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Editorial - Yet another excellent Village Fete. The weather was perfect, the events worked well, and the whole affair made a small profit for the funds. Congratulations to David Morison and the hardworking team that made it all happen We continue in this edition with our World War 1 remem-brances. Many years ago we published Jack Farmer’s war memories. Apologies to those who object to reading them again, but the population of the village has changed a lot since the last time, and it is right that everyone who lives here knows of the bravery of a Fulbeck man in that conflict, (see page 7).

The next Newsletter Deadline is Saturday 20th September

Over 60s Club by Brian Fisher The next meeting will be held in the Sports Club on Tuesday 5th August at 2.00pm . New members are always made wel-come. The trips for this year are as follows: - Date Venue Pick Up Cost Tues 19 Aug Mablethorpe & Skegness 8.30am £9 Fri 26 Sept Stamford Mkt & Lunch 9.20am £9 If anyone wishes to book seats on these outings they should contact Sheila Johns (273691) or Brian Fisher (272099) The Weekly Draw by Brian Fisher The purpose of the draw is to generate funds for various volun-tary village organisations. We are always looking to recruit new members, and if anyone wishes to join the draw (£1 per week) they should contact Brian Fisher (272099), Peter Hughes (273941) or the Sports Club for more information. The draw runs in 10-week cycles and is drawn in the Sports Club at 1.15pm every Sunday. Balance Sheet for cycle ended Sunday 18th May 2014: Expenditure Income £ £ 127 members @ £10 1270.00 Prize Money paid 700.00 Paid Sports Club 190.00 Over 60s Club 190.00 PF&VH 190.00 1270.00 1270.00 Prize Winners - Cycle ending 27th July 2014 Date £50 £10 £100 25/05 P. Sandy J. Fane - 01/06 K. Gregory G. Rayworth - 08/06 Mrs J. Copping B. Allen - 15/06 B. Allen Keith. Pollard - 22/06 B. Gadsby Mrs Walkley - 29/06 Mrs P. Dales R. High - 06/07 Mrs J. Wyman Miss D. Page - 13/07 Mrs K Worth M. Worth - Fulbeck Sports Club by Brian Fisher Guests and children are always made welcome and if anyone wishes to become a member at £5 per year (£2.50 for OAP's) they can obtain an application form from the club steward. The facilities are available for hire at very reasonable rates, bar and kitchen facilities can be provided on request, together with very competitive bar prices.

Club Opening Times Weds & Fri Evenings 8.00 - 11.00pm Sat Lunch 12.00 - 3.30pm* Sat Evening 8.00 - 11.00pm Sun Lunch 12.00 - 3.30pm *Closing time extended for football and cricket home games.

SKY Live TV is installed in the club on two screens Promotions - 50p off a pint until the first goal scored in all live Premiership games. Double up on spirits for £1. Fulbeck F.C. - The village team will play in the Lincoln Premier League next season. Training has commenced and is open to anyone wishing to join the Football Club For more information please contact Keith Pollard, the team manager, on 273369.. Bingo - Cash bingo sessions are held weekly in the Sports Club on Saturday evenings, eyes down 8.30pm. Fulbeck Cricket Club - The village team are playing in the Lin-coln League, Division 2 , and to date they have won 4 games and lost 3. For more information please contact Ken Pollard (01529 304838 or the Sports Club. Race Night - A Race Night has been arranged to take place in the Sports Club on Saturday 25th October (provisional date). Members and non-members will be made welcome at this event, St Nicholas’ Wildflower Garden As all those who attended the unveiling of the Notice Board on Thursday 3rd July will know, the whole idea of a Wildflower Gar-den in the churchyard has finally come to fruition. Now perhaps is the time to give credit to the person whose idea it was and who ensured that it all happened. Well done indeed, Julie Baum Caythorpe & District WI - Have you ever thought about coming along to Women's Institute to see what its like? Here at Cay-thorpe & District we have 40 members so we are a thriving jolly bunch and always have room for more. We meet every 2nd Thursday in the month in Caythorpe Village Hall Lounge. August will see us having a very light hearted social evening dis-cussing future events for our W.I. If that is not for you come along to our September meeting where will hear from Lois Fenn who will speak about Memoirs of an Evacuee. We would love you to come and join us to see'' what we get up to'' and what W.I. is about. We have theatre outings, trips, book groups, diet club and hope-fully a dinning club and also a very good programme of speakers /demonstrators each month. Look forward to your visit. Meetings start at 7-30pm,W.I. Business is done as soon as possi-ble so we can enjoy the speakers time. For further details contact President Janet Hoddell 01 400 272448 or the Secretary Angela Turner 01476 401459

