marsham village news (28th edition)
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The 28th edition of the re-launched Marsham Village News.TRANSCRIPT
First World War Centenary Supplement
You should find inserted into your Village
Newsletter an open-out A3 supplement to mark
the centenary of the start of the First World War. It
features details of the men whose names are
engraved on the village War Memorial, as well as a
fascinating story about one of the families who is
still living in Marsham. If anyone would like an
additional copy of the supplement, there are a few
available. Contact Adrian (734488)
Also included this month is the first instalment of
the story of another Marsham born person,
George Edwards.
Marsham
Village News
28th Edition November 2014
The deadline for the next edition is Monday 24th October 2014. Any articles, letters or adverts should
be sent to [email protected] or, if anything needs typing, to Linda and Eric at 3 Cranes Lane.
Marsham Community Public Access Defibrillator Project It is with great pleasure that we can announce we have raised over £2500
which means we can now proceed with the purchase of the Defibrillator.
Thank you this month to The Starting Handle Club for their donation of £300
following their show in Marsham in August. We have also received two
anonymous donations of £100 each and one for £20.Thank you very much to
those people. We raised £104 at the table top sale on the 18th October in the
village hall. Thank you to everyone who attended and also to the many
people who donated books and chocolate items. We have been
overwhelmed by the generosity of the residents in Marsham. Thank you.
Don’t forget to let us have details of any up and coming events which we will include on this page.
Send to [email protected] or deliver to 12 Old Norwich Road.
Mobile library in Marsham
The Norfolk County Council mobile library van will
be in Marsham on Monday 22nd November. The
stop-off points are –
Le Neve Road - 15.30 to 15.45
Wathen Way - 15.50 to 16.05
More news from the Defibrillator Project
By the time you read this we should have heard about the Listed Buildings Consent for the Phone box
and if successful we will precede with its adoption from BT. The next project meeting is at the
beginning of November and it is exciting to be able to decide which defibrillator and cabinet to
purchase. We will keep you updated in the newsletter.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the other project group members for their support and
hard work since we started the project in January. Our members are Adrian Scargill, Lesley Slater,
Kelly Morris, Joseph Jarvis and Heather Daniels.
We will be continuing to fundraise to ensure there are funds available for replacement equipment,
insurance, education sessions and the ongoing costs for registering the defibrillator with the East of
England Ambulance Trust. If you can help with fundraising or would like to make a donation please
contact Nicola Hibberd on 01263 733557 or email [email protected]. Thank you
Letters to the Editor
The letters in this section are published unedited and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
editing committee. We see the Village Newsletter as a channel for people in the village to air their
views – positive and negative.
For Sale Two fold out children's occasional beds for sale by small donation to the Defibrillator Appeal. As can be seen in the picture these fold up as seats. Compliant with current fire regulations. Would suit child up to 12 years old. Clean condition. Can deliver in Marsham. 01263 732544
Occasional work offered - edge of Marsham/Cawston Heath Might suit active retired couple, or someone just wanting a few hours work. Work will include paddock maintenance - probably 2-3 hours/ week - to include fence maintenance and collecting up the horse poo / taking to the muckheap. Some loading of haynets and taking hay to the field. ( no direct contact with the horses - but you will need to be happy to be in the field with them) ( they are very nice !) Also required some occasional cleaning of 2 holiday cottages and doing the laundry from these. Possibility to take the bed sheets away and launder/iron at your own premises. - this will be on an adhoc basis- according to bookings - but likely to be regular weekly work during peak season times ( school hols & summer) and less often at low season times. Requirements for cleaning will usually be known well in advance. Changeover days are usually Mondays and / or Fridays - bookings can be from 3 nights to weekly - for each cottage. All cleaning materials supplied. I would expect each cottage to take around 2-3 hours - including stripping and re-making beds. ( If both cottages need turn-around on the same day, extra help may be brought in, as there is a 5 hour window to do it - guests vacate by 10am, and new guests can arrive from 3pm - or husband / wife team doing both job aspects could do it together) Please call for an informal chat!
