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This is the start of the sporting challenge season and throughout Deeping people such as George Wallis, who will be running the marathon for Save the Children, are putting their sporting prowess to good use and raising thousands for charity - Deeping salutes you all! Kicking off the season were the members of the Deeping Swim Club who realising their electronic score board needed to be replaced set about swimming themselves a new one. So one Sunday afternoon in April they collectively swam an awe inspiring 2,832 lengths of the Leisure Centre pool and raised a handsome ÂŁ7,500!

Nothing if not resourceful people throughout the community are busy planning summer events from the Raft Race to the Dog Show and this year an invasion of Vikings will spearhead the Carnival on 2 July. On behalf of them all I urge you to enjoy what Deeping has to offer, buy local where you can and continue to make this far corner of Lincolnshire the vibrant caring place that it is!

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Over £1,100 was raised at the Age Concern Spring Fair. Pictured are Brenda and Kath selling tickets.

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The Deepings School held its first Exhibition of Learning at the end of March. This was an ideal opportunity to showcase the progress students are making in their learning in all subjects and the week was certainly busy!

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FEATURE

Today when you drive out of Market Deeping on the Stamford Road, your eyes are often drawn to the imposing mill and its collection of buildings.

It is often mentioned in connection with the Van Geests who lived there in the seventies. But more than that, this important building provided a working livelihood for many in the Deepings over the centuries. For one family in particular it provided them with their business for nearly 200 years and after much research we can now discover some key insights into our local milling heritage.

Gingerbread man Born in 1733, the young John Molecey, son of a ‘whittawer’ (tanner and saddle maker) of Market Deeping, was 14 when he was apprenticed to Gentell Chapell of Pinchbeck to become a baker. John, a ‘gingerbread baker’, was back in Market Deeping 23 years later when he took on Robert Lawford as an apprentice.

In the same year John married Eleanor Rowse at Hose near Melton Mowbray. Maybe he had met her when she visited her Aunt Mary, wife of John Thorpe, miller at Market Deeping Mill on the Morcott Deeping turnpike road. Maybe John bought his flour there or supplied gingerbread to the Thorpes?

The young couple went on to start a family. Two daughters, Sarah and Eleanor, came first, followed by son John in 1760. Around this time the Moleceys took on the water corn mill which had been in the Sharp family’s ownership, next to Thorpe’s Mill on the River Welland but just over the parish boundary in West Deeping – perhaps it was with the Thorpes’ encouragement.

John and Eleanor extended their mill by adding a granary for flour and grain storage, dating this in 1773 with their initials. (The October 2016 edition of I’d Rather be in

Deeping featured The Granary.) This addition to the mill made it even more convenient for the lighters on the Stamford Canal to moor alongside to load and unload. The ground floor included an office or ‘counting house’ to do the accounts, pay the wages and record grain arriving and flour leaving the mill.

John and Eleanor also extended their family: another son and six more daughters were born between 1762 and 1769, but only three of the girls survived childhood. Sadly, but not unsurprisingly - having had all those children - Eleanor died aged only 47 in 1779. Despite his bereavement, it was in the same year that John completed the granary at Maxey Mill. In 1790, John, ‘miller and baker’ still living in Market Deeping, also died, aged 57, and was buried with Eleanor in St. Guthlac’s. It appears that he left all his property and possessions ‘messuages, cottages, mills and osiers’ in Market Deeping, West Deeping and Stowe to his only surviving son John, aged 30. His five daughters – Sarah, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Ann and Charlotte – were unmarried as yet, so must surely have been provided for, perhaps in an earlier settlement?

Life in the Regency Mill At some stage after the building of the granary in 1773, a handsome and substantial house was added to the mill. The family probably moved here before John Molecey senior died. As John junior remained a bachelor, it doesn’t seem likely he would have built such a large house for himself.

He continued to run the mill and manage his father’s property. Although he kept on the bakery premises in the Market Place, he concentrated on farming and acquiring land.

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FEATURE landowners and for John Molecey in particular. Although the land surrounding the mill was freehold, he would have negotiated with the Enclosure Commissioners and made sure he got his fair share of the parish allotment.

One parcel of land was exchanged with the Crown, and fields to the north of the turnpike road and in West Deeping Fen were added to his estate.

In the 1820s John took on the tenancy of land allotted to the Crown estate to the west of the mill and the 103 acres ‘in front of my house’, on condition that they drained the land and built a farmhouse. This meant frequent visits from the Crown Surveyor,William Custance – in 1830 he wrote to the Crown agent at Sleaford: ‘Mr Molecey’s lands and house are in fine order and must pay him well.’

As a gentleman farmer, John Molecey had considerable standing in the local community as well as a keen interest in protecting valuable assets. Along with other eminent West Deeping villagers, he was a member of the Market Deeping Association for the Prevention of Felons. From 1830 he regularly attended the West Deeping Vestry meeting, forerunner of the Parish Council, and served as Overseer of the Poor.

By 1835, two years before Queen Victoria’s accession, Mr Molecey’s mill was the hub of a sizeable estate of freehold and copyhold farming land. But it was in 1835, at the age of 74, that John Molecey died, unmarried. From his will, which covered over 11 pages, we find out how the family heritage was to be continued – through his sisters.

