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Y axley Messenger
Peggy Woods
1926—2019
Anne & Jennifer would like to thank everyone for the
lovely cards and kind wishes following the loss of their
Mum, Peggy.
Also Thank You to everyone who attended her funeral
and for the donations given for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Anne & Jennifer
Mellis Church
Flower Festival
Featuring The Garden Of Eden
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th July
10.30 till 4.30 both days
Craft stalls, Cakes and Pastries,
Refreshments, Tombola,
Large Raffle, Produce stalls
Preview Evening with Cheese and Wine
Tickets £5 Pre-book either from
Fleurs Artisan Eye
or Jan Hislop 01379-783236
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Strawberry Tea
July 7th
2.00-4.30 p.m.
at Ashton Cottage
(unless it is raining, then in the Village Hall)
£5 per person
Please may we have
volunteers to help on the day
Also donations of
cakes and raffle prizes
All proceeds are going towards
the church building fund for the many repairs needed.
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Clubs and Societies
The Art Club
Meets in the Village Hall on Tuesdays 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon
July 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th
All abilities welcome, £3.00. Come and create something artistic.
Further details: Val Mowles 788035.
The Garden Club
Thursday 4th July afternoon visit to Peter Beales Roses
Meeting in Village Hall car park 2 p.m. (Visit time 2.45 to 4 p.m.)
Members £3 Guests £7
More details: Pauline Smith 783016
The Four Seasons Ladies’ Group
Tuesday July 16th - Annual Outing
More details: Val Mowles 788035.
The Yaxley Needlework and Craft Group
July 10th
At 1.45 p.m. in the Village Hall
Share skills, complete projects—with tea and chat £2.50
Do come along and join us.
July 24th Annual Outing (by ticket only)
More details: Celia Tel 788754 or email: celiaarmstrong@hotmail.co.uk
The Yaxley and Mellis Reading Group
Thursday July 25th
Meets in the afternoon of the 4th Thursday of the month, to discuss a mutually
agreed book. Books are supplied by Eye Library
More details: Marie Needham: 07904 121215 or Pauline Smith: 783016.
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E vents and Notices
The Parish Council
The next Parish Council Meeting is on 24th July
at 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall
The agenda/notices are on the Parish Noticeboard five days prior
to the meeting
The Parish Clerk may be contacted by phone on 01379 783203 or 07958 623897
between 9.00 am and 7.00pm from Monday to Friday and on Saturday from 9.00am to
1.00pm. Please leave a voicemail message if there is no reply and the Clerk will return
your call as soon as possible. Contact may also be made by email:-
philip.c.freeman@btinternet.com or by letter to: Philip Freeman, 2 Mellis Road,
Thrandeston, Diss, IP21 4BU
If there is an emergency then please phone 07958 623897
Website: http://yaxley.onesuffolk.net
Councillors: I Luff (Chairman) K Pawsey M Fisher Roy Hall
J R Hawes A Luff J R A Moore C Wright James Laughlin
Yaxley Coffee Morning
Wednesday 10th July
Still held on the second Wednesday of the month
but now from 10.30 until noon
Do come and join us for coffee, cake and chat
All ages welcome
Yoga at the Village Hall
Thursdays 10.00 to 11.30 a.m.
July 4th and 11th
and
July 18th: charity session 10a.m. to 12 noon £10, includes
yoga, nibbles and raffle. All proceeds to
Suffolk Accident Rescue Service and Suffolk
More details from Clare Hall on 01379 672949 or email
thornhamyoga@yahoo.com
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St. Mary’s Church
South Hartismere Benefice
July 2019
I have just returned from a 12 week
sabbatical. This was made up of three
parts – study, retreat/pilgrimage and
rest.
It has been a real gift and I have
returned to the benefice feeling refreshed
and relaxed, and looking at things with
fresh eyes. This has a double meaning –
taking a step back from my situation for
a long period of time enabled me to see
things in a new way. I also had cataract
operations in both my eyes and I can now see more clearly
than I have for months!
My first week was spent near the Waveney River at the end of
January, and the impact of just ‘stopping’ for the first time in
years meant that I could take long walks, breathe in the crisp
wintry air, eat well and sleep properly. I also appreciated the
beauty of nature - early sunrises, snowdrops, the colours on
the pheasant and frosty cobwebs. It reminded me of lines
from a poem by W H Davies:
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time
to stand and stare.”
During the second month I went to Sarum College in Salisbury
for a retreat, and then to St David’s in Wales, to walk along
the Pembrokeshire coastline. The weather was glorious, and
we were paddling in the sea in the middle of March! In the last
month it was good to spend quality time with my family, catch
up with old friends, and rediscover some favourite hobbies.
And however wonderful it is to go away, it’s always nice to get
home!
6
In the months ahead we will take as our text Luke 10.27 “You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind;
and your neighbour as yourself.”
