May 2012 - Village Voices

Village Voices 

The local magazine for Hollesley, Boyton, Capel and Shingle Street 

30p where sold 

May 2012

May Diary 

REGULAR EVENTS 

CONTACT 

Monday 7.30pm Yoga Hollesley Village Hall Elly Lloyd 412053 

Monday 1.30pm Mothers’ Union Bawdsey V. Hall Pat Fleetwood 410409 

Tuesday 2pm Welcome Club Marian Collins 411262 

Tuesday Hollesley Bay Day Centre Audrey Shelcott 411776 

Tuesday Mobile Library 

Tuesday 10 – 11am Tai chi Hollesley Village Hall Ali Crawford 411717 

Tuesday 7 – 8 pm Tai Chi & Qi Gong HollesleyV.H. Roy Wadland 411755 

Wednesday 7 – 8pm Zumba Sutton Memorial Hall Henry Tapp 

Wednesday 8pm Badminton Chris Andrews 411126 

Wednesday 6 – 8pm The Place Hollesley Village Hall 

Thursday Judo Club Julie Jolliffe 410483 

Thursday 2-3pm Art Classes Butley Village Hall Mary 450077 

Thursday 8.45 – 9.45am Mobile Police Station 

Friday 7 – 8 pm Zumba Butley Village Hall Henry Tapp 

Friday 

11am Coffee morning Shepherd & Dog 

Sunday 10 – 11am Shape Up Hollesley V.H. B. Williams 07956 622330 

Sunday Table tennis 4 -5pm Boyton V. Hall Andrew Cassey 411720 

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 

Saturday 5th Boyton Coffee morning 10.30 – 12 

Saturday 5th 

Boyton Herb garden work party 10.30 am 

Saturday 5th 

WI plant and cake sale 10.30 am Shottisham Village Hall 

Thursday 10th 

Copy date June Village Voices 

Thursday 10th 

Hollesley Players Post Horn Gallop 

Friday 11th 


Saturday 12th 


Saturday 12th 

Sutton Ladies Car Boot sale 10am – 1pm 

Thursday 17th 

Womens Institute 7pm Fashion Show open meeting 

Gina Forsyth 411727 

Saturday 19th 

RDA Open Day 11am – 3pm 

Saturday 19th 

‘Boyton Inn’ at Boyton Village hall 7 – 10pm 

Wednesday 23rd Boyton Parish Council AGM 7.30pm 

Saturday 26th Community group 10am Boyton. Papever. 411720 

Tuesday 29th 

Jubilee Concert Hollesley Village Hall 6.30pm 

Thursday 31st Last orders for bulk oil purchase scheme Ali 411717 

Thursday 31st May Youth Participation in local councils. Hollesley V.H. 7 – 9pm 

Warning Outbreak of Strangles at Poplar Park. 

This is a very contagious disease which is distressing to horses. 

Please do not touch any horse in the village except your own 

Page 2 May 2012 

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From the Editor 

Dear friends, 

We must all now be quite used to the new 

junction at Bromeswell, and it certainly improves 

visibility and safety. But how many drivers are 

there who can actually study this memorial as 

they slowly negotiate the corner? The brass 

plaque reads: ‘This plaque commemorates the late 

Rosie Clarke, County Councillor for this area 

between May 2005 and December 2010 who 

worked hard to bring about the improved layout 

of this junction’. We remember Rosie with 

gratitude. 

Plans for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 

celebrations are now well underway in both 

Hollesley and Boyton as communities come 

together. There will be lots to see, do and join (p.9, 29) 

Memorial to Rosie Clarke beside 

the road 

Helen Macleod 

Woodbridge Tide Mill is open again. Read about its history and the work which has been 

undertaken to restore it to a full working mill once again. (p.4) 

Managing our churchyards for wildlife has never been more important than it is today. 

Read about the plans for Hollesley and Boyton churchyards. Also, please make your 

garden a haven of peace teeming with birds, butterflies, bees and wild flowers (p.10) 

Helen Macleod 

(Editor) 

IN THIS MAY ISSUE 

Mills Green p.17 

CONTACT US 

Editorial copy Helen Macleod, Colyton, 

The Street, Hollesley, 

Past Times map p.21 

IP12 3QU Tel 411232 

Hollesley WI p.23 

editor@villagevoices.org.uk 

Advertising Rob Claxton 

Hollesley Players p.25 

4, Willoughby Rise, Hollesley 

The Place, Just42 p.32 

IP12 3QN Tel. 410231 

ads@villagevoices.org.uk 

Cover photo: King cups beside the pond by Helen Macleod 

Please note that the opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily 

reflect the views or policies of the editorial team 

www.villagevoices.org.uk 

May 2012 page 3

Contributed 

Woodbridge Tide Mill 

Tides provide a predictable and 

sustainable source of green 

energy, and tide mills exploit 

this resource. The incoming 

tide fills the mill pond through 

a pipe in the bank. As the tide 

falls, the water is trapped in the 

pond by the weight of the 

water closing a flap at the pond 

end of the pipe. When the river 

water level has fallen below 

the bottom of the waterwheel a 

sluice is opened and the force 

of the flowing pond water turns 

the waterwheel. In the original 

Tide Mill the the pond was 

filled through mitre gates in the 

Woodbridge Tide Mill undergoing extensive renovation 

in 2011 

river bank. The original tide pond of 3 hectares (7.5 acres) contained more than enough 

water for four hours of milling 

twice a day, spanning low tide, 

with the period of milling 

being limited by the water 

levels in the river rather than 

water supply. That pond was 

sold off in the 1960s to form 

the adjacent marina. The 

present small, demonstration 

pond (Wyllie’s Pool) was 

constructed in 1983 and allows 

about one hour of wheel 

turning. 

The earliest record of a tide 

mill on this site by the River 

Deben is in 1170. It was 

The new waterwheel made of English oak. 

owned by the Augustinian Priors for around 350 years until Henry VIII confiscated it, and 

for the next 28 years it was in royal ownership. Elizabeth I sold it to Thomas Seckford, 

whose family owned it for over 100 years, followed by several private owners. In 1793 

the present mill was built on the site of earlier ones. By the 1950s it had become the last 

working tide mill in the country, and it finally closed in 1957 when the main shaft broke. 

The building was saved in 1968 by Mrs. Jean Gardner, who bought the mill and the 

granary at auction and gave it to the town of Woodbridge. Woodbridge Tide Mill Trust 

was set up to administer the Mill for Woodbridge Town Council: an appeal raised funds 

to restore the mill and it re-opened to the public in 1973. 

Contributed 



The mill was closed again in 2011 for further protection from tidal erosion and an 

extensive restoration, including a new waterwheel made of English oak. There will be 

much improved viewing of the wheel through the new wheelhouse and from a new 

walkway round the river side of the mill. The mill re-opened Spring 2012 as a fully 

working tide mill, as well as a fascinating and remarkable living example of our industrial 

and cultural heritage with new interactive models and displays. This latest restoration is 

funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as well as generous grants from many local 

authorities, organisations and individuals. 

Contributed 

Woodbridge Tide Mill floodlit and reflected in the moonlight. 

