I'd Rather Be In Deeping Sept 19

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The only day of the year when there are more people in Deeping than live here! What a fantastic achievement for all of those involved in the organisation and participation in the Raft Race! Forty rafts entered and 34 completed the course. Winners were The Festival Five for the Youth Race, The Fat Tuesdays Boys for the Main Race, Man Cave Boys for the Fun Race; the Ladies Race was won by the Rio Trio and the Pub Race by the Deepings Stage. Spalding Round Table and Rio Trio tied for the best designed raft and the winner of the Mini Raft Race was Ophelia Rose Jones with Lola Gray with the best design.

As if that wasn’t enough good news, the South Kesteven Economic Intelligence Report has been published recently by InvestSK – South Kesteven’s economic development and regeneration company – and statistics within the report show that the area remains an affordable place in which to live, work, invest and run a business. Productivity has increased at nearly double the regional and national rates and the district has experienced a prolonged period of growth; between 2012 and 2017, local business stock increased by an additional 695 enterprises. Levels of employment and self-employment are above those of the East Midlands and Great Britain; there was a 2.8 per cent increase in people working in South Kesteven between 2017 and 2018.

The levels of pay in the area have increased at a quicker rate than the rest of Great Britain and are now on par with the East Midlands region; between 2017 and 2018, resident earnings have increased by £27 per week to £530. The report also shows that house prices in the district have been growing at a quicker rate than the national average, between 2011 and 2018, and are now beginning to close the price gap with the national average. Savour the moment!

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Deeping Rangers U11 teams played a demonstration game before the DRFC v POSH match. Market Deeping Town Councillors, Mayor Cllr Xan Collins (centre), Cllr Bob Broughton (right) and Cllr Paul Hanson (left), presented a cheque to Dan Ingram head of small-sided football towards the coaching of the next generation of Junior Team Managers. Paul Hanson also represented The Rotary Club of the Deepings who also gave a grant to help fund these coaching courses.

The Deepings is now officially one of Britain’s top ten Walking Neighbourhoods and received a Special recognition Award from the Ramblers Assoc for the work to promote a Green Walk around the Deepings in the Neighbourhood Plan. L-r Pam Byrd/Rt. Hon Sir John Hayes MP/Debbie Jones at Awards Event in Parliament in July Surely not just a one horse town!

New Vicar, Revd Mark Williams (pictured second left) is inducted into the Priory Church Deeping St James by Bishop Nicholas of Grantham and Archdeacon Justine of Boston and welcomed to the Parish by Cllr Steve Gilbert, Chairman of the Parish Council.

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Up and down the country towns and villages had a mill at their heart. In the case of Deeping St James there were several mills and one family dynasty to preside over them: the Tomlins.

By far the most important and productive mill was the one that stood in Broadgate Lane. It was a well-built structure of Wittering pendle and walling stone and it boasted three working pairs of stones. It came complete with a stone and tiled house, including a brew house, a cart hovel and other outbuildings, together with an orchard and a piece of arable land of over five acres in Church Field adjoining the Spalding Road. There was also a cottage on the land which, during the tenure of John Tomlin, was occupied by James Flintoft. John had inherited the mill when he was just 21 years old from his father Tobias in 1808, and he worked at the property until he died in 1876 at the age of 88.

An upstanding family man, John was a member of the Kesteven Militia Ballot List (equivalent of the Territorial Army) and had married Ann Perkins in 1816 at the Priory Church. They had five boys: John Thomas, who died at the age of 18; he had been fond of carrying heavy weights at the mill and died of a serious injury that he incurred.

