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Left to right in the photo: Charlie Capper, Tom Welch, Tyler Mayoh, Ben Boyle, Louis Metsellar

Given the talent and chutzpah of those raised in our much-loved neck of the woods, it is of little surprise that Peterborough’s Most Wanted Slot on Peterborough Community Radio was recently taken by Deepings Band, W45. Since getting together a little over two years ago, the band has played at many events both in the Deepings School, where they met, and at lots of local gigs. It was while playing at the Deepings Carnival back in the summer that they were spotted by the radio station and the invitation followed. Said Charlie Capper, “We played a range of songs from Nirvana to our own originals, and even dedicated a One Direction song to head teacher Mr Lord! It was an amazing experience that we are all so grateful for! And they’ve invited us back next year.” Interested in how they got their name? Well it’s the room they practise in at school of course! They will play at the Christmas Market and are available to book for parties.

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07-13 News 15 Deeping Business Awards 16 Arborfield Paper Mill Helpston 20 Profile: Charles Black - Blackie 23 Bargain Hunting 25 Deeping Market 27 The Christmas Hamper 31 Community Centre Photography: Publisher: Printed by:

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DSJ Parish Councillors and Friends of Jubilee Park met to plant 2,000 crocus bulbs on the Park.

The Sue Ryder coffee morning which raised ÂŁ450. Pictured l-r Deanna Birkitt, Cherylle Parson and Val Devenish

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The Deepings Library celebrated National Libraries week with first of the Friday morning scrabble clubs (to be held on alternate Fri mornings) and a Frogo-pod with ipads preloaded with apps to entertain younger library users.

St Guthlac’s dressed in finery for Harvest Festival.

SKDC Leader, Cllr Matthew Lee announces that there will be funding for another Literary Festival in 2019 and there will be a new build Leisure Centre in the Deepings.

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Inventor and author of ‘This Book Isn’t Safe’ Stamford’s Colin Furze recently entertained 400 pupils from across local primary schools at Linchfield. Conjuring up a new invention every fortnight in the bunker below his garden shed, winner of the ‘not a garden shed’ category in the 2017 Garden Shed Awards, the author demonstrated some of his audacious ideas. Teacher Paul Forman described his visit arranged by Helen Morgan from the Lit Fest Committee as “lively, animated and totally engaging!”

Deeping Osteopaths marked Back Awareness Week with an open day at their clinic in Church Street Market Deeping.

Doggy in the Window Delaine Heritage Trust held a Heritage Bus Running Day on Saturday, 30 September, with members of their preserved fleet running a half-hourly service from their Bourne depot to Stamford, plus an hourly round-trip to Rippingale. There was also the opportunity to see progress on the new Delaine Museum. Seven heritage Delaine buses were featured including the 1956 Leyland PD2/20/Willowbrook, which is pictured at the depot in Spalding Road.

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NEWS Deeping Rangers celebrated the opening of their new hospitality suite with a 8-1 win against St Andrews!

Star Wars and Harry Potter star, Warwick Davies visited the Exotic Pet Refuge as part of their Movie Memorabilia day this summer.

The Well opens its doors at the corner of Godsey Lane. Pictured novelist and owner Lizzie Steel (left) with her Mum.

Contemporary British folk trio The Mile Roses performed in Crowland Abbey on Thursday, 5 October, featuring songs from their debut CD. The group (left to right): Edwina Hayes, vocals and guitar; Kate Bramley, vocal, fiddle and mandolin; and Simon Haworth, vocals, guitar and bass; performed two sets in the atmospheric surroundings of the Abbey.

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Celebrating the best in business The awards, which were the culmination of a public vote that attracted over 5200 votes, recognised the favourite businesses from the Deepings and Surrounding Villages.

The highlights of the evening included a lifetime achievement award for Image: Martin Bird Photography Ron Branch, whose company Branch The evening was topped off by a Brothers is also celebrating 50 years of performance from party band Flipside trading this year. Deepings business of the year was who ensured that the celebrations will won by specialist gift retailer Cloudnine who also won be long remembered by everyone who Retailer of the Year for the second year in a row. was there.

Commenting on her win Alison Ireland who owns the store said ‘I am totally amazed to have been voted business of the year. It is a real shock as there are so many great companies who have been nominated. It makes all of the hard work worthwhile.’ She went on to thank her staff, and of course everyone who voted for her.

The winners and runners up in each category were – Best Service Company – Runner Up, Coach of Langtoft. Winners, Walnut Technology.

Practical Excellence Award – Runner Up, Hydropets. Winners, Animates.

Retailer of the Year – Runner Up, Branch

The 2nd Annual Deepings Business Awards were presented on Saturday night at a Gala Celebration held at the Deepings School.

Brothers. Winners, Cloudnine.

Health & Wellbeing – Runner up, The Spin Room.

Winners, Empire Gym. Best Café, Pub or Restaurant – Runner up, White Horse at Baston. Winners, Lilli’s Tearoom.

Top Takeaway – Runner Up, Linfords. Winners The Boundary and River Restaurant.

Outstanding Customer Service – Runner Up, Cloudnine. Winners, Hydropets.

Services to the Community – Runner Up, I’d rather be in Deeping. Winners, Deeping Rugby Club.

Media Arts and Design – Runner Up, I’d rather be in Deeping. Winners, Productive Design.

Best New Business – Runner Up, Feathers Holistic Centre. Winners, Beauty by L& Co. Social Enterprise Award – Runner Up, Deepings Youth Group. Winners, Deeping Raft Race Committee.

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Deepings Business of the Year – Cloudnine.

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FEATURE The saying “One picture is worth a thousand words” is said to date from 1918, when Arborfield Mill, Helpston was flourishing.

This 1969 image whetted my appetite to find out more about the Mill and its life. All that now remains of the industrial complex is the white house at the centre of the picture.

I first became aware of the Mill when I was an art teacher working in Northampton and was told it was a good source of cheap paper. I drove the school minibus cross country, loaded up and returned several times until supplies dried up.

Some years later I relocated to teach in Glinton and discovered that the Mill was just along the road from the school. Part of the site, the old engineer’s store, was now the home of Budget Paper Supplies and it was to this company I now turned for my supplies of paper.

I took a series of photographs of the Mill buildings and some of its interiors as a demonstration, for my art pupils, of some interesting subjects that could be found locally. The subsequent photographic prints were mounted and displayed in the art department and then returned to my studio, but not forgotten.

