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éTuddenham TattlerMay 1994-J
Issue No 18
Wehave nearly com-
pleted our second
year for the Tattler and Ian
Archer, aged 9, has drawn
this lovely View of the
church His sister, Petina,
drew for our second issue
when we were still amateurs!
Ian chose the Church because
he likes to run through the
Churchyard on his way to the
river as he feels free there,
In This Issue
Letters
NH Watch
Page 4
. Page 5
. Page 10
Page 11,
Parish Council
Carpet Bowls .
Thank you, Ian, for your styl-ish view of Tuddenham St.
Ian Archer
Martin’s Church.
GIVE A SMILE IN THE MORNING.
When I drive my children in
to school in the morning we
often enjoy a story or a chat
to while away the time - it
takes half an hour in the rush
hour A few days ago I gave
the adage "Give a smile in the
morning and receive two in
the afternoon" as my theme
and we talked about how a
good deed is always repaid
though sometimes rather ob-
scurely. My daughter con-
firmed this in the afiemoon
telling how her smile to one
of her class mates-in the
morning had come back to
her from an unlikely source
in the afternoon. I had also
had a good deed repaid that
day when a villager came to
me with a super and often
requested present in his bag.Goodness knows what I had
Page I
done to deserve his kindness
but thanks anyway.
Talking of kindness let me tell you
of a story I have just read in the
village newsletter from my par~
ent’s village. One of the leading
continued on page 4.....
EDITORIAL TEAM
Erica 785588
Margaret R 785314
Malcolm 785712
Hiddenbam Euler May 1994
FREE WATER, FREE POWER.
n the late 20th Century we
live in relative comfort in
Tuddenham and take all the
basic amenities for granted,
though we may grumble at
the price we have to pay.
However older residents will
recall the days, not that long
ago, when they had no piped
water, no mains sewage sys-
tem, no electricity and no tar-
mac road.
Piped water came in 1936;Mrs. Amy North confirms
this because that is when she
first met her husband Hairy,who was one of the workers
laying the pipes. He obvi-
ously had his eye on Amy and
came round to ask for a drink
of water!
Electricity was laid on
around 1947/48 and mains
sewage in 1970/71.
Before piped water, the vil-
lage had to use a variety of
pumps and wells and I have
been able to identify the loca-
tion of 15 pumps and 12
wells. Nearly all have disap-peared and I assume theyhave been filled in, but can-
not be sure, The position of
many can be seen on late 19th
Century/early 20th Century1225000 Ordnance Survey
maps held in the Archives
Office, Ipswich
Mr. Derek Welham tells me
that three major wells, knovm
as Charity wells, were dug on
the orders of Squire Har-
wood of The Hall. These
must have been sunk in the
second half of the last Cen-
tury and would probably be
the one behind Gable Cot-
tage, a deep one according to
Derek; another in the gardenof Well Cottage, The Street;
and another one in front of
another Well Cottage next to
Thicknesse Cottage. All have
disappeared but the Gable
Cottage one seems to be
marked by a brick square
filled with plants.
As far as I know, the last Tud-
denham person to use well
water was Mr. Pip Damant
whom I used to see drawing
up two bucketsful from The
Street well every day in the
mid sixties, It did not seem to
do him any harm but in ear-
lier days, although the water
was free, there was a price to
pay with ill health and some-
times death from pollutionand various fevers.
Further out from the village a
very interesting machine was
used to pump water. This was
Page 2
the hydraulic rain. The re-
mains of three can still be
seen in the locality. one be—
low Larkshill (Mr. John Lam-
bert), another below Hill
Farm, formerly Waspe’sFarm (Mr. George Pipe) and
the best example in Alder
Carr Wood on the footpath to
Playford. This latter suppliedwater to Playford Hall and is
not in our Parish.
Briefly, these rams were
powered entirely by a flow of
water from a spring or
stream. They were so robust
and simple that they would
run for years with very little
maintenance. Pressure from
a header tank automatically
opened and closed a pair of
valves and sent a pulse of
water up the delivery pipe by
continually arresting the
flow, Thus you got the char—
acteristic heavy beat which
some residents can still re-
call, Surprisingly, accordingto the hand-books, a workingfall of as little as 2 feet could
drive water as high as 50 feet
vertically up the supply pipe.
My plumber friend Neville
Moore of Woodbridge who
lent me his books, says that
although his apprenticeship
continued on next page.......
