Eydon Village News Issue 400 November 2020 Volunteers Remembrance Sunday In This Issue Please! Regular Features The Village Hall recently Bin Collections . 2 received a substantial grant from HS2 for Notes from St Nicholas 2 refurbishment works which are currently Parish Matters . 2,3,4,5 underway. We plan to hold a service for Remembrance Sunday at Latest News The Grant was awarded on 10.15 on Sunday 8th November in St Nicholas Church the basis that the A Personal View. 4 and will then move to the Burial Ground for the community contributed in ceremony at the War Memorial. kind for a small proportion Byfield Medical . 4 of the costs and we are As space in church is limited, please let Sue Yates Christmas Cards . 2 therefore planning to raise (01327 260503, [email protected]) know if you plan a working party to to attend this service. Eydon 200 Club . 4 redecorate the Hall once the works are completed. If Eydon Garden Society . 1 Please lookout for any new notices as the pans for this you would like to service may change volunteer, please contact: Eydon Village Hall. 1 Masks must be worn at all services in St Nicholas. Eydon Village News. 1 lucy.braddyll@ travisperkins.co.uk Please note change of time. Eydon Walkers . 5 (261611) or elaine.partridge2@btintern Eydon War Memorial . 3 et.com (263310) for more information. Eydon Garden Society Important Message. 6 (no longer active except for this!) Remembrance Sunday . 1 Discounted Flower & Vegetable Seeds, Fruit Trees St Nicholas Church Notice . 4 Help Needed Flower & Vegetable Plants & Garden Equipment Help needed to deliver If you want to order seeds, plants and garden equip- copies of the Eydon Village ment from Dobies, please ask Sue Yates at Oriel News. House, 59 High Street ([email protected]). Tel: 260503 for a catalogue. Please give your address and Next Issue If you are able to volunteer we will deliver a catalogue to you. Any articles, diary your help to deliver some dates,notices, copies of the EVN in the There is an automatic 15% discount on plants, trees photos, etc. welcomed! Village, it would be very and equipment and the discount on seeds will be 50%. send to: much appreciated. [email protected] With your catalogue you are given an order form with 6 Halls Lane, Brackley, Please contact Sue the unique EGS ordering number which gives you NN13 6AN McRoberts 261068, thank these discounts whether you order in the autumn or DEADLINE: THIRD FRIDAY you. in 2021. You can use this code to order online too. OF EVERY MONTH 1 PARISH Notes from COUNCIL MATTERS St Nicholas The October meeting of Eydon Parish Council Services for November 2020 Information about other took place on Tuesday services in our benefice is Sunday 1st November 13 October at 7.30pm available on the No service at St Nicholas via the Internet. Three noticeboard in the church members of the public Sunday 8th November porch and on boards were able to connect via 10.15 Remembrance Sunday service round the village a published link. Sunday 15th November Please contact our Rector The Councillors present 11.00 Parish Communion or Churchwarden if you were: Carol Henson, Sunday 22nd November need further information Richard Collins, Wendy 9.30 Morning Worship or have any questions Coy, Gordon Anderson, Jess Maxted and Keith Sunday 29th November Sue Yates Simmons, Chairman No service at St Nicholas 260503 along with Andy Hartley Sunday 6th December (St Nicholas Day) [email protected] the Clerk. 9.30 Parish Communion During the meeting the Please note that we are continuing to social distance in our church and so we ask following items were that you tell us if you plan to attend one of the above services discussed: 2020 Christmas Cards, in aid of our Church Coronavirus outbreak and epidemic Christmas cards in aid of St. Nicholas, Eydon are now on sale again this year. The new front picture is in full colour of our Church on a magnificent sunny, but snowy, day. This was discussed at The reverse has a small colour springtime shot, to remind us of days to come, and length considering the there is a suitable greeting inside. This year we are using much heavier card changed situation with (300gsm). The finished card measures 14cm x 10cm, and is in landscape format. the infection rates rising around the country, it The cards come in packs of 10 cards with 11 envelopes priced again at £3.50 per pack was decided to keep the (senders are allowed one mistake!), and are available to order now. Supplies will be situation under review. limited and may only be obtained from John Grindlay, Rectory Barn, School Lane. Call in, or phone John on (01327) 260303 or 07836 502756. Orders also accepted by Village Lighting email: [email protected] Sorry no plastic, cash or cheques (Payable to St Nicholas Replacement Church, Eydon). So, order now at £3.50 per 10 cards, complete with envelopes. The Clerk was 100% of the income will continuing to oversee November Bin Collections go to the Church. The the programme and Tues 3rd November printing is kindly reported on his BLUE and GREEN Bin sponsored by Roger Coy meetings with the Associates, the envelopes contractors. Samples Tues 10th November and paper has also been donated. for the conservation BLACK Bin area were awaited and John Grindlay the clerk would review Tues 17th November the numbers required. BLUE and GREEN Bin Re-Wilding Tues 24th November BLACK Bin The Chairman had had For all the above dates all bins and the SILVER St Nicholas’ Church, Eydon Continued page 3 food caddie should be put out by 7.00 am. 2 History of Eydon’s War Memorial Cross PARISH Thoughts of having a memorial cross started in January 1919 when the Rev. W. Lewis COUNCIL proposed that, with the churchyard being almost full, there should be a new church- yard extension on Rectory land off the Culworth Road, near to the village and church. MATTERS This offer would provide space for both memorial cross and future burials and the informal discussions, contribution enabled the War Memorial project and appeal fund to go forward. the sub committee was A committee of six was duly appointed which included the Rev. Lewis and five other yet to formally meet. who were or had been local farmers. The committee decided on a granite cross with names on two panels either side of Lime Avenue Trees the main east facing memorial which declared “To the Glory of God and in Memory of A response from the Men of Eydon who fell in the Great War 1914–1918 — May they Rest in Peace” Northamptonshire and they chose Mr A W Sturley, of Banbury to sculpt and construct it at a cost of £75, highways indicating non the design being based on a Celtic cross. emergency work was After much discussion as to whether proposed names put forward had indeed a true not being undertaken at and valid connection with Eydon, the final list of twelve men to have their names the present time. The engraved onto the stone was agreed and they were: H W Bull; R Cleaver; E F Cleaver; Clerk was requested to A J Cherry; R Colton; E Colton; E Carpenter; L F Durrant; W Edden; C J Fairbrother; F W press the issue further Lines and C H Thompson. and investigate a survey of these trees by the Funds were raised by donation around the village with the bulk of it being given by Parish Council. the owner of Eydon Hall, Lady Florence Hesketh who during the war, had accom- modation adjacent to the Hall stable blocks, converted into an Auxiliary Home Hospital containing five wards each with four beds. Village Hall The new burial ground was formally opened on Sunday 25th September 1921. The The Works planning was cemetery was consecrated, and the new cross dedicated by the Bishop of Leicester in completed and the front of villagers and parish dignitaries. remedial works are under way. After the consecration, Colonel Reid was invited to unveil the granite cross, during which he spoke of the men of Eydon who had given their lives, along with thousands of other Englishmen, for their country, saving it from invasion, contrasting the Electricity buying peaceful village of Eydon with the many devastated villages of France and Belgium. In group for Parish and a following speech, Mr Ernest Pettifer, on behalf of the Memorial Committee, spoke Town Councils of the “Forty men who had left the parish and twelve had not returned”. It was decided to join After the end of WWII, the following this group as it inscription was added to the west panel. appeared to be able to save in electricity costs 1939-1945 Brand RJ Hannis FTR for our unmetered O'Loughlin JJ Rogers B “We will usage. remember them” In more recent times the churchyard Neighbourhood Watch extension with the memorial has been Coordinator conveyed by the Church to the Parish Council so that the whole village No progress had been community is now responsible for its made in filling this role, upkeep and maintenance. the Parish Council would continue seek a Geoffrey Stretton, Member of RBL Byfield Branch replacement for this important role. My thanks to Eydon Historical Research Group for allowing me to write this piece as it has been produced entirely from CCTV extracts taken from their booklet Lest We The clerk reported that Forget – Eydon in the Great War. Published in March 2014.