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ReFleCTiONS ON SUMMeR JUly/AUGUST 2021

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Another Drawing Challenge Page 4 Thoughts From My Garden Page 6 And Previously... Page 7 The Forgotten Shops of Heytesbury Page 11

The Organ of Knook: Detective work R C Page 12 J R Useful Contct Numbers Page 14

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Our new feature of people’s experiences has been popular and will be named ‘And Previously’. My thanks to Angela, one of the editorial team who came up with this suggestion; my suggestions apparently were rather moribund. in this edition there are some lovely stories about experiences and the history of our villages… One final point which i need to make clear, please do not take umbrage if you send me a piece and i do not use it. We may have too much copy or it fits in with a theme for later editions.

Front Page: Reflections on Summer

Top left: The iconic screen kiss, getting back to the cinema after lockdown was as wonderful as this monument.

Bottom left: you know it is summer when you see such beautiful bees… HEYTESBURY CHURCH Top Right: Tomatoes, apparently these were a prize winning selection, again an Our work with Heytesbury Open Place image of summer. continues despite Covid 19 restrictions. We now have a schedule of works to repair Bottom Right: The sheep have arrived and the tower roof, and some associated are proving to be effective lawnmowers stonework. All that is needed now is and entertainers! They are different funding! The cost of the work is £28,000, breeds, Romney, Suffolk and Chertexs and half of which will be provided by our own are called Tim, Jim, eubank, Harrison and funds built up by the Friends of the Church Ford. and other fundraising activities such as the Duck Race. Bottom Centre: There is something beau - As it would be difficult and very tiful about the fact we can now go back to expensive to scaffold the tower, we will the beaches, thought this image was very be employing rope access specialists, who lowryesque. will rope themselves to different points on RC the tower and undertake the repairs. We PARISH NEWS do hope that we can complete this work Editor Robin Culver 840790 before the winter. your prayers and [email protected] support would be greatly appreciated. Chairman David Shaw 850372 in the meantime the Steering Group [email protected] has been commissioning reports into ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL drainage and heating. The Victorian drains The Parish News, which is not for profit, relies on and is around the building have been damaged very grateful to all advertisers without whom the magazine could not be produced. Prospective advertisers by tree roots. it is important to get this should contact Katherine Venning (see details below). corrected to reduce damp in the walls. However the Parish News does not endorse any of the Heating possibilities for the chancel and THE ELIZABETHAN EVENING products or services advertised and takes no nave are being researched. We are also responsibility for any disappointment, accident or injury, AT MANOR FARM, CORSLEY howsoever caused, resulting from purchase or considering designs for lighting in the Sunday 1st August 2021 involvement. We welcome contributions on any subject nave, and an upgraded PA system. at 2.30pm & 7.00pm but reserve the right to edit to fit. Opinions expressed in The Parochial Church Council has material from contributors are for readers to appreciate Tickets: theelizabethanevening.com assessed different styles of chair for ease and are not necessarily endorsed by the editorial team. 01373 832113 of moving so that the ‘open place’ can be Gates open 1hr before performance. All editorial copy should be sent to the Editor effectively used. Performance approx 2hrs (inc 20min interval). [email protected] by 10th of previous month. We are so grateful for those who Cancellation in the event of dangerous weather only, continue to support our vision with when performance will be rescheduled. Advertising contact Katherine Venning 840283 Tickets are non-refundable, except for cancellations due to [email protected] prayers and support in many ways. There Covid-19 government mandates. Booking fees may apply. Marketplace contact Katherine Venning 840283 is a long way to go. We need persistence, Please bring your own seating/rug & warm clothes. [email protected] teamwork, and everyone's generosity! Refreshments available, picnics welcome. Printing by Footfall Direct 01225 706058 Robin Hungerford All profits to local food banks. Page 2 THE UPPER WYLYE VALLEY TEAM Our vision is to be open, welcoming, growing and inclusive churches, living within the love of God, and sharing God's love and life with others. upperwylyevalleyteam.com

