that. coronavirus the Stow Bedon & Breckles Otherwise the garden has taken over and Residents Association can help. if anyone would like any day lilies – yellow Please contact our co-ordinator, Gillian, or russet – or crocosmia Lucifer (originated on 01953 483446 or 07788 913294 by Gertrude Jekyll at Breckles Hall) and not If you are self-isolating or following an invasive variety – which I potted up last government advice on social distancing autumn for the fete – please do get in touch! due to Covid-19, 483 446. Proceeds for the church of course. we can help with:
Shopping Posting mail THOMPSON TIDINGS Collecting prescriptions Providing a friendly voice at the end of the What’s on in May phone I am afraid nothing is the answer. At least Our volunteers will take every precaution nothing public. We can see from the people to prevent spreading infection. Shopping using Hall Lane that some of the village are will be left on your doorstep enjoying the footpath network as part of And if you are able to join our volunteers their daily exercise. However, when sitting please contact Karen 07909 510718 or working in the garden we have commented that it is now as quiet as it was Stow Bedon & Breckles Annual Fete when we first lived here in the early 80s, if As you will probably have heard this has not quieter. No constant background drum had to be postponed but we have, of traffic from the main road and few cars optimistically, arranged a new date for passing through. The spring bird song has Saturday 5th September! Please make a note been lovely and we have enjoyed having the in your diary…. time to sit and watch the blue tit darting in and out of their nest under a roof tile. There Mum’s Little Dog! are some benefits to lockdown! I can see Susie dog is a sweet natured little Jack from posts on facebook and by talking to Russel of about 12 years of age who is in friends that many are busy behind the scenes need of a new home. Her owner, June Bush, with gardening , sewing projects and those has recently gone into a residential home so jobs around the house which have long is no longer able to look after her and the needed doing. family all have bigger dogs that tend to Why not tell us what you have been doing scare Susie. If anyone has any interest in to pass the days. f you wish to submit any finding out more about Susie for themselves articles about coping with isolation, or a friend please ring Judi on thanking people who have helped you or
14 sharing some of the projects and activities go to Dorothy and their family at this sad you have sue to pass the time we would love time. to hear from you. If you need help of any sort Collecting your Waylander copy Please note the item under FOR ALL While the current restrictions are in place OUR VILLAGES which reminds everyone we are protecting our deliverers and of village contact details. The village yourselves by not delivering door to door. correspondents, Parish Chair and Clerk, This is why hard copies are placed in the and the churchwarden can all be contacted church porch, as soon as they are available. if you need help or are feeling isolated. There are also copies in a box in Pockthorpe They may not themselves be able to Lane, outside Sywood, 21 Pockthorpe Lane. help you but they are well-placed to know If you are collecting a copy for yourself and who in your part of the village is able to step are helping out a neighbour who is in in. isolation and unable to get out, please take a copy for them too. Thompson Town Land Charity Fund The magazine’s also now live online at A reminder that this fund is there to help www.waylandermagazine.org The site is people of Thompson in times of hardship. If still under development but we would you are suffering financial difficulty due welcome images, stories, poems, recipes to to Coronavirus we may be able to help. make lockdown more interesting, tips for The sum available is not large but it is coping and more, and preferably uplifting. there to ease a short term crisis if needed. Please remember that copyright applies as Please contact 01953 483741 or 01953 with the printed magazine and we reserve 483476. the right not to publish anything contentious or inappropriate. Dates for the Diary The uncertainty remains over future events. Sad news and condolences Even once restrictions are relaxed it will Many of you will remember Lance take a while to get things up and running Stephenson. He and Dorothy lived at again. Even then we suspect many will be Church Farm until a few short years quite reluctant to mix in crowds once more ago. This was the second time they had for quite a while. made their home in the village, having moved away previously for work reasons, October 10th Book Sale but loved it so much they were keen to return. They moved away more recently Church to be near family in Sussex. We are Unfortunately the church building remains devastated to learn that Lance has been a locked on advice from the Diocese and we victim of Covid-19. He was such a lovely have been asked to display the following man who did a lot in the village, especially notice: for the church, and was a familiar sight COVID-19 walking his dog. He and Dorothy always The Church continues to be alive and supported village events and were a active devoted couple. Our deepest condolences but our buildings must close
