Happy Christmas everyone

Happy Christmas
everyone
Hark
O Come all
The
ye
Herald
Faithful
Angels
Joyful and
Sing
triumphant
Happy New Year
One and all
December 2014
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Editorial December 2014
By the time this Gazette drops through the door onto your mat, there will only
be about three weeks to Christmas. Traditionally Christmas has always been a
religious holiday, ‘though now perhaps more of a commercial break! In pagan
times before the birth of Christ there was always a mid-winter festival, a time for
feasting and relaxing. Christmas as a religious holiday was first celebrated
around 350 AD, and it has continued to be a religious festival in
the Christian world ever since, with one exception when it was
banned by the Puritans in 1647 after the defeat of Charles 1st in
the Civil War. Fortunately for us, and particularly
the younger
nd
members of our community, his son Charles 2 reintroduced
Christmas when he was restored to the throne in 1660.
In Tudor times Christmas was quite different. The homes of the
wealthy often used to cook a wild boar on Xmas Day and its
head was used as a dinner table decoration. However, cooking
made the head's fur go pale and so it was covered in soot and pig's grease to
make the cooked head look more natural. A wealthy family might also eat a
swan sometimes stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a chicken, stuffed with a pigeon and all covered in a layer of pastry known as a coffin. The less well off
were partial to “souse” pickled pigs feet and ears, though this does not seem
very appetising to me. It was also the fashion in Tudor times for mince pies to
be shaped like a crib, and Christmas puddings were liable to break up and so were cooked in the gut of a pig
being shaped like a sausage. The pies would have included thirteen ingredients, representing Christ and his
apostles, typically dried fruits, spices and of course a little chopped mutton - in remembrance of the shepherds.
It was often served in slices with portions of boar’s
head! The first recorded date of the dreaded Brussels
sprout being cooked was in 1547. In 1551 a law was
passed by Edward V1 that everybody had to walk to
church on Christmas Day when they attended a church
service. Technically this is still the law today though if
you don’t it is unlikely that you will be arrested for using your car.
Today we celebrate Christmas with a slightly more familiar meal of roast turkey
or goose with roast potatoes and Brussels sprouts. Our Christmas pudding is normally served up on a plate with brandy butter or sauce. No hint of boars head
with our puddings.
So times have changed a lot since the 17th Century. Not just with the food we
consume, but also Christmas itself has changed in many ways. Perhaps now it is
less of a religious festival, more of a
commercial one with sales in the large
stores now starting on Christmas day.
Anyway “Christmas is coming and the
goose is getting fat……….” so have a
great Christmas and New year and we
will be back with you at the beginning of
February.
Happy Christmas to all our readers
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Parish Council Update
The next Parish Council meeting is Monday 8th December 7.30 in the village hall.
The Parish Council
James Leaney (781552), Fenella Wojnarowska (781319), Harold Walters (781339), Sharon Austin
(781827), Peter Turner (781808) and Philip Stephenson Parish Clerk (773078) or [email protected])
Footpaths The footpaths have all been tidied and the vegetation cut back and the 3 new fingerposts are all in place outside Tresmeer Village Shop, at Treglum Bridge and outside St Nicholas
Church.
Tresmeer Parish Council Meeting, Monday 8th December at 7.30pm Tresmeer Village Hall
DRAFT AGENDA.
Chairman’s opening remarks.
Apologies for absence.
2.0
Member’s declarations of interest in matters on this meeting agenda.
3.0.
Minutes of the meeting of 10th November 2014.
4.0.
Matters arising from the minutes not included elsewhere on the agenda.
5.0
Planning applications
6.0.
Accounts/financial matters: balance at bank.
7.0.
Correspondence & invitations
8.0.
Parish matters.
9.0.
Parish & Neighbourhood Plan.
11.0. Footpaths
12.0 Next meeting 12/1/2015
13.0
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The Christmas message
Angel Gabriel appears
The journey to Bethlehem
Unto us a son is given
The Shepherds are afraid
The Shepherds bring gifts
A new star in the sky
Wise Men follow the star
Wise Men give gifts
No Room at the Inn
The Heavenly babe you there shall find to human view displayed, all
meanly wrapped in swaddling clothes and in a manger laid.
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Poetry Corner
As Christmas approaches and we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ,
“poetry corner” brings you a poem by our own Cornish Poet, Charles Causley,
which tells the story of the birth, life and death of Christ in a modern setting. I
love the description of Jesus as the ‘bread man’, particularly as you think of all
the references to bread in the bible.
