I'd rather be in Deeping Dec 17

Deeping ISSUE 031 / DEC 2017

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Welby House

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Welcome The weather is not always traditional for the Nativity at Moor Farm in Newborough but one thing is for sure and that is that pressing a barn into action for a ‘real life’ nativity is very atmospheric! The farm has a rich farming history dating back to Neolithic times and the farm buildings still in use today date to the early 1900s. The farm grows wheat, barley, oil seed rape, mustard, and rears herds of cows and flocks of sheep. In time for the nativity there are two donkeys, Dillon and Ripley, resting from seaside duties to play their part and there are dressing up clothes for children to transform into shepherds, Three Kings and Mary and Joseph. Some years are even blessed with a real baby!! What the scene lacks in terms of preparation and rehearsal is made up for in gusto and enthusiasm and it has fast become a must do in the ‘I’d rather be in Deeping’ run up to Christmas calendar! See you there on December 10th at 3 when warm snacks are available and then the performance begins at 4 o’clock.

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07-13 News 14 Welby House the early years 20 Profile - Bob Pate 23 Christmas at Welby House 25 Christmas Gift Guide 29 Market Gate Photography: Publisher: Printed by:

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Wines to wow this Christmas 33 Richard Todd 37 Weddings 38 Five great bookshops 40 What’s on 42 Ploughing match

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The Deepings Library was packed to hear Alan Ball talk about raptors and owls in October. Pictured with Will Bowell (right) who was host for the evening.

G ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR? I am extremely proud of my team and that we have survived two recessions and still have a thriving business. I am happy that we have remained on the high street for 40 years and that is thanks to wonderful customers.

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Arthur Corney opened a home The Church Warden of St Andrew’s West Deeping, FUTURE HOLD FOR YOU? with reproduction Victorian and Aspect Fires was opened by my East Midlandimprovements store in the town instyles 1977being but itfashionable.Butcher: Colin Blagove has announced the restoration We are currently extending our store Edwardian father, Arthur Corney, in 1977 room soCategory we will havefor space for more Now there is a much wider range Innovative lifefireplaces as a homethat were the most popular line was and re-siting of the First World War Serviceand Listit started out stock and can expand our ranges. I of styles and contemporary neutral improvements store. We used to sell their Caramelised Red and it has gone on to thrive underhave his daughter following staining by water contamination wall overinsulation, double am proud that our daughter, Alice, is fireplaces come to the forefront glazing and now our showroom manager and I am design.

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NEWS Over £8,000 was raised directly by the 2017 Raft Race and cheques (£3331.00 each) were presented to The Evergreen Care Trust and the Deepings Youth Group at Baston C of E Primary School (the winners of the school banner competition) Other smaller amounts were donated to various community groups, some of which provided assistance on the day: £500 to Roads of Remembrance (supporting Scotties Little Soldiers), £500 to Parkinsons UK, £200 to the Peterborough 115 sqn Air Training Corps and £100 to Baston C of E School. Save the date next year: Sunday 5th Aug.

Ex-Deepings students (l=r) Keith Miller, Stuart Beeken and Mike Bulmer-Jones prepare for the India Rickshaw Run on 27th December. The 3000km race from Jaisalmer in the far north of India to Cochin in the south, has to be completed in a fortnight.

Along with 84 other tuk tuks the team are given a start and a finish and the teams are then left to their own devices. The team are raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital and Cool Earth, the nominated charity for the event. They help to halt tropical deforestation by giving control back to the local people. Also competing is Stuart’s daughter Kelly Beeken with friends Camilla and Brian as the “Dirty Dosas’ www. virginmoneygiving.com/team/mikekeithstu-tuttuthell

Deeping St James Community Primary School has just installed a new Trim Trail and Traverse Climbing Wall. Funding came from the PTA chaired by Mrs Davison and United Charities of Deeping St James and an Awards for All grant.

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In time for Remembrance Day, Cubs in Deeping St James painted pebbles dedicated to the men of the village who lost their lives in the First World War

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Welby House the early years

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Just as St Guthlac’s Church can be seen to stand at the spiritual heart of Market Deeping so Welby House stood at the commercial heart of the town when it was built in the late 1700s. It was the property and we can assume was built for William Laxton, who was born c.1776, the son of John and Elizabeth Laxton. From the early 18th century the family, previously of West Deeping, had been farmers and merchants in the town.

