COTTESMO COTTESMORE BONFIRE NIGHT SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3: SEE PAGE 5 Volume 32 Number 6 November 2019 50p where sold You can find us online: www.cottesmoreparishcouncil.org.uk COLIN EASSON (Motors) Ltd Cottesmore Phone 01572 812291 For all your motoring needs: New and used car sales Service and MOT Accident damage repairs Discount tyres, exhausts and batteries Genuine Ford spare parts Petrol, diesel and full forecourt services Special Armed Services Finance Everything we do is driven by you ... 2 Hello Welcome to the November “Link”. We may not CONTENTS know whether Boris is still PM, the UK is in or REMEMBRANCE; Page 6 out of Europe or which team has won the Rugby World Cup, but one thing we DO know. We have COTTESMORE 1941; Page 7 another smashing Link.! I love this time of year when the mists gather TRAGIC BELLA; Page 8 and the air is gilt-edged with freshness. With Bonfire Night and autumn treats in mind we’re ALLAN WESTRAY; Page 10 enclosing a recipe for Parkin, that tasty NEW AT SCHOOL: Page 13 Northern treat that goes down so well on November 5. SHED SQUAD: Page 17 We’re also paying our respects to all those who died in two World Wars (and to those locals PARISH NEWS: Page 25-26 who bravely kept things ticking over during WW2’s darkest days) and to a lovely young girl BYSTANDER: Page 34 whose death while out cycling a century ago DAVID PENNY: Page 36 shocked a nation and still resonates today. See you at the Cottesmore Fireworks Display. A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: Page 42 Have a great night out! Regards JENNY LIZ NIMMONS Kerry, Eileen and Shelley would like to express their deep gratitude to everyone who played a part in making the service of thanksgiving for the life of Liz so special, and also for the prayers, support, messages of sympathy, and attendance at the service. Thanks, also, to all who have so far donated to Lymphoma-Action in Liz’s memory. EDITORIAL DEADLINE IS NOON ON 20TH EACH MONTH ADVERTISING DEADLINE IS 15TH OF EACH MONTH Send your stories and photos to the editor Jenny Laidler 29 Cresswell Drive (Tel. 811038) Email: [email protected] Our advertising rates are very competitively priced and we welcome new adverts, either one-off or booked for 12 months for the price of 11 months. For all advertising enquiries please contact Juliet Burgess Ray on 812898 or M. 07903 021063 MEET THE LINK TEAM Jenny Laidler, Editor [email protected] 811038 Juliet Burgess-Ray, Advertising Manager [email protected] 812898 Jean Heath, Distribution [email protected] 812709 Janice Patient, Treasurer [email protected] 812424 Barbara Cameron, Committee 813055 Shirley Smith, Committee 811069 Hilary Malone, Committee 812360 Many of our readers may be unaware that we are a group which totally consists of volunteers who produce the Village Link on a “not for profit” basis. We are an independent group and do not receive funding from anywhere other than the advertisers. This co- vers expenses and enables us to keep our advertising rates so low. Items from the Link are published on the Cottesmore Parish Council website, but otherwise this magazine has no direct connection with the council which has no control whatsoever on editorial content. *Cottesmore Village Link is printed by Spectrum Printing Services, Leicester. Tel. 0116 246 1717 3 DIARY DATES NOVEMBER DECEMBER 3rd BONFIRE NIGHT 4pm onwards rd 5th WI AGM Village Hall 7.30pm 3 WI: A Tudor and Stuart Christmas 7.30pm th 10th Remembrance Sunday Church Service 6 Thistleton Church St Nicholas Day Festival (preacher Bishop Donald) 7pm 10.50am th 11th Village Hall Management Committee 7pm 8 WI Christmas Crafts 2-4pm Village Hall th 16th TEARFUND BIG QUIZ 7.30 start 9 Parish Council 7.15pm Village Hall th 17th WI Christmas Crafts 2-4 pm Village Hall 17 Film Night at Village Hall 7.30pm th 18th Parish Council 7.15 pm Village Hall 18 WI Coffee Morning at Village Hall 10-12 19th Film Night at Village Hall 7.30pm noon rd 20th WI Coffee Morning at Village Hall 10am- 23 Carol Service in Church 7.30pm 12noon 23rd Christmas Fayre in Church 10.30-2.30 24th WI Christmas Crafts 2-4 pm Village Hall Brick Work Stone Work Roofing Flat roof Painting & Decorating General Building Work No job too small All work is guaranteed Free quotes Over 30 years’ experience Friendly, local & reliable Tel: 07951 663 364 Email: [email protected] 4 Invitation to Village Organisations Wishing to RequestShelling at El alanein Financial Assistance From the Parish Council in the 2020/21 Financial Year Village organisations wishing to request financial assistance from the Parish Council for