The Bread Man……….by Charles Causley
Mary stood in the kitchen
Baking a loaf of bread.
An angel flew in through the window.
‘We’ve a job for you,’ he said.
‘We’ve come,’ they said ‘with tokens
For the little boy to choose.’
Told the tale about war and peace
In the television news.
‘God in his big gold heaven
Sitting in his big blue chair,
Wanted a mother for his little son.
Suddenly saw you there.’
After them came the soldiers
With rifle and bombs and gun,
Looking for enemies of the state.
The family had packed up and gone.
Mary shook and trembled,
‘It isn’t true what you say.’
‘Don’t say that,’ said the angel.
‘The baby’s on its way.’
When they got back to the village
The neighbours said, to a man,
‘That boy will never be one of us,
Though he does what he blessed well can.’
Joseph was in the workshop
Planing a piece of wood.
‘The old man’s past it,’ the neighbours said.
‘That girl’s been up to no good.’
He went round to all the people
A paper crown on his head
Here is some bread from my father
Take, eat, he said
‘And who was that elegant fellow,’
They said. ‘in the shiny gear?’
The things they said about Gabriel
Were hardly fit to hear.
Nobody seemed very hungry.
Nobody seemed to care.
Nobody saw the God in himself
Quietly standing there.
Mary never answered,
Mary never replied.
She kept the information,
Like the baby, safe inside.
He finished up in the papers,
He came to a very bad end.
He was charged with bringing the living to life.
No man was that prisoner’s friend.
It was the election winter.
They went to vote in town.
When Mary found her time had come
The hotels let her down.
There’s only one kind of punishment
To fit that kind of crime.
They rigged a trial and shot him dead.
They were only just in time.
The baby was born in an annexe
Next to the local pub.
At midnight, a delegation
Turned up from the Farmers’ Club.
They lifted the young man by the leg,
Thy lifted him by the arm,
They locked him in a cathedral
In case he came to harm.
They talked about an explosion
That made a hole in the sky,
Said they’d been sent to the Lamb and Flag
To see God come down from on high.
They stored him safe as water
Under seven rocks
One Sunday morning he burst out
Like a jack-in-the-box
A few days later a bishop
And a five-star general were seen
With the head of an African country
In a bullet-proof limousine.
Through the town he went walking.
He showed them the holes in his head.
Now do you want any loaves? he cried.
Not today they said.
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The History of Tom Smith and the Christmas Cracker
It was on a trip to Paris, in 1840 that an adventurous and
forward thinking Tom Smith discovered the bon bon sugared almond, wrapped in a twist of tissue paper. Seven
years later this simple idea evolved into the Christmas
Cracker.
By placing a small love motto in the tissue paper he created
enormous interest in this product, especially at Christmas
and it was during a search for inspiration to achieve even
greater sales that he casually threw a log on the fire. The crackle sound, made
by the burning log, gave him the idea that would eventually lead to the cracker
that we know and love today. After a great deal of hard work and experimentation he came up with a cracking mechanism that created a ‘pop’ as the bon bon
wrapper was broken. This eventually became the snap and the cracker was born.
Over the next few years his idea evolved and grew and he moved from his original premises in Clerkenwell, East London, to Finsbury Square in the City. His
sons, Tom, Walter and Henry took over the business when he died and later a
drinking fountain was erected in Finsbury Square by Walter, in memory of his
mother and to commemorate the life of the man who invented the Christmas
Cracker. It was Walter who introduced the paper hats, and he toured the world
to find a new and unusual ideas for the gifts.
Village Shop opening times.
Wednesday 24th 7.30am till 1pm
Thursday Christmas day: Closed
Friday Boxing day: Closed
Saturday 27th 7.30am till 1pm
Sunday 28th 7.30am till 1pm
Monday 29th 7.30 till 6pm
Tuesday 30th 7.30 till 6pm
Wednesday 31st New Year’s Eve:
7.30 till 1pm
New Year’s Day: Closed
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Woodland Trust tree planting
The weather could not have been kinder when on
the afternoon of Sunday 23rd November I gathered
a little group of youngsters to plant a few hedging
trees in the recreation ground, kindly donated to
the Parish of Tresmeer through the Parish Council.