William was proud of his handsome state-of-the-art Stanhope Gig which was bought up from London. With a high seat and closed back William and his family, pulled by his elegant pony, noted to be quiet in harness, would travel around town overseeing his properties. His land extended to the White Horse public house in Baston which was run by his niece Elizabeth, land in Hall Meadow Road in Deeping St James, Hall Farm a property to the west of The Bull and, in partnership with Mr Goodale, Towngate Farm. As well as arable land which he farmed with all the latest equipment, including a winnowing machine by Barwell and Hager, William also kept sheep: at the time of his death he had at least 319 on his farm at Towngate as well as 76 in-lamb ewes, 146 shearlings (sheep that had been shorn once) and 97 lamb-hogs. In addition to his sheep he had 14 bullocks, 6 fat bullocks and a well bred sow with 10 store pigs, as well as 6 very heavy draught horses used for ploughing. From his paddock near the Bull Inn in the Market Place, 20 elm trees of large dimensions were sold, as well as a large quantity of wood all cut up suitably for farmers and wheelwrights.

Liveried barges on the river carried his agricultural produce, coal and timber to neighbouring towns. He was a key figure in the development of the commercial base of the Deepings and on 9 July 1831 he chaired a meeting at the New Inn (now the Stage) attended by more than 200 local farmers, where it was resolved to hold cattle and sheep markets in the town on the Tuesday before 13 February and on the Monday before 12 May, as well as the regular hiring fairs held In May and October. Overwhelmingly those who attended said that Market Deeping had as many comfortable and roomy inns to accommodate visitors as you would find anywhere. In 1836 the Stamford Mercury reported on the last and best cattle market of the year held on Tuesday, 8 November for horses, and on Wednesday 9th for cows and sheep.

William died on 28 December 1836 aged 61. He was described in the Stamford Mercury as a much-respected and lamented gentleman, concerned not only with the merchandising of timber and coal but also the malting business from which he had retired a few years before.

John Perkins, born in Sheepskin Hall to Daniel and Elizabeth in 1802 had taken over as Maltster, Coal and Raff merchant from William Laxton in October 1833. He was keen to inform the local business community that he was eager to live up to the high standards set by his predecessor and set about building the Granaries which were completed by 1842. A man of some standing in the town, he was recorded as a member of the Market Deeping Association for the Prosecution of

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FEATURE Felons; he was also a shareholder in various railway companies as well as the Grand London & Dublin Railway Company and Market Deeping Gas & Coke Company. In September 1858, aged 57, he married Mary Griffin, 48, in St George’s, Hanover Square, London. A week later the couple hosted a meal for over 40 of his workmen in the large granary and on the following day their wives were treated to afternoon tea prepared

by Mrs Perkins at a tastefully decorated table with a variety of stands of choice flowers. After tea, music and dancing commenced with Mr and Mrs Perkins leading the way, this went on until eleven o’clock. St Guthlac’s bells rang out on both days and in celebration of their marriage, the couple donated £5 each to the Green School and the Feofee School as well as giving generous presents to many. Every Christmas they donated 1cwt of coal to each house and in 1859 161 homes benefited.

John Perkins was a wealthy man with a personal estate of £90,000 at the time of his death aged 78 in 1879, (a multi- millionaire by today‘s standards). As well as Welby House and the Granaries he owned Bank House in Market Deeping, three cottages in the High Street and one in the Market Place as well as Stamford House, John Chesterfield’s in Mill Lane (now Stamford Road), The George & Dragon and The Crown in Deeping St James and land in both parishes. In Crowland he owned a farm in Postland Road.

Not all was well: a property of his in Mill Lane was blown down by the terrific winds of December 1863 and he had suffered from at least two break-ins to his counting house in 1847 when intruders forced open several drawers with a pick lock, though only 2d in copper was found and taken. The principal books were kept in a heavy iron chest which was carried down to the yard and broken open by a 56lb weight being dropped on the door. The books were taken out but left undamaged.

Welby House was described as a modern genteel family residence with dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, as well as six bedrooms. It had a 77feet unobstructed view to the south with a garden planted with shrubs next to the Welland with a well-stocked garden and paddock adjoining the house. There were granaries for 5,000 quarters of grain, cake stores and brew house, a well-fitted counting house and offices, coach house and stabling for four horses.

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John and his wife entertained here using their silver plate, cutlery taken from mahogany cases, rich cut glass, elegant dinner and dessert services and china tea and coffee sets. Candles would twinkle from the chimney glasses in gilt frames and the clocks would tick and chime throughout the day and night. For the amusement of their guests there were musical boxes. The carpets were of the finest quality from Brussels and Kidderminster and the most up-to-date appliances were used in the kitchen.