Penny Lukins-07753 717105 or 01603 871342
Free Horse Manure for Marsham residents : Please come and dig your own : well rotted horse manure offered Please come on a Saturday morning : bring your own spade/ bags Botany Bay Farm, Marsham - just knock on farmhouse door if no one is outside! We can then show your where to dig !
Please note that our next edition (December) will
be the last one until February as we are having a
break for Christmas. Let us have any notices for
events up until the end of January.
Marsham WI
The speaker at our September meeting was Mr Max Marriner, Chief Executive Officer of the Norfolk and
Norwich Association for the Blind – The Local Charity for People with Poor Sight in Norfolk. He told us
that it is estimated by NHS that 20,000 people in Norfolk are visually impaired although only 7,000 are
registered as such. The association was founded in 1805 by Thomas Tawell of Thetford who was in the
ironmongery business and lost the sight in one eye. Thomas Tawell House has always been on or near its
current site on Magpie Road in Norwich and the reigning Monarch has always been patron of NNAB. Mr
Marriner gave a very interesting talk about the history and work of the Association. Their website at
www.nnab.org.uk will show you the many services they are able to provide.
As I have mentioned before, 2015 is the Centenary of the founding of WI in this country. Many activities
are being planned to celebrate the occasion and the Centenary Baton will be travelling the country
arriving in Norfolk in November next year.
Our next meeting in Marsham village hall is on 26th
November when we hold our Annual Meeting
followed by learning to make a new simple craft item.
WI membership starts in January, new or returning members are welcome to join us, call me on 01263
732606 or email [email protected] if you would like any further information, or just turn up to
our first meeting of the year in the village hall at 7.30pm on the 4th
Wednesday of the month.
Dorothy McCall
MARSHAM CHURCH SERVICES FOR OCTOBER 2013
6th October 10.45am Harvest Festival
13th October 10.45am Holy Communion
20th October 10.45am Family Service
27th October 10.45am Family Service
Marsham Church Services for November
9th
November 10.30 Remembrance Sunday
23rd
November 10.30 Holy Communion
Please note there will be one service only each month up to Easter. This will be on the
4th
Sunday of the month at 10.30. There will be exceptions such as this month with
Remembrance and December with Carol Services.
With a very poor attendance each Sunday we cannot continue
to open every week.
Should attendance improve, the situation will be reviewed.
In the meantime, if you have any queries please contact a
churchwarden – MRS GEORGE 735383 or
MRS WARMAN 733241.
Also the REV. FERGUS CAPIE 01603 279630
FLOODLIGHTS
October 21st In memory of Kathleen Suffling.
Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs Meeks
November 8th In memory of Ron Stewart.
Sponsored by Mrs June Stewart.
NEWS FROM MARSHAM PARISH COUNCIL The Environment Agency has re-emphasised the
importance of reporting distress or nuisance caused
by odour from the site through the usual channels:-
Freephone: 0800 80 70 60 (anytime day or night
- and at any location)
ERIC POOLEY LIMITED
BUILDERS
New builds Extensions Renovation
Roofing Drainage
Damp Proofing works Timber Treatment
Dry Rot Tanking
Free Surveys and Reports
01263 732763 www.ericpooley.co.uk
Unit 6 Home Farm Business Park, Norwich
Road, Marsham, NR10 5PQ
The Incredible Story of a Remarkable Man
A friend spotted a book titled, From Crow Scaring to Westminster, the Autobiography of Sir
George Edwards, MP, OBE. Inside was a photo of the cottage in Fengate, now number 47, which
she thought was the cottage at number 35 where I live. It was this cottage, number 47, where
George Edwards was born, and although the cottage was modernised in the 1970's, the original
railings and brick wall in front of the cottage remain. There is a metal plaque on the front of the
house stating that Sir George Edwards was born here on October 5th 1850.
His autobiography was first published in 1922; reprinted in 1957 and the edition that I have was
the new edition published in 2008 by The Larks Press, Guist Bottom, Dereham, and printed by the
Lanceni Press, Fakenham. Until this last edition his story had been out of print for over half a
century.
The book tells the story of a remarkable and distinguished man, who rose from the humblest of
positions to become an MP at Westminster despite his inability to read or write, until for some
years into his marriage, his wife taught him sitting up late at night, by candlelight.