MINISTRY TEAM LETTER LOVING OUR NEIGHBOUR AS CHRIST LOVES US My love of birdsong has been severely who preach to their unresponsive Have you been told that you need to self-isolate? Do you need some support? tested recently. We have at least three computer screens week by week (i tried it If you would like a chat, prayers, spiritual, pastoral or blackbirds’ nests outside our house. The once). There is no interaction with the practical support and help, please do call someone from cat sleeps atop the wheelie-bin, with a listener, no sense of community. Our the numbers below view in both directions. He takes no notice churches are not silent monuments; they TEAM RECTOR of the hammer-drill alarm calls. i don’t are centres of prayer and praise. Prayer is The Revd Trudy Hobson (day off Friday) feel welcome in my own garden, and the not just words: prayer is at the heart of [email protected] 840081 dog gets dive-bombed if she gets too our worship. it’s like being on the other close. i do hope those baby blackbirds end of telephone call to God. MINISTRY TEAM Team Vicar fledge soon. A bit of silence would be so Those of us who have visited The Revd Clifford Stride (on duty Tues.Wed.Sun) welcome. Taizé can hardly explain the profundity of [email protected] 850941 i was listening to a piano recital the silence. young people (up to the age Ordained Ministers with Permission to Officiate The Revd Diana Hammond 841185 on Radio 3 recently, and during the of 27) come in busloads to stay for a week [email protected] pre-recorded interval talk the pianist was in summer. There are thousands of them. The Revd Jane Shaw 850141 asked: “What’s the difference between They sit on the floor of the tented church; [email protected] giving a recital in an empty hall, and they bring their musical instruments. The Revd Robin Hungerford 840522 [email protected] having an audience”. “The silence!” she The gentle music helps one escape the The Revd Jonathan Hiscox ( day off Friday) said enthusiastically. The interviewer did - tramlines of everyday life, and the long, [email protected] m 851250 n’t seem to understand – silence on air is long silences are inspiring. The worship - Licensed Lay Minister Katherine Venning LLM 840283 scary for a broadcaster. Ten seconds is pers at Taizé are at peace with silence. [email protected] unwelcome, and 30 seconds is a big hole Many of us are afraid of silence. in air-time. The silence of an empty hall We prefer to be busy, we find someone CHURCHWARDENS is neutral: the silence of a concert hall with whom to share our undemanding Boyton & Corton Post vacant Codford St Mary Bridget Lorimer 850201 with an audience is dynamic and inspiring. moments, we read a book, we plug in our Codford St Peter Barbara Tomlinson 850156 The silence of a houseful of small earphones. But if we want to find God, we Alasdair McGregor 850073 children needs investigating; the silence may need to be still, and wait. We can Heytesbury Tina Sitwell 840556 of an empty church may feel good if one find God anywhere, but if we want to Knook Robert Pottow 850285 Norton Bavant John Acworth 840134 is escaping from the hurly-burly, but the pray, church is a good place to be. it’s Edward Moore 840420 intentional silence of a community at good to share a deep silence with other Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis 850496 prayer can open the heart and mind to the people. it’s easier than praying on your Sutton Veny Brian Long 840352 Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card 840022 God we meet there. i don’t envy clergy own. liturgy and ritual are good, but Upton Lovell Andrew Cumming 850834 God-centred silence is best. Try it! THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH Katherine Venning LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Now Thomas (also known as Didymus) Codford Henry Collins 850193 Norton Bavant Didee Acworth 840134 one of the Twelve, was not with the Small change, big impact for the Heytesbury: Roger Hammond 841185 disciples when Jesus came. So the other environment Alison Tebbs 841192 disciples told him, “We have seen the Upton Lovell Sue Bray 850702 lord!” But he said to them, “Unless i WATER WATER WATER BELL RINGERS Nick Claypoole 850724 see the nail marks in his hands and put PARISH CHOIR Katherine Venning 840283 my finger where the nails were, and put Now we are into the summer months my hand into his side, i will not water can be hard to come by for nature. A Memorial Service for believe”. Did you know that every bee collecting Sheila McCormack A week later his disciples were in the water usually makes about 50 trips, each will be held in Sutton Veny Church house again, and Thomas was with time collecting about 25 mg of water. at 2.30 pm them. Though the doors were locked, Bees need water for the same reasons as on Monday 9th August 2021 Jesus came and stood among them and any other living being, and as a means to said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said control temperature and humidity in the to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see hive, and to help digest food. So, over the PRAYER GROUP my hands. Reach out your hand and put next few months why not put out a wide, We pray daily. it into my side. Stop doubting and shallow bowl of water with a few stones if you have any prayer requests, believe”. or twigs in so that the bees can easily please call Anne on 840339. Thomas said to him, “My lord and my reach the water safely. God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have Blessings FLOWER FESTIVAL seen me, you have believed; blessed are AND CREAM TEAS St Margaret’s Church, Knook those who have not seen and yet have Trudy Hobson Saturday 3rd July and Sunday 4th July believed.” (John 20 v 24-29) Team Rector, UWVT 1.30-5pm

Page 3 ANGLING NOTES

After the driest, coldest and probably the and were being taken by the rainbows. May 25th when the mayfly hatch should be frostiest April on record, we moved to Nature is very fickle! Friends also saw heavy i went to the Wylye but saw only what is likely to be the wettest May on some Hawthorn along the hedgerows in one in 3 hours. record. in all of this chaos nothing is likely this valley but i was never fortunate The Wylye is in great condition to be normal. i wrote about the Hawthorn enough to find them blowing onto the with lots of water and the weed beginning fly in my previous notes and suggested river. to grow but i suspect that the water that there should be some about this year. On the 19th of the month i went to temperature is very low and hopefully the There have been but they have been brief the Test again hoping for some Mayfly. i Mayfly will hatch when the water warms a and patchy. saw one at 4.00p.m., tied on a mayfly little. in such a fickle spring everyone has i went to the Test in early May pattern and immediately caught a very struggled with their fishing with only hoping to find a fall of Hawthorn but saw nice trout but that was it. One week later, occasionally someone being in the right none at all. Five days later another expecting the mayfly hatch to be in full place at the right time. member had a very good day on the same swing, i was disappointed to find very The birds who have been feeding fishery, caught lots of trout and reported few. i hooked two trout on a mayfly chicks during May seem to have struggled that the flies were blowing onto the lake pattern but both came unstuck. yet on due to the cold wet weather. Although there are lots of Blackbirds around the garden there have been no fledglings shouting for food and Blue Tits in a nest box seem to be rearing only one young. House sparrows nesting in my Swift box have been successful and fledged a brood.