The Friends of Woodbridge Tide Mill were re-formed in 2010 and will help secure the 

mill’s future by volunteering to help with visitors and on our special milling days, as well 

as fundraising and assisting with administration. Anyone wishing to join the Friends 

should contact Terina Booker, Administrative Officer of Woodbridge Tide Mill Trust: 

01728 746959 terina.booker@btinternet.com Terina Booker 


May 2012 Page 5

Contributed 

From our Team Vicar 

On Easter Sunday 

morning two groups of 

people watched the sun 

rise on the shore at 

Shingle Street, 

celebrating the promise 

of new life. We didn’t 

see much of the sun 

but we did enjoy tea 

and hot cross buns 

afterwards. Some of us 

were reminded of how 

after his resurrection 

Jesus prepared breakfast for his disciples on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. It all 

sounded so ordinary, so everyday. And yet it is the kind of moment that stands out in a 

lifetime - some combination of daybreak in a beautiful place, the gentle lapping of waves, 

the sound of bird song, the company of friends, and the smell of barbecued freshly caught 

fish – or hot cross buns - for breakfast. 

It is the kind of escape to beauty that many people look for in holidays, leaving behind 

busyness, work, lists and obligations. But for Jesus’ disciples, battered by all that had 

happened in noisy, crowded Jerusalem, still hardly believing that he had risen from the 

dead, it must have been quite a moment. Jesus spent those final days of his physical 

presence on earth, making sure that they really understood that he had risen from the 

dead. Reassured, they would all remember this morning's breakfast and all the other 

meetings when they faced persecution and their own, possibly violent, deaths. They knew 

they would live for ever with him. This breakfast by the lake brings us reassurance too. 

Jesus has conquered death - and he cooks for them. 

Few of us welcome change, moving on from what is familiar and offers security. We 

don’t know what life beyond our physical death will be like. On dark nights of doubt this 

lakeside reunion of Jesus with his disciples reassures us that however and whenever we 

die, we will be transformed, not into something strange, but into a familiar recognisable 

individual, in a familiar renewed and recreated earth. 

The disciples went back to Jerusalem fully reassured, were filled with the Holy Spirit, and 

then became his witnesses – all over the world. I hope that you too are reassured and 

strengthened this Eastertide, which continues to the end of this month when we celebrate 

the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Whitsun) on 27th May. You might like to join 

us for our ‘Christianity Explored’ meeting on Sunday 20th May at Hollesley Church when 

we will be discussing ‘Why did Jesus rise?’ 9.30 coffee & pastries followed at 10am by a 

short DVD presentation and informal discussion. 

Wishing you every blessing 



When 

6 th May 

St Andrew’s 

Boyton 

8.00 Holy 

Communion 

All Saints’ 

Hollesley 

9.30 Holy 

Communion 

Other 

Villages 

11.00 Alderton 


11.00 Holy 

Communion 

9.30 Family 

Communion 

5.00 ’Sing to the 

Lord’ 

8.00 Alderton 

11.00 Bawdsey 

Boyton, 

Ramsholt 


Ascension Day 


7.30pm Benefice Service of Holy Communion 

at Shottisham 

Christianity Explored 

8.00 Alderton 

at All Saints, Hollesley - 

‘Resurrection - Why did Jesus rise?’ 

9.30 coffee & pastries for 10am 

6.30 Evensong 

24 th May 1.30pm Wedding 

27 th May Mar 

11.00 Morning 

Praise 

9.30 Holy 

Communion 

8.00 Alderton 

11.00 Bawdsey, 

Ramsholt 

WEEKDAY SERVICES 

Wednesday 

12noon Sutton – Holy Communion 

Thursday 

9am Boyton Church – Morning Prayer 

Friday 

8am Hollesley Church - Morning Prayer 

1st Thursday 

2.30pm Glebe House, Hollesley - Evensong 

3rd Thursday 

10.30am Glebe House, Hollesley - Holy 

Communion 

4th Thursday 

1.30pm Colyton, Hollesley - Prayer Group 

Church Contacts 

Team Vicar: 

Ruth Hatchett 01394 412052 

ruth.hatchett@yahoo.co.uk 

Hollesley Churchwardens: 

Fred Stentiford, 01394 411469 

Pat Shannon, 01394 411214 

Boyton Churchwardens: 

Malcolm Fleetwood, 01394 410409 

Isobel Lilley, 01394 411409 

Hollesley Tower Captain: 

Alan McBurnie 01394 411999 



Contributed 

Spring comes to our new garden 

Declan fiddling in the Heritage Garden 

Newly sown grass has burst into life in the 

Suffolk Punch Trust’s Heritage Garden, thanks 

to the showers and sunshine that were so 

welcome in April. The seed was sown by 

Declan Foy using a portable, hand-operated 

broadcast sowing machine called a fiddle. The 

antique device got its name from the rhythmic, 

side-to-side, fiddle-playing action of the sower 

striding across the soil. A top fiddler could 

broadcast grass or clover seed across two acres 

of land in one hour. 

Children from Kyson School have hand-sown 

spring wheat in a bed, under the protective 

gaze of a scarecrow. The wheat will be 

harvested late summer. We hope the 

Woodbridge tide mill will then grind it to flour 

for us, so children can make their own bread! 

Our Visitor Centre is now open until autumn. The café is run by Judith and Bill Vaudray 

from the Alderton shop, with Sarah in charge. Come in for a snack and a chat: you won’t 

pay the usual site entrance fee if you visit just the café. 

Margaret Wyllie 

From the registers 

Baptism 

12th Feb Berys Sally Darke, daughter of Matthew & Nancy, at All Saints, Hollesley 

Wedding 

21st Apr Tim Lines & Sarah Matthews, at St Andrew’s Alderton 

Funerals 

12th Jan Gladys Cornwell of Glebe House, at Seven Hills Crematorium 

18th Jan Allan Hall of Boyton, at Seven Hills Crematorium 

24th Jan Michael Day of Boyton, at Seven Hills Crematorium 

30th Mar John Clarke of Hollesley, at Seven Hills Crematorium 

16th Apr John Archer, formerly of Hollesley, at All Saints, Hollesley 

Enquiries about Baptism, Confirmation and Weddings are always welcome and are 

without obligation. We hope to arrange a service of Confirmation at All Saints, Hollesley 

later in the year or very early in 2013. Please also do not hesitate to contact Rev’d Ruth 

at any time should you wish to discuss options for funeral arrangements. 



Programme for Hollesley 

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 

Tuesday 29 th May Concert 6.30pm in Hollesley Village Hall. 

• Hollesley Primary schoolchildren will sing and play trumpets. 

• WI entertains with Choir and Drama. 

• Refreshments. Raffle 

Donations welcome towards Jubilee funds. 

Saturday 2 nd June Live music evening at the pub 

on a Royal theme 

Sunday 3 rd June in Hollesley Church 

• 11a.m. Jubilee Praise 

• 12.30pm Big Jubilee lunch. Adults £4, children free. 

• Tickets from Ruth 412052 or Di 411079. Any profit to Jubilee funds 

• Big TV screen showing London celebrations and pageant with the Queen in the 

barge on the Thames. 

Everyone is welcome to come to any or all of these events. 

Monday 4 th June 

Family Day on the school field. Parking will be limited, so walk or cycle if you can! 

• Games and children’s races, Tug of war. 

• Bring your own picnic. 

• Tea, coffee and squash provided. 

• Fancy Dress ‘Kings and Queens’ 

• Continue down to The Street for dancing 

Barbecue all day at the Pub. The Street closed from 2pm. 

• 5pm Danceasy for children to join in. 

