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Happy Easter 2022
As we emerge from the strangest two years of many of our lives, we are really hoping that there will be some normality in our celebrations of Easter in 2022 - our doors were shut in 2020, some were able to go to church in 2021, but with much hesitancy so let’s hope this year we can enter into this most wonderful festival with a real sense of joy. We will do so however with the knowledge that war is raging in Ukraine with many losing their lives and homes, with fire blazing in the beautiful towns and cities of that country. We are filled with bewilderment and perhaps fear; we’re uncertain of how things will develop and looking for ways in which we can make things better for those who are fleeing. Once again human nature means that supplies have gone from many places to help those displaced and injured, donations made, and homes opened to welcome those who have lost theirs.
St George’s Day us good news stories are there alongside the coming of spring and the new life around us. Jesus came that we would have life in abundance (John 10:10) and know his love for each one of us. His death on the cross on Good Friday was totally devastating for his friends and followers and they thought that their world had come to an end but three days later he rose from the dead and saw that new life is possible. New life is possible for each of us in which we can know God’s forgiveness and joy; new life, we pray, for the country of Ukraine and peace in our world; new life that brings love and joy to each one of us. That was God’s promise when he sent his son Jesus as a baby to live among us and then allowed him to die on the cross.
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Events Discover Bucks Museum
Tue-Sat 10am-4pm, Church St, Aylesbury The new Discover Bucks Galleries open 2 April. Picasso and Masters of Print also opens 2 April. Printmaker Clare Willberg starts her Muir Trust Artist residency 7 April for 6 weeks. Check the website for details, booking and opening times. www.discoverbucksmuseum.org
Photography Exhibition
Mon-Sat until 6 Apr, Queen’s Park Arts Ctre HP21 7RT Approximately 100 prints on show from ImageZ Camera Club members. Free entry. Club members will cover the majority of the exhibition times and answer questions for people attending the event.
Easter Art Competition
until 14 April Entries to J Brown Funeral Services, 23 High St, Wendover. All entries receive a chocolatey prize with bigger chocolatey prizes for the best 3 in each age group. This year's theme is Easter Animal Babies.
Walks with Wendover Canal Trust
first Saturday monthly starting 2 April - start/end point Mead Farm Tea Rooms, B489, Wilstone Wendover Canal Trust are running a series of guided circular walks, lasting about 2 hours, along the Canal. Details www.wendovercanal.org.uk.
Aylesbury Choral Society Concert
Sat 2, 7.30pm, St Mary's Aylesbury HP20 2JJ
Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society
Spring Show, 2-4.30pm, Sun 3, Stewart Hall wonderful displays of flowers and vegetables and delicious home-made cream tea. Monthly meeting - 8pm Tue 5, Stewart Hall - Bugs and Beasties with speaker Paul Patton.
Simply Walk
1st & 4th Tuesdays, 10am, Clock Tower April walks are 5th & 26th. Simply Walk currently provide 2 types of walk, each one accompanied by a qualified Leader and Backmarker: • Level 1: This is ideal for beginners, or those who are ‘less able’ or who need to undertake gentle exercise as part of their recovery from an illness or injury. They typically last 30 mins to 1 hour. • Level 3: This is ideal for people with some experience of walking who are looking to maintain their fitness, or are maybe thinking of attempting a walk with the Chiltern Society or Ramblers Association. They typically last from 1 - 1½ hours. The immediate need however, is to recruit more Walk Leaders so that the group can provide these walks every week. Candidates should preferably have some experience of walking and like working with people. All training is provided free of charge by Bucks Council and those interested should contact Fiona Broadbent at simplywalks@ buckinghamshire.gov.uk or call 01494 475367.
The programme will include Ralph Vaughan Free Wills and Estate Planning Surgeries for Home Visit appointments in Wendover and surrounding villages Williams’ Benedicite, the Benedictus by Sir Thu 7 & 21, 12noon-2pm, Wendover Library Member of the British Association of Foot Health Professionals
Edward Elgar and Gounod’s Messe solennelle With Wanstall Consulting. To find out more or de Sainte Cécile (St Cecilia Mass). Tickets can be arrange a consultation, please email Iain on iain@ purchased via www.aylesburychoral.org.uk wanstallconsulting.co.uk or ring 01296 415700.
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Events Wendover Horticultural Society
Thu 7, 2.30pm, St Anne's Hall Spring gardening tasks with John Marshall. See page 12.
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The Wendover Society Spring Supper and AGM
A G E N T S
Fri 8, evening, Memorial Hall At the top of the AGM agenda will be feedback on the questionnaire that Harvest Supper attendees filled out, describing their concerns and hopes as to the what the Wendover Society can accomplish in the years to come. Tickets £20 from https://tinyurl.com/TicketWS.
Wendover Easter Hunt
Sat 9-Sun 24, central Wendover What do the bunnies' letters spell? See advert back page.
Aylesbury Vale Stitchers
Sat 9, 2.30-4.30pm, Wendover Memorial Hall Speaker Jude Barrett talks about Central Asian Ikat Garments. Visitors welcome; queries to aylesburyvalestitchers@gmail.com.
Charing Cross to China: the Extraordinary Adventures of a Nurse
Sat 9, 2.30pm, St Peter & St Paul HP16 0BA Jo Laurie speaks at this fundraiser for Friends of Great Missenden Parish Church. Entrance £10 (includes afternoon tea) at the door or from Samways, Station Approach, Gt Missenden.
