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Welcome to the December issue of the Arrow!

Tis the season! Wishing you a wonderful Christmas filled with memories you’ll always treasure. Merry Xmas wishes to you!

This months issue is packed with ideas to enjoy the festive season!

Boston Park Farm have their annual grotto including a tractor ride. Book early to avoid disappointment. There’s donkeys at Holmes and Garden in Epworth; Epworth Candlelight tour at the Old Rectory; Christmas fayres and Christmas concerts.

Also don’t forget Santa @ the Smithy in Owston Ferry for a more traditional visit.

Enjoy the read and please note the deadline for the January issue is Friday 7th December for distribution by the 5th January.

Mon to Sat: 10am-12 noon 4pm-6pm Sundays: 10am-12 noon Closed Bank Holidays

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Community News Axholme Camera Club News:

Team Verrico charity update

Wed 5th Dec Image Assessment Clinic with Guy, David and George Tues 11th Dec COMPETITION – Ladies v Gents – Open, Prints Wed 19th Dec Christmas Social 2019 Wed 2nd Jan Pechakucha – 20 images maximum 20 seconds per image

It seems hard to believe that it is now 5 years ago since my own young family was locked into a struggle with adversity in which there were no winners, each tiny victory weighed against the inexorable march of a rampant disease hell bent on destruction. Anna died on the night of 19 November 2013. Since that date, the small group of trustees with friends and people we have met along the way has raised money to support over 70 families with second opinion to potentially improve their prognosis; we have funded over 750 counselling sessions, paid for 8 research grants into statistically less significant cancers (i.e. fewer people get them) and assisted those undergoing treatment by providing 183 travel support packages and 136 hotel rooms in that period. I would really like us to be able to hit the magic half a million mark by the time we hit the fifth anniversary on 19 November 2018. If you can host a coffee morning, ask work to hold a dress down day, do an event or come up with another way to help us, then now is the time. Thank you Paul

We meet weekly in St Nicholas Church Hall, Haxey starting at 7.30 pm to approximately 9.30 pm. We are a very friendly club and welcome any newcomers. The annual subscription is £10.00 plus £2.00 for each meeting attended (reduced for under 18s) which includes tea/coffee and biscuits.

Feel free to contact any Camera Club member you may know or give Joyce Hooley a call on 01427 752323 or just turn up on the night.

Isle Group of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Thursday December 6th Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve Kevin Wilson Stephen Jones Hall (rear of the Methodist Chapel), Low Street, Haxey On Thursday December 6th we will take a look at the Trust's largest nature reserve which is on the coast just outside Skegness. The reserve has extensive sand dunes and salt marshes but also fresh water areas and other habitats which attract many different species of birds, plants and other wildlife.

Kevin Wilson has been the reserve manager for many years and knows the reserve inside out.

Gibraltar Point is a great place to visit so do come along to find out more, everyone is welcome, you don't have to be a member of the Wildlife Trust. Our meetings are always on the first Thursday of the month from October to May in the Stephen Jones Hall in Haxey. For further information about the local Trust group and their meetings please contact Tony Lee on 01427 753831 or Chris Trinder on 01427 872051. Details about the group are also on the Lincolnshire Trust web site under area groups.

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Suki, Linda, Di and Jenny Wish everyone a blessed Christmas and a very happy and prosperous new year Edwards and Mahal Opticians 12 Church Street Epworth Doncaster Telephone 01427 873578

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ROYAL AIR FORCE LINDHOLME Adapted and Edited for publication by Anthony Catherall acknowledgement to Margaret Draper It is around this time that the Station Farm began to receive increasing publicity. It was official policy to encourage all forms of cultivation and even in 1945 the station was still playing its part in the wartime ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign. Group Captain Clelland, who was himself a Herefordshire farmer’s son, was determined to increase the eight acres already under cultivation. By July 1946 he had persuaded the Acting Station Warrant officer, one Flight Sergeant Eric Graville, to become Farm Bailiff upon his demobilisation. Mr Graville’s original task was to ensure the clearance of barbed wire, concrete standings and gorse bushes from the camp area. At first, Italian prisoners of war from Sheffield were used for the job but their work rate, predictably slow, was proof against the offer of cigarettes and similar bribes. Their replacement by German prisoners of war changed everything. Not only was the clearance completed but German bricklayers built the piggery that still stands at Lindholme today.