• Belly Dancers. 

• Danceasy for adults/children to join in. 

Decorate the village 

With colourful 

bunting, 

especially 

The Street 

Buy your bunting 

from Hollesley 

Stores or Coltec. 

Any profit will go to 

the Jubilee Fund 

Free Hollesley Jubilee mugs will be given to every Hollesley child from 0 to 

11 with sponsorship from Hollesley Parish Council. Please use this tear-off slip and place 

it in the box at the Post Office. Anyone who has paid in advance will be reimbursed. 

................................................................................................................................................ 

Yes, I qualify for a Free Hollesley Jubilee mug. Please list all children in household 

Name and age of child up to 11 years 

Address 



Butterflies and gravestones 

One thousand years ago, Hollesley was a tiny haven on a marshfringed 

inlet of the sea. Its few inhabitants lived in a cluster of 

small homesteads and cottages around the church, and what 

we call Fox Hill and Church Farm. All Saints Church dates 

from the 15th century, but those early Hollesley people knew a 

far older church on the same site that was recorded by the Normans 

in their Domesday Survey of 1086. 

No village shop for the earliest residents! They were self-sufficient, 

and what they didn’t make, grow or barter they took from nature. They 

were surrounded by wild animals, birds, plants and edible fungi: 

wildlife in the 11th century was a daily fact of life - a natural 

bounty eagerly utilised by people at every opportunity. Sea kale 

from the beaches, parasol mushrooms from the woodlands, hares 

from the arable lands, duck eggs from the marshes, and much more. 

Without doubt, if your next meal in hard times depends upon knowing 

what is growing where; what birds or animals regularly turn up at certain 

Parasol 

mushroom 

times of the year, or which wild plant to use to get rid of your terrible bellyache, you 

become pretty competent in finding things to meet your needs. 

Frog 

Those people were resilient and resourceful – how 

else could a working man live to the age of 40? 

They lived with nature, and they needed its 

supply of food, fur, skins, eggs and meat. With 

wildlife on all sides around the hamlet, they had to 

fight it when their crops and gardens were threatened. 

Their churchyard, then as now, was a place of 

worship, for spiritual contemplation, for 

christenings, marriage, and for burial. It was a 

haven of human peace, special and set apart from 

their lives of toil. 

From a medieval landscape where a small population of people used wildlife to help them 

survive, we have reached a point where people shop at Hollesley Village Shopper, and are 

more caring for wildlife than at any time in our history. That wild birds, flowers, insects 

and animals are simultaneously at their lowest-ever ebb explains the rapid growth of the 

conservation organisations. In their jargon, we are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate, 

and we are all the poorer as a result. It’s the familiar pressures from modern farming 

methods, herbicides, an increasing population, pollution, and the demands on every 

village and town for more houses and roads. Austerity Suffolk will endure slashed funding 

for conservation budgets for years to come, whilst climate change is arguably seen as the 

greatest potential threat to wildlife and to us. 



Nowadays, nature conservation begins at home: superb TV such as Frozen Planet 

entrances us, but it is our local and garden wildlife that benefits from our concern, and 

that is proper. The private garden – some 15 million of them in the UK - has long been a 

vitally important haven for wildlife declining hand over fist in a hostile countryside. The 

gardens constitute a one million-acre national nature reserve. Suffolk’s churches are every 

bit as important to wildlife. We have an amazing 500 of them, and like gardens, they have 

escaped most of the environmental threats of the damaging 20th century. 

Age and continuity of care is everything, or very 

nearly so, in defining quality in wildlife habitat, 

and this is what separates the churchyard from 

the average private garden, no matter how many 

bird feeders, Buddleias and nest boxes. Old 

trees, old timbers, old brickwork, old 

headstones and old grassland combine with 

seclusion and quiet to make churchyards good 

for wildlife. These features – often 

unchanging in our lifetimes – offer the stability 

and continuity that many species need. Good 

examples include infinitely slow-growing lichens on 

an 18th century headstone; toadstools that appear just 

once every twenty years, flower-decked anthills in old 

grassland, the rooks cawing in their swaying treetop citadel, 

and yew trees that may be 600 years old. 

Goldcrest 

Churchyards often possess miniature versions of habitats that are 

increasingly scarce in the countryside, such as short, rabbitcropped 

acid grassland, or old walls and stonework where 

ferns, ivy-leaved toadflax and pellitory grow. Wildlife is 

opportunistic and will try to survive anywhere and 

everywhere, but in 21st century Suffolk people are the key. 

Local people, supported by the vicar or churchwarden, try to 

ensure there is a place for wildlife in the local churchyard. And 

it’s not simply a matter of putting away the mower for 

good, and letting nature run riot. The end result will be 

an unkempt and overgrown churchyard that will alienate 

parishioners and visitors alike, and be positively harmful to 

Painted lady 

much of the wildlife as well. Although not ideal, frequent low 

mowing is less damaging to wild plants than no mowing at 

all. Herbicides are deadly to wild flowers, but so are fertilizers, because they will enable 

coarse grasses, nettles and brambles to become dominant. If wildlife diversity is your aim, 

whether in your private garden or in your local churchyard, then leaving it to nature is not 

an option, because in the short term nature is as interested in the survival of the fittest as 

it is in diversity. And that can lead to docks, nettles, willowherbs and brambles. 



Every churchyard is unique. At St Andrews, Boyton and at All Saints, Hollesley we are 

pinpointing the best wildlife features, and will work to manage and enhance them, with 

advice from Suffolk Wildlife Trust. Patches of wild flowers and grasses will remain uncut 

until August, for bees, butterflies and other important pollinating 

insects, as well as providing food and cover for wood mice, voles 

and shrews – all food for owls. They will then be cut, with the 

cuttings being raked off and pitch-forked onto compost heaps. 

Scores of different species of wild flowers grow in our 

churchyards. Meadow saxifrage - a delicate white flower that 

is uncommon in the Sandlings – has long been known in St 

Andrew’s churchyard. Last year, the flowers and 

uncut grasses in All Saints churchyard attracted 

wall brown butterflies, which 

Wood mouse 

are in headlong 

decline in the UK. 

Laurie Forsyth 

A hawker dragonfly 

Hollesley Allotment and Garden Association 

At our last meeting Sonja Burrows from Martlesham gave us a very topical talk on Dry 

Gardening. As you can imagine from our situation in the beautiful but dry Sandlings, this 

was very popular. Questions came thick and fast after the talk and Sonja proved to be a 

real expert. Unfortunately the meeting ended there as the milk had been forgotten! We 

will double check next time. 

The next meeting will be the last for the season and is again a timely one, the subject 

being Hanging Baskets given by Pat Matheson. As usual the meeting will be in the 

Bowling Club clubhouse at 7.30pm. If it fills up like last time we may have to rethink the 

venue, but it is very pleasant there. 

Finally, we have a treat in store for May when we have been invited to look around the 

extensive gardens of Peter Scopes at Vale Farm. It will be at 2pm. on Saturday, May 12th. 

This does need booking, so if you would like to come please give Polly Tobin a ring at 

411737. There will be no charge. 

It is never too late to join us, and we will have our heavily discounted seed catalogues out 

soon. Also, members, if you have any ideas for speakers for next winter, do please let us 

know. This season’s have been very worthwhile. 