Wendover Music Concert
Sat 9, 7.30pm, St Mary's Wendover Steven Osborne on piano: Etudes by Debussy and a Schubert Sonata,
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• Tuesdays 10 to 11 am at Wendover Library • every week during Term Time • fun for the Whole FAMILY! Find us at www.artyparty.fun Call Sabina on 07578183711 Email artist@artyparty.fun
LEGACY FAIRS
Antiques & Collectors Market Wendover Memorial Hall
Thursday 21 April 9am-2pm (Trade 8am) For updates Tel: 07771920780 or email: peter.stevenspeter@aol.com Entrance by donation to Charity
Friends of Wendover Health Centre Do you enjoy driving? Would you like to help patients at WHC? We are looking for drivers to take patients to medical appointments at surgeries and hospitals. You choose when and where you travel. For more information contact: the coordinator at friendsofwhc@aol.com, ring our desk: 01296 622565 or call in to see us between 1pm and 3pm Registered Charity Number: 1046487
see advert page 4. Tickets from Just or www. Bucks Historical Association wendover-music.org. Wed 20, 8pm, online Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Wendover Evening WI the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha’s Monthly meeting - Tue 12, 7.30pm, St Anne's Hall Church, Castor, Northamptonshire, and the Local with guest Safah Shah from Aylesbury Women's Landscape, with speaker Dr Susan Kilby. Register Aid. Sat 16, 10am-2pm, Manor Waste - The WI at secretarybucksha@gmail.com. will have a stall at the monthly produce market.
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Craft Group
Wed 13 & 27, 10am-12noon, Wen Christian Ctre Craft Group provides space in congenial company to work on craft projects. Please bring your own materials or just come to see what others are doing. All welcome. Coffee served at about 11am.
Wendover Art Club
Fri 22, 2.30 & 7.30pm, Wendover Library Room At 2.30 a children's film and at 7.30 a film for older audiences. Drop in, have a look at the posters and pick up your tickets! Free entry; donations welcome!
Aston Wine Club
Fri 22, 8pm, Buckland Village Hall This month's topic is Brightwell Vineyard.
Thu 14 & 28, 7.30pm, St Anne's Hall 14th – An evening with David Smith, the Paralympic Boccia Player, who will give a talk and a demonstration. 28th – A new demonstrator using mixed acrylics and oils – Rosso Emerald Crimson. Visitors welcome, £10.
Sat 23, starts John Colet School 18, 12 and 6 mile routes through the Chiltern Hills or a 1 mile walk in the school grounds. To register, see thepacecentre.org/thebigwalk
Cream Teas
Tring Together Spring Fayre
Pace BIG Walk and Superhero Mile
from Sun 17, 3-5pm, St Peter & St Paul HP16 0BA Sat 23, 10am-2pm, Church Square, Tring Weekly until 25 Sep. Raising funds for parish Daily until 8 May. Two weeks packed with free activities! Learn more www.tringtogether.org.uk. church repairs.
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We are very much looking forward to our 2022 season of concerts and seeing you all in person again at St Mary’s Church. All concerts start at 7.30pm
Ensure your loved ones are taken care of in your Will Throughout May, Rennie Grove Hospice Care is partnering with local solicitors to help you make or update your Will, in return for a donation to Rennie Grove.
9th April - Steven Osborne (piano) 14th May - Timothy Ridout (viola) and Tom Poster (piano) 11th June - Mini Mozart (daytime) Evening concert Ensemble Molière 9th July - Samuele Telari (accordion) and Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano) 8th October - TBC Season tickets are £75 per person and include all four concerts (October is not included) and the AGM Concert tickets £20 (students £5). AGM tickets £10 Mini Mozart £7.50 per child (adults free) with a £2 discount for more than 1 ticket
Detailed programme and tickets available online via www.wendover-music.org and from Just For further details or to buy over the phone, please call 01296 623435 WendoverMusic_AdvertTemplate_2022_March22.indd 1
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Events Book Club
Sat 23, 10.30-11.30am, Wen Christian Centre All keen readers welcome! No set book, just interesting discussion about what we have been reading recently and a chance to learn about authors and books we may not have encountered. We start with coffee (or other drink) and often cake.
Craft Fayre
Sat 23, 11am-3pm, St Michael's Aston Clinton Local stall holders, refreshments and a raffle.
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Thu 28, 8pm, Broughton Junior School HP20 1NQ Liz Woolley speaks on The common lodging-house in Victorian England. For information, please contact aylesburycentrent@gmail.com.
Jazz Upfront
Thu 28, 8pm (doors 7.30pm), St Mary's Aylesbury James Pearson Trio - Ronnie Scott's house band.
Fashion Show
Sat 30, 7pm, Wendover Community Library Fundraiser - Entry £6, tickets from the Library.
Coming Soon - Save the Date!