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August – September 2014 Volume 111

Edited by A.J. Robinson (272389) Edited by A.J. Robinson (272389) Produced by Fulbeck CommunicationsProduced by Fulbeck Communications Printed by Westgate Printers, SleafordPrinted by Westgate Printers, Sleaford

INDEX 3 - Garden Society, History Group, District Councillor 5 - Neighbourhood Watch, Notices, Parish Council 7 - Jack Farmer’s War Memories 9 - Church Page 10 - Calendar of Events

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Garden Society by Jean Allen Rudie Bertins , proprietor of Rudie’s Roots nursery at Scothern, was our speaker for June. Rudie propagates and grows a variety of plants for sale, but has a special interest in ‘Hardy Exotics’, Hardy exotics are striking plants from warmer climates that can nevertheless be grown outside in Britain given the right conditions. In most cases this means a sunny shel-tered spot, free draining soil that won’t leave them waterlogged in winter and adequate feed and water in the growing season. Rudie brought some of his favourites with him, the Chusan Palm, the only palm reliably hardy in Britain as it can survive temperatures as low as -18C. The related Mediter-ranean fan palm is nearly as hardy and forms a lower growing clump. The dwarf banana, which grows to about 6 feet in height has the big paddle shaped leaves of its larger relatives and can be grown in a pot here: it is hardy to -5C but looks truly tropical. The hardiest of the tree ferns will sur-vive -10C, but as winter temperatures in Lincs. are often lower than this, Rudie recommends protecting the trunk and growing point in winter. Bam-boos, however, are tough and reliable, though care needs to be taken to buy one of the better behaved species. The most unusual plant Rudie brought was the Wollemi pine, a species know only from fossils until a group was found in a remote gorge in Australia in 1994. They are now propagated under licence all over the world, and the oldest British speci-mens have survived -9C so far. It is not a true pine and the leaves are flat and fern-like: it was a privilege to see a specimen in the flesh. Our thanks to Rudie for his enthusiastic and most interesting talk, and the fresh ideas he has given us. Our venue for the July meeting, our Summer Social, was the garden of Karen Mitchell and Paul Ward in Fulbeck. It rained hard during the day, but by the time the event began it had stopped and members were able to enjoy this beautiful garden with its views over the vale. There was plenty to admire in the garden: a large wildlife area with a wildflower meadow, pond and woodland walk; a very productive kitchen garden which has raised vegetable beds and greenhouses, and a more formal area of borders filled with flowers and shrubs around a well kept lawn. The picnic provided by the members was as plentiful and appetising as always, and a very pleas-ant evening was had by all. Many thanks to Karen and Paul for opening their garden to us and for all the hard work that must have gone into making it look so good. The next meeting will be on Aug 12th at 7:30 in Carlton Scroop Village Hall, when Geoff Hodge will give a talk on ‘Growing your own vegetables. Visitors will be most welcome (£3, including light refreshments)- just come along. For further information, including membership, please call David Fidler on 01400 272630. Also coming up this month is the annual Cay-thorpe Show on Saturday Aug 30th. Everyone, member or not, is welcome to enter or just come along in the afternoon and admire the exhibits. Classes include garden produce, handicrafts, cookery and photography, so there is something for everyone. Show schedules can be obtained from Caythorpe Post Office, the chip shop and Spa grocers, Fulbeck Craft Cen-tre or the Leadenham Farm Shop. Fulbeck History Group - by Anne Watler The June meeting had to be cancelled due to double booking by another group (no names mentioned!). We have now decided to meet regularly in the afternoon of the last Monday of the month at the Village Hall, and activi-ties have been arranged for the coming months as below. We have been looking forward to the walk round the village with a historian and map en-thusiast now rearranged for July (see below). In future, meetings will be open to non-members for a small charge so look out for notices in the Newsletter, posters around the village notice boards, Stable Café, etc. about future events. Finally, we are very grateful to Butch at the Stable Café who is generously supporting the group. This will really help develop our interests and skills in the research and dissemination of information about Fulbeck’s history. Meanwhile - We really, really need that filing cabinet! Meetings/visits :- (Meetings now 1.30pm last Monday of the month at the Village Hall unless otherwise stated) 6.30pm Mon 28th July - Doug Plowman - Walk round the Village with maps, followed by discussion and questions. (still meet at VH) 10.00am Wed 30th July Visit - Lincs Archives for Talk and viewing of selected records August (to be confirmed) Visit - John Clare’s Cottage 1.30pm Mon 29th Sept Talk - Tina Lee -The Victorian School 1.30pm Mon 27th Oct - Mapping Fulbeck’s history (people, trades, buildings) a project to involve the whole village 1.30pm Mon 1st Dec Talk - Stewart Squires - Ironstone Quarries along the edge, in particular Fulbeck, Caythorpe and Leadenham (This is a meeting for November and December!) 1.30 pm Mon 26th Jan Talk - Geoff Lee -The history of mills and millers in Lincolnshire