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ANOTHER DRAWING CHALLENGE

grandson’s line drawing of their dog that drawings and paintings, in this newsletter. he has put onto his skateboard. Cats are Whatever your age, please have a go and quite easy to draw from life as they tend send your pictures to the editor, whose to stay in one place sleeping for much of details are on page 2. the day. Other animals are easier to AR tackle from a photo, but try to capture the image quite quickly for a lively drawing. Also try not to rub out lines; start lightly and add definition later. i like drawing with a 2B pencil which can give you quite a good range of tone. it’s a good exercise to scribble small areas on the edge of your paper using

i know lockdown is easing and we all have so much else to do now, but do try to find time to sit and draw. it really is a relaxing pastime. i find my mind empties of every - thing else and, although the drawing may not turn out as i’d planned or hoped, the differing pressures on a pencil to see the result can be very satisfying. different tones you can get to use in your The topic this time is ‘Pets’. i’ve drawing. included two examples, a sketch that i it would be really wonderful if we did of our cat some time ago and my could include your pet pictures, both Page 4 TURBO’S DOG BLOG FOR THE SUMMER

Fifty years ago, almost to the day, the He didn’t mean it, of course, Guvnor’s wife gave birth but on the way as he continued to feed them and across the car park to the Maternity Ward carefully lock them up at night but, one the Guvnor spotted a large sign with a day, ethel turned up her claws and went picture of a midwife proudly showing off off scratching in a different firmament. a new-born and standing above the That left edith and, after six months on salutary slogan: The first few moments of her own as every chicken’s favourite life are potentially the most dangerous. maiden aunt, she took on a new lease of He did not tell his wife about this until life. Her coxcomb brightened, her eyes lit she had safely delivered a beautiful up, her lavender feathers grew back daughter, and then was able to complete allowing her to blend in at the Conserva - the tale with the felt-tipped graffito tive Party Conference and she strutted below the picture added later by someone about like a model on the catwalk. She who said, the last few are pretty dodgy swatted the sparrows away from her food, too. stayed up late and was alert and ready to i mention this because the chicken go in the mornings especially if there was died at the beginning of June. This was rice or spaghetti for breakfast. edith, not your run-of the mill, She was the Dowager Duchess who common-or-garden, any old chicken but then, to cap it all, and at the age of 14 in an ornamental Pekin Bantam and named human years and 176 in a chicken because she was a pet; a pedigree hen, lifespan, broke all records by laying two and not just a bog-standard farmed eggs in a week, something she hadn’t animal and the last of six given to him for managed for the last five years. it was his birthday in 2006 or 07 and who, something to really celebrate in those together with ethel when they were both tricky times of lockdown 1. very elderly and looking particularly That was more than a year ago, so bedraggled, frazzled and generally tetchy last Sunday when she didn’t answer the and below par prompted the Guvnor to Guvnor’s morning call, we reckon she was put a notice on Cluckingham Palace invit - about 15. He was bereft; i paid my ing the fox, who he had named ‘Dignitas’, respects – and sneaked off during the to put them out of their misery. funeral to eat her breakfast.

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Page 5 THOUGHTS FROM MY GARDEN

What a difference a month makes! damsel and dragon flies, pond skaters and few months ready for the next lot of As i write, we are still about a month water beetles. We have bird boxes and weeds and kitchen compost to start the behind and i wonder if by the time you have broods of 6 blue tit fledglings and process. The pallet bin sits untouched for read this, nature will have caught up. The great tits and sparrows. Mike has trained a year before i put it on the garden. good thing about being behind is, i am a blackbird to take sultanas from his hand There has been a lot said about told ‘if your garden is not under control and he has now brought his young to us. peat free compost lately, and recently i by June it never will be’. Mine is not We also have a hedgehog who we watched a very interesting programme under control and probably never is! feed every night with special hedgehog informing us that peat bogs are an incred - There’s always more to do. The cold east food. ibly efficient way of storing carbon, in wind in April didn’t help and a wet May We have often thought perhaps we fact they do a better job of storing carbon was no good for me, i am a bit of a should turn part of our lawn into a than rain forests. We destroy them at our fair-weather gardener. wildflower meadow. But i visited a friend peril! My preferred garden centre has lots i do my best to attract as many in Devon recently who had a lovely pot of peat that now says ‘reduced’ peat, insects, pollinators and wild creatures as full of wild meadow flowers. i thought it but what it doesn’t say is what the possible to the garden. We have a pond such a good idea that i have done the percentage was in the first place, and which is full of frogs, newts and now same. They look as though they are going how much it has been reduced by! So now to be really good. i only buy peat-free. Not so easy to find i make my own compost and, if i and a bit more expensive, but since it’s say so myself, i’m rather good at it. Only only a boost to my own compost and trouble is, although i try to put anything rarely gets used on its own, i think it’s with seeds in the green bin, inevitably worth it. they survive in my compost bins. i believe Flowers should be out in force it’s because domestic bins don’t get hot during July with a paintbox of colour. enough to kill the seeds. you can always i shall be dead-heading like mad to keep tell where i’ve put my compost on the the show going, harvesting veg from garden because of the mass of weeds! Mike’s plot and watering when things look i have a big bin made from old pallets and dry. This is a month to enjoy the fruits of three conical shaped bins. i rotate by our labour. Remember to sit back and moving the end cone into the pallet bin enjoy! and then the next one into the empty one at the end. you get the picture, so the last and nearest bin gets emptied every Ali Tebbs

