Sutton Bonington
Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com
MUSIC SOCIETY INVITE. Sutton Bonington’s popular and successful Music Society continues to invite all budding musicians in the area to get involved with them and join the regular musical goings-on at the village campus of Nottingham University.
From 1 October onwards the ensembles will start their weekly rehearsals, including the SB Symphony Orchestra, SB Singers, SB Big Band and SB Folk Band!
All ensembles are un-auditioned, and they welcome any standard of playing or singing, with their main aim being to have fun! Anyone who wishes to know is invited to please email Issy at svvicbanottingham.ac.uk
HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES. Parishioners in Sutton Bonington who are interested in reading more about their two parish churches -- St Michael’s and St Anne’s – have been reminded that the detailed histories of both churches of them can be found on the Diocesan Church History Project at: http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/main/ index.php
Details are given under headings such as: history, archaeology, fittings, glass, organ, bells etc. All entries have been edited by a team of experts from Nottingham University.
Sutton Bonington has two medieval churches, a result of the merging of the two original villages (Sutton and Bonington); they are St. Michael’s Church (Bonington’s church, located on Main Street) and the smaller St. Anne’s Church (Sutton’s church).
The two ancient ecclesiastical parishes of Sutton and Bonington were united for civil purposes in 1829 and combined in 1923 into one ecclesiastical parish (with one rector appointed from 1950).
St. Anne’s Rectory is now a private house and new housing has been built in the former rectory gardens, adjacent to the rear of the church. Related to the situation of the two original parishes, Sutton and Bonington are separate manors, named after their churches — St. Anne and St.
Michael respectively.
SUMMER HOLIDAY PLAYSCHEME. Sutton Bonington’s popular annual Summer Holiday Playscheme is on again this year and will be taking place at the village playing fields from Monday July 29 to Friday, August 9, between 10am and 12noon at Sutton Bonington Playing Fields. Usually scores of youngsters attend the scheme.
FREE TREES. Residents in Sutton Bonington are being given the opportunity by Rushcliffe Borough Council
to make their properties even greener by applying for free trees for their homes and communities within the Borough.
Crab Apple and Rowan trees are now available free of charge to all residents as part of Rushcliffe Borough Council’s strategy to provide sustainable environments as part of the Borough’s significant housing and employment growth in the next decade.
Households can apply for up to two trees by visiting www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RushcliffeFreeTrees2019 and submitting an application before September 30.
Coun Rob Inglis Portfolio Holder for Environment and Safety said: “We are very pleased to be running this scheme again, after such a great response from residents last year where we handed out over 1,600 trees.
“There is also an opportunity for residents to join our tree warden scheme, to protect and help trees to flourish in our towns and villages.
“We hope that by increasing the number of trees in the Borough, as our communities grow, our green environments will continue to do so and improve the quality of life for current and future residents.”
Successful applicants will be able to collect the trees from the Council in November.
The Crab Apple, or Malus Sylvestris, can grow to 12 metres and suit areas of partial shade, whilst the Rowan trees, or Sorbus Aucuparia, grow best in full sunlight and can reach up to eight metres.
The Council are also offering to supply and plant up to 10 trees per parish this autumn and winter, on land identified by Parish Councils with the owner’s permission. Residents can find out more information on these locations by emailing media@rushcliffe.gov.uk
GARDENS WALKABOUT TOTAL. A superb figure of at least £5,200 has been made from this year’s annual Gardens Walkabout event in Sutton Bonington and neighbouring Kingston on Soar,
For 37 years residents in the two parishes have worked to raise money through the annual event, organised by the village Friends of Cancer Research UK group and taking place in both villages over a weekend in June.
The event was under the leadership for the second year of Rachel Blackshaw, taking on the main role and whose garden on the village Main Street being one of the 20-plus open.
The weather for the weekend was good and a large number of people were walking around the village to find the various gardens that were open to welcome visitors.
Refreshments were available to visitors at some of the gardens in both villages.
At 23 Charnwood Fields Jan Higginson as well as showing her garden was selling homemade lemon curd for the funds while at 70 Park Lane Carol and Rob Ereminowicz had Tombola, bric-a-bra and book stalls while the garden featured a parterre, a hosta bed, Mediterranean gravel area and a wildlife pond, At 6 Willow Poole Lane Fran and Alan Dimelow showed their T garden that they said they enjoy ‘pottering’ in and designed to give the opportunity to enjoy some delicious home-made refreshments.
Keith Smith at 28 Park Lane had sown a wildflower corner of the garden to save the bees from intensive farming, while at 24 Park Lane Maggie Warren invited her visitors to see borders and shrubs to help them unwind while there were hidden rabbits for the children to find. Outside 45A Main Street was the usual large and well supported cake stall.
At St. Anne’s House, on St. Anne’s Lane Chris and Janine Bone made their terraced garden on 4 levels on a steep bank. available to see and explained there was still work in progress after they had it landscaped in 2017. David and Joanna Woodhouse at 7 College Road had plenty of natural spaces for visitors to enjoy and on Sunday had a String quartet featuring music from Haydn, Bach, Schubert and more
The Kings Head were open for people to plop in for a drink or just to say hello and for a 50p donation to Cancer Research, children could meet the tortoises. The Dower House, at 76 Main Street with its half-acre walled garden with lawns, trees, borders, and vegetable plot with lots of self-seeded plants and random purchases was popular as was 131 Main Street where hosts were David and Judith Franklin with and Sutton Bonington’s popular playgroup in a unique setting, refreshments for little ones (and big ones) available.
New this year was a Ladybird Tram for Children’s Trail with its own activity sheet, full of puzzles, activities to try at home and fun facts about nature. There were eight ‘Ladybird Gardens’ which each had clues to solving the puzzles in the worksheet, with more fun facts and stamps to collect. There was also a craft trail which was new.
There was an evening function in Kingston on Saturday night with live music from the Minesweepers, a powerhouse rock trio based in Lincoln who have supported numerous international bands.
Organiser Rachel said this week that she was delighted with the result and grateful to the many people who made it possible.