William and Samuel became drapers, the former in Saffron Hill in Middlesex, Samuel at Bridgefoot, Deeping St James where a draper had been established for over 50 years. But when he moved to Church St, Market Deeping, employing four men and a tallow chandler, he was less successful and declared bankrupt in 1870. Remaining brothers James and Edwin worked for their father, James becoming a Master Baker and miller, marrying Mary Ann Peach from Peterborough in 1854 and moving next door to the mill and bakehouse at 10, Church Street, Deeping St James.

died and John decided to withdraw the mill from the Sale. William had married Sarah Bonner Strickson from Market Deeping on 28th April 1833 and he had bought the bakery at 10, Church Street in 1847 when his cousin Thomas died. It was a stone and slated house divided into three units with buildings, bakehouse, shop and a large garden well planted with fruit trees. He had paid £265. The building had previously been owned by Tobias and Mary Tomlin and she had sold the property just after the death of her husband to her nephew Thomas, who had obtained a mortgage for the purchase from Edward Moor. Thomas had gone on to buy more properties in Deeping James including the bakery in Bridge Street and the mill and bakery in Church Street (later known as Feneleys). Now on William’s death instructions were again given to sell the property to provide for his eight children, the youngest Clara being just nine years of age; wife Sarah had predeceased William in 1866. William’s sons – Frederick, William, Jesse and Manasseh – had all become bakers’ Jesse had been charged with an offence under the Bread Act in 1871 and was fined five shillings and ten shillings costs, and he promptly moved to Spalding with his wife Jane who he had married at Bourne Baptist Church in 1870. William and Sarah’s

The area was prey to local n’er do wells: John Buck and Frances Howitt were found guilty of stealing five fowls from outside the mill in 1829 for which they were imprisoned and given hard labour, but three years later John Buck was found guilty of stealing a cart saddle and other property from the mill again, and this time was sentenced to seven years’ transportation.

In 1871, John decided that he was getting older and so should sell the Broadgate Lane mill and he put it up for auction at the Rose & Crown Public House on 21st February 1871. However, there was a dramatic turn of events when on 2nd February his brother William, aged just 68, continued >

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FEATURE daughter’s Mary Ann had married George Frisby in 1856 and Sarah Ann married James Cutting in 1861.

John went to the sale at the Rose & Crown and purchased 10, Church Street, which was just over the road, for his son Edwin. The house and butcher’s shop next door also formed part of the sale; it was here that John’s son James and his wife Mary lived along with John Gee. John wasted no time in giving the mill in Broadgate Lane to James and set Samuel up as a grocer and draper in Wainfleet St Mary – all his family were now comfortably ensconced in their new premises.

Edwin took advantage of his new security and married Mary Ann Hardwick in 1879 at Deeping St James. The census returns suggest that the couple were living comfortably on their own means, and in 1886 Edwin is also advertising a house with large yard and a carpenter’s shop for rent. Edwin died in 1897 leaving his widow £220. She remained at 10, Church Street until her death in 1914.

In her will she left six acres at Church Fields to James Walter Wilman Tomlin of the Broadgate Lane mill and the bakery at 10, Church Street to her niece, Emma Hardwick. The trustees of her will, Peter Neal, a friend from Deeping St Nicholas and Emma Hardwick, were instructed to sell her remaining property to raise money for an annuity for her niece, Mary Ann Perkins Tomlin (daughter of Samuel). Duly on 4th April an auction again took place at the Rose & Crown. Two houses with a yard and garden near to the Cross and currently occupied by G. Wells and W. Bennett went to Mr Measures of Northborough for £172. A well-built house with outbuildings occupied by George Palmer went to local person Mary Wright for £130, and a freehold house, yard and garden of 2 roods and 7 perches in Eastgate, occupied by Joseph Cook, went to Mr Lincoln of Deeping St James.

Meanwhile James had moved to Broadgate Lane with his wife Mary, her 16

niece Nellie from Thrapston, Isaac Garwell from Spalding, who was a miller’s apprentice and their son James Walter Wilman – their first son John having died aged seven in 1863. James worked at the mill with his father and mother until the death of Mary Ann in 1901. Shortly after James married Mary Charity, who was a school mistress, and who had been living with her mother Jane at 34, Bridge Street. James senior retired through ill health in 1911 and died a month later.

During the First World War the sails had to be removed from the mill as they were in the flight path of planes landing and taking off at Frognall Airfield. James ran the mill until his sudden death at the age of 64 in December 1933 recorded in the Stamford Mercury: ‘For many years he had carried on the business of a Miller, Baker and Farmer and was well known in the neighbourhood. He was an organist in the Parish Church for over 40 years, relinquishing the post about two years ago.’