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Page 6 AND PREVIOUSLY……

Articles from readers about previous ex - experiences, be it from travels, their appreciate your help in making the Parish periences have proved very popular. occupations or just life in general. if you News a varied publication that reflects There are many interesting people in our have a story to share with us please our readership. parishes, with a wide range of differing contact the editor. We would really SEDCO 704 (PART 1) – AUGUST 1981 After some dozen years’ semi-submersible rig and had seen better experience as a land Surveyor i had a days. Towing speed was a fast walking hankering to ‘broaden my horizons’ some - pace, but luckily the sea was calm. what. Having managed to persuade We busied ourselves erecting antennae to ‘higher management’ that this would be the Decca Pulse 8 and GPS receivers on mutually beneficial, an opportunity the bridge. A most precise height presented itself in the North Sea Oil difference measurement from the business. antennae to the GPS receiver was A good friend suggested that i required, as this was critical, and to assist him in a rig move. My guvnor agreed compound matters only 4 satellites were and i took a short sabbatical. i flew to suitable. These were early days for Bergen and Decca HQ. The task - to tow commercial GPS. Decca Pulse 8 were 704 from Stavanger to a location at shore stations transmitting VHF radio roughly 66 degrees north in the Norwegian beams. Three were required to provide a Sedco 704 under tow with upper right superstructure showing GPS and Decca antennae cables, and the Sea. We had to position the rig within 10 resection triangle – the middle of which mountains of Norway in the distant background. metres of where a previous prospecting was your position. vessel had found a large field of ‘black Sounds simple – but it was not! intimidating and bullying some crew gold’ – well that’s what the geologists had 704 being under Norwegian franchise members. Neither was he the ‘sharpest - said. ensured the food was excellent, though tool in the box’ and we all wondered how We were lifted in an open basket accommodation Spartan. However, it was he had progressed so far. He seemed some 25m on to the rig and immediately a ‘dry ship’, but with a mainly pleasant amused though when i put the GPS liaised with the rig master and the Tug ambience. Unfortunately, the client’s earphones on him and he could hear the commander. Both were ‘old hands’ and ‘head honcho’ was a thoroughly unsavoury bleeping of the satellite as it transited the the tug company was the highly respected Texan called Jack. every other word sky – little things …….! Smit Bros (Rotterdam). 704 was a was an expletive and he delighted in Julian Harvey

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Page 7 DOWN ON THE FARM

Robert is an arable man, Richard a the combine on the passenger seat almost been incredible. dairy man and Nicholas an engineer, so all hypnotised by the motion of the header The hour spent trying to get the aspects of the business are well catered whirring its way through the crops and combine started, to load it onto the low for. Jamie is coming up from behind with seeing that final part of the jigsaw put loader, highlighted the positives to saying a real passion for dairy, as well as a strong into place. The children would eagerly farewell. The cost of a second-hand understanding of the arable aspect, so the wait in the car for daddy to do a round of combine would have been more than the future looks promising (if Canada lets him the field so they could hop in for an hour new machinery for which we have a come home). We are also fortunate to and sit up with him. in our early married greater need, and which will be in daily have a supportive team of staff use. So: no more hauling it up the with knowledge across the board. A36 between farms, no more So it was with a heavy heart frustration as it breaks down once that the ‘head’ over ‘heart’ again - or worse still, spontaneously decision was made to say farewell goes up in flames! to our combine. Robert has driven We will now have our corn cut by a combine every year since he friends who have bigger combines was 17; it is the final piece and this brings another positive, as in the jigsaw of growing crops their machines cover the ground from autumn through to summer. quicker, so what would take us Ploughing, cultivating, drilling three days will take them one, (planting the seeds), rolling, spray - which gives more flexibility with ing, fertilizer and then the harvest: weather conditions, which in turn the time to assess how the may reduce the need to put the obstacles of the year have been crops through the dryer. conquered to produce a crop for So, as we head through summer human or animal consumption. into autumn the scenery will be a in the 85 years we have been at east life, the farm had only just bought a little different for us, but the crops will Farm we have always had a method of combine with a cab and with no need to go back in the ground and the harvesting the crops, be it man and air-con Robert would be black with dust whole process will go full circle again horsepower through to big machines that when he got home and it was not unusual ‘down on the farm’. gracefully move through the crops, for him to change the bath water two or separating the grain from the straw. As a three times to get clean. in 25 years, girlfriend and a wife, i loved sitting up in the development of these machines has Kit Pottow

