Issue 17 March 2016

Sutton St James News
Lola the Street Dog – The Final Chapter
Local Businesses : Puzzle Page : Arthur - The Amazing Trekking Dog
Parish Council Contacts and Meetings : Church and Village Hall Events
Elephant War Worker
: Amazing Women - Annie Edison Taylor
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Welcome to the first issue of our Village Magazine for 2016 and a big thank you to Jonathan Bye for the lovely
photograph on our front cover. In fact I would like to say a big thank you to all the readers who have contacted me
telling me how much they have enjoyed the magazine and gone to the trouble of sending in items to include. Its
your input that helps to make the magazine so interesting and a pleasure for me to produce. The next issue is
‘Summer’ so a picture that suggests summer in or around Sutton St James would be lovely to receive and also a
story that can be our new serial is needed. So calling all budding writers!! Here is your chance to see your work
published. This is your magazine so pictures and stories of interest are always welcome. If you have a story that
you would like to share - either fact or fiction - or just a letter that you would like printed please don’t hesitate to send it to me - everything
is most happily received.
PLEASE NOTE:- The price for adverts in this magazine is £10 per single and £25 per set of four Issues.
Contact : Wendy Priestley - Editor : Sutton St James News - By Tel:- 01945 440 726
By email :- [email protected]
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By Post to Rosanda: Broadgate : Sutton St James : PE12 0EL
Deadline for articles and adverts for inclusion in the Summer Edition is April 30th 2016
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Sutton St James Parish Council - Subject to May Elections
Chairman - Cllr W A Harrison
Tel. (01945) 440 332
Cllr C M Griggs
Tel. (01945) 440 599
Cllr D J Brown
Tel. (01945) 440 691
Cllr H Neale
Tel. 07791 960962
Cllr V G Campling
Tel. 07850 920 484
Clerk to Council - Mrs Lin Pilcher
Tel (01945) 440 762
Cllr P Kidd
Tel. 07974113267
Cllr J Garbutt
Tel. 07708 818 76
For details of any changes from the elections please contact Lyn Pilcher - Clerk to the Council
----------------------------------------------------------Parish Council Meetings - 7.30 Sutton St James Village Hall
March 24th - April 21st - May 19th
There will be an Annual Parish Meeting for residents between March and June, the date has not yet been fixed.
Speakers will be invited to talk on issues of interest to the village.
If anyone has a topic or interest that they wish to know more about, please contact the clerk on [email protected]
or 01945 440762 and every effort will be made to accommodate these on the agenda.
Details of changes to the scheduled dates of any meeting will be given at least three working days beforehand.
Details of the agenda of any meeting may be obtained by applying to the Clerk to the Parish Council.
Members of the public are invited to attend any of the above meetings
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We will match customers with a supportive volunteer, who will befriend the person living with dementia and their support network.
Support to customers and their full time carers / relatives
• Care Coordinators are on-call from 8.00am to 8.00pm, 7 days a week• Customers will receive an individual support package, tailored to fit their own
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person to our FREE service, please contact: Tel: 01476 552137 or 07772992732 Email: [email protected]
Volunteers also needed for this service. Please contact us for further details if you feel you can help
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South Holland Voluntary Car Service
Registered Charity 1139571
We provide transport for residents of Sutton St James
For visits to :- Nursing Homes – Dentists – Hospitals – Opticians – Doctors Medical Centres
For more information contact Mrs Sharon K on 01406 366 820
9 to 12 noon - 1 to 4.30 Monday to Friday Transport for a small charge.
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SUTTON ST JAMES UNITED CHARITIES - ( REG. CHARITY NO. 527757 )
11 YEAR OLDS -- EDUCATIONAL GRANTS 2016
Parents of children who have been resident (within the Parish of the Village) of Sutton St James for one year and upwards,
can apply for financial grants to assist with transferring to Secondary Schools in the Summer of 2016. Application forms are
available at the Village School and at the Post Office or from the Clerk. Completed applications must be lodged with the
Clerk on or before the 10th. May, 2016
K SAVAGE – CLERK 39 Midsummer Gardens Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9GF or ( [email protected])
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Matt Harrison Electrical
Industrial, Commercial and Domestic work undertaken.
For all your electrical needs : An honest reliable service from a locally
based new small business. : 15 years of experience of all types of work.
