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NEW YORK It may not be for everyone, but there’s no denying that New Year’ Year’s Eve in New York York City has an atmosphere that few other cities can rival. Most famous, of course, is the annual gathering of a million people in Times Square to see famous musicians and the ball drop, in which a 12-foot-wide crystal ball weighing nearly 12,000 pounds descends atop One Times Square. For a slightly less chaotic experience, book a reservation at one of the bars or restaurants overlooking Times Square. And for something completely different, consider a night-time boat ride on New York York Harbour, which offers the best views of the midnight fireworks display on Liberty Island.

RIO If Rio is best known for its Carnival festivities, its New Year’s Eve celebration comes in a close second. Iconic Copacabana Beach hosts the world’s largest (and arguably wildest) New Y Year’ ear’s Eve party, in which more than two million people cram onto

the two-and-a-half-mile stretch of sand.

Known as Réveillon, this uniquely Brazilian celebration that blends religious, traditional, and superstitious beliefs: Locals dress head to toe in white (believed to bring good luck) and toss handfuls of flowers into the ocean as gift to Yemanjá, goddess of the seas.

The celebration also includes large oceanfront stages for live musical and dance performances, and a colourful fireworks display at midnight completes the scene.

SYDNEY Sydney has two claims to fame for its New Year’s Eve celebrations: first, because of its location, it’s the first major city where the clock strikes midnight; second, Sydney puts on the largest fireworks display in the world, with one at 9 pm and another at midnight, with the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House making for a striking setting. More than a million people attend the waterfront show, which also includes an air and water show featuring aerial acrobatics, an Aboriginal smoking ceremony that is said to cleanse bad spirits, and the Harbour of Light Parade, a flotilla of more than 50 illuminated boats in the harbour.

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By now, many of you will have heard about some big changes we’ve made to our travel agency in the past couple of months. Not for the first time, we have looked at the way our business runs and made the decision that we would be able to of offer fer a better service to our clients by changing the travel consortium we are members of.

The Freedom Travel Travel Group served us well as we grew and developed in our first 10 years, but we have found that

there was the chance to improve things with the better of office fice systems and excellent commercial agreements they have with our favourite tour operators (and several new ones too)!

The team here have handled the changes with great aplomb, so if you’ve any questions - just ask!

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ABTA BONDING The Destination Lounge is a member of ABTA which means you have the benefit of ABTA’s assistance and Code of Conduct.

Sounds great, but what does that mean to you? Essentially ABTA members pay a large amount of money to ABTA, who hold it in a bond, so if that company were to go bust, the funds are already secured to refund clients.

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Ilfracombe Museum

We have two photographs to show you this month, and we have chosen images of the police force in Ilfracombe. One photo shows Ilfracombe ‘bobby’ PC Stuart on patrol in Wilder Road in 1929 – behind him it’s possible to just make out the Imperial hotel. He looks happy and relaxed and is carrying white gloves, so perhaps is on his way to a special function. The other photo is a group shot of the Ilfracombe Section of Devon Constabulary in 1927, and PC Stuart is also in this photo, seated in the front row second from right.

The pictures themselves were both kindly donated to the museum by PC Stuart later in life.

Ilfracombe’s police force has a long history and has gone through many changes. The first mention of policing in Ilfracombe that we can find comes in 1827, when 50 special constables were brought in to police the royal visit of the Duchess of Clarence. The role of the special constable was a very ancient one, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times and revived in the 17th century, whereby magistrates could swear in ‘specials’ from local townsfolk when they needed extra help to keep the peace. Agricultural unrest and rioting in North Devon in the 1830s meant that most towns had special constables on standby.

The usual system of policing in Ilfracombe when times were peaceful was to have a parish constable, and he was elected every year and given a small salary raised from the parish rates. The constable was largely untrained, had no uniform, and yet had the huge task of trying to deal with law and order in a growing town with its fair share of disorder. An amusing story from 1852 gives an insight into the constable’s lot: the Berrynarbor constable was escorting a thief into Ilfracombe - on foot, there was no transport for the lowly ‘plod’ – when coming up to Hillsborough Terrace the felon suddenly made a break for freedom: ‘’throwing off in his haste first his shoes and afterwards his coat. Thus lightened he sped on his way and successfully escaped the pursuing constable. The tricked officer made his appearance before the bench, minus his charge, for which he received due reprimand. He pleaded he had been constable for twenty years and never lost one before; indeed, “Who would a thought that the man would have taken off his shoes without untying them,” said the constable in his simplicity.’’ In another incident in 1855, constable Smith, on hearing cries of ‘murder!’ in Broad Street, discovered fighting there and plunged bravely into the melee, but, instead of creating order he was swallowed up in the fight and himself received a beating.

After the first professional police force was formed in London in 1829 under Robert Peel, English counties were asked to form their own police constabularies to control law and order, a particularly important issue in growing industrial towns. Devon was quite late in forming its constabulary in 1856, and even after this, Barnstaple borough was responsible for policing in our area until 1921. Ilfracombe had its first police station in the High St, next to the old Market Hall, and then in 1872 the station moved to 71 the High St. There were many complaints about disturbances in the High St at night time, especially from ‘hundreds of boys who parade the streets, yelling, and by their vulgar language are a great annoyance to the inhabitants’.

