I'd Rather Be In Deeping April 2021

ISSUE 070 / APRIL 2021

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Welcome As dark and gloomy winters go the winter of 2020/21 is certainly up amongst the winners! But in all of that gloom there were some beacons of warmth and hope and, on behalf of all of the locals who have asked me to do so, I would like to say a very big thank you to all of the Deeping businesses who have stepped up to the plate to offer people a varied and interesting shopping experience – but especially to The Junction up on Northfields, Lilli’s Tea Room and Cakery, and Godsey Lane Coffee who have opened to serve takeaway piping hot drinks, delicious cakes and bacon butties to warm the cockles on even the most dispiriting of days! Let’s hope for much happier times to come and I am sure we will remember to support those who supported us!

Judy Stevens 3

May is the anniversary of my 4 years representing Deepings East (Deeping St James and Langtoft) at Lincolnshire County Council.

It’s been an absolute pleasure working with both Parish Councils with their support in making this great place even better.

There are still ongoing issues with roads and pavements, but by keeping up the pressure, we will eventually succeed in filling the last pothole! It’s a mammoth task for the County Council with 5,500 miles of road and a budget of £50million. Since my election in 2017, I’ve been campaigning for ‘fairer funding for Lincolnshire’.

As Executive Support Councillor for Economy & Place at County, it has been a perfect position to support our businesses in Deepings East, enabling me to support them through these unusual times and to provide young people the skills training they need. During my twenty-five years in Germany, I was impressed by the apprenticeships schemes they had there; schemes that we have forgotten

long ago. Apprenticeships are essential to provide the perfect craftsmen for our businesses and, indeed, for themselves to establish their own business. Our Eventus Centre is a perfect centre for start-up and growing businesses to flourish.

Among other roles, I was elected member of the LEP Energy Council, exploring energy from renewable resources, reducing carbon emissions.

Clean energy is vital for us to protect our fantastic countryside in Lincolnshire and beyond.

It’s been my honour and privilege to support you throughout my time as your county councillor and I hope to be able to support you for another 4 years. Please drop me a line to

Barry Dobson barrymdobson@gmail.com and I’ll set up a Zoom call for us to have a virtual meeting. Follow me on Twitter @CllrBDobson.

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Making Britain great again… Rewildling

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Easter in Eastgate

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Profile: Louise Sampson

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Bunnies - not just for Easter

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… a Mum’s tale

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Family Skeletons

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Found in Deeping

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School’s out - forever

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A simple meditation

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NEWS Children at Market Deeping Community Primary School celebrated return from lockdown by welcoming chicks from The Happy Chick Companyl. The children loved watching the eggs hatch and the chicks growing – spring is definitely in the air! The school also held a “Bad Hair Day” for Comic Relief and were delighted to hit their fundraising target of £300.

Langtoft, The Deepings & District Royal British Legion (RBL) branch are recruiting new voluntary Organiser(s) to make sure the annual Poppy Appeal goes ahead this autumn. The role includes ordering poppies, pin badges and other fundraising materials and keeping records as well as coordinating and building a team of volunteer collectors and working with local organisations.

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In spite of a difficult year, friendship group, Nene and Welland Oddfellows pulled out the online stops to raise a magnificent £1525 for the Exotic Pet Refuge. This included £150 raised by the sale of knitted toys by Chairwoman, June Holt (pictured). Incoming Chairman, John Sargeant will continue to support the Exotic Pet Refuge as his charity of the year.

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Having worked with the Deeping Lions on the Santa Sleigh, Tom Evans was keen to become a fully fledged member and he was welcomed on a Zoom meeting with his wife Katy and children Isla and Bethan in attendance.

The Limnephilus pati (species of caddisfly) once found here in the fens was thought to have become extinct after a century without any sightings. But conservation body Buglife said against all the odds a male of the species was recently attracted to a light trap monitored by amateur entomologist Robin Sutton on South Uist (pictured) in the Outer Hebrides.

A new pop punk band with a music style similar to that of Green Day, Blink-182 and Sum 41 has launched locally.

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Topics included ‘my idols and why’, football, dancing and poignantly in this distanced year ‘best friends’. President Mary Martin said ‘We were delighted to reward them all and to make a donation to the Youth Group which has been a lifeline for the young people of the Deepings during this past year.’

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MEMORIES came in WW2 he decided that he would bring the family back to Deeping and Gordon let him know that 64 was up for rent from the Burghley estate and helped him to get the tenancy sorted. The previous tenant had been the wonderfully named Mr Quartermaine. There was a little side building, which is now just part of the garden, which Grandad opened as a chemist’s shop and I understand the villagers of DSJ were delighted not to have to go to Market Deeping for their medicines etc any more.’

Following the March online issue of the magazine Margaret Barrett one of the Mulligan family wote ‘The Institute, just down the street from Grandma Mulligan at 64 Church Street, was always somewhere we knew about because Grandma used to help with the voluntary laundry and really enjoyed doing that.

I was so pleased to read how it is now such a wonderful centre for the village.

The feature also inspired Trevor Harwood, Trustee of DSJ United Charities to remember.

