April 2014 Nailsworth No. 140 News A free monthly community paper for the parish of Nailsworth, “Happy Chocoholic available in colour on our website Day” www.nailsworthnews.org.uk Or do you mean “Happy Easter”? What a pity that yet another Christian Festival has been taken Beaudesert Park School over by commercialism. ‘Edible Art’. The roots of the name Easter come from the old English / pagan See page 10 Eostre for a spring festival celebrating new birth and new life after the cold and death of the past winter. It just so happened to coincide with the Passover of the Jewish faith and when Christianity hit these shores, the name stuck. At least the Anglo-Saxons wouldn’t be deprived of one of their more important festivals! Easter bunnies and chicks along with Easter eggs are all symbolic of the season of new birth - hence the time that Christians celebrate the ‘new birth’ of Jesus at the Resurrection. When one buys Easter Eggs this year, just spare a thought for what Easter really means and celebrates - it is not complicated and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg like the chocolate does! ‘Nailsworth in the Top 101... according to a recent Sunday Times article (16 March 2014). We often wonder who contributes to such polls, but Nailsworth is rated so highly because of the ‘posh grub’, William’s, £1m houses in the centre of town, no parking fees ... There is so much more to Nailsworth than just this list and how shortsighted the ST editor must be to list this nonsense, without paying a personal visit and see why we know Nailsworth should be in the TOP TEN places to live! This town is rather special for so many more (serious) reasons than posh food etc. It is not a ‘twee’ Cotswold town and doesn’t pretend to be. It has light industry, popular shops (always with a waiting list for newcomers), places to eat and drink, loads of sports facilities to suit every taste, fabulous countryside, a diverse set of people with diverse interests, places of worship, great schools (independent, private and state), history through the centuries, tourists, and the list just goes on. Yes, it does have its problems, but then any community does, and we in Nailsworth are fortunate to have a Town Council, and other bodies, who do try to maintain the workings of the town, whether we believe it or not! People come here to “work, rest and play”, not for the poshness, not the free parking, not the upmarket shops (whatever that means), but because it has a unique working and friendly feel that suits so many. I for one, would rather work and live here, than in some picture-box entity where the majority of contact is with people on holiday and behind a camera! (MS) What is this? 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NIGGLESWORTH Business Editor: Bill Affleck 832619, I don’t know who is [email protected] responsible for the long stay Advertising: Tracey Clements 872299, car park in Nailsworth, but [email protected] why do they allow people Treasurer: David Cox 836119, to park illegally next to [email protected] Avening Barn Centre Spread Editor: Carole de Lacroix, the yellow grit box? Last [email protected] Hazel Redding adds, “Your Saturday a big black car Youth Editor: Eilidh Houghton picture of the barn (March parked there and blocked in [email protected] issue) along the Avening Road my car so that I had a terrible Payment & Hard Copy Correspondence: c/o Shiny brought back a memory as we job getting out. Would double Goodness, Fountain St. always called this ‘Tramps Hotel’. In the l960s, yellow lines help? People can Distribution: Don Luke 832812, any passing tramp would pop in for a night’s be so inconsiderate - anon [email protected] stay! (What has happened to all those tramps, What’s On: Jemma Kilyon, with their billy cans carried behind them?) [email protected] his year marks the thirtieth IT: Jonathan Duckworth The barn was also very near the gas holder. My Tin which the Passage to Editorial Support: Joyce Affleck father Jack Perry, would go down on a Sunday India has been setting the Postal subscriptions at £8 per year: morning in the l950s to check it was running Veronica Luke 832812 standard for Indian cuisine in alright, on his BSA Bantam with me hanging on Nailsworth. Advertising rates: £5 + £13 per unit of 60 x 30 mm the back.” (w x h): Over twenty years ago, when • Larger than 3 units only if space permits we were house hunting in • £1 discount per unit for three insertions if booked and paid in advance the area, a Sunday lunch in the Passage • £5 surcharge for a specific page with food and wonderfully friendly and Space is limited and Nailsworth advertisers take courteous staff convinced us we’d found the right town. priority. Payment in advance please: cheques to An opportunity for Residents to come and hear Nailsworth News. reports from the town’s Groups and Organisations, From May 1st, the Passage will no Advertisements are accepted at these rates on and to question Councillors. the basis that they can be incorporated into the longer sell alcoholic drinks, so if you finished paper without modification. This implies a really value your glass of Cobra with typographic quality standard. 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We reserve the right to edit or omit any material submitted for publication. No liability is accepted for loss or damage arising from any omission of copy or advertising. Material submitted for publication will only be returned if accompanied by a SAE. Nailsworth News is published and distributed entirely by volunteers, with production costs defrayed by advertising. More volunteers are always welcome - if you would like to join the team, please get in touch with the Editor. 2 Myles Robinson, Mayor of Nailsworth Local Affairs Your Council has been Mortimer Gardens. The Town invited to comment on Council will be providing some new plants and will pay for the system of voting the skip to remove unwanted specimens, but once again I am for Stroud District extremely grateful for the voluntary help we receive. Council elections, as the I am delighted to hear of the transformation of the former Boundary Commission Crystal Fountain complex of some 60 retirement homes at is considering changes Inchbrook into Woodchester Valley Village. Legal problems in 2016. At present which proved a huge disincentive to buy or lease homes have there is one County been expertly overcome and the project appears to have a Councillor and three bright future. With the freehold ownership now entrusted to District Councillors the residents and their families, I expect this mutual project representing Nailsworth to to quickly attract many new residents to our community.