Only a few years later in 1874, Ilfracombe opened its first purpose- built police station in Fore St, now the Gendarmerie restaurant. It had a charge-room, offices, accommodation and three cells, and is still an imposing building today. It was replaced as a station in 1926 when the growing force, now part of Devon Constabulary, needed much bigger premises and moved to Wilder Road, to the site still known to many as the ‘Bastille’, but sadly not the fine building it once was. In the 1970s the constabulary moved again, to modern premises in Princess Avenue, but police numbers are much reduced today.

In 1933 the Ilfracombe Chronicle reported on long-service medals being given to Ilfracombe’s special constables. Over 50 men received these awards, and in that year there were on average 90 specials in the town. The newspaper went on to say that policing problems for Ilfracombe were changing: in 1933 the most difficult issue was traffic congestion. No longer was drunkenness and disorder the greatest nuisance.

Instead, the police were struggling to deal with our town’s streets being gridlocked by holiday traffic in the summer months. Wouldn’t that be a nice problem to have again?

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Researched in 2010 by John Woodcock from the North Devon Journal upto 1870 when Ilfracombe Chronicle/Gazette was published copies of which are available to research at Ilfracombe Museum by appointment 28th July 1853.

“Making Glad the Widow’s Heart.”—It will be remembered that, on the 22nd of January last, one of those fatal disasters, which last winter filled so many hearts with grief, and covered so many families with mourning, befell the captain of the Revenue cutter from this port, and four seamen with him, by the upsetting of their boat in a squall near Lundy. Captain Webster, who, with the others, was unfortunately drowned on that melancholy occasion, left behind him a wife and five children to bewail their sad bereavement. To add to her distress, she has been held in doubt, from that time almost to the present, as to whether she would obtain the usual pension given to the widows and orphans of those who in that service lose their lives in the performance of their duty. We understand great praise is due to Lieutenant Jones, of the coast-guard service at this port, for his benevolent and persevering efforts on her behalf, in the proper quarter, and which he has now the heartfelt satisfaction of seeing crowned with success. The blessing of the “Father of the fatherless and God of the widow,” will rest on such deeds. What a load it will take from the heart of the mother of those five children, and only a less one from the minds of the many friends who strongly sympathised in her condition! The allowance for herself, together with that for her children, will enable her to maintain that decent propriety of living to which she has been accustomed. In other ways, she has, we are told, in winding up her late husband’s accounts in the service with a consideration and kindness which shows that all Government officials are not the mere wheels of a machine.

“George Beer.”—this well known name is no longer among us. He was the “paid constable” before the present “Mr Superintendent.” He was not a “trained man” was not clothed in the official button and blue.—the parish grew dissatisfied with him, and nothing would do but a “regular Peeler.” Beer was appointed to office by a resolution of the ratepayers in vestry assembled, and could only be got out of it by one of two ways—by being induced to resign, or by the vestry rescinding its resolution. The affair led, as it will be recollected, between a sharp contrast between the town and country party, in which, the former, being in vestry, appealed to the poll and carried the day against the latter by a large majority.

Beer, in the first instance, agreed to resign on receiving a bonus of some £23 to enable him and his family to emigrate to Australia. The money was procured by the active exertions of several gentlemen, and he gave up his office; but it unhappily turned out, from having so many sons, he was ineligible for a free passage to Australia, and the poor fellow was thus thrown out of office and out of bread without much prospect from the scarcity of work in the neighbourhood, of getting away. The money which had been collected could be given him only on condition of his emigrating; finding himself in this dilemma he turned his attention to British North America, but neither could he get a free passage to that country either, nor was the money sufficient to pay the passage of himself, wife, and five children. His next move was to apply to the Board of Guardians, who very wisely promoted his object by representing his case to the Poor Law Board, who made him the necessary allowance for his transmission to Quebec. On Tuesday, he set off with his family, on this sad but hopeful stage in life’s pilgrimage. Here he could not get work to do, however willing to do it, for wherever else prosperity has come, it has not come to the labourers of this neighbourhood. There he will find for himself and stalwart sons plenty of work and advantages beyond it, such as this country will never afford. Two brothers, among others, went to British America, from this neighbourhood about a twelve month ago last April. Intelligence has within the last week been received from them, from which it appears that one of them has within that brief period saved twenty pounds, and the other was gone into the country to buy land.

The Town Clock.—At eight o’clock on Sunday morning last, if our information be correct, the town clock of Ilfracombe first “struck out” for its race against that swift-footed traveller—Father Time.

Whether that be true of no, we have the evidence of our own ears and nerves for the fact of being startled on suddenly coming under its monitory circle at the church-going hour the measured and sonorous deliverance of eleven times one from the clear and fined-toned bell. The clock has been furnished by Mr. Webber, watch and clockmaker, High-street, and those who are acquainted with his skill and ability in his calling will not be surprised at his complete success in this undertaking. The town has wanted a “clink” as long as it wanted a clock, and now, behold, it has both conveniently supplied.