It has been my practice, in recent years, to make books alongside my prints. They contain pictures of my prints, original source material and, where I can find it, some background history of the subject matter. It was difficult to find much about the Mill on the internet, so I wrote to request local help in a letter to our parish magazine, which covered the Helpston area. I had also thought to include some personal reminiscences of former Paper Mill workers but they seemed hard to find, until I contacted BPS and discovered that the then General manager, Richard Aldiss, had been with Arborfield Paper Mill since 1978 and he agreed to talk to me about the Mill and write an article for my book. Shortly after that Chief Engineer, Roger Burfoot, who had interviewed Richard for his job at the Mill, got in touch, he had been with the firm since 1962. Between them they gave me a picture of the working day at the Mill.

The main products in those days were machine glaze papers, manila, brown envelope papers, hospital tissue, dust bag, bookbinding and other assorted specialty papers. In my first couple of years at the Mill they were still buying in manila and hemp ship’s ropes that would

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The desire to make prints from these old photographs was re-awakened after successfully creating a set of prints from another set of old negatives of the Rotherhithe Docklands in 2015.

My initial intention, in making the Arborfield print series, was to reference the Victorian photographic process known as “Cyanotype”.

My ‘Blue Prints’ were to be framed with a ‘torn’ darker frame, very much like those on early Polaroid images. However, I decided to include a collaged printed border as well and also try out a sepia version. The projected four images turned into twelve. As I was working on a book I included the collaged backgrounds on one page. I immediately saw that there was another potential print.

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FEATURE be used in the production process. The ropes would be chopped into short fibres and then cooked in Digester tanks with steam and caustic. The resultant Liquor was then taken to Swaddywell Pit for dumping. - Roger Burfoot I joined Brittains Arborfield Paper Mill on the 2nd January 1978, having just spent 6 years serving King and Country in the Army. I was employed as a shift engineering charge hand. We worked twelve-hour shifts, in a week that about covered six and a half days - we normally got Saturday afternoons off. The company, at that time, employed about ninety staff, and although seemingly very busy, was part of a larger group that, unbeknownst to me, was in financial difficulty. As a result, the business eventually went into receivership in February 1980. All the staff were made redundant (including the directors). - Richard Aldiss

Sylvia and Janet Dolby in the garden The prints will be displayed in my of their Mill Cottage with bales of old forthcoming Retrospective exhibition rope (sisal) behind them. at the Yarrow Gallery in Oundle. I have been making prints for over 50 years and now , in the year that I celebrate my 70th Birthday, I am mounting a display of my work that goes back to my earliest prints, shows the stages of progress of a few of them and includes three works by artists who have inspired my work.

Although known mainly for my screen prints of British industrial heritage: dockside warehouses, signal boxes, canal-side landscapes and the recent paper mill suite, I have experimented widely with other printmaking imagery and techniques.

Samples of the Bookbinding paper that was a main staple of the Mill’s production. The local watercourse ran with the colour of that day’s production.

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The research into the Mill’s background and work life is not over. Through the contacts gathered from the “I’d rather be in Deeping” Facebook page I am also hoping to gather more Mill Worker’s reminicenses and planning a local display of my Arborfield prints at

the Bluebell in Helpston in the early months of 2018.

That is at an early planning stage but you can currently see two of the prints in the entrance area of the Bluebell if you pop in for a pint.

Printmaking, for me, has become one of the passions of my life. It is not obvious to the casual viewer the time and struggles that go into creating one of these images. An initial set of images are worked on in my computer to make a composite design, drawings are made from the collage.

Decisions are made about colours after trials.

Then the image is slowly built up from layers of painting and drawing on transparent sheets of plastic. Each layer will print one colour.

Colours and texture are tried out, modified and printed again. Until, gradually a final image is deemed satisfactory. Only then is an edition printed from the six separate screens that go to make up this print.

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PROFILE FEATURE

Charles Black - ‘Blackie’ Remembrance Gardens Service, Market Deeping, November 2016. With heads bowed, the Mayor, Councillors, British Legion members, Army & Air Cadets and members of the Deepings’ community paused to remember the fallen during the Legion’s Act of Homage: ‘They shall not grow old…’ A strong voice rang out, drowning out the traffic and careless chatter of Sunday strollers. If you hadn’t seen the Legion’s President step up to the microphone, you could be forgiven for thinking such a voice belonged to a much younger, fitter man. You’d have been wrong. It belonged to Charles Richard Edwin Black, also known as Blackie, who was then 78 years of age and bearing the marks of the illness that was to claim this old soldier the following year.

If there were one word to encapsulate him, it would be that Blackie was a ‘character’. You would definitely remember him if you had met him. Strong, tenacious and intelligent, he held passionately to his values of right, wrong and service to others. He accomplished much during his life through his wide-ranging interests and varied experiences.

Born in Deeping St Nicholas, 25th February 1938, to Charles and Vera Black, Blackie was an only child who had a happy childhood, exploring the countryside and swimming in local brooks, especially around Uffington. His education began in the village before moving on to Deeping St. James and, latterly, Stamford. Blackie was bright, passing his 11+ and entrance exams for Stamford Grammar. Ever his own 20

man, he didn’t want to go so he went to St Michael’s where he became Head Boy. At 14, he began working with his father as a wheelwright and carpenter apprentice. He was very good at it and became a master craftsman.

There are many tales of Blackie’s youth, including that of shooting himself in the leg, aged 13! He relished a challenge, though. Befriending a retired Naval Commander, Blackie convinced him that he was older than he was so the ex-officer sponsored him into basic training with the Royal Navy at HMS Ganges. It was only when the Admiralty couldn’t get the dates on his paperwork to add up that they contacted his dad and the truth was exposed!

Back in Civvy Street, Blackie tried his hand at a wet fish round, greengrocery, hawking daffodils at Peterborough Market then he became a tallyman.

One day, passing the window where the tallymen paid in their money, Blackie spied Marylyn and shouted to

Strong, tenacious and intelligent, he held passionately to his values of right, wrong and service to others.

However, in 1955, having served his full apprenticeship and following a dispute with his dad over a pay rise, Blackie went into an Army recruitment office to join the ‘Paras’. Unfortunately, the hole he had created in his leg thwarted that ambition but, after some negotiation and phone calls by father to key personnel, he joined the family regiment, The Corps of Royal Engineers.

