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Copy for the DECEMBER/JANUARY issue should be with the Editor
Bodinnick, Wick Road, Langham CO4 5PG [email protected]
by 1 pm on SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 2015
Operation Christmas Child SMALL SHOEBOX — BIG IMPACT
Thank-you very much again for your generous contributions to last year’s Shoebox Appeal. Through your generosity, your gifts had a big impact on many children’s lives. You gave them fun and laughter, warmth and com-fort, hope and joy, through the presents they received. Your gifts changed for the better children’s lives in many lands. This has been happening now
BOXTED PARISH COUNCIL NEIGHBOURHOOD
DEVELOPMENT PLAN: HILL FARM QUESTIONNAIRE
Unfortunately, because of a problem with the distribution firm used by the Boxted Parish Council, some people in Boxted may not yet have had a chance to complete the questionnaire relating to the development of the Hill Farm site. If you wish to complete the questionnaire and would like one sent to you for the purpose or if you simply wish to send in your comments on the subject, please write to or email:
The Clerk to the Council Boxted Parish Council 58 Shaftesbury Avenue Harwich CO12 4BT Email: [email protected]
for more than twenty-five years and adults today testify to the importance of the gifts they received when they were children. Because of this I am delighted that St Mary’s and St Peter’s Churches and the Primary Schools of Langham and Boxted are once more joining together to support Operation Chr istmas Child— the Shoebox Appeal. Please give as generously this year as you did last.
The leaflet included with this issue of the Newsletter gives advice on what (and what not) to put into a shoebox. Please take your gift-filled box to one of the collection-points listed on the attachment to the leaflet by Monday 16th November. Alternatively, you are very welcome to bring your box to our special service at St Mary’s Church on Sunday 15th November at 9.30 am.
Thank you for your support. Rector
LANGHAM
BONFIRE NIGHT
Saturday
7th NOVEMBER Gates open 6 pm
Torchlight procession
6.30 pm
Adults £6 Children £2
STUPENDOUS BONFIRE
GRAND
FIRWORK DISPLAY
Destiny Majorettes
Hot Dogs Baked Potatoes
Beverages Soft Drinks
Bar (Licence applied for)
Tickets & information:
L a ng h a m
C o m m u ni t y S h o p
BARGAINS GALORE! at the
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
2pm Saturday
28 NOVEMBER
BOXTED VILLAGE HALL
◊ Children’s Toys ◊ Games & Books ◊ Quality Clothes & Accessories ◊ DVDs
◊ Paperback Novels ◊ £1, £5 & £10 Stalls ◊ Cakes & homemade products
◊ Bottle Bola ◊ Seasonal Goods ◊ Fabulous Raffle ◊ Tea & cakes all afternoon
Proceeds to help maintain St Mary’s & St Peter’s Churches
BOXTED METHODIST CHAPEL Team Ministry
The Revd Alan Jenkins 793888
Email: [email protected]
The Revd Ken Chalmers 573061
Senior Steward Jenny Alvey 272686
THE PARISH OF
LANGHAM WITH BOXTED Website www.lb-churches.co.uk
Rector The Revd Dr Mandy Elmes
The Rectory Church Close West Bergholt
CO6 3JZ 240906
Mobile: 07872 649967
Email: [email protected]
Lay Minister Denise Hobday 230918
Church Administrator Liz Dixon 243683
Email: [email protected]
Churchwardens
St Mary’s Langham
Laura Benns 271458
Clifford Sims 321286
St Peter’s Boxted
Jocelyn Carter 272755
Graham Pullen 273804
Sunday Group Patsy Ann Maggs 322450
Zone & Edge Dominic Sheil 273324
St Mary & St Peter Newsletter
Editor Ian Hollands 230525
Email: [email protected]
Advertising Scott Dolling 273886
Email: [email protected]
Distribution
Ann Barnard (Boxted) 272349
Andrew Stacey (Langham) 272806
Enquiries about baptisms, weddings or funerals should be made to the Church Administrator.
