March 2022 - West Haddon Parish Council
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Page 2 of 12 Parish Council News
HEDGE MAINTENANCE
The intention behind pruning hedges is to remove and or prevent dead or dying branches
from harming neighbouring plants. By removing the dead or dying branches it actually
allows the hedge plants to flower and / or fruits to blossom.
Regular pruning is not done to slow down the growth of a hedge – quite the opposite in
fact as regular annual pruning actually stimulates healthy growth and is part and parcel
of carefully managed hedgerow care. Indeed, pruning improves the future health of the
hedge and assists biodiversity by reducing / eliminating negative insect infestation and spread of disease
whilst promoting productive native insect and bird life and will result in thicker, greener & healthier
hedgerows over time.
SPEEDWATCH
A huge thank you to those who came forward and volunteered to be trained to assist and carry out speed
checks in the village as part of the community speedwatch programme. The community speedwatch
programme is aimed at reminding drivers to watch their speed when travelling in and through West Haddon.
West Haddon Parish Council was one of the first parishes to sign up to the reinstated scheme which had
been postponed during the covid restrictions. Nevertheless, despite numerous calls for volunteers to come
forward on social media, and in the newsletter, only 4 volunteers have come forward to date and we are
advised there should, ideally, be a minimum of 10 volunteers in order to proceed.
Therefore, regrettably, the Council will have to withdraw from the project to allow another community the
opportunity to participate in the project which is limited in capacity.
JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS 2022
As part of the forthcoming Queens platinum jubilee celebrations the Parish Council will
be organising a beacon lighting event on 2nd June, in line with other communities across
the nation. Further details will follow. On behalf of the Council, Kim and Gill will be
hosting a royal themed activity for children the week of the jubilee, and Daisies Café
will be serving afternoon tea on the 2nd June. Again, details will follow in due course.
The Council have purchased an oak tree to be planted in commemoration of this once in a lifetime event
and, in collaboration with the village biodiversity group, there will be the planting of 7 trees in honour of the
seven decades Queen Elizabeth II has served as a reigning monarch.
Inside this issue:
Parish
DAISIES CAFÉ DATES AND EVENTS MARCH 2022
Council Pg 1-3
• 3rd March – Café Open 2pm – 4pm & Clothes Swap Event (see front
Puzzle cover.)
Page Pg 4
• 10th March – Café Open 2pm – 4pm & Age Concern charity collection at
Church pavilion (unwanted clothes and unwanted items for resale welcomed
News Pg 5-6 by the charity).
• 17th March – Café Open 2pm – 4pm & Village Walk and Chat (see front
Village
cover).
News Pg 7-9, 12
• 24th March – Café Open 2pm – 4pm.
Local • 31st March – Café Open 2pm – 4pm & Fun Bingo.
Services Pg 10-11
Page 3 of 12 Parish Council News
Parish Council Health & Wellbeing Questionnaire
West Haddon is a very privileged village in terms of its beautiful countryside location, services, facilities,
assets and also benefits from excellent schools in the vicinity. The Parish Councils plays its part in providing
and or facilitating a number of assets and services and West Haddon is fortunate to benefit from sports
facilities which are used by the thriving tennis, cricket, football, bowls and pétanque clubs. Also, there is a
range of recreational facilities for use by all parishioners including a play area, outdoor gym equipment, and
an all-weather sports resource. The Parish Council has a Health and Wellbeing Group whose role is to
consider how it can facilitate services and events in the community to improve residents mental and physical
wellbeing. The Health and Wellbeing Group would really appreciate your thoughts on what you feel would
enhance and improve life even further in West Haddon. You can either complete the survey online at
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BKDN5SZ or complete the questions below, cut out this page and post
it in the Parish Council post-box outside the pavilion on the playing fields.
Which facilities / events / regular activities do you feel would benefit the community or you further?
