HALLMARK THE LACEY GREEN & LOOSLEY ROW MAGAZINE Patchwork quilt for double bed ³¿¼» ¾§ Ö·´´ Þ¿µ»® ±ª»® ¼»½¿¼»•ô º·²·•¸»¼ ©·¬¸ É× MAY 2009 NUMBER 210 ESTABLISHED 1970 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com HALLMARK THE LACEY GREEN & LOOSLEY ROW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2009 allmark is published quarterly by the Lacey Green & Loosley Row Millennium Hall Management Committee, although opinions expressed in comment or contribution do not necessarily represent the collective view of that committee. Our aim is to mirror the mark that the Village Hall makes upon our community, to publish the activities of all Village organisations, and to provide a forum so that the rights, the wrongs, the well-being of village life can be aired. News from all the Village clubs, societies, church and school, stories of local interest and entries for the Village Diary are always welcome. In addition, any suggestions for improving Hallmark. Ê×ÔÔßÙÛ ØßÔÔ ÓßÒßÙÛÓÛÒÌ ÝÑÓÓ×ÌÌÛÛ Clive Hodghton (Chair), Rachel Panter (Vice-Chair), Paula Oxford (Secretary), Yvonne Axe (Treasurer), Karen Hodghton (Booking Sec.), Jill Baker, Stella Boll, Jane Brown, Ginnie Brudenell, Cathryn Davies, Sue D’Arcy, Carole Knight, Betty Tyler & Norman Tyler Ê×ÔÔßÙÛ ØßÔÔ ÞÑÑÕ×ÒÙÍ Clive or Karen on 01844 274254 (answering service) ÛÜ×ÌÑÎ Norman Tyler, 5 Woodfield, Lacey Green, Bucks HP27 OQQ (2/3rds down Woodfield, on the left) 01844 344606 (with answering service & fax) Emai´ [email protected] ßÜÊÛÎÌ×Í×ÒÙ ÓßÒßÙÛÎ Chris Baker, "Woodpeckers", Kiln Lane, Lacey Green, Bucks HP27 OPT (past the pond on the left) 01844 275442 ̸» ß«¬«³² Ø¿´´³¿®µ ©·´´ ¾» °«¾´·•¸»¼ ·² ß«¹«•¬ ó ½´±•·²¹ ¼¿¬» º±® ½±°§ ·• Ö«´§ ï鬸 elcome to the latest up a new group please get in touch and we will try to help. edition of Hallmark. The summer months are bringing new Our storage extension to the rear of the hall is now activities to the hall. The new complete. Over the next few weeks we hope to decorate youth club has had it's open and build cupboards and finally allocate space to all the evening and the response so far organisations and keep everything neat and tidy. is very promising. A Singing group will open in June on a Our Village website is now fully open at: Thursday morning and our usual ©©©ò´¿½»§¹®»»²ò½±³. There are already many pages groups and organisations continue to keep very busy. containing community events, places of interest, club Please look at the list at the back of Hallmark as we are news, full Village Hall booking details, even a history sure you will find something for everyone young, old and page, and so much more. Please visit it, make use of it everyone in between! As always if you would like to start and support it, after all it is yours to make use of in any ï PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com way you can. If you have any input, or items you would our local businesses around us and all that our villages like to share with everyone, please contact the relevant have to offer. person on the "contact us" page on the site. Why not get involved with what can only be described as a great Enjoy the summer and keep smiling, nobody can tax you asset for the whole of our community. for that! We are all feeling the pressure with the current economic Ý´·ª» ر¼¹¸¬±²ô ݸ¿·®³¿²ô Ê·´´¿¹» Ø¿´´ climate and it is more important than ever to support all ¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢ o you enjoy Hallmark? efforts – plenty more will be ready for future Hallmarks. There is much more space on www.laceygreen.com for Find it interesting? Helpful? articles that Hallmark can’t include. Informative? Useful? I am worried about its future. And An unusual collection of memories is on pages 29-31 by thus also its contribution to Þ®·¿² Ý«´´«³, whose story and old photos show ¸·• our new website. Why? ³»³±®·»• ±º Ô±±•´»§ α© ±º ¬¸» ïçëð• - he chose to Because I’m 80 and haven’t return to this area after living in Australia for 43 years! found anyone ©·¬¸ ¬¸» ¬·³» ¿ª¿·´¿¾´» to start taking over. It’s a very interesting and rewarding pastime. You An article on the start of a link building connecting the meet a lot of interesting and lovely people you wouldn’t front and rear parts of ±«® ͽ¸±±´ is on page 22.News otherwise meet. Unfortunately, the increasing workload and photos of the work on the new Outside Classroom on the volunteers who produce our growing website is for wildlife is on page 23. resulting in less time available to help me edit Hallmark. Page 24 gives the latest as we go to press about the In fact, for the present and some previous editions I have •¬®¿ª»´´»®•Ž ¼»ª»´±°³»²¬” starting one crossroad had little or no help at all. If you feel interested Š ¿²¼ beyond the Woodway/A4010 junction. ¸¿ª» ¬·³» ¿ª¿·´¿¾´» (2 weeks starting each 17th Jan, Apr, July & Oct) why not contact me for an exploratory For some years, I have been particularly concerned for chat? My contact details are on page 1. our young and future generations about ©¸¿¬ •±³» ±º ±«® •«°»®³¿®µ»¬• ¿®» ¼±·²¹ ¬± ±«® Þ®·¬·•¸ º¿®³»®• – The °·½¬«®» ±² ±«® ½±ª»® shows a ®»³¿®µ¿¾´» ½±¬¬±² see Kathleen Turner’s remarks in Jean Gabbitas’s WI °¿¬½¸©±®µ ¯«·´¬ º±® ¿ ¼±«¾´» ¾»¼, all hand sewn and report on page 16 and use your conscience accordingly. measuring 240 cm (94½“) long x 225 cm (88½”) wide. This work by Jill Baker has taken many years (several п«´ α¹»®•±²Ž• «•«¿´ ¿®¬·½´» as County Councillor decades, in fact) and has recently been completed with cannot appear this time because of the Purdah the help of Loosley Row and Lacey Green WI members. restrictions leading up to the County elections on June 4. The photo can be seen in colour on our village website, ©©©ò´¿½»§¹®»»²ò½±³. It is now available for sale and the proceeds will be donated by Jill to our village hall! ÍÌÑÐ ÐÎÛÍÍ The quilt is first being offered only to local people. If this Well done Lacey Green, Loosley Row & does not bring a satisfactory result by the end of June, it Speen. You now have a YOUTH CLUB, will then be offered on the internet. For more information, to see the quilt or to make an offer for consideration, following a very successful information please ‘phone Ö·´´ Þ¿µ»® on ðïèìì îéëììî or email her evening! at ½¶©±±¼°»½µ»®•à±²»¬»´ò½±³. The Youth Club will have its first meeting on st Our new Ô±½¿´ Ø·•¬±®§ Ù®±«° is very keenly working on Friday 1 May 7.309.00pm at the village a wide variety of aspects of past life in our area. They hall, then run alternate Fridays throughout meet every few weeks to exchange news on their the year. progress – Leigh Axe attends to help get their articles on If you havent yet joined, bring your parent the website. I also attend to see what there is space for along to a meeting to sign up. in Hallmark. Pages 11 & 12 are only the first fruits of their Regular updates will appear in Hallmark and î on the www.laceygreen.com website. PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com ¾§ Ö±¿² É»•¬ ÉßÌÛÎ ÐÎÛóïçíì was a ready market for both in London. There were a great number of horses kept there for riding and ater was an important consideration in the past. commercial purposes and hundreds of herds of dairy cows. These were probably of less than half a dozen It had to be conserved as much as possible and probably animals and they were kept inside all the time. The used very economically. Most cottages would have had Lacey Green farmers delivered their goods and brought an underground tank to collect the rainwater off the roof back the manure for their own land, without which this for domestic purposes. This would usually have provided land would grow very little indeed. A good bit of enough water for the family. These tanks were beautifully recycling, you could say. made, lined with brickwork which was skimmed over with a thin layer of “cement”. Above it would be a pump and A good farmer had to be very good at predicting the the bigger houses would probably have had one into the weather, for hay takes about four days of hot weather to kitchen and another in the washhouse. The farms would dry. Also he had to call in as many extra hands as have had a considerable number, mainly because they possible, for it involved much labour, tossing and turning, had a lot of roofs, not because there were a lot of carting and stacking into ricks when it was dry. It must animals kept. There were no dairy cows unless a few not go mouldy or overheat. A great many people were families might have a house cow. Milk was not glad of extra work so a ride through the village shouting something to drink but to cook with - a pudding perhaps. for all hands to the fields was all that was needed. Butter springs to mind but dripping was more likely the order of the day. Many people kept a pig. They got them Many children skived off school to the despair of the extremely fat so there must have been vast quantities of teachers, but the parents would rather have them dripping. Sheep were kept on the commonland but they working. need virtually no water; they get fluid from grazing. By far Barley, wheat and oats could be grown up here. Either the most important animals were the horses. A very few sold or used for the horses. Once more lots of labour, but were riding horses but the farmhorses were special.