CHURCH SERVICES NOVEMBER
Please note the new times of services at St Mary’s & St Peter’s Churches
Sunday 1st
9.30 am St Mary’s Sung Eucharist (CW)
11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel Morning Service
3.00 pm Boxted Methodist Chapel Band Service
Sunday 8th 9.30 am St Mary’s
Remembrance Service 10.50 am St Peter’s
United Anglican-Methodist Remembrance Service
Sunday 15th 8.00 am St Mary’s
Eucharist (BCP) 9.30 am St Mary’s
Family Service 11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel Morning Service with Holy Communion
Sunday 22nd
9.30 am St Peter’s Sung Eucharist (CW)
11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel Morning Service
4.30 pm St Peter’s Evensong (BCP)
Sunday 29th 9.30 am St Mary’s
Sung Eucharist (CW) 11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel
Morning Service
LANGHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL The children are now well and truly into the 2015-16 academic year, with the new Reception Class settling in. Real ballot boxes were used for the School Council election, when all the pupils voted for representatives to voice their ideas and help with decisions in the school. The school supported Tools With A Mission (see Page 5) at Harvest Thanksgiving time with gifts of used household and garden tools for refurbishment and passing on for further use by needy people in Africa and Asia.
CHURCH XMAS BAZAAR Anyone wishing to donate items for sale, give raffle prizes or to help on the day of the Christmas bazaar (see Page 1) is asked to contact Jos Carter on 272755 or the Whybrows on 272773.
On 21 September Langham Oaks student Nick Oxley (above, 2nd from right) presented the “School Anti-Bullying App”(SABA App) to HRH the Duke of Cambridge at Hammersmith Academy. Nick is a member of a small team of student software developers that has benefited from the ex gratia support of Suffolk software firm CODERUS. CODERUS contacted the Langham Oaks School after a group of its boys appeared on BBC TV Look East to describe the concept they had developed in conjunction with the Diana Award (with the objective of allowing young people to report bullying discreetly, using digital devices) and to recount the difficulties they envisaged in making the concept a reality. Since then, the boys, CODERUS and the Diana Award, working in close partnership, have succeeded in their joint effort and the ‘App’ is ready for release in November. Nick Oxley and other Langham Oaks students will then be presenting it to children and industry professionals at a conference in London during Anti-Bullying Week. For more information on this inspiring partnership, visit:
www.langhamoaks.co.uk www.coderus.co.uk www.dianaward.org.uk Twitter@SabaApp
LITTLE OWLS PRE-SCHOOL Little Owls is exceptionally busy this year and places for the remainder of it are very limited. The Pre-school is fully committed to ensuring that Boxted children have access to a place in the village. Children are taken from the age of two, from 9.15 am to 3.15 pm, Monday to Friday in term time. There is also an ‘Early Bird’ session from 8.45 am. If you have a baby or toddler and will be wanting a place, please contact Little Owls as soon as possible so that priority can be given to Boxted children. Email:
[email protected] or phone:
01206 273226 www.littleowlsboxted.co.uk
NICK OXLEY MEETS THE DUKE
JOHN TOKELY Painter & Decorator No job too large or small.