....... continued from page 2
dates back practically to Vic-
torian times he has never
worked on a rain.
They are still manufactured)but geographical conditions
have to be right for them to
be effective. Tuddenham is
ideal, being in a steep sided
valley and with plenty of
springs coming out where the
ground begins to use
How the Ram works; a pow-
erful flow of water passes
along pipe A. This comes
from a tank filled by a suit-
able spring or stream The
flow will force shut a largevalve at B. The sudden stop-
page of flow causes a back
pressure which pushes open
a smaller valve C, This al-
lows a squirt ofwater into the
cast iron air chamber. The air
compresses and drives water
up the rising main to the
house. About a third of the
flow is used, As pressure in
pipe A is reduced so valve B
drops open and the process
starts again. Editor: I don‘t
understand a word of this but
try to cater for all tastes ..........
The geology of the Fynn Val-
ley is like a two layered cake,the lower half being solid
London clay (very good for
brick-making) ,then light
sands and gravel on top mak-
ing a good filter for the
ground water. Right on top
Rum; I’M/M
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mddenham Euler Mav 1994
are scattered patches ofboul-
der clay, When trenches were
dug down the street to take
the sewer pipes, the layeringof stiff grey clay with yel-low/white sand and gravel on
top could clearly be seen near
the Chapel and that is where
the spring line is, all along the
valley at that height - the
same on the east side justabove The Granaries.
When the rams, the pumps
and the wells were built,water and the power to raise
it were free. Back to the goodold days? I think not I’ll pay
my Anglian Water and East-
ern Electricity bills with as
much grace as I can muster.
Ralph Taylor.
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QUIZ DATE CHANGED
Tattler quiz now on Tuesday May 17th Phone 785314 or 785588 for tickets
Bring your friends and make up a table of four. Refreshments included.
LETTERS TO EDITOR:
CHRISTIAN AID
The national house to house
collection for Christian Aidwill
be held during the week 16th
-215t May. Christian Aid is
non-denominational and exists
to combat the poverty and in-
justice suffered by so many
people in the world.
It funds projects in many third
world countries, - in Nicaraguaeducational and training pro-
grammes for farm labourers, in
Mali it assists local villagers to
excavate wells, in India it cam-
paigns against child labour in car—
pet factories, etc. etc.
One quarter of Christian Aid’s
income is raised in this week in
May, - last ye Tuddenham con-
tributed over 150 , please helpus surpass this total. More collec-
tors would be very welcome. If
you can help please contact Joan
Williams at Farthings ,Wester-
field Lane. 785584.
Dear Editor,
I would like to say a deep thank
you to all the people in Tudden—
ham who have contacted me
and given me such support over
the last few weeks since my
dear husband passed away.
This has helped me to feel set-
tled here in Tuddenham while I
think what to do in the future.
Grace Harste.
Dear Editor,
We will be holding a meetingon May 23rd at 8,00pm, :1 Mon—
day, at The Old Vicarage. Tud-
denham. to discuss individual
arrangements and stalls for the
fete which is to be held on Sat-
urday July 9th, opposite The
Fountain. Representatives from
all the village organisations are
invited. Please come and tell us
as soon as possible that you are
attending,
Gill Cruikshank 785415.
Dear Editor, I have received an
order for some Avon products
consisting of three items totalling
2l.98p with no name or address.
If this is your order please contact
Trudy on 785317. Thank you,
Trudy Banks.
Dear Editor,
After the death of Janet Mead-
ows, Mr. Meadows, 14 Keight-
ley Way, and family would like
Page 4
to thank all those who sent d0-
nations to "Suffolk Coastal
Crossroads" who help all those
who have difficulties in their
homes. A collection in Keight—
ley Way of forty one poundsresulted in a total of one hun-
dred and twenty six pounds.Mrs. Meadows had often said
that this would be her wish.
Again thank you.
continued 190111 from page.....
lights in their village was the
fireman involved in a rescue to
be shown on the “999" pro-
gramme on BBC1 on May 30th
when a cat was drilled out from
his "tomb" between the cavitywalls of a local building. When
no-one claimed the muggy, the
same fireman adopted the cat
who turned out to be ferocious,
Alf, the cat, remains a bully to
other cats and humansThe
BBC filmcrew had to get a dou-
ble for Alfduring filming as the
real feline scratched his new
protector in a way quite unbe-
coming to his rescue. So much
for my adage!