The Station Commander also took the precaution on ensuring that this new Station Administrative Officer had a farming background. Squadron Leader Lester Davies, now Warden of the Ullswater Outward Bound School, had spent a year before the war as a student at Wye Agricultural College. It was he and Mr Graville who did most to ensure the success of the project and to gain for Lindholme’s farm a reputation second to none throughout the Royal Air Force. Station farms were common in those days; food was scarce, rationing was in force and the farms provided a supply of fresh vegetables to the Messes and profits to PSI. Lindholme was the first Royal Air Force station to exhibit at the Royal Show and this was reported in the national press. The Daily Mail report was under the, ‘But No Wings’ (1), and told of the success of two members of the station Wessex Saddleback pig-herd, ‘Luffenham Perfect’ and ‘Luffenham Rosalind’. In the show; the former gained 3rd prize in his class and the latter was highly commended in hers. The station farm had bought three sows from Royal Air Force North Luffenham when that station closed in 1946 and ‘Perfect’ was a son of Luffenham Princess, one of these sows. 1948 began with the visit to the station of the Right Honourable Tom Williams, the local MP, who had ten years before raised the question of the Irish labourers in the House of Commons. He was now Minister of Agriculture and his main purpose was to visit the station farm and model piggery. Thirty or forty pressmen accompanied the Minister and the next day the Lindholme farm was mentioned in nearly every national paper. The reports show that the Royal Air Force had over 2,000 acres under cultivation at the time and that at Lindholme nearly 47 acres were being farmed and that a profit of over £700 had been made in the previous year.

The success story continued, Luffenham Perfect being placed first in his class in the 1948 Royal Show and subsequently sold for 350 guineas, a record national price for a pig.

One could continue to chronicle the station farm’s successes in great detail, for they were many and frequent.

Throughout the decade between 1946 and 1956, when the last Royal Air Force Horticultural Show was held, Lindholme consistently won first, second or third place in the Unit Farms competition and frequently won the Sherwood Cup for the best vegetable display. In 1948, Squadron Leader Davies appeared on Joan Gilbert’s TV show to talk about the Lindholme farm after the Sherwood Cup had been won the first time.

The Lindholme farm outlived the Royal Air Force Show by one year; as prosperity and plenty returned the need for intensive cultivation was deemed to be over. In 1957 the farm was sold to Mr Graville, the man to whom the station owed so much of its success.

The farm must be seen in a proper perspective, for it was only in the background of the station’s story.

However, since it gained the station so much publicity any station history must record its prowess. But life on the station was continuing all the while.

(1) DAILY MAIL – 25TH JUNE, 1947 To be continued next month

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On Sunday 9th September a 9 year old pupil from Epworth Primary Academy walked the Humber Bridge both ways to raise money for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice and Lexi’s Legacy. Annabel Amy Malam told her Mum she would like to help children less fortunate than herself and decided she would walk the Humber Bridge both ways.

Within a few days she had asked for sponsorship from local businesses and set up a Just Giving website. Within a few days she had raised £300 for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice and £187 for Lex’s Legacy. Although still recovering from tonsillitis she bravely finished her walk in style wearing only her socks as her trainers had rubbed her little toe!!

Annabel is a very kind and caring little girl a real ‘star’ and her Mum, Sister and grandparents (who accompanied her) are so very proud of her. Annabel is now planning her next ‘venture’ !!

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Candlelight and Supper in the Kitchen Have you seen Susanna's kitchen on a daylight tour? Or maybe even not seen it at all? If either of these fit you, then you need to join us on one of our candlelit tours.

Come and see the house as the Wesleys might have lived in it. Picture an early winter evening, light gone from the sky, no street lighting or anything similar as there's no electricity. Darkness is the order of the day. You've spent time working outside, or maybe travelling back from market in Bawtry and you open the door to enter. You step inside to the warm glow of the candles on the table and dresser, and the welcome heat and flare of the blazing fire in the entrance hall with the smell of wood smoke and maybe something savoury emanating from the kitchen. Home at last to comfort and supper.