The Molecey sisters In 1794 John’s youngest sister Charlotte had married John Twigge, Surgeon and Apothecary of Market Deeping. They had a son, John, in 1810, so he was 25 when his uncle died, changing John Twigge’s future. On July 20 1835, the London Gazette announced: ‘The King has been pleased to give and grant unto John Molecey Twigge of West Deeping His royal licence and authority that he and his issue may take and henceforth use the surname Molecey in addition to and after his own family surname, in compliance with a proviso contained in the last will and testament of his maternal uncle, John Molecey late of West Deeping by and out of grateful and affectionate respect for the memory of the said testator.’ So he became John Molecey Twigge Molecey and inherited all his uncle’s estate.

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The estate had to provide annuities of £200 to his mother and aunts. Sarah and Eleanor had married, but Ann and Elizabeth remained spinsters and their brother’s bequest led to endowments that link the Molecey name with the history of education in the Deepings. The ‘Misses Molecey Gift’ funded a school for West Deeping and Elizabeth Molecey set up a trust to support the Green School in Market Deeping. Her charitable donation of £200 is recorded in the bell tower of St Guthlac’s church and on a plaque on the west wall of the former school opposite the church.

Another significant lady joined the family when Eliza, daughter of Stamford Alderman and prominent businessman, Francis Simpson, married John Molecey Twigge Molecey in 1836. Her brother Frank was a close friend of the Helpston poet John Clare and the Simpson family are known to have been very supportive of the Clare family. It is not difficult to imagine John Clare visiting the Twigge Moleceys at West Deeping when he dropped in to see his bookseller at Market Deeping!

Life in mid-Victorian Molecey’s Mill

John Molecey Twigge Molecey must have picked up where his uncle had left off – he continued to farm, acquiring land and taking on the same community responsibilities. He too attended Vestry meetings, and was appointed Guardian for the Stamford Poor Law Union and Overseer of the Highways for West Deeping. The 1851 census for West Deeping lists John as a Farmer – of 225 acres, employing five labourers – with five of their children (Eleanor, Herbert, Octavius, Charles and baby Isabella) and three domestic servants. The two eldest sons – another John (13) and his brother George (11) – were away at school.

Florence would be the last child to be born, six years later.

The boys were fortunate to be well educated and destined for professional careers. John and George were scholars at Stamford School in the 1850s, while Charles was educated at a private school for boys at Sleaford. This generation of Moleceys was well placed to benefit from the developing British Empire and the opportunities it offered for exploration, travel and adventure.

Second son George Twigge Molecey trained as an architect and was to practise in India between 1865 and 1874, working some of the time as City architect to Edwin Lutyens in Bombay, as well as teaching architectural drawing and design at the Bombay School of Art and Industry, before returning home to England.

Fourth son Octavius followed in his grandfather Twigge’s footsteps and qualified as a surgeon. In 1869, he was the ship’s doctor aboard the Agamemnon bound for Australia, when he died – of an aneurism of the aorta – aged 25. He was buried in Australia, in Melbourne cemetery. A piece of Stamford stone was sent by his ‘sorrowing mother, brothers and sisters’ to mark his resting place.

Eldest son John had qualified as an attorney and solicitor in 1860 and in 1861 he was in lodgings in Quarrington, near Sleaford. His plans must have changed abruptly in 1864, when his father died of apoplexy at only 54. Probate records continued >

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FEATURE only reveal that the executrix was his wife Eliza and his effects were less than £12,000. Even without a will to refer to, it is clear that John, aged 26, took over the running of his father’s estate.

One of his concerns was the condition of the former Stamford canal in front of his house. He complained to the Stamford Corporation about its ‘dangerously unhealthy and filthy state’ with slime ‘so thick that a duck could not paddle through it!’. Some years previously, the canal had been parcelled up in lots to be auctioned off. Rights of ownership were disputed and the auction didn’t take place, but in 1868 the Corporation negotiated with landowners.

John paid £34.16s10d for Lot 18: ‘part of the canal … including the Lock pen and gates in length 676 yards or thereabouts bounded on the north by Crown land and property of J M T Molecey Esq. and the said Deeping and Morcott Turnpike Road and on the south by the land of J M T Molecey Esq’.

The auction of the Manor of East and West Deeping in 1875 presented John with further opportunity to increase his property. He secured lots 7-11 which included West Deeping Manor Farm and Fishery and a further four plots of land adjoining the road from West Deeping to Market Deeping.

John’s speculative mind had ensured control of production in the local area and supply of grain for milling so he was keen to support a railway which would come almost to his front door, linking with the Great Northern Railway three miles away at Helpston. In December 1878 he was elected director of Market Deeping Railway Company. Along with many other benefits for the area, his own agricultural produce would be rapidly transported and supplied to ‘all parts of the Kingdom’ as the prospectus proclaimed.

The 1881 census records just how successful John had become: aged 42, a farmer and landowner, he occupied 1,060 acres, employing 38 men and 16 boys. He was unmarried, although he had his housekeeper and a young housemaid living with him.