As well as a substantial granite monument erected in St Guthlac’s Church burial ground, a neatly carved and lettered stone tablet was placed by the trustees of John Perkins in the Church in 1880. This recorded his valuable bequest to the parish of £800 to the Feofees of Market Deeping and £400 to the Trustees of Tyghe’s Charity Estates in Deeping St James. In pre-health service days his will importantly directed that interest be paid to Stamford infirmary and the Peterborough Dispensary to enable Trustees to nominate patients to these institutions.

George Shillaker of Church Street, Market Deeping, moved into Welby House in 1880 after his son George married Georgina Jennings of Spalding. He carried on the business of selling timber, in 1880 selling trees, fencing and firewood from land adjoining the Three Tuns in Deeping St James and growing on land in Linchfield.

George was a widower; his wife Martha had died in 1874 and he lived with his daughters Martha, Ellen, Kate and Sarah and one servant, Sarah Jackson. As well as a landlord, he owned The Pied Calf public house in Sheepmarket, Spalding, and he was an agent for Sun Fire Insurance Co of London. In 1886 he advertised in the Grantham Journal for a good general servant. But in 1889 on a Saturday evening in February he had a collision while driving his pony and trap through Halfleet in the direction of the town with Mr Bell of Langtoft who was driving in continued >

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FEATURE the opposite direction. George Shillaker pitched forwards and fell under his pony’s head and was very bruised and shaken by the fall, sustaining cuts to one leg; the trap and harness were considerably damaged. Mr Bell’s passenger was thrown out by the force of the collision. George recovered a few days later but died the following year, leaving £4, 676.

His daughters left the town for Uffington, though Martha married William Franks of Market Deeping in September of the same year.

Harvey and Ann Stapleton ran a sizeable family brewery from premises in Church Street, Market Deeping, but there was a dispute between brothers Valentine and George as to who should inherit the business on the death of their father. George struck out alone at Welby House’s Maltings and granary. This proved detrimental to both businesses and in 1887 George applied for bankruptcy. He then went on to work for the Northampton Brewery Co where he was promoted to District Manager in 1893. It is believed that this company took over the Maltings and advertised pale and mild ales, extra and double stout of extra quality and condition that could be collected from Market Deeping. George lived in Welby House from 1891 until 1895 when he moved to Peterborough.

At this point in its history the house became a Girls’ College in union with Trinity College, London, under the headship of Mrs Helen Harrison, wife of Samuel, a plumber and decorator. They were both Wesleyans and took an active part in the Chapel. Musical activities were encouraged and the pupils gave regular concerts each year in the assembly rooms at the White Horse Inn and in the Congregational and Wesleyan Chapels. At harvest festival the Chapel was decorated with a selection of corn, fruit and flowers by Mrs Harrison and her pupils. In 1905 the Stamford Mercury proudly reported that 13 girls at the College had been successfully prepared for their pianoforte exams.

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very great esteem and affection for her. Later that year the school, needing more space, moved to Gosberton Hall.

Director of a brewery, Bertram Walker, and his wife Margret were the next occupants of Welby House. This sociable couple were keen horticulturalists and Bertram was elected to the Football Social Club Committee. As part of the celebrations for the coronation of George V in 1911, the gardens of the house were opened to the public, just after Mr Walker had won first prize at the National Rose Show in Regent’s Park. He wrote a regular advice column on cottage gardening in the Lincolnshire Gazette and in June 1912 he won first prize for his pansies at the Maxey Flower & Sports Show held at Maxey House.

Briefly John Howard Kemp and his wife Augusta lived in the house; Kemp was a manager of an office of a mechanical engineering firm, a branch of which he set up in Market Deeping. He was a keen bowling fan and held regular matches on the lawns as well as partaking in other local activities. He attempted to sell the house in 1913 when an ad in the Grantham Journal advertised its outbuildings, yard, large garden and tennis lawn, stabling, coach or motor house, maltings and granaries.

It failed to receive an offer at £700 and was withdrawn from sale. In 1920 John returned to London and in 1928 he was back living in Kensington.

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For a certain generation of concert goers amongst us the chance to see Jimi Hendrix in the brief few years he was performing was remote but to see him in Spalding and to share a beef burger with him would be considered to be off the scale of probability. But for one local man that dream came true.

