Roundabout Hilton News Sheet for the residents of Hilton-in-Cleveland

Issue No 312 – July 2021

HILTON SUMMER FETE

Saturday 14th August 2021 1pm - 4pm

We are pleased to confirm that, subject to the status of the Covid 19 restrictions, the Hilton Fete is back! We look forward to seeing all the Hilton residents, young and old. Please come along and join this fun packed day. We will be having a bumper raffle and any extra prizes donated will be gratefully received. Many fantastic stalls, food, drink and exciting new kid’s activities included. We will be distributing the usual black sacks the week before for the

Fete for villagers to donate books, and any other items suitable for the many stalls we will have on the day. These will be picked up on Thursday evening 12th August.

The popular evening “Bring your own food and drink BBQ” will also be organised and we are planning to include some evening entertainment. If anyone has any ideas of things they would like to see included or would be willing to help in organising the Fete or help on the day please call:- Liam on 07738284903 or Ian on 07827293866. The success of the Fete is dependent on the support of villagers plus

their family and friends. So please help where you can. The Fete is vital for raising funds for the maintenance of both the Village Hall & St. Peter’s Church.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL THERE!! Trevor Wilkinson

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100 Club Winners June 2021

1st Prize #101 Mrs Dolman Manor Drive

2nd Prize #145 Bill Turnbull Seamer Road

3rd Prize #21 Alastair Fulton Fir Tree

Trevor Wilkinson

Minutes of Hilton Parish Council Meeting Wednesday 12

th May 2021 18:30PM via Zoom.

Present T Turner (Chairman), J..Holloran (HPC), G. Weston, I Drinkel, Cllr S A

Watson, Cllr A Watson, Cllr T Strike, R Hamlin, Mrs R Partridge (perspective

Hilton Parish Councilor), T.Smitheringale 1. 20/21. Apologies - None received 2. 20/21. Declarations of Interest. T Turner declared an interest in any items concerning funding etc, due to his

position as PCC Treasurer and Hilton village hall treasurer. R Hamlin declared and interest as his wife is a member of the PCC. 3. 20/21. Approve Minutes of Previous Meeting The February 2021 HPC minutes were proposed by ID and seconded by

TS, all present agreed it to be a true record. T Turner (Chairman) then

signed the approved minutes. 4. 20/21. Public Participation (10 Min’s) - None.

5. 20/21. Matters Arising from the Minutes

JH informed the meeting that all councilor’s had agreed in writing to co-opt

Mrs. R Partridge onto HPC. Mrs. Partridge was then welcomed onto HPC.

Cllr S A Watson again updated the meeting in regards to the HGV’s

travelling through the village, in view of Covid restrictions meetings with

Noble foods are on hold until such time a meeting can be safely arranged.

6. 20/21. Correspondence / Emails

JH informed the meeting of ongoing correspondence with Mr. M Vickers

MP and his wish to attend a HPC meeting. A provisional date has been set

for September 2021.

JH informed the meeting of the letter she had received from Mr. K Raine

informing the council of his intention to resigning from HPC

7. 20/21. Highways

Cllr SA Watson informed the meeting she had reported all potholes within

the village to SBC.

JH informed the meeting of a number of complaints she had received from

Ivy Cottage’s residents regarding parking outside the cottages, including

what the residents felt was lack of privacy and concerns around road

safety. This issue has been discussed before and SBC have been involved,

Cllr SA Watson reminded the meeting that any parking on the curb must

allow a gap of 0.8 metres to allow for wheel chairs to pass. Following a long

discussion it was agreed by all councillor’s to remove the no parking signs

previously installed by HPC, A letter informing all concerned residents of

HPC’s decision will be delivered by JH. This will be for a trial period to

assess the situation.