Molecey’s Mill abandoned In three more years, all this was to be over. In 1883, the proposed Market Deeping railway floundered due to insufficient funds being raised. An Abandonment Act went through Parliament and as one of the directors he was liable for repayments to disappointed shareholders. Dramatically, as

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several advertisements in the Stamford Mercury announced between April 10 and May 8 1884, nearly all his assets – farms, livestock, equipment, animals and crops – were sold off. The final sale on 8 May must have been the most poignant, when he let go the contents of his parents’ and grandparents’ house, where he’d grown up with his brothers and sisters. The furniture, paintings, silver and tapestries, contents of dairy, stables, brew house and mill were all disposed of. John Molecey Twigge Molecey, the last of his dynasty, kept only ‘the mill, residence, garden and stables to be let with immediate possession’.

John moved to Home Farm, on Stamford Road, Market Deeping, with his housekeeper Ruth Maddock. He continued to farm there on a small scale, while the mill remained unoccupied. Then on 26 September the Grantham Journal records: ‘On Saturday last, at the Angel Hotel, Peterborough, Messrs Kingston offered for sale a freehold stone and slated family residence, situate about one mile from Market Deeping, together with the water corn mill adjoining and other buildings, orchard, garden, paddock etc. containing altogether about 3 acres and known as the Mill House; also a cottage and garden known as the Toll Bar House with a strip of pasture land adjoining including the site of the old River Welland containing about 3a 2r formerly the estate of Mr J M T Molecey. The bidding started at £200 and after very slow progress the property was knocked down to Mr Fullard of Thorney at £410.”

John and Ruth departed the Deepings for 75 College Road, Deal in Kent where they both lived until John’s death in 1917.

Probate was granted to his housekeeper Ruth and his estate valued at a mere £139 8s 10d.

The family’s history, the part played by the different generations of Moleceys in the history of the Deepings and particularly the fascinating story of the last Molecey to occupy Molecey’s Mill – have taken up many hours of research and speculation by the Granary’s current owners, Graham Magee and Glenn Fuller, the Mill’s former owner, Caroline Desbruslais, and Maggie Ashcroft of West Deeping Heritage Group, with the help of Liz Parkinson, Deepings Heritage.

Can any Twigge-Molecey descendants add to the story? Was it the Market Deeping Railway venture that caused John Molecey Twigge Molecey to abandon his mill and farm? Or, at the age of 45, was it his mid-life crisis?

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Clare Wookey Local Mum and new Nanny, Clare Wookey has just swum right into the Guinness Book of Records! Part of an open water swimming challenge to swim the Ocean 7, five women swam the 19-mile North Channel two-way swim between Scotland and Northern Ireland as a relay team in 28 hours and 25 minutes.

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and a civil servant all share a love of swimming in the open water. Not for them the security of a chlorinated pool!

Clare has had considerable experience of open water swimming having swum the English Channel three times, once with her daughter, Kayleigh Adams in July 2013. Clare commented, ‘The North Channel wasn’t as busy as the English Channel but I remember it being foggy and cold’ and with the water temperature as low as 11 degrees Celsius it certainly was that! The North Channel from Donaghadee to Portpatrick and back is considered to be one of the most dangerous open water swims in the world and was swum last year for the first time by a team of five men and one woman

whose time was 29 hours and 57 minutes. For Clare the Lion’s Mane Jellyfish provided a real challenge with clouds of them drifting towards the lights on the boat. Fortunately most were in their juvenile stage and only gave small stings, a couple sustained by the swimmer. ‘You try and dodge them,’ she explains, ‘but you may get in the way of their tentacles as you can’t see them. When you touch them it is like touching firm jelly – urghhh!’

Clare, who trains at Tallington Lakes, has set her sights on completing the Ocean 7 long-distance open water swims which is considered the marathon swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. It includes the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Tsugaru Strait, the Strait of Gibraltar and the next feat in their sights, the Catalina Channel which is 20.1 miles between Catalina Island and the coast of southern California.

Clare shrugs off the fact that these are shark-infested waters with the information that the company Banz will be a sponsor of the swim; producers of a shark repellent bracelet whose electrical pulses are, she hopes, a deterrent.

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The fact that Clare is clearly made of strong stuff is of no surprise when she mentions her military lineage and she is very proud of her grandmother Joan Wookey who, during the Second World War, was a code breaker based at Bletchley Park. It is because of her father, Michael’s life saving surgery at Papworth that Clare now raises funds for the charity and she herself is no stranger to illness, having had heart and kidney disease all her life.

Far from letting this get in the way of her sport Clare is also keen to contribute to the community. She and fellow triathlete Dave Cross set up the local group Dig Deep ‘n’ Tri in May 2015. This has provided a training ground for several promising local athletes including three young brothers from Baston, Jacob, Toby and Noah Bush, who recently raced in the Bedford duathlon. The group now under the supervision of Clare meets once a week at the Deeping St James Community Primary School.

Clare is also the Sports Officer for the Lincolnshire Army Cadets and is responsible for all the PT on junior camps, running also an annual swimming, athletics and football competition.

