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Youth football has made a welcome
return to the Recreation Ground in
Benwick Road!
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Dear Residents of Doddington
You would hardly think that we were welcoming the summer if the weather
was anything to go by. Last year, we enjoyed some lovely weather for our
Stay at Home parties!!
It was another really damp and dreary day when three teams from March
Town Athletic FC were out playing football at the Recreation Ground in
Benwick Road (front cover). If you have any youngsters who would be
interested in joining them, they welcome boys and girls between the ages
of 3-16 years. For more information you can contact Mark Jones on
07496 594350 or find them on Facebook; March Town Athletic FC.
Benwick Road is quite a busy
place these days as just over
the road from the Recreation
Ground is the local covid
vaccination centre. Over
32,000 vaccinations have now been given at Doddington Hospital. This
is a tremendous achievement and the staff and volunteers who have
worked really hard to reach this milestone should be thanked - as should
everyone who has attended! They have already started to call the under
40 year olds, so if you are older than this and haven’t yet received a first
vaccination, please contact your surgery to make an appointment.
It is good to see signs of activity in the village and whilst it will be a while
before we can say things have returned to normal, it is definitely looking
encouraging. We trust that you will have the time and inclination to
support the activities - hopefully you will find something of interest to you
and now may be the time for you to try something new.
From the Diary Team
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Doddington Diary June 2021 Thoughts from the Rectory Tasty free Offers 'Free box of chocolates for every reader'. That's what it said across the front of the Saturday newspaper. Now Lynda and I enjoy a chocolate or two so I looked for the page that contained the coupon I'd need for my freebie. As I turned the pages I thought to myself there's bound to be a catch and I'd have to spend £10 before getting my free gift. But no it was a totally bona-fide, no strings attached offer. So I filled in my coupon and collected my continental chocolates from the newsagent. It was a good sized box and the contents were delicious and hurriedly consumed. How often in life do we get offered free gifts, I once got a small scoop of rum flavoured ice cream because I bought a large tub of vanilla ice cream and in the same supermarket I received a free large bar of Cadbury's Chocolate just for sampling a new sherry. I didn't mind going around twice for that free sample. One of the gifts that we can get and give freely is the gift of forgiveness and what a wonderful gift it is. It mends broken family relationships, renews a loving spirit between friends and enables us to be healed from guilt and bitterness. We all need forgiveness for the times when we have acted selfishly or dishonestly and we all have the ability to forgive others. Perhaps right now as you read this article there's someone you need to forgive. Whether forgiving people comes to us easily or feels like a struggle we can remember just how much God forgives us and goes on forgiving us, even when we get things wrong over and over again. One writer in the Bible paints an amazing picture of just how much God is prepared to forgive us. He writes, 'as Far as the East is from the West, so far does he remove our sins from us'. (Psalm 103:12). In other words, God removes it completely out of sight as far away as possible. Now that's what I call a great offer. Keep safe. Rev Ian Brady 4
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NHS App
The NHS app has been available for some
time to request prescriptions or view your
health record, but you can now use the app
to show that you have had both doses of a
coronavirus vaccine. However, the NHS
app currently only shows vaccines recorded
on the national database and not in your GP
record.
If you are planning to travel abroad, you will
be able to use the NHS app to demonstrate
that you are fully vaccinated which is done
by a unique QR code that you can view, or
download as a pdf and email. If you do not
have access to a smartphone or tablet you
can call the NHS helpline 119 and ask for a
letter to be posted to you.
Do not contact your GP surgery about your COVID-19 vaccination status.
GPs cannot provide letters showing your COVID-19 vaccination status.
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Women’s Institute
YARN BOMBING
In the middle of June the centre of the village around the
Clock Tower will be adorned with bunting and all kinds of
decorations knitted and crocheted by WI members.
In 1919 Doddington was one of the first three villages in the area to form a
branch of the Women’s Institute. By 1921 there were enough Institutes to
make up an association so the Isle of
Ely County Federation was set up.
From 1965 The Isle of Ely was no
longer a county but became a part of
Cambridgeshire, so the word county
had to be dropped from the federation’s
name. This year is therefore, the
Centenary of the Isle of Ely Federation
and they have asked all branches to
yarn-bomb their village or town in
celebration.
Look out for a colourful display from 11th June – we hope you will enjoy it.
For further information or details about joining the WI please contact Gemma
Watts on 01354 740751.