Telephone:- 01945 440 143 : Mobile :- 07713 250 516
Email :- [email protected]
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Anne and Frances
N. W. Roffe & Daughter - Family Butchers
Chapelgate Sutton St James
Open Tuesday to Saturday for
Top Quality Meats and Freshly Baked Bread.
Fresh Vegetables : Sandwiches : Cakes : Grocery
Summer BBQ Packs - Pre Packed or made to order
Telephone:- 01945 440 343
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Rigid & Artic : One to One Training : COURSES FROM £940
Sutton St James : Spalding : Lincs
Contact:- 01945 440 726 - [email protected]
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Short talks about animal communication & reiki (minimum of 10 people)
Horse, House & Pet Sitting Service
Short tarot readings – Proceeds will go to animal charities
For more information, please contact me: tel: 01945 440747 or 07950987231 email:
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East Elloe Lions Club
Thank you to
SUTTON ST JAMES VILLAGE
For raising the magnificent sum of
£178.13P
This will enable us to continue our work supporting causes within the local community.
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QUIZ NIGHT – SATURDAY 16TH APRIL 2016 – ALL WELCOME!!
Mike and Ann Milchard are, once again, putting on the ever popular Quiz Night
on Saturday 16th April in the Church Hall in Bells Drove.
As usual, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start and tables of 4/6 please. Payment on the door of £3.00 per head but no
refreshments included so please bring your own drinks, glasses and pickies!!
There will be a raffle and any prizes donated will be most welcome. All proceeds going to local charities and village groups.
For further enquiries call Ann or Mile on 01945 440 391 – or just turn up on the night.
The Gunners Store
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35-37 Chapelgate : Sutton St James : Lincolnshire : PE12 0EF
Tel:- 01945 440 289 : web site: www.thegunner.net
email [email protected]
Suppliers of Air Rifles, ‘scopes, mounts, pellets, shooting luggage
& accessories, cleaning and maintenance products.
Please telephone before travelling check we are open.
Usual hours Monday to Friday 11.30am to 6.30pm.
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Arthur - The Amazing Trekking Dog
Adventure Racing is a form of extreme sport that combines continuous hiking, trekking, mountain
biking and kayaking over a successive number of days with the world championships held in Ecuador
and covering three diverse geographical regions - the Andes, the Pacific and the Amazon rainforest.
One of the teams of athletes from Sweden sat down to eat some canned meatballs ahead of a
dangerous rainforest trek in Ecuador and gave one to a stray dog who was hanging around. That dog who they named Arthur - then followed them to complete their 430-mile Adventure Racing World
Championship. No matter what they did or how hard it was, Arthur the dog did not leave their side
and took on the tasks with them.
He slogged up hills during hikes and waded through knee-deep mud treks. Even when the team tried to
get rid of him out of concern for his safety, he refused to leave. Before one part of the race - a 36-mile
kayak around the coast - organisers warned the team that taking Arthur along posed a risk to his and
their safety so they tried to set off without him, but as they left he jumped into the water beside them and
started desperately paddling. Team Captain Mikael Lindord, picked him up, put him in the kayak and let
him stay for the rest of the journey.
Despite numerous attempts by the team to get rid of Arthur,
primarily for his own safety, he refused to go. It meant when he got stuck in the knee-deep mud they
helped get him out and when he was exhausted, they
stopped to take a break. He had become part of the team and when they decided they couldn't leave him
behind, they applied to the Swedish Board of Agriculture so that Arthur would be allowed to live with them
in Sweden.After four months in quarantine, he was finally cleared to leave and joined a delighted Mikael
and his new family to start his new life. Since his return to Sweden, Arthur has been treated for a wound
on his back which was three to six months old and still bleeding when the team found him. Lindnord said:
"I almost cried, when receiving the decision from Jordbruksverket (Board of Agriculture) in Sweden to
allow Arthur to come home. I came to Ecuador to win the World Championship. Instead I got a new
friend.”
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Abbeygate Landscape & Nurseries - For All Your Gardening Needs
Grass Cutting - Scarifying - Hedge Trimming & Planting - Gutters Cleared - Patios Cleaned
Garden Design & Clearance - Trees Crowned & Lopped - Weed Control on Lawns & Driveways
All Jobs Considered
Call Dale Allwood on 07901 973 557 - 01406 422 886
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Sutton St James Parish Church Information
Services take place as per times on the notice-board outside the church.
If you are a Flower Arranger and would like to join us, please telephone Pauline on 01945 440 285.
