May 2019 FREE - MONTHLY Issue No. 19 THE RUDD Ruddfest returns! Ruddington’s annual beer festival will make a welcome return over the May Bank Holiday weekend. Ruddfest 2019 will run from Thursday 30th May to Sunday 2nd June, with a full programme of events and activities taking place on The Green, at The White Horse Inn and at The Frame Breakers. The Victoria Tavern will also be taking part by offering a wider selection of beers and ciders than usual, although there won’t be an outdoor bar this year. On The Green, festival goers can enjoy more than 200 beers and ciders as well as 25 gins, prosecco and a range of wines. All these can be soaked up by food from various stalls including hot dogs, Italian food from Gino’s Ristorante, Indian delights from The Three Spices and wood-fired pizzas from Ape About Pizza. There’ll also be music, live entertainment, family fun and games and kids’ activities. Continued inside The Village Newsletter is sponsored this month by: Ruddington Grange Golf Club 0115 921 4139 ruddingtongrange.com 1 For extra comfort, there’ll be double We hope you enjoy everything the amount of toilets provided last Ruddfest has to offer and the event is year and more tables and chairs. And if another huge success! Please drink the weather proves unkind, two extra- responsibly. large framed marquees will provide Calling all young gardeners! shelter. It’s time for young gardeners and Meanwhile, The Frame Breakers will budding artists to prepare their entries be offering entertainment and extra for the Ruddington Horticultural Show drinks in the pub and car park across on Saturday 14th September. The the weekend. There’ll be extra seating categories are: and marquees outside, with around 40 cask ales and traditional and fruit • Animals made from fruit and/or veg ciders on offer, as well as German biers • A painting of flowers and British craft beers on draught and • A decorated wooden spoon the return of the popular gin and rum • A scarecrow - big or small bar. The Pilsner Urquell truck will also • A model made from recycled return. materials On Thursday evening, there’ll be entertainment from Evie M and the Dolphin Morris Men, as well as an open mic event featuring poetry and prose around a heritage theme. This event is put on in partnership with The Framework Knitters Museum and hosted by local legend, Adam Nightingale. On Friday, Joe Strange and his Band You can find more details about the will provide evening entertainment – Show on the Ruddington Gardeners’ hopefully outside if the weather holds Association website: www.ruddington up. And on Saturday, the pub will be gardeners.co.uk. open for breakfast with no other There are some fabulous prizes to be events planned as this is usually won – and lots of fun to be had – so get Ruddfest’s busiest day. Breakfast will busy in the summer holidays and show also be served on Sunday morning as “the world” how talented you are! the festival winds down. Dave Russell, RGA 2 The Grand Brewery & Museum first tour would take place on a Tour – are you interested? weekday afternoon / evening over the summer (although weekends are a The Framework Knitters Museum in possibility). The proposed itinerary is: Ruddington has been Nottingham Brewery’s charitable partner since ● Meet at the Framework Knitters 2015. Museum on Chapel Street for a guided tour. There’ll also be the opportunity The connection goes way beyond to visit the museum shop, The Textile renaming the brewery-owned Emporium, and the tea room. Bricklayers’ Arms pub “The Frame Breakers”, as back in the days of the ● Walk over to The Frame Breakers for “old” Nottingham Brewery, framework a refreshing pint, then take a minibus knitters the length and breadth of to Nottingham Brewery in Radford. Nottingham would have drunk their ● After your guided tour of the ales. The brewery even revived one of brewery, you’ll be invited to enjoy a these recipes a few years ago – the buffet and further beverages in The still-popular “Frame Breaker” ale – to Plough (the Brewery Tap) before help the museum mark its 45th taking the bus back to Ruddington or anniversary. making your own way home. We’ve now come up with a joint Numbers for each tour will be limited initiative to further celebrate our to 12, so advance booking will be partnership and strengthen the required. existing links between Nottingham If this is something that interests you, Brewery and the Framework Knitters please contact the Framework Knitters Museum. Museum Manager & Curator, Jim We’re proud to announce: The Grand Grevatte, at jim.grevatte@ Museum & Brewery Tour. It’s the frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk so perfect opportunity to combine we can make a note of your