February 2013 - Grimston, West Norfolk
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February 2013 - Grimston, West Norfolk
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From this issue, ‘Minuteman Press’ on the Hardwick are doing our printing, and as well as improvements in quality, this means that we are now released from the constraints of an eight sheet edition, so there will be more room for articles and more space for advertisers. So you can expect a thicker edition from next month. If so, I hope we don’t wear out our faithful volunteer deliverers, without whom Village Link would fizzle out. It’s a tribute to our community that we’ve never been short of offers to do this monthly distribution. They all deserve a medal, especially in the sort of weather we are going through now. As well as another upgrade of the quality of the production, I am hoping that having Village Link printed outside means it will be less of a burden for my successors, as I shall be retiring some six months hence. My last Sunday service will be on July 28th, although I will still be doing various things amongst the packing up (officially holiday) after that. Meanwhile we will need to gather some help on the editorial team over the next few months, so that all the work doesn’t fall on one pair of shoulders. When the Rev. Andrew Thomas left in 1983, several different people each took on part of the work. Job-sharing is even easier now, with the advent of email, so a team should be quite viable. I believe a community thrives on good communication, helping us all to know what’s going on, and how we can offer to help eachother, so I’ve enjoyed my part in producing Village Link, even though it’s sometimes been a mad dash to meet the deadline before the team arrive to collate and staple all the pages, and count out the bundles for the deliverers. Now they only need to do the last bit. Having lived in the village for approaching thirty years, Margaret and I view the approach of retirement with considerable trepidation – it’s going to be a big wrench uprooting ourselves after so long, and where our family have grown up very happily. We hope we’ll find as much community spirit when we move to Wellesbourne in Warwickshire, but we realise there’s nowhere quite like Norfolk!! Meanwhile, now that Village Link will have more space – does anyone have a gift for setting puzzles or crosswords, or writing about local history, photos or memories from the past ? ... Diary for February 2013 Fri. 1st Congham and Roydon Mobile Library visits (now 4 weekly) Sun. 3rd Mon. Tue. 4th 5th Wed. Thu. 6th 7th Fri. 8th 2nd Sunday before Lent Morning Prayer 9am Roydon Holy Communion 9am Congham, 10.30am Grimston Methodist Service 10.30am Pott Row 7pm Roydon Parish Council at the Village Hall 2.30pm Home Group at 62 Lynn Road, 7.30pm Home Group at 1 Low Rd, Roydon 2.30pm Home Group at 31 Ashwicken Road 7.30pm Charity Bingo at the Anvil 8pm Home Group at 8 Lynn Road 7.30pm Fourvilles Quiz Night at the Village Hall 7.30pm HFLL meets at the Rectory Sun. 10th Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. 11th 12th 13th 14th Sat. 16th Sun. 17th Mon. Tue. 18th 19th Wed. Thu. 20th 21st Sun. 24th Landscape and Gardening Services SEASONED FIREWOOD Tel. 01485 570159 Mobile 07791 539280 Lent 1 Holy Communion 8am Grimston, 9am Congham, All-Age Worship 10.30am Grimston Methodist Service 10.30am Pott Row 7.30pm WI at the Village Hall – A Crafty Cuppa 2.30pm Home Group at 62 Lynn Road, 7.30pm Home Group at 1 Low Rd, Roydon 2.30pm Home Group at Long Sutton 8pm Home Group at 8 Lynn Road Lent 2 Holy Communion 8am Grimston Morning Prayer 9am Roydon, 10.30am Grimston Methodist Service 10.30am Pott Row 4pm Gap Meeting for Prayer at Orchard House, 121 Lynn Road CHRIS CASELEY DOMESTIC OIL FIRED BOILER ENGINEER COMMISSION, SERVICE, REPAIR OFTEC REGISTERED Central Heating Systems Power Flushed WORK GUARANTEED COMPETITIVE PRICES TEL: 01553-828148 MOBILE 079313 55595 Sunday before Lent Holy Communion 8am Grimston, Morning Prayer 9am Congham : No service at Grimston All-age Service at Roydon 10.30am Methodist Service 10.30am Pott Row Mobile Library visits Pott Row and Grimston 7.30pm Greenfingers at the Village Hall : Easy Exotics Ash Wednesday 7.30pm Holy Communion at the Rectory 10.30am Coffee Morning at 32 Chapel Road Village Link deadline for March 2.30pm Good Companions at the Village Hall Mon. 25th Mobile Library visits Pott Row and Grimston Tue. 26th 10am First Day of Incinerator Inquiry, KL Corn Exchange Wed. 27th 10am Inquiry continues at the Professional Development Centre, & Thursday 28th Kilham’s Way. 