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Coffee Mornings - Our popular coffee mornings are held on the second Saturday in the month.
In the parish church between 10.00am and 12.00.
Raffle and small stall.
--------------------------------------------------------------CHURCH HALL, BELLS DROVE, SUTTON ST. JAMES.
This hall is available for hire : Suitable for small family gatherings, meetings, exercise classes and children's parties.
Charge is £7.50 per hour. Contact Jenny Rose on 01945 440 685.
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SUTTON ST JAMES WOMENS GROUP
The group meets at 7.30 in the Church Hall, Bells Drove on the last Wednesday in each month.
Subscriptions for the year is £10 with a possible extra charge for outings.
For further information contact. Cherril Collins on 01945 440 319 Or Ann Milchard on 01945 440 391
SUTTON ST JAMES TODDLERS
GROUP AT CHURCH HALL - BELLS DROVE
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Mondays from 10.30 am to 11.45 - Thursdays from 1. 45 to 3 pm
Children from babies to school age welcome. Contact Jenny Rose on 01945 440 685
Sutton St James Preschool Playgroup
We are now open every day Mon - Fri 9am to 3pm - The sessions are either 9-12 : 12-3 : 9-3.
For further details contact :- Caron Bishop 01945 440 000
Garners Garage
71 Chapelgate - Sutton St James
Fuel : Repairs : MOT’s
Open Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm
Saturdays - 8am to 12 noon
Sundays - 10 to 12 noon Fuel Only
Tel:- 01945 440 226
For all your wiring needs.
Agricultural - Commercial - Domestic All electrical wiring systems installed,
Periodic inspection reports, Fault finding, Extra sockets, Full rewires, 3 phase wiring.
Part P Registered. Access Platform available for hire (12 meter cherry picker)
Free quotations - please contact us using the details below
John Heanes, 147 Chapelgate, Sutton St James, PE12 0EF
07990 847 677 www.jheaneselectrical.co.uk [email protected]
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Sutton St James Baptist Church
Sunday Service every week at 10.45
Coffee Morning each Thursdays 10 am to 12 noon - all Welcome
Fellowship Lunch - Last Thursday in the month 12 noon for 12.30 Meal (Pre booking required for this event.)
Open Doors
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Second Tuesday of the Month 2pm to 4pm for Talk, Tea and Cake.
Everyone Welcome - For Further information call Pastor Ross Dean on 01406 424 556
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Painting and Decorating
Gary J Nye - 16 Fishergate Sutton St James
Contact 01945 440 279 - Mobile 07951 127 717
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53 Chapelgate
All aspects of Hairdressing Ladies Gents & Children
Sutton St James
Open Tuesday to Saturday 0830 till late
PE12 0EF : 01945 440499
Jeanette’s Hair Salon
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Gel Extensions, Gel Overlay on Natural Nail, Gel Polish, Express Manicure, Gel Toes,
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help grow your own natural nails (this is not a gel/polish, it’s a repairoftreatment)
Hairdressing Ladies Gents
Based in Sutton St James – vouchers available too!
& Children
Contact Kerri Jarvis : 07768 986 346 : www.cutigel.co.uk : Find CutigelSutton
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St James Open
Tuesday to Saturday 0830 till
Painter & Decorator
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late
Over 30 years Experience : References Available
City & Guilds : No Job Too Small
5 Chapel Gate : Sutton St James.
Email: - [email protected]
01945 440499
Park House Physiotherapy Clinic
PE12 0EF
Jeanette’s Hair Salon
Your Neighbourhood Clinic
Treatment of spinal pain, sports injuries, muscle, tendon or joint problems and following fractures or orthopaedic surgery
For an appointment contact Deborah Cheetham Tel 01945 870515
Email: [email protected]
www.parkhouse-physiotherapy.co.uk
Park Road : Tydd St Giles Wisbech PE13 5NH
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Fen Speak – the Ancient Fenland Dialect
FEN-SPEAK is a load of "grunt" to most outside folk, and that’s without someone speaking with a hack and splutter. In other words ‘grunt’ is Fen dialect
for nonsense, while a ‘hack and splutter' is what people in the rest of the country would call a stammer.
They are words left over from years gone by, before the Fens were drained and the area was still cut off from the rest of mainland Britain.
