Editors: David and Monica Lilley
Distribution: Tony Court
Hilary Rule
All
contributions please. Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th October 2004
The Regional Planning Panel of the East of England
Regional Assembly (EERA) had a preliminary meeting on 10th September
to consider their response to the Buchanan Report. They will be having a further meeting in Fitzwilliam College on
15th October at which they will decide which course of action they
wish to support, and they will make their recommendation to EERA who in turn
will decide their attitude at a meeting on 5th November. EERA’s final recommendations will then be
forwarded to the government, and there will be a 14 weeks’ public consultation
period starting on 8th December.
That is the time when we, as a Parish, will be able to make our
submissions. Finally, there will be a
public examination starting probably in September 2005.
Meanwhile, we have been in touch with neighbouring
councils, particularly Great Chesterford, with a view to sharing information
and co-ordinating our resources. We
have also identified some people who might be able to help us form an action
group. It is possible that we may call
an open meeting in the village hall on 17th November to keep the
parish informed and to hear their views.
We will let you know next month whether this meeting will take
place. In the meantime, we hope that
anyone who is interested might want to come to the next parish council meeting. James Macdonald (Chairman)
Monday 4th October – Green wheeled bin and green box
Monday 11th October – Black wheeled bin
Monday 18th October – Green wheeled bin and green box
Monday 25th October – Black wheeled bin
Hinxton Bridge Closure and bus service alterations The date for the closure is now Monday 4th
October but pedestrian access to Hinxton will be available. The village will
continue to be served by buses every two hours, there will be a shuttle bus
running between Ickleton and Great Chesterford, but the details of how this is
to be managed are still not available from the County Council. As soon as I have the information I will put
it on the notice board. Please let me
know if you suffer any delays or non-arrival of buses, so that I can keep up
the pressure for provision of a reliable service.
Neighbourhood Watch Stanley Peck has kindly offered to take on this
responsibility and will take on the role as co-ordinator this month. If anyone has any concerns about practical
security matters, (not crimes, which should be reported to the Police), please ring
him.
Kitchen Waste Bins Small Kitchen bins are being made available free of
charge by South Cambridgeshire District Council. They can be used for cooked food, meat/fish bones, old vegetables
and fruit peelings, coffee filters and tea bags, stale bread and eggshells (but
no plastic bags). They can then be
emptied into your green wheeled bin.
They measure 20cm wide, 21cm deep and 30cm high and can be collected
from Sawston Village College on Saturday 2nd October between 1.30 and 3.30
pm. Please avail yourselves of these if
you wish.
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South Cambs Magazine When you
receive your copy, may we encourage you to complete the questionnaire about
Council Tax. Concern over funding has left
the District Council with a need to raise the council tax, and your views on
their budgeting and possible service cuts will be important. Jackie
Casement, Parish Clerk
CHURCH
NOTICES Services in October
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Sunday 3rd October |
9.30 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity 17 |
11.00 a.m. Blessing of Animals |
HINXTON |
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6.30
p.m. Sung Evensong (BCP) |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 7th October |
12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 10th October |
8.00
a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
ICKLETON |
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Trinity 18 |
11.00
a.m. Churches Together, Harvest Festival |
DUXFORD |
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6.30
p.m. Sung Evensong (BCP) |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 14th October |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 17th October |
9.30
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity 19 |
11.00
a.m. Joint Family Eucharist |
ICKLETON |
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5.00 p.m.
Harvest Festival Evensong |
HINXTON |
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Thursday 21st October |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 24th
October |
9.30
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Last after
Trinity |
11.00 a.m.
Morning Worship and Godly Play |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m. Sung Evensong (BCP) |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 28th October |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 31st October |
11.00 a.m.
Five Villages Celebrations |
WHITTLESFORD |
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All Saints |
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URC |
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6.30
p.m. Sung Evensong & Holy Communion |
ICKLETON |
ARE YOU ON
THE WEB? (ICKLETON GOINGS-ON REVEALED)
At last – get the real low down! The website (www.ickletonvillage.co.uk) has been upgraded to include a search
facility. This means you can now search
Google-style through 3 years’ back copy of Ickleton events as reported in Icene;
Parish Council proceedings and indeed within the site itself. Just log on, select ‘Search’ and all will be
revealed in moments! See who made the
headlines or even check out planning applications, recreation ground issues,
diary events, references to local organizations or Church occasions. Happy surfing anyway!
Andrew Shepperd
We would like to thank most sincerely everyone who so
kindly sent lovely cards, good wishes and beautiful flowers on the occasion of our
Golden Wedding.
So sorry we have not been able to thank you all
personally, but hope you will accept this ‘thank you’ with our grateful
thanks. Betty
and Sonny Willmott
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Keat’s
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;’
is upon us again, signalling as it does what is
arguably the end - or at least the culmination of - the farming year. It
provokes thoughts of the approach of the end of the year and we will all have
had our own very different experiences
over the past twelve months.
Autumn for me is a time to reflect and I recall that
village life in the 21st century is markedly different from village life of 50
years ago when I was a boy. Then the corn was cut by a binder, the sheaves put
into ‘stooks’ before being ‘led’ and
stacked in the stack-yard to await threshing. Today the combine comes and does
all this in one fell swoop.
