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Deeping ISSUE 016 / SEPT 2016

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Welcome While history was being made for Team GB on the sporting fields of Rio, Deeping Rangers FC played their first home match against Northampton Sileby Rangers. I’d rather be in Deeping magazine much appreciates the opportunity to watch live football within our community during the season and so is delighted this year to become one of their sponsors. On Saturday 3rd and 24th this month at 3.00pm and on Tuesday 6th and 27th at 7.45pm the team are playing at home. There is no better way to feel part of a community than to cheer your home side on and for a fraction of the cost of attending even a POSH game. Look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks! C’mon you Rangers!

Proud holders of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services, the Deeping Men’s Group really does provide a safety net for all of those who are in need of mobility equipment in the Deepings. The Group are often to be seen around town collecting for the charity and also supporting local and civic events too. Featured in the magazine this month, Deeping Men’s Group - we salute you!

Completed Have Your Say Forms for the Neighbourhood Plan are still coming in! If you haven’t yet had one or would like one contact me on idratherbeindeeping@gmail.com and I will make sure that you get one! We still have until 16th September.

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This bag seal was found recently in a field towards Spalding by Joe Charlton. It would have been one of two seals used to seal a bag of grain etc. The study of such seals is known as sigillography - search on google and when you are next out for a walk!

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Family, friends, members of the community and the congregation of the Deepings Methodist Church gathered together to say a fond farewell to Revd. Ann Bossingham and Revd. Dr Mike Bossingham and wish them all the very best in their retirement.

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Deeping was made for a Duck Derby! It has the perfect venue - the lock pound at High Locks an ideal structure for holding little plastic ducks with the river flowing by the side of a main street and viewing point. So when the then fund raising chairman of the Deeping Lions Club, Andrew Bowell, saw an article reporting on a Duck Derby held elsewhere then he alighted upon this idea which has subsequently seen thousands of pounds raised and is still a popular part of Deepings life.

Where to get the ducks? The Lions being a tenacious bunch did not let an operational problem like this get in their way and enquiries were made and soon sufficient ducks were found.

Four cash prizes were offered and the Lions spent the next few months selling them to the locals at 50p per ticket. Race Day dawned and the double gates of the Crown & Anchor Pub on Bridge Street were thrown open and ducks were lined up on a table ready to be purchased for the race. The owner of the duck was then able to give it a kiss for luck and throw it into the river with the others to make a raft of yellow as the ducks lumbered up to the starting point.

It was a colourful occasion, Julie Bowell donned a duck costume and many Lions and their wives acted as marshals and judges, manned a refreshment stall and a lucky numbers stall with cuddly toys as a prize. continued >

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FEATURE

The Lincs Free Press of September 2nd 1986 under the headline ‘Quack Quack for Charity’ reported, “ Almost 3,000 yellow plastic ducks took to the river Welland to signal the start of the first ever annual Deeping Duck Derby. Crowds of people flocked to the Derby at Deeping St James on Saturday but it was not horses they were backing…

The ducks were tipped into the river at High Locks, Bridge Street and kept behind a net til the start of the race. At 2.30pm Lions president, Bob Gascoyne removed the net and started the race and the river became a mass of yellow. All that was needed was for the sun to shine and complete the bright scene, but that was not to be so. Although the current propelled the ducks downstream, they were helped on their way by Lions in rowing boats and the Scouts in canoes. The finishing line was just passed the footbridge so after months of preparations the race was soon over.”

The lucky prize winners for the First Deepings Duck Derby were announced as; First prize (£100) Mr Spencer of Market Deeping, Second prize (£75) E.C Murtach of Werrington, Third prize (£50) Mrs M Tylee of Market Deeping and Fourth (£25) A. Wright of Peterborough. The raffle for a giant teddy was won by Mrs A Thompson of Deeping St James.

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Five years later in 1991, the event was still enjoying great success with 3,400 ducks released into the Welland urged on their way by crowds of spectators who lined the river. The road was now closed for the event and a street fair was held with a host of trade and charity stalls. From midday onward the entertainment included marching bands, majorettes and fairground attractions. Lions President, Stewart Jones commented that the ducks were slower than in previous years completing the race from High Locks to the Pack Horse bridge in 1 hour and 15 minutes. The lucky winner, Mrs Hyde of Market Deeping, had bought her ticket just before the start of the race. A cake made by Mrs Rosemary Martin depicting ducks floating down a river was raffled and won by Mrs Garner of Deeping St James.