Methodist Church
The Methodist Church is open every Sunday at 11.00 am for Morning
Worship. At the time of writing, we are the only Methodist Church in the
Circuit that is open, so we have a rotation of three Ministers conducting the
services.
We have had a trial run for our Saturday Coffee
Morning and Market, and we are happy for this to
take place on the second Saturday each month
from 9.30am to 11.30am, starting on the 12th
June, so come and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee
(Covid safe). You can browse our NEW Clothing
stall, also for sale will be PIES, SAUSAGE
ROLLS, and CAKES, or just have a coffee and a chat with friends. We hope
to see you there.
Please phone Evelyn for information on 01354 740094
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It has been so lovely welcoming you all back to
toddler group this month, it’s also been won-
derful seeing some new faces.
Thankyou to everyone who has supported us
by attending group and accepting the small
changes we’ve had to put in place to open
safely. We’ve been making use of our new
outdoor area which has been wonderful-rain
or shine!
Spaces for our upcoming sessions are listed
on our Facebook page which will continue for
the foreseeable future while we are restricted
on numbers.’
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Doddington Diary June 2021 Girlguiding Doddington are back together again in person! It is so good to be back seeing the girls and hearing them laugh again after such a long time. Zoom has been great for keeping us all connected but there is nothing quite like that face-to face contact. We have sadly lost a few girls, however we have also recruited several new girls and our numbers are only slightly down on what they were back in March 2020! We would also like to welcome Millie back and Karen as a new volunteer with Guides. In September some of our young Leaders will be heading off to University. We are very excited for them, however, this will leave a gap with our volunteers in our younger sections. If you are 18 or over and would be interested in volunteering with our Rainbow or Brownie units, or would like to find out more about us, we would love to hear from you. Rainbows are our 5-7 year olds and Brownies are 7-10 years old. All our meetings up until the summer are being held outside. So far the weather hasn’t affected us too badly! We had to cancel one Brownie meeting and run it on zoom and the Rainbows did get caught in a short downpour one evening but they were den building in the woods at the back of the pocket park, so it didn’t affect them too badly! The parents have been great at ensuring the girls are all properly kitted out for our meetings and all eventualities! The girls have enjoyed games, den building (top picture), creating nail art (middle picture), a bug hunt, building a large Bug Hotel and are planning many more activities that really make the most of our natural world outdoors! Hopefully the sun will soon arrive and our meetings will be slightly warmer! If you would like to join or volunteer with Girlguiding in Doddington please contact Jane Groves on 07848855814 policehouse@hotmail.co.uk or go to https://go.girlguiding.org.uk/join-us/join-as-member 10
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11Doddington Diary June 2021 The Old Pubs of Doddington – Part One I am frequently asked questions about the pubs that once operated in the village, so I will attempt to tell their stories as can be gleaned from surviving records. At the start of the First World War there were thirteen pubs within the parish boundaries and another four a few feet outside the boundary in Benwick and Chatteris. All, except the Three Tuns and the George, were beerhouses, not licensed to sell wines or spirits and most created as a result of the Beerhouse Act 1830, passed to encourage the sale of beer. I will cover them in the order that they closed: The Windmill, Newgate Street On the site of 77 Newgate, it was originally called the Queen Adelaide after the consort of King William IV, but the name was changed to the Windmill by at least 1849, the year the Queen died. John Selby was the landlord in 1839, then from 1847 to 1863 it was the Garner family. Daniel Warth is listed from 1863 to 1873, then John and James Coleback to 1891, Samuel Sutton to 1899, Herbert Kingham to 1911, then Arthur Green became the final landlord. The pub was closed by Magistrates order at the end of 1915, it being considered to be in poor condition. It was one of seven pubs in the village owned at the time by brewers RJ and CS Lindsell of Chatteris. The building was demolished in the 1960s. Right: Former Windmill Inn, Newgate The Golden Lion, 26 Benwick Road Thomas Miller was listed as owner and landlord 1841-64, followed briefly by William Fields and Howard Fisher, who was killed in an accident at Wimblington station in 1872. John and Sarah Heaps kept the pub until 1892. John Kirk had been the resident village Policeman since 1874 and when he retired he stayed on and took over the Golden Lion until 1895. He was followed by Litchfield Webb, Alfred Marshall and William Hart. Lindsell’s acquired this pub at some stage and in 1910 applied for permission to demolish the old pub and rebuild it, which was completed by February 1911. Charles Fresher took over briefly in 1915, followed by Thomas and Kate Hart, who ran it until the then widowed Mrs Hart moved abroad in 1927. Herbert Beard became the last landlord. In 1932 Lindsell’s merged with Marshall’s of Huntingdon to form the Huntingdon Brewery and the new company closed the pub in 1934. 12
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The Nightingale, 30 Newgate Street
The Nightingale appears to have been named after the Nightingale family who ran
this pub from 1850 until 1873. They were followed by John Goodbarn, David
Gray, Richard Risely, Charles Bosworth and George Fisher. David Gray returned
in 1891 and the family stayed until his death in 1927, when George Southon took
over.