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Easter in Eastgate It was a quintessential English country cottage, at the top of Eastgate with the river flowing by at the bottom of the garden. This was large with trees laden with blossom in spring and fruit in late summer and bushes full of jewel-like berries. Built in 1769, the house was L shaped, the walls were mud and stud with a cement render and when you entered from the pavement you were in the hall with a good-sized parlour on the right. At the back was a smaller-sized comfortable sitting room with a bow window looking out onto the garden. Beyond this was a kitchen and walk-in pantry. There were two sheds, one for coal and wood and the other for general storage. And the outside privy or loo. Upstairs there were three bedrooms.

The house had been built by an old Deeping family, the Chesterfields (who featured in issue 6 of this magazine) who were farmers and craftsmen in a wide spectrum of trades ranging from furniture makers to grocers, to drapers. In 1874 the widow of Francis Chesterfield, Jane Ann, sold her deceased husband’s farm in Frognall and with the proceeds opened a draper’s shop in the family home. Jane had served an apprenticeship to a milliner and dressmaker and had, until her marriage, run a business from her parents’, James and Ann Frisby’s, home in Eastgate where they had a farm of 30 acres.

She had married Francis in a ceremony at the Priory Church in 1866 and the couple had two children George (b.1870) and Samuel (b.1873).

The business thrived and Jane employed both of her sons in the shop. Samuel left briefly to undertake Post Office training and returned as a Rural Postman, but eventually he set up his own butcher’s shop in Eastgate. After their mother’s death in 1912, George took over the shop until after the First World War when he had to give up for health reasons.

About this time the brothers, now infirm, found themselves in court after young Harold Howes, also of Deeping St James, had stolen three shillings on 31 May 1921 while picking gooseberries for which he had been paid three

Kate Moulds (centre) pence. Harold’s father had birched him but the boy was unrepentant and so his father referred him to the authorities. The Bench told Harold that if he came before the court again he would be sent to an industrial school. His father had to pay 25 shillings court costs, Harold was told to return the money he had stolen and was bound over to be on good behaviour of six months in the sum of £2.

Samuel died in 1925 and his brother George three years later, bringing to an end the Chesterfields’ era at the shop at the top of Eastgate. The enterprise was then taken over by Londoners Charles and Alice Lincoln who lived further down Eastgate in Roma Cottage. Charles’ nickname was Romeo. He had been an auctioneer and retired to the country but as an active man saw an opportunity in Chesterfields’ shop and took it over, building an extension with a red pantile roof and turning the business into a grocery and confectioners.

The shop thrived as schoolchildren would spend their pocket money on the way to school, a halfpenny in those days affording a generous selection of sweets. Workmen would call in for tobacco on their way home from work.

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FEATURE his father Robert who had moved to 63 Church Street when he retired as Senior Foreman at Messrs R Hornby & Son in Grantham in 1921. George had had an illustrious career at the Morris Motor Car company where he started as a clerk but rose up through the ranks to become Mr Morris’s Private Secretary – he spoke French fluently and was an expert shorthand writer. He bought the same business acumen to the shop at the top of Eastgate. Entering the confectionery part of the shop through a solid front door a window display would exhibit all the mouth-watering treats on offer.

He expanded the range of groceries and all kinds of sweets and chocolates, carrying all brands of pipe tobacco and cigarettes. An unassuming man, he was happy to sell a pennyworth of sweets to children and to weigh ounces of tobacco known as twist to the workers. He cut the required amount from a coil almost as thick as a thumb, using a little knife so old that its blade was almost worn away.

The grocery part of the shop had a low corrugated roof and was accessed through a wide doorway. This had a much larger display window with shelving edged with white paper showing a selection of desirable goodies. The shop was stocked with a vast array of tinned goods from beans to fruit, and there was also an extensive range of biscuits, a ready supply of fresh fruit and everything needed for domestic cleaning as well. Deeping St James’ answer to Tesco Superstore!

In the autumn, Mr Knowles would hand out his Christmas Club catalogue containing all sorts of treats to tempt his customers: fancy biscuit tins, boxes of chocolates and a good selection of Christmas fare. Each customer was given a payment card and they could pay an amount of their choice to help them out with the big Christmas shop!

But at Eastertime the confectionery side of the business exploded into a vision of loveliness – a cornucopia of chocolate eggs enrobed in brightly coloured silver paper; the average price of which with a small gift inside was one shilling. Cheaper was the forerunner of Cadburys creme egg, which first made its appearance in 1923. Massproduced decorated eggs started to appear during the 1920s but in the 1930s the splendour of the Cadbury range of eggs filled with assortments became something at which to marvel. These magnificent eggs, elegantly packed in decorated cardboard boxes, appealed to the adult section of the market. By the early thirties chocolate eggs 16

Mr Knowles and his shop were attached to many gift items including watches, jewellery and even cutlery. Cadbury’s had first made an Easter egg in 1875 but they only took off in 1905 when the dairy milk chocolate was manufactured.

By 1934 both of George’s parents had died and he and his wife Rebecca moved into Harrowby Cottage, so named after the street where they had lived in Grantham where George was born. By 1939 George had retired from the shop and enjoyed 13 years of retirement before his death in 1952 aged 72. Rebecca received £1,826 in the Will and lived until 1974 when she died aged 88.