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8. 20/21. Planning

Nil of Note

9. 20/21. Wind Farm and HVCFC

ID updated the meeting regarding the village Hog Roast, 300 people will be attending with a further 30 on a wait list, 2 acts will be performing on the night. 10. 20/21. RFO Report Correspondence

Invoices from St Margaret for roundabout printing Letter from Zurich regarding insurance renewal Letter from St Peter’s church regarding Churchyard grass-cutting

Receipts

Stockton Council Precept £2749.00

Payments

Play Inspection Company

Jan Holloran

Permission to pay

St Margaret March-May £15.75

Zurich Insurance renewal £324.95

Bank balance

Current account balance £4363.42

Savings account £2284.63

11. 20/21. Village Hall Liaison Committee

The village hall will be open as usual in late June subject to Covid restrictions

12. 20/21 Data Protection

JH nil of note

13. 20/21 Play Area

No issues; however RH did inform the meeting that timbers will need replacing in the next 2 years, and the feasibility of grants may have to be explored. 14.20/21. War Memorial, Salt bins and Village furniture

Nothing to report regarding the war memorial and village furniture, JH informed the meeting that the salt was used up in almost every bin, Ivy Cottages bin is empty. 15. 20/21 Items for Discussion. JH informed the meeting that she had contacted SBC regarding the fallen trees across the footpaths near to the river Leven. SBC will arrange to have them removed by the right of way works team

Cllr SA Watson discussed the Public Consultation Draft proposal in which current wards including Hilton will be reconfigured. The proposal affecting Hilton village will be a Southern Parish with only 1 Stockton Borough Councillor. This will include Hilton, Maltby, and Kirklevington. These

proposed changes will not take place until the 2023 elections. The deadline for comments for the 1

st draft is the 17/7/2021, and in October

2021 a final review will be held. RP discussed how the villagers may express their views, she will place an article in Roundabout regarding the proposed changes. 16. 20/21 Date of Next Meeting

Wednesday 7th

July 2021 place to be determined following Government Covid restrictions.

GENDER CONFUSION

A female journalist went to Afghanistan just before the outbreak of the war. She noticed that the local women customarily walked five paces behind their man. After hostilities had calmed down, the journalist heard that since the war significant female liberation had occurred. She therefore returned to Afghanistan to see for herself and write another article for the newspaper. On arrival she is surprised to find that the men now walk five paces behind their women. Amazed she approaches a young lady. "This is wonderful," she says, "What enabled the women here to achieve such a reversal of roles?" "Simple," the young lady replies. "Land mines!!!"

Shaggy Dog

PARTY IN THE PARK UPDATE Sat 31st July

The programme for the evening is finalised as follows:-

4.30pm Simon Carter (singer), first set

5.30pm Hog Roast 6.30pm Simon Carter, second set

7.30pm Absolute Zero (Band), first set 8.15pm Interval

8.45pm Absolute Zero, second set 9.45pm Finish

All times are approximate.

We still have a few people on the standby list so if anyone cannot make it please let me know as soon as possible on Mob 07827293866 Tel 01642591111 or email indrinkel@msn.com

Tickets will be distributed the week before the event.

(The above is still dependent on current covid rules)

Ian Drinkel

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History of Hilton

Moorberries and Moorberries Farm

Today Moorberries is a development of 18 smart executive homes situated near the centre of the village of Hilton. The road is fittingly named after Moorberries Farm which once stood on this site. However, the origin of Moorberries Farm can be dated back to the early 19th century when it was the home and workplace of Billy Appleton the village tailor, and also housed the post office. The tailor`s shop and post office were housed in a building behind the house, and a post box was situated in front of it. The Appleton family who appear in Church records from 1723, are recorded as tailors in the village as early as 1823. As well as being tailors and running the post office, the family also farmed a smallholding next to their property.

Although Hilton was always a small agricultural village with a population of between 112 and 147 in the 19th century, falling to 102 in 1931, it appears to have been a remarkably self-sufficient and close-knit community. As well as its ancient church and Village Inn and a row of cottages known as Ivy Cottages, it also housed a blacksmith, a grocer, a shoemaker, a tailor and a post office.

After the death of Billy Appleton in 1839, the tenancy of the house and smallholding was taken over by the large Husband family who were at that time living in two adjoining cottages in Ivy Cottages. They moved to the tailor`s house and smallholding, and also farmed land on the eastern boundary of the village called Moorberries (which is now the site of a wind turbine).

There are still many in the village who remember Olive, the last elderly resident farmer of Moorberries Farm, who regularly drove her tractor, (always accompanied by her dog), to the field at the edge of the village where the wind turbine now stands. She also sold potatoes, eggs, vegetables, and farm produce from her roadside farmhouse, which from 1939 was called Moorberries Farm. After her death in November 1992 Moorberries Farm and lands were inherited by her nephew and later sold to Yuill Homes, the property developer.