James left everything to his wife; real estate worth £866 and his personal estate of £130. The Grantham Journal reported a local find, ‘ An occasional tobacco pewter jar with a head on the lid in the cavity of the wall of the bake house connected with the mill at Broadgate Lane of the 17th or 18th century period.’ Mary went to live with her sister continued >

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When Mary died in 1947 the Tomlin family dynasty in Deeping St James came to an end.

The Coplands became the owners of Broadgate mill after the Tomlins had vacated it and then it was John and Dora Roberts from the Pinchbeck/Cowbit area who took over in 1947-48. Dora Robert’s family had owned The Bull at Pinchbeck for well over a century. The mill and bakehouse were not in use at this time; instead they were used for storage, the original water wheel standing nearby. In the sixties the mill was sold to a developer and it was demolished and became part of the development land for the Manor Park Estate. The stone cow sheds became the garage for the bungalow which was built on the site and was eventually sold by the Roberts family to local plumber John and his wife Carol Mills.

The tendrils of the Tomlin family had spread all over the village; Thomas Tomlin, born in 1779, had acquired the late 17th/early 18th-century post mill that stood in Hall Meadow 100 yards east of the Goat at Frognall. In 1831 Thomas advertised it to let with one pair of French stones and one pair of grey stones. It was demolished after the Second World War and the wood used to make the gates at Deeping St Nicholas Church.

The mill and bakehouse on land on which 83-91 Church Street now stand was occupied by Thomas Tomlin and his wife Mary and servant Thomas until 1844 when the old established bakehouse, house, and barns were put up for rent. The mill on the site was a red brick and tiled building. The lofty ground floor was taken up with the milling operation and two pairs of millstones, one to grind flour and the other animal fodder. The lower stone of each pair was known as the bedstone and was stationary while the upper one rotated face down with machinery keeping it at just the right distance from the 18

bedstone; it was known as the runner. The grooves were arranged in such a way that when the runner was rotating the furrows met in a scissor-like action on the grain fed from the hoppers in the granary and then the flour or meal trickled down to be collected in sacks. The mill was at first powered by water and then by a portable ten horsepower steam engine with a firebox and a boiler plentifully supplied with water drawn from the river.

Thomas’s brother Tobias (born in 1788), who had been married to Rebecca Bollends from Manthorpe since 1817, worked in the Bridge Street bakery and so when Thomas died in 1847, Tobias stepped forward and bought the bakery.

At the time of the 1851 census, Tobias is listed as a baker/farmer of 22 acres, employing his son who was 33 as a baker. Recorded in the local papers was a theft of bread from Tobias in 1838 by Elizabeth Walker who was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment. In April 1852, Susan Measure and Mary Ann Barfoot pleaded guilty to stealing some bread and candles from Tobias and were each given two months’ hard labour. When Tobias senior died in June 1856, Rebecca kept the business going until the 1860s. When the 1871 census was taken Tobias was recorded as an agricultural labourer.

There are still tangible memories of the Tomlin family in Deeping St James.

In the dining room floor of 10, Church Street there is an old worn millstone, remains of a bake oven in an outbuilding and in a stone wall infilling a metal template for marking the corn sacks reading T.T D.J was found.

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Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake Bakers Man! Ever wondered why there is a hippopotamus wearing a straw hat bedecked with flowers sitting outside of the Old Bakery in Church Street, Deeping St James? It is because it embodies two of the passions of the baker Clive, for Morris Dancing and for sculpture.

If it was a thespian hippo it would represent a third, because you will often find Clive Hankers treading the boards at Tolethorpe.

But I remember when Clive and his young family arrived at the bakery one cold January; Edward was just three, Hannah a babe in arms. They had been searching for a bakery all over the region and it was on one of their forays into Peterborough that they saw the Old Bakery advertised in an Estate Agent’s window and made their way to Deeping St James to find the bakery that they had dreamt about!

Clive had left school in Melton Mowbray and got a job at the Belvoir Bakery in the town. It was a conventionally run bakery passed into the hands of the young Mr Belvoir who lived comfortably above the bakery – he had the first colour TV that Clive had seen, remembering the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in colour! Old Mr Belvoir, now in his eighties, would still potter into the bakery though to make pork pies and slab cakes which were kept in drawers. Clive would weigh in all the ingredients and the old baker would mix them together by hand.