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YOUNG VOICES With months of lockdown easing, you’d south side of the church above a disused think exploring your own neighbourhood a doorway. in a sombre moment the group The Runaway Pea and The Runaway Pea little unadventurous. But on a balmy late also heard the poignant tale behind one Washed Away (Runaway Pea 2) May Bank Holiday weekend, that’s exactly of the headstones. Written by Kjartan Poskitt, what a group of ‘Upton lovellies’ did! The Now crossing the river, where dogs illustrator: Alex Willmore first of two walks organised by the Village took the opportunity for a much needed Hall Committee, started at the church dip, the group made its way to The Runaway Pea and village hall. Here local historian, liz Heytesbury Mill. Here they were greeted Tibbetts, shared some little-known facts by liz and Caro who offered a shady seat i love this book; came across it 18 months about the village, including the surprising in their beautiful garden and a ago but that is another story. news that it once boasted two monaster - much-welcomed glass of iced elderflower This book is full of rhythm and ies and a castle – complete with a moat! cordial; while in the background sound and you can even see it read by the Some of the people in the village had youngsters splashed their delight in the author on you Tube. heard about these ancient buildings, but equally icy river. Basically, it is the story of a pea didn’t know where they were located, or liz and Caro talked about the that decides to leave the dinner plate and what sources were available to bring the history of the mill and shared an explore his world. There are some lovely past to life. intriguing artefact that had been onomatopoeias in the book and if you From the church, past The leo, the uncovered during some renovation work. read it to a child at bedtime, make the group headed across the fields to Knook. The question ‘what is it?’ tested everyone most of these words. The hedgerows like bridal aisles; awash - until it was revealed as a Bronze Age The pea has numerous adventures with feathery cow parsley. While in the tool. Not fossilised pooh as one person and at one stage you think it is going to distance a lone fox trod carefully through suggested! spend the rest of time under the fridge; a meadow of cowslips, lifting its paws The last part of the journey took be aware little ones get upset at this high as if to avoid crushing them. the group once again across fields to thought, but all turns out right in the end. in Knook, the group paused in Corton, where some enjoyed the Dove’s the cool shade of the 12th century St hospitality before the last leg back home. Margaret’s Church, where Shirley Duff With so much to see and learn about our The Runaway Pea Washed Away pointed out a few of the church’s own villages, so-called ‘staycations’ seem (Runaway Pea 2) fascinating aspects, such as the stained more relevant than ever. glass windows depicting the animal icons This is another adventure involving a pea, of the apostles and the Saxon Arch on the Deborah Gogarty this time washed down the sink with all the misfortunes that could supposedly bring. Again a great book for bed time and encouraging those little ones to eat Puppy & Dog Training Classes, vegetables. All my grandchildren love Behaviour Consultations, Dog these two books and it is lovely watching Walking, Dog Sitting & Day Care the teenagers reading it to their small cousins. Please contact Celia Callan BSc equally, i love both books and will (Hons) Dip CABC not spoil the detail by giving away the Tel: 01985 248277 plot. Mob: 07806779749 Both books are beautifully [email protected] illustrated. www.doggietraining.co.uk you may have heard of the author, www.puppyschool.co.uk he wrote the murderous maths children’s series of books. Beside being a personal Professional, friend he also visited schools for maths Qualified & Insured Tutor lessons. RC INSURANCE THAT'S ON YOUR DOORSTEP We can help you insure your: • Home & Car • Horse & Horse Box • Business • LGV & Commercial Vehicle For a conversation about your insurance call 01985 845116 or pop in NFU Mutual, Perry Farm, Maiden Bradley, Warminster, BA12 7JD

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CODFORD BREAK THE RULES WEEK AT contribution to the event and a THE HUMBLE POCKETKNIFE WyLyE VALLEy SCHOOL phenomenal total of £550 was raised. The PTA was delighted and Rob Barnes was in May 2021 the tenor bell, one of three During a week in May at Wylye Valley eager to praise their efforts, “i am thrilled bells in the tower of St Mary’s Church in C of e Primary School, Codford, the with the amount raised and cannot thank Codford, had been refurbished thanks to a children have been breaking the rules; the PTA enough for their commitment legacy from a local farmer and parishioner, crazy hairstyles, hoodies and trainers, and dedication,” he said. and was returned to its home by Taylor’s nail polish and make up and even turning of loughborough. Weighing a third of a up in mufti on one day – all in the name of Wylye Valley Welcome Back Bath Rugby ton, the bell had been cast in Salisbury in raising money for the school! The weather may have been miserable last 1582 in the reign of Queen elizabeth 1; this The regulation-breaking event was Friday but that was not going to dampen was a few years before even the Spanish organised by Wylye Valley PTA with the the spirits of the children at Wylye Valley Armada and an amazing story in itself kind permission of Head Teacher, Robert C of e Primary School, Codford. The entire but alongside it is an associated tale of Barnes. each day a different rule was school (from Reception through to year 6) a humble pocketknife found lodged in ‘broken’; Monday, saw the children were lucky enough to get a return visit the church rafters by Taylor’s expert watching a film with popcorn when they from Bath Rugby Team’s coaching squad bell-hanger, Anthony. would normally have regular lessons; and, despite the inclement weather, the This was not a penknife; originally, Tuesday, was a mufti/non-uniform day; afternoon was a resounding success. penknives were used for thinning and Wednesday, was a football kit and crazy The rain and wind were howling pointing quills to prepare them for use as hair and hat day; Thursday, the children across the playing field – akin to conditions dip pens and, later, for repairing or turned up in hoodies and trainers; finally, many a rugby player has to endure on a re-pointing the nib but this one was dated Friday arrived and the children were once regular basis – as each class got to later than that and most probably in the again in mufti but this time with nail experience a full-on training session, era of fountain pens, if not biros and felt polish, jewellery and NO homework! from learning the importance of tips, so it was a pocketknife and was each participant paid a £5 communication within a team in order to carried, back in the 1950s, by a bell hanger combat the opposition to taking on the employed by the Whitechapel Foundry. opposing team through child-friendly tag- So it was that one Fred Smith found rugby techniques and ball-passing skills. himself in the tower of St Mary’s in Codford Head Teacher, Rob Barnes, said tasked with performing some delicate “The children had a fantastic time. it was repairs to the tenor bell and its mountings. great to see them acting on the advice of Finding that his tool bag was deficient of the coaches, listening carefully and doing the requisite intricate instruments, he their best to ignore the dreadful weather. fished in his pockets and found his trusty The coaching team were, as usual, old pocketknife. The larger blade was used professional throughout, encouraging the as a screwdriver and soon lost its tip; the children to stretch themselves mentally smaller blade was used to poke out eyelets and physically while, at the same time, in the leather straps that had to be keeping the experience positive and tightened and to accomplish that task it enjoyable. i think each and every child has required sharpening to a fine point. Having benefitted from this amazing opportunity completed his task, he unfortunately and Bath Rugby Club may well have a few dropped the treasured knife and never more supporters now!”. Nell, in year 4, found it. added “i really liked the rain and it was Fred’s personal story is not true; fun learning about teamwork!”. While how could it be? But something like it is Molly, also year 4, gave the experience a certainly possible. Fred, or Joe, or ten out of ten. Amelia (in year 3) enthused, whoever, probably took out his lunch pack, “i really enjoyed the tag rugby game. it broke the blade opening a bottle of beer was my favourite part of the whole day!” and used the pointed one to spear his bread and cheese sandwich. Whatever, it is fun to speculate on the history of that little pocketknife found after so many years in May 2021.