Please tick as many options as you like:-
A Youth club
Social events for children
Social events for adults
Improved services to aid the elderly and vulnerable
A befriending service
Additional sporting activities e.g. back to netball / walking football
Choir / music groups
Community produce garden / gardening projects
Walking group
Outdoor gym sessions
Defibrillator use training
Art classes
Day trips – shopping / places of interest
Other:
We would also welcome anyone who has experience in these areas in coming forward.
Daisies Café is part of the health and wellbeing programme being rolled out in the community. Daisies is
open from 2pm – 4pm every Thursday afternoon and is a social activity where all are welcomed, with free
tea, coffee, and cake. The café occasionally incorporates events and activities and more recently this has
included jewellery making and a Christmas craft making session. There are plenty of ideas from the regular
attendants at ‘Daisies’ as to possible activities at the café and we would be fascinated in your views on what
you may be interested / inclined in attending:-
Fun bingo
Film event
Flower arranging session
Clothes swap event
Craft Afternoon
Jewellery making
Other:
The Council Health and Wellbeing Group really appreciate your feedback and thank you for your time with
this. We cannot promise that we can deliver everyone’s’ wishes – but we will certainly look into them.
Page 4 of 12 Puzzle Page
TAKE A BREAK
Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
CALM DOWN, CATNAP,
CHILL OUT, COMFORT,
COOL OFF, DAYDREAM,
DOZE, EASE, FREEDOM,
HOLIDAY, LEAVE, LEISURE,
LOOSEN UP, LUXURIATE,
PEACE, PICNIC, QUIETEN,
RECESS, RELAX, RELIEF,
REPOSE, REPRIEVE, RESPITE,
REST, SABBATICAL, SERENITY,
SETTLE DOWN, SIESTA,
SIMMER DOWN, SIT BACK,
SLACKEN, SLEEP, SLUMBER,
TAKE A BREAK, TAKE IT EASY,
TIME OFF, TIME OUT, UNCOIL,
UNWIND, VACATION.
Medium Difficulty Sudoku Harder Difficulty Sudoku
The solutions to the sudoku puzzles can be found on Page 11
Page 5 of 12 Church News
All Saints Church – Service arrangements The floodlights were put on for the
following occasions:
The Church is open for private prayer every day
from about 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 5th February
in memory of John Baldwin
St. Michael & All Angels, Winwick is now open 24/7 on his funeral date
We are worshipping together online every Sunday at Monday 7th February
10.30am. For details please visit: www.stlawrence.org.uk in memory of Maureen Wilkes.
On what would have been her
In All Saints Church the service times are: 79th birthday.
Ash Wednesday 2nd March 7.30 p.m. Holy Communion Sunday 13th February
by an anonymous donor.
Sunday 6th March 10.30a.m. Holy Communion (this is
Zoomed) If you would like the church
floodlights put on from dusk until
Sunday 13th March 9.15 a.m. Morning service midnight in memory of someone
special or for a special occasion
Tuesday 15th March 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion please get in touch with me on
510275 at 4 Guilsborough Road or at
Sunday 20th March 9.15 a.m. Morning Service sandyandsue@btinternet.com.
Mothering Sunday 27th March 9.15 a.m. Morning Service If you would like them acknowledged
in the newsletter, please let me know
Also at St. Lawrences, Long Buckby, Tea Time Together at 4
what you would like in writing. A
p.m. for families and young children on Sunday 6th March
donation of at least £5 would be
and on Sunday 3rd April.
appreciated.
Contact Revd Graham Collingridge on 01327 842204 or
Sandy Tringham
vicar.longbuckby@btinternet.com
All Saints West Haddon Lent Lunches
Wednesday 9th and Tuesday 22nd March 12—2pm
After a gap of two years, we are pleased to be able to offer our Lent lunches again.
All are welcome to attend. Fresh homemade soup and fruit will be served.
Just come along to the Baptist Hall between 12 and 2 pm.
No booking required.
From the registers
Monday 7th February
funeral service for Margaret Scott
Donations will be given to the Church Mission Society.
Page 6 of 12 Church News
All Saints Church needs your help
We are very fortunate to have this beautiful grade 1 listed building in the heart of our village. We keep
the church open every day for visitors. We get a surprisingly large number of people who come into
church each day. Some for just a moment of reflection or prayer. Some visitors come in to look at the
lovely stained glass or reminisce about school services and important life events.