We will be developing a strategic plan for the next five years
based on looking upwards to God and exploring the values of
justice, peace, and compassion; look inwards at our own faith
journey and look outwards as we seek to be good news for
our communities.
It’s good to be back, and I look forward to seeing you as I get
out and about in the parishes again.
Julia
Yaxley Worship
Sunday 21st July 10.30 a.m.—CW Holy Communion
Sunday 28th July 10.30 a.m.— Morning Worship
In Yaxley Church with a warm welcome to all
Wednesday 10th July 11 a.m. Holy Communion at Yaxley House
Contact us:
Revd. Julia Lall 01379 678064 email: rev.julialall@gmail.com
Churchwarden: Mr Julian Moore 788140
7
John’s Local History
Jump up on the bandwagon, or
*cart (*Lonnie Donegan)
I know it’s not a laughing matter, and really is something to be taken
seriously. Politicians, climate activists and the younger generation
are all voicing their concerns about climate change. Almost without
exception, governments are being held accountable, which, when if it
comes to the crunch, means everyone, including you and me, will
need to make drastic changes to our current way of life, but how?
Recently, there seems to be an ever increasing number of well
intentioned people ‘jumping on the bandwagon’, without giving a
thought to how the bandwagon is going to move towards its
destination.
If only we could turn back the clock, maybe to the time before the
invention of the fossil fuelled, motorised vehicle. And, just like that,
it’s 1891.
The population of England and Wales was a shade under 29 million
people, of which five and a half million of that total lived in England’s
capital city, London.
Humans, as today, were not too keen on walking everywhere, or to
be pulling carts or ploughs by physical effort alone, hence a welcome
reliance on ‘real’ horsepower. Over three million of them, and put
into perspective, that’s one horse for every 10 people. There was a
greater reliance on horsepower in Greater London, 50,000 horses
were used to transport people around the city each day. To add to
this number, there were yet more horse drawn carts and drays
delivering goods around what was then the largest city in the world.
Stating the obvious now, but horses needed to be fed on a diet of hay
and oats as well as having ample water to drink. Also obvious, what
goes in must come out. This led to the ‘Great horse manure crisis of
1894’. It was estimated that 1200 metric tonnes of manure was
deposited on London’s streets every day, diluted further by at least
50,000 gallons of urine. The Times newspaper reported at the time:
“In 50 years, every street in London will be under 9 feet [2.7mts] of
manure.”
Such quantities of animal waste could not be simply left to
accumulate; therefore an army of ‘professional’ manure removers
were employed to deal with ’matters’, especially at busy crossroads.
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The growing cities around the world all had the same problems to deal
with. New York had ‘crossing sweepers’ and Sydney, Australia, had
‘sparrow starvers’ who provided a paid service of cleaning paths for
women in long dresses to cross the street.
It was bad enough that such huge quantities of waste required dealing
with: however, there were much more unpleasant street scenes to be
dealt with. The average life of a working horse was only three years.
The carcasses often remained at the side of the road for days on end.
The putrid smell brought about swarms of flies, but at the time, the
excuse was it was far easier to dissect and carry away the remains,
after nature began a process of decay.
Yaxley had its very own ‘knacker’s’ yard during the last quarter of the
19th century. It was owned and managed by George Barnes. His
business was located at the side of the road, down the hill, after the
Lion public house. George was often up before the local justices,
charged with causing offence to Yaxley’s villagers, for not disposing of
the numerous carcases in a timely fashion. George, apparently,
frequently did what he could to improve the situation (smell) by
increasing the height of the vent pipes exiting the boilers. I’m
thinking, ‘even if the vent pipe was as high as the present day wind
turbines!’ In an awful way, George’s yard was in an ideal situation –
for him. Having the gruesome, but necessary, business located on a
hill, with a river at the bottom had useful benefits. George was again
often in trouble for allowing a stream of foul effluent to continually run
down the roadside gutter.
‘The problem solved’
By 1912, the popularity of the motorised car began to resolve the
prospect of humanity being overwhelmed by muck, stench and
disease. Cars were cheaper to own and operate than horse drawn
vehicles, both for the individual and for society. The welcome change
didn’t happen overnight, the haulage industry was just a little slower
on the uptake, but it got there in the end.
Where would we be today without the infernal combustion engine?
Our population in the U.K. is not far short of 70 million! How would
society cope today with 7 million horses? Thinking for a moment,
there are probably two cars for every household, let’s now say, 20
plus million homes with two horses!
Oh, I almost forgot, 3 million white vans and H.G.V’s. There are
10,000 H.G.V. movements back and forth through the Channel tunnel
alone. Two draft horses can allegedly pull almost 11 metric tonnes,
but over a limited distance. Eight horses doesn’t really seem sufficient
to pull an artic trailer? Furthermore, I would guess three team
changes to cover 100 miles? I’m now visualising a horse for every
human!