Bob Pate is now a piano tuner and father of Justin Pate of Apollo Computer Services in Rycroft Avenue. But in May 1967, just as the summer of love was about to unfold, he was in the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall with 5,000 others, precipitation dripping from the ceiling, fans pushed forward under the stage and all of them soaking up the sounds delivered by Cream, Pink Floyd, The Move, Eddie Floyd, George Washington and Zoot Money. Five thousand others remained outside, unable to get in to ‘Barbeque 1967’, an event which some say invented the concept of the Festival predating Woodstock and the Isle of Wight and the plethora of other Festivals which followed. More incredibly the organisers, anticipating a damp squib had booked popular local band Sounds Force 5 to complete the bill and ensure a good turnout. They needn’t have worried. Word had got out and there are still locals who remember the traffic jam to get into the town!

Bob was later to play with Sounds Force 5 and still does. After a break of 30 years the band reformed in 2011 initially for a party for friends and family but when 650 people turned up at 20

Springfields for a night which rocked the rafters the band has continued to play with artists including the Merseybeats, Cliff Bennett and Eddie Floyd. This is a long way from the ‘elastic bands stretched between my mum’s dining chairs’ that Bob recalls. ‘The year was 1942; I was three years old and living in a terraced house in Peterborough. We washed in the scullery in water pumped from a well in the garden, supplied by rainwater from the roof.

The house was lit by gas. The radio was powered by glass accumulators topped up with acid.’ It wasn’t until he went to senior school that Bob became aware that sounds and songs worked on his emotions.

In assembly when he sang ‘For those in peril on the sea’ tears welled up in his eyes. Bob realised that other boys did not react in the same way. He decided that they were emotionally stunted or he himself was weird!

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recognised Bob’s musical aptitude and arranged violin lessons with Nancy Chilcott in the Cathedral precincts. By the time he was 14, Bob had reached grade 6 and was asked to join the Peterborough Youth Orchestra, but by this time he had other ideas.

Listening through ex-RAF headphones to Radio Luxembourg on a crystal set, Bob had heard Bill Hayley & The Comets playing Rock Around The Clock.

This had a profound effect on the teenager and for him life would never be the same again. A plastic ukulele sufficed until Bob saved up for his first real guitar from his one pound fifteen shillings a week that he earned in the tailoring department of Peterborough Co-op. He taught himself to play using a Play in a Day book. He would travel down to London for the River Boat Shuffles; two boats going down the Thames to Southend, off the boat for a game of footie with Acker Bilk and other jazzers and then back on the other boat to London. There were four bands on each boat made up of trad-jazz bands and skiffle groups.

A tumultuous time followed: Bob got engaged, was called up for National Service and his dad died young at just 53. He quickly changed into (his words) ‘a

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had lived up to their reputation. A good night was had by all.

But youthful arrogance assumed they wouldn’t need them! Big mistake!

Single again and on Civvie Street, Bob had returned to the Co-op acting as a relief manager to smaller branches. Funds had now stretched to a Hofner electric guitar and he had played in his first group, The Apaches, named after the Shadows’ hit. The second group played for charity in old people’s homes and the local mental institution. The line-up was three guitars, perfect for folk music but when they acquired a drummer, a bass-player was required. Bob drew the short straw, he needed a Hofner bass; he needed to learn how to play it and a vehicle to transport it. So he purchased a small Morris Van with no MOT and very small brakes but the band were on their way. They played two or three times a week with bands like Steve Marriott & The Moments (later the Small Faces), The Honeycombs, Shane Fenton (later Alvin Stardust) and PJ Proby. One night, playing a gig with the Who at Ramsey Gaiety Theatre, Bob discovered how Pete

Bob’s band was now called Alan Dean and the Problems with three saxes playing rock and some swing. Their repertoire included Roy Orbison’s Dream Baby, Chuck Berry’s Roll over Beethoven and Johnny Kidd’s Shakin’ All Over. Having seen an ad for bands to play in Hamburg the band auditioned successfully at the London Palladium, Bob left his job and a distraught mother for the Top Ten Club on the Reeperbahn following on the heels of the Beatles.

They made the centre pages of the Daily Mirror and were famous for a day! The Band played 45 minutes on and 15 off for seven hours a night. Being near the docks there were lots of sailors at the club and girls who said they were office workers but more likely prostitutes. Vicious fights broke out and the band would retreat under the grand piano and continue to play!

That summer the band played up north near Hull, amassed a good following and a fan magazine, The Deanagers. When it was time to go they had a job to get out of town with girls lying down in front of their cars to stop them leaving.