The present structure, so ornamental, and so useful to the town, owes its existence to the unremitting exertions of Captain John Down.

Deaths. 26th inst., at Ilfracombe, Captain Hugh Curle, of the ‘Golden Lion Inn,’ on the Quay, aged 61.

Researched by John Woodcock

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ROYAL BRITISH LEGION REMEMBRANCE Sunday, November 12th. Meet 10.15am at the Landmark Theatre to parade to the War Memorial for address and two minutes silence followed by the Holy Trinity Church Service of Remembrance.

SHOE BOX APPEAL

We are again running a local shoe box appeal and give a gift to a stranger to support those in need in our community. We want to make sure that everyone receives a gift this Christmas from Children to Adults of every age.

If you would like to get involved we are collecting at Torrs Park Dental Practice (find us directly behind Lidl, just up from the Tunnels) and can arrange to stay late to make sure you are able to drop bits in. You don't have to fill a shoe box; any items you can donate will be put to good use. We are looking for gift sets, new items you would like to receive as presents. We especially need men's items such as socks, scarves, gloves, hats, deodorant and shower gel.

Non-perishable food is also great, chocolate, biscuits, noodles, tinned soups and mugs with tea and coffee. Anything you think will help put a smile on someone's face this Christmas and let them know their community cares.

We also always need gift wrap, bags and sellotape.

Thank you Ilfracombe for your support the last couple of years and continually.

Vicki Jephcote

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EVENTS 4 ILFRACOMBE

By the time you read this the new permanent string lights will be in place on the High Street and Church Street joined by the new temporary Christmas lights. All credit must go to Charmain Lovett of Combe Christmas who earlier in the year went up to Blackpool and won for Ilfracombe £10,000 worth of Christmas lights from Blachère. The permanent lights have been paid for by grants and donations from Ilfracombe Round Table, Events 4 Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe Rotary, The Tubby Foundation, Ilfracombe Lions Club, Ilfracombe & District Tourism Association, Ilfracombe Town Council Marketing Group and TDK Limited. All of the work has been completed by local volunteer labour – qualified electricians, skilled helpers, cherry picker owners, marshals…a whole group has come together to do their best for the town and thanks need to go to everyone who turned up.

This year the Combe Christmas Committee have compiled a new item for 2017 - The Ilfracombe Christmas Guide! The guide is full of information about what's happening in Ilfracombe this Christmas. The guides will be available in November in a number of shops around town so pick up your free copy and feel free to drop a few pennies in the pot! A huge thank you to Dave Irwin at TopTown Printers for their amazing support in printing the guides!

The light switch on is Friday 24th November and will start when the lantern parade arrives at the war memorial. This year’s parade will start from The Candar and along the High St and thanks to Carol Turner and her team of elves, the lantern parade will be bigger and better than ever! Once again there will be lots of chances to sing some festive tunes, you can meet Santa and the tree which will look extra twinkly this year will be blessed by Father John Roles. Following the light switch on, you are encouraged to meander through the High Street, popping in to the many fantastic shops many of which will be open for late night shopping and mince pies!

Following on from last year there will be a two day event on Ropery Road Car Park Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th November where there will be lots to do for all ages! This year, due to last year’s success, the Ilfracombe Christmas Market will be held on both the Saturday and Sunday and there will be a whole host of artisan stalls, gift ideas and yummy food. Santa will also be making an appearance both days. Saturday will see some of Ilfracombe's finest acoustic musicians take the stage as they entertain you whilst you wander around the market. There will also be the (now infamous) Combe Christmas Bar! Pop along for a festive drink - good and naughty options available! Sunday will see lots of kids entertainment throughout the afternoon until 3.30pm followed by the Combe Christmas Raffle draw.

Tickets are available all weekend so make sure to pick yours up! Last year, one of the highlights was the carol concert led by Canon Michael Rodgers of Pip & Jims supported by the Appledore Town Brass Band! It was a truly special moment last year and this year there will be a few of our local choirs popping by too so it should be something fantastic! Afterwards there will be an informal parade (feel free to dress up!) down to the pier followed by a fireworks display! Something for everyone…

On sale this month – The 2018 Ilfracombe Calendar. Stocked at Ilfracombe Tourist Information Centre, Jefferies, Ilfracombe Book /Shop, Pedlars, Indoor Market, St James Diary & the Museum, the calendar raises money for Events 4 Ilfracombe. It is one of our few sources of fundraising and allows us to help other groups with their events. Only £4.50. Please buy! Ideal Christmas presents…

More details on Ilfracombe and North Devon events can be found at www.visitilfracombe.co.uk follow the links to ‘What’s On’ then ‘Ilfracombe Events’ or ‘More Events’ for North Devon. Smaller events can be found on the Ilfracombe Diaries, also accessed via visitilfracombe.co.uk and up to date information can be found on the Visit Ilfracombe Facebook page. If you have an event that you are putting on in 2018 then why not get in touch. We may be able to provide support, equipment etc.

