Whittlebury Reading Whittlewood Room Lottery Services THE WHITTLEBURY St Mary’s June 2017 Whittlebury Reading Room Lottery Our vision in the Whittlewood Parishes is to www.whittlebury.org.uk magazine April 2017 winners: know God better, love one another and reach 1st Ruth Townsend out with the good news of Jesus. 2nd Pat Tattersall 3rd John Iles SERVICES 4th Sybil Boswell June 2017 4th No service 5th Nita Pearson Holy Eucharist at Silverstone 10.00am 11th Morning Praise 11.00am Ray Pearson 18th Patronal Eucharist at Slapton 10.00am 25th Patronal Eucharist at Abthorpe 10.00am July 2017 2nd No service Holy Eucharist at Silverstone 10.00am 9th Morning Praise 11.00am 16th Holy Eucharist 11.00am 23rd Holy Eucharist 9.15am 30th Patronal Eucharist at Paulerspury10 00am August 2017 6th No service Holy Eucharist at Silverstone 10.00am 13th Morning Praise 11.00am 20th Patronal Eucharist at Paulerspury10 00am Songs of Praise 5.00pm 27th Holy Eucharist 9.15am A prayer meeting is held in St. Mary’s on the first Monday of each month at 10.30am. Towcester Studio Band will give a concert at St. Mary’s The Whittlebury Magazine Church on Saturday 8th July 2017 starting at 7.30pm. is produced quarterly and kindly printed free of Tickets cost £10.00 and are available from Ray Pearson charge by The Ferrari Owners’ Club. (01327 857236), Peter Nicholson (01327 850648) or at the The next issue will be produced for distribution door. by 1st September and it is requested that copy Afternoon teas will be served at St. Mary’s Church on for inclusion is sent by 10th August at the latest Sunday 20th August 2017 from 3.00pm prior to the to [email protected] or Songs of Praise at 5.00pm. Everyone will be made most [email protected] welcome. Speed WATCH 2017 A defibrillator for the village The Whittlebury defibrillator is imminent. Your correspondent attended a well- This year with the help of our dedicated team of Thanks to the use of a portion of the run defibrillator awareness evening at volunteers we recorded 183 speeding motorists village’s share of the New Homes Blakesley village hall in early May. The Editor who by now will have received one, or in some Bonus from SNC together with a village has had a community public Liz Jackson cases two letters from the police about their small contribution from Parish Council access defibrillator (CPAD) for two years driving. This was slightly down on last year but [email protected] reserves, the device and storage and in that time it has been deployed we did have fewer days to work with. The fastest Home: 858892 cabinet have now been purchased. It recorded speeds were 48 mph coming into the – to use the jargon – twice. There was village and 47 mph leaving. Sadly we did catch just remains for the installation at the a good attendance and a trainer from at least one resident who was recorded doing 41 Reading Room and we shall be the Community Heartbeat Trust – the mph. This shows a real lack of concern for the “good to go”. village sourced their device from this residents of their village. What we say to those charity rather than the EMAS – made an people caught speeding wherever they are is this: Once the device is installed and excellent presentation. Silverstone also “How would you feel if your husband, wife, child registered with the East Midlands has its own CPAD and it is hoped that if or your family pet was run over by a speeding Ambulance Service (EMAS), we shall be more villages in the area can make use motorist? At 41 mph they would certainly be killed. able to avail ourselves of the two hours of this facility, then the chances of any At 30 mph they would probably survive. Think training in the use of the defibrillator about that next time you are speeding.” individual surviving an out-of-hospital together with basic life support provided sudden cardiac arrest will improve Editor Brian Barton, Speed Watch coordinator. by EMAS as part of the whole package. substantially. Roger Harrington [email protected] Reading Room UPDATE Some of you may have noticed the new doors at the main entrance to the Reading Room. Many thanks to Faye Johnston for sourcing the doors and Roger Harrington for arranging their fitting. As mentioned at the Annual Village Meeting on 4 May, the income of the Reading Room in 2017/18 will be impacted by the loss of the net proceeds from the Country Fair. The Designer Management Committee would welcome any new ideas for addressing this issue. Lesley Passey [email protected] David Randall Whittlebury Parish COUNCIL MATTERS ARCHIVES The next two meetings of the Parish