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EXTON VILLAGE
News letter 137
JULY 2015
VILLAGERS FOR EXTON CHURCH
OPEN MEETING
Tuesday, 11th
August 2015
In the Village Hall
At 7.30 pm
To discuss funding Church projects and future plans - Please attend and give your views – monies are raised by many non churchgoers as well as regular worshippers at St Peter & St Paul,
Exton.
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Exton Produce and Craft Show 2015
The full schedule for entries was published in the June edition of the Exton Village Newsletter; you can find it on the village website: www.exton.org. If you were lucky enough to win a trophy in last year’s show, please return it by Friday, July17th to Julie Garner, 10, Blacksmith’s Lane. This year’s show is on Sunday 9th August in the Village Hall and we hope you will take part- the range and standard of entries is always a great tribute to the talent of Exton villagers.
Gardens Competitions.
July 20th. - Hanging Baskets and Containers Entry forms in June’s newsletter. Please enter if you have not already
done so!....Jane Ward
PRODUCE SHOW GARDENS COMPETITIONS A big thank you to all keen Exton gardeners who have entered their gardens in the Flower and Vegetable garden competitions this year. Judging of the gardens has now taken place and the results will be announced at the Show on Sunday, August 9th., where a power point presentation of pictures of the gardens will be playing all afternoon.
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Would anyone in the village be kind enough to lend us a single bed please??? We are having 2 ladies from Canada visit us from August 9th to August 13th. We have a double bed in our bedroom but would like to put in a second single bed so they have a bed each. If you can help us then please contact us on 01572 813573 or email garnerjohn9@ btinternet.com Many thanks John and Julie Garner 10 Blacksmiths Lane Exton
PROBLEMS? WASPS OR OTHER PESTS? FOR PROFESSIONAL HELP CALL ZIGGY 01572 812801
VISTA [SEE PAGE 5] ARE VISITING EXTON
WEDNESDAY 29TH JULY 2015 10 AM – 2 PM VILLAGE HALL CAR PARK, THE GREEN,
EXTON, LE15 8BY
HATHA YOGA in the Village Hall.....
Monday 6.30pm-7.45pm
suitable for all. £7.50 per class. Please bring mat
Contact: 07951 288801/ Laura Goodliffe.
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Items for SEPTEMBER NEWS LETTER –
[Please note there is no August edition]
by email – preferred: [email protected] or by hand to 20 Stamford Road, Exton LE15 8AZ
by 26th
August 2015
To see newsletter in colour please go to village website www.exton.org - Webmaster – Paul Taylor – see past copies and much other information about
the village, thanks to Paul for the time spent in keeping the site up to date.
Grateful thanks to the school for
printing the newsletter
COFFEE MORNING
At
Ann and Mick Bell’s Saturday 19th September
Bring and Buy
All Welcome
From 10.30 am
[For RutlandinRutland was launched in June 2014 at the Rutland County Show as a fundraising group for Rutland Citizens Advice, it raises funds for the Rutland Wellbeing Partnership – based at the Citizens Advice Bureau [CAB] in Oakham offering free, confidential and impartial advice to local people.]
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In case you haven't yet heard, Extonbury 2015 is very much on and will be held as always in the Fox & Hounds paddock on Saturday 18 July. As last year we'll be kicking off early, opening the gates at 12.00 noon and then with live music on the hour every hour from 1pm through to 10pm, closing at 11.30. It's amazing the musical talent we have in our area and this year we again have ten quite different but hugely accomplished bands, ranging from impassioned acoustic through the blues, pop and rock to closing the festival with a soul / funk extravaganza. Alongside the music we have our biggest ever craft stall line up, and we'll be holding the usual raffle and running auction for some fabulous prizes including a racing catamaran experience on Rutland Water, a Bose sound system, a Dennis The Menace & Gnasher ukelele and many high quality food and wine prizes. You're welcome to bring your own food and drink but if you prefer to travel light we'll have a great bar and barbecue provided by Rochelle at the pub. This year ALL our fundraising will be staying in the community and we will be directing all our net proceeds to the Exton Pensioners Christmas Fund, PAGE and the proposed refurbishment of the village hall, where we hope to secure additional funding from the Lottery to allow us to remove the old dark wall panelling, install new loos & lighting & at long last bring the hall into a truly 21st century condition for the benefit of the 6000 plus visitors we get each year from Exton, Rutland and beyond. We hope you'll all come and enjoy a great day of varied music in beautiful surroundings, all for really good causes. Tickets are only £8 per person in advance, £10 on the gate, children under 12 free. For more information and to order your tickets visit www.extonbury.com.
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CHARITY FUNDRAISER
LICENSED BAR - LIVE MUSIC!
