Around Town Magazine Billericay November Edition 2018

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Rotary Club, Lions Club & Round Table

10 John Baron Political Update

16 A View from the Church Rev. Paul Carr

20 James Blower The Savings Guru

25 Billericay Street Pastors Caring Listening Helping

& Frithwood Lane 38 Billericay Action Groups

42 Nature Notes

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MAYFLOWER ROTARY CLUB Money raised by Billericay Mayflower Rotarians at summer events is already being spent on good causes both here and in some of the world’s disaster areas. Thanks to the generosity of local people the £4,700 raised at the highly successful SummerFest at Sun Corner plus another £2,000 from a Jazz in the Garden event at Little Burstead sent the July Rotary year off to a flying start.

These figures plus cash already in the pot meets a huge “shopping list” including, among others, a major £11,000 boost for local school projects, help for families of handicapped children and emergency donations to areas like the Indian flood disaster. The busy club that raised up to £50,000 in a single year – and had fun doing it -- is now preparing for its biggest challenge, Billericay Christmas Market on Sunday December 2 when a crowd of more than 20,000 is expected to throng the High Street.

Members are also preparing for another success story as the satellite club it launched earlier this year is gaining members under chairman Lynn Talbot and is hoping to become a club in its own right as The Rotary Club of Billericay Town in the new year.

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BILLERICAY LIONS CLUB At a presentation at the September meeting of the Lions Club of Billericay, the wives and partners of the Lions Club members, donated £1100 to Carers Choices, who provide day care services to those in need and their carers.

All the monies were raised by their ladies from their activities over the past year, including their table top sales at the Reading Rooms in Billericay High Street.

In the photograph, Lisa Hull (left), wife of last years Club President, presented the cheque to a delighted Angela Allum, The Silver Birch Centre Manager, who thanked the ladies for all their fund raising work and said that the monies would greatly assist in the continued work of the three centres across South Essex.

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everyone. Increases in the Personal Allowance, which since 2010 have given income tax cuts to 31 million people, particularly help those on low wages and should therefore be accelerated. He should also take small businesses out of Corporation Tax altogether, giving a major boost to SMEs which account for 99.9% of private sector businesses.

John Baron Conservative Parliamentary MP For Basildon and Billericay

Writing ahead of the Budget, I hope that the Chancellor will ensure that the principles of hard work and enterprise continue to be rewarded – a thriving economy should help

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Evidence suggests, as illustrated by the ‘Laffer Curve’, that reducing taxes increases the overall tax take by reducing incentives to avoid (and evade) tax and encouraging further economic activity (which is taxable).

President Trump’s recent tax reductions have produced record tax receipts for the US Treasury, and we should emulate this example.

The Chancellor must address our spending on defence. Recent events

remind us of the importance of strong defence, and it is imperative that our ‘full spectrum’ capability is maintained. An under-resourced military is not a credible force, and potential adversaries must not be permitted to draw the wrong conclusions from this.

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hn Lennon seem to be everywhere this time of year: “So this is Christmas ne?” I’d like to change this slightly: “So this is Christmas and what will rate that Jesus was born to be our Saviour? It is, after all, what makes ating and, just like those amazing events in the summer, it can be life but only if you make the time to enjoy the celebration.

Billericay’ extend an invitation to worship s season. Why not put a date in your o miss out on the greatest Christmas

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November 2018,

we will commemorate 100 years since the end of World War 1. It’s sobering to be reminded that WW1 saw a soldier dying every 15 seconds. This 2nd December ‘Annual Toy Service’ at 10.30am amounts- to 10 million in total plus 7 million civilians and an unbelievable million wounded.

An often December - ‘Carol Service by23Candlelight’ at 7.00pm unknown fact about WW1, because we often 19th December - ‘Lunchtime Service’ 12.30pm think it was a land Carol battle, is thatatthe Merchant atNavy Saint lost Mary2,479 Magdalen Church ships and 14,287 seamen.