Back then, "foursies" would have been a four oclock tea break from work in the fields, "Bulls noon" a fictitious time taken to do something that never got done,
and having a "skilly" would mean tucking into a thin porridge made from meal and water.
A mid-morning meal for farm workers, or a "docky" as Fenlanders called it, originated because pay would be docked when they stopped to eat. It’s a
language which some people living in Fenland towns still use today. But not a lot of people know that.
Most of the words seem to be based around farming and agriculture, which used to be at the heart of everyday life.
Before the Fens were drained the people living there were very isolated and today’s towns were and didn’t have much influence from the outside world, which
probably explains why Fenlanders developed their own language.
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Hall hire subject to availability
Enquiries for the hiring of the Village Hall to the Booking Secretary - Elaine Harrison on (01945) 440 332
Sutton St James Walking Group
Bingo at the Village Hall
Every other Monday
June 8th - June 22nd - July 6th - July 20th
August 3rd - August 17th - August 31st
Eyes down 7.30pm
Group leaves for local walks from Village Hall at
11 am every Thursday
For away day walks group leaves at 10 am
Contact Carol Griggs on 01945 440 599
Sutton St James Readers Group
If you are a keen reader and want to check us out, please just come along and sit in and find out what we do!
Membership costs £10.00 per year and all books are provided by the Lincolnshire Library Services.
For further information, please contact either Mike or Ann Milchard
on 01945 440 391 who will be pleased to help
LINE DANCING FOR ALL THE FAMILY
STREET FIT
Every Wednesday at Sutton St James Village Hall
All Levels 6.45 to 8 pm Only £4.50 per session
Contact Marion on 01406 350 732
An explosive fitness program using Street Dance Moves
Every Tuesday 6.45pm to 7.45pm First Class Free £4 per class
For details contact Abby - 07928 870 118
Good Companions
Meet every Wednesday in the Village Hall at 1.30 for 2 pm Start : Whist - Bingo - Outings
All welcome - For enquiries call Jean Leggett on 01945 440 535
Millgate Tiling
James Smith - Wall and Floor Tiler.
Free quotations available upon request.
Mob: 07522 063 706
Email: [email protected]
Cherubs Childminding
Ofsted registered childminder in Sutton St James.
Providing 'home from home' childcare and early years education to children aged 3
months to 4 years, and before and after school care, school drop offs and collections and
school holiday care to children aged 4-11 years, in a safe and comfortable environment.
Contact Laura 01945 440778 www.cherubschildminding.com
[email protected]
Fenland Celery - Protected Status.
Fenland celery has been given the same protected status as the Melton Mowbray pork pie and Scotch beef under the European
Union's food quality scheme. Grown in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk, it is light green to white in colour with a crisp,
crunchy texture.
The EU said the status will ensure the product is protected from imposters and will help publicise its distinctive nutty and
bittersweet flavour. It has become the 50th UK agricultural product to be protected.
The celery is grown in black deep peat soil and harvested between July and December. The main variety of Fenland celery,
dwarf white, was developed over 100 years ago.
'Global competition' - Under its Protected Geographical Indications status, at least one of the stages of production, processing
or preparation has to take place in the Fens for the product to be called Fenland celery.
Dacian Ciolos, EU commissioner for agriculture and rural development, said: "The strength of European agricultural production
lies in its diversity, in the know-how of farmers, and in the soil and territories of production.
"Given the pressure they are under from the economic downturn, concentration of retailer bargaining power, and global
competition, farmers need the tools to better communicate about the quality of their products to consumers."
Other recent UK products to receive protection include Stornoway black pudding and Lakeland sheep.
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Tommy Wards Elephant
A hundred years ago, as World War One raged on, the military purchased most of
England's horses and sent them to the Western Front. Many farmers and traders had to
find alternative beasts of burden, but none more exotic than elephants.
On the cobbled streets of industrial Sheffield an Indian elephant dutifully lumbered along.
Lizzie was employed to haul heavy loads of steel and machinery through the streets of
Sheffield. She worked for scrap merchant Thomas Ward Ltd based at Albion Works on
Savile Street in Attercliffe.
The company was busy supplying a thousand tons of recycled metal every day to the
country’s steel firms for the war effort. Ward’s own horses, like many others across the
country, had been taken off to the front for use by the military.