South Luffenham born Kate Moulds had taken over the shop from George and lived on the site with her two children Diana (b.1926) and Maurice (b.1931). Her husband Arthur, a Midland Railway Signalman had died in 1936. Kate married again in 1939, this time to a Railway Fireman Frederick Juniper. Diana married Alfred Amey in Peterborough in 1947 and Maurice moved to Coventry. Following the breakup of her marriage Kate left the area and the house and shop were taken over by Mrs Lily Coley, helped by her daughter Freda who had come from Stowgate. By 1960 the shop had closed and the house was in a dilapidated state. It was demolished and a new bungalow built.

Lily died in 1980 but Freda continued to live in the bungalow and could be regularly seen heading up the monthly parade of the Girls Life Brigade who would march from the Cross to the Methodist Church, almost until her death in 2015.

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Louise Sampson - one to watch It is probably an understatement to say that Louise Sampson is not a girl to let the grass grow under her feet! So when after a fortnight it was beginning to look like it wouldn’t all be over by Easter and her close contact business ‘Wink, Lash and Brow’ would be closed for the foreseeable future, Louise turned to the Deeping Business Support Group for help.

‘Being given the opportunity to talk to a business mentor and to look at things from a different perspective in a two way dialogue saw the birth of award winning bijou box uk!’

As is often the case when a new business evolves it feels as if life to that date has been a rehearsal to arrive at that point. This is certainly the case with Louise. Born in Scotland but bought up in the Deepings, Louise studied at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge where she took a degree in Youth and Community Work. As a qualified Youth Worker she embraced the challenge working for Peterborough City Council, leading projects and applying for funding and enjoying every minute of it! This led to a position at what was then the Voyager now Queen Katherine Academy in Peterborough, as Head of Community Arts in Extended Schools. As well as teaching, Louise would work with local primary schools and headed up pupil premium arts based subjects, based on government funding to help improve the attainment of disadvantaged students.

After five years in education it was time to move on and Louise took up a role at the Teenage Cancer Trust supporting young people with cancer. This involved working on a nationwide programme to work with young people in schools and dealing with the long18

term affects of the disease and of the treatment which is often debilitating. It was during this time that Louise took up the offer of working alongside her friend Louise Garford at the Beauty Hub as a one evening a week antidote to a mentally demanding role at the Cancer Trust. So HD Brows was born; shaping, waxing, treating, threading a treatment for brows which has grown in popularity in recent years. But while the treatment is being carried out a close relationship grows between the client and the practitioner and so the listening, talking and problemsolving techniques, which had been endemic in the work that Louise had undertaken in her career to this point, were once again pressed into action. Soon the side hustle grew into a full-time opportunity and with son Teddy fast growing, Louise embraced the chance to plan her working day around her son , leaving the Cancer Trust to set up ‘Wink Lash and Brow’ in a purpose-built cabin at her home in Market Deeping.

Louise enjoyed two and a half years building her business before the pandemic hit and before her conversations with Emma Lanningan via the Deeping Business Support Group. To create an opportunity that would also future proof her business was the focus of their deliberations. To do this Louise drew on her career to date; as a close contact worker in the self-care and beauty industry which had been negatively affected by lockdown. As a qualified mental first-aider herself, Louise knew the signs and negative impacts of low mental health. And so the idea of a seasonal subscription box centring on beauty and lifestyle pampering products as a way to lift the spirits was born, sourcing six products from independent beauty and lifestyle businesses and then packaging them up into highly desirable sustainable package for

an annual subscription of £140 (a single box is £40).

And then came the 2020 Lloyds Business Award for Small Businesses. ‘Her go-getting collaborative attitude of supporting others has really appealed to consumers, making her a very worthy recipient of this award.’ said Gareth Oakley MD of Business Banking at Lloyds. The Deepings community has once again come up trumps, supporting Louise in the embryonic days of her new business. But with mentoring (with entrepreneur Sharmadean Reid MBE) and a marketing package as part of her prize, the plans for bijou box uk have been accelerated.

But the story does not end there! Louise has continued to teach the techniques of threading eyebrows in Milton Keynes when possible and as soon as she heard that the NHS were on the look-out for vaccinators – you guessed! Louise signed up and having training for the role is now part of the proud vaccination roll out in the UK! The entrepreneurship in this amazing family continues. Having mastered the art of product photography for Louise’s box choices, husband Chris has now set up Little Light Photography while son Teddy has developed his own chocolate and origami business box!

Those Sampsons – they’re ones to watch!

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Bunnies - not just for Easter says Della Smith

Rabbits can live up to 12+ years, so please consider adopting adult rabbits. They are just as cute and playful as baby rabbits and there are far too many in rescues, waiting for their forever home.

You can find a local rescue at rabbitrehome.org.uk

My name is Della and I run a website called Best4bunny and produce a magazine by the same name. If you haven’t already guessed Best4bunny is all about rabbits.

While rabbits are very popular pets, sadly, they are also the most neglected and abandoned. I believe this is because they are so misunderstood when it comes to their care and individual needs. I have shared my life with rabbits for more than 40 years and decided to do something about helping to educate people.

So I created my website Best4bunny.com followed by the Best4bunny magazine. Both are full of fun and easy-to-follow friendly advice on rabbit care, whether people are new to rabbits or experienced.

