Issue 139 June/July 2018 139 Our New Mayor & Mayoress Clive & Susan Polkinghorne Free - thanks to our volunteers and advertisers. Circulation 2500 1 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 £3.70 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 Stephen Murley Send any articles or copy to Send your adverts to [email protected] [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 13th July 2018 1/2 Not available 2 Clive Polkinghorne (Extracts from the Mayor’s speech) My mother’s family of Trevaskis goes back over 200 years in Hayle, living at Foundry, East Terrace and St Elwyn’s Place. The Trevaskis’s were heavily involved with the Hayle Harbour and were members of the Hayle Lifeboat, with Edwin and John being coxswains. Many here will remember my uncle Harold. In 1969 I was a police officer in Hayle, my sons attended local schools and I played rugby and cricket for Hayle. It is my home. Eight years ago I joined Hayle Town Council. During my mayorship I would like to see improvements completed to Loggans Mill, the toilets at Hayle Terrace and a direction as to what is happening with Hayle Councillor Steve Benney as Hayle Harbour and the Cranford and Deputy Mayor for the forthcoming Walkers developments. year. Both are well known in the town Hayle is home to many and I would and are keen to get involved with new like to thank everyone who helps to and established initiatives. make the town special. Congratulations to both! My charities this year are The Poppy Mayor’s Annual Awards Appeal, Hayle Day Care Centre and Presentations of the awards took Hospice South West. place during the Annual Council meeting on Thursday 10 May 2018 at Hayle Day Care Centre. Council Corner Mr John Broadbridge was selected as June & July 2018 Male Citizen of the Year 2018/2019, posthumously. John was selected Election of for his work for the Hayle Lions the New Mayor and Deputy Mayor Club, most recently as President, During the Annual Council meeting running the fun day almost on Thursday 10 May 2018 Councillor singlehandedly and acting as Santa. Clive Polkinghorne was successfully He also helped Hayle in Bloom, confirmed as Hayle Town Mayor and Marie Curie nursing and the Hayle 3 Food Bank. He was also involved for Macmillan Cancer Support, with with the counting for the Poppy raising over £14,000 in 2017 for The Appeal and had previously been very Cove at RCHT, Treliske. The small involved with scouting in the town. committee had formed over 30 years Sadly, John had died in February so ago and now comprised a wider the shield was presented to his wife, group of friends which organized son and daughter. regular coffee mornings and sales as well as an annual ball. The Mayor presented the award for Female Citizen of the Year The Mayor chose Hayle RFC Colts as 2018/2019 to Mrs Alison Stuckey for the Youth Organization of the Year her working extremely hard on a 2018/2019. The newly formed team voluntary basis, in a variety of roles, recently played in and won the for Hayle Day Care Centre. She is Cornwall plate competition 24- 7. also heavily involved with the local Everyone was informed that this was U3A and was previously involved the first year of the new Colts team, with the Hayle Twinning Association following amalgamation with Helston and Save Our Sands. and a few players from St Ives and Macmillan Cancer Support Hayle that there had been a shaky start to Committee was chosen to receive this the season but then they had started to year’s award as Organization of the win games. The representatives of the Year for their efforts to raise money Colts explained that they hoped to 4 build on this initial success and they received the award on behalf of the whole team and support team. Hayle Open Air Swimming Pool This year the Hayle Outdoor Swimming Pool season was extended to include the summer half- term holiday and weekends in June. The pool opened on Saturday 26 May 2018 for the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend and the half-term holiday week and then weekends until it opens daily from 23 June 2018. Opening hours are from 11am to 6pm, weather permitting, until Sunday 9 September 2018. We can confirm that entrance prices have not been increased for the sixth year in a row and once again season tickets will be available to purchase. For more information about tickets and events please the website and/or the Hayle Swimming Pool Facebook page. Hayle Neighbourhood Plan Referendum As you know the Neighbourhood Plan referendum took place on 24 May 2018. At the time of going to press we do not know the outcome of the vote but the Council wishes to thank the members of the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, comprising councillors and local residents, for their sterling work, time and commitment to get the plan to this stage. The Council is particularly grateful to John Bennett who led the group and kept the project moving and on track. Thank you. 5 Hayle War Memorial Project The Council has obtained planning consent, had the site transferred and registered, worked up a scheme and most recently appointed a contractor to upgrade the War Memorial. It is anticipated that work will commence in June and be completed before the summer holidays. The idea was to enhance the area, give the memorial more presence and to prevent cars from parking in the surrounding area. The memorial will be cleaned, the lettering repointed and a name will be corrected. Granite cobbles will be laid and some railings installed. All of the work will be completed prior to the centenary which marks the end of the First World War. Hayle Town Council, Hayle Community Centre 58 Queensway, Hayle TR27 4NX 01736 755005 [email protected] www.hayletowncouncil.net Office hours 9.30am – 12.30p.m. HAYLE’S HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918 A HUNDRED YEARS ON On the memorials in our town there are listed 52 men who gave their lives for family, king and country. We know them because we see their names engraved in granite. Here they are: 6 ANDREWS Cecil PURCHASE Joseph H F BAILEY George Denis RAIL David S BAILEY Samuel John REED Norman S J BAILEY Samuel J RICHARDS John BARRETT James W ROSEWARNE Ernest W BLEWETT Bertie SANDRY James T BUNKER Benjamin SHEPPARD William M* CALLAWAY Samuel SLEEMAN George H CARTWRIGHT Edmund G SYMONS William COOMBE William J TAYLOR Arthur G V CROWLE Charles H TRATHEN Edward DUNN Jacob C TREDINNICK William B DUPEN Arthur P L WHITFORD William J DUPEN Cuthbert J E WOOLCOCK Anthony FARQUHARSON Henry WOOLCOCK Charles FORD James C G But what else do we know about GILBERT James H A them? GOLDSWORTHY Thomas For most of us, we know nothing, and HARRIS Ernest for a few, a little about ‘a long ago’ HOLLOW Henry M relation. I feel that these brave fellows, who HOSKING William J went and did their duty, should be HUNKIN Ernest L better known by us all, so… I have JACKSON Sydney been trying to find out all I can about JENKINS Edgar V every man and have succeeded in JOSE Richard A ‘filling out’ the history of each JOSE William A individual, to a degree, BUT I am sure there is much more to find. KNIGHT Charles E The ‘hoped for dream’ of this work is LOVE George to print a book for the town’s MATTHEWS Henry schools and library and any other MATTHEWS Wm. (brother) interested bodies or people. There MUNGLES Richard G will be no monetary gain involved in PEARCE John S the production. Can you help me (and them)? Is one PEARCE John V N of these brave men an ancestor? Do POLKINGHORNE Wm. you have a picture of him or some POOL(E) Richard L other memorabilia that you would be POPHAM Willam H prepared to share with others? PRIOR William H If so, please get in touch with me – 7 Christopher Berry 17, Fore Street, Hayle, 01736 759558 [email protected] ‘Lest we forget’ *The name ‘Shepherd’ appears on the town memorial BUT ‘Sheppard’ is on the St Elwyn memorial. I think that the W M Shepherd referred to on the town memorial is William Mark Sheppard. I could be wrong, of course! Heroes of Hayle: World War One stories from home and the Western Front One hundred years on from the end of World War One, Hayle will be looking at its history. Local historians will be leading talks and a walk looking at life locally in 1914- 18. This will include a visit to the site of the National Explosives Factory on Upton Towans and a look at the war graves in Phillack Churchyard.