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All general maintenance or repairs undertaken Emergency call out available For further information on services provided Please contact MICK BONE Tel: 01553 841342 mob: 07960 170826 Support for computers running Microsoft Windows · Advice · Troubleshooting · Disaster Recovery · Networks · Training 20 yrs commercial experience Michael de Whalley BA Tel: 01485 600391 Email: m_de_whalley @hotmail.com Greenfingers The first Greenfingers meeting of the year is on Tuesday February 12th at the Village Hall, Pott Row, at 7pm for 7.30 when Liz Browne will be speaking on Easy Exotics. Visitors are always welcome. Dog-lovers Dogs being walked along the footpath into Vong Lane which comes out between Vong Farm and the school are being allowed to foul the footpath, and the men who cut the farm hedge have been splattered in a most unpleasant way. There are dogbins about - Please use them! Charity Performance of Calendar Girls The King¹s Lynn Players will be presenting Tim Firth’s play ‘Calendar Girls’ at the King's Lynn Arts Centre from March 13th to 16th. It’s based on a true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research. The Mail on Sunday reviewer said ‘It is marvellous theatre, guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and come out singing ‘Jerusalem’ ’. The Players are truly inspired by the opportunity to present this fantastic play, and alongside their production, are supporting a local charity - The Robert Foot Leukaemia Fund, which has a website www.rflf.org.uk. They are also holding a Charity Ball and producing a Calendar for 2014, to provide a legacy fund-raising opportunity throughout next year. For more details, visit the players’ web-site: www.kingslynnplayers.co.uk Grimston & District W.I The next meeting will be on Monday February 18th at Grimston Village Hall from 7.30. This evening will see members enjoying a ‘Crafty Cuppa’. It is an ideal opportunity to bring along any craft that you are working on and enjoy catching up with friends at the same time, and no doubt more chatting will be done than craft work! Anyone who would like to find out more about the WI but is not a member will be more than welcome to join in for the evening. You do not have to bring along a craft item as you can come just for a good chat and of course a cuppa. The competition is for ‘A Conversation Stopper’. Thank you on behalf of the teenagers in Nakwero!!!! Thank you to everyone who came, helped and baked cakes etc for the Norfolk Nakwero Institute. I am 6 pleased to say that after a wonderful morning we have raised £260. Many, many thanks to you all. Kate Sayer. Prizes Please Monica and Eileen will be holding a Bingo in aid of East Anglian Air Ambulance on Friday March 15th at the Ffolkes Arms’ Hillington. If anyone would like to donate a prize, it will be very much appreciated. Contact Monica on Hillington 600868. Thankyou. Hospital book trolley Sorry – Anne Knight’s number was given incorrectly in last month’s VL it’s 600597. And a slight change: the afternoon when help is needed is Monday rather than Thursday. LEGO for a School Club Have you any unwanted Lego? Would you donate it to the pupils of Holly Meadows School? Please contact the school on 01485 600241, thank you! Coffee Morning, Bring & Buy & Raffle Please come & support a Coffee Morning in aid of Norfolk Nakwero Vocational Institute on Thursday 28th February from 10am-1pm with Bring & Buy and Raffle at Kate Sayer’s home, Buttermere, Hillington (behind Phone Box near Garage). It’s best to Park in the drive or in Pasture Close News from Congham Parish Council February 2013 Congham Parish Council held its A special plea was made by the January meeting at Congham Hall Congham PCC to support their who made us welcome under difficult project to improve facilities in the circumstances, the snow and a major church. This was wholeheartedly refurbishment. Many thanks are due approved and the Parish Council to the staff at Congham Hall. wishes St Andrews well in its bid to seek a grant towards the kitchen / Due to the weather we did not gain toilet area. an update from any of the external bodies. The Congham Fuel scheme is flourishing. All enquiries to the Clerk. The precept remains the same as the last two years. 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The quiz starts at 7.30pm and teams of up to 4 people pay £5. You can book your quiz team by calling me (Emma) on (01485) 609036. As always it promises to be a fun night so we hope to see you there! G.W.LAKE S OLID FUEL MERCHANT Wide range of House Coal and Smokeless Fuels Collections 25kg bags c at Yard HILL FARM, POTT ROW, GRIMSTON HILLINGTON 600540 JJ’s Flowers Arrangements & Bouquets Funeral Tributes Helium Balloons The Birches, St.Andrew’s Lane Congham KL PE32 1DY 01485-609125 / 07884 238438 K.L.R. SERVICES Roofing & Flat Roofing Building Maintenance (All Trades) Handy Man Services Cleaning & Grounds Maintenance (Domestic & Commercial) 01553 676592 07770 744744 JUST INHERITANCE Kathy McIntyre LLB Home Visits Mon-Sat up to 6pm Affordable Fixed Fees NO Hidden Extras Single Will - £120 Couple - £180 Lasting Powers of Attorney - £250 Fixed Price Assistance with Admin/Probate on Bereavement FREEPHONE 0800 0435542 www.justinheritance.co.uk Mole Control and Pest Services Ltd Alan V. Barlow 3 The Grove, Pott Row Mobile 07789 758741 Home 01485 600178 This year on Sunday 1st September our fete will once again be taking place from 2-5 on the Pott Row village green. We will release more details nearer the time but if you are part of a village organisation or somebody who would like to come along and sell any homemade items or bric-a-brac you may have please contact us by email. Village Quiz This year The Fourville Players are now on the social networking sites. You can find us on twitter