The pages provide a vivid picture of the poverty and appalling working conditions for agricultural
labourers in England and particularly Norfolk, during his lifetime and of his fight for their
democratic rights with political and economic freedom.
I hope to provide glimpses of his life and struggle in obtaining these rights in future issues. I
wonder how many of your readers have read his story or have tales to tell that have been handed
down to them. Quite by chance recently I discovered that a Fengate resident had lived at number
47 with her granny before it was modernised. Another lady who lived in Fengate 64 years ago,
remembers seeing, as a little girl, the coal lorry carting off from the end cottage in Fengate a
woman and her children and belongings to the Aylsham Workhouse; because she was unable to
pay her rent.
The same thing happened to George Edwards and his parents when he was only 5 years old. A
year later he started his first job scaring crows seven days a week, for one shilling a week, working
from sunrise to sunset. (To be continued.) Story provided by Will Ching
SIMON EMMS
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIRS
HIGH STREET
LITTLE LONDON
MARSHAM NR10 5QG
FOR ALL YOUR
M.O.T., REPAIRS, SERVICING,
AIR-CONDITIONING SERVICING, WHEEL
ALIGNMENT, VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS ETC.
01263 731555 Mobile 07780604279
If you are interested in advertising in the
Marsham Newsletter please contact Adrian
Scargill on [email protected] or
telephone 01263734488.
On Sunday, 5th October, Alena Medler of High
Street, Marsham and Charlotte Allen of Oakfield
Road, Aylsham held a Macmillan Coffee Morning
at Marsham Village Hall. The girls, both aged
ten, are pupils at Bure Valley Junior School.
Their fundraising event was a huge success. All
their hard work organising the day paid off as
they raised a whopping £412.00 to help people
suffering with cancer. The girls wanted to
support this good cause as friends' and families'
lives have been affected by cancer. Thank you to
everyone who supported the Coffee Morning by
donating money, raffle and tombola prizes and
of course bringing cakes!
Well done Alena and Charlotte!
NEWS Operations Manager’s Monthly Report
It has now been almost two weeks since Marsham compost facility reopened and I’m pleased to report that the
continued diversion of food waste and the operational benefits gained from the infrastructure improvements have
had an immediate, positive impact to the local amenity.
Green waste has been shredded in the reception building since 22nd September and placed immediately into
tunnels each day. The first two weeks of operation have seen around 600 tonnes per week of green waste
delivered from Broadland, North Norfolk and NEWS transfer stations.
The first tunnel should be emptied and placed into the external maturation bay area by the end of the first week
of October, where it will then mature for 6-weeks prior to screening.
We continue to carry out daily odour monitoring around Marsham and the surrounding areas to ensure that no
odours are leaving the facility. This will be ongoing to ensure that the site is not causing any undue concerns for
the local residents. More details will follow in next month’s report.
Nigel Steward – Operations Manager NEWS
Salad Days Fresh fruit & vegetables and plants
Fruit baskets a speciality Now taking card payments
Dennis Carroll
The Fruit Stall
Outside the town hall
Aylsham
T: 07788 133741
Free delivery to Marsham for orders
over £5.
Independent Funeral Homes Ltd. We are a traditional family run funeral directors offering the highest
standards of personal service at competitive rates.
* Private Chapel of Rest * Pre-paid plans Available *
* Floral Tributes, Memorials and Catering Supplied *
* Home Visits at No Extra Charge *
We offer a wide and varied range of services and strive to ensure that we
fulfil and hopefully surpass your expectations whatever they may be.
Tel: 01263 735161 (24 Hours) The Old Bank, 2-4 Norwich Road,
Aylsham, NR11 6BN
www.ivanfisherfunerals.co.uk
If you would like to advertise in the newspaper, space is available at the following rates per year – 1/8 page £25, ¼ page
£40, ½ page £75. Contact Adrian at [email protected] if you are interested.
G.C.BOND est. 1920
01263 732259
Butcher - Fishmonger
Best quality local meat - Crabs & fresh fish
Free delivery to Marsham - Tuesdays and Fridays