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PILGRIMAlderford, Attlebridge and Swannington
May 2017
Attlebridge Churchyard
The first cut of the season will be on the Saturday and Sunday,6th and 7th May from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
We would be grateful for any help with cutting, raking or cartingthe grass, and in return offer tea and biscuits!
Any queries, ring Janice, 860839 or Virginia 860786
Swannington in BloomSunday 25th June
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Eight beautiful gardens
Teas and homemade cakes
Classic car and farm machinery displays
Barbecue, beer tent and other stalls on the common
Tickets £4 in advance, £5 on gate. Under 16s free.
www.swanningtoninbloom.org
Can you do a stint on the Tombola stall for Swannington in Bloom? Call Laura on Norwich 861300.
A Message from the Rev’d Tim Weston
Spring is with us, moving into Summer. A time of new growth, new birth. A time of freshness and newbeginnings. A time for joy.
A time for weddings. So, perhaps, thoughts inevitably turn to love.
Good Friday and Easter Day are still fresh in our minds reminding us that God so loved us that he sent his Sonto us and that, through love for us, Jesus gave his life on the cross.
In church, almost every Sunday we are reminded to “Love the Lord your God” and to “Love your neighbour”(Matthew 22:37).
So what is this love? Sometimes I think we get confused. We experience a great emotion – perhaps forsomeone or for some thing like a piece of music, a painting, a country – and we call it love. It may well be, butonly in part.
Love, according to St Paul, is much more down-to-earth, much more practical. How often do we hear hiswords (1 Corinthians 13) at weddings telling us that love is patient, kind, lacking in envy. It is not boastful,proud, rude or selfish. It does not get easily angered or hold grudges. It hates evil and loves truth. It protects,hopes, trusts and perseveres. And it never fails.
What a list – and how difficult a command Jesus has given us! Love God, and love your neighbour. If we wantto build a strong community - whether it is church, village, parish, school, sports or just a regular gathering inthe Parson Woodforde - we need to build a firm foundation on which strong growth can be achieved. How dowe do that? That’s where Jesus’ command comes in.
And it has little to do with emotion – with liking each other. As humans, we can’t like everyone – that’s notwithin our capacity. But we can love each other. If we have difficulty loving someone, or some group ofpeople, then we are probably confusing love with liking.
Loving is about all those virtues mentioned by St Paul. If we don’t think we can love, remember those virtuesand then ACT as if we do. We’ll be amazed at the results – on others and on ourselves.
And remember, true love does not call for something back. It is given in the same manner as God loves us –unconditionally.
Rev’d Tim
Good Friday Walk 2017Members of our various local churches walked with the cross from
Swannington to Attlebridge, via Alderford.
Swannington with Alderford and Little Witchingham Parish Council
The next Parish Council meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd May, 7:30 pm at Swannington Church. Partof this meeting will be the Annual Parishoners’ Meeting which is open to all who live in the parish.Your councillors are:
Tim Praill (Chair) 865139 Edward Jones 860255 Steve Griggs 260247 Helen Mutimer 754767
Trevor Nelson 860253 Malcolm Rust 860613 Stephen Williams 861300
BETTER BROADBAND PROJECT FOR UPGATE, REEPHAM ROAD,HENGRAVE & LITTLE WITCHINGHAM
Although Broadband speeds in the main village of Swannington are largely reasonable, our hamlets on theperiphery are suffering a poor service. Many residents of Upgate, Hengrave, Little Witchingham plus ReephamRoad/Felthorpe Road (near Attlebridge) Swannington will have met or spoken with Chris Liles (of Upgate) orEdward Jones (of Little Witchingham) regarding improving their Broadband service. As at early February2017 Chris advises this is the latest position:
Key: BDUK = Broadband Delivery UK programme - which aims to provide Superfast Broadband (targetminimum 24 megabytes per second = mbps) to 95% of the UK by Dec. 2017.Current performance: Most households in the areas below currently achieve Broadband performance of lessthan 10% of BDUK's target i.e. only 1 to 2.5 mbps.