with the name fourvilleplayer or on Facebook under the group name fourville players. We hope to keep these regularly updated with information for fundraising and social events as well as read through and performance dates! You do not need to be a member of The Fourville Players to join our Facebook or twitter pages, similarly if you would like to receive our free newsletter via email please send us an email to [email protected] .uk so we can add you to our mailing list! We look forward to meeting you at some of our upcoming events soon. Emma Friday Night, February 22nd on Friday February 22nd at 7.30pm at Grimston Village Hall, Cliffe-En-Howe Road, Pott Row with quizmaster Stephen Hayter £2 per person for teams up to 4 people plus raffle and refreshments To book please phone 01485 609052 Yet Another Quiz The Companions of Park House raise funds to help disabled people enjoy a holiday at Park House and will be holding a fund-raising Quiz Night at Park House Hotel, Sandringham on Thursday February 28th. Doors open at 7pm – the quiz starting at 7.30 pm. The Entry fee is £5 per person to include sandwiches & chips. There will be a Bar serving beer, wine and soft drinks. The maximum team size is six. Please phone to reserve your table Phil (01553-631663) or Jan (01485-542278) or email them at parkhouse [email protected] Can Bank The can bank at the village hall is full, but not only with cans. As there is a mixture of cans and glass bottles, we cannot find a commercial company who will empty it. It may be necessary to ask volunteers to manually sort the contents so they can be correctly recycled! This will not be a pleasant task, so we would ask everyone who uses it, in future to only use it for cans. We will investigate the possibility of a bottle bank in the near future. Thank you : Village Hall Committee Methodist Mardle DIVINE WORSHIP AT POTT ROW IN FEBRUARY AT 10.30AM Feb. 3rd to be arranged by local Methodists Feb. 10th Greg Sargent Feb. 17th Marion Kemp Feb. 24th The Rev. Mike Hall Holy Communion NEVILLE GODFREY LTD For all your asphalt and tarmac Driveways, footpaths, forecourts and tennis courts etc Please phone for free estimate and advice 01553 771406 07909 905456 C. P. COOPER PLUMBING & HEATING Tel. 01485 601090 50 Gayton Road, Grimston for all you plumbing and heating needs Established 1973 1 Charity No. 1039558 The Coffee Morning will be on Thursday 14th at 32 Chapel Road from 10.30am. Open Gardens 2013 By popular request, Friends of St Botolph’s plan to run an ‘Open Gardens’ event as part of their fund raising programme this year. The proposed date is Sunday, June 2nd from 1pm until 5pm. However, we need gardens to visit! If you would be prepared to participate by offering to open your garden to visitors on this date, please contact Roger or Jenny Haywood on 01553 630301 or [email protected]. At this stage, it would be an expression of interest only, without any firm commitment. Friends would provide any help required on the day, for example, in taking money, checking tickets etc. Handel Operas A one-day course on “Handel Operas” is to be held on Saturday 23rd March, 10am – 3.30pm, at Burnham Market Village Hall. £12.00 for the day includes lunch. The WEA Day School Lecture will be given by Andres Hernandez-Salazar. To book: write a cheque for £12.00, with your name and telephone number on the back, made out to: 12 WEA Burnhams Branch, and post it to: Inge Martin, WEA Branch Secretary, 120 Sutton Lea, Burnham Market, PE31 8EU (with a stamped addressed envelope enclosed) by 14th March, please, or ring Inge Martin on 01328 730 452. This should be a popular lecture, so early booking recommended! 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Sorry it’s so early but February ends all too soon! Caroline’s Bingo A big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who supported Caroline’s Bingo in aid of Cancer Research during 2012. You helped us to raise the magnificent sum of £1327. Our next event is on February 7th at The Anvil, starting at 7.30pm. Everyone is welcome. Parish Councils JOHN WICKS CARAVANS Tel. 01485 601212 Over 40 used caravans in stock www.johnwickscaravans.co.uk 2,4,5 & 6 Berth * Single & twin axle Accessory shop now open Servicing & repairs welcomed Lynn Road Garage, Lynn Road, Grimston, PE32 1AG We also buy used caravans Proud sponsors of Holly Meadows School footballers Roydon Parish Council meets on February 4th at 7pm at the Village Hall. Grimston Parish Council next meets on Monday March 4th at 7.30pm at the Village Hall. Local people are welcome to sit in and listen to their discussions, and there may be an opportunity to express a point of view or bring something to the attention of the councillors. Praying for You If you would like church members to join you in your prayer for a concern you have, you might like to note it down on a ‘prayer-leaf’ on the prayer tree in Grimston Church, normally open each day until at least 4pm. This month, church members will be remembering in prayer the people who live in Congham Road, Massingham Road, Bell Road and the Walnuts. Births, Deaths and Marriages Barrie W. RUDD, formerly of Church Close) latterly living at Docking House, died aged 76 on January 11th. His funeral is