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When Clive’s family moved to Leicester, his father having taken a job with Walkers Crisps, Clive got a four year apprenticeship at Squires & Kintons, a factory bakery but where the produce needed to look homemade. Clive attended Southfields College on day release and it was here that he won the Renshaw Cup, for the best of the year’s intake of apprentices.

Clive’s talent for decorating cakes was quickly identified at the bakery and he was often working on cakes away from the production line. Progression to Holmes Bakery, Welford Road, Leicester followed where Clive worked under a gold medallist cake decorator, who produced spectacular cakes; it was here that the young baker honed his skills.

Clive’s next career move was to Coombes Bakery, a high-class bakery run by John Coombes who would visit the Continent and come back armed with many ideas to put into practice in the bakery. By this time Clive had married Sue and with baby Edward on the way and a mortgage to pay, Clive moved to Quorn for a higher salary at Wakeleys Bakery. This was not to be a happy placement and it was while he was here that the family embarked on their quest for their own business.

Mr Middleton, the owner of the Old Bakery, was keen to retire and had put his business on the market. He had a regular trade and a wholesale round supplying corner shops in Northborough, Baston and Helpston.

Sue and Clive worked hard and the village community was very receptive to the bread and cakes produced at the bakery and trade thrived. Customers would

come and call in at the Post Office and at Walkers newsagents, and the road was as busy as it ever was.

The old Alfred Hunt coal oven, thought to originate in the mid 1800s, had never been in such demand! On Good Friday the queue for hot cross buns would wind its way out of the shop and it is still important to put your Christmas order in ready for collection.

But when Hannah and Edward were just 8 and 11, Clive found himself a single dad as Sue went off to pursue a lifetime ambition, fostered by her father to go to university. Hannah always keen to help her Dad would pull an upturned bucket through to the counter from the bakehouse and happily serve customers.

Local mum and bookkeeper Joan Sinclair would look after the accounts and the little family steered their way through the choppy waters.

Now trade is not as thriving as it once was, but locals and drivers passing by still stop for their filled rolls, freshly cooked bread and the doughnuts for which the Old Bakery has become renowned. Oh, and when children hear that there are gingerbread horses for sale, there is often a detour to collect!

And Clive continues to pursue his interests, as an artist, an artist’s model, a sculptor and adding to his picture gallery upstairs in the shop. And he still enjoys Salsa! And guess what? So does his ex-wife Sue! ‘It’s strange,” he says ‘we have the same things in common now as when we were first together all those years ago!’

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War and propaganda posters were produced in the 1940s to keep morale high. There were postcards, memoirs and history books written for the benefit of future generations. Jessica, auctioneer, says, ‘My granddad fought in both the 1st and 2ndWorld Wars, and I am proud that his detailed diary written in the 1940s is now in the British Museum.’ Stamford Auction Rooms sell a great deal of printed ephemera and Jessica says, ‘I always like it when museums buy our war period collectables, because not only are they going to be preserved for people to see for years to come, but the vendor knows where their items have gone. For example, a military medal and a trio to Corporal Stone, Queen’s Regiment, contained in a Princess Mary Christmas tin, and the corporal’s war book were sold

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To give the Panna Cotta an extra apple taste Robert makes his own apple juice by blitzing fresh apples (in this case Granny Smiths) covering them with sugar and then pressing the juice from the pulp.

Having reduced the juice to a syrup he adds to the double cream which is heated until just under the boil. Having soaked the gelatine in cold water till soft, he adds to the cream mix which is then left to set in moulds. A ‘cheat’, albeit not an apple flavoured one, can be bought at Waitrose.

The granola is prepared by heating up golden syrup and butter, adding chopped mixed nuts, hazelnuts, ground almonds and oats and placing in the oven to crisp up.

Elderflower Jelly, made with Sparkling Elderflower wine from local producer Witham’s Wines, adds a delicious dimension to the dish. Sugar and elderflower presse are bought to the boil over a medium heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Gelatine that has been soaked in cold water until soft is placed in the syrup to dissolve. Leave to cool.