The response has been amazing. I still can’t believe Best4bunny has over 46K followers on Facebook.

Here’s my advice if you are thinking of bringing a rabbit (or two) into your life...

Rabbits do make great pets but you must be well prepared for them and it is so important to educate yourself on how to care for them.

Rabbits are prey animals and will naturally be shy, reserved and maybe even aggressive, until they learn to trust you. Once they do trust you, they will become confident and their personalities will shine, but you do have to be patient.

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Rabbits are very clean animals and love a clean home, so regular cleaning will be needed. If you won’t lie down in their home, don’t expect your rabbit to either!

Rabbits do not make ideal starter pets for young children.

They are complex animals to care for and are far too much responsibility for children alone to look after. So always make sure the whole family will care for the rabbit.

All rabbits will need to be spayed/neutered, even if they live alone or live with another rabbit that is the same sex.

When rabbits reach maturity (around 2 to 5 months old) their hormones will kick in and their behaviour can change dramatically. Young rabbits are likely to start fighting with each other at this age. Having them neutered/spayed will calm down their hormones and behaviour.

Rabbits need space and lots of it to be happy and healthy. No rabbit should live in a small cramped hutch or cage.

Rabbits are social animals and hate to be alone. They should ideally live in pairs, but they will need to be neutered/spayed and properly bonded to be able to live together. If you can only have one, then have them live indoors with you as a house rabbit. They will enjoy your company – but make sure you rabbitproof your house first.

Rabbits need to eat lots of hay each and every day to stay healthy, so always provide them with a continuous supply of good quality hay. A rabbit’s diet should be 80% hay, 10% pellets, 10% vegetables and fresh water. They have sensitive stomachs and new foods always need to be introduced slowly.

Did you know carrots are actually bad for rabbits? They are high in sugar and should only be fed as a small treat.

Grooming your rabbit regularly is very important (especially when they are moulting). They clean themselves many times a day and if they digest too much fur they can become seriously ill very quickly.

Rabbits need to keep their minds active to be happy.

A bored rabbit can become disruptive and aggressive.

Keep them entertained with plenty of exercise and lots of rabbit-friendly toys.

Rabbits need vaccinations and health checks every year. They are classed as exotic animals and most vets don’t know as much about them, as they do cats and dogs! Look for a vet that specialises in exotic pets.

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School’s out - forever

WEST DEEPING SCHOOL

Fifty years ago, the children of West Deeping left school for the Easter holidays, never to go back!

Teachers Many people’s most vivid memories are of their teachers. Only a few people might remember Miss Grassam and her assistant Miss Garford, in post until 1935. Some people will still remember Mrs Mary Rodgers who taught here from 1936 to 1942. She stayed in the village and was an enthusiastic member of the Evergreens for many years after her retirement.

West Deeping Church of England School, now the Village Hall

It’s easy to guess from its architecture that what is now West Deeping Village Hall – the distinctive red brick building on King Street – used to be the village school.

Since it opened in May 1900, until it closed 50 years ago on 6th April 1971, many generations of children passed through the doors of West Deeping Church of England Primary School.

Memories

Many more remember Miss Florence Day, the headmistress from 1942 to 1967, and the infant teachers Miss Florence Day Mrs Peach and Mrs Fathers. Debbie King (née Jibb) remembered Miss Day’s kindness as well as her rather erratic driving and several attempts to pass her driving test. Mrs Wilson Smith was the Headmistress for the last few years and moved to the William Hildyard school when West Deeping closed. Debbie, herself a hairdresser, particularly remembered Mrs Smith’s beehive hairstyle, kept in place with lots of lacquer. One of Marion Crowson’s memories is of Mrs Peach bringing shortbread from Stamford for her mid-morning break with Miss Day.

Some former pupils have kindly shared their memories and, to fill in the gaps, there is information in the village archives. See Virginia Hall’s book, A Portrait of West Deeping and visit West Deeping Heritage website for more history: https://wdheritage. wordpress.com

Memorabilia

We have only one or two photographs of the school interior – one from the late 1930s before gas or electricity were installed, when there were still paraffin lamps. The impressive display of artwork was probably for an Inspector’s visit – no-one can remember there being such things as Parents’ Days!

When the school closed, Nick also salvaged some wind and weather charts – filled in daily from September 1968 until the last entry, for 3rd April 1971, a few days before the school’s closure.

Another avid collector, Allan Crowson, kept the rubber stamp for ‘West Deeping School’. It’s now rather perished but was probably used many times on school books and correspondence. The blackboard and easel, recently refurbished by my husband, are still used occasionally for village events.

Village school interior in the late 1930s Everyone remembers the two classrooms, one for the infants and one for the juniors, with a glazed partition which could be pulled back to make more space, and the woodblock parquet flooring had that distinctive smell of new polish at the beginning of every school year. There were two big potbellied stoves, fed with coke and lit every morning by the school caretaker (Mrs Laurie Wilson in later years). Marion Crowson (née Wilson) remembers winter days when the stove would get red hot! A canteen was added in 1949 to provide hot meals for children even though they all lived within walking distance of their homes and few mothers went out to work. The toilets were outside, originally with separate buildings for the boys and girls. Until proper sewerage came to the village, the ‘vaults’ had to be emptied regularly!