taking place at Mintlyn Crematorium on Thursday January 31st at 10.45am. Continuing disruption on the 1153 through Congham Anglian Water were hoping to have been able to re-open the road through (or past) Congham by now, but the severe weather has made it very difficult. So we will have to use the nearest alternative, Station Road Roydon, for a little longer, to get to Hillington or the 148 to go North, or the Massingham Road to get further 14 in the Fakenham direction. winter has only just begun! And Using by-roads is very pleasant at other times of year, but these roads may not be gritted or salted, so extreme caution and patience will be needed. Going via Knights Hill or Gayton will be somewhat safer options. Incinerator Update - The Inquiry begins this month! Occasionally letters in the papers reveal how a few believe the modern myth that no pollution escapes ‘modern’ Incinerator filters. If there were no pollution you can be sure companies would not waste money building 85m tall stacks to get rid of ‘fresh air’. Intensive preparation work is going on for the Public Inquiry, KLWIN and Cory Wheelabrator have been requesting information from each other and meeting to identify any areas of common ground between us. There are many procedures and strict deadlines to be met before the Inquiry opens on February 26th. Some information has been exchanged and some not. KLWIN have provided Cory Wheelabrator with a report from independent consultancy Eunomia. Cory Wheelabrator have provided maps showing whereabouts they think their greatest concentrations of Mercury, Lead, Cadmium and other pollution would hit the ground. Where the pollution lands and in what concentration is important to the Inquiry. At the time of writing this update Cory Wheelabrator are still not prepared to release details of their filter specification arguing they have not chosen their supplier. This is important and concerning because legislation requires them to use ‘Best Available Technique’ (BAT) filters, unfortunately ‘BAT’ includes both effective and ineffective filters. Some 16 fail to trap between 70-95% of the most harmful particles. Back in September at a trade exhibition Dr Fleck, a senior official connected with the Willows Incinerator, stated the filter specification had been decided and details would be provided. However, since then Cory Wheelabrator have been unwilling to provide the specification and continue to say “..this specific request for information is not considered relevant..” Why they will still not provide this information is not known. Children’s Page It is essential people from across West Norfolk come to the Inquiry, listen to all the evidence and understand the basis for the inspector’s final recommendation. It is free to attend. The sound quality should be much improved from PreInquiry Lynn Sport event. The first day of the inquiry will be at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange starting 10am Tuesday February 26th. Following days will be at the Professional Development Centre, Kilham’s Way, next to the back of the fire station. KLWIN’s fundraising events include Bollywood style Curry Night Feb.9th at 7pm, for tickets call 01553 840640. The next KLWIN Coffee Morning and Crafts is on Feb. 23rd 9am–12 at Fairgreen Farms, Hill Rd, Middletion, PE32 1RN. Mike Knights – Vice-Chair KLWIN __________________________________________________ Holly Meadows School China has arrived in Holly Meadows and we are having an amazing time. All the children have had the opportunity to meet and hold two Cornsnakes that belong to Lewis Savory in Year 6. He and his mum brought them to school for the day and visited each class answering an encyclopaedia’s worth of questions. We are very grateful to them for their time and expertise. Next month is the new Chinese Year of the Snake and we felt it would not be right for us to miss an opportunity to learn from being close to a real snake. Also, we have set up role play areas around the school for the children to have the experience of running a Chinese Take-away. Their Maths skills are improving by the day as they calculate the costs and discounts that are available to regular customers! The younger ones are working on mastering chopsticks and they are all planning some great menus for our Chinese meal. Some of the pupils have already started Chinese dance with a visiting teacher from Springwood Academy and she will be working with us over the next few weeks so we can perform a Dragon Dance. I was delighted to hear that a former pupil had read Village Link and has made contact with the school as she has two Chinese colleagues who will come and work with the school on a full range of Chinese activities from cooking, writing, speaking, dancing to creating with paper such as Origami 18 models. We are so lucky and I am thrilled that the Link entry each month has resulted in someone from our local community sharing something with us. Thank you. Our list of school Ambassadors is growing and we have now presented the coveted badges to Olivia Morris, Nisha Sirju, Mason Higby and Ellie Twite who join Jordan and Ewain in the Ambassador’s “Frame of Fame” on display in the entrance hall. The staff and pupils are grateful for all