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Let’s now turn back to a Yaxley parish council meeting held during
March 1932. “Mr Sutton proposed that a complaint be sent on behalf
of the public of the parish to the Secretary, Telephone Service,
Norwich, that the public telephone (used by the majority) was
useless. The hours of service were inadequate, being as follows:-
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m.-12 noon, and 3 p.m.- 7
p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m.- 12 noon, and 3 p.m.- 4.30 p.m. Tuesdays,
9 a.m.- 1pm. Sundays, no service available. There is also no privacy
with the telephone, it being quite open and adjacent to the Post
Office counter.”
In 2019, the internet, social media and the mobile phone can all be
easily taken for granted. Depending on which climate expert’s view
you acknowledge, the world’s media communications and data
storage system has the same carbon footprint as the airline industry.
Much more alarming is the fact that it consumes 416.2 terawatt
hours of electricity. The UK’s total energy consumption (industry,
heating, lighting, everything) is about 300 terawatt hours of
electricity. Yaxley didn’t have mains electricity until the 1950s!
Clothing is also too easily taken for granted in 2019. But consider
the following industry quote, “Clothing has the 4th largest
environmental impact after housing, transport and food.” I’ve heard
it reported that fashionable clothing is becoming ‘wear once’, and
then disposed of. At what cost? 2,700 litres of water to produce one
cotton T-shirt and 8,000 litres of water to produce a pair of blue
denim jeans!
Turn back the clock. Clothing, especially woollen clothing, was once
not taken for granted: in fact, it was thought worthy of being
itemised to be left in a person’s last will and testament. This
example refers to the will of Yaxley gent, John Herberd. To his son,
Richard, he left his ‘best crimson coat’. To another relative ‘my coat,
the green one’, and to another ‘the violet coloured one’. Imagine
today if you will, being left grandad’s old Barbour jacket or auntie’s
best Burberry. As always appears to be the case, there are pluses
and minuses. Wool requires less processing than cotton, however 10
million sheep is another problem!
All this waste, black bin, green bin and brown bin. When I was a
young lad, we only had a dust bin! NO hot ashes! The dustmen
called once a week, and collected the bin from your back yard. Thing
was, it was never even half full, and just as well. The 1950s, ‘Dennis’
bin lorry, with its four, half-semi-circular, up and over sliding hatches
didn’t have the hydraulic, crushing paraphernalia that a modern
‘domestic waste disposal appliance’ requires.
There just didn’t seem to be so much waste. Most packaging was
either tin-cans or waxed cardboard (which went on the open fire.)
10Other than that, milk bottles were collected for re-use after being
cleaned and fizzy drink bottles had a refundable deposit of 3d.
The only plastic product that I readily recall from my youth is the free
red plastic soldiers once given away in a packet of Kellogg’s
cornflakes. Oh, and the useless plastic thingies that were
manufactured in Hong Kong as novelties to fill Christmas crackers.
Recently, the blame for climate change has been placed upon the
‘older’ generation. In my opinion, not entirely justified.
John Hawes
Jan’s Poem
The Yorkshire Dales
You can forget about Lanzarote Hawes…… a lovely little place,
The Bahamas or Japan, The ropemaker’s worth a look
You can forget the package holiday The Wensleydale creamery’s also
And the Riviera tan. there
Try Gromit's cheese then…chuck.
There is just one place I’d rather
be Lovely walks round Keld and
Its grandeur never fails, Reeth
The area that I love the best Are magical for me,
Is the spectacular Yorkshire Dales. And mighty Malham Cove so
grand
It's Herriot country, vast and wild Such an awesome sight to see.
With a vista all its own,
Drystone walls and sweeping fells God’s own country I’ve heard it
The most special place I’ve known. said,
And that couldn't be more true
The Penine Way goes right across James Herriot loved his Yorkshire
With paths and tracks and sheep!! And I think its wonderful too.
There are waterfalls and limestone
caves
So mysterious and deep. Jan Feaver
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15View from the Chairman Number 5
July 2019
As I watch the rain pouring down relentlessly, I am contemplating my
chances of building an ark. Since my woodwork skills are so limited
that I emerged from school clutching only one 93 degree book-end, I
sincerely hope the rain will stop soon and that the sun will be out
when this quick summary of issues currently faced by the Parish
Council reaches you.
Mobile Post Office
The Mobile Post Office is now a regular feature in the layby by the
bottle bank every Friday between 9 and 10 am. I spoke to the
operator and, so far, this seems to be a more promising location than
the previous one in terms of usage. Numbers of people taking
advantage of the service are still relatively low however and we do
have to show there is a demand if we are to keep the service. It will
now be regular and reliable so, if you want to avoid driving to
Wortham or attempting to park in Eye, I would urge you to visit our
very own big red van!
