I'd Rather Be In Deeping July 2020

ISSUE 062 / JULY 2020

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Welcome

Graham Magee of The Granary re-opens Market Deeping Antiques

Within just one a year the Love Deepings brand has become a familiar beacon across the Deepings and villages, helping to promote everything local. Then along comes COVID-19; who could have foreseen the far-reaching effects? I have been humbled and heartened, but not surprised, to see our community mobilise and demonstrate a sense of caring and resilience – a ‘coming together’ to help others. It is true what they say, ‘You don’t realise what you have till it’s gone.’ Never again will a hug, a cuppa with family or a meet-up with friends, and so much more, be taken for granted. I’ve missed the local chats, laughter and smiling faces at local venues, businesses and eateries. Things are now gradually easing. We’re starting to see our community once again open up but there are still challenging times ahead for our local economy. Local charity events cancelled, businesses forced to close, donations from local businesses ebbing away and many local jobs on hold. In such times we often cut back on extras, apply prudent spending and budgeting and so there is less money circulating within the local economy. Our strong sense of ‘local’ will indeed make a difference, now more than ever. Smaller local businesses are counting on custom to stay afloat. Every transaction will be precious, so if there is a choice of choosing local – please help make a difference to where we live. The cycle is ready to be kick-started – it’s ready for the community to do what it does so well, come together and SUPPORT LOCAL. If you would like know more about Love Deepings please visit our new website www.lovedeepings.co.uk or if you would like to be involved with helping to organise campaigns, please pm me FB @Love Deepings.

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Inside Editor: Sub-Editor: Designer: Features Writers:

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The Railway Hotel

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Deeping Repair Shop

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Profile: Sharon Green

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Market Deeping Antiques

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NEWS

Ready Steady Cook! DYG were ready for the challenge - the winner was Josh Chalfont (top left) for his Beef Ragu and Corey Cuthbert was runner up for his Beef & Steak Burritos (btm left).

The 2020 Glinton Horticultural Society (19th Sept) show has been cancelled due to ongoing social distancing because of the Coronavirus. Please keep your 2020 schedule safe as it can be used next year.

National Volunteers’ Week saw SKDC officially thank more than 50 groups for their community work including the Feed Deeping Group (pictured).

Appeals brought nominations for kind-hearted residents organising shopping and medicines, delivering food parcels, organising soup kitchens and even taking Sunday lunches to vulnerable people. In the Deepings, youth worker Cassandra Wales helped put together care packages for the elderly and then devised online Zoom sessions for children with a bake-off, quizzes, workouts, a creative writing competition and even a scavenger hunt, delivering prizes to winners and Easter eggs to everyone who took part.

For years grey lag geese have rested after feeding in the surrounding fields and raised their young at the lakes in Stowe Road, Langtoft. The early morning flypast from lakes to fields is a joy to behold. They nest in the lake area and then, when their young hatch, walk from the lakes into the farmers field on the opposite side of Stowe Road. The farmer must rue their apparent disregard for his crop but graciously accepts this is an historic event. Every year there are fatalities. This year Liz Jarman (pictured left) and Beverly Shilling decided to take action and place polite notices asking traffic to slow down on the verge from both directions.

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The Rotary Club of the Deepings have erected a bench on the riverside in Deeping Gate a much loved spot of the late Tony Martin, Past President and Past District Governor of the District.

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NEWS Photographer Lydia Pinfold took advantage of the lockdown to talk about her experience in photographing wildlife.

The Grapevine Community Cafe has kept in touch with its members throughout lockdown by organising regular weekly Wednesday home deliveries of cakes, sausage rolls, quizzes, newsletters, friendly faces, conversation, and the offer of general assistance with shopping, letter-posting and laundry service. All are being provided in a socially distanced way to 55 homes across the Deepings by a small team of volunteers.

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The Railway Hotel Deeping St James Jimmy Deeping Station (as it was called) opened on 1st August 1849 and in the same year the Railway Hotel opened to the public. It was built by entrepreneur Harvey Stapleton, then in his early forties, the founder of Stapleton’s Brewery in Market Deeping.

The coming of the railway to Deeping St James represented a great change in daily life as goods were now brought to the station to be taken on elsewhere or delivered to the town. People too had access to places that they previously could only have dreamed about. What was needed was the equivalent of the coaching inns in the town to accommodate travellers and workers and Stapleton was well placed to finance the building of a handsome Georgian hotel. Features of the hotel, the bracket for the inn sign and the substantial lamps can still be seen today.

Initially Stapleton installed an agricultural labourer, George Bolton from Stowgate, as the landlord. George was 49 at the time and was married to Sarah; they had five children. George died in 1862, leaving Sarah at the helm with three of the children still at home. Sadly Sarah was not able to manage the hotel and in 1864 Stapleton’s took her to court in Bourne for owing £30 rent and £20 for other items. During the court hearing Valentine Stapleton expressed his father’s dissatisfaction with the way in which she ran the hotel and she was asked to vacate the premises.