Blackie served in Formosa, Korea and Malaya between 1955 and 1959 before contracting malaria, leading to his medical discharge. Because discharge due to malaria was not awarded a discharge pension, he left the Army without an income. Imagine how well that went down with him!

her ‘Give me a ring tonight’! Not bowled over by his wooing, Marylyn kept him waiting for a few days but then when asking to speak to Mr Charles Black got through to his Dad! Marylyn was clearly the choice for Blackie. After courting her and meeting her challenge to him to save some money, they were wed in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Stilton on 1st September 1962. Starting out life in a caravan, they moved to Langtoft where they were blessed with a son, Alan, with whom Blackie shared his love of nature and his motto, ‘There’s no such word as can’t.’

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Among his many interests and hobbies, Blackie’s passion was The Royal British Legion. He served the organisation for nearly 60 years: he was a founder member of the Langtoft & Deepings’ District Branch and took on many jobs within it, helping to drive it along. He also played a key role in the annual Remembrance Day commemorations where he could be seen marching in the parade from the town centre to St. Guthlac’s Church and back, whatever the weather. Furthermore, he was often instrumental in making sure the local Poppy Appeal took place each year to raise funds for those serving in the Armed Forces and its veterans who were in need. He was awarded the Long Service Medal after 30 years and received his 55 year Bar in 2013. Altogether, he dedicated himself to 57 years of service and support to the Appeal: an achievement that fully deserved the awards he received.

Latterly, he was the Branch Chairman until operations and their ensuing medical complications persuaded him to relinquish that time consuming, demanding role. But, if anyone proved that you can’t keep an old soldier down, Blackie was the man. He was offered and he accepted the ceremonial role of Branch President.

In spring, 2017, Blackie’s fragile health finally gave way. On 19th April, he passed peacefully away with Marylyn by his side. He truly was a man of service to his country and his fellow man, without bargain or compromise. This Remembrance-tide, we remember and honour his legacy to us all. (Words and research by Sue Stephenson & Rev. Neil Knox).

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BARGAIN HUNTING

Autumn, and two teams compete to buy items from Market Deepings Antiques & Craft Centre to sell later at auction for charity. framed collection of pipes unearthed by Julie at the back of a stall, perfect for a display in a country pub or for an interior designer looking to add interest quickly to a room. The frame had already been reduced from £32 to £24 and the generous seller shaved off a further £2 when hearing that the sale was for charity.

This year Alison and Amy from DT Stoves and Julie and Ross from The Deeping Bed Shop honed their best bargain hunting skills to seek out items at Market Deeping Antiques & Craft Centre with £50 each from I’d rather be in Deeping magazine. Auctioneer Jessica Wall, who was on hand to give advice, then took the treasures to Stamford Auction Rooms in Little Bytham to raise as much money as possible at the November auction.

Alison and Amy, the pink team, had chosen Sue Ryder as their charity and quickly took to the aisles to seek out their objects trouves.

The first of which was heralded a popular design

by Jessica, a French sucrier, a sugar pot with a lid from the 1930s-40s and once part of a set. Of course, this would have been worth much more were the other items present but at £12.50 generously reduced to £10 by the seller this was the first in the bag!

Meanwhile Ross and Julie, the red team, who had chosen a Breast Cancer Charity as their beneficiary, proudly selected a little African half masque, beautifully framed for £10, reduced to £9 by the seller.

Certainly a statement piece for the modern home, and Jessica was quietly confident that this would find a new owner at auction.

The pink team had alighted on a 1960’s decanter set with four dinky glasses, perfect for a pink gin and playing to the latest craze for the drink! Normally there would be six glasses but Jessica applauded their choice, while suggesting a slightly lower price than the £20 asked and eventually paid.

‘Quirky’ was the word Jessica used to describe the

Fortuitously the pink team had come upon a medal produced for the Mayor of Stamford on the

coronation of Edward V11 – a little Google research suggests that this was a Mr Charles Grey of St Mary’s Street. At just £5 it was hoped that this find would easily find a home when presented at Stamford Auction Rooms! Almost simultaneously the girls had come upon a long, elegant green-glass vase which Jessica announced was from the 1960s continued >

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BARGAIN HUNTING and well priced at just £4.99. Alison could imagine it on her own Stamford windowsill, so another item made its way into the bag!

As a generous addition to the selection a vendor gave a 1920’s soda siphon a similar one of which had sold for £70 by Anita Manning of TV’s Bargain Hunt fame – how much will it reach at auction on Saturday 25th November? I’d rather be in Deeping will be on hand to record the events of the afternoon.

A saving of £10 had been made by the pink team due to their judicious haggling and so they were able to pick up another decanter set, this time with six glasses, from the70s, and so were able to go into auction with five items under their belt!

For their last piece the red team stuck to their original selection, eschewing the taxidermy alligator’s head and the Victorian bar brooch and instead choosing a metal BSA motorcycle sign which the vendor reduced from £25 to £22 and which the team thought would resonate with both motor cycle enthusiasts and collectors of metal signs.

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Here you can find freshly caught game in season, a wide selection of fish, including Cromer crabs, as well as delicious, freshly baked bread, cakes and local delicacies. There are very competitively priced plants for the garden and bunches of flowers, often for as little as a £1 per bunch.

Christmas wreaths are also available. No market is complete without the fruit and veg stall and the one in Deeping is well stocked and full of local character. Every aspect of your pet’s life is catered for by Chell Pet Supplies, and now there is a wool supplier and a fabric supplier too. The Martins of Market Deeping Antiques Centre now also have a stall here, the mobility stall is here every other week, and in the corner in his caravan is Chris Knight, with a selection of Christian literature. If you like to do your shopping with local colour and atmosphere, while enjoying great prices and selection, then make time for the market on a Wednesday on the Co op car park and be part of a centuries’ old tradition.

Where do you go to get the battery in your watch changed in Deeping? Well, to Deeping Market of course! David and Tracey Burgess have taken over at the helm of the watch stall in the Market on a Wednesday morning, Colin Hayward having recently retired after 27 years. But after a recent growth in the number of stalls it’s not just the watches of the Deepings that benefit from the market in the heart of the community. True to its name, there has been a market in Market Deeping since a charter was granted in 1220 for a weekly market on a Wednesday so the name Market Deeping was used from then on.

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THE CHRISTMAS HAMPER

A hamper from Deeping No less than Charles Dickens was heard to say ‘ Look where I will.... I see Fortnum & Mason.