‘The fact that Clare is clearly made of strong stuff is of no surprise when she mentions her military lineage’

Of course, being mother to Kayleigh Adams who came 9th in the 2014 World Triathlon Sprint Championships in Edmonton, Canada and was also the fastest British Athlete in her age group having only started Triathlon just over a year before, was huge testament to the determination that her Mother has clearly passed on to her. Keen to acknowledge Kayleigh’s own personal motivation, Clare acknowledges that she herself has learnt a lot from Kayleigh and her coach and is proud also to reflect on her daughter’s achievements in European Championships, where she won Silver in the Triathlon in 2015 and Silver in the Duathlon in 2016.

And now Clare is back in the water and training for the Catalina Swim this August … one thing is for sure and that is that Deeping will be rooting for her!

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DAWN CHORUS

A Spring Dawn Chorus Listening to a dawn chorus is a magical experience and a fantastic way of getting back in touch with nature. We are very fortunate to live in an area where there is so much opportunity to hear this miracle of nature. Ideally you need old deciduous woodland with nearby scrub land, open grassland and arable fields with hedges.

Luckily all these come together in Castor Hanglands to the west of Peterborough and close to the Deepings. This is a National Nature Reserve and an oasis of green with ancient woodlands, medieval boundary banks, limestone grasslands and dense scrubland. This last feature means that on a spring morning you have the chance to hear the iconic bird of a dawn chorus: the elusive nightingale. Here we live right at the northern edge of its range.

A date in early May is the best time to hear a dawn chorus in all its glory. Go on a bright sunny morning without much wind. In the still air the bird song carries much further. Get up very early as sunrise is about 5.30 am and it is best to be in place about thirty minutes before daylight.

As you approach the wood you are most likely to hear song thrushes, mistle thrushes and blackbirds.

These are early-risers foraging for worms, which in the damp of the early morning are on the surface and easier to catch. Worms are 70% protein so excellent food for these ground foraging birds. Before the light is strong birds sing from vantage points in the wood. The thrush seems to repeat the refrain ”Bring it! Bring it” as part of its song . The mistle thrush looks very similar to the song thrush, but it is larger and has bolder spots on its breast. Its dreamy song is loud and far reaching. The blackbird’s song is almost ethereal and perhaps the

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most beautiful. As a back drop to these birds, down low in the under storey of the wood, robins will be adding their high trilling to the building chorus. At this stage you may also be lucky and hear the tawny owl call. This is a nocturnal bird that sits up in the trees and roosts throughout the day, but still may call from time to time. The sound made is ‘kee wick, whoo – whoo” but if you hear that you are actually hearing two birds as the female calls ‘kee wick’ and the male answers ‘whoo – whoo’. Very romantic!

If you hear just one or the other, you are hearing a lonely bird.

As the light gets stronger wrens and warblers become active. These feed largely on insects which appear a little later as the sun strengthens. The wren is found near the woodland floor and flies rapidly from one cover to another. Its song is a big surprise for a bird so small. It is loud and emphatic with a staccato section sounding like the rattle of a machine gun!

Warblers, summer migrants to our country, join the growing refrain. These small and busy birds can be hard for the beginner to identify, but the easiest is

the chiff chaff. This bird ‘does what is says on the tin’. Its call is ‘chiff chaff, chiff chaff, chiff chaff ’! Only cuckoos are easier to identify and you are likely to hear them as well by this point in the chorus. Looking very much like the chiff chaff the willow warbler can be heard making a simple repetitive descending song that fades at the end. A warbler that is difficult to hear is the grasshopper warbler. This bird likes thick, low scrub and can be heard making a long whirring sound like a fishing line being continuously reeled in.

The next to rise are the woodpeckers. In Castor Hanglands you can find all three of the species found in Britain. The green woodpecker is the largest, with is green back, striking yellow rump and red-topped head. You may see its undulating flight across the grassland in the centre of the reserve and then the distinctive loud ‘yaffle’ or laughing call. A drumming sound across the oak woodland is most likely to alert you to the presence of the greater spotted woodpecker, a black and white bird, the size of a starling . You can’t immediately be sure it is the greater version, however, as this woodland is one of the few local places where you have the chance to find the lesser spotted woodpecker, also black and white, but only the size of a sparrow.

At any point you may see and hear members of the crow family; they are all large birds with sturdy legs and strong bills. All are omnivores and highly evolved, alert and quick to learn. They are also noisy and advertise themselves by loud raucous calls. Most people know the black and white magpies but may not be so familiar with the fabulous multicoloured jays.

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DAWN CHORUS found in flocks, whilst crows nest alone. Amazingly in recent years you might even have seen ravens over the woods!

But wait, where are the nightingales? Tension can mount as you wonder if you will ever hear one. Is it too cold or too windy, have they not yet arrived? With the low scrub ahead and in the distance you may hear the tell-tale notes of the song of the nightingale. Sometimes it is just a warm up, a few notes and phrases as if the bird is somewhat out of practice, but then the full version is achieved with the heart aching, ever rising notes of the grand finale. Think about what this experience is really about for the performers. For us it is the return of Spring, the longer days, and the optimistic anticipation of summer to come. For the birds it is all about the primeval need to procreate. Virtually all the songsters are the males. The females just use alarm or contact calls. They listen carefully

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- which male is singing the best? Nightingale song takes a lot of energy so the fit males sing more boldly, hold the best territories where the food supply is abundant and are likely to have the strongest genes. For the males the songs warn off potential rivals .

