Chipperfield News November 2004 Remembrance Sunday The annual Parish Service of Remembrance will be held at St. Paul's Church and the village War Memorial at 10.55am on Sunday 14 November. All are welcome to attend. Poppy Appeal The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921 to safeguard the welfare, interests and memory of those who have served in our Armed Forces. A wide range of welfare schemes are provided, including management of residential care homes and homes providing breaks for veterans and carers; assistance with war pensions cases; provision of electrically powered vehicles and electrical and household goods; financial assistance for those in need; expert assistance for those with disabilities; help for widows and others to visit war cemeteries, and employment and training to ex-Service personnel with disabilities. To meet these welfare objectives, funds are raised through the annual Poppy Appeal and, year on year, we in Chipperfield have given generously when the volunteer poppy collectors knock on our doors, as they will during the first fortnight in November. Please support the Appeal again this year. Remembering Those We Love On Sunday 7 November at 6.30 p.m. St. Paul's Church is holding its annual quiet reflective service by candlelight specifically to remember those who have died. Music is mainly from TaizŽ and Iona and there will be an opportunity to light a candle in memory of your loved ones. Everyone is most welcome Chipperfield School Of Dancing The pupils of the local dancing school at Blackwell's have all taken their tap and ballet examinations and have all passed! They are now ready to move on to the next grade standard, and work towards The Nutcracker. This show is to raise funds for Cancer Research. Ann Hertler-Smith has changed her Keep Fit timetable - the classes now run on a Tuesday and Thursday morning. For further information about any of the classes, call Ann Hertler-Smith 01923 267604, Jean Banks 01923 400370 or Clare Gurney 0208 428 9906. Coffee Morning A coffee morning held on 24 September at the cricket pavilion in aid of MacMillan Cancer Care raised £275. A big thank you to Malcolm Durrant and to everyone who supported us at such short notice. Thank you. Grace Bignell Woodland Walk CHIPPERFIELD COMMON 1 / 6 at 10.30am on Friday 26 November (meet in the church car park) All welcome Phillip Russell, Woodlands Officer for Dacorum Borough Council, will be leading a walk through the woodland, pointing out the work that has been completed so far this year and explaining the work planned for the end of 2004 and early in 2005. If you have any questions about the management of the woodland or need information or advice about trees, Phillip will be pleased to answer. Chipperfield Horticultural Society This year, for the first time, we held a photographic competition at our Summer show. This proved very popular and we had some wonderful pictures. Next year, 2005, we will be having a photographic section at each of our three shows and the subjects have been chosen and are listed below. They have a very broad spectrum and we hope that you will find at least one subject that will appeal to you. Spring Show 2 April 2005 1. Two photographs of different weather vanes 2. The natural world 3. A photograph, with caption, to make us laugh Summer Show 2 July 2005 1. Shadows 2. Group of four photographs of bridges Autumn Show 17 September 2005 1. A hanging basket or window box 2. Travelling at home or abroad 3. Modern architecture Photographs, maximum size 5" x 7", may be mounted but not framed. Police Non-emergency Number Responding to popular demand, Hertfordshire Police have set up a single contact number for all local non- emergency calls which will enable you to reach any Hertfordshire police station, department, unit or member of police staff. It is charged at local rate. Herts Police Non-emergency number 0845 33 00 222 for help & advice This is the number to call if you need help or advice. In an emergency always dial 999. An emergency is when: ¥ There is a risk of injury to someone ¥ There is a risk of serious damage to property ¥ You suspect a crime is in progress ¥ There is a serious incident which needs immediate police attendance Mobile Library Improvements Planned By summer 2005 Hertfordshire Libraries will have introduced new vehicles and on-line computers to improve and extend the service to mobile library users. The introduction of the computer system will allow the stock on each mobile library to be changed more efficiently and will provide a greater variety of books to choose from. It will also allow users to consult the catalogue and use other on-line services to reserve items and renew loans. One of the new vehicles will be at Sarratt on Friday 5 November between 10.00am and 12noon and you are invited to look round and find out more about the developments to the service. The day and time of some stops in the village may change and if so, full details will appear in Chipperfield News. Allotments All plots have now been let and for the first time in years there is now a waiting list. Plots do become vacant from time to time during the year, so it is worth adding your name to the list if you are interested in renting a full or half plot in the future. 2 / 6 Baths Wanted ! Old baths are needed for use on the allotments, so if you are having your bathroom re-fitted and wish to dispose of your old bath please contact 01923 267483 and I shall arrange for it to be collected and given a new (open air) home. The taps are not required and can be removed. Liz Holliday Chairman, Allotments Committee Village People Philip Parnell, formerly of Chipperfield Road, Kings Langley and Claire Befroy were married on 25 September. The wedding ceremony and reception were held at Stocks Hotel, Golf and Country Club, Aldbury. The couple, who met in Kathmandu, spent their honeymoon in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. Philip, who attended both Chipperfield and Kings Langley JMI schools before moving on to Parmiters School, is now a partner in an international firm of valuation surveyors. Pauline and Tom McAuliffe of 89 Scatterdells Lane would like to announce the arrival of their first grandchild Molly Jean on Sunday 19 September 2004. Mother and baby doing fine. Joy and Arthur Hirst of Scatterdells Park are pleased that they have recently become great-grandparents. If you would like an item included in this column contact Valerie Briselden via the Chipperfield News box at the Post Office Stores or The Two Brewers or drop a note through her door at The Firs, The Common. Please include a phone number in case we need to check any details. Many people criticise Chipperfield News for its lack of information about local people but if you don't tell us we don't know! Chipperfield Within Living Memory Street Names - Croft Lane Long standing residents of Chipperfield will recall that Croft Lane used to be called Pest House Lane. More recent residents may wish to know more. I am only able to throw light on this by quoting from Miss Liddle's book, Notes On Old Chipperfield, which is no longer in print: "Close to Chapel Croft in the fields, is the Old Pest House, used in the plague 1665, shown in an old hunting map of 1881. In 1838, there is the record of the sale of the copyhold cottage and garden, called Pest House, to John Parsley (Lord of the Manor). Previously, there is a record of it being in use as a cottage in 1804, by Sarah Dell and her son William." Nobody seems able to pinpoint exactly where the cottage was situated but I assume it was not far from the ends of Croft Lane and Alexandra Road. On the Tithe map, dated 1839, a cart track, now known as Croft Lane, is clearly shown as leading into two fields. At the far end, on the left, was Pest House Field and on the right was Pest House Meadow. This suggests that the Pest House had quite a lot of land attached to it. Although there is documentary evidence of the sale of the Pest House in 1838, there is no indication of its position on the map of the following year. The 1877 Ordnance Survey Map shows the same road and it is very clearly named as Pesthouse Lane and leads between the same fields. There is a large pond, on the right, just a short distance from the start of the lane. The only isolated building is shown to be in the far right hand corner of a wooded area, which is now known as Alexandra Road. On the 1898 Ordnance Survey Map, Pesthouse Lane is again clearly named and the only houses have appeared, just before the pond, on the right. Alexandra Road has been established and named and a few houses have been built, mainly on the right. The previously isolated building in the far right hand corner is marked, but no longer inhabited. The need for a place to isolate people suffering from the plague was very necessary. For hundreds of years, outbreaks of the plague were not uncommon, and that is one of the reasons for royalty building their palace, at the top of Langley Hill, so that when things were bad in London, they could take refuge in the country.