Issue No 9 September 2013 Page 1

Brookenby’s Community Newsletter

If you have any news or photos you would like published or you would like to place an advert in The Patch, please contact Tony at t-price4@sky.com or phone 399876 Advertisement prices start from £25 for 12 issues For classified ads or diary page, please contact Nicola on 398885. Please send in before the 25th of the month.

Fairground Attraction

Congratulations to the team at Happy Hearts for staging the Fete on 10th August. It is many years since such an event was held in Brookenby, so let us hope it can be established as an annual occasion. It was so good to see some of our neighbours enjoying themselves as well as a healthy turnout from Brookenby villagers. Thanks are also due to Rick for opening the Lightning Bar and for providing more solid refreshment too! With a spirit of goodwill and honest endeavour, it is amazing what can be achieved! See also the report at page 8

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For many years community building committees across Lincolnshire were able to call upon the technical expertise of John Barker on building related matters. Although John has now retired from volunteering for Community Lincs, he gave his support and technical advice on subjects including property maintenance, new buildings, extensions and refurbishment of existing premises. In recognition of his volunteering service the Directors of Community Lincs established the ‘The John Barker Trophy’ to celebrate the work of those volunteers who, willingly and freely, give their time and effort to manage and maintain Lincolnshire community buildings. Nominations for this award will need two sponsors and a written presentation of no more than 300 words as supporting evidence. The winner will receive their trophy at our AGM on 9th October, 2013 at The Old Palace, Lincoln. Please complete the John Barker Trophy Entry Form 13 which is available to download on the website: www.communitylincs.com and return it to Samantha Smith, Senior Rural Officer Community Facilities, Community Lincs, The Old Mart, Church Lane, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. NG34 7DF, no later than 4pm on 16th September 2013. For further information call Samantha on 01529 301960 or email: samantha.smith@communitylincs.com

News from CommunityLincs - The John Barker Trophy 2013

Macmillan Nurses event

On Friday 27th September from 10am to 12, residents of Kingsmead Park Home site, Swinhope will be hosting an open coffee morning to raise money for MACMILLAN cancer support. The event will be part of the World’s BIGGEST COFFEE MORNING and along with the coffee and cakes on offer, there will be a cake stall, plant stall, book stall and a raffle. The event will be held in a large marquee so will not be weather dependent. We hope as many people as possible from the surrounding villages will come along and help us to raise as much money as possible for this very worthwhile cause.

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An application was submitted to the Armed Forces Community Covenant to employ a Sports Development Worker to work at RAF Scampton and the Ex MoD villages of Brookenby, Newtoft and Hemswell Cliff. The application has been successful and £56,930 has been awarded. This will fund one whole-time equivalent post for a period of 12 months, and pay for expenses and equipment. The post will be be managed by Positive Futures, and will be based at RAF Scampton. A Steering Group is now working together to look at the best way of managing this post, whether to have one full-time worker, or two part-time, how to ensure that the service and activities are equally spread over the four villages and how to link into existing community events. The next meeting to discuss this is to be held at 6pm on Thursday 12 September 2013. The venue is yet to be confirmed. It would be really great if we could get some input from residents of the villages to help plan this project, especially from young people. If anyone from Brookenby would like to be involved in planning this exciting new project, please contact me on anne.cater@communitylincs.com

News from Anne Cater, Community Development Worker

Binbrook Methodist Church ceases to exist on 1st September when we merge as one Church with our Anglican friends here at Brookenby. It is a very happy bonding and I know we will not lose our connection to the newly formed Circuit with Gainsborough. We look forward to a long and happy exciting future. As we see the end of the long summer holidays approaching, our minds will be turning to the celebration of Harvest, when this year on 29th September, Rev Dr Alan Robson will be leading our worship. Our gifts will be going to the Nomad Trust in the City of Lincoln, which provides welfare services for those who are homeless and are in need. Doreen Wallis

Binbrook Methodist Church

St Michael & All Angels Church, Brookenby

This month’s quiz questions were prompted by the birth of Prince George!!