Thus ‘Moorberries’, as we now know it, came into existence, and Hilton, whilst retaining its rural identity, has developed into the desirable residential village we now know, although without shops or post office and with a population which has grown to over 400.

Mary Hicks

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ST PETER’S CHURCH NEWS

Vicar: Revd. Claire Todd 01642 975984 revtoddy@gmail.com Churchwardens: Mrs Sally Hamlin 22 Fir Tree Close 590385 Mrs Barbara Sowerby 1 Manor Drive 591532 St. Peter’s Church Services JULY

4th Joint Benefice Holy Communion at Brookfield 10.30 am 11th Holy Communion 8.00 am 18th Morning Praise 9.30 am 25th Holy Communion 8.00 am

AUGUST

1st Joint Benefice Holy Communion in Hilton 10.30 am 8th Holy Communion 8.00 am 15th Morning Praise 9.30 am 22nd Holy Communion 8.00 am 29th Evensong 6.00 pm

Numbers are limited at present. Please book a place with Barbara. Plurality Services Brookfield 9.30am Holy Communion (Live streamed on Facebook) Stainton 11.00am Holy Communion New Churchwarden The PCC welcomes Angela Sayer as our new churchwarden.

Sally Hamlin

Is yours the tallest sunflower?

Measure your tallest sunflower on Sunday, 5th September and ring Sally on 01642 590385

with the result.

There is a prize for the tallest flower in the village.

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Revd Claire’s Contemplations

As I write this, the announcements on yesterday evening’s news

regarding the remaining restrictions not being lifted until 19th July is

sinking in. It must be a difficult balance between getting the economy

and people’s lives back up and running to full capacity again and trying

to stem the rise of more hospital admissions and deaths. It has indeed

been a long haul, and we are not out of the woods yet as they say. But

we do have light at the end of a long tunnel, and as a nation we can

thank God and count our blessings.

These uncertain times have really brought into focus the term ‘shifting

sands’. Having been raised by the seaside on the North East Coast, I

know only too well what shifting sands are, along with the many

dangers. Sand banks can appear overnight or between low and high

tides, thus making it difficult to discern how far one can wade into the

sea and stay there, or stay on a sandbank without being trapped or in

peril when the tide comes in. Or in recent times, such as when the

current dragged most of the sand up coast, revealing a prehistoric forest.

This also happened several years ago on a different part of the beach,

leaving a mud-clay type peat bed substance and exposed rock for many

months. I remember on that occasion sand being brought back to Redcar

from Seaton Carew on trucks, however it would probably have come

back on its own eventually as it did recently.

It is interesting though, when the sand shifts and what it reveals. Many

scores of people came to see the prehistoric petrified forest and the

remains of trees, roots and branches. God’s incredible creation is not

something static. It is an ever-evolving state of change. And as part of

that creation, we also are in a constant state of change. Which is when,

whenever we enter into our comfort-zone, we are quickly shaken back

out. We simply cannot stay there forever, as much as we’d like to. As

human beings, we have adapted to life on earth and our environment,

wherever that may be, since we first set foot upon the earth. And as we

know, this can be really scary, but it can also be hugely exciting as we

embark on new and different experiences, see new things, discover new

and different possibilities.

And so, with a certain amount of trepidation, we have to accept the shifting sands of our time, and yes, be careful where we stand and what is below, but also continue to look up and ahead in hopeful certainty that God has still got this. As one of my ex-bosses (who was an Educational Psychologist) used to say ‘onwards and sidewards’.

Rev’d Claire

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Contributions are welcome from all Hilton Residents and will be included as space permits. Please e-mail to e.haigh@btinternet.com or send by hand before the 16th of the month to 28, Manor Drive.

HILTON VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS

When available - For ALL Village Hall bookings please contact

Dorothy Watson, Rose Cottage, on 01642 595634 (Mobile

07542 186131). Please note – A booking cannot be con-

firmed until the appropriate fee has been paid.

Photographs of the Day

The Infinity Bridge from

the Teesside Princess

Trevor Turner

Holly Blue

Tony Daniels

The domes of the Eden Project,

St Austell - Trevor Turner

The Textures of Runswick Bay

in April - Teresa Clarke