MAY & JUNE 2017 Published on behalf of High Littleton Parish Council News & Views Clubs & Organisations News from the Parish Council Editor: Karen George High Littleton Beaver Scouts – Contact:- Ex-Vice Chairman Mr Bob Hitchens has resigned as Councillor of the High Littleton [email protected] Tricia Horwood Tel: 01761 470809 To advertise contact Vicki Smith 07815 620247 [email protected] Parish Council after nearly 20 years of service. Mr Hitchens was a highly valued Copy deadline for July / Aug 2017 issue: High Littleton Scout Group Contact:- Councillor whose vast contributions had included work towards the High Littleton 1/6/2017 Simon Walker [email protected] Pictorial History and the accounting system that is still being used. His historical Schools High Littleton with Farmborough Brownies knowledge and experience of the functioning of the High Littleton Parish Council and Contact:- Ann Edwards Tel: 07989 630541 the Local Government will leave a notable space. Mr R Hitchens will be missed. High Littleton Pre School – Tel: 07971 914659 [email protected] [email protected] High Littleton Toddler Group The Neighbourhood Plan is making excellent progress and has been going for 5 months. High Littleton C of E Primary School Contact:- Becky Fulford Tel: 01761 470410. The Steering Group is awaiting the results of a Landscape Assessment. The Council wish Tel:- 01761 470622 High Littleton Bell Ringing – Contact: - to thank all those on the Steering Group and parishioners for their input. offi [email protected] Jenny Cornwell. Tel: 01761 453641 Norton Hill School – Tel: 01761 412557 [email protected] The Council have employed Mr Simon Conway to design a new website for the Parish [email protected] High Littleton & Hallatrow Village Day Council. It is hoped that the public will not be inconvenienced while this work is carried Somervale School - Tel: 01761 414276 Committee - Contact: Chris Wootten Tel: out. [email protected] 01761 471106 [email protected] Writhlington School - Tel: 01761 433581 High Littleton Ladies Group Planning Applications in February 2017 & March 2017 [email protected] Contact: - Mavis Hurley Tel: 01761 471647 Registered Childminders High Littleton Luncheon Club – Contact: - 17/00103/FUL Erection of double garage following demolition of existing single garage. Maureen Carey Tel: 01761 471852 Church Cottage, Church Hill. The Council agreed to support this application. Jo Mansfi eld-Tel: 01761 471754. 07968 756917 High Littleton & Hallatrow WI - Contact:- Wendy Conner-Tel: 07952 955392 Vicky (Secretary) Tel: 01761 472959 17/00263/FUL Erection of a two storey side extension. 9 Rotcombe Lane. The Council BANES freshfi [email protected]. agreed to support this application. Main Switchboard - Tel: 01225 477000 High Littleton Football Teams 17/00287/FUL Erection of a side and rear extension, conversion of loft space, Council Connect - including waste & recycling, Seniors: Nathan Randall Tel: 07515 507443 roads & highways and general, library & Vets: Gary Elliott Tel: 07812 132202 modifi cation of front elevation and new materials to walls and roof. Mentone, Timsbury planning enquiries. Tel: 01225 394041 U13’s & Youth Coordinator: Road. The Council agreed to support this application. Local Councillor - Les Kew Tel: 01761 452649 Phil Smith Tel: 07766 305222 St Johns Ambulance - Tel: 01761 453464 U11s: Shane Sheppard Tel: 07821 277568 17/00449/FUL Erection of a single storey rear extension, new external decking, MP Jacob Rees Mogg - Tel: 0117 9872313 U10s: Greg Easton Tel: 07342 261245 installation of oil tank in front garden, alterations to existing garage and associated High Littleton Parish Council Clerk- U9’s: Adam Bean Tel: 07432 433091 works. 18 Parklands. The Council agreed to support this application. [email protected] U7s: Leyton Carpenter Tel: 07812 593631 Police -To report damage, vandalism and High Littleton Recreational Ground Revised - 16/06152/FUL Erection of two storey side extension. Mai-See View, Scumbrum thefts anonymously- Tel: 101 Committee – Contact:-Carey Gilliland Lane. The Clerk received notifi cation that this has been permitted before the Council had Woodland Trust: Tel: 01761 472108 [email protected] time to discuss the application at the next Council meeting, despite the Clerk asking for Recreation Ground Club Tel: 01761 472223 an extension. Doctors Surgeries & Hospitals between 8pm and 10pm. Cameley Surgery, Temple Cloud Pigeon Flying Club Tel: 01761 436041 Information can also be found on the two notice boards by the Post Offi ce in High Tel: 01761 452205 Cam Valley Arts Trail Group Tel: 07763218176 Littleton and the Old Post Offi ce in Hallatrow, or you can visit the Parish Council website Elm Hayes Surgery, Paulton Hallatrow NSPCC Committee www.highlittleton.org.uk Tel: 01761 413155 Contact: Jay Appleton Tel: 01761 