To contact Events 4 Ilfracombe email events@visitilfracombe.co.uk or call 01271 863001. You can also leave a message for us at Ilfracombe Tourist Information Centre at the Landmark on The Seafront. .

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fiddle music of her ancestors, and later she studied with many of the great old-time musicians.

Together, they perform an exciting blend of original songs of the American landscape and Appalachian music, presenting the sound and feel of bedrock America. Add in guitar and mandolin and two rich, intimate voices, and quietly spectacular musicianship, and the result is a beautifully laid-back but enthralling evening with two lovely people.

Our Open Night on Saturday 11th November falls on Remembrance Day, so there may be some appropriate songs and poems from our performers, but anything is more than acceptable. Open Nights are about whoever comes along, with anyone and everyone having a chance to ‘sing, say or play’. If you’re a musician and you don’t want to play solo, there’s often a chance during the break for a bit of a jam session. Anyone is welcome to come along, and although encouraged to participate, they won’t be pressurised to do so – you’ll be just as welcome if you just want to listen. There’s no admission fee, although the pot is passed around for contributions to the club’s expenses.

A number of local or visiting performers will, as usual, be there as support artists, as well as enjoying being part of the audience.

Shammick Acoustic takes place at The Pack o’ Cards, High Street, Combe Martin from 8 p.m.

Tickets for the concert are £7 in advance from Shammick Acoustic, from the Pack o’ Cards, or Pets’ Pantry, High Street, Combe Martin, online via www.wegottickets.com/ShammickAcoustic, or £8 at the door.

November’s concert is on Saturday 25th, when our guest artists will be Dana & Susan Robinson from the USA. It’s a joy to see this duo back in North Devon after far too long. With blazing fiddle and banjo tunes, harmony singing and poignant songs and stories, these two take you on their journey across America, and convey the mystery and wonder of the places they visit. A native of the Pacific Northwest of the US, Dana relocated to New England and discovered a thriving songwriters’ scene and a deep well of traditional mountain music. Susan’s background was in both classical music and the Scottish

Shammick Acoustic is a not-for-profit organisation.

More information can be found on the website at www.shammickacoustic.org.uk, or contact Tom or Barbara Brown on 882366, or by e-mail at contact@shammickacoustic.org.uk.

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out more about our programme for 2017 which includes visits to places of interest and Special Interest Days. Second lecture for this year starts at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 14th November and is entitled 'American Art - Indians, Buffaloes & Storms'. Lecturer is M. Toby Fraser. Find out more by contacting Pamela Selman on 01271 866661.

DONATION Focus would like to thanks the Ilfracombe Floral Art Club for their kind donation.

WANT TO GO FURTHER AFIELD FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING? Ilfracombe Community Minibuses go fortnightly into Barnstaple on alternate Thursdays from 2 November, alternate Fridays from 10 November and to Lynton and Lynmouth on alternate Fridays from 3 November.

Phone 01271 863630 for further details Contact us also if you need transport to your Christmas events and Parties.

GOLF CLUB NEWS The ladies of Ilfracombe Golf Club held a pink day recently raising £700 in support of life-saving research for Breast Cancer now.

The ladies, three of whom have had mastectomies, wore pink wigs and clothes, bought lapel pins, wrist bands and golf ball markers. They also held a pink raffle and guess the weight of the pink cake made by Heather Cawthorne and won by a visitor from Portmore Golf Club which he took home to his wife for her birthday that very day.

Ladies Club Captain Jean Wills said: “With so few ladies we raise an amazing amount of money for the charities we support throughout the year. Our thanks go to Judy Keyworth and her team of helpers who put so much effort into organising this very special event.”

CAPSTONE LADIES CLUB Our group reconvened on Monday September 25th following the Summer break.

Members were informed of events for Active Life Active Mind taking place in Ilfracombe library during October.

It was also agreed that a wreath should be laid at the war memorial on behalf of the club. We are now also making plans for our Christmas Lunch.

We welcomed Kevin Hazell from The Joshua Tree as our speaker. Kevin was teacher trained in PE and Psychology and during his career became Assistant Principal North Devon College (now Petroc) with a special interest in students with any degree of learning difficulty, but this came to an end because of illness. In 2016, the parents of a young man asked if there was any work their son could do and because of this the Joshua Tree, a self funded project, was born. Here they make furniture from recycled and salvaged wood and there are now 32 people working there. Most of them are youngsters with learning, physical or mental health problems and as the Joshua Tree is run as an extended family having lunch and coffee together it creates a secure environment giving them an opportunity for them to grow socially, personally and gives them a future. Kevin is known as Granddad!

Furniture is sold on the internet and Glasgow University ordered 232 pieces of furniture and also a piece of sculpture on the progression of industry in Glasgow.

There are also contacts with Sweden, Barbados and Canada. The question now is do they stay a small “family” business or expand? They have decided to expand and so help more people into employment.

