FULMER NEWSLETTER JUNE 2017 – Issue 61 www.fulmervillage.org LIST OF ADVERTISERS Chiropody, Adriana Rozek 01753 652754 Hamptons Estate Agents, Gerrards Cross 01753 886464 Physio – Jill Frew 01753 643238 South Bucks Physio, Wexham 01753 664114 Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens 01753 523744 We are very grateful to our advertisers, many of whom have been supporting the Newsletter for a number of years. Please remember to tell any of the advertisers that you have seen their advert here. The advertising income with a contribution from the Parish Council helps us fund the Newsletter and secure its future. If anyone would like to advertise in a future issue, please contact Susie Simkins on 662537 or by email to [email protected] INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 61st Edition of the Fulmer Newsletter – as always we have a good mix of familiar articles updating villagers on what is happening in all areas and some very interesting personal pieces, which we love to include. If anyone feels that they would like to write something please do get in touch. As always at this time of year we are keeping Fulmer looking tidy and neat for the Best Kept Village judging. We are sure, like others in the village, you are all finding more litter being dropped around our lanes and roads, which is a repeated nuisance. Our Conservation Volunteers can only do so much – and they are performing a sterling job in cutting and tidying footpaths, hedges and much more. We hope everyone will do their bit to keep Fulmer looking great throughout the year. Sadly the Annual Parish Meeting in May was very under-supported by the village. It would be so nice to see more people come along (it is usually the second Tuesday in May, 8pm, Village Hall) and hear what has been happening in the previous 12 months in the parish and enjoy meeting the Parish Councillors over wine and nibbles afterwards. It is usually only around one hour so hopefully there will be a better turnout in 2018! Thanks are due to our regular, long-standing advertisers and the people who help us deliver this newsletter to you. Susie & Ronnie Simkins – Editors Fulmer Day – 1 July 2017 Fulmer Day is fast approaching and this year’s event is going to be bigger and better than ever. There will be activities for everyone whatever their age. Remember, the road will be closed from 11.30am - 6pm with activities starting from 1.30pm. Last year we raised more than £4,800 for local charities and good causes. Some of those that we helped included: Second Hope, DASH, MPS (Amersham), Carers Bucks, Leonard Cheshire, Fulmer Village Hall and King Georges Field. The emphasis this year is on family fun and we have a range of activities for all ages from bungee trampolines to the popular petting zoo, there will be lots of new stalls to keep the shoppers busy too! Alternatively, catch up with family and friends in the Black Horse garden or at the bar whilst enjoying a delicious burger from the BBQ. The Black Horse continues to sponsor our event and we appreciate all the support Howard, Rachel and Jane provide, along with their fantastic hard working team. The party will be in full swing throughout the afternoon with the kid’s amusements in the pub car park as usual. So please do join us for a fantastic day, encourage your family and friends to join in and have lots of fun. We look forward to welcoming you – Darren (Fulmer Day Committee) LIST OF DUTIES IN FULMER PARISH Michael Saxby Chairman – transport/highways/minerals & waste Plans/finance group/core strategy ([email protected]) 01753 662020 Parm Khanghura Deputy Chairman - Planning matters/finance group [email protected] 01753 662179 Ronnie Lamb FSCA Executive Committee/finance group ([email protected]) 01753 662662 Susie Simkins Editor of Newsletter/ Gazetteer/press/liaison Fun Day ([email protected]) 01753 662537 Francesca Fulmer Village Website. St. James’ Fulmer/website Hall-Drinkwater ([email protected]) 01753 662295 Jo Beardsworth Communication issues ([email protected]) Christine Owen Pinewood Studios liaison, Fulmer Infant School rep ([email protected]) Peter Kelly Parish Clerk, Finance Officer, Finance Group. Council Administration matters; FSCA; Notice Board; Allotments; ([email protected]) O T H E R S Richard Marshall BKV, FCV, Paths/Fulmer Conservation Volunteers [email protected] Barbara Zoltowoska Fulmer Village Hall Chairman [email protected] District Councillor Malcolm Bradford [email protected] County Councillor Roger Reed – ([email protected]) Brian Weild Neighbourhood Watch; Police Liaison; Community Liaison - [email protected] Karen Nelms Village Hall Lettings Secretary 07498 0412953 PERSONALIA Deaths – Burials – Ashes - we send sympathy to the families of: Mildred Bessie Hutton who died on 