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ay 23rd December - ‘Family Nativity’ at 10.30am King George V, after visiting Flanders Field in 1922, ristmasthat Evebloodiest - ‘Christingle 4.00pm of Service’ all battleatsites, remarked: “We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth ‘Communion by Candlelight’ at 11.15pm girdled with the of our dead … and, in Theisfirst Communion of graves Christmas. the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times stmas asked Day - ‘Family at 10.00am myselfCommunion’ whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”

The danger then, and now, is that we don’t learn from history. Professor Washington A.J. Okumu, one of the initiators of the ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ in South Africa, wrote: “Looking back at past history is important because without a knowledge of history and one’s links to the past, humankind is a social amnesiac … prone to repeating the same mistakes time and time again.”

As the news headlines remind us on a daily basis, ours is not a peaceful world. But, in the relentlessness of suffering, we know that an end is in sight. When Jesus entered our world, he was taking that first step towards us, into the no-man’s land of our broken world, risking everything on the possibility of peace. It was to cost Jesus his life, but in his death and resurrection, the truce was sealed. Not just for a day, a temporary respite, but a new start, an eternal peace.

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to glorify war, but rather, a day to remember those men and women who gave their lives and continue to do so in conflicts around our world, in the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. It is a day that should never be forgotten and one that we have a responsibility to pass onto the next generation. On this Remembrance Sunday may each one of us commit ourselves to learning from the past and work towards a peaceful future. As the Kohima Epitaph reminds us: “When you go home, tell them of us and say; for your tomorrow we gave our today.”

You can do this by joining in the Act of Worship at Emmanuel at 9.15 am (lasting for 40 mins) when members of the Air Training Corps and Army Cadets join with us before we parade (leaving the Fire Station at 10.35 am) and gather, with the Royal British Legion, Churches Together and representatives from many Civic and Community groups, at the War Memorial in the High Street for an Act of Remembrance at 10.50 am. The Billericay Town Council, along with many others across our nation and Commonwealth, will be gathering for a final ‘Battle’s Over’ commemoration at 6.55 pm at Sun Corner which includes the lighting of the Beacon.

The ‘Beacons of Light’ tribute is a poignant reminder of the darkness brought by war so evocatively captured in Sir Edward Grey’s quote from 1914: “As the lights go out and the beacons are lit it is timely to reflect on what we might learn from our forefathers’ experiences. We owe it to those who have gone before us to help the younger generation, further removed by time from war, to see beyond the mud and the blood and the casualties. We might learn about national resilience and community spirit, and in being repaired to fight the war we might have to fight, there is a much better chance of deterring that war from ever happening.”

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Savings Roundup What does the Autumn Budget mean for savers?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced his budget on Monday 29th October.

Usually budgets are at 12 noon on a Wednesday, so the 3.30pm timing on a Monday has caused a little furore! The change was due to the Chancellor wanting to pull forward the timing, to avoid clashing with the final month of Brexit negotiations in November. Initially it was scheduled in for Wednesday 31st October – until aides pointed out this was Halloween!

Fortunately for savers, there weren’t any tricks, but it was a budget short on treats also. There were no headline announcements on savings but there was some good news buried in the 102 pages of budget detail.

The treats: • Premium Bonds – there were two surprise changes. Firstly, they have had their minimum investment reduced from £100 to £25. Secondly, they can now be purchased by people other than parents and grandparents for children under 16. Given the prize pool is paying an attractive 1.40% and over £75bn are held in them, they are hugely popular with UK savers.

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£3bn - £9bn. In essence, the range gives NS&I flexibility but the reduction to £6bn of net new savings was unwelcome. Given that NS&I have actually taken between £11bn and £18bn in the previous three years, £6bn is a significant reduction. However, the budget has raised this to £9bn with a range of £6 – 12bn. This is good news as it reduces the likelihood of further interest rate reductions from NS&I. • Personal tax allowances increase – a manifesto commitment from the Conservatives was to raise the tax free personal allowance to £12,500 and the 40% higher tax rate to £50,000 by 2020. This is going to happen a year earlier than planned and come in to effect in April 2019. This is good news generally but particularly relevant for savers who go over their personal savings allowance, the amount of savings interest they can earn without paying tax (£1,000 for basic rate savers and £500 for higher rate).