Lizzie was an Indian elephant, intelligent and trainable - she would've been used to
people because she was part of a menagerie and was leased from Sedgewick’s travelling
menagerie. Its men had been called up for service and it faced restrictions on travel and shortages of feed. While Lizzie worked for the steel company she was
stabled nearby at Lady’s Bridge. The records are full of anecdotes about her being a bit of a character and eating a schoolboy's cap, pinching food through a
kitchen window using her trunk, and pushing over a traction engine.
The Word's Fair newspaper first chronicled Lizzie's appearance in February 1916, noting the "great dearth of carting facilities in Sheffield" had led to her being
"pressed into service".
It read: "Last week it was seen striding along with ease drawing a load of iron to a munitions works. The weight of the load was equal to that usually allotted
to three horses. Some passing horses were startled by this unexpected 'dilution' of their labour, and sniffed and shied as the elephant passed."
Her task was important - she had to cart munitions, machines and scrap metal around the city, a job previously done by three horses taken off to war.
Although Lizzie was used to performing tricks as part of a travelling menagerie when she was conscripted to help with heavy labour and fitted with a harness
and sent to work at Thomas Wards she took it all in her stride.
"She would've have been traipsing up and down the streets where people lived, it would've been an odd image.” said one reporter.
Lizzie was given a special pair of leather boots to protect her feet from the metal rubbish, which littered
the ground at the scrap metal yard.
Little is known of her fate after the war, however, an expression "done up like Tommy Ward's elephant",
which was used when somebody was carrying something heavy, has survived in the area.
There is also some evidence that she went on to work at a farm where the ground was more forgiving.
However, she was not the only exotic animal working in Britain.
Camels, most probably from the same menagerie as Lizzie, were also used in Sheffield to pull heavy
loads.
And in Surrey, elephants from a nearby circus filled-in for absent horses, ploughing fields and
transporting hay.
TOP GROOM
Award Winning Dog Groomer
City and Guilds qualified - For all pedigree and cross breeds
New to the Area
for appointments call Darren 01945 420547
1 Parsonage Lane , Sutton St James, PE12 0JA
www.topgroom.co.uk
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Email [email protected]
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Tel: 01406 701720 or e-mail: [email protected]
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Amazing Women - Annie Edison Taylor
Annie Edison Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American adventurer who, on her
63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a
barrel. One of eight children, her father, Merrick Edson, who owned a flour mill died when she was 12
years old but the money he left behind continued to provide a comfortable living for the family. So
Annie was able to study to become a schoolteacher (she received an honours degree in a four-year
training course). During her studies she met and married David Taylor and had a son who died in
infancy. Sadly her husband died soon after so after the double tragedy she could not settle and spent
her working years in between jobs and locales.
She moved to Bay City, Michigan where she hoped to be a dance instructor as there were no dance
schools in Bay City at that time so Taylor opened her own but still unable to settle she moved on to
Sault Ste. Marie in 1900 to teach music then on to Mexico City before moving back to Bay City where
she hatched a plan to make her fortune and avoid the poorhouse. She decided she would be the first
person to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel. (As you would!)
Taylor used a custom-made barrel for her trip, constructed of oak and iron and padded with a mattress.
Several delays occurred in the launching of the barrel, particularly because no one wanted to be part of
a potential suicide. Two days before Taylor's own attempt, a domestic cat was sent over the
Horseshoe Falls in her barrel to test its strength to see if the barrel would break or not. Contrary to
rumours at the time, the cat survived the plunge and 17 minutes later, after she was found with a bleeding head, posed with Taylor in photographs.
On October 24, 1901, her 63rd birthday, the barrel was put over the side of a rowboat, and Taylor climbed in, along with her lucky heart-shaped pillow. After
screwing down the lid, friends used a bicycle tire pump to compress the air in the barrel. The hole used for this was plugged with a cork, and Taylor was set
adrift near the American shore, south of Goat Island.
The Niagara River currents carried the barrel toward the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, which has since been the site for all daredevil stunting at Niagara Falls.
Rescuers reached her barrel shortly after the plunge. Taylor was discovered to be alive and relatively uninjured, except for a small gash on her head. The trip
itself took less than twenty minutes, but it was some time before the barrel was actually opened. After the journey, Annie Taylor told the press: “ If it was with
my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to
pieces than make another trip over the Fall.”
She briefly earned money speaking about her experience, but was never able to build much wealth. Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel,
and most of her savings were used towards private detectives hired to find it. It was eventually located in Chicago, only to permanently disappear some time
later.