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GEORGIAN FESTIVAL

Stamford Georgian Festival approaching fast Stamford’s historic streets will soon be alive with colour and spectacle for the town’s massively popular Georgian Festival.

Celebrating a Georgian age of ‘Wonder and Invention’, the festival (26-29 September) promises costumed splendour, themed markets, talks, music and street theatre – with many events free of charge.

Organiser South Kesteven District Council promises great entertainment, including Saturday and Sunday programmes on the town’s riverside Meadows with a skirmish between French and English troops, period traders and re-enactors.

Saturday evening’s spectacular free parade is one for all the family, with a lantern parade, live performances, music and some surprises!

The programme is inspired by captivating stories of Stamford’s past, including tethered balloon rides reliving a pioneering flight from English balloonist Charles Green from Stamford gas works in 1825.

An appearance from the period’s greatest tragedienne Sarah Siddons at

Stamford Theatre in 1779 has inspired a new interactive play–- Mrs Siddons’ Dressing Room – written by Stamford playwright Hilary Spiers.

Festival keynote speaker is Andrew Graham-Dixon (left), art critic, writer and TV presenter, delivering ‘Georgian Art’, and ‘A Celebration of Jane Austen’ features acclaimed actors Robert Powell and Susan Jameson.

Medieval almshouses at Browne’s Hospital will open their doors for tours, the Town Hall is showcasing its heritage and Blue Badge Tour guide Jill Collinge will escort walks around Stamford’s unspoilt streets.

Not So Gorgeous Georgians, an interactive walk for families, reveals some of the gruesome aspects of Georgian life and a Stamford Sights and Secrets Tour offers children a surprise look at chocolate, balloons, bovines, toilets... and more!

For all information and tickets www. stamfordgeorgianfestival.co.uk or call Stamford Arts Centre on 01780 763203 37

Five great ways to nurture young readers, with Zoë Kornfeld My father fondly recalls returning home from work, when my sister and I were small, to discover a huge pile of washing up, and an even bigger mountain of books surrounding my mother and us! These days, I can see her love of reading descending through me to her grandchildren who are surrounded by books every day.

Reading is not only a huge bonding experience, but every book designed to transport us to a different world helps us to better understand the world we live in.

Both written and spoken words can change the course of history and dig deep into our souls, and they are vital in maintaining healthy relationships. I can’t hope to cover every aspect of reading here but I am looking forward to sharing some ways that we can help encourage a lifelong love of reading.

Start collecting and don’t stop!

In my opinion, you can never have too many books, but how do you start a collection? If you intend to read to your newborn, then you could ask for books as a gift, a longer lasting alternative to bibs and onesies!

I’m not saying never buy new, but there are many ways of getting hold of second-hand reads in fantastic condition. Yesterday, I spent a happy hour bargain hunting at Tallington Car Boot, and came home with bags of new books – none for more than 50p and most for 20p! Bundles of children’s books are often being given away on local online gifting pages, and there is a brand new local venture called ‘Look for a Book’, which encourages children to hunt for books around The Deepings, then hide one in its place. Check them out on Facebook to take part. Take advantage of Deepings Community Library, borrow books and enjoy story time, baby book-time, rhyme time and stay and play!

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Location, Location, Location

Once you’ve begun to collect a wide range (fiction and non-fiction if possible), then it’s time to position the books around your home. Books can be stored in every room but maybe you have a special corner to create a little reading den? Baskets and front facing shelves at low level can help make books discoverable for smaller readers. Allow your children to fall in love with the front covers of books, and rotate them, adding sensory props to spark interest. When the weather is fair enjoy books al fresco in the garden.

Next time you head to the park, take a couple of books and enjoy a story or two while sitting in nature. You may be able to use your surroundings to make the story ‘come alive’ through role play.

A parenting essential If children are surrounded by books from day one, then you will find that you are not just reading at bedtime, but first thing over a slice of toast, while getting dressed, or all afternoon sometimes! Books as part of the bedtime routine are still a fantastic way to wind down, snuggle together, and re-connect at the end of the day. Even if you sometimes get through a pile at bedtime, it has been recommended by some ‘Sleep Experts’ that the same book, read routinely last each evening, can act as a sleep prompt.