Jane Stearn 

May 2012 page 12 




Helen MacLeod 

Our trip to Boyton Hall Farm 

What do you know about farming? Last term we learnt all about it. Lots of exciting things 

happened from visits, trips and a tractor in the playground. Yes, you read right; a tractor 

in the playground - but we will not tell you about that just yet. There was also a visit from 

Billingsgate fish school but that’s another report still to come! 

On the 21st March, years 4, 5, 6 went to Boyton Hall Farm. The older ones cycled while 

year 4 went in cars. (The rest of the school went by coach the next day.) It was a great 

day and along the way we saw lots of sheep and overweight pigs. We also saw cows but 

not many. 

Once we arrived, we locked our 

bikes up and we met year 4 once 

again, sitting on some hay stacks 

used as benches along with a man 

called Roger and two other people 

doing work experience called Kirk 

and Ashleigh. They told us about the 

day ahead and then we got started. 

We all went on a trailer ride around 

the farm. First we went to a couple of 

fields. The fields all had names. We 

found out that they were growing 

winter barley. Then we went into 

another field of winter barley but 

With Roger Cosgrove in the barley field 

we could see there was a difference because one field had a disease. There was also a 

difference in the soil: one was all 

crumbly and one was like clay. 

We continued on the trailer and then 

stopped to feed the cows so 

Ashleigh and Kirk went off to get 

some hay. There was one mum and 

three calves but two of them weren’t 

hers she was just looking after them. 

She was called Garland and the 

three calves were Blackberry, Apple 

and Patch. They were really shy but 

Garland was friendly and following 

everyone who had some hay. 

Feeding Garland 

After lunch we were split into two 

groups to visit the animals. There 

were the chickens and there were the pigs. We learnt about both of their lifecycles. 

Helen MacLeod 



animals, Roger set us a task to explain a 

life cycle of either a chicken or a pig. 

Everyone did really a good job of 

explaining their presentation. 

School Photograph 

Our group saw the chickens first. There 

were loads and they were really cute. 

Roger let us hold them as long as we held 

their wings in otherwise they will flap in 

your face. There were lots of chickens but 

only one cockerel which was white. The 

chickens laid loads of eggs. We couldn’t 

tell which a chick egg was and which 

wasn’t. The chicken life cycle was longer 

than we thought. Afterwards we went to 

see some eggs in an incubator that looked 

like a fridge. 

Then we moved onto the pigs. There were 

grown up pigs, middle aged pigs and about 

13 piglets. We also found out they all had 

names. There was one male boar called 

Montgomery who likes a good scratch on 

the head. The piglets were very cute and 

we discovered that if we were quiet and put 

our hand through the railing they would 

come up and sniff us. It was ticklish in a 

way. We weren’t allowed to pick them up 

though. Once everyone finished visiting the 


Holding a chicken 

We had a ten minute break where we could 

do what we really liked. We could visit the 

chickens and pigs and also hold some of 

the new born chicks. 

Once break was over, Roger announced 

that on the next Monday, he would come 

to school and give us some of the eggs for 

us to watch hatch and grow. 

We got 12 eggs but only about half 

hatched before we had to return them at 

the end of term. We looked after the eggs 

for a week and also held the chicks and 

cleaned them out. As the eggs hatched we 

gave the chicks names. Their names are 

Holls, Jimbob, Bambi, Jack, Flopsy and 

Sutton FC. Unfortunately Flopsy was 

quite weak and couldn’t stand up but now 

he’s back at the farm and we hope that he 

gets better soon. 

So we had a really fun day at Boyton Hall 

Farm and now we know how easy it is to 

cycle there, hopefully Hollesley School 

will be able to visit again soon. Maybe you 

should visit it too! 

And what about the tractor and the visit 

from Billingsgate? You’ll have to wait for 

those reports to be in next month’s Village 

Voices or on our website. 

School Reporters; Abby Day and 

Shannon Williams. 

What lucky children you are to have such 

an exciting day on the farm, so near to 

Hollesley School. Thank you to Roger 

Cosgrove. (Editor) 




Swallows Close and Mills Green 

Bloor Homes feel that our petition has come too late for them to consider making 

changes to the street name of Swallows Close on the Bloor Homes site. 

Following consideration of the response from Bloor, the history of this matter, and 

discussions with the Cabinet Member for Resources, the District Council is not in a 

position to enforce any change to the road name. However, they would like to suggest a 

possible way forward: that the area of Public Open Space within the Bloor development 

be named 'Mills Green' in order for the name Mills to be utilised on this site and be 

forever linked to the site into the future. Bloor are in agreement with this proposal and 

they hope that the Parish Council and local residents will also accept this solution as a 

suitable way forward. The District Council will be happy to assist the Parish Council in 

sourcing suitable signage that can be erected on the site once the Public Open Space has 

been landscaped. 

Tracy King Business Support Manager 

Thank you to all 259 people who signed the petition! 

Whilst we will be disappointed that a change of street name was not possible, let us thank 

Suffolk Coastal District Council for making this alternative suggestion, which will ensure 

WJ Mills, the Councillor, the man and his business for fifty years are not forgotten in 

Hollesley. 

Update on Swallows Close 

Bloor told Village Voices that already two houses are occupied and we wish the new 

residents well as they settle in. A total of 10 houses are now sold, reserved or being 

exchanged, which is encouraging in these difficult times. 

No housing association has yet come forward to take on the 12 affordable houses, which 

are nevertheless being built. We can only hope that the situation improves soon. 

Helen Macleod 





From our Country Kitchen 

Asparagus 

We are fortunate to have lots of local asparagus and I have 

been using the following recipes from Sarah Raven’s 

Garden Cookbook where she pairs it with lemon. 

For both recipes, prepare the asparagus by breaking 

off the tough ends and then steam or boil them 

for approx 5 to 7 minutes depending on the 

thickness: they should still have some bite to 

them. 

Asparagus with Almonds 

(for 4 as a starter) 

Grated zest of 1 lemon and juice of 1/2 lemon 

2 lbs asparagus Plenty of toasted slivered almonds 

2 oz butter Salt to taste 

Prepare the asparagus as above, melt the butter and add the lemon juice. Drain the 

asparagus when cooked and divide between 4 warm plates. Pour over the lemon butter 

and scatter over the lemon zest, almonds and salt. 

Asparagus pasta with lemon. (for 4) 

8 oz asparagus Grated zest and juice of 1lemon 

10 oz penne Salt and pepper 

1 oz butter 1tbls finely chopped parsley 

100 ml double cream Grated Parmesan cheese 

Prepare the asparagus. Cook the pasta as directed on the packet. Cut the cooked 

asparagus into 3 inch pieces. Melt the butter in a pan, add the cream and heat gently until 

hot and then add the asparagus and lemon juice/zest. Take off the heat and leave for 5 

minutes for the flavours to blend. Drain the pasta when cooked. Carefully stir in the 

asparagus and lemon sauce. Season to taste and serve with the chopped parsley and 

grated Parmesan. 

Pauline Austerfield 

Holiday Dogs Group Walks 

The two walks for dogs and owners held in Felixstowe and Rendlesham recently raised 

£616 to help raise money and awareness of Seasonal Canine Illness for the Animal 

Health Trust who are undergoing investigations into the cause of this serious condition. 

Holiday Dogs will be organising another group walk soon which will be held at 

Kesgrave, location and date to be confirmed. Please visit www.holidaydogs.co.uk for 

more information or call Mary-Ann on 07840 871547. 



