Liphook Community Magazine Winter 2021

Margaret Wilson Award
Last year the Magazine
was delighted to receive
a legacy from Margaret
Wilson. Margaret had
been a founder and ex
President of the magazine.
During her lifetime,
Margaret had been a
chemistry teacher and
had a number of interests
including book illustrations
and the arts.
The Committee felt that it would be appropriate to incorporate
Margaret’s interests when spending her legacy. So it was agreed
to run a competition that all Liphook Schools be invited to take
part in, called the Margaret Wilson Award. Teachers would be
invited to nominate pupils that had shown exceptional progress
and enthusiasm during the school year, with the subject changing
each year. Teachers would also
be asked to submit a couple of
paragraphs explaining why
they felt the pupil should
receive the award.
The Award started in the
school year 2020 – 2021 with
Science and Nature Studies.
Prize winners so far have
included:
Liphook Infant School
Elliot and Sachin
Liphook Junior School
Scarlett and George
Churcher’s College
Howie and Emilea
Howie and Emilea have made and
tested Space Capsules, designing
their own experiments and recording
their results with great enthusiasm.
Sachin made excellent progress in his
science during Year 2 due to his hard
working and conscientious nature.
George has designed displays and
given presentations on a variety of
bird species and the Big Garden
Birdwatch. Scarlett became an Eco
Warrior composting lunch food waste
and produced superb art work on using
recycled objects and litter. Elliot helped
his class with his clear explanations of
why certain materials would be used
to make houses and produced a video
of himself presenting information he
had discovered about gravity.
The winners have each received a
certificate and a £25 book token.
Jackie Kelsey & Fay Boyett
DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE YEARS OF
The Liphook Magazine
The parish of Bramshott and Liphook has increased in size
substantially over the fifty years the Magazine has been in
existence. Courtesy of new housing developments over the past
few years the number of magazines delivered has changed from
3,400 in 1991, 3,600 in 1996 and 3,900 in 2014. Currently 4,250
copies of our magazine are delivered to households in Liphook
and Bramshott by 82 volunteers.
Sue Knight has been the co-ordinator for magazine distribution
since 2006. The distribution task is a huge commitment by Sue
and her volunteers. It was made more difficult during 2020 when
the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the “quarantining” of the
printed copies prior to distribution to ensure safety for all.
Some volunteers deliver up to 100 copies each quarter but the
majority of the “rounds” are between 20 and 80 copies. Sue
advises me that she understands that six of the volunteers have
been continuously delivering since 1991 – possibly even longer
– but her records don’t go that far back! These unsung heroes
certainly deserve our appreciation.
A distributor in the very early days of the Magazine, the 1970s,
was Mary West who remembers piling copies of the magazine into
her son’s pram – with her young son inside too - and delivering
them all the way from the centre of the village to Hill House Hill.
Another former distributor is Muriel Bullingham who recently
sent us one of her reminiscences. “I used to distribute the
Magazine in Bircholt Road. My most vivid memory of the time
was when I was delivering on 9/11/2001. I was walking around
the estate pushing my mags through the doors when a lady
rushed out shouting “Have you seen the television news – go
home and look – there has been a disaster in America – planes
have deliberately flown into some tower blocks!” So we did just
that – rushed home and put the TV on. I never look at the
Magazine now without remembering that moment.”
At the Magazine’s Silver Jubilee party in 1996 Mavis and Bernard
Cutler and their happy band of distributors were present and
their efforts applauded. Sue always welcomes new volunteers.
The more we have the easier the job as some rounds could be
shortened and the aim is that the volunteers deliver in their own
locality – the street they live in or even just a group of houses
where they live. Any prospective volunteers are invited to contact
Sue Knight on: 01428 723502.
Jen Woodsford & Sue Knight
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