She spent her final years posing for photographs with tourists at her souvenir stand, attempting to earn money from the New York Stock Exchange, briefly
talking about taking a second plunge over the cataracts in 1906, attempting to write a novel, re-constructing her 1901 plunge on film (which was never seen),
working as a clairvoyant, and providing magnetic therapeutic treatments to local residents.
Annie Taylor died on April 29, 1921, aged 82, at the Niagara County Infirmary in Lockport, New York. She is interred in the "Stunters Section" of Oakwood
Cemetery in Niagara Falls, New York.
Footnote. Annie sensibly padded her barrel with a thick mattress but in 1920 Englishman Charles G. Stephens equipped his wooden barrel with an anvil for
ballast. Charles tied his feet to the anvil and strapped his arms to the barrel for ‘security’. After the plunge his tattooed right arm which read “Forget me not
Annie” was the only item left in the barrel! Well that’s men for you!!
Niagara Facts
The Niagara Falls are located on the border of Ontario, Canada and New York, USA .and made up of 3 waterfalls, the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls
which is the smallest and the Horseshoe Falls is the largest. Combined they produce the highest flow rate of any waterfall on earth. The largest vertical drop is
over 165 feet
Famous tightrope walker Blondin crossed the falls on his rope on June 30th 1859 followed 116 years later by Nik Wallenda in 2012. Wallenda did only after
receiving permission from both the Canadian and United States governments, and was required to carry his passport and present it on entry to the Canadian
side of the falls
Fifteen people tried to emulate Annie and challenged the Falls of Niagara between 1901 and 1995. Five died. It is now illegal to try.
On March 29th 1848 Niagara Falls ran dry. A south-west gale blowing off of Lake Erie caused ice to jam and dam up at the mouth of the Niagara. Residents
awoke on the morning of March 30th to an eerie silence and realized something was amiss. People were drawn to the Falls to find that the water flow of the
Niagara River had been reduced to a mere trickle For almost two days the roar of the Falls was absent and by the morning of March 31st, more than 5,000
people had gathered along the banks of the river. All the mills and factories dependent upon water power were stilled and people could walk on the now dry
riverbed and retrieve artefacts and souvenirs.. On the night of March 31st 1848, the wind shifted and the ice dam at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Erie
broke apart and the river flow returned to its normal rate.
Long Sutton Barns
Vicarage Lane - PE12 9AF (Behind McDonalds on the A17)
The Largest community based arts and crafts centre in Lincolnshire
Ceramic painting for adults and children from £6 (call in any time)
Classes in Stained Glass - Mosaics - Crochet - Lamp Working Glass Beads.
Sewing - Upholstery - Shabby Chic - Rope work and lots for Kids too.
Craft Fairs on the first full weekend of every month between March and
December.
Self funding, community based projects
just don’t get any better than this.
Open every day bar Wednesdays
For details call 01406 362 500 www.longsuttonbarns.com
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Sutton St James Convenience Store
Newsagents : Off Licence : Grocery : Lottery : ATM Machine
Mon to Fri - 7am to 7.30 pm - Saturday 7.30am to 7.30 pm
Sunday 8am to 4 o’clock
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Tel:- 01945 440 994
LIFT & SHIFT (SELF STORAGE) LTD.
We offer a worry free storage solution.
Fully fenced with night time security and CCTV.
Hire at very competitive prices from as little as £10 per week.
Short and Long term available. Easy access.
Domestic and Business users welcome.
Tel: (01945) 440974 or (07774) 177300
Email: [email protected]
Lola The Street Dog of Egypt - The Final Chapter
Lola had died an agonising death at the hands of mankind, from strychnine poisoning.
Kalif would have died also if the men had not come along to collect his dead mother. As he
stood by her body hunger tempting him to take the meat from her teeth the men were
nearly upon him, shouting to each other. As they ran forward to pick up Lola’s body fear
got the better of Kalif and he forgot about the food and ran as fast as he could back to the
home he had shared with his mother and in the dirty, sandy tomb he whimpered with grief
and loneliness and he fell asleep wondering what was to become of him now.
The days passed and Kalif was alone and miserable. He did not have his mother’s strength
or courage and he only ventured out when he was so hungry that the urge to eat was
greater than his fear. He did not seek companionship with the other dogs, he had no desire
to move on to a new location. He had given up. All that he knew and loved had gone he
sank deeper into depression and hopelessness.
