East Leake
Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com
HISTORY SOCIETY. The new season of meetings for the successful East Leake and District Local History Society have been confirmed from this month September through to May 2020.
The first meeting of the new session will be on Wednesday next week, September 18, at 7.30pm when a presentation on “Nottinghamshire’s castles: some castles you may not know about.” Will be given by Robert Mee.
The following month. On October 16 at 7-30pm, Peter Foden will give a talk under the title “The Prior and the Squire: some new thoughts about East Leake Parish Church.”
In November, on the 20tha t 7-30pm, “Archaeology in South Notts” will be the talk given by Laura Binns of Trent and Peak Archaeology while on December 11 at 7.30pm one of the East Leake members, Keith Hodgkinson, will give a presentation on “Curiosities from our Archive” and will be using society documents, artefacts and film.
SINGING FOR PARKINSON’S. East Leake St Mary’s Parish Church was full for the vocal and piano recital’ Singing for Parkinson’s given by Tilly Goodwin (soprano) and Simon Ackroyd (piano).
The Saturday afternoon performance was extremely well received, and Loughborough based Tilly --- described as the girl with a heavenly voice-- and Simon, the parish church organist, teamed up well for the event, in aid of Parkinson’s UK.
Tilly is now off to University in London.
NEW TERM STARTS. The summer holidays for students at East Leake Academy have come to an end, the classes for the new term began last week.
Years 7, 12 and 13 were back at their desks on Tuesday while the following day, Wednesday, September 4, saw years 8, 9, 10 and 11 return.
VILLAGE SHOW. The Annual Village Show for East Leake held under the new leadership of Jenny Britt and her team of volunteers and which attracted over 60 competitors, will it be hoped to be making donations to local charities once the accounts have been finalised.
The 82 classes in the show were in the main well supported, but the organising team will be looking to see if there will be needed to consider any changes for next year.
All the trophies with the winner’s name and will eventually be available for collecting from the parish office.
The full individual class results were:
Vegetables: Four Carrots Small 30mm stems, Catherine Cleaver, Two Sweet Corn Cobs, Jennifer Bell. Two Beetroot with foliage, Paulin Edwards, Two Leeks excluding pot leeks, Vincenta Rose.
Three Onions trimmed, Andy Kemp. Four Runner Beans, Ann Weekly, Six French Beans, Vicki Butler. Five Tomatoes Red or on vine, Peter Gordon. Six Cherry Tomatoes Red, Martin White.
Four White Potatoes, Catherine Cleaver. Four Red Potatoes, Catherine Cleaver. One Cucumber, Vicki Butler. One Marrow, Catherine Cleaver. Four Courgettes, Catherine Cleaver. One Cabbage, Mathew Richardson. Display of three other vegetables, Andrew Butler.
Eggs: Six Hens Eggs – any colour, Leanne Hughes. 6 Bantam Eggs – any colour, Jenny Bell.
Fruit: Three Dessert Apples same variety, Vicki| Butler. Three Cooking Apples, Peter Gordon. Three Plums one variety, Leanne Hughes. Three Pears one variety, Vicki Butler. Twelve Blackberries, Glyn Handley. Twelve Raspberries, Ann Weekly. Twelve Blueberries, Jenny Bell. Two Sticks of Rhubarb – no foliage, Vicki Butler.
Flowers: Three Roses one kind, Jacquie Owen. Three Dahlia Blooms, Jenny Bell. Three Fuchsia Stems, Maggie Gordon. Six Sweet Peas, Jo Whelport. One Foliage Plant, Vicki Butler. Flower Arrangement—fresh or artificial, Maggie Gordon.
Heavyweights: Longest Runner Bean (Edible), Maggie Gordon. Heaviest Marrow, Jennifer Bell Largest Sunflower Head, Richard Wright. One Misshapen vegetable, Haley Whelport.
Cookery: Lemon Drizzle Cake, Ella Weston. One Victoria Sponge, Bettina Edwards. Three Fruit Scones, Francis Hill. Three Shortbread Biscuits, Pauline Dutton. One Jar of Jam, Phil Cleaver. One Jar of Chutney, Sarah Evans. Jar of Lemon Curd, Ann Weekly. One Jar of Marmalade, Val Franklyn.
Craft Card: Pauline Dutton. Paintwork /Art: An Oil or Acrylic Painting, Vicki Butler. Pencil/Crayon Art, Babs Perkins. Water Colour, G Lambert. Miscellaneous Art/ Craft, Sue Lymn Brewin.
Photography—no bigger than A4: Sporting Activity Michael Butler. Landscape, Liz Taylor. Animals, Michael Butler,
Home Brewing: Any home brew, Robert Merrall.
Junior Section; Under 5: Vegetable Animal, James Clark.
Single Flower, Teddy Holland, Flower Assortment, James Clark
Under 11, Three Decorated Cupcakes: William Clark.
Under 16: Any Paintwork, Ella Weston. A collage, Ella Weston.
GYPSUM AND WILDLIFE TRUST. East Leake based British Gypsum has joined Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust in the fight to save the UK’s dwindling wildflower meadows, 97 per cent of which have been lost since the 1930s.
The company is working with the Trust to transform a field next to Bunny Woods which is very close to British Gypsum’s head office at East Leake. It is creating a 3.3-acre wildflower meadow by halting agricultural use on the former farming land and allowing it to regenerate and attract wildflower species.
Senior estates and minerals planner Jennifer Saunders explained: “Since the 1930s the UK has seen the drastic loss of its once widespread wildflower meadows with intensive farming gradually replacing them.
“The remaining meadows now represent just one per cent of the UK’s land area and many flower and wildlife species are in steep decline.
“We had an opportunity to ‘do our bit’ and regain some land to help preserve wildlife facing an uncertain future. We already have a long-standing, proactive partnership with Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, so we have worked with them to come up with the best plan to achieve this. Although only in its first year, we are really pleased to see there are lots of species appearing already in our meadow at Bunny Wood – some of which may have been lying dormant for up to 20 years! These include meadow vetchling, agrimony, ox-eye daisies and common spotted orchids. Much more than just pretty flowers, meadows are unrivalled havens for wildlife, and we look forward to seeing this one flourish into the future.”
Holly McCain, senior development officer from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust added: “We’re delighted to be working with British Gypsum on this project. Here in Nottinghamshire the decline in meadows has been even greater than in other parts of the UK and its exciting that we have an opportunity to support the company to restore this vital habitat.
“As part of the long-term partnership with British Gypsum, we are looking forward to having a team to volunteer at Bunny Old Wood nature reserve to help maintain the site for both visitors and wildlife.”
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TRANSFORM WEEKEND. Reverend Tim Parker of East Leake St Mary’s Church and the youth worker Jo took a group of young people camping to the Transform Weekend at Walesby Forest.
It is an annual diocese led event for Nottinghamshire families and offered a fun packed weekend with an exciting programme of activities and those attended all agreed it had been a super experience.
COMMUNITY CARE AGM. The AGM of the Community Care Association will be held in St Mary’s Church Hall at 8pm on Monday, September 23. All welcome.