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HEyTESBURy Next to the doctors surgery was THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH THE FORGOTTEN SHOPS OF Mr Sid Hallet the Shoe Mender and then in HEyTESBURy york House you would find the district The Hibbs family have lived in Heytesbury nurse (Nurse Perret) for four generations. When elizabeth Hibbs As one of the oldest Heytesbury born and Just past Quebec House was Dan Suttons died recently she was buried next to her bred residents i remember the thriving village shop, originally Deweys, selling parents and grandparents in the family businesses that occupied the high street. groceries and i remember the gorgeous plot in Heytesbury Churchyard. liz’s What is now 42 High Street was originally smell of freshly ground coffee. grandfather, William Uriah White, was our The Old Bakery with Mr Harry lines as At 66 High St was Harfords dairy last village blacksmith and he was quite a master baker; it was later the village with a few acres opposite for their small character. supermarket. The Spar was opened and run herd of milking cows. 67 High St was the A favourite story concerns a young by eric & Zara yates. village cloths and fabric shop with Keith village lad called Bill Robbins. Children’s The Red lion next door, was once Betts at the helm. More recently it was the toys were simpler in those days and Bill’s also used by the Rendall brothers as a coal post office and then The Resting Post B&B. favourite metal hoop needed a minor merchants and to the other side of the 69 High St was the butchers shop and repair. He asked his mother if he could Spar was taxi service operated by Hewy abattoir run by Mr Sharpe, this is where take the hoop down to the Forge to see if White. Phil Riggs learned the skills of a master Mr White, the blacksmith, could repair it The Raymond Hall, originally a butcher at a young age! for him? His mother agreed but told him to maltings c18 was converted to a silent in the garden of St Johns was a be sure to be back in time for his dinner at cinema The Picture Palace in the 1920’s. it small shop owned by Mr & Miss Haines noon. was later the village hall used by all the selling fruit & veg while also running a The blacksmith was in the process village organisations. On the corner of the tearooms behind The Angel Coaching inn. of mending a cart spring when the young Raymond Hall was a small but fully stocked Also from The Angel was another taxi lad arrived. “Please Sir, could you mend grocery shop and later the sweet shop run service run by Frank Whitfield. The village my hoop?” the boy asked. by Miss Williams (Millie). was serviced by Mr Marks garage & fore - “Bye and Bye” came the reply. What is now the post office was court. “Meantime” the Blacksmith continued, previously The Country larder, a fresh Another tearooms could be found at “Be a good lad and pump those bellows for produce shop. Across the road was a the beginning of Park St owned by Mrs me.” haberdashery where you could buy every - Webb and she grew beautiful Parma Violets The cart spring repair was soon thing from buttons & embroidery silks to that the village could buy and enjoy. completed. “Could you mend my hoop wool & knitting needles. i hope you enjoy my recollections now?” enquired young Bill. But by then Opposite the church at No 54 was of the lovely village of Heytesbury i call another customer had arrived in urgent once a café. home. need of a set of new shoes for his ivy House c18, which was my family Evelyn Riggs carthorse. “Just you keep on pumping home for 40 years, was once used as a girls those bellows for me my lad and then i’ll boarding school and once had attractive be getting around to mending your hoop”. railings to the front but these were taken Do you know the history of your village? young Bill settled down again and pumped for the war effort! please let the editor know for future the bellows for all he was worth. Next door to ivy House was a publications. it appears that there were any convenience shop run by sisters the misses number of other small but urgent jobs to Cooper and then later Vic & Thelma be done that day and each time the hoop Reynolds ran it as the newsagents. repair was mentioned the response was A little further down the High St you the same. “Bye and Bye, lad. But just you would come across the doctors surgery; keep on pumping those bellows for me.” opposite is the Blind House where you Twelve o’clock came and went and one o’ - could find the entrance to little london clock and two o’clock and three o’clock Cottage where you could find the village and young Bill kept on pumping the smithy vets practice. bellows. 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THE ORGAN OF KNOOK restored, the casework has been lovingly future, the iron bellows weights which DETECTIVE WORK cleaned and polished, with transformative replace the eleven bricks have H&H effect; and the 449 organ pipes (each one incised in them. interesting! Almost every organ is unique, and the a musical instrument in its own right) have The organ will be on show at the organ in the little church in Knook is been painstakingly restored and sound as Knook Flower Festival on the afternoons of particularly precious. its history is all its fresh as the day they were made. 3rd and 4th July. it will still be blown by own, with the distinctive feature that the Future detectives will have small human power! And while you are on organ is still hand blown. What makes it so puzzles to solve – the ivory faces of the old detective duties: look for the tell-tale. interesting? keyboards were badly worn and chipped That’s not the original either. The organ dates from about 1850; (just like old teeth), and it would have the original builder is unknown. been hard to play on them for much longer. Mark Venning As recorded in our February The ‘new’ ivory comes from the Harrison edition, it was installed in the & Harrison organ built in 1904 for When contacting advertisers please Congregational Church at the top of Tabernacle Calvinistic Chapel, Aberystwyth tell them that you read about them Chapel Road, Heytesbury, which was built (which was dismantled in 2007). Organ ! in the Parish News ! about 1870. Who did this? A pencilled building is ecologically impressive: nothing inscription deep within the organ perhaps is thrown away if it can be used again. But provides a clue: it reads: W.Millingon, more mysteriously for detectives of the A.N.Singer, Trowbridge, 1889. Millingtons had a music shop in Trowbridge; Arthur Singer was a piano tuner and perhaps worked on organs as a sideline. They were not organ builders, but detective work by Andrew Cooper, the expert who has restored the organ in his workshop on the For all your training wobbles isle of Wight, established a likely link with Julia IMDT qualified PRO DOG certified the Hallett family of organ builders, based Classes and 1 to 1 sessions in Kington Magna. web wobblydogtraining.com The organ was altered for its new home, external casework added, and three call 07795572295 changes made to the pipework to suit a email [email protected] larger building: the bass pipes of the big new Open Diapason stop can be seen on the front of the organ. The original structure and mechanism, including the antiquated ‘long-compass’ keyboards (extending five notes lower than those of later organs) were retained. No changes were made when it was moved to Knook in 1965. The organ was badly in need of thorough restoration. (One keyboard had been unusable for years.) The old, cracked leather which seals the air inside the blowing mechanism has now been replaced; the wind chests (on which the pipes stand) have been dismantled and

