Cream Teas with the Sole Bay Singers The

VOLUME 11
NO. 10
JULY 2016
Cream Teas with the Sole Bay Singers
Do join us at Wangford Church on Saturday July 9th for
entertainment by the Sole Bay Singers (directed by Sian
Mortlock) and accompanied by a delicious home-made cream
tea. Teas will be served throughout the afternoon from 3 pm
onwards and the Choir will sing at approximately 3.30pm.
There will be stalls selling cakes, plants and produce and there
will also be a lucky dip and a raffle (all donations towards any of
these would be much appreciated).
Tickets are available at the Village Store or at the Church on the
day:
Adults £5.00
Under 10 years old £1
Further information from:
Jackie Casement on 578992 or Sue Ives on 578007
The Waveney Centre’s Dawson Room
The Waveney Centre for disadvantaged and disabled people, in
Lowestoft’s London Road South, has been able to completely
renovate the building thanks to a legacy of £28,000 from
Wangford resident Frederick Dawson, more commonly known as
John. John lived in Blacksmith’s Close, and used the Centre
before he passed away at the age of 91 in 2012.
At a special celebration to mark the refurbishment, attended by
members of John’s family, users, staff and directors of the
Centre, paralympic swimmer Jessica-Jane Applegate said she felt
‘honoured and privileged’ to officially unveil the new Dawson
Room.
Linda Pepper, John’s niece, said she thought he would be really
thrilled to see what the money has been spent on. And David
Martin, director at Papworth Trust, said that the Centre had
been transformed into a fantastic hub, taking it from the 20th to
the 21st century.
What a lovely way to remember a real gentleman!
And then there’s the Uggeshall Teas!
Taking place on the weekends of July 30th/31st and August
6th/7th, the Uggeshall Teas are legendary.
Each afternoon, from 3 – 6 pm, delicious home-made fare is
served in the Old School Hall and garden.
For only £6 a head, you’ll be brought delicious scones, breads and
cakes with your pot of tea or coffee by friendly and welcoming
Uggeshall folk. There are also bric-a-brac, book and plant stalls
where you can snap up a bargain.
All proceeds support Uggeshall Church.
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100 Club
(supporting Wangford
Church Restoration)
Winners in June
1. D Foulger
2. Yvonne Baker
3. Mike Rush
Wangford Men’s
Breakfast Group
The next meeting is on
Saturday 23rd July
when Charlotte Clark
will speak about Southwold
and District Library Service
Full English - £10
Continental - £6
Why not join us !
Contact Bernard on 578766
or Peter at The Angel Inn
on 578636
Roy Beckett
WHAT’S ON IN JULY
Wangford Parent and Toddler Group
Coffee Mornings in July are
on Tuesdays 12th and 26th
at 10.45 in Wangford
Community Centre.
Uggeshall Walking Group
Come and join us for homemade cakes, scones and
savouries, and enjoy a
good old chat.
Sing Something Simple
Bric-a-brac, books and
plants will be on sale.
Mondays from 9.30 - 11.30 am
Wangford Community Centre
Saturday 2nd July
Contact Wendy or Peter on 01502 578209
Sunday 3rd July, 10.00am - 12.00 pm
Wangford Community Centre
Cream Teas with the Sole Bay Singers
Saturday 9th July from 3.00 pm
Wangford Church
Reydon St Margaret’s Garden Party
Sunday 10th July 3.00 - 5.00 pm
94 Wangford Road, Reydon
Wangford Coffee Morning
Tuesday 12th July at 10.45am
Wangford Community Centre
Mobile Library at Wangford
Wednesday 13th July
Millfields 10.00 - 10.15am
Church 10.20 - 10.40am
Uggeshall Coffee Morning
Thursday 14th July at 10.30am
The Old School Hall
Book Club
Fly the Flag in
Celebration
and support
Wangford Church
Restoration Fund
Contact
Ray Lurkins on
(01502) 578227
The Community Council
urgently needs someone to
take on the role of
Treasurer.
The Council is responsible
for the upkeep and
management of Wangford
Community Centre and
makes a substantial
contribution to Henham
Steam Rally, from which it
obtains most of its funding.
Meetings are bi-monthly on
the first Tuesday.
Summer Fayre
If you are able to help, please
contact the chairman, Philip
Hayes on 578755
Saturday 16th July at 2.00 pm
Wangford Community Centre
Lunch Club
Tuesday 19th July 12.00 for 12.30 pm
Wangford Community Centre
Thursday 21st July 7.00 pm
Wrentham Chapel
Wangford Mens’ Breakfast
Saturday 23rd July 8.45 for 9.00 am
at the Angel Inn
Wangford Coffee Morning
Tuesday 26th July at 10.45am
Wangford Community Centre
Uggeshall Teas
Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July 3.00 - 6.00 pm
The Old School Hall
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Wangford and District
Community Council Treasurer needed
Thursday 14th July at 8.00 pm
Wangford Community Centre
Seedtime and Harvest
Mark that special occasion
by flying the flag at the
Community Centre
that day for just £10.