Townshend could afford to smash up guitars. On the last number of the night the roadie swapped Pete’s stage guitar for one with a steel plate holding the guitar neck, secured with a wing nut. All Pete had to do was flick the wing nut, the guitar fell in half and he kicked it around the stage for a bit. Moonie kicked his drums over and everyone was satisfied that they

On their return they got a recording deal with KPM and Decca records and were booked into a recording session with Mickie Most doing the A&R. Mickie played the band the song he had just recorded in the previous session – The House of the Rising Sun. To promote their record The Time It Takes the band appeared on the TV show Disc A GoGo with the Kinks, Kiki Dee and Kenny Lynch. The band were tight having played together all hours a night in Hamburg and the producer was happier with their efforts to play over the credits with their B-side Dizzy Heights than he was with the Kinks. Ray Davies complimented the band on their efforts and when they caught up with them later celebrating their number one You really got me the Kinks offered them one of their spare tracks.

Returning to London they resumed playing their standard gigs, one of which was with the Honeycombs.

Their managers, Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, took a liking to them and signed them. Soon they had new smarter haircuts then they would have liked and a new song Thunder and Rain.

The lads recorded it with the legendary Joe Meek in his studio in the Holloway Road where hits such as Telstar with the Tornados had been recorded. But by early 1965 the signature sound stamped on every record by the producer was becoming dated and the single released on Pye was voted a miss on Juke Box Jury.

The band returned to Hamburg but the tour was less successful than the first. The lead guitarist, Doug Chapman left, and Bob crashed the group van and was pulled off stage at a club in Wilhelmshaven by the police for a misdemeanour. Advised by the British Consul to leave, Bob came home. The trip was memorable for the money the band made selling the waiters’ jackets they wore on which they had painted patterns.

Bob’s next stop was Barbeque 67 in Spalding.

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With a commanding site on the High Street and the newly built granaries behind, money was no object for this handsome couple.

But what sort of objects would they surround themselves with? An afternoon at Market Deeping Antiques and Craft Centre with Jessica Wall of Stamford Auction Rooms results in a selection of items that could well have been given as presents during this period, items that would speak of their wealth and gentility and with which they would adorn their home.

This miniature mandolin, for instance, crafted from tortoiseshell, bone and mother of pearl, is exquisite in detail, and for just £14 speaks through the ages as an object of beauty and desire.

We don’t know if the Perkins family had a pet but it is probably safe to say that a rural household of this date would almost certainly have included a dog or two, and it could well be that Mary had a favoured spaniel.

So it is not entirely out of the realms of possibility that John would have presented his new wife with a bar brooch such as the one pictured here, made in Birmingham and preserved in its original box: a slice of history for just £33.

There are several Victorian workboxes in the Antiques Centre; this one is made of rosewood with a mother of pearl inlay. No longer used as a sewing box, as it has lost its shelf, it would make a very acceptable jewellery box and a fabulous gift, perhaps with an item of jewellery in it. It is a very affordable £25.

We can read about Christmas dinner with all the trimmings in the novels of Charles Dickens, and here is a Staffordshire transferware ladle, perfect for

serving the soup and adding a touch of elegance to the proceedings, as would have undoubtedly been the case for John and his wife Mary.

So heavy it is hard to pick up, this cast-iron doorstop of a regal lion would certainly have reflected the stature of the Perkins family, and can be yours today for just £50.

To round off the festivities on Christmas Day, what could be better than to regale each other with tales and song? This piano stool (£74) or one just like it may well have paid an integral part of the Welby House celebrations all those years ago.

So as you sit and rest after your Christmas meal, spare a thought for Christmas Day in the past and the revelries of Mr John Perkins and his wife Mary.

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Riverside Beads & Crafts Variety of craft workshops including pebble painting. Gift vouchers available.

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Vine House Farm A range of hampers including the cheese lovers hamper. Gifts with a rural theme.

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MARKET GATE Market Gate was built in 1984 near the site of the Kings Head Pub which can be seen prominently in old pictures of the Market Place.

Since then this thriving shopping hub has hosted shops such as Mr Cobblers, Arabesque shoes, The Craft Shop, Christabel’s dress shop and Sheila Lords carpets. Now it is fronted on the street by Pets Pantry with Greetings (now under new ownership) opposite, the award winning Lilli’s tearooms and cakery (previously Harleys and Clares Bakery) and Grasmere Butchers (Sandalls were previously on the site) and where on Christmas Eve a queue snakes through the centre as people wait to collect their Christmas fare. Laytons has long been a dry cleaners, long before Andrew Layton took over the business and it is only recently that a Florist and Greengrocers, Martins and latterly Valeries has ceased trading on the site which was once The Crop Shop and now partly hosts the Vape Project with beautician Serenity upstairs. It is the perfect place for shopping at anytime of the year but at Christmas comes particularly to life with its twinkling lights and stylish decorations.