Kalif survived this way for almost a year, he had grown weak and thin and he was beyond fear and grief. He wandered around aimlessly,
feeding and drinking when he could because this was his instinct, this was survival.
Early one evening, after the tourists had all left, Kalif was wandering around the pyramids looking for scraps when he heard a call. He turned
around and he saw the child. She was only about 10 years old and Kalif had seen them before. They were not as frightening as the bigger
humans but he had still seen them kick and punch some of the other dogs. Kalif looked at the girl who was now beckoning him towards her
and holding out some kind of food.
The girl moved closer and closer to Kalif who did not know whether to run and hide, or to growl at the child to frighten her away. He waited,
in the hope that she would throw the food and he would risk running forward to grab it before running off. Eventually, the child sat down in
the sand and held out her hand with the food to Kalif. She would not drop it and he wanted to eat. Suddenly and impulsively, Kalif lunged
forward and took the food from the child’s hand and ran back to his place of safety in the tombs.
In the next few days. Kalif would see the child in the sand at the front of the pyramids and he became braver and braver on each encounter,
until he would sit a respectable distance from the girl whilst she would stretch forward, feeding him biscuits from her hand. If she moved
forward, Kalif would bolt away, but if she sat still he would take the biscuits.
This particular day, Kalif had taken a large number of biscuits from the girl and whilst he sat in the low evening sunshine, his eyes closed and
despite all his fears, he lay down on one side and slept. The girl moved forward and gently stroked Kalif’s head and then his back and
stomach. Kalif awoke calmly and found that his tail was wagging slowly from side to side almost without any control from him. He looked at
the child and for one moment almost ran, but he didn’t. He merely closed his eyes and enjoyed the affection for which he craved. For this
one stray dog the future held hope and promise.
Thank you to Trevor Wheeler for this wonderful story about the street dogs of Egypt. And thank you to World Animal Protection for what
they do to help animals in many countries.
WSPA has changed name to World Animal Protection
“As WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) we moved
the world to protect animals for the last 30 years. The name may have changed, but the work – and their determination to protect
animals – remains the same. Every day, in every country, millions of animals are suffering. And the more people who know about
us, the more animals we can reach. That’s why we need a name that is clearer, more distinct and more memorable. That’s why
we are now World Animal Protection.”
For more details visit World Animal Protection website at www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk
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Tea Break Time - Answers on Back Cover
Across
1. Come into existence (9)
7. Desert plants (5)
9. Entice (5)
10. Paddles (4)
11. Pugilist (5)
14. Brass instrument (5)
15. Wood file (4)
18. Magical incantation(5)
19. Last letter of the
Greek alphabet (5)
20. The history of a word (9)
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1. The fixed term Parliament Act 2011 set the interval between British general
elections at how many years?
2. Robert Wolple is reckoned to be our first Prime Minister during the 18th
Century. Where in Norfolk is his stately mansion
3. Who was elected Labours first Prime Minister in the 1920’s
4. How many general elections did Margaret Thatcher win?
5. Who was Benjiman Disreali speaking of when he said “A sophistical
rhetorician inebriated by exuberance of his own verbosity”
6. The 1819 Peterloo Massacre occurred during a protest in which city.
7. During the 2001 election campaign which MP punched a protester who had
thrown eggs at him?
8. Which Conservative MP was nicknamed Tarzan ?
9. In 1962 Prime Minister Harold McMillan sacked seven members of his
Cabinet. By what term has this event become known.
10. Who was Harold Wilson’s Chancellor of the Exchequer during the 1970’s
11. Who gave up the title of Viscount Stansgate to remain an MP?
12. Which actor is Tony Blair’s Father in Law?
13. Who wrote the novel A Parliamentary Affair??
14. Who resigned as a Government Minister over the Sarah Keays affair?
15. Which party won the General election in 1945?
16. Name the 1992 Tory Party Chairman who lost his seat in Bath?
17. What was Norman Tebbitt’s job before entering Parliament?
18. Who became deputy Labour Leader after the 1992 General Election?
Down
2. Profit (4)
3. Country (6)
4. Moderate (9)
5. Performer (5)
6. Pig pen (3)
8. Rotund (9)
12. Downhill ski race (6)
13. Lance (5)
16. Make a request (3)
17. Hard work (4)
DID YOU KNOW ......?