Although a little chilly the enthusiasm shown by the
youngsters was uplifting. Each child planted their
own tree and the adults looked on helping with
photo opportunities and general guidance. As the
trees grow so will these little ones with memories rooted in Tresmeer.
Pictured are Hayden & Brandon Turner. Teagan Sleeman, Jhah Jhah Sleeman, Keeley Sleeman, Tullulah Thomas, Malachi Sleeman the youngest planter, and myself Julie Walters.
Editors note:
A big thank you to the Parish Council and Village Hall for applying to the Woodland
trust for 60 trees to plant on the boundary of the local playing field. Thanks also go to
the wonderful volunteers who planted them for all to enjoy. Well done everyone.
What’s on
Regular Events in the Village Hall:
Mondays:
Dog training: puppies 1pm-2pm, improvers 2-3pm
(01566 77589)
Tuesdays:
Line Dancing £3.50
(01409 261120)
Wednesdays: Old Tyme Dance Club 7.30pm
Wednesdays: Adventurers club 3.15 to 5.15pm for primary school children.
Phone Rachel Bate 781429
Fridays:
Youth club 7.30 to 9.30pm
Phone Rachel Bate 781429
Other events: Also see page 30….Village Hall Events
Monday 8th December: Parish Council meeting in the village hall at 7.30pm
Tuesday 16th December Warbstow School Christmas Church nativity service at 1pm (Warbstow
Church)
Julies food van will be open between 5 and 7pm on December 19th, January 2nd, 9th,
16th,23rd,30th.
Why does Santa have three gardens? So he can “Ho Ho Ho.”
What kind of motorbike does Santa ride? A Holly Davidson!
What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck? A Christmas Quacker!
What says Oh Oh Oh? Santa walking backwards!
Who is Santa’s favourite singer? Elf-ish Presley!
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Tresmeer Film Review
JERSEY BOYS
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Clint Eastwood's big screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of the four young men from the wrong side of the
tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the 60s rock group
The Four Seasons. Their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the
hit songs that influenced a generation.
If you have seen the hit show and are expecting a reprise, I am afraid you will be disappointed. Although it would be difficult to repeat the energy of the live stage show, this
film sometimes drags with regards to the background story. However it is worth seeing
just for the toe tapping iconic music.
Showing Launceston Town Hall Friday 5th December 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
FILM LENGTH 134 minutes. FILM RATING 15. Adult £5. Concession £4
Tickets available on the door, & from Launceston Tourist Information Centre. Box Office www.fliclaunceston.co.uk. Telephone 01726 879500
There are a range of refreshments including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and locally made ice cream available
both before the film and during the intermission.
Car parking is available in the multi storey car park located directly behind the Town Hall.
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Parish Council (continued from page 6)
MEETING OF TRESMEER PARISH COUNCIL
Monday 13 October 2014 at Tresmeer Village Hall beginning at 7.30pm.
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Present: Cllrs Mrs F Wojnarowska, Chair, Mrs S Austin, P Turner, H Walters and J Leaney.
The Clerk, Mr J P Stephenson in attendance together with three members of the public.
Chairman’s opening remarks.
Apologies for absence: All present.
95.10.14. Member’s declarations of interest in matters on this meeting agenda. None.
96.10.14. Minutes of the meetings of 9th September 2014 were approved and signed.
97.10.14.. Matters arising from the minutes not included elsewhere on the agenda.
a. the clerk reported that grants paid to the Village Hall, St Nicholas and Rehoboth
churches, had been acknowledged.
98.10.14. Planning applications.
PA14/09066. Proposed 2 storey extension to dwelling house
4 Glen View Tresmeer Launceston Cornwall PL15 8QT - Mr Kevin Ridgman (Case Officer - Lorraine Lehan)
The Parish Council had no objection.
98a.10.14. Big field Turbine Farm. The application had been referred to Cornwall Council’s Strategic Planning Committee.
99.10.14. Planning Conferences for Local Councils. Cllrs Mrs Wojnarowska and Mrs Austin attended and found the conference, relevant,
informative and useful.
100.10.14. Accounts/financial matters. – Balance: 19 09 14 = 5093.27 - £75 - £120 13 10 14 = 4898.27
Cheques: 120.00 clerk’s fee. 9.99 Annual Domain name fee.
101.10.14. Proposed spending. Budget for the rest of 2014/15. Proposals were agreed.
6.2. 2015/16 Precept and support grant.