All the hampers fly wide open and the green downs burst into a blossom of lobster salad!’ and it is true that the country’s most famous grocer has been supplying hampers claiming to be the world’s best travelled tuck box over the course of nearly 300 years.

It’s been dispatched to every possible location, from the slopes of Everest and the battlefields of Iraq to the more welcoming lawns of Glyndebourne, Twickenham, Henley and Epsom. BUT this year it is even easier to despatch a hamper made from local produce. Miranda and her team at the delightful little Post Office & General Stores tucked away by the Green in Ryhall has been beavering away all autumn carefully selecting local produce and offering free

local delivery within a fivemile radius for gift hampers which can be selected or created to suit.

Offering seasonal vegetable boxes all year, Vine House Farm also stock their own Christmas hampers and a variety of food-related gifts, a favourite being their unique bog oak, yew and elm wooden cheese and bread boards. At Newborough, Moor Farm have been selling home grown beef and lamb all year, and at Christmas they offer exclusive hampers for foodies which are simple to organise and amazing to receive.

Locally Grasmere are well known for their award winning sausages but they also stock a variety of artisan cheeses and preserves and are a great stop when hunting out delicacies with which to fill your hamper!

First it is necessary to select a suitable basket, conventional hamper or even a vintage bread trough would fit the bill if you are looking for something out of the ordinary. A great source for

This mouthwatering treat is made in Deeping St James! We offer a selection of flavours including; caramel, coffee maple and walnut, lemon meringue, dairy free vanilla, the ever popular raspberry ripple and of course the scrumptious malteser flavour!!

See us on Market Deeping Christmas Market Nov 26th

Call 07973368611 or email info@deepingfudge.co.uk

Hamper from Moor Farm antique and older items is Market Deeping Antiques and Craft Centre but this year the Insideout Home Store is also selling a variety of suitable baskets, including raffia to use for display. Otherwise Greetings in the Precinct stock a spectrum of different coloured shredded tissue papers.

Insideout Home Store

What to include? A visit to Swines Meadow Farm Nursery is a good starting point, stocked with a variety of jams, chutneys and fruit vinegars made from home grown Deeping ingredients!

Stay awhile and have a cuppa by the wood burner on a cold day! There is a strong brewing heritage in the Deepings, with Valentine continued >

Bespoke Christmas Wreaths.

Jams and Chutneys - home produced ingredients ideal for Christmas gifts Cosy tea room.

Come and see us at the I’d rather be in Deeping Winter Fair Fri 10th 5-8.00pm and Sat 11th Nov 10.30-3.00 pm

Tel 01778 343340 Junction of Outgang and Linchfield Rd.

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At Vine House Farm we specialise in an extensive range of wild bird food - much of which is produced here on the farm. We also offer a wide range of organic, home grown vegetables, home made baked goods and everyday essentials in our Farm Shop.

Get ready for Christmas with: Local free range Turkeys Home reared Cockerels Seasonal vegetable boxes Christmas gift hampers Christmas trees Wreaths & much more Mon - Thurs 8.30am-5pm, Fri 8.30am-6pm, Sat 8.30am-4pm, Sun 10am-4pm * 01775 630208 * Deeping St Nicholas * PE11 3DG *

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We offer a wide variety of products and services including newspapers, lottery, scratch cards, alcohol, cigarettes, fruit & veg, flowers and general groceries. Grasmere meat on Thursdays, Nelson’s meat and pastries on Tuesdays and Fridays, Hambletons on Fridays (good idea to pre-order on Mondays to avoid disappointment), Askers bakery deliver lovely fresh bread and cakes daily. Lynne from Deliciously Different Cakes in Stamford bakes flapjacks, brownies, quiches and a special cake of the week. We have a full range of Belvoir presses and cordials, Modens famous plum bread, olives, Italian chocolates and fruit jellies, Saints and Sinners chutneys, jams and marmalade, fish from Smiths Smokery- the list is endless. Hot sausage rolls and scotch eggs arrive daily from The Wicked Witch Restaurant Ryhall, along with delicious meals and salads to take away from Lambert Rustic Foods served from the deli counter.

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Stapleton in the 1890s, Hereward Ales in the 1980s and Deeping Ales in the 1990s and more recently Star Brewery and Hopshackle Brewery. Years ago breweries used only local ingredients due to limitations of transport, but these days they can draw on a rich and varied world of suppliers. Hopshackle will be taking a stand at the Market Deeping Christmas Fair or you can be in touch via his ad below.

a box with several flavours tied with ribbon; no truly local hamper would be complete without! These will also be available at the Market Deeping Christmas Market. While you’re looking for something sweet Callows to complete your gift, be sure to visit Callows and select a choice of sweets in colourful wrappers which will be given to you in the old fashioned way – white bags with twisted ears at each corner.

and genuine love of their product is evident in the dishes he serves. Rob Johnson, latterly of the Waterton Arms, now of Driftwood in Manor Court Gardens, off Manor Way DSJ comments ‘The Fens are fantastic for local produce but we don’t always appreciate what is on our doorstep. Keeping food miles down while eating food at its freshest – everything as it should be.’

Local chef Will Frankgate of the Bluebell at Glinton is a champion of the smaller artisan producers and delights in sourcing ingredients Caramel, coffee, maple and walnut are just some of the Hopsahackle Advert AW_Layout Page from less1well-known producers whose care flavours of Deeping Fudge, available1by26/10/2015 the bag or in10:50

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Selling a selection of xmas gift packs of locally produced bottles of craft beer.

Festive cases containing a selection of bottles with FREE LOCAL DELIVERY will also be available in December.

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COMMUNITY CENTRE

Entrance now It is 20 years since the Health Centre in Douglas Road moved after last surgery on Friday 14th November 1997 to Godsey Lane, opening on Tuesday 18th, and the first steps were taken to get a Community Centre for the Deepings off the ground. Overwhelming response to a local survey resulted in a plan to make the old Health Centre into a true centre for all the community, young and old alike.

and grants enabling walls to be knocked down to make larger and more flexible use of the rooms, and finally the open days in October 1998 allowed the public in to see the facilities.

Enormous planning ensured that the Deepings Community Group won the BT Better Towns Competition in 1998, supported by SKDC who purchased the old Health Centre. With a population of around 13,000 it was essential to keep pace with the growth of the Deepings and so the hard work began.