Contributed 

Your Letters – always pleased to hear from you 

I am currently researching my grandmother's first husband’s family who came from 

Hollesley. I have read with interest your Village Voices and have seen a number of 

photographs which feature Middleditch family members. 

My grandmother Hilda Atkinson married Sidney William Middleditch (b.1911) in 1940: 

son of William George 'Mid' and Violet Middleditch. He had three brothers - Lloyd (died 

1988), Bertie, Peter (died 1996) and one sister - May (died 1997.) Nan and Sid lived in 

Ilford, Essex and shortly after their marriage moved to Benfleet from Ilford. Sidney was 

called up for service in World War 2 and within weeks was killed in Libya on the 19th 

July 1941. He is buried in Benghazi Cemetery. 

Tracey and mother Pamela with the 

medals 

Nan spoke only briefly about Sidney and prior to 

her death I applied to see if his medals had ever 

been claimed. Sadly, but also fortunately for me, 

they had lain safely locked away for many years 

pending a claim on them from family members. 

The medals arrived within weeks of my request 

and I took them and those of my grandad's 

(Nan's 2nd husband) to the home where Nan was 

being cared for as she was in the final stages of 

senile dementia. I handed those medals to her, 

told her that they were Sid's and in a rare lucid 

moment she held them carefully and the only 

words she spoke were 'he was a nice man.' It 

was a very emotional moment for both myself 

and my mum, who is Hilda's eldest daughter. 

Just weeks later she passed away. 

A glass window in St.Mary's Church, Benfleet 

commemorates Sidney and a cenotaph in Benfleet records his name. 

I visited All Saints Church in Hollesley in July 2009, almost to the date that Sidney was 

killed, it was very poignant. I found the plaque to the right side of the wall as one enters 

the churchyard, where Sidney is listed, as is his cousin Cpl Harry Arthur. I also found the 

graves of many of his relatives. 

If anybody has any photos of Sidney or his parents I would love to see them and would 

be so grateful as we are missing such an important part of our 'family jigsaw.' 

Tracey Searle searle36@yahoo.co.uk 

A complete version of this letter appears on the Village Voices website (Editor) 



Past Times – The Lennards of Hollesley 

7 

Until recent years Hollesley, like so many other villages mostly consisted of just a few 

families. Village Voices are grateful to Neil Bax who has sent us this drawing he received 

ten years ago from Dennis Green, of Hoseley 1937. 

The Lennards owned much of the 

village at the time. George Lennard 

was the butcher (Porky) and general 

grocer, and lived with his wife Edith 

(Robin) at Canberra. They also sold 

petrol, paraffin and carbide gas. May 

Lennard was the schoolmistress and 

there is a notice board outside the 

church in memory of her. Bill 

Lennard was the baker and Fred 

Lennard was landlord of the Fox Inn. 

Geoffrey Lennard is a cousin and has 

lived in the village all his life. He 

remembers other places: From the 

top: 

Village Hall was formerly a hut and 

was rebuilt in the late 60’s. 

Garage was built by Billy Mills near 

the petrol pump shown in the 

drawing. 

WJ Mills Breaker’s Yard, just 

behind the obsolete Slaughter House 

was in operation for 50 years from 

1950. Methodist Chapel became a 

private house about 1968. Hazel 

Garnham, still living in the village 

was married there in 1950. Fish and 

chip shop was just up from ‘The Thatch’. General Stores with another petrol pump was 

at Tall Trees. The Post Office was on the opposite side of the road from the drawing. The 

Corner Shop near the Fox was owned by the Osbornes, Joan Bingham and then David 

Potter and closed in 1987. The Fox Inn also closed a few years ago. The silver fox and 

coypu pens ceased during the war as the demand for fur coats diminished. Haberdashery 

was replaced by a bicycle shop and then a large paper round covering all the surrounding 

villages. It became a private house in 1964. 

Helen Macleod 





Hollesley WI 

A mixture of success and failure can probably best sum up Hollesley WI’s activities 

running up to the Easter holiday. Let’s start with the success. Every 9 years it falls to 

Hollesley to host a group lunch for all the WI’s on the peninsula, so on Maundy Thursday 

quiches and crumbles, salad and soup for around 80 people were laid out and served in 

the Village Hall. It was quite daunting as we were entertaining some of the big guns of 

the local WI’s. The food was delicious, thanks to our members who gave their time to 

bake. After lunch the guest speaker, Lady Jill Freud, was a popular choice. Many of us 

know her from Aldeburgh and Southwold theatre productions. Some had heard her speak 

before but no matter as she 

is a real entertainer and her 

stories of life in the theatre 

and films had us 

spellbound. 

It was a long day with what 

seemed to be endless 

washing up, but guests and 

hosts alike seemed to have 

had a good time. 

Another success was the 

visit to the Olympic 

Stadium at Stratford; due 

to demand, this was the 

second WI trip to the site 

and was enjoyed by all WI members enjoy the group lunch at Hollesley village hall 

those who went on a much brighter day than the first. 

Now to failure – oh dear, dare we mention the darts? Despite regular weekly practice 

both league and pairs teams failed to qualify this year. It was rather a dismal performance 

on all our parts and we are beginning to wonder if there is any truth in the saying that 

practice makes perfect? If there is anyone out there who thinks they could coach us to 

success next year please step forward. We want to win our shield back. 

We are now turning our attention to our open meeting later this month when Adams Apple 

Fashion will be putting on a show for us. We are not sure yet whether members will be 

asked to model or not! This meeting is open to everyone and we hope you will join us. 

By this time next month some of us will have been to the AGM at the Albert Hall, others 

will have visited the Van Dal shoe factory in Norwich, some will have made cakes for the 

May Bank Holiday cake stall (Saturday 5th May 9.30 outside the village shop) and 

taken part in the Great Xscape; more 

WI Open Meeting 17th May news on all of this next time. 

You are all invited to the 

Julie Kitson 

Adams Apple Fashion Show 

Refreshments served, £2 entry 

Cheryl Gray 





Hollesley Players Spring production – Post Horn Gallop 

Regular local playgoers may recall the 

Derek Benfield farce ‘Panic Stations’, the 

company produced in 2007. Pat Shannon's 

review in Village Voices described it as ‘a 

light-hearted romp’! Some of its 

characters reappear in ‘Post Horn Gallop’, 

its sequel. 

Chester! Secret doors, mistaken identities 

and a dotty servant all provide the variety 

of fare that goes into the making of ‘Post 

Horn Gallop’. 

Pat described it as ‘a lovely explosive 

confusion of happenings causing much 

laughter’. We hope to repeat this! 

Chester Dreadnought arrives at the 

crumbling baronial home of his wife's 

impecunious aristocratic family for ‘a bit 

of peace and quiet’, only to find out that 

his mother-in-law has opened up the house 

to the general public! His father-in-law is 

trigger-happy and suffers from 

hallucinations. He attempts to keep at bay 

two enterprising thieves, among others, 

pursuing their revenge - centred on 

Performances on Thurs, Fri and Sat. 10th, 

11th and 12th May at 7.30pm in Hollesley 

Village Hall. Tickets are available from the 

box office, Tony Barnard on 411079 or 

Hollesley Village Stores. Adults £7. Under 

14’s £3.50. 

Do come and enjoy it! 

Lydia Calvesbert 

Well done - Sutton Heath F.C. U13! 