Very few pieces of school memorabilia have survived, as far as we know. Thanks to former pupil Nick Sandall, we still have the school bell (one of the five objects described in I’d rather be in Deeping in the Jan/Feb2021 issue).

Wind and weather chart 1971

Marion Crowson still has a booklet that reminds her of music lessons: ‘Twice a week we had the BBC radio on Singing Together on a Monday and Rhythm and Melody on a Thursday.’ Theresa Briggs (née Marsden) went to the school for only brief periods during the 1960s, between her father’s postings abroad, but fondly remembers her favourite thing – a doll’s house, brought out for rainy playtimes. continued >

BBCBroadcasts for Schools 1957

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Marion Crowson was able to remember most of the names in a photograph probably taken in 1957 or 1958. (She’s the blonde girl in the middle of the back row.) Probably taken in January 1969, this is the last school photograph we know of. With the help of several of the children featured we can now name all except two! (Thanks to Debbie King, Jonathan Sandall, Karen Whitworth (née Grimwood) and Maxine Rippon.)

WEST DEEPING SCHOOL Photographs There are several photographs in the village archives – some from Florence Day’s own collection. Only one is dated, the photo of a Christmas party in 1950, kept in a scrapbook by Ann Frary (née Sells). Teachers, familiar faces, outfits and documentary evidence have helped to date others.

Miss Day & Mrs Peach with schoolchildren 1944

Thanks to Terri Collins and a note made by her father, Francis Bullock, in A Portrait of West Deeping, we are able to date one photograph to a very precise period – June to October 1944! The girl at the right end of the front row who had been evacuated Miss Day & Mrs Peach with schoolchildren 1957 from London during the Second World War, to stay with her grandmother, Emma Merrishaw, the village postmistress. Janet was in Miss Day’s class of 8 to 14 year-olds and remembered school days when they went out picking rose hips from the hedgerows, picking peas or lifting potatoes in the fields. There are several entries in the Log Book which mention these ‘war efforts’. Miss Day recorded on 10th September 1944 that ‘55½ pounds of hips have been collected this week’.

School children in 1969

1 Jane Lewis 2 Ian Jibb 3 Deborah Jibb 4 ? Day (Miss Day’s nephew) 5 Margaret Carratt 6 Frances Ferris 7 Paul Neal 8 David Wilson 9 Rosalind Beagles

10 Colin Strickland 11 ? Day (Miss Day’s nephew) 12 Christopher Wilson 13 Sheena Melton 14 Maxine Rippon 15 Karen Grimwood 16 Jonathan Sandall 17 Pamela Carratt

Closure

Memories

Numbers had dwindled to less than 20 children by 1968. Mrs Fathers, the assistant mistress, was only allowed to teach for three mornings a week, leaving Mrs Smith to teach the infants and juniors together the rest of the time. The announcement came from the Local Education Authority that, along with ten other ‘one-teacher’ schools in the county, West Deeping was scheduled to close.

Ten years ago we recorded some of the memories of village residents – John Berridge and Grace Marsden are no longer with us, sadly, but the recordings have been transcribed recently and remind me how impressed I was that Grace was able to recite – from memory – the school song she had learned at West Deeping School around 60 years before! This is only the first verse:

There might be a few parents who still remember the public meeting in May 1969 to protest against the Education Authority’s decision to transfer their children to schools in Market Deeping. They were up in arms – particularly about the transport arrangements which meant children as young as 5 sharing the bus that took older children to the Secondary Modern School and would involve an hour and a half of travel every day. These worries continue to challenge parents whose children go by bus to school - up to the present day! On 5th April, the day when the school officially closed, the children (and parents) must have had very mixed feelings – regret, nostalgia and some worries about going to the much bigger schools in Market Deeping.

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There may be many Deepings, but there’s only one for us It isn’t Market Deeping, nor yet Deeping Nicholas It isn’t Deeping James we love, but little Deeping West Of all the Deepings various, the very very best!

So after more than 70 years, the village lost its school. Phyllis Wilson, whose two children went to the school, and has lived in West Deeping since the late 1930s, feels the village has never been the same since, but the memories live on!

If you too have memories of West Deeping School, I would love to hear from you. wdheritage@hotmail.co.uk or 01778 344768 Maggie Ashcroft, West Deeping Heritage

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A simple meditation with Ray Pawlett

MEDITATION

A Simple Meditation Here is a simple and meditation for you to try:-

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• Sit in a comfortable quiet place • Straighten your spine • Close your eyes and listen to your breath • Notice how inhalation and exhalation sound different • Every time that your mind wanders – come back to the sound of your breath

Several years ago, I was attending a meditation at the Amaravati Buddhist monastery near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It is an amazing place and if you have never been there, it is well worth a visit.

My brother and I met an elderly lady who was a retired nun. She was a wonderful and very wise person. The sort of person that makes you feel relaxed just by being there. She told us a story about when she was a lot younger; when she was in a nasty car crash.

Her injuries were so bad that she could easily have bled to death. However, she had a trick up her sleeve. She actually thought that her time was probably finished, so she decided to meet her end in a state of meditation. This is what saved her life!

When we learn how to do real meditation, as opposed to simple relaxation, we learn how to change the state of our nervous system so that we are no longer in ‘survival mode’ but in a much different ‘relaxation’ mode.