1.Who released the song “Purple Rain”? 2. What is the name of Prince Michael Jackson I’s mother? 3. Which famous prison is situated in Princetown, Devon? 4. What number in the series of Harry Potter books is “Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince”? 5. Who played the starring role in “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”?

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The answers from last month’s quiz sent in by, Mary Price, are as follows: 1.Sydney Opera House, 2. Evening, 3. Triangle, 4. Bass, 5. A capella

VACANCY – PARISH CLERK

Brookenby Parish Council is seeking to recruit a Clerk and Proper Officer/Responsible Financial Officer. The post is for 5 hours per week, and involves overall administration of the Parish Council’s business, including preparation of papers for meetings, issue of agendas and notices, taking and production of accurate minutes, dealing with the Council's correspondence, arranging insurance requirements and monitoring the Council's policies. The post-holder will also be responsible for keeping the Council's financial records, and obtaining and presenting any necessary information for the transaction of council business. Applicants should possess good educational qualifications and IT skills, and preferably have had some previous experience of basic financial procedures. Good organisational and administrative skills are also essential. Any previous experience of local government procedures would be an advantage. A flexible approach to working is necessary and candidates should be aware that this position does involve some evening work, attending meetings of the Council. A competitive salary is offered for this position, which is subject to annual review along nationally agreed and published guidelines. Candidates are required to disclose in writing if they are related to any councillor or council employee and deliberate failure to disclose disqualifies a candidate, as does canvassing. For further details and an application form, job description and person specification for the post, please contact: Sam Coulam, Acting Clerk to Brookenby Parish Council samcoulam@talktalk.net 01472 399652/07786 243313 The closing date for applications is Friday 13 September. Interviews will be conducted on the evening of Thursday 19 September, and all candidates will be contacted by telephone/e-mail (as preferred) after the closing date to be informed whether or not they have been short-listed for interview.

• We have had a number of repairs done to the building with lots more planned to be done in the near future. • We have been busy ensuring all fire safety and health and safety requirements are up to date. • We have a vacancy on the Community Centre Committee • Should there be anyone be interested in the Community Centre but does not want to join the committee we still need people to volunteer to do DIY, cleaning, organise events such as bingo, disco's, car boot sales etc. • We are looking at applying for funding to replace the boilers in the Community Centre. • We will be having a Community Centre Big Clear Out Day with free refreshments, look out for further information, volunteers will be needed - Hopefully this will be mid September • All rooms are £6 Per hour to hire, contact 07990 725732 Sam Coulam

Community Centre Report

• Currently I am Acting clerk: if any member of the public would like to add anything to the agenda for discussion they should contact me (see details above) • Current councillors are Ian Round (Chairperson), Mark Ardern (vice chair), Ray Hitchcock, Lee Cordwell, Dave Clark, Alan Witt and Sam Coulam. • Meetings will now take place in the Lancaster room on the first Tuesday of each month.Agendas and Minutes will be displayed in the notice board at the old shop. Sam Coulam

Brookenby Parish Council Report

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“Snifter” was the nose-art on the Lancaster “S for Snifter” whose pilot was Flying Officer Robert “Tim” Anderson, DFC of the 460 Squadron, RAAF. He flew 31 operations between February and October 1944 and was also the pilot for the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester when they lived in

Canberra from 1945-1947 whilst the Duke was the Australian Governor- General. So who was Snifter? Well, he was an Australian war propaganda cartoon dog created by Hardtmuth Lahm. An Estonian by birth

aged 16, Lahm migrated to Australia with very little money and hardly any English. He started producing comic strips during the 1930s and in 1936, began contributing to the new “Man” magazine, with Snifter appearing in 1937. The most notable thing about Snifter was its toilet habits which provided endless jokes. For example, there is a blob of yellow paint decorating the nazi flag on the nose art which is unfortunately hard to see on the black and white reproduction here. Snifter became so popular that eventually it had its own series of booklets and the proceeds from one, “Snifter's War Effort”, bought an ambulance for the AIF (Australian Imperial Force). This article was prompted by the colour tinted photograph of Snifter sent in by Frank “Johnnie” Walker and the information regarding “Tim” Anderson was printed in the January/February 2011, 460 Squadron Veterans and Friends Bulletin.