• Junior ISAs – the limit for JISA’s will rise to £4,368 (from £4,260) with effect from April 2019.

The tricks: • ISA allowances – there were no changes to the ISA allowance which remains at £20,000. This was somewhat expected given it had risen strongly from the £15,240 in 2016/17 tax year but effectively is a tax rise as more people will go over their allowance – indeed the government is

forecasting an extra £5m a year of tax revenue as a result.

• ISA simplification – with seven different types of ISA available, there was hope that ISAs might be simplified but sadly there were no changes to reduce the number of them or simplify what is available.

In summary, it was a quiet budget for savers with some small areas of good news and limited bad news.

Nottingham Building Society launches best easy access account since 2015 Last month we wrote about the new bank from Goldman Sachs called Marcus, which caused a stir with its new savings account paying 1.50% and attracting over 50,000 savers in its first 10 days. However, it’s been quickly topped by Nottingham Building Society who have launched an internet based eSaver account paying 1.55%.

The account can be opened with a minimum balance of £1,000 from aged 16 and upwards and allows unlimited withdrawals. It’s maximum balance of £250,000 is unlikely to be an issue for most savers too! It’s internet access and lack of restrictions is likely to make it hugely popular.

Nottingham is the 8th largest building society in the UK with 60 branches. Given it has a deposits of around £3bn, which is smaller than challenger banks like Charter Savings, Paragon and Shawbrook,

it is unlikely that this account will be available for long so definitely one to move quickly on.

You can sign up to our newsletter, by filling in your email address on our website, so you get to hear about the latest rates and information as soon as it happens.

Billericay Christmas Market We will be at the Billericay Christmas market in Billericay High Street on Sunday 2nd December. If you have a burning savings question, want to win some fantastic prizes or just want to grab some Savings Guru giveaways, pop along and say hi!

What are the best rates currently?

The market can move quickly, so we always recommend that you check our website for the latest rates. At time of going to print, our best personal savings rates are:

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Al Rayan Bank

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Al Rayan Bank

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Vanquis Bank

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2.70%

Bank of London & Middle East, Close Brothers and Ikano Bank

James Blower Founder Savings Guru Ltd

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That’s all for this month. As always, this article is reproduced on our website www.thesavings.guru, with links to all the accounts and providers mentioned.

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For Billericay the Plan involves; • around 2,800 new homes on 12 sites • almost all on Green Belt land • Very limited enhancement of transport and social infrastructure • No meaningful commitment to build new homes that will be genuinely affordable for the younger generation.

We believe this plan will be disastrous for the quality of life in Billericay, for existing and new residents -- overdeveloping it, overcrowding it, and stretching its services and amenities to breaking point.

Basildon Council has an obligation to publish a plan to build houses, but not so many. It could have mitigated the effect on Billericay by claiming the Green Belt as a constraint, likewise the lack of adequate infrastructure. But instead housing has been allocated to Billericay with little regard to sustainability.

Very few new jobs are planned for Billericay, so a large proportion of new residents will be commuters. We fear for the impact on the already challenged train service, especially with so much other building happening all down the line to Southend.

The only significant road ‘improvement’ is the so-called relief road in the south west, which will dump traffc o nto t he L ondon oad. W e c an foresee traffc g ridlock a t n ew p oints a round the town, not just in the areas directly affected by the new building.

Ancient Frith Wood is still under threat, with one developer still trying hard to drive a road through it. esidents of Frithwood Lane will be blighted by the proposed route of new road as it will go through their front gardens.

We have yet to hear any convincing arguments as to how this Plan is beneficial to Billericay. Overwhelming rejection of the Plan in previous public consultations has been completely disregarded and when the housing number was increased by 60% there was no further consultation at all. Developers, council offcers, and the government all appear to have had considerable influence over this Plan. The people of Billericay have had none.