Sometimes as a coach you watch your 

team produce something so good it brings 

tears to your eyes, when all the cold winter 

nights, the wet Saturdays, are forgotten in a 

few seconds of sporting magic. 

So it was for me on the last league game of 

the Scorpions’ U13 season. A move 

starting with the defence progressed 

through midfield, out to the left wing 

where a deft touch led to a superb cross 

which was headed home by the oncoming 

forward. 2 -1 to the Scorpions and three 

more points in the bag, another win and a 

fantastic way to end a really good season. 

Not that this goal was a fluke: our first 

goal was the result of excellent team work 

and the unselfish actions of one player for 

the benefit of another. 

All the hard work of the previous weeks 

and months is now beginning to bear fruit 

and it is a joy to see how well the boys 

have come on during the season. This 

progress is a tribute to their hard work and 

team spirit as much as to the efforts of the 

adults who work with them. Our record 

this season is played 16, won 8 and lost 8; 

in addition we reached the quarter final of 

the cup beating two higher division sides 

along the way. All told an excellent 

performance given that the year before we 

were second from bottom! 

So well done to everyone connected with 

the team: coaches, parents and especially 

the players. Also I’d like to record my 

appreciation to the guys at GM Supplies in 

Melton for sponsoring us and to the army 

at Rock Barracks for allowing us to use 

their facilities for training. 

Ian Coates 



County Council's Broadband plans 

County Councillor Andrew Reid presided 

at a meeting in Hollesley last month for 

Wilford parish councillors to learn about 

the County's plans for super-fast broadband 

by 2015. 

Representatives from Bawdsey, Boyton, 

Butley, Capel St Andrew, Hollesley and 

Sutton heard Chris Bally, Assistant 

Director for Business Development at the 

County Council, outline the plans for 

spending some £44m over the next three 

years. 

Mr Bally made clear that this county-wide 

project will not disrupt the new local 

broadband wireless service, from 

Fibrewifi. This is shortly to be operational 

on the Wilford Peninsula, with speeds of 

12.5 megabytes. It is assisted with a cash 

grant for infrastructure development from 

the European Union, via DEFRA. 

Mr Bally said Suffolk is one of the first 

English counties to gain funds from the 

national Better Broadband UK initiative, 

which is tasked with ensuring super-fast 

broadband across the country. BBUK is 

providing £11.68 m, to be matched with 

the same amount from Suffolk County 

Council and other local partners. When a 

contractor is chosen by the County Council 

in September, they will be required to add 

a matching £22m to the project. The 

money will be spent on improved 

infrastructure, with service provision 

continuing from a multiplicity of 

companies at the user's expense. 

The parish councillors were shown maps of 

where the present telephone exchanges and 

cabinets are which will eventually be 

upgraded to permit the faster services. 

Suffolk County Council is aiming for 100 

per cent coverage of the county, with 

super-fast provision via fibre optic cable 

for the vast majority. Where this is not 

feasible, for perhaps 10-15 per cent of 

households and businesses, Mr Bally said 

the county will use wireless and satellite to 

guarantee a better service than at present, 

that is a minimum of 2 megabytes. 

Central government is currently preassessing 

the contractors wanting to 

upgrade the national infrastructure, and in 

September this year, Suffolk will select one 

of the three now left in the race as their 

county-wide partner. 

Meanwhile Cllr Reid and Mr Bally urged 

people to demonstrate local demand by 

filling in the survey on the county council 

website. 

Anne Page 

Kingpin Bowling 

Centre 

Gloster Rd, Martlesham 

Heath: Tel 01473611111 

Youth Bowling Club 

Every Saturday 

10am-12.30pm 

For ages 8-18 

Coaching for all abilities 

Bowling Shirt for all regular 

members 

Gift bowling ball 

after 20 sessions 

Just £5 each per session 



Map of Melton circular walk 

Wildlife drawings by Pauline Austerfield; map drawn by Val Dudley 

This map should go with the instructions on p. 28 (April Village Voices) 

We apologise for the error. (Editor) 





John Carpmael 

Boyton Community Group News 

What a joy to have a ‘pub’ in Boyton once more! Even if it is just once a month. The 

Boyton Inn has already become a regular part of village life, with the first evening 

attracting over 50 residents, young and old. It was lovely to see so many familiar faces 

and some not so familiar. The next evening is on Saturday 19th May from 7 pm to 10 pm 

at the Village Hall. Bring your own drink and a savory snack to share. 

You will have seen the work going on to create the Community Herb Garden on land 

around the Village Sign. We have just received a grant for £100 from the Local Foods 

Suffolk project to help with the costs. The garden is a hands-on community undertaking 

and any contributions of time, expertise and materials (bricks would be very nice to 

receive !) are all very welcome. The next work party will be on Saturday 5th May from 

10:30 am, to coincide with the Coffee Morning. 

Call Brenda on 411203 or Ali on 411717 for more 

details. 

To mark the Queen’s Jubilee we are organizing a 

celebratory Jubilee Lunch on Tuesday 5th June for 

all the village: see the invitation below for details. 

The next Bulk Oil Order will be placed at the 

beginning of June: please call John and Ali on 

411717 to place your order before the end of May. 

As well as all that we are continuing with our 

Wholefoods Bulk Buy, and we are looking into 

other projects including solar water heating and a 

car share scheme. Our next meeting will be at 

Papaver (411720) on Saturday 26th May at 10 am. 

Do drop in and help shape the future of our 

community! 

www.facebook.com/BoytonSuffolk 

Enjoying the irresistible puddings! 

www.twitter.com/BoytonSuffolk 

www.BoytonSuffolk.org.uk 

John Carpmael 

Boyton Jubilee Lunch – Invitation! 

Where? Boyton Village Hall and Village Green 

When? Tuesday 5th June from 12.30pm 

What? A ‘Bring and Share’ Lunch 

Also! Monday 4th June. Lighting a beacon on Burrow Hill, 10.30pm. Details – June 

What else? That’s up to you! Please give us your ideas….. 

• Music • Games • Competitions • 1950’s dress? • Prizes for the most original, 

decorated wheelbarrow and the best fairy cakes! 

Tickets available for a donation of £1.00 each (under 18 free) by 25th May latest 

from The Smithy 411717, Papaver 411720 or The Clock House 410055 

For information or to offer help with organizing and decorating – call, as above. 





Greetings from Boyton Mission 

Sharing love 

Have you a song in your heart, 

Have you a smile to share? 

Have you a moment in the day to show someone 

you care? 

Have you the time to be a friend, and listen when 

they call? 

Have you the courage every day, to step out, 

walking tall? 

Have you a hope for Mankind, whatever creed? 

Have you the strength to show the way to those 

who are in need? 

If you’ve a song, a smile, a hope, 

A special dream or two, 

You have discovered love, my friend 

And love discovered you! 

Boyton Mission 

Jesus, our gentle shepherd guides our footsteps 

every day, and walks beside us always, as we go 

along life’s way. We feel the reassurance that His loving presence gives, because His 

spirit speaks, and in our hearts, we know He lives. 

Preachers for May: 6th Mr Charlie Riddleston (Ipswich, 13th Mr Paul Brown (Feering), 

20th, Ladies Day Ruth Gill (Ipswich),27th, Steve Dart (Hollesley). 

Services at 3pm followed by a Fellowship Tea. Transport if needed. 