The energy and enthusiasm that Kevin brings to the project was obvious from his presentation and the group were so impressed we have arranged to visit the Joshua Tree in November.

The competition was won by – 1st Jan cross 2nd Di Wood. Flower of the month 1st Jan Cross 2nd Margaret Burden 3rd Eve Knill and the Raffle was won

by Elizabeth Gifford and Janet Sanders.

BIDEFORD: NADFAS - the North Devon Branch of the Decorative & Fine Arts Society, a national charity, meets once a month at Durrants House, Bideford. Newcomers are welcome to attend and listen to first class lecturers, from different fields of the Arts, giving interesting and entertaining insights into the world of decorative and fine arts. Come along and find

TORRS LADIES CLUB As usual we started the meeting with the official business. First Shirley our chairman gave us the sad news that a long standing member Phyllis Thomlinson has passed away after a short battle with cancer. The club will make a donation to Cancer Research in her memory.

I will be representing the club at the Remembrance Day service, any member who would like to join me is very welcome, November 12th at the Parish Church.

Our Christmas lunch is arranged as usual we shall be going to the Golf club. Tickets will be available from Vida at the November meeting members £10 guest £15. If you need transport put your name down at the same time £4.00 return. The bus leaves the central garage at 12-15.

The lunch club enjoyed a lovely meal and good company at the Hele Bay Hotel for our October get together. The second half of the meeting was a quiz organised by Shirley. Teams of four pitted their wits against each other for a “grand Prize!” Always good fun, thank you Shirley .

Next month we have Liz Marnell as our guest showing us Bead craft. Do come along if you would like to join us. Monday 13th November 2.00pm at Brookdale Church Hall.

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ILFRACOMBE BRIDGE CLUB Our friendly group meet twice a week at Cook Island, Mullacott Cross, Ilfracombe.

Mondays 2pm – 5pm and Thursdays 10am – 1pm.

Contact one of the following people Allan 01271 855810 or Jim 01271 882928.

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EVERY MONDAY Befriender coffee mornings 10.30am–12 noon for Over 65’s at the Christian Fellowship Church – for people to just pop in for tea/coffee and homemade cakes.

Ilfracombe Chess Club meet at the Wellington Arms in Ilfracombe High Street from 7pm. We welcome anyone wishing to join us there. Contact Bob Lock Chairman 01271 862662 for details.

St John Ambulance Badgers aged 7-10. Meet Monday nights at Trinity Rooms 6.30–7.30pm.

Contact Elizabeth Dymond 01271 864346 or Chrissie 07932 441 602 for details.

Every Second Monday Sunflowers Book Reading Group meet at Grassroots High Street at 10.30am. Come along and find out more. Next meeting 9th October.

TUESDAY MUSICAL MEMORIES is a social singing group for people with altzheimers, dementia and memory difficulties plus their carer/companion. We meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Vision Centre, Slade, Ilfracombe 2 to 4pm. Come and join us for a singsong and some fun. Ample parking.

Ring Hazel 01271 863944 or Margaret 01271 882927 St John Ambulance Cadets aged 10-18 years meet at Trinity Rooms, 7-8.30pm. Contact Sue Ayre 07980 182 317.

Songwriter’s Workshop at The White Room Tuesdays 7-9pm. An evening exploring the method and process of original songwriting, varying themes each week. Call Dan 07711 803 811.

RAOB Capstone Lodge 4027 (Buffs) meet in the Lodge Room at 7.45pm. Lapsed members especially welcomed back. Contact Brian (Secretary) 01271 373137.

Games Galore 1.30-3.30pm Social group for people who enjoy playing board games. We meet in the Lantern Centre Club Room.

Call 078 52252 197 for more details or just pop in.

Ilfracombe Floral Art Club Demonstration 2nd Tuesday each month (Oct - May) Brookdale Avenue Church Hall - 7.30pm. 4th Tuesday each month (Oct - April) Ilfracombe Floral Art Club Workshop, Brookdale Avenue Church Hall, 7.30pm.

All enquiries to Sue Neale - 01271 883893.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Life Drawing at The White Room Wednesdays 7-9pm. Easels, charcoal available, all welcome. Call Dan 07711 803811 or just come along.

2nd WEDNESDAY EACH MONTH Watercolour Workshop Lee Memorial Hall, Lee EX34 8LN. Refreshments provided. Bring your own lunch. Please contact Brenda Keeble 01271 267583 for further details.

EVERY THURSDAY Befrienders Activity Afternoon for over 65’s, 2.30pm–4pm at the Tyrrell Hospital. Teacakes and tea to finish. For a programme contact Rachel

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Table Tennis Friendly Group for the slightly more mature. Thursdays 2pm until 4pm at Ilfracombe Table Tennis Club. Bats etc provided.

LADIES Would you like to join a small group of ladies who enjoy singing? We meet every Thursday in the Guild Room beneath the Emmanuel Church from 2pm until 3pm. Details Beryl 01271 866582.