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SHERRINGTON mousse. i know that weed in the river has DEREK AND JAyNE BUCKLES to be cut but at the moment it is beautiful, Suddenly it is Summer and the surge of green hair moving with the current and Jayne and Derek are moving away towards growth has been phenomenal. it seemed studded with a mass of flowers. Surely if the end of June. We are grateful for all that Nature held breath during the cold one waits long enough Ophelia will drift by their hard work for the church and spell (so many frosty nights). Now, or perhaps the lady of Shalott. community during their time with us. They however we are submerged by the lushness initially i felt depressed by the arrived to make Codford St Mary their of foliage. Flowers in the garden seem to extent of the forestry in the Great Ridge. home just over 5 years ago after Jayne’s have appeared overnight and on the land However, after an absence of two or three early retirement following many years as a sparse grass has turned into glossy growth weeks i went down a major path and was Rector and Vicar in different Dioceses in and generous loads of silage are taken. amazed by the view that opened up. The the Church of england and the Church in For me, the epitome of Summer is slope that had appeared scraped bare and Wales. The air in Wiltshire being better for the stunning growth of hedge parsley (or barren had greened over. Where the tree Jayne’s asthma, they both quickly settled Queen Anne’s lace). i love the swaying canopy has been reduced the bluebells into village life and enjoyed the many waves that border tracks, lanes and even have spread and stands of birch and beech activities on offer in the Wylye Valley. minor roads. each cluster is made up of were alight with vivid new growth, a Bishop Nicholas granted Jayne Permission tiny flower heads and each of those Capability Brown job without a doubt! to Officiate so she could continue her composed of minute five petal flowers. in the village the swan hatched a ministry assisting Ali Morley and the This year it seems that the Grim Reaper brood of three, a delight to see. The Ministry Team across the Upper Wylye Val - has stayed his blade and that breath of female began taking them to the river and ley Team. english Summer has remained. one was missing. Now the family appear to i first met Derek and Jayne many There are magnificent trees in this have moved down there so fingers crossed years ago when they were actively area, all at this time hung with silken for them. A female mallard was guiding a involved in the Romsey Deanery link with banners. There is the handsome line of little clockwork flotilla but they have now Uganda, a link with the Church in Africa limes at Broadleaze, the road through disappeared. in our garden we had a which continued for many years, involving Chitterne is lined by a lovely row of beech, Spotted Flycatcher showing interest in a several trips to support parishes spiritually there are some stunning copper beech and nestbox but the investigation came to and with practical advice and assistance. willows trail green fingers in the river. nothing, a disappointment as they are such When i myself moved to Codford in 2016 i have never known the hawthorn to be so delightful little birds. i was surprised and delighted to reacquaint full of flower, in some areas resembling a Ascension Day saw a service in the myself with Jayne and Derek. Jayne’s fall of snow while others appear to have little church. The congregation were still wealth of experience helped me during the tapped an underground source of raspberry not allowed to sing but the choir were in vacancy before Trudy came to join as our good voice. it is to be hoped that when we new Rector. Since moving to Codford, have a Harvest Thanksgiving this year we Derek has trained as a lay worship leader shall be able to sing the well-loved hymns. and served as Churchwarden of St Mary. BL Jayne has been busy leading worship and preaching and conducting Baptisms, weddings, and funerals. Jayne has also been working with the Head Teacher of Wylye Valley School as an ex officio Foundation Governor leading collective worship and being involved with the staff and pupils. Business Telecoms Who mentioned retirement? Derek and Jayne worked hard for us for the past Up to 50% cheaper than BT! 5 years and we are sorry to see them go. Their greatest legacy is the Thursday Café ● Cloud phone sytems· which they got off the ground and they ● Phone lines leave a thriving weekly community asset ● Super-Fast Broadband· which also raises money for local charities. ● 30 day rolling contract We wish them well for the future as they make new friends in their new home in Somerset. We are a local company Rev Clifford Stride specialising in innovative business telecoms solutions.