UPGATEUpgate has recently been included in BDUK's Plan meaning Upgate will get Superfast Broadband withoutneeding financial input from the community. Timescale is within the next two years.
HENGRAVE, LITTLE WITCHINGHAM, REEPHAM ROAD & FELTHORPE ROAD (near Attlebridge)
• No nearby fibre system so major installation work would be required. Estimated community fundingneeded to achieve such is circa £50,000 for EACH of the 3 areas above.
• For EACH household in those areas presently receiving under 2 mbps Broadband, there is potentially £350funding available via the BDUK voucher scheme.
• BDUK Voucher Scheme expires 31/03/2018 BUT to qualify for funding the BT deadline was 6th February2017. This was one week from the date this update was received.
Due to only having a few days before the funding application deadline expired, a selection of people in each ofthe above three areas were immediately contacted. The consensus emerged that (unsurprisingly) none of thethree communities would be prepared to apply for their funding but then still have to top up with (potentially)a few thousand pounds from each of the very few households across the three areas.
We are disappointed that for those last three areas we cannot report a better outcome. Hopefully, asBroadband service improves in areas around them, the chances of tapping into nearby service systems willbecome increasingly feasible. So, having reasonable service in neighbouring areas could help e.g. a local MP tobring pressure on BT to improve Broadband across our full village community.
For Upgate though, it is interesting that when we started this project about 9 months ago, Upgate was not inthe BDUK Plan to get Superfast Broadband. After completing our research, we made our detailed submission toBT during November. Then in late January we find it has 'recently been included'. Perhaps flagging up that thereare 30 Broadband lines desperately needing improvement in Upgate alone may have given BT/BDUK a nudge?We like to think so!
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PAT’S POEM
RIPPLESA splash in the water
Has the greatest effectSending out ripples we’d never suspect?
The tiniest ripple can reach so far outWe often forget what the splash was about!
Wherever it touches a ripple can harmCausing confusion or giving alarm
But don’t be afraid to say what you thinkThen at least you will be understood!
Just choose the words wiselyTry not to be unkind
Then you won’t cause a splashWhen you say what’s on your mind!
Pat Evans: Alderford’s very own poet. Copies ofher poems are on sale at Attlebridge church. All
proceeds go to church funds.
TOMBOLA COLLECTION
for Swannington in Bloom
We’ll be collecting door-to-door on
Saturday 10th June
Alternatively please take your donations toSchoolfield, School Road, Swanningtonor Corner Cottage by Friday 16th June.
We provide nursery education for childrenbetween 2 and 5 years embracing theMontessori Philosophy and a natural love oflearning. Nurturing confident, happy andindependent children within our convertedbarn and walled garden.High fully qualified staff to children ratio.Contact Samantha Mann01603 [email protected] Stables, Old Fakenham RoadAttlebridge Norwich NR9 5ST
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Litter PickThe children love litter picking, possibly because we do itin the gator, which apparently makes it more fun. Itamazes and disgusts us that so many people feel it’s ok tocasually throw their rubbish out of their cars. It alsoamazes me that so many people drive past us withoutacknowledging what we are doing - sometimes not evenslowing down to a safe speed to weave between me, thegator and the children. I sometimes wonder if peoplethink we are doing enforced community service andtherefore should be treated with disdain, as part of thesocial punishment.Britain is filthy, I don’t think it’s possible to count tomore than 3 between pieces of litter on any of our roads. What we do feels like a drop in the ocean, especially asthe very next day you can bet there is more rubbish oneach road.Tyler likes to check in each discarded cigarette box ortobacco bag, as he once found a £5 note tucked inside! We had great excitement once when we found anunscratched scratch card. Alas, nothing was won - I thinkmostly what we get is splinters in our fingers from tryingto extricate a tricky can from the black thorn bushes, andwe try not to use too much imagination on the contents ofsome of the larger plastic bags we find. James did find£100 amongst a load of Kentucky fried takeaway rubbish.On average, we do the whole village once a month. Ittakes between 2 - 3 hours and we usually fill a whole
wheelie bin with bottles, cans, bags of picnic waste,cigarette packets, sweet wrappers and take-away rubbish ;we rarely pick up much that wouldn’t go into the litterer’sown dustbin or in the bin at a filling station.