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Wines to wow this Christmas The festive season is the highlight of the year for many families. It provides the opportunity to celebrate Christmas itself and it permits the possibility of catching up with family and friends, many of whom we don’t get the chance to see at other times of the year. It is the perfect occasion to stock up and share some of your favourite wines; to push the vinous boat out, in terms of quality and perhaps, quantity!

Supermarkets have offers galore in the run up to Christmas and it make sense to buy in volume as and when you spot something that takes your fancy. If your budget will allow, try to buy Champagne over Prosecco. Champagne is matured in a traditional way with a second fermentation in the bottle. This gives the resulting wine a finer bead and more persistent bubbles, it creates a creamier, more biscuity contour and is generally a less acidic aperitif than Prosecco. Most importantly, Champagne is a better match for complex food, such as rich, oily smoked salmon, a traditional Christmas morning breakfast.

You should be able to find discounted Champagne for under £15 a bottle from most supermarkets. If you can’t stretch to that, I would recommend a decent Cava rather than Prosecco, since Cava, like Champagne, is made in the traditional

way and offers most of the flavour profile for around half the cost, so £8 or under.

If you are feeling extravagant, I would recommend a vintage Champagne, ideally from 2007 or 2008, both of which are developing very well. Quality vintage Champagne will start at around £45 and can easily exceed £150, so there should be something for most budgets.

For the majority, turkey with all the trimmings will be the main event for Christmas lunch. Turkey is an amazingly wine-friendly food and both red and white wine will work exceptionally well.

White wine perhaps just shades the red in terms of perfect matching and the most successful paring will be Chardonnay. We are looking for a wine that has a touch of oak, not overly so, with a roundness and a certain fatness, but with enough acidity to cut through the richness of cauliflower cheese or bread sauce.

The following wines will all be excellent, rising qualitatively as the price increases: Wolf Blass Yellow Label Chardonnay (Tesco) £8.00, Rustenberg, Chardonnay, Stellenbosch, SA (Waitrose) £12.50 and Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne-Montrachet, Burgundy (Waitrose) £28.00.

For those who prefer red wines with the turkey, you really have a vast choice of successfully-matching wines. You are

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looking for a wine with freshness and acidity, ripe red fruits and low tannins.

Beaujolais and Rioja can be very reliable parings but the wines that really caught my eye are the range of top quality Pinot Noir varietal wines currently available: Brancott Estate, Pinot Noir, Marlborough, NZ, £9.00 (Tesco), Saintsbury, Pinot Noir, Carneros, USA, £26.00 (Majestic) and Beaune Premier Cru, Clos du Roi, Burgundy, £36.00 (Majestic).

To follow the turkey, many people enjoy Christmas pudding followed by cheese.

Port goes so well with both of these dishes and excellent examples can be found is most supermarkets for under £15.

However, Taylors, one of the world’s finest port producers, has launched their 375th anniversary port, essentially a blend of their best casks of 10, 20, 30 and 40 year tawnies and presented in the traditional squat ‘onionshaped’ bottle. It is an exceptional example of port and at just £26 would be a super Christmas treat.

Please note that availability and price are always subject to change without notice.

I hope the above examples give you food for thought and I would encourage you to experiment and try something new. A very happy Christmas to one and all.

Leigh Johnson is a holder of the Advanced Certificate from the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust and is an avid wine collector and enthusiast. You can follow his wine thoughts on Facebook by searching for Bells Farm Vintners.

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Richard Todd - swashbuckling hero who made a home in Market Deeping ‘A dashing young blade’ was how the Queen Mother described the actor Richard Todd and her words form part of the epitaph which can be found on his gravestone at St Guthlac’s Church in Little Ponton, near Grantham.

before beginning his acting career at the Italia Conti Academy, much to his mother’s chagrin. The two became estranged and his mother, in the first of what became a catalogue of tragedies in the actor’s life, later committed suicide.

But for a while in the 70s, Market Deeping lay claim to this Dublin-born actor as he made his home here in Elm House, Church Street, Market Deeping. He came here with his second wife Virginia Mailer and his four-year-old son, Andrew. His two children, Peter and Fiona, by his first wife, Catherine Grant –Bogle, aka as Kitty, were grown up and living in London but visited at weekends. At the time Todd’s secretary told the Lincs Free Press that he liked the area as ‘it fitted in with his outdoor hobbies of shooting and the like’.