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Binbrook Art Club Classes will recommence at the Reading Room in Binbrook as shown below, starting at 2.00 pm and continuing until 4.30 pm.

30th September 14th October 28th October 11th November 25th November

Tuition will be by Jan Hill, an arts professional. Beginners welcome and all styles of painting and all mediums welcomed. For further information call Jan nearer the dates mentioned on 01507 533665

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Talking Point Recent tragic incidents – suicides of teenagers attributed to the modern-day of equivalent of the poison pen letter - on social networking sites, inevitably calls into question the value of such sites. Of course, any medium that can improve communication between individuals is to be welcomed, but the downside of that is when it is an ‘open forum’ all the world and his wife is able to see what is being said, good or bad. For young people, some of whom may be emotionally fragile, and when acceptance amongst their peers is an absolute essential of life, adverse or malicious comments can be simply devastating and lead to the calamitous results we have seen. Personally speaking, although I have a presence on social networking sites I just use it as a message sender either to individuals or to groups of people rather than to record my every waking thought or mundane activities that I may be engaged in. It is often preferable to the phone, when it is often difficult to reach people because they are making much more use of answering services or message recording devices given the increasing volume of nuisance calls. Such message posting is also valuable for use during unsocial hours when a phone call would not be welcomed. Group social networking sites can also be very useful – as we have seen in the case of the Brookenby Village Facebook – where a message can be sent simultaneously to a large group of people. The downside of that is that the message is only good for the immediate moment – how far does it register into the consciousness if you are say, trying to promote and event or activity. In general, people will note what is being said but do not ‘scroll back’ to see what past messages there may have been, so you then have to post a series of messages in the period leading up to the event. That in turn can excite the ill-will of some people as we saw on a couple of occasions in the recent past. For both the personal sites and the group sites – perhaps more for the latter – the door is open for ill-intentioned comment. In the days of letter writing, it required a conscious effort to put pen to paper or type a message and read it before sending it, with ample opportunity to review any potentially damaging or hurtful comment. Even poison pen letters, as distasteful as they are, would only be seen by the intended victim and not the world at large. Even phone calls would exercise their own form of restraint – you have to go through the conscious act of phoning and then be speaking to the person concerned, whereas with the networking sites people do not stand back and review what they are about to send – it is an almost impulsive action. So here I enter a plea – just think before you send a message – and bear in mind that most excellent maxim for the living of life ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ and the world would be a whole lot happier place. Editor

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Village Library The Library (located just inside the Church premises) contains a good selection of fiction and non-fiction titles available without charge to anyone in the village. Please feel free to borrow any and return when read. Special thanks are due to the lady who maintains the selection in such good order.

The Lincoln Tank Memorial Group (LTMG) was set up to try and organise a memorial to the tank for the centenary anniversary of the First World War, next year. The first tanks were designed and manufactured in Lincoln by William Foster and Co. Ltd, so the LTMG would like to install a full size 2D model of a Mark I tank (without guns) on the Tritton Road roundabout, near to where the factory used to be situated. The memorial will also incorporate male and female workers to commemorate the effort of civilians during The Great War. Designers from the LTMG are asking for the public’s help in deciding on the wording for the memorial. Currently on the plan, it says “Welcome to Lincoln — Birthplace of the Tanks”, as this was a phrase hung within the factory for a visit made by King George V (see photo). Julie Cooke, secretary to the LTMG, said “The wording at the bottom of the Memorial is taken from the wording on a gantry at the Foster’s factory which had been written in preparation for the King’s visit. Our dilemma is – do we stick to the historically accurate wording, or do we amend the wording to read ‘Lincoln - Birthplace of the Tank’, which may make more sense, especially to visitors to our wonderful city?” If you would like to have your say or require further information, please email Julie at: enquiries@lincolntankmemorial.co.uk If you are interested in the history of tanks in Lincoln then there is a fascinating website: www.friends-of-the-lincoln-tank.co.uk which has lots of information.