Editor.
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l'.c. STEVE WARNi
Dear Householder,
I would like to introduce myself to you as P.c. STEVE WARNE, your
Area Beat Officer.
You will often see me around this area, either on foot, or in a
vehicle and I work in addition to the patrol officers from Wood—
bridge Police Station.
I am able to advise you on both security and community matters
and I work on rota all hours of the day and night.
If I am not around, please ensure a message is left for me to
contact you when I come on duty.
If your call is of an urgent nature, do not hesitate to use the ’999’
system.
I look forward to seeing you.
P.c. 774 WARNE
NeighbourhoodWatch.
at‘
ge Concern is offeringto fit door chains for
pensioners free of charge.
They also offer spyholes at
1.25p.which can be fitted
free.
Details are available from
Age Concern at 19 Tower
Street, Ipswich. Phone
257039 or 214773
I have contacted them and
they look forward to hearingfrom some of us in Tudden»
ham. Do take advantage of
this offer.
Janet Wells.
Village Policing.
RC, Steve Warne has again
congratulated Tuddenharn for
its Neighbourhood Watch
Scheme which continues to
work well. He has spent plentyof time in the village recently
helping with some local prob—lems and is available if you
need him. I have enclosed a
photo with this edition of the
Tattler for our new residents but
please note that his telephonenumber at the police station is
0473383460, not as stated on
the sheet. I will take this oppor-
tunity to thank him and his wife
Lesley for the bribe they
brought round to our house last
week ..... l
He discussed the problem of
parking near the bus stop out—
side the Chapel and asked the
Tattler to again seek the co op-
eration of the local residents in
not parking there when the bus
is due so that bus users do not
have to leave the bus while in
the middle of the road. A possi-ble alternative would be for him
to ticket all the cars along the
road so it would be better for
car owners to be helpful here.
Eastern Counties are installing
integral steps on their new
buses, but these do not run
through Tuddenham. High-
ways are deciding whether to
Eddenham Etfler Ma V 1994
sign the Bus Stop on the road
which would stop cars from
parking there at all. Surely the
best solution would be for local
residents to leave a fifty foot
gap and thus avoid jurisdiction.
As for the problem of cars
parked in the entrance to FynnLane ..... well BC Warne is look-
ing into this and he will report
back any progress. Here the
problem is more than just car
parking: the residents find dogsin the area cause considerable
nuisance. How sad that the in-
evitable consequence of such
problems is to strengthen the
anti-dog lobby when dogs can
give such joy to their owners.
As with cars. control is neces-
sary before dogs have to be
banned altogether!
'Thiiitmmm-iu-hhinkiznysmilandubomhood Izmir am'.‘
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firddenham Earner May 1994
TUDDENHAM ST
MARTIN W.|.
aWe have had two excellent
meetings at the village hall
over the last month. We
played host to the other WI
villages in our group which
includes Henley, Heming-
stone, Rushmere, Wester-
field, Ashbocking Swilland
and Witnesham on the eve-
ning of the 26th April. We
catered for about 80 ladies.
The evening started nerv-
ously as our speaker was late
in arriving so we had to jug—
gle the programme, But no
sooner had we started to
serve the refreshments when
Mrs Gummer arrived, havingdriven straight from London
she found a cup of tea most
welcome. Listening about a
typical day in her life it was
no surprise that she was late!
She gave an account of the
previous week of her diary.
Being the mother of 4 chil-
dren aged between 8 and 16,the two eldest are boys and
are choristers at Cambridgeand the two girls attend
school in London. They have
a family home at Winston,and also a London home.
She told us how she thinks
that a strong family life is
important in the life ofan MP
- to come home to a family is
far better than returning to an
empty flat in the city. For re-
laxation she enjoys the thea-
tre when she can find the
time! We found her talk most
interesting with a glimpseinto another world of attend-
ing important meetings with
her husband and meeting
people who are just newspa-
per pictures to us.
Earlier in the month we en-
joyed seeing rare slides of
Old Ipswich shown by MI
Bridges. It was most interest-
ing to see how the same view
has developed over the years.