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District Councillor’s Report - by Bob Sampson 01400 273873 or 07766387872. Grass cutting by the District Council’s new contractors Glendale, or lack of, has been the source of much frustration since the beginning of spring. Many of you have rightly commented to me upon this, especially those who keep their own grass frontages immaculate and the Parish Council contrac-tor who attends to the four village greens on a regular basis. What a let-down to SKDC and other Districts that the procurement of this service has not got off to the best of starts. Ironically our regular operatives over the past years have been transferred across to the new firm but NOT given the tools, machinery, and regular fortnightly timetable to maintain the standard we have enjoyed in the past, so it’s not their fault. Gradually the new com-pany are getting to grips with the reality of the task and we should remain patient. By contrast a totally opposite approach has been successfully under-taken by the Fulbeck Wildflower Group, and their pioneer project in Fulbeck Churchyard under the yew tree and the surrounding area which can be viewed from the footpath beside the church railings. A plaque and notice-board were officially unveiled by two young members of the village on 3rd July 2014 which acknowledges the contribution made by The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and the local volunteers. A very interesting and practical talk was given by Mark Schofield, the Wildlife Trusts Limestone Grassland Project Officer, whilst standing amongst the abundance of wildflowers al-ready established within this corner of the churchyard. Those present were encouraged to spread the interest and benefits by considering establishing “wildflower corridors”, what better place than Fulbeck and its wide verges to the A607, something to think about for future projects. Some of you may be wondering if LCC Highways had mistakenly carried out re- surface treatment works to Sudthorpe Hill for a second year running. The adhesive and chippings treatment is part of a new specification ap-proach and as such is carried out in consecutive years to achieve the best wearing and surface protection. At last we have some temporary “ Road Closure Notices” to enable repair work to take place in Rectory Lane, Brant Road during mid-August, diversion routes will be signposted. The Temple Hill wind turbine application did not go to SKDC Develop-ment Control Committee earlier this month, it will probably now be Sep-tember at the earliest. Meanwhile on 27th May 2014 a Planning Application was made for the erection of one anemometer mast 60 metres high for a temporary period of 3 years, on Fulbeck Airfield. Meanwhile at the same location the occurrence of increased vehicular lorry movements to and from the site continues to be monitored, this concerns the storage of straw bales , sugar beet pulp, slurry and most recently gravel in various locations about the site including the NKDC northern end. Arising from the double fatality on the A607 towards Caythorpe last Sep-tember 2013 a custodial sentence has now been made arising from undue care. Most importantly Lincolnshire Road Safety have confirmed they will visit this section of road and carry out an assessment in particular to the centre road markings and the future safety of road users on this dangerous stretch of road. Finally it’s that time of year when we all like to get out and about walking for pleasure or walking the dog, regretfully within the village we are being let down by some of the latter group who are failing to clear up after their dogs. SKDC has a new dedicated webpage, www.southkesteven.gov.uk/dogfouling for residents to report such instances or persistent offenders, a fixed penalty of £75 applies in each instance. To assist, dog fouling bags are available free from the SKDC Customer Service Centres. You can also report dog fouling by calling SKDC on 01476 406080 or by email [email protected] My future “open surgery dates” are:- Saturday 16th August Caythorpe Police Beat Office 11.30am-2.30pm. Saturday 4th October Fulbeck Village Hall. 11.30am-2.30pm.