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A group of children from De Aston School have recently been to northern France to visit the Memorials and Battlefields of the First World War. This put me in mind of our own trip a couple of years ago; we had been to Vimy Ridge and Thiepval and were on our way further west........ Travelling along the ‘front line’ just outside Albert, northern France. Row upon row of dazzlingly white crosses marking the resting place of many young men from Britain and the Commonwealth on either side of the road, in beautifully kept cemeteries as a token of respect for their sacrifice. The rolling countryside, its wheat fields edged with poppies, completely at odds with the death and destruction witnessed 90 years ago. We spotted a sign “Le Grand Mine” and although the poppy in the corner signified that it was part of the “Remembrance Trail” we were not familiar with it. As with all holidays, we made time for a detour and followed the sign. It is now called the Lochnagar Mine and it is a vast crater caused by a huge explosion of TNT in tunnels dug by Royal Engineer tunnelling companies,

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A few of the Chums did make it to the German reserve trenches, holding off counter attacks, they eventually had to retire due to lack of support. On the 1st July only 2 of their officers and 100 of their men returned to the British sector unwounded.With regard to the mine itself it was the biggest man made explosion ever detonated up until that time. It was witnessed by a Royal Flying Corp officer who said of it: “The whole earth heaved and flashed, a tremendous and magnificent column rose up in the sky. There was an ear splitting roar drowning all the guns, flinging the machine (his

aeroplane) sideways in the repercussing air. The earth column rose higher and higher to almost 4000 ft. There it hung, or seemed to hang, for a moment in the air, like the silhouette of some great cypress tree, then fell away in a widening cone of dust and debris.”The flying officer who made this statement was called Cecil Lewis. One of the books I had taken with me to read on that particular holiday was called “Turn Right for Corfu”, a travelogue/sailing adventure written by Cecil Lewis. The small biography on the back flap mentions he flew as a pilot in the RFC during the First World War. Total coincidence!!

beneath the German trenches. The idea being that the Germans would be knocked out and the follow up British infantry troops would be able to gain ground. Like so many battles in the First World War, it was not through lack of courage that the plan failed, it was the plan itself. (It should be noted that the tunnelling companies were not necessarily British but men from all over the Commonwealth especially New Zealand). We walked slowly around the crater rim trying to explain to our children what caused the ‘big hole’ and that a great many men died there, not distinguishing between nationalities. There are many small

memorials as you go round, but one that caught our eye was a bench, put there in honour of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and as we got closer it was more specifically for the “Grimsby Chums". Never having heard of the Chums on our return home, I fired up the computer and logged on to the internet. The following information I’ve taken from www.lochnagacrater.org & website.lineone.net/~eebo/history10thlincolns The Grimsby Chums was a ‘Pals’ battalion raised when Lord Kitchener called out for volunteers. Initially it was the headmaster of Wintringham Grammar School, Grimsby who raised a company of former pupils but the numbers increased so much with other men from Grimsby and outlying districts, that the task was handed over to Grimsby Town Council. Officially known as the 10th Lincoln, the Chums joined the 101st Brigade of the British 34th Division, moving to France in January 1916. They first saw front line action on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, at La Boisselle, a small village just off the Albert to Bapaume Road. They attacked the enemy position at 7.30am. At two minutes before zero hour two charges were set off close to the German trenches. The Grimsby Chums did not rush forward at zero hour but, as they were ordered to, walked in an orderly fashion into no mans land. The Germans, because of the heavy bombardment of the preceding days, had dug in. When the British guns went silent they knew an infantry attack was imminent and moved back into position, wave after wave of walking men were moving slowly towards them; easy targets. The Chums, amongst others, took shelter in the resulting crater but were pinned down by fire from both their own side and the enemy’s and were therefore trapped for the rest of the day

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