USEFUL CONTACTS Athelington, Horham HORHAM & ATHELINGTON PARISH COUNCIL: Angela Wilkins (clerk) Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD PARISH MEETING (www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk): Janet Norman-Philips (chair) Tel: 01379 678835 Email: [email protected] MID SUFFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL (www.midsuffolk.gov.uk): & Redlingfield Tel: 01449 724500 Email: [email protected] (0845 606 6067 & [email protected]) NEWS SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL (www.suffolk.gov.uk): Tel: 0845 606 6067 Email: [email protected] DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Elizabeth Gibson-Harries Tel: 01379 384680 Email: [email protected] COUNTY COUNCILLOR: Guy McGregor Tel: 01379 668434 Email: [email protected] MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (www.centralsuffolk.co.uk): Dan Poulter Tel: 01728 685148 Email: [email protected] House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA POLICE: (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SaferSuffolk/MidSuffolkNorth/): Our Community Police Officer is PC Antony Price & our Police Community Support Officer is Steven Long. Tel: 01284 774100 (Eye Police Station). Email: [email protected] Non emergency calls: Tel: 01473 613500 Crimestoppers Tel: 0800 555 111 In an emergency dial 999. You should dial 999 when life is threatened or people are injured, or if there is a crime in progress or an immediate police response is necessary. It is better to be safe than sorry. OTHER EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS: GAS EMERGENCY: 0800 111 999 ELECTRICITY EMERGENCY: 08007 838 838 ANGLIAN WATER EMERGENCY: 0800 145 145 REPORTING A PROBLEM: You can report problems relating to: abandoned vehicles; damage to street signs & litter bins; dogs; drainage; fly tipping; litter; noise; odour; rat or mice infestations; refuse collection; and smoke, fumes & dust; online using the onesuffolk website (www.onesuffolk.co.uk/reportaproblem). This is a partnership involving the police and councils. HORHAM NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Hav Wilkins Tel: 01379 384625 REDLINGFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Chris Gibbons Tel: 01379 678169 NHS DIRECT: A 24-hour confidential telephone service. You can ring for nurse advice if you are feeling ill and unsure about what to do or for health information on particular conditions. Call 0845 4647 or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk DOCTORS: Fressingfield Medical Centre, New Street, Fressingfield, IP21 5PJ – 01379 586227 and Stradbroke Medical Centre, Wilby Road, Stradbroke, IP21 5JN – 01379 384220 (www.fressingfield-medical-practice.co.uk/). The Health Centre, Castleton Way, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7DD – 01379 870689 (eyehealthcentre.co.uk/) Suffolk County Council’s HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE at Brome: Opening times - 1 November to 31 January, 8am to 4pm; 1 February to 31 March, 8am to 5pm; 1 April to 30 September, 8am to 6pm; 1 October to 31 October, 8am to 5pm. 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Larling, Norfolk NR16 2AJ Shingle hill Denham Eye Suffolk IP21 5EU Tel: 01953 497177 Fax: 01953 497160 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mygroupea.co.uk MY Group is a trading name of MY Boiler Services Ltd EDITORIAL BRIAN DADE FRESH FREE IMING IS EVERYTHING AND SIMON KNOTT, WHO RUNS THE GENERAL BUILDER excellent Suffolk and Norfolk churches websites, got it just right. He RANGE EGGS Tvisited Redlingfield in June just after we’d cleared up the churchyard. for all your general building His site says: “It was fully ten years since I had last cycled this way. Not Poplar Hall Farm much had changed, as you may imagine. The church is still marooned in its neat and maintenance needs Occold Road little graveyard, a hundred yards or so from the nearest road, and so I got off my bike and pushed it up the path – not from fear of meeting anyone coming the Redlingfield other way, I hasten to add, but because I wanted to savour the serenity of this Wayside Cottage enchanting place.” I think he likes it. For more from Simon about Redlingfield STALL AT GATE church you can visit www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/redlingfield.html Horham, Eye Another bit of excellent timing saw Lesley Dolphin’s dart conveniently hit Horham in the week before the Bygones Rally. Among those who got a chance Suffolk, IP21 5DX to talk about the village on BBC Radio Suffolk were: David Spall, who is apparently getting to feel like a local after 42 years; Michael Critien from Dragon House, who got an on-air invite to