All this and more awaits you on the candlelit tour. You'll be welcomed by a costumed guide with whom you wait until all the expected parties arrive, then you will be led by lantern light to the front door where you knock for entrance. The door is opened by another costumed guide who welcomes you in, just as you would have been had it been in the early 18th century.

From there, with only candles to light your way, you are taken around the whole house and introduced to the story of the Wesley family and some of the activities that happened in the house, activities that changed the world almost as much as it has been changed by wars and conflict. Of course those changes are much less violent than conflict, but no less important.

You will end your tour in the kitchen, and sit around the table in front of another welcoming fire and have the opportunity to talk to each other and to your guides while you enjoy your repast. Hot fruit punch and home made pies and cakes to tempt your palate. Hot water crust pastry filled with pork flavoured with sage and onion and a layer of Bramley apple, mince pies, fruit cake with butter and cheese, maybe sausage rolls, or mushroom tarts. Who knows what culinary delights await you. The only way to find out is to join us, and we'd love to share our evening with you.

Booking is essential, and places are limited, so call the Rectory and stake your place. We can take payment by card over the phone so don't let anything delay you. We look forward to seeing you all on either the 6th or the 7th of December.

Cath Fordham

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What’s On In Your area in Epworth and Belton Activity

Meeting place

Time

Contact

Mon

Keep Fit (Active Ageing)

Epworth Memorial Hall

12.00-13.00

01724 297255

Mon

Thurlow Playgroup and Preschool

Epworth Thurlow

9-11.30 & 12-3

01427 875016

Mon

Epworth YOUTH Club (juniors)

Epworth Com Wellbeing Centre, High St, Epworth

5.30-7.00pm

01724 29650

Mon

Epworth YOUTH Club (seniors)

As above

7.15-8.45pm

01724 29650

Mon

Epworth Mens Society (monthly)

The Red Lion Hotel, Eworth

19.30-21.30

Mon

Children’s Dancing

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

16.00– 19.00

Nicola

Mon

The Isle Choral Society

Epworth Imperial Hall

19.00-21.00

01427 873898

Mon

Stop Smoking Programme

Epworth Youth Club

17.30

Hille Harris 07876256185

Mon

Belton Short Mat Bowls

Belton Pavilion (Sept-April)

14:00-16:00

01427 875724

Mon

Epworth Youth Club

Epworth Youth Centre

19.00-21.00

13-19years

Mon

Army Cadets

Belton Park Pavilion

18.45-21.00

01724 858918

4th Mon Royal British Legion Epworth Branch

Old School Inn, Battle Green Epworth

7pm

01427 872223

Tues

Axholme Elite Taewondo

Epworth Leisure Centre

18.00-20.00

01427 873845

Tues

Epworth Rainbows

Epworth Thurlow

16.30-1730

01427 754009

Tues

Horticulture Society (2nd Tuesday)

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

19:00 -21.00

01427 872252

Tues

Epworth Town Council

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

18.30 - 21.00

1st Tuesday

Tues

Cubs and Scouts

Belton Park Pavilion

18:30-20:00

07966 072 499

Wed

1st Belton Rangers

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

19.00-21.00

01427 872227

Wed

Jack n Box

Wesley Memorial, Epworth

10:00-11:30

Wed

Belton Brownies

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

18:00-19:30

01427 872109

Wed

Epworth Brownies

Methodist Church Hall

18:15-19:30

01427 754009

Wed

Belton Rainbows

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

16:45-17:45

01427 754009

Wed

Belton Guides

All Saints Centre on Stocks Hill Belton

19:30 - 21:00

0753 951 6547 01427 873730

Wed

Yoga

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

13.00-15.00 18.00-20.00

Wed

Army Cadets

Belton Park Pavilion

18.45 - 21.00

01724 858918

Mon

Epworth Folk club

Jinksy's Wine Bar (The Red Lion)

8.15pm start

01427 873594

Wed

Epworth Short Mat Bowl Club

Epworth Leisure Centre (Sept—April)