EVERY THURSDAY EVENING The Ilfracombe and District Youth Band "Blazing Sounds" meets at Ilfracombe Academy. We are currently seeking new members. For more information contact Emma (Bandmaster) on 867713 or www.blazingsounds.org.uk SATURDAY (SOB) SHORT OF BREATH CLUB A support group for everyone affected by a lung condition and their carers. We meet on the First Saturday of the month from March till November.

2pm-4pm at Wrafton Church Hall. Come and join us for a friendly chat, a cup of tea and a warm welcome.Tel Simon or Mary on 01271 867893 for details.

SPIRITUALIST MEETINGS Every day 12noon-3pm open, quiet space readings.

Every Wednesday afternoon 2-3pm and 7.308.30pm open circle (limited spaces).

Every Thursday Evening 7.30 - 8.30pm Meditation with the Fairies (limited spaces). All at the spiritualist centre of The Lemurian Temple, St. Peter's Mews, High St. Combe Martin 07766 723 090.

CAIRN CONSERVATION CARERS Meet fortnightly on Sundays by the Cairn Walks notice-board below the Round House, Cairn Road, Ilfracombe. For 2+ hours of clearing and cutting back etc on the Cairn. Tools provided.

All welcome. More information 01271 865889.

Ilfracombe History Group (Formerly The Old Codgers). November meetings are 7th and 21st in the Costume Room at Ilfracombe Museum.

10.30am til 12.30. Why not come along and join us, everyone welcome. It is not too highbrow, very informal. Just old memories of Ilfracombe and a cup of coffee. All we ask is that you buy a yearly ticket for the Museum which obviously gives you free entry all day everyday to the Museum. Then it is £2 for the coffee and biscuits, proceeds go to the Museum.

RELATE in North Devon are pleased to announce that they have extended their opening hours at the Centre in Barnstaple: Clients can be seen on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings as well as day time. To contact Relate or make an appointment please phone 0300 7729681 or via our website www.relate-ed.org.uk Wednesday 1 November Ilfracombe Pensioners are back at The Lantern.

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trance is £2 to include refreshments and raffle. Community Minibus will pick you up from your home for £2.50 return. Book with Shirley on 01271 863630.

Friday 2 November The Royal British Legion (Ilfracombe Branch).

Monthly meeting at 7.30 for 8pm at the Sandpiper Inn, The Quay. All old and new members welcome. Ex service and non service personnel very welcome.

Saturday 4 November Ilfracombe Farmers Market, The Lantern Centre, High Street. 10am - 12.30 Fresh, local and organic produce and craft. Refreshments. New traders welcome. 01271 864621 for information.

Sunday 5 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church service 10.30am. Speaker: Alan Mason.

Monday 6 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Crafts. Contact 864052.

Sunday 12 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church No morning service.

Joining with Holy Trinity Remembrance Service.

Monday 13 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Study. Paul & Silas in Prison Contact 864052.

Wednesday 15 November Ilfracombe Pensioners will have a presentation about Bridgwater Carnival. Committee meeting at the Lantern at 1.30pm to discuss the Christmas party.

Details see 1st November.

Sunday 19 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church service10.30am. Speaker Tony Lovering.

Monday 20 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Crafts. Contact 864052.

Sunday 26 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church service 10.30am. Speaker Rev. Jonathan Richards.

Open Church Wednesdays 10am - 12.30pm Join us for a cuppa and a chat. Night Church 2nd & 4th Saturdays 8pm - Midnight. All are welcome to join us.

Monday 27 November Ilfracombe Baptist Church Women's Fellowship 2.30pm Study Mary's Song. Contact 864052.

Wednesday 29 November Torrs Ladies Choir will entertain Ilfracombe Pensioners Club at the Lantern. with songs and carols.

See 1st November for details.

Saturday 11 November Shammick Acoustic Open Night, Pack o’ Cards, High Street, Combe Martin 8pm.

Saturday 25 November Shammick Acoustic: Dana & Susan Robinson in concert, Pack o’ Cards, High Street, Combe Martin 8pm.

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T h e O l d C o u n t r y By Alan Bennett Tickets £10 - Members £8 - Students £7 Book with: Hairport or inthespace.org/events or juliemoore1956@outlook.com 01271 867076 ‘The Old Country’ is one of three plays Alan Bennett wrote about the infamous Cambridge Spies.

These Cambridge educated men became senior figures in Britain’s secret service and undetected passed secrets to the Russians before, during and after World War Two. Unlike the other two plays ‘The Old Country’ is entirely fictional but the real lives of the spies, Burgess, McLean, Blunt and, of course, Philby, resonate throughout.

In ‘The Old Country’ Bennett is less concerned with historical accuracy and more concerned with the contradictions in the personalities of the spies who could simultaneously be exemplary examples of upper class career diplomats and people willing and able to betray their country.

They were men who both loved and hated England in equal measure and none of them lived comfortably with this contradiction. Although neither a spy nor a diplomat, Bennett too, especially in his personal writing, has shown something of the same contradiction in his own personality. In this play he demonstrates a deep resentment of the iniquities of class and culture in old pre-war England and equal resentment in the brutal post-war sweeping away of the features and traditions of that same old England all in the name of modernity.