Cornwall council has given notice to Parish Councils that they cannot guarantee to maintain the current level of the support grant. For the
foreseeable future it will only be possible to undertake even the most modest project by accumulating funds year to year.
102/10/14. Correspondence & invitations.
a. Code of Conduct briefing:
The Chair had attended a briefing on ‘Dispensations’ to Council member’s normal code of conduct restrictions. These related to the circumstances that would allow members to vote despite having an interest in the business. These dispensation to
rules are covered by notes provided by the responsible County legal officer a copy of which has been provided, and will be filed with these minutes. There are currently approaching 300 members and it is hoped the number will increase.
b. Lane to the east of Village Hall - Land ownership. Martin Wright, Senior Development Officer, Commons & Greens, Countryside Access
and Environment Department has sent maps of the Village Hall area, previously know as the quarry and the Common, showing what was known
according to County records. These show that the land adjacent to the eastern side of the lane belongs to Mr Bate. Since it is accepted practice
that a land owner is responsible for a lane adjacent to his property to centre of the lane nothing wrong had occurred. Members agreed and there
would be further action.
c. 7 Hendra Garth. The Clerk had been asked to inform members that No7 Hendra Garth, a two bed room flat, is vacant.
103.10.14. Woodland Trust. The Parish Council and the Village Committee have both ordered 30 trees suitable for hedging. These are due
to be delivered to the Village Hall during the period 3rd to7th November 2014.
Arrangements for planting will be made with the Village Hall Committee and, if possible, with local schools. .
104.10.14. Parish & Neighbourhood Plan. (NP) Mr J Leaney, Chairman of the Action Group reported that neighbouring Parish Councils
were showing interest and he hoped that joint NP could be prepared for submission during Spring 2015.
A locally satisfactory NP was rejected by Cornwall Council and there was concern that this might reflect a Cornwall Council attitude NPs in
smaller rural parishes.
105.10.14. Footpaths. Mr Walter said that the autumn cut and the erection of fingerboard signs would be completed before the next
meeting. MrsWojnarowska hopes it will be possible to make some progress with clearance, repairs and replacements on path No. 557/4/1 during
the winter. Cormac had been contacted about any inspection and remedial works they could undertake, in addition the local Cornwall Councillor
would be asked if he could help through the community chest fund.
106.10.14. Parish Matters.
a. St Nicholas Church notice board. Cllr Turner undertook to replace the Perspex shutters and to fit them. It might also be possible to make
the structure more sound.
b. Defibrillators. Members discussed the wisdom of having a defibrillator available at the Village hall site. After discussion it was agreed not
to pursue this but that the Village hall Committee be asked to consider whether first aid courses are necessary or helpful.
Next and future meetings.
10/11/2014.
08/12/2014 12/01/2015.
The meeting closed at 2055hrs.
What do you call a bunch of chess players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby? Chess
nuts boasting in an open foyer!
What happened to the man who stole an Advent Calendar? He got 25 days!
What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? It’s Christmas Eve!
How long do reindeers legs have to be? Long enough to reach the ground!
How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizzas? Deep pan, crisp and even!
Who hides in a bakery at Christmas? A Mince Spy!
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Their Cornish Christmas 1859……………...part 2.
Elizabeth yearned for Christmas’s of the past when the mines were thriving and
there was plenty of food. Celebrations would start on Christmas Eve. After the
market closed at 10 o’clock the women would start preparing the feast whilst the
men went wassailing from ale house to ale house, or Tiddely, as they were
called, through the village and beyond, finishing at
the William’s mansion house, where all were welcome to a hot toddy and given a sovereign. They expected to walk, at the very least ten miles, and
wouldn’t get back home until five or six o’clock on
Christmas morning when the wives would be up
feeding the chickens, milking the goat and getting a
good fire in the range to put the bird in; that is if they
had one in the back garden they had fattened up.
Puddings had to be boiled, bread and mince pies
made. Fathers would have made a toy of some kind out of wood for their sons
and mothers would have knitted or sewn a doll and doll’s clothes for their
daughters.
As she stirred from her reverie to reach for the last of the wood Elizabeth heard
someone shouting her name. Footsteps sounded outside followed by a bang on
the door that made her jump. Her heart beat violently as she dropped the blanket on the settle and went to open the door. She clutched at the handle and
pulled it open. Standing there was her husband, dressed in smart clothes and
heavily laden with bulging sacks. One arm was holding aloft a lantern giving a
bright glistening light that reflected on to the familiar handsome face, and two
bright eyes were looking down at her with a smile that reached from ear to ear.