3.30 –5.30 pm

01427 872445

Thurs

Keep Fit Active Ageing

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

10.00 - 11.00

01724 297255

Thurs

Epworth’s Ladies Society

(1st Thurs-monthly)

19.30 start

01427 873368

Thurs

Children’s Dancing

Epworth Imperial Hall - Main Hall

16.00- 20.00

Thurs

Whist

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

13.30-16.00

01427 873622

Thurs

Bingo

Epworth Imperial Hall

18.30-21.00

01427 873622

Thurs

Axholme Arts Club

13 Queen Street, Epworth - Juniors

16:15-1745

01427 873947

Thurs

Axholme Elite Taekwondo

Epworth Leisure Centre

18.00-20.00

01427 873845

Thurs

Epworth Thurlow Art Group

Thurlow Pavilion Station Rd Epworth

13:00-15:00

01427 872267

Thurs

Autumn Club Over 50’s

Belton Park Pavilion

14.00-16.00

Thurs

Keep Fit

Belton Park Pavilion

18.30-19.30

Thurs

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

The Red Lion, Epworth (1st & 3rd Thursday) 18:15 start

Fri Fri

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Nordic Walking

Epworth Short Mat Bowl Club

Epworth Leisure Centre (Sept—April)

3.30 –5.30 pm

01427 874158

What’s On In Your area in Epworth and Belton Fri

Epworth Performing Arts Academy

Epworth Imperial Hall

15.30-19.00

07548 156258

Fri

Red Cross (Whist) monthly 3rd week

Epworth Imperial Hall

19.00-21.30

01427 873622

Sat

Belton Bowls Club roll Up

Belton Park Pavilion (May-Sept)

14:00– 16:00

01427 875724

Sat

Bingo

Epworth Imperial Hall - Small Hall

18.30-21.00

01427 873622

Sat

Saturday Night Sequence Dance

Epworth Thurlow, Epworth

19.30-22.00

01427 872848

Epworth Imperial Hall (2nd Tues-monthly)

19.30-21.30

01427 872405

2nd Tues Epworth and District WI Bookings of West Butterwick Village Hall

Bunty Harris

01724 782181

Bookings of the Imperial Hall, Epworth

Mary Addlesee

01427 873622

Belton Pavilion

Tony

01427-872400

Fits Alarms

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Business Directory

Advice Pensions Helpline

0800 991234

Electricity Emergencies

0800 375 675

Transco - Gas leaks

0800 111 999

Yorkshire Water

0845 1242424

£30 + VAT per year Beauty/Health/Fitness The Hair Shop Westwoodside The Willows Dental Practise-Belton

01427 752455 01427 872106

Care in the Community Age Concern

0800 009966

Home and Garden

Childline

0800 1111

Fountain Court florist Epworth

Neighbourhood Watch

01482 444466

NSPCC

0808 80050000

RSPCA

0300 1234999

NHS Direct

111

01427 874831

Taxi Service Pam’s Minibus and Taxi Service 1 to 4 passengers 1 to 8 passengers (change of no. for mobile no)

01724 711941 07707 036611

Trade/Craftsmen

Community

Brooks Homecare Improvements

Crime stoppers`

0800 555 111

Carers Support Centre

01652 650585

Isle of Axholme Lions

01427 752139

Isle of Axholme Osteoporosis Support Link

01427 875752

Health Visitor Team

0800 099951

SSAFA Forces Help www.ssafa,org.uk

01476 569764

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

07904 573405

Axholme Pest Control

01427 875314 07973 142963

01427 873608 / 07766747245

Axholme Decorating Centre 'Mixing Paint For You' sales@axdeccentre.co.uk 01427 238941 Chris Yeardley Roofing Services Michael Hazon The chimney sweep www.islechimneysweep.co.uk

01427 754197 07974 140344 07947 357 615

Business/Finance

Education and General

Hurstons Accountants & Business Advisors

Epworth Country Primary School

01427 872345

Belton All Saints Primary School

01427 872391

Westwoodside Primary School

01427 752355

Westwoodside Mobile Library

01724 865675

Haxey Library - Memorial Hall

01724 753239

Willows Dental Practise—Belton

01427 872106

01427 873737

Leisure

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