The next stage is the ‘ egulation 19’ Public Consultation, which the Council says will be launched in November. This time we really do have an opportunity for our views to be heard as they will go directly to the independent Planning Inspector who is charged with being impartial and objective.

We believe this Plan is fundamentally unsound and we need to convince the Planning Inspector of that through a mass public response showing the depth and strength of feeling in Billericay. Instructions and guidance as to how to go about this will be on the Billericay District esident’s Association and BAG websites, and in a leaflet to be distributed to all households.

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RESIDENTS OF FRITHWOOD The LANE STAND TOGETHER The south west of Billericay will be significantly impacted by the Basildon Local Plan, with 60% of the 2,800 homes planned across four large sites. This area has also been chosen for the so-called relief road which, is claimed, will ease congestion in some parts of the town, but is clearly needed to facilitate the building of 1,700 new homes.

The route of his major road takes in Frithwood Lane - a quiet lane, which in parts is too narrow for two cars to pass. The lane is used extensively and safely by children, dog walkers, horse riders and other residents as access to Frith Wood and Laindon Common beyond. The plans would necessitate the widening of this lane, despite there being houses on both sides, and yet the council seem unable, or unwilling, to address residents’ concerns on its impact.

The residents of Frithwood Lane have formed The Frithwood Lane Action Group (FLAG) to fight against this relief road and on Sunday, 14th October nearly 200 residents from across Billericay came together in the rain to show the strength of feeling against this proposed road.

Residents are angry and feel they are being purposely kept in the dark regarding plans for the lane. According to Sue Woodland, spokesperson for FLAG, all locally elected Councillors were invited to Frithwood Lane and asked to explain how residents will be affected by the new road, but responses simply directed residents to the forthcoming public examination of the Local Plan (Regulation 19) and no Councillors attended.

parking at the station, shoppers, local workers, teachers and children being dropped off at school. However, the relief road will do little other than to spread a small proportion of the existing traffc, plus that of the thousands of new residents, to new congestion points, all still trying to reach the same places as before.

Quoted estimates for this road range from £16.7 to £60 million, before any further land acquisition expenses in Frithwood Lane and yet, no credible evidence exists to guarantee better traffc conditions. Planned house numbers have increased in order to pay for a road that appears to be little more than access for that very housing.

FLAG are grateful for the continued campaigning by BAG and believe a widespread response to Regulation 19 is Billericay’s last chance to have their voice heard.

FLAG encourage everyone to take this opportunity to stand up for their town and would particularly encourage residents in the directly affected areas to come together to ensure their neighbours are informed and supported in having their say.

This plan is unsound. This relief road is unsound.

Come together Billericay - we must fight to protect the town we love.

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Neilsumner123@aol.com twitter.com/neilsumner123 It has been 6 years since my first Nature Notes. I’m grateful to Around Town for being able to share thoughts and observations. Articles are usually started on walks in the countryside and this one is beginning from a bench overlooking a shallow valley of meadow towards an escarpment of woodland. It is a beautiful autumn morning, misty and multicoloured in tree and sky. Every few minutes a flock of woodpigeons, sometimes numbering over a hundred, comes from the north east. In the stillness, I can hear the singing of their wings as they pass overhead. Scanning the sky reveals little else though, a few gulls and starlings and one or two chaffnches w ith t heir white wing patches drop into the trees. The winter migration of thrushes and finches is sluggish this year.

A Green Woodpecker gives its soprano clucky call and bounds from the oak. These birds are doing well here but have disappeared from many places to the west. Our local nature reserves should be a place to enjoy the surroundings, for relaxation and quiet contemplation but the naturalist is always taken note of what is there and what is not and pondering the causes and the possibility of remedial work.

This is no more so than when walking in farmland.

Woodpigeons and the crow family are plentiful but stubble fields full of flocks of small birds are a distant memory in much of Essex. I haven’t seen a stoat or a weasel for a while perhaps because, since starting this column, even the rabbits have become depleted. It may be delightfully atmospheric under a low November sun but countryside without wildlife is like an art gallery with no pictures.