A spectacular charity show was organised by the Lions just after the race on 22nd September at Peterborough’s Key Theatre when a cheque for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus was presented to Ruth Madoc of TV’s Hi-Di-Hi. Words: Joy Baxter, Andrew Bowell Photographs: Dorothea Price, Ian Baxter

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PROFILE FEATURE

Barry Thorpe

– the man behind the name which was first held in the Rose yard. ‘Stalls, For many, think of Barry Raft Race l-r Johnny Brown, Robin Thacker, Graham Cox, Morris Rigby skittles, fancy dress and a hog roast,’ Barry Thorpe and memories recalls, ‘and then it got too big and we had to of the Thorn Club come have it at the Leisure Centre, where one year flooding back. The idea we had Vera Duckworth from Corrie to open was born over a pint taken it. She was brilliant and stayed all afternoon.’ in his favourite pewter The club continued with landlords Pop and Pat tankard which hung Griffiths behind the bar, when there were fun behind the bar at the nights and barbeques as well as steak nights at Rose at Frognall, while Newmarket races with a dance afterwards. in conversation with Dennis Barsby, a local At Harvest time there was the Auction held at coal merchant. Margaret the Rose, and people would pile in until there Moyle was the landlady was only standing room at the back. With who was happy to put up donations of flowers, £1 a bunch, beetroot, bags a notice on the wall to of tates, and baskets of plums and apples from advertise the forming of Gordon Charity, the auction ran from 7.30 to a new men’s group. Soon 11.30. Barry would warn, ‘Don’t move your people came forward: hands at all! If you do it’ll be a bid!’

Malcolm Smith, Harry salad stuff and went to M&S Pywell, Jack Christian and Aubrey Elliott. They met monthly and their coming out laden with nearly first venture was to organise the raft race in 1972. 600 individual trifles!’ And after The race caused a stir – one of the rafts was a the party was over the couple would crawl home at 4.00 am Robin Reliant car – and soon the Club was in having finished the clearing up! business!

The event became so popular it ran for 14 years with people Barry’s favourite occasion was the New Year’s Eve dance, held in the Leisure Centre when it first opened clambering for tickets in July. in 1973. ‘Five Card Trick’ a band from Peterborough played while 520 people danced and laughed the night Football tournaments held at the new leisure centre followed, away eating food prepared by June, Barry’s second Easter bonnet competitions, wife and her friends, Eileen Forvargue and Sylvia Addy. ‘We fetched the ham and beef from Sandall’s,’ Cheese and Wine evenings at the Football tournament presentation Peakirk Village Hall and the Gala Johnny Brown Farmer of Stowgate presents prize to a girl winner June remembers, ‘cut up loads of tomatoes and 16

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Funds raised went to other local charities and a marquee was bought which was hired out. ‘The new health centre had just been built in Douglas Road,’ June remembers. ‘It was very bare and new looking and we bought a lovely wooden rocking horse from Fairways of Peterborough to liven it up. When the health centre moved again we had it re-saddled all ready but it couldn’t be used because of health and safety legislation.’

Barry and June’s love of horses was not just of the wooden kind. They owned three racehorses; Malgittie was a big winner at York about which Barry was interviewed on TV by John Oaksey, and he had a further three winners at Yarmouth and Leicester.

Their children, Yvonne and Nigel, took up show jumping and went to countrywide events nearly every weekend. Barry remembers getting to a show

early one weekend where he sold a little pony for £80. It was a hot day and the transaction over he lay down on the ramp of the horse box for a nap, only to be unceremoniously woken by a dog bounding onto his chest. The owner soon followed; the Labrador puppy had been bred for showing but it was too big and soon Barry and June were the proud owners of the dog, Shaun. Not only did Shaun embrace the

busy life on the show jumping trail but he would jump all the jumps in a gymkhana himself!