On Friday 3rd July we will be holding a charity fundraising event in the Village Hall in aid of Rainbow Children's Hospice. Exton's own Leanne
Tomblin (or Dawson before she married Duncan!) is attempting to beat her 2014 second place in the Miss Rutland contest. The contest has many different challenges, the most important of which is to raise the highest possible amount for the Loughborough Hospice, which provides care and support for children with life-limiting problems and their families from our area. The fundraiser is open to all, doors open at 7.30pm. Entry is free although we will welcome donations on the door and throughout the night. There will be a licensed bar, all profits from which will be donated to the Hospice. We will have a raffle and live music from The Extones who have kindly agreed at short notice. Please support this worthwhile cause & help Leanne to win in 2015! For more information about the Hospice visit http://www.rainbows.co.uk/ and for more information about the event call Debbie on 07854 491335
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SUE RYDER THORPE HALL PETERBOROUGH
HOSPICE
Sincerest thanks to all who visited and supported Fairview ~Open garden on Sunday June 7th. Fortunately the sun shone and a profit of over £420 was made to support the ongoing appeal to raise £6,000,000, for the new hospice, now almost complete and expecting patient entry by the end of July. My thanks to all.
Marian Foers
VILLAGERS FOR EXTON CHURCH
Our thanks go to Marian Foers who masterminded a visit by Peterborough Historical Society to Exton Parish Church and village on the evening of 17th June. This started at the Church with a talk on the monuments and banners in which there was much interest. After a comfort stop at the Village Hall, the group divided into 2 parties guided round the village by Ann Bell
VILLAGE BUNTING: Remember
after Exton Day Jo suggested we try and get some village bunting for our fun events? – Linda Jones has volunteered to use her overlocking machine; Jo has set the ball rolling with a first contribution of material, so we are ready to roll. A winter occupation perhaps for some? The template for the job is shown – so start snipping with those scissors!! Take the cut outs to either me [West Chantry, 20 Stamford Road] or Linda [Church Farm, Oakham Road] and we are on a roll!! Of course if anyone else wants to machine too – the better it will be!! Absolutely any colour patterned or plain – any old dresses, curtains, shirts, the more colourful the better…….Ed.
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and Annie Lea, returning to the hall for an excellent supper provided by Marian and served by her helpers, Jane McKinny and Bernadette Wallace. This raised £75 net of all costs for our funds plus substantial extra donations left at church: it was voted an outstanding evening by our visitors.
Marian is happy to organize further similar events and asks whether others with an interest in village history and personalities would like to volunteer to take parties round. Please call her on 813134 to discuss this.
LAST MINUTE NEWS!
£1,000 DONATION is on its way to VFEC.
Viscount Harry Campden has requested a fee from a company for filming in Exton park without permission. Thank you so much Harry, this is very generous!
ST PETER & ST PAUL’S Services
July
12th 11.15am Sung Matins (Cathy Dyson)
26th
11.15am Holy Communion (Rev Brian Nichols)
August
9th
11.15am Sung Matins
23rd
. 11.15am Holy Communion
30th
10.30am Benefice Service at Clipsham
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Morning Prayer will be said every Wednesday at 9.15am in the church.
Everyone is very welcome to this quiet half-hour. There is a box for your
prayer requests (named people or anonymous) on the table by the visitors’
book.
The Rutland History Society has donated some back copies of The Rutland
Record which contain articles pertaining to Exton. If anyone is interested in
buying any of them, I still have some left and the cost is £2 with the proceeds
going to church funds. The four editions contain articles on Exton and the Noel
Family; The Haringtons of Exton; The Restoration of Exton Church; The
Churchyard at Exton, Some unusual and unexpected features.
Thank you again to Paul and Ronnie who are looking after the churchyard to
such a high standard. Their work is much appreciated and is often commented
on. ………… Sally Miller
THANK YOU. I would like to thank all the many people in the village
who sent cards and letters and who brought flowers to cheer me
after Ed’s death. I don’t know how I would have coped without your
support. On July 24th at 12pm there will be a service in Ed’s memory
in Exton Church . Everyone is welcome to attend and to join me,
Andrew and Jo afterwards for friendship and food in either the
Village Hall or the new Fox and Hounds……………………Sally
ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY – Holy Mass
Sundays at 9 am
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Thanks to John McQuaid for the piece below:
Copied from; the Melton Times, Friday, Oct. 20th 1893)
CHARGE AGAINST A POLICE SERGEANT.
RIDING A BICYCLE WITHOUT A LAMP.
At the Oakham Petty Sessions on Monday, P.s. Cross, stationed at Empingham was charged with riding a bicycle without a light on the highway between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, to wit at 25 minutes past seven o'clock on the night of the 13th Sept., at Ketton. - Mr. Atter prosecuted, and defendant pleaded not guilty.