9 Nayland Road Colchester CO4 5EG Mobile: 07976 848310 Tel: 01206 845665
STEVE RAYNER House/Garden Maintenance Grass/Hedge cutting Weed control Clearance
Small tree work Exterior painting Gutters cleared Gates/Fencing/ Shed Services DIY jobs
Mobile: 07709 972728 Tel: 01206 233487
LANGHAM PRE-SCHOOL Ofsted inspected Children aged 2-5 yrs old can learn & play in a friendly atmosphere with highly qualified staff. Mobile: 07930 963638 (9-12.30) during term-time Email: [email protected]
MATHER & CO SOLICITORS LANGHAM Low cost, high quality conveyancing. Also Wills, Probates and Powers of Attorney + Family and general legal services. Tel: 01206 322763
BS GARDEN MAINTENANCE Hedge & grass cutting Pruning Planting
Painting & Odd Jobs Winter Logs Mobile: 07513 150526 Tel: 01206 273292
J ROGERS Plumbing & Heating Over 40 years’ experience
Mobile: 07970 477995 Tel: 01206 852875
RUSSELL SMITH
High Quality Painter & Decorator
Jon-Pat School Road Langham Colchester
Tel: 01206 323520
BIG CLEAN LITTLE CLEAN LIMITED
Domestic and Office Cleaning
A quality, reliable, fully insured service
Mobile: 07786 087585 Tel: 01206 273125
EXTERIOR CARE Roofing Specialist
Flat roofing Tiling & Slating New roofs & repairs
Mobile: 07970 016234 Tel: 01206 272453
5 Brook Cottages Wet Lane Boxted
PARK LANE BEAUTY Beauty Treatment
Unit 6 Park Lane Business Centre Langham
Telephone 01206 233308
Email: [email protected]
PENROSE Veterinary Surgeons
9.00 to 6.30 weekdays, Wed evening & Sat morning
70 Brinkley Lane Highwoods 01206 842608
Peeler’s End Stratford St Mary 01206 323414
ZUMBA Fitness
Boxted Village Hall
Thursdays 9.30-10.15am Yogalates 10.20-11am
Jo Clarke 07887 518031
ALL ASPECTS GARDENING Fully insured
Garden clearance DIY jobs Patios Driveways
Fencing Hedges Turfing Tree cutting
Mobile: 07943 482836 Tel: 01206 233487
BOXTED VILLAGE HALL SNOWBALL October Winners
£25 Jean Mallett £10 Rosemary Shapton
£ 6 Michael Newman £ 4 Denis Read If you would like to join the Snowball
ring Chris Tadman on 273216
LANGHAM 100 CLUB September Winners
£50 Barbara & Dudley Arrowsmith £25 Hugh & Marilyn Halsall £15 Pat & Colin Ward £10 David & Lesley Ford
If you would like to join the 100 Club, ring Sue Armstrong on 271127.
St Peter’s
Church
St Mary’s
Church
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SAMARITANS
Available 24 hours a day
12 Vineyard Street Colchester
Open 10am to 8pm daily
01206 561234
Need a little help?
Ring
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Ring one of the numbers on the
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Boxted Village Hall
Langham Shop & either Church
DISCOVERING RICHARD III At a very well attended September meeting of the Boxted History Group, Dr John Ashdown-Hill gave a most enthralling account of the search for King Richard II’s remains. Dr Hill, a historian who had successfully identified the descendants of the King’s sister, joined Leicester University’s “Find Richard III” group in 2003. Legends and records were conflicting but indicated that the remains were buried at one of two Grey Friars churches in the Leicester area. After much research, the group began excavating an area of a car park where one of the churches had been situated. At Dr Hill’s instigation, a second trench was dug and a skeleton was exposed which was proved by forensic examination and DNA checks with the descendants identified by Dr Hill to be that of the lost King.
Some of the many useable but unwanted tools collected in Boxted, Langham, Great Horkesley and West Bergholt for refurbishment and transport to Africa to support self-sufficiency projects. Tools with a Mission have expressed their thanks for the great response from the four villages. LANGHAM PARISH COUNCIL
Items from the 7 October meeting
Hornestreet Field The Council has been asked if it is interested in taking over responsibility for the Field (see Page 4). Borough Council grants It was stated that the annual grants to parish councils to compensate for the lack of facilities and services compared with those in the Town were being phased out. Faster Broadband BT provisionally estimates the cost of upgrading the Ardleigh and Dedham phone systems at £21-24,000 for the former and rather more for the latter. The upgrade would take a year from order to completion. Housing Essex County Council is offering the unoccupied Oaks houses to the Borough Council. For more information, contact the Clerk to the Parish Council.
There subsequently broke out a furious and well-publicised argument as to where the remains should be appropriately reinterred, Leicester Cathedral being eventually chosen. Sadly, the choice seems to have been a commercial rather than historical one—one may now buy Richard III chocolates! Dr Ashdown-Hill was this year appointed MBE in recognition of his contribution to this out-standing archaeological project.