For instance the Norwich
Road at Whitton, from beinga quiet road with a few cot-
tages in the late eighteen hun-
dreds then in the earlynineteen hundreds with a
railway bridge and steam
train passing over the road
with trams undemeath. Now
it is junctions, roundabouts
and cars, and rows of houses,
It was almost unbelievable to
think that in the early 1970’s
you could park your bicycleon the kerb side outside the
post office at Comhill and re-
turn to find it there! How dif-
ferent today! Indeed we live
in a fast changing world and
our meetings over the last
month have reflected this, It
is not unusual for Mr Gum-
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iner to drive to London and
back to Suffolk twice in one
day and yet not so long ago
he would not have had the
roads or transport for this.
People trying to pack more
into the hours of their day,
may be getting more out of
life”? Aren‘t we fortunate to
live in Tuddenhain and enjoya Village life!
Pauline Rees.
TUESDA Y APRIL 19th 1 994
A good time was had by all at
the Fountain Quiz Night, to—
night. Few in number
though! Support is needed
for our landlords Fred and
Alan as the Fountain Inn is
one of the centre pieces of
Tuddenham. Shop and
school gone, pub and village
hall, Church and Chapel and
people left! Come and have
fun next time.
Eileen Offord.
TABLE TOP SALE
This will be held on Saturday
May 14th, from 10,30arn to
12.00 noon at Tuddenharn
village hall, Good qualitychildren’s clothes and equip-
ment, Brie a Brac, Books and
Toys etc. etc. If you wish to
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continued from page 6 .......
hire a table for the event the
charge will be four pounds.There will be a cake stall -
donations for this would be
greatly appreciated. Also a
rafile. Tea and coffee will be
served. For bookings please
phone Claire Atkins on
785378 or Deborah Har-
mddenham Ettler WV 1994
greaves on 255147 .Do come
and support us.
INTER VILLAGE SPORTS TOURNAMENT
If anyone would like to support our teams as several did last year please let us know
so we can arrange transport if necessary. Julie Welham has been working very hard
"training" the junior rounders team; she even managed to postpone the bedtime of
one of the youngest players in order to fit in a practice! The other team managers
have all got their teams under control. We would like to wish all of them good luck
for Sunday May 15th at Leiston.
Resting Reporter,
Snape Maltings: Dance at Snape.6-21 May, Aldeburgh Festival
1026 June. Snape Folk Festival
8-10 July. Phone 0728 453543
for details.
West Stow Country Park open
daily,IOam-4pm. Phone 0284
728718.
Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan Soci-
ety auditions for "The Grand
Duke" to be held in Belstead Vil-
lage Hall on May 19th at 7.30pm.Phone 725217.
Spa Pavilion Theatre in Felix-
stowe; Tuesday Evening Band
Concerts from July 26th»Sepmm-her 6th, at 8.00pm. All seats three
pounds fifty pence. Phone 0394
282126.
Kentwell Hall award winning his—
torical re-creations of Tudor
times; May 28—30th, Aug 6-7, and
Aug 26-29th.
WHAT’S ON
Brighouse and Rastn'ck Band:
Corn exchange, Ipswich, on Sat,
18th June at 7.30pm Phone
215544 for tickets.
Anglia Indoor Cart Racing Open
daily from lOam—lOpm, every-
thing supplied, prices from five
pounds.
Agricultural Shows: South Suf—
folk on May 15th phone063875087
Hadleigh Show on May let
phone 827920.
Tosca by Puccini to be staged at
Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe on May23rd , 0394 282126. Also "The
Mikado" by 6&8 on 10-11th June
and "The Rock and Roll sz" on
29th July.
Mildenhall Air Fete on May 28-
29th, phone 0638 543341.
Framlingham Gala Weekend on
29-30th May; dog show, fun fair
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carnival. etc.
Ipswich May Market on Cornhill
28th May
Newmarket Countryside Race
Day 10.30am on May let; dis»
plays and trade stands
Power boat racing at Oulton
Broad, Lowestoft, 12.00 noon.
29-30th May,
Stock Car Racing at Foxhall Sta-
diumY May 14th and 30th, phone254697.
Mid Suffolk Light Railway at
Brockford Station, off A140.
Middy Fun Day on May 15th 11-
5pm.
There is so much on locally Ihave
not begun to mention all the
events so please look in the Tour-
ist Information for more. Please
keep us informed of any favourite
events coming so that we can ad-
vise other readers.
firddenham Tamer Ma v 1994
TADPOLES
Old King Cole . You know the
show? Now see the video! If
members of the company haven’t
had a chance yet, come to 4. The
Granaries (overflow at 5, The
Granaries) . Anyone else wel-
come but please ring first 785363
or 735588. Wednesday May 11th,
7. 30pm for "curtain up" at
Q745pm. p9
%30%M051)D £53?CONTAINER COMPETITION.