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Neighbourhood Watch by Tina Nolan Tel: 01400 273 073 / 07572 380 072 email [email protected] There has only been one event in Fulbeck since the last News-letter, a garage burglary took place in Fulbeck overnight between 18th and 19th June 2014. Some garden machinery was taken. Please ensure you are vigilant and lock all outbuildings. If you saw anything suspicious around this time please call Lincolnshire Police quoting incident 159 19/06/2014 Sadly we had a missing person reported on 17/7/2014, Patricia Lawrence from Stubton, regrettably her body was found a few days later. Our thoughts go out to her family. All local alerts will be posted on the Fulbeck Village Community Facebook page and anything urgent will also be posted on the two village notice boards (Hare and Hounds and Village Hall).

Notices Lincolnshire Show - At the Lincolnshire Show this year, Tony Godson received a Long Service Medal for 51 years working with two generations of Fanes and then the Ownsworths. Many con-gratulations Defibrillator - the defibrillator is up and running, and anyone in the village can be sent for it. Ambulance Control know the num-ber to open the cabinet, and would pass it on to anyone dialling 999 who they thought required it. Harvest Supper - The Fulbeck Harvest Supper will be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 4th October at 7.00pm. The meal will take the form of a cold buffet with salad, followed by a sweet. Wine and soft drinks will be available. As happened last year, to aid the organisers and to provide some funding for the food, a charge of £5 will be made, children under 12 coming free. The ticket price will include the first glass of wine or soft drink. Tick-ets will be on sale from the beginning of September, from Iris Morison (279100, Caroline Eversfield (273578), or Barbara Rob-inson (272389). Please say when you buy your ticket if you wish to reserve a table. If you are willing to help in any way with this event, making a salad or sweet or helping on the day, please contact Iris on 279100. Further information will be published on the village notice boards. The Village Fete —The Fete ,held on Sunday 6th July was once again a great success. Although slow to start with, it soon gained momentum and everyone who attended enjoyed it enormously. There were the usual stalls, games, and tea tent, and we must not forget to mention the hugely popular and entertaining dog show. We are grateful once again to William Day for allowing us to use Fulbeck Hall grounds, a delightful venue for this event. Occasions such as these do not happen without a lot of plan-ning and organising, and once again David Morison showed his expertise, and with his team of helpers did a superb job. We also thank everyone who helped in any way, managing stalls, baking cakes, serving teas, donating prizes etc. I could go on but I won’t, you all know who you are!! Although this is not a fund-raising event, a small profit was made and the use of this will be discussed at a debriefing meeting of the team. Know your Village - The visit to Ronnie and Andrew Owns-worth’s wine growing and oilseed rape business in early June

proved a popular event, attended by a good number of people from the village. We were given a tour around the vineyards and then on to Pottergate Farm to view the rape seed oil making process and to taste the wine. Everything accompanied by an interesting and informative talk by Andrew. Thank you to both of you for an excellent evening. Parish Council News - A résumé of the most recent Par-ish Council Meeting: The PC raised no objections to the planning application 514/1417 for a temporary 60m Anemometer Mast on Fulbeck Airfield but has requested a copy of the resultant data. The SKDC Committee date for the application at Temple Hill for 5 turbines (5 13/2699) has been postponed and is now likely to be considered in September. It was reported that Julian Fane has cleaned the War Memorial in the churchyard with a spray which should continue to be active for several months. As a result the names are now more legible. A Steering Committee of six volunteers has formed to start the process of a Neighbourhood Plan. This Committee is separate from the Parish Council. They will be meeting with an officer from SKDC to obtain advice on procedures and funding. The poor condition of Washdyke Lane road surface has been reported the Lincolnshire Highways Department. It is understood that repair will be carried out following work in Rectory Lane and Brant Road. The next meetings will be held on Monday 18th August and 6th October at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Meetings are open to the public and there is an opportunity for you to make comments and ask questions. One of Brenda’s Bits ( just when you thought you had escaped them!) We all know and remember with great sadness the terrible loss of life during the 1914/18 war, but we must not forget also, the poor animals who also laid down their life in this awful conflict. I found the following poem in an old newspaper my Mother-in Law had saved dated 11th November 1926 printed in the Nottingham Journal, the poem was from the ‘Westminster Gazette’. Brenda Gilman