By 1892 the pub had been sold by the widow of John Nightingale to Morgan’s
Brewery of Norwich. Morgan’s closed the pub in 1934.
The Wheatsheaf, Benwick Road
This was another Lindsell’s pub, beside the road to Benwick , about half way
between Fields End corner and the Dyke Moor turning. It was run between 1844
and 1858 by Thomas Elgar, then by John Welcher. John Long ran it from 1864 to
1880, when Moses Ransome took over, but died within a year. His wife Alice then
held the licence for two years before transferring it to her second husband
Freeman Andrew, he died in 1892 and the unlucky Alice briefly held the licence
again until John Smith took over later in the year. He was followed by Henry
German until 1907, when his son Walter took over, quickly followed by Arthur
Thacker and Alfred Hicks. In 1913 Herbert and Annie Kingham moved from the
Windmill in Newgate and ran The Wheatsheaf until 1932, when it was closed by
Huntingdon Breweries and put up for sale. The building was demolished in the
1960s or 70s.
The White Swan, 7 High Street
This pub was opened by William Wright around 1851 and run by him until 1855.
Wright retained ownership, but he and his sons operated the Swan Brewery in
March which supplied around half a dozen pubs they had acquired in this area.
The licence of the White Swan passed to William Jervis in 1855, John Rose held it
by 1871 until his death in 1877. His widow Margaret then held it until 1882 when
William Randall held it for two years before Margaret returned with her second
husband Richard Risley and they ran it until 1896, when Thomas Highstead took
over. By 1903 Morgan’s of Norwich were leasing the Wright pubs and Harry Cook
took over the licence. He stayed until 1911 when John Barlow took over. In 1914
George Stimpson was landlord and by 1921,
when he left, Ogden’s Brewery of March had
purchased the premises. Albert Waterfall only
stayed a year and then John Hopkins took over,
he stayed until 1928 when Thomas Watts
became the last landlord. In 1930 Greene King
of Bury St Edmunds purchased the Ogden
Brewery and took over their 27 pubs in Isle of
Ely. They closed the White Swan in 1934 and
Mr Watts purchased the house and continued to
run the small shop at the side. White Swan (Cambridgeshire Collection)
To be continued
David Edwards
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15Doddington Diary June 2021 Parish Council Report At the Annual Parish Council Meeting on 4th May 2021, Cllr Ruth Hufton was re- elected Chair for the forthcoming year. Traffic Light Controlled Pedestrian Crossing The Parish Council would like to thank all residents who took the time to either attend the online consultation meetings, or completed one of the forms either from last month’s Doddington Diary, or had been emailed to parents of children who attend the local Primary School or that were available from the local shops. Replies showed an overwhelming support for the project and the Parish Council will now continue with its discussions with the CCC Highways Department. A number of residents took the opportunity to make additional comments to make the crossing safer. These included, no parking lines either side of the crossing, railings along the side of the footpath and the retention of the “lollipop person”. With regard to this final observation, the Parish Council has already agreed to press the County Council to retain this service and, if necessary, will cover the costs of ensuring that this person is retained. Replacement Bus Shelters Following the installation of the new bus shelter near the village flag, the Parish Council has accepted a quotation to replace the existing wooden shelters in Wimblington Road and near Policeman’s Corner. Parish Council Website This can be viewed at www.doddingtonparishcouncil.com The Clerk to the Parish Council can be contacted by email at doddingtonpc@aol.com. 16
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Dear Doddington Diary,
The response to Census 2021 has exceeded
all expectations with households across
England and Wales making sure they count
when it comes to local services like school
places, GP surgeries and hospital beds.
Now that the Census 2021 collection
operation is coming to a close, the Office for
National Statistics (ONS), who run the
census in England and Wales, would like to
take this opportunity to thank you and your
organisation for your contribution to its
success.
ONS call the anonymised information it
releases, census outputs. It plans to release
the first set of census outputs to the public in
spring 2022.