Every blessing to you all, Steve Dart 411876 

Ikea Coach Trip (Bawdsey Craft Group) 

Tuesday 15 May 2012 

Coach 1 

Depart: Bawdsey Village Hall 8.30am. 

Return: Approx 5.30pm 

Pick ups at Alderton, Sutton and Melton. 

Coach 2 

Depart: Woodbridge swimming pool 8.45am. 

Return: Approx 5.30pm 

£10 per person 

To book or for further information telephone: 

Sue Taylor 411758 or Jenny Clouting 411813 

Shottisham 

Trust Hall 

Plant and Cake Sale 

Saturday 5 May 

at 10.30am 

In aid of 

Shottisham 

WI fund. 



The Place has been run by trained youth workers Neil and Beth in Hollesley since mid- 

February, providing local young people with a venue to meet and spend time together. 

The response so far has been fantastic, and we have a great group who come down to see 

us most weeks. If you are in school years 7-13 (or equivalent ages) and have not visited 

us recently (or at all) then please come down and find out what The Place is all about. We 

are open every Wednesday (in term time) and you can come any time between 6pm and 

8pm. 

We run The Place in Just42’s converted minibus, which we park near the Village Hall. 

During the colder months we mostly stayed in the bus playing Uno, on the Xbox and 

drinking hot chocolate. Now the weather has improved we are spending more time on the 

field or just relaxing on the chairs outside the bus and our frozen sweets are as popular as 

ever. 

We want The Place to become an important part of the communities we visit, allowing 

young people the freedom to meet together in a safe environment close to home. For 

more info search ‘Just42YouthBus’ on facebook or call the Just42 office in Woodbridge 

380992 

Neil Fox-Lead Youth Worker – Bus Project 

Red Rose Chain 

Red Rose Chain, the team behind Theatre In The Forest, is delighted to 

reveal news of their latest production, Different Buttons. 

Written by Red Rose Chain’s Artistic Director Joanna Carrick, Different Buttons 

commemorates the history of St Clement’s Hospital in Ipswich, following its recent 

closure. Different Buttons explores St Clement’s Hospital’s significance to the local 

community through its 140 year history and will perform in the hospital building in May. 

This stunning new play brings to life characters from the hospital’s incredible history and 

offers a unique opportunity to see inside one of the last remaining Victorian asylums in 

the country. 

We as a company have worked extensively with people who had been patients at St 

Clements Hospital, staff and former staff. We’ve undertaken a huge amount of research 

into the hospital’s history right up to the present day. It has been important for Red Rose 

Chain to allow those people whose lives have been touched by St Clement’s Hospital to 

have a voice. This new production is suitable for ages 13 and over. It runs from May 22nd 

to June 1st. For more details please visit www.redrosechain.com or call the box office on 

01473 603388. 



Hi there. This is Herbie, if you were 

expecting more chat from that rather 

attractive mare in Dubai, I’m sorry to 

disappoint you all. It is back to good old 

wind and rain-swept Suffolk but it looks as 

though Spring is now really here and the 

grass is growing, which is something you 

do not see a lot of in the desert. But it was 

really great to hear from such exotic 

locations and we have heard lots of 

comments from people who were quite 

surprised that riding for the disabled 

activities took place in other countries. 

I’m not sure of the calendar in Dubai: I 

know they have a different time there but 

maybe they are on a different day. The 

reason I say this is because when Shaltizaa 

kindly told everyone about our Open Day 

in her blog, she got the date wrong! The 

actual Open Day is on Saturday the 19th 

May from 11am to 3pm. I’m not surprised 

there is confusion, I mean, being Islamic, 

their Sunday is a Friday, if you see what I 

mean. 

RDA – from the horse’s mouth 

that they too have had a drop of rain 

recently. Mind you, if any grass grows 

because of it, they will have to be pretty 

quick to eat it before the hot season dries it 

all up to a crisp. There is a lot to be said for 

our funny old weather. 

Cheers for now, see you on the 

19th May. 

Herbie 

Anyway we now hear that we are to be 

opened by the Pearly King, yes really, 

He is actually retired now but will come 

out of retirement for a good cause and 

unquestionably we are a GOOD CAUSE!! 

Can you believe, he and his Pearly Queen 

make all their own garments, entirely 

covered with thousands of pearl buttons: 

how do they do that, I can’t even pick out 

my own hoof? Well it is each to their own 

I say, we horses and ponies have our strong 

points too, not least the ability to make our 

disabled clients happy and fulfilled when 

they are with us. 

Must go, this was going to a short blog. 

I’ve just heard from our contacts in Dubai 


WI CAKE STALL 

Saturday 5th May 

Starts 9.30am outside 

Hollesley Village Shop 


Mothers’ Union – Deben Branch 

The Deben Branch of the Mothers’ Union meets in Bawdsey Village Hall on the first 

Monday of each month at 2 p.m. At the April meeting Malcolm Fleetwood, the local link 

contact for Age UK, gave a talk on the services available from them. The Ipswich Help 

Centre in Upper Brook Street (Tel no. 01473 257039) is the first port of call for help and 

information covering a widespread number of services. These include:- 

1. Domestic Information Service – to find help with cleaning, shopping etc. 

2. Independence Advisors Service – a home visit to discuss issues of concern 

with an older person giving advice as to local sources of help benefits 

3. Advice Service – home visits to assist with completion of benefits application 

forms and impartial advice on welfare benefits available. 

4. Befriending – pre-arranged regular telephone calls for a friendly chat. 

5. Woodbridge New Horizons Lunch and Leisure Club – a day centre held on 

Tuesdays and Thursdays for frail older people, with transport, lunch and 

activities provided. 

The talk was supported by a display of Age UK leaflets, which were quickly taken up by 

those present. Questions asked indicated that there were a possible number of people who 

could benefit from the information in our area. 

The meetings last about one and a half hours, giving time for a cup of tea and chat after 

listening to a variety of speakers. Anyone interested please come along. Bring a friend for 

support, you will be made very welcome. 

God bless you till next time. Joy (Secretary) 

Sutton Open Gardens with Royal Scarecrow Display 

Sunday 27 May 2012 12 noon until 6pm. Entry £3 adults, children under 16 free. 

Cream teas served at the Old Vicarage from 3pm. Start point Sutton Memorial Hall for 

car park and collection of Garden Route etc. Transport available for outlying Gardens. 

Susan Collins 

East Suffolk Association for the Blind 

(Woodbridge Branch) 

A Barn Dance will be held at Woodbridge Football Club, Fynn Road Woodbridge on Sat 

19th May at 7.30pm. Tickets £10 from The Bookshop 66 The Thoroughfare Woodbridge. 

Come and join us for a fun evening, where barbeque food is included in the ticket price, 

the club bar is available to quench the thirst, and you may get lucky in the Prize Draw. 

All funds raised go towards our monthly socials, which brings together our visually 

impaired members for afternoon tea and entertainment. 

Val Murray April Cottage Boyton (Chairman) 



Notes from Hollesley Parish Council 5th April 

Many Parish Council matters are ongoing. 

The Clerk reported that there is a Youth 

Participation workshop in Hollesley 

Village Hall on 31st May for young people 

wishing to become involved in local 

government matters. 

The Just42 bus is proving popular on 

Wednesdays from 6 to 8pm with our young 

people, but there needs to be better 

communication to know exactly which 

weeks they are coming. 