Sun 24, Gadebridge Park HP1 1DN • Wendover Library Storytime - 14 May 100k, 60k and 25k cycle routes fundraising for • Dementia Action Week - 17-23 May DENS. www.dens.org.uk/cycle for details. • Wendover Choral Society Concert - 21 May, p18 • Waddesdon Country Show - 28 May St George's Day Victorian Fayre & Parade • Jubilee Celebration - 2 June, see back page Sun 24. Fayre 11am-3pm, Discover Bucks Museum, • Wendover Celebrates - 4 June, see page 9 Aylesbury and Parade 3pm, Market Square. • St Leonards Village Fete - 4 June Aylesbury Town Council’s free event for the whole • Open Garden for Rennie Grove - 19 June family to enjoy! https://bit.ly/StGeorgesDay2022 • Bucks Art Weeks at St Michael's Aston Clinton - 21-26 June Annual Parish Meeting • The Wendover Society Jazz Picnic - 10 July Thu 28, 6.30pm, Chiltern Way Academy • Scannappeal Hospital Hike - 10-11 September See advert front page. • Rennie Grove Quiz - 7 October
Janet and Robert Steele of Witchell, Wendover, and family, would like to thank all for the cards, messages, flowers, Masses and prayers we have received following the sudden death of our eldest son Jason in Brisbane. Jason died on 5th February of a brain haemorrhage while cycling with friends. He leaves a wife and two young daughters. Recipients were found for his heart and liver so he lives on in them and our memories.
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WDS held another Family Support Group meeting in Feb where sons and daughters of our Café visitors came to work with us to support their parent, some from quite a distance away. The theme of the meeting was the importance of stimulation and meaningful activities to enhance a sense of wellbeing. Sadly many people living with dementia find they are unable to take part in their normal activities and hobbies and spend too much time doing very little. In fact many people living with dementia are capable of taking part in many of their previous activities, sports and pastimes if they are given a little help, usually in the form of tactful supervision and prompts. Many of our visitors are able to do things like play golf, go fishing or take regular country walks
once they find a companion to go with them. Others have rediscovered their enthusiasm for sewing, music, gardening or cooking, if someone is able to remind them what order to do things or how to work a machine. Others will join in new activities like dominoes, painting or jigsaws, particularly if grandchildren do this with them. These activities help people with dementia to feel more engaged with life and help them have a sense of achievement and purpose. Working with a companion fosters vital communication with others and promotes feelings of self-esteem and contentment. If you would be prepared to act as a companion to someone living with dementia, please contact us on wendoverds@gmail.com.
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Digging the Wendover “Green Tunnel” diversion road including a bridge over the cutting Planning Approvals
Hedgerows removed from Ellesborough Road During March we started to see the scale of the cutting needed to build the Green Tunnel with the removal of about 100 yards of hedgerows across Ellesborough Road from the cottages vacated for demolition. “Devegetation” has also been undertaken for the temporary diversion roads for the link road to Bacombe Lane and behind the cottages to maintain access to Butlers Cross.
to allow free movement of local traffic above the The actual design of the Green Tunnel and Small dump truck route. Dean Viaduct has not been revealed since the public meetings in 2019, and we know that there Getting this material across the A413 and Chiltern have been some changes made. It’s not clear if railway line was also challenging, and the plan is the issues about handling the North Wendover now to install an overhead conveyor belt system Noise and the impact of the Coombe Hill Aquifer at Small Dean. We can expect night time closures have been addressed in the initial design. We of the A413 around Easter at the same time as the should see the outcome in the “Schedule 17” Chiltern Line is closed. The official diversion route submissions to Bucks Council by the end of April. for HGVs is through High Wycombe, but we would expect cars to probably use the Rignall Road from Community mitigation funds Butlers Cross to Great Missenden to avoid the There are a small number of projects being Small Dean area. successfully received for Wendover & surrounding The excavation for the Green Tunnel and the Wendover North Cutting is expected to involve another 780,000 cubic metres of earthworks being moved locally. That will add about 90,000 dump truck loads this year.
villages. We encourage all groups to submit their pitches for mitigation funding. Chiltern Forest Golf Club have just received a grant of £27,000 to refurbish their women’s changing rooms. Contact us if you need help as we have been supporting individuals badly affected by HS2 plans, with some success.
To make all this happen the old Cricket Ground has been converted into a work compound, enabling overnight parking of diggers and dump Fundraising & ideas If you would like to help us “Do what’s right for We understand that the cottages will go in April trucks. Wendover”, have a look at our website www. and the Ellesborough Road diversion is expected whs2.org where you’ll find details of what we’re to be available in July. Monitoring HS2 Lorries in Wendover doing, and our ‘donate’ button which leads to our We are pleased to see fundraising page. All contributions are gratefully Once the cutting that Bucks Council have received to help us fight the HS2 Scheme before is available across responded to reports of it’s built. Ellesborough Road its HGV lorries working for HS2 initial use will be to act passing through Wendover If you have ideas and suggestions that would as part of the “Haul with the installation of mitigate the community impact, then get in touch Road” enabling massive CCTV monitoring cameras Cutting works near at enquiries@whs2.org and we’ll assist however 70 ton dump trucks at the junction of Church Great Missenden we can. Remember that the HS2 Helpdesk is to move excavated Lane and South Street. In available 24 hours a day to handle any complaints material from the cutting works near Great order for them to raise on 08081 434 434. Missenden to form the covering for the Green issues with HS2 they Tunnel and an embankment at Stoke Mandeville. welcome email notification of the date and time The scale of the operation is massive, with the of any instances to EWRANDHS2enquiries@ equivalent of 75,000 dump truck return trips buckinghamshire.gov.uk. The system is expected anticipated. Originally these were expected to to be in place for only 3 months to determine the cross Ellesborough Road at traffic lights, but scale of the problem, so please report any lorries thankfully the plan has been changed with the that you think are working for HS2.
