June / July 2017 Issue 133 Citizens of the Year Jenna Fentham, Trevor Smitheram, Danial Noall, Hayle Pilot Gig Club, Youth section Hayle Cricket Club Free - thanks to our volunteers and advertisers. Circulation1 2500 Hayle Pump Newsletter Passmore Edwards Institute, 13-15 Hayle Terrace TR27 4BU The Pump is produced by volunteers as a community newsletter. NB All articles accepted are not necessarily the view of the editorial team. View online at www.haylepump.org.uk Editorial team contact Subscriptions [email protected] For 6 issues by post , please send a cheque or postal order for £3.60 Advertising Jeff Turk made out to Hayle Pump Newsletter [email protected] to: Phone 01736 752319 Hayle Pump Subscriptions Web site John Bennett 35 Penpol Terrace, [email protected] Hayle TR27 4BQ Please give your name and number Team members as well as the delivery name and Samuel Marsden address. Sarah Turk Send any articles or copy to [email protected] Send your adverts to [email protected] or use or drop off at drop off points Angove Sports (Copperhouse) The Farm Shop (Foundry) Advertising Rates Passmore Edwards Institute (opposite War Memorial) 1/8 63 x 47.5 £10 1/4 63 x 95 £15 NEXT DEADLINE is 1/2 Not 13th JULY available 2 Mayor’s Annual Awards chosen because of the opportunities it affords the town’s One of the Mayor’s first duties in youngsters by providing a safe and this term was to select the winners encouraging environment to of the Annual Awards. participate in sport locally. Presentations to the recipients of the awards took place during the Annual Council meeting on Thursday 18 May 2017 at Hayle Day Care Centre. The female Citizen of the Year 2017 was awarded to Jenna Fentham, for her tireless energy in volunteering at and supporting so many local events, community buildings, groups and initiatives. Trevor Smitheram was presented with the male Citizen of the Year 2017 shield. He was nominated by many because of his unstinting service to the Hayle Old Cornwall Society, of which he is President, and for volunteering at the Hayle Heritage Centre. Daniel Noall was selected by the Mayor as Young Person of the Year because of the voluntary work he undertakes annually in assisting Hayle West Cornwall Golf Club was Decorative Lights committee put up granted an open licence last year the Christmas displays. for its Bar and No.19 Restaurant. Hayle Pilot Gig Club received the This allows non-members to use Organisation of the Year Award the facilities anytime and they can 2017. The Mayor did not hesitate in book for Weddings, Birthday this selection as the club does so Parties, Wakes and Celebrations. much to encourage people to Bar Snacks & Specials are participate in a traditional Cornish available all day, 7 days a week. sport but also willingly gets Please book for Evening A La involved and supports local events. Carte Hayle’s Youth Organisation of the Please feel free to pop in anytime Year 2017 is Hayle Cricket Club’s with this advert and have a free Youth Section. The Club was coffee! 3 The Dinosaurs are back which are featured on our Facebook page. It’s a fun way for at Paradise Park in children to learn and discover Hayle by popular demand, about how just like birds, many Paradise Park’s Dinosaur Quiz dinosaurs had feathers and laid Trail launches again this May and eggs!” runs until September. You will also be able to enjoy all Explore the grounds of the Park the daily activities including the on your own dinosaur expedition! Eagles of Paradise Display (weather permitting), Carrot Time Search for the dinosaurs and their in the Fun Farm, twice daily eggs, answer all the questions Penguin feeding times, the indoor and you will be awarded a special JungleBarn and much more. ‘Paradise Park Professor of Palaeontology’ certificate and mini The Otter Pool Cafe offers light dinosaur model. lunches including homemade Director Alison Hales said “Over specials, local pasties, a the last couple of years people wonderful selection of cakes and have loved seeing the dinosaurs Cornish cream teas – plus there around the Park, and have sent will be kids’ lunchboxes with a us hundreds of great selfie photos dinosaur theme! 4 A celebration of the life and art of Margaret Ryan at the Passmore Edwards Institute. Saturday 1st June 10-6 Monday 2nd June 10-4 For enquiries 0781 795 3662 BHGS is located at Unit 4 Guildford Road Industrial Estate, formerly known as J F C Monro, having changed its name in 2015.The company, in one form or another, has been supplying horticultural products to the West Country for over 100 years - everyone from gardeners with a window box to smallholders and commercial growers, supplying composts, fertilisers, irrigation equipment, tools and much more. They can also supply floral art products. If you take this advert in to their trade counter you will receive a 5% discount. 