By 8.30am the chorus is almost over and we are ready for a substantial breakfast. For the birds the work of building nests, feeding themselves or feeding the young and guarding their territories takes over from the need to sing and the woods grow much quieter until dusk when there is a much briefer and more concentrated coda. As you return to your car and begin to walk across the farmland you may hear the skylark singing. You will have to look high in the sky to see the bird and you may struggle to find it. For John Clare, in his poem ‘The Sky Lark’, the bird ‘hangs like a dust spot in the sunny skies’. However its endless song is a wonder, which never does seem to end.

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WATERCRESS

Not only a great addition to a summer salad or sandwich, watercress was a crop grown locally until just over 40 years ago and would have been freshly picked courtesy of the Moody family, who for over 150 years were watercress growers in Suffolk, Surrey and Tottenham, London.

In 1897 Nathaniel Moody with his wife Esther and son Edwin arrived in Bourne and set up business, where the water of St Peter’s Pool and Bourne Eau was ideal for watercress growing.

Edwin helped his father after school and by the start of the First World War the business was prospering.

Nathaniel had a new water bore drilled to keep up production. After the cress was cut it was packed in three-ton crates and taken to Bourne Station, bound for London and Leicestershire as well as supplying the local market. Edwin went off to war serving his country in the Royal Navy on the Ventura 1, but on his return home he took over the reins of the business from his father, who was now 60 years old.

The business expanded to Baston where Waterside Garden Centre is now and the expansion gave employment to many Deeping men. The cress to supply the markets was planted in August and had to be carefully tended in the winter because of frost.

Harvest started in May. The industry continued to thrive during both World Wars when the country had to rely on home-grown produce and watercress sandwiches served at high tea became almost a national institution. It was a staple ingredient for school dinners and several experiments undertaken in the 1930s concluded that it was an excellent way to promote children’s growth.

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digestion and the taste buds, while the stalks are succulent and cool from the water in which it is grown. Given the nickname ‘poor man’s bread’ in the early 19th century, bunches were often rolled into a cone and eaten on the go as a breakfast sandwich.

had recently belonged to the South Lincolnshire Water Board, had been sold to the Bourne United Charities who already owned the Park on the other side of the Bourne Eau when the Board ceased to exist as a result of local government changes in April 1974.

During the Second World War Edwin became a member of the Home Guard and a Special Constable, and he was a horticultural advisor to small growers for the Ministry of Agriculture.

A keen sportsman all his life, he played football for Bourne Town and played notably in the acclaimed team of 1921. He also played golf and tennis, and had an interest in photography and gardening. He was a member of the Hereward Lodge of Freemasons and travelled widely.

Picking the last few bunches of watercress were Mr Joe Revell, his wife Emily and Mrs Elsie Turner. Joe had worked full time looking after the cress for the last eleven years; when not in season he kept the beds weed free and carried out maintenance.

Previously he had been helped in the season by his wife but as trade had dropped off she was no longer needed.

When Edwin retired he sold the business and the cress beds at Bourne, which covered three and a half acres at the Wellhead, and also the site at Baston.

The public’s love affair with watercress, in spite of it being considered an aphrodisiac in some circles, waned and on 16 April 1974 the Lincs Free Press led with the headline ‘Watercress has lost its appeal’. The last watercress beds were closed because there was considered to be no market for the salad plants. The 24 beds in South Street, Bourne, which

In the shops watercress was selling for between 5 and 8p a bunch but before it got to the shops the cress had to be plucked from the often freezing cold water. Mrs Turner remarked, ‘Your fingers go all numb but after picking the first two crates you don’t even notice the water is cold.’

When Edwin Moody died in 1986 his obituary stated he had been a grower and a nurseryman all his life. He founded and was Chairman of E.N. Moody & Sons Ltd. Now with the acclaim given to watercress as a superfood, the crop is enjoying renewed popularity.

Containing 15 vitamins, it is especially rich in iron and vitamin C. It has more vitamin C than oranges, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach and more folate than bananas.

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Watercress - a favourite super food at the Bluebell of Glinton!

Head Chef, Will Frankgate frequently uses watercress to garnish steaks but with this recipe it comes into the limelight in soup, a delicious Spring prelude to a lamb dish!

The Michelin recommended Bluebell at Glinton has seen an expansion in recent months with a stylish wood and glass garden room which allows private parties to be easily accommodated and now with a complement of five chefs the kitchen is abuzzing!

This soup has a simple vegetable base.

To feed four Will took one onion finely

chopped, a clove of garlic crushed by pressing down with the flat side of a large knife (tip facing away ) and the papery skin removed, two stalks of celery chopped and the head of one leak chopped expertly, first vertically and then horizontally.

These ingredients are then placed in a saucepan with a little butter and some oil, at first on a medium heat reducing to low to sweat the vegetables off. When still slightly firm add two large potatoes to the mix. The thinner they are chopped the quicker they will cook.