come back as a sofa guest; Don tel: 01379 384504 Moyes, who chatted about ... the Bygones Rally; and James Mutton, who talked on his specialist subject the 95th Bomb Group and Red Feather Club. mob: 07519 253975 For larger orders please SPORT– OF VARIOUS SORTS – SHOULD WE’VE GOT ANOTHER email: [email protected] call 01379 678318 be on the agenda over the next few weeks. packed issue and we’ve come up Redlingfield’s rounders team have been with a cunning way to ease the challenged to a return match by Occold squeeze on space without during our neighbour’s ‘fun evening’ on adding to the number of pages Saturday September 4th. Hopefully, the we print – and have to try to HILL FARM Redlingfield Swingers will avenge last force staples through. Instead of year’s defeat on the Doorstep Green. And printing six pages plus of useful David Whatling has come up with a great contacts every issue we’ll, HOUSE idea – a darts, pool and, maybe, carpet probably, starting in 2011, issue bowls challenge between Horham and a one-off directory of contacts All Requirements & Budgets HORHAM Redlingfield at Horham & Athelington etc at the start of the year and Catered For - Community Centre. The details are to be just update any changes, as and arranged. And to exercise our minds Eddie when needed, in our quarterly Parties Hawes put forward the idea of a village magazine. I hope this solution Weddings - Special Events quiz – sounds great to me. will suit everyone. Corporate Hospitality OR THE LAST FEW YEARS JANET AND I HAVE MADE SURE WE Wholesale Prepared Foods Fget to Suffolk ACRE’s agm – someone we know always seems to land an award and we get to find out what’s going on in the county. This year David We Use Only Premium Quality Produce – Local & Organic Where Available Risk, Caroline’s brother-in-law, from Brandeston landed a cup and we got to To Discuss Your Requirements Call Bed & Breakfast chat with high ups in the district, county and even diocese. Mid Suffolk chief Marie exec Andrew Good had some excellent news. The part of the Local Worlingworth Suffolk IP13 7HX 01379 388832 Development Framework, which classifies villages such as Redlingfield as countryside with no prospect of any development, is to be changed. Mike Ager Tel; 07789684434 www.hillfarmbb.moonfruit.com www.thyme4food.co.uk ● Our front page picture of Horham Bygones Country Rally is by Barry Hall. 36 Autumn 2010 Autumn 2010 1 FEATURES & NEWS owhams Servicing & Repairs Caarr for all makes Details of crew unearthed CCo& mmercial New & Old FTER MUCH FRUITLESS military pilot, visited the crash site C searching to find surviving several years ago while in the UK. Arelatives to attend the Marcia A Moyer, the niece of co-pilot VOSA MOT Testing Station unveiling of Redlingfield’s memorial 2nd Lt Warren Mansfield Franklin petrol, diesel class 4 & 7. to the crew of the B-17 that crashed Strawn, also landed on our site. near Green Farm in 1943, relations of Marcia’s mother, 88-year-old CAR & VAN SALES two of the airmen have been in touch Reynolda S Clegg, and two other vehicles sourced if we don’t have them in stock thanks to the village’s website. siblings of 2nd Lt Strawn are still Ralph Schimmel, a nephew of Sgt living, 97-year-old Martha M Scott Insurance Repairs, 24hr Recovery, Car Valeting. Charles E Phinney, from New York and 85-year-old L B Strawn. Brakes, Exhausts, Clutches, Tyres & Batteries. State found out about the memorial, Thanks to Marcia we now have a landing on our website, while wealth of material about her uncle and Air Conditioning researching his uncle. His younger pictures of the crew. The Garage Fressingfield brother, an airline pilot and former It is hoped some of the relatives will Service & Repair be able to visit the Accident & Body Tel: 01379 388 999 memorial to the Flying Repair Centre. www.cowhams.co.uk Fortress which crashed in the village on November 19th 1943 killing all ten crew in the near future. Thanks to Marcia we now know that six of the crew were originally buried in a “group” grave in the US Military Cemetery in Brookwood, England. They were: 2nd Lt Strawn; S/Sgt Kenneth Cosby, tail gunner; Front row, from left: 2nd Lt Kenneth B Rongstad, pilot; 2nd S/Sgt Gordon V Sorenson, Lt Strawn; 2nd Lt Richard E Diete, navigator; 2nd Lt Joseph radio operator; S/Sgt Gail A F Spicer, bombardier. Back row, from left: S/Sgt Richmond Richmond Jr, top-turret, Jr, top-turret gunner/flight engineer; S/Sgt Sorensen, radio operator; Sgt Torok, right waist gunner; Sgt Phinney, ball gunner/flight engineer; Sgt 5adbadSfW >aY5ST[`:a^[VSke IWVV[`Ye turret gunner; Sgt Louis M Mirabel, left waist gunner; Sgt Phinney; and Sgt Julius W Aloysius L Godek; and S/Sgt Agnew R Eckert.