5 A pint of original at the Ellis Brewery tap Revellers enjoying the recent feast of entertainment at the Cornish Arms Fools Festival in Hayle might have been forgiven for thinking that the bottles of old Ellis Original on the bar were all part of the fun – it being April and all. Everyone knows that the last drop of Ellis was brewed back in 1934 when the family-owned brewery became part of a larger Cornish family outfit, St Austell Brewery. While MD Christopher Ellis went on to join the board at St Austell, the distinctive yellow and red labels of the Ellis ales were consigned to history. However, those lucky enough to try a sample of the beer down at the Cornish Arms would have realised they were in fact the real deal, brewed to mark a special occasion in the modern history of the Ellis family, the marriage of Christopher Ellis’ great great grandson and namesake, Chris Stephens. Crafted by St Austell’s Brewing Director Roger Ryman on the Small Batch Brewery after an original recipe gleaned from the pages of the historic Ellis journals, the ale went down a storm at the reception to celebrate the marriage of Chris and Rachel at St Peter’s Church at Ugborough. However, having enjoyed the special brew on his wedding day, Chris decided it was only fair that he and his father Paul should take some bottles back to the Cornish Arms - the original Ellis Brewery Tap - to celebrate its historic link to the family during the pub’s weekend festival. The moment was a particularly 6 poignant one for Devoran-based Paul, who has spent many years working to preserve and keep the heritage of the Ellis family alive, whose business interests started in Hayle as far back as 1815. Sampling the ale in its historic home, Chris said, “We were absolutely thrilled when Roger agreed to brew the Ellis Original for our special day. I think everyone was amazed at how good it tasted and it just felt right to bring it back down here with my father to celebrate a little bit of our wider beer festival. family history.” Commenting on the brew, St Landlady Claire Williams, who took a Austell’s Roger Ryman said, “It’s break from getting the pub ready for always a treat to be able to use the weekend’s successful festivities, historic recipes and to try to make was joined by Cornish beer writer them work in the modern day. and journalist Darren Norbury in Having the Small Batch allows us to giving a massive thumbs up to the be creative and work on special brew, while samples were also left brews like this one and, while we for locals to try as part of the pub’s have brewed one or two Ellis ales in 7 the past to mark anniversaries, it’s a real pleasure to be able to give someone such a fantastic gift on their wedding day.” While the old Ellis Original was a one-off, spares were available through the Brewery’s online shop and from the Visitor Centre which sold out in record time. However, as we all know, weddings are sometimes followed by other celebratory announcements, so watch this space for the possibility of a new Ellis Original being hatched from the Small Batch! For more information visit www.staustellbrewery.co.uk ********************** The Hayle branch of the RNLI will be holding their AGM on Wednesday 14th June at 7pm at the RNLI Lifeguard Support Centre, Marsh Lane, Hayle. All welcome - please do come along and join us. Praze Hayle Choir This year is shaping up to be busy one for the choir. We performed first at the Trevenson Club in Pool on April 24th to an appreciative audience of club members and then on home ground at St. Elwyn’s April 30th in a Regional Gala Concert - part of the Male Voice International Festival. We have been part of this bi-annual event from its beginning and have always enormously enjoyed it. This year we were joined by the TauntonDean and Wessex Male 8 Voice Choirs as well as the Roros choir from Norway. The church was filled and the audience heard some very fine singing from all four choirs. After ‘Trelawney’ 200 singers and their supporters made their way to the Old Quay House (many thanks to Trevor and his staff) for a couple of hours of conviviality - with the choirs contributing their informal, or ‘Pub’ songs to the general merriment. Our contribution included the very informal - not to say disreputable - version of ‘Camborne Hill’ to everyone’s amusement.