The grit bins have arrived and will soon 

be sited. The locality Budget will make up 

any shortfall in cost. 

Barthorps Folly footpath will no longer 

be managed by the District Council. It is 

hoped the new landowner will do so. 

Oak Hill Recreation ground. It is 

proposed to install 2 freestanding metal 

goals. Quotes will be obtained and methods 

of funding will be considered. 

Allotments. All are now let to local 

residents. 

Cemetery gates. Preliminary plans have 

been drawn up and shown to Parish 

Council. 60 poles have been obtained to 

support deer-proof wire fencing around the 

cemetery which will be put up by members 

of the council. 

Jubilee. The Parish Council will pay for 

The Street closure on Monday June 4th. 

They will underwrite the cost of a 

Hollesley Jubilee mug to be given free to 

every child in Hollesley from 0 to 11years. 

12 to 18 can buy one at the special price of 

£3.99 

Emergency planning. An Emergency 

bag obtained from SALC will be located in 

a locked metal cabinet at the Village Hall 

opened using a Pin number. It is hoped 

that local people with diggers, generators 

and other equipment would help out in the 

event of a village emergency. 

Hollesley Parish Council AGM will be 

on Thursday May 3rd at 7.30pm. 

Beating the Bounds May 13th, meet 

2pm Hollesley Village Hall. 2 to 21/2 

hour 

walk 

Helen Macleod 

Hollesley Summer Fete and Fun Dog Show 

Saturday the 30th of June 

DON'T FORGET: 

Volunteer needed to help to put up the tents/marquees and to put out tables and chairs. 

Come along around 9.30am the morning of the Fete. 

DON'T FORGET: 

Donations needed for the stalls, especially White Elephant, and Books. 

DON'T FORGET: 

Jams, Pickles, Bottles, Tombola and Draw prizes, Cakes, Produce, Plants. 

Look in the June edition of Village Voices for a full list of attractions and events. 

Look forward to seeing you all there! Stewart Tel 412169 or 07771 780857 



Jubilee Beacon 

Residents living on the Peninsula and in 

Bromeswell are invited to the lighting of 

the Diamond Jubilee Beacon at Sutton on 

Monday 4 June. The time has yet to be 

confirmed but it will be sometime between 

10 and 10.30pm. 

The Beacon will be located on the 

playfield at Sutton Memorial Hall, where 

there will be adequate parking spaces. 

Refreshments will be available. We 

welcome everyone to join us to celebrate 

this very special and historic event. 

Sue Collins 

Woodbridge museum 

The Woodbridge museum, situated at 5A 

Market Hill, will be open through the 

summer until the end of October. It tells 

the story of Woodbridge through the 

centuries from earliest times to the Second 

World War. Newly on display this season 

are five works by Thomas Churchyard, part 

of a most generous gift to the museum of 

seven works including a pencil drawing, 

two oils and four water colours. 

Opening hours 10am to 4pm, Thursday to 

Sunday. Admission is £1 for adults and 

30p for children, who can try their skills 

with the free quiz sheets provided. 

There are still a few vacancies for 

volunteer stewards, and anyone interested 

would be most welcome. Please contact 

Dr. Bob Merrett on 01394 385277 

Foxburrow farm 

May Fair 

Sunday 27th May, 11am – 4pm 

Local craft stalls, free children's activities 

including pond dipping and traditional 

games, folk dance and musical 

performances, storytelling, display of 

school artwork, farm walks, and BBQ. 

Tea and home-made cakes. 

Adults £3, children £2 (Sorry no dogs) 

Suffolk Wildlife Trust. 01394 380113 

Deben radio 

Spare a moment to go on line 

www.debenradio.com to listen to the many 

and varied programmes being produced. 

Regular Drop In sessions are now being 

arranged so volunteers, old and new, can 

get together and compare notes and ideas. 

Deben Radio is always looking for more 

local volunteers - for more information 

please visit the website 

Greyhounds ‘Forever homes’ 

Many thanks to those in the village who joined us to hear Travellin’ 

Light at the Village Hall. £1016 was raised for Greyhoundhomer. 

Thanks also to the Shepherd and Dog for supplying the bar. 

Kevin Lambert 



Tractor boys and girls! 

Cheryl Gray 

The children of Hollesley School jump for joy over having a real tractor in their school 

The children of Hollesley School have been studying agriculture as this term’s topic. 

Thurlow Standen of Melton kindly loaned a tractor to stand in the playground for a week. 

Each class made good use of this opportunity; climbing in and out of the cab, measuring 

themselves against the enormous wheels, studying tyre treads and drawing and painting 

the machine. There’s nothing like hands-on experience to encourage our young farmers of 

the future! 

Cheryl Gray 

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Telephone: Alderton 01394 411 641 & Orford 01394 450 315 

www.thepeninsulapractice.co.uk 

DAY ALDERTON ORFORD HOLLESLEY 

Monday 8.30am to 2.30pm 8.30am to 6.00pm 2.00pm to 5.15pm 

Tuesday 8.30am to 2.30pm 1.30pm to 6.00pm 

Wednesday 8.30am to 6.00pm 8.30am to 1.00pm 

Thursday 8.30am to 6.00pm 8.30am to 1.00pm 

Friday 8.30am to 6.00pm 8.30am to 1.00pm 

Sutton Village Hall is open every Monday at 5.00-5.30pm. No Appointment needed 

Please note when a surgery is closed during the day, your call will be 

automatically transferred to the other site without the need to re-dial. 

May Newsletter 

Did you know you can self refer for a physiotherapy appointment 

Without seeing your GP? 

If you have access to the internet log onto www.ahpsufolk.co.uk 

and enter your details. If you don’t have accces to the internet please 

telephone 01394 615 202. If appropriate you can be seen at Framfield 

Surgery in Woodbrdige or Aldeburgh Hospital 



Local Contacts 

Hollesley Village Hall Bookings Christine Gillespie 411562 

Boyton Village Hall Bookings Kay Lane 410361 

Hollesley School Lynne Wright (Headteacher) 411616 

Welcome Club Marian Collins 411262 

Hollesley Womens Institute Gina Forsyth 411727 

Mothers Union Pat Fleetwood 410409 

Hollesley Players Becs Hudson 410352 

Whist Drives Jill Cocksedge 411108 

Hollesley Bowls Club Roy Winchester 411564 

Indoor Bowls Nigel Smith 411549 

Alderton Surgery 411641 

Hollesley Badminton Club Chris Andrews 411126 

Junior Soccer Keith Banthorp 01473 737474 

Judo Club Julie Jolliffe 410483 

1 st Sutton Brownies Sonja Patterson 420576 

Hollesley Pre-school Terrie Cornwell-Dunnett 410492 

Suffolk Link Bus Sadie 0845 604 1802 

Allotment & Gardens Association Polly Tobin 411737 

Secretary 

Hollesley Parish Council Dennis Driver (Chairman) 411707 

Noelle Gore (Clerk) 411032 

Boyton Parish Council Fred Stentiford (Chairman) 411469 

Nicola Cassy (Clerk) 411720 

County Councillor Andrew Reid 07545 423799 

District Councillor Jane Marson 07771 608376 

Hollesley Bay Day Centre Audrey Shelcott 411776 

Community Police Officer PC Andy Warne 01473 613500 

Hollesley Commons Nick Mason 411150 

Community Car Service Janet Gardiner 01473 630866

May 2012 - Village Voices

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