The assembled ingredients are covered with 1.5 - 2 pints of water, a lid placed on the pan and cooked out for between 5 and 10 minutes. continued >

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RECIPE Will has chosen watercress grown in a farm in Norfolk, Nurtured in Norfolk, specialist growers of micro cress, pea shoots and edible flowers and suppliers to illustrious chefs throughout the UK including Roux at the Landau in London.

At this stage 300mls of whipping cream is added to the mix and gently heated for a further ten minutes.

Two punnets of watercress have been cleaned in water which is agitated to ensure that any

of the sandy soil in which the cress is grown is removed.

The soup mix is then poured into a food blender and the watercress added. First on a medium and then on a higher speed the cress and the soup is mixed together at high speed when a delightful spring green liquid is seasoned with salt and pepper and poured slowly into waiting bowls.

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Dear Elector, Having served and represented you for over a quarter of a century on Market Deeping Town Council (4 years as Mayor), the last ten years as your South Kesteven District Councillor, I believe puts me in a unique position to step up one more tier in local government and represent you also at Lincolnshire County Council.

Since my re-election 2 years ago on Town and District Councils I have offered a drop in surgery every Wednesday at 10.00am (Market Day) to listen to any concerns that you may have with either council and to try and resolve any issues.

This surgery is advertised monthly in the Deepings Advertiser together with another that I fund advertising the Lincolnshire Credit Union to try and stamp out doorstep lending loan sharks.

I believe that my election to LCC will cut out a lot of inter Council red tape with discussions over who is responsible for what. At this very moment I am involved in negotiations with LCC engineers on a joint Town Council project to replace like for like, subject to planning consent, the hedgerows opposite William Hildyard School on Godsey Lane. After many complaints that the path is not wide enough I advised fellow Town Councillors to replace it with a new hedge 1 metre further into the field. My job will be to organise the removal of the existing hedge, mulch and use in parks, prepare the ground for LCC to lay new tarmac to a width of 1.9metres or 6 feet. The Town Council will

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install a new post and rail fence to protect 420 new saplings donated by the Woodland Trust until they are established. Our excellent and enthusiastic Town Hall Clerks while obtaining these free saplings also took advantage of acquiring 12 fruit trees that have already been planted.

This work has required the co operation of all three Councils; Town as landowner, District for planning consent and County to lay the tarmac and provide traffic lights, not to mention match funding the project. The end result will mean improved safety for Mums with toddlers and improved visibility for drivers near the zebra crossing. As your only Independent Councillor on all three authorities, I will be well placed to cut down on the red tape incurred should it occur on other projects.

INDEPENDENT Another two priorities that have caused uproar locally are the lack of street lighting recently imposed and the amount of pot holes needing repair. County issues that I will be well placed to campaign for.

You have favoured me with your votes over the years and it has been my pleasure to serve and represent you. I now welcome the opportunity to widen that responsibility at County level but can only do that with your help and support!

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WIRELESS

Market Deeping wired to the world It was 1913 and while the local press acknowledged the importance of the part that wireless communication took in the rescue of the 600 survivors of the Titanic - they acknowledged that Marconi’s wonderful invention had not in fact touched the lives of the residents of the Deepings. That is until W J Greenfield, motor engineer of Halfleet, and his 16 year old son, Walter, erected an installation for the transmitting and receiving of messages on their premises.

Walter harboured an ambition to be a wireless operator on liners and was keen to read instructive articles in the British Mechanic magazine instructing amateurs how to make apparatus for receiving messages from the big wireless stations established in various parts of the world. Acting on these instructions he set to work in his father’s workshop. The receiving and messaging apparatus cost under £3 but they were so effective that soon Walter was receiving messages from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Germany, Clifton, the west coast of Ireland and many places in the British Isles.

The apparatus consisted of a 60 foot high pole for supporting the aerial or receiving wires about 500 ft of ordinary wire made in two sets which were held in a small room above his father’s workshop. This was where the electrical transmitter and Morse code transmitter were placed.

The receiving inductant was a cylinder about 12 inches long wound with copper wire, the potentiometer, a wooden cylinder 6 inches long wound with German silver, the condenser a box about 6inches by 4 inches of tinfoil interleaved by wax paper. There were also two inductors, one a piece

of platinum wire as fine as a human hair inserted in about a thimbleful of sulphuric acid; and the other a gold point on a crystal of silicon. A pair of ordinary telephone earpieces complete with the receiving apparatus completed the equipment and in this way various messages were received in Morse code. The Greenfields proudly boasted that in this way Market Deeping was more up to date than the rest of South Lincolnshire.

Amongst the news obtained daily were the weather reports from Cleethorpes station which could be heard very plainly. Paris time came from the Eiffel Tower in the morning and foreign news in the evening, weather reports came at midday and midnight and news also came from Poldhu. The fall of the German airship into France was known in Market Deeping the night before it appeared in the daily papers as was the Suffragist train fire at Teddington. continued >

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WIRELESS For despatching information a much more powerful apparatus was required and at this time Mr Greenfield could only send messages a few miles to a portable apparatus he had also made. This was contained in a box about 22 inches by 5 inches by 9 inches with a bamboo pole about 20 ft high with some 50ft of common wire.

Mr Garner of the Crown Inn in New England was reported to have similar apparatus which Mr Greenfield had tuned up for him and they were hoping to establish regular communication between the two.