So, if you feel like joining us, or you pass us while we’rein action, we really appreciate a wave and a smile ofacknowledgement.
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We have received this from Diane Whellum.
l saw with interest the photo of the last class atSwannington-School. l have an original photo myself, asmy two children were there, however some names areincorrect; my son is Carl Whellum, not Karl Welham, andmy daughter Victoria Whellum; and it is Karl Chapmannot Carl. We have lived in Swannington for 45 years,and my children have happy memories of their time atthe school.Children tended to start school full time at the age offour or four and a half as the school was so small, andclose to home. There were two classes. The headMaster Mr Jordon, took the ‘Big Un’s’ in the smallerback room as there were fewer of them, and Mrs Lake(who lived opposite the school) took the ‘Little Un’s’ inthe larger front room. ln this large room was an old pot-bellied stove with a high guard around it, and in thewinter the bottles of milk were put beside it to thawout. School meals were delivered in a van from CawstonSchool, and served out at the desks. At the side of theplayground was one swing for all the children to share,and a tree trunk lying in the grass to sit on.One disadvantage was the outside toilets at the rear ofthe school, a very draughty place, one toilet for the girlsand a trough for the boys, and both covered with a tinroof which made a visit very noisy in the rain. Mr Jordanused to take the children for a walk across the fields atleast once a year, to ensure that the footpaths werekept open. l think both the children and parents weresad when the school closed and they had to travel bybus to Cawston.
Thank you, Diane, for correcting our mistakes. Editors.
Down Memory Lane — April Issue.
Christian Aid Coffee Morning
Swannington Church
Saturday 20th May
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Everybody welcome!
(Photo © EDP archive/Archant)
At our February indoor meeting Ieuan Evans gave us the up-to-the-minute info on the valuable work of the BritishTrust for Ornithology on bird migration. For probably hundreds of years the destination of many of our nesting birds inwinter was a complete mystery. It was once believed that swallows spent the winter in the bottom of ponds! Much ofthe rapid increase in our knowledge has come from the practice of ringing birds, and we now know where manyspecies spend our winter. Although ringing allowed us to find the final destination of migrants, the route they took toget there was mostly guesswork. So the much more effective, but also much more expensive, technique of satellitetracking is now used to plot the exact routes. Famously the BTO has used satellite tags to plot the migration ofCuckoos. We now know that some male birds may remain in the UK for as little as 5 weeks, and that they take avariety of routes to reach their principal destination in the Congo rainforest. The birds move into West Africa beforethey make the return journey. It is thought they are making use of the drought-busting rains in the area, feeding up onthe clouds of insects released but keeping ahead of the heaviest rains. This has been christened ‘surfing the greenwave’. You can follow the travels of the tagged Cuckoos on Twitter – twitter@_BTOA bright sunny February morning greeted the 21 WVBS members who assembled at Horsey Mill, and astonishingly we“bagged” our target bird COMMON CRANE within two minutes of starting our walk. The year listers amongst us werehighly delighted with a two CRANE flypast. We encountered two otters playing by the dam, and hares bouncingaround in the fields. After the walk we moved to the sand dunes at Waxham to look at the sea. Best birds here werethe Purple Sandpipers hiding among the artificial reefs. Later in the day we repaired to Hickling Broad to walk downto Stubbs Mill for the Raptor Roost. As we stood in the now perishing cold, raptor after raptor filled the sky. Peregrine,Merlin, lots of Marsh Harriers, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, female Hen Harrier, and the most beautiful male Hen Harrier,his silver and black wings glinting in the late afternoon sun. But the highlight had to be a pair of “dancing” CRANES.We ended the day with the same birds as we started with.Future events: Indoor meetings are held at Great Witchingham Village Hall, Lenwade, at 7.30pm. All are welcome.(There is a £2.00 charge for non-members) Thursday 20th April – Gibraltar Flyway by Jake Gearty. Thursday 18th May– Dove Step (Turtle doves) by Jonny RankinField trips: Sunday 23rd April – Morning walk at Thorpe Marshes, Norwich. Sunday 7th May – very early Dawn Choruswalk starting at 4.15am. For more details and information contact Sue Gale – [email protected]
Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society
Beyond the Parish
Last month I wrote "next month, we shall venture into the Diocese of Norwich and further afield " and sowe shall. In these articles there have been many references to the Deanery which is that area comprising arange of parishes. Often 8 or more deaneries comprise an Archdeaconry and then usually there are 2/3archdeaconries in a Diocese. The diocese of Norwich is, as they say, on the huff. Downham Market is inNorfolk but in the diocese of Ely. In contradistinction, Lowestoft is in Suffolk but in the diocese of Norwichwhich is a very large geograpical area overseen by the Bishop of Norwich. I was reminded of how journeyscan seem very long to some people, when I was talking to a couple at the annual stewardship supper weused to hold at the Bishop's house in Lincoln. They had come from Cleethorpes in North Lincolnshire andhad chosen to stay the night in Lincoln because, they said, it was more than 30 miles to go home. They evenasked us where we were staying and we said that we would be driving home!