Our friend, the nun, went into this relaxation; it slowed down her heartbeat sufficiently for her to not bleed to death.

Benefits of meditation Meditation has been around for a long time and is done all over the world. Consequently, much work has been done to work out the benefits of meditation. Most of them derive from better regulation of the fight-or-flight response. Here are some of the many examples of the benefits of meditation:

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It boosts your health Increases immune function It boosts your happiness Decreases depression, anxiety and stress It boosts your social life Increases social connection and emotional intelligence It boosts your self control Improves your ability to regulate your emotions It changes your brain (for the better) Increases grey matter It improves your productivity Increases your focus & attention

That’s it! Meditation demystified and simplified. There can be more to it than that but if you can manage this simple version of what is called Zazen meditation then you are getting the idea!

The more you practise, the easier it becomes. My weekly zoom session on Tuesdays at 3 gives a regular input to your practice that you can dip in and out of. With a little practice and coaching you can integrate meditation into many aspects of your life from Tai Chi to cooking and music.

This will REALLY make a big difference to your life!

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Making Britain great again...

Rewildling

BIRDS

Words and Pictures by William Bowell Picture this dear reader. I’ve had an early start, after weeks of early starts at work; I force myself to go and look for the Lesser-spotted Woodpecker at silly-o-clock one Sunday. Why? Because Lesserspotted Woodpeckers have become exceptionally scarce in our area and indeed the rest of Britain and are best found in the first hour or so of the day.

This miniature Woodpecker, the size of a Sparrow, was once common across the land, indeed could even be found down Sandy Lane, Eastgate, back in the day. But these days just a few pairs are known in the Peterborough area.

What has caused such decline? Certainly habitat loss has contributed to it but also the rise in their bigger cousin, Great-spotted Woodpecker, in ancient woodlands hasn’t helped.

Your common garden Starlings used to be even more common and nest in holes in trees in woodland; feeding on insects on farmland. But pesticides killed the insects which moved the Starlings out of the woods, leading to Great-spots finding new holes to nest in. Great-spotted Woodpeckers not only out-compete other hole nesters but also predate their young. Thus Lesser-spots have become very much lesser spotted!

But I digress... I left Bedford Purleus unsuccessful in my quest for Lesserspotted Woodpecker and decided to head to Deeping Lakes, via Deeping Highbank. With nothing exceptional on the Highbank, I noticed all the ducks were gathered on the east side of the East Pit at Deeping Lakes. Odd, I thought, but nothing more. Until minutes later, I received a call from my friend: ‘Have you visited Deeping Lakes this morning?’

‘G471’, a reintroduced Whitetailed Eagle from the Isle of Wight, had spent three hours that same morning at Deeping Lakes. Indeed, it spent a large amount of time in the large tree in the north west corner of East Pit, hence why when I arrived White-tailed Eagle the wildlfowl were hunched into the east side of the pit. It also had spent time on the Island of the Lake and in a couple of other trees around the Lake, all tracked through the transmitter on its back.

Capercaillie Remarkable, for sure, but White-tailed Eagles are just the one of the latest in Britain’s attempt to relive its past. This flying barn-door, the biggest bird of prey in Britain and the biggest that actively hunts prey in Europe, was first reintroduced into the Isle of Wight in 2019, with six individuals and then seven last year.

Made extinct in England at man’s hand in the 18th century, this amazing bird of prey even nested on Whittlesea Mere. It became extinct in Scotland early in the 20th century but in the 1970s was reintroduced with young birds from Norway nests. Now, the country has a wonder 130 or more pairs and with England’s wide coastline and wetland habitats, the hope is to do another reintroduction into Norfolk soon.

Of course other species made extinct by man and recently reintroduced include Ospreys, which are now established around Rutland Water (and Dorset as well, with another programme set to start in Suffolk) and Red Kite which has become so successful, we are even helping the declining Spanish population with reintroductions, from where our reintroduced birds originate!

Corncrakes are confined to the Scottish Islands but were reintroduced onto the Nene Washes during the late 2000s with a limited success, which bizarrely has seen birds move to the Ouse Washes. This reintroduction programme is presumably doomed to failure; a real shame for a bird that was common during the days of non-intensive farming. continued >

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BIRDS

Another species, which has also become established on the Nene Washes, is the Common Crane. A reintroduction programme into the south west has proven very successful and last year saw the best breeding year for this species in hundreds of years, including the well-published pair at Willow Tree Fen near Tongue End. Europe’s heaviest flying bird, the Great Bustard, was driven to extinction through hunting but a reintroduction programme into Wiltshire and Salisbury Plain will perhaps see this incredibly attractive species displaying across England eventually, after a shaky start.

Of course it’s not all about birds. Other reintroductions in the past 30 years include Eurasian Beaver and Wild Boar into England and Scotland. And who knows , in the near Red Kite future European Lynx and Wolf could be next, to combat the unwieldy and unnatural Deer populations which have seen to local extinctions of Nightingales and other low scrub nesting songsters?

All great good news stories for the newspapers and all welcome sights above our skies or great to see walking in our landscape, but all of them are

big! What about my beloved Lesser-spotted Woodpecker? What about the House Sparrow and Starling in your garden? Or even worse; you haven’t see them for a few years?