* The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
* The least used letter in the alphabet is Q
* The 3 most common languages in the world are
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English
* Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
* The names of all continents both start and end
with the same letter
* If you try to say the alphabet without moving your
lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
* Perth is Australia's windiest city
* Elvis's middle name was Aaron
* The flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid
green color
* Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
* The smallest bones in the human body are found
in your ear
* Cats spend 66% of their life asleep
* Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to
10 kilos per person per year
* Money is the number one thing that couples
argue about
* Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
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Fascinating Facts
1. When customers visited the UK’s first supermarkets they were afraid to pick up goods in case they were told off. (How different from today!)
2. Women buy 80% of everything that is for sale. (Never! Who would have thought it!)
3. Nelson Mandela was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008.
4. The founder of the well known on line dating site match.com Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
5. The proud owner of the first silicone breast implant was a dog called Esmeralda. (I doubt the dog wanted it though!)
6. In 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation. (Never satisfied!)
7. Thomas Edison’s last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit. (Why?)
8. A pumping human heart can squirt blood 30ft.
9. In ancient Greek the word “idiot” meant anyone who wasn’t a politician. (Now it’s the complete opposite!)
10. Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaner’s with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket. (See above for Idiot!!)
11. The second man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece of orange peel.
12. Just like humans, British cows moo in regional accents. ( Do humans moo very often?)
Sutton St James News
Spring - Issue 17
March 2016
Albert and the Lion - Part 2
You've 'eard 'ow the young Albert
Ramsbottom,
in the zoo up at Blackpool one year,
With a stick with an '.orse's 'ead 'andle,
gave a lion a poke in the ear.
The name of the lion was Wallace,
the poke in the ear made 'im wild;
And before you could say 'Bob's your
Uncle,'
'E'd up and. 'e'd swallered the child.
'E were sorry the moment 'e'd done it,
with children 'e'd always been chums,
And besides 'e'd no teeth in 'is noddle,
and 'e couldn't chew Albert on t'
gums…
But Albert kept kicking and fight-ing,
till Wallace arose feeling bad,
And felt it were time that 'e started to
stage,
a comeback for the lad.
'Let's look on the bright side,' said father:
'What can't be 'elped must be endured,
Every cloud 'as a silvery lining,
and we did 'ave young Albert insured.'
A knock at the door came that moment,
as father these kind words did speak;
Twas the man from t' Prudential, e'd called
for their tuppence per person per week.
'Excuse him for laughing,' said mother,
'But really things 'appen so strange
Our Albert's been ate by a lion,
you've got to pay us for a change.'
Said the young fellow from the Prudential:
'Now, come come, let's understand this,
You don't mean to say that you've lost
'im?'
Ma says: 'Oh, no! We know where 'e is.'
Puzzle Solution
So with is 'ead down in the corner,
on 'is front paws 'e started to walk,
And he coughed and 'e sneezed and 'e
gargled,
till Albert shot out like a cork
When the young man 'ad 'eard all the
details,
a bag from 'is pocket he drew,
And 'e paid them with interest and
bonus,
the sum of nine pounds four and
two.
Pa 'ad scarce got 'is 'and on the
money,
when a face at the window they see,
And mother says: 'Eeh! Look, it's
Albert',
and father says: 'Aye, it would be.'
Young Albert came in all excited,
and started 'is story to give,
And Pa says: 'I'll never trust lions
again as long as I live.'
The young feller from the Prudential,
to pick up the money began,
And father says: 'Eeh! Just a moment,
don't be in a hurry, young man!
Then giving young Albert a shilling,
he said:
'Pop off back to the zoo.
'Ere's yer stick with the 'orse's 'ead
'andle.
Go and see what the tigers can do.'
Meanwhile Mister and Missus
Ramsbottom,
'ad gone 'ome to tea feeling blue;
Ma says: 'I feel down in the mouth like,'
Pa says: 'Aye! I bet Albert does too
MARRIOTT EDGAR
Trivia Answers
1/ Five. 2/ Houghton Hall. 3/ Ramsey Macdonald. 4/ Three - 1979. 1983. 1987.
5/ William Gladstone. 6/ Manchester. 7 John Prescott. 8/ Michael Hesletine. 9/ night of the Long Knives.
10/ Denis Healy 1. Tony Benn 2. Anthony Booth 3. Edwina Currie 4. Cecil Parkinson 5. Labour 6. Chris Patten
7. Airline Pilot 8. Margaret Beckett
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