8 December 2016. Her ashes were interred alongside her husband George, sister Patricia and grandson Laurence in the family plot at St James, Fulmer on 26 January 2017. This day would have been her 100th birthday. Sylvia Hornibrook who died on 8 December 2016 and whose memorial service took place in St James, Fulmer on 4 January 2017. A tribute to her follows. Evelyn Elizabeth (Betty) Pearce who died on 9 December 2016 and whose memorial service took place at St James, Fulmer on 16 January 2016. A tribute to her follows. Elizabeth Guinness who died on 8 February and a service of Thanksgiving took place at St James, Fulmer on 22 February. A tribute to her follows. Marriages – we congratulate Grace Abigail Beaton and Daniel James Gilmour-Jones of Hounds Gate, Nottingham married on 29 April 2017. Grace is the daughter of Catherine & James Beaton and granddaughter of Anne & Ian Trott of Fulmer Gardens House. Newcomers – we welcome Anthony, Rebecca and George (2) Plaskett who have come to live in Cherry Tree Lane Achievements – we congratulate Colin Simpson of Court House who has received the prestigious Diamond Award from the English Bridge Union. The award recognises excellence and success over a sustained period whilst representing England’s International teams. Colin is a Senior World and European Champion, having won those events in 2009 and 2014 respectively. These were among his eight appearances for England’s senior team in major competitions, and he played for the Open team in five major championships in the early part of the millennium. He also represented England numerous times in the Camrose and Telscher Trophy competitions. For more information see www.ebu.co.uk then either the Diamond Award or Colin Simpson. ELIZABETH GUINNESS (September 1925 – February 2017) ‘You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived’ After five bedridden years unable to speak or recognise any of us, Elizabeth died peacefully on 8 February in her own bed and in her own home with her two daughters and myself standing beside that bed. Unhesitatingly her family decided that it was the ‘smile option’ they would adopt and so with the help of Jill Roth, our Priest in Charge, we devised a Service of Thanksgiving combined with Hope to commemorate her life with us. This took place in Fulmer Church on 22 February with six members of her family participating. It was a remarkable tribute to her that at the start of the service it was ‘standing room only’ in the Church. Elizabeth was born in 1925 in the Black Country – the West Midlands, where her father was Chairman of the Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries (someone once quipped that our children must have more beer than blood in their veins!). In her education she shone in the academic subjects but also developed a talent as an artist and as a sculptress. On being called up for Wartime Service she joined the staff side of a large Rehabilitation Centre for Service Personnel & Coalminers recently discharged from hospital. To save on precious wartime petrol she would drive to work in a pony and trap. She was an active Young Conservative. I sensed that she was much more interested in local affairs than what was happening on the national and international scene. Elizabeth and I met at the Grand National (where else?) in 1947, shortly after I had been demobbed and completed my Brewing Apprenticeship in the Guinness Dublin Brewery. In 1950 she was a bridesmaid at her brother’s wedding at a time when I was convalescent from a major operation. It gave us a providential opportunity to get to know each other and we were married at Albrighton Church in June 1951. We set up house together in Templewood Lane, Stoke Poges. Elizabeth proved a great homemaker and had learned enough from a very experienced gardener for her to supply the brain and I the brawn in the first garden we made together. Her knowledge of wild flowers and birds greatly enhanced walks and holidays we took together. Charlotte and Henrietta were born in Windsor in 1955 and 1957 and when I was posted to become the first Guinness Northern Sales Manager in 1959, Diana followed, born in Chester in 1961. This move necessitated setting up a new house near Chester and establishing new office in Chester itself. Speed was essential but Elizabeth coped with the furnishing and decoration of both which were much admired in the result. On our return to the South, I rejoined the Fulmer Parochial Church Council becoming Vice Chairman to the Rector. On the death of Lillian Charlton, the Verger, the Ladies of the Church Council undertook to take on the responsibility for cleaning the church on a voluntary basis. Elizabeth, with Gill Jonas, the wife of a well-known paediatrician, agreed to set up and monitor the rota.