SCARNING NEWS September 2015 Issue 17 The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Adverts Issue 17 | page 2 PHYSIOTHERAPY Would you like to advertise your business in this space? Neck & Back Pain The newsletter reaches over 1,200 homes in Scarning and is Sports injuries d e l i v e r e d f r e e t o a l l Muscle & Joint pain households. It is produced six times a year Rehabilitation following Joint Surgery The following rates apply: Ellena Fox & Paul Fox £90 pa for a quarter page Chartered Physiotherapists £120 pa for a half page HCPC Registered £210 pa for a full page Scarning Fen, Dereham for more information please contact Telephone 01362 693747 [email protected] or Tel: 687492 www.foxphysiotherapy.co.uk The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Bulletin Board Issue 17 | page 3 Community Car Scheme Macmillan Coffee Morning in The Parish Council is considering Scarning the introduction of a Community Scarning Primary's Year Six pupils Car Scheme. The scheme is a non- are holding a coffee morning from profit making form of car sharing. It 9:30 until 11:30 on Wednesday 23rd provides essential journeys for September. The event will be held at people without access to a car and two venues, the Village Hall and in where there is no suitable public the school's main hall. All proceeds transport. Volunteer drivers use are going to Macmillan Cancer their own cars and are paid at an Support. Please come along and agreed rate to cover their running have a cuppa. The money raised costs. helps to make sure no one has to The scheme is for medical and face cancer alone. medical related journeys, for example hospital and doctors appointments. The scheme is also sometimes used for visits to the sick and elderly. If you would be interested in using such a service, can you please Friends of Dereham Meeting contact the parish clerk. It is Point essential that you do, as it is the only means through which the Parish TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE for Council can gauge if there is THE UPPER OCTAVE, presenting sufficient interest to warrant Bizet to Broadway on Saturday 24th starting such a scheme. October 2015 AT 7.30pm in St. Nicholas Parish Church, Church Similarly, if you would like to be Street, Dereham NR19 1DN. considered to be one of the drivers in the scheme, or to run the scheme Tickets £10 per person, includes a itself, please contact the clerk at glass of wine and nibbles. [email protected] or There will also be a Raffle. Oakleigh House, Shipdham Lane, Scarning, NR19 2LB. Front Cover Pic: Courtesy of Norfolk Wildlife Trust The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Bulletin Board Continued Issue 17 | page 4 The Friends' Committee are obtained from the telephone delighted to have been able to book numbers shown below. It is this wonderful musical ensemble. surprising how quickly October Anyone who has been fortunate to will be with us, so don't leave it until have seen The Upper Octave the last minute, get your tickets perform before will tell you what a now. We are widely advertising this very special evening is in store. They event as we really want to see a full a r e s e v e n v e r y t a l e n t e d Church on the 24th. professionally trained singers For tickets Contact Jan Phillips on performing songs from Broadway's 860859 or Shonette Mooney at The greatest musicals and popular light Meeting Point 698866 opera. The performance includes a ceiling light show, which in St. For details of events at Dereham Nicholas Church is going to be Memorial Hall in 2015 pretty amazing. We have 200 tickets Please got to the website: to sell for this evening and possibly www.derehammemorialhall.co.uk more if these sell out. Tickets can be Please send submissions for the next newsletter to: [email protected] by 15 October 2015 The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Fitness Equipment Issue 17 | page 5 New Fitness Equipment for the Village The Parish Council is delighted to announce that it has been successful in obtaining a Grant for new Outdoor Fitness equipment. The six items of equipment will be installed on the Playing Field behind the Village Hall in the autumn. The equipment is similar to that which the Parish Council installed on the Water Meadows playing field. It includes a Double Rower, Air Skier and Seated Chest Press. Thank you to everyone who responded to the questionnaire, which helped to support the Council's application. The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Biodiversity Award Issue 17 | page 6 Biodiversity Award cost of new information boards and is The Parish Council has won an award hoping to part-fund the installation of a for its management of Scarning Water boardwalk to provide greater access for Meadows. The award was presented to residents. Council Chairman Wendy Brown at the Next year the Parish Council is planning annual Norfolk Biodiversity Awards to host an event to which groups such as ceremony at Carrow Abbey in Norwich. the RSPB, Norfolk Wildlife Trust and The Highly Commended award was the Hawk & Owl Trust will be invited in recognition of the Parish Council's order to raise awareness of this commitment to supporting Scarning important wildlife site. Conservation Volunteers, which is If you would like to be involved in this working to restore and maintain the site. important and exciting project, please T h e C o n s e r v a t i o n Vo l u n t e e r s contact Wendy Brown on 695062. themselves won an award last year in The next meeting of the Parish Council recognition of their hard work. will be in the Village Hall on 15 The Parish Council funds the Volunteers September at 7.30pm. The agenda for and the cutting and clearing of the the meeting can be found on the village meadows. It has funded two new scrapes website, the noticeboards, or by and paid for clearing the waterways. contacting the parish clerk at Over a short timespan there have been [email protected] visible improvements in the meadows, with more wildflowers, butterflies, A list of the dates of the Council's Kingfishers and Barn Owls to be seen. meetings can be found on the village The Parish Council is contributing to the website at www.scarninginfo Wendy Brown, 2nd row, sixth from the left, with other award winners. The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Scarning at War Issue 17 | page 7 ZEPPELIN White Lion Yard, a couple were On the night of September 8 1915, a buried beneath the debris of their Zeppelin flew over Scarning and cottage and had to be dug out by hand. dropped its bombs on Church Farm On the opposite side of the road, the meadows, near Dereham Church. The orderly rooms of the 5th Norfolk bombing was a prelude to a full scale Regiment (now Case and Dewing) attack on Dereham. In all, some forty were hit and its walls peppered with bombs were dropped on the town, shrapnel. causing extensive damage and loss of In the days that followed sightseers life. went to Church Farm, where four The worst damage was in Church bombs had fallen in a line. One of the Street. The roof of the White Lion was bombs exploded beside a barley stack destroyed and its windows shattered. and gate, stripping leaves off the The front of a nearby grocery shop adjacent trees. The other three left was blown out, scattering rubble and huge craters in the meadows. broken glass across the street. In It was said later that when the The newsletter is published by Scarning Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate at the time of going to print, but no liability will be accepted for losses caused by inaccurate information. Scarning at War Continued Issue 17 | page 8 Zeppelin passed over the village, a war. The book is fully illustrated German airman's cap fell to the throughout with images from the ground. The cap was picked up, as I m p e r i a l Wa r M u s e u m a n d was a bundle of newspapers that C o m m o n w e a l t h Wa r G r a v e s floated down on a makeshift Commission.