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Saturday 4 June 2022 As you are, hopefully, aware – Wendover Celebrates is finally back this year. It has been a long wait and we are very much looking forward to the community coming together again and celebrating all things Wendover and, of course, Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It was ten years ago in 2012 that Wendover Celebrates in its current form began so it is the perfect opportunity for a special celebration whilst raising funds for local causes. We do hope that as many of you as possible will be coming to join us and we are currently busy making it all possible. We will, once again, be at the Chiltern Way Academy site with an afternoon and evening full of fun. We will not be having stalls this year, but you can expect a wide range of catering outlets, bars and soft drinks’ stalls to enjoy around the central arena, where the activities will take place. Then in the evening an array of local talent will entertain us on the main stage and the evening will culminate with a “quiet” firework display set to music.
But we are now looking for people to take part in other arena activities – if you are a member of a group, club or society that would like the opportunity to demonstrate their talents and skills, please get in touch and we will try to book you a slot. We look forward to welcoming you on Saturday 4 June from 2pm. Bob, Fiona & Matt Directors, Wendover Celebrates
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Spring 2022 Update After the highly successful Harvest Supper in late General Meeting (AGM) at the Memorial Hall. At October, the revitalized Wendover Society has the top of the agenda will be detailed feedback continued to make meaningful progress. on the questionnaire that Harvest Supper the image consultants attendees filled out, describing their concerns Colour & Image Consultations & Cosmetics Membership Audit and their hopes as to what the Wendover Society For the first time in some years, a full audit of the can accomplish in the years to come. There was Tired of wearing black? Update your look and find your best colours membership has been undertaken, with virtually a virtual avalanche of opinions, with a number Contact Kimberley on 07932 786 010 every member contacted by a member of the of recurrent themes. We want to review that Committee. This exercise confirmed that the Society feedback and discuss it with the membership in has over 300 active members, all anxious and willing April: it will go a long way to define the Society’s to receive news of the Society’s activities. future agenda.
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Wendover Parish Council HS2 update It also shows the conveyor construction path. Please look on the website for future updates as they arise. The Great Missenden to Rocky Lane Schedule is now with Bucks Council, but Schedule 17(3) packages 3 &4 have yet to arrive, now due in April, more than a year overdue. Bucks Council will then need to approve or not within a short period of 8 weeks, and we expect On 23 February, we received a response to BC Councillors and Officers to fight our corner. our alternative mitigation ideas from Clive Maxwell, Director General, High Speed Rail The Working group are continuing to engage Group, Department of Transport. His view is with Lord Berkeley who is asking pertinent that they are not design ready and that EKFB questions in the House of Lords about costs, are well underway with the plans for our area. levelling up and the issues of funding for other We have not had a response from Andrew Integrated Rail Plans that would offer greater benefits for the North. The current lobbying of Stephenson, HS2 Minister! Parliament on our behalf by Murray Stewart is The Council have put the EKFB HS2 works coming to an end, as we are at a point of waiting update on the website which gives details of for Schedule 17(3) plans for the works around the project for March/April: EKFB February Wendover. Our thanks to him for his sterling 2022 Update (wendover-pc.gov.uk) efforts on our behalf for the past 5 years. On 29 March, from 10am-3pm, EKFB will Please check our website regularly as all have their Community Engagement Bus on updates about works/closures are available at the Manor Waste, and will be available for www.wendover-pc.gov.uk. residents to see plans and discuss with HS2 Sheila Bulpett staff. It would be great to have a good turnout! Chair, WPC HS2 Working Group
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Wendover Cricket Club
A lot is happening at Wendover Cricket Club as they prepare for the new season. 19 junior leagues have been entered as well as several tournaments, catering for ages 8 to 19; some 150 games are being arranged whilst the senior teams will be playing on Sundays and 2 teams in the Saturday Mid Bucks League. There will be a full range of junior practices during the season including 2 girls only ones. Senior net sessions have begun on Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00am at Mandeville School, Ellen Road, Aylesbury HP21 8ES and continue until 9 April. Junior indoor training is also continuing, with girls-only sessions (years 4 to 7) on Sunday mornings 10:00 to 11:30. New senior players are welcome to turn up at the hall or, along with any other potential recruits, contact Jonathan Seabrook on 07767 148119 or jseabrook@talktalk.net. Our beautiful game cannot run without Umpires and Scorers. Do you fancy doing either to help the club and on Saturdays in particular? You will get to visit many beautiful cricket grounds in our county and assistance can be given to get qualified.
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The Village Cup will be running again during May to July at Witchell. The Bridge Section has also just resumed its Wednesday evening sessions at Witchell and new / past players are welcome. Contact Jonathan as above for more Information on anything or check the website www.pitchero.com/ clubs/wendovercricketclub. In the background is the on-going development of the new ground at Tring Road. The planning decision / permission is still awaited and once received, the first real signs of activity will be some archaeological works on the site; meanwhile work on the designs and tenders continue.