John and Jane Hibbett took over from Sarah, also farmers in Stowgate, and they were assisted at the Hotel by Sarah Hibbett, John’s mother, who in 1871 was in charge at the ripe old age of 71, with servants Robert Rippon and Mary Reed. On a foggy day in December 1875 John was found collapsed by the railway line; he had been walking to Littleworth by the shortest route to check on the machinery he kept at Mr Barrett’s farm. He was found by William Ford, a platelayer (responsible for the laying and maintenance of railway track) who had passed the time of day with him as he walked by but now found John lifeless. Nothing could be done, and it was recorded that he had died of natural causes. John left a will of £600 to his wife and mother and son, and Edward continued to manage the hotel and now extended farm.

In March 1878 catastrophe struck when a flock of ewes and lambs about to be driven across the line got through a hand gate and crossed the line when a goods train was passing – five of the ewes and four lambs were killed. Jane herself met with a violent death when sitting on a chair in her bedroom covered with a shawl to keep warm by a nearby stove she rose to get into her bed and fell, knocking over the stove. She was found by hotel residents 20

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minutes later but she died from her burns. It was thought that the fall had been caused by a heart attack or a fit.

For the next 20 years the hotel was in the hands of the Mackman family.

Originating in Newton, Wisbech, where they had managed a grocery store and served as postmaster, Wright and his wife Mary had a son, William, a butcher, and a daughter Sarah, a dressmaker. An ugly scene at the hotel was reported in the Stamford Mercury in 1891 when drainage workers George Morris and George Plowright of Deeping St James were summoned for being disorderly on licensed premises and refusing to leave. George Plowright had struck another customer and started to fight, Wright had got Plowright out of the building but in so doing had the shirt torn off his back. Morris came to Plowright’s aid and the pair entered the hotel again. The landlord had to get his horse and cart to fetch the police and they were eventually ejected by PC Vickers. They were both fined 10 shillings each with 14s 6d costs. When Wright died in 1896 aged 63, leaving £104 to his wife Mary, William took over as licensee of the Railway Hotel. He brought his new bride Eleanor (née Abbott) to the hotel and two children, a girl Jessie and a boy William, who was a baby at the time of the 1901 census. The family employed a domestic servant, Ellen Brent, aged 17 from Langtoft.

The hotel was put up for auction by the estate of Harvey Stapleton in 1907 and was purchased by Hugh Peacock of Greatford Hall for £800. He then leased the premises to Soames & Co of Spalding, a company of which he was a director. Meanwhile the Mackman family had moved to Bank House in Eastgate. After the death of William senior, his son William junior and wife Eleanor ran the Prince of Wales in Church Street, Market Deeping, (see the February 2017 issue of I’d rather be in Deeping). William junior died at the age of just 29 at Peterborough Memorial Hospital just before his sister Doris married Charles Jibb at St Guthlac’s in 1930. They held the reception at the Mackman family home in Eastgate and continued to live there.

Moving to the Railway Hotel from the King’s Head, Market Place, Market Deeping, were the Warringtons. Father, George was married to Virtue, née Asplin, and the couple had two sons, George, a railway carter (driving a horse drawn vehicle to fetch and carry goods to the station) and Albert, a fishmonger. Sadly George senior died in 1912 at the age of 57 and his son took over the business until he was called up to serve in the 1914-18 war when his mother Virtue took over. She was in control when in the spring of 1914 a straw stack and hovel were destroyed by a fire thought to have been continued >

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FEATURE caused by a spark from a railway engine. On George’s return from the conflict, having lost an eye, he once again took up the licence and Virtue became the hostess until her death in 1932 at the age of 75. George sustained a further injury in 1921 when he was ploughing close to the station and his horse kicked out and caught a chain which injured the side of his face which had already been so badly damaged in the war. He left the Railway Hotel to go to the Stamford Arms in 1928 and the licence was transferred to Arthur Boltz at the Bourne Petty Sessions.

Arthur was born in Wisbech in 1887 and at the age of 32 he had married Eva Luff in Kings Lynn. His tenure was not without incident; in 1928 he was before the beak for allowing a mare to stray onto Station Road.

PC Freemont had looked after the animal for an hour, and Arthur claimed that it had escaped while he was eating his lunch. The couple’s son Bernard sustained a broken collar bone and a strained neck while playing with other children in a room at the hotel in 1932. Many will associate exotic animals with the Pet Refuge, but there was a precursor to this in 1934 when Bernard had left the hotel and was confronted with a 4ft long snake. With great presence of mind he encouraged the reptile to curl itself around the handle of his fishing net and skilfully manoeuvred it into a box over which he placed a sheet of glass. The markings were black and green and experts pronounced as being venomous; it was thought that it had arrived in a banana case left at the

station. It was kept in captivity from early morning to late afternoon when it escaped by moving the glass, much to the alarm of residents at the hotel!

Tragedy struck during the Second World War when two airmen were knocked down and killed on the railway near the Stowgate crossing by the Grimsby to King’s Cross express shortly after 10 pm on 16 February 1945. They were part of a party guarding a crashed plane at Stowgate and were returning along the line when the tragedy occurred.

Just after the war in 1949 Soames & Co was bought by Steward and Patterson who installed a prominent yellow and blue sign at the hotel, easily noticeable as passengers alighted from the train.

During the 1950s the Hares were recorded as the licensees.

Richard Hare, son of the licensee, escaped with minor injuries after it was reported that he had been involved in a car crash in 1955 with Peter Mason on the main Bourne to Peterborough Road.