I served under 2 diocesan bishops and 5 suffragan bishops of Lynn and Thetford.The bishop who institutedme at Swannington in 1976 was Bishop Maurice Wood who was always very kind to me and who began thescheme for clergy to have mopeds/scooters. I had a white scooter called 'Snowdrop' by the family. In theBishop's house there was an original Giles cartoon showing the Bishop blessing a line of clergy on theirmopeds. It was Bishop Maurice'ssuccessor, Bishop Peter Nott, who appointed me as a Canon of the Cathedral and as chairman of the Boardfor Social Responsibility.
The canonry meant that later I was elected to the Cathedral Chapter and so met 'in chapter' with the Deanand Canons planning the work of the cathedral. The work on the board took me across the whole dioceseand I was able to build up a good knowledge of so many projects and activities the Board was involved in.One was a workshop in Norwich for people with disabilitles. To this day on the mantlepiece in my study Ihave a train made out of wood and painted brown with red wheels. Each truck is in the shape of a letterand all the letters spell 'Archdeacon', so ten trucks in all.
The other work that took me all over the country was the Mental Health Act Commission. In 1986 I wasinvited to join the Commission which comprised 100 Commissioners from 7 disciplines. Mine was'Specialist' which really included all the paramedics like OT and Physio. Our job was to visit all thepsychiatric hospitals where patients were detained under the Mental Health Act and to enquire into theirwelfare, receive complaints and scrutinise all the legal documents. This latter was to ensure that patientswere properly and legally detained. It is a huge step to take away a person's liberty on the basis that theyare suffering from a mental illness which warrants detention and so the Commission was really a watchdogprotecting patients' rights. For 6 years I led the team which worked across East Anglia and North EastThames. This went from Cromer in the North to Neasden and included the whole of the East End of London.
As well as visiting the hospitals which included the three Special Hospitals – Ashworth, Broadmoor andRampton – we also visited the Social Service Departments and any units where people were detained, likethe Secure Units i.e. The Norvic Clinic. It was fascinating, challenging and, I believe, important work. FromNorfolk we were to move to another diocese and county – Lincoln - but more of that another time.
Down Memory LaneContinuing our new series of articles about life in the three villages in years gone by.
Many parishioners will remember Arthur Hawes who was our Rector from 1976 - 1992.He writes about his time working and living here.
Rogue Trader AlertPolice over recent months have received a reportof an elderly resident in Reepham agreeing to payfor a hedge to be cut and then asked for £200 toclear away the clippings. The resident has refusedto pay this but agreed for a copper water tank tobe taken away in exchange for their removal andonly the tank has been taken.
PC Andy Mason, Broadland Engagement Officercommented "Reports of rogue traders, cowboybuilders and doorstep callers are unfortunately stilla concern for both Norfolk Police and TradingStandards Departments. Rogue traders trickpeople into paying very high prices forunnecessary or shoddy work primarily on homesor garden maintenance".