Council the autumn as to its financial viability from a Whittlebury inclosure document 1797 favourite churches. When Winston Churchill, will take place on Thursday 15 June and Stagecoach perspective. as Prime Minister during the Second World Thursday 20 July. As usual, all meetings are The Council understands that local Thanks to the generosity of village residents, War, paid a visit to Towcester, he passed held in the Reading Room starting at 7.30 pm government funds made available to support the Parish Council has been able to purchase through Whittlebury where he accidentally and all villagers are welcome to attend and local bus services are focussed on the County this most precious document for Whittlebury dropped his cigar near the school. This was to raise issues. There will not be a meeting in Connect service and the clear message from and for future generations who wish to look picked up by a pupil and sold for quite a August. Stagecoach is that, if villagers wish to keep into the history of the village - and what a considerable sum at a later date! this service, it is a matter of “use it or lose it”. history! The document now resides at the A book is presently being written by a There remains one vacant seat on the Northampton Record Office, in safe keeping, Northampton historian on manorial rights Council. If anyone is interested in getting Planning but is available to anyone who wishes to read and will include Whittlebury. Seven years involved, please either talk to one of the The Council has been advised that there it. All you have to do is ring them and ask to ago, Whittlebury was the subject of an councillors or contact the Parish Clerk, will be a further consultation process in the make it available for viewing. archaeological dig and if there are any Linda Paice, on 01327 353622 or paicel@ summer in respect of Part2A of the South I have in my possession a copy of the budding archaeologists out there, I have btinternet.com. Northamptonshire Local Plan. The areas inclosure map of the same date listing all the information on the subject. Over the years, I to be covered will include the settlement Village Bus Service properties and their occupants which may have received many copy newspaper reports hierarchy, village confines, housing policies Following the organisation of a petition by be a start for any researcher. With the very from Roger Scaddon, going back to the and allocations as well as the concept of some villagers and further representations to valuable help of Mrs Grace Rihoy I have now 1700s, which are fascinating reading, so I am Local Objectively Assessed Housing Needs. NCC and Stagecoach, a representative of compiled four folders of information which building up quite a collection of Whittlebury The Council will be submitting a response Stagecoach informed the Council meeting anyone can come and see. At the moment history. and, if any villagers have any views or on 20 April 2017 that a reduced service I hold these but, hopefully, in the not too Finding information about the Quaker comments, they are encouraged to advise would be reinstated from 26 June 2017. distant future these will have a permanent presence in the village in the 1700s proved the Council accordingly or to make their own This service will run on Mondays to Fridays home (not yet decided). a challenge but after some detective work submission. until the end of October on a trial basis and Did you know the downfall of Shakespeare’s I have gleaned a lot of information on the father, John, was instigated by a “gentleman subject - there is even a Quaker burial ground the use of the service will be reviewed in David Randall of Whittlebury” who was an agent of Queen here. Whittlebury has a very historic story to Elizabeth I in relation to the wool trade? tell and the information I now hold is open to Whittlebury was an administrative area in anyone who would like to see it. It could be the Middle Ages and was the home of a in better order but I am working on it and my number of lords and ladies who welcomed research goes on. kings and queens into their homes. Henry VIII loved the area for hunting and the Masters of the Grafton Hunt lived here. John Wesley Denise Gale is recorded as saying he loved coming to Tel: 01327 857203 preach in Whittlebury as it was one of his Email: [email protected] Roger, over and out Whitfest Born in Cambridge and brought up in Sudbury, On the 10th June 2017, we are hosting the If you think you can help please contact Suffolk, he spent the first 20 years of his career as first ever ‘WHITFEST’.