Twenty years on and many volunteers later, we have a vibrant, flexible usage and well-used Community Centre still run by volunteers and still helped by many local businesses and organisations – the Lions regularly keep our mature garden in shape, which looked like this at the beginning.

Entrance then... and now Under the chairman, Pauline Redshaw (our current Mayor and still on the volunteer list at the Centre) the team secured awards

Do you remember? Reception area and Mother/Toddler unit – now our function hall

Then...and now Members of Rotary have only last month helped with decorating one of large meeting rooms and we are regularly helped by local retailers and services. Deeping

Entrance then

Doctors in 1965. l-r Dr Barling, Dr Fraser, Dr Douglas & Dr Heywood continued >

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has well in excess of 13,000 residents and growing, so nothing changes really does it? It is essential to keep moving with the times, and we are always planning for this. Perhaps you are interested and able to give a regular hour or two to help keep it going for all the community Dr Heywood’s surgery, now our main kitchen – if so do give us a call 01778 381770, or drop in to see us or email enquirieis@ deepingscommunitycentre.org.uk .

We are proud to continue the spirit and enthusiasm of a centre for the whole community. It really is much more than an old Doctors’ surgery now – visit our website deepingscommunitycentre.org.uk or plan a visit in person.

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Back row: Gloria Roche, Barry Barsby. Middle row: Judith Hood, Jenny Lincoln, Brenda Walker, Carol Webb, Denise Wales, Carol Wilson, Joy Winfield, Sylvia Brown, Teresa Perrin-Brown, Julie Houghton, Joan Login. Front row: Maureen Perkins, Jenny Spicer, Gordon Belsham, Freda Fitton, Chris Petz (Headmaster) Glenys Page, Pauline Yardley, Julie Parry, Ena Chamberlain.

William Hildyard celebrates 50 years Some of the very first visitors to the newly built school in Godsey Lane in 1967 were a python, a small alligator, a barn owl and a chinchilla.

They came at the invitation of Mr Kingsley Williams the first Headmaster and belonged to Mr Keeley a zoologist who made many visits to the school at this time. Teaching staff were Mr Knight, Mrs Howitt, Mrs Forsyth, Mrs Green, Mrs Copcutt and Mrs Williams while the Rector, Canon David Davies, came into school to teach scripture twice a week.

The school under different names has had a continuous history in Market Deeping dating back to 1547 when, administered by the Feoffees, it was held in a Guild Hall. The first schoolmaster was thought to be Nathaniel Glossop but records were sketchy until 1819 when the Feoffees paid for the building that became known as the Endowed Boys School.

The Green Coat School was built in 1851 with funds bequeathed by Mary Wensen and on land owned by

the Revd William Hildyard. The Government of the day instructed Mr Hildyard in 1857 that 140 girls and infants should be educated there within the next six months.

The need for a new school had been identified in the 1950s when the population began to grow after the Second World War. After a couple of false starts 2.25 acres were eventually purchased for the purpose by the Ministry of Education in 1962 at a cost of £1, 608.

The building contract was given to Clark & Belton of Stamford and a hall, two classrooms and ancillary accommodation were delivered in two stages at a cost of £25,475.

Mr Kingsley Williams remembers, “When I first came to Market Deeping the new school had just been completed.

The Juniors had moved from the Endowed School and were ensconced in their new classrooms. Already the school was too small. The infant department was in the old Green School awaiting the arrival of two mobile classrooms. Meanwhile

they were bought to the school by bus for their dinners.

However, by January 1967 our extra classrooms were ready for the new term’s intake. We now had three infant classes, my wife had joined the staff and we were all together on one site.”

Mrs Freda Fitton was eventually to become Deputy Head and to support the school through a very turbulent period when the school experienced falling rolls and cutbacks of money and staff. When she first joined the school, though, it was the biennial outing to the seaside that was a memory that most stayed with her, “It was a day – always a Friday – when all children, mums, some dads, baby brothers and sisters, one or two grans and the occasional aunt, all descended on the school to be counted onto the waiting coaches by harassed looking teachers sporting their casual wear! Two teachers to a coach was the rule and somehow those 52 seaters had elastic sides!

Small children sitting on laps. Luggage racks crammed with lunches, wellies, macs, buckets and spades. On the side-line – the sick bucket!”

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School secretary Gloria Roche had a long involvement with the school, her son Lee started there in 1973 and she was quickly co-opted onto the PTA. One of their first targets was to raise money to build a 10m outdoor swimming pool which was done in 1975 and during that summer all children from Reception upwards were taught to swim. Subsequently the Leisure Centre opened and the pool became a rose garden. It was in that year that Gloria became a dinner lady in the days of ‘proper school meals’ with Mrs Clayton as Cook in Charge. School dinners still formed a large part of her week’s work when she became the secretary in 1980: “Every Monday would be given over to money matters. I counted the dinner money whilst the head would go round to the classes and bank the children’s pocket money for them. They each had a post office savings book and they were able to save or withdraw as they wished.” More controversially Gloria recalled “When the teachers’ strikes began in 1977, the 3rd & 4th year girls decided to organise their own strike. They marched around the school with a banner saying ’Strike!’ and refused to wash up the cups after break time. Mrs Fitton talked to the girls and within a few minutes they were back at work.”

In January 1983 Chris Petz took over as the Head of the school where he remained for six years, a colourful, humorous character as borne out in accounts by the children under his care. Kerry Walsham remembers “The stories and jokes he told were great fun and so was he.“ Charlene Symak wrote “When Mr Petz would take us in the afternoons we would do art because Mr Petz was a brilliant artist and still is.”

Back Row; Robert Escott, Julie Parry, Matthew Davis, Row 1: Charlene Symak, Ria Prestland, David Hood, Row 2: Sarah Duncan, Belinda Wilson, Stewart Duncan, Johnathan Gill, Christopher Henson, Row 3: Richard Cunnington, James Cropley, Christopher Whitney, Simon Rose, Claire Stewart, Kerry Towell, Tracey Robinson, Victoria Barrow, Kerry Walsham, Cathy Brudenell, King Yink Yick, Front Row:.

Michelle Haddon, Lyle Robinson, Alastair Stubbs, Jonathan Kaplan, Karl Prior, Daniel Kingman, Garreth Pledger, David Mott, Lesley Winfield, Amy Stubbs, Nikki Tyler.