To avoid becoming a victim of rogue traders,follow these simple steps:
● Never agree to have work done bysomebody who is just passing or take theirword that it needs to be done at all.
● Never pay for work before it is completed.
● Do not accept any offer from them to driveyou to the bank to withdraw money.
● If you need work done, then visitwww.checkatrade.com or call by phone on0333 0146 190 or contact your localcouncils Trusted Trader Service.
For Further Crime Prevention Advice:-For Norfolk dial 101 and ask to speak to your localArchitectural Liaison Officer (ALO)
Contact Reepham Safer Neighbourhood Team(SNT) by calling non-emergency number 101 ore-mail [email protected]
Quiz and Chips Night
Very many thanks to Richard for yet again organisinga superb quiz and managing to keep the wholeaudience on their toes with thought provokingquestions. Thanks also to Lesley and John Tym forso efficiently sorting out the scores.
I am very grateful to Pam for doing the raffle whichwas a great success and for being so supportive.Thanks to all those who so kindly donated the greatarray of raffle prizes. Thanks also to Eric fororganising the use of the school who, as always,were very helpful.
Although the number of participants was less thanhalf of the previous year I think it was, as always, avery enjoyable evening. To raise almost £500 was agreat effort and thanks again to those who helpedand supported the evening.Sally Day
Do You Have a Classic Car?Swannington in Bloom is once again inviting ownersof Classic cars and motor-bikes to bring them alongon Sunday June 25th and display them on the villagegreen from 10:00 am onwards. The driver will begiven a free ticket to the gardens.
Please contact Peter Halls on 01603880835, or [email protected] for further information.
Swannington Airfield Memorabilia
Haveringland is organising a display ofphotographs, memorabilia and anecdotalevidence about Swannington Airfield whichclosed 60 years ago. If you would like tocontribute to this event then please e-mail:
Nature Notes 7: Ponds and Pond-life
Not only have some bird populations declined rapidly in recent decades but so have some whole habitats. Over80% of ponds disappeared from the British landscape during the 20th century. Many were originally dug forstock to drink from but were replaced by clean piped water to reduce transmission of waterborne infections. Asponds became redundant, they also became a nuisance to mechanised farming practices, so were filled in.
Ponds are unique wildlife habitats, very different to rivers, streams andlakes. Many of their inhabitants only spend part of their lives in water.Larval dragonflies and damsel flies are voracious aquatic predators eatingother pond animals including tadpoles. On maturity they crawl up a pieceof emergent vegetation, split their larval skin and emerge as glitteringlybeautiful adults which continue to prey on other insects but in flight.Sometimes they themselves, even though very rapid fliers, become preyfor even faster fliers: hobbies, small very swift falcons, are sometimesseen hawking for dragonflies over the fen at Upgate.
Another group of pond dwellersthat have declined steeply areamphibians. 57% of Britishamphibian species breed on ourcommons: smooth and great crested newts, common frogs andcommon toads. Great crested newts, now the most highly protectedof all species found in the parish, breed in the marl pit pond fromwhere they used to be regularly harvested by schoolboys for sale inthe Attlebridge pet shop.
Common toads are no longer so “common” having declinednationally by 68% over the last 30 years. One morning nearly fortyyears ago, while cycling to work through Upgate, I counted 97 toads
squashed on the road. The spring migration season can last several weeks, so I calculated that there must havebeen thousands of toads that did manage to make it across the road to form heaving masses mating whereaquatic plants provided support for their strings of spawn.
In Swannington it is hard to see why they have declined so rapidly astheir potential breeding grounds have increased by 400% thanks tothe “Restoration of Swannington Commons” project which, with helpfrom the Norfolk Naturalist Trust, co-ordinated the efforts of CawstonCubs, Taverham Scouts, Manpower Service Scheme groups, BernardMatthews PLC and three groups of conservation volunteers, createdeight new ponds. 40 years ago there were only two ponds on thecommons with open water throughout the year; the the marl pit pondon Alderford Common and the “Hoss” pond on Upgate Common. Bothhave since dried up completely and would now be just be damphollows had they not been re-excavated.
