14th January 2017 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 513515 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley www.nenevalleynews.co.uk newspaper for East Northamptonshire news Spotlight on Another triumph In Brief Rushden for Raunds New pilot scheme Music Festival arents will be offered a library card for Ptheir baby when they register the birth as part of Inside... Page 4 Page 5 a new pilot scheme aimed at promoting reading with young children. Registrars will offer a A journey through the Nene Wetlands library card to parents of all newborn babies at the birth destination for breeding a major new lakeside Covent Garden-style street performances and characters from registration appointment, and overwintering birds. Visitor Centre – the first where they will also be nature and history will soon be inviting Rushden shoppers to Into the Valley will for Wildlife Trust BCN. given a free book to share encourage shoppers This will act as a gateway explore the wildlife spectacles on their doorstep thanks to a with their baby. They then at the Rushden Lakes for people to access ground-breaking wildlife and heritage project. need to visit a library to leisure and shopping and enjoy the wildlife of activate the card, when destination – due to open the Nene Wetlands. The they’ll receive a second he Wildlife Trust 270-hectare nature manage new and existing in spring 2017 – to embark eco building will be zero free book for their baby. for Bedfordshire, reserve – the Nene habitats for wildlife – on an adventure through energy and will also feature Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire and Wetlands – from seven providing new access nature and time at a place a green roof which will T libraries are delivered Northamptonshire’s (BCN) disconnected wildlife routes and interpretation where wildlife, industrial absorb rainwater, provide by First for Wellbeing on Into the Valley has secured areas, three of which will complement the history and modern retail insulation and create behalf of Northamptonshire £662,800 from the Heritage are currently closed to outstanding natural culture come face-to-face. wildlife habitat. County Council. Lottery Fund to: the public. value of the site as an Shoppers will be invited This section of the River • Create a major new • Protect, restore, and internationally important to take a walk down Wild Nene, and its connected Raunds Christmas gravel pits, is essential for Street from the precinct to carol service the natural world. the journeys of more than pecial guests the Wildlife and historical 20,000 migratory birds Mayor of Raunds, characters will introduce each year. It is known as Ms Helen Howell Secret Spectacles beamed one of the best places S and her deputy Mr Nick live to screens in the in the world to enjoy the Beck joined the huge Visitor Centre; a new path spectacle of thousands of congregation which filled network will bring people overwintering birds. St Peter’s Church Raunds up close and personal to It is expected that more to enjoy St Peter’s Church the sights and sounds of than 500,000 people will of England Academy nature; and an interactive visit the Nene Wetlands school’s special Christmas programme of learning and each year. carol service. experience activities will The Nene Wetlands Each class performed inspire young and old to will offer everything from carefully rehearsed carols get involved and become easily accessible areas to and readings, and there wildlife enthusiasts. quiet tranquil experiences, was the opportunity for The developer of the something for everyone the grown-ups to sing their Rushden Lakes centre, from shoppers to expert favourite well-known carols. LXB, is also funding naturalists! RECEPTION OPEN MORNING 9.30am – 11.30am Call or email Ms Lesley Taylor, Registrar T: 01832 277159 Friday 3rd February 2017 E: [email protected] www.laxtonjunior.org.uk Come and experience the teaching and learning in our An inspiring independent Reception classes. co-educational day school for children aged 4-11 years. 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 513515 14/01/17 Letters to the editor Editor’s notes If you would like to submit a letter to However, as is well known, such the editor please send it to news@ restrictions were not imposed on town and irst, a happy New the inevitable decline you live in the existing nenevalleynews.co.uk for consideration. parish councils. For the town of Oundle, Year to all our of local town centres, hamlet of Deenethorpe, to The maximum word count is 200 words. the precept for an average band D property Freaders. How our article in this edition the more usual piecemeal has risen to 87% more than it was prior to are your New Year’s demonstrates that the expansion around 2010/11. It’s also now about 40% more than resolutions progressing? site will do more than existing town centres Dear Editor, Oundle residents pay to the district council; In this edition we have the pay lip service to the which cannot then be Our local councils will shortly be deciding the prior to 2010/11 it was 13.7% less. prospect of help for those needs of local wildlife. expanded to provide the amounts of tax they need to collect from us Oundle’s total precept is currently £387,885 who have set their sights A recent visit to the infrastructure needed to for 2017/18. which is about £105,000 more than the on doing something site, hosted by Wildlife support the new homes. Readers may be aware that average for other similar sized towns in the more energetic in the Trust for Bedfordshire, Doubtless, there is Northamptonshire County Council have been east Northants district. It includes a 15.2% coming year: in Higham, Cambridgeshire & more bad weather to be asking for people’s views on a proposed increase for the current year when inflation the Ashgrove Clinic is Northamptonshire, endured before we get to 3.95% increase, which includes 2% needed had flatlined, even going negative at one offering consultations provided the opportunity spring and consequently to help with the high cost of adult social care. point, during the preceeding year. to encourage health to see first-hand the we can expect a further In common with the district councils, In view of the above, I anxiously await the awareness and help fix excellent work being done deterioration in the county taxation amounts have changed little 2017/18 precept figures and trust there will your aches and pains; in by the Trust. It seems condition of our local for some years due to restrictions imposed by be little or no increase this time – possibly a Oundle there are walking that a visit to the new roads. The A605, the present government. I presume this was reduced amount? football sessions; and, development will enable particularly between the thought necessary following the doubling of Thank you for your attention. if you are still casting those set on retail therapy Oundle and Warmington charges under Labour. D. Walton around for something to shop knowing that their roundabouts, already new in the New Year, you friends and family in need seems to be in a very might try becoming a of a little more exercise poor condition with little Genealogy jottings reading helper with the and fresh air can stroll prospect of significant Beanstalk charity. around the lakeside paths repair work before the ave you made any New Year By Jan Pearson Whatever your views and look at the wildlife. weather does improve resolutions? Perhaps to get all of your Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, on the new retail The new Deenethorpe and even then it will be Hresearch in order so that you don’t end Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) development at Rushden development of a garden in competition with other up ordering the same certificate more than www.genealogy-specialists.com Lakes, whether you village is moving forward roads in the county for the once? It has been done… Possibly research regard it as a magnificent and promises to provide available pot of funding. a particular ancestor and find out as much as opportunity to improve a raft of new homes in a Meanwhile, be sure to possible about them? Maybe follow a female My great grandparents, Caleb and Millicent the job count in the ‘self-contained’ setting. drive carefully on all our line rather than the male line of a family? Goldsmith, were living in Earlswood Road, district or see it as a This option seems vastly roads and watch out for Whatever you have decided to do, the long Redhill with their four eldest children. (They contributory factor in preferable, albeit not if the inevitable potholes. dark evenings of winter are the ideal time to were to produce another nine over the next 15 hunker down and the time will pass before years). They are shown with another family in you know it! the same house – a widow, her two children Then again, it might be the social conditions and two lodgers – making a total of 11 people The Foot Clinic of the time that interest you. If you look at in one house. The house still exists and is at a census of 1891, for instance, you will see probably home to just one family these days. a family listed with a / marking the end of a But what must have conditions been like back group of people. This shows one household. It in 1891? Caleb would have been out at work 128 Newton Road is not until you see a double line // that you will all day – he was a baker – leaving Millicent to Rushden have reached the end of a dwelling.