At this time the couple were living in Frognall and they remember one sad occasion when one of their show jumpers was spooked by a very low flying jet from Coningsby (Mick Bourne working up at a ladder at Grooby’s farm at the time nearly fell off).

The horse jumped the hedge and was killed on the Spalding Road, busy in the days before the bypass.

The Ministry of Defence did admit liability and paid out.

With their combined interest in show jumping and fund raising the couple and the Thorn Club were a natural choice when Steam Expo at the East of England Showground wanted the show jumping event to be organised. Competitors came from all continued >

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PROFILE FEATURE

Rocking Horse presentation Standing l-r Malcolm Smith, Dr Lamb, J Christian, Dr Marshall, Dennis Barsby, Barry Thorpe, P Hywell, Aubrey Elliott. Front Dr Coleman, rocking horse, E Lanvey

Cheque presentation at Peterborough hospital l-r Dr Guttman, Jack Christian, Rep of Red Cross, Bourne, Rep of Salvation Army of Crowland, Johnny Brown, Chair of Thorn Club over the UK, including well-known names Harvey Smith, Pywell and Ricketts and the event was so successful that in one year enough was raised to buy four Chiltern boxes to help in the detection of a heart attack, then priced at £1,000 each. Another year two guide dogs for the blind were bought again at £1,000 each. Sponsorship was sought from the Coal Board, Dennis Barsby’s supplier, and £1,000 was donated.

Raft Race presentation l-r Colin Addy, Dennis Barsby, winner, Nigel Thorpe with camera

Barry, the son of a farmer, was born in Bourne in 1935, brought up largely in Heckington by his maternal grandparents. ‘We had hot breakfasts, lunch and tea all during the war years. Two pigs were killed each year and we had our own sausages, hams and pork pies. My granny would make all our bread. Annie Holden was her name, she was my angel and after I got married she came to live with us and did so until she died.’ After Barry’s parents’ eventual divorce, father Horace moved to Frognall where he lived in a stone cottage next door to Ted and Mary Hare. ‘They always had pigs and chickens and sold eggs from the kitchen table,’ says Barry.

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Vera Duckworth

In 1966, Barry with first wife Jean, Secretary to the Director of Education at Lincoln, moved to Park Road in Deeping St James where he ran a catering supplies firm from the top of Eastgate with rep, Chris Barber, secretary, Jenny Brown and two people in the warehouse. The business was sold in 1983 after Barry’s heart attack which he had just before one of the New Year dances, followed by a triple heart bypass. But that didn’t stop Barry pursuing his many hobbies. A pigeon fancier, he would build lofts having had to give up keeping his own birds after the onset of breathing difficulties, He would attend an international fair in Ostend and the Blackpool show with local enthusiasts, Barry Thirtle, Jack Leaton, Kim Cornish and Mick Thwaite. This, along with his three allotments in Langtoft, his new home, kept him busy as would the pursuit of his dream of growing an 18lbs onion.

His horticultural prowess as he travelled the country to shows with June, a flower arranger with her beloved roses, was almost as legendary as his fund-raising Pat Griffiths landlady of the Rose skills, as he pleaded with the organisers for no more trophies to keep dusted!

Barry looks back: ‘I have had the best life that anyone could have had,’ he says. And June? She is still organising two holidays a year for what are now over-60s and looking forward to a trip to Warners next year.

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Award winning charity provides vital local service A male equivalent to the Women’s Institute, the Deeping Men’s Group was founded in 1954. It was the brainchild of the Vicar of the Priory Church and the Rector of St. Guthlac’s Parish Church. Its purpose is to arrange social meetings for its members and generally provide help in the community.

What a success the men of the Deepings have made of it! Presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2006, members of the group have been invited to Buckingham Palace garden parties in recognition of their service.

They are also the proud holders of the Group to Most Make a Difference to Deeping St. James in the Parish Council’s Making a Difference Awards in 2009 and 2016.

A registered Charity, the group provides mobility aids to people of all ages living in the local community and registered with the Deepings Practice or the Glinton Surgery. The group has a large stock of electric recliner/riser chairs, commodes and toilet aids which allow individuals the opportunity to stay in their own homes. The service is free of charge on a loan only basis.