their help and support around the school, particularly with setting a great example to the other pupils. We have survived the bad weather so far, staying open every day and I am delighted that so many pupils and staff have managed to get into school safely. Playing with friends outside, making snowmen, painting the snow and having a good, old-fashioned snowball fight at playtimes makes the cold much easier to cope with and we all concentrate much better on our lessons when we come back inside again. The children’s Winter writing is very creative and a pleasure to read when they have had such good first hand experiences. We wish you all the best and look forward to inviting you to another community day in the near future as the last World War II day was such a success. Rachael Williams, Headteacher, Holly Meadows School Rachael Spooner MCFHP MAFHP Foot health professional FOR ADVICE OR AN APPOINTMENT 01485 601128 Caring for your feet in the comfort of your own home DOMESTIC PLUMBING SERVICES Repair or replacement of Leaking Taps, Ball valves, pipes etc. Washing machine, dishwasher and bathroom installation. Blocked drains. 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Traditional Chinese Acupuncture Grimston Medical Centre 600341 Telephone 01263823724 evenings Home visits available 20 PHIL HURR ROOFING For all your roofing needs – New roofs, Re-roofs, Tiled & slate, Repairs and Leaks, Lead work, Fascias and guttering, Competitive Prices Phone - 01485 609133 / 07881905067 32 Station Road, Roydon, KL, PE32 1AW The January meeting of Good Companions was due to be on January 19th, but the weather was too snowy, so they were hoping to meet the following Saturday. The February meeting is to be on Saturday February 16th at 2.30pm. This Month’s Double Cover Picture Looking along Gayton Road on a snowy day. A close attention to small details of alterations here and there should reveal when this photo was taken. Hudson’s Fen Leisure Ltd. The HFLL committee is applying for a gift-aid tax refund this month from several sponsored events people have offered to do in the past few years. If anyone else would like to do a sponsored event in aid of the recreational life of the community, we will be very grateful. In the interests of satisfying the conditions of being able to recoup the extra 25%, please make sure anyone who can gift-aid fills Reg. Charity number 1128787 in their full name and address on your sponsorship form. We can advise you on the wording that HMRC now insist on. Gift-aid cannot be claimed for gifts from members of the immediate family of the person being sponsored. HFLL will shortly be needing a new treasurer. Please Contact Mary Roper, Kevin Kavanagh or William Howard if you could consider taking this on. Nar Valley Ornithological Society (NarVOS) An illustrated talk by Simon Tonkin, entitled: Farmland Bird Conservation in Norfolk is to be given on Tuesday February 26th, 7.30pm at the Barn Theatre, Sacred Heart Convent School, Swaffham. Access & parking from Sporle Road. Simon Tonkin is a Norfolk-based Senior Farmland Conservation Officer for the RSPB. Farmers are the guardians of much of our countryside and wildlife. So, this should be a fascinating talk, probably covering such topics as how farmers, working with conservation groups, can help arrest the decline of such species as Skylark and Turtle Dove. Visitors are most welcome, paying £2 on the night if you are not a NarVOS member. For more information about this meeting or NarVOS call Ian Black on 01760 724092. Prayer of the Month – for those who work in dangerous places Heavenly Father, by your mercy, defend the people who work in places where they are an easy target for terrorists, and give great wisdom to those who are called upon to rescue them if trouble comes: In Jesus’ name. Explore the Bible The book of the prophet ISAIAH relates to a period of some 300 years. Chapters 1-39 are set in the closing years of the Northern Kingdom while the Southern Kingdom was still relatively settled. Isaiah worked in Jerusalem, the southern capital, warning its people that God's judgement must fall on them because of social injustice and religious hypocrisy. He advised dependence on God's guidance and protection rather than on temporary and shifting political alliances with foreign nations. For a while Jerusalem was spared the same fate as the Northern Kingdom. Chapters 40-55 (sometimes called Second Isaiah) are concerned with the Jewish exiles in Babylon. The message is one of comfort: God is about to do something new and the punishment and pain of the past are over. The return to the land of Israel will recall the deliverance from Egypt. In the final section, set in the period after the Temple has been rebuilt, there is evidence that the people are in danger of slipping back into old patterns of behaviour. Alongside warnings is a vision of the greatness of God and his plans for the salvation of the Jews, and, through them, all nations. These later chapters of Isaiah, especially the ‘Servant Songs’ in chapters 42, 49, 50 and 52 must have been much in Jesus’ mind as he thought about the role he was taking on, to represent the people, and suffer and die for them. ‘He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief..’ – familiar words uttered by a lonely prophet to Jewish exiles in Babylon, convinced that their stormtossed nation had been abandoned by its God. To them Isaiah brought a message of hope, telling of a mysterious ‘servant of the Lord’ who suffers beyond human endurance for sins he didn’t commit, yet who lives again to witness to the deliverance of those for whom he died. These same mysterious words came to life as the followers of Jesus saw them fulfilled so spectacularly in the suffering and death of Jesus. 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STAFF Garden Maintenance & Landscape Contractors Grass Mowing Turfing Border Maintenance Seeding Fencing Paving Tree Cutting Pruning Garden Waste Removal Sand, Shingle, Topsoil, Cement delivered We will treat your garden as if it’s our own! Tel. 01485-600753 Mobile 07860-217764 4 Hazel Close, The Meadows, Grimston e-mail: [email protected] established 1983 Clowning in a Crisis The doors open and into the empty building come the worst smelling, scruffy men and women you have seen in a long time. Some are shuffling along with their heads down and most won't make eye contact with anyone. These are the sort of people most of us would cross the road to avoid if we met in the street. The Coppice Bed and Breakfast Fakenham Road, Hillington, PE31 6DJ Frank and Wendy Woo Telephone 01485 600413 www.thecoppicehillington.co.uk Walnuts Cattery TUESDAY & FRIDAY EVENINGS SATURDAY MORNING TO FIND US PLEASE CALL ON 07769 580 758 BOARDING Weekly or Weekends Pauline Suckling 22 The Walnuts, Grimston 01485 600845 07887 982887 Spotty Pig Farm Leziate Drove, Pott Row 01553 630538 / 07930 605578 For Pork As It Used To Taste From our small herd of outdoor reared Rare Breed Gloucestershire Old Spot and Large Black pigs. Our fabulous pork packs are now available to order for Spring delivery. Farm Shop opening in March For more information visit our website www.spottypigfarm.co.uk or email spottypigfarm.co.uk 24 A Warm Welcome to the Grimston area if you have recently moved in! Phone (01485 -) 600335 for your FREE WELCOME PACK WAYNE TUFFS Bricklayer and General Builder All building work undertaken, including new builds, extensions, garden walls, patios, tiling, alterations, repairs, and more 01485 601152 07879 476127 Fast forward 24 hours… The building is filled with life, mainly well dressed clean and confident looking men and women sitting and chatting or perhaps having a cup of tea or using a computer. There are some very scruffy people rushing around smiling but they are only the Crisis Christmas volunteers who, by this stage strongly resemble the condition the guests were in when they arrived. Once again this year I had the pleasure of working in 4 of the 9 shelters which Crisis Christmas open over the Christmas week. As a clown and entertainer I go and make balloons for the guests and if they feel like it I show them how to create the balloons for themselves. This year it was different with many homeless being people like you and me, who have simply fallen on hard times. I met guests who were previously volunteers and also one lady I remember from 5 years ago who has quit her addiction and got a home of her own. She was there this year as a volunteer and I was blown away by the difference in her. As I sit here looking out at the snow I just wanted to remind myself and perhaps others that although times are hard we have so much to be thankful for. Sally Beadle Aka Crazy Bananas the clown Parish Registers and Family History Over the years many people have come to look at the parish registers of baptisms, weddings and burials in Grimston from 1552 (Congham 1581, Roydon 1721). But it’s now a legal requirement that old parish registers are kept in the county record office rather than in individual churches. Our three local parish churches have been holding out against this, because most people doing research into family history like to use the internet rather than going to the county record office or employing a researcher to do it for them. So the plan was to have all the registers transcribed locally first. It’s a huge task, and much of it has been done, but not yet all. Some registers have only been indexed to surnames. But now with the advent of digital photography, every page of the registers has been photographed, so that people can see not only view pages of the registers, but purchase jpg copies that they can file or print for themselves to keep. The registers are now at the Norfolk Record Office, but the Rector holds digital copies, transcripts and indexes to help people find what they want much more easily than going to the NRO. Grimston Parish Registers and Village History (from Goodall’s 1923 history of St.Botolph’s) A return made in 1603 gives the The first Grimston Register describes number of communicants at itself as ‘A Register booke of all the Congham as 140, but Grimston had Christnings Burialls and Mariages only 115, a smaller number than at within the parish of Grimpstone Gayton, East Walton, Westacre and made the thre and twentie day of East Winch. october anno dni 1598 but begining at the yeare of our Lord God 1552.' The Register of Burials throws a vivid In the early years the entries were light on the periods of plague and probably made on loose sheets of pestilence. There was a time of parchment or on paper, but in 1598 exceptional mortality almost an order was issued that all entries throughout the reign of Queen Mary. should be copied into parchment In the four years from 1555 to 1558 books. the number of burials was 121, though the number of baptisms was The first entry in the Register of only 49. This was part of a nationMarriages is that of Richard Marre wide epidemic, probably some kind of and Alice Barwicke who ‘were influenza, and Queen Mary herself maried the xith of June Anno Dni died of it in 1558. 