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If you have ever thought of giving bowls a go our Chairman has told me that we will have open evenings every Friday in May at six o'clock. All we ask is that you wear flat shoes; stiletto heels upset the green keeper no end. We will guide you gently through the mysteries of this simple but frustrating game. Wendover is one of the friendliest clubs and you will be made most welcome. Don Knight
Our club is tribal. It is roughly divided into two groups, namely the Dark Greens and the Light Greens. Each play other clubs in the league culminating in a needle match between each other. The Light Greens have been doing very well in matches and they showed no mercy when they took on the Dark Greens. As the indoor season draws to a close we are all looking forward to getting outside again. Sadly we will be without our Parrot House as, at present, it has a roof but no walls. They say fresh air is good for you!!
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We are grateful to all the volunteers who have helped us with tree planting over this winter season, the total planted to date exceeds 3000! And we really appreciate the financial support and encouragement of the Woodland Trust and Wendover Parish Council to create the first piece of the Queens Green Canopy in Wendover, marking Her Majesty’s platinum jubilee! Paul Moring
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You were fantastic at the children’s book launch at the library on March 5th and we hope you like the stickers and bookmarks. And well done for winning the SNOOOOOORING competition. If you would like us to publish one of your short stories, please send it, with a short covering letter, to books@greeninkbooks.com or read more about the books, competitions and back stories, at www.GreenInkBooks.com SM Thornton
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Diolch yn fawr - thank you very much - for noting on the front page of your March 2022 issue of Wendover News the fact that 1 March is St David's Day. It does surprise me, especially in the younger generation, how many are ignorant about our four saints days of the year. It was something drummed in to us back in my schools days - admittedly a long time ago - but as these saints have been revered for centuries why should children not still be told about them today? L Eden
Funding for Wendover Community Library
A grant of £310,000 has been received to help develop the Library into an inclusive, multi-use community centre. Additional funding of £120,000 has been agreed with Buckinghamshire Council and, together with a number of smaller grants and contributions, the total amount available to support the project will be around £500,000. A Day/evening classes open to all ages detailed project plan and timeline is already being Chilterns MS Centre Pop-Up Art Weekend discussed, with the launch of the new community Contact Keith Fensom 07787 224823 email: keith.fensom@gmail.com Almost 1,500 people attended the exhibition library expected in the summer of 2023. which featured 90 different painters, jewellers, www.yangshengtaichi.com potters, and ceramists displaying almost 750 Commemorative Tree pieces of art. Afterwards visitors could relax with In February, the Wendover FRANK FENNELL a slice of one of the many delicious homemade Evening WI planted a PLUMBING & HEATING cherry tree on the Witchell cakes that had been donated. Plumbing & Heating Services to commemorate their small plumbing maintenance / In total the charity raised over £16,000 which will 50th anniversary. repair jobs gladly undertaken be used to support people living with multiple sclerosis. To find out more about the work the Florence Nightingale Champions 07967 638527 francoffennell@gmail.com Chilterns MS Centre does for people affected by Could you be a local champion in Wendover? Contact www.frankfennellplumbingservices.co.uk MS, visit chilternsmscentre.org. volunteering@fnhospice.org.uk or 01296 429975.
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On 5 April, there is a planned overnight road closure in place to allow us to complete this installation. We will then continue the work across the Chiltern Line and look to close Small Dean Lane to complete the installation phase at the end of April. We have also officially launched our new
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Before the Music Stopped Regular members of Wendover Choral Society's audience will be familiar with my name as the choir’s Music Director since 2000.
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In March, 2020, three months into the celebrations for the 250th birth of Beethoven, all music performance abruptly stopped. This presented professional musicians with the unexpected and unwelcome experience of sitting at home with time to kill. In my case, I had the opportunity to finish writing a book, published at the end of 2020, that I had been working on for years. ‘Shakespeare and Emilia’ is a highly researched look at the personal life of Shakespeare and Emilia Bassano. My ancestor was nominated as the Dark Musical Lady of the Sonnets by Elizabethan historian A.L.Rowse. The continuation of lockdown for theatres and concert halls left me time to write a much lighter hearted book requiring less scholarly research. Its title, influenced by the pandemic ‘Before
The book tracks incredible international and technical developments forced on the music profession through encounters with iconic conductors such as Klemperer, Barbirolli, Abbado, Maazel, Muti, Giulini, Svetlanov and many others. The development of the early music revival is traced through concerts and recordings with David Munrow, Musica Reservata, His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir. The popular areas of music are covered in recording music for films, like ‘Oliver!’, ‘The Lion in Winter’, ‘The Meaning of Life’ and ‘Watership Down’. Entertaining anecdotes are retold in tours with the Bee Gees and Pink Floyd and how it was that I came to sing on ‘Hey Jude’ with The Beatles. Peter Bassano See Wendover Choral Society article p18.
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Bees Matter Bees and other pollinating insects are essential to life as we know it, pollinating the food we need to survive and the crops that feed our livestock. However, a 33-year study undertaken by Nature Communications across the UK outlines evidence that bees and other pollinators are declining and 35 of the UK's bee species are currently under threat of extinction. If action is not taken, pollinator declines will have serious implications for biodiversity, food production, garden birds and wildlife.
already on a bee line, but we need to strengthen this pathway by planting more bee-friendly plants at regular intervals around the area. To tackle this challenge, Climate Action Wendover is excited to launch our new community project, ‘Bee Squared’ locally, alongside other groups in Hazlemere and across Buckinghamshire.