The Railway Hotel was taken over by Watney Mann in 1963 but with the closing of the station to passengers in 1961 and goods in 1964, its fate was sealed and it was closed in 1966 and put up for auction in 1968. Peter and Josephine Clifton fell in love with the old building and spent three years stripping out the interior with its winding staircases and corridors and re-covering the ground floor with parquet flooring. One of the bedrooms was converted to an upstairs bathroom, downstairs was a small dining room and large lounge with a large stone fireplace and farmhouse kitchen. The couple, who had two children, Nicola and Ashley, then opened as a hotel (a kennel) with a very different kind of clientele, and with eight dogs of their own, including Alsatians, Poodles and a Corgi with a litter of puppies. In February 2011 the couple moved out of the Railway Hotel, leaving it to another Peter and Anne McNish who now run the award-winning business ‘Kennedy Wild Bird Food’ from the site.

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PROFILE FEATURE

Professor Sharon Green Fortunately, it is not very likely that a woman interviewed for a job today would be asked if she cried easily, whether she wanted to have babies and if she had a boyfriend! But these were the questions posed in the interview of Sharon Green, a Crowland farmer’s daughter and Frognall resident as she embarked on a career in the food manufacturing industry in the early 1990s.

In fact, Sharon, Lincolnshire born and bred, has a lifelong passion for farming and food production; some of her earliest memories include helping her parents Edwin and Gillian Jelley with hay carting, following her older sister and brother at their farm along the Deeping High Bank, Crowland. Her parents diversified from livestock into arable farming and haulage as opportunities grew. Sugar beet crops were a familiar sight locally and in the middle of the beet campaign, Boxing Day was always punctuated with a competition between the siblings as to who would get to ride in their father’s lorry to nearby sugar beet factories at Spalding or Peterborough.

Edwin would haul sugar beet pulp used for livestock feed to farmers over in the Leicestershire/Rutland area offering part loads to smaller farmers in hardto-reach locations. Gillian would be on telephone duties whilst always ensuring that supper was on the table and homemade cakes were in the cupboard!

When Sharon reflects on the past, she acknowledges that her parents did not consider themselves to be highly skilled, but Edwin could lay a perfect livestock-proof hedge and, indeed, won many championships in his home county of Rutland.

Gillian grew up working equally alongside men on her family farm in Crowland Common, demonstrating championship ploughing skills usually reserved for her male competitors. It is 18

perhaps easy to see why Sharon embraces vocational skills so energetically now and without realising it, her parents had taught her the value of equality from a young age.

Co followed by George Adams, which prepared her for a life dedicated to the food and drink industry; later she was to describe it as ‘the school of tough knocks‘.

Sharon’s grandparents, Jack and Annie Wheat, lived in the bungalow that Frognall farmers, the Eadys had built for their retirement and she has vivid childhood memories of the hamlet. She spent many happy hours with her grandparents during holidays or at weekends and her childhood friendships with residents has continued with neighbours that remember little Sharon, including John and Rosemary Fisher. The Williams had moved from the Peak District and Polly Williams, a District Nurse looked after Jack and Annie (Wheat) as they got older. Molly Robinson was at the thatched cottage at the far end of the village where she sold antiques, but Sharon was never allowed to touch! Tennis instructor Wendy Woods had moved into one of the first Allison houses to be built and would sit drinking tea (made with evaporated milk) in the conservatory where Jack grew countless geraniums. Ted and Mary Hares always had the kettle on with homemade fruitcake being served in their conservatory and Mary made sure that friends got a Christmas cake complete with hard silver balls that Grandad Jack could only suck upon. The setting allowed for a “Swallows and Amazons” childhood and it is no surprise that Sharon then later settled in the hamlet and raised her family there with husband Nick.

After her children, Henry and Toby, were born, Sharon had the opportunity to work part-time for Anglia Regional Co-op teaching food safety to instore colleagues (formally known as the Rainbow Group of Supermarkets). This small step started a much larger career change into teaching as she moved to the University of Lincoln’s Holbeach Campus in 2003 as a lecturer undertaking a teacher training qualification following a Master’s in Educational Learning and Development. Now as a Professor of Vocational Education and Skills Development and Deputy Head at Holbeach (Apprenticeships and Business Partnerships), ‘Professor Green’ continues her passion for teaching as a Principal Fellow and directs strategic employer partnerships to meet the needs of the food and drink manufacturing sector through further and higher educational programmes.

Sharon attended Westwood School for Girls in Peterborough and went on to Brackenhurst College (part of Nottingham Trent University) where she gained a BTEC in Food Technology followed by a BSc (Hons) In Food and Agriculture at the University of Plymouth. Her first jobs working in the Spalding meat industry were with H. Hargrave &

From the National Centre from Food Manufacturing at Holbeach, Sharon supports international brands including Nestle and Coca Cola with their educational strategies but feels equally at home supporting small local businesses which may need support seeking funding opportunities or general advice. Many colleagues in the food and drink sector will have been supported by Sharon and her team as they strive to ensure that Holbeach stays very firmly on the national map as one of the country’s leading centres for innovative teaching and industry-focused research. As we face a new world of disruptive technologies and challenges, it’s reassuring to know that the food and drink industry is being steered by leaders like Sharon, who see vocational education as the ‘golden ticket’ to a successful future.

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Sticky Treacle Tart I push my knife and fork together, dinner was divine I look my partner in the eyes, and take a sip of wine.

I’d give her everything I have, my heart, my soul, my life Each day I count my blessings that she agreed to be my wife.