Over the years, the amount of equipment held has grown. The group now has 175 wheelchairs, 75 electric scooters, 10 electric wheelchairs, 50 recliner/riser chairs and an assortment of walkers, zimmer frames, bath lifts and toilet aids.

Receiving no Government or Council funding, the group depends on local charities such as the Deeping St. James United Charities, collection days outside local supermarkets and collection boxes in local pubs and shops.

It is not all work, however. The Men’s Group hold monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of the month, from October until April, in the Masonic Hall, New Row, Deeping St. James.

Speakers on a variety of subjects are welcomed and there is always a raffle. Proceeds from the popular annual Race Night also go to the charity.

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HAPPINESS

Designing A New Timetable with Emma Lanningan Rested and recharged after the holidays? While we might have left school the new term rings a bell inside of us all.

Pause: When you stop within your day, time is still ticking, yet your sense of time slows down. Your awareness of your thoughts, day, and events all come into perspective and it’s a time for you to process, appreciate, be grateful and or learn from your world.

This time out is so valuable and you can create your moment of stillness sitting in the garden, walking along the River Welland or the Nature Reserve, or through meditation.

Time and routine provide us with a daily structure, a sense of place, space and time. Often we feel safer and more secure when everything including our time is mapped out.

When our perspective of time and routine is limiting our life it can start to have an impact on our quality and enjoyment of time; leaving us feeling overwhelmed, under pressure and stressed.

Passion: Knowing what is important to you helps you enjoy life. Keep in touch with what you really enjoy doing.

(We can get so busy we forget.) When you’ve used the pause button a few times you’ll soon start to notice what you love doing and then you can create time for these things each week when you plan ahead.

Within our wonderful and diverse town we’re all living in the same time with the same amount of time, with different needs and perspectives of time. What is most important, is that you are enjoying your time.

So what do you need to get the best of your time?

Here are my Five Time Saving P’s to help you get the best out of your time.

Plan: Whether you write a list or create a weekly timetable and print it off; the time you invest in scheduling the week ahead allows you to have more time to enjoy it.

Include planning your meals, shopping trips, cleaning and ironing, school runs, clubs, groups, fitness, social and relaxing time.

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Prioritise: Next, to avoid feeling overwhelmed by the amount of tasks, start to break them down and prioritise. First check in on how important all the tasks are to you to have done this week? Are there activities or tasks that can wait? Are they all tasks that you need to do, or could someone else in the house or a friend help you with? Make any adjustments for the week ahead and reschedule tasks or activities for other weeks in the future.

Prepare: We often watch as time is lost running around for those last minute things we forgot or need in order to get something else done. Use your planner to prepare for the week ahead. If you need sellotape and wrapping paper for that birthday gift plan in a trip to the shop or ask some to help with that. When you need to travel somewhere get the details arranged in advance.

A notebook and pen for writing down things you discover you enjoy spending your time on and for keeping your weekly planner in. (A pen and paper is a much calmer way to wind down and focus instead of your iPad.) Book out 30 minutes to do your 5 Time Saving P’s.

Allocate one day of the week that suits your routine; that way you can stick to it.

Emma Lannigan is the founder and author of belifehappy and promotes awareness of our holistic health and wellbeing. Find out more about Emma and belifehappy on Facebook or visit www.emmalannigan.com.

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Deeping to Paris via Richmond Park On the morning of the 9th August at 7.30 am a group of cyclists and friends from Deeping set out on an epic 324 mile journey from the stunning Richmond Park on the outskirts of London heading for Paris. Individuals in the group were raising money for charities such as Asthma UK, the British Heart Foundation, Prostate Cancer and more.

A fully route marked journey rode the cyclists into Portsmouth where they boarded the ferry and sailed into the walled city of St Malo on the Brittany coast. Here they disembarked and prepared to ride though the beautiful French towns all the way to Balgones.

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Succession planting for a sensational spring/summer display with Colin Ward of Swines Meadow Farm Nursery 1. Choose a bag of John Innes enriched general purpose compost and mix with mini-chip bark which will provide drainage while allowing water retention. Adding a couple of handfuls of rock dust will ensure that the minerals in the compost work to their utmost capacity.