We have visitors who want to research family history. Or just people who want to sit and cool off on
those hot summer days. We would like to be able to keep the church unlocked during the day but we
need volunteers to help with this.
Can you spare a day each week to unlock and lock? We open at 9am (although it could be earlier) and
lock at 4pm, again this is flexible. We are hoping to develop a rota and will consider any offers.
If you are able to help, please contact me. Many thanks in advance.
Julie Morgan, Churchwarden, juliemmorgan63@gmail.com
Page 7 of 12 Village News
Church coffee morning/The Children's Society/ T@3
Pop-up cake stall We are planning to restart
the monthly meetings at
In the past, the church coffee morning on the first Saturday of each the Baptist schoolroom on
month was very popular and enjoyed by many. We would like to invite the second Monday of
old friends and new to this event beginning on Saturday 5th March, each month beginning on
10a.m.-12 noon and every first Saturday following (restrictions Monday 11th April. We
allowing). will start at 2.30pm to
give us extra time and
On 5th March there will also be a bring and buy stall with raffle in aid of avoid possible space
The Children's Society. Box holders are welcome to bring along their issues. Please join us for
boxes. If that's not possible, please contact me to arrange collection. tea, cake, companionship,
Thank you. laughter, and a good chat.
The pop-up cake and produce stall will also return on 5th March and will Dorothy Whittaker.
feature each month following. Dorothy Whittaker - 510392.
GUILSBOROUGH Music and
Drama Society (GMADS)
1972-2022.
This group began as Guilsborough
and District Choral society and
produced an annual show, mostly
musicals. Members came from
Guilsborough and surrounding
villages. Since the 1990s we have
been based at Guilsborough village
hall and have broadened our
repertoire to include plays,
pantomimes, comedy nights and
more including many original
shows.
This year we celebrate our 50th
anniversary. We'd love to hear
from past members and associates
to share memories, photos etc. to
hopefully create a
commemorative book.
If you could help, please contact
me,
Dorothy Whittaker (chairperson)
01788510392
dorothywhittaker123@gmail.com
Page 8 of 12 Village News
Update from Buckby Library & Hub
Early March offers some opportunities for all. From Wednesday March 2 nd, we’ll be open from 2-4pm
on Wednesday afternoons. This will be for self-service only. It's also World Book Day on Thursday,
March 3rd. Children (and carers if needed) can drop in at any time between 3.15-4.15pm to design their
own book cover, make their very own bookmark or join in with our 'Where's Wally?' letter hunt. We'll
also be having a book sale on Saturday, March 5th from 10-3pm. Do come and browse at your leisure!
Further events coming up are:
• March 23rd morning (10.30-11.30am), we're co-hosting a 'Multi-Media Collage Demo',
organised by the WEA. Registration for this event will be through the WEA (we will provide a
link on the Buckby Library & Hub website.)
• Thursday April 7th, when we will be holding an informal evening with the Long Buckby Ukelele
Group.
Have you got young environmentalists in the family? As the Easter holidays approach, BBC Bitesize
provides a range of resources, including on environmental issues: the links are on our Learning
Opportunities page: https://buckbylibraryhub.org/learning-opportunities/.
And are you aware that you can hire space in the library and in our car park for your own
events/activities? For further information and rates, please go
to: https://buckbylibraryhub.org/services/venue-space-bookings/.
For details of all our events, do check our website nearer the time (https://buckbylibraryhub.org) and
Long Buckby Friends Facebook; email info@buckbylibraryhub.org; phone: 01327-842591.
Last, but not least, we welcome our new, part-time, manager, Sam Holst. Please do drop in to say hello
when you're in the village and have a few minutes to spare. She'd love to hear from you.
WEST HADDON VILLAGE HALL
Thank you for your responses in favour of setting up a cinema club at the village hall - 44:4 in favour.