Wangford Church
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JULY’S TEAM LETTER
Dear Friends,
People sometimes say to me, perhaps in the run up to Easter or Christmas, “now is your busy
time.” My response is usually to wonder when was the quiet time! As you will see from this
newsletter the summer months are full of special events. There are more weddings in our Team
of churches this year than we have had for a few years, and we have enjoyed special services for
the Queen’s 90th birthday and the Southwold Arts festival. There is always a happy and special
feel during the summer months as we welcome holiday-makers and visitors, many of whom
attend or visit our churches while they are here. The ministry of welcome is very important, and
leaves people with the sense of being part of a wider church family.
It is good news that Rev Alan Perry has been appointed as our new Team Vicar. The current
plan is that Alan will be licensed at St Peter & St Paul Wangford, at 7.30 on Friday October
14th. Please do pray for Alan and his wife Sue as they prepare to move to the Sole Bay Team.
On a sad note, in early June we suffered the theft of all the church silver from Holy Trinity
Blythburgh. Such an experience might lead us to ponder the wisdom of keeping churches open.
It would be very discouraging to many if we decided to lock our churches. People enjoy the
history, the beauty and the peace, and people need and value the opportunity to pray. However
we are reminded of the need to be vigilant and sensible, and I ask that whenever you are passing
one of our churches that you might just keep a sharp lookout and see if everything appears
normal.
I wish you all a very happy summer. If you are going on holiday to far off places you might like to
take this Celtic prayer of blessing with you:
“May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you, wherever he may send you,
may He guide you through the wilderness,
protect you through the storm.
May He bring you home rejoicing
at the wonders he has shown you,
may He bring you home rejoicing
once again into our doors.”
Yours in Christ
Simon
BUS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL
Anglian Bus have announced significant changes to their services. From July 24th the 61 route
will not run beyond Kessingland. According to the company, this is due to the level of
competition making it commercially unviable, and is not a decision that has been made lightly.
They advise passengers to use Border Bus 146, or First 99, which is currently running to
Southwold along the coast road from Wrentham. It is reported in the press that the 99 service
will also run on Sundays with effect from 25th July, and Suffolk County Council have indicated
that this will be the case, although First Bus have not yet confirmed this.
The 60S continues to run 4 services per day (plus the early morning school service to Bungay)
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25th July. The new timetable will be displayed in the entrance to Wangford Community Centre.
The effect of these changes will mean that Wangford has no bus service on a Sunday, and no
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You may wish to express your views on this!
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News from
Uggeshall
Uggeshall Walking
Group
Members of the Uggeshall
walking group enjoyed a
5.5 mile walk around the
Walberswick/Dunwich
marshes and woodlands on
a warm and sunny Saturday
in early June. Members of
the group donated £50 to
the
British
Heart
Foundation charity to aid
research.
The next walk is on July
2nd, and details of location
and length of walk will be
emailed to members of the
group nearer the time. If
anyone is interested in
coming
along
please
contact
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or
Peter on 01502 578209.
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News from Wangford Church
We are pleased to announce that Revd Alan Perry, previously
Headteacher of St. Edwards Church of England School and Sixth
Form College in Romford, Essex, has been appointed as Team
Vicar in the Sole Bay Team, subject to the necessary checks and
procedures. We shall be welcoming him and his wife, Sue in
October.
The Church Clock is receiving attention and by the time you
read this, it should be back to chiming. As previously advised,
this is an expensive exercise and we are grateful for donations
received to help with the cost.
Valerie Beckett , Churchwarden 578987
Grand Henham Steam Rally
This year the Rally returns to its home at Henham on Saturday
17th and Sunday 18th September. Running each day from 10 am
to 6 pm, the Rally is a charitable event which raises funds for
Southwold
(Sole
Bay)
Lions
Club,
Wangford
Community Council and the Pariochial Church Councils of
Sotherton, Uggeshall and Wangford-cum-Henham, as well as
this year’s special charities, The National Trust for Dunwich
Heath, St Elizabeth Hospice, Sole Bay Care Fund and
Alzheimer’s Society - Suffolk.
Our next get-together at
the Old School Hall will
be on Thursday 14th July
starting at 10.30 am.
Wangford’s main contribution to the rally weekend itself is to run
the Village Pantry (drinks, cakes and sandwiches) and Hot Dog/
Burger stalls. For this we need loads of help and support, either
on-site at the Rally, or at Wangford Community Centre in
preparation for the weekend.