details. interests in history and heritage with We’ll then contact you with suggested sampling a few of the finest beverages! dates and prices for the first tour. At the moment, we’re just putting out Of course, we’d d also welcome any feelers to find out if there’s enough feedback on our ideas and anything interest to start running these tours. you’d like to see in addition to, or done So there are no dates to put in your differently from, the above itinerary! diary yet, although it’s likely that the 3 “Stories and Objects” – your new people, broaden your summer exhibition experience, develop valuable skills At Ruddington Village Museum, we’re and have your say. always keen to get local people Along the way you’ll learn how involved. Our new project aims to do exhibitions are created and share your this in an exciting way. As one of three ideas on how to do things differently Nottinghamshire Museums involved such as exploring exciting new ways to in the “Stories and Objects” project, tell your stories including video, audio we’ll be showcasing a diverse range of and live storytelling. Don’t worry if it objects owned by members of the sounds a bit daunting, you’ll get all the Ruddington community. help and support you need to bring These objects will form a unique the story of your object to life. exhibition which will also feature the unusual stories and interesting backgrounds to all of the objects. These objects could be of significance to an individual, a family or a whole community group. Some objects have never left the area; others have been brought to Ruddington much more recently – but they all help tell the story of the community. We’d like to invite you, the If you’d like to get involved in this community and object owners, to innovative project, you can find out lend items for display at the exhibition more by visiting us at the Ruddington and also to be involved in helping us Village Market on Saturday 4th May or tell their stories drop in at the Village Museum on Thursday 16th May between 10am To create the exhibition, you’ll be and 12 noon for a chat and hands-on working as a group with other fun family activities. members of the community, supported by staff and volunteers To find out more, contact Gavin from the Village Museum and Walker on 0115 914 6645 or 07865 Nottingham Trent University. 013 857, or email enquiries@ ruddington-museum.org.uk. The project is free to take part in and offers an opportunity to socialise with 4 The “Stories and Objects” project is At the Fair, wildlife pond plants will be led by Nottingham Trent University in on sale, with free information on how partnership with Ruddington Village to create a pond to make your own Museum, Bassetlaw Museum, garden more wildlife-friendly. Mansfield Museum and their local You’ll also find a wide range of communities. You can visit the project perennial and annual plants, website at https://storiesandobjects homemade cakes, and wildlife craft .weebly.com/. items at the event. Visitors can win Gavin Walker prizes at the tombola and enjoy a Ruddington Spring Fair to relaxing drink at the café. support wildlife The wildlife craft stall has become famous for its fabulous knitted wild Looking for inspiration to support woolly creatures and painted pebbles. wildlife on your doorstep? Then come An army of volunteers have been to the annual Spring Fair at St Peter’s producing bees, butterflies, Rooms in Ruddington on Saturday hedgehogs, owls, robins and the 18th May, between 9:30am and 12 iconic badger, which is the logo of noon. This popular event is organised Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. by the South Notts group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust to If you have any plants, craft, cake or raise vital funds to support local tombola items to donate, please wildlife. contact Gordon Dyne on 0115 8784842. Part of the “Wild About Gardens” partnership with the Royal Crime figures for Ruddington Horticultural Society, this year the Fair For March, these were as follow: will highlight the value of garden • 1 x criminal damage ponds. During the past century, nearly 70% of ponds have been lost from the • 1 x attempted theft of vehicle UK countryside, meaning garden • 3 x burglary from an outbuilding ponds and water features are • 1 x burglary from a dwelling increasingly importance for wildlife. • 1 x burglary from a shop Even small ponds can support a • 1 x theft from a shop wealth of species such as waterlilies, • 1 x theft of number plates frogs, newts and dragonflies, as well • 1 x assault as providing water for bees and butterflies. • 1 x arson 5 Peppa Pig’s For more details, contact Jane Piggott Muddy Puddle Walk at [email protected].