Winstred Hundred Parish Council

With a Jubilee slant this year's Peldon Festival runs from 1st to 3rd June with a range of entertainments and activities for the whole family to enjoy.  Starting Friday evening with The Shantymen from Mersea entertaining in the Peldon Plough the Festival moves on to a traditional Fayre on Saturday.  The Fayre provides a range of fun activities as well as refreshments a beer tent and Jubilee cream teas.  More Jubilee cream teas on the Sunday as Gardens are opened for viewing around the village with the festival rounding off Sunday evening with The Medlars and No Strings Attached performing in the Church.

Wigborough Traditional Meats occasional newsletter for early May has just been posted on their website and tells tales of chickens contemplating the advantages of duck-hood, lambs happy to frolic in the rain contrasting with those choosing to sty in shelter as well as all the multitudinous minutiae that make up farm life at Garr House Farm when facing the wettest April since we can't recall when!

With vocal support from members of Quire (The Colchester World Music Community Choir), Bill Tamblyn celebrates the work of local music historian, Chris Turner, revealing the wealth of music sung in West Galleries in our area from the 18th century onwards.

Come and join in a rumbustious song or two on Wednesday 16th May at 7:30pm in St Mary's Church, Peldon! Tickets £8

This is NOT about Anglican choirs as we know them today. But interestingly enough, the story does reflect the antagonism between choir and clergy that goes way, way back into our folk history. Nothing new here!

Professor Bill Tamblyn begins with the mystery: What ever happened to the West Gallery at Peldon? All the evidence was cleared away when it was pulled down in the mid 19th century.. or was it?

Was there a West Gallery Quire of rustics who sang loudly from the gallery and ‘led’ the singing? If so, what did they sing? Can we sing it too?

Building on scraps of information from Peldon, and records from other parishes round the country, Bill creates a musical picture of a lively, rumbustious and irascible bunch who created a whole new form of music-making that was to liven up services and, as is still true to day in the North of England, liven up pub singing at Christmas.

Bill brings with him members of Quire – The Colchester World Music Community Choir to help us enter in to the spirit of the times. You will go out with a lively spring in your step and a song in your heart such that you will ask “why cant we sing like that in church these days?

At our April meeting on the 24^th, we welcomed back Barry Kaufmann-Wright to tell us all about working with Gerald Durrell.  Barry has been a naturalist all his life and had the good fortune to work with Mr. Durrell at Jersey Zoo during 1964-1971.  He told us all about the breeding programmes that he had been involved with at the Zoo together with showing us a selection of some of his 64,000 slides.  We are losing 10,000 species a year due to extinction.  He also relayed some stories about being bitten on the head by a lemur and having to have 75 stitches only for these to be unpicked in a “grooming session” by one of his favourite chimps.  Mr. Durrell died in 1998 but his legacy lives on.

Our next meeting is on 22^nd May when Jane Malyon returns with “Confessions of a Mass Caterer”.  Details of all our meetings and speakers can be found on the diary on the home page of the Winstred 100 website.

Membership is currently full, but visitors are very welcome at a cost of £3.50.

If you would like any further information about P.A.W.S. please ring any of us on the following numbers. Alice 01206 735510, Jane 01206 735004 or Julia 01206 735053.

 

Alice

Working under a Parish Council initative together with the manufacturer, Littlethorpe, who kindly provided the timber, and a grant for the labour from Essex County Council, our local handyman, Terry Simmons, was pleased to announce completion of the enhancements to the bus shelter at the Salcott crossroads. 

The shelter is made from quality hardwood and since Littlethorpe bus shelters are expected to last for up to 50 years we hope it will be providing a pleasant, user-friendly and weatherproof facility for many years to come.

At our recent March AGM/St. Trinians evening on the 27^th March 44 members came along to select the new President- Sheila Gray. Sheila replaces Gen Fretwell as President and Pam Foakes will be her Vice-President for the forthcoming year.  9 of the existing committee were re-elected with Sue Copeland standing down having served many years on the W.I. committee before forming part of the new committee for P.A.W.S. Both were presented with flowers to thank them for all their hard work.

It was a very enjoyable evening with the majority of the members getting into the spirit of the evening by dressing up in “school attire” and we all tucked into some excellent Fish and Chips. We rounded the evening off with a quiz based on “Who Did What” which were fun questions supplied by the committee for the members to guess who did what.

Our next meeting is on 24^th April and we will be having Mr. Kaufmann-Wright back to tell us all about working with Gerald Durrell. Details of all our meetings and speakers can be found on the diary on the home page of the Winstred 100 website.

Membership is currently full, but visitors are very welcome at a cost of £3.50. If you would like any further information about P.A.W.S. please ring any of us on the following numbers. Alice 01206 735510, Jane 01206 735004 or Julia 01206 735053.

Peldon   Great Wigborough   Little Wigborough   Salcott   Virley

A meeting of Winstred Hundred Parish Council will be held at Salcott Village Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday 8^th May 2012 which will be:

The Annual Parish Assembly

Electors and Organisations are invited and can contribute to this meeting.

Addresses from any of the following may take place: County Councillors, Borough Councillors, Police and any other body or organisation.

Parish Council AGM

Election of Chairman, Vice Chairman, Financial and Responsible Officer, co-option or resignation of Parish Councillors and signing of all necessary declarations.

Apologies for absence:

Minutes of the last meeting

Chairman’s Report and Financial Report and approval for external audit

Public-Have Your Say:

Declarations of Interest:

Items for Discussion

1. Police

• Report of crimes in our villages
• Decision required: Are there any crimes we should report?

2. CBC Zone Warden Presentation

• Carys Handley explains their aims

3. Playgrounds

• Reports on both play areas and fields including Annual Inspection Report findings and update on work necessary for delivery of rubber clippings for Salcott

4. Gold Edition Magazine

• Recap on details: cover, inclusions, etc

5. Abbotts Hall/Essex Wildlife Trust

• Report from meeting attended

6. Broadband update

• Any new developments

7. Churchyards Donations

• Decision required: Should we make the same donations this year as usual?

8. Salcott Jubilee Celebrations

• Decision required: Following their request should we give them any money for this event?

9. Actions and Reminders List update

Correspondence:

• ECC Making the Links May 2012
• EALC County Update April 2012 and courses

Planning Applications:

120749 Proposal: Certificate of Lawfulness fro existing use of outbuilding as residential and alterations at Sampson Wick, Wigborough Road, Peldon

Appeal Decision:

APP/A1530/D/12/2170062 – The appeal against the decision of Colchester Borough Council to refuse this application is dismissed.  Ref: 111662 Proposal: Extension to dwelling to provide additional accommodation at Fourways, Barnhall Road, Salcott

Finances:

101659 – R S Pullen – clerk’s fee for May                                                                £353.53

101660 – Anglia Inspection Services Ltd                                                                  £192.00

The next meeting will be on Tues 12^th June 2012 at 7.30pm at Peldon Village Hall