Chris Petz was succeeded as Headteacher in 1989 by Chris Barrett. During his tenure the school became Grant Maintained and was successful in securing funding to build a new Foundation Unit and open its own pre-school provision for 3-4 year olds. Three years later with a change of Government, the Grant Maintained initiative was axed and the school returned to its previous Church of England status. It also saw the successful and valued establishment of HillBillys Out of School Club on the site.

It was under the subsequent Headship of Mrs Fiona Griffiths that another major phase of building work took place providing much needed small-group teaching space, better facilities for the children as well as improvements to ensure more efficient day-to-day

running of the school. More recently the Governors of William Hildyard formed the Aspire Federation in conjunction with St George’s Church of England Primary School in Stamford. Over the years the school has changed in its design and appearance but not its ethos. As a Church of England Primary and Nursery School it is proud of being part of the Church School family of the Diocese of Lincoln and continues to provide an exciting, happy, caring environment in which children can learn and develop; although there haven’t been any sightings of pythons, alligators or chinchillas lately!

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The Ypres Salient and Somme were two of the most important British battlefields in the First World War with more than 2 million soldiers from all sides killed or wounded. Indeed some 19,240 British soldiers were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and this year marks the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele fought in horrific conditions caused by torrential rain and ensuing mud in Ypres between July and November that year. In all over 30 lads from the Deepings and surrounding villages were lost at Passchendaele.

One was John William Eldred, twenty two years old he came from a family of ten born to agricultural labourer Charles and his wife Elizabeth. Originally from Langtoft the family had lived in Horsegate, Bridge Street and were in Deeping Gate when John was conscripted to the Lincolnshires First Battalion as Pte 38671. He had been in France for less than 14 days when on the 4th October 1917 the First Lincolnshires were moved in the area around Ypres to take part in the Battle of Broodseinde. On the night of 3rd October his battalion dug into their positions on Polygon Wood. It was overcast on the following day, 60 degrees with heavy rain falling. Originally intended as reserves they were ordered forward attacking the German line near the Wood’s south west corner. John and his colleagues met with a barrage of machine gun fire from the pill boxes and emplacements around Judge Copse. An allied 8 pounder gun was firing shorts (now known as friendly fire) because of inaccurate map references. Two allied

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Is 41 too young to get nostalgic about something?

Given the propensity for ‘celebs’ these days to have two autobiographies out before they’re old enough to legally hire out Reservoir Dogs on DVD, probably not. So I shall get nostalgic. Nostalgic about a shop, of all things. One that is still there for the world to see, but one that is very different now to the one a young lad remembers from the late 70s and 80s. This shop was an Aladdin’s cave of delights for a young boy. The window was filled with toy cars, Lego models, even miniature steam engines, and it was hidden in plain sight on Church Street in Deeping St James. The signage on the front said ‘Walkers’, and it looked like any other paper shop of that era. I just knew it as ‘Howards’.

Let me drag you away from the window of childhood wonders (we’ll clean the hand and nose marks off later), and into the shop itself. Even to a four-year-old, it seemed incredibly small and dark. As you went in, on the left was a magazine carousel. It stood about five feet high, and was rammed with the latest weekly and monthly glossies. Turning it around to view titles was a precarious affair as it seemed to defy the laws of physics. Comics and colouring at the bottom for little ones to reach, then the women’s section; wedding magazines, Ideal Home, Woman’s Weekly etc. This merged into car and bike titles, then, up towards the top, the computer magazines. It was during my teenage years that I became incredibly aware that the computer titles I coveted were just underneath the ‘Gentlemen’s specialist interest’ ones, making for much unnecessary blushing and fumbling as I was forced to linger for longer than necessary. Well, that’s my excuse...

The left hand side was dedicated to sweets and tobacco (we’ll gloss over the tobacco. I wasn’t interested then, and I’m still not). A glass cabinet ran along the bottom with penny chews, lollipops and a fantastic array of liquorice, Also, for the thirsty child were those single-serve squash cups; clear plastic with a foil top that you had to pierce with a red straw. Looking back, they made Panda Pops taste like Veuve Clicquot!

The back wall on the left-hand side was filled with shelves of glass bottles filled with ‘weighing’ sweets; Rosy apples, Army and Navy tablets, different-coloured sherbets. I think it was a genuine rite of passage for children (certainly boys) to have a pocket full of sherbet at some point, where the paper bag had disintegrated due to sticky wet fingers prodding it sneakily during lessons.

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At the front were the papers and the ice-cream fridge. The trick was to try and choose an iced lolly and be safely at the back of the shop before the family Alsatian would morph from nowhere and stare you out. Most unnerving, for adults as well as kids!

The right-hand side of the shop was where it all happened for me, though. A massive array of books (practically every Enid Blyton), drawers full of Dinky Cars, Corgi Cars and Hotwheels; Lego models and Airfix kits; cowboy hats and wooden bows and arrows; fishing rods stood up in the corner, underneath the aforementioned miniature steam traction engines. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t normally come out with something in my grateful paws, usually a new Secret Seven or Famous Five book.

It was only when I got to late teenage years and started to pop in on my own as I was driving past that I realised the extent of the stuff I could have owned. One of the last memories I have of the shop is seeing a clear plastic cup on the top shelf with yellowing memorial Charles and Di wedding pens. They’d been separated for years!

It’s a shame that children growing up in Deeping today will never experience Howard appearing from the back of the shop, like the Magic Shopkeeper in Mr Ben. Progress and technology charges on, but sometimes all you need is a quarter of toffee bonbons and a copy of the Beano.

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In July, at our graduation ceremony, I found myself talking about buckets.

An odd topic for the awards ceremony but I love children’s books and earlier in the year I had stumbled across a beautiful book called, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? And it turns out, you see, that we all carry around an invisible bucket. Who would have known! When we feel happy and have good feelings, this bucket is full but when we feel sad or discontented with our lot, then this bucket empties.

The book focuses not so much on how full our own buckets might be, but on how we can go about filling them for other people; an important message for all children and young people but also for the audience of new teachers I had in front of me.

Buckets and scrolls waiting for our new teachers on their celebration evening!

As a new teacher it is easy to let the complexities of phonics, literacy, numeracy and citizenship keep you awake at night or to get tangled in the (Charlotte’s?!) web of educational models and theory, but I still remind myself from time to time that I am not just a teacher of English, I am a teacher of children. And I fill buckets.