I remember harvest
as a time of excitement and hard work. The job had to be done before the
weather turned. The last trailer into the stackyard was a moment to savour. The
job was done.
Then the Harvest Supper, trestle tables groaning
under the weight of home made food, a keg of ale standing in the corner to wash
it all down. Later still the Harvest Festival Service: the church decorated
with sheaves of corn, loaves of bread, apples, pears, marrows, carrots and
potatoes galore - all ready to be taken to the Nottingham hospitals after the
service. The church filled with people dressed in their ‘Sunday best’.
It is harder to feel close to the source of what sustains us now, just as it is less
easy to build communities when our occupations are so diverse. But whatever our
occupation may be, there is a kind of ‘harvest’ from it every year; sometimes
better sometimes worse. So let us, in the words of that great harvest hymn
“Raise the song of Harvest-home” in our churches this year and, in the words of
the prayer of General Thanksgiving be
“unfeignedly thankful” for what we have in this country and in this community.
Finally, spare a thought or more for many of the farmers up and down the land who have
suffered at the hands of the worst harvest weather for decades. The financial
effects are predicted to be as bad as the effects of the recent Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic.
We hope to have as many people as possible to join us
in the churches this harvest time.
Andrew Walker, Churchwarden, St Mary and St John,
Hinxton
This service is only for those registered with
Sawston Medical Centre, and only for those unable to attend the Health Centre sessions.
If you have an appointment from the end of September onwards at the Health
Centre, you will receive a vaccination at that time.
Please let me know if you wish for your name to be
put down on the list as soon as
possible.
The date is October 20th at 2.30 p.m. in
the Village Hall.
Mrs. Ruby Lilley
The next meeting of the W.I., will be on 20th October at the
Community Centre Great Chesterford at
7.45 p.m.
The evening will be ‘Members’ Night’. For any more information please
contact Cynthia Rule.
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Tickets are now on sale at Costcutter Express Adults
£5 Concessions £4. The date is Friday 22nd October and the show will commence at 8.00 pm.The doors will be
open at 7.00 pm and wine, beer and soft drinks will be on sale. The hall will
be laid out cabaret style, so, come early to get your choice of table.
We are indeed fortunate that through the sponsorship
of Arts in Cambs on Tour, we are able to welcome to Ickleton such an
internationally acclaimed raconteur. This is what the critics had to say
following Peter Searles' London shows: "Holds the audience spellbound.
This is the show every traveller would love to be able to give.” - Evening News. "Riveting. Leaves you
yearning for more" - The Guardian.
Ickleton Theatre Group
GREAT
CHESTERFORD STEAM UP
The Great Chesterford Steam Up will again
take place this year on Saturday 9th October. This is the 13th year of the
Steam Up, and lets hope we have as great a day as last year, weather and
attendance wise! As in previous years, exhibits will be spread from the
Coronation Triangle, Horse River Green, South Street, Crown & Thistle and
The Plough. These exhibits will include steam engines, model steam engines,
vintage tractors, barn engines, commercial vehicles, vintage cars, motorbikes
and military vehicles. A selection of
fair organs will be playing at the public houses and up and down the street.
Once again there will be an olde time fun fair on Horse River Green. There will
be a display of Morris Dancers at the public houses and a children’s
entertainer at The Plough. If anyone has any ideas, comments or would like to
become involved with the day, please do not hesitate to contact me! For anyone
new living in South Street, Great Chesterford it will be CLOSED, except for
access, from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Firstly do ask your neighbours about the
day, as from comments received from previous years they all thoroughly look
forward to it. However if you do have any queries please do not hesitate to
contact me or at the garage, Chesterford Engineering Ltd. If anyone is able to
help with the event in any way, with either sponsorship, donations, raffle
prizes or organisations wanting to hold a stall or just help on the day, we
would be most grateful to hear from you.
Adrian Culpin - On behalf of
the Great Chesterford Steam Up Committee
The Imperial War Museum Duxford has unveiled the latest aircraft to be restored at the
world-renowned aviation heritage complex. On Tuesday 14th September the museum rolled out its
Blackburn Buccaneer, the last all-British bomber aircraft produced in the UK.
The roll-out took place in the presence of former Buccaneer aircrew, some of
whom flew Duxford's aircraft in service.
The Buccaneer has been restored to take its place in Duxford's new
multi-million pound AirSpace exhibition set to open in 2006. AirSpace will tell
the story of Britain's aviation industry from its earliest days to the present.
The Blackburn Buccaneer, developed for the Royal Navy at the height of the Cold
War, was the world's first two-seat carrier-based low-level strike aircraft and
was designed to fly low and fast to deliver nuclear weapons against Soviet
naval targets. In British military service for over 25 years, the Buccaneer was
only used in anger during the Gulf War in 1991. "As the last of a long
line of British-designed and built bombers the Buccaneer has always been a
favourite with aviation enthusiasts in the UK." said Frank Crosby,
Duxford's Head of Marketing "The aircraft is very popular with our
visitors and will be a key exhibit in the new AirSpace exhibition."