TOOLS WITH A MISSION
TIN-BINS SKIP HIRE STRAIGHT ROAD BOXTED
2-4-6-8- yard skips
Fully licensed and qualified in
Waste Management & Recycling
Tel. Colchester 272751
Hunnaball Funeral Service York House 41 Mersea Road Colchester
Caring personal service from a family business
Immediate attention anytime, please contact: TREVOR, MELANIE or SAUL HUNNABALL
Tel: COLCHESTER 760049
T.P. Brundell Upholsterer Antique & Modern Re-upholstery
Loose Covers
Free Estimates
36 Silcott Street Brightlingsea Tel: 305635
Orchard Barns Kindergarten
Judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted
Children’s Nursery for children aged 2—7 years
Before and After School Club/Holiday Club Please visit our website
www.orchardbarns.co.uk Or call Shelley on
01206 323093 for more information
Architectural Services Homa Design Ltd
Langham New buildings, extensions, conversions
Planning & Building Regulations Tel: 01206 272247
RESULT! DSA Approved Female Driving Instructor
Friendly, reliable, 1—1 Tuition
Pass Plus, Refresher & Intensive Courses Mock Test Service Discounts Available
Call Chris: 01206 273132 or 07973 570022
CLEANSHINE WINDOW CLEANING SERVICE
ESSEX & SUFFOLK COVERED BASED IN BOXTED
Est. since 1994 Friendly, reliable and traditional service
Tel: 01206 272054 Mobile: 07706 054373
Please call for a Free Quote and see what a difference
clean windows can make GUTTERING ALSO CLEARED
JIM BROWN Oil Boiler & Aga
Maintenance
Tel: 01206-272012 Mobile: 07885-504036
A.H. BLAND Landscaping & Treework Service
Tel: 01206 869559 (24 hours) or 272426
Mobile Tel: 07771 626548
BEECHWOOD
LUXURY CATTERY
MOOR ROAD LANGHAM
Julie Tel: 01206 272937 Riches Mobile: 07792 061856
Tree Work & Hedging Fully qualified + insured Free Estimates
Firewood available Seasoned + split Free delivery
Call G Ely Mobile: 07860 833634
FUTURE ELECTRICAL LTD YOUR LOCAL ELECTRICIANS
Call Chris on 272494 or 07798 865377
Free quotations Qualified & Registered
Family Business [email protected]
Removals - Storage - Self Storage
T e l : 01206 233376 Foxash Estate Harwich Road Lawford CO11 2LR
www.schofieldremovals.co.uk
Period Building Specialists
& Timber Framed Conservatories
BARNARD
CONSTRUCTION
LTD.
Tel. 01206 272909 Mob. 07789 680124
1 Cage Lane, Boxted, Colchester CO4 5RE
Michael J Byles Plumbing & Heating
Oil Boiler Installations Servicing & Maintenance Oftec Registered
General Plumbing & Heating work also undertaken
Telephone 01206 822225 Mobile 07717 012433
E –mail: michaeljbyles @aol.com
ANGLIA LANDSCAPES
01206 272357
JANE BURTON Traditional Flooring
CARPET WOOD STONE
AMTICO VINYL RUGS
Designed to your personal requirements
Welmans Lamberts Lane Great Tey CO6 1AP
Tel: 01787 222770
mark & peter graves
carpenters & general builders
a family run business providing a professional
service and quality workmanship at competitive rates.
general interior & exterior property improvements/
maintenance including: painting, ki tchen
instal lation, shelving, cupboards, wardrobes,
f looring, windows, doors, archi traves, skirt ing
boards, guttering, fascias, roofs, extensions,
conversions, renovations, garages, new bui ld,
decking, patios, fencing, sheds and barns.
all jobs considered
tel: 07889 947150 (day) or
01206 271173 (evening)
All groundworks & landscaping carried out Supplies of aggregates, topsoil,
crushed concrete & road planings Est. 1957
FARM & WOODLAND SERVICES
BOB’S LOGS & KINDLING
Open fire/wood burner Barn stored
Mobile: 07733 326644
Tel: 01206 391146
Little Owls Pre School Boxted Ofsted registered
www.littleowlsboxted.co.uk
Phone: 01206 273226
Email: [email protected]
HA IRDRE SSE R I N LANGHAM
≈ Ladies & Gents trim £8 ≈ Blowdry £10
≈ Perms inc £32.50 ≈ Foils inc £28/33/38
≈ Tint regrowth inc £25
C a l l Ka t r i na on 2 33 43 5
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Private dentistry at affordable
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www.NaylandDentalClinic.co.uk