15 We are seeing a huge increase in the events. Watch this space and our websites number of people falling sick with (as above) for further details when we are COVID-19. We must distance ourselves able to publish them. from one another and prevent the spread of The Waylander on line infection in order to save lives. One really good thing to come out of the current situation is The Waylander is Therefore, as well as public worship now available on line at being suspended, this and all church https://www.waylandermagazine.org/. buildings in the Church of England are It’s a wonderful way to keep up to date now closed. with news from all our villages and also to be able to read messages from Adrian as Our worship of God and our care for each well as his services & sermons. There’s no other continue but cannot be done in this excuse to miss one of his sermons now! building. Adrian & Marian have been a wonderful support during this difficult time and sent The following contain details of how to Easter cards and palm crosses to many of us. join others online for prayer, worship, A very thoughtful and kind gesture which study & community life. was very much appreciated by us all. www.dioceseofnorwich.org Adrian was due to leave us in June this www.stmartinsthompson.co.uk year but every cloud has a silver lining and www.facebook.com/stmartinsthompson the Bishop of Lynn, with the blessing of the www.facebook.com/waylandchurches Churchwardens, has asked Adrian to stay on https://www.waylandermagazine.org/wayl until the community gets back to normal and-benefice-church-page and the procedure to find a new permanent The vicar & churchwarden of this church priest can begin. In the meantime the Bishop can be contacted in an emergency as has made Adrian Priest-in-Charge of the follow Wayland Benefice and because they could Rev Adrian Bell (parish priest) not physically meet Adrian had to swear the 01760.627.039 [email protected] oaths of allegiance over the telephone. He Katharine Wolstenholme (churchwarden) says it is the first time that he has sworn at 01953.483.318 a Bishop down the telephone! He may be [email protected] cooped up in his house but he hasn’t lost his “Love the Lord your God with all your sense of humour! heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . . . Parish Council Love your neighbour as yourself. There is It is with sadness that the Parish Council has no commandment greater than these.” learnt of the death of Lance Stephenson. To protect the vulnerable amongst us Lance and his wife Dorothy were active please do not leave your home except for members of the village for many years until essential trips. they moved to Sussex to be near their All planned activities & events have sadly family. been cancelled due to the Corona Virus but as soon as we are out of lock down we will Offers of help be advertising our revised programme of We hope you all received your flyer from
16 the Parish Council giving details of where New Community Hall to obtain support should you need it during The Community Hall continues to be isolation and lockdown. closed. We managed to have a video committee meeting using a group W.I. conference site so that we could all see each If you use the internet and facebook you can other and talk together. It has to have been join and read posts from our group and from our shortest meeting ever as there was little the Norfolk Federation to help you keep in we could discuss or plan! touch. If you are working on your garden and Regular Events would like to show off some of the results All regular events in the Community Hall why not contribute some images to the continue to be cancelled for the time being. virtual gardens open page Teresa is creating We will advertise once we can start them up on the community hall website: again. thompsoncommunityhall.co.uk. Email them to her at Gardens Open 2020 [email protected]. It is highly unlikely that we will hold Otherwise enjoy a virtual walk around this, not least because we will not have other people’s gardens! time to plan and advertise. Even if restrictions have been relaxed, we suspect Stitchers people will still be reluctant to welcome Members have been posting on facebook strangers onto their property or risk some of the projects they have undertaken congregating in groups to visit. Instead, during lockdown. Our group page is also a Teresa has suggested we have a virtual good place to ask each other crafting gardens open. If you wish to take part send questions and get advice with projects as photos or video clips of your garden to well as a way of keeping in touch. What a [email protected] You lot of show and tell we will all have once we can show the garden developing from meet again. spring into summer colour, or perhaps feature some special blossom or plants, Millennium Green some of the wildlife visiting, a project March Lottery winners: completed in the garden during lockdown, 7.3.20 42 Jane Fensom or just do a few photos of when you feel it 14.3.20 14 Sue Baldocl is looking its best. Teresa has started a 21.3.20 41 Shane & Lisa Hodges page on our website for this and we already 28.3.20 11 Sandie Minto have some images of early spring in some Owing to the present restrictions on of the village gardens. Our website is: movement and meeting people which have https://thompsoncommunityhall.co.uk./ been put in place due to the Covid-19 epidemic we have had to suspend collecting Thompson Weather for March the lottery subscriptions and paying the Date Rainfall Temp Wind speed lucky holders of winning numbers. We will High Low pick up where we left off once restrictions mm deg C deg C mph are lifted. Thanks, Jean March 18.1 15.6 –0.7 32.0