Do join us for coffee, lovely
home-made treats and a
good old chat.
It would help enormously if our ‘regulars’ could get in touch now
to indicate your availability. And if you’re new to it all and would
like to help, please contact us for more information.
Uggeshall Teas
We need more goodquality bric-a-brac and
books to sell at the Teas.
Please contact:
Sarah Lentaigne on
01502 578532
Sara Farrands: [email protected] or telephone 578594
Malcolm Woolnough: telephone 578701
Sue Taylor: [email protected] or telephone 578408
If you have a little spare
time just once a month,
please contact Sue Taylor
on 578408 or e-mail to:
[email protected]
Advance Notice
Cake Stall
On Monday 8th August in
Southwold High Street
outside
Lloyds
Bank,
Sotherton Church are
having a cake stall to
fundraise for our church.
We really do need your
help. If anyone can make
cakes,
savoury
items,
biscuits, scones etc. would
you please let Karen
Flaxman on 01986 873123
or Jane Walker on 01986
874248 have these items by
Sunday 7th or very first
thing Monday morning.
We are hoping for good
weather, lots of holidaymakers and of course you
to make this a great
success.
Help at the
Steam Rally
We would also be very
grateful for offers of help
with
the
Sotherton
Pancake stall either at the
Henham Steam Rally on
17 - 18 September, or
beforehand
in
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preparation
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Please contact Karen or
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News from Wangford Vets
Letter to the editor
Messenger Delivery
We
urgently
need
volunteers to deliver the
Messenger
around
Uggeshall. Currently this
huge task is undertaken by
one person, but it can be
divided up to make it more
manageable.
News from
Sotherton
Strutt Your Mutt
This year’s event has so far raised in excess of £5,000, which
will be donated to Dogs for Good (previously Dogs for the
Disabled).
Stamps for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf
The first batch of used postage stamps collected by clients is
now ready to be sent off to the charity. Please keep them
coming in, and pass on the message to all your friends and
relations. Hearing dogs can and do transform peoples’ lives,
and there are many more people who could benefit from such
life-changing partnerships if sufficient funds can be raised.
Please would the
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letter to the editor which
was left in Wangford
Community Centre supply
their name so that the letter
may be included in the next
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Thank you.
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and chips and, where I came
from, the choice was haddock
or haddock; still my favourite,
and just as well. A sit down
meal, with knives and forks
and all sorts of things like
silver cruet sets (lost the
youngsters again) could only
be had in a genteel hotel
setting.
Not
necessarily
yearning for the days when a
bag of crisps with a blue twist
of salt, and a pickled egg on
top were gourmet treats in
some of the sink holes I used
to frequent, it does seem to be
the norm when you cannot
now enter a hostelry without
the first words you hear not
being 'What's your poison, old
boy', but 'Will you be dining
with us, tonight, sir?’ I do not
pray for these 'good old days'
to return but I do lament that
these establishments are so
often
impersonal
and
unrelated to the human scale;
intimidating already. The
interior designers go berserk in
their attempts to make them
cool, man, and the children
who serve the customers, no
doubt earning the minimum
wage, try to please but what
they do not produce is
an atmospherically enjoyable
environment. Even the larger
Wetherspoon
houses
are
daunting
fuel
injectors.
Anyone for a converted fire
station or an old city banking
mausoleum? No, give me a
blazing fire on a wet, windy,
wintry evening, with a grumpy
old goat tending bar, passing
the time of day with a few
headbangers talking rubbish.
Sounds just like home.
So the dinosaurs of Muirfield
Golf Club have voted not to
allow women to become
Members, which sounds a bit
harsh. Who's going to carry
the bags, rake the bunkers,
replace the divots etc? Only
joking. This is a non-story.
A private members' club
should have the right to
decide whom to allow in or
exclude. And, let us be honest,
no
self-respecting
liberal
minded male or female would
Sunday 3rd July
11.00 am Wangford
6.00 pm Uggeshall
6th Sunday after Trinity
Holy Communion (CW)
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Sunday 10th July
11.00 am Wangford
6.00 pm Uggeshall
7th Sunday after Trinity
Holy Communion (CW)
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Sunday 17th July
9.30 am Sotherton
11.00 am Wangford
6.00 pm Uggeshall
8th Sunday after Trinity
Holy Communion (CW)
Holy Communion (CW)
Evening Prayer (BCP)
Sunday 24th July
11.00 am Wangford
6.00 pm Uggeshall
9th Sunday after Trinity
Morning Prayer (CW)
Holy Communion(BCP)
Sunday 31st July
11.00 am Blythburgh
6.00 pm Uggeshall
10th Sunday after Trinity
Team Service
Evening Prayer (BCP)
be seen dead in such a musty
out- dat e d
ch au vin i stic
establishment. Paying the
price of not being allowed to
host the Open probably won't
bother them one iota. Which
brings me to another fogey
who should have hung up his
microphone early last century.