the 2020/21 financial year should do so using the Parish Council Grant Application Form. This form can be obtained from the Parish Clerk (Mr Kerry Nimmons, 17 Crocket Lane, Empingham. LE15 8PW., or at [email protected] or by telephoning 01780 460523) and will need to be submitted before 15 November 2019. Any request will be required to state the amount and purpose of the funding. All requests will be considered at the Parish Council meeting to be held on Monday 9 December 2019, with the final decision made at the meeting on Monday 20 January 2020, when the budget is set. THE MEMORY TREE The Memory Tree will be in church as usual this Christmas, so if you wish to remember a loved one with a star on the tree, please give Pam Laverick the name(s) and donation of £1 per name by the 16th December, please. All donations go to Church Funds. Grand Firework Display 2019 Version It’s just a few days now until Bonfire Night (as if you needed telling!) so here’s a reminder that this year’s Village Hall Firework Display is to be held on the evening of Sunday November 3rd, with the gates open from 4 pm, the bonfire lit at 5.15 pm and the display itself at 6 pm. If you haven’t already bought your tickets, these are available (until November 2nd) from the Village Shop at £4 per adult and £1 per child age 1 to 16. Remember that tickets bought at the gate on the night cost more, at £6 per adult and £1.50 per child. On the evening itself there will once again be a raffle for the right to set the firework display alight and, as ever, an outdoor barbecue by the Football Club and food and drinks available in the Hall and the Social Club. There will be a number of stalls in the hall, put on by village organisations. Outside there will be a fairground ride and stalls, and also sparklers to buy on the tennis court. Please note that personal sparklers and fireworks are not permitted. One further plea – the event places quite a strain on the flow of traffic through the village. There will be no parking up the Village Hall drive from 3.30 pm onwards (but Blue Badge holders please ask at the gate). Can we please encourage all who possibly can to arrive on foot, and make life that bit easier for attenders and non-attenders alike? Village Hall Management Committee 5 A TIME TO REMEMBER ONE hundred years since the Treaty of Versailles, 80 years since the start of the Second World War - the anniversaries come thick and fast. War and peace are constantly in our thoughts. The Versailles treaty was sealed in 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at the historic French palace. Signed by the leaders of the main allied nations, including Lloyd George of Britain, Clemenceau of France and Wilson of the United States, it effectively ended the First World War, though the peace lasted barely 20 years before Hitler led Germany into the 20th century’s second great conflict in September 1939. “Strange,” Clemenceau was depicted as saying in a famously prophetic cartoon at the time of the Versailles signing. “I can hear a small child crying.” Almost a million British and British Empire personnel died in the Great War. Now we who are left, remember. The Remembrance Sunday church service at Cottesmore starts at 10.50am on Sunday November 10. There will also be services at Greetham and Thistleton. On the same day the Civic Wreath-Laying and Parade is held in Oakham. Rutland is proud to be a county with a strong military presence, having good links between the civilian and military populations, both serving and veterans. Its main commemoration of the day is at the Civic Remembrance Service on Sunday November 10 at 2.30pm at All Saints church, Oakham, which is preceded by a march through the town by representatives of the Armed Forces and uniformed organisations, starting at 2pm. The earlier 10.30am parish communion at All Saints will include the two minutes silence at 11am. The afternoon service will be followed by an Act of Remembrance and wreath-laying at the War Memorial in the churchyard. The following day (Armistice Day, Monday November 11) prayers will be said, and the Last Post sounded at 11am, as part of a brief service on Oakham High Street near the Crown Arcade. Remembrance Services will also be held across the Oakham Team Ministry at Langham, Braunston, Whissendine, Ashwell and Market Overton (all shortly before 11am to accommodate the two-minute silence). Villages with earlier services include Brook, Hambleton and Teigh. BPM Rutland Branch Social diary for November & December Wednesday 6th November – Jim Bolton – “Flying Under the Waves” Wednesday 4th December - Christmas Dinner.