I couldn’t eat another thing, my stomach starts to hurt Then a waitress appears from nowhere “Would you like to have dessert?”

It’s like she’s gone and read me, like the proverbial book I take the menu out her hands, and have a little look.

If I’m being honest, it’s the part that I’ve been dreading Because if it’s handled wrongly. It can really do my head in!

You see, what I really, really want, is a slice of treacle tart But if I go and order that, the bartering will start.

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But I don’t want raspberry pavlova, or anything you’ve got!

I want the sticky treacle tart, and I want the blinking lot!

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POETRY

Poetry Returns to Centre-Stage It would be true to say that over the last couple of years, poetry has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance…

Not all that long ago, you might have been a little embarrassed to confess to dipping into a poetry book from time to time. If you wanted to watch poetry being performed live anywhere locally, you would have been hard pushed indeed to find a venue. However, that has now all changed… poetry has become quite the popular art form and poetry nights are popping up all over the place.

In Lincolnshire, there are now many and varied open mic poetry evenings and poets are taking over dart boards in pubs as a form of entertainment! Stamford even has its very own Poetry Festival, VERSE. You would have thought, however, that with recent events and the closure not only of our theatres but of our favourite public houses, that this might all have changed… but no! Poetry has shown itself to be one of the most accessible art forms to lend itself to online entertainment.

Now that we have all downloaded Zoom, it seems that no-one can get enough of Poetry online.

All of Stamford Arts Centre’s regular poetical events are now on Zoom and poets have been turning up to perform their work from all over the UK… and indeed the world! It’s been a great way to meet new poets and discover hidden voices.

Of course, it’s not just the fact that Zoom is the perfect pop up platform for open mic performance; poetry is of great comfort in times of uncertainty and change. It seems to be just what so many of us need at the moment, and is easily delivered in short bursts, at a time when so many of us find it hard to concentrate on anything. Why don’t you pop over to Stamford Arts Centre and Stamford Poetry and have a look at what’s on offer – or look out for our Pint of Poetry on Karen Burrows is the Arts tour? Hopefully there will be a return to Programme Officer at Stamford The Deepings very soon.

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Day in the life of an Antiques Dealer

ANTIQUES

We hear the words ‘antique dealer’ and images of Acorn Antiques or Lovejoy spring to mind! What all antique dealers have in common is a passion for collecting, some loving a single category, while others love a broad mix of items. It is not an easy life with no financial guarantees, but every day is filled with the excitement of hunting and buying. That’s where my obsession with all things antique and collectable began. I used to come home after visiting the local jumble sales back in the 1970s with anything that had caught my eye! My poor mother would groan as I walked in laden with my spoils for 5p, along with everything that didn’t sell! Car boots and flea markets became my obsession in my teenage years, always hoping I would find that illustrious piece of Ming or Fabergé.

My life as an antique dealer found me rather than I looking for it. After years of collecting, an opportunity opened that allowed me to follow my dream and start renting space within local antique shops and emporiums. I began selling online and to local clients and my business grew from there. Looking back, I wonder why I never pursued this profession as a teenager, but like antiques it takes a lifetime of learning.

Some days begin earlier than others, particularly if I am trading at a local or national fair. Yesterday was an auction day so I was up early as the drive is about an hour and I have not been to preview any of the catalogued items, although I did make sure I looked online before deciding to travel. Before the growth of online auctions, getting to an auction house only to find nothing there for you was somewhat frustrating, although, the opportunity to call in at local antique centres and charity shops was an added bonus! We are at the auction house; it’s cold but very busy with the chatter and whispers of the dealers discussing the finds that week and the sales they have made. This is when the ‘buzz’ starts, looking through the boxes for hidden gems hoping that no one else has spotted them. Dealers are a competitive bunch and love nothing better than burying at the bottom the things they have spotted, so you have to dig deep. So having my long list of possible purchases I register to bid, grab myself a rather lacklustre coffee and take a seat. It is a long day.

Waiting between lots can become tedious, and you do have to concentrate or you will bid on the wrong lot! And yes, I have done that before, along with getting carried away and overpaying for something! We have all done it and any dealer that’s says they haven’t is telling a little fib! There are occasionally sleepers in auctions; sometimes you know they are there, sometimes it’s not

Emma Shearman-Smith until you are home you realise you struck lucky. I often find myself asking how they all missed that one. Getting your newly acquired stock home, sprawled out across the house (sorry Nick!) always thrills me. The excitement of cleaning, repairing, researching and preparing each item to put out for sale is as enjoyable and satisfying as the buying. Tomorrow is a very different day, visiting clients to appraise and value their items, then out and about in flea markets, centres and emporiums. It is an impossibility for me to be out, even with my family, and not stop and go hunting. Antiques and collectables are something most people enjoy and buy at some point in their lives; and now I am in the antiques business I feel I am in it for life, I can never leave!

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York - a perfect pick & mix York’s historic walls surround an incredible 1900 years of history: established by the Romans, captured by the Vikings, taken by William the Conqueror and put on the railway map in 1839.

The wonderful thing about visiting York is absorbing this history walking around the city and visiting dedicated museums. York combines its fascinating history with luxury accommodation options, a vibrant food scene and independent shops galore, and it can all explored on foot thanks to a mainly pedestrianised centre.