17 Thank You But first a little background. The Black I would like to say a big thank you to my Death, as it is usually known, was Bubonic neighbour Sue who has topped us up with Plague. It was typified by buboes (a shopping essentials on several occasions swelling or boil) in the armpits, groin and and shared her Mothering Sunday cake with neck. There was also pneumonic plague us – it was a delicious concoction of sponge, which attacked the lungs but it seems cream and strawberries. Thank you Sue. generally accepted that it was mainly Also, grandson Will for fetching the click Bubonic plague which swept England. It is and collect orders. He is on furlough and said to have killed between a third and a half getting a bit bored so enjoys the opportunity of the population but since there was no to get out and do something useful. Bron census or accurate count of the population this is impossible to corroborate. One Contacts if you need help or feel isolated measure is said to be the number of clergy During this time of crisis we would like to who died in each village. We know that remind our readers that the magazine Thompson had three clergy in charge during contains contact details for key people in all that year which suggests it hit the village our villages. The village correspondents, quite hard. Why are the priests significant? clerks and Parish Council chairs, ad Because they were usually those who cared churchwardens are all people you can for the sick and dying, and had the medical contact in time of need. If they are not able knowledge of the time which was largely to help you themselves, they are the people herbal based. In mediaeval England people who know who to contact. The parish were religious and turned to their clergy in council for your village may well already times of need. have a system of help or may know which We don’t have very much information of your neighbours can help out with about what Thompson was like at that time. shopping or other needs. The We know that less that 50 years before the correspondents, in their role of collating Plague, in about 1300, building had begun information from village organisations for on a new church. Although not yet as big as publication, have each built up a good the structure we have today it would have knowledge of their own village network. If been a very striking and awe-inspiring new you are feeling lonely and isolated and just feature in the village and probably replaced need someone to chat to over the phone or an earlier simple timber-framed structure. internet there will be people willing and Many of Norfolk’s wonderful churches keen to be contacted or to contact you. were built around this period, designed to Please feel able to contact one of the names show off the wealth earned from the wool in the magazine and we will do what we can trade, and It must have been a time of to help. optimism before disaster struck. Like all villages Thompson was made up A Mediaeval response to the aftermath of a number of manors and the organisation of a time of crisis in Thompson of the community would have been along Instead of dwelling on the only previous feudal lines. The main, or capital manor of time in our history to compare with the Thompson, was owned and inhabited by current Covid-19 crisis, I am focussing on descendants of the de Thomeston family, the the measures taken in the aftermath. property having descended into the female
18 line for more than one generation. Its most modelled on the lines of that at Rushford recent heiress had been Agnes Crowe who and the document endowing the College had married Sir John de Shardelowe. Agnes was presented to the Bishop of Norwich, and John had 3 sons. The two younger sons, William Bateman, on 3rd April 1350. Sadly, John and Thomas, inherited Thompson John died in 1350 so he did not see the Manor between them. Their father had died creation of the College building, the in 1344 and their mother in 1349. It is installation of the priests and the beginning possible Agnes died from the plague but it of improvements to the new church. A few is equally probable she died of old age. years later his widow was to become a A lot of things came together at one time religious votary living in a vestry at the which may have prompted the actions John church. Thomas died in 1387 and his grave and Thomas were to take. England at this can be found in the south transept or chapel. time was a highly religious country. It was The endowment meant that St. Martin’s believed that the more one gave to God the became a Collegiate Church, which more quickly one earned passage out of technically it still is, endowed with all the purgatory and a place in Heaven. With no Thompson manorial lands owned by the scientific explanation to understand the brothers, while a College or place of visitation of the Plague people turned to residence was created for up to six priests to religion to help them. However, there was live in. The rules they had to abide by were also an increasing problem with retaining quite simple. One of their number was to be clergy in the parishes for various reasons, chosen as Master; they had to live, eat and but partly due to the attractions of new pray in common together in the College, places of learning and pilgrimages. One of saying a mass daily for their foundation, and the after effects of the plague was a were not allowed to victual or lodge away reduction in the number of clergy and, for from the College. However, unlike the rules those of all strata of the population who had of some monastic establishments, they survived, a new confidence in defying the could resign and leave the parish. There is ancient rules. In addition, John and Thomas, believed to have been a small chantry chapel although married, had no heirs. already on the site chosen for the College, All the evidence suggests that John and hence its distance from the church. Thomas were very religious. They were However, this was altered an extended to influenced by the new ideas of Edmund accommodate the priests. Much of it still Gonville, founder of Gonville Hall remains today as College Farm. Cambridge, who also founded a religious In one move the two brothers had solved house, the College at Rushford, Norfolk in many of their problems. Their wish was that 1342. The two brothers may well have the terms of the endowment would last visited this as it is situated close to the start forever. Their religious needs were taken of Peddars Way, near to Thetford and care of because the priests’ daily role was to relatively easy for them to reach, especially say a mass for their foundation and pray for as they travelled to London on business. the brothers and their ancestors. Daily Certainly, they would have learned of prayers and such a generous gift to the Gonville’s ideas. church would ensure the brothers and their Whatever their primary reasons, John and family a place in Heaven. The rules also Thomas decided to endow a College prevented absenteeism. The lack of heirs