These birds are becoming rare or even locally extinct. I live in Deeping St James yet House Sparrow is a rare bird in my garden. If we don’t act then these common species will go missing and we will be reintroducing them but you know what’s better than that? Saving them from the brink.

In the local area we have lost or have nearly lost Willow Tit, Marsh Tit, Turtle Dove, Corn Bunting, Tree Sparrow, Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, and this area isn’t the only one. But they will never make the headlines so will never be worthy of a reintroduction programme. These species will become extinct nationally unless we act.

So I urge you; read about how you can help the wildlife on your doorstep and I urge you to do something about it. As a nation, we seem to love to try and bring back what we have lost but how about trying to save what we have?

Will works at Grasmere Farm in Deeping St James (with a butcher’s and deli in Market Gate, Market Deeping) but in his spare time enjoys wildlife watching locally and across the country. He is also a keen photographer. Many of his images can be found at http://justwildimages.blogspot.co.uk/

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Reduce Reuse, Recycle ... a Mum’s tale

REFILL

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I found it relatively quick and easy to half the amount of waste in the black bin but I really struggled to reduce our recycling waste, so I looked into using a refill shop to buy as much as possible packaging free. I quickly got frustrated that I didn’t have many options for buying plastic free products like many other towns do, so I made an appointment to go and see Beth at Refill Revolution in Market Harborough to chat about opening a refill shop!

That was just as the first lockdown was coming into force in March 2020, so I put my ideas on hold and focused on the task of juggling home schooling two young girls and the day job! During the summer Beth introduced me to Charlotte who runs Refill Revolution in Oundle, we got chatting and together we opened Refill Revolution Stamford in the Corn Exchange at the end of September. In December we decided that Charlotte would focus on running Refill Revolution in Oundle and I’d focus on Stamford, we still work closely together but it’s me you’ll see behind the mask whilst out on deliveries at the moment!

When the January lockdown hit the whole Corn Exchange closed with it, whilst luckily our stock has a long shelf life, I didn’t want to see the business we’d spent the last 4 months growing close down overnight, so I tried deliveries and they’ve been the complete silver lining of lockdown for me.

I do deliveries on a Monday and Friday (Friday’s is The Deepings delivery Julie Danby day), orders are due in by 6pm the evening before. Foods are delivered in recycled paper bags which are packed in the morning and liquids are Looking to the future, whilst I’m waiting for the right location for a shop, I’m filled into customers own containers when I deliver. I load the car with the 20 litre exploring lots of options for keeping the shop mobile and bring Refill Revolutions containers of the household liquids and the scales and then fill up their bottles of to the customers, making it easier for more of us to make simple changes to reduce washing up liquid, laundry liquid, shampoo etc when I arrive, I’ve had some odd our food and packaging waste.’ looks from passer-by but it works really well!

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Family Skeletons

FAMILY HISTORY

and how to deal with them with Alan F Judge So how many skeletons do you have in your family? What do you mean, none?

Everybody has skeletons; it’s a family requirement. Some they’re willing to boast about, others they’d prefer to keep well and truly under wraps. If you’ve been making proper use of the Covid-19 lockdown then you must have thought about tracing your family history. So where do you start?

Well, obviously, you start with Granny. She will sit you down and tell you how great-great-Uncle George was really King George III in disguise, and how the Smith family all have their roots in the Norman invasion. All rubbish of course – or is it? Until you check it, you’ll never know. My great-grandfather, Sidney Angell, was born in 1861. His family lived in London where an estate known as the ‘Angell Millions’ existed (Google it). It’s still up for grabs. Sadly, I haven’t been able to prove that great-granddad could have been a beneficiary. On the other hand, we can trace my mother’s ancestors, the Aske family, back to around thirty-five generations ago in the 12th century. In the 16th century, one of them, Robert Aske, upset Henry VIII by starting an uprising against Henry’s decision to leave the Catholic Church (The Reformation). It was called the Pilgrimage of Grace. In the end, Henry had them all arrested and the leaders, including our very distant ancestor, were all drawn, hung and quartered (get it in the right order).

OK, you’ve spoken to Granny, she’s admitted that her story was a bit wild and has now given you details of her parents and grandparents.

What next? Well, in years gone by, family research usually meant a trip to the local parish church to look through their registers of births, deaths and marriages and to the Public Records Office, but most of this can now be done on the internet. This does make it a bit impersonal though. Just looking at the handwriting and notes in the old registers, some of it centuries old, always sent a shiver up my spine. Take a look at this 1790 marriage bond between my four times maternal great-grandfather and his future wife, Sarah. Neither could write, so they ‘made their mark’, two crosses at the bottom of the document. There’s nothing like actually holding a document one of your ancestors has handled over two centuries ago. You can start the family tree with yourself and work backwards, but I prefer to work from the earliest ancestor up to the present day. Try not to be led astray by making suppositions based on unproven information or you could end up in somebody else’s family. There is much more to researching family histories than I can cover in this short article, but I do heartily recommend it if you’re stuck in a Covid doldrum. If you find a few skeletons, don’t be frightened of sharing them with us.

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Welcome to the community nature reserve says David Rowell

People in the Deepings are being encouraged to get involved in a great new wildlife gardening scheme … from the comfort of their own garden.