1. Any sized container can be
used; old coppers, plant pots,
pans- anything at all.
2. No professional help - no
bought in presentations.
3. The container must fit in
with the house in front of
which it is displayed.
4. Quality of arrangement
will be considered - some
containers need a little water-
fall effect over the edge.
5. Overall efi‘ect - colours,
quality, suitability, - is most
important.
6. Judging Day to be an-
nounced in a later issue ofthe
Tattler.
77) be judged by Goldsmith MJI'S—
eries.
DONATION
The Toddlers group very much
appreciate the donation to our
funds from the "TADPOLES"
PANTOMTME GROUP. Thank
you Tadpoles. We will enjoy
choosing a new play item -
per-
haps something to develop the tal—
ents or the "Tadpoles" of the
future!
ALTERNATIVE
HEALTH THERAPIES
Have you ever considered
consulting someone practis—
ing in homeopathy, herbal
medicine or aromatherapy?Would you like to find out
more about these and other
therapies? l have used ho-
meopathic remedies for
Helena since she was a baby;this doesn’t mean we haven’t
also consulted our own G.P.
but we have found the reme-
dies have worked for us and
I now use them myself. It
doesn’t mean we never have
coughs, colds etc. (in fact last
winter we had lots of colds)!But using some of the aro-
matherapy oils in inhalations
has proved a good way to
treat and prevent the worst of
the cold symptoms. Anywaythese few words are by way
of an introduction to the fol-
lowing event and if anyone
wants to talk to me about my
experience do feel free to
contact me -
Pauline Procter, Post Cottage,785368.
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OPEN DAY
WOODBRIDGE
COMPLEMENTARY
HEALING CENTRE
on May let, Sandy Lane Mar«
tlesham. 0394 388234.
PARISH CHURCH
SERVICES
All are welcome to share in the
village Church Services, and the
Christian life based at St.Martins.
In the month we have four types
of worship so there is a good
variety.
12th May - Ascension Day -
7.30pm Holy Communion - tradi-
tional and quiet.
15th May - 9.30 Morning Prayer- hymns and sermon: the order is
the one you’ve known since child—
hood, only the words are modern.
22nd May — WhitSunday or Pen-
tecost - 9.30 Family Communion.
hymns and sermon, the modem
book.
29th May — the 5th in the month —
no 9.30 service but a 10.30 Bene—
fice Service at \Vitnesham » see
Church Magazine.
5th June » 8am and 9.30
Michael Stone.
GET WELL SOON
Come on Dotsy - let’s see you
back hiding behind the
bushes in Amy’s garden after
your brief stay in hospital. I
enjoy your heckling!
MY FIRST FOUNTAIN
FO K NIGHT
’l' {aOn a Saturday in April "The
Blighters" made their debut
at the pub They are very
much in demand so Fred was
lucky to get them and so were
we to hear them! Their instru—
ments included amandolin as
well as the usual guitars.Their programme was very
varied with music from Bul-
garia, Romania, Greece,
France, Ireland and Scotland.
The rhythms were great, in—
spiring lots of accompani-ment from the audience and
even dancing from Eileen
We are often persuaded byour younger son, William, to
see "groups" and even thoughwe basically enjoy ourselves
the music is always too loud
for us so we try to sit as far
away as possible ,but not so
on Saturday. It was not loud
so we sat directly in front of
the band. Thus any of you
who are thinking that you
might ”pop in" can rest as-
sured you won‘t be deafened
Reviewing Reporter.
EVERY FRIDAY LN‘LESS AD-
VERTISED ON TH}: NOTICE-
BOARD OR EVENING STAR -
SING ALONG WITH MIKE
HURRELL AT THE PIANO
Al“) KEYBOARD AT THE
FOUNTAIN.
May 13th - Traditional Jazz
May 14th - Chris Steinhauer
Duo - folk, bluegrass, early
country blue.
May 27th - Mick and Mo
Weaver - folk and popular
1‘
firddenham Effler WV [994
music
May 28th - Return of The
Blighters - international folk
music as seen by our review-
ing reporter.
OUTRAGE
You will -may?— be enraged to
hear ofthis ditty thrown at your
editor by a "well meaning"reader the other day;
"Oh to have the gift to gie’ us
To see oursels as others see us".