Richard first trod the boards as a professional actor at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park in 1936 in a production of Twelfth Night. He went on to play in several regional theatres before co-founding the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1939.

Todd was born in June 1919 in Dublin. His father Andrew Todd was an Irish physician and an international rugby player who gained three caps for his country. The young Richard spent a few years in India where his father, a British officer, served as an army physician. Later the family moved to Devon and Richard attended Shrewsbury School and later trained for a military career

But with the onset of the Second World War he joined the British Army, receiving a commission in 1941. Initially he served in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment and being assigned to the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division.

On 6 June 1944 as Captain he participated in the British Airborne Operation ‘Tongs’ during the D-Day landings. Todd was among the first British officers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. His Battalion were reinforcements that parachuted in after glider forces had landed and completed the main assault on Pegasus Bridge, Caen. Later he met up with Major John Howard on the Bridge where he helped to repel several German counter-attacks.

As an actor, Todd would later play Howard in the 1962 film The Longest Day while Todd himself was played by another actor. Richard Todd’s film career had started with Hasty Heart in 1949 and among a number of films for which he became famous were The Dam Busters (1955) in which Todd played Wing Commander Guy Gibson and The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) with Lawrence Harvey and Richard Harris.

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RICHARD TODD In Robin Hood and Rob Roy Richard was the romantic hero and Alfred Hitchcock had used him in the film Stage Fright (1950) where he appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman.

Later on in his career he appeared in several TV dramas including Heartbeat, Silent Witness and Murder She Wrote.

Richard Todd appeared twice on TV’s This is your Life first with Eamonn Andrews in 1960 and then with Michael Aspel in 1988. He became an OBE in 1993 and was a keen supporter of remembrance events, especially and not surprisingly those associated with the Normandy Landings and The Dambusters. He made many appearances at the Dambusters anniversary events at the Derwent Dam, the final one being in 2008 with Les Munro (the last surviving pilot from the raid on the Ruhr dams). The actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about the Dambusters and contributed

forewords to many books on the subject, including The Dam Busters

by Jonathan Falconer (2003), Filming The Dam Busters by Jonathan Falconer (2005) and, shortly before his death, Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis by Iain Murray (2009).

In a book about British film character actors written in 1962, Terence Pettigrew described Todd as ‘an actor who made the most of what he had ... an inability to sit still while there was a horse to leap astride, a swollen river to swim or a tree to vanish into.’

Not surprising, then, that he was Ian Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond in Dr No and perhaps the biggest miss of his career when a scheduling clash rendered it impossible and the role instead went to Sean Connery.

Both Richard Todd’s marriages ended in divorce and two of his five children committed suicide, Seamus in 1997 and his son Peter in 2005.

Todd had retired to the village of Little Ponton near Grantham and later lived in Little Humby. He died, however, closer to his Market Deeping home, peacefully in his sleep at The Cedars in Bourne.

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Katie and Daniel Howsam married at St.Guthlacs and now live in Market Deeping

Donna and Phil Mills starred in their own TV programme on their wedding day ‘Marrying Mum & Dad’ Thomas James Simpson and Mary-Jane Coles were married at the Priory Church on 1st July Sharon Pedder married Clint Allen in a dream wedding on the island of Skiathos.

Later celebrating at home at the Baskerville.

Gemma and Tom Scott from Deeping St James had their reception at the Granary, West Deeping.

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Walkers Bookshop 10 High St, Stamford PE9 2AL Mon - Sat 8:30am - 5:30pm Sun - 10am - 4pm Having taken in the glorious half timbered Gothic architecture of this listed building from the outside, step inside and you would be forgiven for thinking that you had walked into a high class stationers, purveyor of newspapers and a mouth watering selection of magazines, a second to none collection of greetings cards and quality chocolates. But go upstairs and be greeted by a grandfather clock made

by Thomas Rayment who used this building as his workshop during the 18th century. His name is carved into a beam in the roof. Turn around and you will see tables groaning with carefully chosen book selections for the season.

With book signings and poetry readings and brightly lit modern shelving this is a bookshop worthy of one of the best towns in which to live in the UK. Tim Walker and his wife made themselves known to people of the Deepings during the 2017 Literary Festival when they sold books at a variety of venues. Call 01780 764405

Bookmark 20 The Crescent, Spalding Lincs PE11 1AF Mon – Sat: 9.00am – 5.00pm Bookmark has a commanding presence in the Crescent with windows on two sides and so plenty of opportunity to press noses up against and look at the latest books on the market!

