Local Lynx No. 150 - June/July 2023

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PETER BARLOW Thank you After 18 years of volunteering to deliver the Lynx magazine to residents on Hollow Lane and Field Dalling Road, Peter Barlow has decided to step down and allow someone else to take the reins. On behalf of Langham residents, a massive THANK YOU to Peter who, we estimate, has kindly delivered more than 3,750 copies over the past few years, regardless of the weather. Peter, we wish you well and thank you once again for all your kind and generous support over the years. May we also take this opportunity to thank our other deliverers, Edwina, Maureen, John and Michael (and not forgetting Maurice Matthews who kindly delivers a few copies on his way back to Cockthorpe) for their continued support getting the Lynx successfully delivered around the village - what a great team! Thank you. LOOKING FOR LYNX DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS We are currently looking for two additional volunteers to deliver Lynx magazines six times per year, covering the following areas of Langham:- 1. Hollow Lane and Field Dalling Road (approx 35 copies to be delivered). 2. East side of Holt Road (from junction of Hollow Lane out towards Holt) (approx. 20 copies to be delivered). If you could be a willing helper and would like to get involved, please contact Sarah via email at: kiteflying@hotmail.co.uk or please contact your Langham rep. FILM NIGHTS Village hall The FOL committee have started hosting, what we hope will be monthly, film nights in the village hall. The first showing was held in April and was well attended, although unfortunately we did’t break even financially. We will be showing another film in May and it will be the one voted for by you! Please support us if you can and if you’re new to the village and don’t know many people, it really is a great way to make new friends. FOL committee DID YOU KNOW? There is a very nice new bench in the churchyard. It has been donated by a very kind person for all those visiting to have a place to sit and rest .Maybe some time to spend with thoughts and reflection. You will find it near the vicarage wall. EARLY LANGHAM MEMORIES By David Craske I was born on the 6 th December 1950 and my birth certificate shows my place of birth as Hut 8, Site 12, Langham. These were Nissan huts that had been used by the RAF as there was an airbase in the village. Today the area is known as Swans Close. Our family later moved to a council house in Hollow Lane and then back to Swans Close, very close to where my birth place had been. My grandparents, Isaac and Violet Craske, lived in Holt Road in one of the three cottages in front of the barns. They had a double seated outside toilet and I have often wondered what people would talk about when they were sitting side by side! As a child I often used to have a bath, in a tin bath which used to hang in the scullery, in front of the fire at their house. No showers for us back in the 1950’s. Back in those days Nora Shucksmith lived next door with her parents on the other side of my grandparents. Back in those days Home Close occupied the land on which St Marys now stands and the buildings were prefabs. The field between Home Close and North Street was used by the local children and adults as a football pitch. It was not unusual for there to be up to 30 people playing on a Sunday. There was a ‘dump’ called Bilsey Pit on the Wiveton Road and I used to spend hours there with others collecting old bikes and making one out of three or four broken ones. Health and safety would not allow such visits these days. We also used to search for old pram wheels so that we could make ‘dilly carts’ to ride about on in the village. I used to pick primroses, cowslips, buttercups and daisies to take home as a posy for mum whilst looking for birds’ nests down the back lane, on the common or Sealey’s Meadow. Dad used to make pop guns out of pieces of elder and we would ‘shoot’ acorns in them. Taking a jam jar on a piece of string to catch minnows and sticklebacks in the river was great fun too. These and other things made us very happy even though in material terms we all had very little. We used to go to watch Dad harvesting and sit with him while he had his break. I only too well remember a 14
corona bottle wrapped in a sock which, late in the day, contained cold tea! No double glazing with the old metal framed windows meant that during the winter there was ice on the inside and a trip up to the loft in the mornings with a kettle of water to break the ice on the water tank! I used to collect wood from down the back lane meaning that I was kept warm three times – collecting it, chopping it and sitting in front of the fire. We lived next to Mr. and Mrs. Coe and I used to go with him to ‘help’ at Crafer’s Farm where he was the cowman. Watching him milking the cows, helping to clear up the mess and looking whilst he churned the milk to make butter was really exciting for a primary school child. I went to Langham primary school as did my father before me and have many memories of other children there. I have so much more to say about those days and hopefully will be able to share a few more memories in the next issue. If you would like to contact me about those days my email address is craskyboy@me.com. LANGHAM ACTION COMMITTEE A committee has been formed – the Langham Action Committee – in response to a planning proposal, published last February, to build 35 houses on land at the northwestern corner of Binham Road and North Street. At a public meeting in the village hall on 28th April, attended by more than 50 people, the overwhelming sentiment was against this proposal. A less ambitious proposal for the same site was turned down in 2019 by the District Council, so we feel this one will fare no better. However, in planning disputes residents are often at a disadvantage. They may lack unity, or technical knowledge, or an understanding of the planning process, and we intend to furnish Langham with all three in order to resist this unsuitable development and others of its kind. To keep everyone informed we have set up a blog. https://LanghamActionCommittee.blogspot.com. Readers can contact us through it or leave comments for others to read and comment upon in turn. Some developments in Langham have been and will be sympathetic, and the blog provides a public platform for those for and against new proposals – we do not expect the village to be preserved in aspic, and neither should it be. We intend also to run occasional features about the many interesting and sometimes quirky buildings that give Langham its own special, unique, and precious character and make it such a super place in which to live and work. CORONATION CELEBRATIONS Well, wasn’t the weather kind to us on Sunday 7th May? The Langham Coronation Big Lunch kicked off at 3pm on the playing field and the committee members were very soon joined by a good number of villagers (and even some from as far away as Barney, Blakeney, Cockthorpe and Hindringham) The BBQ’s were busy from the get go until about 6pm, “Coopers Bar” kept going until the very end and the games on the field were well used by children and adults alike. Many thanks to those of you who supported us and, if you had a good time, tell your neighbours and we’ll put something similar on towards the end of summer for you to drag them along to. FOL committee CHURCHYARD TIDY UP A bakers dozen helped on 15th April armed with tractor and trailer, strimmers, shears and hedge cutters. Wonderful progress was made for which we offer many thanks. If you are up to it, we will repeat the exercise on 3rd June starting at 9.30am. So please come along and enjoy a couple of hours in the fresh air, followed by coffee and cake at the village hall. Langham PCC POP UP STREET FOOD The FOL committee are currently investigating street food stalls to possibly visit the village on a monthly basis. If you have any ideas, or know of anyone who has a stall, can you ask them to contact us? They would have to be self sufficient in terms of power etc as it will be on the playing field. FOL committee Langham news continued on page 18 15
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