Swannington has a little known claim to national fame because whilethe UEA Conservation Corps was helping dig out the “Bottomless Pond”, Tom Langton, head of the UEAConservation Corps, and I conceived the idea of putting toad signs up to alert motorists to the presence of toads
and toad helpers. Tom became Conservation Officer of the British Herpetological Society andimplemented the idea nationally, persuading me to help by being filmed for “Look East”,walking along the middle of the road at Upgate one rainy afternoon, stuffing toads into thepockets of my waterproofs, then releasing them in the pond while waxing lyrical about howKenneth Graham’s wonderful character, “Toad of Toad Hall”, was part of our literary heritageand how we needed to protect his natural relatives from fast cars (that did not all go “POOP –
POOP” in enough time for luckless amphibians to take evasive action). In the Anglia television studios theyapparently regarded this as a “good piece”. I, on the other hand, have rarely felt so acutely embarrassed!!!
Mark (April 2017)
The marl pit pond on Alderford Common.
An emperor dragonfly, the largest of the17 species of dragonflies and damsel fliesfound on our commons. © Hugh Venables
A great crested newt, distinguished fromsmooth newts, by their “warty” skin andblunter noses. ©Alamy
7th May - Easter 310:15 am Weston Longville Holy Communion
14th May - Easter 410:15 am Swannington Holy Communion
Sidesperson: Pam Smith Reader: Diane Bell Coffee: Mary Gurteen21st May - Easter 5
10:15 am Great Witchingham Holy Communion
25th May - Ascension Day 7:30 pm Reepham Holy Communion
28th May - Sunday after Ascension 10:15 am Attlebridge Holy Communion
4th June - Pentecost10:15 am Weston Longville Holy Communion
Wensum Benefice
If you wish to book a baptism or wedding, or need information regarding services in your church, please contact your churchwarden:
Swannington: Antoinette Watts 860586
Attlebridge: Virginia Furness 860786
Alderford: Mick Evans 860887
Gt Witchingham: Janet Houlston 872251
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Local events
Wednesday 3rd May 7:30 pm Swannington with Alderfordand Little Witchingham Parish Council at SwanningtonChurch. Part of this meeting will be the AnnualParishioners' Meeting which is open to all who live in theparish.
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th May 2:00 to 4:00 pmAttlebridge church grass-cutting weekend . Volunteersmade most welcome!
Saturday 13th May 11:00 am onwardsReepham Gardening Club plant sale. Reepham marketplace.
Tuesday 16th May 7:45 pmReepham & District Gardening Club, Reepham Town Hall: BillLe Grice - My Personal Love Affair with the Rose
Saturday 20th May 10:30 am - 12:00 pmCoffee morning at Swannington church. All proceeds toChristian Aid. Everybody welcome!
Saturday 20th May 7:30 pmFilm Showing: Sully (12A) at Weston Longville Hall for All.£5 entry on the door or to book tickets:[email protected]
Thinking Ahead….Dates for Your Diary
Saturday 10th June Door-to-door tombola collection inSwannington for Swannington in Bloom
Sunday 25th JuneSwannington in Bloom - Open Gardens event
Saturday 8th July 7:30 pmSt.David’s church, Thorpe. Iceni choir in concert.
PILGRIMPilgrim is published ten times a year and delivered free toevery household in the villages. Thank you to our distributors.It is supported by voluntary contributions which will bewelcomed by your distributor. (Please make cheques payable toAttlebridge, Alderford and Swannington Newsletter A/C). Yourhelp is important as printing costs continue to rise.
The next issue, covering June will be published at the end of May.Please have news (particularly of new arrivals in the villages) copyor advertisements with us by May 15th.
The editors arePam and Jeremy Smith, 4 Broad Lane, Swannington. NR9 5NH;
Tel: 01603 860342e-mail: [email protected]
If you mislay your copy of the Pilgrim, you will always find a pdfversion available on the website:
www.swannington-news.org
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