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éTuddenham Tattler May 1994 -J Issue No 18 We have 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

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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

Page 3

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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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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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.

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NeighbourhoodWatch.

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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'.‘

Page 5

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-

Page 6

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

continued on page 7 .....

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

Page 7

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.

Page 8

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

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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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