See/Do:

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The National Railway Museum tells the story of British rail history and will be enjoyed by adults and children alike.

Head to the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens to learn about the city’s long and interesting history.

No visit to York is complete without seeing the magnificent York Minster, the largest medieval gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. Dean’s Park is next to the Minster and a lovely place to enjoy a picnic with magnificent views.

Take the ‘Bloody Tour of York’, wandering through the city’s ‘snickleways’, whilst hearing tales of York’s gruesome history and learning why it’s known as Europe’s most haunted city. You won’t get bored on this tour!

The picturesque River Ouse runs through the centre of York. Rest your feet and get a different perspective of the historic sights, bridges and buildings of York onboard City Cruises Sightseeing. Alternatively hire

one of their easy to drive motor boats and become captain of your own ship.

Explore the many independent shops of the Shambles, a medieval street mentioned in the Domesday Book, which apparently inspired Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books.

Amble around the circular route of York’s city walls for a few hours. The city walls visible today are the most complete example of medieval walls in England.

Get up close to Viking life in 10th-century York at the Jorvik Viking centre, a museum based on actual archaeological evidence found during excavations at Coppergate.

Visit the site and remains of one of William the Conqueror’s castles at the English Heritage site of Clifford’s Tower and the other at York Castle Museum. Explore the castle museum to learn about York through the ages.

Pay a visit to York’s Chocolate Story, taking their guided tour through 3000 years of chocolate history in the city, before enjoying a cup of delicious hot chocolate.

Eat/ Drink: Grab lunch from The Shambles food court which offers delicious street food to take away, from North African cuisine to gourmet hot dogs, pizzas and arancini, crepes, burritos, Thai food and more.

Stop at Bettys, the café tea rooms famous for their afternoon teas and try a Fat Rascal, a tasty bun/scone cross made to a secret recipe!

TRAVEL

In the evening, head to Micklegate to explore York’s vibrant food scene and hip wine bars. Try the Rattle Owl, an independent casual dining restaurant run by a Michelin trained chef in a Grade 1 listed 17th-century building.

Stay: York has many beautiful hotels within its city walls… the 4* Principal York (£150pn) is a Victorian railway hotel conveniently located next to York station and a five-minute walk to the centre offering stunning views of the Minster, or book a boutique hotel style self-catered apartment at the Lawrance Luxury Aparthotel (from £135pn).

Travel Tips: LNER runs trains directly from Peterborough to York in an hour and 15 mins… always pre-book your tickets for the best prices (from £21). By car it’s a simple journey of just over two hours directly up the A1 and A64.

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20 years of patchwork: Part 1

BIRDS

Reflections of birding by William Bowell else caught my eye. Twenty years ago, in my early teens, my father and I visited the relatively newly excavated Welland Bank Pits.

Lockdown has been rather a reflectional time for me and a time of rediscovery. The rediscovery came in the form of my old faithful local patch which this year, I have been watching regularly, in varying amounts for twenty years.

Like most birders, I cut my ornithological teeth as a youth on a ‘local patch’. The term refers to where one watches a local area frequently and becomes familiar with the local avian life that inhabits it. As a novice, it’s a great way to get to know your common species and as you become more au fait with your surrounds, spotting the odd one out becomes easier.

As a young child, my father and grandfather would take me to the gravel workings to the east of Langtoft

The pits were still owned by Lafarge and very much private. However, viewing was easy from the river bank and during the evenings and weekends there was an understanding that some of us could go on site – something we couldn’t indulge in at BLGP.

Little Ringed Plover

and Baston (known as Baston & Langtoft GP, or BLGP if you prefer). Here I learnt the differences between many common water birds and we even had a few rarer ones as well, such as breeding Blacknecked Grebe and wintering Smew.

Through regular, year on year observations we knew where and when to expect the male Wheatear passing through in the spring; where we would find the first Little Ringed Plover of the spring and when the first Goldeneye would return in the winter. This is part of the joy of learning a patch.

Goldeneye

So there it was, BLGP was my beloved patch through my preteens but like all teenagers, I became restless and somewhere

Black-necked Grebe

However, I still felt faithful to BLGP and often our visits would be combined between the two. It was great to watch these new pits by the flyway and migration landmark that is the Welland and as time went on, my visits at Welland Bank Pits took longer and longer.

In mid May 2001, I got a knock at the door (premobile phone for me, remember those days?) from local resident birder (now Norfolk based) and all round enthusiast (and my mentor), Trevor Williams.

He had found a Great Reed Warbler on the west pits on a Friday, after-work visit. A first for the Peterborough area and a very rare visitor to Britain from Europe, with two or three records a year usually. continued >

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BIRDS Trev had done good! However, there were complications; Britain was in the middle of Foot and Mouth Disease and the west pits were only viewable from the riverbank – Trev had overcome that by getting access to a few local birders – great!

The second complication was personal, my Dad and therefore my lift was away on business! Damn!

Trev kindly picked me up the next morning after confirming the bird was still there. It was a sunny and warm day and one I will never forget. The East Pit was full of breeding terns and Gulls with additional breeding Ringed and nationally rare Little Ringed Plovers. Plus local birders Mike Weedon (who would go on to become a life-long friend) and Andy Frost found a Temminck’s Stint –another local rarity from Europe!