In that time there have been happier stories on our coasts. EWT and the RSPB have created and expanded many wetland reserves and we are seeing new species moving north as Europe warms.

An iconic moment for me this year was the Cattle Egret perched on the back of a heffer at Blue House Farm. Some visiting species, such as the Curlew which breeds in moorlands, are in trouble. We can still hear their mournful bubbling whilst watching great flocks of duck, geese and plover rise and fall against our big skies on the internationally important Essex coast. But their future depends on more than this one piece in the jigsaw. We can do much to protect nature locally but its future depends on global policy and co-operation.

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Basildon & Billericay U3A Monthly Meeting (4th Friday) The speakers on 23rd November will be Kate Broad & Toni Neobard on the subject of “Far Better and Far Worse” A look at Marriage through the Eyes of the Victorians at the Canon Roche Centre (behind the Catholic Church) Laindon Road, Billericay CM12 9LL. 2.30pm-4pm Light refreshments are provided and visitors are welcome.

Members free, guests £2 Telephone: 07960 654707 membershipu3a18@gmail.com www.u3asites.org.uk/bb/home Basildon & District Ramblers Club The group meets every Saturday at 2.00pm. The Saturday walks are 4-5 miles with a rest halfway, we have some longer walks on other days. New members are welcome and membership is only £6 per year which includes all walks. See our website www. basildonanddistrictrambling club.btck.co.uk for full details Belvedere Jazz & Music Club 14th November - Atila Sings His Favourite Songs + Gabriel Latchin Qrt. 8pm -10:30pm.

21st November Susana Sheiman + Vasilis Xenopoulos Qrt. 8pm -10:30pm.

28th November - Salute to Benny Goodman – Pete Long Quartet 8pm -10:30pm ‘Embraceable Ella’ – Joanna Eden Admission £12.50 ~ Meals Available www.belvederejazz.co.uk Tel: 07850 607075 or email:

belvederejazz@gmail.com The Chichester Hotel, Old London Road, Rawreth, SS11 8UE Billericay Choral Society The Billericay Choral Society is very pleased to announce its autumn concert at the United Reformed Church, 99 Chapel Street, Billericay, CM12 9LR at 7.30pm on Saturday 24th November.

Further details of the concert can be obtained now from Chris Kempson on 01277 656443. Tickets priced £10 are available from Brown Sugar/ Slipped Discs (01277 631422), 57-59 High Street, Billericay, by phone: Maggie Kingston on 01277 625667 and by email from dougnewlyn@tiscali.co.uk.

Tickets will also be available at the door on the night. Interval refreshments will be served.

You can also find out more about this concert and the Billericay Choral Society by looking at the Choir’s website www.essexinfo.net/ billericaychoral.

Billericay United Reformed Church is holding a Christmas Fayre on Saturday 10 November 2018 from 11.30am to 2.30pm, in the Mayflower Hall, Chapel Street, Billericay. Please come along and celebrate this special day with us and bring your friends. You can come for lunch, or stop for a coffee and cake. There will be yummy food. Also there will be artisan stalls to browse around, selling craft items, decorations, homemade cakes and preserves.

The Hall is used by the Church

and the Community, and can be hired for events - Hall Letting Steward can be contacted on dandalough@gmail.com Chelmsford & District Welsh Society Are you a Welsh person living in Essex? It doesn’t matter if you are 18 or 80, Welsh speaking or not. Come and join the Chelmsford Welsh Society and enjoy meeting new Welsh folk at various events around Chelmsford. All new members are welcome.