7. Cover with compost again and then hollow out the middle of the planting. Crocus can be scattered around the outer ring at this stage, better to choose the botanical or species crocus that will self propagate and offer better value for money.

2. Use a deep pot which will help the water to get away in the winter without rotting the bulbs and quarter fill with compost mix.

8. Choose a hosta according to where the pot will be situated choosing one that likes sun or semi-shade accordingly or the South African bulb, Eucomis for an architectural look. In this case the Hosta Captain Kirk was selected and the Eucomis Sparkling Burgundy, each would provide a Christmas present with a difference for the Trekkie or wine buff in your life! Plant in the centre hollow and back fill with compost.

3. Out of a selection of five different kinds of bulbs, first plant longer stemmed tulips which are later flowering and will benefit from the support to their stems. Pop in a double row of bulbs at 2� intervals, the pointed part of the bulb should be facing upwards. Cover with a couple of inches of compost.

4. Select a shorter stemmed variety of tulips, in this case Little Red Riding Hood was used because of its pretty foliage, they will also appear slightly earlier than the larger variety already planted.

5. When planting make sure that there is nothing in the centre of the pot because the planting can be completed with a plant to extend the season.

6. After covering the bulbs with compost plant a smaller variety of daffodil; jetfire, tete a tete, minnow can be planted. These should be arranged in groups of three to give nice little clumps around the edge of the pot.

9. To complete the planting sprinkle the little dwarf iris reticulata aroud the plant ensuring each bulb is the right way up. These will appear first in late February. Cover with compost and firm down.

10.Until the first frosts the plant will give colour to the pot but over the winter months will die down emerging again in late Spring after the succession of bulbs have done their job of brightening the darkest days.

Compost, mini-chip bark, bulbs, a large variety of Hostas and Eucomis all available from Swines Meadow Farm Nursery; top of Linchfield Road.

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BULBS My friend bought me a packet of narcissus bulbs recently for my birthday. I have a small garden and have never grown spring bulbs before. What should I do with them? - Charlotte

Daphne Ledward first woman panelist in Gardeners Question Time, erstwhile resident of Deeping St James and remembered as Daffers on the Jimmy Young Radio 2 morning programme brings her gardening expertise to answer your gardening questions.

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Plant them as soon as possible, although if this isn’t possible, you can keep them in a cool, dark place until Christmas if you remove them from the packet and spread them out. Find a sunny spot or light shade. Plant the bulbs singly, spaced about 8cm apart, and cover with 5-6cm of soil. You will start to see shoots appearing sometime in January, the time depending on how mild or cold the winter is and the variety of narcissus. Next year, remove dead flower heads and don’t be tempted to cut the leaves off for at least six weeks and they will give you years of spring pleasure.

Is there a general rule of thumb for how deep to plant spring bulbs?

- Peter You won’t go far wrong if you remember that most spring bulbs require planting to at least twice the depth of soil as the depth of the bulb. For instance, if a daffodil bulb is 7cm from nose to base, it needs a hole 21cm deep, while a crocus corm should be covered with 5-6cm of soil. It is better to plant slightly deeper than too shallow.

What other spring bulbs can I buy at this time of year to follow on from narcissi and tulips? - Claire Alliums fit the bill perfectly. There are so many species, from yellow Allium moly and pink A. ostrowskianum, which are short enough to be suitable for the rockery, to taller types like A. spaerocephalon, A. afflatuense and A. ‘Purple Sensation’; the best way to display these is among low shrubs and perennials for additional colour and interest.

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Out of Linchfield into Africa Hilda Young was the first the Headteacher of Linchfield County Primary School (as it was then called) when it was opened in 1980 with 33 pupils. By the end of the first month the number had increased to 60 plus and by 1986 the school had 240 pupils serving ‘a rapidly developing residential area and the children of self employed people and Peterborough commuters’ as reported in the Lincs Free Press in July of that year.

By then Hilda felt that the time was ripe in her career for a ‘bit of adventure’. The school was on its feet and she thought that a new head would allow it to ‘have another look at itself ’. Just at this moment she saw a job advertised in the Times Educational Supplement to start a new Primary School in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan. It was tailor made for her. In 1961 she had joined a school run by the former Kuwait oil company (an amalgamation of BP and Gulf Oilway), becoming head teacher in 1966. When the oil company was nationalised it stopped providing educational facilities and many expatriates came home, Hilda Young among them.