This wader is just the size of the Robin and rare in Britain, usually found on the coast and in the subsequent twenty years I have only seen two others on the reserve! There were other coastal waders present as well, a Sanderling and a Grey Plover! Plus

Temminck’s

a thriving Common Tern and Black-headed Gull colony and breeding Ringed Plovers, Lapwing and Oystercatchers and red-listed Little Ringed Plovers!

Great Reeds are massive – Song Thrush sized and a song like a Gatling gun, they are so loud! A truly remarkable find and one that hasn’t been repeated locally since!

You probably don’t know what a Great Reed Warbler is; Reed Warblers, which are common around these parts, are the size of a Robin and great songsters.

This weekend was a turning point. In my records I wrote, ‘Welland Bank Pits will now be my local patch.’

Indeed during my teenage years, I gained a bike and visited every day I possibly could. And that is where lockdown has gone full circle for me; early on I got on my bike every day I could, just like my teen years.

Rediscovering my patch, known as Welland Bank Pits then and now known as Deeping Lakes, has become a true revelation. Watching this spring develop and discovering and comparing how things have changed in the last twenty years has been incredible.

Next month I will show what I discovered this spring and how things have changed in the last twenty years, on my wonderful patch, Deeping Lakes LWT.

Will Bowell works at Grasmere Farm Butchers in 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/ Common Tern

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REPAIR SHOP

Bob Broughton and the Billy Goat

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The Deepings Repair Shop With a manufacturing home just outside of Kansas, Missouri, Billy Goat is the name given to a range of property clean-up equipment introduced over a period of 40 years by a familyrun business. As part of the range of composite leaf blowers and lawn and litter vacuums available is the Billy Goat garden vacuum which Mark had considered as a key part of his panoply of tools for a number of years.

It was true that hard graft had taken its toll and when Mark Hubbard, local green keeper was offered a new model at a reasonable price he jumped at the chance of purchasing it. So the old Billy Goat was redundant and in the garage and frankly taking up space! So it was offered to my partner, a gardener who also, while seeing the benefits of what only can be described as a ginormous grot guzzler, had nowhere to store it.

This is where the storeroom and handyman qualities of Market Deeping Town Councillor Bob Broughton came in very useful! Seeing the

undoubted benefits of such a piece of kit when working about town, he could also see the hole in the main body. Every time the vacuum did its work a piece of debris would fly out from the hole, which was obviously potentially hazardous.

So Bob took to his shed – neat and tidy and well stocked with a lifetime’s collection of tools and nails, screws of every description – and here he took a thin sheet of metal and cut a belt that he shaped to the body of the Billy Goat. This was then bolted to the casing using approx. 20 pop rivets and so blocked up the hole.

With the oil changed and the engine serviced this unloved but vital piece of equipment is now back to play its part in the clearing up when park keepers cut back hedges, leaving the paths lined with leaves and branches for this monster of a Billy Goat to do its job and leave the street clean again, its huge bag ready to be disgorged into a skip, and then to be stored away in the shed and taken out again to play its part in the cleaning up of a community!

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The Deeping Lions Short Story Competition In May the Lions Club held a short story (max 500 words) competition for the children of Deeping and the surrounding villages. The competition was split into two age groups with 5-9 year olds writing a story about a Lion and 10-15 year olds writing a story about the Environment - one of Lions Clubs International 5 Global causes. First prize was £40 and a signed book by Debbie Dayley.

The junior age group was judged by Debbie Daley, author of the Long Ears Legacy books, and nationally acclaimed author and illustrator Ellie Sandall.

The winning story in the 5-9’s group was by 8 year old Alessandra Isaac of Deeping St James.

DEEPING LIONS

Emily’s lion Ding dong, “Mum there’s somebody at the door”, said Emily. “Can you get it darling, I am just tidying upstairs,” shouted Mum. Emily slowly opened the door, there stood a ginormous box with the words ‘big cat’ stamped on it. “Mum has finally got me a pet!” she exclaimed.

She dragged it in and peeled back the Sellotape. She opened the box. “There’s a lion in this box! They must’ve sent me the wrong pet.”.The lion jumped into her arms, “Hmmmm, he’s a bit small for a lion, he must be a cub,” she said. The cub ran up and down the hall, crashing into the furniture and knocking over Mum’s favourite vase. “Oh no,” said Emily, “I’d best take you out for a walk.” Emily reached into the cupboard and found an old dog lead. “That’ll keep you out of trouble!” she said.

She went on a walk through the park, when she saw a nice yellow poster; it read ‘The Deepings Lions Club’. “Ooooh, that must be where you take your lions, I’ll take you there,” she said. So she headed off to the White Horse Pub. As she opened the door to the pub, the lion broke free from the lead and charged inside. Lots of grown-ups looked up in shock as the lion leapt into the lucky dip basket and got his head caught in it. No matter how much she chased the lion, she could not grab him. “You know, you can’t act like this in public,” she said to the lion. The lion found a nice rubber duck to chew on and sat in the corner of the room.

She spoke to a man from The Deepings Lion Club and asked him how to look after a lion. “What lion?” said the man. All he could see what a little girl running around the pub with a lead. “You can’t keep a lion as a pet,” said a lady nearby, “lions live in the wild or in a zoo.” “You’d best get home to your Mum,” said Mrs Potts, who lived nearby. Emily walked back home with her lion. “Where have you been?” said Mum. “Oh, I’ve just been playing with my new pet”, said Emily. “What pet?” said Mum. Emily put the rope into the cupboard; there was not really a lion. It was all in her imagination.

