February - villagevoices.org.uk

Your Letters - keep writing , we love to hear your views and storiesDear EditorJust a short letter to thank you forkeeping me supplied with a copy ofyour magazine. Each month I receivemany such magazines and newsletters,but I have to praise you for the amountof information and the quality of thefeatures you publish. There is hardly amonth go by when I can’t use at leastone of the stories you give me.On air, we have had great discussionsabout the shells at Shingle Street,The Badgers at Boyton etc. Alreadythis week, we have picked up on theVillage Stores amnesty on missingbaskets; and we are about to use thestory about Buttrum’s Mill. I havealso passed the article about W JMills to Lesley Dolphin with a viewto featuring them on our lunchtimeprogramme here at BBC RadioSuffolk.Please pass my thanks to all of yourcontributors, and keep that wonderfullocal news coming to me.Rob DungerPresenter, BBC Radio SuffolkDear EditorAfter some very unexceptional rain,Bushey Lane is again awash with waterfrom the fields threatening the houseswhich were flooded last year, one ofwhich is still uninhabitable.February 2008 page 20Well, what if we could get SuffolkCoastal District Council to disregardtheir own planning rules and fund fromCouncil Tax payers money a barrister’sopinion on our personal capital gainsand inheritance tax position? Then wecould find somewhere totally unrelatedto Bushey Lane, build some big housescompletely out of character and use theprofits to make some flood defences ofa construction type already proven tobe ineffective.Of course that could never happen.Joanne HalliwellBushey LaneDear EditorI was interested to see, in HollesleyChurch, that Richard Cobbold wasrector in 1857 and Mary A Waller ofThe Grove, Hollesley, was his patron.If any of your readers have anyinformation about where “The Grove”was (?on the site of Grove House onOS map), or about the Cobbolds andWallers when they were in this area -the rector Richard’s father Richard wasthe author of Margaret Catchpole andmarried Mary Ann Waller in HollesleyChurch, I believe, in 1797 - I would bevery grateful to share it.Diane Speakman, Lavender Cottage,Shingle Street, Hollesley, IP12 3BE(01394 411859)www.villagevoices.org.uk