‘The desert gets to you,‘ she later commented, referring to her decision to go back to Kuwait in 1970 to set up a private school for expatriates and English-speaking Kuwaitis with a Kuwaiti

board of governors. ‘Everything had to be duplicated in Arabic, including all the administration documents required by the Ministry of Education,’ she recalled. Despite this bureaucracy things went well and the school which began with 150 pupils grew to teach nearly 400.

The opportunity in Khartoum was a private venture, children were being educated as part of the Khartoum International High School and now the preparatory classes were to be hived off to form the nucleus of the new primary school.

Adventurous she surely was, as Hilda had been taking lessons to become a pilot while at Linchfield and she returned to the UK in her summer leave in 1987 to complete the course and to obtain her private pilot’s licence.

In a world where travel and communication are even more vital than in Hilda’s day, the importance of being a global citizen, with children understanding their place in a global society, is a crucial part of education at Linchfield today. continued >

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During the visit Andy and Sammy were able to lead an assembly for the whole school, teach classes, spend time with children talking about life in England, and hold professional dialogues with teachers about how to improve outcomes for the children. They also met with regional and national leaders of education across the country to foster new links, as well as being hosted by the village chief at local celebrations, including a wedding and a funeral.

In return, Mogotsi, and Catherine, a teacher at the school who had never flown before, were hosted by the school here in October. They spent much time at Linchfield teaching the children about life in Botswana as a part of a topic on Africa, which fascinated the children. They worked closely with teachers, evaluating their practice and gleaning ideas to take back to their school. They visited London and Burghley, and took their first ever trip to the seaside, at Hunstanton.

Having established global links with schools in the USA, India and Zimbabwe, the partnership which has really flourished is the link with Molefe Primary School in Botswana. Through the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms project, the children at Linchfield have been writing to the pupils there, who are all bilingual, speaking English as a second language from a very early age. As links grew, the decision was taken for a teacher exchange visit to take place. Andy Fawkes, the Headteacher, and Sammy Poole, a class teacher, undertook the almost 24-hour journey to the school last July. Stepping into the unknown, they stayed with Andy’s opposite number, Mogotsi Motshwegwe, and his family.

When the pair visited the school, which educates almost 1,000 children, they were shocked to see such abject poverty. At least a third of children are taught under trees as they do not enough classrooms. Whilst many people think of southern Africa as being incredibly hot, during the winter temperatures are often around 4 or 5 degrees at the beginning of the school day, so the conditions for learning are far from perfect. In addition, many children walk enormous distances to school each day, turning up for lessons physically exhausted and fit for nothing more than sleeping through the morning’s lessons.

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As a result of the exchange, Molefe Primary School has introduced a new Early Years class into their school, recognising the huge impact that a good start to education can have upon children’s achievement. They are also working closely with their PTA and their school Patron to raise funds for an internet connection to be installed in the school for use by the whole village, as they look to educate the whole community and bring their children into the modern, technological age.

Both Andy and Sammy have returned to Botswana this summer, self-funded, to support the development of teaching and learning at Molefe Primary School, particularly developing the teaching in the Early Years class, including the teaching of phonics. In addition, they are working to raise sponsorship for the internet connection and possibly new teaching spaces to be built.

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John Clare’s Helpston Born in the cottage above in 1793, John Clare’s family paid £2 per annum, financed from the sale of apples from a tree in the garden. Later the new landlord divided the cottage into four and increased the rent. The family could then only afford two rooms.

John Clare worked for Francis Gregory, landlord of the Bluebell as a potboy, looking after livestock and ploughing his 6 acres. Francis’s mother would send John to Maxey Mill at least once a week, as a bag of flour there was cheaper than that in the village.

John Clare’s father worked for the owner of Savage’s barn, opposite the Cottage as a flail thresher. A flail was a long piece of wood attached to a handle with a thong. The barn unusually still has a thatched roof.