We invite you to join us in brightening up Wendover to help our bees and other pollinators which have massively declined over the past 50 years to stop this decline The main problem affecting most pollinators and help our wonderful natural friends. is the loss of suitable habitat for foraging During April 2022, we will be distributing and nesting as well as land use change. For around 4000 packets of wildflower seeds example, 97% of flower-rich grassland has to households in Wendover and the been eradicated in the UK since the 1930s. surrounding areas to encourage people to make a ‘Bee Square’. All you need to do is Our Response – Bee Squared plant your free wildflower seeds in your front Bees don’t need much to thrive - they just garden either in the ground (area of 1m2) or need the food and shelter that used to be in a few large pots. This is a fun activity to do found in our community green spaces, with the family and lots of support will be meadows and hedgerows. Wendover is available online.
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Beethoven’s Mass in C is the main focus of Wendover Choral Society’s spring concert on 21 May. Originally, to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, in 2020, it was to have been part of a more ambitious all-Beethoven programme. Instead, this year, it is presented in all its emotive glory, juxtaposed with Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 and hauntingly beautiful motets in praise of the Virgin Mary from the Renaissance to more recent times. Those who attended the choir’s Christmas Concert of the cautiously selected and relatively straightforward but exquisite Requiem by Fauré would have heard the choir in good voice after a prolonged enforced silence. This spring’s more ambitious programme has been conceived for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year by the choir’s musical director, Peter
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Bassano, who will conduct the choir, the Oxford Sinfonia and four brilliant young soloists from the Royal Academy of Music in what promises to be a most exciting evening and which hopefully marks a full return to normality. Tickets available from Just, 11 High Street, Wendover and wendoverchoralsociety@ gmail.com £17.50 Adults, £5.00 Under 18s. Read about Peter Bassano's lockdown activities on page 16.
A past performance by Wendover Choral Society.
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Wendover Youth Centre’s Lead Youth Worker Pete Swinford and staff members from Premier Education are currently training to run the Milton Keynes Half Marathon on May Bank Holiday Monday 2 May. They are teaming up to raise money for the Bucks Activity Project which works with children across Buckinghamshire who do not have access to physical activity due to disability and provide short break activities for them. They plan to raise £1000 for the Bucks Activity Project to ensure that these activities can continue and young people with disabilities can access physical activity. If you would like to support this fundraising effort, please donate through the following link www. justgiving.com/fundraising/premierchilterns.
community to attend. The students provided homemade afternoon tea, cakes, sandwiches, sausage rolls and a chat amongst friends. The event was heavily supported by the community and allowed the students to build positive relationships with their customers whilst giving the students the opportunity of work experience. Nick Hall, Head of Work Ways at Chiltern Way Academy, said: "The community café allows our students to run an enterprise project and gain valuable work skills and life skills. The café provides a friendly and welcoming meeting space for the community to gather, as well as providing an opportunity for the local community to learn more about our school, what we do and get a real insight into its students. The students plan the menu and then set up and run the café largely independently. The students did a wonderful job managing our busiest event yet and the customer feedback has been great."
For more information about what the Bucks Activity Project provides please visit their website: One customer said, “We were blown away by www.actionforchildren.org.uk. ... all the effort and the manner in which the students conducted themselves. What a fabulous Chiltern Way Community Café achievement.” Students from the Chiltern Way Academy, Wendover Campus, set up a pop-up café at the The next event for the pop-up café is on Tuesday Holy Trinity Church Hall in March for the local 5 April at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Prestwood.
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RAF Halton Little Troopers in Wendover raise £530 for military charity Military children from Wendover C of E Junior School have raised £530 for national charity, Little Troopers, by coming to school in their pyjamas. All 360 children at the school took part in the mufti-day to raise money in support of their military peers as part of Little Troopers annual ‘Fundraise February’ campaign.
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Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Rutherford of the Medical Centre, and Chief Technician (Chf Tech) Edgar who each received a Station Commander’s Coin in February. Dr Rutherford, whose cheerful demeanour and professionalism instils a high level of confidence in her consultation and advice, is awarded the coin for her tenacity in patient care. One such example saw her persisting with a patient who was cleared by an A&E doctor, ensuring a further follow up that led to the patient being immediately admitted for emergency surgery. Chf Tech Edgar is the current Officer in Charge of the RAF Halton Winter Sports Club and has been organising monthly visits to the local indoor snow slope for station personnel. He also delivers the Central Fund brief for Phase 1 trainees, demonstrating his passion for sport and the positive impact it can have for the service and its people.
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Local Face: Helen Biggs Helen Biggs was bred from Bucks stock and born in High Wycombe. Her father was a tenant farmer on the Hughenden Estate where life was idyllic with Disraeli's nephew as landlord and her brother's godfather. Unfortunately, on Coningsby's death, the Estate was broken up, as often happens, so the family had to move, first to Hampshire and war-time food production then postwar, aged 10, to The Hale and eventually to Boswells where they were very happy working for the Barlows. Here Helen gained a scholarship to Aylesbury Grammar, which was co-ed at the time, and she thrived. She gained experience with young children locally before starting the intensive and thorough 21 month course to become a Norland Nanny, leading to a nationally recognised qualification. There was a very expensive uniform to buy, too! As the job was on call 24/7, all students had to live in. After that, the candidate had to stay in their first job for a year and achieve a
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for retired clergy but she was always happiest with babies and the young. Her final job was as nanny to a child in Wendover who now has two children of her own, also in Wendover, so Helen can keep in touch, health permitting, during this time of pandemic.