19 was no longer an issue; the priests ensured from 1350 onwards. It is hard to envisage it continuity by running the manor as the lords today, but mediaeval churches were highly of the manor would have done, employing decorated with brightly coloured interiors local people and farming the land. The and there is no reason to suppose Thompson clergy were the social services of the day as was any different. Traces of the original well as providing hospitality for travellers. paint still exist on some of the woodwork Thompson residents would have had their such as the rood screen. No doubt it was spiritual, social, health and economic needs also full of artefacts given by the wealthy. catered for. The innovative religious The fact that it is regarded by experts as a establishment soon attracted wealthy significant building with some stunning religious people who donated land, goods architectural features indicates the care and and money to St. Martin’s in a quest to money that must have been lavished on it. please God or came to live here. By 1381 So, our history shows an innovative many new names were added to the Poll Tax response in this quiet corner of Norfolk to list and it is said there were a great many the problems created by a national disaster. freehold and copyhold tenants holding It will be interesting to see what new and between one and ten acres, with no one innovative measures will be put in place below the rank of smallholder. A big change across the country once we have seen the from the feudal days before the Plague. last of Covid-19. It is said that the Plague effectively saw a beginning of the end to the control that the Lords of the Manor had once had. Under the old system many villagers were not free FOR ALL OUR VILLAGES men and were effectively owned by the lord of the manor. Those who survived now Wayland Partnership Development found their skills in demand and could seek Trust higher pay or better conditions. They no Wayland House longer felt the need to observe the rules Wayland House is currently closed but we about not leaving their village, partly can respond to emails sent to because in some cases there was no longer [email protected] We look forward a lord alive to enforce it and partly due to a to being back serving the community. demand for their labour by others. Incentives such as a cottage were also Dragonfly Gallery offered, leading to the practice of tied Our gallery co-ordinator, Ruth, is working cottages on farms and estates we still see from home on our websites and is creating today. Then there was the psychological a virtual exhibition for May on the effect of survival which led to many feeling Dragonfly Gallery site. Address to view is that if they could survive that they no longer https://thewaylanddragonflygallery.co.uk/. needed to be subservient. In Thompson the We will , of course, accept submissions incentive may have been to stay as the for this virtual space so that local artists village prospered. working from home can still show their Along with the improvement of living work. If you wish to take part using any standards in the village the church medium of art and craft please use the underwent much improvement and addition contact details on the site. We look forward
20 to hearing from you. We think it important Lockdown. to continue providing a varied range of art NWT have cancelled all events to June, for the public to enjoy during this difficult but they and we do not expect to start again time and hope it will be uplifting and until the Autumn at the earliest. inspirational. I will write again when we have an update. Many thanks to our supporters and Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Breckland Local we hope you all stay safe and well. Group Fiona Roat On 11th March we had a talk from Brenda and Ralph Todd, “The Return of the Grand Second Hand Book Sales Osprey”. Greetings and best wishes from everyone This was beautifully illustrated with involved in the Bookworm sales. We hope photos taken by the Todds over years of you are well and staying safe. their involvement with the project and birds Understandably, given the current in general. circumstances, the sale scheduled for 6th After being successfully living in this June has had to be postponed. We very country for many years, the Osprey were much hope to be able to re-book for July or persecuted to extinction, much of which was August, depending of course on government due to egg collecting. advice. We take the safety of all our Since the 1950s, there has been a lot of customers and supporters seriously, and will work to bring the Osprey back and the first not wish to put anyone at risk. successful mating was 1959. We are also unable at present to accept There are now good populations in donations of any sort, and hope you will Scotland and Wales and they have featured bear with us. on the BBC’s Springwatch and Thank you all for your continuing support Winterwatch. of our fundraising efforts; we cannot Unfortunately, this was the last of the succeed without you. Bless you, Keith, Group’s events before the Coronavirus Caroline and the steering group.
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