17Doddington Diary June 2021 Doddington Recreation Committee As restrictions continue to ease, the Committee have been able to meet properly, which has made things considerably easier and we can involve everyone in discussions. Items on the agenda include the plan for hiring out the Pavilion for social events, the re-start of our monthly Bingo and the 100 Club Lottery. We will not rush forward with any plans until we are sure it is safe for our community and Committee to do so. Please keep posted to the Diary and our Facebook page for updates. This summer, we welcome Fenland Mallets Croquet Group, a brand new croquet club to the ground. They have been hard at work preparing the old bowling green for play. Hopefully this will be a great success and we will be able to watch croquet being played on summer days to come. Improvements continue to be made to the Pavilion and Ground, recently we have taken delivery of new chairs for inside the Pavilion. The new light weight foldable chairs replace our old heavy, tired chairs, making it easier for hirers of the Pavilion to use and taking up much less room in the hall when stored. The chairs were partly funded by Burnthouse Windfarm Fund, the remainder was from our own funds, which was made possible thanks to our fundraising prior to Covid. Thank you and welcome to Geoff and Steve who have volunteered to join our team and tend to the ground. In order to ease the pressure, we are looking for one more person to help out with the ground, no experience necessary, just an enthusiasm to keep the ground looking good. Moving forward the Recreation Committee do require more volunteers to help make our plans successful. Tasks include; event promotion, social media, fundraising planning, bookings, general building administration, planning future development of the facility and much more! We are also looking for a new Secretary, after sadly losing Dave Whitton last year. In order for people to find out what we do, we are organising an informal evening with tea and cake, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and see if the Recreation Committee is something you would like to be involved with. Please come along on Thursday 10th June at 7.30pm in the Pavilion, everyone is welcome! For more information; Tel Emily 07816359988 or email doddingtonrec@gmail.com. 18
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Neighbourhood Watch
Regardless of the increasing relaxation of Covid restrictions,
we hope that the majority of people will still be wary and
obey whatever guidelines are in operation. Please, as
always, stay vigilant and spare some time if you can to keep
an eye on those who are vulnerable and isolated.
We are lucky to still have our local crime remaining at a low level although an
unfortunate serious crime has recently occurred in Wimblington. There is still
some antisocial behaviour in Doddington around the pavilion. Plenty of
scams of various types still around; my Amazon prime account is always
being raided yet I don’t have one! Also, I’ve lost count of how many times BT
have wanted to ‘disconnect my broadband’. Can’t BT stop handing out these
telephone lines or is it just about income? When callers refer to credit cards
and bank accounts I don’t recognise, it is easy to put the phone down but
sometimes it is more difficult to decide when the caller guesses the right
bank. Just remember that banks and the like will not call you in this way so
just put the phone down. Above all, don’t feel pressured into reacting to
urgency; the more urgency the call suggests, the more likely it is a scam!
I make no apology for repeating the following paragraph every month: Please
remember to always report any suspicious or actual criminal activity direct to
the police by ringing 101 or if a crime is in progress, 999. Don't forget you
can also easily report online at www.cambs.police.uk/report; the more
incidents reported the easier the crime patterns are to establish. Repeating
incidents should be reported on each occasion they occur since this also
helps with developing an overall picture. Sorry but just reporting on social
media alone may help to warn others but it does not help the police; you must
keep them in the loop for the bigger picture.
Well you may have seen that our Speedwatch patrol is once again in
operation. We have been able to train two new volunteers this month which
is a good start but we still need many more so that we can operate more
regular patrols in the different locations agreed by the police. The speed of
traffic is one of the most common complaints by residents in villages and ours
is no different. So why not join our team patrolling your villages. The
training is simple, taking only about an hour and then you can volunteer for
whatever amount suits you. The future of this scheme is in your hands so it’s
up to you.
For further information on Community Speedwatch please contact Andrea
Harrison by email at csw.wimblington@hotmail.com.
If you require further NHW information or would like to join, then please
contact Andrea Harrison 07766 658701.
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If you have a child aged between 5¾ and 14 who is interested in joining, or if you
would like to become an adult volunteer and join in the fun, please contact us!
www.doddingtonscouts.org.uk
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1st Doddington Scout Group
We have been having a busy few weeks in Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. All three
sections commemorated St Georges Day, an important day in the Scouting
movement, by renewing their promises and doing activities either around the
promise or St George himself.