Whenever I go to visiting, I always pack a couple of favourites. They provide a great leveller when meeting strangers – something that the children feel familiar with, a way to help bond and serving as a source of both comfort and stimulation. We take books anywhere! The unveiling of a favourite book at the right time has been known to encourage my busy bees to slow down and induce calm.

Leaping off the page Emerge your mini readers in stories away from the book itself… Local theatres often stage some of the best-loved children’s books. Listen to audio books in the car, an opportunity to hear different intonations, often with musical accompaniment.

Wonderful story sacks, bursting with puppets and props can be borrowed from Deepings Children’s Centre, as well as local nurseries and playgroups. Every few weeks I change the theme of the bookshelves in my son’s room, asking him what the next theme should be. It’s important to allow the child’s interests to lead the way. Add to this the opportunity for small world play, by providing some props - your little one will soon be retelling the story, and expanding their understanding. Think about post-reading activities: you’ve enjoyed Superworm, so go on a bug hunt in the garden or, after snuggling up with Goldilocks, put on some dressing up clothes, and go and cook some porridge together: discuss the smells, tastes, temperature, ordering sizes of bowls and so on. The possibilities are endless. Start raiding Pinterest for ideas!

Believe in them Never underestimate children’s ability to understand; to spot something you hadn’t, to notice a connection to another book, or remember a random word from a book read before! Explain meanings of tricky words, provide an alternative, and you’ll be surprised at how much is being absorbed. As with anything worthwhile, the more you practise, the better you become. Think about how to draw out a child’s, and perhaps your own, understanding of a text. Predict what might happen.

Allow children to join in – books with rhymes and rhythm are great for this.

Discussing characters is fantastic for nurturing emotional intelligence. Talk about an alternative ending or discuss your favourite part. Of course, learning is best done together, so, read together as a family – allow children to see you as a reader in your own right. Encouraging siblings to share a book together is an opportunity for children to rehearse their own reading style, build confidence, and to bond .

Or, if they’re an only child – they could read to a teddy, friend or pet. You might be amazed at what they have remembered; you might hear them copy a silly voice that you used as you read to them! That feeling of being snuggled together, all engrossed in a beautifully written story is priceless - so, when they ask for ‘one more’ story, think about the passion for words, story-telling, and learning you are passing on - you really can’t beat those cuddles either , can you?

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what’s on

September with Oddfellows Sunday 1st September 2.00pm Welcome Afternoon Tea Free event.

Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping. Contact Andrew 07729519122 Tuesday 3rd September 7.00pm Cold Pudding Club. Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping.

Contact Chris 01780 755705 Wednesday 4th September 2.00pm Talk, Railworld Wildlife Haven by Brian Pearce MBE Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping.

Call Andrew 07729519122

Nature on your Doorstep Deepings Library Thursday Sept 19th 7.30pm Dave Mainwaring talks about the Deeping Lakes owned by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and known for their abundance of wildfowl & waterbirds Tickets £3.50 incl light refreshments from The Deepings Library M-F 10-5 not Thurs Sat 10-3 or call 346528

Tuesday 10th September 7.00pm Visit and supper to Oundle Museum Oundle. Contact Roly 01832273664

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Wednesday 11th September 2.00pm Craft Club, Oddfellows Hall, Abigail FletcherChurch Street, Market Deeping. flute Call Janice 01778 560059

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Isabel Kentoboe

Abigail Fletcher- flute, Isabel Kentoboe, Chris Brown - piano Sunday 8th September 3.00pm Priory Church DSJ

Wednesday 18th September 12.30pm

Friendship Chris Brown - Lunch Riverside Hotel, piano Surfleet. Book with Christine

07714 096801 Music by WF Bach, K Goepfart, JW Kaliwoda and G Holst.

Music by WF Bach, K Goepfart, JW Kaliwoda and G Holst.

Sunday Tickets £8 (£5 child ) incl. light refreshments from J Astle8th Sept,2019 Saturday Priory Church 01778 346879, V Worthington 01778 343860 or3pm at the, door.

21st September 7.30pm Deeping St James PE6 8NP

Green School, Church St., Market Deeping 21st Sept 12 until 4pm.