Elizabeth was speechless, and hesitant, aware that she looked dowdy, and her
hair hanging in larrups. He propped up the lamp and opened his arms taking
Elizabeth into a big hug. There were so many questions to ask. What had happened? Why hadn’t he written? Was he home for good? William was shocked
and upset to see Elizabeth looking so thin and hear she had no job. However, he
was so excited he couldn’t contain himself.
He’d left his main luggage at the station to be picked up the next day and walk
the three miles to Lannarth as he’d wanted to stop at the market on his way to
buy some provisions. They sat up half the night talking. Seeing the state of her
dress and hearing of the loss of her cousins he was very upset and sorry that she
hadn’t received the last two letters he had sent that had never arrived. However,
thanks to the Balerat gold mine he was rich and had earned enough money to
keep them for several years. Elizabeth caught William’s excitement, thrilled that
the long lonely months had come to an end, for the foreseeable future at any
rate.
The next morning William hired a horse and cart to make several journeys, the
first to Hayle to the Consolidated Bank of Cornwall to invest his newfound
wealth, and he needed to go to get lots of wood for the stove. Elizabeth was so
excited! She could go and buy material to make a new dress and get some boots
made in Redruth. And, they could afford to buy food to celebrate Christmas in
style, just like the Christmases in the past she had been thinking about before
she heard the knock on the door.
On Christmas Eve, as Elizabeth was starting the preparations and William had
gone wassailing, she sent up a prayer of thanks to the good Lord. Christmas 1859
was going to be a proper Cornish one and life in 1860 was going to be good.
A Short story by Lucille Opie
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Rehoboth Chapel, Tresmeer
December:
7th
14th
11am Rev. Stephen Caddick
11am Mr. Bannister
7pm Singalong, supper to follow
21st
11am Mr. Frank Routly. 7pm Carol
Concert with the St Dominick Handbell
Ringers. Supper to follow.
28th
11am Mr. Sillifant.
January:
4th
11th
18th
25th
11am Own arrangement
11am Mrs. Eva Paynter
11am Mr. Peter Parsons
7pm Singalong, supper to follow
11am Mrs. Anne Rhodes
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Sunday 14th December at
7.30pm Carol Service with
Camelford Town Band
St Nicholas Church
St Winwalo, Tremaine
Tresmeer
21 December Carol Service
7.30pm
14 December 3pm 9
lessons and Carols
11 January Holy Communion 3pm
25 December carols, readings
and address 9am
18 January Holy Communion
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25 January Evening Prayer
25 January Evening prayer 3pm
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Tresmeer Film Review
THE LEGO MOVIE
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This computer animated story follows Emmet an ordinary, rulesfollowing, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly
identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving
the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic
quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
This film came as a very pleasant surprise to me, boasting beautiful animation, a charming voice cast, laugh-a-minute gags, and a
thoughtful story, The Lego Movie is colourful fun for all ages.
Showing Launceston Town Hall. Saturday 27th December 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.. FILM
LENGTH 101 minutes. FILM RATING U. Adult £5. Concession £4
Tickets available on the door, & from Launceston Tourist Information Centre. Box Office
www.fliclaunceston.co.uk. Telephone 01726 879500
There are a range of refreshments including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and locally
made ice cream available both before the film and during the intermission.
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Merry Post Xmas Romp 2014
Last January, Friday 10th, at Tresmeer Village
Hall, we put on a Music Hall Entertainment
which was such fun we did it again on the Saturday.
We had thought of doing another to cheer up
the miserable January nights of 2015 but unfortunately our director decided to have a near
death experience in June and has taken a good
four months to reach a reasonable stage of recovery.
It is with apologies for those missing out that we cannot provide you with follow-up
performances in January 2015. BUT we are all hoping to entertain you the following
January 2016 if we are all well and happy then.
But it’s alright, because we - those involved - are having a sing-song together, with
food etc and to watch the DVD made of the Saturday performance and doubtless
join in with a good old knees up ! So we’re ok. There may be a little item in the next
Gazette to let you know how much we enjoyed ourselves.