The work of the Greenfields aroused much interest and was inspected by the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter. Walter himself though was recorded as being ‘one of the most unassuming young men one could wish to meet.’

‘As this was the cutting edge of technology at the time there were not many qualified operators and so some good opportunities were opened up for Walter Greenfield and others like him’

A licence was obtained from the Post Master General before the installation of the equipment and a declaration of secrecy was made. As this was the cutting edge of technology at the time there were not many qualified operators and so some good opportunities were opened up for Walter Greenfield and others like him.

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Tennis Club Strawberries and cream, the springy thudding pops of tennis balls being hit… ahh! It must be Queen’s, Wimbledon. White socks, green courts and we are all enraptured as our heroes enliven our TV screens: ooo, ahhh and we’re away!

In recent memory tennis was played in Deeping on grass courts where the Co-op car park is now. It was in the 1970s when the land was developed that the then Market Deeping Tennis Club joined forces with the Cricket Club to purchase land on Outgang Road where the Sports & Social Club is today. Players at the club were encouraged to donate money for the purchase and in exchange received life membership of the Club. Play started on the two new grass courts in 1973. A third court was occasionally used but collided with the outfield of the cricket pitch and so its use was restricted.

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When Deeping Rangers football club expressed a wish to relocate to Outgang Road, fundraising once again began in earnest and additional land was purchased and two new hard courts were opened in May 1986.

The club was now playing in the League and actually needed three courts, so League matches were played at the Deepings Leisure Centre until in 1991 the Club converted their grass court to make an additional third hard

Chase Burgess court. In 1994 floodlights were installed on two courts, extended to the third court five years ago.

John Rudd, now Director of Tennis at Virgin Active in Peterborough, was a Deeping lad who started his career playing on the grass courts at his grandparents’ home at Burnside, 14 Church Street, Market Deeping.

The annual trophy for which they played was magnificent and playing for the trophy has recently been reinstated as an annual event at the Club.

(L to R) Ian Snaith, Joe Meenaghan, Andrew Hemsley, Ian Winterton, Andrew Merrick, Bob Oxford. The B team (front row) are: Alan Barnes, Sid Bird, Bernard Craythorne, Adrian Wilson, David Crowson

Simon Bentley is the Head Coach at the Club and he has been responsible for the successful development of many young people; at the moment the Club is proud to have 80 junior members as well as 60 adult members. The Club fields five teams in the Peterborough League and they also play in division one of the Hunts & Peterborough and Aegon Leagues. Deeping St James player Alice Gamman was the runnerup in the Under 12 Lincs Singles Championships and runner-up in continued >

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TENNIS

the Under 14 Lincs Doubles Championships in 2016. Zach Cox has followed his father Mark and brother Elliott and last year was victorious in the Cambridgeshire Championships in the under-14 singles and doubles championships as well as the under-16 singles, and reached the semifinals of the under-18 doubles. One to watch!

Chase Burgess is another youngster showing good prowess, winning the under9 singles in the Lincolnshire Championships last year. The Club itself came second to local rivals Stamford in the 2016 Peterborough & District Tennis League.

Murray started his career at the age of three, coaching is available as soon as little ones can hold a racquet which can be as young as three or four.

The Club is keen to encourage families and this summer is offering a ten-week temporary membership for families for just £30, for singles just £20.

On Saturday, 8 July between 2 and 5pm the Club will be participating in the Great While the competing British Tennis Weekend and season is mainly from will be open for the inquisitive April to September, to pop along and meet the hardy souls in bobble Head coach Simon Bentley presents club winners members in this friendly hats and gloves do also trophies to Zachary and Elliott Cox. community-based Club whose play on Sunday mornings committee, under the acting in the winter.

Chairmanship of Alan Jones, is keen to see that it remains a one of the highly successful Aware that tennis coaching can help sporting clubs within the Deepings. hand and eye co-ordination in young ones and also noting that Andy Facebook Deeping Tennis Club

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A stay at the Deepings boutique B&B offers an opportunity to step into a beautifully designed but comfortable and friendly home where nothing is too much trouble. Look through Trip Advisor to see guests lining up to praise the hospitality of Peter and Hazel and to recommend Peter’s prowess in the kitchen, his breakfast omelette is second to none! Welcomed with a cup of tea and a slice of home baked cake it is no wonder that visitors return again and again to this Georgian property in the High Street in Market Deeping. Refurbished to a very high standard and re-opened in 2015, the B&B offers a range of accommodation including the garden suite which sits alone at the back of the house offering total privacy looking out across the garden for 2-4 people. Call 01778 347595 EmaiI: info@caudlehousebandb.co.uk www.caudlehousebandb.co.uk/

The Bluebell Country life at its best is offered in the chocolate box village of Helpston, courtesy of The Bluebell.