Heritage Open Day The story of the Green School with displays including photos, school registers, harvest ‘holidays’, indentures etc. Tea and cake will be available . Entrance free.

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Oddfellows Brass Band in Concert.

Greenwood Quire Sunday 29th Sept3.00 pm Priory Church DSJ Tickets £8 (£5 child ) incl. light refreshments from J Astle 01778 346879, V Worthington 01778 343860 or atCorn the door. Exchange Bourne. Tickets The Contacts as above Abigail would like to thank Deeping St James United Charities for itsfrom Alec Day Butchers, Abbey Road, continuing support of her flute studies.

Bourne, or call Andrew 07729519122

Christmas Crafting - launch weekend

All proceeds towards the work of Priory Church

Sat 21st & Sun 22nd September Riverside Crafts offer free make and takes, demos and special offers as they launch Christmas crafting in style!

83 High St, Market Deeping 01778 344550 www.riversidecrafts.co.uk

Tuesday 24th September 2.00pm Surprise Bingo. Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping.

Call Andrew 07729519122 Wednesday 25th September Afternoon Tea in the Garden. 12 Rotten Row, Pinchbeck, Spalding.

Call Christine 07714096801

Deepings Baby & Toddler Nearly New Baby Sale Sunday 15th September from 10-12 Deeping Leisure Centre Stalls, Raffle, Refreshments, free taster classes and more.

Free entry with donations going to Refuge

Hardy Plant Fair Swines Meadow Farm Nursery Sunday 22nd September 10am /2.30 pm Refreshments available all day.

Free entry. Good chance to buy something different for that special place in the garden.

Glinton Horticultural Society Show Saturday 21st September 2.00 - 5.00 pm Arthur Mellows Village College, Glinton Flowers, vegetables, handicrafts, photography, baking, preserves and children’s classes. www.glintonhorticulturalsociety.org.uk

Coffee Morning Music by Fresh Ayre Local Artists, seasonal produce & seedheads

Priory Church Hall, Deeping St James

Friday 27th September 10-12.00

R J Scholes Priory Church

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BOOK REVIEW

Deeping Literary Festival’s Linda Hill reads Cambridge Black from Alison Bruce An arson attack in 1991 forms the basis of secrets and lies that reverberate for more than the next two decades.

Although part of a series, Cambridge Black works brilliantly as a standalone novel. Its well crafted plot keeps the Alison Bruce reader guessing right to the end and making the connections between three seemingly disparate plots is hugely entertaining. The way in which all the strands come together is extremely clever in the fast-paced and exciting ending.

Characters are varied and complex. Alison Bruce doesn’t patronise her readers, but has a sophisticated style that gradually reveals layers of deceit and untruth so that readers find out what is happening in tune with those in the narrative. The naturalistic quality of the direct speech and the small details that bring the text alive are fascinating. The Cambridge settings are so vividly drawn.

Whilst characters show the full range of human emotion, in Cambridge Black, it is the themes of revenge, deceit and anger that are so enthralling. Admittedly some characters’ actions are totally reprehensible but the reader understands exactly why those involved behave the way they do.

Although Christopher Creative writing workshop Hitchens is usually with crime writer Alison Bruce accredited with the ‘Whether you’re a new writer or already saying ‘Everyone has experienced, there will be skills that are vital.

Once you’ve learned them then it’s a book in them, but up to you how you use them. From character and in most cases that’s plot to unusual and invaluable tips, this worksho p will help you where it should stay’, to develop your writing and make that elusive there have been first novel one step closer.’ several variations over Whatever the A perfect gift genre - crime the years, resulting - romance for a budding history....

Alison will have author in in aspiring authors tips for you! your life! guiltily shoving their unfinished manuscripts in the back of drawers, or, Thursday Sept 19th 2-5.00pm Tickets: £10 to include refreshments The Deepings Library, High St., Market Deeping these days, in some unused file marked ‘novel’ on their laptop and trying to forget they ever began writing them. If, like me, that sounds familiar to you, maybe it’s time to think again. available at the Library Counter closed Thurs M-F 10.00 am - 5.00pm (3.00pm Sats).

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