Allotments
The Parish Council has now commissioned a local person to carry out
extensive work to make the allotment site both more attractive to
potential allotment holders and more cost effective to maintain.
Work is progressing as this goes to press. Once the work is
complete, I would urge anybody thinking of taking up an allotment to
contact the Parish Council and I would happily show them potential
plots in our ‘new look’ facility.
Village Hall Security
There have been incidents of reckless driving in the Village Hall Car
Park over the last few months. Also, vehicles have been spotted
parked close to the Play Area apparently using the car park for
mysterious exchanges and assignations. Two villagers recently very
courageously and effectively politely challenged a man in a small red
hatchback who could give no plausible reason for his visit and left
swiftly. I must point out that it does remain Police advice not to
challenge people directly in this way but to ring the Police Service.
The Parish Council is taking this abuse of the car park very seriously
and will work with the Community Hall Committee to find a cost
effective and workable way of boosting security without unnecessarily
inconveniencing genuine users. All incidents of suspicious behaviour
have been reported to the Police. If you see anything suspicious
16please ring 101 or 999 or report it on the Police Safer Neighbourhood
website.
Pedestrian and Self-help scheme
The Parish Council despaired of getting Highways to re-instate the
footpath between Burns Close and the Thornham Road to its original
width in the near future, therefore, in the interests of pedestrian
safety, have accepted a quote from a local contractor to undertake
the work.
The County Council has recently established a self-help scheme to
provide training and advice for Parish Councils considering
commissioning work such as:
• Sign cleaning
• Fingerpost cleaning/painting/repair
• Tree pruning/branch removal
• Hedge cutting/pruning
• Siding out of footways, or paths (removing encroaching grass
and weeds)
• Grass verge cutting
• Weed killing/weed removal
• Developing verge reserves
Although we have undertaken such work as ‘one-offs’ on occasions in
the past when safety has been at stake, the Parish Council will be
considering its future position regarding this scheme at our next
meeting. The catch is that although the County Council will give
training and provides documentation, costs will fall on us for work
that does still statutorily remain the responsibility of the County
Council. A difficult issue. If you have a view, please tell a Parish
Councillor or come to our next meeting on 24th July.
Highways and Church View/Old Ipswich Road
Once again Highways have refused to fill the numerous potholes on
Church View and the adjoining Old Ipswich Road. Although this road
ceased to be the main highway on the building of the Yaxley Railway
Bridge (Duke’s Bridge) in 1867, it remains an adopted road and
therefore the responsibility of Highways. We will continue to press for
its repair (we will report the defects continually until they are sick of
us) and would urge anybody who shares our view of the disgraceful
state of the surface of these roadways to do the same. This can be
done through the Suffolk County Council website and by contacting
our County and District Councillors: Jessica Fleming and David Burn.
The changing of County pothole filling criteria to permit groups of
17potholes to be filled even if all do not meet depth criteria gives us,
perhaps, some hope.
Public Footpaths
A villager recently brought to our attention that we need to ensure that
our ‘definitive map’ recording Public Footpaths in our Parish is accurate
and complete. We believe ours is indeed accurate and complete, but
Councillor John Hawes has kindly agreed to look into the matter before
the 2026 deadline to ensure this is the case.
New Parish Councillor
Finally, may I take this chance to warmly welcome our new Parish
Councillor, Mr James Laughlin.
Hopefully I will bump into many of you at the Forthcoming Village Fete.
Best wishes and thanks for reading.,
Ian Luff
(Chairman, Yaxley Parish Council)
Looking Ahead
MacMillan coffee morning at Ashton Cottage
September 27th 10.30a.m. until noon.
(Offers of cakes, raffle prizes and help please)
Watch this space for details of Harvest Festival and
Harvest Supper
(both late September/early October)
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Emergency numbers
Eye Health Centre 01379 870689
NHS Direct 0845 4647
Botesdale Health Centre 01379 898295
Citizens’ Advice Bureau (Diss) 01379 640530
Suffolk Police (non-emergency) just phone 101
Suffolk Fire Safety 01473 260586
Electricity (emergency) 0800 783 8838
Anglian Water (emergency) 0800 145145
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Supply your news/village events by 15th of the month please to
Abby Brett at Willow Lodge, Old Ipswich Road, Yaxley, IP23 8BX
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July 2019 Calendar
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Art Club Yoga Strawberry Tea
Garden Club
Visit
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Art Club Coffee Morning Yoga Mellis Flower Mellis Flower
Needlework & Cherry Tree Festival Festival
Craft Group Quiz
24
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Art Club Yoga Charity Music and BBQ at CW Holy
4 Seasons Ladies’ Session the Cherry Tree Communion
Group Outing
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Art Club Needlework & Reading Group Morning Worship
Craft Group Cherry Tree
Outing Quiz
Parish Council
Meeting
29 30 31
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