The best bit about teaching children of any age is that they fill our buckets too: from the 6-year-old who throws her arms around you and tells you you’re, ‘the best ever!’ to the 16-year-old who has barely grunted for two years but arrives bearing a dubious-looking, worryingly warm chocolate when he squeaks his grade on GCSE day.

I have been teaching for 30 years and I am fortunate enough still to love my job even though at The Deepings SCITT my audience is now slightly older. We have trained new teachers from the ages of 22 to 59, from early years to A’ Level, in Grammars and Comprehensives and although we have a 42

few leaky days, our buckets are generally pretty full! So if you have a degree and have always wondered about teaching, there is no better time than now.

We have lots of training places available in both Primary and Secondary schools for a September 2018 start. Last year we sent 46 new teachers out into the community, with most staying in our association of schools in South Lincolnshire.

If you would like more information, make an appointment to pop in and see us. We’re not big or giants, but we are friendly and we are here to help you start your own story. Not quite as poetic as the national campaign (Your Future, Their Future) but I will leave you with a final thought – come and be a bucket-filler, train to be a teacher with The Deepings SCITT! Tel 01778 348159 enquiries to: ittadmin@deepingschool.org.uk Written by Nikki Benjamin who is the SCITT Director, an Assistant Head Teacher and a Specialist Leader in ITT.

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Seasonal refreshments will be available at the Cow Shed Café. We have prepared a fantastic line up of crafts so you can be sure of finding just the right thing! At the same time you will be able to see Karan’s wreath-making cabin and choose your bespoke Christmas wreath! Entry Is free.

Home care for elderly and vulnerable people has become one of the most talked about subjects of recent years, with the recognition that we have an ageing population, many of whom want to continue living in their own homes, but need the support of specialist care providers.

Deeping St James has been the base for 18 months of Lily Mae Home Care, a home care company founded by Alex Ozkan and Sarah Tyrrell, who believe in the importance of treating clients just as if they were members of their own family. Now with 25 employees, Lily Mae is an integral part of the local community.

‘We’ve always gone the extra mile since day one, to respect the needs of the people we support, and to do all we can to show that we are not driven by profit but instead want to provide the best possible quality of care. As long as we have enough money in the bank to pay the wages every month, then that’s all we need,’ says Alex when talking about some of the values which underpin the philosophy behind Lily Mae. Both Alex and Sarah have not lost sight of their roots, and both of them still work as carers alongside other members of the Lily Mae team, who bring a range of services into the homes of dozens of people around The Deepings, Stamford and Bourne. Those services range from the most essential support for people who need help getting in and out of bed, to personal care that respects the dignity of people who in many cases have been used to being independent, but now need some practical help to get on with their lives.

‘The variety and complexity of the needs of people still reminds me that what we do, can and does make a real difference,’ adds Sarah ‘The reality is that every single person we care for has an individual and tailor-made care plan. No two people are the same.’

Lily Mae offers a wide range of services which either support people who may have been discharged from hospital or simply have got to a stage in their lives where they need help with daily living.

‘Considering how much we do for people to help them remain as independent as possible, it still surprises me that carers are not given the recognition they deserve. We have a great team who work long hours and we appreciate that for many local people, the Lily Mae carer may often be the only person they see that day. It’s just as important that our carers always bring a smile and positive outlook into someone’s home as it is for them to help with all the practical things that person can no longer carry out for themselves. For many of us in good health, it’s hard to imagine how difficult it can be to just have a shower or get dressed without assistance, but that is the reality for many people and it’s our job to provide that essential support – even if it’s just making a cup of tea for someone and having a chat.’

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Both Alex and Sarah worked in the local care sector for over ten years each, before deciding to set up Lily Mae and are proud of the reputation for quality the company has earned.

‘Everything we do is regulated by the Care Quality Commission, and we welcome that external scrutiny and standards which help us to stay on track in all that we do,’ says Sarah, who is also a qualified trainer and assessor in her role as Registered Manager.

‘We’re a small business whose strength is our staff and so we do all we can to encourage members of our team to gain qualifications that will support them in the future.’

Both Alex and Sarah identify isolation as the biggest problem facing those living in their own homes. In an attempt to address this, Lily Mae will soon be offering free coffee mornings at the Priory Church Community Church Hall for those within their care. This is a further sign of their commitment to the local community as Lily Mae also sponsors various activities at Priory Church itself.

One day, the dream is that Lily Mae will be able to have a day-care centre in The Deepings for use by the wider community as well as a wheelchair accessible vehicle to help local residents get about more easily.

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Five Great Places to see Owls Words & Pictures by William Bowell and avoid the temptation to get out of the car Deeping Lakes as this will disturb the owls, and the views from Lincolnshire Wildlife your car will be much better than on foot.

Trust, Lincolnshire http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/deepingBack in the 1980s and lakes 1990s the ‘Gully’ on the Lake was a known Baston Fen, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, So what are the owls? Well let’s start with everyone’s wintering ground for Lincolnshire. favourite- Barn Owl. This pale beauty is always up to 10 Long-eared Baston Fen is officially the coldest place on ranked among the likes of kingfisher and puffin as the Owls. These days up to earth in the winter. OK, it isn’t, but it can sweetheart of our national birds. Is it their large dark five winter on the island Tawny Owl certainly feel bracing, walking along the Glen’s eyes? Their heart shaped ‘face’? Or perhaps it’s the on the Lake which is river bank during the winter. On still frosty one most of us have encountered? They certainly are overlooked by a hide evenings, this is a bit of gem though and great for a great sight to see. (scope and patience essential!). Tawny Owls are also owls. Tawny Owls call from the small number of present year round and best heard during spring trees on site and Barn and Short-eareds hunt over the The others are a little harder to see but surely you evenings when Long-eared Owls will also be heard. reserve along with the odd wintering Marsh and Hen have heard of Tawny Owl (or Brown Owl if you are An evening visit in June may reveal the squeaky gate Harrier. It’s a great place to see the sun set. Barn Owls old fashioned)? call of young Long-eared Owls.

They could even Check the willows along the river bank for Little are still present in the summer and can be seen in the be hooting outside Owl s which favour the willows by the car park or day when they have mouths to feed! your house as they willows on the other side of the river where the Maxey http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/baston-fen certainly hunt the Cut meets the Welland. Barn Owls are often seen gardens of Deeping hunting around the grassland parts of the reserve. Eldernell, Nene Washes RSPB, Cambridgeshire.