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‘O Langley Bush, the Shepherd’s sacred shade’ wrote John Clare in 1821. This hawthorn grows on a mound at the junction of four parishes, Ufford, Helpston, Upton and Ailsworth close to the Roman Road, King St. It may have been a Bronze Age barrow and the site of a Roman shrine. From Anglo-Saxon times it was the site of an open air court attended by representatives from all the parishes in the Langdyke Hundred. The Court, presided over by the Abbot of Peterborough met twice a

year to judge serious crimes and there was a gibbet close by. This was moved in the early eighteenth century to the Exeter Arms. The Magistrates’ Court now meets in Bridge St. Peterborough.

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In the days of mass production what could possibly be nicer than receiving a card tailor made for you by a friend or family member? Well making your own is! A fantastic selection of all the blank cards and embellishments, rubber stamps and inks that you need can be found at Riverside Crafts in the Deepings at the Antiques & Craft Centre and a beginner’s course is held once a month, just £8 for 2 hours, daytime & evening classes too. Got a special date coming up? Then a free consultation is available to put you on the right track to make your own invitations. With Christmas around the corner this is the perfect time to think ahead and make your own Christmas cards for your friends and family to treasure. Interested to learn more? A Dabble Day will be held on Sunday 9th October for Thorpe Hall at the Community Centre for you to see which craft appeals to you most! www.riversidecrafts.co.uk Call 01778 344550

Scrapbooking Lurking in drawers throughout the Deepings are piles of old photos, curling up in the corners and without names and dates are forever a mystery for those that discover them! Instead of avoiding the moment when a lifetime of memories find themselves in the bin, take control and in creating a book of your pictures and keepsakes with journaling to make sense of it all, leave a beautiful heirloom or two that can be treasured forever.

Monthly classes are held at the Craft Centre, just £15 for 4 hours including materials. www.riversidecrafts. co.uk Call 01778 344550 40

Jewellery making People from all over the UK make their way to Riverside Beads in the Craft Centre in Market Deeping because of the extensive stock that is carried in the store - everything you need for making jewellery and papercrafting. Favourite piece of jewellery broken?

Then come and learn how to fix it yourself or make something from the crafty goodies available. Friendly tutors will guide you through the stages from a starter course to learning new techniques; kuminimo, macrame and wirework for example. Riverside’s owner Donna is a guest designer on TV’s ‘Create & Craft’ and keeps abreast of all the new trends. And when you attend a course not only do you learn a new skill but new friendships are made too - some groups have been meeting together at the Centre for ten years! www.riversidebeads.co.uk Call 01778 346810

Reading It has to be one of the great pleasures of life - reading a book! Escaping into the pages of a good story can fire the imagination, take one to places unknown or familiar.

It’s one of the most relaxing pastimes one can experience and a library, full of all these exciting, new adventures or the re-living of past pleasures, has it all there on loaded shelves, bright with colour and intriguing titles. Book Groups are very popular and reading a book chosen by someone else can open one up to a new world of reading, books that would not have been your choice, but finding that you are enjoying a new author more than you thought, and so your choice expands. The discussions that arise from the books chosen lead to all sorts of places and give a group a feeling of camaraderie.

Those huge tomes popularly called ‘Coffee Table’ books sit there tempting one to lift and turn its pages. Usually full of beautiful illustrations, informative text or wonderful photographs, they often provide a talking point. The Deepings Library is like an open book, full of intriguing stories for anyone to enjoy. There’s much more too, computers, information from helpful staff. A place to read newspapers & magazines, book reservations. actvities and story time for children, all within its walls. A place for meetings and available to everyone.

Regular varied and captivating workshops with friendly tutors 4 week jewellery making evening class starts October.

Try out a new craft and join us for our popular Dabble Day at the community centre on Sunday 9th October!

Reader Offer

Half price starter jewellery making class - £10.