The Little Grey Mule . No one asked what he thought of war, How his conscience stood or anything more, But they took him to France to stand his chance, It’s alright-- only a Mule. He pulled his load to the top of the hill, A shot rang out, and he lay quiet still, ‘Any one hit?’ “No, we’re quiet fit”, It’s all right--only a Mule. There is a field where the grass is long, And God at the gate to right a wrong, You can hear him say, if you pass this way, “He’s all right --Little Grey Mule.


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Jack Farmer’s First World War Memories When war came on August 4th 1914 I was living at home with my parents in Fulbeck and working for my father, my only sister was

away at boarding school. So, being fit and active I felt it was up to me to join up, I had just turned 19. Whilst at Kings School, Gran-tham, I had been in their Cadet force, then called the Officers Training Corps, for three years, and had been away with them to three annual camps- large camps with many Public Schools there. At one camp Lord Kitchener, the outstanding General of the Boer War and soon to be put in charge of this one, inspected us. Before long he issued his famous poster, "Your King and Country Need You"- which called for 100,000 volunteers to enlist at once. After discussing the matter with my parents, who raised no objections, I enlisted at Lincoln Barracks three days later with 2 others from Fulbeck. After receiving the customary shilling at Lincoln Barracks, then being medically assessed by the M.O., fitted with Khaki clothes, a rifle and equipment, we were sent to Grimsby by special train to join hun-dreds of other recruits and were billeted in chapels, cinemas, etc I was billeted at St George’s Chapel and for the next six months we were intensively trained by regulars and soon improved. I was duly upgraded to No1 Squadron, made Lance Corporal with the help of my Officer Cadet Training background and paid Seven Shillings per week. Whilst stationed at Grimsby we were allowed into cinemas free, but this did not last long as soldiers soon outnumbered those who had to pay for admission. Soon we were being charged half-price and finally full price. Our training was increased and we were soon doing route marches carrying equipment and packs, and longer marches. In November I had to report sick with Quinsy and was sent home on two weeks leave. In consequence I missed a draft going to France and so should have been in the trenches in 1914. However, this was not long delayed and on January 26th 1915 we were sent to France as a draft to the 1st Lincolns and went down to Southampton by special troop train and embarked on an old cattle ship, which was being used as a troopship. We crossed the Channel with an escort of warships playing their searchlights around the ship and we entered the River Seine at Le-Havre. We proceeded up the river with crowds of French civilians lining the wooded banks and cheering us, and finally landed at Rouen, with its famous Cathedral - reminding us that we had now left our own Cathedral City and were facing the unknown. In Rouen we slept 22 men in each bell tent and as we had our Rifles, Equipment and Packs with us it was over full, it was a very cold night.