Hiding under the cover of the
Tattler I will take the risk of
throwing the quote back at the
reader so she can look at her-
selfl
Thanks "Cold Toes"!
Editor.
HRTHDAYS
Happy birthday Sophia Sykes,
Polly Atkins, Sean & Jack
Stockdale.
l 7.
3ypgpulgg rggggsg - Fund; to village sigx;
Phgng 7S§272
Safari Supper
If you haven’t been before let me tell you about
this event. We had the first supper last year when
60 couples took part and had a really interesting
evening. Not only do you get the chance to meet
people but you also get to snoop round their
dining rooms and sample their cooking! What
do you pay for this? Well five pounds and the
chance that they see your dining room and taste
your burnt offering” The evening starts at
7.30pm when you will have been told where to
go for your first course. After that the evening
is full of surprises: you find out the site for your
next course as the evening proceeds unless you
are to provide it yourself, in which case the
surprise is who is coming round to my house?
If you are providing a course it will be for about
6-8 people and you are given a budget per
person. Remember to take a torch, comfortable
shoes. and a brolly. Also you are asked to
provide your own drink. We all meet in one
place at the end of the evening for coffee. Look
forward to seeing your house soonll
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Tuddenham Littler My I994
Parish Council Meeting.
his was a combined
A.G.M. and parish meet-
ing with a welcome, large audi-
ence. We started with a talk
from Trevor Gibson. the Asst.
Director for Environmental
Services on the subject of recy-
cling. The main message
seemed to be that we are al-
ready recycling 9% of our re-
fuse with atarget of 25% by the
year 2000, At the A.G.M. we
had areport from our departingChairman. He noted the strong
community spirit in the villageover the last year and the way
newcomers have been wel-
comed, Long may it continue!
As a Council clerk and a vil-
lager I would like to take this
opportunity to thank Noel Peck
for his time, energy and direc-
tion. His time in office has been
a good one for Tuddenham and
I hope he recognises our grati-tude. Our thanks also to BerylPeck who lent him to us for the
last three years.
We now have two new council—
lors, Mrs. Joan Bloomfield and
Dr. Frank Wells. Welcome Also a
new chairman in Mr. Malcolm
Rees who lives in The Paddocks
and a new vice chairman. Mr. Bill
Pipe. As Clerk I presented the
financial report for the last year.
I am not good at maths but ac»
cording to my calculations we
now have £1740 in the bank with
£1890 in the village sign account.
There were lots of other numbers
which I have available if you
would like u) see them.
Inspector Cook and P.C.Warne
were at the meeting and spoke of
the strong contribution our neigh-bourhood watch scheme has
given They welcome any help
they can get.
At the parish meeting it was de»
cided to provide salt/ sand bins at
the following locations; bottom of
Church Hill, Keightley Way,
Clopton Road and on double bend
out to Ipswich. At 66 pounds each
these are expensive but more eye
pleasing than a pile of sand with
dog mess on the top! Your Tattler
has offered to sponsor one bin.
Are any other groups inter»
ested??? We still seek a paid vol-
unteer to cut back lane so pleasecontact me on 785588 if you are
interested. The Bus Stop and
Fynn Lane parking problemswere discussed and you can al-
ready see the outcome in the Vil~
lage Policing article. We continue
to work on your behalf.,,. It was
decided not to enter the \. illage of
the year competition his year so
as to rest the workers. Village
sign; a site meeting is :o be held
for the councillors on May ZOth
when the final details can be de~
cided ready for planning ap-
proval. Mrs. Moore‘s coloured
draft met with universal approvalat the meeting. Please come to my
house if you would like to see it.
Helicopter noise was discussed -
have you been bothered by the low
flying helicopters. sometimes
passing as late as llpm? I have
just received a reply to my letter
to Wattisham following the meet»
ing which fails to admit guilt but
agrees that this should not occur.
I await signs of improvement.....
The meeting closed with a feelingthat the year had brought much
advance in Tuddenharn and with
expectation of what Malcolm
might achieve. I have mentioned
this because Malcolm prints the
Tattler in his spare time!
I] We would like to come to the Safari Supper and will be bringing a party of ............ people.
I/ We would be delighted to provide one of the courses .......yes / no ,
Please note the following special dietary needs for our party.........
Return this slip to Monica Pipe at Poplar Farm, or loan Bloomfield at Briclcfields, or phone 785272 a. sap.
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