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Three cheers for the volunteers who got are on duty each week to sing the zoom congregation outnumbers those of their heads round the technicalities and socially-distanced hymns. it’s definitely a most churches, it’s a clear signal that this brought the worshipping community to - case of ‘Onward Christian soldiers’ battling is an opportunity not to be abandoned. gether each Sunday morning. Zoom-church the technical hitches. Keep zooming ! KV was a lifeline for friends and colleagues it’s very interesting how many people during lockdown, and the Sunday services have tuned in. There were up to 100 in the PILGRIMAGE FROM WARMINSTER which Trudy and her team transmitted zoom-congregation in the early days, with from home or church have been a beacon numbers reducing as churches reopened. TO GLASTONBURY of hope and faith in trying times. (it’s not too late for zoom newcomers – 17th to 19th September 2021 it’s not all gone smoothly. The valiant just contact Trudy 840081 or upperwylye - anchormen and women have needed to [email protected] to be added to list Walkers, led by Jane Fowles, will leave quickly switch to Diy (with online hymns to receive the link each week.) Some of the Minster church on Friday 17th. and an impromptu sermon) when the signal the regulars are housebound; others are Cyclists, led by John Acton, will leave the to the church service fails. Many thanks to not church-goers; we have one regular Minster church on Saturday 18th Upton lovell for investing their time and from Japan, and another in Southampton technical expertise, and the doughty where there is no church nearby. it’s an The aim is to be at Glastonbury on Sunday volunteers who compete with the unseen opportunity to see friends and neighbours, 19th at 10.30 a.m. for Harold's Guided Tour forces of receptivity. The congregation is especially for those with no transport, and or 12.30 for entry straight to the Abbey supportive and growing, and if the signal enjoy a chat before and after services. Grounds. does go down, the liturgy continues, Shall we keep going? The answer is complete in itself. Congregations are not probably yes. it’s hard work for the clergy Registration and information: contact allowed to sing yet, so choir members and the tech-volunteers, but while the [email protected] or 01985 214700

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JULy 2021 OLD FRIENDS REMEMBERED SUNDAy 4th Tytherington 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Our sympathy and love go to all those 5th Sunday Codford St Peter 9.30am Holy Communion who mourn the passing of of Trinity Upton lovell 11.00am Zoom Service of the word Douglas Hobson of Sutton Veny Oliver Breakwell of Sherrington Knook 6.00pm Songs of Praise Elizabeth Hibbs of Heytesbury

Annie Thomas of Corton Wednesday 7th Codford St Peter 10.30am Midweek Communion Hazel Watts of Sherrington and Codford SUNDAy 11th Boyton 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Maurice French of Heytesbury 6th Sunday Sutton Veny 9.30am Holy Communion of Trinity Upton lovell 11.00am Zoom Service of the word HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN, HEYTESBURY Norton Bavant 6.00pm Music and Poems: A celebration Administrator 01985 840441 of Summer and Freedom Codford St Mary 6.00pm evening Prayer (BCP) ST GEORGE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 31 Boreham Road, Warminster BA12 9JP Wednesday 14th Codford St Peter 10.30am Midweek Communion PARISH PRIEST Fr Martin Queenan ATTACHED PRIESTS SUNDAy 18th Norton Bavant 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Fr Raymond Hayne Fr Malcolm Ferrier 7th Sunday Codford St Mary 9.30am Holy Communion 01985 212329 of Trinity Upton lovell 11.00am Zoom Service of the word Heytesbury 6.00pm evensong (BCP) FROM THE REGISTERS Wednesday 21st Codford St Peter 10.30am Midweek Communion Weddings SUNDAy 25th Sutton Veny 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Congratulations to St James Heytesbury 9.30am Sunday Worship Sophie Katon & Jamie Anderson the apostle Codford St Peter 9.30am Holy Communion on 22nd May at Heytesbury Norton Bavant 11.00am Zoom Service of the word May they have many Tytherington 11.00am Patronal Festival /Pilgrimage happy years of married life together Knook 6.00pm Patronal evensong (BCP)

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The church in Sherrington is one of only five dedications in england to Saints Cosmas and Damian. They were 4th century Arabian physicians , martyred for their Christian faith in Syria under the em - peror Diocletian. Their most celebrated achievement was to remove the diseased leg of a white man and graft in its place the limb of an ethiopian. Not surprisingly they are patron saints of doctors and surgeons, but their skill was surely not only in physical healing but , especially relevant today, the healing of race relations.

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