Established 1998 SPRING 2017 Community Delivered to 13,000, Door to Door www.pottersbarcommunitynews.co.uk Distributed in Potters Bar, Little Heath, South Mimms, Ridge, Northaw and Brookmans Park Aviation Museum gets top tourism award With the help of its growing corps of volunteers, the De Havilland Aircraft Museum has won a major tourism award. Comments made by visitors to the museum at Salisbury Hall, London Colney over the past year have led to must-read Travellers Worldwide awarding the aircraft museum its Trip Advisor NEWS Certificate of Excellence in Hospitality. “We are very pleased to have been given this award as a direct result of our visitors’ views on Trip Advisor, who have endorsed the Museum and the work carried out by our volunteers,” said museum marketing director Mike Nevin. “It means we have been recognised for delivering consistently great service as defined by the reviews of visitors.” The volunteer-run museum, a registered charity, gained around 30 new volunteers last year, boosting its team to some 150, and instituted a formal training programme, at the same time creating the new board- level role of Volunteer Development Director. This has been taken on by a volunteer, Don Stoddart. “This is a most challenging time for the museum. As we will be opening for longer hours and more days each year we will need even more new volunteers to help look after visitors, with responsibilities ranging from ground maintenance to guardians of individual aircraft, and several other projects, so our needs are very varied.” It’s Britain’s oldest aviation museum with more than 20 iconic civil and military piston and jet-engine aircraft designed and built by de Havilland at its Hatfield factory over nearly 70 years, including the Mosquito fighter-bomber and Comet airliner. Alongside the aircraft on display and under restoration will be a new hands-on experience for visitors. Two flight simulators, one a 1930s Link Trainer and the other a Comet flightdeck, are set to become operational in May. The museum, off Junction 22 of the M25, re-opens for the 2017 season on Sunday 5th March. Full details of how to become a volunteer, museum opening hours and news can be found at Website www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk. SPONSOR: Green W’S Easter Local Churc s Thumb In this issue On Sports h Orgaisatio Pages 16 ad 17 Services Pages 26 ad 27 Pages 13–15 Page 25 Potters Bar Community News Contacts for A message from the Editors We are pleased to present the Spring edition of the Community News containing our Potters Bar usual mixture of articles of local interest and factual information. We include further contributions on the Cranborne shops and other reminiscences of Community News Potters Bar, with this nostalgia counter-balanced with current school and sports news. Our Winter 2016 issue unfortunately contained two incorrect telephone numbers www.pottersbarcommunitynews.co.uk which are corrected below: Chairman SAMARITANS (pages 3 and 28): The correct freecall number is 116 123. John Connell 01707 851445 FALLS PREVENTION (page 11): The full contact number for the Get Up & Go booklet is . 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Where there is a linked The Community News currently needs volunteers to deliver to the following: commercial, political or individual interest in items for publication, the Wayside Flats (8), Darkes Lane flats over shops (50), High street flats over shops – managing committee reserves all Mutton Lane to The Walk (40), Aston Way (35), Bowmans Close (24) and editorial rights. Potters Bar Heathfield Close (42). Community News does not accept If you are able to help with any of these and can spare some time when the responsibility for the accuracy of Community News is published at the beginning of March, July and November each information contained in published year, please contact either Peter Silverthorne or Peter Weaver. items or views expressed in those items. 2 www.pottersbarcommunitynews.co.uk Community News Website It is now a year since the Community News website was established and we hope that this has proved useful to local residents. At the time we suggested that readers might find it easier to read the details shown in Local Organisations on-line, given the size of print necessary because of the number of entries. Hopefully this has been the case for many. The website also enables former residents to keep up to date with local news – if you know of any such persons, please let them know. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the following who have generously sponsored the website: Spring 2016: Potters Bar Beer Festival Summer 2016: The Plumbers Mate Winter 2016: The Tree Feller This issue is sponsored by Green Thumb Southridge is not a sanctuary, it is a re-homing centre. Our Interested in volunteering? aim is to place every animal that walks or is carried through Ever thought of giving some of your time to our doors into new, responsible, kind and caring homes. help others in the community? Also look here Animals are treated with respect, tenderness and love, and for items wanted by organisations; you may both their physical and mental needs are met – to help be able to help them. them learn to trust again. If you are a local organisation or charity and are looking We have 18 full-time staff to complete our daily workload for volunteers or looking for items for your group, why not and it costs the RSPCA £730,000 a year (£2,000 a day) to email me at [email protected]. run Southridge. If you would like to come along and see the centre, there’s Potters Bar Hospital no need to call for an appointment – just pop in. We’re Sincere thanks for including our appeal in your Winter open 11am–4.15pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday issue. We recently met with those who responded and have and Saturday. Sun 1pm–4.15pm. We’re closed on now recruited the additional volunteers that we required. Wednesdays. The Friends of Potters Bar Hospital really appreciate your Our café is open for tea, coffee, hot chocolate, cold drinks, help. cakes and snacks, hot cross buns, toasted cheese Alan Barth sandwiches and more. All profits go back into helping animals at the Centre. The café is open: 11am–4.15pm Southridge Animal Centre Saturdays and 1pm–4.15pm Sundays. Why not pay us a visit soon? We look forward to seeing you. Southridge occupies a 16-acre site that nestles in the bottom of a small valley surrounded by the lush green Hertfordshire countryside, and has an air of peace and Calling all gardeners of tranquillity about it. On entering the centre there is an Brookman’s Park! atmosphere of kindness, honesty and Parade your peonies! Layout yourlawns! Showcase your cheerfulness. shrubs! Brookman’s Park Rotary would like to create an Open Gardens event and invites you to take part in a terrific Although we have all too fundraising day planned for a suitable Sunday in June 2018. often witnessed the true horrors and cruelty that We invite any and all gardening enthusiasts to share and humans subject showcase their gardens, whether large or small. Please animals to, it is here contact us on 07724 698357 or email that the lengthy [email protected] if you are process of reversing interested in discussing this further. Looking forward to the damage begins. hearing from you. Please spread the word. 3 Potters Bar Community News Citizens Advice Hertsmere is recruiting (EST 1976) Would you like to be part of the country’s most effective advice-giving agency? A complete painting and decorating Do you enjoy helping people? service to the highest standard. Are you good at talking on the phone? Can you spare two half days a week? Excellent References Citizens Advice Hertsmere is looking for volunteers to assist Tel: 01707 653010 people on the phone and face-to-face.