Ding dong… there was somebody at the door!

Debbie Daley said “I really enjoyed this as it had a very clever twist in the tale – or tail. I loved the way that the writer drew me into the story. I loved it that characters, like Mrs Potts, played along with Emily so that you were never quite sure if she really did have a lion cub or it was an imaginary game. Excellent stuff.”

Fellow judge Ellie Sandall said “I really liked the way that the author brought in the Deeping Lions in such an imaginative way- I love the idea that it would be a place to take your lion to! It’s also amusing to think that the adults in the pub were actually looking in shock at Emily jumping around chasing her imaginary lion, rather than the lion itself.”

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The older age group was judged by teacher and author Will Hussey. The winner was 11 year old Kaitlyn Brand from Deeping St James who wrote:

The Rainbow Bridge From inside their bedroom window Emma and Josh were sure they were going mad, for they had sworn the saw the old oak tree in the orchard behind their house had just winked at them!

It must have been true if they had both seen it right? Only earlier that week they were both positive a blackbird had given them a thumbs up, and a hedgehog was laughing as it rolled itself down the slide. What an earth is going on?

They step outside, even though they know they are not supposed to leave the house, to find themselves stood on a rainbow over the sea. They looked at each other nervously and confused.

You cannot stand on a rainbow! Can you? They run over It, not knowing where it would take them. They were nearly to the end of the bridge and they could feel the blazing sun beating down on their pale skin.

Where were they? Josh’s knowledge of geography was exceptional, and he immediately knew where

they were… Africa! They both rubbed their eyes in disbelief. They were greeted by a lion, which was stood showing his teeth. Emma was paralysed with fear, they both try to take a step back, but the bridge had disappeared. Josh takes another look at the lion. Was he smiling? Yes, indeed he was, they smiled back, and the lion passionately rubbed against them almost knocking Emma over.

Crossing the bridge, they feel warmer and warmer until they are across the other side, they didn’t know where they were, but they certainly knew what creature was right in front of them. Emma’s biggest fear was SPIDERS!!!!! Although Emma was petrified, she somehow couldn’t take her eyes off it. It wasn’t as scary as she thought, it was actually quite cute. He raised one hairy leg and waved in a friendly manner.

Spotting another bridge, they run over it; when they feel the chill of a snowflake land on them, Emma knew as soon as they step off the bridge where they were… Antarctica. They knew all the ice caps were melting because of pollution, they look around to see two bear cubs playing in the snow; as they carry on looking around, they see all the ice caps have reformed and frozen again. Emma and Josh were happy to see the world fixing itself. In the distance they saw yet another rainbow bridge; as they run to it, they stumble through the snow.

The morning after Emma and Josh looked at each other funnily as they were both thinking could we really have had the exact same dream? Emma turns and notices the spider had followed them home, she gently taps Josh on the shoulder and he looks in excitement as the spider raises his foot to his mouth whispers “SSSHHH! It’s our secret.” The children immediately know that this was no dream.

Will Hussey said “This was a really imaginative composition, with a clear structure embellished with vivid and emotive language.”

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An artist on tour!

Nick Tearle takes to the road for five months in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal.

Seasoned traveller and artist Nick and his partner Lizzie embarked on the backpacking trip of a lifetime!

rolled through the lush tropical hillsides at walking pace as we gazed at the island’s vista of rice paddies, national parks, waterfalls and villages.

Idling away some time in a hammock while drinking coconuts in Sri Lanka provided a dreamy backdrop for the start of their tour but it was not typical of their journey, mostly traveling by sleeper buses, trains and motorcycle...

If Sri Lanka had been like a short story, arriving in India was like turning to page one of a great and epic novel. From the fishing port of Kochi, in the south-eastern state of Kerala with its colonial old-town charm and backwater boat rides, we boarded an overnight sleeper bus to Goa – home to non-stop beach parties and final destination of the 60s hippie trail. After new year’s celebrations, we were on another sleeper bus to the ancient village of Hampi, where Om chanting rings out across the boulder desert each morning from Virupaksha temple. We had arrived in time for the annual festival; live music, dancing and carnival processions!

Our tour around Sri Lanka was punctuated by visits to a turtle refuge, a tsunami memorial centre, blue whale watching and jungle treks. We swam with turtles in Hikkaduwa and attended a religious festival in Kataragama. Most memorable was the rail journey between Ella and Kandy. The train’s open-doored blue carriages

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In Bangalore we eventually secured a decent Royal Enfield Classic motorcycle.

Our ride sanctified with fresh flower garlands draping over the handlebars and headlights, we set off through the crazy traffic out on a ten-day tour of the mountainous Western Ghats. We stopped at Mysore, and the beautiful hill stations of Madikeri, and Chickmaglur. The region is known as the Scotland of India because of its temperate climate.

Flying north to the iconic desert state of Rajasthan, we were treated to a plethora of coloured turban designs, camels, palaces, more temples and huge forts of imperial history. Here we took to the road on another Royal Enfield, this time spending 15 days visiting Jaipur, Pushkar, Ranakpur and Udaipur. In Rajasthan, we experienced the richness of local culture from street musicians and lively wedding processions to chanting sessions at lakeside temples.