We travelled by train to Bailleul near Ypres; the hard carriage seats compared unfavourably with British trains - and the sanitation at stations left much to be desired! We marched to the 1st Lincoln Battalion by night, a few miles away at Dickebusel - it was snow-ing, and we got put into different companies and platoons. After being allotted to the various companies and platoons, we drew ra-tions for two days and ammunition and the next day we got instructions before leaving for the trenches which were some miles away near Kemmel. The sky at night was a remarkable sight, light flares were going up constantly, and sometimes red ones were fired warning of danger. We could follow the line of the Trenches by the lights. Around the famous town of Ypres, for instance, the trenches were horseshoe fashion going nearly three quarters around the town. When moving up to the Trenches we were safe for a few miles from bullets though odd shells might come at anytime, and we marched on the roads in formation, but as we neared the Trenches we moved up in single file - this in the darkness of course, and keeping still whenever a flare went up - QUITE STILL! As we were moving up above the ground and not in communication trenches, we were always liable to be hit by stray bullets as the Ger-mans fired so many per hour on the off chance of hitting someone and we suffered many casualties this way. . When we got to the communication trenches we were fairly safe- but this, as a rule, was only for the last half-mile or so. As soon as we came to the front line trenches, being a Lance Corporal I was put in charge of a listening post, and we had to go out about 5Oyards in front of the trench, crawling in the dark keeping as low as possible and taking a thin line out and stopping in a small dip. The lookout took it in turns to hold the line - and at the other end a man in the trench held it. If we saw or heard anything we pulled the line as a signal to alert those in the trench. Those in the front line would be ready to fire if necessary. We were quite ex-posed to bullets at the listening post and they whizzed by frequently. When flares went up we kept VERY still. We went back from the listening post well before dawn broke, and everyone in the trench always "stood to" for half an hour before dawn and half an hour after, and this was repeated before and after dark in the evenings - these being the favourite times for surprise attacks. The trenches we were in near Kemmel and Dickebusel were only shallow ones, the ground was inclined to be wet and so they could not be deep-ened. It was necessary to build them higher by filling sandbags which of course were visible to the Germans who always chose the higher ground when they could - and where they could see all. On our very first day our platoon sergeant was shot through the mouth and it looked a terrible mess, we were not able to carry him down by stretcher until dark as the Germans were on higher ground than we were and so we could be seen. We heard later that he died on the way down to the dressing station. On February 7th 1915 the Medical Officer sent me to Locre Convent as I had another bout of Quinsy, which are very painful , (before the war I used to get them regularly each year but am glad to say I have not had them since). The Convent was used as a field dressing station and the Nuns were still living there and used to sell us chipped potatoes at 1penny a canteen. Since then I have always been able to say that I was brought up in a convent and in Methodist Chapels at Grimsby! The Convent was full of men with frostbite- many of them with their feet being really black - and all patients were just lying on the floor with their overcoats and uniforms on. I was back in the battalion after 8 days. We spent the spring of 1915 going in and out of the trenches, 5 days in and 5 days out but we preferred to be in them as when we were out we had to carry rations and ammunition up in the dark every night for several miles and heavy water cans with 2 gallons each; working on reserve trenches digging and improving them. We were very short of shells and ammunition - it was obvious how short we were as our guns seldom fired whereas the Germans did. It was a very wet spring and was impossible to get our clothes dry and they were very often just as damp when we went back to the trenches. I had the misfortune to see three soldiers shot - one for desertion, one for cowardice and one for sleeping on duty. We had to march off before dawn, the company of the regiment concerned formed 3 sides of a square and the firing squad had the prisoners strapped to chairs with a wall at the back. In April we moved a mile or two along to Ypres and on 22nd April the Germans made a gas attack. It was a mile to our left and though we did not know at the time, we could smell gas, but counter attacks stopped a breakthrough and we were soon issued with temporary gas masks with improved ones later. On June 2nd we were in a trench in Sanctuary Wood 100 yards behind the front line in support of the 4th Dragoon Guards - a Cav-alry Regiment, but now unmounted - and half a mile from Hooqe Chateau - and the Germans fired a battery of 5.9 guns from dawn to dusk without stopping, causing many casualties. We were unable to get away until dark as we were covered by machine guns from higher ground. I was wounded in the hand and could not hold a rifle. The M.O. sent me to the dressing station and they sent me down the line via Boulogne to Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles where I was kept until x-rays showed no breakages. After a week I was sent to the base at Rouen, where we had first landed, and then back to the first Lincolns - who had lost a lot of men the few days I was away. The Bermuda Volunteers, 86 of them joined us; our 2nd Battalion had been stationed there sometime before the war. They were good sorts; good soldiers and fitted in well.

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August Sunday 3rd 9.30am Holy Communion Fulbeck 9.30am All Age/Morning Prayer Brant Broughton 11.15am Holy Communion Welbourn 6.00pm Evensong Carlton Scroop Friday 8th

8.45am Morning Prayer Fulbeck Saturday 9th 2.00pm Baptism Carlton Scroop Sunday 10th 9.30am Holy Communion BCP Leadenham Village Hall 11.15am Holy Communion CW Caythorpe Sunday 17 th 9.30am Holy Communion CW Brant Broughton 10.00am Morning Prayer Fulbeck 11.15am Holy Communion Carlton Scroop 6.00pm Said Holy Communion Welbourn Friday 22nd 8.45am Morning Prayer Fulbeck Sunday 24th 9.30am Holy Communion CW Beckingham 11.15am All Age/Holy Communion Leadenham Village Hall Sunday 31st 10.00am Holy Communion CW Stragglethorpe 6.00pm Holy Communion CW Normanton

September

Regrettably, the services for September are not available at the time of the Newsletter going to the printer. A list of these Services will be placed on the Church notice boards when available.