1552.' It is not until we come to the 14th entry that we find a surname But of all the attacks of the plague the now to be found in the parish. There most terrible was that known as the we read that 'Thomas Jarves and Black Death in the years 1348 and Johan Crane wear maried' on the 1349. At that time in a single year half 15th January, 1553. Other surnames, the people in England were carried well-known today, are Codling, found away. But there were other attacks in 1554, Greene in 1558, Rust in later. In and about the year 1603 our 1566, Rudd in 1644. and Howard in parish suffered severely. It suffered 1647. Many, however, like Philister again in and about the year 1665. But and Nippe and Pyght, have entirely the most serious visitation was in disappeared. The first Barlow appears 1624, 1625 and 1626, when the total in 1756. number of burials was 86. Out of this number 41 were those of young We can obtain from the Registers a people living with their parents. very clear insight into the way in which the population has grown. The In 1832, twenty-six Grimston people Marriage Register records an average died between June 29th and July 29th of 3 weddings a year up to 1719, then ‘of the Blue Oriental Cholera.' This 4 a year until 1800, then 6 in the was part of a world pandemic. Only early 19th century. We know that 20 years later was it discovered to be the population in 1821 was 918, and spread by poor drinking water and we estimate the total in 1580 at sanitation. about 450. 26 GRIMSTON MEDICAL CENTRE 01485 600341 NHS 111 is a new service to make it easier for you to access local NHS healthcare services. You can call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency. NHS 111 is a fast and easy way to get the right help, whatever the time. NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones. You should use the NHS 111 service if you need medical help or advice urgently but it's not a life-threatening situation, for which you should call 999. NHS 111 is also the new telephone number for the GP out-of-hours service when the Medical Centre is closed. Dog Groomer fully qualified To discuss your grooming needs and requirements call 01485 600957 07523-177802 Tree surgery & hedge maintenance JOHN MINDHAM (Professionally Insured) Tel. 01760-755423 (Westacre); 07770 488788 VILLAGE LINK FOR GRIMSTON, POTT ROW, ROYDON AND CONGHAM VERY REASONABLE RATES Grimston Village Hall CLIFFE-EN-HOWE ROAD POTT ROW Telephone Hillington 600440 Registered Charity 303963 THE ANVIL INN St Andrew’s Lane, Congham, King’s Lynn, PE32 1DU 01485 600625 Email: [email protected] Home Made Food served daily. VALENTINE’S DAY MENU AVAILABLE NOW ! Please drop in and collect one or give us a call. Friday Night is Live Music Night……monthly! Next Live Music… Friday 8th Feb.. D.N.A. Karaoke with WAYNE … first Friday of the month. Next Karaoke 1st Feb… 9pm. Charity Quiz Night Every Month (last Friday) in aid of Air Ambulance….7.30pm Charity Bingo every month (Thurs)….eyes down 7.30pm Now Open at 5pm Every Friday. A warm welcome from Karl, Kath and the team. Don’t forget to ask for your Loyalty Card….. Buy 5 Main Courses and get one free (excludes all other offers & Sundays) Find us on Facebook…Anvilcongham MOBILE HAIRDRESSING Helen Tel. 01485 600901 or 0777 5514 572 28 DAVID CRAVEN ACIOB Grimston Village Hall Wed. 7-8pm Pott Row Leziate Village Hall Harpley Village Hall Thurs. 6.30pm Mon. 6.30 pm Mon. 7.30pm Wed. 9.30am All classes last for one hour FUN & FRIENDLY Classes £3.50 For further information please contact Julie Austin on 07721 774198 Architectural Services For all Residential Planning and Building Regulation Applications Also Project Management Services offered Tel 07585 442550 email [email protected] Published on the last Saturday of every month Rector: The Rev. William Howard, The Rectory, Watery Lane 01485 - 600335 VILLAGE LINK is edited by the Rector, e-mail: William . Howard @ DUNELM . org . uk Contributions by e-mail should if possible be sent as plain text. Distribution: George Woods (Congham), Mary Roper (Grimston) Kath Evison (Roydon) , Roger Haywood (Pott Row) www . grimston . churchnorfolk . com ST.BOTOLPH’S CHURCH, GRIMSTON Wardens: Mrs Jan. Willson, 50 Chapel Road, Pott Row 601666 Mrs Ellen Scott, 18 Rectory Close, Roydon 600612 P.C.C. Treas. Mr Roger Haywood, 9 Leziate Drove, Pott Row KL-630301 P.C.C. Sec.: Mrs Pam Robson, 1 Low Road, Roydon 600246 www.congham.churchnorfolk.com ST.ANDREW’S CHURCH, CONGHAM Wardens: Mrs Hilary Scase, Little Congham House, Hillington Road 600650 Mrs Iris Baker, 5 The Walnuts, Grimston 600355 