Happy Xmas and a joyous and healthy 2015 to you all
Ilona Hayward (Director)
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Hi My name is Brooke. I am 12
years old, nearly 13 as my birthday is on 28th December. I used
to live in Yorkshire (Bradford). It
was a change moving from a big
busy city to a quiet small village.
Up north it is very loud and it
has a lot of buildings, but here it
is lovely and calm countryside. It
was hard moving here but I have made a lot
of cool new friends at school; and even
here in this village of Tresmeer. Friends like,
Zoe, Alex, Ben and all my friends at Friday
youth club in the village hall. I live with my
mum and step dad and sometimes my sister Lauren. I like school when we have fun
subjects like, catering, drama, ICT, history
and art. They are my favourite subjects. I
even like school when we have my least favourite subjects, English and maths. I love
playing in the netball team and play Goal
Keeper. I like everyone that I have met here
in Tresmeer like Julie, Graham,Yvonne and
more. We have been made to feel very welcome in the village and we are thankful for
that. We are looking forward to spending
many more happy years here in this lovely
village. Brooke.
Happy 13th birthday for the 28th……..A teenager at last !!
(Editor)
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Henry’s story continued………………..
We were put through training there, taken to parades, we
had to march about with rifles and bayonets day after day.
We had to march to form fours and to turn about and that
sort of thing. The first day we did this it was like a football
scrum, nobody knew what to do when he said left incline,
we were all in a bunch on the parade ground, and all mixed
up and laughing like anything, and the old gunnery instructor getting mad and shouting at us …’sons of the sea you
call yourselves, I call you sons of ????! I can’t mention what
he added to that. After some time we learnt to fire revolvers and to get this drill
business right.
After this we were sent to a school where we were taught the rudiments of engineering. The engines of the ships then were reciprocating engines, driven by boilers, steam boilers fired with coal. We were then put aboard ship, an old battle
cruiser, which was tied up along side the barrack wall and we were sent below and
taken in to the stokehole, but instead of coal there were stones, and we were
shown by the instructor what to do as regards putting the stones in to the furnaces,
and then pull them out with a rake as we had to do with the fires; and that was
that. That was our training in the stokehole and when we had finished we were
sent to another part of the barracks where we were ready for service at sea.
I enjoyed the first six months in the Navy, I had never seen such beautiful country,
the weather was glorious, and I remember King Edward the seventh had just died.
We spent days on the rifle range near Millbrook, packing up at 4.30pm to be taken
back to the barracks by boat. If we were on duty we had to go into the canteen collecting empties and on one occasion I had to stand at the door and warn the men if
the military police approached as there was a crown and anchor game in progress
and gambling was forbidden. At the close of the game the notes were collected and
coppers thrown to the floor and we collected them, this was our tip. If I was going
ashore I went to a show after booking a bed at Aggie Westons for the night, that
cost 6d, breakfast, egg and bacon cost 9d. The bedroom had a chair, bed, mat and
chamber pot, the partitions did not reach the ceiling and the space was filled with
wire netting to stop anyone from throwing things over the top. At six am a man
came round ringing a bell and calling for everyone to get up.
The day came when I was told with the rest of the men to join a ship, and at that
time it was obvious to everybody that war was looming up. We had a large fleet in
reserve, they were old ships, known as the Baltic Fleet because they were stationed
in the Baltic. These ships were taken out of mothballs and brought up to an efficient state ready for use in case of war. I was aboard one of these ships steaming
them up and down the English Channel to establish that their engines and machinery was in working order. They were tied up again with a care and maintenance
party put aboard so they were ready for action. A few of them sank in the Dardanelles during our efforts to capture Gallipoli.
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Tresmeer Village Hall
Christmas with Nature
Friday 5th December 10am-4pm
Make your own Christmas decorations from Nature.
HAND MADE DECORATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS
Materials & 2 course lunch all provided
Tea & cofee throughout the day
Limited Numbers.......Book Now! Julie
01566 781819
£40 to be paid up front
The Magic Beanstalk
Puppet Show
In the Hall 3pm
Saturday December 6th
Adults £6. Child £4. Concession £4.Family
£16.
.
Saturday 13th December Pub night with
Wine and Wisdom starting at 7.30pm
Fancy Dress optional. £3 each, cheese and bics and nibbles
available.