452116 St Mary’s Surgery, Timsbury [email protected] Tel: 01761 470880 Methodist Church Centre Cover Photograph Paulton Memorial Hospital, Paulton Contact:- Maureen Carey Tel: 01761 471852 ‘The Gug’ courtesy of Mike Bell, High Littleton. Tel: 01761 412315 Holy Trinity Church If you have a photo of the local area or local event you’d like to go on the News & Views Royal United Hospital, Bath Revd Guy Edwards Tel: 01761 416581 cover then send it in to [email protected]. Tel: 01225 428331 Church Hall Tel: 01761 471017 2 3 Thanks to the ‘Litter Fairies’ Jenny and I start each day with a pre-breakfast walk. Occasionally it’s somewhere splendid, like Sydney Harbour or Long Beach Antigua, but generally it’s within a few miles of home. As a result we’ve got to know our village rather well. High Littleton is not a single entity, but actually comprises several sub-divisions, each with its own particular characteristics, attributes and attractions. It helps explain why, say, Scobell Rise feels very diff erent to Rotcombe or Eastover to the High Street. Walk just 50 paces, and you can be aware of huge changes in the local environment, and that includes attitudes to litter. The two main sources of litter are that which is thrown from cars along the main road from Kingwell through to Hallatrow, and that which misses the Banes lorry on rubbish collection day. Much of the focus of our twice-yearly Litter Picks is to clear up that mess. But the rubbish soon returns unless we all take some responsibility and keep on top of the area particularly that around our own houses. I know from organising the Litter Picks, that some parts of the village are always clean. It’s as if ‘litter-fairies’ spirit the rubbish away. These ‘litter fairies’ magically clear up the Banes-spill, the crisp packets and the coke cans to keep areas permanently clean. Of course, being fairies they are rarely seen, and they wear disguises so when you do, they often look like you or me. So let’s celebrate the litter-fairies whoever you are, and encourage others to discover their inner-litter-fairy. In the endless war against litter you can never have enough fairies. At a practical level, we had an excellent Litter Pick on March 11th on a lovely Spring morning. I off er huge thanks to all who participated – no fairies here, just Litter- Leviathans! More than 30 bags of general rubbish plus a double mattress, tv, barbecue and two lots of fl y tipping. Barry Gimbert 4 5 World War 1 - Spring 1917 Green Lane Farm Bed and Breakfast Following the months of fi ghting on the River Somme, the German army withdraw northwards to the Hindenburg Line. The British and French moved towards the town of Arras where fi ghting continued in the spring of 1917. Private Walter Cheal was the youngest son of Harry and Bessie Cheal of Kingwell Lodge, High Littleton. He was active in the local community, once a member of High Littleton church choir and worked as a clerk at Clutton Colliery. Walter was a member of the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry and was involved in the build up to the fi rst Battle of the Somme. Only nineteen years old, he was injured on the 3rd May and taken to a casualty clearing station at Aubigny en Artois near Arras. He died on the 7th May and the matron wrote to his mother:¬- “Your son has been brought in here, in hospital, mortally wounded in the thigh and back. The surgeons did all they could for him, but he passed away peacefully on Monday afternoon May 7th. We did our best to make him comfortable. He was such a brave lad and so good and More details available at www.greenlanefarmbandb.co.uk patient. I told him I would write to you” Alternatively please call Caroline on 01761 452833 or email [email protected]. Walter is buried in the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Corporal Ernest Cleavely Walters was the brother of George and lost his life near Arras in northern France on June 7th 1917. Ernest was a renowned local footballer, playing for High Littleton, Timsbury and Temple Cloud and worked at Clutton Colliery. He went to MENDIP GOLF CLUB France in the summer of 1916 as a soldier in the 10th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Regiment and was there when he received news of the death of his brother George Situated off the A37 between who had been killed on the Somme. The 10th Battalion was known as the “Cornwall Gurney Slade and Shepton Mallet Pioneers” during the Battle of the Somme, digging communication trenches, carrying barbed wire, ammunition, food and water to the forward trenches. They were always a • A warm welcome is extended to all beginners, intermediate and target for German artillery and it was during a bombardment on the 7th June 1917 that experienced golfers of any age to come and sample the course and facilities Ernest was killed.