For more details please contact Gwenno on 07724144432 www.chelmsfordwelsh.org.uk/home www.facebook.com/ chelmsfordwelsh Chelmsford Jazz Club Cramphorn Theatre Chelmsford Doors open: 11.45am Gig starts: 12.15pm Advance booking: 01245 606505 £12 / £16 Sunday 4th November 2018 Nicola Farnon Trio Classics at The Fold Sunday 25 November 3pm THE OLYMPUS PIANO TRIO Violin: Asia Jiménez Antón de Vez Piano: Andrew Yiangou Cello: Carola Krebs Another group of supremely talented musicians from the Royal College of Music. They will play a varied selection of light classical pieces, perfect for a Sunday afternoon The full programme will be available shortly Tickets:£12.00 including refreshments The Fold Billericay 72 Laindon Road, Billericay, CM12 9LD Tel 01277 659286

FB Pocket Orchestra Returning to The Fold after a sellout evening last year, the FB Pocket Orchestra are great fun whether in formal or more relaxed attire.

Blues, ragtime hot club jazz, songs and dances from long ago. Whilst they make no claim to authentic re-creation, they make music they hope has significant musical relevance to a present-day audience and celebrates some of the key attributes of the past. Or to put that more succinctly – they hope to entertain their audiences with music from a time when life was much simpler!

Listen to their music www.fbpocketorchestra.co.uk Tickets:£12.00 Café layout - bring your own drinks Girls Only Football Training At FC Redwing Did you know that football is largest team sport for girls in the UK? FC Redwing has recently launched girls only football training for children aged between 4 to 8 years old.

If you have a girl in Reception to Year Three at school who is interested in playing the beautiful game then please contact us at fcredwinggirls@ gmail.com Gone Too Soon ‘Gone Too Soon’ is bereavement support for Parents who have lost a Son or Daughter.

Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at Reids, 66-68 Laindon Road, Billericay CM12 9LB from 7.00 9.00 p.m.

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parents the opportunity to come together, to talk to people who can relate and understand how it feels to lose a child, and offer support through the grief journey.

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show at half price, boat trips, balls, lunches and lots more.

Meetings at Rayleigh Golf Club Lords last Monday of the month.

The Rayleigh Lodge pub 1st Thursday of the month.

Please Speak to Marjie’s Theatre & Social Club

For further details, please contact Lyn on 07387 805406 or email lyn-currie@hotmail.co.uk

01268 783351 Please leave a message and we will call you back.

Greenway Ramblers The group meets at 10am every Tuesday (5-6 miles) and Sunday (longer walks of 10+ miles with a break for lunch)

Mayflower Wine (& social) Club We meet on the first Wednesday of each month at The Pilgrim and Mayflower rooms, The Emmanuel Church, Laindon Road. Billericay.

CM12 9LD at 8pm.

New members are welcome.

See our website at www. greenwayramblers.org.uk or phone Joe Lawton on 01277 631119 History in art at The Fold Tutor: Margaret Mills Friday afternoons 2.00 – 4.00 Autumn Term only Fees £40.00 members, £64.00 non-members The ‘Resurrection Artist’ - and some Great Britons portrayed The course is in two parts, comprising firstly an overview of the life and work of artist Stanley Spencer. We then move on to look at art by various artists, depicting some national figures of their age who were nominated for the title of ‘Greatest Briton’ in BBC Television’s 2001 poll.

The Fold, 72 Laindon Road Billericay, CM12 9 LD 01277 659286 Marjie’s Theatre & Social Club Getting to know you friendship club Lots of outings, West End

We have talks, musical evenings, wine tastings, quizzes etc. and also social occasions in between.

New members are always welcome. Please phone Paulette Nicholls on 01277 652001 Orchestra at the Fold Blues ,Ragtime, Songs and dances from long ago 72 Laindon Road ,Billericay CM12 9 LD Tel 01277 659286 Saturday 10th November 18 7.30 pm Tickets 12.00 Cafe layout, bring drinks & nibbles The Neville Dickie Trio Jazz pianist, Neville Dickie and his regular drummer, Norman Davey, will be joined by Goff Dubber for a very special performance of stride piano and traditional jazz music. This will be another opportunity to listen to acclaimed musicians performing at The Fold.

Tickets: £12.00 including refreshments

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