I was watching the large
on-site screen at the 2015 St
Andrews Open trying hard not
to listen to Peter Aliss's inane
wittering, when a stranger
sitting next to me remarked to
no-one in particular "that prat
comes out with the most awful
rubbish". Hallelujah. Someone
else with the sense to utter the
unutterable
that
the
so-called 'voice of golf' talks
ghastly, ineffable tripe.
For slightly different reasons,
but by the same route, three
good citizens of Wangford
found themselves, on 5th
June, on Mainland Orkney,
attending two services and an
exhibition
commemorating
the centenary of the sinking of
the SS Hampshire. 737 men
were on board, including the
Secretary
of
State
for
War,
Lord
Kitchener.
The ship sank off Marwick
Head. On 3rd June 2016, to
welcome us, the Custodian of
St Magnus Cathedral in
Kirkwall organised a wee
ceilidh in Quoyloo Village
Hall. (You'll have to look it
up) Subject to the sainted
Editor's approval I shall give a
fuller report next month. You know you're trying hard
to be modern and cracking on
a bit at the same time when...
1. you accidentally enter your
PIN on the microwave;
2. you have a list of 20 phone
numbers when you only
need three;
3. your reason for not staying
in touch with friends and
family is that they don't
have email addresses;
4. you leave the house
without your mobile phone
(which you didn't have for
the first 60 years of your
life), panic and turn around
to go and get it;
5. you rise in the morning and
go online before breakfast.
Abraham
Wrentham Chapel
Wrentham Chapel will be hosting “Seedtime and Harvest” at
7.00 pm on Thursday July 21st. Please join us for an evening of
music, song, poetry and prose served with wine and nibbles.
This will be an informal evening of seasonal reflections in
many forms - religious, secular, serious and funny. Those
attending are invited to bring along their own contributions to
the evening’s programme - or just to enjoy listening to others.
There is no admission charge but we hope guests will make a
donation towards the maintenance of this historic chapel
which is home to one of the oldest non-conformist
congregations in the country.
Sue Hardy
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Private Hire
Hall
3rd July
Singing group
Hall
10.00am
4th July
Parent & Toddler
Hall
9.30am
4th July
Salsa
Hall
7.30pm
5th July
Imogen Hall
Hall
5th July
Post Office
Bar
5th July
Blythburgh Bowls
Hall
6th July
PCC
Cttee Room
7th July
Wangford Art Group
Hall
7th July
Post Office
Bar
8th July
Rock'n'Roll
Hall
9.30am
10.00am -12.00pm
7.00pm
10.00am
9.30am
1.00-3.00pm
7.30pm
11th July Parent & Toddler
Hall
11th July SCC
Cttee Room
9.30am
11th July Salsa
Hall
7.30pm
12th July Imogen Hall
Hall
9.30am
12th July Post Office
Bar
12th July Coffee Morning
Hall
12th July Latitude Helpers
Bar
12th July Parish Council
Cttee Room
13th July Parish Councils
Bar
13th July Steam Rally Meeting
Cttee Room
8.00pm
14th July Wangford Art Group
Hall
9.30am
2.00-3.30pm
10.00am -12.00pm
10.45am
6.00-8.00pm
8.00pm
7.00-9.00pm
14th July Post Office
Bar
14th July Book Club
Cttee Room
8.00pm
16th July Summer Fayre
Hall
2.00pm
17th July Private Hire
Hall
18th July Parent & Toddler
Hall
9.30am
18th July Salsa
Hall
7.30pm
19th July Imogen Hall
Hall
9.30am
19th July Post Office
Cttee Room
19th July Lunch Club
Hall
12.30pm
19th July Blythburgh Bowls
Hall
7.00pm
20th July Whist Drive
Cttee Room
7.00pm
21st July
Wangford Art Group
Hall
21st July
Post Office
Bar
25th July Parent & Toddler
1.00-3.00pm
10.00am-12.00
9.30am
1.00-3.00pm
Hall
9.30am
25th July Salsa
Hall
7.30pm
26th July Imogen Hall
Hall
9.30am
26th July Post Office
Bar
26th July Coffee Morning
Hall
10.45am
27th July Art Makers East
Hall
10.00am
28th July Wangford Art Group
Hall
9.30am
28th July Post Office
Bar
10.00am -12.00pm
1.00-3.00pm
29th July Snape Brownies
30th July Snape Brownies
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Snape Brownies
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