What can a thinker of such contradictory thoughts do? The Cambridge Spies mostly found safety although not much satisfaction in exile in Russia, and it is from this perspective that Bennett takes up the theme. With his customary mix of strong characters, lively talk, steeped in irony, and finely balanced argument, the story unfolds bit by bit to the last scene.

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CHRISTMAS DAY LUNCH 2017

Once again this year, thanks to the generosity of people and groups in llfracombe, we are arranging to provide Lunch on Christmas Day for people in the Community who are on their own or housebound and may not otherwise have a Christmas Day Lunch. It is a "Meals on Wheels" Service for any who would appreciate it. Please complete the form below, getting it by hand or in the post to Mr. Paul Carpenter, "Hairport", 114 High Street, llfracombe EX34 9ET by MONDAY 11th DECEMBER 2017.

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The SPACE, at first provided us with a rehearsal venue for shows that would be produced at the Landmark and then we developed the room to include raked seating and technical equipment in order to house small scale performances.

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On top of this over 1000 tickets have been sold to the 16 different shows which have been (or will Ilfracombe Rotary Club would love to hear soon be) produced there, since May 2015. from and welcome you. Contact us by visiting We have a band of local volunteers who staff our our website, search for Ilfracombe Rotary shows and we also run the SPACE SUPPORTERS Club or send us a message via Facebook. who receive discounts on shows.

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SIMMER FOR FIVE MINUTES – Dave Griffin

BRING BACK HUMANS. An emotionless robot answered when I called North Devon District Hospital. It asked which department I required, and as always, I replied ‘The Bananas Department’. This vexes the expensive and highly sophisticated answering machine so badly that it automatically refers me to a flesh and blood human being for whom there’s no substitute. Operators can detect anxiety and fear in callers’ voices, so, following my encounter with Metal Mickey I got a common-sense person with a knowledge of the hospital’s geography and staff location who successfully dealt with my enquiry.

Humanity is the planet’s highest species of life, performing best when busy and doing something useful.

We need to reverse completely the trend to abolish functions that humanity has excelled at. To paraphrase Dylan Thomas, let us rage, rage against the dying of the switchboard operator. Let’s all rebel against this ‘Press this, press that’ technology by simply defying it. Companies dare not lose your potential custom by cutting you off, and they never do. Shun those self-service checkouts and ignore their whining instructions and banal repertoire that noticeably excludes ‘Thank You For Assisting Our Redundancy Programme.’ Soon, robots will load driverless lorries delivering to unstaffed supermarkets whilst customers browse among stacked shelves or have groceries delivered by auto drive vans. Rotting cabbage or mouldy bread? Just click for a replacement dropped by an unmanned drone. Wetherspoons already offer an ‘order from table’ service (although so far humans still bring meals and cutlery) and only those who remember the Vauxhall Cresta now queue to pay car tax. The journey to abolish humans has been insidious. First, we lost bus conductors, then car park and petrol pump attendants. Smartly dressed banking staff became extinct, and likewise, everyone at the Dartford Tunnel. Home diagnostic scanners may even one day replace your GP. Getting Married? Imagine a touch-screen vicar with a Stephen Hawking voice asking for the ring on your wedding day. Dying? Why not consider an autofuneral? How long before all our desires are met without speaking to a soul? Turn on, log in and drop out. Meantime, never trust a computer with a pair of scissors, so Paul Carpenter at Hairport, I think you’re safe!

I’M GOING ORGANIC, AND I DON’T CARE HOW MUCH IT COSTS. At breakfast this morning, upon reading the ingredients on the food packaging, I may as well have been digesting a chemistry set. Bread’s the worst. In fact, Hele Bay’s Corn Mill displays some fifty (unlisted) substances stuffed quite legally into mass produced supermarket loaves, all to aid the manufacture of their synthetic ‘farmhouse’ pap destined for your trolley. Forget that sepia, sentimental claptrap featuring Dvorak’s New World Symphony. In joyous contrast, the periodic table doesn’t feature in small scale breadmaking, but of course, we’ve now lost Venners. Daily, Britain eats a machine-friendly concoction of E-numbers but for me, not anymore. Unless bought from local farm shops and specialist food suppliers, virtually everything on our plates is churned out by ten multinational companies controlling ninety percent of the West’s food production and consumption. However, you can live well and cheaply on organic, uncontaminated and unprocessed food, much of it available in Ilfracombe High Street. We lose our traders at our peril, so dive into one of them and enjoy something that hasn’t been assembled from a heap of mechanically recovered, jet washed slurry shipped from a continental meat processing plant.

Bon appetit, Focus Folk!