An overnight sleeper bus took us to Agra, home of the breathtaking Taj Mahal.

Then into the foothills of the Himalayas to Rishikesh, a real hippie heaven of a town, full of temples and vegan eateries, set astride the Ganges river. It was here 46

that the Beatles took their famed Indian retreat. Festivals every evening, yoga and sound baths every day and white-water rafting for the more adventurous. Our last but not least destination in India!

Nepal took our adventure to the next level. Welcomed by ‘Holi’, the annual Hindu festival of colour in Kathmandu, we set our sights Annapurna National Park, on another Enfield motorcycle. After navigating the densely populated historic market streets of the chaotic capital, we took the landslide-prone and congested Prithvi Highway west through the tropical foothills toward Pokhara, stopping at the charming hilltop village of Bandipur. From Pokhara we headed north to Sarangkot and our first view of the breathtaking snow-covered Himalayas.

The road into the mountains was a mixture of off-road mud track, shallow icy pools and snow-covered blind bends. The landscape changed from verdant rice paddies, to rocky river valleys, to snow-covered mountainsides. Following the Kali Gandaki river, we encountered goat and yak herders, ate hot steamy Thukpa noodle soup and ‘mo mos’, and listened to the meditative chants of Tibetan Buddhist villagers.

In the village of Kalopani we huddled together in an unheated wooden lodge in a snow storm.

We woke to a landscape transformed by two feet of fresh snow. After the road thawed, we set off upward for Jomsom and Kagbeni where we visited the Kag Chode Monastery. We hadn’t seen more than a handful of other tourists; all hikers trekking the Annapurna Circuit.

We were headed to Muktinath, a sacred Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site; home to one of the highest temples on earth at 3800m. It was at the end of the road and felt like the top of the world. There was nothing but snow and mountain peaks in all directions. The only way up the final stretch to the temple was by a caravan of ponies carrying pilgrims, some

very elderly, chanting as they rode. Bells rang in the wind, prayer flags cast mantras across the mountainsides and the pilgrims gathered at idols to sing, give offerings and pray. Many bathed in the temple’s pools despite the freezing temperatures. We spent as long as we could there wrapped in quiet contemplation.

With news of the pandemic ringing in our ears we retraced our journey and left on the last flight out of Nepal just a day before lockdown.

Sound recordings made on this epic journey will be available through my website and Insight Music an independent ambient record label.

Visit https://nicktearle.net/music-and-sound.

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Five great beauty tips At the time of writing this, we are yet to know an official reopening date for beauty salons across England.

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BOOK EXTRACT Prologue 1970 Today was the day! She would learn her fate; must make the irrevocable decision. In her heart, she knew she had made it already, but at this hour in the morning she hadn’t the courage to face it. Her mouth was gritty, and bright May sunlight, streaming over the bed, made her eyes ache. She closed them again. Joe was a great freshair fiend. He couldn’t bear sleeping with the windows Ros Rendle closed or even with curtains drawn, yet he could sleep through a force nine gale, and hardly awoke before eleven. But that’s show business hours. Late nights and late mornings; nights half turning into day.

Chapter 1 – 1968 Charmy followed Mo up the sand towards the slipway. As she turned with the day’s farewell longing for the island of St Michael’s Mount, she saw it dark-shadowed while the sea still glinted. They hadn’t been able to wade over there today. The tide was wrong.

“Is that a ‘B’ or an ‘S’?” Mo called as she frowned at the lettering scrawled in black marker pen on the wooden flagpole next to the wall. “I can’t imagine it’s an ‘S’. What kind of a name would that be? Oi! Miss Charmaine! Come and look. Fine Young Sucks? I can’t think of any business or person calling themselves that, can you?” She giggled.

“Oi back at you. Don’t call me that name. You know I hate it. I’m Charmian or Charmy, as you well know.”

“Well, come and look then,” Mo was persistent.

Bird in the hand

Then Charmy laughed too, and a man and lady who were reorganising their bags and sunshade between them, turned. It wasn’t her long bare and brown limbs protruding from her denim cut-offs and her whiter than white t-shirt. Nor was it her green eyes that shone with perennial sparkle, which caught the attention of others. It wasn’t even her full-breasted lanky figure, well, not for anyone other than some young men. Nor was it the careless way she moved. No. It was her shoulder length, wild corkscrew curls that caught the deep gold of the sun, and threw it back to anyone who so much as glanced at her. Then people smiled, rejuvenated through her vibrancy.

Charmy danced around in the soft, creamy sand, and sang to the ‘Lazy Sunday’ tune in her head. Earlier, The Small Faces’ number was easily discernible on the ghetto blaster the lads further down the beach had perched on a rock. It was number five in the top ten chart last Thursday on Top of the Pops. She became aware of the coolness between her brown toes while Mo leaned in, to peer at the graffiti. As she glanced back to the beach where the sand was hard, she saw the group of young men were still playing footie. They were the only other people left.

“Come on, let’s go. It must be getting late.”

“Make a note before we leave, child. You’ve got a pen haven’t you? It could provide, like, you know, interesting possibilities.” Mo said, with her head on one side and eyebrows raised.

Charmy shrugged, dropped her sandals at her feet, dug her Bic out of her back pocket and prepared to write on her palm, ignoring the disdainful voice in her head of her father, saying it was a filthy habit.

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