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LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS MINCEMEAT CAKE
8 oz (225g) plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
6 oz (175g) softened butter or soft margarine
6 oz (175g) dark brown sugar
3 eggs
12 oz (350g) good quality mincemeat
(4 oz whole blanched almonds optional if you don’t want to ice
the cake)
Grease an 8” (20cm) cake tin and line with a double thickness
of greaseproof/baking paper.
Sift together the flour and baking powder.
Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and flour a little at
a time until thoroughly mixed. Then fold in the mincemeat.
Spoon the mixture into prepared tin and smooth the top. If you don’t wish to ice the
cake, arrange the almonds in circles over the top of the mixture.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160C (325F) for approx. 1 hr 20 mins/1 hr 30 mins or until a
skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Let the cake cool in the tin for 30 mins before turning out onto wire rack.
If you have not used the almonds, the cake can be marzipaned and iced in the normal
way.
Happy Christmas!
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Food for thought: Some men are wise, some are otherwise.
As it is the festive time of the year I thought we might bring you something a bit different
on the recipe page….something for the young and something for those of us who enjoy a
bit of winter cheer. Be warned these recipes are very old so they may seem a bit old fashioned, but hopefully nothing wrong with that!
Ginger Pop
Mix together a pound of white sugar, an ounce of cream of tartar, an ounce of ground
ginger and a gallon of boiling water. When nearly cold add a spoonful of yeast, and
strain and bottle. Tie the corks down, and it will be ready in six hours.
Gorse wine.
Put two quarts of gorse flowers and two ounces of root ginger into a gallon of water and
simmer for fifteen minutes. Then add three pounds of Demerara
sugar and stir until it is dissolved. Now add a sliced orange and
lemon, and when luke-warm put in a piece of toast spread with an
ounce of yeast. Cover with a folded cloth and leave for a week. Skim
off the top, strain the liquid into a jar, and leave for another week to
work before corking up tightly. Bottle after three months.
Drink is the feast of reason and flow of soul…...Alexander Pope.
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Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall. PL15 8PN
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Dinner available by prior arrangement.
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Henry’s story continued……………….
After this I was put on a train to Glasgow to join a ship that was just finished and in the
stocks. Camelard I think it was that built her, she was at Meadowside on the Clyde. By
the time we got there she was off her stocks and ready for commissioning and we all
went aboard to clean, provision, ammunition and coal her. After which we took her out
on her steam trials, and everything was satisfactory. Previous to that I had the same experience with the Lion, which was Admiral Lord Beaty’s ship at the battle of Jutland. She
was built at Devonport and we went aboard her. She carried 3500 tons of coal and we
left Plymouth with her and went on a 30 hour flat out steam trial. We had the mechanics and other people from the Dockyard to supervise all the new machinery that had
been installed to see that it functioned properly; this supervision was carried out by very
efficient mechanics. The result all had to be first class before the admiralty would accept
her from the builders. She also went to Barehaven, Southern Ireland where her armament was put through the same tests as the other parts of the machinery had had. Her
armament consisted of eight thirteen inch guns, (I think I am correct) with a smaller armament of six inch guns.
We steamed her up the Irish Sea around the North of Ireland, down the West Coast of
Ireland and back to Plymouth Sound; that took thirty hours and she burnt 3000 tons of
coal. She had two funnels, the first one was before the mast and the bridge was built
around it, and they found that during the steam trials the heat was so intense that they
could hardly bear to stand on the bridge; that was one fault. It was altered and put abaft
the bridge, that is towards the blunt end of the ship, and abaft the foremost mast. She
had forty three boilers, and the speed she attained was thirty knots which was quite a
speed in those days: that was the Lion. To return to the Dublin we had the same job with
her, steamed her and finally we were ready for a tour of the British Isles. We went up to
Oban and Scapa Flow, into Queens Ferry, Edinburgh where there existed the Naval Base
with pens for destroyers, while opposite on the other side of the Firth of Forth was Rosyth, the main Naval base. Then over to Ireland, into Kingstown where we were given a
good reception as we were in Dublin. This was 1912. From Dublin we went to Belfast
with the ship where we stayed for several days. We landed the ships company there and
marched through the town to make an exhibition of strength.
To be continued in February…………...
Mum, Can I have a dog for Christmas ? No you can have turkey like everyone
else !
We had grandma for Christmas dinner ? Really, we had turkey !
How do sheep greet each other at Christmas ? A merry Christmas to ewe!
What did the big candle say to the little candle ? I'm going out tonight !
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