Church News Services for August in the North Loveden Deanery

Nb - Some weddings and baptisms at other churches have been omitted due to lack of space. Other services in the area : - There are Chapel Services in Finkin Street Church Grantham every Sunday at 10.30 a.m. and 6.00 pm, the Religious Society of Friends meets every Sunday at 11.00 am and every 4th Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm at Brant Broughton Meeting House and Roman Catholic Services are held in St Peter’s Church, R.A.F. Cranwell on Sundays at 10.30 am. People wishing to attend will need to obtain a pass from the guard room.

Fulbeck Details Welcomers August 3rd Mr A Kingston August 10th Mr C. Richardson Sept ? Mr J. Fane

Sept? Mrs L. Kingston

Oct ? Mrs M. Jewitt

Oct ? Mr A. J. Robinson

Flower Arrangers 3rd August - Miss J. Woolfitt 16th August - Mrs B. Valentine 23nd August - Mrs J. Bartup 13th Sept - Mrs R. Day 20th Sept - Mrs S. Siddans 2nd Oct - Mrs R. Petheram & all available (10am) 25th Oct - Mrs B. Valentine For further information please contact either Danielle Buck 01400273775 or Carol Aram 01400273472

Church Cleaning week ending : - August 2nd Mrs A. Sampson & Miss J. Woolfitt August 16th Mrs C. Aram & Mrs W. Nelson August 30th Mrs C. Eversfield & Mrs D. Buck September 6th Mrs V. Smart & Mrs C. Hughes September 20th Mrs J. Marriott & Mrs I Morison October 4th Mrs R. Day & Mrs A. Caunt October 18th Mrs J. Cottingham & Mrs A. Wood

Church News Harvest Festival - this year will take place on Thursday 2nd October at 7pm. Decorating the church for this service will take place starting at 10.am on that day. All church flower arrangers and helpers are asked to assist, together with anybody else who may wish to give a hand. We would be delighted if you feel you could help, and help will be available for anyone not too confident of their own abilities! The produce only will be removed on Monday 5th October and given to charity.

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Legend: SC = Sports Club GS = Garden Society FC = Fulbeck Communications VH = Village Hall & Playing Field Committee PC = Parish Council HH = The Hare & Hounds LVS = LIVES

FH/FM = Fulbeck Hall/Manor MT = Mums & Toddlers CH = Church

OS = Over 60s Club DC = District Councillor VFG = Village Functions Group NW = Neighbourhood Watch FHG = Fulbeck History Group

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AUGUST– SEPTEMBER 2014

AUGUST 5 OS Meeting 2.00pm 9 VH Car Boot Sale 9.00am 12 GS “Grow Your Own Vegetables” 7.30pm 16 DC @ Caythorpe Police Office 11.30am 18 PC Meeting 7.30pm 19 OS Outing Mablethorpe etc 8.30am 30 GS Annual Show 2.00pm

SEPTEMBER 2 OS Meeting 2.00pm 7 SC Charity Cricket Match 1.30pm 9 GS “Create a Pond for Wildlife” 7.30pm 11 CH Joint PCC Meet 7.00pm 13 VH Car Boot Sale 9.00am 16 OS Meeting 2.00pm 23 CH PCC Meeting 8.00pm 26 OS Outing Stamford Mkt & Lunch 9.20am 29 FHG Talk - The Victorian School 1.30pm

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OCTOBER 2 CH Harvest Festival 7.00pm 4 DC Surgery in Village Hall 11.30am 4 VFG Harvest Supper 7.00pm 9 CH Joint PCC Meeting 7.00pm 14 GS “Euphorbias” 7.30pm 27 FHG Meeting - Mapping Fulbeck’s History 1.30pm

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