Our Beavers have been looking at ‘Health & Fitness’, measuring their heart rate,
building and competing with a sibling or parent around an obstacle course and
then measuring their heart rate again. They exercised for 2 minutes, the length
of time you should clean your teeth for! Do you brush your teeth for a full 2
minutes?
Both our Beavers and our Cubs are busy looking at ‘Air
Activities’, making paper planes and seeing how far
they fly. Their leaders then set them the challenge of
drawing an aircraft that they would like to fly in, either
real or imaginary, that certainly got the creative juices
flowing. This coming week they will be learning the
phonetic alphabet, pilots in the making.
You may recall that I teased you about a guest that Cubs were going to have,
well I can now share with you that ‘Megan and her Superdogs’ visited them. A
truly inspirational lady. Megan trained to be a volunteer speaker for Guide Dogs
in June 2020 and by February 2021 she had given over 100 talks. She has an
amazing dog called Rowley who has recently made his 3000th medical alert,
meaning he has potentially saved her life 3000 times. She explained how he is
able to detect if she is going to have a medical episode. She has recently
returned to the gym, Rowley lays on a blanket next to her and she knows that if
he gets off the blanket, he has detected something, so stops exercising
immediately so he can check her over properly and then she can take any action
she needs to. She is now raising money for Dog A.I.D (Assistance in Disability)
by doing a 5K wheelchair push, with Rowley by her side. The cubs were totally
engaged the entire session.
Our Scout Troop have started their ‘Scientist’ badge, carrying out three
experiments. They talked about what happened in each experiment and why
and what they thought might happened if they changed one or two elements of
each one. They have been asked to go away and test this out and then come
back and explain what they have changed, what happened, what was different
and why do they think this was.
Our members sometimes work on badges at home as
well as during meetings. We currently have a Cub who
is working on his photographer badge, he has taken
some beautiful pictures, I’d like to share them all but
there are so many, so I have included his ladybird
photo as the contrast and clarity of the ladybird is
amazing.
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Doddington Sports and Carnival
We are very sad to announce that this year's Carnival is
cancelled.
This year would have been our 99th year so this has not
been an easy decision to make but after speaking to
some of the float builders the committee feel we are not
in a position to know if restrictions will be relaxed enough to hold the
Carnival parade, the parade takes several months to plan and insurance
and road closures are very costly.
The committee is hoping that maybe later in the year, if restrictions allow,
we will organise one of our fabulous nights out, which by then, we will all
need!!!!
The committee would like to thank everyone who continues to support us
and hope that you understand that the safety of the committee and our
community has to be our main concern.
Fingers crossed that we will be back with a bang next year for our 100th
Carnival!
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Christmas Lights Committee
We are hoping to run two Yard Sales this year. The first is
planned for Saturday 26th June and Sunday 27th June 2021.
We have scheduled the second yard sale for Saturday 18th
September and Sunday 19th September 2021, although at the
moment and with the continuing pandemic this may be subject
to change. We are asking for a £4.00 per house entry.
After the last yard sale there were many comments made regarding safety and
Covid-19 regulations. Doddington Christmas Lights committee would like to
remind you, that all legislation still in place should be adhered to by stall holders
and the general public. The committee will be holding a Yard Sale stall at 6
Manor Estate, Doddington to help with our ever needed fundraising.
We are hoping to complete the Street Collection for the Christmas Lights this year.
A date will hopefully be confirmed in the near future. This is more than needed
this year, due to extremely limited fundraising last year.
For a stall at the Doddington Yard Sale, please fill in the details below and post
them back to Laura Kilby, 30A High Street, Doddington, March, Cambridgeshire
PE15 0TH, 07950 226 723 or email laurajkilby@btinternet.com or
doddingtonchristmaslights@btinternet.com.
Name……………………………………………………………………...………………
Address ………………………………………………..…………………………………
Contact Number………………………………………………………………………….
Day/Days wanting to have a stall………………………………………………………
Thank you all once again for your continued support.
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Croquet
As the Pandemic recedes, we are once
again turning our attention to the
possibility of organizing Croquet on
Doddington Recreation Ground in
Benwick Road. Work has progressed on
the lawn to achieve some improvement
and we are confident that an enjoyable
game can be had by all.
We have arranged for an introductory
session on Friday 4th June at 4pm. If this
session reveals that there will be enough
players interested in more regular croquet, then we can take further
steps. Whether you have played the game or not does not matter as
the emphasis will be on a social basis.
If anyone would like to play please telephone 01354740373 or email
croquet@fieldsendwater.co.uk or just turn up.
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