P.C.C. Treas. Mr Chris Sykes, Churchfield House, St.Andrew’s Lane 601428 P.C.C. Sec.: Mrs Helen Lilley, Heath House, Hillington 600153 ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, ROYDON www . roydon . churchnorfolk . com Wardens: Mr David Grimes, 24 Church Lane, Roydon 600388 (Acting) Mr Colin Grimes, 74 Station Road 600059 P.C.C. Treas.: Mr Martin Shackcloth, 27 Church Lane, Roydon 600586 P.C.C. Sec.: Mrs Jackie Ludgater, 6 Rectory Close, Roydon 600353 CHURCH ORGANISATIONS WAHM Club: Mrs Margaret Howard, The Rectory, Watery Lane 600335 Rock Solid (11+): Mr and Mrs Charles Scott, 18 Rectory Close, Roydon 600612 Child Protection Officer: Mrs Shirley Hone, 8 Lynn Road, Grimston 600750 Ladies Link: Mrs Margaret Howard, The Rectory, Watery Lane 600335 Bell Ringers: Mr Michael Harding, 49 New Roman Bank, Terrington St.C.01553-828301 Hot Pott Lunch Club: The Rev and Mrs Howard, The Rectory 600335 The GAP: Mr and Mrs Richard Bowers, Orchard House, 121 Lynn Road 600485 POTT ROW METHODIST CHURCH Minister: Church Mr Stephen Watts, 32 Chapel Road Stewards Mrs Janet Gunn, 98 Chapel Road Secretary: Mrs Beryl Watts, 32 Chapel Road VILLAGE LINK Guide to the Community: 600593 600274 600593 More inside back cover Village Website: w ww.grimston.org Including current and back copies of Village Link, with colour pictures Telephone numbers are as from Hillington exch. (01485-) For KL numbers, dial 01553Art Group: Mrs Sue Willis 3 Fen Lane, Pott Row KL-630579 KL-630352 Ashwicken V.A. School Head Teacher: Mrs Susan Collison Baby Clinic: 1st Wednesday of month 1–2.30pm at Pott Row Methodist Chapel 600341 Beavers, Cubs & Scouts: Mr Ian Hall, 24 The Walnuts, Grimston 600470 Bowls Club: Mrs Daphne Parsons, 3 Bracken Way, Grimston 601492 1st Brownies: Catherine Foreman, Old Forge, Church Farm Barns, Gayton KL-636318 Council (Borough of King's Lynn & W. Norfolk) KL-692722 County Councillors: Congham: John Dobson, Moat Cottage, Old Hunstanton Hall 534265 Grimston, Pott Row, Roydon: Derrick Murphy, 55 Mill Road Watlington KL-811407 Cricket Club: Mr Tim Tilbrook, Willow Farm, Station Road, Roydon 601372 Borough Councillors: Mr Mike Tilbury, The Cott., Station Road, Gt.Mass’m (Cng) 520340 District Nurse: Grimston Medical Centre, Congham Road 609255 Doctors’ Surgery: Drs Archer, Scott & Clifton, Medical Centre, Congham Road 600341 Fen & Allotment Trust:: Mrs Emma Harvey, 86 Chapel Road 601307 600383 Flitcham V.P.A. School: Head Teacher: Mrs Angela Eden Football: Mr Allan Dungey, 8 Hawthorn Avenue, Grimston 601279 Fourville Players: Mrs Margaret Garrod, Ivy Cottage, Cliffe-en-Howe Rd 600127 Friends of St.Botolph’s: Mr Peter Coe, Spring House, Candlestick Lane, Grimston 600337 Good Companions: Mr Nick Smith Tel. 600769 or Mr/Mrs Bill Hone 600750 Greenfingers: Mr Charles Fosgate, 6 Lansdowne Close, Gayton KL-636963 Guides: Mrs Linda Watkinson, St.Winifred’s, Lynn Road, Gayton KL-636629 Health Visitor: Mrs H. Sewell, Grimston Medical Centre, Congham Road 601221 600241 Holly Meadows School, Vong Lane: Head Teacher: Mrs Rachael Williams Hudson Fen/PARC: Secretary Mr Kevin Kavanagh, 31 Chapel Road 600863 Incy Wincy Mothers & Toddlers: Mrs Sally Panks, 6 Philip Rudd Court 600223 Little Sunshines: Becki Lawless c/o Grimston Village Hall 601596 Member of Parliament: Mr Henry Bellingham, Congham Manor, St.Andr. Lane 600559 Parish Council Clerks Grimston: Mr John Missing, 11 Back Lane, Pott Row, PE32 1BT 600875 Congham: Mrs Kate Sayer, Buttermere, Lynn Road, Hillington, PE31 6BJ 600825 Roydon: Mrs Pippa Winson, 20 Temple Road, King's Lynn, PE30 3SS KL674382 Police: 999 for emergencies For everything else 101 or KL-691211 Community Support Team 0845-456 4567 for rowdy behaviour - or 01953 424242 Public Rights of Way Warden: Mr David Grimes, 24 Church Lane, Roydon 600388 Residents Assoc.: Mr Clare de Whalley, 5 Chequers Road, Grimston 600391 Roydon Common: Norfolk Wildlife Trust: Mr Bill Boyd 578745 Springwood High School, King’s Lynn Head Teacher: Mr Andrew Johnson KL-773393 Tree Warden (Parish of Grimston) Mr Philip Parker, 7 Leziate Drove KL-630866 Women’s Institute: Mrs Julie Manning, 11 Rectory Close, Roydon 600930 Village Hall: Mr David Giles, Brackendale, Cliffe-en-Howe Road, Pott Row 600440 (Organisations are invited to send additions and corrections to this list where appropriate) 30 Traditional 4 star Holiday Cottage, Grimston Sleeps 5, own parking for 2 cars, private garden Long or short breaks available throughout year Welcome tray for guests Clean and comfortable home with log burner, Linen provided, BBQ, broadband. Children over 7 welcome, but unsuitable for younger guests. Pets by arrangement. No smoking please. Ideal base for cyclists, walkers, and birdwatchers. For further details visit www.latchcottage.com Telephone Sue 07895 028 141 or Freya 07903 335 327 There is room for some more colour advertising: contact [email protected] At Grimston Village Hall, Pott Row Mon – Fri 9am – 3pm term time OFSTED Registered Gov’t funding accepted ‘Fun, Play and Learn together’ From 2 years old PRE-School Registered Charity No. 1127638 763 38 Ring for Availability on 01485 601596 Email: [email protected] www.littlesunshines.co.uk
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