Tempted? Then come back in opening hours and while looking through the latest launches you can also treat yourself to a coffee and cake or even a light lunch in the large coffee shop. There is an extensive children’s section complete with toy train and not only are there healthy sections on all subjects but there are leather club sofas and chairs to sit back and relax in while making your choice. The store also offers an efficient ordering service and if you’re buying a present then you can also select a card and wrapping paper from an extensive range and if you are not able to find a suitable book then you might want to take a look at the gifts, toys and stationery also on offer. Call 01775 769231 38

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Filled to the rafters, this delightful old shop is definitely one in which to while away the hours, old family favourite ‘Mrs Tinklers Caravan’ was found on a shelf at the top of the stairs and titles as diverse as ‘With love to the Beatles’ and the topography of the Black Fen jostle for position. Not one to leave empty handed! Call 01780 482748.

Sue Ryder Bookshop 1a Priory Rd (fronting The Crescent) Spalding PE11 2XA Mon- Sat 9.00am -5.00pm

If like me bookshops are your guilty pleasure then the Sue Ryder secondhand bookshop is a great way to indulge your passion while giving to a very worthy cause! Open since 2005 it is the charity’s only dedicated book and music shop. Music plays quietly in the background, the store is well lit and the stock is meticulously labelled. Catering for a wide variety of tastes it is possible to pick up three paperbacks for £1 or a rare antiquarian book worth several hundred pounds. There is a very healthy selection of CDs, DVDs and vinyl records, old maps and postcards. A helpful largely volunteer staff under the guidance of a knowledgeable and efficient manager, Paul also provide a customer request service. The store is well lit and the stock is meticulously labelled. Call 01775 710270

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Carols around the Christmas Tree 7.00pm 19th December Carols accompanied by Whittlesey Wind Ensemble followed by mulled wine in the Town Hall. Shops in and around the Market Place will open late!

Carols in the Park Jubilee Park twixt Thackers and Crowson Way DSJ 7.00pm Fri 22nd December Carols accompanied by the Salvation Army Band

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There is nothing like having a personal visit from Santa! Once again The Deeping Lions and Rotary will be bringing the big man through the area while raising money for good causes! So eyes peeled, ears pinned back and here is the Tracker!

Father Christmas will be around from 6pm until 9pm at the following places in Market Deeping, Deeping St. James and surrounding villages. Thursday 30th Nov Peakirk & Deeping Gate, Fri 1st Dec Glinton Mon 4th Northborough Tues 5th Church St, Bridge St, New Row, Park Rd, Welland Way, Hereward Way, Brownlow Close, Manor Way, Waterton Close, Park Rd, Millfield Rd. DSJ Weds 6th Baston (North of Main St Thurs 7th Baston ( South of Main St.) Fri 8th Broadgate Lane & Eastgate Mon 11th Frognall, Spalding Rd, Horsegate Tues 12th Church St, MD Halfleet, Weds 13 Lancaster Way & The Brambles Thurs 14th Linchfield, Thackers Way (E), Crowson Way Fri 15th Langtoft Village West Mon 18th Langtoft Village East Tues 19th Godsey Lane / Lady Margarets Ave Weds 20th Meadow Rd / Thackers Way (W) Burchnall Thurs 21st Tattershall / Meadway / The Avenue Fri 22nd West Deeping & Tallington 40

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West Deeping Christmas Tree Festival St. Andrew’s Church Saturday 16 December from 10am-4pm when the church will be decorated with locally themed Christmas trees. Celebrate the season with mince pies and warm drinks.

Adults £2.50 Children free

The Deepings Scout Group annual Christmas Post Please support you local Scout Group by posting your Christmas cards in the special red post boxes located around Deeping all for 30p each! Sort dates are 9 and 13 December and deliveries are within Market Deeping, Deeping St James, Deeping Gate and Frognall only. Post Boxes are located at Locations are: The Deepings Practice, Tesco & Spar,Godsey Lane - Deeping News & Co-op, Deepings Shopping Centre - Library, High Street - Marville’s, Crowson Way - The Old Bakery, Church Street (DSJ) - Sam’s, Rycroft Avenue.

Dog Christmas Party at Pet Stop, Market Deeping, Sunday 17th December. Photographer, goodie bags, cakes, games and much more.

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