Helen started work in Buckingham in a family which expanded from 2 to 5 young children in a relatively short time but in a beautiful setting. A nursery maid came to help when the third baby arrived. A busy Helen has always kept in Helen with one of the first but good and gentle regime touch with her college Nanny babies she cared for was developed. The parental friends including reunions atmosphere was Victorian but very loving. and newletters. She has enjoyed news of all generations with the passing of time. Until Helen's parents moved to Nash Lee Lane with recently, Helen led the Tuesday morning her father working for Crowford & Brackley walking group in Wendover, even managing to Plumbers. Helen came home to support her return to walking after a back injury. ailing mother and found the perfect job at the Royal Bucks Hospital maternity unit, not Helen was very involved in St Agnes Church a live-in job, for the next 24 years. in Dobbins Lane until it was demolished in the 1980s. She continues to be a committed She changed the age range during a short stint member of the congregation at St Mary's. at Ellesborough Manor when it was a home She remembers all post WW2 vicars!
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What’s On in April 2022 To Advertise your event for May 2022 please contact us before Wednesday 13 April Calendar entry FREE, one line. These events and more on www.wendovernews.co.uk/events DAY/DATE
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10.00-16.00 Discover Bucks Museum open, Church St, Aylesbury HP20 2QP, see page 2.
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Tue-Sun
10.00-17.00 College Lake Nature Reserve Tring HP23 5QG open - see website for details.
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10.00-17.00 Waddesdon Manor grounds and selected buildings open - please book online before visiting.
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Wed-Sun days vary Mon-Sat daily Fri 01 Fri 01 Sat 02 Sat 02 Sat 02 Sun 03 Tue 05 & 26 Tue 05
times vary Volunteering opportunities at nature reserves with BBOWT - check dates, times & locations online. until 6 April Photography Exhibition, Queen’s Park Arts Centre. Free entry. See page 2.
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until 14 April Easter Art competition. Entries to J Brown Funeral Services, 23 High St, Wendover. See page 2. evening Captain’s Charity Dance Night, Princes Risborough Golf Club. fundraiser for Chilterns MS Centre. Tickets £18. 20.00 Local History Group, St Leonards Parish Hall. ‘Beacons of the Past’ with Wendy Morrison.
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morning Guided circular walk with Wendover Canal Trust, start/end Mead Farm Tea Rooms, B489 Wilstone Village. See p2. www.wendovercanal.org.uk 10.00-12.00 Monthly Produce Stall, All Saints’ church in Buckland 19.30 Aylesbury Choral Society Concert, St Mary’s Church, Aylesbury HP20 2JJ. See page 2. 14.00-16.30 Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society Spring Show, Stewart Hall HP17 0XN. See page 2.
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10.00 Simply Walk, Wendover Clock Tower - accompanied walks in and near Wendover, see page 2 13.30 Knit and Natter, Wendover Community Library. Please ask at the Library for details.
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Tue 05 14.15 & 15.30 “Learn My Way” technology sessions at Wendover Community Library. Please book early!
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19.00-21.00 Breast Friends Aylesbury - Breast Cancer Support Group, please contact for details. 20.00 Kimble & Ellesborough Hort Society - ‘Bugs and Beasties’ with Paul Patton, Stewart Hall HP17 0XN. See page 2
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10.00 Wendover U3A monthly meeting, St Mary’s Church, Wendover
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12.00-14.00 FREE Wills & Estate Planning Sessions with Wanstall Consulting, Wendover Library. See page 2.
Thu 07
14.30 Wendover Horticultural Society, St Anne’s Hall. Speaker John Marshall on gardening in the Spring, see page 12.
Thu 07 & Sat 09
see listing AC, B & DB Horticultural Society, Thu 07 - show entry night 18.00-19.45; Sat 09 - spring show 14.00, see website.
Thu 07 Thu 07 Fri 08
evening Bucks Bird Club, online meeting. See website for details. 19.00-20.00 Wendover Library Reading Group, Wendover Community Library evening The Wendover Society Spring Supper and AGM, Wendover Memorial Hall. See page 10.
Sat 09-Sun 24
daily Wendover Easter Hunt - What do the bunnies’ letters spell? See advert back page.
Sat 09
09.00-12.00 Repair Café, St Michael’s Aston Clinton. Donations for repairs performed welcome!
Sat 09
14.30-16.30 Aylesbury Vale Stitchers, Wendover Memorial Hall, speaker Jude Barrett. See page 3.
Sat 09 Sat 09 Sun 10 12-17 & 19-24 Tue 12 Wed 13 & 27 Wed 13 Thu 14-Sun 17 Thu 14 & 28
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19.30 Wendover Music Concert featuring Steven Osborne on piano. See advert page 4.
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11.00-12.00 Messy Sunday, All Saints’, Buckland 10.30-15.30 ‘Hare, There & Everywhere’ Family Trail, College Lake Nature Reserve HP23 5QG. See page 13. 19.30 Wendover Evening WI, Safah Shah from Aylesbury Women’s Aid. St Anne’s Hall. See page 4.