Located east of Whittelsey, the car park at the end of for mice, frogs and www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/deeping-lakes Eldernell Lane overlooks a particularly good part of ... worms! the Nene Washes for owls.

Deeping Highbank, That’s two down.

Lincolnshire.

Little Owl Looking straight out on a winter’s evening you should The last three are I have had some great evenings see at least one, if not five nowhere near as and early mornings driving along Short-eared Owls which well known but Deeping Highbank between can be entertaining when all are on our Deeping Lakes and Spalding. In they interact over some sort doorstep.

Little good ‘vole years’ it is possible of territorial disputes. Barn Owl is a cute little for a winter’s drive along the Short eared Owl Owls are also regular and fellow which was Highbank to produce up to stay late enough and the odd introduced into Britain in the 19th century but don’t eight Barn and ten Short-eared Long-eared or Tawny Owl be fooled by its diminutive size; it is still a serious Owls. However, such times are may be seen. predator. unusual but generally this is the most productive area for Barn and Short-eared Owls. http://www.rspb.org.uk/ and search Nene Washes.

This brings us to the last two owls, from the Asio The views can be extraordinary as well as they perch Woodwalton Fen, National Nature Reserve, family: Long-eared and Short-eared. Long-eareds on the roadside posts allowing close approach. Any breed and winter in small numbers in the old stands of willows or old barns are worth checking for Cambridgeshire. woodlands around here and Short-eareds winter on Little Owl which tends to roost in the day in full view. A little further than perhaps one would like to drive back from after a crepuscular visit, but the 45-minute open grassland and farmland (perhaps 1-2 pairs have Winter and spring are generally the best periods for drive it takes to get back to Deeping is definitely lingered and bred in the last two years). this location. Please be mindful of other road users Perhaps it would be fitting, as there are five regular occurring owl species in this country, if I was to do one site for each species for this particular feature. However, truth is we are somewhat blessed by living in an owl-rich area.

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Barn Owl worth it. Spring is the best time when Long-eared, Tawny, Barn and Little all breed on or around WWF and can be heard and seen, whilst Short-eared Owls may still be hunting over the fens to the north and west of the reserve on the newly formed Great Fen. Coupled with booming bitterns, chattering Cetti’s Warblers, barking Chinese Water Deer and roding woodcock, this place, an ancient wild fen, can be absolutely magical. http://www.greatfen.org.uk/visit/places/WoodwaltonFen Will Bowell works at Grasmere Farm Butcher in Deeping but in his spare time enjoys wildlife watching locally and across the country. He is also a keen photographer.

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Acts of Remembrance Market Deeping & Deeping St James

5th Nov 3pm Opening of the Remembrance Garden at Riverside Park. Short service with the local British Legion, with the laying of wreaths from local community groups. Residents are then invited to lay their own crosses in remembrance. 11th Nov 11am Two minutes silence at the Remembrance Garden, Riverside Park. 12th Nov Priory Church, Deeping St James Service of Remembrance 3.00pm, 19th November 3pm Closing of the Remembrance Garden. A short service to close the garden and remove the crosses/wreaths which are taken to St Guthlac’s Church.

The Cold Pudding Club Oddfellows Hall, Church St., Market Deeping Tues 14th Nov 6.30pm Not necessary to bring a pudding - it is £2 to sample others or £1 if you bring a pudding.

Tea and coffee and convivial company free of charge! Raffle. Run by the District Lodge of the Oddfellow, a friendly society dating back to 1810.

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Traditional Christmas & food market 26th November 10am - 4.00pm Market Place Entertainment from local community groups and an exhibition in the Town Hall. The event concludes with the switching on of the Christmas lights.

Cathedral by Candlelight Investigating house histories Weds 15th Nov, 7 for 7.30pm. Village Hall, King St. West Deeping Debbie Frearson and Carole Bancroft Turner use interesting and diverse case studies both architectural and archival evidence, drawn together to complete a “house history”, giving practical advice for you to get started. Entry £2.50. Contact 01778 344768 or wdheritage@hotmail.co.uk

Wednesday 8th & Sat 11th November at 7.00pm As the nights draw in, come and enjoy atmospheric after-hours guided tours ending with a glass of wine or soft drink.

The Cathedral is beautiful in daylight, but even more so by candlelight. Tickets: £12 (concessions £10). Book online via http://shop. peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/candlelit-tour or call 01733 452336

Grimethorpe Colliery Band Celebrating their centenary year Deepings Leisure Centre Sat 2nd Dec 6.30 for 7.00 pm Tickets are only £19.50 each to include programme, raffle entry and a festive glass of wine and mince pie! Presented

by The Rotary Club of the Deepings.

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With Sam Graper – soprano and Jeremy Jepson – counter-tenor.

A veritable feast of Christmas music Sunday 26th Nov. 2017 from the last 800 years played on 3pm at Priory Church recorders, crumhorns, cornemuse, Deeping St James, PE6 8NP rebec, symphony, psaltery, timbrel, Tickets: Adult £8, Child £5 (including light refreshments) available from tabor, pipeororgan.

P Astlenakers, 01778 346879,keyboard V Worthington and 01778 343860 at the door.

Joining us Allfor this occasion will be Sam proceeds to the work of Priory Church.

Graper – soprano and Jeremy Jepson – counter-tenor. Tickets: Adult £8, Child £5 (including light refreshments) available from Philip Astle 01778 346879, Victoria Worthington 01778 343860 or at the door. All proceeds to the work of Priory Church.

LITTLE BLACK DRESS PROMO £25 ALL INCL. DEC ONLY!

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   Heaven   of Stars a concert by Divers Voyces 

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      Priory Church, Deeping St James Sun 5th Nov 3.00pm

An afternoon concert featuring Renaissance fireworks with stars, Catherine Wheels and Roman Candles. Tickets £8 (children £5) from Priory Box Office 01778 343860 or from revspaterson@ gmail.com 01778 341856 or on the door.

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203 BOURNE - THE DEEPINGS - STAMFORD Mondays to Fridays Market Deeping (Mkt Place) 0820, 0930, 1130, 1330, 1520, 1635 Stamford (Nth St) 0740Sch, 1015, 1215, 1415, 1605, 1640C, 1715 all buses serve Deeping St James Day, Week, Month, Group, Rover Saver Tickets available from the Driver enquiries@delainebuses.com

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