With this encouragement we would like to hear from you if you could be involved in getting it started -
perhaps a team of friends with ideas for organising the club. Please get in touch with our chairman
Richard Lilleyman on 07813 827472.
We are also looking for someone to join our team to manage social media and our website. Please email
us at webmaster@whvh.org.uk.
A reminder to send in your entries for our tea towel competition - 5 prize categories for the distances
travelled from West Haddon, with full details on our website www.whvh.org.uk.
Hirings are on the increase - thanks for using our Village Hall. Please check availability and make your
bookings on www.whvh.org.uk or make an enquiry with bookings@whvh.org.uk.
Page 9 of 12
Village News
Village History Shorts
Ever wondered about the people behind the street names in West Haddon? This is no.29 in
a series of brief sketches of earlier village lives...
Westfield House
Before the Pytchley was the Pytchley, it was the Westfield
Hotel and before that it was Westfield House.
Emily Gammage (nee Adams) was born in the village in
1904 and went into service as an under-housemaid at
Westfield House on leaving school. In 1988, (photo below)
she looked back on those days, of scattering damp tea
leaves over the carpets to keep the dust down before
sweeping, going in on a Sunday evening to serve a cold
dinner (the cook
wasn’t permitted
to cook on the
Sabbath, but the
family still needed
waiting on). Mrs
Paul, the lady of
the house wasn’t there for long, but left her mark in the village,
setting up local branches of both the Girl Guides and the Women’s
Institute by 1918.
In 2010, Ronald Peach (photographed outside his childhood home
in Crown Lane) shared his memories of Westfield House. His father
had been batman to Col. Harvey Welman in the First World War and
moved to Westfield Cottage as chauffeur when the Welmans moved
here from Warwickshire. The Colonel died in 1927, but his widow
Constance survived him to see the opening of the Second World War. Accustomed to a life out in India during
her early married life, she was not a woman who took kindly to being told what to do. In about 1938 she
tripped on the Westfield lawn and broke her hip. She refused to go to hospital and insisted on X-ray
equipment being set up in a front bedroom of the house.
She died in 1942 at the age of 77. A local builder called Stan
Coleborne then bought the property (for £2,800) and
development began...
Interested in village history?
Try the Facebook group:
Old Photos of West Haddon.
Wendy Raybould (wjraybould@gmail.com
Page 10 of 12 Local Services
Ravensthorpe Village Hall
FRIDAYS 12-1PMPage 11 of 12 Local Services
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Puzzle Solutions
Medium Difficulty Sudoku Harder Difficulty SudokuPage 12 of 12 Village News
West Haddon’s Photographic Club Report
Every January's meeting starts with our AGM before we move on the theme
show and tell section and this month it was Architecture. It was great to see a
large turnout and subsequently a large number of images.
This theme allowed plenty of scope for our members to explore and we were
treated to images of buildings, structures and edifices from mansions to the
modest, plus intriguing details that you'd normally not notice. Some of our
members are a well-travelled lot and there were pictures from Brasilia to Boston,
India to Italy and all around Britain.
A large number of photos inevitably
meant voting was widespread, but two
emerged as joint members' favourites:
a moody, imposing Hallgrimskirkja
(left) by Alisa Duncan and a drone shot of the impressively long
Welland Viaduct (right) by David Moorhouse.
Some interesting weather conditions since our last meeting were
exploited by members in their Image of the Month submissions. Dramatic skies and misty and frosty
mornings featured in several images.
Some members had clearly preferred to stay in the warm and it was
one of those, David Kallmeier,
whose performing vegetable
photo Jumping Sprouts (left)
was voted joint favourite by the
members.
Jim Shaw was one of those
who ventured into the outside
and was rewarded by capturing a lovely picture of a kestrel, soporific
after its meal in his Lunch Break image (right).
All the Theme and Image of the Month photos submitted this month can be seen on our website at
whphoto.club
WEST HADDON PARISH COUNCIL Deadline for the
E-mail:- executiveofficer@westhaddonparishcouncil.gov.uk
Website:- www.westhaddonparishcouncil.gov.uk
April 2022 edition
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