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A D WILLIAMS

Shayne Berry Dan Emery

Funeral Directors

PLUMBING & HEATING Tel: 01271 863055 Mob: 07890975898

Tel: 01271 865178 Mob: 07540227830

David, Colin, Carla & Jenny

31a Portland Street, Ilfracombe

01271 866332 support@adwilliams.co.uk www.adwilliams.co.uk

All aspects of domestic plumbing undertaken including tiling Gas servicing, installation and repair by Gas Safe Registered

Local Independent Family providing a Personal Service 24 hours a day.

Gas Safe Reg. No. 234922

FENCING

28 YEARS OF RELIABLE LOCAL EXPERIENCE

SUE A N A ’S

NEW BUILD AND REPAIRS

N SUN FOODS

Quality Materials and Workmanship Hand finished (no nail gun used) for superior appearance and longevity.

'Postsaver' installer, gives double life fencing.

W TUCKER 01271 883535 or 07971 583813

16 HIGH STREET, ILFRACOMBE Tel: 01271 863558 Proprietor: Sue Adair

ILFRACOMBE COMMUNITY MINIBUSES

Open 9.00am - 4.00pm Monday - Saturday Free Local Deliveries

OUR REGULAR SERVICES www.ilfcomminibuses.wordpress.com Like and share us on Facebook

Ilfracombe’s Independent Health Store

We are now selling Diabetic ice creams, jams, biscuits and sweets.

Assorted cheeses Freshly ground coffee A wide selection of nuts, pulses, dried fruits, teas, herbs and spices, wheat & Gluton free products Homeopathic medicines and aromatherapy oils.

Cake decorations, coloured icings. Protein Drinks.

A full range of Ecover products and a great deal more.

CONTACT SHIRLEY JONES 01271 863630 FOR HALF DAY AND FULL DAY SOCIAL TRIPS OUT FROM ILFRACOMBE for individuals to get out more

Children welcome to play in the toy area

CONTACT JONES 01271 01271866762 863630for forthe the CONTACTSHIRLEY JANICE QUINN following Services for individuals and groups. following Services for individuals and groups:

Adults welcome to sit awhile on our settee and as usual warm friendly service on a good day.

Friendly service at all other times!!

FOR RING & RIDE TO BARNSTAPLE FRIDAYS AM RING & RIDE TO SAINSBURY, BARNSTAPLE ALTERNATE THURSDAYS AM COMMUNITY GROUP HIRE: DAYS AND TIMES TO SUIT THE GROUP

EVANS BODYSHOP Car Body Repairs Est. 1949 6a Northfield Road, Ilfracombe

CONTACT JANICE BANKS 01271 865655 FOR THEATRE MINIBUS TRAVEL (including Theatre ticket), LANDMARK AND QUEENS

Tel: 862889

Insurance Repairs - MOT & Rust Repairs Low Bake Oven Facilities - No VAT

FOR GENERAL INQUIRIES CONTACT SHIRLEY JONES 01271 863630 OR ALLAN DAY ON 07966599757 17

FOCUS YOUR TRULY LOCAL COMMUNITY MAGAZINE PRODUCED IN ILFRACOMBE

The Curtain Collection

C om p u te r R ep a i r s

• Friendly professional I.T. support for your home or business • Free quotation, competitive price - no fix, no fee

• Computer repairs • Data transfer, back & recovery • Virus & malware removal • Wireless network configuration • Hardware & software upgrades

tel: 01271 866055 mob: 07535 656101

FOR ALL YOUR CURTAINS, FABRICS, NETS & VOILES

• Windows & Apple Mac support • Over 20 years I.T. experience • Microsoft & Cisco certified • Advanced business services (see web site for details)

Made to Measure or Ready Made, Tracks, Poles, Blinds, Tapes & Accessories, Cushions, Trimmings, Bedding etc.

9 WILDER ROAD, ILFRACOMBE

Tel: 01271 866943

Contact Nick at Chappell I.T. in Ilfracombe nick@chappell-it.co.uk www.chappell-it.co.uk

ILFRACOMBE CALENDAR

BAYSIDE

BUY IT HERE:

PLUMBING AND HEATING Kitchens and Bathrooms supplied and fitted, or fitted only.

Internal and external building works.

Ilfracombe Tourist Information Centre, Jefferies, Ilfracombe Book Shop, Pedlars, Indoor Market, St James Diary & The Museum

Keith Brian Office number

For Free Estimate/Quote

ONLY £4.50

INDIAN CUISINE

Restaurant and Takeaway

www.visitilfracombe.co.uk

ALAN JACKSON

07825 787650 07704 795080 01271 855505

Opposite Ilfracombe Holiday Park Marlborough Road, Ilfracombe EX34 8PF 01271 879792

SHOE REPAIRS

Closed this month, re-open 1st week of February 2018

Cups & Trophies, Engraving Service MOST TYPES OF KEYS CUT ‘while you wait’

KINGSLEY PRINTERS

PERSONAL SERVICE AT ALL TIMES

102 High Street, Ilfracombe Tel/Fax 01271 865744

FOR ALL YOUR PRINT NEEDS

NOW AGENTS FOR RAINBOW CLEANERS

Tel: 01271 863131 Email: kingsleyprinters@xlninternet.co.uk 18