Their newly completed bed and breakfast accommodation is tucked away from the hustle and bustle in converted buildings attached to the pub. Now four en-suite rooms are available on the ground floor but with separate access. The rooms offer country chic style with honest creature comforts; beautiful soft furnishings, a flat screen TV, Tassimo coffee machine, tea making facilities, various books and games. The village is a great place for an evening stroll, footpaths are easily accessed, John Clare Cottage with all its history is just next door and the Pub itself offers first class cuisine in a stylish setting. Tel: 01733 252394 38

The Granary & Duck House Enjoy all the trappings of a country house weekend at the charmingly restored Granary just a stone’s throw from Market Deeping. This Grade II star listed property once formed part of Molecey House and Mill. With a date stone on the gable end of 1773 and with huge oak beams and exposed stonework, new life has been breathed into this historic building; alive with the stories of its rich heritage. Period architecture and authentic features allow you and up to 14 guests to be transported back into a time when barges plied their wares along the canal which gently laps against the front wall and brings a daily flotilla of swans, mallards and moorhens to the door. Situated amongst twelve acres of spectacular tranquil gardens, there are many opportunities to recreate a swallows and amazons childhood, or just to walk and explore. Also available for a relaxing stay is the Duck House which sleeps two and enjoys panoramic views across the main garden to the willow lawn. Its intimate interior is a unique blend of historic and modern, with a well equipped modern kitchen and elegant bathroom. www.thegranarydeeping.com

Caudle House Image: Fred Cholmeley

Bed & Breakfast in elegant accommodation in the heart of Market Deeping

Gatehouse Lodge at Easton Walled Gardens This cosy luxury bolthole for two lies at the heart of the Easton Estate in the delightful walled garden for which there is free access at all times. The Grade 11 listed building has been rescued from dereliction and its sensitive restoration has been inspired by Ben Pentreath and Ian Mankin to create the perfect retreat. The garden shop and tea room are close by while local provisions are available a short drive away at Berry’s Farm Shop with The Cholmeley Arms with its home cooked food and roaring fires next door. www.visiteaston.co.uk

Deepings Caravan Park, Towngate East Camping in the Deepings has just got a whole lot more glamourous with the addition of two glamping Pods at the Caravan Park. The facility for caravans, motor homes and tents (all with electric hook up) has recently been enhanced with the addition of two Pods. These come fully equipped with fridge, microwave, kettle and a sofa bed, small heater and TV. The Pods have been sited to take advantage of the sun and endless views over the Lincolnshire Fens, there is a picnic bench outside so meals can be taken al fresco. The site itself offers a shop, club house, fishing and lots for kids to do including a play area and football pitch and now also crazy golf.

Call: 01778 344335/ 07949192184.

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what’s on

Farm Walk Vine House Farm, Saturday 13th May The start of the Vine House Farm Walk season, with the first walk taking a particular interest in the Tree Sparrows on the Farm.

Tree Sparrows are a red data species, meaning that they are, or have been, in severe decline. The decline is mainly due to the incompatibility of the British countryside with fewer insects and the lack of winter seed. Nicholas Watts has concentrated on improving the colony of Tree Sparrows on the farm, by feeding red millet, providing diverse hedging and putting up plenty of nest boxes near a water source. These four elements are key in increasing the Tree Sparrow population. In 2014, Nicholas ringed 300 nestlings, in 2015 he had 65 nest boxes up and ringed 500 nestlings. He installed a further 35 nest boxes, increasing the numbers to 900 in 2016. If you’d like a copy of Nicholas’ Tree Sparrow Breeding Guidelines then please call in at the Farm Shop, or call 01775 630208.

‘Strictly’’ in the Cathedral Peterborough Cathedral 7.00pm Friday 19th May Tickets £25 per person In the company of two Strictly Come Dancing winners, Louis Smith MBE and Lance Corporal Cassidy Little. This sparkling event will start with a Prosecco reception accompanied by young muscians from Peterborugh Music Hub followed by a demonstration by Tu Danse Studios and then an opportunity to dance in the beautiful Cathedral Nave! The wearing of sequins and tuxedos is encouraged!

Walk Happy 2017 Mental Health Awareness Week Sunday 14 May 2017 Registration 12:30 noon 7km Sponsored Walk around The Deepings (approx 60 - 90 minutes) £5 to enter (optional to raise sponsorship) All money raised will be donated to the Mental Health Foundation who are dedicated to finding and addressing the sources of mental health problems. To take part or make a donation please contact the organiser: Emma Lannigan - belifehappy email: emmalannigan@yahoo.co.uk or call 07508 246266.

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Events calendar at www.deepings.co.uk

Annual Parish Meeting & Making a Difference Awards Deeping St James Parish Council Conference Centre, The Deepings School 7.30pm Tuesday 9th May Join children’s book illustrator Ellie Sandall who will be making the presentations for the Deeping St James Parish Council’s annual Making a Difference Awards.

The council also hold their annual Parish Meeting, there will be displays from local groups and delicious refreshments are available free of charge.

‘Field Thoughts’ by artist Gerard O’Keeffe John Clare Cottage 11.00 am - 3.00pm Fri, Sat and Monday - May & June New oil paintings by Cambridge based artist, Gerard O’Keeffe. ‘Just as John Clare mourned the depredations and injustice of The Enclosures Act and its impact on ordinary people in his day, so I seek to show the contemporary English countryside under attack - within its own context. Like Clare, I am eager to entice “some friend to wander nigh” and to experience modern versions of the “bowering leaves” and “crowded fields.’

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