Valid until Dec 2016. in the of the Deepings Antique & Craft Centre, High St.Market Deeping

www.riversidebeads.co.uk

Save time & petrol we have an extensive stock of craft supplies! t: 01778 344550

Patchwork Patchwork is not just quilts; its cushions, table runners, place mats, bags, wallhangings, bed runners and a Christmas table centre, small trees, fabric crackers, bread baskets and tree skirts. So if a quilt seems a daunting project consider these endless possibilities! Diana at Pippins Patchwork has been sharing her passion for patchwork with crafters at the Market Antiques & Craft Centre since 2003 and in Oct & Nov there will be a series of taster workshops at the centre. Pippins stock materials, threads and all other supplies needed for quilting by hand. Contact 07951040717, email pippinspatchwork@hotmail.com or call in at the Centre on a Tues or Weds morning to book a class.

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what’s on Heritage Open Days 10th-11th September Peterborough Cathedral Doors that are normally closed to the public will be thrown open as part of the national Heritage Open Days weekend. Amongst some of the extraordinary spaces on view will be the Cathedral Library, above the Gothic porch at the Cathedral’s West Front, and the King’s Lodging with its neighbouring medieval prison by the archway leading to Cathedral Square. There will also be rare access to the 15th century Table Hall and the remains of the abbey’s Infirmary. www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk or call 01733 452336.

Liam Pridmore Memorial Ride

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Saturday 3rd September from the Golden Pheasant, Etton.

Named after Liam Pridmore from Glinton who died from an aggressive brain tumour in April 2012, aged just 13. The day consists of three cycle rides to suit all ages and abilities.

There is a 60 mile Sportive Ride and a 25 and 5 mile ride for the more leisurely riders and children. Entertainment is available throughout the day from local musicians and bands, along with a BBQ and a very premium raffle taking place in the evening.Registration for the rides will be open at The Golden Pheasant, Etton from 9.30am until 12 noon and riders can start at their leisure. So get “on yer bike” and get along to support a very worthy local event! www. liamride.com.

Deeping St James Concert Series Music at the Priory Bach Organ Music Sunday 25th September 3.30 pm David Whittle, Director of Music, Leicester Grammar School The third in a series of concerts at the Priory Church bringing talented performers to the village while raising much needed funds to continue the ministry of music for which the Church is renowned with the appointment of a Director of Music and an Organist. Tickets £6 (£4 children) available from 01778 343860 or vicar@dsj.org.uk

Events calendar at www.deepings.co.uk

Authors Will Hussey and Helen Gould will be making an appearance at the Library on 10th and 29th September respectively. Will will be accompanied by his dog, Spud, aka as Spy Dog in ‘Storm Chaser’ by Will and Andrew Cope.

He will be awarding certificates for participants in the Summer Reading Scheme following by a workshop in the children’s library. Helen will be running a writers’ workshop for older children and adults and then coming back on Sat. Oct 1st (10 - 12.30) to read and sell her own sci fi books.

Bonnie & Clyde Stamford Corn Exchange 22-25th September Call 01778 766455 or visit www,stamfordartscentre.com

Join us for a Pie & a Pint

Every Tuesday Night from 6pm NEW CHILDRENS PLAY AREA IN OUR BEER GARDEN NOW OPEN! COME DOWN & CHECK IT OUT!

Pint of & Real Ale & Open all day for food on Saturday Sundays

Homemade Pie of the Day

Pie & a Pint night Tuedays just£10.95 £10.95

Friday night Grill night from 5pm - 2 grills for £25 Find us on Facebook or check out our website to keep up to date!!

FOR MORE INFO CALL-01778-347629 OR POP IN!!

Family friendly, home cooked, locally sourced, pub food as it should be!

The Glebe Singers ‘September Songs’

St Nicholas House

St. Guthlac’s Church Saturday 24th September at 7.30 pm.

Under the energetic direction of Bart Drzewiecki, the choir will perform a variety of music from different times and many parts of the world. The Deeping based choir, which meets for rehearsals on Wednesday evenings 7.30 at Market Deeping Community Primary School, are looking forward to the opportunity to sing in their local parish church and showcase their enthusiasm and passion for singing. Tickets £8 or 2 for £15.Child concessions. Available on the door or from www.glebesingers.org

7pm - 10.30pm on 22nd October 2016

Dress as your favourite horror movie character Prize for the best-dressed!

3 course meal with welcome drinks

£50 per person

Call us to book or for more information Main Road, Deeping St Nicholas

TEL. 01775 630366 website at www.stnicholashouse.co.uk

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01778 218 269

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