The Buccaneer came to Duxford in 1998 and has been
restored by a team of Duxford conservation staff and volunteers.
For more
information about AirSpace visit www.airspaceduxford.org.uk
Sam Kemp PR Assistant ' 01223 499375
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Our visit to
Bridge End Gardens in August proved a disaster with an overhead cloud burst and
claps of thunder which sent us scurrying for our cars or the ‘Eight Bells’
whichever was preferred.
Our September
meeting was a watery subject again, but this time in the dry when we were
shown, with graphs and slides,,, how to build ponds and water gardens by Mr.
Geof Peck, who proved an excellent speaker and held a captive audience with his
beautiful slides of water lilies and water plants.
Our next meeting
will be on October 6th when Roger Harvey will talk to us about
growing ‘Hellebores’. There will be
plants for sale at the end of the meeting.
Visitors welcome.
Cynthia Rule
Now that we have had time to digest(!) the
transcripts of the Ickleton Parish Registers, it was suggested that I should
include a few quotes from them.
The Registers started in 1558. The book was just
plain sheets of pigskin so the vicar could put in (or leave out) anything he
liked. He was probably one of comparatively few literate people in the village
and the register was one of the few books in the village in 1558. It was not until 1755 that pre-printed books
for marriages and 1813 for baptisms and burials came about, and this limited
the vicar’s scope.
The first baptism on 11th December 1558 is
of Elizabeth Taylor (not The Elizabeth Taylor!). I wonder if she realised that she was the first person recorded.
In some cases baptisms and burial are one entry. In 1570 one entry was even less informative
– ‘Joane the daughter of a certain poor woman.’
In 1594 the vicar was obviously annoyed as he
recorded that ‘Here some were left out, for that Edward Swan and Stephen Swan,
Churchwardens, were negligent in bringing forth the booke’. He later recorded
in 1607 and 1608:
‘’This year was a great frost of long continuance.
Which stayed ye plowes 13 weeks and more and presently after all corn was deare
and all saffron heades rotten and wheate greatly hurt wt ye frost
The price of corne riseth sodamely, barley to four
nobles ye quarter, wheat 8s bushell, Ry 5s a bushell, yet greate plenty in ye
house and hope of a very plentifull harvest. The poore not regard(ed).
Plenty of grane, yet so deare yt the por were in as greate
distress, as though there had been greate scarsite, such was the hardness of
men’s hearts. O tempora O mores!’’
After 1813 the
father’s occupation is included in the baptisms, though the vast majority were
labourers, and it is interesting to see during the ensuing years the growing
variety of occupations. The occupation of the last entry in the baptism
transcript (1969) is Flying Officer. There were not many of them around in
1813.
The first burial
in 1558 was Alice King, an infant, there was much infant mortality in those
days. An early entry simply says ‘A
poor women’s child’. In 1572 John
Brignall, John Chambers and Richard Barker were ‘slayne at the Clay Pitt and
overwhelmed with clay’. This would have
been a terrible disaster for Ickleton. I wonder if the Health and Safety
Executive was informed?
In 1589 John
Addam is recorded as ‘a greate drunkard, excomunicant.’
In 1595 Old
Richard Crud was ‘slayne with a fall of his walnut tree.’
In 1598 Cutt Swan
is recorded as ‘an old harborer of theives.’
In 1602 Elizabeth
Turpin is recorded as ‘a walking woman.’
In 1614 3 year
old George Munsye was ‘slaine by an horse.’
In the 16th
and 17th century only the father’s name is given in some of the
baptisms, obviously the mother’s part in the
production was not considered worth recording - a sad reflection of the
Church’s attitude to women. David
Lilley
WELCOME TO………. Simon and Michelle Cheney and Jonathan (2)
Congratulations to Neil Bridgeman and Ramona Moodley
on their marriage, which took place at Umhlanga Rocks, Durban, South Africa on
July 27th.
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October 6th |
Chesterford and District Gardening Society Meeting
8.00 p.m. |
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Chapel, Carmel Street, Great Chesterford |
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9th |
Great Chesterford Steam Up |
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11th |
Mobile Library |
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16th |
Visiting Bellringers 3.00 p.m. – 6.15 p.m. approx |
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20th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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20th |
The Chesterfords, Ickleton & Hinxton W.I. 7.45
pm. |
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Community Centre, Great Chesterford |
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22nd |
Ickleton Theatre Group Show 8.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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25th |
Mobile Library |
PUBLISHED
BY ICKLETON PARISH COUNCIL
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October 6th |
Chesterford and District Gardening Society Meeting
8.00 p.m. |
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Chapel, Carmel Street, Great Chesterford |
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9th |
Great Chesterford Steam Up |
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11th |
Mobile Library |
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20th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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20th |
The Chesterfords, Ickleton & Hinxton W.I. 7.45
pm. |
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Community Centre, Gt. Chesterford |
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22nd |
Ickleton Theatre Group Show Village Hall 8.00 p.m. |
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25th |
Mobile Library |
PUBLISHED
BY ICKLETON PARISH COUNCIL