The Langdyke Countryside Trust – which already owns and manages seven nature reserves in the area – is launching a unique campaign to create a community nature reserve.

The Langdyke Community Nature Reserve – the Trust’s eighth – will be made up from a whole range of established and newly created wildlife gardening plots … including yours!

The aim of the project is to bring people together across the local community, and particularly across the Deepings, to promote wildlife-friendly gardening and to give nature a chance to recover.

Organisers aim to share good practice and celebrate successes and make it easy for anyone to get involved.

Taking part isn’t difficult and you don’t even need a garden to take part. You could just install a window box or put up a bird table.

Every little thing you do will help nature.

It could be as simple as letting the grass grow in one area, putting up a bird box, planting some nature-friendly plants or leaving a pile of wood for hedgehogs and other wildlife to live in.

The gardening scheme is part of Langdyke’s overall project to create a vision for nature across the area it calls John Clare Countryside – particularly the villages around the Deepings and between Peterborough and Stamford.

The peasant poet John Clare, - who lived in Helpston, trudged the countryside and wrote about it in many of his poems.

No matter how large or small your garden you can get involved in creating the community nature reserve by pledging an area of your plot which is turned over to nature.

If you already have a wildlife friendly area, that’s brilliant.

If not, why not consider what you could do to create one.

All you have to do is measure an area that you can call wildlife friendly – it may be there already or you have plans to create it. Then visit the Langdyke website and pledge it as a little piece of the eighth reserve. There is no cost and your garden will still be your own.

You can find out how to measure your plot and how to get involved by visiting the Trust website’s eighth reserve page at https://langdyke.org.uk/the-eighth-reserve/ You can also view a video there explaining more about the scheme as well as pledge your support.

In the meantime here are some simple tips: • When buying plants from a garden centre try and purchase wildlife friendly ones • Save the leaves in the autumn and pile them up in sheltered areas to create habitats • Let the grass grow • Feed the birds • Install a bird table or bird box • Don’t cut back hedges or trees in the bird nesting season • Keep a lookout for hedgehogs and make sure they can get in and out of your garden • Create a wildlife pond There is more information and videos on the website.

Langdyke, which is a charity run entirely by volunteers, is always on the lookout for families who want to become members and offers a variety of events (mostly online at the moment because of Covid restrictions). It is hoped to restart nature walks and family days on the reserves in the near future. The Trust is also interested in hearing from anyone who wants to get involved in nature by volunteering to help with either admin roles or work on one of its reserves. You can find out more by visiting the website langdyke.org.uk

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5 ways to use flashcards with kids

Bury toy minibeasts in rice (or lentils, pasta, couscous, old breakfast cereal – whatever you have!) and ask the kids to see what they can find. Get the kids to use a brush to uncover the toys, and add a magnifying glass if you have one – kids love using these! Place the flashcards around the edge and ask the kids to match up the minibeasts as they find them. Older children can sound out some of the familiar words on the flashcards. This is a great activity for fine motor skills (using a brush, picking up toys), good for encouraging vocabulary (ask younger children what the minibeasts are, what colour they are) and counting (ask children how many of each have they found).

Spring sensory play Put together a tray with anything spring-related you can find – think chicks, Easter eggs, bunnies, carrots, lambs and flowers. Use rice, pasta, straw, grass, soil etc as a base. Basically, anything goes! There’s lots of ways for kids to play with a tray like this: they may match colours up, dig around in the soil, mix it all up, make up little stories. There can do so much with this type of tray.

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Bug hunting

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Flashcards can be used in so many ways, from simple matching games to story-telling and inspiration for arts and crafts. Michelle Urquhart, co-founder of Bee a Little Wild, a local business creating nature-inspired flashcards, shares some simple ideas.

Using yellow play dough and an assortment of pipe cleaners, dried beans, buttons, glass marbles, sequins, get the kids to make a buzzy bee. A good one for fine motor skills with picking up small items and placing them in the ‘right’ place. You could also encourage counting, by asking kids to give the bee one, two or three stripes or ask them to count how many beans they have used. You can also try making ladybirds, snails, butterflies, worms…

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Play dough buzzy bees

Take a set of flashcards out with you next time you go for a walk or are playing in the garden and see what you can spot. It’s a great way to talk about nature, what things we can see, what colours they are, how many legs/ petals/spots/eyes they have, where they live and lots more. Just be prepared to answer lots of those ‘why’ questions!

Credit: @beealittlewild on Instagram

Credit: @beealittlewild on Instagram

Nature spotting

Art inspiration Get out the crayons, colouring pencils or paints and use flashcards as inspiration for some artwork. Or try some natural artwork, using leaves, sticks, acorns and flowers to make pictures. A really easy activity to encourage imagination and creation. You could even make stories up about the pictures you have made.

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‘My pledge is to work with the town and parish councils to support the community and build resilient Social Care, education and business while working with the PCC to increase policing in the area.

I believe that Millfield is one of the key open spaces in Market Deeping and I am committed to preserving it as such for future generations and will vote against any housing development on the site. .

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Our local business community will need ongoing support not least the reinstatement of some form of banking in the town as I believe this to be vital for a strong and vibrant community .I am delighted to see the success of the grant schemes launched by LCC

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