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10.00-12.00 Craft Group, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 4 20.00 AC, B & DB Horticultural Society, “Give your garden the designer touch”, with Maria Greenhills, Anthony Hall AClinton www.astonclintonhorticulturalsociety.co.uk daily Easter Services at local churches, see website and advert page 4 for listings
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19.30 Wendover Art Club, St Anne’s Hall. 14 - Paralympian David Smith; 28 - RE Crimson, demo with oils & acrylics. See p4. www.wendoverartclub.co.uk
Sat 16
10.00-14.00 Wendover Local Produce Market, Manor Waste - includes Wendover Evening WI stall, see page 4 15.00-17.00 Cream Teas, St Peter & St Paul HP16 0BA - weekly until 25 September, see page 4.
Thu 21
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14.30 ‘Charing Cross to China: the Extraordinary Adventures of a Nurse’ St Peter & St Paul HP16 0BA. See page 3
Sun 17 Wed 20
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20.00 Bucks Historical Association, via Zoom. With speaker Dr Susan Kilby. ‘Fantastic Beasts.’ See page 4. 09.00-14.00 Legacy Fairs Antiques & Collectors Fair, Wendover Memorial Hall, see advert page 4
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Fri 22 14.30 & 19.30 OnScreen - 14.30 - children’s film; 19.30 - film for older audiences. Details, tickets & shows Wendover Library. P4 Fri 22 Sat 23
20.00 Aston Wine Club, “Brightwell Vineyard.” Buckland Village Hall. See page 4. all day Pace BIG Walk & Superhero Mile, John Colet School. See page 4.
Sat 23
10.00-14.00 Tring Together Spring Fayre, Church Sq, Tring. Daily until 8 May. See page 4.
Sat 23
10.30-11.30 Book Club, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 5.
Sat 23
11.00-15.00 Craft Fayre, St Michael’s Aston Clinton, see page 5.
Sat 23 Sun 24 Sun 24
19.30 Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra in concert for Rennie Grove, St Mary’s, Wendover. Tickets £15pp. all day Hemel Hillbuster fundraising cycle ride, Gadebridge Park HP1 1DN, see page 5
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11.00 St George’s Day Victorian Fayre & Parade, Aylesbury, see page 5
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19.30 RSPB Local Group, “Looking for the Goshawk” with Conor Jameson. Prebendal Hall HP19 7QW. See p 13..
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Thu 28
18.30 Annual Parish Meeting, Chiltern Way Academy. See advert front page.
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Thu 28
20.00 Ayles Ctre of the National Trust, “The common lodging-house in Victorian England.” Broughton Jr Schl. See p 5.
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Thu 28
20.00 Jazz Upfront, James Pearson Trio, St Mary’s Aylesbury. Doors open 19.30. See page 5.
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Fri 29
20.00 W Turville Historical Society, “Arts & Crafts Amersham” with Alison Bailey, W Turville Village Hall.
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Sat 30
19.00 Fashion Show, Wendover Community Library. Tickets £6, fundraiser for the Library, see page 5.
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Wendover Parish Council Matters Arising View from the Chair
Parish Council Meeting Tuesday 5 April, 7.30pm St Anne’s Hall For all meeting and committee dates please visit our webpage www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/meetings
As I write today, the sun is shining albeit cold and breezy! However, desperate news arrives hourly from Ukraine and our thoughts are with those fleeing conflict and especially those staying to fight on. It puts our concerns very much in perspective. Some of our projects have been delayed following the storms and high winds but we are expecting the remaining trees to be planted shortly. The cycle path will be completed as far as Wharf Rd by the end of March. Some bicycle symbols have been painted along Lionel Avenue which are frequent and large. Following a conversation with the project manager, it is hoped that remaining symbols will be smaller and more spread out. As with all these projects there are rules as to what must be put in, helpful or not.
Annual Parish Meeting
Join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 28 April, in the Sports Hall at Chiltern Way Academy. Hear from our guest speaker Paul Coffey, Head of The Chiltern Way Academy. Receive an update on Wendover Parish Council’s achievements in 2021, and how the local community has been helped through the grants awarded in 2021/2022. Watch the presentation of the Wendover Community Awards and participate in a discussion on matters New Additions to The Orchard We had a meeting with the project manager at raised by residents in the parish. Nibbles and Following a request from Rennie Grove, the the steps/path between Coombe Ave and the refreshments will be provided. We hope to see Amenities Committee agreed that a sensory station car path to discuss the proposal. Concerns hedge, trees and bench could be placed at the top you there! See advert front page. were raised about the potential for collisions end of the orchard as a special space for people between those descending the path and cars to be able to remember loved ones. backing out of adjacent drives, the overall look of the scheme and size of the path. We wait to see A sensory hedge is a linear arrangement of plants what transpires. which can stimulate all of our five senses of touch, taste, smell, sound and sight.
On a more positive note, I can now announce that our application to HS2 Additional projects for the canal path upgrade has been awarded and contracts signed for work starting in the next financial year! My thanks to Peter Elwin of the Wendover Arm Trust, and many members of the Canal and River Trust for their help and support of this application.
Four silver birch and four rowan tree saplings were planted.
I hope that by the next View, there will be more encouraging news from Ukraine. In the meantime, I wish you a peaceful Easter. Sheila Bulpett
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