JAMES CHARLESWORTH, an ex-police constable, said he was at present working in the stone quarries at Ketton, and had previously been in the Rutland Police Force for four years. The previous Wednesday evening he was in his house at 7.25 when he heard a noise outside, and went to see what the disturbance was about. Before he went out he noticed the time by the kitchen clock, which was always kept by station time. When he got outside, he saw the sergeant coming along the road on a bicycle. Wm. Savage was by his side, and he heard him say to Cross "I will not let you ride any further without a light." The time for lighting lamps that night was 7.18. Defendant got off his machine just in front of witness's window, and Savage stood in front of the bicycle. Cross afterwards proceeded with the bicycle, the lamp still being not lit. - Cross-examined by DEFENDANT: When he was in the Rutland Police Force defendant reported him, and he resigned. The reason he looked at his clock before he came out was because he had to get a letter off by the eight o'clock post. He could hear some high words in front of Mrs. Clift's house. Savage
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stopped the machine by standing in front of it, but did not cause defendant to fall. He always compared his clock with that of Chas. Green, the signalman. He saw defendant go to one or two men who were standing by, and ask them to take notice of what was going on. Defendant did not ride the machine after he got past witness's window, but pushed it. He did not hear defendant tell Savage that it was not time to light up. - A youth named HARRY GREEN stated that his father was a signalman in the service of the Midland Railway Company. He was upstairs dressing when he heard a disturbance, and ran down to see what was the matter. He looked at the clock as he left the room. He never reckoned to leave the house without looking at the clock. It was 7.25. He was particular as to the time, because he had to meet the eight o'clock train. Cross examined: He did not know whether his parents were on intimate terms or at variance with the defendant when he lived at Ketton. Defendant had no light on his machine. He looked where the lamp ought to be, but could not say whether there was a lamp. Their clock was adjusted at six o'clock that evening. - By the CHAIRMAN: he was certain it was 7.25 to the minute - he might also say to the second.- DEFENDANT then addressed the bench, and drew attention to the relationship between himself and the two witnesses who had been examined for the prosecution. Chamberlain resigned the force because he reported him for neglect of duty, while as regarded Green he was always at variance with the youth's parents and declined to associate with them when he lived in Ketton. On the 13th Sept. he went to Ketton on his machine, on duty. He had been to Stamford in the afternoon, and whilst there he compared his watch with the Post Office time. When he arrived at Ketton he was met by Savage, who was under the influence of drink. Savage got in front of his machine, and refused to let him proceed without a light, although it was not time to light lamps. The man said to him "Who do you think you are. You would not associate with the like of me, when you lived at Ketton, and when you came into a public house you would not have a drink." Defendant afterwards went on to Mr. Stanyon's, and when he got there it was
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between 20 and 25 minutes past seven, the clock in the house exactly corresponding with his watch. - MR. STANYON was called for the defence, and said that on the evening mentioned he was sitting in the house watching the clock. He had an appointment at half past seven, and he always made a point of leaving at 25 minutes past when he went to keep it. When defendant came to his door, it was between 20 and 25 minutes past seven. He could not speak to the second as one of the witnesses had done. The distance from Chamberlain's house to his door was from 200 to 300 yards. He should say with the obstruction he met with, it would take the defendant quite ten minutes to get from Chamberlains house to his door. He heard the mob yelling outside about alight, and the scene was disgraceful. - Mrs. STANYON, wife of the last witness, corroborated, as did also a lad named Hastings. _ CHARLESWORTH, recalled, said it would not take more than three minutes to get to Mr. Stanyon's house. - The Bench decided to dismiss that case, no costs being allowed.
Following that morning of high drama at the Petty Sessions, it appears indeed
that a policeman's lot was definitely not a happy one. Henry Cross did not stay
in the Rutland Police Force long enough to get a decent pension, as within ten
years he was to be found pulling pints and acting as 'mine host', having the
licence at the Fox and Hounds Hotel in Exton. Later, whilst still running the
pub, he was to operate an apparently succesful business of coal merchant.
Young Joseph William Henry Cross, the couple's only child, seems to have
emigrated as a young man and visitors to the church of St Peter and St Paul at
Exton might be surprised to see amongst the artefacts displayed in the N.W.
corner of the nave, a handsome carved wood funeral bier (trolley). Of
curious interest is a brass plate attached to the bier which records the 'Death of
one Joseph William Henry Cross, aged 29, in Calgary, Canada, Oct 1911'
[Actually, Joseph's birth is registered at Stamford in the second quarter of 1889
, which would make him 22? ] He was interred in Exton churchyard in June
1912. This information is recorded by Tudor Barlow on the 'Flickr' website,
who also adds the following note:
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"I don't know the full details but it would have been extremely difficult to repatriate a body in those days so perhaps it was his ashes that were returned. The bier was given by his parents for the exclusive use of the Parish of Exton. I expect the locals were dying to use it!"
Henry died at the age of 59 in 1920 and Eliza Ann lived to the grand age
of 89, dying in the Spring of 1952.
[it makes you realize what was considered important in those days
compared to the crime stories of the present era! [Ed] ------------------
HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS
EVERYONE
Reminder next Newsletter in September –
contributions by 26th August
